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Volume 37, Number 6, 2008
Volume 39, Number 2, 2010
Volume 39, Number 3, 2010
Volume 39, Number 4, 2010
Volume 39, Number 5, 2010
Volume 39, Number 6, 2010
Volume 39, Number 7, 2010
Volume 39, Number 8, 2010
Volume 39, Number 9, 2010
Volume 39, Number 10, 2010
Volume 40, Number 1, 2010
Volume 40, Number 2, 2011
Volume 40, Number 3, 2011
Volume 40, Number 4, 2011
Volume 40, Number 5, 2011
Volume 40, Number 6, 2011
Volume 40, Number 7, 2011
Volume 40, Number 8, 2011
Volume 40, Number 9, 2011
Volume 40, Number 10, 2011
Volume 41, Number 1, 2012
Volume 41, Number 2, 2012
Volume 41, Number 3, 2012
Volume 41, Number 4, 2012
Volume 41, Number 5, 2012
Volume 41, Number 6, 2012
Volume 41, Number 7, 2012
Volume 41, Number 8, 2012
Volume 41, Number 9, 2012
Volume 41, Number 10, 2012
Volume 42, Number 1, 2013
Volume 42, Number 2, 2013
Volume 42, Number 3, 2013
Volume 42, Number 4, 2013
Volume 42, Number 5, 2013
Volume 42, Number 6, 2013
Volume 42, Number 7, 2013
Volume 42, Number 8, 2013
Volume 42, Number 9, 2013
Volume 42, Number 10, 2013
Volume 43, Number 1, 2014
Volume 43, Number 2, 2014
Volume 43, Number 3, 2014
Volume 43, Number 4, 2014
Volume 43, Number 5, 2014
Volume 43, Number 6, 2014
Volume 43, Number 7, 2014
Volume 43, Number 8, 2014
Volume 43, Number 9, 2014
Volume 43, Number 10, 2014
Volume 44, Number 1, 2015
Volume 44, Number 2, 2015
Volume 44, Number 3, 2015
Volume 44, Number 4, 2015
Volume 44, Number 5, 2015
Volume 44, Number 6, 2015
Volume 44, Number 7, 2015
Volume 44, Number 8, 2015
Volume 44, Number 9, 2015
Volume 44, Number 10, 2015
Volume 45, Number 1, 2016
Volume 45, Number 2, 2016
Volume 45, Number 3, 2016
Volume 45, Number 4, 2016
Volume 45, Number 5, 2016
Volume 45, Number 6, 2016
Volume 45, Number 7, 2016
Volume 45, Number 8, 2016
Volume 45, Number 9, 2016
Volume 45, Number 10, 2016
Volume 46, Number 1, 2017
Volume 46, Number 2, 2017
Volume 46, Number 3, 2017
Volume 46, Number 4, 2017
Volume 46, Number 5, 2017
Volume 46, Number 6, 2017
Volume 46, Number 7, 2017
Volume 46, Number 8, 2017
Volume 46, Number 9, 2017
Volume 46, Number 10, 2017
Volume 47, Number 1, 2018
Volume 47, Number 2, 2018
Volume 47, Number 3, 2018
Volume 47, Number 4, 2018
Volume 47, Number 5, 2018
Volume 47, Number 6, 2018
Volume 47, Number 7, 2018
Volume 47, Number 8, 2018
Volume 47, Number 9, 2018
Volume 47, Number 10, 2018
Volume 48, Number 1, 2019
Volume 48, Number 2, 2019
Volume 48, Number 3, 2019
Volume 48, Number 4, 2019
Volume 48, Number 5, 2019
Volume 48, Number 6, 2019
Volume 48, Number 7, 2019
Volume 48, Number 8, 2019
Volume 48, Number 9, 2019
Volume 48, Number 10, 2019
Volume 51, Number 5, 2022
Volume 52, Number 10, 2023
Volume 53, Number 2, 2024


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 37, Number 6, 2008

              Chien-Tai Lin and   
             Yen-Lung Huang and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Exact Bayesian Variable Sampling Plans
                                  for the Exponential Distribution Based
                                  on Type-I and Type-II Hybrid Censored
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1116


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 39, Number 2, 2010

                  Jianbo Li and   
                   Riquan Zhang   Penalized Spline Varying-Coefficient
                                  Single-Index Model . . . . . . . . . . . 221--239
             Sonia Malefaki and   
             Samis Trevezas and   
               Nikolaos Limnios   An EM and a Stochastic Version of the EM
                                  Algorithm for Nonparametric Hidden
                                  Semi-Markov Models . . . . . . . . . . . 240--261
      Tomasz Górecki and   
                  Maciej Luczak   Some Methods of Replacing the Nearest
                                  Neighbor Method  . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--276
                   Yushu Li and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   Testing for Unit Root Against LSTAR
                                  Model: Wavelet Improvement Under GARCH
                                  Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--286
                   Xue Wang and   
              Andrew T. A. Wood   Wavelet Estimation of an Unknown
                                  Function Observed with Correlated Noise  287--304
                  S. Z. Sim and   
                      S. H. Ong   Parameter Estimation for Discrete
                                  Distributions by Generalized
                                  Hellinger-Type Divergence Based on
                                  Probability Generating Function  . . . . 305--314
               Jinook Jeong and   
                  Byung Ho Yoon   The Effect of Pseudo-Exogenous
                                  Instrumental Variables on Hausman Test   315--321
         Jean-Pierre Gauchi and   
           Jean-Pierre Vila and   
                 Louis Coroller   New Prediction Interval and Band in the
                                  Nonlinear Regression Model: Application
                                  to Predictive Modeling in Foods  . . . . 322--334
            H. E. T. Holgersson   A Modified Skewness Measure for Testing
                                  Asymmetry  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--346
         Maria Paz Casanova and   
             Pilar Iglesias and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   A Bayesian Semiparametric Approach for
                                  Solving the Discrete Calibration Problem 347--360
               Shipra Banik and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   Comparison of Some Parametric and
                                  Nonparametric Type One Sample Confidence
                                  Intervals for Estimating the Mean of a
                                  Positively Skewed Distribution . . . . . 361--389
                    Hao Jin and   
                 Zheng Tian and   
                   Yunfeng Yang   Estimation Mean Change-Point in ARCH
                                  Models with Heavy-Tailed Innovations . . 390--404
    Edilberto Cepeda Cuervo and   
           Jorge Alberto Achcar   Heteroscedastic Nonlinear Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--419
                  D. W. Uys and   
                    S. J. Steel   Using a Truncated $ C_p $ Statistic for
                                  Variable Selection in Multiple Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--432
               Hung-Wen Yeh and   
                Wenyaw Chan and   
            Elaine Symanski and   
                 Barry R. Davis   Estimating Transition Probabilities for
                                  Ignorable Intermittent Missing Data in a
                                  Discrete-Time Markov Chain . . . . . . . 433--448

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 39, Number 3, 2010

                 M. Roozbeh and   
                  M. Arashi and   
                H. A. Niroumand   Semiparametric Ridge Regression Approach
                                  in Partially Linear Models . . . . . . . 449--460
             Seoung Bum Kim and   
      Weerawat Jitpitaklert and   
             Thuntee Sukchotrat   One-Class Classification-Based Control
                                  Charts for Monitoring Autocorrelated
                                  Multivariate Processes . . . . . . . . . 461--474
                  Chin-Shang Li   Semiparametric Negative Binomial
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 475--486
           Nobumichi Shutoh and   
              Makiko Kusumi and   
            Wataru Morinaga and   
            Shunichi Yamada and   
                    Takashi Seo   Testing Equality of Mean Vectors in Two
                                  Sample Problem with Missing Data . . . . 487--500
                 Qian Zhang and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Confidence Intervals of Performance
                                  Measures for an M/G/1 Queueing System    501--516
         Purna Mukhopadhyay and   
             V. A. Samaranayake   Prediction Intervals for Time Series: A
                                  Modified Sieve Bootstrap Approach  . . . 517--538
                      Jing Wang   Dirichlet Processes in Nonlinear Mixed
                                  Effects Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--556
Elizabeth González-Estrada and   
José A. Villaseñor-Alva   A Goodness-of-Fit Test for
                                  Location-Scale Max-Stable Distributions  557--562
                Peter C. Austin   A Data-Generation Process for Data with
                                  Specified Risk Differences or Numbers
                                  Needed to Treat  . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--577
               George Nenes and   
                 George Tagaras   Evaluation of CUSUM Charts for
                                  Finite-Horizon Processes . . . . . . . . 578--597
               Abdullah Almasri   Tests for Trend: A Simulation Study  . . 598--611
              Chih-Chieh Wu and   
           Roger C. Grimson and   
                   Sanjay Shete   Exact Statistical Tests for
                                  Heterogeneity of Frequencies Based on
                                  Extreme Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--623
        Pablo Livacic-Rojas and   
          Guillermo Vallejo and   
         Paula Fernández   Analysis of Type I Error Rates of
                                  Univariate and Multivariate Procedures
                                  in Repeated Measures Designs . . . . . . 624--640
     Nibedita Bandyopadhyay and   
                     Ananda Sen   Bayesian Modeling of Recurrent Event
                                  Data with Dependent Censoring  . . . . . 641--654
                     Longhai Li   Are Bayesian Inferences Weak for
                                  Wasserman's Example? . . . . . . . . . . 655--667

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 39, Number 4, 2010

   R. Fuentes-García and   
                 R. H. Mena and   
                   S. G. Walker   A New Bayesian Nonparametric Mixture
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--682
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Number of Working Components in
                                  Consecutive $k$-out-of-$n$ System While
                                  It Is Working  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--692
                Zvi Drezner and   
                 Ofir Turel and   
                    Dawit Zerom   A Modified Kolmogorov--Smirnov Test for
                                  Normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--704
                Qiang Zhang and   
                     Dejian Lai   Operating Characteristics for Group
                                  Sequential Trials Monitored Under
                                  Fractional Brownian Motion . . . . . . . 705--712
                K. E. Ahmad and   
               Z. F. Jaheen and   
                  A. A. Modhesh   Estimation of a Discriminant Function
                                  Based on Small Sample Size from a
                                  Mixture of Two Gumbel Distributions  . . 713--725
             Chong Sun Hong and   
                   Jong-Min Kim   The SSR Plot: A Graphical Representation
                                  for Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726--735
                Su-Fen Yang and   
               Chih-Ying Ko and   
                   Jin-Tyan Yeh   Using VSI Loss Control Charts to Monitor
                                  a Process with Incorrect Adjustment  . . 736--749
              Conghua Cheng and   
               Jinyuan Chen and   
                       Zehui Li   A New Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimation with Progressive Type-I
                                  Interval Censored Data . . . . . . . . . 750--766
                 Liting Zhu and   
               Xianming Tan and   
                   Dongsheng Tu   Testing the Homogeneity of Two Survival
                                  Functions Against a Mixture Alternative
                                  Based on Censored Data . . . . . . . . . 767--776
        Edwin R. van den Heuvel   A Comparison of Estimation Methods on
                                  the Coverage Probability of
                                  Satterthwaite Confidence Intervals for
                                  Assay Precision with Unbalanced Data . . 777--794
            Laurent Ferrara and   
           Dominique Guegan and   
                     Zhiping Lu   Testing Fractional Order of Long Memory
                                  Processes: A Monte Carlo Study . . . . . 795--806
                Alan Bowman and   
           Necip Doganaksoy and   
                   Josef Schmee   Efficient Gradient-Based Optimization of
                                  Process Capability with Multiple,
                                  Potentially Nonnormal Outputs  . . . . . 807--827
             Matthew Strand and   
                   Yu Zhang and   
               Bruce J. Swihart   Monotone Nonparametric Regression and
                                  Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 828--845
        Luciana Dalla Valle and   
                Fabrizio Leisen   A New Multinomial Model and a Zero
                                  Variance Estimation  . . . . . . . . . . 846--859
                Henian Chen and   
             Patricia Cohen and   
                    Sophie Chen   How Big is a Big Odds Ratio?
                                  Interpreting the Magnitudes of Odds
                                  Ratios in Epidemiological Studies  . . . 860--864

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 39, Number 5, 2010

                P. Mantalos and   
                K. Mattheou and   
               A. Karagrigoriou   An Improved Divergence Information
                                  Criterion for the Determination of the
                                  Order of an AR Process . . . . . . . . . 865--879
  Jenny Häggström and   
                 Xavier de Luna   Estimating Prediction Error:
                                  Cross-Validation vs. Accumulated
                                  Prediction Error . . . . . . . . . . . . 880--898
           Gregory Gurevich and   
                  Albert Vexler   Retrospective Change Point Detection:
                                  From Parametric to Distribution Free
                                  Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--920
         Cesar Acosta-Mejia and   
     Joseph J. Pignatiello, Jr.   The Run Sum $R$ Chart with Fast Initial
                                  Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--932
         Mahmoud A. Mahmoud and   
             William H. Woodall   An Evaluation of the Double
                                  Exponentially Weighted Moving Average
                                  Control Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--949
          Tomohiro Nakamura and   
                 Hideyuki Douke   Development of Adaptive Group Sequential
                                  Procedure for Changing Sample Size . . . 950--970
  Hélcio Vieira, Jr. and   
         Karl Heinz Kienitz and   
Mischel Carmen Neyra Belderrain   Multinomial Selection Problem: A Study
                                  of BEM and AVC Algorithms  . . . . . . . 971--980
               Pedro Macedo and   
              Manuel Scotto and   
                   Elvira Silva   A General Class of Estimators for the
                                  Linear Regression Model Affected by
                                  Collinearity and Outliers  . . . . . . . 981--993
                 Li Lun Yeh and   
                  Fei Long Chen   An Extension of Banerjee and Rahim's
                                  Model for an Economic $X$-Bar Control
                                  Chart for Non-Normally Distributed Data
                                  Under Gamma Failure Models . . . . . . . 994--1015
       Getulio J. A. Amaral and   
               Luiz H. Dore and   
         Rosangela P. Lessa and   
                   Borko Stosic   $k$-Means Algorithm in Statistical Shape
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016--1026
        Z. Rezaei Ghahroodi and   
                 M. Ganjali and   
              H. Navvabpour and   
                    D. Berridge   An Appraisal of Methods for the Analysis
                                  of Longitudinal Ordinal Response Data
                                  with Random Dropout Using a
                                  Nonhomogeneous Markov Model  . . . . . . 1027--1048
                   Chao Gao and   
                    Caiya Zhang   A Novel Method for Visualization of
                                  Clustering Results . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1056
           Abdallah Mkhadri and   
             Assi N'Guessan and   
                   Bezza Hafidi   An MM Algorithm for Constrained
                                  Estimation in a Road Safety Measure
                                  Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1071

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 39, Number 6, 2010

                Liuxia Wang and   
                       Yulin Li   Detecting the Dimensionality for
                                  Principal Components Model . . . . . . . 1073--1082
         Karin Ayumi Tamura and   
              Viviana Giampaoli   Prediction in Multilevel Logistic
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1096
    L. Sandamali Dharmasena and   
           P. Zeephongsekul and   
                 P. Castagliola   Estimating Process Capability Index $
                                  C_{PM} $ Using a Bootstrap Sequential
                                  Sampling Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . 1097--1110
        Purushottam W. Laud and   
                Paul Damien and   
              Thomas S. Shively   Sampling Some Truncated Distributions
                                  Via Rejection Algorithms . . . . . . . . 1111--1121
                 Tizheng Li and   
                   Changlin Mei   Testing for Linear Regression
                                  Relationships in Randomly Right-Censored
                                  Varying-Coefficient Models . . . . . . . 1122--1146
                 Jian-Ying Rong   Adjustive Liu-Type Estimators in Linear
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1162--1173
                    S. Huda and   
                  L. Benkherouf   Rotatability is a Sufficient Condition
                                  for $A$- and $D$-Rotatability  . . . . . 1174--1182
                Xiaodi Wang and   
                Yincai Tang and   
               Xueping Chen and   
                 Yingshan Zhang   Design of Experiment in Global
                                  Sensitivity Analysis Based on ANOVA
                                  High-Dimensional Model Representation    1183--1195
                  Lei Zhang and   
                 Jixiang Wu and   
             William D. Johnson   Empirical Study of Six Tests for
                                  Equality of Populations with
                                  Zero-Inflated Continuous Distributions   1196--1211
                  Jielai Ma and   
           Wim P. M. Vijverberg   Five Diagnostic Tests for Unobserved
                                  Cluster Effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212--1227
               Rhonda Magel and   
              Jeff Terpstra and   
         Katrina Canonizado and   
                     Ja In Park   Nonparametric Tests for Mixed Designs    1228--1250
         Hossein Riazoshams and   
           Habshah Bt. Midi and   
           Olimjon Sh. Sharipov   The Performance of Robust Two-Stage
                                  Estimator in Nonlinear Regression with
                                  Autocorrelated Error . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1268
        Christian H. Weiß   The INARCH(1) Model for Overdispersed
                                  Time Series of Counts  . . . . . . . . . 1269--1291
                Ahmad A. Zghoul   A Goodness of Fit Test for Normality
                                  Based on the Empirical Moment Generating
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292--1304

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 39, Number 7, 2010

                P. G. Zhang and   
                 D. G. Chen and   
                         T. Roe   Choice of Baselines in Clinical Trials:
                                  A Simulation Study from Statistical
                                  Power Perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1317
           Mitsunori Kayano and   
               Sadanori Konishi   Sparse Functional Principal Component
                                  Analysis via Regularized Basis
                                  Expansions and Its Application . . . . . 1318--1333
     Loai Mahmoud Al-Zou'bi and   
        Robert Graham Clark and   
                 David G. Steel   Adaptive Inference for Multi-Stage
                                  Survey Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334--1350
                 Reid D. Landes   Hierarchical Bayesian Calibration of
                                  Untested Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351--1364
           Nobumichi Shutoh and   
                    Takashi Seo   Asymptotic Expansion of the Distribution
                                  of the Studentized Linear Discriminant
                                  Function Based on Two-Step Monotone
                                  Missing Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1365--1383
             Zhengqiang Pan and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Multiple-Steps Step-Stress Accelerated
                                  Degradation Modeling Based on Wiener and
                                  Gamma Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1384--1402
                     Dinghai Xu   An Efficient Estimation for Switching
                                  Regression Models: A Monte Carlo Study   1403--1421
               Sungwan Bang and   
                Ja-Yong Koo and   
                Myoungshic Jhun   Support Vector Machine Using $k$-Spatial
                                  Medians Clustering and Recovery Process  1422--1434
            João Nicolau   Transition Density and Simulated
                                  Likelihood Estimation for
                                  Time-Inhomogeneous Diffusions  . . . . . 1435--1454
   Jeffrey C. Miecznikowski and   
             Dongliang Wang and   
                    Alan Hutson   Bootstrap MISE Estimators to Obtain
                                  Bandwidth for Kernel Density Estimation  1455--1469
                  Fanglong Dong   Bayesian Method to Detect Outliers for
                                  Ordinal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1470--1484
                Songhua Liu and   
              Junying Zhang and   
                      Keguo Sun   Learning Low-Rank Kernel Matrices with
                                  Column-Based Methods . . . . . . . . . . 1485--1498
              Chien-Tai Lin and   
             Yen-Lung Huang and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Corrections on ``Exact Bayesian Variable
                                  Sampling Plans for the Exponential
                                  Distribution Based on Type-I and Type-II
                                  Hybrid Censored Samples''  . . . . . . . 1499--1505

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 39, Number 8, 2010

                V. Y. Pawar and   
                   D. T. Shirke   A Nonparametric Shewhart-Type Synthetic
                                  Control Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1493--1505
              Afshin Samani and   
               Pascal Madeleine   Permuted Sample Entropy  . . . . . . . . 1506--1516
        Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo   Generalized EGARCH Random Effect Models
                                  Application to Financial Time Series . . 1517--1529
             H. V. Kulkarni and   
                    V. V. Patil   A Comparative Study of Analyses of 2$^n$
                                  Factorial Experiments with a Poisson
                                  Distributed Response Variable  . . . . . 1530--1547
                      M. H. Lee   Multivariate EWMA Control Chart with
                                  Adaptive Sample Sizes  . . . . . . . . . 1548--1561
          Lorrie L. Hoffman and   
           Greg Knofczynski and   
                    Steve Clark   Estimation of Parameters in the
                                  Joinpoint Two-Regime Regression Model    1562--1576
                Yiping Yang and   
                 Liugen Xue and   
                    Weihu Cheng   Variable Selection for Partially Linear
                                  Models with Randomly Censored Data . . . 1577--1589
                     Shaowen Wu   Lag Length Selection in DF-GLS Unit Root
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1590--1604
            Ching-Hui Chang and   
                Nabendu Pal and   
                  Jyh-Jiuan Lin   A Note on Comparing Several Poisson
                                  Means  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1605--1627
               Pedro Macedo and   
              Manuel Scotto and   
                   Elvira Silva   On the Choice of the Ridge Parameter: A
                                  Maximum Entropy Approach . . . . . . . . 1628--1638
    Kristofer Månsson and   
               Ghazi Shukur and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   A Simulation Study of Some Ridge
                                  Regression Estimators under Different
                                  Distributional Assumptions . . . . . . . 1639--1670

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 39, Number 9, 2010

  Thiago Rezende Dos Santos and   
               Glaura C. Franco   Inference for the Hyperparameters of
                                  Structural Models Under Classical and
                                  Bayesian Perspectives: A Comparison
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1671--1689
                     Yan Li and   
                    Xiaolong Pu   A Method for Designing Three-Hypothesis
                                  Test Problems and Sequential Schemes . . 1690--1708
              Albert Vexler and   
               Gregory Gurevich   Density-Based Empirical Likelihood Ratio
                                  Change Point Detection Policies  . . . . 1709--1725
                Saeid Amiri and   
               Silvelyn Zwanzig   An Improvement of the Nonparametric
                                  Bootstrap Test for the Comparison of the
                                  Coefficient of Variations  . . . . . . . 1726--1734
                M. Bentarzi and   
                   M. Merzougui   Adaptive Test for Periodicity in
                                  Autoregressive Conditional
                                  Heteroskedastic Processes  . . . . . . . 1735--1753
                 Shu-Fei Wu and   
                Ying-Po Lin and   
                 Huei-Jiuan Lin   A Modified One-Sided Sequential
                                  Screening Procedure Based on Individual
                                  Misclassification Error  . . . . . . . . 1754--1778
             Shakir Hussain and   
       Mohammed A. Mohammed and   
            M. Sayeed Haque and   
               Roger Holder and   
               John Macleod and   
                  Richard Hobbs   A Simple Method to Ensure Plausible
                                  Multiple Imputation for Continuous
                                  Multivariate Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1779--1784
            W. Kössler and   
                       N. Kumar   An Adaptive Test for the Two-Sample
                                  Scale Problem Based on $U$-Statistics    1785--1802
              M. A. Mahmoud and   
              P. E. Maravelakis   The Performance of the MEWMA Control
                                  Chart when Parameters are Estimated  . . 1803--1817
            Ahmad A. Zghoul and   
                  Adnan M. Awad   Normality Test Based on a Truncated Mean
                                  Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 1818--1843

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 39, Number 10, 2010

              Dewi Rahardja and   
                Yan D. Zhao and   
                Hao Helen Zhang   Bayesian Inference of Odds Ratios in
                                  Misclassified Binary Data with a
                                  Validation Substudy  . . . . . . . . . . 1845--1854
 Víctor Gómez and   
Félix Aparicio-Pérez and   
Ángel Sánchez-Ávila   An Alternative to Transfer Function
                                  Forecasting Based on Subspace Methods    1855--1867
                       Qin Wang   A Shrinkage Estimation of Central
                                  Subspace in Sufficient Dimension
                                  Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868--1876
             Gai-Ying Zhang and   
             Chun-Xia Zhang and   
                Jiang-She Zhang   Out-of-Bag Estimation of the Optimal
                                  Hyperparameter in SubBag Ensemble Method 1877--1892
             Yisrael Parmet and   
            Edna Schechtman and   
                Michael Sherman   Factor Analysis Revisited --- How Many
                                  Factors are There? . . . . . . . . . . . 1893--1908
                      M. H. Lee   Economic Design of Cumulative Sum
                                  Control Charts for Monitoring a Process
                                  with Correlated Samples  . . . . . . . . 1909--1922
             H. M. Moustafa and   
              S. G. Ramadan and   
                 S. A. Mohammed   Nonlinear Discriminant Functions for
                                  Mixed Random Walk Models . . . . . . . . 1923--1938
    Ülkü Erisoglu and   
                     Hamza Erol   Modeling Heterogeneous Survival Data
                                  Using Mixture of Extended
                                  Exponential-Geometric Distributions  . . 1939--1952
          Bartholomew Leung and   
                 Heung Wong and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
                  Shengtong Han   Smoothing Spline Estimation for
                                  Partially Linear Single-index Models . . 1953--1961
               Karabi Nandy and   
                 Sami Helle and   
                Antti Liski and   
                    Erkki Liski   Optimal Designs for Binary Logistic
                                  Regression with a Qualitative Classifier
                                  with Independent Levels  . . . . . . . . 1962--1977


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 1, 2010

             Chiara Brombin and   
              Luigi Salmaso and   
         Giuseppe Ferronato and   
      Pier-Francesco Galzignato   Multi-Aspect Procedures for Paired Data
                                  with Application to Biometric Morphing   1--12
                 Dehui Wang and   
                 Haixiang Zhang   Generalized $ {\rm RCINAR}(p) $ Process
                                  with Signed Thinning Operator  . . . . . 13--44
      Sòren Asmussen and   
            Tobias Rydén   A Note on Skewness in Regenerative
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
            Serkan Eryilmaz and   
                   Cihangir Kan   Dynamic Reliability Evaluation of
                                  Consecutive-$k$-Within-$m$-Out-of-$ n
                                  \colon F$ System . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--71
         Abdolreza Sayyareh and   
               Raouf Obeidi and   
                  Avner Bar-Hen   Empirical Comparison between Some Model
                                  Selection Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 72--86
                  Yuzhi Cai and   
                  Dominic Hames   Minimum Sample Size Determination for
                                  Generalized Extreme Value Distribution   87--98
           Chanchala Ghadge and   
               T. V. Ramanathan   Rank Test for Testing Randomness of the
                                  Technology Parameters in a Stochastic
                                  Frontier Regression Model  . . . . . . . 99--112
              Steven Y. Hua and   
           Doyle L. Hawkins and   
              Chien-Pai Han and   
                    Yingqi Zhao   Multivariate Failure Time Analysis when
                                  only the Time to First Failure is
                                  Observed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--128
                Guogen Shan and   
              Albert Vexler and   
         Gregory E. Wilding and   
                 Alan D. Hutson   Simple and Exact Empirical Likelihood
                                  Ratio Tests for Normality Based on
                                  Moment Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--146
              Zawar Hussain and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                  Muhammad Riaz   Bayesian Estimation Using Warner's
                                  Randomized Response Model through Simple
                                  and Mixture Prior Distributions  . . . . 147--164
             M. L. Aggarwal and   
               Poonam Singh and   
              Vandana Sarin and   
                  Bushra Husain   Nearly Optimal Orthogonally Blocked
                                  Designs for Four Mixture Components
                                  Based on $F$-Squares . . . . . . . . . . 165--183

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 2, 2011

               Pooja Bansal and   
             Sangeeta Arora and   
             Kalpana K. Mahajan   Testing Homogeneity of Gini Indices
                                  Against Simple-Ordered Alternative . . . 185--198
              J. Martin van Zyl   Application of the Kolmogorov--Smirnov
                                  Test to Estimate the Threshold When
                                  Estimating the Extreme Value Index . . . 199--207
                  Fazlollah Lak   Bayesian Unit Root Testing in
                                  Unobserved-ARCH Models . . . . . . . . . 208--215
          Sheau-Chiann Chen and   
                    Jeh-Nan Pan   Determining Optimal Number of Samples
                                  for Constructing Multivariate Control
                                  Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--228
                S. J. Steel and   
                    N. Louw and   
                     S. Bierman   Variable Selection for Kernel
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--246
             Zhengqiang Pan and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                       Quan Sun   Bivariate Constant-Stress Accelerated
                                  Degradation Model and Inference  . . . . 247--257
              Yi-Kuan Tseng and   
                   Ken-Ning Shu   Efficient Estimation for a
                                  Semiparametric Extended Hazards Model    258--273
            Zhi-Qiang Cheng and   
                Yi-Zhong Ma and   
                        Jing Bu   Variance Shifts Identification Model of
                                  Bivariate Process Based on LS-SVM
                                  Pattern Recognizer . . . . . . . . . . . 274--284
              Oliver Grothe and   
               Friedrich Schmid   Kendall's $ {\cal W} $ Reconsidered  . . 285--305

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 3, 2011

     Gustavo H. M. A. Rocha and   
        Rosangela H. Loschi and   
               Glaura C. Franco   Bayesian and Classical Approaches for
                                  Hypotheses Testing in Trisomies  . . . . 307--321
          Shervin Asadzadeh and   
             Yaser Zerehsaz and   
              Abbas Saghaei and   
                Abdollah Aghaie   Compound-Estimator Based Cause-Selecting
                                  Control Chart for Monitoring Multistage
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--344
               Eralp Do\ugu and   
     Ipek Deveci Kocakoç   Estimation of Change Point in
                                  Generalized Variance Control Chart . . . 345--363
  Josenildo de Souza Chaves and   
              Josemar Rodrigues   Standard Exponential Cure Rate Model
                                  with Noninformative or Informative
                                  Uniform-Exponential Censoring  . . . . . 364--382
                  Chuan-Hua Wei   Estimation in Varying-Coefficient
                                  Errors-in-Variables Models with Missing
                                  Response Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 383--393
                   C. Ruwet and   
                  G. Haesbroeck   Impact of Contamination on Training and
                                  Test Error Rates in Statistical
                                  Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--411
                Jack C. Yue and   
              Murray K. Clayton   The Effect of Migration on a Similarity
                                  Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--423
            M. Ivette Gomes and   
Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues and   
            M. Cristina Miranda   Reduced-Bias Location-Invariant Extreme
                                  Value Index Estimation: A Simulation
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--447
          Rowena F. Bastero and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Robust Estimation of a Spatiotemporal
                                  Model with Structural Change . . . . . . 448--468

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 4, 2011

               Tzu-Hsin Liu and   
               Jau-Chuan Ke and   
                 Yu-Lun Hsu and   
                   Ying-Lin Hsu   Bootstrapping Computation of
                                  Availability for a Repairable System
                                  with Standby Subject to Imperfect
                                  Switching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--483
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                  K. Mylona and   
                   A. Skountzou   A Variable Selection Method for
                                  Analyzing Supersaturated Designs . . . . 484--496
                  Chin-Shang Li   Testing the Lack-of-Fit of Zero-Inflated
                                  Poisson Regression Models  . . . . . . . 497--510
    B. Lagos-Álvarez and   
M. D. Jiménez-Gamero and   
       V. Alba-Fernández   Bias Correction in the Type I
                                  Generalized Logistic Distribution  . . . 511--531
          Zeinhum F. Jaheen and   
            Mashail M. Al Harbi   Bayesian Estimation for the
                                  Exponentiated Weibull Model via Markov
                                  Chain Monte Carlo Simulation . . . . . . 532--543
                   Farhat Iqbal   A Weighted Linear Estimator of
                                  Multivariate ARCH Parameters . . . . . . 544--560
              M. Shahidul Islam   Testing Periodicity in Short Series and
                                  Application to Gene Expression Data  . . 561--573
              Chien-Tai Lin and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                   Sam J. S. Wu   Planning Life Tests Based on
                                  Progressively Type-I Grouped Censored
                                  Data from the Weibull Distribution . . . 574--595
                 Zhiping Lu and   
               Dominique Guegan   Estimation of Time-Varying Long Memory
                                  Parameter Using Wavelet Method . . . . . 596--613
                        Man Jin   Analysis of Failure Time Data with
                                  Mixed-Effects Accelerated Failure Time
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--619

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 5, 2011

              Vishal Maurya and   
                 Anju Goyal and   
                 Amar Nath Gill   Multiple Comparisons with More than One
                                  Control for Exponential Location
                                  Parameters Under Heteroscedasticity  . . 621--644
       Poovich Phaladiganon and   
             Seoung Bum Kim and   
        Victoria C. P. Chen and   
              Jun-Geol Baek and   
                Sun-Kyoung Park   Bootstrap-Based $ T^2 $ Multivariate
                                  Control Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--662
       Milan Stehlík and   
                   Helga Wagner   Exact Likelihood Ratio Testing for
                                  Homogeneity of the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--684
                  A. Moeini and   
                  B. Abbasi and   
                    H. Mahlooji   Conditional Distribution Inverse Method
                                  in Generating Uniform Random Vectors
                                  Over a Simplex . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--693
              Asheber Abebe and   
              Sai V. Nudurupati   Smooth Nonparametric Allocation of
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694--709
              Saman Khowaja and   
             Shazia Ghufran and   
                    M. J. Ahsan   Estimation of Population Means in
                                  Multivariate Stratified Random Sampling  710--718
         John T. Cuddington and   
                 William Navidi   A Critical Assessment of Simulated
                                  Critical Values  . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--727
               Jiujun Zhang and   
             Changliang Zou and   
                   Zhaojun Wang   A New Chart for Detecting the Process
                                  Mean and Variability . . . . . . . . . . 728--743
          Robert D. Herbert and   
               Andrew Hayen and   
            Petra Macaskill and   
              Stephen D. Walter   Interval Estimation for the Difference
                                  of Two Independent Variances . . . . . . 744--758
                    Hyo-Il Park   A Nonparametric Test Procedure Based on
                                  a Group of Quantile Tests  . . . . . . . 759--783
              Stephen G. Walker   Posterior Sampling When the Normalizing
                                  Constant is Unknown  . . . . . . . . . . 784--792

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 6, 2011

J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and   
  A. Enguix-González and   
J. Muñoz-García and   
           J. L. Moreno-Rebollo   Influence Analysis on Discriminant
                                  Coordinates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--807
                  Hanna Yoo and   
                 Jaewon Lee and   
                   Yang-Jin Kim   Joint Model of Clustered Failure Time
                                  Data with Informative Cluster Size . . . 808--817
               Shun-Yi Chen and   
                 Ching-Feng Hsu   Likelihood Ratio Tests for the Non
                                  Equivalence of Means . . . . . . . . . . 818--838
              Shahzad Munir and   
               Zahid Asghar and   
                  Muhammad Riaz   Performance Evaluation of Different
                                  Tests for Location Parameters  . . . . . 839--853
                Jacques Touboul   Projection Pursuit Through Relative
                                  Entropy Minimization . . . . . . . . . . 854--878
                 Abel Rodriguez   On-Line Learning for the Infinite Hidden
                                  Markov Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--893
                       T. Imada   Multivariate Two-Sided Tests for Normal
                                  Mean Vectors Based on Approximations of
                                  Likelihood Ratio Test  . . . . . . . . . 894--906
            Alessandro Barbiero   Confidence Intervals for Reliability of
                                  Stress-Strength Models in the Normal
                                  Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--925
            Shing Chih Tsai and   
                       Jung Wei   Multinomial Selection for Comparison
                                  with a Standard  . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--947
                 Miroslav Siman   On Exact Computation of Some Statistics
                                  Based on Projection Pursuit in a General
                                  Regression Context . . . . . . . . . . . 948--956

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 7, 2011

                Chin Wen Cheong   Univariate and Multivariate
                                  Value-at-Risk: Application and
                                  Implication in Energy Markets  . . . . . 957--977
               Xiaobin Yuan and   
                   Shesh N. Rai   Confidence Intervals for Survival
                                  Probabilities: A Comparison Study  . . . 978--991
               Liming Xiang and   
                   Guo Shou Teo   A Note on Tests for Zero-Inflation in
                                  Correlated Count Data  . . . . . . . . . 992--1005
                Steven P. Ellis   An Algorithm for Unconstrained
                                  Quadratically Penalized Convex
                                  Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006--1029
        Christopher I. Vahl and   
             George A. Milliken   Whole-Plot Exchange Algorithms for
                                  Constructing $D$-Optimal Multistratum
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030--1042
                    Yong Li and   
               Zhong-Xin Ni and   
                   Jin-Guan Lin   A Stochastic Simulation Approach to
                                  Model Selection for Stochastic
                                  Volatility Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1056
        Ronald D. Armstrong and   
                  Mabel T. Kung   CUSUM Hypothesis Tests and Alternative
                                  Response Probabilities for Finite
                                  Poisson Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1073
            N. Balakrishnan and   
        Katherine F. Davies and   
          Jerome P. Keating and   
                Robert L. Mason   Correlation-Type Goodness of Fit Test
                                  for Extreme Value Distribution Based on
                                  Simultaneous Closeness . . . . . . . . . 1074--1095
            Sarjinder Singh and   
               Jong-Min Kim and   
                Hakjin Jang and   
                   Stephen Horn   Truncated Midzuno--Sen Sampling Schemes
                                  for Estimating Distribution Functions    1096--1110

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 8, 2011

                     Daiki Maki   Pitfalls in Estimating Cointegrating
                                  Vector when Cointegration Relationship
                                  has Nonlinear Adjustment . . . . . . . . 1111--1121
                     Yihao Deng   A Note on the Factorization of a Matrix
                                  Inverse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122--1129
                    Qiang Zhang   Repeated Confidence Intervals Under
                                  Fractional Brownian Motion in Long-Term
                                  Clinical Trials  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1130--1145
                  G. Marcon and   
                 G. Adelfio and   
                      M. Chiodi   Gamma Kernel Intensity Estimation in
                                  Temporal Point Processes . . . . . . . . 1146--1162
                       Zheng Su   A Note on Importance Resampling for
                                  Multi-Dimensional Statistics . . . . . . 1163--1170
                Xiaoyan Lin and   
                  Lianming Wang   Bayesian Proportional Odds Models for
                                  Analyzing Current Status Data:
                                  Univariate, Clustered, and Multivariate  1171--1181
                 Hyejin Lee and   
                  Ming Meng and   
                     Junsoo Lee   How Do Nonlinear Unit Root Tests Perform
                                  with Non Normal Errors?  . . . . . . . . 1182--1191
                   M. Amini and   
                 H. Jabbari and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   Aspects of Dependence in Generalized
                                  Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern Distributions  1192--1205
         Edwin M. M. Ortega and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
         Elizabeth M. Hashimoto   A Log-Linear Regression Model for the
                                  Beta-Weibull Distribution  . . . . . . . 1206--1235
               Shipra Banik and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   Estimating the Population Coefficient of
                                  Variation by Confidence Intervals  . . . 1236--1261

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 9, 2011

             Daniele De Martini   Robustness and Corrections for Sample
                                  Size Adaptation Strategies Based on
                                  Effect Size Estimation . . . . . . . . . 1263--1277
           P. Khawsithiwong and   
                N. Yatawara and   
                V. Pongsapukdee   Adaptive Kalman Filtering with
                                  Multivariate Generalized Laplace System
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1278--1290
       Hadeel S. Klakattawi and   
          Lamya A. Baharith and   
            Gannat R. Al-Dayian   Bayesian and Non Bayesian Estimations on
                                  the Exponentiated Modified Weibull
                                  Distribution for Progressive Censored
                                  Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291--1309
                  Xinmin Li and   
                      Juan Wang   A Simple Method for Testing Variance
                                  Components in Unbalanced Nested Model    1310--1323
                Xiaodi Wang and   
                Yincai Tang and   
                 Yingshan Zhang   Orthogonal Arrays for the Estimation of
                                  Global Sensitivity Indices Based on
                                  ANOVA High-Dimensional Model
                                  Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324--1341
                  Claudio Macci   Large Deviation Results for Wave
                                  Governed Random Motions Driven by
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 1342--1363
                      Jen-Je Su   On the Oversized Problem of
                                  Dickey--Fuller-Type Tests with GARCH
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1364--1372
        Diarmuid O'Driscoll and   
              Donald E. Ramirez   Geometric View of Measurement Errors . . 1373--1382
              Yan-Ping Wang and   
                   Zhen-Zhou Lu   Bayesian Inference and Prediction
                                  Analysis of the Power Law Process Based
                                  on a Gamma Prior Distribution  . . . . . 1383--1401
                Ella Huszti and   
        Michal Abrahamowicz and   
             Ahmadou Alioum and   
              Catherine Quantin   Comparison of Selected Methods for
                                  Modeling of Multi-State Disease
                                  Progression Processes: A Simulation
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1402--1421
              Husam Awni Bayoud   Bayes and Empirical Bayes Estimation of
                                  the Parameter $n$ in a Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1422--1433
                   Feng Gao and   
                    Xu-Qing Liu   Linearized Ridge Regression Estimator
                                  Under the Mean Squared Error Criterion
                                  in a Linear Regression Model . . . . . . 1434--1443
             E. Androulakis and   
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                      K. Mylona   Tuning Parameter Estimation in Penalized
                                  Least Squares Methodology  . . . . . . . 1444--1457
                  Daiho Uhm and   
             Fred W. Huffer and   
                 Cheolyong Park   Additive Risk Model Using Piecewise
                                  Constant Hazard Function . . . . . . . . 1458--1477
               Hui-Qiong Li and   
               Man-Lai Tang and   
               Wai-Yin Poon and   
                Nian-Sheng Tang   Confidence Intervals for Difference
                                  Between Two Poisson Rates  . . . . . . . 1478--1493
     Christopher H. Morrell and   
              Shan L. Sheng and   
                 Larry J. Brant   A Comparative Study of Approaches for
                                  Predicting Prostate Cancer from
                                  Longitudinal Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1494--1513
           Zhengcheng Zhang and   
                Yingxiang Chang   MRL and MPL Functions of Parallel
                                  Systems with INID Components under
                                  Double Monitoring  . . . . . . . . . . . 1514--1523
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1524--1524

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 40, Number 10, 2011

                   Bo Zhang and   
                  Benchang Shia   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1525--1525
             Ben-Chang Shia and   
               Jianping Zhu and   
              Kuangnan Fang and   
                    Shuangge Ma   Fuzzy Canonical Discriminant Analysis:
                                  Theory and Practice  . . . . . . . . . . 1526--1539
                    Rui Pan and   
              Hansheng Wang and   
                 Chih-Ling Tsai   Regression Analysis of Asymmetric Pairs
                                  in Large-Scale Network Data  . . . . . . 1540--1547
                   Miao Liu and   
              Xiu-quan Qiao and   
                     Wang-li Xu   Three Categories Customer Churn
                                  Prediction Based on the Adjusted Real
                                  Adaboost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1548--1562
               Chuanhe Shen and   
                 Xiangrong Wang   Analysis of Convertible Bond Value Based
                                  on Integration of Support Vector Machine
                                  and Copula Function  . . . . . . . . . . 1563--1575
                    Wei Xue and   
                      Peng Shen   Application of HITS Algorithm in Web
                                  Mining in Literature Evaluation and
                                  Empirical Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576--1586
                   Jie Song and   
                Xiaoling Lu and   
                   Miao Liu and   
                       Xizhi Wu   Stratified Normalization LogitBoost for
                                  Two-Class Unbalanced Data Classification 1587--1593
               Zhong-Yuan Zhang   Divergence Functions of Non negative
                                  Matrix Factorization: A Comparison Study 1594--1612
                    Chao Yu and   
                 Jingxiao Zhang   Bayesian Approach to Markov Switching
                                  Stochastic Volatility Model with Jumps   1613--1626
                Xiaoling Lu and   
                   Jie Song and   
                   Miao Liu and   
                       Xizhi Wu   A New Two-Group-Forecast-and-Selection
                                  Method for Direct Marketing  . . . . . . 1627--1636
                     Tao Bi and   
                   Bo Zhang and   
                        Rong Xu   Dynamics of Intraday Serial Correlation
                                  in China's Stock Market  . . . . . . . . 1637--1650
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board EOV  . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 1, 2012

         M. Nili Ahmadabadi and   
                 Y. Farjami and   
                 M. B. Moghadam   Approximating Distributions by Extended
                                  Generalized Lambda Distribution (XGLD)   1--23
 Zoraida C. Martínez and   
      Daniel Barráez and   
      Carenne C. Ludeñez   A Hybrid Method for Random Pattern
                                  Sequence Classification  . . . . . . . . 24--31
                Yuchung J. Wang   Comparisons of Three Approaches for
                                  Discrete Conditional Models  . . . . . . 32--43
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                    C. Parpoula   Analyzing Supersaturated Designs by
                                  Means of an Information Based Criterion  44--57
                H. S. Jhajj and   
            Gurjeet Singh Walia   A Generalized Difference-cum-Ratio Type
                                  Estimator for the Population Mean in
                                  Double Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--64
               A. R. Shafay and   
                N. Balakrishnan   One- and Two-Sample Bayesian Prediction
                                  Intervals Based on Type-I Hybrid
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--88
              Andres Azuero and   
            David T. Redden and   
           Hemant K. Tiwari and   
        Senait G. Asmellash and   
       Chandrika J. Piyathilake   A Simple Distribution-Free Algorithm for
                                  Generating Simulated High-Dimensional
                                  Correlated Data with an Autoregressive
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Estimation of the Bivariate
                                  Cause-Specific Distribution Function
                                  with Left-Truncated Competing Risks Data 99--110
                Jianghua He and   
                Matthew S. Mayo   Adjusted Interim Survival Analysis Under
                                  Nonproportional Hazards  . . . . . . . . 111--124
            Reiichiro Kawai and   
                  Hiroki Masuda   Infinite Variation Tempered Stable
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Processes with
                                  Discrete Observations  . . . . . . . . . 125--139

