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Volume 17, Number 2, 1988
Volume 29, Number 1, 2000
Volume 29, Number 2, 2000
Volume 29, Number 3, 2000
Volume 29, Number 4, 2000
Volume 29, Number 5--6, 2000
Volume 29, Number 7, 2000
Volume 29, Number 8, 2000
Volume 29, Number 9--10, 2000
Volume 29, Number 11, 2000
Volume 29, Number 12, 2000
Volume 30, Number 1, 2001
Volume 30, Number 2, 2001
Volume 30, Number 3, 2001
Volume 30, Number 4, 2001
Volume 30, Number 5, 2001
Volume 30, Number 6, 2001
Volume 30, Number 7, 2001
Volume 30, Number 8--9, 2001
Volume 30, Number 10, 2001
Volume 30, Number 11, 2001
Volume 30, Number 12, 2001
Volume 31, Number 1, 2002
Volume 31, Number 2, 2002
Volume 31, Number 3, 2002
Volume 31, Number 4, 2002
Volume 31, Number 5, 2002
Volume 31, Number 6, 2002
Volume 31, Number 7, 2002
Volume 31, Number 8, 2002
Volume 31, Number 9, 2002
Volume 31, Number 10, 2002
Volume 31, Number 11, 2002
Volume 31, Number 12, 2002
Volume 32, Number 1, 2003
Volume 32, Number 2, 2003
Volume 32, Number 3, 2003
Volume 32, Number 4, 2003
Volume 32, Number 5, 2003
Volume 32, Number 6, 2003
Volume 32, Number 7, 2003
Volume 32, Number 8, 2003
Volume 32, Number 9, 2003
Volume 32, Number 10, 2003
Volume 32, Number 11, 2003
Volume 32, Number 12, 2003
Volume 33, Number 1, 2005
Volume 33, Number 2, 2004
Volume 33, Number 3, 2004
Volume 33, Number 4, 2005
Volume 33, Number 5, 2004
Volume 33, Number 6, 2004
Volume 33, Number 7, 2004
Volume 33, Number 8, 2004
Volume 33, Number 9, 2004
Volume 33, Number 10, 2005
Volume 33, Number 11, 2004
Volume 33, Number 12, 2004
Volume 34, Number 1, 2005
Volume 34, Number 2, 2005
Volume 34, Number 3, 2005
Volume 34, Number 4, 2005
Volume 34, Number 5, 2005
Volume 34, Number 6, 2005
Volume 34, Number 7, 2005
Volume 34, Number 8, 2005
Volume 34, Number 9--10, 2005
Volume 34, Number 11, 2005
Volume 34, Number 12, 2005
Volume 35, Number 1, 2006
Volume 35, Number 2, 2006
Volume 35, Number 3, 2006
Volume 35, Number 4, 2006
Volume 35, Number 5, 2006
Volume 35, Number 6, 2006
Volume 35, Number 7, 2006
Volume 35, Number 8, 2006
Volume 35, Number 9, 2006
Volume 35, Number 10, 2006
Volume 35, Number 11, 2006
Volume 35, Number 12, 2006
Volume 36, Number 1, 2007
Volume 36, Number 2, 2007
Volume 36, Number 3, 2007
Volume 36, Number 4, 2007
Volume 36, Number 5, 2007
Volume 36, Number 6, 2007
Volume 36, Number 7, 2007
Volume 36, Number 8, 2007
Volume 36, Number 9, 2007
Volume 36, Number 10, 2007
Volume 36, Number 11, 2007
Volume 36, Number 12, 2007
Volume 36, Number 13, 2007
Volume 36, Number 14, 2007
Volume 36, Number 15, 2007
Volume 36, Number 16, 2007
Volume 37, Number 1, 2007
Volume 37, Number 2, 2008
Volume 37, Number 3, 2008
Volume 37, Number 4, 2008
Volume 37, Number 5, 2008
Volume 37, Number 6, 2008
Volume 37, Number 7, 2008
Volume 37, Number 8, 2008
Volume 37, Number 9, 2008
Volume 37, Number 10, 2008
Volume 37, Number 11, 2008
Volume 37, Number 12, 2008
Volume 37, Number 13, 2008
Volume 37, Number 14, 2008
Volume 37, Number 15, 2008
Volume 37, Number 16, 2008
Volume 37, Number 17, 2008
Volume 37, Number 18, 2008
Volume 37, Number 19, 2008
Volume 37, Number 20, 2008
Volume 38, Number 1, 2008
Volume 38, Number 2, 2009
Volume 38, Number 3, 2008
Volume 38, Number 4, 2009
Volume 38, Number 5, 2009
Volume 38, Number 6, 2009
Volume 38, Number 7, 2009
Volume 38, Number 8, 2009
Volume 38, Number 9, 2009
Volume 38, Number 10, 2009
Volume 38, Number 11, 2009
Volume 38, Number 12, 2009
Volume 38, Number 13, 2009
Volume 38, Number 14, 2009
Volume 38, Number 15, 2009
Volume 38, Number 16--17, 2009
Volume 38, Number 18, 2009
Volume 38, Number 19, 2009
Volume 38, Number 20, 2009
Volume 46, Number 21, 2017


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 17, Number 2, 1988

                K. F. Cheng and   
                     C. H. Chen   Estimation of the Weibull parameters
                                  with grouped data  . . . . . . . . . . . 325--341


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 1, 2000

               William B. Smith   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
              Kwang-Su Park and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Use of contagious distributions in the
                                  semiconductor yield models considering
                                  cluster effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
               P. I. Keison and   
                     K. E. Kemp   Small sample set estimation of a
                                  baseline ranking . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--43
                 John N. Haddad   On robust estimation in the first order
                                  autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . 45--54
                Jiin-Huarng Guo   Robust estimation for the coefficient of
                                  a first order autoregressive process . . 55--66
          Markus Neuhäuser   An exact two-sample test based on the
                                  Baumgartner--Weiss--Schindler statistic
                                  and a modification of Lepage's test  . . 67--78
         Madhusudan K. Bhandary   Bayes estimation of intraclass
                                  correlation coefficient  . . . . . . . . 79--93
               Ahmed A. Soliman   Comparison of LINEX and quadratic Bayes
                                  estimators for the Rayleigh distribution 95--107
           Shannon L. Quinn and   
           Thomas J. Harris and   
                 David W. Bacon   Notes on likelihood intervals and
                                  profiling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--129
             Paul D. Feigin and   
               Yan P. Lumelskii   On confidence limits for the difference
                                  of two binomial parameters . . . . . . . 131--141
                Yinsheng Qu and   
                   Ming Tan and   
                   Lisa Rybicki   A unified approach to estimating
                                  association measures via a joint
                                  generalized linear model for paired
                                  binary data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--156
                 Kanwar Sen and   
        Preeti Wanti Srivastava   Tests for exponentiality against new
                                  better than old in expectation and new
                                  better than some used in expectation
                                  alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--180
         Julian de la Horra and   
  Maria Teresa Rodriguez-Bernal   Optimality of the posterior predictive
                                  $p$-value based on the posterior odds    181--192
            Cicilia Y. Wada and   
                  Luiz K. Hotta   Restricted alternatives tests in a
                                  bivariate exponential model with
                                  covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--210
                Armelle Guillou   Bootstrap confidence intervals for the
                                  Pareto index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--226
                    W. F. Scott   Tables of the Cramér--von Mises
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--235
               William B. Smith   Inference with overlapping $ 2 \times 2
                                  $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--241
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 2, 2000

           Jorge G. Adrover and   
                Victor J. Yohai   Quantile estimation for a selected
                                  normal population  . . . . . . . . . . . 243--262
          Wenjiang J. Fu, Ph.D.   Ridge estimator in singular design with
                                  application to age-period-cohort
                                  analysis of disease rates  . . . . . . . 263--278
     Francisco Cribari-Neto and   
               Spyeos G. Zarkos   The size and power of analytical and
                                  bootstrap corrections to score tests in
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 279--289
             A. Vijayakumar and   
           B. Krishna Kumar and   
                     B. Thilaka   Stochastic compartmental models with
                                  branching particles and disasters:
                                  sojourn time and related characteristics 291--318
               Choon Mo Ahn and   
             Byung Chun Kim and   
                  Sang Gue Park   The estimation of treatment effect for
                                  the censored bivariate data under the
                                  univariate censoring . . . . . . . . . . 319--334
              Choongrak Kim and   
                Soonyoung Hwang   Influential subsets on the variable
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--347
              P. J. Farrell and   
                  N. G. Cadigan   Local influence in binary regression
                                  models, and its correspondence with
                                  global influence . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--368
                Ji-Cheng Wu and   
                    Lii-Yuh Leu   A two-stage procedure with accelerated
                                  test for selecting the best exponential
                                  population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--380
             Chengjie Xiong and   
             George A. Milliken   Change-points in stochastic ordering . . 381--400
                Qi-Hua Wang and   
                   Bing-Yi Jing   A Martingale-based bootstrap inference
                                  with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 401--415
                 Kanwar Sen and   
             Sunil Kumar Mathur   A test for bivariate two sample location
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--436
               Somesh Kumar and   
                      Aditi Kar   Quantile estimation for a selected
                                  normal population  . . . . . . . . . . . 437--444
                 Soohwa Kim and   
                 Sinsup Cho and   
                   Sangyeol Lee   On the Cusum test for parameter changes
                                  in $ {\rm garch}(1, 1) $ Models  . . . . 445--462
            Hirokazu Yanagihara   Asymptotic expansion of the null
                                  distribution of one-way ANOVA test
                                  statistic for heteroscedastic case under
                                  nonnormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--476
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 3, 2000

                    Vee Ming Ng   A note on predictive inference for
                                  multivariate elliptically contoured
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--483
               JeongHye Han and   
               JoongJae Cho and   
               Choon Seong Leem   Bootstrap confidence limits for Wright's
                                  $ C_5 $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--505
                 Shahjahan Khan   Improved estimation of the mean vector
                                  for Student-$t$ model  . . . . . . . . . 507--527
J. M. Muñoz Pichardo and   
J. Muñoz García and   
J. M. Fernández Ponce and   
   M. D. Jiménez Garnero   Influence analysis in multivariate
                                  linear general models  . . . . . . . . . 529--547
           Patricia Gimenez and   
         Enrico A. Colosimo and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   Asymptotic relative efficiency of Wald
                                  tests in measurement error models  . . . 549--564
                   Tachen Liang   Empirical Bayes tests in a positive
                                  exponential family with partial
                                  information on priors  . . . . . . . . . 565--577
                  M. Pensky and   
                          P. Ni   Extended linear empirical Bayes
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--592
                V. M. Rohan and   
                       G. Jones   Efficient run orders for a two-factor
                                  response surface experiment on a
                                  correlated process . . . . . . . . . . . 593--609
                 Makoto Aoshima   Second-order properties of improved
                                  two-stage procedure for a multivariate
                                  normal distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 611--622
  Carmen D. S. André and   
            Silvia N. Elian and   
          Subhash C. Narula and   
             Rodrigo A. Tavares   Coefficients of determinations for
                                  variable selection in the MSAE
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--642
         Francisco Cumsille and   
     Shrikant I. Bangdiwala and   
              Pranab K. sen and   
             Lawrence L. Kupper   Effect of dichotomizinlg a continuous
                                  variable on the model structure in
                                  multiple linear regression models  . . . 643--654
          Sangit Chatterjee and   
          Mustafa R. Yilmaz and   
         Mohamed Habibuliah and   
                Matthew Laudato   An approximate entropy test for
                                  randomness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--675
                      K. S. Man   Maximum likelihood estimation for a
                                  nearly random walk model . . . . . . . . 677--697
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 4, 2000

             Robert J. Boik and   
               Charles Todd and   
                  Scott K. Hyde   Response transformations in repeated
                                  measures and growth curve models . . . . 699--733
                   Gwowen Shieh   General multivariate linear models for
                                  longitudinal studies . . . . . . . . . . 735--753
         Madhusudan Bhadary and   
          Mohammed Khorsed Alam   Test for the equality of interclass
                                  correlation coefficients under unequal
                                  family sizes for several populations . . 755--768
             Samuel O. M. Manda   A Bayesian analysis of multivariate
                                  survival data from multi-stage cluster
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--782
            Chattopadhay Saibal   Sequential estimation of exponential
                                  location parameter using an asymmetric
                                  loss function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--795
   Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Bias corrected estimates in multivariate
                                  Student $t$ regression models  . . . . . 797--822
                 C. T. Liao and   
                     H. K. Iyer   Optimal $ 2^{n - p} $ fractional
                                  factorial designs for dispersion effects
                                  under a location-dispersion model  . . . 823--835
            Silvia N. Elian and   
  Carmen D. S. André and   
              Subhash C. Narula   Influence measure for the $ L_1 $
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--849
      Christopher S. Coffey and   
                Keith E. Muller   Properties of doubly-truncated gamma
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--857
           Anwar M. Hossain and   
              William J. Zimmer   Comparisons of methods of estimation for
                                  a Pareto distribution of the first kind  859--878
              Siu Fai Leung and   
                      Shihti Yu   How effective are the reset tests for
                                  omitted variables  . . . . . . . . . . . 879--902
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 5--6, 2000

               Chin Long Chiang   My life as a statistician  . . . . . . . 905--921
               Shang P. Lin and   
                T. Timothy Chen   Optimal two-stage designs for Phase II
                                  clinical trials with differentiation of
                                  complete and partial responses . . . . . 923--940
           Jessica Y. Chang and   
               Hongshik Ahn and   
                  James J. Chen   On sequential closed testing dose groups
                                  with a control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--956
                    Wei Zhu and   
                  Weng Kee Wong   Optimum treatment allocation for
                                  dual-objective clinical trials with
                                  binary outcomes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 957--974
              Chinying Wang and   
            T. Timothy Chen and   
                     Irvin Tyan   Designs for Phase I cancer clinical
                                  trials with differentiation of graded
                                  toxicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--987
             Thomas Permutt and   
                Vance W. Berger   A new look at rank tests in ordered-$ 2
                                  \times k $ contingency tables  . . . . . 989--1003
                 Justine Shults   Modeling the correlation structure of
                                  data that have multiple levels of
                                  association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1015
                Colin O. Wu and   
                  Kai F. Yu and   
              Vivian W. S. Yuan   Large sample properties and confidence
                                  bands for component-wise
                                  varying-coefficient regression with
                                  longitudinal dependent variable  . . . . 1017--1037
                Qiming Liao and   
             Victor De Gruttola   A class of semiparametric transformation
                                  frailty models with application to
                                  estimating treatment effects and
                                  heterogeneity in AIDS clinical trails    1039--1057
               Wai-Yuan Tan and   
                  Zhengzheng Ye   Some state space models of HIV epidemic
                                  and its applications for the estimation
                                  of HIV infection and incubation  . . . . 1059--1088
                Jen-pei Liu and   
                     Mi-Chia Ma   On difference factor in assessment of
                                  dissolution similarity . . . . . . . . . 1089--1113
                 Zhaohai Li and   
                   Heping Zhang   Mapping quantitative trait loci using
                                  both extremely discordant and concordant
                                  sib pairs: a unified approach for
                                  meta-analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115--1127
                   Dai Wang and   
                    Fengzhu Sun   Sample sizes for the transmission
                                  disequilibrium tests: TDT, $s$-TDT and
                                  $1$-TDT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1142
              K. Chatterjee and   
              Lih-Yuan Deng and   
               Dennis K. J. Lin   Resolution v.2 search designs  . . . . . 1143--1154
              Guoyong Jiang and   
                Sanat K. Sarkar   The likelihood ratio test for the
                                  homogeneity of the variances in a
                                  covariance matrix with block compound
                                  symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1178
              Ruiguand Song and   
           Paul C. Schlecht and   
                Jensen H. Groff   A composite binomial model derived from
                                  correlated random variables  . . . . . . 1179--1195
                Jianan Peng and   
         Chu-In Charles Lee and   
                        Lin Liu   A multiple comparisons procedure for
                                  detecting differences between treatments
                                  and a control in two-factor experiments  1197--1217
       Saumendranath Mandal and   
                    Ben Torsney   Algorithms for the construction of
                                  optimizing distributions . . . . . . . . 1219--1231
           Peter X. K. Song and   
                   Wenxin Jiang   Assessing conditional independence for
                                  log-linear Poisson models with random
                                  effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1245
        James E. Whitney II and   
              Kerron Duncan and   
           Maria Richardson and   
                  Isaac Bankman   Parameter estimation in a highly
                                  non-linear model using simultaneous
                                  perturbation stochastic approximation    1247--1256
                     Colin Chen   Generalized additive mixed models  . . . 1257--1271
                    S. E. Ahmed   Construction of improved estimators of
                                  multinomial proportions  . . . . . . . . 1273--1291
                  Cong Chen and   
            Wayne A. Fuller and   
                  F. Jay Breidt   A semiparametric estimator of the
                                  distribution function of a variable
                                  measured with error  . . . . . . . . . . 1293--1310
                  Dylan Shi and   
                Junjie Song and   
                       Chi Wang   A note on maximum entropy spectrum
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311--1325
                   Kao-Tai Tsai   Robust Williams trend test . . . . . . . 1327--1346
                    Lijian Yang   Finite nonparametric GARCH model for
                                  foreign exchange volatility  . . . . . . 1347--1365
             Ngai Hang Chan and   
                Giovanni Petris   Long memory stochastic volatility: a
                                  Bayesian approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 1367--1378
              Lih-Yuan Deng and   
                  Yingfu Li and   
                     Boxin Tang   Catalogue of small runs nonregular
                                  designs from Hadamard matrices with
                                  generalized minimum aberration . . . . . 1379--1395
           Jiang-Ming Johnny Wu   Extreme statistics from the cosine
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1397--1403
                   Beiyao Zheng   Bayesian estimation of multidimensional
                                  item response theory model using Gibbs
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405--1417
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 7, 2000

                  A. Bekker and   
              J. J. J. Roux and   
                  P. J. Mosteit   A generalization of the compound
                                  Rayleigh distribution: using a Bayesian
                                  method on cancer survival times  . . . . 1419--1433
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Posterior analysis, prediction and
                                  reliability in three-parameter Weibull
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1435--1449
              Mithat Gönen   A Bayesian analysis of the intraclass
                                  correlations in the mixed linear model   1451--1464
               Carlos A. Coelho   On two asymptotic normal distributions
                                  for the generalized Wilks lambda
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465--1486
          D. Richard Cutler and   
                   Adele Cutler   Estimation for $U$-shaped beta
                                  distributions: minimum Hellinger
                                  distance and related methods . . . . . . 1487--1509
                 Myung Geun Kim   Multivariate outliers and decompositions
                                  of Mahalanobis distance  . . . . . . . . 1511--1526
                   K. Anaya and   
                    F. O'Reilly   Fisher's observed information matrix for
                                  location and scale parameters under Type
                                  I censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1527--1537
              Hyun Jip Choi and   
                 Chong Sun Hong   Testing non-nested log-linear models
                                  with pseudo estimator  . . . . . . . . . 1539--1547
              Jianping Dong and   
                  Renfang Jiang   A boundary kernel for local polynomial
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1558
              Philip Samuel and   
               P. Yageens Thoma   An improved form of a recurrence
                                  relation on the product moments of order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1559--1564
                A. K. Gupta and   
                     D. G. Kabe   On the impact of equicorrelated
                                  responses on multicollinearity . . . . . 1565--1568
              A. M. Carolan and   
                J. C. W. Rayner   One sample tests of location for
                                  nonnormal symmetric data . . . . . . . . 1569--1581
            Emad El-Neweihi and   
                 Bikas K. Sinha   Reliability estimation based on ranked
                                  set sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583--1595
         Mohamed Habibullah and   
                  M. Ahsanullah   Estimation of parameters of a Pareto
                                  distribution by generalized order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1597--1609
                   W. Stute and   
W. González Manteiga and   
      C. Sánchez Sellero   Nonparametric model checks in censored
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1611--1629
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   On the moments of record values  . . . . 1631--1647
           Harshinder Singh and   
                R. S. Singh and   
                   Shixian Qian   Testing uniform stochastic ordering for
                                  survival functions . . . . . . . . . . . 1649--1661
             P. G. Sankaran and   
           N. Unnikrishnan Nair   Conditional mean residual life functions 1663--1675
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 8, 2000

            Janc L. Harvill and   
                  Bonnic K. Ray   An investigation of lag identification
                                  tools for vector nonlinear time series   1677--1701
                ByoungSeon Choi   On the asymptotic distributions of mean,
                                  autocovariance, autocorrelation,
                                  crosscovariance and impulse response
                                  estimators of a stationary
                                  multidimensional random field  . . . . . 1703--1724
            Jeffrey T. Terpstra   The median estimate of the
                                  autoregressive location parameter  . . . 1725--1739
        Dimitris N. Politis and   
           Joseph P. Romano and   
                   Michael Wolf   Subsampling, symmetrization, and robust
                                  interpolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1741--1757
             Gael M. Martin and   
                Vance L. Martin   Bayesian inference in the triangular
                                  cointegration model using a Jeffreys
                                  prior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759--1785
            Marianna Pensky and   
                Kalpana Kirtane   Linear empirical Bayes estimation in the
                                  case of the Wishart distribution . . . . 1787--1799
                Glen Meeden and   
               Stephen Vardeman   A simple hidden Markov model for
                                  Bayesian modeling with time dependent
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1801--1826
                    S. Huda and   
                 A. A. Al-Shiha   On $D$- and $E$-minimax optimal designs
                                  for estimating the axial slopes of a
                                  second-order response surface over
                                  hypercubic regions . . . . . . . . . . . 1827--1849
              Teruo Fujioka and   
             Takerni Yanagimoto   Constructing estimators of a mean vector
                                  through orthogonal reparametrization and
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1851--1863
             Robert L. Fountain   A class of closeness criteria  . . . . . 1865--1883
               Kai-Tai Fang and   
              Hong-Bin Fang and   
             Dietrich von Rosen   A family of bivariate distributions with
                                  non-elliptical contours  . . . . . . . . 1885--1898
            Ingrid A. Baade and   
             Anthony N. Pettitt   Multiple and conditional deletion
                                  diagnostics for general linear models    1899--1910
           Mark Finkelstein and   
           Howard G. Tucker and   
                Jerry Alan Veeh   Conservative confidence intervals for a
                                  single parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . 1911--1928
                Sung-il Han and   
                      Sigeo Aki   A unified approach to binomial-type
                                  distributions of order $k$ . . . . . . . 1929--1943
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 9--10, 2000

              Yadolah Dodge and   
                  Joe Whittaker   The information for the direction of
                                  dependence in $ L_1 $ regression . . . . 1945--1955
              Yadolah Dodge and   
               Valentin Rousson   Direction dependence in a regression
                                  line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1957--1972
                J. B. Copas and   
              A. J. Krebs-Brown   Calibration of predictions in regression 1973--1986
               Robert Gilchrist   Regression models for data with a
                                  non-zero probability of a zero response  1987--2003
                 Alan J. Miller   Another look at subset selection using
                                  linear least squares . . . . . . . . . . 2005--2017
                 Thomas P. Ryan   Some issues in logistic regression . . . 2019--2032
                D. M. Smith and   
                  M. G. Kenward   Extensions of multiple linear regression 2033--2053
                  Alan M. Sykes   Ratio estimates and Fieller's theorem in
                                  regression modelling . . . . . . . . . . 2055--2063
                    A. N. Donev   Dealing with errors in variables in
                                  response surface exploration . . . . . . 2065--2077
                G. C. Brown and   
                 A. J. Lawrance   Theory and illustration of regression
                                  influence diagnostics  . . . . . . . . . 2079--2107
                 R. Dennis Cook   Save: a method for dimension reduction
                                  and graphics in regression . . . . . . . 2109--2121
       Yonghong (Fred) Yang and   
               Norman R. Draper   The effects of model mis-specifications
                                  in linear measurement error models . . . 2123--2142
               Peter W. M. John   Breaking alias chains in fractional
                                  factorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2143--2155
          Steven G. Gilmour and   
                Luzia A. Trinca   Some practical advice on polynomial
                                  regression analysis from blocked
                                  response surface designs . . . . . . . . 2157--2180
                 Sofia Paul and   
                 Andre I. Khuri   Modified ridge analyses under
                                  nonstandard conditions . . . . . . . . . 2181--2200
           Norman R. Draper and   
                  Irwin Guttman   Assessing prior information for designed
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2201--2214
            Sandy D. Balkin and   
               Dennis K. J. Lin   A neural network approach to response
                                  surface methodology  . . . . . . . . . . 2215--2227
                Philip Prescott   Projection designs for mixture
                                  experiments in orthogonal blocks . . . . 2229--2253
             Scott Kowalski and   
            John A. Cornell and   
             G. Geoffrey Vining   A new model and class of designs for
                                  mixture experiments with process
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2255--2280
                  Ling-Yau Chan   Optimal designs for experiments with
                                  mixtures: a survey . . . . . . . . . . . 2281--2312
               K. Draper Norman   Applied regression analysis bibliography
                                  update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2313--2341
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 11, 2000

                P. Saavedra and   
     C. N. Hernández and   
                     J. Artiles   Spectral analysis with replicated time
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2343--2362
      Michael Falk Frank Marohn   Efficient estimation in local parametric
                                  regression analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 2363--2389
               Dong Q. Wang and   
                   F. Critchley   Multiple deletion measures and
                                  conditional influence in regression
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2391--2404
        Elisete C. Q. Aubin and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Bartlett-corrected tests for normal
                                  linear models when the error covariance
                                  matrix is nonscalar  . . . . . . . . . . 2405--2426
                   L. Gajek and   
                   A. Okolewski   Inequalities for generalized order
                                  statistics from some restricted family
                                  of distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . 2427--2438
              Sally McClean and   
                   Colum Devine   Nonparametric maximum likelihood
                                  estimation for artificially truncated
                                  absence data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2439--2457
                  Arthur Pewsey   The wrapped skew-normal distribution on
                                  the circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2459--2472
              Jonghyeon Kim and   
                 Leon J. Gleser   SIMEX approaches to measurement error in
                                  ROC studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2473--2491
          Jungsywan H. Sepanski   On a random coefficient probit model . . 2493--2505
           Zhong-Zhan Zhang and   
             Yoshinori Fuji and   
               Takashi Yanagawa   On Mantel--Haenszel type estimators in
                                  simple nested case-control studies . . . 2507--2521
                Hyo-Ii Park and   
              Jung-Sub Park and   
                  Seung-Joo Lee   Asymptotic equivalence between two
                                  empirical mean residual life processes   2523--2533
          Werner Hürlimann   General location transform of the order
                                  statistics from the exponential, Pareto
                                  and Weibull, with application to maximum
                                  likelihood estimation  . . . . . . . . . 2535--2545
            Teruo Nakatsuma and   
             Elena Gouskova and   
             Jinichi Uemura and   
                 Hiroki Tsurumi   Ratio tests of a unit root . . . . . . . 2547--2571
              A. R. De Leon and   
                 K. C. Carriere   On the one-sample location hypothesis
                                  for mixed bivariate data . . . . . . . . 2573--2581
     De Wayne R. Derryberry and   
               Paul A. Murtaugh   A scale-location adjustment for
                                  proportional hazards deviance residuals  2583--2591
                W. L. Pearn and   
                      G. H. Lin   Estimating capability index c$_{pk}$ for
                                  processes with asymmetric tolerances . . 2593--2604
            I. B. J. Goudie and   
                   J. Ashbridge   A conditionally-unbiased estimator of
                                  population size based on plant-capture
                                  in continuous time . . . . . . . . . . . 2605--2619
       Ramkrishna L. Shinde and   
              Ashok Shanubhogue   Estimation of parameters and the mean
                                  life of a mixed failure time
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2621--2642
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 29, Number 12, 2000

          Caries M. Cuadras and   
                  Younes Lahlou   Some orthogonal expansions for the
                                  logistic distribution  . . . . . . . . . 2643--2663
   Jörg-Uwe Löbus and   
                    Lutz Ritter   The limiting power of the Durbin--Watson
                                  test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2665--2676
      Christopher S. Coffey and   
                Keith E. Muller   Seme distributions and their
                                  implications for an internal pilot study
                                  with a univariate linear model . . . . . 2677--2691
                    T. Pham-Gia   Distributions of the ratios of
                                  independent beta variables and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2693--2715
        Govind S. Mudholkar and   
           Deo Kumar Srivastava   Robust analogs of Hotelling's two-sample
                                  $ T^2 $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2717--2749
                  Xiaohu Li and   
             Chengkui Zhong and   
                    Bingyi Jing   Test for new better than used in convex
                                  ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2751--2760
             Despina Dasiou and   
             Chronis Moyssiadis   Robustness of confidence intervals for
                                  scale parameters based on $M$-estimators 2761--2773
                   G. Jones and   
                  C. D. Lai and   
                J. C. W. Rayner   A bivariate gamma mixture distribution   2775--2790
           Shaui K. Bar-Lev and   
                 Benzion Boukal   On a UMP and curtailed double sampling
                                  test for proportions . . . . . . . . . . 2791--2803
               Hisashi Tanizaki   Nonlinear and non-Gaussian state
                                  estimation: A quasi-optimal estimator    2805--2834
                    Wang-Shu Lu   Improved confidence intervals for a
                                  binomial parameter using the Bayesian
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2835--2847
                   Daniel Barry   A Bayesian analysis for less smooth
                                  departures from polynomial regression
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2849--2864
                Dal Ho Kirn and   
               Woo Dong Lee and   
                  Sang Gil Kang   Bayesian model selection for life time
                                  data under type II censoring . . . . . . 2865--2878
                 Layth C. Alwan   Designing an effective exponential cusum
                                  chart without the use of nomographs  . . 2879--2893
      Rüdiger Vollandt and   
               Manfred Horn and   
                  Pranab K. Sen   Sample size determination of Steel's
                                  nonparametric many-one test  . . . . . . 2895--2914
            Charles J. Monlezun   Addendum to fitting polynomials to main
                                  effects in multi factor experiments: A
                                  note concerning polynomial coefficients
                                  when all factors are quantitative  . . . 2915--2919
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 1, 2001

            Mitchell Watnik and   
             Wesley Johnson and   
              Edward J. Bedrick   Nonnested Linear Model Selection
                                  Revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
                     Julie Zhou   Integer-Valued, Minimax Robust Designs
                                  for Approximately Linear Models with
                                  Correlated Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . 21--39
                 Qihua Wang and   
                     Lixing Zhu   Estimation in Partly Linear
                                  Error-In-Covariable Models with Censored
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--54
           Anoop Chaturvedi and   
             Alan T. K. Wan and   
                  Shri P. Singh   Stein-Rule Restricted Regression
                                  Estimator in a Linear Regression Model
                                  with Nonspherical Disturbances . . . . . 55--68
                  J. Ahmadi and   
                  N. R. Arghami   Some Univariate Stochastic Orders on
                                  Record Values  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74
                  Raul P. Mentz   Likelihood Ratio Test of Equality of
                                  Several Variances in the Intraclass
                                  Correlation Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 75--91
           Ramalingam Shanmugam   Predicting a ``Successful'' Prevention
                                  of an Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--103
         M. Menéndez and   
                 D. Morales and   
                   L. Pardo and   
                       I. Vajda   Approximations to powers of $ \phi
                                  $-disparity goodness-of-fit tests  . . . 105--134
                     W. Liu and   
                   A. J. Hayter   Selecting and Sharpening Inferences in
                                  Simultaneous Inference with a Bayesian
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--145
                 Daling Wen and   
                 Martin S. Levy   BLINEX: a Bounded Asymmetric Loss
                                  Function with Application to Bayesian
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--153
                 Daling Wen and   
                 Martin S. Levy   Admissibility of Bayes Estimates under
                                  BLINEX Loss for the Normal Mean Problem  155--163
               P. C. Consul and   
                   Felix Famoye   On Lagrangian Distributions of the
                                  Second Kind  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--178
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Bayesian Inference in Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--193

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 2, 2001

            Seuck Heun Song and   
             Götz Trenkler   On the Efficiency of the
                                  Cochrane--Orcutt Estimator in the
                                  Serially Correlated Error Components
                                  Regression Model for Panel Data  . . . . 195--207
                 Walter Tinsson   Prediction of the Variations of the Mean
                                  Response by Using Experimental Design
                                  with Quantitative Factors and Random
                                  Block Effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--228
                  P. Ndlovu and   
                     J. Preater   Calibration Using a Piecewise Simple
                                  Linear Regression Model  . . . . . . . . 229--242
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Bayesian Multivariate Poisson Regression 243--255
                 John Byrne and   
                   Paul Kabaila   Short Exact Confidence Intervals for the
                                  Poisson Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--261
               Linda Lee Ho and   
          Julio da Motta Singer   Generalized Least Squares Methods for
                                  Bivariate Poisson Regression . . . . . . 263--277
         N. David Yanez III and   
          Gregory R. Warnes and   
             Richard A. Kronmal   A Univariate Measurement Error Model for
                                  Longitudinal Change  . . . . . . . . . . 279--287
Germán Aneiros-Pérez and   
Alejandro Quintela-del-Río   Modified Cross-Validation in
                                  Semiparametric Regression Models with
                                  Dependent Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--307
          Satish K. Agarwal and   
              Jamal A. Al-Saleh   Generalized Gamma Type Distribution and
                                  Its Hazard Rate Function . . . . . . . . 309--318
                  Chien-Tai Lin   Nonparametric Classification on Two
                                  Univariate Distributions . . . . . . . . 319--330
                  Erhard Cramer   Inference for Stress-Strength Models
                                  Based on Weinman Multivariate
                                  Exponential Samples  . . . . . . . . . . 331--346
       Sadullah Sakallioglu and   
Selabattin Kaçiranlar and   
                  Fikri Akdeniz   Mean Squared Error Comparisons of Some
                                  Biased Regression Estimators . . . . . . 347--361
          Deborah H. Glueck and   
                Keith E. Muller   On the Expected Values of Sequences of
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--369
    Marjorie E. Bond, Ph.D. and   
        James J. Higgins, Ph.D.   A note on `A comparison of Bayes and
                                  maximum likelihood estimation of the
                                  intraclass correlation coefficient'  . . 371--380

