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Volume 37, Number 6, 2008Chien-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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 $-estimates for the First-order Bifurcating Autoregressive Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2991 S. Balamurali and Muhammad Azam and Muhammad Aslam Attribute-variable Inspection Policy for Lots Using Resampling Based on EWMA . . 3014 Yan Ma and Haitao Chu and Madhu Mazumdar Meta-analysis of Proportions of Rare Events --- A Comparison of Exact Likelihood Methods with Robust Variance Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3036
Fatemah Alqallaf and Claudio Agostinelli Robust Inference in Generalized Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3053 M. Zargar and H. Jabbari Nooghabi and M. Amini Test of Independence for Baker's Bivariate Distributions . . . . . . . . 3074 Liying Wang and Jie Zhang and Wei Chen and Xujie Jia Reliability Evaluation of a Load-sharing Parallel System with Failure Dependence 3094 Jin Yang and Shuang Guo and Chuanhua Wei Testing Serial Correlation in Partially Linear Additive Errors-in-variables Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3114 Zhongxian Men and Tony S. Wirjanto and Adam W. Kolkiewicz Sampling-based Inference of Time Deformation Models with Heavy Tail Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3128 Samantha R. Seals and Charles R. Katholi and Jing Zhang and Inmaculada B. Aban Evaluating the Use of Spatial Covariance Structures in the Analysis of Cardiovascular Imaging Data . . . . . . 3149 Takeshi Emura and Shau-Kai Shiu Estimation and Model Selection for Left-truncated and Right-censored Lifetime Data with Application to Electric Power Transformers Analysis . . 3171 S. M. Sadooghi-alvandi and A. A. Jafari and H. A. Mardani-Fard Comparing Several Regression Models with Unequal Variances . . . . . . . . . . . 3190 Roohollah Roozegar and Alireza Nematollahi and Ahad Jamalizadeh Properties and Inference for a New Class of Skew-$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
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
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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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
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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. 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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. 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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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