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 2, 2012

    A. Schützenmeister and   
                  U. Jensen and   
                   H.-P. Piepho   Checking Normality and Homoscedasticity
                                  in the General Linear Model Using
                                  Diagnostic Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--154
                Yankun Gong and   
                  Asheber Abebe   On the Iteratively Reweighted Rank
                                  Regression Estimator . . . . . . . . . . 155--166
               Hung-Wen Yeh and   
                Wenyaw Chan and   
                Elaine Symanski   Intermittent Missing Observations in
                                  Discrete-Time Hidden Markov Models . . . 167--181
                Laura Stapleton   Evaluation of Conditional Weight
                                  Approximations for Two-Level Models  . . 182--204
               Guang-Hui Fu and   
                   Qing-Song Xu   Grouping Variable Selection by Weight
                                  Fused Elastic Net for Multi-Collinear
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--221
       Mohammad H. Almomani and   
      Rosmanjawati Abdul Rahman   Selecting a Good Stochastic System for
                                  the Large Number of Alternatives . . . . 222--237
             Saad Alkahtani and   
                   Jay Schaffer   A Double Multivariate Exponentially
                                  Weighted Moving Average (dMEWMA) Control
                                  Chart for a Process Location Monitoring  238--252
                Manisha Pal and   
            Nripes Kumar Mandal   $D$-Optimum Designs for Optimum Mixture
                                  in a Quadratic Log Contrast Model  . . . 253--264
           Donald R. Jensen and   
              Donald E. Ramirez   Variations on Ridge Traces in Regression 265--278

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 3, 2012

                   M.-L. Feddag   Composite Marginal Likelihoods to the
                                  Normal Bradley-Terry Model . . . . . . . 279--286
           Min-Hsien Chiang and   
                    Li-Min Wang   Additive Outlier Detection and
                                  Estimation for the Logarithmic
                                  Autoregressive Conditional Duration
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--301
              R. Noorossana and   
                      M. Ayoubi   Profile Monitoring Using Nonparametric
                                  Bootstrap $ T^2 $ Control Chart  . . . . 302--315
S. Mohammad E. Hosseini-Nasab and   
                Masoumeh Vakili   On Properties of Percentile Bootstrap
                                  Confidence Intervals for Period Using
                                  Periodogram  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--326
                 Jianwen Xu and   
                        Hu Yang   On the Preliminary Test Backfitting and
                                  Speckman Estimators in Partially Linear
                                  Models and Numerical Comparisons . . . . 327--341
                   F. Chang and   
                     T. Lei and   
                  A. C. M. Wong   Improved Likelihood Inference on Testing
                                  the Difference of Non Centrality
                                  Parameters of Two Independent Non
                                  central $t$ Distributions with Identical
                                  Degrees of Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . 342--354
         Liliana Garrido L. and   
               Edilberto Cepeda   Mixture of Distributions in the
                                  Biparametric Exponential Family: A
                                  Bayesian Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 355--375
         Julia N. Soulakova and   
                     Ananya Roy   On Power Approximations and Comparison
                                  of Several Asymptotic Tests to Detect a
                                  Specified Difference between Two
                                  Proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--390
                 Ren-Dao Ye and   
                  Yu-Qin Hu and   
                        Kun Luo   Inferences on the Among-Group Variance
                                  Component in Unbalanced Heteroscedastic
                                  One-Fold Nested Design . . . . . . . . . 391--404
   Viswanathan Ramakrishnan and   
               Leroy R. Thacker   Population Attributable Fraction as a
                                  Measure of Heritability in Dichotomous
                                  Twin Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--418
               A. Mohammadi and   
               M. R. Salehi-Rad   Bayesian Inference and Prediction in an
                                  M/G/1 with Optional Second Service . . . 419--435

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 4, 2012

                  Giada Adelfio   Change-Point Detection for Variance
                                  Piecewise Constant Models  . . . . . . . 437--448
               W. Kaczynski and   
                  L. Leemis and   
                   N. Loehr and   
                   J. McQueston   Nonparametric Random Variate Generation
                                  Using a Piecewise-Linear Cumulative
                                  Distribution Function  . . . . . . . . . 449--468
               W. Kaczynski and   
                  L. Leemis and   
                   N. Loehr and   
                   J. McQueston   Bivariate Nonparametric Random Variate
                                  Generation Using a Piecewise-Linear
                                  Cumulative Distribution Function . . . . 469--496
               Susana Faria and   
                Gilda Soromenho   Comparison of EM and SEM Algorithms in
                                  Poisson Regression Models: A Simulation
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--509
         Michelle A. Steane and   
         Paul D. McNicholas and   
                 Rickey Y. Yada   Model-Based Classification via Mixtures
                                  of Multivariate $t$-Factor Analyzers . . 510--523
             Inderdeep Kaur and   
                 M. B. Rajarshi   Ridge Regression for Estimation of
                                  Transition Probabilities from Aggregate
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--530
                 Pao-sheng Shen   Empirical Likelihood Ratio for Linear
                                  Transformation Models with Doubly
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--543
              J. Martin Van Zyl   A Median Regression Model to Estimate
                                  the Parameters of the Three-Parameter
                                  Generalized Pareto Distribution  . . . . 544--553
        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
                 Isha Dewan and   
                         Jun Li   An Asymmetric Kernel Estimator of
                                  Density Function for Stationary
                                  Associated Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 554--572

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 5, 2012

              Lingyun Zhang and   
               Dong Q. Wang and   
                   Min Chen and   
                     Gemai Chen   A Note on the Likelihood Ratio Test for
                                  Equality of $k$ Normal Populations . . . 573--581
             Kamil Dedecius and   
                   Radek Hofman   Autoregressive Model with Partial
                                  Forgetting within Rao-Blackwellized
                                  Particle Filter  . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--589
                  Einolah Deiri   Classical Estimator of Parameters of the
                                  Gamma Case With Presence of Two Outliers 590--597
             Shazia Ghufran and   
              Saman Khowaja and   
                    M. J. Ahsan   Optimum Multivariate Stratified Sampling
                                  Designs with Travel Cost: A
                                  Multiobjective Integer Nonlinear
                                  Programming Approach . . . . . . . . . . 598--610
                   Zheng Su and   
                     Liang Fang   A Novel Method to Calculate Mean
                                  Survival Time for Time-to-Event Data . . 611--620
                  Yuzhi Cai and   
                 Neville Davies   A Simple Bootstrap Method for Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--631
              Hukum Chandra and   
                      U. C. Sud   Small Area Estimation for Zero-Inflated
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--643
                M. Hakan Satman   A Genetic Algorithm Based Modification
                                  on the LTS Algorithm for Large Data Sets 644--652
      Raghu Nandan Sengupta and   
              Sachin Srivastava   Estimation for the Multiple Regression
                                  Setup Using Balanced Loss Function . . . 653--670
    Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and   
         B. Piedad Urdinola and   
         Diana Rodríguez   Double Generalized Spatial Econometric
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--685

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 6, 2012

           Viatcheslav B. Melas   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--687
          Larisa Afanasyeva and   
             Elena Bashtova and   
           Ekaterina Bulinskaya   Limit Theorems for Semi-Markov Queues
                                  and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . 688--709
             Ilham Akhundov and   
                Valery Nevzorov   From Student's $ t_2 $ Distribution to
                                  Student's $ t_3 $ Distribution Through
                                  Characterizations  . . . . . . . . . . . 710--716
            Alexander Aliev and   
            Valerii Fedorov and   
              Sergei Leonov and   
               Brian McHugh and   
                    Mindy Magee   PkStaMp Library for Constructing Optimal
                                  Population Designs for PK/PD Studies . . 717--729
         Alexander Andronov and   
                Diana Santalova   Statistical Estimates for Modified
                                  Gravitation Model by Aggregated Data . . 730--745
Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro and   
               Mario Bolzan and   
            Stefano Bonnini and   
               Livio Corain and   
                Francesca Solmi   Advantages of the Closed Testing Method
                                  in Multiple Comparisons Procedures . . . 746--763
   Vilijandas Bagdonavicius and   
            Sergey V. Malov and   
                Mikhail Nikulin   Homogeneity Tests for Related Samples
                                  Under Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . 764--775
            J. Beleza Sousa and   
      M. L. Esquível and   
                   R. M. Gaspar   Machine Learning Vasicek Model
                                  Calibration with Gaussian Processes  . . 776--786
              Boris Darkhovskiy   Non Asymptotic Minimax Estimation of
                                  Functionals with Noisy Observations  . . 787--803
            Vladimir Egorov and   
              Nourlan Kondybaev   On Some Applications of Poisson Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--819
          Raúl Gouet and   
     F. Javier López and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Limit Theorems for the Counting Process
                                  of Near-Records  . . . . . . . . . . . . 820--832
       Marie Husková and   
             Simos G. Meintanis   Tests for Symmetric Error Distribution
                                  in Linear and Nonparametric Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--851
            Hanna Jankowski and   
              Larissa Stanberry   Identifying Skeleton Curves in Noisy
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852--864
                    Jialiang Li   Applications of the Bootstrap in ROC
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--877
                  Marco Marozzi   A Distribution Free Test for the
                                  Equality of Scales . . . . . . . . . . . 878--889
            D. I. Miretskiy and   
       W. R. W. Scheinhardt and   
               M. R. H. Mandjes   On Efficiency of Multilevel Splitting    890--904
          Reuven Rubinstein and   
              Andrey Dolgin and   
               Radislav Vaisman   The Splitting Method for Decision Making 905--921
                  J. Simino and   
               M. Hollander and   
                       D. McGee   Calibration of Proportional Hazards and
                                  Accelerated Failure Time Models  . . . . 922--941

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 7, 2012

           Viatcheslav B. Melas   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--943
               M. Amo-Salas and   
    J. López-Fidalgo and   
 V. I. López-Ríos   Optimal Designs for Two Nested
                                  Pharmacokinetic Models with Correlated
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944--963
Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro and   
               Livio Corain and   
                Susanna Ragazzi   A Comparison among Combination-Based
                                  Permutation Statistics for Randomized
                                  Complete Block Design  . . . . . . . . . 964--979
           V. Bagdonavicius and   
               R. Levuliene and   
                     M. Nikulin   Modelling and Testing of Presence of
                                  Hazard Rates Crossing Under Censoring    980--991
                  A. Ciampi and   
                H. Campbell and   
               A. Dyachenko and   
                    B. Rich and   
                J. McCusker and   
                     M. G. Cole   Model-Based Clustering of Longitudinal
                                  Data: Application to Modeling Disease
                                  Course and Gene Expression Trajectories  992--1005
             Antonio Ciampi and   
            Alina Dyachenko and   
        Ana Gonzalez-Marcos and   
              Yves Lechevallier   Two-Way Classification of a Data Table
                                  with Non Negative Entries: The Role of
                                  the $ \chi^2 $ Distance and
                                  Correspondence Analysis  . . . . . . . . 1006--1022
                 B. P. Harlamov   Stochastic Model of Gas Capillary
                                  Chromatography . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1031
       Marie Husková and   
      Miriam Marusiaková   $M$-Procedures for Detection of Changes
                                  for Dependent Observations . . . . . . . 1032--1050
         Lieven Nils Kennes and   
        Ralf-Dieter Hilgers and   
                 Nicole Heussen   Choice of the Reference Set in a
                                  Randomization Test Based on Linear Ranks
                                  in the Presence of Missing Values  . . . 1051--1061
         Valentina Klimenok and   
                Alexander Dudin   A BMAP/PH/N Queue with Negative
                                  Customers and Partial Protection of
                                  Service  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062--1082
             Anton Korobeynikov   Consistency of Parametric MLE Under
                                  Mixed Case Interval Censoring  . . . . . 1083--1092
          Andrey Lukyanenko and   
              Andrei Gurtov and   
                  Evsey Morozov   An Adaptive Backoff Protocol with
                                  Markovian Contention Window Control  . . 1093--1106
                  Tobias Mielke   $D$-Optimal Designs for Paired
                                  Observations in Quadratic Regression
                                  with Mixed Effects . . . . . . . . . . . 1107--1119
                   D. Rasch and   
                  B. Spangl and   
                        M. Wang   Minimal Experimental Size in the Three
                                  Way ANOVA Cross Classification Model
                                  with Approximate $F$-Tests . . . . . . . 1120--1130
                    Katrin Roth   Sequential Designs for Dose Escalation
                                  Studies in Oncology  . . . . . . . . . . 1131--1141
          Katharina Schiffl and   
            Ralf-Dieter Hilgers   A-Optimal Designs for Two-Color
                                  Microarray Experiments for
                                  Treatment-Control and All-to-Next
                                  Contrasts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1142--1151
         Michael G. Schimek and   
     Alena Mysicková and   
            Eva Budinská   An Inference and Integration Approach
                                  for the Consolidation of Ranked Lists    1152--1166
       Milan Stehlík and   
       Zdenek Fabián and   
                  Lubos Strelec   Small Sample Robust Testing for
                                  Normality against Pareto Tails . . . . . 1167--1194
                 Ansgar Steland   Sequential Data-Adaptive Bandwidth
                                  Selection by Cross-Validation for
                                  Nonparametric Prediction . . . . . . . . 1195--1219
                     C. Tommasi   Optimal Design Robust to a Misspecified
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1220--1231
                 Elena Yarovaya   Symmetric Branching Walks in Homogeneous
                                  and Non Homogeneous Random Environments  1232--1249
             Linda J. Young and   
            Carol A. Gotway and   
             Kenneth K. Lopiano   A Closer Look at Errors in Variables
                                  Methods for Use in Regression Models
                                  with Spatially Misaligned Data . . . . . 1250--1269

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 8, 2012

               Jianwei Chen and   
               Xiaofei Wang and   
                   Dai Yang and   
                     Boming Fan   Nonparametric Modeling Auxiliary
                                  Covariates in Random Coefficient Models  1271--1281
               Yousung Park and   
               Daeyoung Kim and   
                  Seongyong Kim   Robust Regression Using Data
                                  Partitioning and $M$-Estimation  . . . . 1282--1300
               Ching-Yun Yu and   
                   Jia-Ren Tsai   A Comparison of Approaches to Interval
                                  Estimation of Mediated Effects in Linear
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1301--1316
                  Jing Feng and   
                   Quan Sun and   
                    Tongdan Jin   Storage Life Prediction for a
                                  High-Performance Capacitor Using
                                  Multi-Phase Wiener Degradation Model . . 1317--1335
             S. Chakraborti and   
              G. Michaelson and   
                A. K. McCracken   Shortest Expected Length Confidence
                                  Interval for the Power of the $t$-Test   1336--1345
      Raghu Nandan Sengupta and   
              Sachin Srivastava   Minimum Risk Estimation of Scalar Means
                                  under Convex Combination of Loss
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1346--1371
                   Gh. Yari and   
                     A. Saghafi   Unbiased Weibull Modulus Estimation
                                  Using Differential Cumulative Entropy    1372--1378
             Arezoo Bagheri and   
                 M. Habshah and   
               R. H. M. R. Imon   A Novel Collinearity-Influential
                                  Observation Diagnostic Measure Based on
                                  a Group Deletion Approach  . . . . . . . 1379--1396
                  Johan Lim and   
                 Woojoo Lee and   
                Sin-Ho Jung and   
             Kyeong Eun Lee and   
                 Sung-Cheol Yun   A Regression Model for the AUC of
                                  Clustered Ordinal Test Results and
                                  Working Independent Optimal Weights  . . 1397--1410
              Funda Erdugan and   
                  Fikri Akdeniz   Computational Method for Jackknifed
                                  Generalized Ridge Tuning Parameter based
                                  on Generalized Maximum Entropy . . . . . 1411--1429
             R. Hasan Abadi and   
                 M. Doostparast   Goodness-of-Fit Test and Parameter
                                  Estimation for a Proportional Odds Model
                                  of Random Censorship . . . . . . . . . . 1430--1443
               Sy-Mien Chen and   
                   Ta-Jung Tsai   Properties of Estimators of the Process
                                  Capability Index . . . . . . . . . . . . 1444--1462
               Chun Kit Low and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
               Wei Lin Teoh and   
                       Zhang Wu   The Revised $m$-of-$k$ Runs Rule Based
                                  on Median Run Length . . . . . . . . . . 1463--1477
             Chia-Hao Chang and   
                   Ching-Ho Yen   A New Nonparametric Test for the
                                  Umbrella Alternative Problem . . . . . . 1478--1488
          George Y. C. Wong and   
                      Qiqing Yu   Estimation Under the Lehmann Regression
                                  Model with Interval-Censored Data  . . . 1489--1500
     Patricia Pepple Williamson   Usefulness of Asymptotic Distributions
                                  in the Classical Occupancy Problem . . . 1501--1517

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 9, 2012

              Neelabh Rohan and   
               T. V. Ramanathan   Asymmetric Volatility Models with
                                  Structural Breaks  . . . . . . . . . . . 1519--1543
      A. Firat Özdemir and   
                    Rand Wilcox   New Results on the Small-Sample
                                  Properties of Some Robust Univariate
                                  Estimators of Location . . . . . . . . . 1544--1556
               Zihong Zhong and   
               Weiquan Chen and   
                        Hua Jin   A New Test for Testing Non Inferiority
                                  in Matched-Pairs Design  . . . . . . . . 1557--1565
       Victor Tercero-Gomez and   
       Jose Ramirez-Galindo and   
   Alavarado Cordero-Franco and   
               Milton Smith and   
                Mario Beruvides   Modified Tukey's Control Chart . . . . . 1566--1579
               Hualing Zhao and   
                 Xiaoxia Wu and   
                 Hong Zhang and   
                   Hanfeng Chen   Estimating the Proportion of True Null
                                  Hypotheses in Nonparametric Exponential
                                  Mixture Model with Appication to the
                                  Leukemia Gene Expression Data  . . . . . 1580--1592
                Jinseog Kim and   
                 Insuk Sohn and   
                Sin-Ho Jung and   
                 Sujong Kim and   
                   Changyi Park   Analysis of Survival Data with Group
                                  Lasso  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1593--1605
                   Hamid Bidram   The Beta Exponential-Geometric
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1606--1622
                     Surupa Roy   Accounting for Response
                                  Misclassification and Covariate
                                  Measurement Error Using a Random Effects
                                  Logit Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623--1636
                    Ross Sparks   Spatially Clustered Outbreak Detection
                                  Using the EWMA SCAN Statistics with
                                  Multiple Sized Windows . . . . . . . . . 1637--1653
          J. Martin van Zyl and   
                  Robert Schall   Parameter Estimation Through Weighted
                                  Least-Squares Rank Regression with
                                  Specific Reference to the Weibull and
                                  Gumbel Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 1654--1666
                 F. K. Wang and   
                Y. F. Cheng and   
                       W. L. Lu   Partially Accelerated Life Tests for the
                                  Weibull Distribution Under Multiply
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1667--1678
            Myung Soon Song and   
                 Leon J. Gleser   A Numerical Likelihood-Based Approach to
                                  Combining Correlation Matrices . . . . . 1679--1692
              Edward Santos and   
                 Erniel Barrios   Nonparametric Decomposition of Time
                                  Series Data with Inputs  . . . . . . . . 1693--1710
              Yung-Fu Cheng and   
                   Fu-Kwun Wang   Estimating the Burr XII Parameters in
                                  Constant-Stress Partially Accelerated
                                  Life Tests Under Multiple Censored Data  1711--1727
                 Youngjae Chang   Multi-Step Classification Trees  . . . . 1728--1744
          Do Le (Paul) Minh and   
           David D. L. Minh and   
               Andrew L. Nguyen   Regenerative Markov Chain Monte Carlo
                                  for Any Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1745--1760

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 41, Number 10, 2012

         S. Z. Hosseinifard and   
                      B. Abbasi   Process Capability Analysis in Non
                                  Normal Linear Regression Profiles  . . . 1761--1784
                    Ming Ha Lee   The Design of the Multivariate Synthetic
                                  Exponentially Weighted Moving Average
                                  Control Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1785--1793
                 Wenli Deng and   
                  Yong Tian and   
                     Qiuping Lv   Parametric Estimator of Linear Model
                                  with Interval-Censored Data  . . . . . . 1794--1804
                 K. K. Jose and   
                   Jane A. Luke   On Confidence Intervals for Process
                                  Capability Indices in a One-Way Random
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1805--1815
             Mahmoud A. Mahmoud   The Performance of Phase II Simple
                                  Linear Profile Approaches when
                                  Parameters Are Estimated . . . . . . . . 1816--1833
               Rashid Ahmed and   
                   Munir Akhtar   Computer-Generated Neighbor Designs  . . 1834--1839
               Changwon Yoo and   
              Erik M. Brilz and   
            Meredith Wilcox and   
          Mark A. Pershouse and   
            Elizabeth A. Putnam   Gene Pathways Discovery in
                                  Asbestos-Related Diseases using Local
                                  Causal Discovery Algorithm . . . . . . . 1840--1859
              S. Ejaz Ahmed and   
             M. Hafidz Omar and   
               Anwar H. Joarder   Stabilizing the Performance of Kurtosis
                                  Estimator of Multivariate Data . . . . . 1860--1871
              M. Mahdizadeh and   
                  N. R. Arghami   Quantile Estimation Using Ranked Set
                                  Samples from a Population with Known
                                  Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1872--1881
              A. H. Abuzaid and   
               A. G. Hussin and   
                  A. Rambli and   
                     I. Mohamed   Statistics for a New Test of Discordance
                                  in Circular Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1882--1890
         André Adler and   
            George Skountrianos   Resampling Ratios of Order Statistics
                                  (RROS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1891--1894
        S. M. Hashemiparast and   
                   M. Sabzevari   The Two-Dimensional Asymmetric Gambler's
                                  Ruin Problem with $n$ Players and
                                  Simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1895--1911
                Sang-Ho Lee and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   A Process Monitoring Scheme Controlling
                                  False Discovery Rate . . . . . . . . . . 1912--1920
             Robert F. Phillips   On Computing Maximum-Likelihood
                                  Estimates of the Unbalanced Two-Way
                                  Random-Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 1921--1927
          Constance A. Mara and   
              Robert A. Cribbie   Paired-Samples Tests of Equivalence  . . 1928--1943
              Hui-Guo Zhang and   
                  Chang-Lin Mei   SiZer Inference for Varying Coefficient
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1944--1959
            Ilya Shvartsman and   
       Vernon M. Chinchilli and   
                  Hsiao-pin Liu   A Frailty Model in Crossover Studies
                                  with Time-to-Event Response Variable . . 1960--1969
              T. Baghfalaki and   
                     M. Ganjali   An ECM Estimation Approach for Analyzing
                                  Multivariate Skew-Normal Data with
                                  Dropout  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1970--1988
              P. Malekzadeh and   
                     S. D. Gore   A Stochastic Approach to General
                                  Nonlinear Programming Problems . . . . . 1989--1997
              Sho Takahashi and   
         Takahiro Nishiyama and   
                    Takashi Seo   Simultaneous Tests for Independence
                                  Among Components of Random Vector by
                                  Step-Down Multiple Comparison Procedure  1998--2005
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board EOV  . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebii


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 1, 2013

                         Yan Lu   Standard Error of the Method of
                                  Simulated Moment Estimator for
                                  Generalized Linear Mixed Models  . . . . 1--7
    Luiz Antonio de Freitas and   
              Josemar Rodrigues   Standard Exponential Cure Rate Model
                                  with Informative Censoring . . . . . . . 8--23
  Sílvia R. C. Lopes and   
             Guilherme Pumi and   
                  Karine Zaniol   Mallows Distance in $ {\rm VARFIMA}(0,
                                  d, 0) $ Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 24--51
             Fariba Hemmati and   
                Esmaile Khorram   Statistical Analysis of the Log-Normal
                                  Distribution under Type-II Progressive
                                  Hybrid Censoring Schemes . . . . . . . . 52--75
                 E. Krishna and   
                 K. K. Jose and   
           Miroslav M. Risti\'c   Applications of Marshall--Olkin Fréchet
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--89
                   B. Picinbono   Algorithms for Point Processes Analysis  90--106
               Jafar Ahmadi and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Simultaneous Closeness of $k$-Records    107--120
           Gheorghe Craciun and   
                 Jaejik Kim and   
              Casian Pantea and   
            Grzegorz A. Rempala   Statistical Model for Biochemical
                                  Network Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . 121--137
            Suliadi Suliadi and   
          Noor Akma Ibrahim and   
                       Isa Daud   Semiparametric Estimation with Profile
                                  Algorithm for Longitudinal Binary Data   138--152
          Jacqueline Guarte and   
                 Erniel Barrios   Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing in a
                                  Spatial-Temporal Model: A Simulation
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--170
                  Olcay Bozkurt   Mixtures of Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern
                                  Copulas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--182
                       T. Imada   Multivariate Two-Sided Tests for Normal
                                  Mean Vectors with Unknown Covariance
                                  Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--201
            Amin Khoshkenar and   
                Hashem Mahlooji   A New Test of Randomness for Lehmer
                                  Generators Based on the Manhattan
                                  Distance Between Pairs of Consecutive
                                  Random Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--214
           Wolfgang Karcher and   
       Hans-Peter Scheffler and   
                Evgeny Spodarev   Simulation of Infinitely Divisible
                                  Random Fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--246

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 2, 2013

   Emanuel Pimentel Barbosa and   
        Mario Antonio Gneri and   
              Ariane Meneguetti   Range Control Charts Revisited: Simpler
                                  Tippett-like Formulae, Its Practical
                                  Implementation, and the Study of False
                                  Alarm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262
                   Fei Tang and   
         B. M. Golam Kibria and   
                   Huiliang Xie   Some Statistical Methods in Assessing
                                  Linear Relational Agreement: An
                                  Empirical Comparative Study  . . . . . . 263--279
                 Yuko Araki and   
                Satoshi Hattori   Efficient Regularization Parameter
                                  Selection Via Information Criteria . . . 280--293
           Naveen K. Bansal and   
        Madhusudan Bhandary and   
                  Koji Fujiwara   Bayes Estimation of Intraclass
                                  Correlation Coefficients Under Unequal
                                  Family Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--302
                Dexter O. Cahoy   Estimation of Mittag-Leffler Parameters  303--315
           Sergey S. Tarima and   
              Albert Vexler and   
               Siddhartha Singh   Robust Mean Estimation Under a Possibly
                                  Incorrect Log-Normality Assumption . . . 316--326
A. Martín Andrés and   
M. Álvarez Hernández   Optimal Method for Realizing Two-Sided
                                  Inferences About a Linear Combination of
                                  Two Proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--343
            Julia Volaufova and   
               Lynn Roy Lamotte   A Simulation Comparison of Approximate
                                  Tests for Fixed Effects in Random
                                  Coefficients Growth Curve Models . . . . 344--359
        H. E. T. Holgersson and   
                 Rashid Mansoor   Assessing Normality of High-Dimensional
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--369
             Hani M. Samawi and   
                   Robert Vogel   More Efficient Approximation of Multiple
                                  Integrals using Steady State Ranked
                                  Simulated Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 370--381
                  Xuhua Liu and   
                    Daojiang He   Testing Homogeneity of Inverse Gaussian
                                  Scale Parameters Based on Generalized
                                  Likelihood Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--392
              Aimee N. Gott and   
                Idris A. Eckley   A Note on the Effect of Wavelet Choice
                                  on the Estimation of the Evolutionary
                                  Wavelet Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--406
              A. F. Ozdemir and   
             Rand R. Wilcox and   
                  E. Yildiztepe   Comparing Measures of Location: Some
                                  Small-Sample Results When Distributions
                                  Differ in Skewness and Kurtosis Under
                                  Heterogeneity of Variances . . . . . . . 407--424
               Man-lai Tang and   
                  Xinjie He and   
                  Guoliang Tian   A Confidence Interval Approach for
                                  Comparative Studies Involving Binary
                                  Outcomes in Paired Organs  . . . . . . . 425--453
   José Rafael Tovar and   
           Jorge Alberto Achcar   Dependence Between Two Diagnostic Tests
                                  with Copula Function Approach: A
                                  Simulation Study . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--475
     Behrouz Fathi Vajargah and   
    Asghar Eskandari Chechaglou   Optimal Halton Sequence via Inversive
                                  Scrambling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--484

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 3, 2013

           Farida Mostajabi and   
              Somnath Datta and   
                  Susmita Datta   Predicting Patient Survival from
                                  Proteomic Profile using Mass
                                  Spectrometry Data: An Empirical Study    485--498
     Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi and   
             Naser Reza Arghami   Goodness-of-Fit Tests Based on
                                  Correcting Moments of Entropy Estimators 499--513
              Xanthi Pedeli and   
                Dimitris Karlis   On Estimation of the Bivariate Poisson
                                  INAR Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--533
              Yu-Ting Cheng and   
            Chih-Ching Yang and   
                   Sou-Chein Wu   Optimal Variable Sample Size and
                                  Sampling Interval MSE Chart Based on
                                  Improved Square Root Transformation  . . 534--551
             E. Androulakis and   
            P. Angelopoulos and   
                 C. Koukouvinos   A Comparison of Three-Level Orthogonal
                                  Arrays in the Presence of Different
                                  Correlation Structures in Observations   552--569
                  S. H. Ong and   
                       C. M. Ng   A Bivariate Generalization of the
                                  Noncentral Negative Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--585
          Vicente G. Cancho and   
          Francisco Louzada and   
                Edwin M. Ortega   The Power Series Cure Rate Model: An
                                  Application to a Cutaneous Melanoma Data 586--602
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Regression $M$-estimators with One
                                  Modified Form of Doubly Censored Data    603--612
               Yuri Salazar and   
                    Wing Lon Ng   Nonparametric Tail Copula Estimation: An
                                  Application to Stock and Volatility
                                  Index Returns  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--635
          Prabhakar Chalise and   
               Eric Chicken and   
                   Daniel McGee   Performance and Prediction for Varying
                                  Survival Time Scales . . . . . . . . . . 636--649
               Velimir Bole and   
                    Peter Rebec   Bootstrapping the Hausman Test in Panel
                                  Data Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650--670
         Luis Nobre Pereira and   
     Pedro Simões Coelho   An Applied Comparison of Area-Level
                                  Linear Mixed Models in Small Area
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--685
 Alicia Graziosi Strandberg and   
                 Boris Iglewicz   A Nonparametric Test for Deviation from
                                  Randomness with Applications to Stock
                                  Market Index Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 686--697
        Håkan Locking and   
    Kristofer Månsson and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   Performance of Some Ridge Parameters for
                                  Probit Regression: With Application to
                                  Swedish Job Search Data  . . . . . . . . 698--710
        Nripes Kumar Mandal and   
                    Manisha Pal   Optimum Mixture Design for the Detection
                                  of Synergistic Effects . . . . . . . . . 711--726

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 4, 2013

                 Liang Fang and   
              Thomas M. Loughin   Analyzing Binomial Data in a Split-Plot
                                  Design: Classical Approach or Modern
                                  Techniques?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--740
                     Tao Bi and   
                   Bo Zhang and   
                     Huishan Wu   Measuring Downside Risk Using
                                  High-Frequency Data: Realized Downside
                                  Risk Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--754
             N. Mamode Khan and   
                    V. Jowaheer   Comparing Joint GQL Estimation and GMM
                                  Adaptive Estimation in COM-Poisson
                                  Longitudinal Regression Model  . . . . . 755--770
              Cheon-Sig Lee and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Simulated Minimum Sample Size
                                  Requirements in Various Randomized
                                  Response Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--789
              Saman Khowaja and   
             Shazia Ghufran and   
                    M. J. Ahsan   On the Problem of Compromise Allocation
                                  in Multi-Response Stratified Sample
                                  Surveys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790--799
                     Weixin Yao   A Simple Solution to Bayesian Mixture
                                  Labeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800--813
             Fabio H. Nieto and   
               Hanwen Zhang and   
                         Wen Li   Using the Reversible Jump MCMC Procedure
                                  for Identifying and Estimating
                                  Univariate TAR Models  . . . . . . . . . 814--840
                    Liu Liu and   
                  Xuemin Zi and   
                 Jian Zhang and   
                   Zhaojun Wang   A Sequential Rank-Based Nonparametric
                                  Adaptive EWMA Control Chart  . . . . . . 841--859
          Rahim Mahmoudvand and   
               Nader Najari and   
                Mohammad Zokaei   On the Optimal Parameters for
                                  Reconstruction and Forecasting in
                                  Singular Spectrum Analysis . . . . . . . 860--870
                S. Najarian and   
                  M. Arashi and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   A Simulation Study on Some Restricted
                                  Ridge Regression Estimators  . . . . . . 871--890
             G. C. Tikkiwal and   
            Piyush Kant Rai and   
                     Alka Ghiya   On the Performance of Generalized
                                  Regression Estimator for Small Domains   891--909
           David D. Hanagal and   
                 Alok D. Dabade   Bayesian Estimation of Parameters and
                                  Comparison of Shared Gamma Frailty
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910--931
                  Wenxue Li and   
                        Hu Yang   Weighted Stochastic Restricted
                                  Estimation in Linear Measurement Error
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932--968

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 5, 2013

                 S. Nayeban and   
     A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   Bhattacharyya and Kshirsagar Bounds in
                                  Generalized Gamma Distribution . . . . . 969--980
          Amirhossein Amiri and   
                    Elnaz Moein   Some Notes on Diagnostic Procedures in
                                  Simple and Multiple Linear Regression
                                  Profiles Monitoring  . . . . . . . . . . 981--1002
            Vassilly Voinov and   
                Natalya Pya and   
             Niyaz Shapakov and   
                Yevgeniy Voinov   Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the
                                  Power-Generalized Weibull Probability
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1012
                Mathias Raschke   Parameter Estimation for the Tail
                                  Distribution of a Random Sequence  . . . 1013--1043
    Christian H. Weiß and   
                   Miia Peltola   Sequential Pattern Analysis: A
                                  Statistical Investigation of Sequence
                                  Length and Support . . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1062
Anne Péguin-Feissolle and   
           Birgit Strikholm and   
           Timo Teräsvirta   Testing the Granger Noncausality
                                  Hypothesis in Stationary Nonlinear
                                  Models of Unknown Functional Form  . . . 1063--1087
                 Ying Zhang and   
                     Hao Yu and   
                  A. Ian McLeod   Developments in Maximum Likelihood Unit
                                  Root Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088--1103
               N. K. Mandal and   
                    Manisha Pal   Optimum Designs for Optimum Mixtures in
                                  Multiresponse Experiments  . . . . . . . 1104--1112
               Yueh-Yun Chi and   
                Keith E. Muller   Two-Step Hypothesis Testing When the
                                  Number of Variables Exceeds the Sample
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1125
                  Mary C. Meyer   A Simple New Algorithm for Quadratic
                                  Programming with Applications in
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126--1139
              Sandeep Menon and   
             Joseph Massaro and   
         Michael J. Pencina and   
                Jerry Lewis and   
                Yong Cheng Wang   Comparison of Operating Characteristics
                                  of Commonly Used Sample Size
                                  Re-Estimation Procedures in a Two-Stage
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1140--1152
               A. Mukherjee and   
               M. A. Graham and   
                 S. Chakraborti   Distribution-Free Exceedance CUSUM
                                  Control Charts for Location  . . . . . . 1153--1187
           Marjolein Crabbe and   
              Bradley Jones and   
             Martina Vandebroek   Comparing Two-Stage Segmentation Methods
                                  for Choice Data with a One-Stage Latent
                                  Class Choice Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 1188--1212

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 6, 2013

                Jingqin Luo and   
                 Chengjie Xiong   Youden Index and Associated Cut-Points
                                  for Three Ordinal Diagnostic Groups  . . 1213--1234
                 Eralp Dogu and   
     Ipek Deveci Kocakoç   A Multivariate Change Point Detection
                                  Procedure for Monitoring Mean and
                                  Covariance Simultaneously  . . . . . . . 1235--1255
              Ufuk Beyaztas and   
                     Aylin Alin   Jackknife-After-Bootstrap Method for
                                  Detection of Influential Observations in
                                  Linear Regression Models . . . . . . . . 1256--1267
              Yangxin Huang and   
                 Getachew Dagne   Comparison of Mixed-Effects Models for
                                  Skew-Normal Responses with an
                                  Application to AIDS Data: A Bayesian
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1268--1287
                  Dilip Roy and   
                  Rishideep Roy   Distribution of the Activity Time in
                                  Network Analysis: A Critical Revisit
                                  with a Gamma Alternative . . . . . . . . 1288--1297
                  Marco Marozzi   Nonparametric Simultaneous Tests for
                                  Location and Scale Testing: A Comparison
                                  of Several Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 1298--1317
       Belmiro P. M. Duarte and   
               Pedro M. Saraiva   Optimal Design of Acceptance Sampling
                                  Plans by Variables for Nonconforming
                                  Proportions When the Standard Deviation
                                  Is Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318--1342
               Craig Loehle and   
                 Nasser Arghami   Reduced-Variance Methods for
                                  Detectability Correction of Population
                                  Abundance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1351
            N. Balakrishnan and   
               E. Chimitova and   
                N. Galanova and   
                 M. Vedernikova   Testing Goodness of Fit of Parametric
                                  AFT and PH Models with Residuals . . . . 1352--1367
                 F. Pesarin and   
                     L. Salmaso   On the Weak Consistency of Permutation
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1368--1379
              F. Bertoluzzo and   
                 F. Pesarin and   
                     L. Salmaso   On Multi-Sided Permutation Tests . . . . 1380--1390
               Livio Corain and   
            Susanna Ragazzi and   
                  Luigi Salmaso   A Permutation Approach to Split-Plot
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391--1408
              Ramadan Hamed and   
             Ali El Hefnawy and   
                      Aya Farag   Selection of the Ridge Parameter Using
                                  Mathematical Programming . . . . . . . . 1409--1432
            Xiaofeng Steven Liu   A Unified Way to Represent and Compute
                                  the Cumulative Distribution Function for
                                  Noncentral $t$, $F$, and $ \chi^2$ . . . 1433--1436
            Doaa F. Madbuly and   
      Petros E. Maravelakis and   
             Mahmoud A. Mahmoud   The Effect of Methods for Handling
                                  Missing Values on the Performance of the
                                  MEWMA Control Chart  . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1454

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 7, 2013

                  Xin Zhang and   
                   Jiujun Zhang   CUSUM Procedures for Monitoring Process
                                  Mean and Variability . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1471
                 Rachida Ouysse   A Fast Iterated Bootstrap Procedure for
                                  Approximating the Small-Sample Bias  . . 1472--1494
                 Xuan Huang and   
                     Nuo Xu and   
          Sòren Bisgaard   A Class of Markov Chain Models for
                                  Average Run Length Computations for
                                  Autocorrelated Processes . . . . . . . . 1495--1513
                Minhui Paik and   
              Michael D. Larsen   Fractional Regression Hot Deck
                                  Imputation Weight Adjustment . . . . . . 1514--1532
                    Ryan Martin   An Approximate Bayesian Marginal
                                  Likelihood Approach for Estimating
                                  Finite Mixtures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1548
                    Su-Fen Yang   Using a Single Average Loss Control
                                  Chart to Monitor Process Mean and
                                  Variability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1562
              Ahmed Hossain and   
           Andrew R. Willan and   
                  Joseph Beyene   An Improved Method on Wilcoxon Rank Sum
                                  Test for Gene Selection from Microarray
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1563--1577
                 Deniz Inan and   
              Birsen E. Erdogan   Liu-Type Logistic Estimator  . . . . . . 1578--1586
            P. Angelopoulos and   
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                   A. Skountzou   Construction of New Three-Level Response
                                  Surface Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587--1595
            Roy St. Laurent and   
                    Philip Turk   The Effects of Misconceptions on the
                                  Properties of Friedman's Test  . . . . . 1596--1615
             Jung-Chao Wang and   
                  Hend Auda and   
   Magdalena Niewiadomska-Bugaj   Comparing a New Gini Test with Other
                                  Symmetry Tests When Median Is Unknown    1616--1627
              Qiaoling Tong and   
               Xuecheng Zou and   
                  Qian Ding and   
               Tianzhen Liu and   
                  Hengqing Tong   Latent Regression with Constrained
                                  Parameters to Determine the Weight
                                  Coefficients in Summary Index Model  . . 1628--1642
          Monika Pobiruchin and   
                Meinhard Kieser   Sample Size Calculation and Blinded
                                  Sample Size Recalculation in Clinical
                                  Trials Where the Treatment Effect is
                                  Measured by the Relative Risk  . . . . . 1643--1653
        Sándor Baran and   
              Kinga Sikolya and   
                   Lajos Veress   Estimating the Risk of a Down's Syndrome
                                  Term Pregnancy Using Age and Serum
                                  Markers: Comparison of Various Methods   1654--1672
                  Chin-Shang Li   A Partially Linear Model with Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1673--1680
                       C. K. Ng   Procedures for Selecting Good
                                  Exponential Populations  . . . . . . . . 1681--1692

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 8, 2013

              Changchun Xie and   
                  Xuewen Lu and   
               Janice Pogue and   
           Ding-Geng (Din) Chen   Weighted Multiple Testing Correction for
                                  Correlated Binary Endpoints  . . . . . . 1693--1702
                 Youngjae Chang   Variable Selection via Regression Trees
                                  in the Presence of Irrelevant Variables  1703--1726
                 Jiro Hodoshima   The Effect of Estimation of Unknown
                                  Degrees of Freedom on Estimation of
                                  Remaining Parameters in Spanos'
                                  Conditional $t$ Heteroskedastic Model    1727--1749
              Jelloul Allal and   
             Mohammed Benmoumen   Parameter Estimation for First-Order
                                  Random Coefficient Autoregressive (RCA)
                                  Models Based on Kalman Filter  . . . . . 1750--1762
                 Anju Goyal and   
              Vishal Maurya and   
                 Amar Nath Gill   A Multiple Three-Decision Procedures for
                                  Comparing Several Treatments with a
                                  Control Under Heteroscedasticity . . . . 1763--1784
               Takamitsu Kurita   Exploring the Impact of Multivariate
                                  GARCH Innovations on Hypothesis Testing
                                  for Cointegrating Vectors  . . . . . . . 1785--1800
 Getulio Jose Amorim Amaral and   
Olga Patricia Reyes Floréz and   
Francisco José A. Cysneiros   Graphical and Numerical Methods for
                                  Detecting Influential Observations in
                                  Complex Bingham Data . . . . . . . . . . 1801--1814
                Kun-lin Kuo and   
                Yuchung J. Wang   A Fresh Look at the Running Time
                                  Analysis for the Gibbs Sampler . . . . . 1815--1823
                       M. Emadi   Mixture Models in View of Evidential
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824--1835
              Chuan-hua Wei and   
                 Xu-jie Jia and   
                  Hong-sheng Hu   Restricted Estimation in Partially
                                  Linear Errors-in-Variables Models  . . . 1836--1847
     Víctor Gómez   A Strongly Consistent Criterion to
                                  Decide Between $ I(1) $ and $ I(0) $
                                  Processes Based on Different Convergence
                                  Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848--1864
          Mahdi Doostparast and   
       Mohammad Vali Ahmadi and   
                   Jafar Ahmadi   Bayes Estimation Based on Joint
                                  Progressive Type II Censored Data Under
                                  LINEX Loss Function  . . . . . . . . . . 1865--1886
             Dong-Fang Yang and   
                Fu-Chun Sun and   
             Shi-Cheng Wang and   
                     Hai-Bo Min   A Novel Particle Filter Aided by
                                  Interval Analysis Approach . . . . . . . 1887--1905
               Jehad Al-Jararha   A Class of Sampling Two Units with
                                  Probability Proportional to Size . . . . 1906--1916
              Farrukh Javed and   
            Panagiotis Mantalos   GARCH-Type Models and Performance of
                                  Information Criteria . . . . . . . . . . 1917--1933

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 9, 2013

                Peixin Zhao and   
                     Liugen Xue   Empirical Likelihood for Nonparametric
                                  Components in Additive Partially Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1935--1947
              D. Stogiannis and   
                      C. Caroni   Issues in Fitting Inverse Gaussian First
                                  Hitting Time Regression Models for
                                  Lifetime Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1948--1960
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                  K. Mylona and   
               A. Skountzou and   
                        P. Goos   A General Construction Method for
                                  Five-Level Second-Order Rotatable
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1961--1969
              Jian-jun Wang and   
                    Yi-zhong Ma   Bayesian Analysis of Two-Level
                                  Fractional Factorial Experiments with
                                  Non-Normal Responses . . . . . . . . . . 1970--1988
    Ionica Groparu-Cojocaru and   
                 Louis G. Doray   Inference for the Generalized Normal
                                  Laplace Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1989--1997
            P. Angelopoulos and   
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                   A. Skountzou   Clustering Effects in Unreplicated
                                  Factorial Experiments  . . . . . . . . . 1998--2007
Gülhayat Gölbasi Simsek and   
                    Fatma Noyan   McDonald's $ \omega_t $, Cronbach's $
                                  \alpha $, and Generalized $ \theta $ for
                                  Composite Reliability of Common Factors
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008--2025
                  Irfan Ali and   
       Yashpal Singh Raghav and   
             M. Faisal Khan and   
                     Abdul Bari   Selective Maintenance in System
                                  Reliability with Random Costs of
                                  Repairing and Replacing the Components   2026--2039
                 Derek S. Young   Regression Tolerance Intervals . . . . . 2040--2055
            Feng-chen Chang and   
               Shean-ya Yeh and   
                Hsin-neng Hsieh   Generalized Confidence Interval
                                  Estimation for the Difference in Paired
                                  Areas Under the ROC Curves in the
                                  Absence of a Gold Standard . . . . . . . 2056--2072
                Y. N. Phang and   
                  S. Z. Sim and   
                      S. H. Ong   Statistical Analysis for the Inverse
                                  Trinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . . 2073--2085
                 M. Akahira and   
                N. Ohyauchi and   
                       S. Kawai   A Higher Order Approximation to a
                                  Percentage Point of the Distribution of
                                  a Noncentral $t$-Statistic Without the
                                  Normality Assumption . . . . . . . . . . 2086--2105
       Ding-Geng (Din) Chen and   
                  Y. L. Lio and   
                      Nan Jiang   Lower Confidence Limits on the
                                  Generalized Exponential Distribution
                                  Percentiles Under Progressive Type-I
                                  Interval Censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 2106--2117
        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
               Murari Singh and   
                    Debaraj Sen   On Symmetrizing Transformation of the
                                  Sample Coefficient of Variation from a
                                  Normal Population  . . . . . . . . . . . 2118--2134
               Rashid Ahmed and   
            Farrukh Shehzad and   
                   Munir Akhtar   Minimal Neighbor Designs in Linear
                                  Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2135--2139
                 Jesus Orbe and   
Vicente Núñez-antón   Confidence Intervals on Regression
                                  Models with Censored Data  . . . . . . . 2140--2159
                   D. Kundu and   
                 D. Samanta and   
                 A. Ganguly and   
                       S. Mitra   Bayesian Analysis of Different Hybrid
                                  and Progressive Life Tests . . . . . . . 2160--2173