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 3, 2001

            Barry C. Arnold and   
           Enrique Castillo and   
José María Sarabia   Quantification of Incompatibility of
                                  Conditional and Marginal Information . . 381--395
                K. Muralidharan   Tests for Exponentiality Against Gamma
                                  Alternatives Using Normalized Waiting
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--405
             H. Boudjellaba and   
               B. MacGibbon and   
                      P. Sawyer   On Exact Inference for Change in a
                                  Poisson Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--434
            Nian-Sheng Tang and   
               Bo-Cheng Wei and   
                   Xue-Ren Wang   Local Influence in Nonlinear
                                  Reproductive Dispersion Models . . . . . 435--449
                   Chun Jin and   
              Abdulaziz Elfessi   On the Common Scale Parameter of Several
                                  Pareto Populations in Censored Samples   451--462
                 Baibing Li and   
           Elaine B. Martin and   
               A. Julian Morris   A Graphical Technique for Detecting
                                  Influential Cases in Regression Analysis 463--483
            Richard A. Chechile   Bayesian Analysis of Gumbel Distributed
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--496
         M. González and   
                  M. Molina and   
                        M. Mota   Estimation of the Offspring Distribution
                                  and the Mean Vector for a Bisexual
                                  Galton--Watson Process . . . . . . . . . 497--516
               Aysen Akkaya and   
                   Moti L. Tiku   Estimating Parameters in Autoregressive
                                  Models in Non-Normal Situations:
                                  Asymmetric Innovations . . . . . . . . . 517--536
           Zdenek Fabián   Induced Cores and Their Use in Robust
                                  Parametric Estimation  . . . . . . . . . 537--555
                   Min Chen and   
                     Gemai Chen   A Nonparametric Test of Changing
                                  Conditional Variances in Autoregressive
                                  Time Series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--578

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 4, 2001

               Neil H. Timm and   
              Ali A. Al-Subaihi   Testing Model Specification in Seemingly
                                  Unrelated Regression Models  . . . . . . 579--590
            E. Letón and   
                     P. Zuluaga   Equivalence Between Score and Weighted
                                  Tests for Survival Curves  . . . . . . . 591--608
                ByoungSeon Choi   The Asymptotic Joint Distribution of the
                                  Yule--Walker Estimators of a Causal
                                  Multidimensional AR Process  . . . . . . 609--614
           George Montopoli and   
             Donald A. Anderson   The Analysis of Discrete Choice
                                  Experiments with Correlated Error
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--626
         Amita K. Manatunga and   
             John M. Williamson   Assessing Familial Aggregation with an
                                  Ordinal Response . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--641
          Anthony Y. C. Kuk and   
                  T. K. Mak and   
                       W. K. Li   Estimation Procedures for Categorical
                                  Survey Data with Nonignorable
                                  Nonresponse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--663
             Athanassios Katsis   Calculating the Optimal Sample Size for
                                  Binomial Populations . . . . . . . . . . 665--678
          Alberto Luceño   Selection of Sample Size for Discrete
                                  Feedback Dead-Band Control Schemes . . . 679--689
              Gianpaolo Pulcini   On the Prediction of Future Failures for
                                  a Repairable Equipment Subject to
                                  Overhauls  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--706
                Yanqing Sun and   
                   Shan Sun and   
                    Yuanan Diao   Smooth Quantile Processes from Right
                                  Censored Data and Construction of
                                  Simultaneous Confidence Bands  . . . . . 707--727
                Ping-Hung Hsieh   On Bayesian Predictive Moments of Next
                                  Record Value Using Three-Parameter Gamma
                                  Priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--738
               Piotr Pawlas and   
                 Dominik Szynal   Recurrence Relations for Single and
                                  Product Moments of Generalized Order
                                  Statistics from Pareto, Generalized
                                  Pareto, and Burr Distributions . . . . . 739--746
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Exact Inference in Four-Parameter
                                  Generalized Gamma Distributions  . . . . 747--756
                   K. Anaya and   
                    F. O'Reilly   Test of Fit for the Inverse Gaussian and
                                  Gamma Distributions under Censoring  . . 757--773
             Juei-Chao Chen and   
                  Shen-Ming Lee   Approximation to Optimal Stopping Rules
                                  for Gamma Random Variables with Unknown
                                  Location and Scale Parameters  . . . . . 775--784
            Jeffrey T. Terpstra   The Median Estimate of the
                                  Autoregressive Location Parameter  . . . 785--786

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 5, 2001

               Mammo Woldie and   
             J. Leroy Folks and   
               John P. Chandler   Power Function for Inverse Gaussian
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 787--797
M. Mercedes Suárez Rancel and   
Miguel A. González Sierra   Regression Diagnostic Using Local
                                  Influence: a Review  . . . . . . . . . . 799--813
  Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota and   
          Kathleen Kocherlakota   Regression in the Bivariate Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--825
José A. Díaz-García and   
          Rogelio Ramos-Quiroga   An Approach to Optimization in Response
                                  Surface Methodology  . . . . . . . . . . 827--835
               Manisha Sane and   
               A. V. Kharshikar   Effect of Missing an Influential
                                  Covariate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--853
           Hisashi Tanizaki and   
                  Xingyun Zhang   Posterior Analysis of the Multiplicative
                                  Heteroscedasticity Model . . . . . . . . 855--874
                 M. H. Chen and   
                     P. C. Wang   Multi-Level Factorial Designs with
                                  Minimum Numbers of Level Changes . . . . 875--885
                        Heng Li   Nested Designs with Multivariate
                                  Measurement: an Illustration of the
                                  Structural Approach to Random Effects
                                  Multivariate Analysis of Variance  . . . 887--895
          Göran Arnoldsson   Optimal Designs for Binomial Sampling
                                  under a Mixture Hypothesis . . . . . . . 897--911
     Karen Leffondré and   
            Joseph Lellouch and   
Catherine Com-Nougué and   
                 Thierry Moreau   Optimality of Nonparametric Tests for
                                  Association Between Survival Time and
                                  Continuous Covariates  . . . . . . . . . 913--929
              Hironori Takeuchi   On the Likelihood Ratio Test for a
                                  Single Model Against the Mixture of Two
                                  Known Densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--942
Jose M. González-Barrios and   
              Raúl Rueda   On Convergence Theorems for Quantiles    943--955
F. López-Blázquez and   
       B. Salamanca-Miño   Exact and Approximated Relations Between
                                  Negative Hypergeometric and Negative
                                  Binomial Probabilities . . . . . . . . . 957--967
             Yisrael Parmet and   
             David M. Steinberg   Quality Improvement from
                                  Disassembly-Reassembly Experiments . . . 969--985
            E. Gómez and   
M. A. Gómez-Villegas and   
             J. M. Marín   Response to Letter to the Editor . . . . 989--992

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 6, 2001

           M. Qamarul Islam and   
               Moti L. Tiku and   
                    F. Yildirim   Nonnormal Regression. I. Skew
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993--1020
               Moti L. Tiku and   
           M. Qamarul Islam and   
        A. Sevtap Selçuk   Nonnormal Regression. II. Symmetric
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1045
               Nan-Jung Hsu and   
              Bonnie K. Ray and   
                  F. Jay Breidt   Long-Range Dependent Common Factor
                                  Models: a Bayesian Approach  . . . . . . 1047--1061
               Pierre Dutilleul   Multi-Frequential Periodogram Analysis
                                  and the Detection of Periodic Components
                                  in Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1098
          Ibrahim A. Salama and   
                     Dana Quade   The Symmetric Footrule . . . . . . . . . 1099--1109
                   Ming Tan and   
             Guo-Liang Tian and   
                 Xiaoping Xiong   Explicit Bayesian Solution for
                                  Incomplete Pre-Post Test Problems Using
                                  Inverse Bayes Formulae . . . . . . . . . 1111--1129
           Bhaskar Bhattacharya   Csiszar Divergence from Constant Failure
                                  Rate Model for Grouped Data  . . . . . . 1131--1141
          Samir M. Shaarawy and   
              Ahmed L. Daif and   
                Alyaa R. Zahran   Bayesian Classification of ARMA Sources
                                  with Unknown Order . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1154
            Roger B. Nelsen and   
José Juan Quesada-Molina and   
Joseé Antonio Rodriíguez-Lallena and   
     Manuel Úbeda-Flores   Bounds on Bivariate Distribution
                                  Functions with Given Margins and
                                  Measures of Association  . . . . . . . . 1155--1162
                 L. C. Zhao and   
                       H. Zhang   A Central Limit Theorem for Testing
                                  Exponentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163--1170
                  Fikri Akdeniz   The Examination and Analysis of
                                  Residuals for Some Biased Estimators in
                                  Linear Regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 1171--1183
               Anup Dewanji and   
                 Tummala S. Rao   On System Reliability under
                                  Stress-Strength Modeling . . . . . . . . 1185--1196
           Enrique Castillo and   
                Ali S. Hadi and   
                 Beatriz Lacruz   Regression Diagnostics for the Least
                                  Absolute Deviations and the Minimax
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1225
             Gianluigi Rech and   
       Timo Teräsvirta and   
                 Rolf Tschernig   A Simple Variable Selection Technique
                                  for Nonlinear Models . . . . . . . . . . 1227--1241

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 7, 2001

                F. Belzunce and   
        A. Guillamón and   
                 J. Navarro and   
                     J. M. Ruiz   Kernel Estimation of Residual Entropy    1243--1255
               Jong-Hyeon Jeong   A Note on Asymptotic Efficiency of a
                                  Regression Coefficient Parameter under
                                  Ordinal Logistic Regression Model  . . . 1257--1269
M. Francisco-Fernández and   
   J. M. Vilar-Fernández   Local Polynomial Regression Estimation
                                  with Correlated Errors . . . . . . . . . 1271--1293
    Lúcia P. Barroso and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
       Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos   Improved Score Tests for von Mises
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1295--1315
Hérbetes de H. Cordeiro and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Skewness for Parameters in Generalized
                                  Linear Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317--1334
             Birdal Senoglu and   
                   Moti L. Tiku   Analysis of Variance in Experimental
                                  Design with Nonnormal Error
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1352
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
    Lourdes Coral C. Montenegro   Bartlett Corrected Likelihood Ratio
                                  Tests in Location-Scale Nonlinear Models 1353--1372
                    Hua Lin and   
                    Andy H. Lee   A Conditional Cook's Distance to Assess
                                  Influence in Autoregressive Models . . . 1373--1380
              Chin-Fu Hsiao and   
              Murray K. Clayton   Bayes Discrete Sequential Boundaries for
                                  Clinical Trials  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1394
           Essam K. Al-Hussaini   On Bayes Prediction of Future Median . . 1395--1410
            Charles J. Monlezun   Orthogonally Decomposing the Interaction
                                  Sum of Squares in Two Factor Experiments
                                  When Both Factors Are Quantitative:
                                  Unbalanced Data and Unequal Spacing  . . 1411--1433
               Neeraj Misra and   
       Edward C. van der Meulen   A New Test of Uniformity Based on
                                  Overlapping Sample Spacings  . . . . . . 1435--1470
                    Jeng-Fu Liu   Two-Stage Approximation of Expected
                                  Reward for Gamma Random Variables  . . . 1471--1480
                     Mei Lu and   
                 Gary Chase and   
                      Shuhui Li   Permutation tests and other test
                                  statistics for ill-behaved data:
                                  experience of the NINDS $t$-PA Stroke
                                  Trial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1481--1496

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 8--9, 2001

                     Zhijun Liu   Asymptotic Efficiency of Analysis of
                                  Rao's Quadratic Entropy  . . . . . . . . 1497--1506
        Govind S. Mudholkar and   
                      Lili Tian   On the Null Distributions of the Entropy
                                  Tests for the Gaussian and Inverse
                                  Gaussian Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1507--1520
                   Dongsheng Tu   Rao's Score Tests in Survival Analysis:
                                  Examples and Bartlett Type Adjustments   1521--1532
               Anil K. Bera and   
                  Yannis Bilias   On Some Optimality Properties of
                                  Fisher--Rao Score Function in Testing
                                  and Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1559
              Debasis Kundu and   
                  Swagata Nandi   On Asymptotic Properties of a Two
                                  Dimensional Frequency Estimator  . . . . 1561--1577
                      Y. Wu and   
                  K. W. Tam and   
                  M. M. Zen and   
                          F. Li   A Note on Estimating the Number of
                                  Superimposed Exponential Signals by the
                                  Cross-Validation Approach  . . . . . . . 1579--1589
         Jürgen Kleffe and   
                 Ragnar Norberg   Minimum Norm Estimation of Variance
                                  Components for Life Insurance Data . . . 1591--1603
            Poduri S. R. S. Rao   Nonnegative Estimators for the One-Way
                                  Random Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 1605--1613
              Kevin J. Keen and   
               Robert C. Elston   A Problem in Ascertainment . . . . . . . 1615--1631
       G. J. Székely and   
              T. F. Móri   A Characteristic Measure of Asymmetry
                                  and Its Application for Testing Diagonal
                                  Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1633--1639
              Ram C. Tiwari and   
                   Paul H. Kvam   Ranked Set Sampling from Location-Scale
                                  Families of Symmetric Distributions  . . 1641--1659
            O. J. Shoemaker and   
                   P. K. Pathak   The Sequential Bootstrap: a Comparison
                                  with Regular Bootstrap . . . . . . . . . 1661--1674
               Vic Patrangenaru   New Large Sample and Bootstrap Methods
                                  on Shape Spaces in High Level Analysis
                                  of Natural Images  . . . . . . . . . . . 1675--1693
                R. de Bruin and   
               W. Schaafsma and   
        A. G. M. Steerneman and   
                 G. N. van Vark   Size and Shape as Linear Combinations of
                                  Untransformed Measurements . . . . . . . 1695--1714
             Subal C. Kumbhakar   Risk Preferences under Price
                                  Uncertainties and Production Risk  . . . 1715--1735
              Ram C. Dahiya and   
           Paul G. Staneski and   
                N. Rao Chaganty   Maximum Likelihood Estimation of
                                  Parameters of the Truncated Cauchy
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1737--1750
           Hidetoshi Shimodaira   Multiple Comparisons of Log-Likelihoods
                                  and Combining Nonnested Models with
                                  Applications to Phylogenetic Tree
                                  Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1751--1772
                 Makoto Aoshima   Sample Size Determination for Multiple
                                  Comparisons with Components of a Linear
                                  Function of Mean Vectors . . . . . . . . 1773--1788
        Govind S. Mudholkar and   
                 James Kost and   
                 Perla Subbaiah   Robust Tests for the Significance of
                                  Orthant Restricted Mean Vector . . . . . 1789--1810
          Andrew M. Hartley and   
               Dayanand N. Naik   Estimation of Familial Correlations
                                  under Autoregressive Circular Covariance 1811--1828
               Raoul LePage and   
                  Michal Ryznar   Conditioning vs. Standardization for
                                  Contrasts on Errors Attracted to Stable
                                  Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829--1850
            Carlos W. Brain and   
                         Jie Mi   On Some Properties of the Quantiles of
                                  the Chi-Square Distribution and Their
                                  Applications to Interval Estimation  . . 1851--1867
                Stephan R. Sain   Bias Reduction and Elimination with
                                  Kernel Estimators  . . . . . . . . . . . 1869--1888
             Nalini Ravishanker   Differential geometry of ARFIMA
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1889--1902
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
                   Robin Warren   Determination of Change Points of
                                  Non-Monotonic Failure Rates  . . . . . . 1903--1920
                 Rita Aggarwala   Progressive Interval Censoring: Some
                                  Mathematical Results with Applications
                                  to Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1921--1935
              Youn-Min Chou and   
            Robert L. Mason and   
                  John C. Young   The Control Chart for Individual
                                  Observations from a Multivariate
                                  Non-Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . 1937--1949
              Bovas Abraham and   
                    Mike Brajac   Variation Reduction and Robust Designs   1951--1962
                Barry C. Arnold   Beads, Bags, Bayes, and the Fundamental
                                  Problem of Sampling Theory . . . . . . . 1963--1967

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 10, 2001

            Robert H. Lyles and   
          Douglas J. Taylor and   
            John J. Hanfelt and   
             Lawrence L. Kupper   An Alternative Parametric Approach for
                                  Discrete Missing Data Problems . . . . . 1969--1988
            Yoshihiro Usami and   
               Yasuyuki Toyooka   An Examination of Estimated Residuals in
                                  a Regression with an Infinite Order
                                  Parametric Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989--2004
         J. Michael Jackson and   
                 John E. Hewett   Evaluation of Power of Tests Involving
                                  Covariates under Nonconstant Variance    2005--2021
              Myung-Hoe Huh and   
                Myoungshic Jhun   Random Permutation Testing in Multiple
                                  Linear Regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 2023--2032
                   Seongbaek Yi   Asymptotic Stability of the OSCV
                                  Smoothing Parameter Selection  . . . . . 2033--2044
                   Taesung Park   Segmented Dose-Response Models for
                                  Repeated Measures Data . . . . . . . . . 2045--2056
        K. H. Garcia-Alfaro and   
                   H. Bolfarine   Comparative Calibration with Subgroups   2057--2078
               Paul Janssen and   
              Jan Swanepoel and   
          Noël Veraverbeke   Efficiency of Linear Regression
                                  Estimators Based on Presmoothing . . . . 2079--2097
                 Kazuo Noda and   
                      Hideo Ono   On UMP invariant $F$-test procedures in
                                  a general linear model . . . . . . . . . 2099--2115
     Ömer Öztürk   A Nonparametric Test of Symmetry Versus
                                  Asymmetry for Ranked-Set Samples . . . . 2117--2133
                M. I. Hendi and   
                A. M. Abouammoh   Testing New Better Than Renewal Used
                                  Life Distributions Based on $U$-Test . . 2135--2147
          Deborah J. Street and   
             David S. Bunch and   
              Beverley J. Moore   Optimal designs for $ 2^k $ paired
                                  comparison experiments . . . . . . . . . 2149--2171
                 Kim-Anh Do and   
                Xuemei Wang and   
               Bradley M. Broom   Importance Bootstrap Resampling for
                                  Proportional Hazards Regression  . . . . 2173--2188
           C. Matthew Jones and   
         Anatoly A. Zhigljavsky   Comparison of Costs for Multi-Stage
                                  Group Testing Methods in the
                                  Pharmaceutical Industry  . . . . . . . . 2189--2209
            Luis A. Escobar and   
              William Q. Meeker   The Asymptotic Equivalence of the Fisher
                                  Information Matrices for Type I and Type
                                  II Censored Data from Location-Scale
                                  Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2211--2225
            Aysen D. Akkaya and   
                     M. L. Tiku   Corrigendum: Time Series Models with
                                  Asymmetric Innovations . . . . . . . . . 2227--2230

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 11, 2001

            C. Radhakrishna Rao   Statistics: Reflections on the Past and
                                  Visions for the Future . . . . . . . . . 2235--2257
       Santosh C. Sutradhar and   
            Brajendra Sutradhar   On Classification of a Bivariate Binary
                                  Observation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2259--2279
         Nalini Ravishanker and   
               Dipak K. Dey and   
                 Malini Iyengar   Compositional Time Series Analysis of
                                  Mortality Proportions  . . . . . . . . . 2281--2291
                   Chang Yu and   
               Daniel Zelterman   Exact Inference for Family Disease
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2293--2305
             Mehdi Razzaghi and   
                Ralph L. Kodell   An Extension of the Em Algorithm for
                                  Optimization of Constrained Likelihood:
                                  an Application in Toxicology . . . . . . 2317--2327
            Chong Hyung Lee and   
             Kyung Hyun Nam and   
                   Dong Ho Park   Optimal Software Release Policy Based on
                                  Markovian Perfect Debugging Model  . . . 2329--2342
                   Shunpu Zhang   Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test for
                                  the Shoulder Condition in Line Transect
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2343--2354
               Z. Govindarajulu   Characterization of Double Exponential
                                  Distribution Using Moments of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2355--2372
               Adrienne W. Kemp   The $q$-beta-geometric distribution as a
                                  model for fecundability  . . . . . . . . 2373--2384
           Ramalingam Shanmugam   Product Moment Generating Function
                                  Technique and Its Applications to
                                  Modified Power Series Distributions  . . 2385--2392
                     Keyue Ding   Properties of the Minimum Point of an
                                  Unbalanced Two-Sided Random Walk . . . . 2393--2414
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
                   Nicole Brown   Reliability Studies of the Skew-Normal
                                  Distribution and Its Application to a
                                  Strength-Stress Model  . . . . . . . . . 2427--2445
         Rameshwar D. Gupta and   
                  Asok K. Nanda   Some Results on Reversed Hazard Rate
                                  Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2447--2457
            Mark Fitzgerald and   
                    Rick Picard   Accelerated Monte Carlo for Particle
                                  Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2459--2471
       Prashant S. Sansgiry and   
                    Olcay Akman   Reliability Estimation Via Length-Biased
                                  Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2473--2479

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 30, Number 12, 2001

      Rüdiger Vollandt and   
                   Manfred Horn   Sample Size Determination for Multiple
                                  Many-One and Pairwise Comparisons of
                                  Proportions Using the Arcsin
                                  Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2481--2498
          Jan G. De Gooijer and   
                Ali Gannoun and   
                    Dawit Zerom   Multi-Stage Kernel-Based Conditional
                                  Quantile Prediction in Time Series . . . 2499--2515
            Barry C. Arnold and   
           Enrique Castillo and   
José María Sarabia   A Multivariate Version of Stein's
                                  Identity with Applications to Moment
                                  Calculations and Estimation of
                                  Conditionally Specified Distributions    2517--2542
               Neeraj Misra and   
       Edward C. van der Meulen   On Estimation Following Selection from
                                  Nonregular Distributions . . . . . . . . 2543--2561
             Younshik Chung and   
               Dipak K. Dey and   
                   Sangjeen Lee   Applying the Savage--Dickey Density
                                  Ratio to Default Bayes Factors, with an
                                  Illustration to Outlier Detection in
                                  Random Effects Models  . . . . . . . . . 2563--2582
          Rakesh Srivastava and   
                    Vilpa Tanna   An Estimation Procedure for Error
                                  Variance Incorporating Pts for Random
                                  Effects Model under LINEX Loss Function  2583--2599
                 Joseph Collins   Functional Estimation by Asymptotic
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2601--2635
            Shie-Shien Yang and   
                  Qifeng Yu and   
             Munther A. Al-Zaid   A Two-Stage Estimation Procedure for
                                  Linear Mixed-Effects Models  . . . . . . 2637--2653
      M. L. Menéndez and   
                J. A. Pardo and   
                       L. Pardo   Rao's Statistic for the Analysis of
                                  Uniform Association in
                                  Cross-Classifications  . . . . . . . . . 2655--2681
            Mirjam Moerbeek and   
 Gerard J. P. Van Breukelen and   
           Martijn P. F. Berger   Optimal Experimental Designs for
                                  Multilevel Models with Covariates  . . . 2683--2697
Selahattin Kaçiranlar and   
           Sadullah Sakallioglu   Combining the Liu Estimator and the
                                  Principal Component Regression Estimator 2699--2705
                   Daniel Barry   Bayesian Smoothing with Occasional Jumps 2707--2719
                 K. G. Janardan   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 2721--2722


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 1, 2002

              Byungjin Choi and   
                   Keeyoung Kim   Minimum Discrimination Information
                                  Estimator of the Inverse Gaussian Mean
                                  with Known Coefficient of Variation  . . 1--10
             Byung Hwee Kim and   
               Hoh Yoo Baek and   
                  In Hong Chang   Improved Estimators of the Natural
                                  Parameters in Continuous Multiparameter
                                  Exponential Families . . . . . . . . . . 11--29
           Parimal Mukhopadhyay   On Estimating Functions in the Presence
                                  of a Nuisance Parameter  . . . . . . . . 31--36
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Bayesian Analysis of Finite Mixtures of
                                  Weibull Distributions  . . . . . . . . . 37--48
              Dani Gamerman and   
             Ajax R. B. Moreira   Bayesian Analysis of Econometric Time
                                  Series Models Using Hybrid Integration
                                  Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--72
                B. R. Handa and   
                N. S. Kambo and   
                C. D. Ravindran   Testing of Scale Parameter of the
                                  Exponential Distribution with Known
                                  Coefficient of Variation: Conditional
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--86
            Jean G. Orelien and   
                   Jun Zhai and   
             Richard Morris and   
                      Rich Cohn   An Approach to Performing Multiple
                                  Comparisons with a Control in Gee Models 87--105
             Dong Joon Park and   
                  Hyun Mi Hwang   Confidence Intervals for the Mean
                                  Response in the Simple Linear Regression
                                  Model with Balanced Nested Error
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--117
                  Hengqing Tong   Generalized Ridge Estimate of Parameters
                                  in Variance Component Model  . . . . . . 119--128
     Francisco Louzada-Neto and   
   Gleici Castro Perdoná   Accelerated Lifetime Tests with a
                                  Log-Non-Linear Stress-Response
                                  Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--146
            Agnieszka Rossa and   
            Ryszard Zieli\'nski   A Simple Improvement of the
                                  Kaplan--Meier Estimator  . . . . . . . . 147--158

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 2, 2002

          Nobuhiro Taneichi and   
                Yuri Sekiya and   
              Akio Suzukawa and   
                  Hideyuki Imai   A Formula for Normalizing Transformation
                                  of Some Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 163--179
         Girdhar G. Agarwal and   
         Rohan J. Dalpatadu and   
                 Ashok K. Singh   Linear Functions of Uniform Order
                                  Statistics and B-Splines . . . . . . . . 181--192
               John D. Spurrier   An Improved Lower Bound for Lehmann's
                                  Lambda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--199
Miguel A. Gómez-Villegas and   
         Paloma Maín and   
                      Luis Sanz   A Suitable Bayesian Approach in Testing
                                  Point Null Hypothesis: Some Examples
                                  Revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--217
               David C. Vaughan   The Generalized Secant Hyperbolic
                                  Distribution and Its Properties  . . . . 219--238
                 Suzanne Hudson   New Results for a Class of Univariate
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--247
                 Dae-Heung Jang   Measures for Evaluating
                                  Non-Orthogonality of Experimental
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--260
         Walter Krämer and   
                Francesc Marmol   OLS-based asymptotic inference in linear
                                  regression models with trending
                                  regressors and $ {\rm AR}(p)
                                  $-disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--270
                   Ming Lin and   
                   Laisheng Wei   The Small Sample Properties of the
                                  Principal Components Estimator for
                                  Regression Coefficients  . . . . . . . . 271--283
       Göran Broström   Cox Regression; Ties Without Tears . . . 285--297
               Youngjin Kim and   
                   Sangyeol Lee   On the Kolmogorov--Smirnov Type Test for
                                  Testing Nonlinearity in Time Series  . . 299--309
        Govind S. Mudholkar and   
                      Lili Tian   On the Null Distributions of the Entropy
                                  Tests for the Gaussian and Inverse
                                  Gaussian Models* . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--324

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 3, 2002

   Constantinos Petropoulos and   
             Stavros Kourouklis   A Class of Improved Estimators for the
                                  Scale Parameter of an Exponential
                                  Distribution with Unknown Location . . . 325--335
                   Frank Marohn   A Comment on Locally Most Powerful Tests
                                  in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters   337--349
                     Tak K. Mak   Modeling and Estimating Variances in
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--365
            Jeffrey T. Terpstra   Generalized Signed-Rank Estimators for
                                  Autoregression Parameters  . . . . . . . 367--395
     Brajendra C. Sutradhar and   
                Sanjoy K. Sinha   On Pseudo-Likelihood Inference in the
                                  Binary Longitudinal Mixed Model  . . . . 397--417
           Ruey-Ching Hwang and   
                   Mei-Lien Ken   Double Smoothing Estimation of the
                                  Multivariate Regression Function in
                                  Nonparametric Regression . . . . . . . . 419--434
        Anant M. Kshirsagar and   
                Kirk Steinhorst   A Unified Treatment of the Analysis of
                                  Experimental Designs Using Eigenvectors  435--447
                P. Prescott and   
                  R. A. Mansson   Efficiency of Pair-Wise Treatment
                                  Comparisons in Incomplete Block
                                  Experiments Subject to the Loss of a
                                  Block of Observations  . . . . . . . . . 449--462
            Craig A. Wilson and   
                 Mark E. Payton   Modelling the Coefficient of Variation
                                  in Factorial Experiments . . . . . . . . 463--476
              Chin-Shang Li and   
            Jeremy M. G. Taylor   Smoothing Covariate Effects in Cure
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--493

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 4, 2002

            Nicholas Eugene and   
                   Carl Lee and   
                   Felix Famoye   Beta-Normal Distribution and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--512
              Kunio Shimizu and   
                  Kazuyuki Iida   Pearson Type VII Distributions on
                                  Spheres  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--526
             S. R. Deshmukh and   
                  M. S. Kasture   Bivariate Distribution with Truncated
                                  Poisson Marginal Distributions . . . . . 527--534
                  Thomas Wenzel   Pitman-Closeness as a Measure to
                                  Evaluate the Quality of Forecasts  . . . 535--550
     Abdalla A. Abdel-Ghaly and   
             Ahmed F. Attia and   
           Magda M. Abdel-Ghani   The Maximum Likelihood Estimates in Step
                                  Partially Accelerated Life Tests for the
                                  Weibull Parameters in Censored Data  . . 551--573
         Richard M. Huggins and   
                      Anne Chao   Asymptotic Properties of an Optimal
                                  Estimating Function Approach to the
                                  Analysis of Mark Recapture Data  . . . . 575--595
             Lucio Barabesi and   
              Lorenzo Fattorini   Kernel Estimators of Probability Density
                                  Functions by Ranked-Set Sampling . . . . 597--610
             Colin M. Gallagher   Testing for Linear Dependence in
                                  Heavy-Tailed Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 611--623
                Yoshihiro Usami   Some Asymptotic Properties of the Least
                                  Squares Estimators of a Polynomial
                                  Regression with a Heteroskedastic Error  625--637
            Sudesh K. Srivastav   On Construction of Generalized Group
                                  Divisible Designs with Two Groups  . . . 639--647
              Lingyun Zhang and   
                     Gemai Chen   A Note on EWMA Charts for Monitoring
                                  Mean Changes in Normal Processes . . . . 649--661

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 5, 2002

José A. Díaz-García and   
Víctor Leiva-Sánchez and   
                   Manuel Galea   Singular Elliptical Distribution:
                                  Density and Applications . . . . . . . . 665--681
                    Quanxi Shao   A Reparameterisation Method for Embedded
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--697
                   Nao Ohyauchi   Comparison of the Bayes Risks of
                                  Estimators for a Family of Truncated
                                  Normal Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 699--718
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                M. R. Brito and   
                   A. J. Quiroz   Using Large Order Statistics of Runs for
                                  Tracking a Changing Bernoulli
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--732
               Mary E. Putt and   
           Vernon M. Chinchilli   Estimating the asymptotic variance of
                                  generalized $L$-statistics . . . . . . . 733--751
                     Yanhong Wu   Supplementary Score Test in Mixture
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--779
            Bernard Cerutti and   
            Toufik Zoubeidi and   
             David M. Reboussin   Adaptive Group Sequential Procedures for
                                  Multiple Comparison of Treatments  . . . 781--793
               D. N. Kashid and   
                 S. R. Kulkarni   A More General Criterion for Subset
                                  Selection in Multiple Linear Regression  795--811
                   Jian-Xin Pan   Influential Observation Identification
                                  in the Growth Curve Model with Rao's
                                  Simple Covariance Structure  . . . . . . 813--831
               Ruey-Ching Hwang   A New Version of the Local Constant
                                  $M$-Smoother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--848
              Gianpaolo Pulcini   Accounting for Model Uncertainty in
                                  Reliability Analysis of Mechanical
                                  Repairable Equipment . . . . . . . . . . 849--869

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 6, 2002

                Leda D. Minkova   A Generalization of the Classical
                                  Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 871--888
              Yoshio Komori and   
                   Hideo Hirose   Parameter Estimation Based on Grouped Or
                                  Continuous Data for Truncated
                                  Exponential Distributions  . . . . . . . 889--900
       Silvia L. P. Ferrari and   
      Miguel A. Uribe-Opazo and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Bartlett-Type Corrections for
                                  Two-Parameter Exponential Family Models  901--924
José María Sarabia and   
                  Marta Pascual   A Class of Lorenz Curves Based on Linear
                                  Exponential Loss Functions . . . . . . . 925--942
                     Linyuan Li   Hazard Rate Estimation for Censored Data
                                  by Wavelet Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 943--960
                Agnieszka Rossa   On the Estimation of Survival Function
                                  under Random Censorship  . . . . . . . . 961--975
                   A. Alavi and   
               A. Thavaneswaran   Nonparametric Estimators for Censored
                                  Correlated Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--985
                  Fikri Akdeniz   More on the Pre-Test Estimator in Ridge
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987--994
                     W. Tinsson   Parameter Estimation for the Fixed Block
                                  Effects Model Using a Usual Design . . . 995--1017
                   Minta Wu and   
              Robert F. Woolson   Modification of Kelly and Rice Method
                                  for Synergism Tests  . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1030
                 Chi-Ying Leung   Performance of the Location Linear
                                  Discriminant Function under
                                  Across-Location Heteroscedasticity . . . 1031--1044

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 7, 2002

                  Arthur Pewsey   Large-Sample Inference for the General
                                  Half-Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . 1045--1054
                   Frank Marohn   A Characterization of Generalized Pareto
                                  Distributions by Progressive Censoring
                                  Schemes and Goodness-Of-Fit Tests  . . . 1055--1065
            Ouadia Radouane and   
      Emmanuelle Crétois   Neyman Smooth Tests for the Generalized
                                  Pareto Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 1067--1078
          Rodolfo de Cristofaro   The Inductive Reasoning in Statistical
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1089
               Seong W. Kim and   
                     Dal Ho Kim   Intrinsic Priors for Two-Sample Tests in
                                  Normal Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1105
                     Y. P. Mack   Bias-Corrected Confidence Intervals for
                                  Wildlife Abundance Estimation  . . . . . 1107--1122
           Naveen K. Bansal and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Poisson Regression with a Periodic
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123--1136
                Jinhong You and   
                     Gemai Chen   Parameter Estimation in a Partly Linear
                                  Regression Model with Random Coefficient
                                  Autoregressive Errors  . . . . . . . . . 1137--1158
                Eduard Belitser   Consistency in Nonparametric Minimax
                                  Regression Estimation  . . . . . . . . . 1159--1165
             Christos P. Kitsos   The Simple Linear Calibration Problem as
                                  an Optimal Experimental Design . . . . . 1167--1177
         Naâmane Laib and   
                  Djamal Louani   On the Conditional Homoscedasticity Test
                                  in Autoregressive Model with Arch Error  1179--1202
      Chung-Chi Helen Chang and   
                Wenyaw Chan and   
                Asha S. Kapadia   The Analysis of Recurrent Failure Times:
                                  the Time-Dependent Yule Process Approach 1203--1213
   Liciana V. A. S. Chalita and   
         Enrico A. Colosimo and   
  Clarice G. B. Demétrio   Likelihood Approximations and Discrete
                                  Models for Tied Survival Data  . . . . . 1215--1229

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 8, 2002

           Joseph P. Romano and   
                   Michael Wolf   Explicit Nonparametric Confidence
                                  Intervals for the Variance with
                                  Guaranteed Coverage  . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1250
                    M. J. Appel   Best Estimation of a Binary Outcome in
                                  the Sense of Ks and Aroc . . . . . . . . 1251--1257
                 Sungho Lee and   
                   Dug Hun Hong   On a Strongly Consistent Wavelet Density
                                  Estimator for the Deconvolution Problem  1259--1272
                   Kang-Mo Jung   Influence Function of the Likelihood
                                  Ratio Test Statistic for Multivariate
                                  Normal Sample  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273--1281
                  Bob Zhong and   
                       Jun Shao   Testing the Agreement of Two
                                  Quantitative Assays in Individual Means  1283--1299
                  Erhard Cramer   A Note on Moments of Progressively Type
                                  II Censored Order Statistics . . . . . . 1301--1307
           Brenda MacGibbon and   
                   Jiang Lu and   
                  Hassan Younes   Limit Theorems for Asymptotically
                                  Minimax Estimation of a Distribution
                                  with Increasing Failure Rate under a
                                  Random Mixed Censorship/Truncation Model 1309--1333
                   Daniel Barry   A Bayesian Analysis for Derivative
                                  Change Points  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1348
             C. R. McKenzie and   
                Michael McAleer   Comparing tests of autoregressive versus
                                  moving average errors in regression
                                  models using Bahadur's asymptotic
                                  relative efficiency  . . . . . . . . . . 1349--1371
           K. B. Kulasekera and   
                Colin Gallagher   Variance Estimation in Nonparametric
                                  Multiple Regression  . . . . . . . . . . 1373--1383
            Seuck Heun Song and   
            Dietmar Stemann and   
              Byoung Cheol Jung   A Note on Estimating Linear Trend in a
                                  Regression Model with Serially
                                  Correlated Error Components  . . . . . . 1385--1398
                Engin A. Sungur   Some Results on Truncation Dependence
                                  Invariant Class of Copulas . . . . . . . 1399--1422
             Ulrich Menzefricke   On the Evaluation of Control Chart
                                  Limits Based on Predictive Distributions 1423--1440
              Darryn Bryant and   
               Yanxun Chang and   
               C. A. Rodger and   
                         R. Wei   Two-Dimensional Balanced Sampling Plans
                                  Excluding Contiguous Units . . . . . . . 1441--1455

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 9, 2002

                     Tze Fen Li   Bayes Empirical Bayes Approach to
                                  Estimation of the Failure Rate in
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 1457--1465
          Josemar Rodrigues and   
             Juan E. R. Cid and   
                Jorge A. Achcar   Bayesian Analysis for the Superposition
                                  of Two Dependent Nonhomogeneous Poisson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1467--1478
              Norbert Henze and   
             Simos G. Meintanis   Goodness-Of-Fit Tests Based on a New
                                  Characterization of the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1479--1497
                    Guido Knapp   Variance Estimation in the Error
                                  Components Regression Model  . . . . . . 1499--1514
    Lúcia P. Barroso and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
       Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos   Second-order asymptotics for score tests
                                  in heteroskedastic $t$ regression models 1515--1529
        Hernán Rubio and   
               Luis Firinguetti   The Distribution of Stochastic Shrinkage
                                  Parameters in Ridge Regression . . . . . 1531--1547
                  Ulric J. Lund   Tree-Based Regression for a Circular
                                  Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1560
                C. Angelini and   
                D. De Canditiis   Pointwise Convergence of the Wavelet
                                  Regularized Estimators . . . . . . . . . 1561--1578
               Yoshimitsu Nagai   Analysis of Masked Data in a Dependent
                                  Competing Risks Model under Unknown
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1579--1593
                 Pao-sheng Shen   A Note on the Homogenetic Estimate for
                                  the Variance of the Kaplan--Meier
                                  Estimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1595--1603
              Takashi Kanda and   
                Megu Ohtaki and   
             Yasunori Fujikoshi   Simultaneous confidence regions in an
                                  extended growth curve model with $k$
                                  hierarchical within-individuals design
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1605--1616
                 Ken-ichi Koike   On the Inequality of Kshirsagar  . . . . 1617--1627
             Richard Hudson and   
              Charles R. Lawoko   Generalised Least Squares (Gls)
                                  Estimation of the Difference Parameter
                                  in Long Memory (Arfima) Processes  . . . 1629--1646
            Michele Scagliarini   Estimation of $ C_p $ for autocorrelated
                                  data and measurement errors  . . . . . . 1647--1664
              R. Noorossana and   
         William H. Woodall and   
                 S. Amiriparian   On the Economic Design of Multivariate
                                  Control Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665--1673

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 10, 2002

            B. Chandrasekar and   
           T. Leo Alexander and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Equivariant Estimation for Parameters of
                                  Exponential Distributions Based on
                                  Type-II Progressively Censored Samples   1675--1686
                    Quanxi Shao   Maximum Likelihood Estimation for
                                  Generalised Logistic Distributions . . . 1687--1700
                 R. J. Cook and   
              V. P. Godambe and   
                 M. E. Thompson   Semiparametric Confidence Intervals
                                  Based on Estimating Functions  . . . . . 1701--1708
Audrey Helen M. A. Cysneiros and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   On improving the $ \chi^2 $
                                  approximation of score tests in
                                  location-scale nonlinear models  . . . . 1709--1732
                  M. A. Ali and   
                   M. Y. Ashkar   The Calibration Problem Revisited  . . . 1733--1741
            Magnus Ekström   Nonparametric Estimation of the Variance
                                  of Sample Means Based on Nonstationary
                                  Spatial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1743--1775
           Pallavi Chitturi and   
               Peter W. M. John   Nesting Optimal Main Effects Plans and
                                  Optimal Foldover Designs . . . . . . . . 1777--1794
           Dulal K. Bhaumik and   
          Ravindra Khattree and   
               Subhash C. Bagui   Statistical Tests for Nested Designs
                                  under Partial Balance  . . . . . . . . . 1795--1813
       Milorad S. Kovacevic and   
                   Shesh N. Rai   Log-Linear Modelling of Change Using
                                  Longitudinal Survey Data . . . . . . . . 1815--1835
                  Amr Sadek and   
               Nikolaos Limnios   Asymptotic Properties for Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimators for Reliability
                                  and Failure Rates of Markov Chains . . . 1837--1861
                   Hea-Jung Kim   Binary regression with a class of skewed
                                  $t$ link models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863--1886
               Kyungha Seok and   
              Changha Hwang and   
                   Daehyeon Cho   Prediction Intervals for Support Vector
                                  Machine Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 1887--1898

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 11, 2002

     Gregory A. Tripsiannis and   
       Andreas N. Philippou and   
      Afroditi A. Papathanasiou   Multivariate generalized Pólya
                                  distribution of order $k$  . . . . . . . 1899--1912
           Sutaip L. C. Saw and   
         Uditha Balasooriya and   
                 Khye Chong Tan   The Log-Eig Distribution: a New
                                  Probability Model for Lifetime Data  . . 1913--1926
          Mohammad Z. Raqab and   
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Sharp bounds for the mean of $k$ th
                                  record value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1927--1937
       John J. Lefante, Jr. and   
                 Arvind K. Shah   Robustness Properties of Lognormal
                                  Confidence Intervals for Lognormal and
                                  Gamma Distributed Data . . . . . . . . . 1939--1957
                  J. Burbea and   
                J. M. Oller and   
                    F. Reverter   Some Remarks on the Information Geometry
                                  of the Gamma Distribution  . . . . . . . 1959--1975
                     G. R. Wood   Assessing Goodness of Fit for Poisson
                                  and Negative Binomial Models with Low
                                  Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1977--2001
              Wen-Tao Huang and   
                     Yu-Pin Lin   An Improved Bayesian Sampling Plan for
                                  Exponential Population with Type I
                                  Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003--2025
               Milton Sobel and   
                   Aaron Childs   Dirichlet-Related Probability Problems
                                  and New Tools for Solving Them . . . . . 2027--2050
               Norman R. Draper   Applied Regression Analysis Bibliography
                                  Update 2000--2001  . . . . . . . . . . . 2051--2075
        Viren K. Srivastava and   
                 Alan T. K. Wan   Separate Versus System Methods of
                                  Stein-Rule Estimation in Seemingly
                                  Unrelated Regression Models  . . . . . . 2077--2099
          Jirí Andel and   
           Jitka Zichová   A Method for Estimating Parameter in
                                  Nonnegative $ {\rm MA}(1) $ Models . . . 2101--2111

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 31, Number 12, 2002

                   Wolf Schwarz   On the Convolution of Inverse Gaussian
                                  and Exponential Random Variables . . . . 2113--2121
          Jamal A. Al-Saleh and   
              Satish K. Agarwal   Finite Mixture of Certain Distributions  2123--2137
                S. B. Nandi and   
                   S. Choudhury   Series representation of doubly
                                  noncentral $t$ distribution by use of
                                  the Mellin integral transform  . . . . . 2139--2149
                   Holly Carley   Maximum and Minimum Extensions of Finite
                                  Subcopulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2151--2166
Eusebio Gómez Sánchez-Manzano and   
Miguel Angel Gómez-Villegas and   
Juan-Miguel Marín-Diazaraque   A Matrix Variate Generalization of the
                                  Power Exponential Family of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2167--2182
                  Shin-Soo Kang   Tests for Equality of Two Distributions
                                  with Correlated Interval Censored
                                  Life-Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2183--2196
              Gengsheng Qin and   
                       Min Tsao   Empirical Likelihood Ratio Confidence
                                  Interval for the Trimmed Mean  . . . . . 2197--2208
             Robert J. Blodgett   Measuring Improbability of Outcomes from
                                  a Serial Dilution Test . . . . . . . . . 2209--2223
                     Haim Shore   Response Modeling Methodology
                                  (RMM)-Exploring the Properties of the
                                  Implied Error Distribution . . . . . . . 2225--2249
               Xiaoqian Sun and   
                Jinhong You and   
                 Gemai Chen and   
                      Xian Zhou   Convergence rates of estimators in
                                  partial linear regression models with $
                                  {\rm MA}(\infty) $ error process . . . . 2251--2273
               Tae Yoon Kim and   
                 Cheolyong Park   Regression Smoothing Parameter Selection
                                  Using Cross Residuals Sum  . . . . . . . 2275--2287
                    Kanta Naito   Semiparametric Regression with
                                  Multiplicative Adjustment  . . . . . . . 2289--2309
             Tamás Rudas   Canonical Representation of Log-Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311--2323
                  Y. Tanaka and   
                   F. Zhang and   
                     W. S. Yang   On Local Influence in Canonical
                                  Correlation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2325--2347
              Manuel Franco and   
        Juana María Vivo   Reliability Properties of Series and
                                  Parallel Systems from Bivariate
                                  Exponential Models . . . . . . . . . . . 2349--2360
                    Omer Ozturk   Sub-Sample Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon Test  2361--2377
                     F. Sakaori   A Nonparametric Test for the Equality of
                                  Dependent Correlation Coefficients under
                                  Normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2379--2389
          P. E. Maravelakis and   
                S. Bersimis and   
               J. Panaretos and   
                    S. Psarakis   Identifying the Out of Control Variable
                                  in a Multivariate Control Chart  . . . . 2391--2408


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 1, 2003

          Do Le (Paul) Minh and   
             Nicholas R. Farnum   Using Bilinear Transformations to Induce
                                  Probability Distributions  . . . . . . . 1--9
José A. Díaz-García and   
Víctor Leiva-Sánchez   Doubly Non-central $t$  and
                                  Distributions Obtained Under Singular
                                  and Non-singular Elliptic Distributions  11--32
                  Kaican Li and   
                       Zhi Geng   The Noncentral Wishart Distribution and
                                  Related Distributions  . . . . . . . . . 33--45
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                    Kosto Mitov   Product Moments of Multivariate Random
                                  Vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60
                Taizhong Hu and   
                     Min Ma and   
                  Asok K. Nanda   Moment Inequalities for Discrete Ageing
                                  Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--90
                      J. Wu and   
                  A. C. M. Wong   A Note on Determining the $p$-Value of
                                  Bartlett's Test of Homogeneity of
                                  Variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--101
     Milorad S. Kovacevi\'c and   
                   Shesh N. Rai   A Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Approach to
                                  Multilevel Modelling of Survey Data  . . 103--121
                   TaChen Liang   On Empirical Bayes Testing for a
                                  Location Parameter in a Shifted Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--138
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                      N. Kannan   Variance of a Winsorized Mean When the
                                  Sample Contains Multiple Outliers  . . . 139--149
             Sven Ove Samuelsen   Mimicking Cox-Regression . . . . . . . . 151--169
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
                   Bo-Cheng Wei   Testing for Heteroscedasticity in
                                  Nonlinear Regression Models  . . . . . . 171--192
              Lalmohan Bhar and   
                    Amitava Dey   Robustness of Block Designs for Diallel
                                  Crosses Against Missing Data . . . . . . 193--213
              John J. Borkowski   Simple Latin Square Sampling $ \pm k $
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--237
            Rajender Parsad and   
                V. K. Gupta and   
                N. S. G. Prasad   Structurally Incomplete Row-Column
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--261
                  Susmita Datta   Statistical Techniques for Microarray
                                  Data: A Partial Overview . . . . . . . . 263--280

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 2, 2003

              Josemar Rodrigues   Bayesian Analysis of Zero-Inflated
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--289
          Ma\lgorzata Murat and   
                 Dominik Szynal   Moments of Certain Deformed Probability
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--313
             Vytaras Brazauskas   Information Matrix for Pareto(IV), Burr,
                                  and Related Distributions  . . . . . . . 315--325
       P. L. Novi Inverardi and   
                    A. Tagliani   Maximum Entropy Density Estimation from
                                  Fractional Moments . . . . . . . . . . . 327--345
               I. D. Shetty and   
                Sharada V. Bhat   A Class of Outlier Resistant
                                  Distribution-Free Tests for Testing
                                  Homogeneity Against Ordered Scale
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--379
             S. K. Upadhyay and   
                    M. Peshwani   Choice Between Weibull and Lognormal
                                  Models: A Simulation Based Bayesian
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--405
               Dong Q. Wang and   
               F. Critchley and   
                 Peter J. Smith   The Multiple Sets of Deletion Measures
                                  and Masking in Regression  . . . . . . . 407--413
         Tomás Hobza and   
              Isabel Molina and   
                Domingo Morales   Likelihood Divergence Statistics for
                                  Testing Hypotheses in Familial Data  . . 415--434
               Junhua Zhang and   
                     Weiwu Fang   A New Approach of Information
                                  Discrepancy to Analysis of Questionnaire
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--457
               Tatjana Pavlenko   Feature Informativeness in
                                  High-Dimensional Discriminant Analysis   459--474
              Galit Shmueli and   
                    Ayala Cohen   Run-Length Distribution for Control
                                  Charts with Runs and Scans Rules . . . . 475--495
           K. G. Ramamurthy and   
                Arvind Seth and   
       Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh   A Combinatorial Approach for Component
                                  Importance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--507
       Ramalingam Shanmugam and   
                   Jagbir Singh   Index of Variation with Illustration
                                  Using Molecular Data . . . . . . . . . . 509--517

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 3, 2003

                M. N. Goria and   
                    A. Tagliani   Bounds on the Tail Probability and
                                  Absolute Difference Between Two
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--532
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
                    Pai-Ling Li   Optimal Parameter Estimation of the
                                  Extreme Value Distribution Based on a
                                  Type II Censored Sample  . . . . . . . . 533--554
              Felipe Peraza and   
Graciela González-Farías   Indicator Variables in Spatial
                                  Prediction When \boldmath $ \Sigma $ Is
                                  Unknown  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--571
                  A. Zerbet and   
                     M. Nikulin   A New Statistic for Detecting Outliers
                                  in Exponential Case  . . . . . . . . . . 573--583
            Bernard Cerutti and   
                Toufik Zoubeidi   An Efficient Allocation in Group
                                  Sequential Tests for the Linear Mixed
                                  Effects Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--599
                 Lennart Norell   ANOVA Estimators Under Imbalance in the
                                  One-Way Random Model . . . . . . . . . . 601--623
José A. Díaz-García and   
         Manuel Galea Rojas and   
Víctor Leiva-Sánchez   Influence Diagnostics for Elliptical
                                  Multivariate Linear Regression Models    625--641
            Dimitris Karlis and   
            Gilbert Saporta and   
               Antonis Spinakis   A Simple Rule for the Selection of
                                  Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . 643--666
               Bruce E. Barrett   Understanding Influence in Multivariate
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--680
                Sneh Gulati and   
                    Jordan Neus   Goodness of Fit Statistics for the
                                  Exponential Distribution When the Data
                                  Are Grouped  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--700

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 4, 2003

                     R. Willink   Relationships Between Central Moments
                                  and Cumulants, with Formulae for the
                                  Central Moments of Gamma Distributions   701--704
         Rameshwar D. Gupta and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Closeness of Gamma and Generalized
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 705--721
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                   Hans Volkmer   A Characterization of Symmetric Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--728
              Chien-Tai Lin and   
               Sam J. S. Wu and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Parameter Estimation for the Linear
                                  Hazard Rate Distribution Based on
                                  Records and Inter-record Times . . . . . 729--748
Alberto Contreras-Cristán and   
Eduardo Gutiérrez-Peña and   
              Federico O'Reilly   Inference Using Latent Variables for
                                  Mixtures of Distributions for Censored
                                  Data with Partial Identification . . . . 749--774
                John Geweke and   
               Hisashi Tanizaki   Note on the Sampling Distribution for
                                  the Metropolis--Hastings Algorithm . . . 775--789
                  Lili Tian and   
            Govind S. Mudholkar   The Likelihood Ratio Tests for
                                  Homogeneity of Inverse Gaussian Means
                                  Under Simple Order and Simple Tree Order 791--805
               P. I. Nelson and   
                     K. E. Kemp   Testing for the Presence of a Maverick
                                  Judge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--826
                   Zukang Zheng   Improvement of Life Table Method . . . . 827--839
               Manuel Artis and   
             Mercedes Ayuso and   
             Montserrat Guillen   Approximated Perfect Values in Logistic
                                  Regression for Prediction and Outlier
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--850
        Mohand-Larbi Feddag and   
                  Ion Grama and   
                  Mounir Mesbah   Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE)
                                  for Mixed Logistic Models  . . . . . . . 851--874
Alberto Contreras-Cristán and   
Jose M. González-Barrios   A Statistical Method for the
                                  Determination of the Appropriate Order
                                  in a General Class of Time Series Models 875--891
             Makoto Aoshima and   
               Pinyuen Chen and   
               S. Panchapakesan   Sequential Procedures for Selecting the
                                  Most Probable Multinomial Cell When a
                                  Nuisance Cell Is Present . . . . . . . . 893--906
                Arjun Gupta and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 907--909
                      Anonymous   Author's Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--912

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 5, 2003

                    Y. Tang and   
                     M. Xie and   
                      T. N. Goh   Statistical Analysis of a Weibull
                                  Extension Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--928
                 James R. Rieck   A Comparison of Two Random Number
                                  Generators for the Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929--934
                 Steven G. From   Confidence Intervals for Gini's
                                  Diversity Measure and Shannon's Entropy
                                  Using Adjusted Proportions . . . . . . . 935--954
               Mohamed Ibazizen   Bias and Mean Square Error of the Sample
                                  Roots Under the Contaminated Gaussian
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955--959
                M. S. Aminzadeh   Bayesian Economic Variable
                                  Acceptance-Sampling Plan Using Inverse
                                  Gaussian Model and Step-Loss Function    961--982
            Joshua M. Tebbs and   
      Christopher R. Bilder and   
                 Barry K. Moser   An Empirical Bayes Group-Testing
                                  Approach to Estimating Small Proportions 983--995
                 Jinho Park and   
                   Jinsoo Hwang   Regression Depth with Censored and
                                  Truncated Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997--1008
                     Kejian Liu   Using Liu-Type Estimator to Combat
                                  Collinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1020
      A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon   Regression Residuals, Moments, and Their
                                  Use in Tests for Normality . . . . . . . 1021--1034
             E. Rafajlowicz and   
                     R. Schwabe   Experimental Design for (Semi-)Local
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1055
             Ning-Zhong Shi and   
                     Dehui Wang   Median Unbiased and Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimations of $ {\rm ARCH}(0, 1) $
                                  Coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1066
          Samir M. Shaarawy and   
                  Sherif S. Ali   Bayesian Identification of Seasonal
                                  Autoregressive Models  . . . . . . . . . 1067--1084
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085--1086
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1087

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 6, 2003

                    G. Asha and   
             P. G. Sankaran and   
           N. Unnikrishnan Nair   Probability Models with Constant Total
                                  Failure Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089--1099
    J. Rodríguez-Avi and   
    A. Conde-Sánchez and   
 A. J. Sáez-Castillo and   
      M. J. Olmo Jiménez   Estimation of Parameters in Gaussian
                                  Hypergeometric Distributions . . . . . . 1101--1118
                 Pao-sheng Shen   The Product-Limit Estimate as an
                                  Inverse-Probability-Weighted Average . . 1119--1133
      Snigdhansu Chatterjee and   
                   Samarjit Das   Parameter Estimation in Conditional
                                  Heteroscedastic Models . . . . . . . . . 1135--1153
       Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski   Robustness of Estimation in the Uniform
                                  Distribution Under Dependencies in a
                                  Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1168
                 Joseph Collins   Nonparametric Functional Estimation by
                                  Asymptotic Regression  . . . . . . . . . 1169--1195
               Jong-Hyeon Jeong   Efficiency of Log-Rank Test Under
                                  Dependent Censorship . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1211
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Pareto Regression: A Bayesian Analysis   1213--1225
       Carolina F. Svetliza and   
              Gilberto A. Paula   Diagnostics in Nonlinear Negative
                                  Binomial Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227--1250
                    Jinshan Liu   Two-Stage Estimators of Seemingly
                                  Unrelated Regressions with Elliptical
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1263
María Jesús Sánchez and   
             Daniel Peña   The Identification of Multiple Outliers
                                  in ARIMA Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265--1287

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 7, 2003

       Demetrios L. Antzoulakos   Waiting Times and Number of Appearances
                                  of Runs: A Unified Approach  . . . . . . 1289--1315
            Manal M. Nassar and   
                 Fathy H. Eissa   On the Exponentiated Weibull
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317--1336
              Jyh-Jian Tsay and   
                   C. Andy Tsao   Statistical Gambler's Ruin Problem . . . 1337--1359
              George Iliopoulos   Some New Estimators of the Binomial
                                  Parameter $n$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361--1372
                 C. Keribin and   
                    D. Haughton   Asymptotic Probabilities of
                                  Over-estimating and Under-estimating the
                                  Order of a Model in General Regular
                                  Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373--1404
                      Aida Toma   Robust Estimators for the Parameters of
                                  Multivariate Lognormal Distribution  . . 1405--1417
                  Luigi Salmaso   Synchronized Permutation Tests in $ 2^k
                                  $ Factorial Designs  . . . . . . . . . . 1419--1437
                Daniel Hunt and   
                   Shesh N. Rai   A Threshold Dose-Response Model with
                                  Random Effects in Teratological
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1439--1457
            Michael Perakis and   
               Evdokia Xekalaki   On a Process Capability Index for
                                  Asymmetric Specifications  . . . . . . . 1459--1492

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 8, 2003

         Julian de la Horra and   
  Maria Teresa Rodriguez-Bernal   Bayesian Robustness of the Posterior
                                  Predictive $p$-Value . . . . . . . . . . 1493--1503
               Olcay Arslan and   
             Ali I. Genç   Robust Location and Scale Estimation
                                  Based on the Univariate Generalized $
                                  t(G T) $ Distribution  . . . . . . . . . 1505--1525
             Youcef Berkoun and   
              Hocine Fellag and   
            Ryszard Zieli\'nski   Robust Testing Serial Correlation in $
                                  {\rm AR}(1) $ Processes in the Presence
                                  of a Single Additive Outlier . . . . . . 1527--1540
               John T. Chen and   
             Arjun K. Gupta and   
                 Cas G. Troskie   The Distribution of Stock Returns When
                                  the Market Is Up . . . . . . . . . . . . 1541--1558
       Marta Afonso Freitas and   
              Wagner Borges and   
                   Linda Lee Ho   A Statistical Model for Shelf Life
                                  Estimation Using Sensory Evaluations
                                  Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1559--1589
          Graciela B. Mentz and   
            Anant M. Kshirsagar   Sum of Profiles Model with Exchangeably
                                  Distributed Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 1591--1605
             Kathy J. Hayes and   
             Joe Hirschberg and   
                      Jenny Lye   The Use of Multivariate Generated
                                  Regressors in the Presence of
                                  Heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1607--1629
Rolando de la Cruz-Mesía and   
             Guillermo Marshall   A Bayesian Approach for Nonlinear
                                  Regression Models with Continuous Errors 1631--1646
              Bhramar Mukherjee   On Sampling Designs for Integral
                                  Estimation of a Random Process . . . . . 1647--1663
            A. A. Kalagonda and   
                 S. R. Kulkarni   Diagnosis of Multivariate Control Chart
                                  Signal Based on Dummy Variable
                                  Regression Technique . . . . . . . . . . 1665--1684

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 9, 2003

                  Allan Gut and   
             Valentin V. Petrov   Generalized Laws of the Iterated
                                  Logarithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1685--1693
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Moment Inequalities for Supremum of
                                  Empirical Processes for $ \phi $-Mixing
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1695--1701
    J. René van Dorp and   
                    Samuel Kotz   Generalizations of Two-Sided Power
                                  Distributions and Their Convolution  . . 1703--1723
     Gregory A. Tripsiannis and   
       Andreas N. Philippou and   
      Afroditi A. Papathanasiou   Multivariate Generalized Distributions
                                  of Order $k$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1725--1735
                 F. Requena and   
        N. Martín Ciudad   The Maximum Probability $ 2 \times c $
                                  Contingency Tables and the Maximum
                                  Probability Points of the Multivariate
                                  Hypergeometric Distribution  . . . . . . 1737--1752
            Bilgehan Güven   Test of Independence in the
                                  Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern Distribution   1753--1765
              Norbert Henze and   
                Ya. Yu. Nikitin   Two-Sample Tests Based on the Integrated
                                  Empirical Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1788
                     Hans Frick   Two Statistics for Unconditional Exact
                                  Tests in Matched-Pairs Design  . . . . . 1789--1799
        Govind S. Mudholkar and   
         Gregory E. Wilding and   
          William L. Mietlowski   Robustness Properties of the
                                  Pitman--Morgan Test  . . . . . . . . . . 1801--1816
                Jinhong You and   
                     Gemai Chen   Jackknife Estimation for Smooth
                                  Functions of the Parametric Component in
                                  Partially Linear Regression Models . . . 1817--1833
                Jiin-Huarng Guo   Four Correlation Coefficients with a
                                  Third Blocking Variable: Their Efficacy,
                                  Relative Efficiency, and Test Statistics 1835--1858
           Nicolas Molinari and   
           Jean-Pierre Daur\`es   In Vitro Fertilization with Immune
                                  Patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859--1870

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 10, 2003

                      Dilip Roy   The Discrete Normal Distribution . . . . 1871--1883
                Hidekazu Tanaka   On a Relation Between a Family of
                                  Distributions Attaining the
                                  Bhattacharyya Bound and That of Linear
                                  Combinations of the Distributions from
                                  an Exponential Family  . . . . . . . . . 1885--1896
                   V. Bosch and   
                     R. Wildner   Optimum Allocation of Stratified Random
                                  Samples Designed for Multiple Mean
                                  Estimates and Multiple Observed
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1897--1909
            Vaijayanti U. Dixit   Estimation of Parameters of Mixed
                                  Failure Time Distribution Based on an
                                  Extended Modified Sampling Scheme  . . . 1911--1923
          Toshimitsu Ochiai and   
                    Kanta Naito   Asymptotic Theory for the Multiscale
                                  Wavelet Density Derivative Estimator . . 1925--1950
     Francisco Cribari-Neto and   
       Nila M. S. Galvão   A Class of Improved
                                  Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance
                                  Matrix Estimators  . . . . . . . . . . . 1951--1980
                Ali Gannoun and   
      Jérome Saracco and   
                    Ao Yuan and   
               George E. Bonney   On Adaptive
                                  Transformation--Retransformation
                                  Estimate of Conditional Spatial Median   1981--2011
                Tsung-Shan Tsou   Comparing Two Population Means and
                                  Variances: A Parametric Robust Way . . . 2013--2029
              Asok K. Nanda and   
           Harshinder Singh and   
               Neeraj Misra and   
                  Prasanta Paul   Reliability Properties of Reversed
                                  Residual Lifetime  . . . . . . . . . . . 2031--2042
                 Uwe Jensen and   
                   Andreas Narr   An Estimator for the Survival Function
                                  on the Basis of Observable Censoring
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2043--2052
                 M. V. Muddapur   On Directional Dependence in a
                                  Regression Line  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2053--2057
              Elena Goldman and   
                 Hiroki Tsurumi   Asymptotic Distribution of a Unit Root
                                  Process Under Double Truncation  . . . . 2059--2071
                  Jorge Graneri   $ \chi^2 $-Type Goodness of Fit Test
                                  Based on Transformed Empirical Processes
                                  for Location and Scale Families  . . . . 2073--2087

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 11, 2003

                  Min-Young Lee   New Bounds of the Probability of a Union 2089--2099
               A. A. AlZaid and   
                  M. Ahsanullah   A Characterization of the Gumbel
                                  Distribution Based on Record Values  . . 2101--2108
                   Michael Falk   Domain of Multivariate Attraction via
                                  Angular Decomposition  . . . . . . . . . 2109--2116
              Jean-Yves Dauxois   Estimating the Deviation from
                                  Exponentiality Under Random Censorship   2117--2137
             N. Balakrishna and   
                    T. M. Jacob   Parameter Estimation in Minification
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2139--2152
              Choongrak Kim and   
                Woochul Kim and   
                 Byeong U. Park   Skewing and Generalized Jackknifing in
                                  Kernel Density Estimation  . . . . . . . 2153--2162
                S. Assoudou and   
                    B. Essebbar   A Bayesian Model for Markov Chains via
                                  Jeffrey's Prior  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2163--2184
             Leonie Burgess and   
              Deborah J. Street   Optimal Designs for $ 2^k $ Choice
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2185--2206
                 Kazuo Noda and   
              Jinglong Wang and   
            Rinya Takahashi and   
                   Masashi Itoh   Improvement to AIC as Estimator of
                                  Kullback--Leibler Information for Linear
                                  Model Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2207--2225
                   Yao Wang and   
           Anwar M. Hossain and   
              William J. Zimmer   Monotone Log-Odds Rate Distributions in
                                  Reliability Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2227--2244
                 Sungim Lee and   
                   Sangyeol Lee   Testing Heterogeneity for Frailty
                                  Distribution in Shared Frailty Model . . 2245--2253
             Mekki Hajlaoui and   
                  Mohamed Limam   Economical Quality Control with
                                  Measurement Error  . . . . . . . . . . . 2255--2270
  Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro   A New Conjoint Analysis Procedure with
                                  Application to Marketing Research  . . . 2271--2283

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 32, Number 12, 2003

           Mihoko Minami, Ph.D.   A Multivariate Extension of Inverse
                                  Gaussian Distribution Derived from
                                  Inverse Relationship . . . . . . . . . . 2285--2304
             Norbert Gaffke and   
           Andreas Zöllner   A Resampling Approach for
                                  Under-estimating a Finite Population
                                  Total from a Censored Sample . . . . . . 2305--2320
              Rong-hua Wang and   
                   He-liang Fei   Uniqueness of the Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimate of the Weibull Distribution
                                  Tampered Failure Rate Model  . . . . . . 2321--2338
              Bao-Xue Zhang and   
                    Wei Gao and   
                 Ning-Zhong Shi   One-Sided Estimating and Testing
                                  Problems for Scale Models from Grouped
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2339--2352
              E. Kulinskaya and   
              R. G. Staudte and   
                         H. Gao   Power Approximations in Testing for
                                  Unequal Means in a One-Way ANOVA
                                  Weighted for Unequal Variances . . . . . 2353--2371
    Shaul K. Bar-Lev, D.Sc. and   
   Elizabeta Bobovich, M.A. and   
          Benzion Boukai, Ph.D.   A Two-Stage Sequential Sampling Scheme
                                  for Warner's Randomized Response Model   2373--2387
              Fikri Akdeniz and   
                     Hamza Erol   Mean Squared Error Matrix Comparisons of
                                  Some Biased Estimators in Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2389--2413
M. Francisco-Fernández and   
J. M. Vilar-Fernández and   
   J. A. Vilar-Fernández   On the Uniform Strong Consistency of
                                  Local Polynomial Regression Under
                                  Dependence Conditions  . . . . . . . . . 2415--2440
                Ying-An Liu and   
               Bo-Cheng Wei and   
                   Hai-Bin Wang   Testing of Homogeneity for Correlation
                                  and Variance in Nonlinear Regression
                                  Models with $ {\rm DBL}(p, 0, 1) $
                                  Random Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2441--2463
       Taylan A. Ula, Ph.D. and   
       Abdullah A. Smadi, Ph.D.   Identification of Periodic
                                  Moving-Average Models  . . . . . . . . . 2465--2475
              Cheng-Der Fuh and   
                   Inchi Hu and   
                  Shih-Kuei Lin   Empirical Performance and Asset Pricing
                                  in Hidden Markov Models  . . . . . . . . 2477--2512


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 1, 2005

             Arjun K. Gupta and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   On the Moments of the Beta Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
           Hideki Nagatsuka and   
             Toshinari Kamakura   Parameter Estimation of the Shape
                                  Parameter of the Castillo--Hadi Model    15--27
           Jaimie L. Hebert and   
            Stephen M. Scariano   Comparing Location Estimators for
                                  Exponential Mixtures Under Pitman's
                                  Measure of Closeness . . . . . . . . . . 29--46
          Pushpa Lata Gupta and   
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
                Ram C. Tripathi   Score Test for Zero Inflated Generalized
                                  Poisson Regression Model . . . . . . . . 47--64
                  Yoon-Dong Lee   Unified Solutions of Integral Equations
                                  of SPRT for Exponential Random Variables 65--74
                Youhei Oono and   
                Nobuo Shinozaki   Estimation of Error Variance in the
                                  Analysis of Experiments Using Two-Level
                                  Orthogonal Arrays  . . . . . . . . . . . 75--98
      María R. Brito and   
               Adolfo J. Quiroz   Degree Frequencies in the Minimal
                                  Spanning Tree and Dimension
                                  Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105
                    Lihong Wang   Asymptotics of $ L_1 $-Estimators in
                                  Moving Average Time Series Models  . . . 107--118
         Francisco Louzada-Neto   A Hybrid Scale Intensity Model for
                                  Recurrent Event Data . . . . . . . . . . 119--133
           Charles El-Nouty and   
             Rémi Lancar   The Presmoothed Nelson--Aalen Estimator
                                  in the Competing Risk Model  . . . . . . 135--151
             Barry K. Moser and   
                Joshua M. Tebbs   A New Interim Monitoring Statistic for
                                  Group Sequential Clinical Trials . . . . 153--164
                M. P. Gadre and   
               R. N. Rattihalli   Exact Multi-attribute Acceptance Single
                                  Sampling Plan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--180
                     Joe Damico   A New One-Sample Test for
                                  Goodness-of-Fit  . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--193
                      Anonymous   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 195--196