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 42, Number 10, 2013

              Xiaojian Zhou and   
                     Yizhong Ma   A Study on SMO Algorithm for Solving $
                                  \epsilon $-SVR with Non-PSD Kernels  . . 2175--2196
                  John E. Angus   A Variation on the Coupon Collecting
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2197--2202
            Andrew W. Swift and   
                   Beichen Wang   Moment-Based Approximations of Discrete
                                  Probability Distributions Using Rational
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2203--2222
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                Tahira Riaz and   
                    Saima Altaf   Efficient Estimation and Robust
                                  Inference of Linear Regression Models in
                                  the Presence of Heteroscedastic Errors
                                  and High Leverage Points . . . . . . . . 2223--2238
                 H. Haghbin and   
              A. R. Nematollahi   Likelihood-Based Inference in
                                  Autoregressive Models with Scaled
                                  $t$-Distributed Innovations by Means of
                                  EM-Based Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . 2239--2252
         Apostolos Batsidis and   
              Nirian Martin and   
              Leandro Pardo and   
          Konstantinos Zografos   A Necessary Power Divergence Type Family
                                  Tests of Multivariate Normality  . . . . 2253--2271
                 S. Ibrahim and   
                  A. Rambli and   
               A. G. Hussin and   
                     I. Mohamed   Outlier Detection in a Circular
                                  Regression Model Using COVRATIO
                                  Statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2272--2280
               Hanhua Zhang and   
                Hongfei Jin and   
                   Wei Ning and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   Edgeworth Expansion of the Moment-Based
                                  Test for Homogeneity in an NEF-QVF
                                  Mixture Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2281--2294
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Additive Mixed Effect Model for
                                  Clustered Doubly Censored Data . . . . . 2295--2307


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 1, 2014

                Beate Rhein and   
                Tanja Clees and   
              Margot Ruschitzka   Robustness Measures and Numerical
                                  Approximation of the Cumulative Density
                                  Function of Response Surfaces  . . . . . 1--17
              Seungbong Han and   
       Adin-Cristian Andrei and   
                   Kam-Wah Tsui   A Semiparametric Regression Method for
                                  Interval-Censored Data . . . . . . . . . 18--30
       Kambiz Ahmadi Angali and   
          S. Mahmoud Latifi and   
               David D. Hanagal   Bayesian Estimation of Bivariate
                                  Exponential Distributions Based on LINEX
                                  and Quadratic Loss Functions: A Survival
                                  Approach with Censored Samples . . . . . 31--44
         Biswabrata Pradhan and   
                 Soumya Roy and   
                 Md. Zafar Anis   Inference for the Component and System
                                  Lifetime Distribution of a $k$-unit
                                  Parallel System Based on System Data . . 45--61
             Masahiko Gosho and   
             Chikuma Hamada and   
                 Isao Yoshimura   Selection of Working Correlation
                                  Structure in Weighted Generalized
                                  Estimating Equation Method for
                                  Incomplete Longitudinal Data . . . . . . 62--81
        Saman Muthukumarana and   
                  Tim B. Swartz   Bayesian Analysis of Ordinal Survey Data
                                  Using the Dirichlet Process to Account
                                  for Respondent Personality Traits  . . . 82--98
                Duan Qihong and   
                    Liu Junrong   Parameter Estimation for a $k$-out-of-$
                                  n \colon F$ System . . . . . . . . . . . 99--114
        Gulanbaier Tuerhong and   
             Seoung Bum Kim and   
               Pilsung Kang and   
                   Sungzoon Cho   Multivariate Control Charts Based on
                                  Hybrid Novelty Scores  . . . . . . . . . 115--131
        Sukuman Sarikavanij and   
         Subramanyam Kasala and   
             Bimal K. Sinha and   
               Montip Tiensuwan   Estimation of Location and Scale
                                  Parameters in Two-Parameter Exponential
                                  Distribution Based on Ranked Set Sample  132--141
                Yan-Dong Wu and   
                    Xu-Qing Liu   Non-Diagonal-Type Estimator in Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--150
                Parminder Singh   Calculation of Critical Values for
                                  Haibing's Procedure for Successive
                                  Comparisons between Ordered Treatment
                                  Effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--160
              Georgios Pitselis   Robust Eligible Own Funds and Value at
                                  Risk Under Solvency II System  . . . . . 161--182
            Jamal Temsamani and   
               Juan A. Carrasco   Reliability Bounds for Fault-Tolerant
                                  Systems with Deferred Repair using
                                  Bounding Split Regenerative
                                  Randomization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--208
           David J. Edwards and   
                 J. Paul Brooks   Alternative Foldover Plans for Two-Level
                                  Nonregular Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 209--224
                 Jin Chu Wu and   
            Alvin F. Martin and   
                Raghu N. Kacker   Bootstrap Variability Studies in ROC
                                  Analysis on Large Datasets . . . . . . . 225--236

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 2, 2014

          Steven B. Caudill and   
    Franklin G. Mixon,, Jr. and   
                  C. Paul Mixon   NFL Draftnikology: Euclidean Metrics and
                                  Other Approaches to Scoring Ranking
                                  Predictions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--248
                   Marcin Kozak   Comparison of Random Search Method and
                                  Genetic Algorithm for Stratification . . 249--253
                 Haitao Pan and   
               Chuanjuan Li and   
                  Ling Wang and   
               Zhiwei Jiang and   
                     Jielai Xia   A Three-Stage Bayesian Adaptive Phase
                                  I/II Design and Simulation Studies . . . 254--268
    Athanasios G. Kallioras and   
        Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis   Percentile Estimation in Inverse
                                  Gaussian Distributions . . . . . . . . . 269--284
                   Jacek Bialek   Simulation Study of an Original Price
                                  Index Formula  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--297
             Zhengqiang Pan and   
                       Quan Sun   Optimal Design for Step-Stress
                                  Accelerated Degradation Test with
                                  Multiple Performance Characteristics
                                  Based on Gamma Processes . . . . . . . . 298--314
              Tsai-Hung Fan and   
              Guo-Tzau Wang and   
                    Jenn-Hwa Yu   A New Algorithm in Bayesian Model
                                  Averaging in Regression Models . . . . . 315--328
               Jiajia Zhang and   
                 Wenqing He and   
                      Haifen Li   A Semiparametric Approach for
                                  Accelerated Failure Time Models with
                                  Covariates Subject to Measurement Error  329--341
                  Shu Ikeda and   
              Shun Matsuura and   
                   Hideo Suzuki   Two-Step Residual-Based Estimation of
                                  Error Variances for Generalized Least
                                  Squares in Split-Plot Experiments  . . . 342--358
                  Jing Wang and   
         Yves F. Atchadé   Approximate Bayesian Computation for
                                  Exponential Random Graph Models for
                                  Large Social Networks  . . . . . . . . . 359--377
                  Santanu Dutta   Local Smoothing Using the Bootstrap  . . 378--389
                 Boan Zhang and   
                 Yunzhi Lin and   
                       Zheng Su   Dichotomizing a Continuous Baseline
                                  Covariate in Randomized Clinical Trials
                                  with Binary Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . 390--399
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                 Debanjan Mitra   Some Further Issues Concerning
                                  Likelihood Inference for Left Truncated
                                  and Right Censored Lognormal Data  . . . 400--416
                    W. M. Afify   Separation and Lack of Separation of
                                  Subpopulation in the Mixed Distributions 417--427
                    Jibo Wu and   
                        Hu Yang   On the Stochastic Restricted Almost
                                  Unbiased Estimators in Linear Regression
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--440
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--441
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--442

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 3, 2014

         B. M. Golam Kibria and   
                Florence George   Methods for Testing Population
                                  Signal-to-Noise Ratio  . . . . . . . . . 443--461
                   Yang-Jin Kim   Regression Analysis of Bivariate Current
                                  Status Data Using a Multistate Model . . 462--475
             N. Balakrishna and   
                       T. Rahul   Inverse Gaussian Distribution for
                                  Modeling Conditional Durations in
                                  Finance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--486
                 Wu Jianjun and   
                     Sun Huijun   Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of Mixed
                                  Traffic Flow Time Series with a Blockage 487--494
             Man-Kee M. Chu and   
                  John J. Koval   Trajectory Modeling of Longitudinal
                                  Binary Data: Application of the EM
                                  Algorithm for Mixture Models . . . . . . 495--519
              Stephen G. Walker   Computing Marginal Likelihoods via
                                  Posterior Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 520--527
               Marjan Kaveh and   
           Majid Jafari Khaledi   Estimation in Truncated GLG Model for
                                  Ordered Categorical Spatial Data Using
                                  the SAEM Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 528--537
              A. Loganathan and   
                     K. Shalini   Determination of Single Sampling Plans
                                  by Attributes Under the Conditions of
                                  Zero-Inflated Poisson Distribution . . . 538--548
                  C. Giusti and   
                N. Tzavidis and   
                 M. Pratesi and   
                     N. Salvati   Resistance to Outliers of $M$-Quantile
                                  and Robust Random Effects Small Area
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--568
             Hakan Demirtas and   
                Anup Amatya and   
                  Beyza Doganay   BinNor: An R Package for Concurrent
                                  Generation of Binary and Normal Data . . 569--579
            Bruce Qiang Sun and   
                 Xinfu Chen and   
                Ting Ting Huang   A New Approach to Importance Sampling in
                                  Taylor's Stochastic Volatility Model . . 580--596
                 Yunwei Cui and   
                    Rongning Wu   A Portmanteau Test for ARMA Processes
                                  with Infinite Variance . . . . . . . . . 597--614
                    Liu-Cang Wu   Variable Selection in Joint Location and
                                  Scale Models of the Skew-$t$-Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--630
        Tarciana L. Pereira and   
         Francisco Cribari-Neto   Detecting Model Misspecification in
                                  Inflated Beta Regressions  . . . . . . . 631--656
                         Sun Xu   Asymmetric Kernel Density Estimation
                                  Based on Grouped Data with Applications
                                  to Loss Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--672

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 4, 2014

                 Muhammad Aslam   Performance of Kibria's Method for the
                                  Heteroscedastic Ridge Regression Model:
                                  Some Monte Carlo Evidence  . . . . . . . 673--686
                 Mirta Bensi\'c   Fitting Distribution to Data by a
                                  Generalized Nonlinear Least Squares
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--705
              Chien-tai Lin and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Tests for Multiple Outliers in an
                                  Exponential Sample . . . . . . . . . . . 706--722
F. Palacios-González and   
R. M. García-Fernández   Mixtures of Mixtures Based on
                                  Multiresolution Analysis Theory  . . . . 723--742
         Antonello Maruotti and   
               Valentina Raponi   On Baseline Conditions for Zero-Inflated
                                  Longitudinal Count Data  . . . . . . . . 743--760
                  Y. L. Lio and   
              Tzong-Ru Tsai and   
                   M. Aslam and   
                      Nan Jiang   Control Charts for Monitoring Burr
                                  Type-X Percentiles . . . . . . . . . . . 761--776
             Muhammad Aslam and   
      Saminathan Balamurali and   
              Muhammad Azam and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Skip-Lot Sampling Plan of Type SkSP-2
                                  with Two-Stage Group Acceptance Sampling
                                  Plan as Reference Plan . . . . . . . . . 777--789
                 Lynda Atil and   
              Hocine Fellag and   
              Ana Garcia Sipols   Behavior of the Size in the Unit Root
                                  Testing Under Contamination  . . . . . . 790--803
          Amirhossein Amiri and   
                 Ali Nedaie and   
                 Mahdi Alikhani   A New Adaptive Variable Sample Size
                                  Approach in EWMA Control Chart . . . . . 804--812
                    M. P. Gadre   A Multivariate Group Runs Control Chart
                                  for Process Dispersion . . . . . . . . . 813--837
              Jieting Zhang and   
             Minqiang Zhang and   
                Wenyi Zhang and   
                       Can Jiao   Model Selection for Complex Multilevel
                                  Latent Class Model . . . . . . . . . . . 838--850
              Ankit Khokhar and   
                 S. K. Upadhyay   A Bayes Study on the Feasibility of
                                  Shape and Threshold Parameters Based on
                                  the Assumption of Exponential and
                                  Weibull Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--870
                  M. Arashi and   
        S. M. M. Tabatabaey and   
        M. Hassanzadeh Bashtian   Shrinkage Ridge Estimators in Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--904
            Guillermo Henry and   
          Daniela Rodriguez and   
                   Mariela Sued   A Note on the Estimation of the Hölder
                                  Constant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--912
       Panagiotis Papastamoulis   Handling the Label Switching Problem in
                                  Latent Class Models Via the ECR
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--927

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 5, 2014

  Luís Meira-Machado and   
                   Susana Faria   A Simulation Study Comparing Modeling
                                  Approaches in an Illness-Death
                                  Multi-State Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 929--946
                 Ali Ajdari and   
                Hashem Mahlooji   An Adaptive Exploration-Exploitation
                                  Algorithm for Constructing Metamodels in
                                  Random Simulation Using a Novel
                                  Sequential Experimental Design . . . . . 947--968
                Xiaohui Liu and   
                      Yijun Zuo   Computing Halfspace Depth and Regression
                                  Depth  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969--985
              S. Vidal-Puig and   
                      A. Ferrer   A Comparative Study of Different
                                  Methodologies for Fault Diagnosis in
                                  Multivariate Quality Control . . . . . . 986--1005
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Aalen's Additive Risk Model for
                                  Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data   1006--1019
            René Blacher   Proved Random Numbers Obtained from
                                  Hardware Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020--1035
            Francesca Solmi and   
            Patrick Onghena and   
              Luigi Salmaso and   
              Isis Bulté   Extensions of Permutation Solutions to
                                  Test for Treatment Effects in Replicated
                                  Single-Case Alternation Experiments with
                                  Multivariate Response  . . . . . . . . . 1036--1051
               Nabil Zougab and   
               Smail Adjabi and   
  Célestin C. Kokonendji   Bayesian Approach in Nonparametric Count
                                  Regression with Binomial Kernel  . . . . 1052--1063
               Wenhua Jiang and   
                  Cun-Hui Zhang   Paths Following Algorithm for Penalized
                                  Logistic Regression Using SCAD and MCP   1064--1077
               Cihangir Kan and   
                Ceki Franko and   
                 C. Murat Ozkut   Reliability and Some Characteristics of
                                  Circular Consecutive-
                                  $k$-Within-$m$-Out-of-$ n \colon F$
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078--1093
            Francesca Solmi and   
            Patrick Onghena and   
              Luigi Salmaso and   
              Isis Bulté   A Permutation Solution to Test for
                                  Treatment Effects in Alternation Design
                                  Single-Case Experiments  . . . . . . . . 1094--1111
    Cédric Heuchenne and   
    Stéphane Laurent and   
          Catherine Legrand and   
            Ingrid Van Keilegom   Likelihood-Based Inference for
                                  Semi-Competing Risks . . . . . . . . . . 1112--1132
           Ciprian A. Tudor and   
                Cristiana Tudor   EGARCH Model with Weighted Liquidity . . 1133--1142
           M. Revan Özkale   Monte Carlo Simulation Study of Biased
                                  Estimators in the Linear Regression
                                  Models with Correlated or
                                  Heteroscedastic Errors . . . . . . . . . 1143--1186
 Alicia Graziosi Strandberg and   
                 Boris Iglewicz   Detecting Randomness: A Review of
                                  Existing Tests with New Comparisons  . . 1187--1201
                Serkan Eryilmaz   On Signatures of Series and Parallel
                                  Systems Consisting of Modules with
                                  Arbitrary Structures . . . . . . . . . . 1202--1211
  Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and   
  Fazlollah Masoumi Gazaneh and   
           Moslem Toosheghanian   A Parameter-Tuned Genetic Algorithm for
                                  Economic-Statistical Design of Variable
                                  Sampling Interval $X$-Bar Control Charts
                                  for Non-Normal Correlated Samples  . . . 1212--1240

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 6, 2014

                 Dal Ho Kim and   
              Gyuhyeong Goh and   
                     Yongku Kim   Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to a
                                  Multi-Site Hidden Markov Model . . . . . 1241--1252
        Andreu Sansó and   
         Clara Simón and   
                  Ana E. Sipols   A Detrended Range Unit Root (DRUR) Test  1253--1264
            Nian-Sheng Tang and   
                       Hui Zhao   Bayesian Analysis of Nonlinear
                                  Reproductive Dispersion Mixed Models for
                                  Longitudinal Data with Nonignorable
                                  Missing Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . 1265--1287
     Luis A. Salomón and   
           Jean-Claude Fort and   
           Li-Vang Lozada-Chang   Average Competitive Learning Vector
                                  Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288--1303
           Jeroen Hinloopen and   
       Rien J. L. M. Wagenvoort   On the Exact Finite Sample Distribution
                                  of the $ L_1$-FCvM Test Statistic  . . . 1304--1317
                  Yuzhi Cai and   
             Neville Davies and   
                   Wan-kai Pang   Combining Forecasts via Simulations  . . 1318--1332
            Wai Chung Yeong and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
                  M. H. Lee and   
                    M. A. Rahim   Economically Optimal Design of a
                                  Multivariate Synthetic $ T^2 $ Chart . . 1333--1361
Zahra Sadat Meshkani Farahani and   
                Esmaile Khorram   Bayesian Statistical Inference for
                                  Weighted Exponential Distribution  . . . 1362--1384
              Lucio De Capitani   Interval Estimation for the Sortino
                                  Ratio and the Omega Ratio  . . . . . . . 1385--1429
            Sarjinder Singh and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                   Jong-min Kim   An Empirical Likelihood Estimate of the
                                  Finite Population Correlation
                                  Coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1430--1441
             Ali El Hefnawy and   
                      Aya Farag   A Combined Nonlinear Programming Model
                                  and Kibria Method for Choosing Ridge
                                  Parameter Regression . . . . . . . . . . 1442--1470
               Luca Bagnato and   
         Francesca Greselin and   
                  Antonio Punzo   On the Spectral Decomposition in Normal
                                  Discriminant Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 1471--1489
                Zhonghua Li and   
                     Yi Dai and   
                   Zhaojun Wang   Multivariate Change Point Control Chart
                                  Based on Data Depth for Phase I Analysis 1490--1507
         Wajid Hussain Awan and   
                  Javid Shabbir   On Optimum Regression Estimator for
                                  Population Mean Using Two Auxiliary
                                  Variables in Simple Random Sampling  . . 1508--1522
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   The Synthetic Mean Square Error Control
                                  Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1523--1542

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 7, 2014

              Jiunn-I Shieh and   
               Hsin-Hung Wu and   
               Hsiang-Chuan Liu   Analysis of the Threshold Values of
                                  Semantic Structure Analysis in
                                  Identifying Causal Relationships . . . . 1543--1551
       Lovleen Kumar Grover and   
                  Parmdeep Kaur   A Generalized Class of Ratio Type
                                  Exponential Estimators of Population
                                  Mean Under Linear Transformation of
                                  Auxiliary Variable . . . . . . . . . . . 1552--1574
             E. Androulakis and   
            P. Angelopoulos and   
                 C. Koukouvinos   Model Discrimination Criteria on
                                  Model-Robust Designs . . . . . . . . . . 1575--1582
             Nursel Koyuncu and   
                  Sat Gupta and   
                     Rita Sousa   Exponential-Type Estimators of the Mean
                                  of a Sensitive Variable in the Presence
                                  of Nonsensitive Auxiliary Information    1583--1594
               Xinxing Zhou and   
                 Kaibo Wang and   
                       Lei Zhao   Variable-Selection-Based Epidemic
                                  Disease Diagnosis  . . . . . . . . . . . 1595--1610
                M. Bentarzi and   
                     L. Djeddou   Adaptive Estimation of Periodic
                                  First-Order Threshold Autoregressive
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1611--1630
              Nenghui Kuang and   
                   Bingquan Liu   Moderate Deviation for Parameter
                                  Estimation in the Rayleigh Diffusion
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1631--1643
             Veni Arakelian and   
                Dimitris Karlis   Clustering Dependencies Via Mixtures of
                                  Copulas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1644--1661
                Jianrong Wu and   
             Augustine Wong and   
                  Guoyong Jiang   Confidence Intervals of Effect Size for
                                  Randomized Comparative Parallel-Group
                                  Studies with Unequal Variances . . . . . 1662--1674
                         Yan Lu   Regression Coefficient Estimation in
                                  Dual Frame Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . 1675--1684
                  Wei Zhang and   
               Lianfen Qian and   
                      Yunxia Li   Semiparametric Sequential Testing for
                                  Multiple Change Points in Piecewise
                                  Constant Hazard Functions with Long-Term
                                  Survivors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1685--1699
                   B. Picinbono   Simulations of Some Doubly Stochastic
                                  Poisson Point Processes  . . . . . . . . 1700--1713
        Francisco J. Ortega and   
                Jose M. Gavilan   A Comparison Between Maximum Likelihood
                                  and Bayesian Estimation of Stochastic
                                  Frontier Production Models . . . . . . . 1714--1725
            Shannon Zavorka and   
               Jamis J. Perrett   Minimum Sample Size Considerations for
                                  Two-Group Linear and Quadratic
                                  Discriminant Analysis with Rare
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1726--1739
                  Osman Dag and   
                 Ozgur Asar and   
                      Ozlem Ilk   A Methodology to Implement Box--Cox
                                  Transformation When No Covariate is
                                  Available  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1740--1759
           Erika Strandberg and   
                  Xinyi Lin and   
                     Ronghui Xu   Estimation of Main Effect When
                                  Covariates Have Non-Proportional Hazards 1760--1770
                    Ying Xu and   
               Chun Fan Lee and   
                 Yin Bun Cheung   Analyzing Binary Outcome Data with Small
                                  Clusters: A Simulation Study . . . . . . 1771--1782
            Jongkyeong Kang and   
               Sungwan Bang and   
                Myoungshic Jhun   Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for
                                  the Ratios of Marginal Means of a
                                  Multivariate Poisson Distribution  . . . 1783--1796
             Jennifer Umali and   
                 Erniel Barrios   Nonparametric Principal Components
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1797--1810
            Haftom T. Abebe and   
            Frans E. S. Tan and   
 Gerard J. P. Van Breukelen and   
               Jan Serroyen and   
           Martijn P. F. Berger   On the Choice of a Prior for Bayesian
                                  $D$-Optimal Designs for the Logistic
                                  Regression Model with a Single Predictor 1811--1824
               Man-Hua Chen and   
              Li-Ching Chen and   
              Kuen-Hung Lin and   
                   Xingwei Tong   Analysis of Multivariate Interval
                                  Censoring by Diabetic Retinopathy Study  1825--1835

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 8, 2014

                 Lirong Cui and   
                   Tadashi Dohi   Preface to The 5th Asia--Pacific
                                  International Symposium on Advanced
                                  Reliability and Maintenance Modeling
                                  (APARM 2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837--1837
                  Xujie Jia and   
                Liying Wang and   
                   Chuanhua Wei   Reliability Research of Dependent
                                  Failure Systems Using Copula . . . . . . 1838--1851
                 Qiang Guan and   
                Yincai Tang and   
                   Jiayu Fu and   
                       Ancha Xu   Optimal Multiple Constant-Stress
                                  Accelerated Life Tests for Generalized
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 1852--1865
               Shih-Wen Liu and   
                   Chien-Wei Wu   Design and Construction of a Variables
                                  Repetitive Group Sampling Plan for
                                  Unilateral Specification Limit . . . . . 1866--1878
                Yi-Kuei Lin and   
                 Cheng-Fu Huang   Spare Reliability for Capacitated
                                  Computer Networks Under Tolerable Error
                                  Rate and Latency Considerations  . . . . 1879--1899
                  Nan Zhang and   
                   Jinting Wang   Reliability Analysis of Unrepairable
                                  Systems with $k$-out-of-$ m \colon G$
                                  Subsystems Subject to Suspended
                                  Animation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1900--1912
                   Jian Shi and   
                Yixuan Meng and   
              Shaoping Wang and   
                   Yongmei Ruan   A Novel Double-Time-Scale Evaluation
                                  Method for Ethernet Performability . . . 1913--1937
                Hong-fwu Yu and   
                  Chien-yu Peng   Designing a Degradation Test with a
                                  Two-Parameter Exponential Lifetime
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1938--1958
              Won Young Yun and   
                 Goeun Park and   
                  Young Jin Han   An Optimal Reliability and
                                  Maintainability Design of a Searching
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1959--1978
              Won-young Yun and   
              Young-jin Han and   
                     Ha-won Kim   Simulation-Based Inspection Policies for
                                  a One-Shot System in Storage Over a
                                  Finite Time Span . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979--2003
            Liangyong Zhang and   
              Xiaofang Dong and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Nonparametric Estimation for Random
                                  Censored Data Based on Ranking Set
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004--2015
                   Ancha Xu and   
                Yincai Tang and   
                     Qiang Guan   Bayesian Analysis of Masked Data in
                                  Step-stress Accelerated Life Testing . . 2016--2030
                 H. Okamura and   
                R. Watanabe and   
                        T. Dohi   Variational Bayes for Phase-Type
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2031--2044

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 9, 2014

         Katarzyna Filipiak and   
                  Simo Puntanen   Preface to the Special Issue on Advances
                                  on Linear Models and Inference:
                                  Computational Aspects  . . . . . . . . . 2045--2046
              Ufuk Beyaztas and   
                     Aylin Alin   Jackknife-After-Bootstrap as Logistic
                                  Regression Diagnostic Tool . . . . . . . 2047--2060
                  Baris Asikgil   A Novel Approach for Estimating
                                  Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with
                                  High-Order Autoregressive Disturbances   2061--2080
      Tomasz Górecki and   
                  Maciej Luczak   First and Second Derivatives in Time
                                  Series Classification Using DTW  . . . . 2081--2092
               Zofia Hanusz and   
            Joanna Tarasi\'nska   Simulation Study on Improved
                                  Shapiro--Wilk Tests for Normality  . . . 2093--2105
                Lynn R. LaMotte   On Inverse Prediction in Mixed Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2106--2116
                Julia Volaufova   Approximate Small-Sample Tests of Fixed
                                  Effects in Nonlinear Mixed Models  . . . 2117--2137
        Miros\law Krzy\'sko and   
             \Lukasz Waszak and   
           Waldemar Wo\ly\'nski   Comparison of Kernel Discriminant
                                  Coordinates Algorithms . . . . . . . . . 2138--2148

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 43, Number 10, 2014

           Nicholas T. Longford   Sample Size Calculation for Comparing
                                  Two Normal Random Samples Using
                                  Equilibrium Priors . . . . . . . . . . . 2149--2161
              Ying-hui Zhou and   
               Zhong-xin Ni and   
                        Yong Li   Quantile Regression via the EM Algorithm 2162--2172
           Konul Bayramoglu and   
  Ismihan Bayramoglu (Bairamov)   On Censored Bivariate Random Variables:
                                  Copula, Characterization, and Estimation 2173--2185
                  F. Dubeau and   
                         Y. Mir   Exponential Growth Model: From
                                  Horizontal to Linear Asymptote . . . . . 2186--2204
                    Kevin Hayes   Finite-Sample Bias-Correction Factors
                                  for the Median Absolute Deviation  . . . 2205--2212
       Thangavel Palanisamy and   
            Joghee Ravichandran   Estimation of Variance Function in
                                  Heteroscedastic Regression Models by
                                  Generalized Coiflets . . . . . . . . . . 2213--2224
                Donald Lien and   
               Xiaobin Yang and   
                      Keying Ye   Alternative Approximations to
                                  Value-At-Risk: A Comparison  . . . . . . 2225--2240
               Aamir Saghir and   
                   Zhengyan Lin   A Study on the Robustness of $G$-Chart
                                  to Non-Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . 2241--2251
                Zhensheng Huang   Two Adjusted Empirical-Likelihood-Based
                                  Methods in Generalized
                                  Varying-Coefficient Partially Linear
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2252--2263
          João Gomes and   
        Isabel Barão and   
                 Tiago Oliveira   Is It Always Necessary to Take Sample
                                  Selection into Account?  . . . . . . . . 2264--2274
                 James McIntosh   Inference Problems in the Analysis of
                                  the Relationship Between Alcohol
                                  Consumption and Coronary Heart Disease   2275--2282
              Masashi Hyodo and   
              Sho Takahashi and   
             Takahiro Nishiyama   Multiple Comparisons Among Mean Vectors
                                  When the Dimension is Larger Than the
                                  Total Sample Size  . . . . . . . . . . . 2283--2306
               Sungwan Bang and   
                Myoungshic Jhun   Weighted Support Vector Machine Using
                                  $k$-Means Clustering . . . . . . . . . . 2307--2324
                M. Bentarzi and   
                     L. Djeddou   On Mixture Periodic Vector
                                  Autoregressive Models  . . . . . . . . . 2325--2352
                 Muhammad Aslam   Using Heteroscedasticity-Consistent
                                  Standard Errors for the Linear
                                  Regression Model with Correlated
                                  Regressors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2353--2373
       Angel Dávalos and   
                     Naijun Sha   Estimating Intraclass Correlation
                                  Coefficient and Identifying Influential
                                  Observations Under One-Way Random
                                  Effects Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2374--2389
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Estimation of Mode Using Auxiliary
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2390--2402
              Kung-Jong Lui and   
                  Chii-Dean Lin   Notes on Test Homogeneity of the Odds
                                  Ratio in Matched Pairs Under Stratified
                                  Sampling: A Monte Carlo Evaluation . . . 2403--2414
   Rolan Paul K. Veron Cruz and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Estimation Procedure for a Multiple Time
                                  Series Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2415--2431
             Philip M. Westgate   A Comparison of Utilized and Theoretical
                                  Covariance Weighting Matrices on the
                                  Estimation Performance of Quadratic
                                  Inference Functions  . . . . . . . . . . 2432--2443
           D. N. Jayasekara and   
           M. R. Sooriyarachchi   A Simulation Based Study for Comparing
                                  Tests Associated With Receiver Operating
                                  Characteristic (ROC) Curves  . . . . . . 2444--2467
               Guang-Hui Fu and   
             Wen-Ming Zhang and   
                    Lin Dai and   
                     Ying-Zi Fu   Group Variable Selection with Oracle
                                  Property by Weight-Fused Adaptive
                                  Elastic Net Model for Strongly
                                  Correlated Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2468--2481
                Shuguang He and   
                  Shijie Li and   
                        Zhen He   A Combination of CUSUM Charts for
                                  Monitoring a Zero-Inflated Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2482--2497
                       Liang Li   A Class of Permutation Tests for the
                                  Equality of Two Marginal Survival
                                  Functions Using Paired Censored Data . . 2498--2507
            Hasan Alzubaidi and   
                  Tony Shardlow   Improved Simulation Techniques for First
                                  Exit Time of Neural Diffusion Models . . 2508--2520
                Yujiao Yang and   
                    Song Xu and   
                  Qiongxia Song   A Logspline Estimation for a Linear
                                  Regression Model with an
                                  Interval-Censored Continuous Covariate   2521--2539
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   An Improved Generalized
                                  Difference-Cum-Ratio-Type Estimator for
                                  the Population Variance in Two-Phase
                                  Sampling Using Two Auxiliary Variables   2540--2550
              Hamzeh Torabi and   
            Narges H. Montazeri   The Logistic-Uniform Distribution and
                                  Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 2551--2569
               C. Bouveyron and   
                     J. Jacques   Adaptive Mixtures of Regressions:
                                  Improving Predictive Inference when
                                  Population has Changed . . . . . . . . . 2570--2592
                 M. Roozbeh and   
                      M. Arashi   Feasible Ridge Estimator in Seemingly
                                  Unrelated Semiparametric Models  . . . . 2593--2613
                   Fu-Kwun Wang   Using BBPSO Algorithm to Estimate the
                                  Weibull Parameters with Censored Data    2614--2627
 Marie-José Martinez and   
                    Emma Holian   An Alternative Estimation Approach for
                                  the Heterogeneity Linear Mixed Model . . 2628--2638
                  Malika Cheikh   Comparative Study of Robust Estimators
                                  Based on a Sensitivity Coefficient in
                                  Principal Component Analysis . . . . . . 2639--2648
           Steven T. Garren and   
                Phillip S. Kott   Evaluating the Effective Degrees of
                                  Freedom of the Delete-a-Group Jackknife  2649--2660
                 Yuzhu Tian and   
                Maozai Tian and   
                   Qianqian Zhu   Transmuted Linear Exponential
                                  Distribution: A New Generalization of
                                  the Linear Exponential Distribution  . . 2661--2677
                Ross Sparks and   
                  Ellis Patrick   Detection of Multiple Outbreaks Using
                                  Spatio-Temporal EWMA-Ordered Statistics  2678--2701
          Byoung-Jeong Choi and   
              Kwang-Rae Kim and   
               Kyu-Dong Cho and   
               Changyi Park and   
                    Ja-Yong Koo   Variable Selection for Naive Bayes
                                  Semisupervised Learning  . . . . . . . . 2702--2713
             Chun-Xia Zhang and   
              Guan-Wei Wang and   
            Jiang-She Zhang and   
                    Gao Guo and   
                  Qing-Yan Ying   IRUSRT: A Novel Imbalanced Learning
                                  Technique by Combining Inverse Random
                                  Under Sampling and Random Tree . . . . . 2714--2731
               W. Volterman and   
                  E. Cramer and   
               K. F. Davies and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Further Results on Order Statistics
                                  Generated by Two Simulation Methods  . . 2732--2743


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 1, 2015

Ismihan Bairamov (Bayramoglu) and   
               Selma Gurler and   
                     Burcu Ucer   On the Mean Remaining Strength of the
                                  $k$-Out-of-$ n \colon F$ System with
                                  Exchangeable Components  . . . . . . . . 1--13
               Sung Won Han and   
                  Wei Jiang and   
                Lianjie Shu and   
                Kwok-Leung Tsui   A Comparison of Likelihood-Based
                                  Spatiotemporal Monitoring Methods Under
                                  Non-Homogeneous Population Size  . . . . 14--39
       Polychronis Economou and   
           Milan Stehlík   On Small Samples Testing for Frailty
                                  Through Homogeneity Test . . . . . . . . 40--65
     José L. Gallego and   
             Carlos Díaz   Cointegrated VARIMA Models:
                                  Specification and Simulation . . . . . . 66--70
                  Zhanshou Chen   Monitoring Change in Persistence Against
                                  the Null of Difference-Stationarity in
                                  Infinite Variance Observations . . . . . 71--87
     Norbert Reményi and   
                Brani Vidakovic   Wavelet Shrinkage with Double Weibull
                                  Prior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--104
       Luís P. Ramos and   
              Pedro P. Mota and   
           João T. Mexia   Sample Partitioning Estimation for
                                  Ergodic Diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117
              M. E. Ghitany and   
           D. K. Al-Mutairi and   
             S. M. Aboukhamseen   Estimation of the Reliability of a
                                  Stress-Strength System from Power
                                  Lindley Distributions  . . . . . . . . . 118--136
                  Wen-Chih Chiu   Economic-Statistical Design of EWMA
                                  Control Charts Based on Taguchi's Loss
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--153
    Viswanathan Arunachalam and   
         Álvaro Calvache   Approximation of the Bivariate Renewal
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--167
               Andres Gutierrez   The Use of Working Variables in the
                                  Bayesian Modeling of Mean and Dispersion
                                  Parameters in Generalized Nonlinear
                                  Models with Random Effects . . . . . . . 168--195
       Raphaël Coudret and   
             Gilles Durrieu and   
    Jérôme Saracco   Comparison of Kernel Density Estimators
                                  with Assumption on Number of Modes . . . 196--216
Gülesen Üstündag Siray and   
                Selma Toker and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   On the Restricted Liu Estimator in the
                                  Logistic Regression Model  . . . . . . . 217--232
                Pei-Hsi Lee and   
                Chau-Chen Torng   A Note on ``Modified Tukey's Control
                                  Chart''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--238
                  Yoshio Komori   Suitable Algorithm Associated with a
                                  Parameterization for the Three-Parameter
                                  Log-Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . 239--246
       Petra Buzková and   
                  Thomas Lumley   Time to Diagnosis: Accounting for
                                  Differential Endpoint Follow-up in
                                  Multi-Cohort Studies . . . . . . . . . . 247--256
               Xiao-Bing Ma and   
              Feng-Chun Lin and   
                        Yu Zhao   An Adjustment to the Bartlett's Test for
                                  Small Sample Size  . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 2, 2015

       Amany Hassan Abdel-Karim   Construction of Simultaneous Confidence
                                  Intervals for Ratios of Means of
                                  Lognormal Distributions  . . . . . . . . 271--283
         Xionghua Wilson Wu and   
                     Dejian Lai   Comparison of Statistical Methods for
                                  Pretest-Posttest Designs in Terms of
                                  Type I Error Probability and Statistical
                                  Power  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--294
           Hideki Nagatsuka and   
                N. Balakrishnan   An Efficient Method of Parameter and
                                  Quantile Estimation for the
                                  Three-Parameter Weibull Distribution
                                  Based on Statistics Invariant to Unknown
                                  Location Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 295--318
                Ting Hsiang Lin   Model Selection Information Criteria in
                                  Latent Class Models with Missing Data
                                  and Contingency Question . . . . . . . . 319--331
           David D. L. Minh and   
              Do Le (Paul) Minh   Understanding the Hastings Algorithm . . 332--349
         Rhonda J. Rosychuk and   
          Christina Alloway and   
               Amanda S. Newton   A Bootstrap Approach for Testing
                                  Marginal Independence Between Two
                                  Categorical Variables When Subjects Have
                                  Repeated Responses . . . . . . . . . . . 350--359
                   Stephen Bush   Sample Size Determination for Logistic
                                  Regression: A Simulation Study . . . . . 360--373
          Hafida Guerbyenne and   
            Fayçal Hamdi   Bootstrapping Periodic State-Space
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--401
                Guo Penghui and   
                   Liu Lihu and   
                 Qian Zhengming   Robust Test for Spatial Error Model:
                                  Considering Changes of Spatial Layouts
                                  and Distribution Misspecification  . . . 402--416
          Asuman S. Turkmen and   
                  Gulin Tabakan   Outlier Resistant Estimation in
                                  Difference-Based Semiparametric
                                  Partially Linear Models  . . . . . . . . 417--432
                    Chen Xu and   
                    Jiahua Chen   A Thresholding Algorithm for Order
                                  Selection in Finite Mixture Models . . . 433--453
           Mehreteab Aregay and   
                 Ziv Shkedy and   
              Geert Molenberghs   Comparison of Additive and
                                  Multiplicative Bayesian Models for
                                  Longitudinal Count Data with
                                  Overdispersion Parameters: A Simulation
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--473
   Adriano Ferreti Borgatto and   
               Caio Azevedo and   
           Aluisio Pinheiro and   
                 Dalton Andrade   Comparison of Ability Estimation Methods
                                  Using IRT for Tests with Different
                                  Degrees of Difficulty  . . . . . . . . . 474--488
                       Xu Zhang   Nonparametric Inference for an
                                  Inverse-Probability-Weighted Estimator
                                  with Doubly Truncated Data . . . . . . . 489--504
            Eileen M. Stock and   
            James D. Stamey and   
                  Dean M. Young   Bayesian Interval Estimation for the
                                  Difference in TPRs and FPRs of Two
                                  Diagnostic Tests with Unverified
                                  Negatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--524
              Fariha Yasmin and   
               Rashid Ahmed and   
                   Munir Akhtar   Construction of Balanced Incomplete
                                  Block Designs Using Cyclic Shifts  . . . 525--532
       Anna E. Bargagliotti and   
           Raymond N. Greenwell   Combinatorics and Statistical Issues
                                  Related to the Kruskal-Wallis Statistic  533--550

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 3, 2015

           Stefanka Chukova and   
                Leda D. Minkova   Pólya--Aeppli of Order $k$ Risk Model . . 551--564
            Agnieszka Rutkowska   Properties of the Cox-Stuart Test for
                                  Trend in Application to Hydrological
                                  Series: The Simulation Study . . . . . . 565--579
           Manohar Aggarwal and   
                Seema Gupta and   
            Mithilesh Kumar Jha   Construction of Cross-Over Designs for
                                  Comparing Test Treatments with Control
                                  Using Terraces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--590
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                        Feng Su   Exact Likelihood Inference for $k$
                                  Exponential Populations Under Joint
                                  Type-II Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . 591--613
                  Han Lin Shang   Resampling Techniques for Estimating the
                                  Distribution of Descriptive Statistics
                                  of Functional Data . . . . . . . . . . . 614--635
              Guan-Wei Wang and   
             Chun-Xia Zhang and   
                        Gao Guo   Investigating the Effect of Randomly
                                  Selected Feature Subsets on Bagging and
                                  Boosting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--646
            L. Spectrum Han and   
                  W. John Braun   Block Bootstrap Calibration with
                                  Application to the Fire Weather Index    647--665
     Behrouz Fathi Vajargah and   
    Asghar Eskandari Chechaglou   New Modified Scrambled Faure Sequences   666--682
             Ricardo Ehlers and   
                    M. Zevallos   Bayesian Estimation and Prediction of
                                  Stochastic Volatility Models via INLA    683--693
               Ching-Ray Yu and   
               Kelly H. Zou and   
         Martin O. Carlsson and   
          Samaradasa Weerahandi   Generalized Estimation of the BLUP in
                                  Mixed-Effects Models: A Comparison with
                                  ML and REML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694--704
          Giovanni Puccetti and   
        Ludger Rüschendorf   Computation of Sharp Bounds on the
                                  Expected Value of a Supermodular
                                  Function of Risks with Given Marginals   705--718
      Christine M. Schubert and   
                 Tobias Guennel   Comparing Performance of Multiclass
                                  Classification Systems with ROC
                                  Manifolds: When Volume and Correct
                                  Classification Fails . . . . . . . . . . 719--738
          T. Górecki and   
                   M. Krzy\'sko   Regression Methods for Combining
                                  Multiple Classifiers . . . . . . . . . . 739--755
                    Liu Liu and   
                 Jian Zhang and   
                      Xuemin Zi   Dual Nonparametric CUSUM Control Chart
                                  Based on Ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--772
             Rand R. Wilcox and   
                 Florence Clark   Heteroscedastic Global Tests that the
                                  Regression Parameters for Two or More
                                  Independent Groups are Identical . . . . 773--786
    Cibele Queiroz Da-Silva and   
      Guilherme Souza Rodrigues   Bayesian Dynamic Dirichlet Models  . . . 787--818
         Alya O. Al Mutairi and   
                  Heng Chin Low   $p$-Value for two-Sample Linear Rank
                                  Tests Using Permutation Simulations and
                                  the Normal Approximation Method  . . . . 819--826

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 4, 2015

                    Guoyi Zhang   A Parametric Bootstrap Approach for
                                  One-Way ANOVA Under Unequal Variances
                                  with Unbalanced Data . . . . . . . . . . 827--832
                 Shu-Fei Wu and   
                    Ying-Po Lin   The Optimal Allocation Combination for
                                  the One-Sided Sequential Screening
                                  Procedure Based on the Individual
                                  Misclassification Error  . . . . . . . . 833--850
     Patricia Pepple Williamson   Estimation of the Population Size in the
                                  Classical Occupancy Problem  . . . . . . 851--867
           Mauro Costantini and   
             Paresh Narayan and   
               Stephan Popp and   
              Joakim Westerlund   Small-Sample Improved Seasonal Unit Root
                                  Tests for Trending and Breaking Series   868--877
                  Santanu Dutta   Local Smoothing for Kernel Distribution
                                  Function Estimation  . . . . . . . . . . 878--891
              Chuan-Hua Wei and   
                 Li-Jie Wan and   
                  Chun-Ling Liu   Efficient Estimation in Heteroscedastic
                                  Partially Linear Varying Coefficient
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892--901
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                    Feng Su and   
                    Kin-Yat Liu   Exact Likelihood Inference for $k$
                                  Exponential Populations Under Joint
                                  Progressive Type-II Censoring  . . . . . 902--923
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Multivariate Synthetic |S| Control Chart
                                  with Variable Sampling Interval  . . . . 924--942
         B. M. Golam Kibria and   
    Kristofer Månsson and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   A Simulation Study of Some Biasing
                                  Parameters for the Ridge Type Estimation
                                  of Poisson Regression  . . . . . . . . . 943--957
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Parameter Estimation in Regression for
                                  Long-Term Survival Rate from
                                  Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data   958--978
                  M. Mahdizadeh   On Entropy-Based Test of Exponentiality
                                  in Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . . . . . 979--995
                  Fuxiao Li and   
                 Zheng Tian and   
                      Peiyan Qi   Structural Change Monitoring for Random
                                  Coefficient Autoregressive Time Series   996--1009
                   B. N. Mandal   Combinatorial Equivalence of Fractional
                                  Factorial Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . 1010--1019
                  Jianbo Li and   
              Yuanyuan Wang and   
            Zhensheng Huang and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
                        Lin Liu   Testing Serial Correlation in Single
                                  Index Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020--1035
              R. Noorossana and   
                       M. Nikoo   Phase II Monitoring of Geometric
                                  Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036--1049
            Sarjinder Singh and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                Raghunath Arnab   Estimation of Finite Population Variance
                                  Using Scrambled Responses in the
                                  Presence of Auxiliary Information  . . . 1050--1065
                   Rui Shan and   
                  Haibo Dai and   
                Jingyi Zhao and   
                        Wen Liu   Forecasting Study of Shanghai's and
                                  Shenzhen's Stock Markets Using a Hybrid
                                  Forecast Method  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066--1077
             Haixiang Zhang and   
                     Dehui Wang   Inference for Random Coefficient INAR(1)
                                  Process Based on Frequency Domain
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078--1100
            N. Balakrishnan and   
               E. Chimitova and   
                 M. Vedernikova   An Empirical Analysis of Some
                                  Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Tests for
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1115