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 2, 2004

                  Arthur Pewsey   Improved Likelihood Based Inference for
                                  the General Half-Normal Distribution . . 197--204
         Stéphane Girard   A Hill Type Estimator of the Weibull
                                  Tail-Coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--234
            Marvin H. J. Gruber   The Efficiency of Shrinkage Estimators
                                  with Respect to Zellner's Balanced Loss
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
                   Bo-Cheng Wei   Testing for Heteroscedasticity and/or
                                  Correlation in Nonlinear Models with
                                  Correlated Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . 251--275
W. González-Manteiga and   
A. Pérez-González   Nonparametric Mean Estimation with
                                  Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--303
          Stefan Franzén   SPRT Fixed Length Confidence Intervals   305--319
                        Fei Lin   A Probability Inequality and Its
                                  Applications in Selecting Best Normal
                                  Means  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--330
           Srikanth K. Iyer and   
                   D. Manjunath   Correlated Bivariate Sequences for
                                  Queueing and Reliability Applications    331--350
                Jianguo Sun and   
                Liuquan Sun and   
                 Nancy Flournoy   Additive Hazards Model for Competing
                                  Risks Analysis of the Case-Cohort Design 351--366
              Bernardo M. Lagos   About Second Order Local Power of the
                                  Likelihood Ratio, Wald and Score
                                  Statistics in First Order Autoregressive
                                  and Moving Average Models  . . . . . . . 367--379
                   J. Allal and   
                   M. Faizi and   
                   A. Kaaouachi   Adaptive $R$-Estimation in
                                  Autoregressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--395
              Taylan A. Ula and   
             Ceylan Yozgatligil   Modified Maximum-Likelihood Method for
                                  Non-Normal Time Series Revisited . . . . 397--417

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 3, 2004

                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiii
     Priscilla E. Greenwood and   
      Ursula U. Müller and   
            Wolfgang Wefelmeyer   Efficient Estimation for Semiparametric
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 419--435
      Juan Eloy Ruiz-Castro and   
Rafael Pérez-Ocón   A Semi-Markov Model in Biomedical
                                  Studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--455
           Aparna V. Huzurbazar   Multistate Models, Flowgraph Models, and
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 457--474
              Pai-Lien Chen and   
               Hsiao-Chuan Tien   Semi-Markov Models for Multistate Data
                                  Analysis with Periodic Observations  . . 475--486
             Peter W. Glynn and   
                  Peter J. Haas   On Functional Central Limit Theorems for
                                  Semi-Markov and Related Processes  . . . 487--506
             V. S. Korolyuk and   
                     N. Limnios   Semi-Markov Random Walk in Poisson
                                  Approximation Scheme . . . . . . . . . . 507--516
           Vladimir V. Anisimov   Averaging in Markov Models with Fast
                                  Semi-Markov Switches and Applications    517--531
             Dmitrii Silvestrov   Upper Bounds for Exponential Moments of
                                  Hitting Times for Semi-Markov Processes  533--543
            Gerold Alsmeyer and   
                   Volker Hoefs   Markov Renewal Theory for Stationary $
                                  (m + 1)$-Block Factors: First Passage
                                  Time and Overshoot . . . . . . . . . . . 545--568
                 B. P. Harlamov   Continuous Semi-Markov Processes and
                                  Their Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 569--589
         Dmitrii Silvestrov and   
               Fredrik Stenberg   A Pricing Process with Stochastic
                                  Volatility Controlled by a Semi-Markov
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--608
           Valerie Girardin and   
               Nikolaos Limnios   Entropy Rate and Maximum Entropy Methods
                                  for Countable Semi-Markov Chains . . . . 609--622
              Sally McClean and   
      Aleka A. Papadopoulou and   
               George Tsaklidis   Discrete Time Reward Models for
                                  Homogeneous Semi-Markov Systems  . . . . 623--638
               I. Gertsbakh and   
                    Y. Shpungin   Renewal Function and Interval
                                  Availability: A Numerical Monte-Carlo
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--649
         P.-C. G. Vassiliou and   
            Helen L. Tsakiridou   Asymptotic Behavior of First Passage
                                  Probabilities in the Perturbed
                                  Non-homogeneous Semi-Markov Systems  . . 651--679
          Aleka A. Papadopoulou   Economic Rewards in Non-homogeneous
                                  Semi-Markov Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 681--696
                   A. Blasi and   
                 J. Janssen and   
                       R. Manca   Numerical Treatment of Homogeneous and
                                  Non-homogeneous Semi-Markov Reliability
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--714
Fernando Luque-Vásquez and   
               Oscar Vega-Amaya   Time and Ratio Expected Average Cost
                                  Optimality for Semi-Markov Control
                                  Processes on Borel Spaces  . . . . . . . 715--734
        Mohamed S. Abdel-Hameed   Optimal Predictive Maintenance Policies
                                  for a Deteriorating System: The Total
                                  Discounted Cost and the Long-Run Average
                                  Cost Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--745
               A. B. Dragut and   
                      M. Dragut   Clustering Based Approximation Procedure
                                  for Semi-Markov Decision Processes with
                                  Incomplete State Information . . . . . . 747--768

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 4, 2005

              Bernard Garel and   
         Ludovic d'Estampes and   
           Dag Tjòstheim   Revealing Some Unexpected Dependence
                                  Properties of Linear Combinations of
                                  Stable Random Variables Using Symmetric
                                  Covariation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--786
             Katarzyna Danielak   Sharp Upper Bounds for Expectations of
                                  Differences of Order Statistics in
                                  Various Scale Units  . . . . . . . . . . 787--803
José Antonio Rodríguez-Lallena and   
     Manuel Úbeda-Flores   Best-Possible Bounds on Sets of
                                  Multivariate Distribution Functions  . . 805--820
               Asoka Ramanayake   Tests for a Change Point in the Shape
                                  Parameter of Gamma Random Variables  . . 821--833
            Parminder Singh and   
                 Amar Nath Gill   A One Sided Test Based on Sample Quasi
                                  Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--849
                 I. Gijbels and   
               A.-C. Goderniaux   Data-Driven Discontinuity Detection in
                                  Derivatives of a Regression Function . . 851--871
                 Peter Goos and   
             Martina Vandebroek   Estimating the Intercept in an
                                  Orthogonally Blocked Experiment when the
                                  Block Effects are Random . . . . . . . . 873--890
              Wai-Cheung Ip and   
                 Hueng Wong and   
                       Min Chen   Testing Normality for Linear $ {\rm
                                  AR}(p) $ Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--908
                  Hung-Chin Lin   The Asymptotic Distributions of Unified
                                  Process Capability Indices . . . . . . . 909--918
          L. Gracia-Medrano and   
                    F. O'Reilly   Transformations for Testing the Fit of
                                  the Inverse-Gaussian Distribution  . . . 919--924
             Simos G. Meintanis   A Class of Omnibus Tests for the Laplace
                                  Distribution based on the Empirical
                                  Characteristic Function  . . . . . . . . 925--948
                V. M. Raats and   
     B. B. van der Genugten and   
                 J. J. A. Moors   A General Model for Repeated Audit
                                  Controls Using Monotone Subsampling  . . 949--977
              Josemar Rodrigues   An Entropy Frailty Model for Dependent
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979--990
                      Anonymous   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 991--992

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 5, 2004

Célestin C. Kokonendji and   
                Mohamed Khoudar   On Strict Arcsine Distribution . . . . . 993--1006
            Vladimir Vinogradov   On the Power-Variance Family of
                                  Probability Distributions  . . . . . . . 1007--1029
              Maria Shubina and   
              Mei-Ling Ting Lee   On Maximum Attainable Correlation and
                                  Other Measures of Dependence for the
                                  Sarmanov Family of Bivariate
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1052
                 Hsiaw-Chan Yeh   The Generalized Marshall--Olkin Type
                                  Multivariate Pareto Distributions  . . . 1053--1068
      Athanasios C. Micheas and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   On Measuring Loss Robustness Using
                                  Maximum A Posteriori Estimate  . . . . . 1069--1085
           Sylvain Delattre and   
           Jean-Claude Fort and   
                 Gilles Pag\`es   Local Distortion and $ \mu $-Mass of the
                                  Cells of One Dimensional Asymptotically
                                  Optimal Quantizers . . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1117
                 Yiqiang Lu and   
                    Shisong Mao   Local Asymptotics for B-Spline
                                  Estimators of the Varying Coefficient
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1138
      Scott R. Evans, Ph.D. and   
    David W. Hosmer, Jr., Ph.D.   Goodness of Fit Tests in Mixed Effects
                                  Logistic Models Characterized by
                                  Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139--1155
            N. Rao Chaganty and   
                    Genming Shi   A Note on the Estimation of
                                  Autocorrelation in Repeated Measurements 1157--1170
          Martin L. William and   
               T. M. Durairajan   Minimum Convex Risk Equivariant Finite
                                  Population Prediction for Linear
                                  Functions in Regression Models . . . . . 1171--1185
                 Zhide Fang and   
               Douglas P. Wiens   Bayesian Minimally Supported $D$-Optimal
                                  Designs for an Exponential Regression
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187--1204
              Tetsuji Tonda and   
             Yasunori Fujikoshi   Asymptotic Expansion of the Null
                                  Distribution of LR Statistic for
                                  Multivariate Linear Hypothesis when the
                                  Dimension is Large . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1220
                Richard Huggins   Capture-Recapture Experiments with Time
                                  Heterogeneous Capture Probabilities in
                                  Continuous Time: A Counting Process
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221--1238

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 6, 2004

                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--ix
              Svend Kreiner and   
            Karl B. Christensen   Analysis of Local Dependence and
                                  Multidimensionality in Graphical
                                  Loglinear Rasch Models . . . . . . . . . 1239--1276
             J.-B. Hardouin and   
                      M. Mesbah   Clustering Binary Variables in Subscales
                                  Using an Extended Rasch Model and Akaike
                                  Information Criterion  . . . . . . . . . 1277--1294
      Karl Bang Christensen and   
          Jakob Bue Bjorner and   
              Svend Kreiner and   
    Jòrgen Holm Petersen   Latent Regression in Loglinear Rasch
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295--1313
           Daniel Commenges and   
                    Pierre Joly   Multi-state Model for Dementia,
                                  Institutionalization, and Death  . . . . 1315--1326
              Pai-Lien Chen and   
                  Pranab K. Sen   Quality-Adjusted Survival Estimation
                                  with Periodic Observations: A Multistate
                                  Survival Analysis Approach . . . . . . . 1327--1339
      Karl Bang Christensen and   
                  Svend Kreiner   Testing the Fit of Latent Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341--1356
                 A. Bar-Hen and   
                   J. J. Daudin   A Simple Goodness-of-Fit Test for
                                  Parametric Regression Models . . . . . . 1357--1370
                    M. Chavance   Handling Missing Items in Quality of
                                  Life Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371--1383
                J.-F. Dupuy and   
                      M. Mesbah   Estimation of the Asymptotic Variance of
                                  Semiparametric Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimators in the Cox Model with a
                                  Missing Time-Dependent Covariate . . . . 1385--1401
Véronique Sébille and   
               Jean-Louis Auget   Evaluating Health-Related Quality of
                                  Life: A Case-Study of Differential Item
                                  Functioning Analysis in Small Trials . . 1403--1428
        Balakrishna Hosmane and   
               David Morris and   
                  Charles Locke   Quality of Life: Design and Analyses
                                  Issues in Clinical Trials  . . . . . . . 1429--1443

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 7, 2004

             Arnold Janssen and   
                   Michael Kunz   Brownian Type Boundary Crossing
                                  Probabilities for Piecewise Linear
                                  Boundary Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 1445--1464
 Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and   
Héctor W. Gómez and   
           Fernando A. Quintana   A New Class of Skew-Normal Distributions 1465--1480
                    T. Kawamura   Derivation of the Power and Generalized
                                  Inverse Gaussian Distributions Based on
                                  the Entropy Maximization Principle . . . 1481--1490
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   Sharp Bounds on the Error in
                                  Approximating the Means of Record
                                  Statistics by Inverse Hazard Functions   1527--1539
      Rüdiger Vollandt and   
                   Manfred Horn   A Nonparametric Method for Selecting a
                                  Good Population  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1541--1555
              Byungjin Choi and   
                   Keeyoung Kim   Certain Multi Sample Tests for Inverse
                                  Gaussian Populations . . . . . . . . . . 1557--1576
                    Jack C. Yue   A Note on Optimal Strategies of a
                                  Generalized Two-Stage Bandit Problem . . 1577--1585
             H. Evangelaras and   
                 C. Koukouvinos   Another Look at Projection Properties of
                                  Hadamard Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . . 1607--1620
             H. Evangelaras and   
                 C. Koukouvinos   Combined Arrays with Minimum Number of
                                  Runs and Maximum Estimation Efficiency   1621--1628
                Manoj Kumar and   
               V. K. Srivastava   Pitman Nearness and Concentration
                                  Probability Comparisons of the Sample
                                  Coefficient of Determination and Its
                                  Adjusted Version in Linear Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1629--1641
               A. Vassiliou and   
         D. G. Tambouratzis and   
              M. V. Koutras and   
                    S. Bersimis   A New Similarity Measure and Its Use in
                                  Determining the Number of Clusters in a
                                  Multivariate Data Set  . . . . . . . . . 1643--1666
               Pinyuen Chen and   
               S. Panchapakesan   Detecting Multiple Targets
                                  Simultaneously at $k$ Sites  . . . . . . 1667--1688
              M. Boussemart and   
                     N. Limnios   Markov Decision Processes with
                                  Asymptotic Average Failure Rate
                                  Constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1689--1714
                Huizhen Guo and   
              K. Krishnamoorthy   New Approximate Inferential Methods for
                                  the Reliability Parameter in a
                                  Stress-Strength Model: The Normal Case   1715--1731

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 8, 2004

            William J. Reed and   
               Murray Jorgensen   The Double Pareto-Lognormal Distribution
                                  --- a New Parametric Model for Size
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1733--1753
            Rossitza Dodunekova   Characterization of the Geometric and
                                  Exponential Random Variables . . . . . . 1755--1765
             Shelton Peiris and   
                      C. R. Rao   A Note on Testing for Serial Correlation
                                  in Large Number of Small Samples Using
                                  Tail Probability Approximations  . . . . 1767--1777
                 S. V. Gudi and   
                   B. N. Nagnur   Deficiency of Two Estimators in
                                  One-Parameter Exponential Family of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779--1800
             Hani M. Samawi and   
      Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh   On Bivariate Ranked Set Sampling for
                                  Distribution and Quantile Estimation and
                                  Quantile Interval Estimation Using Ratio
                                  Estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1801--1819
                 Gang Zheng and   
                    Sangun Park   On the Fisher Information in Multiply
                                  Censored and Progressively Censored Data 1821--1835
               I. A. Salama and   
                       D. Quade   Agreement Among Censored Rankings Using
                                  Spearman's Footrule  . . . . . . . . . . 1837--1850
              Zeinhum F. Jaheen   Empirical Bayes Inference for
                                  Generalized Exponential Distribution
                                  Based on Records . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851--1861
              Boualem Kezim and   
                  Zahia Abdelli   A Bayesian Analysis of a Structural
                                  Change in the Parameters of a Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863--1876
              J. R. Collins and   
              D. Szatmari-Voicu   Maximal Asymptotic Biases of
                                  $M$-Estimators of Location with
                                  Preliminary Scale Estimates  . . . . . . 1877--1886
            Tsung-Shan Tsou and   
                 Kuang-Fu Cheng   Parametric Robust Regression Analysis of
                                  Contaminated Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1887--1898
      Héctor Allende and   
             Nancy Lacourly and   
                 Soledad Torres   Robust Portmanteau TRA Tests and Their
                                  Limit Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 1899--1915
                 Sungho Lee and   
              Robert Lee Taylor   On an $ L_1 $ Consistent Wavelet Density
                                  Estimator for the Deconvolution Problem  1917--1929
                Livio Finos and   
                  Luigi Salmaso   Nonparametric Multi-focus Analysis for
                                  Categorical Variables  . . . . . . . . . 1931--1941
           Tatsuya Kubokawa and   
             Muni S. Srivastava   Improved Empirical Bayes Ridge
                                  Regression Estimators Under
                                  Multicollinearity  . . . . . . . . . . . 1943--1973
                  T. Lorino and   
                   M. Sanaa and   
                   S. Robin and   
                   J.-J. Daudin   Comparison of Semiparametric Regression
                                  Models for Correlated Survival Data
                                  Using Simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . 1975--1991

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 9, 2004

                      Anonymous   Biography of Professor Z. Govindarajulu  1993--1996
                      Anonymous   Mini-conference Report:
                                  Non/Semi-parametric Models and
                                  Sequential Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 1997--1999
                      Anonymous   A Thank You Note . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001--2001
             Jayaram Sethuraman   Are Super-efficient Estimators
                                  Super-powerful?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003--2013
                        J. Gani   Stochastic Compartmental Models for
                                  Diabetes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015--2026
               Songyong Sim and   
             Richard A. Johnson   New Tests for Multivariate Ordered
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2027--2039
               Dong-Yun Kim and   
          Michael Woodroofe and   
                     Yanhong Wu   Testing for a Change in the Hazard Rate
                                  with Staggered Entry . . . . . . . . . . 2041--2058
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka and   
           Tomasz J. Kozubowski   New Families of Wrapped Distributions
                                  for Modeling Skew Circular Data  . . . . 2059--2074
             Ryan T. Elmore and   
   Thomas P. Hettmansperger and   
                   Hoben Thomas   Estimating Component Cumulative
                                  Distribution Functions in Finite Mixture
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2075--2086
               J. N. K. Rao and   
                       M. Tausi   Estimating Function Jackknife Variance
                                  Estimators Under Stratified Multistage
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2087--2095
         Edward J. Dudewicz and   
           Charles X. Zhang and   
                Zaven A. Karian   The Completeness and Uniqueness of
                                  Johnson's System in Skewness-Kurtosis
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2097--2116
             Laura Antolini and   
               Byung-Ho Nam and   
            Ralph B. D'Agostino   Inference on Correlated Discrimination
                                  Measures in Survival Analysis: A
                                  Nonparametric Approach . . . . . . . . . 2117--2135
         David A. Johannsen and   
           Edward J. Wegman and   
           Jeffrey L. Solka and   
                Carey E. Priebe   Simultaneous Selection of Features and
                                  Metric for Optimal Nearest Neighbor
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2137--2157
                 Hokwon Cho and   
               Z. Govindarajulu   Risk-Efficient Sequential Estimation of
                                  the Number of Multinomial Cells  . . . . 2159--2174
           Asoka Ramanayake and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   Epidemic Change Model for the
                                  Exponential Family . . . . . . . . . . . 2175--2198
               Ibrahim A. Ahmad   A Simple and More Efficient New Approach
                                  to Life Testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2199--2215
                H. Mansouri and   
                R. L. Paige and   
                   J. G. Surles   Aligned Rank Transform Techniques for
                                  Analysis of Variance and Multiple
                                  Comparisons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2217--2232
               Kyoungmi Kim and   
                       Mai Zhou   Symmetric Location Estimation/Testing by
                                  Empirical Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . 2233--2243
             A. Nanthakumar and   
                    K. Selvavel   Estimation of Proportion of Success From
                                  a Stratified Population: A Comparative
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2245--2257
            Indrias Berhane and   
                  C. Srinivasan   Stability of Neural Networks for
                                  Slightly Perturbed Training Data Sets    2259--2270
               I. D. Shetty and   
          Parameshwar V. Pandit   A Note on a New Class of
                                  Distribution-Free Tests for the
                                  Two-Sample Scale Problem Based on
                                  Subsample Medians  . . . . . . . . . . . 2271--2280

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 10, 2005

                     R. Willink   Bounds on the Bivariate Normal
                                  Distribution Function  . . . . . . . . . 2281--2297
            Roger B. Nelsen and   
     Manuel Úbeda-Flores   A Comparison of Bounds on Sets of Joint
                                  Distribution Functions Derived from
                                  Various Measures of Association  . . . . 2299--2305
         L. M. B. C. Campos and   
               J. M. G. Marques   On a Combination of Gamma and
                                  Generalized Error Distributions with
                                  Application to Aircraft Flight Path
                                  Deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307--2332
           David R. Bristol and   
                Nicole Stouffer   A Maximum Modulus Test with Unequal
                                  Variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2333--2342
               M. M. Nassar and   
                 Fathy H. Eissa   Bayesian Estimation for the
                                  Exponentiated Weibull Model  . . . . . . 2343--2362
          Tõnu Kollo and   
             Muni S. Srivastava   Estimation and Testing of Parameters in
                                  Multivariate Laplace Distribution  . . . 2363--2387
              Denis Allaire and   
              Louis Laurencelle   The Sampling Variance of $ r(X, Y) $ for
                                  Unrelated $X$ and $Y$: A Simple
                                  Algebraic Demonstration  . . . . . . . . 2389--2392
               J. K. Ghorai and   
                        Dong Yu   Data-Based Resolution Selection in
                                  Positive Wavelet Density Estimation  . . 2393--2408
              Kenichi Satoh and   
                    Megu Ohtaki   A Note on Multiple Regression for Single
                                  Index Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2409--2422
                 Shahjahan Khan   Predictive Distribution of Regression
                                  Vector and Residual Sum of Squares for
                                  Normal Multiple Regression Model . . . . 2423--2441
           M. Qamarul Islam and   
                   Moti L. Tiku   Multiple Linear Regression Model Under
                                  Nonnormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2443--2467
                       S. Baran   A Consistent Estimator for Linear Models
                                  with Dependent Observations  . . . . . . 2469--2486
          Graciela B. Mentz and   
            Anant M. Kshirsagar   Classification Using Growth Curves . . . 2487--2502
                 Pao-sheng Shen   Estimation of Survival Function Subject
                                  to Time-Dependent Covariates and Left
                                  Truncation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2503--2516
           Giovani L. Silva and   
M. Antónia Amaral-Turkman   Bayesian Analysis of an Additive
                                  Survival Model with Frailty  . . . . . . 2517--2533
        Günter Heimann and   
                  Georg Neuhaus   On the Exact Conditional Distribution
                                  for Peto's Combined Test for
                                  Carcinogenicity Assays . . . . . . . . . 2535--2572
            Vladimir Vinogradov   Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2573--2573

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 11, 2004

              H. M. Barakat and   
              M. A. El-Shandidy   Computing the Distribution and Expected
                                  Value of the Concomitant Rank-Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2575--2594
              Chien-Tai Lin and   
               Sam J. S. Wu and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Interval Estimation of Parameters of
                                  Log-Gamma Distribution Based on
                                  Progressively Censored Data  . . . . . . 2595--2626
         Valerii V. Fedorov and   
               Sergei L. Leonov   Parameter Estimation for Models with
                                  Unknown Parameters in Variance . . . . . 2627--2657
         Laura Muñoz and   
                Pilar Olave and   
                Manuel Salvador   Joint Selection of the Model and the
                                  Information Set in Heteroskedastic
                                  Dynamic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2659--2682
         Gopaldeb Chattopadhyay   Randomized Play-the-Winner Rule for
                                  Ordered Categorical Data . . . . . . . . 2683--2708
               Dong Q. Wang and   
               F. Critchley and   
                        Ivy Liu   Diagnostics Analysis and Perturbations
                                  in a Clustered Sampling Model  . . . . . 2709--2721
                     Kejian Liu   More on Liu-Type Estimator in Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2723--2733
             Dong Joon Park and   
             Richard K. Burdick   Confidence Intervals on Total Variance
                                  in a Regression Model with an Unbalanced
                                  Onefold Nested Error Structure . . . . . 2735--2743
     Kurt Brännäs and   
          Eva Brännäs   Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Count
                                  Data Regression: Self-Feeding Activity
                                  in Fish  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2745--2758
                Philip Prescott   A Class of Designs for Mixture
                                  Experiments Based on Augmented Pairs . . 2759--2785
             Chiara Tommasi and   
Jesús López-Fidalgo   Minimax Designs for a Parametrization of
                                  Binary Response Models . . . . . . . . . 2787--2798
           Kiyotaka Yoshida and   
              Hideyuki Imai and   
                 Yoshiharu Sato   Upper Limits for Criteria for Tests of
                                  Dimensionality Under Elliptical
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2799--2816
                Ramesh C. Gupta   On Some Association Measures in the
                                  Multivariate Normal Distribution . . . . 2817--2832
                 Vlad Barbu and   
          Michel Boussemart and   
               Nikolaos Limnios   Discrete-Time Semi-Markov Model for
                                  Reliability and Survival Analysis  . . . 2833--2868
                      Anonymous   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 2869--2870

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 12, 2004

                Ramesh C. Gupta   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2871--2871
                  C. R. Rao and   
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Characterizations of Stable Laws Based
                                  on a Number Theoretic Result . . . . . . 2873--2884
                  E. Cramer and   
                   U. Kamps and   
                    C. Keseling   Characterizations via Linear Regression
                                  of Ordered Random Variables: A Unifying
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2885--2911
              Ursula Gather and   
    Gábor Székely   Characterizations of Distributions by
                                  Linear Forms of Order Statistics . . . . 2913--2919
                  M. Ahsanullah   A Characterization of the Uniform
                                  Distribution by Dual Generalized Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2921--2928
                       M. Asadi   Some Characterizations on Generalized
                                  Pareto Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2929--2939
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   Characterizations of the Beta
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2941--2957
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                    R. P. Gupta   Characterizations Using Local Dependence
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2959--2974
               Anthony G. Pakes   Characterization of Probability Laws via
                                  Length-Biasing and Stationary-Excess
                                  Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2975--2992
       Vanamamalai Seshadri and   
              Jacek Weso\lowski   Martingales Defined by Reciprocals of
                                  Sums and Related Characterizations . . . 2993--3007
         Rameshwar D. Gupta and   
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
                 P. G. Sankaran   Some Characterization Results Based on
                                  Factorization of the (Reversed) Hazard
                                  Rate Function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3009--3031
           Evdokia Xekalaki and   
                Caterina Dimaki   Characterizations of Bivariate Pareto
                                  and Yule Distributions . . . . . . . . . 3033--3042
           Evdokia Xekalaki and   
                 John Panaretos   A Binomial Distribution with Dependent
                                  Trials and Its Use in Stochastic Model
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3043--3058
           Adrienne W. Kemp and   
                  C. David Kemp   Factorial Moment Characterizations for
                                  Certain Binomial-Type Distributions  . . 3059--3068
               Adrienne W. Kemp   Classes of Discrete Lifetime
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3069--3093
              Debasis Kundu and   
             Rameshwar D. Gupta   Characterizations of the Proportional
                                  (Reversed) Hazard Model  . . . . . . . . 3095--3102
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   On a Bivariate Lack of Memory Property
                                  Under Binary Associative Operation . . . 3103--3114
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
            S. N. U. A. Kirmani   Some Characterization of Distributions
                                  by Functions of Failure Rate and Mean
                                  Residual Life  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3115--3131
             I. S. Akhundov and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                 V. B. Nevzorov   New Characterizations by Properties of
                                  Midrange and Related Statistics  . . . . 3133--3143
                      Dilip Roy   A Generalization of the Lack of Memory
                                  Property and Related Characterization
                                  Results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3145--3158
              Jorge Navarro and   
                   Jose M. Ruiz   Characterizations from Relationships
                                  Between Failure Rate Functions and
                                  Conditional Moments  . . . . . . . . . . 3159--3171


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 1, 2005

            Saul Blumenthal and   
                  Ram C. Dahiya   Estimating Scale and Truncation
                                  Parameters for the Truncated Exponential
                                  Distribution with Type-I Censored
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
                N. Mukhopadhyay   On Some One-Parameter Families Where
                                  Maximal Invariants Do Not Distinguish
                                  Hypothesized Models  . . . . . . . . . . 23--36
                Likai Zhang and   
                 Liping Liu and   
                         Na You   Estimating Population Size in Logistic
                                  Capture-Recapture Models with a Known
                                  Sex Ratio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
                    Show-Li Jan   Step Contrasts for Identifying the
                                  Minimum Effective Dose . . . . . . . . . 45--57
              Eckhard Liebscher   Semiparametric Density Estimators Using
                                  Copulas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--71
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                 A. Asgharzadeh   Inference for the Scaled Half-Logistic
                                  Distribution Based on Progressively
                                  Type-II Censored Samples . . . . . . . . 73--87
             Saralees Nadarajah   Sums, Products, and Ratios of
                                  Non-central Beta Variables . . . . . . . 89--100
            Bilgehan Güven   Inference for Variance Components in a
                                  Mixed Model for Unbalanced Split Plot
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--112
              Guoyong Jiang and   
                    Jianrong Wu   An Alternative Method for Estimating the
                                  Variance Components in a Replicated
                                  Crossover Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--125
        Sudesh K. Srivastav and   
                   Arti Shankar   Some Methods of Constructing Generalized
                                  Group Divisible Designs with Two Groups  127--133
            Shaheena Bashir and   
                   E. M. Carter   Robust Reduced Rank Mixture Discriminant
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--145
                Tsung-Shan Tsou   Robust Inference for the Correlation
                                  Coefficient --- a Parametric Method  . . 147--162
              Henry L. Gray and   
     Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg and   
              Wayne A. Woodward   Nonstationary Data Analysis by Time
                                  Deformation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--192
                     Oesook Lee   Probabilistic Properties of a Nonlinear
                                  ARMA Process with Markov Switching . . . 193--204
           Housila P. Singh and   
                  Sharad Saxena   Bayesian and Shrinkage Estimation of
                                  Process Capability Index $ C_p $ . . . . 205--228
              Lingyun Zhang and   
           M. S. Bebbington and   
                  C. D. Lai and   
                 K. Govindaraju   On Statistical Design of the $ S^2 $
                                  Control Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--244

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 2, 2005

         Adelhamid Hassairi and   
              Afif Masmoudi and   
  Célestin C. Kokonendji   Implicit Distributions and Estimation    245--252
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   On the Moments of the Exponentiated
                                  Weibull Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
       Silvia L. P. Ferrari and   
   Michel Ferreira Da Silva and   
         Francisco Cribari-Neto   Adjusted Profile Likelihood for
                                  Two-Parameter Exponential Family Models  257--276
    J. Rodríguez-Avi and   
    A. Conde-Sánchez and   
 A. J. Sáez-Castillo and   
      M. J. Olmo Jiménez   Estimation and Inference in Complex
                                  Triparametric Pearson Distributions  . . 277--289
                   Paul Kabaila   Assessment of a Preliminary $F$-Test
                                  Solution to the Behrens--Fisher Problem  291--302
       Panagis Moschopoulos and   
                     Naijun Sha   Bayesian Inference of Scale Parameters
                                  in Exponential Family Using
                                  Conditionally Specified Priors . . . . . 303--318
            M. Ivette Gomes and   
               Hugo Pereira and   
            M. Cristina Miranda   Revisiting the Role of the Jackknife
                                  Methodology in the Estimation of a
                                  Positive Tail Index  . . . . . . . . . . 319--335
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
          Jürg Hüsler   Estimation of Tails and Related
                                  Quantities Using the Number of
                                  Near-Extremes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--349
             N. Sothinathan and   
                   L. I. Pettit   Bayes Methods for Outliers in Binomial
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--366
          Jerome P. Keating and   
                Robert L. Mason   Pitman Nearness Comparison of the
                                  Traditional Estimator of the Coefficient
                                  of Determination and Its Adjusted
                                  Version in Linear Regression Models  . . 367--374
                    Shalabh and   
                  H. Toutenburg   Estimation of Linear Regression Models
                                  with Missing Data: The Role of
                                  Stochastic Linear Constraints  . . . . . 375--387
                 Ming Zheng and   
                       Sihua Li   Empirical Likelihood in Partial Linear
                                  Error-in-Covariable Model with Censored
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--404
                 Sture Holm and   
                 Sigyn Mark and   
               Tobias Adolfsson   A Step-Down Test for Effects in
                                  Unreplicated Factorial Designs . . . . . 405--416
                 Neil A. Butler   Supersaturated Latin Hypercube Designs   417--428
           Jong-Hyeon Jeong and   
                    David Oakes   Effects of Different Hazard Ratios on
                                  Asymptotic Relative Efficiency of
                                  Estimates from Cox's Model . . . . . . . 429--448
              Jiantian Wang and   
                      Yingfu Li   Estimators for Survival Function when
                                  Censoring Times are Known  . . . . . . . 449--459
      Håkan Lindkvist and   
                   Yuri Belyaev   Asymptotic Properties of Estimators in a
                                  Model of Life Data with Warnings . . . . 461--474
                Majid Asadi and   
  Ismihan Bayramoglu (Bairamov)   A Note on the Mean Residual Life
                                  Function of a Parallel System  . . . . . 475--484
                  M. H. Shu and   
                     K. S. Chen   Estimating Process Capability Indices
                                  Based on Subsamples for Asymmetric
                                  Tolerances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--505

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 3, 2005

                     Haim Shore   Accurate RMM-Based Approximations for
                                  the CDF of the Normal Distribution . . . 507--513
Antonia Castaño-Martínez and   
Fernando López-Blázquez   Distribution of a Sum of Weighted
                                  Central Chi-Square Variables . . . . . . 515--524
             M. A. Chaudhry and   
                   Asghar Qadir   Incomplete Exponential and
                                  Hypergeometric Functions with
                                  Applications to the Non Central $
                                  \chi^2$-Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 525--535
              Pei-Sheng Lin and   
              Murray K. Clayton   Properties of Binary Data Generated from
                                  a Truncated Gaussian Random Field  . . . 537--544
                 John Byrne and   
                   Paul Kabaila   Comparison of Poisson Confidence
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--556
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
                      S. H. Ong   Analysis of Long-Tailed Count Data by
                                  Poisson Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--573
      Julián De La Horra   Reconciling Classical and Prior
                                  Predictive $p$-Values in the Two-Sided
                                  Location Parameter Testing Problem . . . 575--583
               Samuel S. Wu and   
                Martin T. Wells   An Extension of the Metropolis Algorithm 585--596
                Cem Kadilar and   
                    Hulya Cingi   A New Ratio Estimator in Stratified
                                  Random Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--602
                      Ming Yuan   Automatic Smoothing for Poisson
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--617
                 Wenjiang J. Fu   A Note on Prediction Error with
                                  Collinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--623
              Dean M. Young and   
        Stephen M. Scariano and   
                Cecil R. Hallum   Estimation-Equivalent Covariance
                                  Structures for the Least Squares and
                                  MINQUE Estimators of the Linear Model
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--629
                 Shaun S. Wulff   Best Unbiased Estimation in Unbalanced
                                  Split Plot Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 631--649
               John D. Spurrier   Multiple Comparisons with the Best
                                  Control in a One-Way Layout  . . . . . . 651--660
                   Tachen Liang   On Empirical Bayes Testing for
                                  Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--670
              Yoko Watamori and   
                  Teruo Fujioka   Confidence Regions for the Mean
                                  Direction of the von Mises--Fisher
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--678
                S. B. Nandi and   
                   S. Choudhury   Series Representation of Non Null
                                  Distribution of the Square of Sample
                                  Multiple Correlation Coefficient by Use
                                  of the Mellin Integral Transform . . . . 679--685
          Gilbert G. Walter and   
                  Xiaoping Shen   Wavelet Like Behavior of Slepian
                                  Functions and Their Use in Density
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--711
           Nikolaos Limnios and   
              Mei-Ling Ting Lee   Hoeffding's Inequality for Stopped
                                  Martingales and Semi-Markov Processes    713--720
               Yu-Chang Lin and   
                   Chao-Yu Chou   Robustness of the Variable Sample Size
                                  and Control Limit ${}^-X$ Chart to Non
                                  Normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--743

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 4, 2005

               Michael R. Flynn   On the Moments of the $4$-Parameter
                                  Lognormal Distribution . . . . . . . . . 745--751
                     R. Willink   A Confidence Interval and Test for the
                                  Mean of an Asymmetric Distribution . . . 753--766
               Paul Kabaila and   
                 Chris J. Lloyd   A Simple Measure of the Efficiency of a
                                  Buehler Confidence Limit . . . . . . . . 767--774
          N. K. Sajeevkumar and   
               P. Yageen Thomas   Applications of Order Statistics of
                                  Independent Nonidentically Distributed
                                  Random Variables in Estimation . . . . . 775--783
              Zeinhum F. Jaheen   Estimation Based on Generalized Order
                                  Statistics from the Burr Model . . . . . 785--794
                  J. Ahmadi and   
             M. Doostparast and   
                     A. Parsian   Estimation and Prediction in a
                                  Two-Parameter Exponential Distribution
                                  Based on $k$-Record Values under LINEX
                                  Loss Function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--805
            Barry C. Arnold and   
             Jose A. Villasenor   On the Value of Imprecise Prior
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--822
            Md. Kamal Uddin and   
           U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar   Regression Function Estimation Using
                                  Spline Wavelets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--832
                  Xinmin Li and   
                     Guoying Li   Confidence Intervals on Sum of Variance
                                  Components with Unbalanced Designs . . . 833--845
               Jong-Min Kim and   
               William D. Warde   Some New Results on the Multinomial
                                  Randomized Response Model  . . . . . . . 847--856
           Paramjit S. Gill and   
        Sarath G. Banneheka and   
                  Tim B. Swartz   Tests Concerning Equicorrelation
                                  Matrices with Grouped Normal Data  . . . 857--873
  Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and   
                 Hani M. Samawi   Estimation of the Correlation
                                  Coefficient Using Bivariate Ranked Set
                                  Sampling with Application to the
                                  Bivariate Normal Distribution  . . . . . 875--889
           Mohamed Bentarzi and   
            Abdelhakim Aknouche   Calculation of the Fisher Information
                                  Matrix for Periodic ARMA Models  . . . . 891--903
                 Fabio H. Nieto   Modeling Bivariate Threshold
                                  Autoregressive Processes in the Presence
                                  of Missing Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--930
                 Omar M. Eidous   On Improving Kernel Estimators Using
                                  Line Transect Sampling . . . . . . . . . 931--941
                  Xianyi Wu and   
                Jinhong You and   
                      Xian Zhou   Asymptotic Properties of the ISE in
                                  Nonparametric Regressions with Serially
                                  Correlated Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . 943--953
            Valerii Fedorov and   
                Byron Jones and   
           C. Matthew Jones and   
            Anatoly Zhigljavsky   Multi-Center Clinical Trials with Random
                                  Enrollment: Theoretical Approximations   955--985
                 N. Limnios and   
                   B. Ouhbi and   
                       A. Sadek   Empirical Estimator of Stationary
                                  Distribution for Semi-Markov Processes   987--995
                  Jeen-Kap Choi   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 997--998

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 5, 2005

                    G. Forchini   The Distribution of a Ratio of Quadratic
                                  Forms in Noncentral Normal Variables . . 999--1008
 Özlem Ege Oruç and   
               Ismihan Bairamov   On the General Class of Two-Sided Power
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1017
                Thierry Huillet   Sampling Formulae Arising from Random
                                  Dirichlet Populations  . . . . . . . . . 1019--1040
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
           Silvia L. P. Ferrari   Third-Order Asymptotic Distributions of
                                  Classic Test Statistics for
                                  One-Parameter Exponential Family Models  1041--1055
                      F. Marohn   Tail Index Estimation in Models of
                                  Generalized Order Statistics . . . . . . 1057--1064
             Laurent Gardes and   
         Stéphane Girard   Estimating Extreme Quantiles of Weibull
                                  Tail Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1080
             Laurent Bordes and   
           Pierre Vandekerkhove   Statistical Inference for Partially
                                  Hidden Markov Models . . . . . . . . . . 1081--1104
         Tadeusz Cali\'nski and   
            Miros\law Krzy\'sko   A Closed Testing Procedure for Canonical
                                  Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1116
              Jyh-Jiuan Lin and   
                    Nabendu Pal   A Note on Robustness of Normal Variance
                                  Estimators Under $t$-Distributions . . . 1117--1126
       N. Sanjari Farsipour and   
                  H. Zakerzadeh   Estimation of a Gamma Scale Parameter
                                  Under Asymmetric Squared Log Error Loss  1127--1135
                 Tze Fen Li and   
                Tseng-Chang Yen   A Bayes Empirical Bayes Decision Rule
                                  for Classification . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1149
            Mirjam Moerbeek and   
                Cora J. M. Maas   Optimal Experimental Designs for
                                  Multilevel Logistic Models with Two
                                  Binary Predictors  . . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1167
             M. A. F. Aboukalam   Quick, Easy, and Powerful Analysis of
                                  Unreplicated Factorial Designs . . . . . 1169--1175
             Ghadban Khalaf and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   Choosing Ridge Parameter for Regression
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177--1182
           Serge B. Provost and   
                  Deepak Sanjel   Inference About the First-Order
                                  Autoregressive Coefficient . . . . . . . 1183--1201
   Vilijandas Bagdonavicius and   
         Algimantas Bikelis and   
          Vytautas Kazakevicius   Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for
                                  the Number of Spares Required for a
                                  Renewable System . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1212
                  M. E. Ghitany   On Reliability Estimation Based on
                                  Ranked Set Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1216
         Mahmoud Almanassra and   
              Jiantian Wang and   
                  S. Jeyaratnam   Monotonic Estimators for the Survival
                                  Function of Quality Adjusted Lifetime    1217--1231
                Ji-Hyun Lee and   
               Bahjat F. Qaqish   A Latent Changepoint Model Using A
                                  Generalized Estimating Equations
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1242
            Aysen D. Akkaya and   
                   Moti L. Tiku   Letter to the Editor: Modified Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimators for Autoregressive
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1244

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 6, 2005

               Pinyuen Chen and   
                 Lifang Hsu and   
               S. Panchapakesan   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245--1245
             Elena Buzaianu and   
                   Pinyuen Chen   On Selecting Among Treatments with
                                  Binomial Outcomes  . . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1264
               S. Panchapakesan   Restricted Subset Selection Procedures
                                  for Normal Means: A Brief Review with a
                                  Fresh Look at the Classical Formulations
                                  of Bechhofer and Gupta . . . . . . . . . 1265--1273
             Nitis Mukhopadhyay   A New Approach to Determine the Pilot
                                  Sample Size in Two-Stage Sampling  . . . 1275--1295
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                      J.-A. Kim   Point and Interval Estimation for
                                  Bivariate Normal Distribution Based on
                                  Progressively Type-II Censored Data  . . 1297--1347
                     Y. L. Tong   A Sequential Multi-Hypothesis Test for
                                  the Mean Function of a Discrete-Time
                                  Gaussian Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 1349--1362
                     Lifang Hsu   Group Testing with a Goal in Estimating
                                  the Number of Defects Under Imperfect
                                  Environmental Stress Screen Levels . . . 1363--1377
                 Marc Sobel and   
             Longin Jan Latecki   Data Visualization by Pairwise
                                  Distortion Minimization  . . . . . . . . 1379--1391
    Krzysztof S. Frankowski and   
                   Milton Sobel   Solutions of Some Birthday Problems
                                  Using Dirichlet Integrals  . . . . . . . 1393--1410
                Jack Graver and   
                   Milton Sobel   You May Rely on the Reliability
                                  Polynomial for Much More Than You Might
                                  Think  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1411--1422
    Morteza Ebneshahrashoob and   
                 Tangan Gao and   
                   Milton Sobel   Random Accessibility as a Parallelism to
                                  Reliability Studies on Simple Graphs . . 1423--1436

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 7, 2005

    Aurélien Alfonsi and   
                  Damiano Brigo   New Families of Copulas Based on
                                  Periodic Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1447
         Elias Ould-Sa\"\id and   
                   Ourida Sadki   Strong Approximation of Quantile
                                  Function for Strong Mixing and Censored
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449--1459
          Takis Papaioannou and   
              Kosmas Ferentinos   On Two Forms of Fisher's Measure of
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461--1470
                 N. Atienza and   
     J. García-Heras and   
       J. Muñoz-Pichardo   Consistency of Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimators in Finite Mixture Models of
                                  the Union of $ \cal W $-type Families    1471--1485
              Racheal Zhang and   
               Gary C. McDonald   Characterization of Ridge Trace Behavior 1487--1501
                      Y. Sheena   Order-preserving Estimators and an
                                  Inequality on the Integration of Zonal
                                  Polynomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1503--1516
           Daniel J. Ghezzi and   
               Shelemyahu Zacks   Inference on the Common Variance of
                                  Correlated Normal Random Variables . . . 1517--1531
                Yvesg G. Berger   A Variance Estimator for Systematic
                                  Sampling from a Deliberately Ordered
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1541
            I. B. J. Goudie and   
                   J. Ashbridge   A Conditionally Unbiased Estimator for
                                  the Equal-Catchability Model . . . . . . 1543--1553
               Neeraj Misra and   
               Somesh Kumar and   
   Edward C. van der Meulen and   
           Yogesh Mani Tripathi   A Subset Selection Procedure for
                                  Selecting the Exponential Population
                                  Having the Longest Mean Lifetime When
                                  the Guarantee Times are the Same . . . . 1555--1569
            Sanpei Kageyama and   
               Sarita Rudra and   
                Shakti Banerjee   Constructions of Nested Pairwise
                                  Efficiency and Variance Balanced Designs 1571--1578
              Himadri Ghosh and   
                     Ashish Das   Optimal Designs for Best Linear Unbiased
                                  Prediction in Diallel Crosses  . . . . . 1579--1586
           A. Karagrigoriou and   
                       F. Vonta   On Efficient AR Spectral Estimation for
                                  Long-Range Predictions . . . . . . . . . 1587--1603
               P. Misquitta and   
             Frits H. Ruymgaart   Some Results on Nonparametric
                                  Calibration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1605--1616
                 O. Y. Kravchuk   Rank Test of Location Optimal for
                                  Hyperbolic Secant Distribution . . . . . 1617--1630
             Abdulkadir Hussein   Sequential Comparison of Two Treatments
                                  Using Weighted Wald-Type Statistics  . . 1631--1641
               Nahed A. Mokhlis   Reliability of a Stress-Strength Model
                                  with Burr Type III Distributions . . . . 1643--1657
                 Whasoo Bae and   
                 Hyemi Choi and   
             Byeong U. Park and   
                  Choongrak Kim   Smoothing Techniques for the Bivariate
                                  Kaplan--Meier Estimator  . . . . . . . . 1659--1674
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Nonparametric Bivariate Estimation with
                                  Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data   1675--1685
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687--1687

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 8, 2005

             Agostino Tarsitano   Estimation of the Generalized Lambda
                                  Distribution Parameters for Grouped Data 1689--1709
               Alan M. Polansky   Nonparametric Estimation of Distribution
                                  Functions of Nonstandard Mixtures  . . . 1711--1724
              Fikri Akdeniz and   
             Alan T. K. Wan and   
                   Esra Akdeniz   Generalized Liu Type Estimators Under
                                  Zellner's Balanced Loss Function . . . . 1725--1736
                    Fuxia Cheng   On Variance Estimation in Semiparametric
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1737--1742
Miguel A. Gómez-Villegas and   
Beatriz González Pérez   Bayesian Analysis of Contingency Tables  1743--1754
              Luigi D'Ambra and   
                Eric J. Beh and   
                  Pietro Amenta   CATANOVA for Two-Way Contingency Tables
                                  with Ordinal Variables Using Orthogonal
                                  Polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1769
   Vilijandas Bagdonavicius and   
          Firoozeh Haghighi and   
                Mikhail Nikulin   Statistical Analysis of General
                                  Degradation Path Model and Failure Time
                                  Data with Multiple Failure Modes . . . . 1771--1791
              Roel Braekers and   
          Noël Veraverbeke   Cox's Regression Model Under Partially
                                  Informative Censoring  . . . . . . . . . 1793--1811
              Ruiguang Song and   
                  John M. Karon   Distributions of Renewal Variables When
                                  Renewal Process Reaches a Special Event  1813--1819
                Qianyu Dang and   
           Stewart Anderson and   
                Lingshi Tan and   
                  Sati Mazumdar   Modeling Unequally Spaced Bivariate
                                  Growth Curve Data Using a Kalman Filter
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1821--1831
                    Y.-T. Hwang   Moments of the Product-Limit Estimator
                                  Under Left-Truncation and
                                  Right-Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833--1850
               John D. Spurrier   Improved Upper Bounds for Hollander's Mu
                                  and Lehmann's Lambda . . . . . . . . . . 1851--1855
                Shaogen Gao and   
                 Guoying Li and   
                  Dongqian Wang   A New Approach for Detecting
                                  Multivariate Outliers  . . . . . . . . . 1857--1865

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 9--10, 2005

                  Keming Yu and   
                      Jin Zhang   A Three-Parameter Asymmetric Laplace
                                  Distribution and Its Extension . . . . . 1867--1879
                  V. V. Anh and   
                R. McVinish and   
                       C. Pesee   Estimation and Simulation of the
                                  Riesz--Bessel Distribution . . . . . . . 1881--1897
                M. Kaluszka and   
                   A. Okolewski   Bounds for $L$-Statistics from Weakly
                                  Dependent Samples of Random Length . . . 1899--1910
                M. Kaluszka and   
                   A. Okolewski   Sharp Bounds for Generalized Order
                                  Statistics via Logarithmic Moments . . . 1911--1923
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Concomitants in a Sequence of
                                  Independent Nonidentically Distributed
                                  Random Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1925--1933
                  R. Habibi and   
     S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi and   
              A. R. Nematollahi   Change Point Detection in a General
                                  Class of Distributions . . . . . . . . . 1935--1938
                  Halil Aydogdu   A Pointwise Estimator for the $k$-Fold
                                  Convolution of a Distribution Function   1939--1956
                Engin A. Sungur   A Note on Directional Dependence in
                                  Regression Setting . . . . . . . . . . . 1957--1965
                Engin A. Sungur   Some Observations on Copula Regression
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1967--1978
             Peter M. Njuho and   
             George A. Milliken   Analysis of Linear Models with One
                                  Factor Having Both Fixed and Random
                                  Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979--1989
           Jens C. Eickhoff and   
                  Yasuo Amemiya   Generalized Linear Latent Variable
                                  Modeling for Multi-Group Studies . . . . 1991--2008
             Brent D. Burch and   
                  Ian R. Harris   Optimal One-Way Random Effects Designs
                                  for the Intraclass Correlation Based on
                                  Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 2009--2023
  A. Enguix-González and   
J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and   
       J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and   
          R. Pino-Mejías   Influence Analysis in Principal
                                  Component Analysis Through Power-Series
                                  Expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2025--2046
Maria Ivanilde Araújo and   
          Marcelo Fernandes and   
Basilio de Bragança Pereira   Alternative Procedures to Discriminate
                                  Non Nested Multivariate Linear
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2047--2062
             Irene Albarran and   
             Mercedes Ayuso and   
  Montserrat Guillén and   
              Malena Monteverde   A Multiple State Model for Disability
                                  Using the Decomposition of Death
                                  Probabilities and Cross-Sectional Data   2063--2075
                   Aiyi Liu and   
     Enrique F. Schisterman and   
                   Chengqing Wu   Nonparametric Estimation and Hypothesis
                                  Testing on the Partial Area Under
                                  Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves 2077--2088

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 11, 2005

             P. G. Sankaran and   
             Rameshwar D. Gupta   A General Class of Distributions:
                                  Properties and Applications  . . . . . . 2089--2095
                 K. G. Janardan   Integral Representation of a
                                  Distribution Associated with a Pure
                                  Birth Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2097--2103
              Asok K. Nanda and   
               Neeraj Misra and   
              Prasanta Paul and   
               Harshinder Singh   Some Properties of Order Statistics When
                                  the Sample Size Is Random  . . . . . . . 2105--2113
               Somesh Kumar and   
                 Ajay Kumar and   
           Yogesh Mani Tripathi   A Note on the Pitman Estimator of
                                  Ordered Normal Means When the Variances
                                  Are Unequal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2115--2122
                Jack C. Yue and   
              Murray K. Clayton   A Similarity Measure Based on Species
                                  Proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2123--2131
                Edna Schechtman   Stratification: Measuring and Inference  2133--2145
                B. R. Handa and   
                    N. S. Kambo   Tests for Equality of Parameters of Two
                                  Exponential Distributions with Common
                                  Known Coefficient of Variation . . . . . 2147--2155
               Narelle F. Smith   The Design of Scoring Schemes for
                                  Surveys Using the Block Total Response
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2157--2168
                  A. Bekker and   
                  J. J. J. Roux   Reliability Characteristics of the
                                  Maxwell Distribution: A Bayes Estimation
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2169--2178
      Bent Jòrgensen and   
        Jeevanantham Rajeswaran   A Generalization of Hotelling's $ T^2 $  2179--2195
                Kam C. Yuen and   
              Hailiang Yang and   
                  Rongming Wang   On Erlang(2) Risk Process Perturbed by
                                  Diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2197--2208

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 34, Number 12, 2005

                    Lichun Wang   Convergence Rates of Empirical Bayes
                                  Estimation for the Parameter of the
                                  Uniform Distribution $ U(0, \theta) $
                                  Under Random Censorship  . . . . . . . . 2209--2220
                Xufeng Qian and   
               Rie Ashizawa and   
                 Hiroki Tsurumi   Bayesian, MLE, and GMM Estimation of a
                                  Spot Rate Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2221--2233
          Tanuja Srivastava and   
                   Himani Gupta   Pitman Estimator to Pareto Scale
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2235--2255
     Aditi Kar Gangopadhyay and   
                   Somesh Kumar   Estimating Average Worth of the Selected
                                  Subset from Two-Parameter Exponential
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2257--2267
            Engin A. Sungur and   
                         Peh Ng   A Decomposition of Copulas and Its Use   2269--2282
              D. De Martini and   
                       E. Vespa   Copula-Based Models for the Power of
                                  Independence Tests . . . . . . . . . . . 2283--2297
               Melvin J. Hinich   A New Method for Statistical
                                  Multidimensional Unfolding . . . . . . . 2299--2310
             Younshik Chung and   
               Dipak K. Dey and   
                 Misook Kim and   
                    Chansoo Kim   Bayesian Model Choice in Exponential
                                  Survival Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311--2330
             Akifumi Yafune and   
            Mamoru Narukawa and   
                 Makio Ishiguro   A Note on Sample Size Determination for
                                  Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)
                                  Approach to Clinical Data Analysis . . . 2331--2343
           Anna Dembi\'nska and   
Fernando López-blázquez   A Characterization of Geometric
                                  Distribution Through $k$ th Weak Records 2345--2351
         M. A. M. Ali Mousa and   
               S. A. Al-Sagheer   Bayesian Prediction for Progressively
                                  Type-II Censored Data from the Rayleigh
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2353--2361


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 1, 2006

William B. Smith Executive Director   An Appreciation of Anant M. Kshirsagar   1--2
                 Ananda Sen and   
             Devadatta Kulkarni   A Note on a Path Counting Formula  . . . 3--11
                Sangun Park and   
                  Chul Eung Kim   A Note on the Fisher Information in
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 13--19
            Mohammed Nasser and   
                  Mesbahul Alam   Estimators of Influence Function . . . . 21--32
                     Na You and   
                     Liping Liu   Proportional Trapping-Removal Model with
                                  a Known Ratio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41
                   Sier Han and   
                     Zheng Tian   Truncating Estimation for the Mean
                                  Change-Point in Heavy-Tailed Dependent
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--52
               S. A. Sisson and   
                     Y. V. Chan   A Note on Bayesian Analyses of
                                  Capture-Recapture Data with Perfect
                                  Recaptures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--62
                 Dal Ho Kim and   
              Sang Gil Kang and   
                   Woo Dong Lee   Intrinsic Priors for Testing Two Normal
                                  Means with Intrinsic Bayes Factors . . . 63--81
                   D. Basso and   
                     L. Salmaso   A Discussion of Permutation Tests
                                  Conditional to Observed Responses in
                                  Unreplicated $ 2^M $ Full Factorial
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--97
                   Cong Han and   
                Richard Kronmal   Two-Part Models for Analysis of Agatston
                                  Scores with Possible Proportionality
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--111
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
    Lúcia P. Barroso and   
               Denise A. Botter   Covariance Matrix Formula for
                                  Generalized Linear Models with Unknown
                                  Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--120
                 Hitoshi Koyano   Minimax Empirical Bayes Estimators in
                                  Multivariate Mixed Linear Models with
                                  Unequal Replications . . . . . . . . . . 121--131
          Jan G. De Gooijer and   
                Ali Gannoun and   
                    Dawit Zerom   A Multivariate Quantile Predictor  . . . 133--147
              Muneya Matsui and   
              Akimichi Takemura   Some Improvements in Numerical
                                  Evaluation of Symmetric Stable Density
                                  and Its Derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . 149--172
                   James Ledoux   A Poisson Limit Theorem for Reliability
                                  Models Based on Markov Chains  . . . . . 173--196
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
 Edson Marcos Leal Soares Ramos   Some Second-Order Asymptotics for
                                  Extreme Value Linear Regression Models   197--207

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 2, 2006

                    Zvi Drezner   On the Limit of the Generalized Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--221
                S. M. Sunoj and   
                     S. S. Maya   Some Properties of Weighted
                                  Distributions in the Context of
                                  Repairable Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 223--228
        Filidor Vilca-Labra and   
Víctor Leiva-Sánchez   A New Fatigue Life Model Based on the
                                  Family of Skew-Elliptical Distributions  229--244
                    Zhaozhi Fan   Parameter Estimation of Stable
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--255
          Gabriela Damilano and   
                     Pedro Puig   A Note on the Hodges--Lehmann Estimator
                                  and the Logistic Distribution  . . . . . 257--261
                        J. Reif   Pitman Closeness in Classes of General
                                  Pre-Test Estimators and Regression
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--279
                 Riccardo Gatto   A Bootstrap Test for Circular Data . . . 281--292
             Nitis Mukhopadhyay   Some Comments on Hassairi et al.'s
                                  ``Implicit Distributions and
                                  Estimation'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--297
              Josemar Rodrigues   Full Bayesian Significance Test for
                                  Zero-Inflated Distributions  . . . . . . 299--307
          Athanasios C. Micheas   A Unified Approach to Prior and Loss
                                  Robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--323
                H. Demirhan and   
                C. Hamurkaroglu   A Bayesian Approach to the Estimation of
                                  Expected Cell Counts by Using Log-Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--335
                 Neil A. Butler   Properties of Designs in Experiments on
                                  Spatial Lattices . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--347
             Mohammad M. Salehi   Adaptive Cluster Row and Column
                                  Elimination Sampling $ + (1) $ Design    349--362
       José I. Bravo and   
Íñigo De Fuentes and   
     Arturo J. Fernández   Survival Estimation with Missing
                                  Censoring Times for the Generalized
                                  Koziol--Green Model  . . . . . . . . . . 363--372
              Peter A. Rogerson   Formulas for the Design of CUSUM Quality
                                  Control Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--383

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 3, 2006

          Kahadawala Cooray and   
          Sumith Gunasekera and   
           Malwane M. A. Ananda   The Folded Logistic Distribution . . . . 385--393
                Colin M. Ramsay   The Distribution of Sums of Certain
                                  I.I.D. Pareto Variates . . . . . . . . . 395--405
                   Hasan Hamdan   Characterizing and Approximating
                                  Infinite Scale Mixtures of Normals . . . 407--413
              Borek D. Puza and   
             Terence J. O'Neill   Two Birthday Problems  . . . . . . . . . 415--422
              Fikri Akdeniz and   
         George P. H. Styan and   
            Hans Joachim Werner   The General Expressions for the Moments
                                  of the Stochastic Shrinkage Parameters
                                  of the Liu Type Estimator  . . . . . . . 423--437
             Tihomir Asparouhov   General Multi-Level Modeling with
                                  Sampling Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--460
                  Jonghyeon Kim   Hypothesis Testing Problems in an
                                  Unbalanced Longitudinal Ophthalmology
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--476
              Marco Marozzi and   
                  Luigi Salmaso   Multivariate Bi-Aspect Testing for the
                                  Two-Sample Location Problem  . . . . . . 477--488
                Euikyoo Lee and   
            Myung-Sang Moon and   
               Richard F. Gunst   A Spatiotemporal Model for Pollutant
                                  Concentrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--497
              Kairat T. Mynbaev   Asymptotic Properties of OLS Estimates
                                  in Autoregressions with Bounded or
                                  Slowly Growing Deterministic Trends  . . 499--520
          Y. H. Joshua Chen and   
                G. H. Frank Liu   A Note on the Estimate of Treatment
                                  Effect from a Cox Regression Model When
                                  the Proportionality Assumption Is
                                  Violated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--526
    Athanasios G. Kallioras and   
    Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis and   
              George C. Canavos   Testing the Fit of Gamma Distributions
                                  Using the Empirical Moment Generating
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--540
          Federico O'Reilly and   
         Leticia Gracia-Medrano   On the Conditional Distribution of
                                  Goodness-of-Fit Tests  . . . . . . . . . 541--549

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 4, 2006

            Suzanne R. Dubnicka   Confidence Intervals for the Median of a
                                  Finite Population Based on the Sign Test 551--569
       N. Sanjari Farsipour and   
                  H. Zakerzadeh   Estimation of Generalized Variance Under
                                  an Asymetric Loss Function ``Squared Log
                                  Error''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--581
E. Gómez-Déniz and   
   E. Calderín-Ojeda and   
              I. Cabrera-Ortega   A Simple Method to Study Sensitivity of
                                  BMP's  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--591
 J. P. Arias-Nicolás and   
           J. Martín and   
A. Suárez-Lloréns   The Non Dominated Set in Bayesian
                                  Decision Problems with Convex Loss
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--607
                 Qihua Wang and   
                   Bing-Yi Jing   Edgeworth Expansion and Bootstrap
                                  Approximation for Studentized
                                  Product-Limit Estimator with Truncated
                                  and Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 609--623
                Lichun Wang and   
               Noel Veraverbeke   Empirical Likelihood in a
                                  Semi-Parametric Model for Missing
                                  Response Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--639
              Kenichi Satoh and   
                    Megu Ohtaki   Nonparametric Growth Curve Model with
                                  Local Linear Approximation . . . . . . . 641--648
              Arturo Erdely and   
José M. González-Barrios   On the Construction of Families of
                                  Absolutely Continuous Copulas with Given
                                  Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--659
                  Ping Jing and   
                   Jinfang Wang   Testing the Equality of Multivariate
                                  Distributions Using the Bootstrap and
                                  Integrated Empirical Processes . . . . . 661--670
                 Aude Illig and   
           Beno\^\it Truong-Van   Asymptotic Results for Spatial ARMA
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--688
              Tsai-Hung Fan and   
            Kuo-Ching Chang and   
                  Chung-Bow Lee   Bayesian Estimation of the Number of
                                  Change Points in Simple Linear
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 689--710
                  A. Vexler and   
                    G. Gurevich   Guaranteed Local Maximum Likelihood
                                  Detection of a Change Point in
                                  Nonparametric Logistic Regression  . . . 711--726
               Ryan S. Gill and   
          Jerome P. Keating and   
               Michael I. Baron   Detecting Abrupt Leaks in Blended
                                  Underground Storage Tanks  . . . . . . . 727--742
                  Saad T. Bakir   Distribution-Free Quality Control Charts
                                  Based on Signed-Rank-Like Statistics . . 743--757

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 5, 2006

              Sunil K. Dhar and   
              Srinivasan Balaji   On the Characterization of a Bivariate
                                  Geometric Distribution . . . . . . . . . 759--765
                  V. Savani and   
              A. A. Zhigljavsky   Efficient Estimation of Parameters of
                                  the Negative Binomial Distribution . . . 767--783
               Ali Chaouche and   
           Jean-Noël Bacro   Statistical Inference for the
                                  Generalized Pareto Distribution: Maximum
                                  Likelihood Revisited . . . . . . . . . . 785--802
               Ahmed A. Soliman   Estimators for the Finite Mixture of
                                  Rayleigh Model Based on Progressively
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--820
           K. K. Ferentinos and   
               K. X. Karakostas   More on Shortest and Equal Tails
                                  Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 821--829
                         Jun Ma   Multiplicative Algorithms for Maximum
                                  Penalized Likelihood Inversion with Non
                                  Negative Constraints and Generalized
                                  Error Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . 831--848
               Gui-Jun Yang and   
                   Min-Qian Liu   A Note on the Lower Bounds on Maximum
                                  Number of Clear Two-Factor Interactions
                                  for $ (2^{m - p_{\rm III}}) $ and $
                                  (2^{m - p_{\rm IV}}) $ Designs . . . . . 849--860
                   F. Saura and   
                       J. Mateu   Estimating Mark Functions Through
                                  Spectral Analysis for Marked Point
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861--885
               Gregory Gurevich   Nonparametric AMOC Changepoint Tests for
                                  Stochastically Ordered Alternatives  . . 887--903
J. de Uña-Álvarez and   
      A. Rodríguez-Casal   Comparing Nonparametric Estimators for
                                  Length-Biased Data . . . . . . . . . . . 905--919
                G. Martynov and   
                      M. Mesbah   Goodness of Fit Test and Latent
                                  Distribution Estimation in the Mixed
                                  Rasch Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--935
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
Audrey Helen M. A. Cysneiros and   
Francisco José A. Cysneiros   Bartlett Adjustments for Overdispersed
                                  Generalized Linear Models  . . . . . . . 937--952

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 6, 2006

           David P. M. Scollnik   On the Intervened Generalized Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--963
                   Hea-Jung Kim   On the Ratio of Two Folded Normal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965--977
                Taizhong Hu and   
                  Feng Wang and   
                     Zegang Zhu   Stochastic Comparisons and Dependence of
                                  Spacings from Two Samples of Exponential
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 979--988
             Ali I. Genç   A Note on the Distribution of Linear
                                  Functions of Two Ordered Correlated
                                  Normal Random Variables  . . . . . . . . 989--995
              Hassan Zahedi and   
                      M. Shakil   Properties of Entropies of Record Values
                                  in Reliability and Life Testing Context  997--1010
             Jarkko Isotalo and   
                  Simo Puntanen   Linear Prediction Sufficiency for New
                                  Observations in the General
                                  Gauss--Markov Model  . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1023
               Yichuan Zhao and   
                  Gengsheng Qin   Inference for the Mean Residual Life
                                  Function via Empirical Likelihood  . . . 1025--1036
              Sharad Saxena and   
               Housila P. Singh   From Ordinary to Shrinkage Square-Root
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1058
                   D. Quade and   
                   I. A. Salama   Concordance of Complete or
                                  Right-Censored Rankings Based on
                                  Spearman's Footrule  . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1069
             Hani M. Samawi and   
       Mohammad F. Al-Saleh and   
                 Obaid Al-Saidy   Bivariate Sign Test for One-Sample
                                  Bivariate Location Model Using Ranked
                                  Set Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071--1083
                Yongge Tian and   
              Agnes M. Herzberg   $D$-optimal Designs for a Combined
                                  Simple Linear and Haar-Wavelet
                                  Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085--1091
               Riquan Zhang and   
                     Guoying Li   Integrated Estimation of
                                  Functional-Coefficient Regression Models
                                  with Different Smoothing Variables . . . 1093--1100
                 Chunfeng Huang   Smoothing Splines with Boundary
                                  Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1107
               Jade Freeman and   
                  Reza Modarres   Efficiency of $t$-Test and Hotelling's $
                                  T^2$-Test After Box--Cox Transformation  1109--1122
            Mattias Villani and   
                   Rolf Larsson   The Multivariate Split Normal
                                  Distribution and Asymmetric Principal
                                  Components Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 1123--1140
                Aurea Grane and   
                 Josep Fortiana   An Adaptive Goodness-of-Fit Test . . . . 1141--1155
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157--1157

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 7, 2006

                 Ingo Klein and   
               Matthias Fischer   Skewness by Splitting the Scale
                                  Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159--1171
                 M. Ghorbel and   
                     T. Huillet   Interval Partitioning Arising from
                                  Size-Biased Picking  . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1187
       N. Unnikrishnan Nair and   
                 K. K. Sudheesh   Characterization of Continuous
                                  Distributions by Variance Bound and Its
                                  Implications to Reliability Modeling and
                                  Catastrophe Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 1189--1199
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   A New Estimator of Population Mean in
                                  Stratified Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 1201--1209
                    Omar Eidous   A Semiparametric Model for Line Transect
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211--1221
            Ryszard Zieli\'nski   Small-Sample Quantile Estimators in a
                                  Large Nonparametric Model  . . . . . . . 1223--1241
          J. M. C. Santos Silva   A Note on Influence Assessment in Score
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1256
                  Xiaogang Wang   Asymptotic Properties of Adaptive
                                  Likelihood Weights by Cross-Validation   1257--1270
              Chien-Tai Lin and   
               Sam J. S. Wu and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Inference for Log-Gamma Distribution
                                  Based on Progressively Type-II Censored
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1292
             Animikh Biswas and   
            Rajeshwari Sundaram   Kernel Survival Function Estimation
                                  Based on Doubly Censored Data  . . . . . 1293--1307
            Bilgehan Güven   Minimum Variance Quadratic Unbiased
                                  Estimation for the Variance Components
                                  in Simple Linear Regression with Onefold
                                  Nested Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309--1318
    Baris Sürücü   Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Multivariate
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319--1331
            Willi Sauerbrei and   
     Norbert Holländer and   
           Richard D. Riley and   
              Douglas G. Altman   Evidence-Based Assessment and
                                  Application of Prognostic Markers: The
                                  Long Way from Single Studies to
                                  Meta-Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333--1342
A. M. M. Shahiduzzaman Quoreshi   Bivariate Time Series Modeling of
                                  Financial Count Data . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1358
                          K. Yu   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1359--1359