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 5, 2015

              Seungbong Han and   
       Adin-Cristian Andrei and   
                   Kam-Wah Tsui   Efficient Stratified Testing Procedure
                                  for a False Discovery Rate . . . . . . . 1117--1125
        Gulanbaier Tuerhong and   
                 Seoung Bum Kim   Comparison of Novelty Score-Based
                                  Multivariate Control Charts  . . . . . . 1126--1143
           Eylem Deniz Howe and   
                Orietta Nicolis   Genetic Algorithm in the Wavelet Domain
                                  for Large $p$ Small $n$ Regression . . . 1144--1157
               Masayo Yoshimori   Numerical Comparison Between Different
                                  Empirical Prediction Intervals Under the
                                  Fay--Herriot Model . . . . . . . . . . . 1158--1170
               Sung Won Han and   
                  Hua Zhong and   
                      Mary Putt   An Efficient Operator for the Change
                                  Point Estimation in Partial Spline Model 1171--1186
       Abdelaziz El Matouat and   
    Freedath Djibril Moussa and   
              Hassania Hamzaoui   Resampling for Order Estimation of
                                  Autoregressive Models with Missing Data  1187--1196
              Hukum Chandra and   
                  U. C. Sud and   
                  Yogita Gharde   Small Area Estimation Using Estimated
                                  Population Level Auxiliary Data  . . . . 1197--1209
              S. Balamurali and   
                        M. Usha   Optimal Designing of Variables Sampling
                                  Plan for Resubmitted Lots  . . . . . . . 1210--1224
José A. Villaseñor-Alva and   
Elizabeth González-Estrada   A Correlation Test for Normality Based
                                  on the Lévy Characterization  . . . . . . 1225--1238
                      Jan Vrbik   Moments of AR(k) Parameter Estimators    1239--1252
               Rashid Ahmed and   
                   Munir Akhtar   Some Classes of Binary Block Neighbor
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253--1256
               Wenjun Xiong and   
                      Juan Ding   A Flexible Nonparametric Test for
                                  Ordered and Umbrella Alternatives  . . . 1257--1263
                   Liwen Xu and   
               Fangqin Yang and   
                Ranran Chen and   
                    Shenghua Yu   A Parametric Bootstrap Test for Two-Way
                                  ANOVA Model Without Interaction Under
                                  Heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1264--1272
                A. Kohansal and   
                S. Rezakhah and   
                     E. Khorram   Parameter Estimation of Type-II Hybrid
                                  Censored Weighted Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273--1299
                  Lei Zhang and   
                Wenting Xie and   
             William D. Johnson   Performance of Interval Estimators for
                                  the Inverse Hypergeometric Distribution  1300--1310
              A. F. Donneau and   
                   M. Mauer and   
             G. Molenberghs and   
                      A. Albert   A Simulation Study Comparing Multiple
                                  Imputation Methods for Incomplete
                                  Longitudinal Ordinal Data  . . . . . . . 1311--1338
           Dulal K. Bhaumik and   
                 Kush Kapur and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
          Jerome P. Keating and   
              Robert D. Gibbons   Small Sample Tests for Shape Parameters
                                  of Gamma Distributions . . . . . . . . . 1339--1363
              M. G. M. Khan and   
                 Dinesh Rao and   
               A. H. Ansari and   
                    M. J. Ahsan   Determining Optimum Strata Boundaries
                                  and Sample Sizes for Skewed Population
                                  with Log-Normal Distribution . . . . . . 1364--1387

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 6, 2015

                  H. Bidram and   
            M. H. Alamatsaz and   
                   V. Nekoukhou   On an Extension of the Exponentiated
                                  Weibull Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1389--1404
                   B. N. Mandal   Linear Integer Programming Approach to
                                  Construction of Balanced Incomplete
                                  Block Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405--1411
                 Shaowen Wu and   
                       Yong Yin   Combining $p$-Values in Non-Stationary
                                  Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1412--1431
                 Aya A. Aly and   
         Mahmoud A. Mahmoud and   
             William H. Woodall   A Comparison of the Performance of Phase
                                  II Simple Linear Profile Control Charts
                                  when Parameters are Estimated  . . . . . 1432--1440
                Daojiang He and   
                     Kai Xu and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Random Weighting Empirical Distribution
                                  Function and its Applications to
                                  Goodness-of-Fit Testing  . . . . . . . . 1441--1452
          Pedro Albuquerque and   
           Solange Alfinito and   
              Claudio V. Torres   Support Vector Clustering for Customer
                                  Segmentation on Mobile TV Service  . . . 1453--1464
                   Yujin Oh and   
                    Yu-Seop Kim   Unit Root Tests in the Presence of
                                  Multi-Variance Break and Level Shifts
                                  That Have Power Against the Piecewise
                                  Stationary Alternative . . . . . . . . . 1465--1476
              H. M. Barakat and   
                 E. M. Nigm and   
               O. M. Khaled and   
                F. A. Momenkhan   Bootstrap Method for Order Statistics
                                  and Modeling Study of the Air Pollution  1477--1491
              Y. H. Dovoedo and   
                 S. Chakraborti   Boxplot-Based Outlier Detection for the
                                  Location-Scale Family  . . . . . . . . . 1492--1513
               Yuh-Ing Chen and   
                   Wen-Ming Lin   Estimation of the Benchmark Dose for
                                  Right-Censored Lifetime Data . . . . . . 1514--1531
              T. Palanisamy and   
                J. Ravichandran   Variance Estimation in Heteroscedastic
                                  Models by Undecimated Haar Transform . . 1532--1544
                  Chen Teel and   
              Taeyoung Park and   
               Allan R. Sampson   EM Estimation for Finite Mixture Models
                                  with Known Mixture Component Size  . . . 1545--1556
              Omid Kharazmi and   
              Abbas Mahdavi and   
               Malek Fathizadeh   Generalized Weighted Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1557--1569
  Reza Baradaran Kazemzadeh and   
         Rassoul Noorossana and   
                    Mona Ayoubi   Change Point Estimation of Multivariate
                                  Linear Profiles Under Linear Drift . . . 1570--1599
               Maoyuan Zhou and   
                    Liu Liu and   
                   Wei Geng and   
                       Jie Zhou   Multivariate Control Chart Based on
                                  Multivariate Smirnov Test  . . . . . . . 1600--1611
                   Junlong Zhao   General Sparse Boosting: Improving
                                  Feature Selection of $ L_2 $ Boosting by
                                  Correlation-Based Penalty Family . . . . 1612--1640
Amir T. Payandeh Najafabadi and   
                 Marjan Qazvini   A GLM Approach to Estimating Copula
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1641--1656
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1657--1657

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 7, 2015

               A. A. Jafari and   
              K. Abdollahnezhad   Inferences on the Means of Two
                                  Log-Normal Distributions: A
                                  Computational Approach Test  . . . . . . 1659--1672
                    Ye Tian and   
                      Heng Lian   A Note on Application of Nesterov's
                                  Method in Solving Lasso-Type Problems    1673--1682
                Anup Amatya and   
                 Hakan Demirtas   MultiOrd: An R Package for Generating
                                  Correlated Ordinal Data  . . . . . . . . 1683--1691
                 Mahmoud Torabi   Likelihood Inference for Spatial
                                  Generalized Linear Mixed Models  . . . . 1692--1701
         Francesca Greselin and   
                  Leo Pasquazzi   Parametric Versus Nonparametric
                                  Inference on Zenga Index of Inequality:
                                  Issues and Evidence From Survey Data . . 1702--1719
                Ruiqin Tian and   
                     Liugen Xue   Smooth-Threshold GEE Variable Selection
                                  in High-Dimensional Partially Linear
                                  Models with Longitudinal Data  . . . . . 1720--1734
                    Hyo-Il Park   A Nonparametric Test Procedure Based on
                                  Quantiles for the Right Censored Data    1735--1749
        Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid and   
           Essam K. Al-Hussaini   Inference and Optimal Design Based on
                                  Step-Partially Accelerated Life Tests
                                  for the Generalized Pareto Distribution
                                  under Progressive Type-I Censoring . . . 1750--1769
               Taeryon Choi and   
                   Yoonsung Woo   A Partially Linear Model Using a
                                  Gaussian Process Prior . . . . . . . . . 1770--1786
            Burcu Aytacoglu and   
                 Hakan S. Sazak   A Robust Control Chart for Monitoring
                                  the Mean of an Autocorrelated Process    1787--1800
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Improved Estimates and Confidence
                                  Intervals for Regenerative Simulation    1801--1817
          Maxime Bouadoumou and   
               Yichuan Zhao and   
                     Yinghua Lu   Jackknife Empirical Likelihood for the
                                  Accelerated Failure Time Model with
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1818--1832
                   Lei Wang and   
                Xiaolong Pu and   
                     Yan Li and   
                      Yukun Liu   Sequential Two-stage $D$-optimality
                                  Sensitivity Test for Binary Response
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833--1849
             Tamae Kawasaki and   
                    Takashi Seo   A Two Sample Test for Mean Vectors with
                                  Unequal Covariance Matrices  . . . . . . 1850--1866
                    P. Prajitha   Modeling of Discrete HNBUE Class with
                                  Hypothesis Testing Application . . . . . 1867--1878
Olga Vladimirovna Panteleeva and   
Eduardo Gutiérrez González and   
    Humberto Vaquera Huerta and   
José A. Villaseñor Alva   Identifiability and Comparison of
                                  Estimation Methods on Weibull Mixture
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879--1900
          Yeliz Mert Kantar and   
                 Vural Yildirim   Robust Estimation for Parameters of the
                                  Extended Burr Type III Distribution  . . 1901--1930
                 T. Fischer and   
                       U. Kamps   Power Maps in Goodness-of-fit Testing
                                  Based on Censored Samples  . . . . . . . 1931--1974

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 8, 2015

               Maoyuan Zhou and   
                  Xuemin Zi and   
                   Wei Geng and   
                    Zhonghua Li   A Distribution-free Multivariate
                                  Change-point Model for Statistical
                                  Process Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1975--1987
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Additive Transformation Models for
                                  Clustered Doubly Censored Data . . . . . 1988--2002
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Confidence Intervals for the Normal
                                  Multiple Correlation . . . . . . . . . . 2003--2022
E. Gómez-Déniz and   
       E. Calderín-Ojeda   Parameters Estimation for a New
                                  Generalized Geometric Distribution . . . 2023--2039
                      Marco Bee   Estimation of the Lognormal-Pareto
                                  Distribution Using Probability Weighted
                                  Moments and Maximum Likelihood . . . . . 2040--2060
                    Jibo Wu and   
                        Hu Yang   On the Principal Component Liu-type
                                  Estimator in Linear Regression . . . . . 2061--2072
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                    Xiaojun Zhu   Inference for the Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  Lifetime Regression Model with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2073--2100
                 Shuai Wang and   
                  Yang Shen and   
                     Linyi Qian   Static Hedging of Geometric Average
                                  Asian Options with Standard Options  . . 2101--2116
                Weilin Xiao and   
               Weiguo Zhang and   
                     Xili Zhang   Parameter Identification for Drift
                                  Fractional Brownian Motions with
                                  Application to the Chinese Stock Markets 2117--2136
             Fabien Navarro and   
        Christophe Chesneau and   
                   Jalal Fadili   On Adaptive Wavelet Estimation of a
                                  Class of Weighted Densities  . . . . . . 2137--2150
          James B. McDonald and   
                    Hieu Nguyen   Heteroscedasticity and Distributional
                                  Assumptions in the Censored Regression
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2151--2168
     Behrouz Fathi Vajargah and   
             Maryam Gharehdaghi   Reducing Periodicity of Fuzzy Markov
                                  Chains Based on Simulation Using Halton
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2169--2175
             Hidetoshi Murakami   Power Comparison of Multivariate
                                  Wilcoxon-type Tests Based on the
                                  Jurecková-Kalina's Ranks of Distances . . 2176--2194
            N. Srimaneekarn and   
            S. Kiatsupaibul and   
               A. J. Hayter and   
                         W. Liu   Estimating Drug Shelf-life with Unknown
                                  Lot-to-lot Variability . . . . . . . . . 2195--2207

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 9, 2015

                  Sat Gupta and   
               Manohar Aggarwal   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209--2209
              Russell Reeve and   
                 Seth Berry and   
                   Wei Xiao and   
           Bradley Ferguson and   
          Marcel Thürk and   
             Rüdiger Goetz   Benefits of Model-based Drug
                                  Development: A Rigorous, Planned Case
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2210--2222
                D. E. K. Martin   $p$-values for the Discrete Scan
                                  Statistic through Slack Variables  . . . 2223--2239
                Zaheen Khan and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   Generalized Systematic Sampling  . . . . 2240--2250
               V. A. Kelkar and   
                R. V. Mohan and   
                H. Shiferaw and   
                   A. D. Kelkar   Statistical Analysis of Uncertainties in
                                  Deterministic Computational Modeling ---
                                  Application to Composite Process Resin
                                  Infusion Flow Model  . . . . . . . . . . 2251--2263
                   Jie Yang and   
                Abhyuday Mandal   $D$-optimal Factorial Designs under
                                  Generalized Linear Models  . . . . . . . 2264--2277
             Jeong Sep Sihm and   
                      Sat Gupta   A Two-stage Binary Optional Randomized
                                  Response Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2278--2296
         Raúl Fierro and   
        Víctor Leiva and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Statistical Inference on a Stochastic
                                  Epidemic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2297--2314
              S. Ejaz Ahmed and   
           Saber Fallahpour and   
         Dietrich von Rosen and   
              Tatjana von Rosen   Estimation of Several Intraclass
                                  Correlation Coefficients . . . . . . . . 2315--2328
          Jean-Marie Dufour and   
               Lynda Khalaf and   
                    Marcel Voia   Finite-sample Resampling-based Combined
                                  Hypothesis Tests, with Applications to
                                  Serial Correlation and Predictability    2329--2347
                     I. Das and   
                M. Aggarwal and   
                S. Mukhopadhyay   Robust Designs in Generalized Linear
                                  Models: A Quantile Dispersion Graphs
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2348--2370
                   Satoshi Aoki   Minimal Markov Basis for Tests of Main
                                  Effect Models for 2$^{p - 1}$ Fractional
                                  Factorial Designs of Resolution $p$  . . 2371--2386
               Aamir Saghir and   
                   Zhengyan Lin   Designing of Gini-chart for Exponential,
                                  t, Logistic and Laplace Distributions    2387--2409
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Variable Sampling Interval Cumulative
                                  Count of Conforming Chart with Runs
                                  Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2410--2430
              Vahid Tadayon and   
           Majid Jafari Khaledi   Bayesian Analysis of Skew Gaussian
                                  Spatial Models Based on Censored Data    2431--2441
              J. Martin Van Zyl   Applying Least Absolute Deviation
                                  Regression to Regression-type Estimation
                                  of the Index of a Stable Distribution
                                  Using the Characteristic Function  . . . 2442--2462
                   Jim X. Xiang   A Bivariate Distribution Family with
                                  Specified Correlation Coefficient and
                                  Given Marginals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2463--2472

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 44, Number 10, 2015

                  R. Santos and   
              J. P. Martins and   
                  M. Felgueiras   Known Mean, Unknown Maxima? Testing the
                                  Maximum Knowing Only the Mean  . . . . . 2473--2491
      Tchilabalo Abozou Kpanzou   On the Influence Function of the
                                  Quintile Share Ratio . . . . . . . . . . 2492--2499
       Michael Ruochen Zeng and   
             Tony Siu Tung Wong   A Note on the Modified Likelihood Ratio
                                  Test for Homogeneity in Beta Mixture
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2500--2512
 M. Carmen Aguilera-Morillo and   
                Ana M. Aguilera   P-spline Estimation of Functional
                                  Classification Methods for Improving the
                                  Quality in the Food Industry . . . . . . 2513--2534
                   Ali Arab and   
               Jason R. Courter   Spatio-temporal Trend Analysis of Spring
                                  Arrival Data for Migratory Birds . . . . 2535--2547
           Shirin Shahriari and   
               Susana Faria and   
    A. Manuela Gonçalves   Variable Selection Methods in
                                  High-dimensional Regression --- a
                                  Simulation Study . . . . . . . . . . . . 2548--2561
            Rainer Göb and   
                  Kristina Lurz   Lot Sampling Distributions for Bounded
                                  Number of Nonconformities  . . . . . . . 2562--2591
             D. Prata Gomes and   
               M. Manuela Neves   Bootstrap and Other Resampling
                                  Methodologies in Statistics of Extremes  2592--2607
            J. Beleza Sousa and   
      M. L. Esquível and   
                   R. M. Gaspar   Brownian Bridge and Other Path-dependent
                                  Gaussian Processes Vectorial Simulation  2608--2621
        Adelaide Figueiredo and   
                    Paulo Gomes   Clustering of Variables Based on Watson
                                  Distribution on Hypersphere: A
                                  Comparison of Algorithms . . . . . . . . 2622--2635
           Dulce G. Pereira and   
             Anabela Afonso and   
    Fátima Melo Medeiros   Overview of Friedman's Test and Post-hoc
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2636--2653
          Raed R. Abu Awwad and   
          Mohammad Z. Raqab and   
        Intesar M. Al-Mudahakha   Statistical Inference Based on
                                  Progressively Type II Censored Data from
                                  Weibull Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2654--2670
                  K. Ahmadi and   
                 F. Yousefzadeh   Estimation for the Parameters of
                                  Generalized Half-normal Distribution
                                  Based on Progressive Type-I Interval
                                  Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2671--2695
             Ilya Gertsbakh and   
                Eyal Neuman and   
               Radislav Vaisman   Monte Carlo for Estimating Exponential
                                  Convolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2696--2704
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Mean Time to Failure of Weighted
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$: $G$ Systems  . . . . . . 2705--2713
               Sung Won Han and   
               Kyu Jong Lee and   
                  Hua Zhong and   
                 Seoung Bum Kim   A Comparison of Spatiotemporal
                                  Surveillance Methods for Nonhomogeneous
                                  Change Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2714--2730
      Manas Ranjan Tripathy and   
                    Nabendu Pal   A Note on Estimation of a Distribution
                                  Function in a Nonparametric Set-up Using
                                  Stein's Shrinkage Estimation Technique   2731--2741


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 45, Number 1, 2016

               Mingqiu Wang and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                 Xiaoguang Wang   Quadratic Approximation via the SCAD
                                  Penalty with a Diverging Number of
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
             Filiz Kardiyen and   
               Hülya Olmus   A Comparison of Two Group Classification
                                  Approaches to Fat-tailed and Skewed Data 17--32
         Alya O. Al Mutairi and   
                  Heng Chin Low   Improved Measures of the Spread of Data
                                  for Some Unknown Complex Distributions
                                  Using Saddlepoint Approximations . . . . 33--47
                   Chun Luo and   
                 Yingshan Zhang   Symmetrical Design of Experiment in
                                  Global Sensitivity Analysis Based on
                                  ANOVA High-dimensional Model
                                  Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--72
           David D. L. Minh and   
          Do Le (Paul) Minh and   
               Andrew L. Nguyen   Layer Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--100
                  Juan Ding and   
                   Wenjun Xiong   A New Estimator for a Population
                                  Proportion Using Group Testing . . . . . 101--114
                    H. Park and   
                     S. Konishi   Robust Coordinate Descent Algorithm
                                  Robust Solution Path for
                                  High-dimensional Sparse Regression
                                  Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--129
             S. Shemehsavar and   
                  Morteza Amini   Failure Inference and Optimization for
                                  Step Stress Model Based on Bivariate
                                  Wiener Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--151
Francisco J. Ariza-Hernandez and   
Flaviano Godínez-Jaimes and   
     Ramón Reyes-Carreto   Bayesian Estimation of the Log-linear
                                  Exponential Regression Model with
                                  Censorship and Collinearity  . . . . . . 152--164
              Taeyoung Park and   
                  Seunghyun Min   Partially Collapsed Gibbs Sampling for
                                  Linear Mixed-effects Models  . . . . . . 165--180
                   A. R. Shafay   Exact Inference for a Simple Step-stress
                                  Model with Generalized Type-I Hybrid
                                  Censored Data from the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--206
       Gabriel Rodríguez   A Comparative Note about Estimation of
                                  the Fractional Parameter under Additive
                                  Outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221
                  Peiyan Qi and   
                  Xifa Duan and   
                 Zheng Tian and   
                      Fuxiao Li   Sequential Monitoring for Changes in
                                  Models with a Polynomial Trend . . . . . 222--239
                 Yongqiang Tang   Notes on Kolassa's Method for Estimating
                                  the Power of Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney
                                  Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--251
            Matthias Arnold and   
                 Nils Raabe and   
                   Dominik Wied   Identifying Different Areas of
                                  Inhomogeneous Mineral Subsoil: Spatial
                                  Fluctuation Approaches . . . . . . . . . 252--263
             Melody Denhere and   
                  Nedret Billor   Robust Principal Component Functional
                                  Logistic Regression  . . . . . . . . . . 264--281
   Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix and   
    Noslen Hernández and   
                Alain Paris and   
      Céline Domange and   
         Nathalie Priymenko and   
                 Philippe Besse   On Combining Wavelets Expansion and
                                  Sparse Linear Models for Regression on
                                  Metabolomic Data and Biomarker Selection 282--298
      Joost C. F. de Winter and   
                  Dimitra Dodou   Common Factor Analysis versus Principal
                                  Component Analysis: A Comparison of
                                  Loadings by Means of Simulations . . . . 299--321
                   Liwen Xu and   
                   Kaiyi Qu and   
                   Mixia Wu and   
                     Bo Mei and   
                    Ranran Chen   Parametric Bootstrap Tests for
                                  Unbalanced Three-factor Nested Designs
                                  under Heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . 322--338
              S. F. Bagheri and   
                M. Alizadeh and   
                   S. Nadarajah   Efficient Estimation of the PDF and the
                                  CDF of the Exponentiated Gumbel
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--361
          R. Vijayaraghavan and   
                   S. Banumathi   Bayesian Design of Special Type of
                                  Double Sampling Plans for Compliance
                                  Testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--377
              Dong Wan Shin and   
                Hyo Jin Kim and   
                    Jinwook Seo   SUR Approach for IV Estimation of
                                  Canonical Contagion Models . . . . . . . 378--387

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 45, Number 2, 2016

              A. Daneshkhah and   
                  G. Parham and   
             O. Chatrabgoun and   
                       M. Jokar   Approximation Multivariate Distribution
                                  with Pair Copula Using the Orthonormal
                                  Polynomial and Legendre Multiwavelets
                                  Basis Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--419
     Abdou Kâ Diongue and   
                     Mor Ndongo   The $k$-factor GARMA Process with
                                  Infinite Variance Innovations  . . . . . 420--437
                Tanujit Dey and   
                  Sanku Dey and   
                  Debasis Kundu   On Progressively Type-II Censored
                                  Two-parameter Rayleigh Distribution  . . 438--455
        Alexandru V. Asimit and   
              Edward Furman and   
                  Raluca Vernic   Statistical Inference for a New Class of
                                  Multivariate Pareto Distributions  . . . 456--471
                  Santanu Dutta   Cross-validation Revisited . . . . . . . 472--490
                Donald Lien and   
         Christopher Stroud and   
                      Keying Ye   Comparing VaR Approximation Methods that
                                  Use the First Four Moments as Inputs . . 491--503
          Reinhard Brandner and   
                Ernst Stadlober   Samples of iid Lognormals:
                                  Approximations for Characteristics of
                                  Minima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--518
        Dwi Yuli Rakhmawati and   
             Chao-Lung Yang and   
                   Chien-Wei Wu   Process Capability Assessment for
                                  Asymmetric Tolerances with Consideration
                                  of Gauge Measurement Errors  . . . . . . 519--547
              Muhammad Azam and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
            Karl Peter Pfeiffer   Three Steps Strategy to Search for
                                  Optimum Classification Trees . . . . . . 548--565
             P. G. Sankaran and   
       N. Unnikrishnan Nair and   
                    N. N. Midhu   A New Quantile Function with
                                  Applications to Reliability Analysis . . 566--582
               Deepak Kumar and   
                    S. B. Singh   Stochastic Analysis of Complex
                                  Repairable System with Deliberate
                                  Failure Emphasizing Reboot Delay . . . . 583--602
          Diego I. Gallardo and   
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
     Antonio C. Pedroso-De-Lima   Promotion Time Cure Rate Model with
                                  Bivariate Random Effects . . . . . . . . 603--624
           Tatiene C. Souza and   
        Tarciana L. Pereira and   
     Francisco Cribari-Neto and   
       Veônica M. C. Lima   Testing Inference in Inflated Beta
                                  Regressions under Model Misspecification 625--642
      A. A. P. N. M. Perera and   
       M. R. Sooriyarachchi and   
           S. L. Wickramasuriya   A Goodness of Fit Test for the
                                  Multilevel Logistic Model  . . . . . . . 643--659
                W. A. Malik and   
            J. Möhring and   
                   H. P. Piepho   A Clustering-based Test for
                                  Nonadditivity in an Unreplicated Two-way
                                  Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660--670
                    Zhimeng Sun   Empirical Likelihood Inference of the
                                  Partial Linear Isotonic
                                  Errors-in-variables Regression Models
                                  with Missing Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 671--688
                        Jibo Wu   Modified Restricted Almost Unbiased Liu
                                  Estimator in Linear Regression Model . . 689--700
                Yunchan Chi and   
           Tsung-Hsien Tsai and   
                Yi-Hsuan Tu and   
                   Wen-Yan Tsai   Comparison of Several Confidence
                                  Intervals for Median Residual Lifetime
                                  with Left-truncated and Right-censored
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--716
        Alejandro Villagran and   
             Gabriel Huerta and   
            Marina Vannucci and   
         Charles S. Jackson and   
                 Alvaro Nosedal   Non-parametric Sampling Approximation
                                  via Voronoi Tessellations  . . . . . . . 717--736
               Chunning Yan and   
                   Ren Chen and   
                  Yangxin Huang   Mixed-effects Models with Skewed
                                  Distributions for Time-varying Decay
                                  Rate in HIV Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . 737--757
              M. R. Faghihi and   
                         S. Tat   On $ \Phi_p $-optimality of Incomplete
                                  Block Designs: An Algorithm  . . . . . . 758--769

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Volume 45, Number 3, 2016

                    Moonsu Kang   Optimal False Discovery Rate Control
                                  with Kernel Density Estimation in a
                                  Microarray Experiment  . . . . . . . . . 771--780
              Jiunn-I Shieh and   
                   Hsin-Hung Wu   Measures of Consistency for DEMATEL
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--790
           Juha Ala-Luhtala and   
            Robert Piché   Gaussian Scale Mixture Models for Robust
                                  Linear Multivariate Regression with
                                  Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--813
                    X. Wang and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                         B. Guo   Mis-specification Analyses of Nonlinear
                                  Wiener Process-based Degradation Models  814--832
            M. Ivette Gomes and   
 M. Fátima Brilhante and   
                  Dinis Pestana   New Reduced-bias Estimators of a
                                  Positive Extreme Value Index . . . . . . 833--862
               Dafydd Evans and   
               Jonathan Gillard   Difference-based Methods for Truncating
                                  the Singular Value Decomposition . . . . 863--879
                 Tianyu Sun and   
                      Yimin Shi   Estimation for Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  Distribution in Simple Step
                                  Stress-accelerated Life Test with
                                  Type-II Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . 880--901
       Arnaud D. Nze Ossima and   
       Mohamed C. Belkacemi and   
           Jean-Pierre Daur\`es   Using Adjacent-category Logits Procedure
                                  for Estimating Receiver Operating
                                  Characteristic Surface . . . . . . . . . 902--919
                Meryam Krit and   
            Olivier Gaudoin and   
                    Min Xie and   
                  Emmanuel Remy   Simplified Likelihood Based
                                  Goodness-of-fit Tests for the Weibull
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920--951
                 Shu-Fei Wu and   
                 Hubert J. Chen   An Optimal Confidence Region for the
                                  Largest and the Smallest Means from a
                                  Multivariate Normal Distribution . . . . 952--967
               Roel de Jong and   
            Stef van Buuren and   
                  Martin Spiess   Multiple Imputation of Predictor
                                  Variables Using Generalized Additive
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968--985
        Agnieszka Rutkowska and   
              Kazimierz Banasik   The Cucconi Test for Location-scale
                                  Alternatives in Application to
                                  Asymmetric Hydrological Variables  . . . 986--1000
               N. H. Jadhav and   
                   D. N. Kashid   Robust Linearized Ridge $M$-estimator
                                  for Linear Regression Model  . . . . . . 1001--1024
                Oleg Sysoev and   
            Anders Grimvall and   
                  Oleg Burdakov   Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for
                                  Large-scale Multivariate Monotonic
                                  Regression Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1040
             Bruno Lecoutre and   
            Jacques Poitevineau   New Results for Computing Blaker's Exact
                                  Confidence Interval for One Parameter
                                  Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 1041--1053
                 Fangyu Liu and   
                     Lirong Cui   A Design of Attributes Double Sampling
                                  Plans for Three-class Products . . . . . 1054--1071
                Lixiang Tan and   
                    Lihong Wang   The LASSO Method for Bilinear Time
                                  Series Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072--1082
              Bernard Picinbono   Inversion of the Renewal Density with
                                  Dead-time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1093
                 Yasin Asar and   
               Asir Genç   New Shrinkage Parameters for the
                                  Liu-type Logistic Estimators . . . . . . 1094--1103
                  Minjung Kyung   A Computational Bayesian Method for
                                  Generalized Semiparametric Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104--1128
           Avinash Chandran and   
                Derek Brown and   
              Jerome Danoff and   
               Loretta DiPietro   Using the Inverse Maximum Ratio-$
                                  \Lambda $ as a Technique to Quantify
                                  Surface Uniformity . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1142
               Pedro Macedo and   
              Manuel Scotto and   
                   Elvira Silva   Regularization with Maximum Entropy and
                                  Quantum Electrodynamics: The Merg(E)
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1157

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 45, Number 4, 2016

             Ben-Chang Shia and   
                       Bo Zhang   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159--1159
                    Wei Xue and   
                     Jing Zhang   Dealing with Imbalanced Dataset: A
                                  Re-sampling Method Based on the Improved
                                  SMOTE Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1160--1172
                 Shilong Li and   
                   Xia Zhao and   
                 Jingxiao Zhang   Fractional Age Assumption Based on Cubic
                                  Polynomial Interpolation . . . . . . . . 1173--1186
              Yu-Ting Cheng and   
                Chih-Ching Yang   An Approach of Stocks Substitution
                                  Strategy Using Fuzzy Interval
                                  Correlation Coefficient  . . . . . . . . 1187--1196
               Jianping Zhu and   
                  Kuangnan Fang   A Multistage Chi-square Test for
                                  Measurement of the Degree of Association
                                  in Two-way Table . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1212
             Hsin-Hung Chen and   
              Mingchih Chen and   
                Chun-Cheng Chiu   The Integration of Artificial Neural
                                  Networks and Text Mining to Forecast
                                  Gold Futures Prices  . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1225
                   Bo Zhang and   
                         Tao Bi   Intraday Serial Correlation,Volatility,
                                  and Jump: Evidence from China's Stock
                                  Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226--1239
                Y. K. Tseng and   
                     Y. F. Yang   A Kernel Smooth Approach for Joint
                                  Modeling of Accelerated Failure Time and
                                  Longitudinal Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1240--1248
      Daniel Wei-Chung Miao and   
              Hsiu-Chun Lee and   
                      Hung Chen   A Standardized Normal-Laplace Mixture
                                  Distribution Fitted to Symmetric Implied
                                  Volatility Smiles  . . . . . . . . . . . 1249--1267
                    Yang Li and   
                 Yichen Qin and   
                 Limin Wang and   
                 Jiaxu Chen and   
                    Shuangge Ma   Grouped Variable Selection Using Area
                                  under the ROC with Imbalanced Data . . . 1268--1280
                    Lei Qin and   
                Shuangge Ma and   
              Jung-Chen Lin and   
                 Ben-Chang Shia   Lasso Regression Based on Empirical Mode
                                  Decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281--1294
                  Berlin Wu and   
         Tsung-Kuo Tien-Liu and   
              Ching-Ling Wu and   
                   Wentsung Lai   Statistical Analysis with Soft
                                  Computation for Fuzzy Answering in
                                  Sampling Survey  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295--1306
                Jack C. Yue and   
              Murray K. Clayton   A Multiple-community Overlap Measure
                                  Based on a Probabilistic Approach  . . . 1307--1317
              Chin-Chuan Wu and   
              Li-Ching Chen and   
                    Yi-Jie Chen   Statistical Inferences for the Lifetime
                                  Performance Index of the Products with
                                  the Gompertz Distribution under Censored
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318--1336
                  Berlin Wu and   
               Wentsung Lai and   
              Ching-Ling Wu and   
              Tsung-Kuo Tienliu   Correlation with Fuzzy Data and Its
                                  Applications in the $ 12$-year
                                  Compulsory Education in Taiwan . . . . . 1337--1354
                 Xiaomao Li and   
                    Jianxin Yin   Sparse Sufficient Dimension Reduction
                                  for Markov Blanket Discovery . . . . . . 1355--1364
               Lie-Jane Kao and   
              Tai-Yuan Chen and   
               Kuang-Chao Chang   Efficient Mixture Design Fitting
                                  Quadratic Surface with Quantile
                                  Responses Using First-degree Polynomial  1365--1380
                    Hu Yang and   
                  Danhui Yi and   
                     Chenqun Yu   Cluster Data Streams with Noisy
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1396
                   Miao Liu and   
                Xiaoling Lu and   
                       Jie Song   A New Feature Selection Method for Text
                                  Categorization of Customer Reviews . . . 1397--1409
                    Su-Fen Yang   An Improved Distribution-free EWMA Mean
                                  Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1410--1427

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 45, Number 5, 2016

               Paola Monari and   
       Viatcheslav B. Melas and   
                  Luigi Salmaso   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1429--1429
      Alexander V. Bulinski and   
           Alexander S. Rakitko   Simulation and Analytical Approach to
                                  the Identification of Significant
                                  Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1430--1450
       Ekaterina Bulinskaya and   
                    Julia Gusak   Optimal Control and Sensitivity Analysis
                                  for Two Risk Models  . . . . . . . . . . 1451--1466
              M. Ahsanullah and   
           Prof. V. B. Nevzorov   On Some New Record Schemes . . . . . . . 1467--1476
           Vladimir V. Anisimov   Predictive Hierarchic Modeling of
                                  Operational Characteristics in Clinical
                                  Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1477--1488
                   Ingram Olkin   Life Distributions: A Brief Discussion   1489--1498
              Jean-Paul Fox and   
            Maarten Marsman and   
               Joris Mulder and   
                Josine Verhagen   Complex Latent Variable Modeling in
                                  Educational Assessment . . . . . . . . . 1499--1510
            Cyrielle Dumont and   
            Marylore Chenel and   
           France Mentré   Two-stage Adaptive Designs in Nonlinear
                                  Mixed Effects Models: Application to
                                  Pharmacokinetics in Children . . . . . . 1511--1525
                   D. Rasch and   
                F. Teuscher and   
                L. R. Verdooren   A Conjecture about BIBDs . . . . . . . . 1526--1537
             E. Androulakis and   
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                       F. Vonta   Tuning Parameter Selection in Penalized
                                  Frailty Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1538--1553
                Stefano Bonnini   Multivariate Approach for Comparative
                                  Evaluations of Customer Satisfaction
                                  with Application to Transport Services   1554--1568
R. Arboretti Giancristofaro and   
                  V. Boatto and   
                T. Tempesta and   
                   D. Vecchiato   Statistical Modeling for the Evaluation
                                  of Consumers' Preferences  . . . . . . . 1569--1582
          Eleonora Carrozzo and   
               Livio Corain and   
              Remigio Musci and   
              Luigi Salmaso and   
                   Luca Spadoni   A New Approach to Rank Several
                                  Multivariate Normal Populations with
                                  Application to Life Cycle Assessment . . 1583--1599
          Bertrand Gauthier and   
                   Luc Pronzato   Approximation of IMSE-optimal Designs
                                  via Quadrature Rules and Spectral
                                  Decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1600--1612
                Subir Ghosh and   
             Mike (Fu Ze) Huang   Full Estimation Capacity Hierarchical
                                  Fractional Factorial Designs for a Class
                                  of Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1620
                 Maria Iannario   Testing Overdispersion in CUBE Models    1621--1635
             Irene Martelli and   
      Mariagiulia Matteucci and   
               Stefania Mignani   Bayesian Estimation of a
                                  Multidimensional Additive Graded
                                  Response Model for Correlated Traits . . 1636--1654
                Giulia Roli and   
                   Paola Monari   A Model-based Approach to Measure School
                                  Achievements in Latent Groups of
                                  Students: A Simulation Study . . . . . . 1655--1663
            Matteo Farné   An Algorithm to Simulate VMA Processes
                                  Having a Spectrum with Fixed Condition
                                  Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1664--1675
                    Xinwei Feng   Anticipated Backward Stochastic
                                  Differential Equation with Reflection    1676--1688
                 Jin Chu Wu and   
            Alvin F. Martin and   
                Raghu N. Kacker   Validation of Nonparametric Two-sample
                                  Bootstrap in ROC Analysis on Large
                                  Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1689--1703
        Frank Schaarschmidt and   
              Gemechis D. Djira   Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for
                                  Ratios of Fixed Effect Parameters in
                                  Linear Mixed Models  . . . . . . . . . . 1704--1717
                 D. J. Best and   
            J. C. W. Rayner and   
                    O. Thas and   
                Jan De Neve and   
                David Allingham   Comparing Nonparametric Tests of
                                  Equality of Means for Randomized Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1718--1730
Hélcio Vieira Junior and   
         Karl Heinz Kienitz and   
Mischel Carmen Neyra Belder-Rain   Multinomial Selection in the Presence of
                                  Infinite Alternatives  . . . . . . . . . 1731--1747
              Henri E. Cuny and   
    Tristan Senga Kiessé   On Modeling Wood Formation Using
                                  Parametric and Semiparametric
                                  Regressions for Count Data . . . . . . . 1748--1762
         Yasemin Kayhan Atilgan   Robust Coplot Analysis . . . . . . . . . 1763--1775
                Satish Bhat and   
                   R. Vidya and   
          V. Pandit Parameshwar   Maximum Likelihood Estimation of
                                  Parameters in a Mixture Model  . . . . . 1776--1784
        H. E. T. Holgersson and   
           K. Månsson and   
                      G. Shukur   Testing for Panel Unit Roots under
                                  General Cross-sectional Dependence . . . 1785--1801
                  Nehir Ene and   
               Mehmet Karahasan   A New Estimation Method Based on Order
                                  Statistics in the Families of Symmetric
                                  Location-scale Distributions . . . . . . 1802--1825

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 45, Number 6, 2016

                  Cui Xiong and   
                         Jin Xu   Confidence Intervals from Stochastic
                                  Approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827--1837
                   M. Arefi and   
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
                      Y. Vaghei   Interval Estimations for the Mean of the
                                  Generalized Poisson and Generalized
                                  Negative Binomial Distributions  . . . . 1838--1864
                     Ji Luo and   
                  Haifen Li and   
                   Jiajia Zhang   Robust Smoothed Rank Estimation Methods
                                  for Accelerated Failure Time Model
                                  Allowing Clusters  . . . . . . . . . . . 1865--1884
                    S. Huda and   
                  L. Benkherouf   On Some Two- and Three-dimensional
                                  D-minimax Designs for Estimating Slopes
                                  of a Third-order Response Surface  . . . 1885--1895
                Guoyi Zhang and   
               Maozhen Gong and   
                     Yang Cheng   Adjusted Confidence Bands for Complex
                                  Survey Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1896--1904
      Thalita do Bem Mattos and   
Clécio da Silva Ferreira   The Mean-shift Outlier Model under Skew
                                  Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 1905--1917
          Bailey K. Fosdick and   
             Michael D. Perlman   Variance-stabilizing and
                                  Confidence-stabilizing Transformations
                                  for the Normal Correlation Coefficient
                                  with Known Variances . . . . . . . . . . 1918--1935
                 Toru Ogura and   
              Takemi Yanagimoto   Powerful Test of Two Proportions by
                                  Assuming a Registered Prior Density  . . 1936--1949
          Tomohiro Nakamura and   
           Yoshiro Yamamoto and   
                 Hideyuki Douke   Sequential Hypothesis Tests for
                                  Identifying the Minimum Dose with a
                                  Threshold Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 1950--1970
             E. Androulakis and   
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                       F. Vonta   A New Method for the Analysis of
                                  Supersaturated Designs with Discrete
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1971--1990
                 Tizheng Li and   
                   Changlin Mei   Statistical Inference on the Parametric
                                  Component in Partially Linear Spatial
                                  Autoregressive Models  . . . . . . . . . 1991--2006
            Clemens Draxler and   
               Gerhard Tutz and   
             Katharina Zink and   
                 Can Gürer   Comparison of Maximum Likelihood with
                                  Conditional Pairwise Likelihood
                                  Estimation of Person Parameters in the
                                  Rasch Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007--2017
                     Li Qin and   
             Lisa Weissfeld and   
           Marsha D. Marcus and   
          Michele D. Levine and   
                       Feng Dai   Modeling Longitudinal Obesity Data with
                                  Intermittent Missingness Using a New
                                  Latent Variable Model  . . . . . . . . . 2018--2031
               Martin Solberger   A Likelihood Ratio Test for
                                  Idiosyncratic Unit Roots in the Exact
                                  Factor Model with Integrated Factors . . 2032--2050
             Semhar Michael and   
             Volodymyr Melnykov   Studying Complexity of Model-based
                                  Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2051--2069
      Aytaç Pekmezci and   
                  Mustafa Dilek   The Comparison of Performances of Widely
                                  Used Cointegration Tests . . . . . . . . 2070--2080
                 W. L. Teoh and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
       Philippe Castagliola and   
                      M. H. Lee   The Exact Run Length Distribution and
                                  Design of the Shewhart Chart with
                                  Estimated Parameters Based on Median Run
                                  Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2081--2103
             Hubert J. Chen and   
                 Shu-Fei Wu and   
               Pei-Chi Shao and   
                  Wen-Gine Wang   On Testing the Mean Equivalence of
                                  Treatments from Correlated Normal
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2104--2121
                 Kohji Yamamura   Estimation of the Predictive Ability of
                                  Ecological Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2122--2144
     André Beauducel and   
                 Norbert Hilger   On the Correlation of Common Factors
                                  with Variance Not Accounted for by the
                                  Factor Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2145--2157
               Xiaolin Wang and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
                         Bo Guo   Residual Life Estimation Based on a
                                  Generalized Wiener Process with
                                  Skew-normal Random Effects . . . . . . . 2158--2181
                 Chunhao Tu and   
                  Woon Yuen Koh   Using Inverse Probability Weighting
                                  Estimators to Evaluate Various
                                  Propensity Scores When Treatment
                                  Switching Exists . . . . . . . . . . . . 2182--2190
              S. F. Bagheri and   
                M. Alizadeh and   
               S. Nadarajah and   
                       E. Deiri   Efficient Estimation of the PDF and the
                                  CDF of the Weibull Extension Model . . . 2191--2207
               Guangbao Guo and   
                         Lu Lin   Parallel Bootstrap and Optimal Subsample
                                  Lengths in Smooth Function Models  . . . 2208--2231
               Wangxue Chen and   
                  Minyu Xie and   
                        Ming Wu   Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimator of
                                  Scale Parameter Using Moving Extremes
                                  Ranked Set Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 2232--2240