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 8, 2006

                  Hsiuying Wang   Modified $p$-Value of Two-Sided Test for
                                  Normal Distribution with Restricted
                                  Parameter Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361--1374
       Gloria García and   
                 Josep M. Oller   On the Smoothness of Projections in
                                  Statistical Models . . . . . . . . . . . 1375--1385
  Julián de la Horra and   
María Teresa Rodríguez-Bernal   Prior Density Selection as a Particular
                                  Case of Bayesian Model Selection: A
                                  Predictive Approach  . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1396
              Priyanka Aggarwal   Bayes Predictor of One-Parameter
                                  Exponential Family Type Population Mean
                                  Under Balanced Loss Function . . . . . . 1397--1408
                   Tachen Liang   Empirical Bayes Testing for the Mean
                                  Lifetime of Exponential Distributions:
                                  Unequal Sample Sizes Case  . . . . . . . 1409--1428
                        E. Oral   Binary Regression with Stochastic
                                  Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1429--1447
   Vilijandas Bagdonavicius and   
            Sergey V. Malov and   
             Mikhail S. Nikulin   Semiparametric Regression Estimation in
                                  Copula Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449--1467
                   Sudhir Gupta   Balanced Factorial Designs for cDNA
                                  Microarray Experiments . . . . . . . . . 1469--1476
             M. L. Aggarwal and   
            Mithilesh Kumar Jha   Some New Series of Partially Balanced
                                  Residual Treatment Effects Designs . . . 1477--1482
                   Samuel S. Wu   Combining Univariate Tests for
                                  Multivariate Location Problem  . . . . . 1483--1494
           Mohamed Bentarzi and   
            Abdelhakim Aknouche   An On-Line Estimation Algorithm for
                                  Periodic Autoregressive Models . . . . . 1495--1512
              Asok K. Nanda and   
      Subarna Bhattacharjee and   
                     S. S. Alam   On Upshifted Reversed Mean Residual Life
                                  Order  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1513--1523
            Olivier Gaudoin and   
                    Bo Yang and   
                        Min Xie   Confidence Intervals for the Scale
                                  Parameter of the Power-Law Process . . . 1525--1538
                Grace Y. Yi and   
                     Wenqing He   Methods for Bivariate Survival Data with
                                  Mismeasured Covariates Under an
                                  Accelerated Failure Time Model . . . . . 1539--1554

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 9, 2006

                G. Jayasree and   
                 R. J. R. Swamy   Some New Discrete Probability
                                  Distributions Derived from Power Series
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1555--1567
                T. Pham-Gia and   
                 N. Turkkan and   
                    E. Marchand   Density of the Ratio of Two Normal
                                  Random Variables and Applications  . . . 1569--1591
             Scott A. Roths and   
                Joshua M. Tebbs   Revisiting Beal's Confidence Intervals
                                  for the Difference of Two Binomial
                                  Proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1593--1609
                Hidekazu Tanaka   Location and Scale Parameter Family of
                                  Distributions Attaining the
                                  Bhattacharyya Bound  . . . . . . . . . . 1611--1628
            Domingo Morales and   
              Leandro Pardo and   
                     Igor Vajda   On Efficient Estimation in Continuous
                                  Models Based on Finitely Quantized
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1629--1653
             Bikas K. Sinha and   
      Samindranath Sengupta and   
                  Sujay Mukhuti   Unbiased Estimation of the Distribution
                                  Function of an Exponential Population
                                  Using Order Statistics with Application
                                  in Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . . . . . 1655--1670
              Deepak Sanjel and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Use of Orthogonal Polynomial
                                  Approximations for Inference in
                                  Exponential Distribution Based on
                                  $K$-Sample Doubly Type-II Censored Data  1671--1683
                 A. Asgharzadeh   Point and Interval Estimation for a
                                  Generalized Logistic Distribution Under
                                  Progressive Type II Censoring  . . . . . 1685--1702
                  Tonglin Zhang   A Modification for Bayesian Credible
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703--1711
              Norio Torigoe and   
                  Katsumi Ujiie   On the Restricted Liu Estimator in the
                                  Gauss--Markov Model  . . . . . . . . . . 1713--1722
                V. M. Raats and   
             J. J. A. Moors and   
         B. B. van der Genugten   A Mixed Model for Double Checking
                                  Fallible Auditors  . . . . . . . . . . . 1723--1743
           Abdelouahab Bibi and   
               Moon-Ho Ringo Ho   Estimation of Periodic Bilinear Time
                                  Series Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1745--1756
             Yasuhiro Omori and   
             Richard A. Johnson   The Influence of Random Effects on
                                  Univariate and Bivariate Discrete
                                  Proportional Hazards Models  . . . . . . 1757--1764

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 10, 2006

                 Lirong Cui and   
                      Haijun Li   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1766
                  Chung-Ho Chen   The Modified Pulak and Al-Sultan's Model
                                  for Determining the Optimum Process
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1778
                 Yanlan Guo and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                  Jinlin Li and   
                       Song Gao   Reliabilities for $ (n, f, k(i, j)) $
                                  and $ \langle n, f, k(i, j) \rangle $
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779--1789
               A. G. Hawkes and   
                      A. Jalali   Parameter Estimation and Censored Lives  1791--1802
              Won Young Yun and   
                Eun Suk Kim and   
                    Ji Hwan Cha   Accelerated Life Test Data Analysis for
                                  Repairable Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 1803--1814
                    Lun Ran and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                         M. Xie   Some Analytical and Numerical Bounds on
                                  the Renewal Function . . . . . . . . . . 1815--1827
                  J. Y. Liu and   
                     M. Xie and   
                      T. N. Goh   CUSUM Chart with Transformed Exponential
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829--1843
                  Xian Zhao and   
              Haisheng Yang and   
                      Jinlin Li   A Sensitivity Analysis for System
                                  Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845--1856
                Renkuan Guo and   
                      Tim Dunne   Grey Predictive Process Control Charts   1857--1868
                   Yu Zhang and   
               Musheng Yang and   
                   Yanxin Zhang   Concurrent Design for Process Quality,
                                  Statistical Tolerance, and SPC . . . . . 1869--1882
                Songlin Liu and   
                Zheng Haiqi and   
                        Xu Ping   Evaluation Method for Equipment State
                                  Quality Based on Extension Theory  . . . 1883--1895
                Bo Tang Han and   
               Cai Bo Zhang and   
              Chang Sen Sun and   
                    Chun Jie Xu   Reliability Analysis of Flexible
                                  Manufacturing Cells Based on Triangular
                                  Fuzzy Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1897--1907
                  Youzhi Xu and   
                      Jinlin Li   A Markov Chain Model for Forecasting the
                                  Management Quality of Chinese A Share
                                  Listed Companies . . . . . . . . . . . . 1909--1919
                 Aijun Yang and   
                     Hui Yu and   
                   Zhenhai Yang   The MLE of Geometric Parameter for a
                                  Geometric Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 1921--1930
                  Fujun Hou and   
                      Qizong Wu   Genetic Algorithm-Based Redundancy
                                  Optimization Problems in Fuzzy Framework 1931--1941

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 11, 2006

          Maxim Finkelstein and   
              Veronica Esaulova   On Mixture Failure Rates Ordering  . . . 1943--1955
                Manal M. Nassar   On the Characterization of a Mixture of
                                  Generalized Power Function Distributions
                                  by Conditional Expectation of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1957--1962
                 A. Laradji and   
               Anwar H. Joarder   Inequalities Among Some Measures of
                                  Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963--1970
                  A. Habibi and   
              N. R. Arghami and   
                      J. Ahmadi   Statistical Evidence in Experiments and
                                  in Record Values . . . . . . . . . . . . 1971--1983
                  H. M. Barakat   A General Recurrence Relation for the
                                  Moments of Bivariate and Trivariate
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985--1992
           Yuan-Tsung Chang and   
                Nobuo Shinozaki   Estimation of Ordered Means of Two
                                  Poisson Distributions  . . . . . . . . . 1993--2003
            Mahdi Alkhamisi and   
             Ghadban Khalaf and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   Some Modifications for Choosing Ridge
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005--2020
               Manuel Galea and   
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
        Patricia Giménez   Hypothesis Testing in Functional
                                  Comparative Calibration Models . . . . . 2021--2033
            Masahide Kuwada and   
                  Shujie Lu and   
            Yoshifumi Hyodo and   
                 Eiji Taniguchi   GA-Optimal Partially Balanced Fractional
                                  $ 2^{m 1 + m 2} $ Factorial Designs of
                                  Resolution $ R(\{ 00, 10, 01, 20 \} |
                                  \Omega) $ with $ 2 \leq m_1, m_2 \leq 4
                                  $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2035--2053
     J. García-Heras and   
J. Muñoz-García and   
J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and   
                       L. Pardo   Influence Measures Based on
                                  Cressie--Read Divergence Measures in
                                  Multivariate Linear Model  . . . . . . . 2055--2073
                       S. Lajmi   Scalar Statistics Which Have Constant
                                  Regression on the Mean of a Riesz
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2075--2082
                 Antony Gautier   Asymptotic Inefficiency of
                                  Mean-Correction on Parameter Estimation
                                  for a Periodic First-Order
                                  Autoregressive Model . . . . . . . . . . 2083--2106
                     G. Pulcini   A Bivariate Distribution for the
                                  Reliability Analysis of Failure Data in
                                  Presence of a Forewarning or Primer
                                  Event  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2107--2126
               Inkyung Jung and   
               Pranab Kumar Sen   Robust $R$-Estimation of a Consensus
                                  Value from Multi-Center Studies  . . . . 2127--2144

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 12, 2006

                N. Balakrishnan   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2145--2145
                  C. R. Rao and   
                  K. W. Tam and   
                          Y. Wu   On Simultaneous Estimation of the Number
                                  of Signals and Frequencies of Multiple
                                  Sinusoids When Some Observations Are
                                  Missing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2147--2155
             Steven G. From and   
                    Linxiong Li   Estimation of the Parameters of the
                                  Birnbaum--Saunders Distribution  . . . . 2157--2169
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                Wenqing Cao and   
                   Xiuying Feng   A New Test Procedure for Decreasing Mean
                                  Residual Life  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2171--2183
                 Ken-Ichi Koike   An Integral Bhattacharyya Type Bound for
                                  the Bayes Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2185--2195
              Rosa E. Lillo and   
           Miguel Martín   On the Bayesian Estimation for the
                                  Uniform Scale Parameter via a Functional
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2197--2210
Miguel A. Gómez-Villegas and   
Beatriz González-Pérez   A Condition to Obtain the Same Decision
                                  in the Homogeneity Testing Problem from
                                  the Frequentist and Bayesian Point of
                                  View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2211--2222
              Mayuri Pandya and   
                     P. N. Jani   Bayesian Estimation of Change Point in
                                  Inverse Weibull Sequence . . . . . . . . 2223--2237
           Arijit Chaudhuri and   
              Kajal Dihidar and   
                   Mausumi Bose   On the Feasibility of Basing Horvitz and
                                  Thompson's Estimator on a Sample by Rao,
                                  Hartley, and Cochran's Scheme  . . . . . 2239--2244
                Eun-Ha Choi and   
          Wayne A. Woodward and   
                  Henry L. Gray   Euler $ (p, q) $ Processes and their
                                  Application to Non Stationary Time
                                  Series with Time Varying Frequencies . . 2245--2262
                 Maria Adam and   
                  John Maroulas   Geometry in Canonical Correlations . . . 2263--2273
        William R. Schucany and   
                  H. K. Tony Ng   Preliminary Goodness-of-Fit Tests for
                                  Normality do not Validate the One-Sample
                                  Student $t$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2275--2286


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 1, 2007

                N. Balakrishnan   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                T. F. Khang and   
                      S. H. Ong   A New Generalization of the Logarithmic
                                  Distribution Arising from the Inverse
                                  Trinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . . 3--21
           Matthias Fischer and   
                 Armin Horn and   
                     Ingo Klein   Tukey-Type Distributions in the Context
                                  of Financial Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 23--35
 Raúl Jiménez and   
                  Yongzhao Shao   Asymptotic Distribution for Symmetric
                                  Spacing Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46
               S. Baratpour and   
                  J. Ahmadi and   
                  N. R. Arghami   Some Characterizations Based on Entropy
                                  of Order Statistics and Record Values    47--57
                Mariusz Bieniek   Bounds for Expectations of Differences
                                  of Generalized Order Statistics Based on
                                  General and Life Distributions . . . . . 59--72
Héctor W. Gómez and   
        Francisco J. Torres and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   Large-Sample Inference for the
                                  Epsilon-Skew-  $t$  Distribution . . . . 73--81
             Nandini Kannan and   
          Jerome P. Keating and   
                Robert L. Mason   A Comparison of Classical and Inverse
                                  Estimators in the Calibration Problem    83--95
           Steven T. Garren and   
          Elizabeth R. Hume and   
                Glen R. Leppert   Improved Estimation of the Pareto
                                  Location Parameter Under Squared Error
                                  Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
                   Tian Xia and   
             Shun-Fang Wang and   
                   Xue-Ren Wang   Convergence Rate of Strong Consistency
                                  of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in
                                  Exponential Family Nonlinear Models  . . 103--115
                 Kazuo Noda and   
                  Etsuo Miyaoka   Admissibility of Test Procedures for
                                  Linear Hypotheses in General Linear
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--128
                  A. R. de Leon   One-Sample Likelihood Ratio Tests for
                                  Mixed Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--141
              Pai-Lien Chen and   
                  Pranab K. Sen   Markov Chain Model Selection by
                                  Misclassified Model Probabilities  . . . 143--153
            Mohamed Lemdani and   
             Elias Ould-Sa\"\id   Asymptotic Behavior of the Hazard Rate
                                  Kernel Estimator Under Truncated and
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--173
                 J. Navarro and   
               Jose M. Ruiz and   
             Carlos J. Sandoval   Properties of Coherent Systems with
                                  Dependent Components . . . . . . . . . . 175--191
               S. B. Munoli and   
                 M. D. Suranagi   Estimation of Reliability for ( $k$ + 1)
                                  Component Lightly Loaded Standby System
                                  with Single Repair . . . . . . . . . . . 193--202
              S. K. Acharya and   
                   M. N. Mishra   Bernstein--von Mises Theorem for M|M|1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--209
                    Ivy Liu and   
                   Dong Q. Wang   Diagnostics for Stratified Clinical
                                  Trials in Proportional Odds Models . . . 211--220

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 2, 2007

                John E. Kolassa   A Proof of the Asymptotic Equivalence of
                                  Two-Tail Probability Approximations  . . 221--228
                       S. Shams   Properties of Certain Class of Mixture
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233
                Amita Singh and   
    J. René van Dorp and   
             Thomas A. Mazzuchi   A Novel Asymmetric Distribution with
                                  Power Tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252
            Vladimir Vinogradov   On Infinitely Divisible Exponential
                                  Dispersion Model Related to
                                  Poisson-Exponential Distribution . . . . 253--263
               Hyeonah Park and   
              Seongryong Na and   
                   Jongwoo Jeon   Compromise Allocation in Univariate
                                  Stratified Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 265--271
                    W. F. Scott   On the Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  Likelihood Ratio Statistic . . . . . . . 273--281
          Rakesh Srivastava and   
                    Vilpa Tanna   Double Stage Shrinkage Testimator of the
                                  Scale Parameter of an Exponential Life
                                  Model Under General Entropy Loss
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--295
                 Liang Peng and   
                       Shan Sun   Comparisons Between Local Linear
                                  Estimator and Kernel Smooth Estimator
                                  for a Smooth Distribution Based on MSE
                                  Under Right Censoring  . . . . . . . . . 297--312
               Yichuan Zhao and   
                  Gengsheng Qin   Inference for a Linear Functional of
                                  Cumulative Hazard Function Via Empirical
                                  Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--327
     Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay and   
                    Sanjib Basu   Bayesian Analysis of Masked Series
                                  System Lifetime Data . . . . . . . . . . 329--348
                  Sung Won Kang   A Gibbs Sampling Algorithm for a
                                  Changing Regression Model with Pooled
                                  Binary Response Data . . . . . . . . . . 349--373
                 Qinfeng Xu and   
                    Jinhong You   Covariate Selection for Linear
                                  Errors-in-Variables Regression Models    375--386
                  Xinmin Li and   
                   Zhaowei Meng   Confidence Intervals on Sum of Variance
                                  Components in Unbalanced Two-Fold Nested
                                  Designs with Equal Subsampling . . . . . 387--397
                Takayuki Yamada   On Comparisons of Exact Powers of
                                  Bivariate GMANOVA Tests  . . . . . . . . 399--413
       Deo Kumar Srivastava and   
            James M. Boyett and   
            Carl W. Jackson and   
                   Xin Tong and   
                   Shesh N. Rai   A Comparison of Permutation Hotelling's
                                  $ T^2 $ Test and Log-Ratio Test for
                                  Analyzing Compositional Data . . . . . . 415--431
      Christopher R. Bilder and   
              Thomas M. Loughin   Modeling Association Between Two or More
                                  Categorical Variables that Allow for
                                  Multiple Category Choices  . . . . . . . 433--451

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 3, 2007

    J. Rodríguez-Avi and   
    A. Conde-Sánchez and   
 A. J. Sáez-Castillo and   
      M. J. Olmo-Jiménez   Gaussian Hypergeometric Probability
                                  Distributions for Fitting Discrete Data  453--463
              Yilmaz Mehmet and   
           Tuncer Yalçin   Convex Ordering for Bivariate
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--472
                William J. Reed   Brownian--Laplace Motion and Its Use in
                                  Financial Modelling  . . . . . . . . . . 473--484
            H. E. T. Holgersson   Robust Testing for Skewness  . . . . . . 485--498
                    Hong-Fwu Yu   Mis-Specification Analysis Between
                                  Normal and Extreme Value Distributions
                                  for a Linear Regression Model  . . . . . 499--521
Miguel A. Gómez-Villegas and   
         Paloma Maín and   
                   Rosario Susi   Sensitivity Analysis in Gaussian
                                  Bayesian Networks Using a Divergence
                                  Measure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--539
           S. Amala Revathy and   
                B. Chandrasekar   Equivariant Estimation of Parameters
                                  Based on Sequential Order Statistics
                                  from $ (1, 3) $ and $ (2, 3) $ Systems   541--548
                   Riquan Zhang   Inferences on Nonparametric Component
                                  for Partially Linear Models  . . . . . . 549--562
          K. Triantafyllopoulos   A Note on the Canonical Structure of
                                  Multivariate Dynamic Linear Models . . . 563--565
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
                   Bo-Cheng Wei   Testing for Heteroscedasticity and/or
                                  Autocorrelation in Longitudinal Mixed
                                  Effect Nonlinear Models with $ {\rm
                                  AR}(1) $ Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--586
            N. Rao Chaganty and   
                     Yihao Deng   Ranges of Measures of Association for
                                  Familial Binary Variables  . . . . . . . 587--598
          Byoung Cheol Jung and   
              Sang Moon Han and   
                    Jungbok Lee   Score Tests for Testing Independence in
                                  the Zero-Truncated Bivariate Poisson
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--611
     Stergios B. Fotopoulos and   
       Venkata K. Jandhyala and   
                  Kim Heng Chen   Regression Properties for Asymmetric
                                  Generalized Scale Mixtures of
                                  Multivariate Gaussian Variables  . . . . 613--628
            Valerii Fedorov and   
                Byron Jones and   
              Vippal Savani and   
            Anatoly Zhigljavsky   Deriving Approximations in a Random
                                  Effects Model for Multicenter Clinical
                                  Trials with Binary Response  . . . . . . 629--644
              Jorge Navarro and   
                  Chin-Diew Lai   Ordering Properties of Systems with Two
                                  Dependent Components . . . . . . . . . . 645--655

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 4, 2007

            Frosso S. Makri and   
       Andreas N. Philippou and   
          Zaharias M. Psillakis   Pólya, Inverse Pólya, and Circular Pólya
                                  Distributions of Order $k$ for
                                  $l$-Overlapping Success Runs . . . . . . 657--668
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
                 G. H. Yari and   
                       E. Pasha   Information Measures for Some Well-Known
                                  Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--677
                 Milena Bieniek   Projection Mean-Variance Bounds on
                                  Expectations of $k$ th Record Values
                                  from Restricted Families . . . . . . . . 679--692
              Ya. Lumelskii and   
                  V. Voinov and   
                 M. Nikulin and   
                      P. Feigin   On a Generalization of the Classical
                                  Random Sampling Scheme and Unbiased
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--705
       M. Revan Özkale and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   Comparisons of the Unbiased Ridge
                                  Estimation to the Other Estimations  . . 707--723
                Khangelani Zuma   A Bayesian Analysis of Correlated
                                  Interval-Censored Data . . . . . . . . . 725--730
  Julián De La Horra and   
María Teresa Rodríguez-Bernal   Computing Probabilities of Type I Error
                                  and Type II Error of Sequential Bayesian
                                  Procedures for Testing One-Sided
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--740
                D. C. Singh and   
               Gyan Prakash and   
                       P. Singh   Shrinkage Testimators for the Shape
                                  Parameter of Pareto Distribution Using
                                  LINEX Loss Function  . . . . . . . . . . 741--753
                  Chongqi Zhang   Optimal Designs for Trigonometric
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--766
           Filidor V. Labra and   
                 Reiko Aoki and   
                Francisco Rojas   An Application of the Local Influence
                                  Diagnostics to Ridge Regression Under
                                  Elliptical Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--779
    J. López-Fidalgo and   
   M. J. Rivas-López and   
B. Fernández-Garzón   $A$-Optimality Standardized Through the
                                  Coefficient of Variation . . . . . . . . 781--792
             Pen-Hwang Liau and   
                Pi-Hsiang Huang   Clear Effects in the $ 2^{n - p} $
                                  Combined Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--799
            Michael W. Sill and   
               Allan R. Sampson   Extension of a Two-Stage Conditionally
                                  Unbiased Estimator of the Selected
                                  Population to the Bivariate Normal Case  801--813
            Adelaide Figueiredo   Multi-Sample Likelihood Ratio Tests
                                  Based on Bipolar Watson Distributions
                                  Defined on the Hypersphere . . . . . . . 815--820
               Jason J. Z. Liao   An Accelerated Model for Recurrence Data 821--831
         Simos G. Meintanis and   
              Yiannis Bassiakos   Data-Transformation and Test of Fit for
                                  the Generalized Pareto Hypothesis  . . . 833--849

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 5, 2007

             A. Dembi\'nska and   
                A. Stepanov and   
                 J. Weso\lowski   How Many Observations Fall in a
                                  Neighborhood of an Order Statistic?  . . 851--867
               Jean Diebolt and   
            Armelle Guillou and   
                Pierre Ribereau   Asymptotic Normality of Extreme Quantile
                                  Estimators Based on the
                                  Peaks-Over-Threshold Approach  . . . . . 869--886
             Yisrael Parmet and   
                Edna Schechtman   On a Test of the Difference Between Two
                                  Binomial Proportions . . . . . . . . . . 887--895
                  Lili Tian and   
            Govind S. Mudholkar   Testing Equality of Order Constrained
                                  Inverse Gaussian Means . . . . . . . . . 897--906
         Sylvie Tchumtchoua and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   Bayesian Estimation of Stochastic
                                  Frontier Models with Multivariate Skew 
                                  $t$  Error Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--916
               Laisheng Wei and   
                  Weiping Zhang   The Superiorities of Bayes Linear
                                  Minimum Risk Estimation in Linear Model  917--926
            E. Letón and   
                     P. Zuluaga   A Note on the Variances of the Tests of
                                  Kendall, Jonckheere, and Terpstra  . . . 927--937
                Dan J. Spitzner   Constructive Cross-Validation in Linear
                                  Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--953
                    Shalabh and   
                 Pen-Hwang Liau   Consistent Estimation of the Regression
                                  Coefficient Through Weighted Arithmetic
                                  Mean of the Inconsistent Estimators in
                                  Replicated Ultrastructural Model . . . . 955--960
                Chang-Yu Lu and   
               Jian-Hong Wu and   
                  Bin-Yan Zhang   Admissible Linear Estimators with
                                  Respect to Inequality Constraints  . . . 961--966
              David E. A. Giles   Spurious Regressions with Time-Series
                                  Data: Further Asymptotic Results . . . . 967--979
            Hiroaki Chigira and   
                  Taku Yamamoto   Finite Sample Modifications of the
                                  Granger Non Causality Test in
                                  Cointegrated Vector Autoregressions  . . 981--1003
              Joshua S. Richman   Sample Entropy Statistics and Testing
                                  for Order in Complex Physiological
                                  Signals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1019
                  Amal Helu and   
               Dayanand N. Naik   Estimation of Sib-Sib Correlation via a
                                  Kotz-Type Density Function . . . . . . . 1021--1029
             Ulrich Menzefricke   Control Charts for the Generalized
                                  Variance Based on Its Predictive
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1038
                Luigi Greco and   
                Stefania Naddeo   Inverse Sampling with Unequal Selection
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1048

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 6, 2007

             G. G. Hamedani and   
               Hans Volkmer and   
              Jacek Weso\lowski   Characterization Problems Related to the
                                  Shepp Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1057
                     P. C. Wang   Analysis of Experimental Poisson Data    1059--1068
                  Xuewen Lu and   
                R. S. Singh and   
                  A. F. Desmond   Estimation for Location-Scale Models
                                  with Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1089
                     Qihua Wang   $M$-Estimators Based on Inverse
                                  Probability Weighted Estimating
                                  Equations with Response Missing at
                                  Random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1103
              Xiaoming Wang and   
                 K. C. Carriere   Exponential-Bound Property of Estimators
                                  and Variable Selection in Generalized
                                  Additive Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1122
      Athanasios C. Micheas and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   Reconciling Bayesian and Frequentist
                                  Evidence in the One-Sided Scale
                                  Parameter Testing Problem  . . . . . . . 1123--1138
                 J. B. Shah and   
                    M. N. Patel   Bayes Estimation of Shift Point in
                                  Geometric Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 1139--1151
                Wonsun Chen and   
                    Arne Bathke   Testing Treatment-Covariate Interaction
                                  in a Nonparametric Analysis of
                                  Covariance Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1153--1171
             Karim Benhenni and   
                Mustapha Rachdi   Nonparametric Estimation of Average
                                  Growth Curve with General Nonstationary
                                  Error Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1186
      Subrata Kumar Satpati and   
            Rajender Parsad and   
                    V. K. Gupta   Efficient Block Designs for Dependent
                                  Observations --- a Computer-Aided Search 1187--1223
                        S. Huda   Minimax Design for the Difference
                                  Between Estimated Responses for the
                                  Quadratic Model Over Hypercubic Regions  1225--1231
           Min-Hsien Chiang and   
                 Chihwa Kao and   
                  Chih-Hsien Lo   The Estimation and Inference of a Panel
                                  Cointegration Model with a Time Trend    1233--1250
                Hee Soo Kim and   
             Young Sub Kwon and   
                   Dong Ho Park   Adaptive Sequential Preventive
                                  Maintenance Policy and Bayesian
                                  Consideration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1269

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 7, 2007

               Ismihan Bairamov   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1272
              Jorge Navarro and   
             Tomasz Rychlik and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Are the Order Statistics Ordered? A
                                  Survey of Recent Results . . . . . . . . 1273--1290
                I. Akhundov and   
                  A. Berred and   
                 V. B. Nevzorov   On the Influence of Record Terms in the
                                  Addition of Independent Random Variables 1291--1303
           Ch. A. Charalambides   Exact Distributions of the Number of
                                  $r$-Records and the $r$-Record and
                                  Inter-$r$-Record Times . . . . . . . . . 1305--1317
           Ismihan Bairamov and   
               Tugba Özkal   On Characterization of Distributions
                                  Through the Properties of Conditional
                                  Expectations of Order Statistics . . . . 1319--1326
               Philip J. Boland   The Probability Distribution for the
                                  Number of Successes in Independent
                                  Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1327--1331
                M. Tavangar and   
                       M. Asadi   Generalized Pareto Distributions
                                  Characterized by Generalized Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333--1341
                Mariusz Bieniek   Projection Bounds on Expectations of
                                  Spacings of Generalized Order Statistics
                                  from DD and DDA Families . . . . . . . . 1343--1357
                 Coskun Kus and   
                 Mehmet F. Kaya   Estimation for the Parameters of the
                                  Pareto Distribution Under Progressive
                                  Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1359--1365
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   Inequalities for Expected Current Record
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1367--1380
               Anna Dembi\'nska   A Review on Characterizations of
                                  Discrete Distributions Based on Records
                                  and $k$ th Records . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1387
            Serkan Eryilmaz and   
          Muhammet Bekçi   Runs in a Bivariate Sequence Over the
                                  First Coordinate . . . . . . . . . . . . 1389--1395
           Agnieszka Impert and   
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Comparison of Records and Maxima . . . . 1397--1408
               Khalaf S. Sultan   Order Statistics from the Generalized
                                  Exponential Distribution and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409--1418
               M. Burkschat and   
                  E. Cramer and   
                       U. Kamps   Optimality Criteria and Optimal Schemes
                                  in Progressive Censoring . . . . . . . . 1419--1431
      Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh   On the Similarity Structure of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1433--1439
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
                 Subhash Kochar   Stochastic Orderings of Order Statistics
                                  of Independent Random Variables with
                                  Different Scale Parameters . . . . . . . 1441--1449
                Monika Klimczak   Best Bounds of $k$ th Records from
                                  Bounded Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451--1464
      Ma\lgorzata Konwerska and   
Fernando López-Blázquez and   
              Jacek Weso\lowski   Identification of Product Measures by
                                  Random Choice of Marginals . . . . . . . 1465--1478
           Ismihan Bairamov and   
                    Halil Tanil   On Distributions of Exceedances Based on
                                  Generalized Order Statistics . . . . . . 1479--1491

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 8, 2007

            Barry C. Arnold and   
           Enrique Castillo and   
José María Sarabia   Distributions with Generalized Skewed
                                  Conditionals and Mixtures of Such
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1493--1503
Antonio Mauricio F. L. Miranda de Sá and   
          Leonardo B. Felix and   
        Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes   Comments on ``Sums, Products, and Ratios
                                  of Non-Central Beta Variables'' by
                                  Saralees Nadarajah . . . . . . . . . . . 1505--1506
                 Maochao Xu and   
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                  Peng Zhao and   
                    Zhouping Li   Likelihood Ratio Order of $m$-Spacings
                                  in Multiple-Outlier Models . . . . . . . 1507--1525
                Malay Ghosh and   
             Myung Joon Kim and   
                      Dalho Kim   Constrained Bayes and Empirical Bayes
                                  Estimation with Balanced Loss Functions  1527--1542
                   Tachen Liang   Empirical Bayes Testing for Double
                                  Exponential Distributions  . . . . . . . 1543--1553
             Lyle D. Broemeling   Detection and Localization in Test
                                  Accuracy: A Bayesian Perspective . . . . 1555--1564
            Ashok K. Bansal and   
              Priyanka Aggarwal   Bayes Prediction for a Heteroscedastic
                                  Regression Superpopulation Model Using
                                  Balanced Loss Function . . . . . . . . . 1565--1575
                      Johan Lim   Estimation of the Entropy Functional
                                  from Dependent Samples . . . . . . . . . 1577--1589
               Junlong Zhao and   
               Xingzhong Xu and   
                     Jianjun Ma   Extending Save and PHD . . . . . . . . . 1591--1606
                    Wen Cui and   
                      Feiqi Zhu   A Note on Sample Size Determination for
                                  the Estimation of the Mean Vector of a
                                  Multivariate Population  . . . . . . . . 1607--1610
               Do-Hwan Park and   
                Jianguo Sun and   
                   Xingqiu Zhao   A Class of Two-Sample Nonparametric
                                  Tests for Panel Count Data . . . . . . . 1611--1625
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                   V. N. Sreeja   Proportional Hazards Model for
                                  Multivariate Failure Time Data . . . . . 1627--1641
                 Yanqing Yi and   
                     Xikui Wang   Statistical Inference of Adaptive
                                  Designs with Binary Responses  . . . . . 1643--1653
                       Andy Lee   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1655--1655

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 9, 2007

              Arthur Pewsey and   
Graciela González-Farías   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1657--1659
                   C. J. Adcock   Extensions of Stein's Lemma for the
                                  Skew-Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . 1661--1671
            Hugo S. Salinas and   
 Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and   
  Héctor W. Gómez   The Extended Skew-Exponential Power
                                  Distribution and Its Derivation  . . . . 1673--1689
J. Armando Domínguez-Molina and   
Graciela González-Farías and   
      Rogelio Ramos-Quiroga and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   A Matrix Variate Closed Skew-Normal
                                  Distribution with Applications to
                                  Stochastic Frontier Analysis . . . . . . 1691--1703
            Sheng-Mao Chang and   
                 Marc G. Genton   Extreme Value Distributions for the
                                  Skew-Symmetric Family of Distributions   1705--1717
           Nicola Loperfido and   
              Jorge Navarro and   
               Jose M. Ruiz and   
             Carlos J. Sandoval   Some Relationships Between Skew-Normal
                                  Distributions and Order Statistics from
                                  Exchangeable Normal Random Vectors . . . 1719--1733
    Gl\`oria Mateu-Figueras and   
                 Pedro Puig and   
                  Arthur Pewsey   Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the
                                  Skew-Normal Distribution When the
                                  Parameters Are Estimated from the Data   1735--1755
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                M. R. Brito and   
                   A. J. Quiroz   A Vectorial Notion of Skewness and Its
                                  Use in Testing for Multivariate Symmetry 1757--1767
    Víctor H. Lachos and   
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
 Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and   
          Lourdes C. Montenegro   Likelihood-Based Inference for
                                  Multivariate Skew-Normal Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1769--1786
    Gl\`oria Mateu-Figueras and   
           Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn   The Skew-Normal Distribution on the
                                  Simplex  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1787--1802
              Mohsen Pourahmadi   Skew-Normal ARMA Models with Nonlinear
                                  Heteroscedastic Predictors . . . . . . . 1803--1819
               Denis Allard and   
                Philippe Naveau   A New Spatial Skew-Normal Random Field
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1821--1834

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 10, 2007

                    M. C. Jones   On a Class of Distributions Defined by
                                  the Relationship Between Their Density
                                  and Distribution Functions . . . . . . . 1835--1843
         Daniel Peña and   
         Angelika van der Linde   Dimensionless Measures of Variability
                                  and Dependence for Multivariate
                                  Continuous Distributions . . . . . . . . 1845--1854
              M. E. Ghitany and   
            F. A. Al-Awadhi and   
                L. A. Alkhalfan   Marshall--Olkin Extended Lomax
                                  Distribution and Its Application to
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855--1866
           Parimal Mukhopadhyay   On Optimal Estimating Functions in the
                                  Presence of Nuisance Parameters  . . . . 1867--1876
     Francisco Cribari-Neto and   
           Tatiene C. Souza and   
       Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos   Inference Under Heteroskedasticity and
                                  Leveraged Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877--1888
       M. Revan Özkale and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   A Prediction-Oriented Criterion for
                                  Choosing the Biasing Parameter in Liu
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1889--1903
      Julián De la Horra   Bayesian Robustness of the Positive
                                  False Discovery Rate . . . . . . . . . . 1905--1914
                   Eric Chicken   Nonparametric Regression with Sample
                                  Design Following a Random Process  . . . 1915--1934
              Hamzeh Torabi and   
               Javad Behboodian   Fuzzy Least-Absolutes Estimates in
                                  Linear Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1935--1944
                 Jianwen Xu and   
                        Hu Yang   Estimation in Singular Linear Models
                                  with Stochastic Linear Restrictions  . . 1945--1951
        Ronald P. Pelletier and   
            George T. Diderrich   A Note on Breiman's Random Forest Data
                                  Mining Technique and Conventional Cox
                                  Modeling of Survival Statistics: The
                                  Case of the Phantom ``Induct'' Covariate
                                  in the Ohio State University Kidney
                                  Transplant Database  . . . . . . . . . . 1953--1964
            Daniel R. Jeske and   
                  Zheng Liu and   
             Elizabeth Bent and   
                 James Borneman   Classification Rules that Include
                                  Neutral Zones and Their Application to
                                  Microbial Community Profiling  . . . . . 1965--1980
                 Zhishui Hu and   
         Valentin V. Petrov and   
                  John Robinson   On Large Deviations of Sums of
                                  Independent Random Variables . . . . . . 1981--1992
                 Steven G. From   Some New Bounds on the Probability of
                                  Extinction of a Galton--Watson Process
                                  with Numerical Comparisons . . . . . . . 1993--2009

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 11, 2007

              Manuel Franco and   
        Juana María Vivo   Generalized Mixtures of Gamma and
                                  Exponentials and Reliability Properties
                                  of the Maximum from Friday and Patil
                                  Bivariate Exponential Model  . . . . . . 2011--2025
       A. V. Dattatreya Rao and   
        I. Ramabhadra Sarma and   
                S. V. S. Girija   On Wrapped Version of Some Life Testing
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2027--2035
          D. Szatmari-Voicu and   
                  J. R. Collins   $M$-Estimators of Scale with Minimum
                                  Gross Errors Sensitivity . . . . . . . . 2037--2048
                 M. Akahira and   
                    N. Ohyauchi   The Asymptotic Bound by the Kiefer-Type
                                  Information Inequality and Its
                                  Attainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2049--2059
                  Lee-shen Chen   Empirical Bayes Testing for a
                                  Nonexponential Family Distribution . . . 2061--2074
                Cem Kadilar and   
                    Hulya Cingi   Improvement in Variance Estimation in
                                  Simple Random Sampling . . . . . . . . . 2075--2081
              Hassan Doosti and   
        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
           Hosein Ali Niroumand   On a Wavelet-Based Method of Estimating
                                  a Regression Function  . . . . . . . . . 2083--2098
                 Zhen Zhong and   
                        Hu Yang   Ridge Estimation to the Restricted
                                  Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2099--2115
          K. Triantafyllopoulos   Convergence of Discount Time Series
                                  Dynamic Linear Models  . . . . . . . . . 2117--2127
                Taewook Lee and   
                   Sangyeol Lee   Test for Parameter Change in Linear
                                  Processes Based on Whittle's Estimator   2129--2141
      Christopher S. Coffey and   
           John A. Kairalla and   
                Keith E. Muller   Practical Methods for Bounding Type I
                                  Error Rate with an Internal Pilot Design 2143--2157
                   Hea-Jung Kim   A Monte Carlo Method for Estimating
                                  Prediction Limit for the Arithmetic Mean
                                  of Lognormal Sample  . . . . . . . . . . 2159--2167

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 12, 2007

             Ali I. Genç   On Order Statistics from Sine
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2169--2176
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   On Improvement in Variance Estimation
                                  Using Auxiliary Information  . . . . . . 2177--2185
              Steve Verrill and   
             Richard A. Johnson   Confidence Bounds and Hypothesis Tests
                                  for Normal Distribution Coefficients of
                                  Variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2187--2206
          Federico O'Reilly and   
              Raúl Rueda   Fiducial Inferences for the Truncated
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 2207--2212
                Murray D. Smith   Invariance Theorems for Fisher
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2213--2222
              Hajime Yamato and   
              Koichiro Toda and   
              Toshifumi Nomachi   Jackknifing a Convex Combination of
                                  One-Sample $U$-Statistics  . . . . . . . 2223--2234
                     R. Willink   On a Confidence Interval for the Mean of
                                  an Asymmetric Distribution . . . . . . . 2235--2236
                Lin-An Chen and   
              Hui-Nien Hung and   
                 Chih-Rung Chen   Maximum Average-Power (MAP) Tests  . . . 2237--2249
        J. E. Chacón and   
               J. Montanero and   
              A. G. Nogales and   
                P. Pérez   On the Use of Bayes Factor in
                                  Frequentist Testing of a Precise
                                  Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2251--2261
                    Yu Miao and   
               Guangyu Yang and   
                    Luming Shen   The Central Limit Theorem for LS
                                  Estimator in Simple Linear EV Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2263--2272
              Jean-Michel Marin   Estimation of Variance Components for a
                                  Linear Toeplitz Model  . . . . . . . . . 2273--2288
                   Sier Han and   
                     Zheng Tian   Bootstrap Testing for Changes in
                                  Persistence with Heavy-Tailed
                                  Innovations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2289--2299
          Samir M. Shaarawy and   
         Emad E. A. Soliman and   
                  Sherif S. Ali   Bayesian Identification of Moving
                                  Average Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2301--2312
  Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and   
                   Babak Abbasi   Skewness Reduction Approach in
                                  Multi-Attribute Process Monitoring . . . 2313--2325
                      Anonymous   Erratum In \booktitleCommunications in
                                  Statistics --- Theory and Methods
                                  36(5--8): 1527--1542, for the article
                                  ``Constrained Bayes and Empirical Bayes
                                  Estimation with Balanced Loss
                                  Functions''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2327--2327

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 13, 2007

                 H. Volkmer and   
                 G. G. Hamedani   Characterization of Continuous Symmetric
                                  Distributions Based on Families of
                                  Skewed Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2329--2338
             H. V. Kulkarni and   
                  B. B. Patkure   A New Variant of the Bivariate Setting
                                  the Clock Back to Zero Property  . . . . 2339--2349
       I. Barranco-Chamorro and   
       J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and   
          A. Pascual-Acosta and   
      A. Enguix-González   An Overview of Asymptotic Properties of
                                  Estimators in Truncated Distributions    2351--2366
           Nandita W. Patel and   
                    M. N. Patel   Maximum Likelihood Estimation in
                                  Compound Geometric Failure Model with
                                  Changing Parameters From Type-I
                                  Two-Stage Progressively Censored and
                                  Group Censored Samples . . . . . . . . . 2367--2375
                Shubhabrata Das   Information Loss in Grade Point
                                  Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2377--2393
           Toshie Yamashita and   
            Keizo Yamashita and   
               Ryotaro Kamimura   A Stepwise AIC Method for Variable
                                  Selection in Linear Regression . . . . . 2395--2403
            Czes\law St\kepniak   Simultaneous Canonization of Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405--2412
            Zheng-Hong Wang and   
                   Hong Qin and   
           Kashinath Chatterjee   Lower Bounds on the Symmetric $ L_2
                                  $-Discrepancy and Their Application  . . 2413--2423
            Robert M. Adams and   
               Robin C. Sickles   Semiparametric Efficient Distribution
                                  Free Estimation of Panel Models  . . . . 2425--2442
           Andriy I. Bandos and   
         Howard E. Rockette and   
                      David Gur   Exact Bootstrap Variances of the Area
                                  Under ROC Curve  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2443--2461
                 J. A. Cano and   
             D. Salmerón   Objective Bayesian Analysis of an
                                  Exponential Regression Model with
                                  Constrained Parameters Applied to Animal
                                  Digestibility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2463--2473

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 14, 2007

    Stéphane Lallich and   
               Dominique Pastor   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2475--2476
                 Paul Deheuvels   Weighted Multivariate Tests of
                                  Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2477--2491
                        B. Pumo   Asymptotic Results for the MPL
                                  Estimators of the Contact Process of
                                  Order $p$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2493--2508
             Nadine Hilgert and   
               Vivien Rossi and   
           Jean-Pierre Vila and   
         Vér\`ene Wagner   Identification, Estimation, and Control
                                  of Uncertain Dynamic Systems: A
                                  Nonparametric Approach . . . . . . . . . 2509--2525
                     Odile Pons   Estimation for the Distribution Function
                                  of One- and Two-Dimensional Censored
                                  Variables or Sojourn Times of Markov
                                  Renewal Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 2527--2542
          Gabriela Ciuperca and   
               Valerie Girardin   Estimation of the Entropy Rate of a
                                  Countable Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . 2543--2557
              Anna Ja\'skiewicz   A Fixed Point Approach to Solve the
                                  Average Cost Optimality Equation for
                                  Semi-Markov Decision Processes with
                                  Feller Transition Probabilities  . . . . 2559--2575
                   James Ledoux   Filtering and the EM-Algorithm for the
                                  Markovian Arrival Process  . . . . . . . 2577--2593
              A. R. Soltani and   
            S. A. Al-Awadhi and   
               W. M. Al-Shemeri   On Thresholds of Moving Averages with
                                  Given On-Target Significant Levels . . . 2595--2606
          Charles Bouveyron and   
     Stéphane Girard and   
                Cordelia Schmid   High-Dimensional Discriminant Analysis   2607--2623
         Ilmari Juutilainen and   
               Juha Röning   A Method for Measuring Distance From a
                                  Training Data Set  . . . . . . . . . . . 2625--2639
               Valentin Patilea   Semiparametric Regression Models with
                                  Applications to Scoring: A Review  . . . 2641--2653
                  J. Rynkiewicz   Estimation and Test for
                                  Multi-Dimensional Regression Models  . . 2655--2671

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 15, 2007

               Paul Kabaila and   
               Khreshna Syuhada   The Relative Efficiency of Prediction
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2673--2686
                     Liqing Yan   A Note on Comparison of (Non) Linear
                                  Estimators Using Pitman's Measure of
                                  Closeness  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2687--2694
                 Yanling He and   
             Wenzheng Huang and   
                      Hua Liang   Axiomatic Development of Profile
                                  Likelihoods as the Strength of Evidence
                                  for Composite Hypotheses . . . . . . . . 2695--2706
       M. Revan Özkale and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   The Restricted and Unrestricted
                                  Two-Parameter Estimators . . . . . . . . 2707--2725
                Glen Meeden and   
                   Dawn Sargent   Some Bayesian Methods for Two Auditing
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2727--2740
                    Jun Liu and   
                   Weili He and   
                       Hui Quan   Statistical Properties of a Modified
                                  Accelerated Design for Phase I Cancer
                                  Clinical Trials  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2741--2759
              Xiaobing Zhao and   
                  Xian Zhou and   
                      Xianyi Wu   Local Linear Regression in Proportional
                                  Hazards Model with Censored Data . . . . 2761--2776
                 M. Towhidi and   
                  M. Salmanpour   A New Goodness-of-Fit Test Based on the
                                  Empirical Characteristic Function  . . . 2777--2785
         M. Kharrati-Kopaei and   
         S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi   A New Method for Testing Interaction in
                                  Unreplicated Two-Way Analysis of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2787--2803
                     Haim Shore   Comparison of Generalized Lambda
                                  Distribution (GLD) and Response Modeling
                                  Methodology (RMM) as General Platforms
                                  for Distribution Fitting . . . . . . . . 2805--2819

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 36, Number 16, 2007

          Wolfgang Bischoff and   
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
          Jürg Hüsler   An Asymptotic Result for Non Crossing
                                  Probabilities of Brownian Motion with
                                  Trend  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2821--2828
             Robert J. Blodgett   The Path of the Minimum $ l^p $-Norm
                                  Estimator for $p$ Between $1$ and
                                  Infinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2829--2839
               Gregory Gurevich   Retrospective Parametric Tests for
                                  Homogeneity of Data  . . . . . . . . . . 2841--2862
              Shun Matsuura and   
                Nobuo Shinozaki   Optimal Binning Strategies under Squared
                                  Error Loss in Selective Assembly with
                                  Measurement Error  . . . . . . . . . . . 2863--2876
             Shun-Fang Wang and   
                   Xue-Ren Wang   Homogeneity Test of Risk Differences of
                                  Marginal and Conditional Probabilities
                                  in Several Incomplete Correlated $ 2
                                  \times 2 $ Tables  . . . . . . . . . . . 2877--2890
                   Monnie McGee   Tests for Multiple Peaks in the Spectra
                                  of Categorical Time Series . . . . . . . 2891--2900
        Erich Peter Klement and   
Anna Kolesárová and   
               Radko Mesiar and   
                    Carlo Sempi   Copulas Constructed from Horizontal
                                  Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2901--2911
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   A General Class of Test Procedures for
                                  Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data   2913--2925
           Aidong Adam Ding and   
                   Weijing Wang   Inference for Bivariate Survival Data by
                                  Copula Models Adjusted for the Boundary
                                  Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2927--2936
                 Xiang Fang and   
           Walter W. Stroup and   
                   Shunpu Zhang   Improved Empirical Bayes Estimation in
                                  Group Testing Procedure for Small
                                  Proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2937--2944


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 1, 2007

                 Ingo Klein and   
               Matthias Fischer   A Note on the Kurtosis Ordering of the
                                  Generalized Secant Hyperbolic
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
             Caroline Lynch and   
                   Daniel Barry   Estimating Probability Distributions by
                                  Observing Betting Practices  . . . . . . 8--17
                     H. B. Zhao   Exact Tests in Panel Data Using
                                  Generalized $p$-Values . . . . . . . . . 18--36
              Asheber Abebe and   
                Parminder Singh   An Exact Test for $U$-Shaped
                                  Alternatives of Location Parameters: The
                                  Exponential Distribution Case  . . . . . 37--45
             Raúl Fierro   Test of Homogeneity for Some Population
                                  Models Based on Counting Processes . . . 46--54
                Yongge Tian and   
                  Yoshio Takane   On Sum Decompositions of Weighted
                                  Least-Squares Estimators for the
                                  Partitioned Linear Model . . . . . . . . 55--69
                    Hu Yang and   
                  Chunmei Zhang   The Research on Two Kinds of Restricted
                                  Biased Estimators Based on Mean Squared
                                  Error Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--80
                Yanqin Feng and   
                     Jinde Wang   Likelihood Ratio Test Against Stochastic
                                  Order in Three Way Contingency Tables    81--96
             Yoshihide Kakizawa   Asymptotic Expansions for the
                                  Distributions of Maximum and Sum of
                                  Quasi-Independent Hotelling's $ T^2 $
                                  Statistics Under Non Normality . . . . . 97--120
     Md. Nurul Haque Mollah and   
            S. K. Bhattacharjee   Predictive Influence of Variables in a
                                  Multivariate Distribution in Presence of
                                  Perfect Multicollinearity  . . . . . . . 121--136
               Pierre Dutilleul   A Note on Sufficient Conditions for
                                  Valid Unmodified  $t$  Testing in
                                  Correlation Analysis with Autocorrelated
                                  and Heteroscedastic Sample Data  . . . . 137--145
               Jing-Er Chiu and   
                     Tsen-I Kuo   Attribute Control Chart for Multivariate
                                  Poisson Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 146--158

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 2, 2008

           Zdenek Fabián   New Measures of Central Tendency and
                                  Variability of Continuous Distributions  159--174
              Helmut Finner and   
          Thorsten Dickhaus and   
                  Markus Roters   Asymptotic Tail Properties of Student's
                                  $t$-Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--179
            Marvin H. J. Gruber   Some Applications of the Rao Distance to
                                  Shrinkage Estimators . . . . . . . . . . 180--193
                 Juan Zhang and   
                John E. Kolassa   Saddlepoint Approximation for the
                                  Distribution of the Modified Signed Root
                                  of Likelihood Ratio Statistics Near the
                                  Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--203
                      Xinmin Li   Confidence Intervals for Linear Function
                                  of Variance Components in Two-Fold
                                  Nested Random Effects Model  . . . . . . 204--212
                 William Navidi   Poisson Regression and the
                                  Case-Crossover Design: Similarities and
                                  Differences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220
             Hiroki Tsurumi and   
               Haruhiko Shimizu   Bayesian Inference of the Regression
                                  Model with Error Terms Following the
                                  Exponential Power Distribution and
                                  Unbiasedness of the LAD Estimator  . . . 221--232
                 Jianjun Ma and   
               Xingzhong Xu and   
                   Junlong Zhao   Inverse Regression in Binary Response
                                  LDV Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--246
                 Shahjahan Khan   Shrinkage Estimators of Intercept
                                  Parameters of Two Simple Regression
                                  Models with Suspected Equal Slopes . . . 247--260
      Miguel A. Uribe-Opazo and   
       Silvia L. P. Ferrari and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Improved Score Tests in Symmetric Linear
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 261--276
           Gabriel Escarela and   
             Russell J. Bowater   Fitting a Semi-Parametric Mixture Model
                                  for Competing Risks in Survival Data . . 277--293
                  Feng Chen and   
         Richard M. Huggins and   
             Paul S. F. Yip and   
                      K. F. Lam   Nonparametric Estimation of
                                  Multiplicative Counting Process
                                  Intensity Functions with an Application
                                  to the Beijing SARS Epidemic . . . . . . 294--306

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 3, 2008

            Daniel M. Ennis and   
              John M. Ennis and   
               Joseph Palen and   
               Richard E. Lampe   Confidence Bounds for Positive Ratios of
                                  Normal Random Variables  . . . . . . . . 307--317
              Howard D. Bondell   On Robust and Efficient Estimation of
                                  the Center of Symmetry . . . . . . . . . 318--327
                 Sungho Lee and   
               Robert L. Taylor   A Note on Support Vector Density
                                  Estimation for the Deconvolution Problem 328--336
                G. N. Singh and   
                Kumari Priyanka   Search of Good Rotation Patterns to
                                  Improve the Precision of Estimates at
                                  Current Occasion . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--348
                A. Batsidis and   
                    K. Zografos   Multivariate Linear Regression Model
                                  with Elliptically Contoured Distributed
                                  Errors and Monotone Missing Dependent
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--372
                  H. Doosti and   
                 M. Afshari and   
                H. A. Niroumand   Wavelets for Nonparametric Stochastic
                                  Regression with Mixing Stochastic
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--385
                 M. V. Muddapur   A Remark on the Paper ``A Note on
                                  Directional Dependence in Regression
                                  Setting'', by Engin A. Sungur  . . . . . 386--387
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Bayesian Inference in Generalized Error
                                  and Generalized Student-$t$ Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--407
                Victor Chan and   
              William Q. Meeker   Time Series Modeling of Degradation Due
                                  to Outdoor Weathering  . . . . . . . . . 408--424
              R. Noorossana and   
                   A. Amiri and   
                   P. Soleimani   On the Monitoring of Autocorrelated
                                  Linear Profiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--442
                     Soku Byoun   Smooth Goodness-of-Fit Specification
                                  Tests Under the Lagrange Multiplier
                                  Principle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--459
                 Lasse Makkonen   Bringing Closure to the Plotting
                                  Position Controversy . . . . . . . . . . 460--467

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 4, 2008

             A. Jamalizadeh and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On a Generalization of Bivariate Cauchy
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--474
       Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh   A Note on the Regression of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--480
                  J. Ahmadi and   
                    M. Fashandi   Shannon Information Properties of the
                                  Endpoints of Record Coverage . . . . . . 481--493
Maria Luisa Menéndez and   
          Julio Angel Pardo and   
                  Leandro Pardo   Phi-Divergence Statistics for Testing
                                  Linear Hypotheses in Logistic Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--507
             Takashi Daimon and   
                   Masashi Goto   The Mean Squared Error Optimum Design
                                  Criterion for Parameter Estimation in
                                  Nonlinear Regression Models  . . . . . . 508--519
                 Artur Bryk and   
                 Jan Mielniczuk   Randomized Fixed Design Regression under
                                  Long-Range-Dependent Errors  . . . . . . 520--531
                Mingue Park and   
                       Min Yang   Ridge Regression Estimation for Survey
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--543
            M. A. Alkhamisi and   
                      G. Shukur   Developing Ridge Parameters for SUR
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--564
                Paulo Teles and   
          William W. S. Wei and   
                Erin M. Hodgess   Testing a Unit Root Based on Aggregate
                                  Time Series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--590
                 Tucker McElroy   Statistical Properties of Model-Based
                                  Signal Extraction Diagnostic Tests . . . 591--616
                    David Kraus   Identifying Nonproportional Covariates
                                  in the Cox Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--625

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 5, 2008

               Neeraj Misra and   
                Nitin Gupta and   
          Ishwari Dutt Dhariyal   Preservation of Some Aging Properties
                                  and Stochastic Orders by Weighted
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--644
           Antonio Sanhueza and   
        Víctor Leiva and   
                N. Balakrishnan   The Generalized Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  Distribution and Its Theory,
                                  Methodology, and Application . . . . . . 645--670
              P. N. Gavriliadis   Moment Information for Probability
                                  Distributions, Without Solving the
                                  Moment Problem. I: Where is the Mode?    671--681
              Z. A. Abo-Eleneen   Fisher Information in Type II
                                  Progressive Censored Samples . . . . . . 682--691
                  Ayman Baklizi   Estimation of $ {\rm Pr}(X < Y) $ Using
                                  Record Values in the One and Two
                                  Parameter Exponential Distributions  . . 692--698
       Egbert A. van der Meulen   A Nonrandomized, Nonconservative Version
                                  of the Fisher Exact Test . . . . . . . . 699--708
              D. Szatmari-Voicu   Minimax Asymptotic Mean-Squared-Error of
                                  $L$-Estimators of Scale Parameter  . . . 709--721
                   Michael Last   Change Point Estimation with Independent
                                  Observations and Piece-Wise Continuous
                                  Variance Function  . . . . . . . . . . . 722--736
                     Xunming Du   A Note of Wavelet Variance . . . . . . . 737--745
            Fetene B. Tekle and   
            Frans E. S. Tan and   
           Martijn P. F. Berger   Highly Efficient Designs for Logistic
                                  Models with Categorical Variables  . . . 746--759
Antonio Martín Andrés and   
              Pedro Femia-Marzo   Chance-Corrected Measures of Reliability
                                  and Validity in $ 2 \times 2 $ Tables    760--772
             Yasemin Kayhan and   
                 Suleyman Gunay   A New Approach to Least Median of
                                  Squares and Regression Through the
                                  Origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--781
                 Jianhua Hu and   
                      Sarah Shi   On the Expressions of Estimability in
                                  Testing General Linear Hypotheses  . . . 782--790
          Samir M. Shaarawy and   
                  Sherif S. Ali   Bayesian Identification of Multivariate
                                  Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 791--802
                 Xiaoxia Wu and   
               Hanfeng Chen and   
                     Yanyan Liu   Interval Mapping for Quantitative Trait
                                  Loci Detection in Finite Mixture Models
                                  with General Kernel Functions  . . . . . 803--814

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 6, 2008

             M. Marcheselli and   
                 A. Baccini and   
                    L. Barabesi   Parameter Estimation for the Discrete
                                  Stable Family  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--830
                 Girma Taye and   
                    Peter Njuho   Monitoring Field Variability Using
                                  Confidence Interval for Coefficient of
                                  Variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--846
                Shiquan Ren and   
                 Haitao Chu and   
                   Shenghan Lai   Sample Size and Power Calculations for
                                  Left-Truncated Normal Distribution . . . 847--860
                    Min Qin and   
                 Tapan K. Nayak   Kshirsagar-Type Lower Bounds for Mean
                                  Squared Error of Prediction  . . . . . . 861--872
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
  Clarice G. B. Demétrio   Corrected Estimators in Extended
                                  Quasi-Likelihood Models  . . . . . . . . 873--880
     Stéphane Girard and   
              Ludovic Menneteau   Smoothed Extreme Value Estimators of
                                  Non-Uniform Point Processes Boundaries
                                  with Application to Star-Shaped Supports
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--897
      Samindranath Sengupta and   
                  Sujay Mukhuti   Unbiased Estimation of $ P(X > Y) $ for
                                  Exponential Populations Using Order
                                  Statistics with Application in Ranked
                                  Set Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898--916
               Kuo-Chin Lin and   
                     Yi-Ju Chen   Assessing Ordinal Logistic Regression
                                  Models via Nonparametric Smoothing . . . 917--930
                    Jing Xu and   
                     Jinde Wang   Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Linear
                                  Models for Longitudinal Data with
                                  Inequality Constraints . . . . . . . . . 931--946
          K. Triantafyllopoulos   Reference Priors for Matrix-Variate
                                  Dynamic Linear Models  . . . . . . . . . 947--958
              Johannes Ledolter   Smoothing Time Series with Local
                                  Polynomial Regression on Time  . . . . . 959--971
E. Gómez-Sánchez-Manzano and   
M. A. Gómez-Villegas and   
             J. M. Marín   Multivariate Exponential Power
                                  Distributions as Mixtures of Normal
                                  Distributions with Bayesian Applications 972--985
Héctor W. Gómez and   
        Francisco J. Torres and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 986--986

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 7, 2008

                  Jorge Navarro   Characterizations by Power Contractions
                                  of Order Statistics  . . . . . . . . . . 987--997
          Shannon E. Fraker and   
         William H. Woodall and   
               Howard S. Burkom   A Note on the Poisson Likelihood Ratio
                                  Test Statistic for Kulldorff's Scan
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998--1001
                   Liwen Xu and   
                   Songgui Wang   A New Generalized $p$-Value and Its
                                  Upper Bound for ANOVA Under Unequal
                                  Error Variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002--1010
         M. P. Frías and   
          M. D. Ruiz-Medina and   
               F. J. Alonso and   
                   J. M. Angulo   Parameter Estimation of Self-Similar
                                  Spatial Covariogram Models . . . . . . . 1011--1023
           Naveen K. Bansal and   
           Mehdi Maadooliat and   
                   Xiaowei Wang   Empirical Bayes and Hierarchical Bayes
                                  Estimation of Skew Normal Populations    1024--1037
           Housila P. Singh and   
        Gajendra K. Vishwakarma   A Family of Estimators of Population
                                  Mean Using Auxiliary Information in
                                  Stratified Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 1038--1050
             Haruhiko Ogasawara   Asymptotic Expansion in Reduced Rank
                                  Regression Under Normality and
                                  Nonnormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1070
                     T. Zewotir   Multiple Cases Deletion Diagnostics for
                                  Linear Mixed Models  . . . . . . . . . . 1071--1084
          Elena M. Buzaianu and   
                   Pinyuen Chen   Curtailment Procedure for Selecting
                                  Among Bernoulli Populations  . . . . . . 1085--1102
            Robert L. Mason and   
              Youn-Min Chou and   
                  John C. Young   Identifying Variables Contributing to
                                  Outliers in Phase I  . . . . . . . . . . 1103--1118
            M. H. Poursaeed and   
              A. R. Nematollahi   On the Mean Past and the Mean Residual
                                  Life Under Double Monitoring . . . . . . 1119--1133
       Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh   Mean Past and Mean Residual Life
                                  Functions of a Parallel System with
                                  Nonidentical Components  . . . . . . . . 1134--1145

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 8, 2008

                S. E. Ahmed and   
                M. N. Goria and   
                     A. Hussein   Gamma Mixture: Bimodality, Inflexions
                                  and $L$-Moments  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1161
          Abd El-Baset A. Ahmad   Single and Product Moments of
                                  Generalized Order Statistics from Linear
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 1162--1172
                Xinjia Chen and   
                 Kemin Zhou and   
               Jorge L. Aravena   Explicit Formula for Constructing
                                  Binomial Confidence Interval with
                                  Guaranteed Coverage Probability  . . . . 1173--1180
              Yi-Ping Chang and   
              Wen-Tao Huang and   
                  Hsiuying Wang   $ \epsilon $-Admissible Estimators for
                                  Normal and Poisson Means . . . . . . . . 1181--1192
               Jeffrey D. Blume   How Often Likelihood Ratios are
                                  Misleading in Sequential Trials  . . . . 1193--1206
                  Albert Vexler   Martingale Type Statistics Applied to
                                  Change Points Detection  . . . . . . . . 1207--1224
              Shifeng Xiong and   
                  Weiyan Mu and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Generalized Inference for a Class of
                                  Linear Models Under Heteroscedasticity   1225--1236
               Soumi Lahiri and   
                  Sunil K. Dhar   Log-Linear Modeling Under Generalized
                                  Inverse Sampling Scheme  . . . . . . . . 1237--1244
            Pi-Hsiang Huang and   
             Pen-Hwang Liau and   
          Chien-Shiang Liau and   
                   Chien-Te Lee   Some Properties of Semi-Folding Designs  1245--1257
             M. L. Aggarwal and   
              Lih-Yuan Deng and   
           Mukta Datta Mazumder   Optimal Fractional Factorial Plans Using
                                  Finite Projective Geometry . . . . . . . 1258--1265
               Mahendran Shitan   Fractionally Integrated Separable
                                  Spatial Autoregressive (FISSAR) Model
                                  and Some of Its Properties . . . . . . . 1266--1273
               Kaiping Wang and   
                         Lu Lin   Semi-Parametric Density Estimation for
                                  Time-Series with Multiplicative
                                  Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274--1283
              Elodie Brunel and   
                 Fabienne Comte   Adaptive Estimation of Hazard Rate with
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284--1305
      Ourania Chryssaphinou and   
    Margarita Karaliopoulou and   
               Nikolaos Limnios   On Discrete Time Semi-Markov Chains and
                                  Applications in Words Occurrences  . . . 1306--1322

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 9, 2008

          Kahadawala Cooray and   
           Malwane M. A. Ananda   A Generalization of the Half-Normal
                                  Distribution with Applications to
                                  Lifetime Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323--1337
                Junchao Yao and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Dependence Structure of a Class of
                                  Symmetric Distributions  . . . . . . . . 1338--1346
             Mahdi Tavangar and   
                    Majid Asadi   On a Characterization of Generalized
                                  Pareto Distribution Based on Generalized
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347--1352
               Ahmed A. Soliman   Estimations for Pareto Model Using
                                  General Progressive Censored Data and
                                  Asymmetric Loss  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1353--1370
                George Tzavelas   Sufficient Conditions for the Existence
                                  of a Solution for the Log-Likelihood
                                  Equations in the Three-Parameter Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371--1382
     François Dubeau and   
                    Youness Mir   Existence of Optimal Weighted Least
                                  Squares Estimate for Three-Parametric
                                  Exponential Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 1383--1398
             Jean-Michel Loubes   $ l^1 $ Penalty for Ill-Posed Inverse
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1399--1411
      Julián De la Horra   Bayesian Model Selection: Measuring the
                                  $ \chi^2 $ Discrepancy with the Uniform
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1412--1424
E. Gómez-Déniz and   
              J. M. Sarabia and   
J. M. Pérez-Sánchez and   
      F. J. Vázquez-Polo   Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Model for
                                  Fitting Automobile Claim Frequency Data  1425--1435
             Jarkko Isotalo and   
              Simo Puntanen and   
             George P. H. Styan   A Useful Matrix Decomposition and Its
                                  Statistical Applications in Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1436--1457
                  Qiqing Yu and   
              Rick Chappell and   
              G. Y. C. Wong and   
                 Yuting Hsu and   
                   Marcin Mazur   Relationship Between the Cox, Lehmann,
                                  Weibull, and Accelerated Lifetime Models 1458--1470
              Marie Chavent and   
    Jérôme Saracco   On Central Tendency and Dispersion
                                  Measures for Intervals and Hypercubes    1471--1482
              W. John Braun and   
                     Wei Li and   
                Yiqiang Q. Zhao   Some Theoretical Properties of the
                                  Geometric and $ \alpha $-Series
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483--1496

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 10, 2008

                  D. Hamadouche   Weak Hölder Convergence of Smoothed
                                  Uniform Quantile Process . . . . . . . . 1497--1505
            N. V. Sreekumar and   
               P. Yageen Thomas   Estimation of the Parameters of Type-I
                                  Generalized Logistic Distribution Using
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1506--1524
                M. Razmkhah and   
                  J. Ahmadi and   
                      B. Khatib   Nonparametric Confidence Intervals and
                                  Tolerance Limits Based on Minima and
                                  Maxima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1525--1542
              Enkelejd Hashorva   On the Max-Domain of Attraction of
                                  Type-III Elliptical Triangular Arrays    1543--1551
                 Gaorong Li and   
                     Liugen Xue   Empirical Likelihood Confidence Region
                                  for the Parameter in a Partially Linear
                                  Errors-in-Variables Model  . . . . . . . 1552--1564
               N. K. Mandal and   
                    Manisha Pal   Optimum Mixture Design Using Deficiency
                                  Criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565--1575
                    Dan Jackson   The Significance Level of
                                  Meta-Regression's Standard Hypothesis
                                  Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576--1590
                 Fukang Zhu and   
                     Dehui Wang   Local Estimation in AR Models with
                                  Nonparametric ARCH Errors  . . . . . . . 1591--1609
          Nobuhiro Taneichi and   
                    Yuri Sekiya   Approximations of the Distributions of
                                  Test Statistics for Homogeneity of a
                                  Product Multinomial Model  . . . . . . . 1610--1631
                  Rinaldo Artes   Hypothesis Tests for Covariance Analysis
                                  Models for Circular Data . . . . . . . . 1632--1640
              Changchun Xie and   
                R. S. Singh and   
              A. F. Desmond and   
                  Xuewen Lu and   
                    Eric Ormsby   Quasi-Likelihood Approach to
                                  Bioavailability and Bioequivalence
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1641--1658
                       Ming Han   Two-Sided $M$-Bayesian Credible Limits
                                  Method of Reliability Parameters and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1659--1670
           R. B. Kazemzadeh and   
              R. Noorossana and   
                       A. Amiri   Phase I Monitoring of Polynomial
                                  Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1671--1686