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 45, Number 7, 2016

                Zijian Dong and   
                 Zhongming Wang   Variational Inference of Linear
                                  Regression with Nonzero Prior Means  . . 2241
            Husam A. Bayoud and   
               Omar A. Kittaneh   Testing the Equality of Two Exponential
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2249
         Mohammad A. Rahman and   
                Karl K. Lin and   
              Ram C. Tiwari and   
                Matthew Jackson   Exact Poly-$K$ Test  . . . . . . . . . . 2257
             Nursel Koyuncu and   
                    Cem Kadilar   Calibration Weighting in Stratified
                                  Random Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2267
             Canan G. Corlu and   
            Melike Meterelliyoz   Estimating the Parameters of the
                                  Generalized Lambda Distribution: Which
                                  Method Performs Best?  . . . . . . . . . 2276
       Rajvir Singh Chauhan and   
            Parminder Singh and   
                 Narinder Kumar   Comparing Several Variances with a
                                  Control in Direction-mixed Families of
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2297
               Daniel Jones and   
             Michael Kohler and   
               Adam Krzyzak and   
              Alexander Richter   Empirical Comparison of Nonparametric
                                  Regression Estimates on Real Data  . . . 2309
                Liu-Cang Wu and   
           Zhong-Zhan Zhang and   
             Guo-Liang Tian and   
                     Deng-Ke Xu   A Robust Variable Selection to $t$-type
                                  Joint Generalized Linear Models via
                                  Penalized $t$-type Pseudo-likelihood . . 2320
          Brianna C. Bright and   
             Julia N. Soulakova   Evaluating the Performance of
                                  Simultaneous Stepwise Confidence
                                  Intervals for the Difference between two
                                  Poisson Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2338
              Dong-Dong Pan and   
              Zheng-Bang Li and   
                 Qi-Zhai Li and   
                  Wing Kam Fung   A Novel Powerful Joint Analysis with
                                  Data Fusion in Two-stage Case-Control
                                  Genome-wide Association Studies  . . . . 2362
                     Tao Lu and   
                       Min Wang   Investigate Data Dependency for Dynamic
                                  Gene Regulatory Network Identification
                                  through High-dimensional Differential
                                  Equation Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 2377
                    Hu Yang and   
                    Jing Lv and   
                    Chaohui Guo   Penalized LAD Regression for
                                  Single-index Models  . . . . . . . . . . 2392
                Rahim Alhamzawi   Bayesian Elastic Net Tobit Quantile
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2409
              K. Krishnamoorthy   Modified Normal-based Approximation to
                                  the Percentiles of Linear Combination of
                                  Independent Random Variables with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2428
         Maryam Sharifdoust and   
              Choung Min Ng and   
                  Seng-Huat Ong   Probability Generating Function Based
                                  Jeffrey's Divergence for Statistical
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2445
              Sen Lin Cheng and   
                 Buqing Liu and   
                     Lei Li and   
                 Jiansong Huang   MLE Solution Research for a Certain Kind
                                  of Two-dimensional Lognormal
                                  Distribution Function  . . . . . . . . . 2459
           Z. Hlávka and   
          M. Husková and   
                   C. Kirch and   
                S. G. Meintanis   Bootstrap Procedures for Online
                                  Monitoring of Changes in Autoregressive
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2471
              George Kalema and   
                Samuel Iddi and   
              Geert Molenberghs   The Combined Model: A Tool for
                                  Simulating Correlated Counts with
                                  Overdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2491
               Jiujun Zhang and   
                Zhonghua Li and   
                   Qin Zhou and   
                   Zhaojun Wang   An Adaptive Shiryaev--Roberts Procedure
                                  for Signalling Varying Location Shifts   2511
               Hongxia Yang and   
                       Jun Wang   Bayesian Hierarchical Kernelized
                                  Probabilistic Matrix Factorization . . . 2528
            Wai Chung Yeong and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
            M. Shamsuzzaman and   
           Philippe Castagliola   Sensitivity Analyses of the Economic and
                                  Economic Statistical Designs of the
                                  Multivariate Synthetic $ T^2 $ Chart . . 2541
                  Kung-Jong Lui   Notes on Interval Estimation of Odds
                                  Ratio in Matched Pairs under Stratified
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2562
                   Young-Ju Kim   A Comparative Study of Semiparametric
                                  Estimation in Partially Linear
                                  Single-index Models  . . . . . . . . . . 2577
           Rajan Lamichhane and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Estimation of Mode Using Two-phase
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2586
                Junsheng Ma and   
                Xiaoying Yu and   
            Elaine Symanski and   
             Rachelle Doody and   
                    Wenyaw Chan   A Bayesian Approach in Estimating
                                  Transition Probabilities of a
                                  Discrete-time Markov Chain for Ignorable
                                  Intermittent Missing Data  . . . . . . . 2598
            Muhammad Mohsin and   
           Jürgen Pilz and   
              Albrecht Gebhardt   An Explicit Distribution to Model the
                                  Proportion of Heating Degree Day and
                                  Cooling Degree Day . . . . . . . . . . . 2617
               S. Baratpour and   
                  A. Habibi Rad   Exponentiality Test Based on the
                                  Progressive Type II Censoring via
                                  Cumulative Entropy . . . . . . . . . . . 2625
                Zhensheng Huang   Empirical-likelihood-based Test for
                                  Partially Linear Single-index Models
                                  with Error-prone Linear Covariates . . . 2638
         Paulo C. Rodrigues and   
                     Eric Laber   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2657

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 45, Number 8, 2016

           Shahadut Hossain and   
              Zahirul Hoque and   
          A. H. M. Saidul Hasan   A Better Alternative to Non-parametric
                                  Approaches for Adjusting for Covariate
                                  Measurement Errors in Logistic
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2659
                 Daniel Gerhard   Simultaneous Small Sample Inference for
                                  Linear Combinations of Generalized
                                  Linear Model Parameters  . . . . . . . . 2678
                Wenyu Jiang and   
           Nathalie C. Moon and   
            Bingshu E. Chen and   
                   Dongsheng Tu   Permutation Methods for Comparing the
                                  Accuracy of Nested Prediction Models in
                                  Survival Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 2691
                Daojiang He and   
                     Yan Wu and   
                         Kai Xu   A Class of $ s - K $ Type Principal
                                  Components Estimators in the Linear
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2709
                Wanrong Liu and   
                  Xuewen Lu and   
                  Changchun Xie   Empirical Likelihood for the Additive
                                  Hazards Model with Current Status Data   2720
                Henian Chen and   
               Nanhua Zhang and   
                     Xiaosun Lu   Is Early Smoking a Causal Risk Factor
                                  for Later Cognitive Impairment? A20-year
                                  Prospective Study with Time-varying
                                  Propensity Score Matching Based on
                                  Random Intercept and Slope . . . . . . . 2733
             Hakan Demirtas and   
                 Donald Hedeker   Computing the Point-biserial Correlation
                                  under Any Underlying Continuous
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2744
            Sheng-Mao Chang and   
              Ray-Bing Chen and   
                    Yunchan Chi   Bayesian Variable Selections for Probit
                                  Models with Componentwise Gibbs Samplers 2752
Emilio Gómez-Déniz and   
              M. E. Ghitany and   
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Poisson-mixed Inverse Gaussian
                                  Regression Model and Its Application . . 2767
               Kamran Abbas and   
                    Yincai Tang   Objective Bayesian Analysis for
                                  Log-logistic Distribution  . . . . . . . 2782
            Sumaia A. Latif and   
              Pedro A. Morettin   Curve of Correlation for Time Series . . 2792
               Sanam Haseen and   
                  Irfan Ali and   
                     Abdul Bari   Multiobjective Stochastic Multivariate
                                  Stratified Sampling in Presence of
                                  Nonresponse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2810
                Moein Saleh and   
                       Rong Pan   Constructing Efficient Experimental
                                  Designs for Generalized Linear Models    2827
                      Fujun Hou   A Multiplicative Alo-group Based
                                  Hierarchical Decision Model and
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2846
                 Erlis Ruli and   
                  Laura Ventura   Higher-order Bayesian Approximations for
                                  Pseudo-posterior Distributions . . . . . 2863
               Warsha Singh and   
       Gudmundur Thordarson and   
         Sisira Haputhantri and   
              Gunnar Stefansson   Optimized Sampling Strategies for
                                  Identifying Modes in Length-frequency
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2874
                   Liwen Xu and   
                    Lingli Yuan   A Parametric Bootstrap Solution to
                                  Two-way MANOVA without Interaction under
                                  Heteroscedasticity: Fixed and Mixed
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2888
              I. B. Mohamed and   
                  A. Rambli and   
               N. Khaliddin and   
               A. I. N. Ibrahim   A New Discordancy Test in Circular Data
                                  Using Spacings Theory  . . . . . . . . . 2904
               P. T. Pepler and   
                  D. W. Uys and   
                      D. G. Nel   A Comparison of Some Methods for the
                                  Selection of a Common Eigenvector Model
                                  for the Covariance Matrices of Two
                                  Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2917
                  Ayman Baklizi   Comparison of Interval Estimators of $
                                  {\rm Pr}(X < Y) $ in the Two-parameter
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 2937
             Alan Herschtal and   
            Farshad Foroudi and   
                 Tomas Kron and   
               Kerrie Mengersen   A Comparison of Bayesian Models of
                                  Heteroscedasticity in Nested Normal Data 2947
          Rohan Kumar Raman and   
                  U. C. Sud and   
                  Hukum Chandra   Calibration Approach-based Product
                                  Estimator of Finite Population Total
                                  with Subsampling of Nonrespondents under
                                  Single and Two-phase Sampling  . . . . . 2965
                Gulnora Raimova   Probabilistic Approach to Solution of
                                  the Neumann Problem for Some Nonlinear
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2981
         Tamer M. Elbayoumi and   
                  Jeff Terpstra   Weighted $ L_1 $-estimates for the
                                  First-order Bifurcating Autoregressive
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2991
              S. Balamurali and   
              Muhammad Azam and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Attribute-variable Inspection Policy for
                                  Lots Using Resampling Based on EWMA  . . 3014
                     Yan Ma and   
                 Haitao Chu and   
                 Madhu Mazumdar   Meta-analysis of Proportions of Rare
                                  Events --- A Comparison of Exact
                                  Likelihood Methods with Robust Variance
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3036

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 45, Number 9, 2016

           Fatemah Alqallaf and   
            Claudio Agostinelli   Robust Inference in Generalized Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3053
                  M. Zargar and   
        H. Jabbari Nooghabi and   
                       M. Amini   Test of Independence for Baker's
                                  Bivariate Distributions  . . . . . . . . 3074
                Liying Wang and   
                  Jie Zhang and   
                   Wei Chen and   
                      Xujie Jia   Reliability Evaluation of a Load-sharing
                                  Parallel System with Failure Dependence  3094
                   Jin Yang and   
                 Shuang Guo and   
                   Chuanhua Wei   Testing Serial Correlation in Partially
                                  Linear Additive Errors-in-variables
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3114
              Zhongxian Men and   
           Tony S. Wirjanto and   
             Adam W. Kolkiewicz   Sampling-based Inference of Time
                                  Deformation Models with Heavy Tail
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3128
          Samantha R. Seals and   
         Charles R. Katholi and   
                 Jing Zhang and   
             Inmaculada B. Aban   Evaluating the Use of Spatial Covariance
                                  Structures in the Analysis of
                                  Cardiovascular Imaging Data  . . . . . . 3149
              Takeshi Emura and   
                  Shau-Kai Shiu   Estimation and Model Selection for
                                  Left-truncated and Right-censored
                                  Lifetime Data with Application to
                                  Electric Power Transformers Analysis . . 3171
     S. M. Sadooghi-alvandi and   
               A. A. Jafari and   
             H. A. Mardani-Fard   Comparing Several Regression Models with
                                  Unequal Variances  . . . . . . . . . . . 3190
         Roohollah Roozegar and   
        Alireza Nematollahi and   
               Ahad Jamalizadeh   Properties and Inference for a New Class
                                  of Skew-$t$ Distributions  . . . . . . . 3217
            Taiane S. Prass and   
  Sílvia R. C. Lopes and   
                Jorge A. Achcar   MCMC Bayesian Estimation in FIEGARCH
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3238
                 Mangey Ram and   
                 Monika Manglik   Performance Evaluation of a Multi-state
                                  System Covering Imperfect Fault Coverage 3259
              Dorin Drignei and   
             Mihaela C. Drignei   Uncertainty Analysis for Functional
                                  Computer Output: A Simulation Study in
                                  Inverse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 3281
          Robin Van Oirbeek and   
              Emmanuel Lesaffre   Exploring the Clustering Effect of the
                                  Frailty Survival Model by Means of the
                                  Brier Score  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3294
              Hongjiang Gao and   
            Inmaculada Aban and   
             Charles R. Katholi   Pool Screening: An Example of
                                  Independent Nonidentical Bernoulli Trial 3307
                  Sat Gupta and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                 Rita Sousa and   
               Pedro Corte-Real   Improved Exponential Type Estimators of
                                  the Mean of a Sensitive Variable in the
                                  Presence of Nonsensitive Auxiliary
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3317
                Amy M. Kwon and   
                Ming Ouyang and   
                   Andrew Cheng   Resampling-based Classification Using
                                  Depth for Functional Curves  . . . . . . 3329
             Daniel Frobish and   
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
                      Dung Pham   Semiparametric Estimation of a
                                  Change-point for Recurrent Events Data   3339
             O. Chatrabgoun and   
                      G. Parham   Copula Density Estimation Using
                                  Multiwavelets Based on the
                                  Multiresolution Analysis . . . . . . . . 3350
Ma. Sofia Criselda A. Poblador and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Control Chart for Monitoring
                                  Autocorrelated Process with Multiple
                                  Exogenous Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . 3373
         Hossein Riazoshams and   
               Habshah Bt. Midi   The Performance of a Robust Multistage
                                  Estimator in Nonlinear Regression with
                                  Heteroscedastic Errors . . . . . . . . . 3394
               Stephen Chan and   
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
             Emmanuel Afuecheta   An R Package for Value at Risk and
                                  Expected Shortfall . . . . . . . . . . . 3416
               Lotfi Khribi and   
              Marc Fredette and   
               Brenda MacGibbon   The Poisson Maximum Entropy Model for
                                  Homogeneous Poisson Processes  . . . . . 3435
         Sanjay Kumar Singh and   
                Umesh Singh and   
                    Manoj Kumar   Bayesian Estimation for
                                  Poisson-exponential Model under
                                  Progressive Type-II Censoring Data with
                                  Binomial Removal and Its Application to
                                  Ovarian Cancer Data  . . . . . . . . . . 3457
            Behzad Mansouri and   
               Mitra Abasnezhad   Discrimination Measures for Fractional
                                  Integrated Models Based on Wavelets  . . 3476

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 45, Number 10, 2016

             Shahjahan Khan and   
              Budi Pratikno and   
      Adriana I. N. Ibrahim and   
               Rossita M. Yunus   The Correlated Bivariate Noncentral $F$
                                  Distribution and Its Application . . . . 3491
                 Yu-Jau Lin and   
               H. M. Okasha and   
                      Y. L. Lio   Prediction Intervals for Future Order
                                  Statistics from a Generalized Modified
                                  Weibull  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3508
               Hasan Önder   Comparative Study of Generalized
                                  Estimating Equations and Logistic
                                  Regressions on Different Sample Sizes
                                  and Correlation Levels . . . . . . . . . 3528
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
             Benzion Boukai and   
                   Igor Kleiner   A Numerical Study of Small Parameter
                                  Behavior of Some Families of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3534
                M. H. Tahir and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
            Ayman Alzaatreh and   
                 M. Mansoor and   
                      M. Zubair   A New Weibull--Pareto Distribution:
                                  Properties and Applications  . . . . . . 3548
                Omer Ozturk and   
               Neslihan Demirel   Estimation of Population Variance from
                                  Multi-ranker Ranked Set Sampling Designs 3568
              Zawar Hussain and   
          Bander Al-Zahrani and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                   Manzoor Khan   On Using Negative Binomial Distribution
                                  as a Randomization Device in Sensitive
                                  Surveys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3584
                   Aba Diop and   
                 Aliou Diop and   
     Jean-François Dupuy   Simulation-based Inference in a
                                  Zero-inflated Bernoulli Regression Model 3597
                 C. N. Kuruwita   Non-iterative Estimation and Variable
                                  Selection in the Single-index Quantile
                                  Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3615
              Yousheng Zhou and   
                Yiping Yang and   
                   Jian Han and   
                    Peixin Zhao   Estimation for Partially Linear
                                  Single-index Instrumental Variables
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3629
           M. Tariqul Hasan and   
             Shahariar Huda and   
                   Gary Sneddon   A Comparative Study of Observation- and
                                  Parameter-driven Zero-inflated Poisson
                                  Models for Longitudinal Count Data . . . 3643
                 Hyejin Lee and   
                    Dong-Yop Oh   Dealing with the Initial Observation in
                                  the LM Unit Root Test  . . . . . . . . . 3660
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                   H. Y. So and   
                      X. J. Zhu   On Box--Muller Transformation and
                                  Simulation of Normal Record Data . . . . 3670
              Mahdi Roozbeh and   
                Mohammad Arashi   New Ridge Regression Estimator in
                                  Semiparametric Regression Models . . . . 3683
             Mizuki Onozawa and   
         Takahiro Nishiyama and   
                    Takashi Seo   On Test Statistics in Profile Analysis
                                  with High-dimensional Data . . . . . . . 3716
           Farzad Eskandari and   
                    Ehsan Ormoz   Finite Mixture of Generalized
                                  Semiparametric Models: Variable
                                  Selection via Penalized Estimation . . . 3744
          A. S. Al-Moisheer and   
                   K. S. Sultan   Estimation of a Discriminant Function
                                  from a Mixture of Two Burr Type III
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3760
               Seong W. Kim and   
          Hon Keung Tony Ng and   
                    Hakjin Jang   Estimation of Parameters in a Bivariate
                                  Generalized Exponential Distribution
                                  Based on Type-II Censored Samples  . . . 3776
                Zvi Drezner and   
                    Dawit Zerom   A Simple and Effective Discretization of
                                  a Continuous Random Variable . . . . . . 3798
            Mostafa Tamandi and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   On the Estimation of Parameters of
                                  Kumaraswamy-$G$ Distributions  . . . . . 3811


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 46, Number 1, 2017

             Saran Ishika Maiti   Large sample test criteria on Toeplitz
                                  covariance structure . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
                 Hsiaw-Chan Yeh   Four general multivariate stationary
                                  extremal Markovian processes . . . . . . 16--37
              Esra Gokpinar and   
                 Fikri Gokpinar   Testing equality of variances for
                                  several normal populations . . . . . . . 38--52
               Huaming Song and   
                    Qian Xu and   
                   Hui Yang and   
                       Jun Fang   Interpreting out-of-control signals
                                  using instance-based Bayesian classifier
                                  in multivariate statistical process
                                  control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--77
       Kevin Carl P. Santos and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Improving predictive accuracy of
                                  logistic regression model using ranked
                                  set samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--90
       Özgür Asar and   
                  Ozlem Ilk and   
                      Osman Dag   Estimating Box--Cox power transformation
                                  parameter via goodness-of-fit tests  . . 91--105
              Jianlan Zhong and   
                     Yizhong Ma   An integrated model based on statistical
                                  process control and maintenance for
                                  two-stage dependent processes  . . . . . 106--126
     Nezamoddin N. Kachouie and   
                 Xihong Lin and   
              Armin Schwartzman   FDR control of detected regions by
                                  multiscale matched filtering . . . . . . 127--144
                Dejing Kong and   
                     Lirong Cui   The analysis of mixed interval-censored
                                  and complete data  . . . . . . . . . . . 145--163
                    Xiaohui Liu   Empirical likelihood for the response
                                  mean of generalized linear models with
                                  missing at random responses  . . . . . . 164--173
               Wenjun Xiong and   
                      Juan Ding   Confidence intervals for a population
                                  proportion using group testing in the
                                  presence of misclassification  . . . . . 174--183
            Kenichi Hayashi and   
                    Keiji Takai   Finite-sample analysis of impacts of
                                  unlabeled data and their labeling
                                  mechanisms in linear discriminant
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--203
            N. Wiwatwattana and   
               A. J. Hayter and   
                S. Kiatsupaibul   Win-probabilities for comparing two
                                  binary outcomes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--214
              Nenghui Kuang and   
                   Huantian Xie   Asymptotic behavior of weighted cubic
                                  variation of sub-fractional Brownian
                                  motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--229
           David D. Hanagal and   
              Arvind Pandey and   
                 P. G. Sankaran   Shared frailty model based on reversed
                                  hazard rate for left censored data . . . 230--243
                 Ekele Alih and   
                 Hong Choon Ong   Robust cluster-based multivariate
                                  outlier diagnostics and parameter
                                  estimation in regression analysis  . . . 244--260
            Graham Hepworth and   
                     Ray Watson   Revisiting retesting in the estimation
                                  of proportions by group testing  . . . . 261--274
                Ana Moreira and   
        Artur Araújo and   
      Luís Meira-Machado   Estimation of the bivariate distribution
                                  function for censored gap times  . . . . 275--300
             Feng-Chang Xie and   
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
                   Bo-Cheng Wei   Score test for homogeneity of dispersion
                                  in generalized Poisson mixed models with
                                  excess zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--314
           Federica Cugnata and   
                  Silvia Salini   Comparison of alternative imputation
                                  methods for ordinal data . . . . . . . . 315--330
                Marco Barnabani   An approximation to the convolution of
                                  gamma distributions  . . . . . . . . . . 331--343
                 Hakan Demirtas   Concurrent generation of binary and
                                  nonnormal continuous data through
                                  fifth-order power polynomials  . . . . . 344--357
                Huifen Chen and   
             David Goldsman and   
         Bruce W. Schmeiser and   
                Kwok-Leung Tsui   Symmetric $ \bar {X} $-charts:
                                  Sensitivity to nonnormality and
                                  control-limit estimation . . . . . . . . 358--378
             A. Asgharzadeh and   
              R. Valiollahi and   
                    M. Z. Raqab   Estimation of $ {\rm Pr}(Y < X) $ for the
                                  two-parameter generalized exponential
                                  records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394
                  Zhongxue Chen   A nonparametric approach to detecting
                                  the difference of survival medians . . . 395--403
            Leila Golparvar and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Selecting the best exponential
                                  population under Type-II progressive
                                  censoring scheme via empirical Bayes
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--422
   Michele Leonardo Bianchi and   
        Svetlozar T. Rachev and   
               Frank J. Fabozzi   Tempered stable Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  processes: a practical view  . . . . . . 423--445
              Mou-Yuan Liao and   
              Chien-Hua Lin and   
               Chien-Wei Wu and   
                 Chien-Hui Yang   Reliable confidence intervals for
                                  assessing normal process incapability    446--457
                    Xia Cai and   
                 Yubin Tian and   
                  Houbao Xu and   
                       Jun Wang   WCF approach of reliability assessment
                                  for solid state power controller with
                                  accelerate degradation data  . . . . . . 458--468
                   J. Kleyn and   
                  M. Arashi and   
                  A. Bekker and   
                     S. Millard   Preliminary testing of the Cobb--Douglas
                                  production function and related
                                  inferential issues . . . . . . . . . . . 469--488
                 Hakan Demirtas   On accurate and precise generation of
                                  generalized Poisson variates . . . . . . 489--499
              Xiaobing Zhao and   
                      Xian Zhou   Multi-type insurance claim processes
                                  with high-dimensional covariates . . . . 500--514
              Lianlian Song and   
               Geoffrey Tso and   
                 Hing-Po Lo and   
                 Zhongsheng Hua   A dynamic multiple-variety choice
                                  adaption model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--529
                   Min Wang and   
                    Wentao Wang   Bias-corrected maximum likelihood
                                  estimation of the parameters of the
                                  weighted Lindley distribution  . . . . . 530--545
             Nabakumar Jana and   
                   Somesh Kumar   Classification into two normal
                                  populations with a common mean and
                                  unequal variances  . . . . . . . . . . . 546--558
            Alireza Shadman and   
             Changliang Zou and   
            Hashem Mahlooji and   
                  Arthur B. Yeh   A change point method for Phase II
                                  monitoring of generalized linear
                                  profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--578
               Tzu-Hsin Liu and   
               Jau-Chuan Ke and   
              Meng-Feng Yen and   
                   Ying-Lin Hsu   Statistical inference for the
                                  availability of repairable system with
                                  general repair, reboot delay, and
                                  switching failure  . . . . . . . . . . . 579--592
                Sana Chouia and   
            Nacira Seddik-Ameur   A modified chi-square test for Bertholon
                                  model with censored data . . . . . . . . 593--602
         Iris Ivy M. Gauran and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Nonparametric modeling of clustered
                                  customer survival data . . . . . . . . . 603--618
                  Dengke Xu and   
                Zhongzhan Zhang   Bayesian inference for joint location
                                  and scale nonlinear models with
                                  skew-normal errors . . . . . . . . . . . 619--630
                 M. H. Ling and   
                 S. Y. Wong and   
                     K. L. Tsui   Efficient heterogeneous sampling for
                                  stochastic simulation with an
                                  illustration in health care applications 631--639
               Bingbing Gao and   
               Shesheng Gao and   
              Yongmin Zhong and   
                    Chengfan Gu   Random weighting estimation of sampling
                                  distributions via importance resampling  640--654
               Tanweer Ul Islam   Stringency-based ranking of normality
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--668
              Norihiro Mita and   
             Hiroshi Sasaki and   
              Kazutaka Kani and   
               Akio Tabuchi and   
                Heihachiro Hara   Multiple comparisons in two-factor
                                  testing of psychophysical thresholds by
                                  the delta test method  . . . . . . . . . 669--678
           S. Shams Harandi and   
                M. H. Alamatsaz   A complementary generalized linear
                                  failure rate-geometric distribution  . . 679--703
               Jiujun Zhang and   
                   Chuan He and   
                Zhonghua Li and   
                   Zhaojun Wang   Likelihood ratio test-based chart for
                                  monitoring the process variability . . . 704--728
      Fábio M. Bayer and   
         Francisco Cribari-Neto   Model selection criteria in beta
                                  regression with varying dispersion . . . 729--746
                    Xiaoyan Lin   A Bayesian semiparametric accelerated
                                  failure time model for arbitrarily
                                  censored data with covariates subject to
                                  measurement error  . . . . . . . . . . . 747--756
                  Kung-Jong Lui   Notes on estimation of the proportion
                                  ratio in the presence of carryover
                                  effects under the AB/BA crossover trial  757--771
                 Chunhao Tu and   
                  Woon Yuen Koh   A comparison of balancing scores for
                                  estimating rate ratios of count data in
                                  observational studies  . . . . . . . . . 772--778
               Jianhua Ding and   
                Zhongzhan Zhang   $M$-Estimation in the partially linear
                                  model with Bernstein polynomials under
                                  shape constrains . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--794
                 Chris J. Lloyd   Computing exact one-sided confidence
                                  limits for treatment effect in clinical
                                  trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--805

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 46, Number 2, 2017

               Jongphil Kim and   
                    Ji-Hyun Lee   The validation of a beta-binomial model
                                  for overdispersed binomial data  . . . . 807--814
                   Chao Jia and   
                     Yonghui Ge   A resisting gross errors capability
                                  study of robust estimation of unary
                                  linear regression method . . . . . . . . 815--822
                 A. Hussein and   
                   A. Kasem and   
              S. Nkurunziza and   
                 S. Campostrini   Performance of risk-adjusted cumulative
                                  sum charts when some assumptions are not
                                  met  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--830
                Guoyi Zhang and   
                       Rong Liu   Bias-corrected estimators of scalar skew
                                  normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--839
          Ruffy S. Guilatco and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Nonparametric estimation of a switching
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 840--854
          Daniel M. McNeish and   
             Jeffery R. Harring   Clustered data with small sample sizes:
                                  Comparing the performance of model-based
                                  and design-based approaches  . . . . . . 855--869
               Toshihiro Hirano   Modified linear projection for large
                                  spatial datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . 870--889
                 Aya A. Aly and   
           Ramadan M. Hamed and   
             Mahmoud A. Mahmoud   Optimal design of the adaptive
                                  exponentially weighted moving average
                                  control chart over a range of mean
                                  shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890--902
      Markus Neuhäuser and   
                  Anke Welz and   
               Graeme D. Ruxton   Statistical tests for the comparison of
                                  two samples: The general alternative . . 903--909
                   May Barghout   On parameter estimation of software
                                  reliability models . . . . . . . . . . . 910--932
              Sumith Gunasekera   Inferences on functions of Pareto
                                  parameters with application to income
                                  inequality measures  . . . . . . . . . . 933--947
                Amena Urooj and   
                   Zahid Asghar   Analysis of the performance of test
                                  statistics for detection of outliers
                                  (additive, innovative, transient, and
                                  level shift) in $ {\rm AR}(1) $
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948--979
                 Ehab Nasir and   
                       Rong Pan   Simulation-based Bayesian optimal design
                                  for multi-factor accelerated life tests  980--993
               Weiming Yang and   
                       Shu Liao   A study of quadratic inference functions
                                  with alternative weighting matrices  . . 994--1007
                Jung In Seo and   
               Suk Bok Kang and   
                     Yongku Kim   Robust Bayesian estimation of a
                                  bathtub-shaped distribution under
                                  progressive Type-II censoring  . . . . . 1008--1023
          Tõnu Kollo and   
              Gaida Pettere and   
                    Marju Valge   Tail dependence of skew $t$-copulas  . . 1024--1034
                    A. D. Banik   Stationary analysis of a \em BMAP/R/1
                                  queue with $R$-type multiple working
                                  vacations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1061
                 Ratan Dasgupta   Growth of tuber crops and almost sure
                                  band for quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . 1062--1085
                    Hao Jin and   
               Danshi Zhang and   
               Jinsuo Zhang and   
                       Si Zhang   Evidence of spurious regression driven
                                  by heavy-tailed observations with
                                  structural changes . . . . . . . . . . . 1086--1101
          Takayuki Morimoto and   
                 Shuichi Nagata   Robust estimation of a high-dimensional
                                  integrated covariance matrix . . . . . . 1102--1112
                 D. Samanta and   
                 A. Ganguly and   
                   D. Kundu and   
                       S. Mitra   Order restricted Bayesian inference for
                                  exponential simple step-stress model . . 1113--1135
           Haruka Yamashita and   
              Shun Matsuura and   
                   Hideo Suzuki   Estimation of principal points for a
                                  multivariate binary distribution using a
                                  log-linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136--1147
                  Rongji Mu and   
                Lixiang Dai and   
                         Jin Xu   Sequential design for response surface
                                  model fit in computer experiments using
                                  derivative information . . . . . . . . . 1148--1155
      Dário Ferreira and   
         Sandra S. Ferreira and   
         Célia Nunes and   
           João T. Mexia   Estimation in mixed models through three
                                  step minimization  . . . . . . . . . . . 1156--1166
           Mohamed Bentarzi and   
                Wissam Bentarzi   Periodic integer-valued $ {\rm GARCH}(1,
                                  1) $ model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167--1188
                H. Boubaker and   
                M. Boutahar and   
                   R. Khalfaoui   Wavelets and estimation of long memory
                                  in nonstationary models: Does anything
                                  beat the exact local Whittle estimator?  1189--1218
                 P. Andrade and   
                        L. Rifo   Long-range dependence and approximate
                                  Bayesian computation . . . . . . . . . . 1219--1237
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   Estimation of finite population mean
                                  using two auxiliary variables in
                                  stratified two-phase sampling  . . . . . 1238--1256
                   Mehmet Kocak   Meta-analysis of univariate $P$-values   1257--1265
         Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi   Entropy-based tests of uniformity: A
                                  Monte Carlo power comparison . . . . . . 1266--1279
                    Li Yang and   
                Sijia Xiang and   
                     Weixin Yao   Robust fitting of mixtures of factor
                                  analyzers using the trimmed likelihood
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280--1291
                 Yuting Hsu and   
                        Qi Wang   Statistical analysis of firm
                                  interdependence using duration
                                  data-parametric approach . . . . . . . . 1292--1301
               Rubing Liang and   
                  Qiang Xia and   
                 Jiazhu Pan and   
                    Jinshan Liu   Testing a linear ARMA model against
                                  threshold-ARMA models: A Bayesian
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302--1317
             Mahdi Teimouri and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   On simulating truncated skewed Cauchy
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318--1321
             Firoozeh Rivaz and   
           Majid Jafari Khaledi   Monte Carlo approximation of likelihood
                                  function in spatial GLMMs through an
                                  empirical Bayes method . . . . . . . . . 1322--1335
              Yi-Ting Hwang and   
                  Yu-Hui Su and   
                Harn-Jing Terng   Comparisons of normalization methods for
                                  relative quantitative in real-time
                                  polymerase chain reaction  . . . . . . . 1336--1359
         Athanasios C. Rakitzis   On the performance of modified runs
                                  rules charts with estimated parameters   1360--1380
                S. Ghafouri and   
              A. Habibi Rad and   
                 F. Yousefzadeh   Two-sample prediction for progressively
                                  Type-II censored Weibull lifetimes . . . 1381--1400
                  Wei Zheng and   
                   Juan Han and   
                Weijie Kong and   
                     Dewang Ren   The particle filter based on random
                                  number searching algorithm for parameter
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1401--1413
              Eisa Mahmoudi and   
                   A. A. Jafari   The compound class of linear failure
                                  rate-power series distributions: Model,
                                  properties, and applications . . . . . . 1414--1440
  Mustafa Ç. Korkmaz and   
             Ali I. Genç   A new generalized two-sided class of
                                  distributions with an emphasis on
                                  two-sided generalized normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441--1460
              Chia Huang Wu and   
              Wen Lea Pearn and   
                Yu Ting Tai and   
                   Pi Chuan Lin   Lower confidence bounds as precision
                                  measure for truncated processes  . . . . 1461--1480
      Saminathan Balamurali and   
                Usha Mahalingam   Developing of a new system of skip-lot
                                  reinspection schemes . . . . . . . . . . 1481--1491
 Daniela Cortés-Toto and   
  Víctor M. Guerrero and   
             Hortensia J. Reyes   Trend smoothness achieved by penalized
                                  least squares with the smoothing
                                  parameter chosen by optimality criteria  1492--1507
                  Jianbo Xu and   
                Guogen Shan and   
                  Amei Amei and   
                 Jiwei Zhao and   
               Daniel Young and   
                   Sheila Clark   A modified Friedman test for randomized
                                  complete block designs . . . . . . . . . 1508--1519
             Federico Crudu and   
            Zsolt Sándor   On the finite-sample properties of
                                  conditional empirical likelihood
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1520--1545
Kristina Celene M. Manalaysay and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Semiparametric principal component
                                  Poisson regression on clustered data . . 1546--1556
M. Álvarez Hernández and   
 A. Martín Andrés   New asymptotic inferences about the
                                  difference, ratio, and linear
                                  combination of two independent
                                  proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1557--1568
                M. Alizadeh and   
               S. Nadarajah and   
             M. Doostparast and   
                A. Parchami and   
                   M. Mashinchi   On confidence bounds for one-parameter
                                  exponential families . . . . . . . . . . 1569--1582
                  Lounis Tewfik   Optimal tests in $ {\rm AR}(m) $ time
                                  series model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583--1610
              Mohan D. Pant and   
               Todd C. Headrick   A characterization of the Burr Type III
                                  and Type XII distributions through the
                                  method of percentiles and the Spearman
                                  correlation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1611--1627
                   Jing Cai and   
                  Yimin Shi and   
                     Hongbo Yue   Accelerated life tests for log-normal
                                  series system with dependent masked data
                                  under Type-I progressive hybrid
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1628--1646
      Mustafa Ç. Korkmaz   A generalized skew slash distribution
                                  via gamma-normal distribution  . . . . . 1647--1660
    Pär Sjölander and   
    Kristofer Månsson and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   A new nonlinear asymmetric cointegration
                                  approach using error correction models   1661--1668

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 46, Number 3, 2017

  Julián de la Horra and   
     J. Miguel Marín and   
María Teresa Rodríguez-Bernal   Bayesian inference and data cloning in
                                  the calibration of population projection
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1669--1681
            A. Vasudeva Rao and   
        P. Sitaramacharyulu and   
             M. Chenchu Ramaiah   Linear approximate ML estimation in
                                  scaled Type-I generalized logistic
                                  distribution based on Type-II censored
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1682--1702
               Jalal Chachi and   
                  Mahdi Roozbeh   A fuzzy robust regression approach
                                  applied to bedload transport data  . . . 1703--1714
           Shovan Chowdhury and   
          Amitava Mukherjee and   
                  Asok K. Nanda   On compounded geometric distributions
                                  and their applications . . . . . . . . . 1715--1734
    Pär Sjölander and   
    Kristofer Månsson and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   Testing for panel cointegration in an
                                  error-correction framework with an
                                  application to the Fisher hypothesis . . 1735--1745
                    C. Tenreiro   A new test for multivariate normality by
                                  combining extreme and nonextreme BHEP
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1746--1759
    Manuel Leonard F. Albis and   
                 Dennis S. Mapa   Bayesian averaging of classical
                                  estimates in asymmetric vector
                                  autoregressive models  . . . . . . . . . 1760--1770
              A. H. Abuzaid and   
        M. K. Abu El-Qumsan and   
                 A. M. El-Habil   On the robustness of right and middle
                                  censoring schemes in parametric survival
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1771--1780
                 Renhao Jin and   
             Gabrielle E. Kelly   A comparison of sampling grids, cut-off
                                  distance and type of residuals in
                                  parametric variogram estimation  . . . . 1781--1795
               Jin Hyun Nam and   
                     Donguk Kim   Modified linear discriminant analysis
                                  using block covariance matrix in
                                  high-dimensional data  . . . . . . . . . 1796--1807
                Rasool Roozegar   Randomly weighted average with Dirichlet
                                  component proportions  . . . . . . . . . 1808--1813
           G. Srinivasa Rao and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Resubmitted lots with single sampling
                                  plans by attributes under the conditions
                                  of zero-inflated Poisson distribution    1814--1824
                         M. Bee   Density approximations and VaR
                                  computation for compound
                                  Poisson-lognormal distributions  . . . . 1825--1841
                 Suay Erees and   
                     Aylin Alin   Influences of misspecification on
                                  asymptotic relative efficiency of
                                  coefficients of determination:
                                  Application to agriculture . . . . . . . 1842--1857
                     Shu-Fei Wu   Multiple comparisons of exponential
                                  location parameters with a control based
                                  on doubly censored sample under
                                  heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1858--1870
             Jana D. Canary and   
             Leigh Blizzard and   
            Ronald P. Barry and   
            David W. Hosmer and   
               Stephen J. Quinn   A comparison of the Hosmer--Lemeshow,
                                  Pigeon--Heyse, and Tsiatis
                                  goodness-of-fit tests for binary
                                  logistic regression under two grouping
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1871--1894
Marcelo Ângelo Cirillo and   
   Lúcia Pereira Barroso   Effect of outliers on the GFI quality
                                  adjustment index in structural equation
                                  model and proposal of alternative
                                  indices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1895--1905
          Nabaz Esmailzadeh and   
                    Zahra Zandi   Using orthogonal array for constructing
                                  three-level search designs . . . . . . . 1906--1917
             Teresa Ledwina and   
               Grzegorz Wylupek   On Charlier polynomials in testing
                                  Poissonity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1918--1932
              Vincent S. Staggs   Comparison of na\"\ive, Kenward--Roger,
                                  and parametric bootstrap interval
                                  approaches to small-sample inference in
                                  linear mixed models  . . . . . . . . . . 1933--1943
                   Xu Zhang and   
                      Ji Li and   
                       Yang Liu   Inference for probability of selection
                                  with dependently truncated data using a
                                  Cox model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1944--1957
         Gülin Tabakan and   
           M. Revan Özkale   Liu estimator in partly linear
                                  regression models with correlated errors 1958--1973
                  Satoshi Usami   Bayesian longitudinal paired comparison
                                  model and its application to sports data
                                  using weighted likelihood bootstrap  . . 1974--1990
     Muhammad Rizwan Shahid and   
            Muhammad Zakria and   
            Farrukh Shehzad and   
                   Rashid Ahmed   Some important classes of generalized
                                  neighbor designs for linear blocks . . . 1991--1997
             Fikri Gokpinar and   
                  Esra Gokpinar   Testing the equality of several
                                  log-normal means based on a
                                  computational approach . . . . . . . . . 1998--2010
                 Jane J. Ye and   
                 Julie Zhou and   
                    Wenjie Zhou   Computing $A$-optimal and $E$-optimal
                                  designs for regression models via
                                  semidefinite programming . . . . . . . . 2011--2024
         Giorgos Bakoyannis and   
                 Giota Touloumi   Impact of dependent left truncation in
                                  semiparametric competing risks methods:
                                  A simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . 2025--2042
               A. A. Jafari and   
                   M. R. Kazemi   Computational approach test for
                                  inference about several correlation
                                  coefficients: Equality and common  . . . 2043--2056
          Sukanya Intarapak and   
       Rawee Suwandechochai and   
           Thidaporn Supapakorn   Comparison of the estimators of the
                                  intra-cluster correlation for the nested
                                  error regression model . . . . . . . . . 2057--2070
                C. A. Uzuke and   
               J. I. Mbegbu and   
                    C. R. Nwosu   Performance of Kibria, Khalaf, and
                                  Shurkur's methods when the eigenvalues
                                  are skewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2071--2102
 M. B. M. B. K. Gawarammana and   
           M. R. Sooriyarachchi   Comparison of methods for analyzing
                                  binary repeated measures data: A
                                  simulation-based study (comparison of
                                  methods for binary repeated measures)    2103--2120
                    Yu Xing and   
                  Xiaoping Yang   Laplace transform approach to option
                                  pricing for time-changed Brownian models 2121--2137
                 Wenhao Gui and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Acceptance sampling plans based on
                                  truncated life tests for weighted
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 2138--2151
          Hamidreza Moheghi and   
  Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and   
            Behrang Bootaki and   
               Davood Bakhshesh   On the effect of inducted negative
                                  correlation rate for beta
                                  acceptance-rejection algorithms  . . . . 2152--2167
              Guo-Dong Xing and   
                 Shan-Chao Yang   Uniformly strong consistency of
                                  frequency polygons for negatively
                                  associated samples . . . . . . . . . . . 2168--2175
                 Allen C. K. Ng   New procedures for selecting the
                                  $k$-best exponential populations . . . . 2176--2184
                   Wenyu Du and   
     Aleksey S. Polunchenko and   
                Grigory Sokolov   On robustness of the Shiryaev--Roberts
                                  change-point detection procedure under
                                  parameter misspecification in the
                                  post-change distribution . . . . . . . . 2185--2206
            Fatemeh Sogandi and   
              Amirhossein Amiri   Monotonic change point estimation of
                                  generalized linear model-based
                                  regression profiles  . . . . . . . . . . 2207--2227
               Sungwan Bang and   
               Soo-Heang Eo and   
            Myoungshic Jhun and   
                  Hyung Jun Cho   Composite kernel quantile regression . . 2228--2240
                Anup Amatya and   
                 Hakan Demirtas   PoisNor: An R package for generation of
                                  multivariate data with Poisson and
                                  normal marginals . . . . . . . . . . . . 2241--2253
               F. Mehrdoust and   
                  S. Babaei and   
                      S. Fallah   Efficient Monte Carlo option pricing
                                  under CEV model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2254--2266
                     S. Min and   
                        T. Park   Bayesian variable selection in Poisson
                                  change-point regression analysis . . . . 2267--2282
            Giampiero Marra and   
             Rosalba Radice and   
             Panagiota Filippou   Regression spline bivariate probit
                                  models: A practical approach to testing
                                  for exogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2283--2298
                  Xuhua Liu and   
                      Na Li and   
                       Yuqin Hu   A new generalized confidence interval
                                  for the among-group variance in the
                                  heteroscedastic one-way random effects
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2299--2310
           Ali Akbar Jafari and   
           Kamel Abdollahnezhad   Testing the equality means of several
                                  log-normal distributions . . . . . . . . 2311--2320
        Fikri Gökpinar and   
         Esra Gökpinar and   
              Hülya Bayrak   Permutation approach for ordinal
                                  preference data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2321--2332
 M. Esmail Dehghan Monfared and   
                  Fazlollah Lak   Bayesian estimation of the change point
                                  in a gamma process using control chart   2333--2345
        Joan G. Staniswalis and   
          Christopher Dodoo and   
                     Anu Sharma   Local principal differential analysis:
                                  Graphical methods for functional data
                                  with covariates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2346--2359
                 Xiao Zhang and   
                 Quanlin Li and   
              Karen Cropsey and   
               Xiaowei Yang and   
                  Kui Zhang and   
                   Thomas Belin   A multiple imputation method for
                                  incomplete correlated ordinal data using
                                  multivariate probit models . . . . . . . 2360--2375
Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad and   
  Abolghasem Yousefi Babadi and   
       Mohammad Saleh Owlia and   
              Ali Mostafaeipour   A recursive approach for lot sentencing
                                  problem in the presence of inspection
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2376--2392
                  Sat Gupta and   
              Geeta Kalucha and   
                  Javid Shabbir   A regression estimator for finite
                                  population mean of a sensitive variable
                                  using an optional randomized response
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2393--2405
                 A. Elhassanein   On the complex dynamics of
                                  functional-coefficients nonlinear
                                  autoregressive time series models  . . . 2406--2417
             Jian-Ying Rong and   
                    Xu-Qing Liu   Optimal non-diagonal-type estimators in
                                  linear regression under the prediction
                                  error sum of squares criterion . . . . . 2418--2429
                Nizam Uddin and   
                    M. S. Hasan   Testing equality of two normal means
                                  using combined samples of paired and
                                  unpaired data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2430--2446
                Parimal Hor and   
                   Babulal Seal   Minimum variance unbiased estimation of
                                  stress-strength reliability under
                                  bivariate normal and its comparisons . . 2447--2456
             Hamid Esmaeeli and   
            Ahmad Sadegheih and   
          Amirhossein Amiri and   
        Mohammad Hadi Doroudyan   Monitoring two-stage processes with a
                                  profile at the second stage  . . . . . . 2457--2473
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Semiparametric analysis of
                                  transformation models with dependently
                                  left-truncated and right-censored data   2474--2487
               Fengkai Yang and   
                   Haijing Yuan   A non-iterative posterior sampling
                                  algorithm for Laplace linear regression
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2488--2503

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 46, Number 4, 2017

                Joseph F. Grcar   Research trends in MSC 65 numerical
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505--2512
                    Bin Nie and   
                    Mengying Du   Identifying change-point in polynomial
                                  profiles based on data-segmentation  . . 2513--2528
               Satyaki Mazumder   Single-step and multiple-step
                                  forecasting in one-dimensional single
                                  chirp signal using MCMC-based Bayesian
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2529--2547
              Fatima Batool and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                  Zawar Hussain   An improved binary randomized response
                                  model using six decks of cards . . . . . 2548--2562
Mohammad Hasan Bakhtiarifar and   
                  Mahdi Bashiri   A probabilistic clustering method for
                                  data elements with normal distributed
                                  attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2563--2575
                     Yasin Asar   Some new methods to solve
                                  multicollinearity in logistic regression 2576--2586
  J. Andrés Christen and   
                  Colin Fox and   
          Mario Santana-Cibrian   Optimal direction Gibbs sampler for
                                  truncated multivariate normal
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2587--2600
                  Ai-Jun Qi and   
               Zong-Feng Qi and   
             Jian-Feng Yang and   
                Qiao-Zhen Zhang   A three-stage variable selection method
                                  for supersaturated designs . . . . . . . 2601--2610
          Hon Keung Tony Ng and   
              Ismail Kinaci and   
                 Coskun Kus and   
                Ping Shing Chan   Optimal experimental plan for
                                  multi-level stress testing with Weibull
                                  regression under progressive Type-II
                                  extremal censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 2611--2637
              Yan-Yong Zhao and   
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
                  Hong-Xia Wang   Robust bootstrap estimates in
                                  heteroscedastic semi-varying coefficient
                                  models and applications in analyzing
                                  Australia CPI data . . . . . . . . . . . 2638--2653
          Sharmishtha Mitra and   
                 Amit Mitra and   
                    Sanket Bose   Simultaneous estimation of number of
                                  signals and signal parameters of
                                  superimposed sinusoidal model: A robust
                                  sequential bivariate M-periodogram
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2654--2677
           Omar A. Kittaneh and   
          Mohamed A. El-Beltagy   Efficiency estimation of Type-I censored
                                  sample from the Weibull distribution
                                  based on sup-entropy . . . . . . . . . . 2678--2688
          C. Satheesh Kumar and   
                       A. Riyaz   On some aspects of a generalized
                                  alternative zero-inflated logarithmic
                                  series distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 2689--2700
          Prajamitra Bhuyan and   
                   Anup Dewanji   Reliability computation under dynamic
                                  stress-strength modeling with cumulative
                                  stress and strength degradation  . . . . 2701--2713
                  Shih-Chou Kao   $ \bar {X} $ and $R$ control charts
                                  based on weighted variance with
                                  left-right tail-weighted ratio for
                                  skewed distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2714--2732
             Violetta Dalla and   
           Yannis Bassiakos and   
             Simos G. Meintanis   Characteristic function-based inference
                                  for GARCH models with heavy-tailed
                                  innovations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2733--2755
                      Hu Xuemei   Robust estimators and robust tests for
                                  the slightly contaminated stochastic
                                  logistic population models . . . . . . . 2756--2768
                     Kanika and   
                   Somesh Kumar   Bayes estimation of a Langevin mean
                                  direction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2769--2783
              Khurshid Alam and   
                    Sudhir Paul   Testing equality of two beta binomial
                                  proportions in the presence of unequal
                                  extra-dispersion parameters  . . . . . . 2784--2799
               Issam Dawoud and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   Evaluation of the predictive performance
                                  of the Liu type estimator  . . . . . . . 2800--2820
              R. Lamichhane and   
                   S. Singh and   
                     N. Diawara   Improved estimation of population mean
                                  using known median of auxiliary variable 2821--2828
                  Yang Zhao and   
              Albert Vexler and   
                Alan Hutson and   
                     Xiwei Chen   A statistical software procedure for
                                  exact parametric and nonparametric
                                  likelihood-ratio tests for two-sample
                                  comparisons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2829--2841
               Issam Dawoud and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   An optimal $k$ of $k$ th MA-ARIMA models
                                  under $ {\rm AR}(p)$ models  . . . . . . 2842--2864
       Laís H. Loose and   
      Fábio M. Bayer and   
            Tarciana L. Pereira   Bootstrap Bartlett correction in
                                  inflated beta regression . . . . . . . . 2865--2879
           Mehmet Karahasan and   
                      Nehir Ene   New estimators based on order statistics
                                  in some families of scale distributions  2880--2906
            Adel Elghafghuf and   
                  Henrik Stryhn   Robust Poisson likelihood estimation for
                                  frailty Cox models: A simulation study   2907--2923
              Muhammad Azam and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
             Khushnoor Khan and   
               Anwar Mughal and   
                   Awais Inayat   Comparisons of decision tree methods
                                  using water data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2924--2934
                    Sangun Park   On the goodness-of-fit test based on the
                                  ratio of cumulative hazard functions
                                  with the Type II censored data . . . . . 2935--2944
           Darcie A. P. Delzell   An investigation of a quadratic design
                                  criterion for estimation of the
                                  hemodynamic response function  . . . . . 2945--2956
                Xiaodi Wang and   
             Yingshan Zhang and   
                    Yincai Tang   A two-stage method for the estimation of
                                  global sensitivity indices of
                                  non-parametric models  . . . . . . . . . 2957--2975
                  Jing Yang and   
                        Hu Yang   Robust modal estimation and variable
                                  selection for single-index
                                  varying-coefficient models . . . . . . . 2976--2997
               Reza Pakyari and   
                K. Resalati Nia   Testing goodness-of-fit for some
                                  lifetime distributions with conventional
                                  Type-I censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 2998--3009
                 Rand R. Wilcox   Global comparisons of medians and other
                                  quantiles in a one-way design when there
                                  are tied values  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3010--3019
                 Gwansu Kim and   
                    Mingue Park   Variance estimation of DEE and
                                  regression estimator when a first-phase
                                  cluster sample is restratified . . . . . 3020--3033
                     Li Yin and   
                   Xiaoqin Wang   Estimating confidence regions of common
                                  measures of the baseline and treatment
                                  effect on dichotomous outcome of a
                                  population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3034--3049
              Milan Jovanovi\'c   Estimation of $ P \{ X < Y \} $ for
                                  geometric--exponential model based on
                                  complete and censored samples  . . . . . 3050--3066
              Takeshi Emura and   
            Ting-Hsuan Long and   
                   Li-Hsien Sun   R routines for performing estimation and
                                  statistical process control under
                                  copula-based time series models  . . . . 3067--3087
  Alfonsus Julanto Endharta and   
                  Won Young Yun   Condition-based maintenance policy for
                                  linear consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$: $F$
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3088--3102
              Hatem Baffoun and   
             Mekki Hajlaoui and   
              Abdeljelil Farhat   Equation-solving estimator based on
                                  Metropolis--Hastings algorithm with
                                  delayed rejection  . . . . . . . . . . . 3103--3111
           Ahmed H. Youssef and   
            Mohamed R. Abonazel   Alternative GMM estimators for
                                  first-order autoregressive panel model:
                                  An improving efficiency approach . . . . 3112--3128
                 A. N. Gill and   
                 Anju Goyal and   
                  Vishal Maurya   Simultaneous inferences for ordered
                                  exponential location parameters under
                                  unbalanced data and heteroscedasticity
                                  of scale parameters  . . . . . . . . . . 3129--3139
               Arun Kaushik and   
                Umesh Singh and   
             Sanjay Kumar Singh   Bayesian inference for the parameters of
                                  Weibull distribution under progressive
                                  Type-I interval censored data with
                                  beta-binomial removals . . . . . . . . . 3140--3158
                 Martin Law and   
                    Dan Jackson   Residual plots for linear regression
                                  models with censored outcome data: a
                                  refined method for visualizing residual
                                  uncertainty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3159--3171
                Yanqing Wen and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                  Shubin Si and   
                   Baoliang Liu   A multiple warm standby $ \delta $-shock
                                  system with a repairman having multiple
                                  vacations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3172--3186
                Xueqin Zhou and   
                   Lei Yang and   
                      Xianyi Wu   On several estimates to the precision
                                  parameter of Dirichlet process prior . . 3187--3200
                   Nesrin Alkan   Assessing convergence diagnostic tests
                                  for Bayesian Cox regression  . . . . . . 3201--3212
                        Zhe Liu   Bayesian model-averaged regularization
                                  for Gaussian graphical models  . . . . . 3213--3223
               Chunpeng Fan and   
                  Donghui Zhang   On power and sample size of the
                                  ANOVA-type rank test . . . . . . . . . . 3224--3241
                Ahmet Sezer and   
                Evren Ozkip and   
                   Berna Yazici   Comparison of confidence intervals for
                                  the Behrens--Fisher problem  . . . . . . 3242--3266
     André Berchtold and   
       Joan-Carles Surís   Imputation of repeatedly observed
                                  multinomial variables in longitudinal
                                  surveys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3267--3283
            M. Sanei Tabass and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   The generalized maximum Tsallis entropy
                                  estimators and applications to the
                                  Portland cement dataset  . . . . . . . . 3284--3293
             Djamel Zitouni and   
      Benjamin C. Guinhouya and   
              Pierre Ravaux and   
          Christian Vilhelm and   
             Bruno Sarrazin and   
            Mohamed Lemdani and   
               Hossein Mehdaoui   Si-GARCH: Construction and validation of
                                  a new method for the detection of
                                  breaking points in models  . . . . . . . 3294--3305
    Hüseyin Güler and   
         Berrin Gültay and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   Comparisons of the alternative biased
                                  estimators for the distributed lag
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3306--3318
              Yongjin Zhang and   
                Youchao Sun and   
                      Ming Zhao   A combinatorial estimation approach for
                                  storage reliability with initial
                                  failures based on periodic testing data  3319--3340

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 46, Number 5, 2017

            Rasool Roozegar and   
            Saeid Tahmasebi and   
               Ali Akbar Jafari   The McDonald Gompertz distribution:
                                  Properties and applications  . . . . . . 3341--3355
              Jasdeep Pannu and   
                  Nedret Billor   Robust group-Lasso for functional
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3356--3374
                   Myron Hlynka   MCMC and the Fibonacci distribution  . . 3375--3382
              K. Chatterjee and   
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                    C. Parpoula   On the analysis of unbalanced two-level
                                  supersaturated designs via generalized
                                  linear models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3383--3395
                 Rashid Mansoor   Using principal components to test
                                  normality of high-dimensional data . . . 3396--3405
                   Qiang Wu and   
                     Weixin Yao   Relabel mixture models via modal
                                  clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3406--3418
José María Sarabia and   
          Golnaz Shahtahmassebi   Bayesian estimation of incomplete data
                                  using conditionally specified priors . . 3419--3435
                  Juan Ding and   
                         Hao Li   Comparison of robust tests for genetic
                                  association analysis incorporating
                                  uncertain genotype . . . . . . . . . . . 3436--3443
                Yuh-Jenn Wu and   
                  Wei-Quan Fang   Performance of Wald-type estimator for
                                  parametric component in partial linear
                                  regression with a mixture of Berkson and
                                  classical error models . . . . . . . . . 3444--3457
              Ronnie Pingel and   
             Ingeborg Waernbaum   Correlation and efficiency of propensity
                                  score-based estimators for average
                                  causal effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3458--3478
             Young Joo Yoon and   
                Sooyong Lee and   
                    Taewook Lee   Adaptive LASSO for linear regression
                                  models with ARMA-GARCH errors  . . . . . 3479--3490
             Paraskevi Fika and   
           Christos Koukouvinos   Stochastic estimates for the trace of
                                  functions of matrices via Hadamard
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3491--3503
       Megdouda Ourbih-Tari and   
               Arezki Zioui and   
               Abdelouhab Aloui   Variance reduction in the simulation of
                                  a stationary M/G/1 queuing system using
                                  refined descriptive sampling . . . . . . 3504--3515
                 Haileab Hilafu   Random sliced inverse regression . . . . 3516--3526
                   Pedro Macedo   Ridge Regression and Generalized Maximum
                                  Entropy: An improved version of the
                                  Ridge--GME parameter estimator . . . . . 3527--3539
              Harald Heinzl and   
             Martina Mittlboeck   Assessing a hypothesis test for the
                                  difference between two quantiles from
                                  independent populations  . . . . . . . . 3540--3552
         Matthew Stephenson and   
              R. Ayesha Ali and   
          Gerarda A. Darlington   A simple approach to analyzing clustered
                                  longitudinal data  . . . . . . . . . . . 3553--3562
              Savitri Joshi and   
                 K. K. Jose and   
                  Deepesh Bhati   Estimation of a change point in the
                                  hazard rate of Lindley model under right
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3563--3574
                    Chao Yu and   
                 Xujie Zhao and   
                       Bo Zhang   Nonparametric estimation of jump
                                  characteristics under market
                                  microstructure noise . . . . . . . . . . 3575--3587
                   Jacek Bialek   Approximation of the Fisher price index
                                  by using the Lloyd--Moulton index:
                                  Simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 3588--3598
          Gamini Premaratne and   
                   Anil K. Bera   Adjusting the tests for skewness and
                                  kurtosis for distributional
                                  misspecifications  . . . . . . . . . . . 3599--3613
                G. Rekabdar and   
             R. Chinipardaz and   
                    B. Mansouri   On approximating distribution of the
                                  quadratic discriminant function  . . . . 3614--3626
           David D. Hanagal and   
              Arvind Pandey and   
                   Ayon Ganguly   Correlated gamma frailty models for
                                  bivariate survival data  . . . . . . . . 3627--3644
                Saieed F. Ateya   Estimation under inverse Weibull
                                  distribution based on Balakrishnan's
                                  unified hybrid censored scheme . . . . . 3645--3666
               Ghazi Shukur and   
           Mariusz Doszy\'n and   
       Krzysztof Dmytrów   Comparison of the effectiveness of
                                  forecasts obtained by means of selected
                                  probability functions with respect to
                                  forecast error distributions . . . . . . 3667--3679
                    Jibo Wu and   
                     Yasin Asar   More on the restricted Liu estimator in
                                  the logistic regression model  . . . . . 3680--3689
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   A semiparametric regression cure model
                                  for interval-censored and left-truncated
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3690--3700
              Bogna Zawieja and   
Anna Szczepa\'nska-Álvarez   A simulation study of the Bennett test
                                  and Miller test for coefficients of
                                  variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3701--3711
             Muhammad Aslam and   
    Ali Hussein Al-Marshadi and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Monitoring process mean using generally
                                  weighted moving average chart for
                                  exponentially distributed
                                  characteristics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3712--3722
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
            Ekaterina Chimitova   Goodness-of-fit tests for one-shot
                                  device accelerated life testing data . . 3723--3734
                     Tao Yu and   
                Jialiang Li and   
                    Shuangge Ma   Accounting for clinical covariates and
                                  interactions in ranking genomic markers
                                  using ROC  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3735--3755
                    Xiaohui Liu   Approximating the projection depth
                                  median of dimensions $ p \geq 3 $  . . . 3756--3768
              N. Moradzadeh and   
                 M. Ganjali and   
                  T. Baghfalaki   Weighted kappa as a function of
                                  unweighted kappas  . . . . . . . . . . . 3769--3780
             Muhammad Aslam and   
             Nasrullah Khan and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Designing of a control chart using
                                  belief statistic for exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3781--3793
           Ashley J. Bonner and   
                  Joseph Beyene   Evaluating the performance of sparse
                                  principal component analysis methods in
                                  high-dimensional data scenarios  . . . . 3794--3811
      Abdulhakim Al-Babtain and   
            Ahmed A. Fattah and   
            A-Hadi N. Ahmed and   
                  Faton Merovci   The Kumaraswamy-transmuted exponentiated
                                  modified Weibull distribution  . . . . . 3812--3832
          Fadoua Balabdaoui and   
                    Saonli Basu   Letter to the editor: Comments on
                                  Groparu-Cojocaru and Doray (2013)  . . . 3833--3840
        Babette A. Brumback and   
                      Li Li and   
                   Zhuangyu Cai   On the use of between-within models to
                                  adjust for confounding due to unmeasured
                                  cluster-level covariates . . . . . . . . 3841--3854
             Arjun K. Gupta and   
              Daya K. Nagar and   
           Armando Gómez   Percentage points of LRC for testing
                                  equality of covariance matrices under
                                  intraclass correlation structure . . . . 3855--3869
            Hüseyin Tastan   Simulation-based estimation of threshold
                                  moving average models with
                                  contemporaneous shock asymmetry and an
                                  application to Turkish business cycles   3870--3891
               Andrew L. Nguyen   Regenerative Markov Chain Importance
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3892--3906
                Hasan Ertas and   
Selahattin Kaçiranlar and   
        Hüseyin Güler   Robust Liu-type estimator for regression
                                  based on $M$-estimator . . . . . . . . . 3907--3932
     Martina Chvosteková   Confidence band for percentile line in
                                  multiple linear regression . . . . . . . 3933--3941
          Beste H. Beyaztas and   
               Esin Firuzan and   
                  Ufuk Beyaztas   New block bootstrap methods: Sufficient
                                  and/or ordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3942--3951
                  Li-Li Yue and   
              Jian-Hong Shi and   
                  Wei-Xing Song   A parametric bootstrap approach for
                                  two-way error component regression
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3952--3961
             N. Balakrishna and   
              P. Anvar Muhammed   Estimating function method for product
                                  autoregressive models  . . . . . . . . . 3962--3979
            Annalisa Orenti and   
                Ettore Marubini   A performance counterexample of
                                  Billor--Chatterjee--Hadi procedure and
                                  an improvement proposal for robust
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3980--3989
      Jéssica Santos and   
         Francisco Cribari-Neto   Hypothesis testing in
                                  log-Birnbaum--Saunders regressions . . . 3990--4003
                     Min Wu and   
                  Yimin Shi and   
                 Chunfang Zhang   Statistical analysis of dependent
                                  competing risks model in accelerated
                                  life testing under progressively hybrid
                                  censoring using copula function  . . . . 4004--4017
         Ahmed N. Albatineh and   
           Hafiz M. R. Khan and   
             Bashar Zogheib and   
             Golam B. M. Kibria   Effects of some design factors on the
                                  distribution of similarity indices in
                                  cluster analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 4018--4034
     Latifa Baghdali-Ourbih and   
       Megdouda Ourbih-Tari and   
            Abdelnasser Dahmani   Implementing refined descriptive
                                  sampling into three-phase discrete-event
                                  simulation models  . . . . . . . . . . . 4035--4049
      Kuanwong Watcharotone and   
           Joseph W. McKean and   
             Bradley E. Huitema   A Monte Carlo study of traditional and
                                  rank-based picked-points analyses  . . . 4050--4066
                  C. Franko and   
G. Y. Tütüncü and   
                    S. Eryilmaz   Reliability of weighted $k$-out-of-$n$:
                                  $G$ systems consisting of two types of
                                  components and a cold standby component  4067--4081
            N. Balakrishnan and   
               Qingzhou Dai and   
                        Kai Liu   A skew logistic distribution as an
                                  alternative to the model of van Staden
                                  and King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4082--4097
                 Y. S. Wagh and   
                  K. K. Kamalja   Comparison of methods of estimation for
                                  parameters of generalized Poisson
                                  distribution through simulation study    4098--4112
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   A new confidence region for the
                                  multinomial distribution . . . . . . . . 4113--4126
                     Akio Namba   Bootstrap test for a structural break
                                  under possible heteroscedasticity  . . . 4127--4139
                   Jian Liu and   
                   Chao Tan and   
                      Chao Zeng   Parameter optimization for a modified
                                  MEWMA control chart based on a PSO
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4140--4153
              Joon Jin Song and   
                   Jong-Min Kim   Bayesian estimation of rare sensitive
                                  attribute  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4154--4160
               Isaac Almasi and   
          Adel Mohammadpour and   
             Mohammad Mohammadi   Best linear unbiased interpolation of
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 4161--4171

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 46, Number 6, 2017

             Muhammad Aslam and   
              S. Balamurali and   
              Chi-Hyuck Jun and   
                    Aneela Meer   Time-truncated attribute sampling plans
                                  using EWMA for Weibull and Burr type X
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4173--4184
               Issam Dawoud and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   An optimal $k$ of $k$ th MA-ARIMA models
                                  under $ {\rm MA}(q)$ models  . . . . . . 4185--4198
           Michael Grabchak and   
                   Victor Cosme   On the performance of Turing's formula:
                                  A simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . 4199--4209
            Wai Chung Yeong and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
                 Sok Li Lim and   
                    Ming Ha Lee   A direct procedure for monitoring the
                                  coefficient of variation using a
                                  variable sample size scheme  . . . . . . 4210--4225
              Santanu Dutta and   
                 Suparna Biswas   Extreme quantile estimation based on
                                  financial time series  . . . . . . . . . 4226--4243
            Ahmed A. Fattah and   
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                A-Hadi N. Ahmed   The exponentiated transmuted Weibull
                                  geometric distribution with application
                                  in survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . 4244--4263
          Ali Aghamohammadi and   
                 M. R. Meshkani   Gibbs sampling method for the Bayesian
                                  adaptive elastic net . . . . . . . . . . 4264--4273
           Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah   Saddlepoint $p$-values for group of
                                  linear rank tests  . . . . . . . . . . . 4274--4280
             Ying-Chao Hung and   
                 Wei-Cheng Chen   Simulation of some multivariate
                                  distributions related to the Dirichlet
                                  distribution with application to Monte
                                  Carlo simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . 4281--4296
        Jorge Garza-Venegas and   
       Victor Tercero-Gomez and   
      Alvaro Cordero Franco and   
María Temblador-Pérez and   
                Mario Beruvides   An evaluation of change-point estimators
                                  for a sequence of normal observations
                                  with unknown parameters  . . . . . . . . 4297--4317
              Claudio Macci and   
           Barbara Pacchiarotti   Asymptotic behavior of some hitting
                                  probabilities for sums of IID Gaussian
                                  random sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4318--4332
             Nesma A. Saleh and   
             Mahmoud A. Mahmoud   Accounting for phase I sampling
                                  variability in the performance of the
                                  MEWMA control chart with estimated
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4333--4347
                 Ali Jinnah and   
                   Yichuan Zhao   Empirical likelihood inference for the
                                  bivariate survival function under
                                  univariate censoring . . . . . . . . . . 4348--4355
               Keunbaik Lee and   
                Hyejin Song and   
                   Jae Keun Yoo   Dimension test approach of
                                  heteroscedasticity in the linear model   4356--4366
               Xuejing Zhao and   
                      Jinxia Su   Variable selection for semiparametric
                                  proportional hazards model under
                                  progressive Type-II censoring  . . . . . 4367--4376
       Muhammad Shuaib Khan and   
                Robert King and   
              Irene Lena Hudson   Transmuted generalized exponential
                                  distribution: A generalization of the
                                  exponential distribution with
                                  applications to survival data  . . . . . 4377--4398
               Taewoon Kong and   
                     Kichun Lee   Semi-supervised Bayesian adaptive
                                  multiresolution shrinkage for
                                  wavelet-based denoising  . . . . . . . . 4399--4418
José André de Moura Brito and   
       Gustavo Silva Semaan and   
        Augusto Cesar Fadel and   
            Luciana Roque Brito   An optimization approach applied to the
                                  optimal stratification problem . . . . . 4419--4451
                  Hua Zhang and   
                Guogen Shan and   
                   Daniel Young   Comparison of unweighted and weighted
                                  rank based tests for an ordered
                                  alternative in randomized complete block
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4452--4464
             Majid Khedmati and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   Phase-I monitoring of general linear
                                  profiles in multistage processes . . . . 4465--4489
            Lynn R. LaMotte and   
               Jeffrey D. Wells   Inverse prediction for heteroscedastic
                                  response using mixed models software . . 4490--4498
                 F. Ghapani and   
               A. R. Rasekh and   
                      B. Babadi   Mean shift and influence measures in
                                  linear measurement error models with
                                  stochastic linear restrictions . . . . . 4499--4512
            Hrishikesh D. Vinod   Generalized correlation and kernel
                                  causality with applications in
                                  development economics  . . . . . . . . . 4513--4534
       Ding-Geng (Din) Chen and   
                Naitee Ting and   
                      Shuyen Ho   Informative priors or noninformative
                                  priors? A Bayesian re-analysis of binary
                                  data from Macugen phase III clinical
                                  trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4535--4546
                   Philipp Otto   A note on efficient simulation of
                                  multidimensional spatial autoregressive
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4547--4558
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                    H. M. Saleh   Recurrence relations for single and
                                  product moments of progressively Type-II
                                  censored order statistics from
                                  generalized logistic distribution with
                                  applications to inference  . . . . . . . 4559--4577
         Thanoon Y. Thanoon and   
                   Robiah Adnan   Model comparison of linear and nonlinear
                                  Bayesian structural equation models with
                                  dichotomous data . . . . . . . . . . . . 4578--4599
                     Wenhao Gui   Exponentiated half logistic
                                  distribution: Different estimation
                                  methods and joint confidence regions . . 4600--4617
                  Emil Polajnar   Using restricted CCA for cross-language
                                  information retrieval  . . . . . . . . . 4618--4626
              Bishal Gurung and   
                K. N. Singh and   
          Ranjit Kumar Paul and   
             Sanjeev Panwar and   
              Biwash Gurung and   
                Lawrence Lepcha   An alternative method for forecasting
                                  price volatility by combining models . . 4627--4636
                  Jing Yang and   
                        Hu Yang   Quantile regression and variable
                                  selection for single-index
                                  varying-coefficient models . . . . . . . 4637--4653
             Ali I. Genç   Truncated inverted generalized
                                  exponential distribution and its
                                  properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4654--4670
             Fariba Hemmati and   
                Esmaile Khorram   On adaptive progressively Type-II
                                  censored competing risks data  . . . . . 4671--4693
                Yongxiu Cao and   
                 Jian Huang and   
                Yuling Jiao and   
                     Yanyan Liu   A lower bound based smoothed
                                  quasi-Newton algorithm for group bridge
                                  penalized regression . . . . . . . . . . 4694--4707
              Zawar Hussain and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
               Zahid Pervez and   
           Said Farooq Shah and   
                   Manzoor Khan   Generalized geometric distribution of
                                  order $k$: A flexible choice to
                                  randomize the response . . . . . . . . . 4708--4721
            Ming-Chung Yang and   
              Lee-Shen Chen and   
                   Tachen Liang   Optimal Bayesian variable sampling plans
                                  for exponential distributions based on
                                  modified type-II hybrid censored samples 4722--4744
              Yingchun Zhou and   
                 Liping Zhu and   
                  Nell Sedransk   Local functional data model for
                                  characterizing shape variation of
                                  similar curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4745--4759
             Chen-Yueh Chen and   
              Khalil Shafie and   
                  Yen-Kuang Lin   Bayesian estimation of the Hurst
                                  parameter of fractional Brownian motion  4760--4766
               Seongmi Choi and   
           Balgobin Nandram and   
                      Dalho Kim   A hierarchical Bayesian model for binary
                                  data incorporating selection bias  . . . 4767--4782
            Zhenzhong Zhang and   
                   Wenlong Wang   The stationary distribution of
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process with a
                                  two-state Markov switching . . . . . . . 4783--4794
           Samira Moghaddam and   
                Hashem Mahlooji   A new metamodel-based method for solving
                                  semi-expensive simulation optimization
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4795--4811
               P. T. Pepler and   
                  D. W. Uys and   
                      D. G. Nel   Discriminant analysis under the common
                                  principal components model . . . . . . . 4812--4827
                Guimei Zhao and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   The $p$-values for one-sided hypothesis
                                  testing in univariate linear calibration 4828--4840
               Fazlolah Lak and   
            Mahmood Afshari and   
              Behzad Gholizadeh   An efficiency Bayesian unit root test in
                                  Unobserved-ARCH models . . . . . . . . . 4841--4850
             Leif Ellingson and   
             David Groisser and   
             Daniel Osborne and   
           Vic Patrangenaru and   
              Armin Schwartzman   Nonparametric bootstrap of sample means
                                  of positive-definite matrices with an
                                  application to diffusion-tensor-imaging
                                  data analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4851--4879
             Murad A. Ahmad and   
          Mohammad Z. Raqab and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Discriminating between the generalized
                                  Rayleigh and Weibull distributions: Some
                                  comparative studies  . . . . . . . . . . 4880--4895
                 Dal Ho Kim and   
                  Aejung Jo and   
                     Yongku Kim   Nonparametric Bayesian analysis for
                                  multi-site hidden Markov model . . . . . 4896--4907
           Housila P. Singh and   
                   Surya K. Pal   Estimation of population mean in
                                  two-occasion successive sampling . . . . 4908--4937
                Mahmut Kara and   
    Özlem Türksen and   
                  Halil Aydogdu   Statistical inference for $ \alpha
                                  $-series process with the inverse
                                  Gaussian distribution  . . . . . . . . . 4938--4950
                     P. W. West   Population structure and correlation
                                  between auxiliary and target variables
                                  may affect precision of estimates in
                                  forest inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . 4951--4965
               Sara Jimenez and   
                 Dejian Lai and   
             K. Lance Gould and   
                 Barry R. Davis   Evaluating the effects of treatment
                                  switching with randomization as an
                                  instrumental variable in a randomized
                                  controlled trial . . . . . . . . . . . . 4966--4990
                  T. Palanisamy   Smoothing the difference-based estimates
                                  of variance using variational mode
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4991--5001
             Khelidja Idjis and   
       Megdouda Ourbih-Tari and   
         Latifa Baghdali-Ourbih   Variance reduction in M/M/1 retrial
                                  queues using refined descriptive
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5002--5020
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5021--5021

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 46, Number 7, 2017

              Atefeh Ashuri and   
              Amirhossein Amiri   Estimating monotonic change in the rate
                                  and dependence parameters of INAR(1)
                                  process (Case study: IP counts data) . . 5023--5053
                 H. Mombeni and   
                  S. Rezaei and   
                   S. Nadarajah   Linex discrepancy for bandwidth
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5054--5069
              Shengtong Han and   
              Hongmei Zhang and   
            Ramin Homayouni and   
               Wilfried Karmaus   An efficient Bayesian approach for
                                  Gaussian Bayesian network structure
                                  learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5070--5084
              Guangchao C. Feng   Do difference scores make a difference
                                  on the third-person effect?  . . . . . . 5085--5104
                Satish Bhat and   
                     Vidya Raju   A class of generalized ridge estimators  5105--5112
              Stephen G. Walker   An iterative algorithm for solving
                                  sparse linear equations  . . . . . . . . 5113--5122
        Alessandro Barbiero and   
              Pier Alda Ferrari   An R package for the simulation of
                                  correlated discrete variables  . . . . . 5123--5140
             Muhammad Aslam and   
            Muhammad Mohsin and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   A new $t$-chart using process capability
                                  index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5141--5150
                Witold Orzeszko   Nonparametric testing for serial
                                  independence using the NRL statistic . . 5151--5165
                Anil Dolgun and   
                Haydar Demirhan   Performance of nonparametric multiple
                                  comparison tests under
                                  heteroscedasticity, dependency, and
                                  skewed error distribution  . . . . . . . 5166--5183
               Navid Feroze and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   On selection of a suitable prior for the
                                  posterior analysis of censored mixture
                                  of Topp Leone distribution . . . . . . . 5184--5211
Freddy Omar López Quintero   Sensitivity analysis for variance
                                  parameters in Bayesian simplex mixed
                                  models for proportional data . . . . . . 5212--5228
                  Kung-Jong Lui   Notes on testing carry-over effects in
                                  continuous data under an incomplete
                                  block crossover design . . . . . . . . . 5229--5239
            Matthijs J. Warrens   Symmetric kappa as a function of
                                  unweighted kappas  . . . . . . . . . . . 5240--5245
                Haigang Liu and   
                  Reza Modarres   Modeling a minimal spanning tree . . . . 5246--5256
          Frank M. De Pinho and   
               Ricardo F. Couto   Comparing volatility forecasting models
                                  during the global financial crisis . . . 5257--5270
                 Lubna Amro and   
                Monjed H. Samuh   More powerful permutation test based on
                                  multistage ranked set sampling . . . . . 5271--5284
           Marcelo Hartmann and   
              Ricardo S. Ehlers   Bayesian inference for generalized
                                  extreme value distributions via
                                  Hamiltonian Monte Carlo  . . . . . . . . 5285--5302
               Lingling Luo and   
        Sattayatham Pairote and   
      Ratthachat Chatpatanasiri   GARCH-type forecasting models for
                                  volatility of stock market and MCS test  5303--5312
        Melissa C. Braschel and   
      Gerarda A. Darlington and   
                      Neil Klar   A study of grouped failure time data and
                                  the misapplication of recurrent event
                                  modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5313--5322
                 Ai-Xia Fan and   
                Nian-Sheng Tang   Sensitivity analysis of partially linear
                                  models with response missing at random   5323--5339
            Bahar Dadashova and   
Blanca Arenas-Ramírez and   
José Mira-Mcwilliams and   
Camino González-Fernández and   
   Francisco Aparicio-Izquierdo   Simulation-based model comparison
                                  methodology with application to road
                                  accident models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5340--5366
                Li-Jen Weng and   
               Chung-Ping Cheng   Is categorization of random data
                                  necessary for parallel analysis on
                                  Likert-type data?  . . . . . . . . . . . 5367--5377
                    Xiao Su and   
                      Sheng Luo   Analysis of censored longitudinal data
                                  with skewness and a terminal event . . . 5378--5391
                Wook-Yeon Hwang   Chi-Square quantile-based multivariate
                                  variance monitoring for individual
                                  observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5392--5409
           H. Alizadeh Noughabi   An extensive power evaluation of some
                                  tests for the inverse Gaussian
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5410--5422
                  S. Balamurali   A new mixed chain sampling plan based on
                                  the process capability index for product
                                  acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5423--5439
       Glen Livingston, Jr. and   
                   Darfiana Nur   Bayesian inference for smooth transition
                                  autoregressive (STAR) model: A prior
                                  sensitivity analysis . . . . . . . . . . 5440--5461
                Jung-In Seo and   
                   Suk-Bok Kang   Inference for the two-parameter
                                  half-logistic distribution using pivotal
                                  quantities under progressively Type-II
                                  censoring schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . 5462--5478
           Hassan S. Uraibi and   
               Habshah Midi and   
                     Sohel Rana   Selective overview of forward selection
                                  in terms of robust correlations  . . . . 5479--5503
Jean-François Angers and   
               Atanu Biswas and   
              Jing-Shiang Hwang   Wavelet-based Bayesian nonlinear
                                  regression for the air pollution effects
                                  on clinic visits in small areas of
                                  Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5504--5515
                    G. Asha and   
                A. Vincent Raja   An extension of the Freund's bivariate
                                  distribution to model cascading failures 5516--5530
         Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi   Testing the validity of the logistic
                                  model based on the empirical
                                  distribution function  . . . . . . . . . 5531--5540
              B. S. Trivedi and   
                    M. N. Patel   Estimation of parameters of
                                  Misclassified Size Biased Discrete
                                  Lindley Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 5541--5552
           Scott J. Richter and   
              Melinda H. McCann   Permutation tests of scale using
                                  deviances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5553--5565
                    Shalabh and   
                   Jia-Ren Tsai   Ratio and product methods of estimation
                                  of population mean in the presence of
                                  correlated measurement errors  . . . . . 5566--5593
              H. Bekrizadeh and   
               G. A. Parham and   
                    B. Jamshidi   A new asymmetric class of bivariate
                                  copulas for modeling dependence  . . . . 5594--5609
          Nirodha Epasinghe and   
         Roshini Sooriyarachchi   A goodness of fit test for the
                                  multilevel proportional odds model . . . 5610--5626
               J. Mazucheli and   
              M. E. Ghitany and   
                     F. Louzada   Comparisons of ten estimation methods
                                  for the parameters of Marshall--Olkin
                                  extended exponential distribution  . . . 5627--5645
                    Jing Lv and   
                    Hu Yang and   
                    Chaohui Guo   Variable selection in partially linear
                                  additive models for modal regression . . 5646--5665
              Tien-Mu Hsiao and   
                Huifen Chen and   
                   Chien-Hua Wu   Statistical frameworks for setting
                                  cutoff points of metabolic syndrome
                                  criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5666--5681
       Mehdi Rajaei Salmasi and   
              Gholamhosein Yari   On generalized order statistics from
                                  generalized Pareto distribution  . . . . 5682--5697
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Combined synthetic and $ |S| $ chart for
                                  monitoring process dispersion  . . . . . 5698--5711
           D. Moriña and   
                     A. Navarro   Competing risks simulation with the
                                  \pkgsurvsim R package  . . . . . . . . . 5712--5722
            Marica Manisera and   
               Paola Zuccolotto   Estimation of nonlinear CUB models via
                                  numerical optimization and EM algorithm  5723--5739
         Muni S. Srivastava and   
                 Martin Singull   Testing sphericity and intraclass
                                  covariance structures under a growth
                                  curve model in high dimension  . . . . . 5740--5751
            A. W. Rathgeber and   
                 J. Stadler and   
                 S. Stöckl   Fitting Generalized Hyperbolic processes
                                  --- New insights for generating initial
                                  values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5752--5762
                   Li-Fei Huang   Adjusted Wilcoxon signed rank test
                                  tables for ratio of percentiles  . . . . 5763--5771
              Khai Wah Khaw and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
            Wai Chung Yeong and   
                       Zhang Wu   Monitoring the coefficient of variation
                                  using a variable sample size and
                                  sampling interval control chart  . . . . 5772--5794
                Jung In Seo and   
                     Yongku Kim   Robust Bayesian estimation of a
                                  two-parameter exponential distribution
                                  under generalized Type-I progressive
                                  hybrid censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 5795--5807
          Erla Sturludottir and   
      Helga Gunnlaugsdottir and   
          Olafur K. Nielsen and   
              Gunnar Stefansson   Detection of a changepoint, a mean-shift
                                  accompanied with a trend change, in
                                  short time-series with autocorrelation   5808--5818
                Eder Milani and   
            Marinho Andrade and   
                   Carlos Diniz   Generalized normal ARMA model applied to
                                  the areas of economy, hydrology, and
                                  public policy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5819--5835
                 Zachary Zimmer   Tolerance limits under Poisson
                                  regression based on small-sample
                                  asymptotic methodology . . . . . . . . . 5836--5845
         M. S. Fallahnezhad and   
                    E. Najafian   A model of preventive maintenance for
                                  parallel, series, and single-item
                                  replacement systems based on statistical
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5846--5859

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               Fengkai Yang and   
                   Haijing Yuan   A non-iterative posterior sampling
                                  algorithm for linear quantile regression
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5861--5878
         Terhi Mäkinen and   
           Lasse Holmström   Modeling probability density through
                                  ultraspherical polynomial
                                  transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5879--5900
             Ross S. Sparks and   
             Bella Robinson and   
               Robert Power and   
               Mark Cameron and   
                   Sam Woolford   An investigation into social media
                                  syndromic monitoring . . . . . . . . . . 5901--5923
                  K. Ahmadi and   
             F. Yousefzadeh and   
                      M. Rezaei   Progressively Type-I interval censored
                                  competing risks data for the
                                  proportional hazards family  . . . . . . 5924--5950
             Reza Kamranrad and   
          Amirhossein Amiri and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   Phase-II monitoring and diagnosing of
                                  multivariate categorical processes using
                                  generalized linear test-based control
                                  charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5951--5980
               Yangyang Qin and   
                    Kai Liu and   
           Reem Al-Jarallah and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Inference for Type II bivariate
                                  Pólya--Aeppli distribution  . . . . . . . 5981--5990
      Tereza Simková and   
                      Jan Picek   A comparison of $L$-, $ L Q$-, $ T
                                  L$-moment and maximum likelihood high
                                  quantile estimates of the GPD and GEV
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5991--6010
              Jiajuan Liang and   
                Kai Wang Ng and   
                  Guoliang Tian   A stochastic representation for the $
                                  l_p$-norm symmetric distribution and its
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6011--6018
                    Qian Ye and   
                        Lang Wu   Two-step and likelihood methods for
                                  joint models of longitudinal and
                                  survival data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6019--6033
                 Jianwen Xu and   
               Qianlin Yang and   
                   Jiamao Zhang   The performances of several modified CIC
                                  criteria for working intra-cluster
                                  correlation structure selection in GEE
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6034--6048
                  Weiyan Mu and   
                  Shifeng Xiong   Robust generalized confidence intervals  6049--6060
                 Hosik Choi and   
                Yongdai Kim and   
              Sunghoon Kwon and   
                   Changyi Park   A robust support vector machine for
                                  labeling errors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 6061--6073
                Xiaobin Liu and   
                Guogen Shan and   
                  Lili Tian and   
                  Chang-Xing Ma   Exact methods for testing homogeneity of
                                  proportions for multiple groups of
                                  paired binary data . . . . . . . . . . . 6074--6082
              Szu-Peng Yang and   
                  Takeshi Emura   A Bayesian approach with generalized
                                  ridge estimation for high-dimensional
                                  regression and testing . . . . . . . . . 6083--6105
    K. Pradeepa Veerakumari and   
                  S. Azarudheen   Evaluation of single sampling plan under
                                  the conditions of intervened Poisson
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6106--6114
                  Junguang Zhao   A new test for the mean vector in large
                                  dimension and small samples  . . . . . . 6115--6128
              H. M. Barakat and   
                   O. M. Khaled   Toward the establishment of a family of
                                  distributions that may fit any dataset   6129--6143
     André Beauducel and   
                 Norbert Hilger   On the bias of factor score determinacy
                                  coefficients based on different
                                  estimation methods of the exploratory
                                  factor model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6144--6154
       Amany Hassan Abdel-Karim   Extended zero-one inflated beta and
                                  adjusted three-part regression models
                                  for proportional data analysis . . . . . 6155--6172
                  M. Mahdizadeh   On testing uniformity using an
                                  information-theoretic measure  . . . . . 6173--6196
               Deniz Ozonur and   
     Hatice Tul Kubra Akdur and   
                   Hulya Bayrak   Comparisons of tests of distributional
                                  assumption in Poisson regression model   6197--6207
         S. Reza H. Shojaei and   
            Yadollah Waghei and   
           Mohsen Mohammadzadeh   A simulation comparison on spatial
                                  Poisson mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 6208--6220
       V. A. Gonzalez-Lopez and   
           Ramin Gholizadeh and   
           Christian E. Galarza   E-Bayesian estimation for system
                                  reliability and availability analysis
                                  based on exponential distribution  . . . 6221--6241
         M. M. Mohie El-Din and   
               Y. Abdel-Aty and   
               M. H. Abu-Moussa   Statistical inference for the Gompertz
                                  distribution based on Type-II
                                  progressively hybrid censored data . . . 6242--6260
                    Chun Yu and   
                     Weixin Yao   Robust linear regression: A review and
                                  comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6261--6282
            Zhong-Cheng Han and   
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
              Hong-Xia Wang and   
                Xing-Fang Huang   A robust and efficient estimation method
                                  for nonparametric models with jump
                                  points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6283--6297
    Ali Hussein Al-Marshadi and   
    Abdullah Hamoud Alharby and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Evaluating modified generalized
                                  information criterion in presence of
                                  multicollinearity  . . . . . . . . . . . 6298--6307
 Kelly Vanessa Parede Barco and   
           Josmar Mazucheli and   
               Vanderly Janeiro   The inverse power Lindley distribution   6308--6323
                Yonghua Wei and   
                 Gabriel Huerta   Dynamic generalized extreme value
                                  modeling via particle filters  . . . . . 6324--6341
          Diego I. Gallardo and   
              Jose S. Romeo and   
                   Renate Meyer   A simplified estimation procedure based
                                  on the EM algorithm for the power series
                                  cure rate model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 6342--6359
            Ching-Hui Chang and   
                Nabendu Pal and   
                  Jyh-Jiuan Lin   A revisit to test the equality of
                                  variances of several populations . . . . 6360--6384
            Edmore Ranganai and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   A predictive leverage statistic for
                                  quantile regression with measurement
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6385--6398
              Fatima Batool and   
                  Javid Shabbir   A generic randomization device for
                                  quantitative response variables  . . . . 6399--6413
             Dariush Najarzadeh   Testing equality of generalized
                                  variances of $k$ multivariate normal
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6414--6423
                  Osman Dag and   
                      Ozlem Ilk   An algorithm for estimating Box--Cox
                                  transformation parameter in ANOVA  . . . 6424--6435
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                      Y. Ye and   
              R. A. Al-Jarallah   Likelihood inference for Type I
                                  bivariate Pólya--Aeppli distribution  . . 6436--6453
                   Jacek Bialek   Approximation of the Fisher price index
                                  by using Lowe, Young, and AG Mean
                                  indices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6454--6467
               Haibing Zhao and   
                  Wing Kam Fung   FDR control under block dependence . . . 6468--6474
                 Jaehee Kim and   
                  Minjung Kyung   Bayesian Fourier clustering of gene
                                  expression data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 6475--6494
                 Soumya Roy and   
                 E. V. Gijo and   
             Biswabrata Pradhan   Inference based on progressive  Type I
                                  interval censored data from log-normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6495--6512
                 Gamze Ozel and   
             Morad Alizadeh and   
          Selen Cakmakyapan and   
             G. G. Hamedani and   
         Edwin M. M. Ortega and   
              Vicente G. Cancho   The odd log-logistic Lindley Poisson
                                  model for lifetime data  . . . . . . . . 6513--6537
                 Yasin Asar and   
            Mohammad Arashi and   
                        Jibo Wu   Restricted ridge estimator in the
                                  logistic regression model  . . . . . . . 6538--6544
                Rolf Turner and   
                  Celeste Jeffs   An extension of Monte Carlo hypothesis
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6545--6558
            Zhensheng Huang and   
                   Haiying Ding   Statistical estimation for partially
                                  linear error-in-variable models with
                                  error-prone covariates . . . . . . . . . 6559--6573
            Wen Cheong Chin and   
             Min Cherng Lee and   
                    Pei Pei Tan   Heterogeneous market hypothesis
                                  evaluation using multipower variation
                                  volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6574--6587
            Choukri Mohamed and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Imputation using higher order moments of
                                  an auxiliary variable  . . . . . . . . . 6588--6617
      Patarawan Sangnawakij and   
               Sa-aat Niwitpong   Confidence intervals for coefficients of
                                  variation in two-parameter exponential
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6618--6630
           Luis Firinguetti and   
               Golam Kibria and   
                  Rodrigo Araya   Study of partial least squares and ridge
                                  regression methods . . . . . . . . . . . 6631--6644
       Buddhananda Banerjee and   
                   Atanu Biswas   True endpoint reduction by surrogate
                                  endpoints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6645--6653
               Zahid Pervez and   
           Said Farooq Shah and   
              Zawar Hussain and   
           Andreas N. Philippou   An application of negative binomial
                                  distribution of order $k$ in sensitive
                                  surveys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6654--6660
                   Li Zhang and   
                 Cunjie Lin and   
                      Yong Zhou   A resampling method by perturbing the
                                  estimating functions for quantile
                                  regression with missing data . . . . . . 6661--6671
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Estimation of the joint survival
                                  function for successive duration times   6672--6684
             Jin-Jian Hsieh and   
                   Hsin-Yu Chen   A testing strategy for two crossing
                                  survival curves  . . . . . . . . . . . . 6685--6696

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Volume 46, Number 9, 2017

                   Haibing Zhao   Estimating false discovery proportion in
                                  multiple comparison under dependency . . 6697--6704
          Tatjana Miljkovic and   
                      Megan Orr   An evaluation of the reconstructed
                                  coefficient of determination and
                                  potential adjustments  . . . . . . . . . 6705--6718
              Morteza Amini and   
               Mahdi Mahdizadeh   Nonparametric estimation of the entropy
                                  using a ranked set sample  . . . . . . . 6719--6737
                Paulo Teles and   
              Paulo S. A. Sousa   The effect of temporal aggregation on
                                  the estimation accuracy of time series
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6738--6759
                        Jibo Wu   Preliminary test Liu-type estimators
                                  based on W, LR, and LM test statistics
                                  in a regression model  . . . . . . . . . 6760--6771
               Chinmoy Paul and   
        Gajendra K. Vishwakarma   Back propagation neural networks and
                                  multiple regressions in the case of
                                  heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 6772--6789
             Khamis K. Said and   
                   Wei Ning and   
                     Yubin Tian   Likelihood procedure for testing changes
                                  in skew normal model with applications
                                  to stock returns . . . . . . . . . . . . 6790--6802
            Yuvraj Sunecher and   
        Naushad Mamode Khan and   
                Vandna Jowaheer   Estimating the parameters of a BINMA
                                  Poisson model for a non-stationary
                                  bivariate time series  . . . . . . . . . 6803--6827
Márcio Poletti Laurini and   
               Luiz Koodi Hotta   GMC/GEL estimation of stochastic
                                  volatility models  . . . . . . . . . . . 6828--6844
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                         Rui Li   Exact distribution of a modified
                                  Behrens--Fisher statistic  . . . . . . . 6845--6864
                 Helena Viljoen   A comparison of stepwise common singular
                                  spectrum analysis and horizontal
                                  multi-channel singular spectrum analysis 6865--6878
                Mathias Raschke   Opportunities of the minimum
                                  Anderson--Darling estimator as a variant
                                  of the maximum likelihood method . . . . 6879--6888
         Gholamhossein Yari and   
                 Zahra Tondpour   Estimation of the exponential Pareto II
                                  distribution parameters  . . . . . . . . 6889--6906
           Abdelaziz Qaffou and   
           Hamid El Maroufy and   
                 Tewfik Kernane   Bayesian parameter inference for
                                  stochastic SIR epidemic model with
                                  hyperbolic diffusion . . . . . . . . . . 6907--6922
                  Haiko Luepsen   The aligned rank transform and discrete
                                  variables: a warning . . . . . . . . . . 6923--6936
            Mariana Resende and   
Carla Regina Guimarães Brighenti and   
   Marcelo Ângelo Cirillo   Procedure to identify outliers through
                                  cumulative distribution of extremes in a
                                  Gamma response model . . . . . . . . . . 6937--6946
                 Wenli Deng and   
                 Fei Ouyang and   
                   Jiajia Zhang   Semiparametric estimation method for
                                  accelerated failure time model with
                                  dependent censoring  . . . . . . . . . . 6947--6958
              Muhammad Amin and   
         Muhammad Amanullah and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Influence diagnostics in the Gamma
                                  regression model with adjusted deviance
                                  residuals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6959--6973
           Harun Özkan and   
           Thanasis Stengos and   
                     Ege Yazgan   Markov regime switching in mean and in
                                  fractional integration parameter . . . . 6974--6981
         Vikas Kumar Sharma and   
          Hassan S. Bakouch and   
                Khushboo Suthar   An extended Maxwell distribution:
                                  Properties and applications  . . . . . . 6982--7007
          Abdeldjalil Slama and   
                  Hafida Saggou   A Bayesian analysis of a change in the
                                  parameters of autoregressive time series 7008--7021
                 Huilan Liu and   
                        Hu Yang   Estimation and variable selection in
                                  single-index composite quantile
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7022--7039
           Christy Cassarly and   
           Renee' H. Martin and   
             Marc Chimowitz and   
       Edsel A. Peña and   
   Viswanathan Ramakrishnan and   
                Yuko Y. Palesch   Assessing Type I error and power of
                                  multistate Markov models for panel data
                                  --- a simulation study . . . . . . . . . 7040--7061
                Shun Fu Lee and   
               Allan Donner and   
                      Neil Klar   Power of the adjusted $Q$ statistic to
                                  evaluate heterogeneity in meta-analyses
                                  of cluster randomized trials . . . . . . 7062--7073
      Carsten Schröder and   
                Shlomo Yitzhaki   Reasonable sample sizes for convergence
                                  to normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7074--7087
                 Yasin Asar and   
               Asir Genç   Two-parameter ridge estimator in the
                                  binary logistic regression . . . . . . . 7088--7099
          Gillian M. Hendry and   
           Temesgen Zewotir and   
            Rajen N. Naidoo and   
                    Delia North   The effect of the mechanism and amount
                                  of missingness on subset correspondence
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7100--7115
                   Yang-Jin Kim   Cure rate model with bivariate interval
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7116--7124
                     Huihui Sun   Testing for autocorrelation and
                                  random-effects in nonlinear mixed
                                  effects models based on $M$-estimation   7125--7137
                     Li Yin and   
               Xiaoqin Wang and   
                      Weimin Ye   Maximum-likelihood estimation and
                                  presentation for the interaction between
                                  treatments in observational studies with
                                  a dichotomous outcome  . . . . . . . . . 7138--7153
                  Aijun Yan and   
                Sanyang Liu and   
                  Muhammad Azam   Designing a multiple state repetitive
                                  group sampling plan based on the
                                  coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 7154--7165
  Breno Silveira de Andrade and   
               Jacek Leskow and   
             Marinho G. Andrade   Transformed GARMA model: Properties and
                                  simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7166--7179
          Tristan R. Grogan and   
              David A. Elashoff   A simulation based method for assessing
                                  the statistical significance of logistic
                                  regression models after common variable
                                  selection procedures . . . . . . . . . . 7180--7193
                Abouzar Bazyari   Bootstrap approach to test the
                                  homogeneity of order restricted mean
                                  vectors when the covariance matrices are
                                  unknown  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7194--7209
                  Xiang Jia and   
                         Bo Guo   Exact inference for exponential
                                  distribution with multiply Type-I
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7210--7220
                Xinxia Yang and   
  Ratthachat Chatpatanasiri and   
            Pairote Sattayatham   Value at risk estimation under
                                  stochastic volatility models using
                                  adaptive PMCMC methods . . . . . . . . . 7221--7237
                  Nilgun Yildiz   On the weighted mixed Liu-type estimator
                                  under unbiased stochastic restrictions   7238--7248
                 Yang Zhang and   
               Yanfen Shang and   
                   Nini Gao and   
                      Qing Wang   Monitoring prespecified changes in
                                  linear profiles using control charts
                                  with supplementary runs rules  . . . . . 7249--7263
               Zahid Asghar and   
                    Amena Urooj   Analysis of seasonal level shift (SLS)
                                  detection in SARIMA models . . . . . . . 7264--7318
              F. R. B. Cruz and   
              R. C. Quinino and   
                       L. L. Ho   Bayesian estimation of traffic intensity
                                  based on queue length in a multi-server
                                  M/M/s queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7319--7331
              Mahdi Roozbeh and   
              Nor Aishah Hamzah   Feasible robust estimator in restricted
                                  semiparametric regression models based
                                  on the LTS approach  . . . . . . . . . . 7332--7350
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                 Wenhao Gui and   
             Nasrullah Khan and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Double moving average-EWMA control chart
                                  for exponentially distributed quality    7351--7364
          Mohammad Baratnia and   
              Mahdi Doostparast   Modeling lifetime of sequential
                                  $r$-out-of-$n$ systems with independent
                                  and heterogeneous components . . . . . . 7365--7375
                Ronghua Luo and   
                        Wei Lan   Detecting homogeneous predictors in
                                  high-dimensional panel model with an
                                  MCMC algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7376--7392
              Erdogan Gunel and   
            Kenneth Joseph Ryan   Fisher's exact test from a Bayes
                                  perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7393--7404
                 S. Asghari and   
       B. Sadeghpour Gildeh and   
                  J. Ahmadi and   
       G. Mohtashami Borzadaran   Lifetime performance index based on
                                  ranked set sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 7405--7422
        Kalanka P. Jayalath and   
          Hon Keung Tony Ng and   
           Ananda B. Manage and   
                  Kent E. Riggs   Improved tests for homogeneity of
                                  variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7423--7446
                   T. Kayal and   
       Yogesh Mani Tripathi and   
              M. K. Rastogi and   
                 A. Asgharzadeh   Inference for Burr XII distribution
                                  under Type I progressive hybrid
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7447--7465
                  Azizur Rahman   Small area housing stress estimation in
                                  Australia: Calculating confidence
                                  intervals for a spatial microsimulation
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7466--7484
   John de Guzman Eustaquio and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Nonparametric hypothesis testing in
                                  clustered survival model . . . . . . . . 7485--7500
             Sara Escudeiro and   
           Adelaide Freitas and   
                   Vera Afreixo   Approximate confidence intervals for a
                                  linear combination of binomial
                                  proportions: a new variant . . . . . . . 7501--7524
                Ilkay Dogan and   
             Kazim Özdamar   The effect of different data structures,
                                  sample sizes on model fit measures . . . 7525--7533

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Volume 46, Number 10, 2017

     Miguel Patrício and   
      Fábio Ferreira and   
   Bárbara Oliveiros and   
             Francisco Caramelo   Comparing the performance of normality
                                  tests with ROC analysis and confidence
                                  intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7535--7551
               Guangcai Mao and   
                     Yi Wei and   
                     Yanyan Liu   SIMEX method for censored quantile
                                  regression with measurement error  . . . 7552--7560
           Yuan-chin Ivan Chang   Multiple-class classification: Ordinal
                                  and categorical labels . . . . . . . . . 7561--7581
            Fatima Siddiqui and   
                    Qazi M. Ali   An analytical study of the
                                  classification of highly skewed data . . 7582--7601
                   Liwen Xu and   
                   Dengkui Wang   Parametric bootstrap inferences for
                                  unbalanced panel data models . . . . . . 7602--7613
               Nesrin Alkan and   
               Yuksel Terzi and   
                  M. Ali Cengiz   Using informative priors for handling
                                  missing data problem in Cox regression   7614--7623
         Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi   Testing exponentiality based on
                                  Kullback--Leibler information for
                                  progressively Type II censored data  . . 7624--7638
               Jong-Min Kim and   
                    S. Y. Hwang   Directional dependence via Gaussian
                                  copula beta regression model with
                                  asymmetric GARCH marginals . . . . . . . 7639--7653
                   Lukasz Smaga   Bootstrap methods for multivariate
                                  hypothesis testing . . . . . . . . . . . 7654--7667
     Mohammad Ehsanul Karim and   
                John Petkau and   
             Paul Gustafson and   
             Helen Tremlett and   
          The Beams Study Group   On the application of statistical
                                  learning approaches to construct inverse
                                  probability weights in marginal
                                  structural Cox models: Hedging against
                                  weight-model misspecification  . . . . . 7668--7697
                Manisha Pal and   
            Nripes Kumar Mandal   Optimum designs for parameter estimation
                                  in a mixture experiment with two
                                  correlated responses . . . . . . . . . . 7698--7709
       Mohammad Reza Maleki and   
          Amirhossein Amiri and   
            Ali Reza Taheriyoun   Phase II monitoring of binary profiles
                                  in the presence of within-profile
                                  autocorrelation based on Markov Model    7710--7732
Wilfrido J. Paredes-García and   
 Eduardo Castaño-Tostado   Differential evolutionary algorithm in
                                  the construction process of optimal
                                  experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . 7733--7743
                   Guoping Zeng   A comparison study of computational
                                  methods of Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistic
                                  in credit scoring  . . . . . . . . . . . 7744--7760
               Haiqing Chen and   
                Weihu Cheng and   
                  Jing Zhao and   
                        Xu Zhao   Parameter estimation for generalized
                                  Pareto distribution by generalized
                                  probability weighted moment-equations    7761--7776
                     Luca Greco   Weighted likelihood based inference for
                                  $ P(X < Y) $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7777--7789
             N. Chakraborty and   
                S. W. Human and   
                N. Balakrishnan   A generally weighted moving average
                                  chart for time between events  . . . . . 7790--7817
           Steven E. Rigdon and   
             William H. Woodall   Using the predictive distribution to
                                  determine control limits for the
                                  Bayesian MEWMA chart . . . . . . . . . . 7818--7826
            Jyun-You Chiang and   
                  Nan Jiang and   
           Trenton N. Brown and   
              Tzong-Ru Tsai and   
                      Y. L. Lio   Control charts for generalized
                                  exponential distribution percentiles . . 7827--7843
             Hoda Kamranfar and   
          Rahim Chinipardaz and   
                Behzad Mansouri   Detecting outliers in GARCH(p,q) models  7844--7854
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Double sampling max chart  . . . . . . . 7855--7878
                 Qianrao Fu and   
                      Yimin Shi   Constant-partially accelerated life
                                  tests for Marshall--Olkin exponential
                                  series system with dependent masked data 7879--7893
          George Y. C. Wong and   
         Michael P. Osborne and   
              Qinggang Diao and   
                      Qiqing Yu   Piecewise Cox models with right-censored
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7894--7908
              Fayyaz Bahari and   
                Safar Parsi and   
                Mojtaba Ganjali   A doubly robust goodness-of-fit test in
                                  general linear models with missing
                                  covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7909--7923
             Shanjun Helian and   
        Babette A. Brumback and   
                 Robert L. Cook   Sparse canonical correlation analysis
                                  between an alcohol biomarker and
                                  self-reported alcohol consumption  . . . 7924--7941
          Mauricio Zevallos and   
              Loretta Gasco and   
                 Ricardo Ehlers   Riemann manifold Langevin methods on
                                  stochastic volatility estimation . . . . 7942--7956
       Ding-Geng (Din) Chen and   
                      Shuyen Ho   From statistical power to statistical
                                  assurance: It's time for a paradigm
                                  change in clinical trial design  . . . . 7957--7971
                  Weiyan Mu and   
                  Shifeng Xiong   On algorithmic construction of maximin
                                  distance designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 7972--7985
               Nighat Zahra and   
          Supranee Lisawadi and   
                  S. Ejaz Ahmed   Meta-analysis, pretest, and shrinkage
                                  estimation of kurtosis parameters  . . . 7986--8004
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Reliability analysis of systems with
                                  components having two dependent
                                  subcomponents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8005--8013
                    Yan Liu and   
           Hideaki Nagahata and   
          Hirotaka Uchiyama and   
             Masanobu Taniguchi   Discriminant and cluster analysis of
                                  possibly high-dimensional time series
                                  data by a class of disparities . . . . . 8014--8027
            Alessandro Barbiero   Least-squares and minimum chi-square
                                  estimation in a discrete Weibull model   8028--8048
Mohammad Hasan Bakhtiarifar and   
              Mahdi Bashiri and   
              Amirhossein Amiri   Optimization of problems with
                                  multivariate multiple functional
                                  responses: a case study in air quality   8049--8063
    Spyridon J. Hatjispyros and   
        Theodoros Nicoleris and   
              Stephen G. Walker   Bayesian nonparametric density
                                  estimation under length bias . . . . . . 8064--8076
   Yaprak Arzu Özdemir and   
               Meral Ebegil and   
            Fikri Gökpinar   A test statistic based on ranked set
                                  sampling for two normal means  . . . . . 8077--8085
                Tomasz Z\kad\lo   On prediction of population and
                                  subpopulation characteristics for future
                                  periods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8086--8104
               Achraf Cohen and   
                      Raid Amin   The effects of normal mixtures and
                                  autocorrelation on the fraction
                                  non-conforming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8105--8117
                  Sanku Dey and   
             Devendra Kumar and   
             Pedro L. Ramos and   
              Francisco Louzada   Exponentiated Chen distribution:
                                  Properties and estimation  . . . . . . . 8118--8139
                        Li Wang   Adaptive procedure for generalized
                                  familywise error rate control  . . . . . 8140--8151
          Janet van Niekerk and   
      Andriëtte Bekker and   
                Mohammad Arashi   A gamma-mixture class of distributions
                                  with Bayesian application  . . . . . . . 8152--8165
            Minoo Aminnejad and   
                   Habib Jafari   Bayesian $A$- and $D$-optimal designs
                                  for gamma regression model with inverse
                                  link function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8166--8189
                Xiaohua Cui and   
                   Xia Chen and   
                         Li Yan   Quasi-likelihood Bridge estimators for
                                  high-dimensional generalized linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8190--8204
              Chien-Tai Lin and   
                   Chung-Tao Lu   A two-stage algorithm for computation of
                                  the exact distribution of sums of
                                  spacings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8205--8217
               Maolin Cheng and   
                   Minyin Xiang   Parameter estimation of a composite
                                  production function model based on
                                  improved artificial fish swarm algorithm
                                  and model application  . . . . . . . . . 8218--8232
               A. C. Cambon and   
          K. B. Baumgartner and   
                G. N. Brock and   
            N. G. F. Cooper and   
                      D. Wu and   
                      S. N. Rai   Properties of adaptive clinical trial
                                  signature design in the presence of gene
                                  and gene-treatment interaction . . . . . 8233--8250
               Man-Hua Chen and   
                   Hsin-Yu Yang   A class of linear transformation models
                                  for interval censored data with a cured
                                  proportion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8251--8263
 Ricardo Saldanha de Morais and   
   Roberto da Costa Quinino and   
       Emílio Suyama and   
                   Linda Lee Ho   Inferences in dichotomous
                                  classifications with misclassifications
                                  based on sequential repetitive
                                  classifications  . . . . . . . . . . . . 8264--8282
           Taban Baghfalaki and   
                Mojtaba Ganjali   Robust weighted generalized estimating
                                  equations based on statistical depth . . 8283--8305
              Lazhar Benkhelifa   The Marshall--Olkin extended generalized
                                  Lindley distribution: Properties and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8306--8330
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board:EOV  . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 1, 2018

                    Xin Xin and   
             Julie Horrocks and   
          Gerarda A. Darlington   Weighting methods for ties between event
                                  times and covariate change times . . . . 1--15
              Osama H. Arif and   
                    Omar Eidous   Fourth-order kernel method for simple
                                  linear degradation model . . . . . . . . 16--29
 Kirushanthini Balakrishnan and   
           M. R. Sooriyarachchi   A goodness of fit test for multilevel
                                  survival data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--47
            Takanobu Nomura and   
                Satoshi Hattori   Estimation of the average causal effect
                                  via multiple propensity score
                                  stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--62
                Hyejin Song and   
              Dong Wan Shin and   
                   Jae Keun Yoo   Do we need the constant term in the
                                  heterogeneous autoregressive model for
                                  forecasting realized volatilities? . . . 63--73
                      Lihua Yao   Comparing methods for estimating the
                                  abilities for the multidimensional
                                  models of mixed item types . . . . . . . 74--91
                    Qifa Xu and   
                   Chao Cai and   
               Cuixia Jiang and   
                   Fang Sun and   
                      Xue Huang   Sampling Lasso quantile regression for
                                  large-scale data . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--114
                Junjie Wang and   
                     Qin Su and   
                        Min Xie   A univariate procedure for monitoring
                                  location and dispersion with ordered
                                  categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--128
      Diamanta Benson-Karhi and   
                 Haim Shore and   
                   Maya Malamud   Modeling fetal-growth biometry with
                                  Response Modeling Methodology (RMM) and
                                  comparison to current models . . . . . . 129--142
               Surya K. Pal and   
               Housila P. Singh   Estimation of finite population mean
                                  using auxiliary information in presence
                                  of non-response  . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--165
               Fengjun Duan and   
               Guanjun Wang and   
                      Huan Wang   Inverse Gaussian process models for
                                  bivariate degradation analysis: a
                                  Bayesian perspective . . . . . . . . . . 166--186
              Xiaojuan Kang and   
                     Tizheng Li   Testing a linear relationship in varying
                                  coefficient spatial autoregressive
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--205
          Uchenna Chinedu Nduka   EM-based algorithms for autoregressive
                                  models with $t$-distributed innovations  206--228
   Eveliny Barroso Da Silva and   
Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz and   
Jalmar Manuel Farfan Carrasco and   
         Mário De Castro   A class of beta regression models with
                                  multiplicative log-normal measurement
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--248
                  Sanku Dey and   
              Mahendra Saha and   
          Sudhansu S. Maiti and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Bootstrap confidence intervals of
                                  generalized process capability index $
                                  C_{pyk} $ for Lindley and power Lindley
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--262
          Tomasz Górecki   Classification of time series using
                                  combination of DTW and LCSS
                                  dissimilarity measures . . . . . . . . . 263--276
     Salaheddine El Adlouni and   
               Garba Salaou and   
        André St-Hilaire   Regularized Bayesian quantile regression 277--293
Melike Kaya Bahçecitapar   Some factors affecting statistical power
                                  of approximate tests in the linear mixed
                                  model for longitudinal data  . . . . . . 294--314

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 2, 2018

             Radek Hendrych and   
             Tomás Cipra   Self-weighted recursive estimation of
                                  GARCH models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--328
           Reza Shokrizadeh and   
              Abbas Saghaei and   
                Vahid Amirzadeh   Optimal design of the variable sampling
                                  size and sampling interval variable
                                  dimension $ T^2 $ control chart for
                                  monitoring the mean vector of a
                                  multivariate normal process  . . . . . . 329--337
              Santanu Dutta and   
                 Suparna Biswas   Nonparametric estimation of $ 100 (1 -
                                  p) $ % expected shortfall: $ p \to 0 $
                                  as sample size is increased  . . . . . . 338--352
               Yisong Huang and   
               Jingjing Yin and   
                    Hani Samawi   Methods improving the estimate of
                                  diagnostic odds ratio  . . . . . . . . . 353--366
            W. Chantarangsi and   
                     W. Liu and   
                   F. Bretz and   
            S. Kiatsupaibul and   
                   A. J. Hayter   Normal probability plots with confidence
                                  for the residuals in linear regression   367--379
          Priscilla H. Chan and   
                 Ronghui Xu and   
          Christina D. Chambers   A study of $ R^2 $ measure under the
                                  accelerated failure time models  . . . . 380--391
        Md. Mobarak Hossain and   
       Tomasz J. Kozubowski and   
     Krzysztof Podgórski   A novel weighted likelihood estimation
                                  with empirical Bayes flavor  . . . . . . 392--412
      Saowanit Sukparungsee and   
         Sasigarn Kuvattana and   
      Piyapatr Busababodhin and   
              Yupaporn Areepong   Bivariate copulas on the Hotelling's $
                                  T^2 $ control chart  . . . . . . . . . . 413--419
                    Jing Xu and   
                      Xinmin Li   A fiducial $p$ -value approach for
                                  comparing heteroscedastic regression
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--431
            Peter Filzmoser and   
     Fatma Sevinç Kurnaz   A robust Liu regression estimator  . . . 432--443
          Byoung Cheol Jung and   
             Sooyoung Cheon and   
                  Hwa Kyung Lim   Mixtures of regression models with
                                  incomplete and noisy data  . . . . . . . 444--463
                 Jiaqi Chen and   
               Hualong Yang and   
                   Jianfeng Yao   A new multivariate CUSUM chart using
                                  principal components with a revision of
                                  Crosier's chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--476
                Shu-Mei Wan and   
                Tien-Yu Sun and   
               Kai-Hui Chen and   
                   Chien-Hua Wu   Sample size algorithm for randomized
                                  response model with dichotomized
                                  response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--499
             Janne Mannseth and   
             Tore S. Kleppe and   
                  Hans J. Skaug   On the application of improved
                                  symplectic integrators in Hamiltonian
                                  Monte Carlo  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--509
                   Jian Hou and   
                       Bo Jiang   Predictions and estimations under a
                                  group of linear models with random
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--525
                 Feridun Tasdan   Smoothed ranks for two or multi-sample
                                  location problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 526--541
              Shahzad Munir and   
              Muhammad Riaz and   
                   Zahid Asghar   On evaluating the performance of
                                  different forecasters  . . . . . . . . . 542--555
                  Shih-Chou Kao   A control chart based on weighted
                                  bootstrap with strata  . . . . . . . . . 556--581
             Mahdi Teimouri and   
             Saeid Rezakhah and   
              Adel Mohammadpour   EM algorithm for symmetric stable
                                  mixture model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--604
           Emre Dünder and   
Serpil Gümüstekin and   
                 Naci Murat and   
              Mehmet Ali Cengiz   Variable selection in linear regression
                                  analysis with alternative Bayesian
                                  information criteria using differential
                                  evaluation algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 605--614
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Double sampling $ |S| $ control chart
                                  with variable sample size and variable
                                  sampling interval  . . . . . . . . . . . 615--628
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--629

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 3, 2018

               P. T. Pepler and   
                  D. W. Uys and   
                      D. G. Nel   Regularized covariance matrix estimation
                                  under the common principal components
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--643
                  Suvra Pal and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Likelihood inference based on EM
                                  algorithm for the destructive
                                  length-biased Poisson cure rate model
                                  with Weibull lifetime  . . . . . . . . . 644--660
                    Mu Feng and   
                  Zhao Chen and   
                   Ximing Cheng   Two-step variable selection in partially
                                  linear additive models with time series
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--671
            Mark A. Wolters and   
                  W. John Braun   Enforcing shape constraints on a
                                  probability density estimate using an
                                  additive adjustment curve  . . . . . . . 672--691
                    Hao Jin and   
                       Si Zhang   Spurious regression between long memory
                                  series due to mis-specified structural
                                  breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692--711
      Pratheesh P. Gopinath and   
            Rajender Parsad and   
                   B. N. Mandal   Two-dimensional balanced sampling plans
                                  excluding adjacent units under sharing a
                                  border and island adjacency schemes  . . 712--720
            Fabien Campillo and   
             Marc Joannides and   
    Ir\`ene Larramendy-Valverde   Parameter identification for a
                                  stochastic logistic growth model with
                                  extinction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--737
              Reza Mokarram and   
                Mahdi Emadi and   
          Arezou Habibi Rad and   
         Mahdi Jabbari Nooghabi   A comparison of parametric and
                                  semi-parametric survival models with
                                  artificial neural networks . . . . . . . 738--746
        Mhamed-Ali El-Aroui and   
                Olivier Gaudoin   Prequential omnibus goodness-of-fit
                                  tests for stochastic processes: a
                                  numerical study  . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--761
               Amir Moslemi and   
   Mirmehdi Seyyed-Esfahani and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   Robust surface estimation in
                                  multi-response multistage statistical
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 762--782
Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad and   
    Faeze Zahmatkesh Saredorahi   Designing an economically optimal
                                  repetitive group-sampling plan based on
                                  loss functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--799
                Manisha Pal and   
                   N. K. Mandal   Optimum mixture designs for the
                                  log-logistic dose-response model with
                                  mixture of two similar compounds . . . . 800--808
                     Wu Hao and   
               Wang Weifeng and   
                   Guo Zhongkai   Generalized anticipated backward
                                  stochastic differential equations driven
                                  by Brownian motion and continuous
                                  increasing process . . . . . . . . . . . 809--821
            Jyun-You Chiang and   
                  Nan Jiang and   
              Tzong-Ru Tsai and   
                      Y. L. Lio   Inference of $ \delta = P(X < Y) $ for
                                  Burr XII distributions with record
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822--838
              Tristan Guillaume   Computation of the quadrivariate and
                                  pentavariate normal cumulative
                                  distribution functions . . . . . . . . . 839--851
           A. Firat Ozdemir and   
                Rand Wilcox and   
               Engin Yildiztepe   Comparing $J$ independent groups with a
                                  method based on trimmed means  . . . . . 852--863
               A. R. Najafi and   
          Farshid Mehrdoust and   
               Shima Shirinpour   Pricing American put option on
                                  zero-coupon bond under fractional CIR
                                  model with transaction cost  . . . . . . 864--870
                       Amit Sen   A simple unit root testing methodology
                                  that does not require knowledge
                                  regarding the presence of a break  . . . 871--889
              A. S. Mirniam and   
              A. R. Nematollahi   Maximum likelihood estimation in vector
                                  autoregressive models with multivariate
                                  scaled $t$-distributed innovations using
                                  EM-based algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . 890--904
           Mohammed S. Kotb and   
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   Bayesian inference and prediction of the
                                  Rayleigh distribution based on ordered
                                  ranked set sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 905--923
                    Yue Gao and   
               Zong-Feng Qi and   
             Jian-Feng Yang and   
                    Jin-Yu Yang   Algorithmic construction of nearly
                                  column-orthogonal designs  . . . . . . . 924--937

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 4, 2018

               A. Aghamohammadi   A Bayesian multiple comparison procedure
                                  for simply ordered treatment medians . . 939--953
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Phase type stress-strength models with
                                  reliability applications . . . . . . . . 954--963
        Safoora Gharibzadeh and   
    Mohammad Ali Mansournia and   
     Abbas Rahimiforoushani and   
              Ahad Alizadeh and   
            Atieh Amouzegar and   
  Kamran Mehrabani-Zeinabad and   
                 Kazem Mohammad   Comparing different propensity score
                                  estimation methods for estimating the
                                  marginal causal effect through
                                  standardization to propensity scores . . 964--976
         Bruna Gregory Palm and   
          Fábio M. Bayer   Bootstrap-based inferential improvements
                                  in beta autoregressive moving average
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--996
              Cindy X. Feng and   
                  Andrea Piesse   On correcting measurement error in the
                                  persistence rate estimator . . . . . . . 997--1013
          Mary Jane Esmenda and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Robust estimation of a multilevel model
                                  with structural change . . . . . . . . . 1014--1027
                Thomas Jaki and   
                 Ting-Li Su and   
                Minjung Kim and   
                M. Lee Van Horn   An evaluation of the bootstrap for model
                                  validation in mixture models . . . . . . 1028--1038
         Hamzah Abdul Hamid and   
                Yap Bee Wah and   
               Xian-Jin Xie and   
                  Ong Seng Huat   Investigating the power of
                                  goodness-of-fit tests for multinomial
                                  logistic regression  . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1055
                 Dal Ho Kim and   
                Hyunnam Ryu and   
                     Yongku Kim   Nonparametric Bayesian modeling for
                                  monotonicity in catch ratio  . . . . . . 1056--1065
              J. Y. Dauxois and   
                       A. Nucit   Some estimation problems in epidemic
                                  modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066--1087
              Soumita Modak and   
   Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay and   
           Tanuka Chattopadhyay   Clustering of gamma-ray bursts through
                                  kernel principal component analysis  . . 1088--1102
                   Pan Wang and   
                Zhenzhou Lu and   
                     Sinan Xiao   Variance-based sensitivity analysis with
                                  the uncertainties of the input variables
                                  and their distribution parameters  . . . 1103--1125
                    Yanyan Zhao   Feasible algorithm for linear mixed
                                  model for massive data . . . . . . . . . 1126--1133
                  K. Drosou and   
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                       A. Lappa   A method for analyzing supersaturated
                                  designs inspired by control charts . . . 1134--1145
              J. Martin van Zyl   The performance of univariate
                                  goodness-of-fit tests for normality
                                  based on the empirical characteristic
                                  function in large samples  . . . . . . . 1146--1156
                Guogen Shan and   
                   John J. Chen   Optimal inference for Simon's two-stage
                                  design with over or under enrollment at
                                  the second stage . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157--1167
            Rahim Alhamzawi and   
      Haithem Taha Mohammad Ali   The Bayesian elastic net regression  . . 1168--1178
             Mehrdad Naderi and   
           Alireza Arabpour and   
               Ahad Jamalizadeh   Multivariate normal mean-variance
                                  mixture distribution based on Lindley
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179--1192
            Zohreh Pakdaman and   
                   Jafar Ahmadi   Point estimation of the stress-strength
                                  reliability parameter for parallel
                                  system with independent and
                                  non-identical components . . . . . . . . 1193--1203
                  V. Mameli and   
                   M. Musio and   
                     L. Ventura   Bootstrap adjustments of signed scoring
                                  rule root statistics . . . . . . . . . . 1204--1215
                  E. Cramer and   
                      K. Davies   Restricted optimal progressive censoring 1216--1239
                    Hasan Ertas   A modified ridge $m$-estimator for
                                  linear regression model with
                                  multicollinearity and outliers . . . . . 1240--1250

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 5, 2018

                Amir Rezaei and   
             Maryam Sharafi and   
           Javad Behboodian and   
                  Atefeh Zamani   Inferences on stress-strength parameter
                                  based on GLD5 distribution . . . . . . . 1251--1263
       Mbanefo S. Madukaife and   
               Fabian C. Okafor   A powerful affine invariant test for
                                  multivariate normality based on
                                  interpoint distances of principal
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264--1275
                  K. Ahmadi and   
                  M. Rezaei and   
                 F. Yousefzadeh   Progressively Type-II censored competing
                                  risks data for exponential distributions
                                  based on sequential order statistics . . 1276--1296
               Reema Sharma and   
                 S. K. Upadhyay   A hierarchical Bayes analysis for
                                  one-shot device testing experiment under
                                  the assumption of exponentiality . . . . 1297--1314
                   Jianhua Ding   Bayesian estimation on semiparametric
                                  models with shape restricted B-splines   1315--1325
              Masanari Iida and   
              Yoichi Miyata and   
              Takayuki Shiohama   Bootstrap estimation and model selection
                                  for multivariate normal mixtures using
                                  parallel computing with graphics
                                  processing units . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326--1342
              Rafel Xampeny and   
                 Pere Grima and   
          Xavier Tort-Martorell   Selecting significant effects in
                                  factorial designs: Lenth's method versus
                                  using negligible interactions  . . . . . 1343--1352
                 Sajal Saha and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
                Ming Ha Lee and   
           Philippe Castagliola   A side-sensitive modified group runs
                                  double sampling (SSMGRDS) control chart
                                  for detecting mean shifts  . . . . . . . 1353--1369
          Sudhansu S. Maiti and   
              Indrani Mukherjee   On estimation of the PDF and CDF of the
                                  Lindley distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1370--1381
         Severin Hauenstein and   
              Simon N. Wood and   
             Carsten F. Dormann   Computing AIC for black-box models using
                                  generalized degrees of freedom: a
                                  comparison with cross-validation . . . . 1382--1396
          Mohammad Z. Raqab and   
      Shafiqah A. Al-Awadhi and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Discriminating among Weibull,
                                  log-normal, and log-logistic
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1397--1419
                  Geng Chen and   
                      Sheng Luo   Bayesian hierarchical joint modeling
                                  using skew-normal/independent
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1420--1438
               Zofia Hanusz and   
                Rie Enomoto and   
                Takashi Seo and   
               Kazuyuki Koizumi   A Monte Carlo comparison of Jarque--Bera
                                  type tests and Henze--Zirkler test of
                                  multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . 1439--1452
            Arezo Hajrajabi and   
                  Afshin Fallah   Nonlinear semiparametric AR(1) model
                                  with skew-symmetric innovations  . . . . 1453--1462
Marcos Antonio Alves Pereira and   
   Betsabé G. Blas Achic   Calibration model with skew scale
                                  mixtures of normal distributions . . . . 1463--1478
          Yousef F. Alharbi and   
              Prakash N. Patili   Error variance function estimation in
                                  nonparametric regression models  . . . . 1479--1491
               Lisa Hermans and   
              Vahid Nassiri and   
          Geert Molenberghs and   
         Michael G. Kenward and   
           Wim Van der Elst and   
                 Marc Aerts and   
                  Geert Verbeke   Fast, closed-form, and efficient
                                  estimators for hierarchical models with
                                  AR(1) covariance and unequal cluster
                                  sizes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1492--1505
         Vikas Kumar Sharma and   
                  Sanku Dey and   
         Sanjay Kumar Singh and   
                   Uzma Manzoor   On length and area-biased Maxwell
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1506--1528
                     Shu-Fei Wu   Multiple comparisons with the average
                                  for exponential location parameters
                                  based on doubly censored sample under
                                  heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1529--1539
                   M. Sabzevari   Variance of the asymmetric $n$ -player
                                  gambler's ruin problem with ties allowed 1540--1549
              S. Balamurali and   
               P. Jeyadurga and   
                        M. Usha   Optimal designing of quick switching
                                  sampling system assuring percentile life
                                  under Weibull distribution . . . . . . . 1550--1563

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 6, 2018

                Pei-Fang Su and   
                Sheng-Mao Chang   Power and sample size calculation for
                                  paired right-censored data based on
                                  survival copula models . . . . . . . . . 1565--1582
                    Li Zhao and   
                  Liang Yan and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   High-correlated residuals improved
                                  estimation in the high-dimensional SUR
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583--1605
             Lamia Djerroud and   
Tristan Senga Kiessé and   
                   Smail Adjabi   A multivariate non-parametric kernel
                                  estimator for global sensitivity
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1606--1622
                   Y. Zhang and   
                   S. Nadarajah   On partially truncated distributions . . 1623--1631
              George Karabatsos   Marginal maximum likelihood estimation
                                  methods for the tuning parameters of
                                  ridge, power ridge, and generalized
                                  ridge regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 1632--1651
                M. P. Gadre and   
                   V. C. Kakade   Two group inspection-based control
                                  charts for dispersion matrix . . . . . . 1652--1669
            Yahia S. El-Horbaty   On testing random effects in the
                                  nested-error regression model  . . . . . 1670--1676
                   Yang Liu and   
                      Ji Li and   
                       Xu Zhang   Analysis of dependently truncated data
                                  in Cox framework . . . . . . . . . . . . 1677--1695
            Robert L. Paige and   
                    Renren Zhao   Small sample equivalence tests for
                                  exponentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1696--1703
       Edgard M. Maboudou-Tchao   Kernel methods for changes detection in
                                  covariance matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 1704--1721
         Elizabeth H. Payne and   
     Mulugeta Gebregziabher and   
            James W. Hardin and   
   Viswanathan Ramakrishnan and   
               Leonard E. Egede   An empirical approach to determine a
                                  threshold for assessing overdispersion
                                  in Poisson and negative binomial models
                                  for count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1722--1738
            Rahim Alhamzawi and   
      Haithem Taha Mohammad Ali   Bayesian tobit quantile regression with
                                  $ L_{1 / 2} $ penalty  . . . . . . . . . 1739--1750
Selahattin Kaçiranlar and   
                   Issam Dawoud   On the performance of the Poisson and
                                  the negative binomial ridge predictors   1751--1770
              Chunzheng Cao and   
              Mengqian Chen and   
                 Yuqian Ren and   
                         Yue Xu   Robust replicated heteroscedastic
                                  measurement error model using
                                  heavy-tailed distribution  . . . . . . . 1771--1784
                  A. Mojiri and   
                  Y. Waghei and   
            H. R. Nili Sani and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   Comparison of predictions by kriging and
                                  spatial autoregressive models  . . . . . 1785--1795
Luis Alberto Rodríguez-Picón and   
Anna Patricia Rodríguez-Picón and   
Luis Carlos Méndez-González and   
Manuel I. Rodríguez-Borbón and   
     Alejandro Alvarado-Iniesta   Degradation modeling based on gamma
                                  process models with random effects . . . 1796--1810
              Maryam Salari and   
      Anoshirvan Kazemnejad and   
               Farid Zayeri and   
                Ramin Daneshvar   Comparison of different estimation
                                  methods in growth curve models for
                                  categorical data: a simulation study . . 1811--1830
                 Mangey Ram and   
                    Nupur Goyal   Bi-directional system analysis under
                                  copula-coverage approach . . . . . . . . 1831--1844
          Semra Türkan and   
                Gamze Özel   A Jackknifed estimators for the negative
                                  binomial regression model  . . . . . . . 1845--1865
                M. A. Pasha and   
         M. Bameni Moghadam and   
             N. Nematollahi and   
                        S. Fani   A generalized model for
                                  multiplicity-cause economic and economic
                                  statistical design of $ \bar {X}
                                  $-control charts with proportional
                                  hazards shock model  . . . . . . . . . . 1866--1878

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 7, 2018

        Augustus Jayaraj Md and   
            Oluseun Odumade and   
                Sarjinder Singh   A new quasi empirical Bayes estimate in
                                  randomized response sampling . . . . . . 1879--1889
       Kamel Abdollahnezhad and   
               Ali Akbar Jafari   Testing the equality of quantiles for
                                  several normal populations . . . . . . . 1890--1898
                Zaheen Khan and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                    S. N. Gupta   Circular versions of systematic sampling
                                  in the presence of linear trend  . . . . 1899--1921
                  Jun Huang and   
                 Haibo Wang and   
                       Wei Wang   Variable selection in classification
                                  model via quadratic programming  . . . . 1922--1939
          Thiago G. Ramires and   
         Edwin M. M. Ortega and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
          Gilberto A. Paula and   
                      Niel Hens   New regression model with four
                                  regression structures and computational
                                  aspects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1940--1962
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                      S. Prasad   Additive risks regression model for
                                  middle censored
                                  exponentiated-exponential lifetime data  1963--1974
              Salman Babayi and   
                Esmaile Khorram   Inference of stress-strength for the
                                  Type-II generalized logistic
                                  distribution under progressively Type-II
                                  censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 1975--1995
           Sai Kiran Ambati and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Estimation of coefficient of dispersion
                                  using auxiliary information  . . . . . . 1996--2009
             Valmira Hoxhaj and   
              Ravindra Khattree   A study of geometric and statistical
                                  curvatures for the skew-normal family of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010--2022
               Yanting Xiao and   
                  Zhanshou Chen   Estimation and inference for varying
                                  coefficient partially nonlinear
                                  errors-in-variables models . . . . . . . 2023--2039
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Stochastic simulation of sequential
                                  game-theory voting models  . . . . . . . 2040--2054
         M. Bameni Moghadam and   
                  Y. Khadem and   
                    S. Fani and   
                    M. A. Pasha   Effects of non-normality on economic and
                                  economic statistical designs of -control
                                  charts with multiple assignable causes
                                  and Weibull in-control times . . . . . . 2055--2069
                  Xinfeng Chang   Performance of the principal component
                                  two-parameter estimator in misspecified
                                  linear regression model  . . . . . . . . 2070--2082
         Sophia D. Waymyers and   
                  Sanku Dey and   
         Hrishikesh Chakraborty   A new generalization of the gamma
                                  distribution with application to
                                  negatively skewed survival data  . . . . 2083--2101
                 Majnu John and   
                      Yihren Wu   Confidence intervals for finite
                                  difference solutions . . . . . . . . . . 2102--2118
          Gözde Navruz and   
          A. Firat Özdemir   Quantile estimation and comparing two
                                  independent groups with an approach
                                  based on percentile bootstrap  . . . . . 2119--2138
          Lukás Adam and   
                  Premysl Bejda   Robust estimators based on
                                  generalization of trimmed mean . . . . . 2139--2151
                 J. H. Chen and   
                Y. C. Chang and   
                     W. L. Hung   A robust automatic clustering algorithm
                                  for probability density functions with
                                  application to categorizing color images 2152--2168
                   Chunpeng Fan   A pseudo likelihood approach to analyze
                                  rate difference of binary response data
                                  in longitudinal factorial studies  . . . 2169--2183
          Fatma Zehra Dogru and   
                   Olcay Arslan   Robust mixture regression modeling using
                                  the least trimmed squares
                                  (LTS)-estimation method  . . . . . . . . 2184--2196

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 8, 2018

               Tzu-Chun Kuo and   
               Todd C. Headrick   A characterization of power method
                                  transformations through the method of
                                  percentiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2197--2215
                Asma Arshad and   
              Muhammad Azam and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   A control chart for monitoring process
                                  variation using multiple dependent state
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2216--2233
              Jia-Chiun Pan and   
              Mei-Hsien Lee and   
                   Miao-Yu Tsai   Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo
                                  algorithms for Bayesian variable
                                  selection in logistic mixed models . . . 2234--2247
             Yogita S. Wagh and   
              Kirtee K. Kamalja   Zero-inflated models and estimation in
                                  zero-inflated Poisson distribution . . . 2248--2265
              Takeshi Emura and   
                   Yu-Ting Liao   Critical review and comparison of
                                  continuity correction methods: The
                                  normal approximation to the binomial
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2266--2285
          Augustine Pwasong and   
             Saratha Sathasivam   Forecasting comparisons using a hybrid
                                  ARFIMA and LRNN models . . . . . . . . . 2286--2303
               Ronghua Wang and   
                 Beiqing Gu and   
                    Xiaoling Xu   Reliability statistical analysis about
                                  products of Birnbaum--Saunders fatigue
                                  life distribution for life test and
                                  progressive stress accelerated life test 2304--2331
                   Sigui Hu and   
                   Honglei Wang   Nearly optimal truncated group
                                  sequential test on binomial proportions  2332--2342
             Y. Tuaç and   
              Y. Güney and   
                 B. Senoglu and   
                      O. Arslan   Robust parameter estimation of
                                  regression model with AR($p$) error
                                  terms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2343--2359
                 Lirong Sun and   
             Bing Xing Wang and   
                 Baocai Guo and   
                        Min Xie   Synthetic exponential control charts
                                  with unknown parameter . . . . . . . . . 2360--2377
                     Rui Li and   
                   Haibing Zhao   Sparsity identification for
                                  high-dimensional partially linear model
                                  with measurement error . . . . . . . . . 2378--2392
                   Jiang Du and   
            Zhongzhan Zhang and   
                      Dengke Xu   Estimation for the censored partially
                                  linear quantile regression models  . . . 2393--2408
             Khamis K. Said and   
             Doaa Basalamah and   
                   Wei Ning and   
                    Arjun Gupta   The Kumaraswamy skew-$t$ distribution
                                  and its related properties . . . . . . . 2409--2423
               Isaac Almasi and   
          Adel Mohammadpour and   
             Mohammad Mohammadi   Best unbiased prediction of order
                                  statistics in stable distributions . . . 2424--2435
                 Yaqian Zhu and   
                   John Kolassa   Assessing and comparing the accuracy of
                                  various bootstrap methods  . . . . . . . 2436--2453
         Ahmed M. T. Abd El-Bar   An extended Gompertz--Makeham
                                  distribution with application to
                                  lifetime data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2454--2475
               Qingrong Zou and   
                      Qi Li and   
                    Hao Guo and   
                       Jian Shi   A discrete-time and finite-state Markov
                                  Chain model for association football
                                  matches  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2476--2485
              Xiaoying Zhou and   
                  Feipeng Zhang   A new estimation method for continuous
                                  threshold expectile model  . . . . . . . 2486--2498

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 9, 2018

                M. Alizadeh and   
              S. F. Bagheri and   
          E. Bahrami Samani and   
                 S. Ghobadi and   
                   S. Nadarajah   Exponentiated power Lindley power series
                                  class of distributions: Theory and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2499--2531
                  Peiyan Qi and   
                  Xifa Duan and   
                     Zheng Tian   MOSUM monitoring for variance change in
                                  nonparametric regression models  . . . . 2532--2546
                  Haiko Luepsen   Comparison of nonparametric analysis of
                                  variance methods: a vote for van der
                                  Waerden  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2547--2576
Márcio A. C. Almeida and   
           Frederico R. B. Cruz   A note on Bayesian estimation of traffic
                                  intensity in single-server Markovian
                                  queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2577--2586
               Dursun Aydin and   
                   Ersin Yilmaz   Modified spline regression based on
                                  randomly right-censored data: a
                                  comparative study  . . . . . . . . . . . 2587--2611
            Satesh Ramdhani and   
               Ram Tripathi and   
             Jerome Keating and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Underground storage tanks (UST): a
                                  closer investigation statistical
                                  implications to changing the shape of a
                                  UST  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2612--2623
                M. Sciandra and   
                       A. Plaia   A graphical model selection tool for
                                  mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2624--2638
          Richard A. Norton and   
  J. Andrés Christen and   
                      Colin Fox   Sampling hyperparameters in hierarchical
                                  models: Improving on Gibbs for
                                  high-dimensional latent fields and large
                                  datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2639--2655
            Andrada E. Ivanescu   Function-on-function regression for
                                  two-dimensional functional data  . . . . 2656--2669
                 Shu-Fei Wu and   
              Tzu-Chin Chen and   
              Wen-Jui Chang and   
             Chia-Wei Chang and   
                       Chen Lin   A hypothesis testing procedure for the
                                  evaluation on the lifetime performance
                                  index of products with Burr XII
                                  distribution under progressive type I
                                  interval censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 2670--2683
       Ioannis S. Triantafyllou   Nonparametric control charts based on
                                  order statistics: Some advances  . . . . 2684--2702
         M. M. Mohie El-Din and   
                     W. S. Emam   Prediction intervals for ordinary and
                                  dual generalized order statistics from
                                  two independent sequences  . . . . . . . 2703--2723
         S. Bohlouri Hajjar and   
                     S. Khazaei   Bayesian nonparametric survival analysis
                                  using mixture of Burr XII distributions  2724--2738
                  Emil Polajnar   Using Lasso RCCA for cross-language
                                  information retrieval  . . . . . . . . . 2739--2748
                 Yang Zhang and   
               Yanfen Shang and   
                  Min Zhang and   
                    Xiaofang Wu   Zone control charts with estimated
                                  parameters for detecting prespecified
                                  changes in linear profiles . . . . . . . 2749--2774
                  Xuerui Li and   
                      Luqin Liu   Bayesian analysis for heteroscedastic
                                  normal-Pareto mixture model with
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2775--2791
               Waleed Dhhan and   
                 Sohel Rana and   
           Taha Alshaybawee and   
                   Habshah Midi   The single-index support vector
                                  regression model to address the problem
                                  of high dimensionality . . . . . . . . . 2792--2799
          Manas Ranjan Tripathy   Improved estimation of common location
                                  of two exponential populations with
                                  order restricted scale parameters using
                                  censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 2800--2818

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 47, Number 10, 2018

                   M. Merzougui   Estimation in periodic restricted
                                  EXPAR(1) models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2819--2828
                Haydar Demirhan   A generalized Gumbel distribution and
                                  its parameter estimation . . . . . . . . 2829--2848
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Economic-statistical design of control
                                  chart with runs rules for correlation
                                  within sample  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2849--2864
                Paulo Teles and   
              Paulo S. A. Sousa   The effect of temporal aggregation on
                                  the estimation accuracy of ARMA models   2865--2885
                     Yan Lu and   
              Zhongxue Chen and   
          Danielle Durán   Comparison of two methods in estimating
                                  standard error of the method of
                                  simulated moments estimators for
                                  generalized linear mixed models  . . . . 2886--2895
                Seema Jaggi and   
       Dinesh Kumar Pateria and   
              Cini Varghese and   
             Eldho Varghese and   
                  Arpan Bhowmik   A note on circular neighbor balanced
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2896--2905
    Christopher J. Casement and   
                 David J. Kahle   Graphical prior elicitation in
                                  univariate models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2906--2924
                    Jibo Wu and   
                     Yasin Asar   Performance of the almost unbiased
                                  ridge-type principal component estimator
                                  in logistic regression model . . . . . . 2925--2937
      Mohammad Salehi Vaysi and   
              Sadegh Rezaei and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Sensitivity analysis of reliability
                                  functions of the exponential power
                                  series lifetime distribution . . . . . . 2938--2952
            Klairung Samart and   
           Naratip Jansakul and   
      Mitchai Chongcheawchamnan   Exact bootstrap confidence intervals for
                                  regression coefficients in small samples 2953--2959
              M. Sadeghpour and   
               S. Baratpour and   
                   A. Habibirad   Exponentiality test based on Renyi
                                  distance between equilibrium
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2960--2967
                     Shu-Fei Wu   One stage multiple comparisons of $ k -
                                  1 $ treatment mean lifetimes with the
                                  control for exponential distributions
                                  under heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . 2968--2978
                Xiaona Yang and   
               Zhaojun Wang and   
                      Xuemin Zi   Goodness-of-fit-based outlier detection
                                  for Phase I monitoring . . . . . . . . . 2979--2991
            Rezaei Ghahroodi Z.   Analysis of mixed correlated
                                  semi-continuous and $ \beta $-inflated
                                  Poisson responses  . . . . . . . . . . . 2992--3007
              Paul H. Whitfield   Clustering of seasonal events: a
                                  simulation study using circular methods  3008--3030
            Özlem Akay and   
         Güzin Yüksel   Clustering the mixed panel dataset using
                                  Gower's distance and $k$-prototypes
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3031--3041
                  M. Habibi and   
                 A. Asgharzadeh   Power binomial exponential distribution:
                                  Modeling, simulation and application . . 3042--3061
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
       Elizabete C. Machado and   
           Denise A. Botter and   
       Mônica C. Sandoval   The Kumaraswamy normal linear regression
                                  model with applications  . . . . . . . . 3062--3082
              Marco Marozzi and   
               Jen\Ho Reiczigel   A progressive shift alternative to
                                  evaluate nonparametric tests for skewed
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3083--3094
                 James McIntosh   Normalization rules for item response
                                  models: Simulation results . . . . . . . 3095--3105
            Khalil Masmoudi and   
                  Afif Masmoudi   Singular Gaussian graphical models:
                                  Structure learning . . . . . . . . . . . 3106--3117
               Ramin Behzad and   
       Mohammad Reza Salehi Rad   Simultaneous arrival of customers to two
                                  different queues and modeling dependence
                                  via copula approach  . . . . . . . . . . 3118--3131
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Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 1, 2019

              Giorgio Calzolari   Econometrics exams and round numbers:
                                  Use or misuse of indirect estimation
                                  methods? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
             Ryan T. Godwin and   
                 David E. Giles   Analytic bias correction for maximum
                                  likelihood estimators when the bias
                                  function is non-constant . . . . . . . . 15--26
        Matthew Ryan Lavery and   
              Parul Acharya and   
            Stephen A. Sivo and   
                       Lihua Xu   Number of predictors and
                                  multicollinearity: What are their
                                  effects on error and bias in regression? 27--38
Charles D. G. Keown-Stoneman and   
             Julie Horrocks and   
          Gerarda A. Darlington   Weibull multi-state models with
                                  misclassification  . . . . . . . . . . . 39--57
           Sally Abdelfatah and   
                   Reda Mazloum   An improved cluster two-stage randomized
                                  response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--72
               Xiaohui Shen and   
                 Long Jiang and   
                    Dejian Tian   $ L^p $ solutions of anticipated BSDEs
                                  with weak monotonicity and general
                                  growth generators  . . . . . . . . . . . 73--90
             Nilgün Yildiz   A new stochastic restricted Liu-type
                                  estimator in linear regression model . . 91--108
              R. Valiollahi and   
             A. Asgharzadeh and   
                    M. Z. Raqab   Prediction of future failures times
                                  based on Type-I hybrid censored samples
                                  of random sample sizes . . . . . . . . . 109--125
                Tahir Abbas and   
              Shabbir Ahmad and   
              Muhammad Riaz and   
                 Zhengming Qian   A Bayesian way of monitoring the linear
                                  profiles using CUSUM control charts  . . 126--149
          Paulo H. Ferreira and   
              Francisco Louzada   Maximum likelihood estimation for
                                  bivariate SUR Tobit modeling in presence
                                  of two right-censored dependent
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--168
                Ines Jlassi and   
    Jérôme Saracco   Variable importance assessment in sliced
                                  inverse regression for variable
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--199
                    Asghar Seif   A new Markov chain approach for the
                                  economic statistical design of the VSS
                                  T$^2$ control chart  . . . . . . . . . . 200--218
        Sevcan Demir Atalay and   
                 Gözde Kus   Profust reliability of linear and
                                  circular type $F$ and $G$ systems having
                                  two failure criteria under Markov
                                  dependency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--239
                      Xu Li and   
                 Juxia Xiao and   
                   Jianhong Shi   Statistical inference in the partial
                                  linear models with the inverse Gaussian
                                  kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--263
          Haitham M. Yousof and   
                Emrah Altun and   
              Mahdi Rasekhi and   
             Morad Alizadeh and   
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                  M. Masoom Ali   A new lifetime model with regression
                                  models, characterizations and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--286
                 Nuri Celik and   
                 Birdal Senoglu   Two-way ANOVA when the distribution of
                                  the error terms is skew $t$  . . . . . . 287--301
          Gustavo H. A. Pereira   On quantile residuals in beta regression 302--316

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 2, 2019

                 Jin Chu Wu and   
            Alvin F. Martin and   
                Raghu N. Kacker   Monte Carlo studies of bootstrap
                                  variability in ROC analysis with data
                                  dependency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--333
  Verônica M. C. Lima and   
         Francisco Cribari-Neto   Penalized maximum likelihood estimation
                                  in the modified extended Weibull
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--349
               Fatih Kizilaslan   E-Bayesian estimation for the
                                  proportional hazard rate model based on
                                  record values  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--371
              Mohsen Salehi and   
          Adel Mohammadpour and   
         Mohammad Mohammadi and   
               Mina Aminghafari   A modified two-sample $t$ -test based on
                                  permutation method for large-scale data  372--384
         Mohammad Atlekhani and   
              Mahdi Doostparast   The repair alert models with fixed and
                                  random effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--395
              Alireza Chaji and   
          Konstantinos Zografos   An Estimator of Shannon Entropy of
                                  Beta-Generated Distributions and a
                                  Goodness-of-Fit Test . . . . . . . . . . 396--415
              Guo-Dong Xing and   
             Shan-Chao Yang and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Uniformly strong consistency and
                                  Berry--Esseen bound of frequency
                                  polygons for $ \alpha $-mixing samples   416--430
Martin Augustine B. Borlongan and   
   Joseph Ryan G. Lansangan and   
              Erniel B. Barrios   Robust simultaneous confidence interval
                                  estimation of principal component
                                  loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--446
                  Liyan Han and   
                Hanhuan Yan and   
                  Chengli Zheng   Normal mixture method for stock daily
                                  returns over different sub-periods . . . 447--457
               Zong-Feng Qi and   
              Yong-Dao Zhou and   
                   Kai-Tai Fang   Representative points for
                                  location-biased datasets . . . . . . . . 458--471
             Georgios Skoulakis   Simulating from polynomial-normal
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--477
                Vivek Verma and   
              Dilip C. Nath and   
                 Radhakanta Das   Bayesian bounds for population
                                  proportion under ranked set sampling . . 478--493
             O. Chatrabgoun and   
              A. Daneshkhah and   
                M. Esmaeilbeigi   Optimizing minimum information
                                  pair-copula using genetic algorithm to
                                  select optimal basis functions . . . . . 494--505
                  Abid Khan and   
               Rashid Ahmed and   
            Farrukh Shehzad and   
                M. H. Tahir and   
        Syed Shakir Ali Ghazali   Construction of circular partially
                                  balanced-Repeated measurement designs
                                  using cyclic shifts  . . . . . . . . . . 506--515
               Sadia Khalil and   
      Muhammad Noor-ul-Amin and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   Generalized estimator of population mean
                                  by using conventional and
                                  non-conventional measures in the
                                  presence of measurement errors . . . . . 516--529
             Dao Thanh Tung and   
             Minh-Ngoc Tran and   
                Tran Manh Cuong   Bayesian adaptive lasso with variational
                                  Bayes for variable selection in
                                  high-dimensional generalized linear
                                  mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--543
            Daniela Marella and   
                   Paola Vicard   Toward an integrated Bayesian network
                                  approach to measurement error detection
                                  and correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--555
                M. Goldoust and   
                  S. Rezaei and   
                      Y. Si and   
                   S. Nadarajah   Lifetime distributions motivated by
                                  series and parallel structures . . . . . 556--579
             Marion Procter and   
                Chris Robertson   Imputing missing quality of life data as
                                  covariate in survival analysis of the
                                  International Breast Cancer Study Group
                                  Trials VI and VII  . . . . . . . . . . . 580--590
                   Min Zhai and   
                 Guolin Liu and   
               Qiuxiang Tao and   
                   Mingzhen Xin   A novel characteristic value correction
                                  iteration method . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--600
        Marcelo A. da Silva and   
      Jorge L. Bazán and   
    Anne Corinne Huggins-Manley   Sensitivity analysis and choosing
                                  between alternative polytomous IRT
                                  models using Bayesian model comparison
                                  criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--620
               Mohamed I. Riffi   Explicit expressions for gamma spacings
                                  and their moments  . . . . . . . . . . . 621--626
                  Brian Knaeble   Adjustment with three continuous
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--633

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 3, 2019

                 Xuchao Bai and   
                  Yimin Shi and   
                    Bin Liu and   
                     Qianrao Fu   Statistical inference of Marshall--Olkin
                                  bivariate Weibull distribution with
                                  three shocks based on progressive
                                  interval censored data . . . . . . . . . 637--654
                 L. Martino and   
                     F. Louzada   Adaptive rejection sampling with fixed
                                  number of nodes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--665
            B. Yüzbasi and   
                      M. Arashi   Double shrunken selection operator . . . 666--674
                      M. Moradi   Using adaptive line-transect sampling in
                                  airborne geophysics studies  . . . . . . 675--683
                  Y. Khadem and   
             M. Bameni Moghadam   Economic statistical design of $ \bar
                                  {X} $-control charts: Modified version
                                  of Rahim and Banerjee (1993) model . . . 684--703
Zahra Sadat Meshkani Farahani and   
            Esmaile Khorram and   
                Mojtaba Ganjali   A comparison of using weighted
                                  distribution and joint modeling for
                                  analyzing non-ignorable missing
                                  responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--722
                  A. M. Elsawah   Constructing optimal router bit life
                                  sequential experimental designs: New
                                  results with a case study  . . . . . . . 723--752
          Somanath D. Pawar and   
             Digambar T. Shirke   Nonparametric tests for multivariate
                                  locations based on data depth  . . . . . 753--776
                 Yuzhu Tian and   
                Silian Shen and   
                      Ge Lu and   
                Manlai Tang and   
                    Maozai Tian   Bayesian LASSO-Regularized quantile
                                  regression for linear regression models
                                  with autoregressive errors . . . . . . . 777--796
                    A. Stepanov   On simulation of weak records  . . . . . 797--806
                     W. Son and   
                     Y. Kim and   
                     J. Lim and   
                      H.-C. Kuo   A general algorithm for non-parametric
                                  maximum likelihood estimator of
                                  stochastically ordered survival
                                  functions from case 2 interval-censored
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--818
              Thomas Neyens and   
              Christel Faes and   
              Geert Molenberghs   Integrated nested Laplace approximation
                                  for the analysis of count data via the
                                  combined model: a simulation study . . . 819--836
               Hend A. Auda and   
           Joseph W. McKean and   
              John D. Kloke and   
                  Mahmoud Sadek   A Monte Carlo study of REML and robust
                                  rank-based analyses for the random
                                  intercept mixed model  . . . . . . . . . 837--860
               Umberto Picchini   Likelihood-free stochastic approximation
                                  EM for inference in complex models . . . 861--881
        Bahman Tarvirdizade and   
              Nader Nematollahi   A new flexible hazard rate distribution:
                                  Application and estimation of its
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882--899
                      Yijun Zuo   A new approach for the computation of
                                  halfspace depth in high dimensions . . . 900--921
           R. N. Rattihalli and   
          K. S. Madhava Rao and   
                   M. Raghunath   Some count-based nonparametric tests for
                                  circular symmetry of a bivariate
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922--943
            Rahim Alhamzawi and   
         Zakariya Yahya Algamal   Bayesian bridge quantile regression  . . 944--956

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 4, 2019

                 Pao-sheng Shen   The IPW estimator for the joint
                                  distribution function of the gap times
                                  from recurrent event data  . . . . . . . 957--967
               Haiming Zhou and   
                Xianzheng Huang   Bandwidth selection for nonparametric
                                  modal regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 968--984
                M. P. Gadre and   
                   S. B. Adnaik   Independent attributes control chart for
                                  Markov-dependent processes . . . . . . . 985--997
               T. R. Santos and   
               G. C. Franco and   
                 T. B. Ceccotti   Confidence intervals based on the
                                  deviance statistic for the
                                  hyperparameters in state space models    998--1018
Idemauro Antonio Rodrigues de Lara and   
                 John Hinde and   
         Cesar Augusto Taconeli   Global and local tests to assess
                                  stationarity of Markov transition models 1019--1039
            Donald E. K. Martin   Minimal auxiliary Markov chains through
                                  sequential elimination of states . . . . 1040--1054
             Nasrullah Khan and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
              Liaquat Ahmad and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Multiple dependent state repetitive
                                  sampling plans with or without auxiliary
                                  variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1069
           Abdelouahab Bibi and   
                   Fateh Merahi   Moment method estimation of first-order
                                  continuous-time bilinear processes . . . 1070--1087
            Berihun Bizuneh and   
                   Fu-Kwun Wang   Comparison of different control charts
                                  for a Weibull process with type-I
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088--1100
E. Gómez-Déniz and   
              J. M. Sarabia and   
       E. Calderín-Ojeda   The Geometric ArcTan distribution with
                                  applications to model demand for health
                                  services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1120
           A. Karagrigoriou and   
                A. Makrides and   
                       I. Vonta   On a control chart for the Gini index
                                  with simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121--1137
                  V. Ahrari and   
               A. Habibirad and   
                   S. Baratpour   Exponentiality test based on
                                  alpha-divergence and gamma-divergence    1138--1152
               Jong-Min Kim and   
                    S. Y. Hwang   The copula directional dependence by
                                  stochastic volatility models . . . . . . 1153--1175
         Wilasinee Peerajit and   
          Yupaporn Areepong and   
          Saowanit Sukparungsee   Explicit analytical solutions for \em
                                  ARL of CUSUM chart for a long-memory
                                  SARFIMA model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176--1190
           Fikriye Kurtoglu and   
           M. Revan Özkale   Restricted ridge estimator in
                                  generalized linear models: Monte Carlo
                                  simulation studies on Poisson and
                                  binomial distributed responses . . . . . 1191--1218
                 Muhammad Aslam   Time truncated attribute control chart
                                  for the Weibull distribution using
                                  multiple dependent state sampling  . . . 1219--1228
                   Fengrong Wei   Sparse structure selection and
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1229--1238
                 Jianwen Xu and   
               Jiamao Zhang and   
                        Liya Fu   Variable selection in generalized
                                  estimating equations via empirical
                                  likelihood and Gaussian
                                  pseudo-likelihood  . . . . . . . . . . . 1239--1250
                E. Reschenhofer   Heteroscedasticity-robust estimation of
                                  autocorrelation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1263
             Dariush Najarzadeh   Confidence intervals for product of
                                  powers of the generalized variances of
                                  $k$ multivariate normal populations  . . 1264--1276

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 5, 2019

                  Ayman A. Amin   Kullback--Leibler divergence to evaluate
                                  posterior sensitivity to different
                                  priors for autoregressive time series
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277--1291
                  A. Corkum and   
                 P. Cabilio and   
                       Y. Zhang   Nonparametric confidence intervals for
                                  location in time series data . . . . . . 1292--1311
                 Yongku Kim and   
               Woo Dong Lee and   
                  Sang Gil Kang   A matching prior for the product of
                                  normal means based on the modified
                                  profile likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . 1312--1329
                 Doyeong Yu and   
                 Wei-Ting Hwang   Optimal cutoffs for continuous
                                  biomarkers for survival data under
                                  competing risks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330--1345
              Shaonan Zhang and   
                Shanshan Li and   
                 Jiaqiao Hu and   
               Haipeng Xing and   
                        Wei Zhu   An iterative algorithm for optimal
                                  variable weighting in $ K $-means
                                  clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1346--1365
              Hafida Saggou and   
                 Ines Sadeg and   
       Megdouda Ourbih-Tari and   
              El-Bay Bourennane   The analysis of unreliable $ M^{[X]} / G
                                  / 1 $ queuing system with loss, vacation
                                  and two delays of verification . . . . . 1366--1381
            Reza Ghashghaei and   
          Amirhossein Amiri and   
                Peyman Khosravi   New control charts for simultaneous
                                  monitoring of the mean vector and
                                  covariance matrix of multivariate
                                  multiple linear profiles . . . . . . . . 1382--1405
         Polycarp E. Chigbu and   
              Eugene C. Ukaegbu   The efficiency and optimality
                                  characterization of certain
                                  six-Treatment incomplete-Block designs
                                  emanating from some quasi-Semi-Latin
                                  squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1406--1428
                    Yang Yu and   
                Zhihong Zou and   
                  Shanshan Wang   Bayesian quantile regression and
                                  variable selection for partial linear
                                  single-index model: Using free knot
                                  spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1429--1449
             Shiliang Zhang and   
                    Hui Cao and   
                 Zonglin Ye and   
               Yanbin Zhang and   
                      Xiali Hei   An outlier detection scheme for
                                  dynamical sequential datasets  . . . . . 1450--1502
                Ji Won Shin and   
                  Dong Wan Shin   Vector error correction heterogeneous
                                  autoregressive forecast model of
                                  realized volatility and implied
                                  volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1503--1515
                Sudipta Das and   
           Debasis Sengupta and   
                   Anup Dewanji   Optimum release time of a software under
                                  periodic debugging schedule  . . . . . . 1516--1534
            N. Balakrishnan and   
        Farouq Mohammad A. Alam   Maximum likelihood estimation of the
                                  parameters of a multiple step-stress
                                  model from the Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  distribution under time-constraint: a
                                  comparative study  . . . . . . . . . . . 1535--1559
               Fengkai Yang and   
                   Ang Shan and   
                   Haijing Yuan   Gibbs sampling for mixture quantile
                                  regression based on asymmetric Laplace
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1560--1573
                  Fang Fang and   
                Jialiang Li and   
                    Jingli Wang   Optimal model averaging estimation for
                                  correlation structure in generalized
                                  estimating equations . . . . . . . . . . 1574--1593

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 6, 2019

               Arman Reybod and   
              Javad Etminan and   
              Adel Mohammadpour   A Pitman measure of similarity in
                                  $k$-means for clustering heavy-tailed
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1595--1605
                 Ayaka Yagi and   
                Takashi Seo and   
                   Zofia Hanusz   Improved simplified $ T^2 $ test
                                  statistics for a mean vector with
                                  monotone missing data  . . . . . . . . . 1606--1622
          Michael J. Brusco and   
           Clay M. Voorhees and   
         Roger J. Calantone and   
           Michael K. Brady and   
               Douglas Steinley   Integrating linear discriminant
                                  analysis, polynomial basis expansion,
                                  and genetic search for two-group
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623--1636
John Christian G. Spainhour and   
          Michael G. Janech and   
       Viswanathan Ramakrishnan   A study of the properties of Gaussian
                                  mixture model for stable isotope
                                  standard quantification in MALDI-TOF MS  1637--1650
       Mbanefo S. Madukaife and   
               Fabian C. Okafor   A new large sample goodness of fit test
                                  for multivariate normality based on chi
                                  squared probability plots  . . . . . . . 1651--1664
                      Abdul Haq   A new nonparametric synthetic EWMA
                                  control chart for monitoring process
                                  mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665--1676
          Abdel-Salam Gomaa and   
               Jeffrey B. Birch   A semiparametric nonlinear mixed model
                                  approach to phase I profile monitoring   1677--1693
              Ruben Crevits and   
               Christophe Croux   Robust estimation of linear state space
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1694--1705
                  Fen Jiang and   
                      Jin Zhang   Using jackknife to correct bias of MLE
                                  for the truncated Pareto distribution    1706--1713
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Modeling systems with two dependent
                                  components under bivariate shock models  1714--1728
          Kazuhiko Hayakawa and   
                         Qi Sun   Instrumental variable estimation of
                                  factor models with possibly many
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1729--1745
             Morad Alizadeh and   
          Thiago G. Ramires and   
   S. M. T. K. MirMostafaee and   
           Maryam Samizadeh and   
             Edwin M. M. Ortega   A new useful four-parameter extension of
                                  the Gumbel distribution: Properties,
                                  regression model and applications using
                                  the GAMLSS framework . . . . . . . . . . 1746--1767
            Suchandan Kayal and   
                Rajesh Moharana   A shift-dependent generalized cumulative
                                  entropy of order $n$ . . . . . . . . . . 1768--1783
               Hidetoshi Matsui   Sparse group lasso for multiclass
                                  functional logistic regression models    1784--1797
               Luca Martino and   
                   David Luengo   Extremely efficient acceptance-rejection
                                  method for simulating uncorrelated
                                  Nakagami fading channels . . . . . . . . 1798--1814
    Fábio Prataviera and   
         Edwin M. M. Ortega and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
         Altemir da Silva Braga   The heteroscedastic odd log-logistic
                                  generalized gamma regression model for
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1815--1839
                    V. Zardasht   On nonparametric test for the residual
                                  probability order  . . . . . . . . . . . 1840--1848
              Norou Diawara and   
               Lance Waller and   
                Robert King and   
                 Jennifer Lorio   Simulations of local Moran's index in a
                                  spatio-temporal setting  . . . . . . . . 1849--1859
            Peyman Khosravi and   
              Amirhossein Amiri   Self-Starting control charts for
                                  monitoring logistic regression profiles  1860--1871
               Jianfeng Guo and   
                   Jiameng Yang   An iterative procedure for robust circle
                                  fitting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1872--1879
                       Ming Han   E-Bayesian estimation and its E-MSE
                                  under the scaled squared error loss
                                  function, for exponential distribution
                                  as example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1880--1890
               Jiting Huang and   
                    Peixin Zhao   Instrumental variable based variable
                                  selection for generalized linear models
                                  with endogenous covariates . . . . . . . 1891--1900
                Youngmi Lee and   
                   Sangyeol Lee   On causality test for time series of
                                  counts based on Poisson INGARCH models
                                  with application to crime and
                                  temperature data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1901--1911

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 7, 2019

         Senay Özdemir and   
                   Olcay Arslan   An alternative algorithm of the
                                  empirical likelihood estimation for the
                                  parameter of a linear regression model   1913--1921
Eunice Campirán García and   
Eduardo Gutiérrez-Peña   Nonparametric product partition models
                                  for multiple change-points analysis  . . 1922--1947
         Legesse K. Debusho and   
          Dibaba B. Gemechu and   
                Linda M. Haines   Algorithmic construction of optimal
                                  block designs for two-colour cDNA
                                  microarray experiments using the linear
                                  mixed effects model  . . . . . . . . . . 1948--1963
               M. R. Maleki and   
             P. Castagliola and   
                   A. Amiri and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   The effect of parameter estimation on
                                  phase II monitoring of Poisson
                                  regression profiles  . . . . . . . . . . 1964--1978
                  K. Drosou and   
                 C. Koukouvinos   Sure independence screening for
                                  analyzing supersaturated designs . . . . 1979--1995
               Ying-Ju Chen and   
                       Wei Ning   Information approach for a lifetime
                                  change-point model based on the
                                  exponential--logarithmic distribution    1996--2003
         Selcen Yüksel and   
               Pervin Demir and   
                     Afra Alkan   Factors causing occurrence of artificial
                                  dif: a simulation study for dichotomous
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004--2011
    Jimut Bahan Chakrabarty and   
               Shovan Chowdhury   Compounded inverse Weibull
                                  distributions: Properties, inference and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012--2033
               Aamir Saghir and   
              Liaquat Ahmad and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   A EWMA control chart based on an
                                  auxiliary variable and repetitive
                                  sampling for monitoring process location 2034--2045
           Josmar Mazucheli and   
André Felipe Berdusco Menezes and   
                      Sanku Dey   Bias-corrected maximum likelihood
                                  estimators of the parameters of the
                                  inverse Weibull distribution . . . . . . 2046--2055
                     Shu-Fei Wu   A modified multiple comparisons with a
                                  control for exponential location
                                  parameters based on doubly censored
                                  sample under heteroscedasticity  . . . . 2056--2064
                   Tao Wang and   
                     Qun Li and   
               Qingpei Zang and   
                    Zhonghua Li   A multiple-case deletion approach for
                                  detecting influential points in
                                  high-dimensional regression  . . . . . . 2065--2082
             Xinchen Zhuang and   
               Tianxiang Yu and   
                    Linjie Shen   On capacity evaluation for multi-state
                                  weighted $k$-out-of-$n$ system . . . . . 2083--2098
                Qianru Wang and   
                Junxia Liao and   
                   Shengjun Fan   $ L^p(1 < p \leq 2) $ solutions of
                                  one-dimensional BSDEs whose generator is
                                  weakly monotonic in $y$ and
                                  non-Lipschitz in $z$ . . . . . . . . . . 2099--2109
                    P.-O. Caron   Minimum average partial correlation and
                                  parallel analysis: The influence of
                                  oblique structures . . . . . . . . . . . 2110--2117
                   Hui Shao and   
           Charles Stoecker and   
                Shuang Yang and   
                    Lizheng Shi   The pitfall of instrumental variables in
                                  big data: What the rule of thumb can't
                                  give you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2118--2124
          Firoozeh Haghighi and   
           Philippe Castagliola   Control chart for monitoring the Weibull
                                  shape parameter under two competing
                                  risks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2125--2137
         Bulent Altunkaynak and   
                   Hamza Gamgam   Bootstrap confidence intervals for the
                                  coefficient of quartile variation  . . . 2138--2146
  Zohreh Fallah Mohsenkhani and   
       Mohsen Mohhamadzadeh and   
               Taban Baghfalaki   Augmented mixed beta regression models
                                  with skew-normal independent
                                  distributions: Bayesian analysis of
                                  labor force data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2147--2164
         Dimitris Panaretos and   
            George Tzavelas and   
          Malvina Vamvakari and   
       Demosthenes Panagiotakos   Investigating the role of orthogonal and
                                  non-orthogonal rotation in multivariate
                                  factor analysis, in regard to the
                                  repeatability of the extracted factors:
                                  a simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . 2165--2176
        Ishaq Adeyanju Raji and   
              Muhammad Riaz and   
                    Nasir Abbas   Robust dual-CUSUM control charts for
                                  contaminated processes . . . . . . . . . 2177--2190
       Farideh Mohammadinia and   
              Rahim Chinipardaz   Combining Bayesian method and Kalman
                                  smoother for detection additive outlier
                                  patches in autoregressive time series    2191--2209
          Michael J. Brusco and   
           Douglas Steinley and   
       Hans-Friedrich Köhn   Residual analysis for unidimensional
                                  scaling in the $ L_2 $-norm  . . . . . . 2210--2221
               Haiqing Chen and   
                    Weihu Cheng   Fitting type I generalized Logistic
                                  distribution by modified method based on
                                  percentiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2222--2227

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 8, 2019

                   Yuan Wei and   
                Huiwen Wang and   
              Shanshan Wang and   
                Gilbert Saporta   Incremental modelling for compositional
                                  data streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2229--2243
            Ajit Chaturvedi and   
                  Taruna Kumari   Robust Bayesian analysis of generalized
                                  inverted family of distributions . . . . 2244--2268
          Victoria K. Y. Ng and   
              Robert A. Cribbie   The gamma generalized linear model, log
                                  transformation, and the robust
                                  Yuen--Welch test for analyzing group
                                  means with skewed and heteroscedastic
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2269--2286
        Christophe Chesneau and   
          Hassan S. Bakouch and   
              Tassaddaq Hussain   A new class of probability distributions
                                  via cosine and sine functions with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2287--2300
          Özge Karadag and   
                   Serpil Aktas   A generalized, multi-stage adjusted,
                                  latent class linear mixed model for
                                  testing genetic association  . . . . . . 2301--2312
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   The economic and economic statistical
                                  designs of synthetic double sampling $
                                  \bar {X} $ chart . . . . . . . . . . . . 2313--2332
             Akbar Abravesh and   
               Masoud Ganji and   
               Behdad Mostafaiy   Classical and Bayesian estimation of
                                  stress-strength reliability in type II
                                  censored Pareto distributions  . . . . . 2333--2358
Willian Luís de Oliveira and   
Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz and   
            Maria Durbán   A class of bivariate regression models
                                  for discrete and/or continuous responses 2359--2383
                  Kung-Jong Lui   Notes on the two-stage procedure under
                                  an incomplete block two-period crossover
                                  design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2384--2400
                  Hend Auda and   
   Magdalena Niewiadomska-Bugaj   Comparing a new Gini test with other
                                  symmetry tests when median is known  . . 2401--2412
                A. Pakhteev and   
                    A. Stepanov   On simulation of normal records  . . . . 2413--2424
               Helton Saulo and   
        Marcelo Bourguignon and   
                Xiaojun Zhu and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Some simple estimators for the
                                  two-parameter gamma distribution . . . . 2425--2437
                   Liwen Xu and   
                    Jiabin Zhou   A model-averaging approach for smoothing
                                  spline regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 2438--2451
                    G. Dazi and   
             M. Azimmohseni and   
                    F. Yaghmaie   Rank-based statistics for testing the
                                  whiteness hypothesis of time series  . . 2452--2466
                 Yingli Pan and   
                 Jieli Ding and   
                     Yanyan Liu   Statistical inference for generalized
                                  case-cohort design under the
                                  proportional hazards model with
                                  parameter constraints  . . . . . . . . . 2467--2486
               Xing-De Duan and   
             Yuan-Ying Zhao and   
                    An-Min Tang   A semiparametric Bayesian approach to
                                  simplex regression model with
                                  heterogeneous dispersion . . . . . . . . 2487--2500
                  Ayman A. Amin   Bayesian identification of double
                                  seasonal autoregressive time series
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2501--2511
      Nurul Hidayah Sadikon and   
Adriana Irawati Nur Ibrahim and   
            Ibrahim Mohamed and   
                  Kunio Shimizu   A new test of discordancy in cylindrical
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2512--2522
                Yunxi Zhang and   
                  Soeun Kim and   
                     Ye Lin and   
                George Baum and   
    Karen M. Basen-Engquist and   
              Michael D. Swartz   Comparisons of imputation methods with
                                  application to assess factors associated
                                  with self efficacy of physical activity
                                  in breast cancer survivors . . . . . . . 2523--2537

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 9, 2019

                     Hao Qu and   
                        Wei Gao   A two-stage estimation for panel data
                                  models with grouped fixed effects  . . . 2539--2551
                 Fulya Akat and   
    A. Sevtap Selcuk-Kestel and   
                     Fatih Tank   The estimation of adopted mortality and
                                  morbidity rates using model and the
                                  phase type law: the Turkish case . . . . 2552--2565
              Usman Shahzad and   
       Pier Francesco Perri and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   A new class of ratio-type estimators for
                                  improving mean estimation of
                                  nonsensitive and sensitive variables by
                                  using supplementary information  . . . . 2566--2585
         Eda Karaismailoglu and   
          Naime Meric Konar and   
            Dincer Goksuluk and   
        Ahmet Ergun Karaagaoglu   Factors effecting the model performance
                                  measures area under the ROC curve, net
                                  reclassification improvement and
                                  integrated discrimination improvement    2586--2598
              Yan-Yong Zhao and   
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
            Xing-Fang Huang and   
                  Hong-Xia Wang   Iterative weighted estimation based on
                                  variance modelling in linear regression
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2599--2614
           Sueli A. Mingoti and   
        Letícia P. Pinto   Step-Down diagnostic analysis for
                                  monitoring the covariance matrix of
                                  bivariate normal processes . . . . . . . 2615--2624
              Mehdi Khashei and   
               Zahra Hajirahimi   A comparative study of series ARIMA/MLP
                                  hybrid models for stock price
                                  forecasting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2625--2640
       Cachimo Combo Assane and   
Basilio de Bragança Pereira and   
Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira   Model choice in separate families: A
                                  comparison between the FBST and the Cox
                                  test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2641--2654
            James D. Santos and   
          Nelson L. Souza Filho   A Metropolis algorithm to obtain
                                  co-sufficient samples with applications
                                  in conditional tests . . . . . . . . . . 2655--2659
              Chang-Ho Jihn and   
               M. Mujiya Ulkhaq   Parallel discretization of the Markov
                                  chain approximation for the
                                  autoregressive moving average chart  . . 2660--2678
           F. Gökpinar and   
             T. A. Khaniyev and   
                   R. T. Aliyev   Approximation formulas for the moments
                                  of the boundary functional of a Gaussian
                                  random walk with positive drift by using
                                  Siegmund's formula . . . . . . . . . . . 2679--2688
                Leyang Wang and   
                        Hang Yu   Weighted total least-squares joint
                                  adjustment with weight correction
                                  factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2689--2707
               A. Safariyan and   
                  M. Arashi and   
               R. Arabi Belaghi   Improved estimators for stress-strength
                                  reliability using record ranked set
                                  sampling scheme  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2708--2726
                  Dengke Xu and   
                 Niansheng Tang   Bayesian adaptive Lasso for quantile
                                  regression models with nonignorably
                                  missing response data  . . . . . . . . . 2727--2742
         Eder Angelo Milani and   
           Marcelo Hartmann and   
         Marinho G. Andrade and   
   Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz   A Bernoulli autoregressive moving
                                  average model applied to rainfall
                                  occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2743--2756
              Sana Eftekhar and   
        Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei   Testing the equality of several inverse
                                  Gaussian means under heterogeneity . . . 2757--2774
                Xiaoying Yu and   
                Wenyaw Chan and   
          Michael D. Swartz and   
                Linda B. Piller   Joint models of dynamics of mothers'
                                  stress and children's disease  . . . . . 2775--2790
       S. Rao Jammalamadaka and   
                Emanuele Taufer   Semi-parametric estimation of the
                                  autoregressive parameter in non-Gaussian
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes  . . . . . 2791--2811
                    Cong Xu and   
                   Zheng Li and   
                   Yuan Xue and   
                Lijun Zhang and   
                      Ming Wang   An R package for model fitting, model
                                  selection and the simulation for
                                  longitudinal data with dropout
                                  missingness  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2812--2829
               Jingyun Yang and   
               Mingzhi Shao and   
                   Guoliang Cai   On the performance of MixTVEM: a
                                  simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 2830--2844
                   Jun Yang and   
               Fady Alajaji and   
                  Glen Takahara   Linear programming bounds on the union
                                  probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2845--2854

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 48, Number 10, 2019

                Parimal Hor and   
                   Babulal Seal   SAVE: Robust or not? . . . . . . . . . . 2855--2865
           Majid E. Abbasov and   
               Vladimir M. Bure   Randomized heuristic algorithms for
                                  orthogonal projection of a point onto a
                                  set  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2866--2876
        Emad Ashtari Nezhad and   
            Yadollah Waghei and   
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
           H. R. Nilli Sani and   
         Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi   The modified permutation entropy-based
                                  independence test of time series . . . . 2877--2897
                  S. Y. Tay and   
                   C. M. Ng and   
                      S. H. Ong   Parameter estimation by minimizing a
                                  probability generating function-based
                                  power divergence . . . . . . . . . . . . 2898--2912
                 Lirong Cui and   
               Zhongping Li and   
                          He Yi   Partial self-exciting point processes
                                  and their parameter estimations  . . . . 2913--2935
                 Jiaqing Xu and   
                     Cheng Peng   Parametric bootstrap process capability
                                  index control charts for both mean and
                                  dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2936--2954
           Stefanka Chukova and   
                Leda D. Minkova   Non-homogeneous Pólya--Aeppli process . . 2955--2967
               Seong W. Kim and   
          Hon Keung Tony Ng and   
              Jung-Dong Lee and   
                    Jinheum Kim   A comparative study on nonparametric
                                  estimation procedures for survival
                                  quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2968--2984
                    Jian Wu and   
                     Liugen Xue   Oracally efficient spline-backfitted
                                  kernel smoothing of additive partial
                                  linear measurement error model . . . . . 2985--2997
             Ishapathik Das and   
             Siuli Mukhopadhyay   Robust designs for multinomial models    2998--3021
       H. M. Kashif Rasheed and   
              Mujahid Rasul and   
               Rashid Ahmed and   
               Maria Batool and   
                M. H. Tahir and   
                Farrukh Shehzad   Circular balanced repeated measurement
                                  designs in periods of three different
                                  sizes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3022--3030
              Chien-Tai Lin and   
                  Bo-Yi Lee and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On the computation of distributions of
                                  linear combinations of Laplace order
                                  statistics and their applications  . . . 3031--3055
               Burak Güris   A new nonlinear unit root test with
                                  Fourier function . . . . . . . . . . . . 3056--3062
             Marion Procter and   
                Chris Robertson   Performance of standard imputation
                                  methods for missing quality of life data
                                  as covariate in survival analysis based
                                  on simulations from the International
                                  Breast Cancer Study Group Trials VI and
                                  VII* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3063--3077
                    Joseph Ross   Incremental-decremental rolling window
                                  double exponential smoothing . . . . . . 3078--3091
               K. Jayakumar and   
                 K. K. Sankaran   Discrete Linnik Weibull distribution . . 3092--3117
            Jacob Majakwara and   
                      Suvra Pal   On some inferential issues for the
                                  destructive COM--Poisson-generalized
                                  gamma regression cure rate model . . . . 3118--3142


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 51, Number 5, 2022

          Fredy Castellares and   
               Artur J. Lemonte   Comments on ``An extended
                                  Gompertz--Makeham distribution with
                                  application to lifetime data'' . . . . . 2769--2777


Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 52, Number 10, 2023

                 Reza Azimi and   
                Mahdy Esmailian   Correction to: Khan, M. S., King, R. and
                                  Hudson, I. L., (2017), Transmuted
                                  generalized exponential distribution: a
                                  generalization of the exponential
                                  distribution with applications to
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Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Volume 53, Number 2, 2024

       Maria Teresa Giraudo and   
             Fulvio Ricceri and   
                    Elena Rosso   Comment on Moriña and Navarro (2017)  . . 1082--1087
                      Anonymous   Correction to: Jayakumar, K., and
                                  Sankaran, K. K. (2019). Discrete Linnik
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