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 11, 2008

               Ramesh Gupta and   
                      S. H. Ong   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687--1687
                   K. H. Ng and   
                     A. H. Pooi   Calibration Intervals in Linear
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1688--1696
  A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon and   
                    Ali S. Hadi   Identification of Multiple Outliers in
                                  Logistic Regression  . . . . . . . . . . 1697--1709
              Asok K. Nanda and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Partial Ordering and Aging Properties of
                                  Order Statistics When the Sample Size is
                                  Random: A Brief Review . . . . . . . . . 1710--1720
                      Haijun Li   Duality of the Multivariate
                                  Distributions of Marshall--Olkin Type
                                  and Tail Dependence  . . . . . . . . . . 1721--1733
                Sungduk Kim and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   Modeling Multilevel Survival Data Using
                                  Frailty Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1734--1741
          Maman A. Djauhari and   
           Muhammad Mashuri and   
            Dyah E. Herwindiati   Multivariate Process Variability
                                  Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1742--1754
            Subrata Chakraborty   On Some New $ \alpha $-Modified Binomial
                                  and Poisson Distributions and Their
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1769
              Nobutane Hanayama   Age Period Cumulative Environment Model
                                  for Analyzing (Age, Period)-Tabulated
                                  Data on Breast Cancer Deaths . . . . . . 1770--1782
             Ashis SenGupta and   
               Arnab Kumar Laha   A Likelihood Integrated Method for
                                  Exploratory Graphical Analysis of Change
                                  Point Problem with Directional Data  . . 1783--1791
                Shijie Chen and   
                      P. Lahiri   On Mean Squared Prediction Error
                                  Estimation in Small Area Estimation
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1792--1798
           A. Thavaneswaran and   
                  S. Peiris and   
                   Jagbir Singh   Derivation of Kurtosis and Option
                                  Pricing Formulas for Popular Volatility
                                  Models with Applications in Finance  . . 1799--1814
                  Sat Gupta and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                  Shabbir Ahmad   Estimation of Median in Two-Phase
                                  Sampling Using Two Auxiliary Variables   1815--1822

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 12, 2008

Célestin C. Kokonendji and   
                Dhafer Malouche   A Property of Count Distributions in the
                                  Hinde--Demétrio Family  . . . . . . . . . 1823--1834
           Evdokia Xekalaki and   
                 Mimoza Zografi   The Generalized Waring Process and Its
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1835--1854
               D. H. Glueck and   
               K. E. Muller and   
          A. Karimpour-Fard and   
                      L. Hunter   Expected Power for the False Discovery
                                  Rate with Independence . . . . . . . . . 1855--1866
          Tomoaki Nishimura and   
                Fumiyasu Komaki   The Information Geometric Structure of
                                  Generalized Empirical Likelihood
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867--1879
        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
                Debaraj Sen and   
                Satya N. Mishra   Inference on Overlap for Two Inverse
                                  Gaussian Populations: Equal Means Case   1880--1894
                   Chao Zhu and   
                Kam C. Yuen and   
                Jianguo Sun and   
                   Xingqiu Zhao   A Nonparametric Test for
                                  Interval-Censored Failure Time Data with
                                  Unequal Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . 1895--1904
                   Feng Liu and   
                 Gemai Chen and   
                       Min Chen   Testing Serial Correlation in Partial
                                  Linear Errors-in-Variables Models Based
                                  on Empirical Likelihood  . . . . . . . . 1905--1918
                Navid Izady and   
                Hashem Mahlooji   Developing a Wide Easy-to-Generate Class
                                  of Bivariate Copulas . . . . . . . . . . 1919--1929
                Weixing Cai and   
                   Pinyuen Chen   Screening for Multiple Target Detection  1930--1947
             Simos G. Meintanis   A Powerful Method of Assessing the Fit
                                  of the Lognormal Distribution  . . . . . 1948--1958
               Chien-Wei Wu and   
                    Y. C. Chang   A Hypothesis Testing Procedure on
                                  Assessing Process Performance for
                                  Asymmetric Tolerances  . . . . . . . . . 1959--1976
         J. M. Marín and   
                       C. Nieto   Spatial Matching of Multiple
                                  Configurations of Points with a
                                  Bioinformatics Application . . . . . . . 1977--1995

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 13, 2008

                Mariusz Bieniek   On Families of Distributions for Which
                                  Optimal Bounds on Expectations of GOS
                                  Can be Derived . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1997--2009
           Naveen K. Bansal and   
                    Hong Du and   
                 G. G. Hamedani   An Application of EM Algorithm to a
                                  Change-Point Problem . . . . . . . . . . 2010--2021
        Yaprak Arzu Ozdemir and   
                 Fikri Gokpinar   A New Formula for Inclusion
                                  Probabilities in Median-Ranked Set
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2022--2033
                    Lei Shi and   
                       Peng Bai   Bayesian Confidence Interval for the
                                  Difference of Two Proportions in the
                                  Matched-Paired Design  . . . . . . . . . 2034--2051
                   Tachen Liang   Empirical Bayes Estimation of
                                  Reliability in a Positive Exponential
                                  Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2052--2065
              Mark D. Ecker and   
             Victor De Oliveira   Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Housing
                                  Prices Subject to a Localized
                                  Externality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2066--2078
               Luigi Spezia and   
                 Roberta Paroli   Bayesian Inference and Forecasting in
                                  Dynamic Neural Networks with Fully
                                  Markov Switching ARCH Noises . . . . . . 2079--2094
                Philip Prescott   Nearly Uniform Designs for Mixture
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2095--2115
              Yosihito Maruyama   A Measure of Multivariate Kurtosis with
                                  Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . 2116--2123
                   John T. Chen   Inference on the Minimum Effective Dose
                                  Using Binary Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 2124--2135
                V. B. Ghute and   
                   D. T. Shirke   A Multivariate Synthetic Control Chart
                                  for Monitoring Process Mean Vector . . . 2136--2148

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 14, 2008

                    H. Gzyl and   
       P. L. Novi Inverardi and   
                    A. Tagliani   A Proposal for a New Bound for Discrete
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2149--2161
                     Rose Baker   Probabilistic Applications of the
                                  Schlömilch Transformation . . . . . . . . 2162--2176
                Colin M. Ramsay   The Distribution of Sums of I.I.D.
                                  Pareto Random Variables with Arbitrary
                                  Shape Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2177--2184
               Eric Beutner and   
                      Udo Kamps   Random Contraction and Random Dilation
                                  of Generalized Order Statistics  . . . . 2185--2201
     Mohammad Jafari Jozani and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Posterior Regret $ \Gamma $-Minimax
                                  Estimation and Prediction with
                                  Applications on $k$-Records Data Under
                                  Entropy Loss Function  . . . . . . . . . 2202--2212
                      Lu Xu and   
                John E. Kolassa   Testing the Difference of Two Binomial
                                  Proportions: Comparison of Continuity
                                  Corrections for Saddlepoint
                                  Approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2213--2218
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
        Margareth C. Toyama Udo   Bias Correction in Generalized Nonlinear
                                  Models with Dispersion Covariates  . . . 2219--2225
                Cem Kadilar and   
                    Hulya Cingi   Estimators for the Population Mean in
                                  the Case of Missing Data . . . . . . . . 2226--2236
          Jan G. De Gooijer and   
                        Ao Yuan   MDL Mean Function Selection in
                                  Semiparametric Kernel Regression Models  2237--2248
                 Yiqiang Lu and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
                     Liping Zhu   Penalized Spline Estimation for
                                  Varying-Coefficient Models . . . . . . . 2249--2261
                Xinmei Shen and   
               Zhengyan Lin and   
                    Caiya Zhang   Asymptotic Distributions of Innovation
                                  Density Estimators in Linear Processes   2262--2275
                    Xia Cui and   
                     Lu Lin and   
                  Guangren Yang   An Extended Projection Data Depth and
                                  Its Applications to Discrimination . . . 2276--2290
                 Ren-Dao Ye and   
                  Song-Gui Wang   Generalized Inferences on the Common
                                  Mean in MANOVA Models  . . . . . . . . . 2291--2303
             Daniel L. Hunt and   
                   Shesh N. Rai   Interlitter Response Variability in a
                                  Threshold Dose-Response Model  . . . . . 2304--2314

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 15, 2008

                 Marc Sobel and   
                     Bud Mishra   A New Approach to the Estimation of
                                  Inter-Variable Correlation . . . . . . . 2315--2330
                 Jiaqin Wei and   
              Rongming Wang and   
                    Dingjun Yao   The Asymptotic Estimate of Ruin
                                  Probability Under a Class of Risk Model
                                  in the Presence of Heavy Tails . . . . . 2331--2341
     Alessandro De Gregorio and   
               Stefano M. Iacus   Least Squares Volatility Change Point
                                  Estimation for Partially Observed
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 2342--2357
                   Tian Xia and   
               Fanchao Kong and   
              Shunfang Wang and   
                    Xueren Wang   Asymptotic Properties of the Maximum
                                  Quasi-Likelihood Estimator in
                                  Quasi-Likelihood Nonlinear Models  . . . 2358--2368
                   Tachen Liang   On Empirical Bayes Testing in a Discrete
                                  Life Model with Random Censoring . . . . 2369--2381
         Noura Ait Mohammed and   
               Mohamed Ibazizen   Bayesian Estimation of the Regression
                                  Model with Autocorrelated Errors Under
                                  Contamination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2382--2389
                Junchao Yao and   
            Marco Burkschat and   
               Huaihou Chen and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Dependence Structure of Spacings of
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 2390--2403
             N. Nematollahi and   
               M. Salehi M. and   
              R. Aliakbari Saba   Two-Stage Cluster Sampling with Ranked
                                  Set Sampling in the Secondary Sampling
                                  Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2404--2415
           Mohammed Debbarh and   
               Bertrand Maillot   Additive Regression Model for Continuous
                                  Time Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2416--2432
           Luis Firinguetti and   
            Hernán Rubio   Some Asymptotic Properties of Ridge
                                  Regression in a System of Seemingly
                                  Unrelated Regression Equations . . . . . 2433--2446
              Fentaw Abegaz and   
           U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar   Dynamic Copula-Based Markov Time Series  2447--2460

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 16, 2008

      Jaroslaw Bartoszewicz and   
          Magdalena Skolimowska   Block-Savits Characterization and Star
                                  Ordering of Exponential Mixtures . . . . 2461--2471
                    I-Li Lu and   
         Donald St. P. Richards   Natural Exponential Families and
                                  Generalized Hypergeometric Measures  . . 2472--2487
             Thomas T. John and   
                   Pinyuen Chen   $ L^1 $-Limit of Trimmed Sums of Order
                                  Statistics from Location-Scale
                                  Distributions with Applications to Type
                                  II Censored Data Analysis  . . . . . . . 2488--2505
                Taizhong Hu and   
                 Qingshu Lu and   
                   Songqiao Wen   Some New Results on Likelihood Ratio
                                  Orderings for Spacings of Heterogeneous
                                  Exponential Random Variables . . . . . . 2506--2515
           Anna Dembi\'nska and   
             Katarzyna Danielak   On Moments of $k$-Records from Discrete
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2516--2531
               B. N. Mandal and   
            Rajender Parsad and   
                    V. K. Gupta   IPPS Sampling Plans Excluding Adjacent
                                  Units  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2532--2550
                  Yukun Liu and   
             Changliang Zou and   
                   Runchu Zhang   Empirical Likelihood Ratio Test for a
                                  Change-Point in Linear Regression Model  2551--2563
             Shahjahan Khan and   
             A. K. Md. E. Saleh   Estimation of Slope for Linear
                                  Regression Model with Uncertain Prior
                                  Information and Student-$t$ Error  . . . 2564--2581
                    Ping Wu and   
                   Yun Fang and   
                    Li-Xing Zhu   Estimating Moments in Linear Mixed
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2582--2594
             Pao-Sheng Shen and   
                    Ya-Fang Yan   An Inverse-Probability-Weighted Approach
                                  to the Estimation of Successive Duration
                                  Times under Left-Truncation and
                                  Right-Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2595--2605
                   Daniel Bruce   Some Properties for a Simplified Cox
                                  Binary Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2606--2616
           Gubhinder Kundhi and   
                  Paul Rilstone   The Third-Order Bias of Nonlinear
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2617--2633
                  Feng Chen and   
                 Jinxia Zhu and   
                       Zehui Li   Upper Bounds for the Ruin Probabilities
                                  of the Entrance-Based Risk Model . . . . 2634--2652
       Manuel Cabral Morais and   
              Yarema Okhrin and   
     António Pacheco and   
                Wolfgang Schmid   EWMA Charts for Multivariate Output:
                                  Some Stochastic Ordering Results . . . . 2653--2663

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 17, 2008

               Anna Maria Fiori   Measuring Kurtosis by Right and Left
                                  Inequality Orders  . . . . . . . . . . . 2665--2680
             Robert J. Blodgett   Fitting a Curve to a Confidence Interval 2681--2686
                Jianmin Pan and   
                    Jiahua Chen   $U$-Statistic Based Modified Information
                                  Criterion for Change Point Problems  . . 2687--2712
               Eve Bofinger and   
            Petra L. Graham and   
            Kerrie L. Mengersen   Partitioning with Respect to a Control:
                                  Unequal Sample Sizes Case  . . . . . . . 2713--2723
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
           Rosangela G. Santana   Covariance Matrix Formula for
                                  Exponential Family Nonlinear Models  . . 2724--2734
         M'hamed Ezzahrioui and   
             Elias Ould-Sa\"\id   Asymptotic Results of a Nonparametric
                                  Conditional Quantile Estimator for
                                  Functional Time Series . . . . . . . . . 2735--2759
     Jean-François Dupuy   Stratified Logrank Test of No Randomized
                                  Treatment Effect with Missing Stratum
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2760--2776
             Irene Crimaldi and   
                Fabrizio Leisen   Asymptotic Results for a Generalized
                                  Pólya Urn with ``Multi-Updating'' and
                                  Applications to Clinical Trials  . . . . 2777--2794
            Mohamed Saidane and   
             Christian Lavergne   An EM-Based Viterbi Approximation
                                  Algorithm for Mixed-State Latent Factor
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2795--2814

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 18, 2008

               D. H. Glueck and   
          A. Karimpour-Fard and   
                  J. Mandel and   
                  L. Hunter and   
                   K. E. Muller   Fast Computation by Block Permanents of
                                  Cumulative Distribution Functions of
                                  Order Statistics from Several
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2815--2824
                Xu-Qing Liu and   
             Jian-Ying Rong and   
                       Feng Gao   Permutation Matrix with Application to
                                  Optimal Invariant Quadratic Prediction
                                  in Finite Populations  . . . . . . . . . 2825--2835
                 Molin Wang and   
                John J. Hanfelt   Orthogonal Locally Ancillary Estimating
                                  Functions with Application to Stratified
                                  Clustered Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2836--2853
          Mohammad Z. Raqab and   
            Mohamed T. Madi and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Estimation of $ P(Y < X) $ for the
                                  Three-Parameter Generalized Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2854--2864
Miguel A. Gómez Villegas and   
             Javier Portela and   
                      Luis Sanz   A Bayesian Test for the Mean of the
                                  Power Exponential Distribution . . . . . 2865--2876
                          Bo Li   Nonparametric Testing of an Exclusion
                                  Restriction in Quantile Regression . . . 2877--2889
                Tiejun Tong and   
                   Anna Liu and   
                   Yuedong Wang   Relative Errors of Difference-Based
                                  Variance Estimators in Nonparametric
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2890--2902
       Tomasz J. Kozubowski and   
               Anna K. Panorska   A Mixed Bivariate Distribution Connected
                                  with Geometric Maxima of Exponential
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2903--2923
           Fabrizio Durante and   
                 Piotr Jaworski   Absolutely Continuous Copulas with Given
                                  Diagonal Sections  . . . . . . . . . . . 2924--2942
              Josemar Rodrigues   Mixture Representation of the Maximum
                                  Entropy Density Through Archimedean
                                  Copulas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2943--2952
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                    Zhouping Li   A Mixture Model of Proportional Reversed
                                  Hazard Rate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2953--2963
        M. A. Jácome and   
    M. C. Iglesias-Pérez   Presmoothed Estimation with
                                  Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data   2964--2983
         Valentin V. Petrov and   
                  John Robinson   Large Deviations for Sums of Independent
                                  Non Identically Distributed Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2984--2990
           Aidong Adam Ding and   
               Jennifer Lin and   
                    Tianhua Niu   A Statistical Procedure for Detecting
                                  Highly Correlated Genes with a
                                  Pre-Specified Candidate Gene in
                                  Microarray Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 2991--3007

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 19, 2008

    J. Rodríguez Avi and   
  M. J. Olmo Jiménez and   
    A. Conde Sánchez and   
     A. J. Sáez Castillo   The $_3 F_2$ with Complex Parameters as
                                  Generating Function of Discrete
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3009--3022
             Bikas K. Sinha and   
             Kishore K. Das and   
               Sujay K. Mukhoti   On Some Aspects of Unbiased Estimation
                                  of Parameters in Quasi-Binomial
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3023--3028
              James T. Kost and   
           Michael P. McDermott   Testing Equality of Means Under Order
                                  Restrictions Using Multiple Contrasts    3029--3039
     Daniela G. Caló and   
                  Cinzia Viroli   Finding Relevant Linear Manifolds in
                                  Classification by Gaussian Mixtures  . . 3040--3053
             Magda Monteiro and   
             Isabel Pereira and   
               Manuel G. Scotto   Optimal Alarm Systems for Count
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3054--3076
                  Claudio Macci   Large Deviations for Empirical
                                  Estimators of the Stationary
                                  Distribution of a Semi-Markov Process
                                  with Finite State Space  . . . . . . . . 3077--3089
               Mohammed Debbarh   Some Uniform Limit Results in Additive
                                  Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3090--3114
              Changming Yin and   
                 Hong Zhang and   
                  Lincheng Zhao   Rate of Strong Consistency of Maximum
                                  Quasi-Likelihood Estimator in
                                  Multivariate Generalized Linear Models   3115--3123
      Karl Friedrich Siburg and   
             Pavel A. Stoimenov   Gluing Copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3124--3134
       Konstantinos Tolikas and   
                   Saeed Heravi   The Anderson--Darling Goodness-of-Fit
                                  Test Statistic for the Three-Parameter
                                  Lognormal Distribution . . . . . . . . . 3135--3143
         Aurea Grané and   
                 Josep Fortiana   Karhunen--Lo\`eve Basis in
                                  Goodness-of-Fit Tests Decomposition: An
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3144--3163

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 37, Number 20, 2008

                M. P. Wiper and   
         F. J. Girón and   
                  Arthur Pewsey   Objective Bayesian Inference for the
                                  Half-Normal and Half-  $t$ 
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3165--3185
        Hervé Cardot and   
                   Pascal Sarda   Varying-Coefficient Functional Linear
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 3186--3203
                    Hu Yang and   
                     Jianwen Xu   Tuning Parameter Selection and Various
                                  Good Fitting Characteristics for the
                                  Liu-Type Estimator in Linear Regression  3204--3215
               Nusrat Jahan and   
                Jane L. Harvill   Bispectral-Based Goodness-of-Fit Tests
                                  of Gaussianity and Linearity of
                                  Stationary Time Series . . . . . . . . . 3216--3227
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                   V. L. Gleeja   Association Measures for Bivariate
                                  Lifetime Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3228--3249
                     J. Portela   Clustering Discrete Data Through the
                                  Multinomial Mixture Model  . . . . . . . 3250--3263
                 Brent D. Burch   Comparing Equal-Tail Probability and
                                  Unbiased Confidence Intervals for the
                                  Intraclass Correlation Coefficient . . . 3264--3275
                   Heng-Hui Lue   Sliced Average Variance Estimation for
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3276--3286
        Vassilis G. S. Vasdekis   A Comparison of REML and Covariance
                                  Adjustment Method in the Estimation of
                                  Growth Curve Models  . . . . . . . . . . 3287--3297
                 Jinxia Zhu and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Ruin Probabilities of a Dual
                                  Markov-Modulated Risk Model  . . . . . . 3298--3307
     Tomás Prieto-Rumeau   Stochastic Algorithms for the Estimation
                                  of an Optimal Solution of a LP Problem.
                                  Convergence and Central Limit Theorem    3308--3318
                 Pao-sheng Shen   Hazards Regression for Cancer Studies    3319--3328
     Francisco Cribari-Neto and   
           Tatiene C. Souza and   
       Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos   Errata: Inference Under
                                  Heteroskedasticity and Leveraged Data,
                                  \booktitleCommunications in Statistics,
                                  Theory and Methods, \bf 36, 1877--1888,
                                  2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3329--3330


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 1, 2008

               J. Ashbridge and   
                I. B. J. Goudie   Conditionally Unbiased Estimation of
                                  Population Size Under Plant-Capture  . . 1--12
                     I. Rahimov   Asymptotically Normal Estimators for the
                                  Offspring Mean in the Branching Process
                                  with Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--28
             Yasuhiro Omori and   
             Richard A. Johnson   Efficient Semiparametric Bayesian
                                  Estimation of Multivariate Discrete
                                  Proportional Hazards Model with Random
                                  Effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--41
           Ernest Fokoué   Latent Variable Models in Heterogeneous
                                  Spaces for Observations of Mixed Types   42--53
             Dianliang Deng and   
                  Hong-Bin Fang   On Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimations of Multivariate Distribution
                                  Function Based on Interval-Censored Data 54--74
    Fernando Jiménez and   
             Pedro Jodrá   A Note on the Moments and Computer
                                  Generation of the Shifted Gompertz
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--89
            Wayne R. Wesley and   
           James R. Simpson and   
            Peter A. Parker and   
     Joseph R. Pignatiello, Jr.   Analytical Characterization of the
                                  Information Matrix for Split-Plot
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--102
         M. P. Frías and   
          M. D. Ruiz Medina and   
               F. J. Alonso and   
                   J. M. Angulo   Spectral-Marginal-Based Estimation of
                                  Spatiotemporal Long-Range Dependence . . 103--114
             Guo-liang Tian and   
                   Ming Tan and   
                Kai Wang Ng and   
                   Man-lai Tang   A Unified Method for Checking
                                  Compatibility and Uniqueness for Finite
                                  Discrete Conditional Distributions . . . 115--129
                   Slavko Simic   On Asymptotic Behavior of Regularly
                                  Varying Moments for Discrete Laws  . . . 130--137
           Antonio Sanhueza and   
              Pranab K. Sen and   
            Víctor Leiva   A Robust Procedure in Nonlinear Models
                                  for Repeated Measurements  . . . . . . . 138--155
               Mahendran Shitan   Corrigendum: Fractionally Integrated
                                  Separable Spatial Autoregressive
                                  (FISSAR) Model and Some of Its
                                  Properties, \booktitleCommunications in
                                  Statistics --- Theory and Methods,
                                  Volume 37 Issue No. 8, January 2008,
                                  Pages 1266--1273 . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--158

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 2, 2009

                 Kent Riggs and   
                 Dean Young and   
                   James Stamey   Likelihood-Based Confidence Intervals
                                  for Complementary Poisson Rate
                                  Parameters with Misclassified Data . . . 159--172
          Francisco Aparisi and   
               Marco A. de Luna   The Design and Performance of the
                                  Multivariate Synthetic- $ T^2 $ Control
                                  Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--192
             Takashi Daimon and   
        Toshihiro Yoshikawa and   
         Tominori Kobayashi and   
                   Masashi Goto   Relative Curvature Measure for
                                  Heteroscedastic or Non Normal Nonlinear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--207
             N. Nematollahi and   
            F. Motamed-Shariati   Estimation of the Scale Parameter of the
                                  Selected Gamma Population Under the
                                  Entropy Loss Function  . . . . . . . . . 208--221
       N. Unnikrishnan Nair and   
                 P. G. Sankaran   Quantile-Based Reliability Analysis  . . 222--232
               Johannes Forkman   Estimator and Tests for Common
                                  Coefficients of Variation in Normal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--251
              Zahirul Hoque and   
             Shahjahan Khan and   
              Jacek Weso\lowski   Performance of Preliminary Test
                                  Estimator Under LINEX Loss Function  . . 252--261
                 Stefan Gerhold   Asymptotic Analysis of Some Discrete
                                  Distributions by the Saddle Point Method 262--271
                   Olcay Arslan   Variance-Mean Mixture of Kotz-Type
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--284
                    Hu Yang and   
              Xinfeng Chang and   
                    Deqiang Liu   Improvement of the Liu Estimator in
                                  Weighted Mixed Regression  . . . . . . . 285--292
           Housila P. Singh and   
        Gajendra K. Vishwakarma   A General Procedure for Estimating
                                  Population Mean in Successive Sampling   293--308

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 3, 2008

                   Zhiwei Zhang   Estimating a Marginal Causal Odds Ratio
                                  Subject to Confounding . . . . . . . . . 309--321
              Shifeng Xiong and   
                      Weiyan Mu   Nonparametric Interval Estimation in
                                  One-Way Random-Effects Models  . . . . . 322--331
                  Patrick Marsh   Conditional Information in Projections
                                  of Gaussian Vectors  . . . . . . . . . . 332--339
    Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and   
         Ayanendranath Basu and   
         Subhadip Bandyopadhyay   Goodness-of-Fit Testing for Exponential
                                  Polynomial Growth Curves . . . . . . . . 340--363
                  Bingxing Wang   Interval Estimation for the Scaled
                                  Half-Logistic Distribution Under
                                  Progressive Type-II Censoring  . . . . . 364--371
           Alexandre Berred and   
                Sergey V. Malov   Semiparametric Estimation in Copulas
                                  with the Same Marginals  . . . . . . . . 372--392
                     Ali Dolati   On Dependence Properties of Random
                                  Minima and Maxima  . . . . . . . . . . . 393--399
                 Zaizai Yan and   
                Jingyu Wang and   
                    Junfeng Lai   An Efficiency and Protection
                                  Degree-Based Comparison Among the
                                  Quantitative Randomized Response
                                  Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--408
                  Weiyan Mu and   
               Xingzhong Xu and   
                  Shifeng Xiong   Inference on System Reliability for
                                  Independent Series Components  . . . . . 409--418
                      Heng Lian   Bayes and Empirical Bayes Inference in
                                  Changepoint Problems . . . . . . . . . . 419--430
                Pi-Hsiang Huang   The Efficient Methods to Construct
                                  Two-Per-Block Design in $ 2^k $ Plans    431--438

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 4, 2009

            Oluseun Odumade and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Efficient Use of Two Decks of Cards in
                                  Randomized Response Sampling . . . . . . 439--446
        Christian H. Weiß   A New Class of Autoregressive Models for
                                  Time Series of Binomial Counts . . . . . 447--460
                     Helle Visk   On the Parameter Estimation of the
                                  Asymmetric Multivariate Laplace
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--470
          James D. Williams and   
            Joe H. Sullivan and   
               Jeffrey B. Birch   Maximum Value of Hotelling's $ T^2 $
                                  Statistics Based on the Successive
                                  Differences Covariance Matrix Estimator  471--483
      Lourdes C. Montenegro and   
           Victor H. Lachos and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   Local Influence Analysis for Skew-Normal
                                  Linear Mixed Models  . . . . . . . . . . 484--496
                 Hsiaw-Chan Yeh   Some Related Minima Stability and Minima
                                  Infinite Divisibility of the General
                                  Multivariate Pareto Distributions  . . . 497--510
                    Zhaozhi Fan   Minimum-Distance Estimator for Stable
                                  Exponent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--528
                  Melvin Hinich   Falsifying ARCH/GARCH Models Using
                                  Bispectral Based Tests . . . . . . . . . 529--541
                Satoshi Hattori   Regression Diagnostics of the
                                  Semiparametric Proportional Rate Model
                                  for Irregularly Spaced Repeated
                                  Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542--559
                 J. B. Shah and   
                    M. N. Patel   Bayes Estimation of Shift Point in
                                  Normal Sequence and Its Application to
                                  Statistical Process Control  . . . . . . 560--572

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 5, 2009

                George Tzavelas   Estimation in the Three-Parameter Gamma
                                  Distribution Based on the Profile
                                  Log-Likelihood Function  . . . . . . . . 573--583
                Mei-Mei Zen and   
              Chia-Hao Chan and   
                  Yi-Hsiung Lin   A Note on Criterion-Robust Optimal
                                  Designs for Model Discrimination and
                                  Parameter Estimation in Polynomial
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 584--593
                Huixiu Zhao and   
                    Wen-Qing Ma   A Pairwise Likelihood Procedure for
                                  Analyzing Exchangeable Binary Data with
                                  Random Cluster Sizes . . . . . . . . . . 594--606
                   Hea-Jung Kim   Classification of Observations into One
                                  of Two Artificially Dichotomized Classes
                                  by Using a Normal Screening Variable . . 607--620
              Kiyoshi Inoue and   
                      Sigeo Aki   Distributions of Runs and Scans on
                                  Higher-Order Markov Trees  . . . . . . . 621--641
            Ammar M. Sarhan and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Generalized Linear Failure Rate
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642--660
                 Jiro Hodoshima   The Asymptotic Covariance Matrix of the
                                  Least Squares Estimator in the
                                  Stochastic Linear Regression Model: The
                                  Case of Elliptically Symmetric
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--674
             Pen-Hwang Liau and   
                        Shalabh   Confidence Interval Estimation in
                                  Ultrastructural Model  . . . . . . . . . 675--681
L. A. García-Escudero and   
               A. Gordaliza and   
           C. Matrán and   
                  A. Mayo-Iscar   A Robust Maximal $F$-Ratio Statistic to
                                  Detect Clusters Structure  . . . . . . . 682--694
 Raúl Jiménez and   
                  Yongzhao Shao   Limit Theorems for $ \phi $-Divergences
                                  Based on $k$-Spacings  . . . . . . . . . 695--710
                 Adriana Agapie   Convergence of the Guesstimation
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--718
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
                  Myung Hwan Na   Accelerated Burn-In Procedures and
                                  System Maintenance Policies  . . . . . . 719--733
           Housila P. Singh and   
                  Namrata Karpe   A Class of Estimators Using Auxiliary
                                  Information for Estimating Finite
                                  Population Variance in Presence of
                                  Measurement Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 734--741
                 John N. Haddad   Preliminary Estimation in Gaussian
                                  Stationary Processes . . . . . . . . . . 742--747
            Michael Bruce Swift   Comparison of Confidence Intervals for a
                                  Poisson Mean --- Further Considerations  748--759

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 6, 2009

             Han-Ying Liang and   
                      Si-Li Niu   Asymptotic Properties of Error Density
                                  Estimator in Regression Model Under $
                                  \alpha $-Mixing Assumptions  . . . . . . 761--783
                  Feiyi Jia and   
               Gary C. McDonald   Analyzing Hybrid Randomized Response
                                  Data with a Binomial Selection Procedure 784--807
                   M. Rueda and   
         S. Martínez and   
                   A. Arcos and   
             J. F. Muñoz   Mean Estimation Under Successive
                                  Sampling with Calibration Estimators . . 808--827
            Jacek Wawrzosek and   
Miros\lawa Weso\lowska-Janczarek   Testability and Estimability in
                                  Multivariate Linear Normal Model with
                                  Various Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 828--841
Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez and   
    Humberto Vaquera-Huerta and   
José A. Villaseñor-Alva   A Goodness-of-Fit Test for the Gumbel
                                  Distribution Based on Kullback--Leibler
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842--855
             Feridun Tasdan and   
                 Gerald Sievers   Smoothed Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon
                                  Procedure for Two-Sample Location
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856--870
                     Re-Bin Rau   Bayes and Empirical Bayes Two-Stage
                                  Procedures for Sampling Inspection . . . 871--887
                    Yu Miao and   
                Yiwen Jiang and   
                        Si Shen   Deviation Inequalities for the Estimator
                                  of Linear Parameter in Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888--901
              Manuel Franco and   
        Juana-María Vivo   Stochastic Aging Classes for the Maximum
                                  Statistic from Friday and Patil
                                  Bivariate Exponential Distribution
                                  Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902--911
                 K. K. Jose and   
                Shanoja R. Naik   On the $q$-Weibull Distribution and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--926
                  S. H. Ong and   
                     K. Shimizu   A Discrete Distribution Arising as a
                                  Solution of a Linear Difference
                                  Equation: Extension of the Non Central
                                  Negative Binomial Distribution . . . . . 927--938
            Robert L. Mason and   
              Youn-Min Chou and   
                  John C. Young   Monitoring Variation in a Multivariate
                                  Process When the Dimension is Large
                                  Relative to the Sample Size  . . . . . . 939--951

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 7, 2009

             Tai-Fang C. Lu and   
             Jen-Loung Chen and   
                     Jau-Yau Lu   Saddlepoint Approximations for a Product
                                  and Its Application  . . . . . . . . . . 953--963
  Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and   
                   Babak Abbasi   Monitoring Multi-Attribute Processes
                                  Based on NORTA Inverse Transformed
                                  Vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964--979
            Ryszard Zieli\'nski   Optimal Nonparametric Quantile
                                  Estimators. Towards a General Theory. A
                                  Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980--992
         David Elal-Olivero and   
   Juan F. Olivares-Pacheco and   
Héctor W. Gómez and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   A New Class of Non Negative
                                  Distributions Generated by Symmetric
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993--1008
                  Ling Chen and   
                    Jianguo Sun   A Multiple Imputation Approach to the
                                  Analysis of Current Status Data with the
                                  Additive Hazards Model . . . . . . . . . 1009--1018
           Frederico Caeiro and   
            M. Ivette Gomes and   
Lígia Henriques Rodrigues   Reduced-Bias Tail Index Estimators Under
                                  a Third-Order Framework  . . . . . . . . 1019--1040
     Fernando Antonio Moala and   
          Josemar Rodrigues and   
        Vera Lucia D. Tomazella   A Note on the Prior Distributions of
                                  Weibull Parameters for the Reliability
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1054
         Dimitrios Bagkavos and   
                  Prakash Patil   Variable Bandwidths for Nonparametric
                                  Hazard Rate Estimation . . . . . . . . . 1055--1078
               Hare Krishna and   
         Pramendra Singh Pundir   A Bivariate Geometric Distribution with
                                  Applications to Reliability  . . . . . . 1079--1093
           M. Revan Özkale   Comment on Ridge Estimation to the
                                  Restricted Linear Model  . . . . . . . . 1094--1097
                Silian Shen and   
                   Changlin Mei   Estimation of the Variance Function in
                                  Heteroscedastic Linear Regression Models 1098--1112
          Hassan S. Bakouch and   
           Miroslav M. Risti\'c   A Bivariate Beta-Gamma Autoregressive
                                  Process (BVBGAR(1))  . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1131

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 8, 2009

                Jeh-Nan Pan and   
                    Chun-Yi Lee   Development of a New Process
                                  Incapability Index with an Application
                                  to the Evaluation of Manufacturing Risk  1133--1153
         Elias Ould-Sa\"\id and   
            Abdelkader Tatachak   Strong Consistency Rate for the Kernel
                                  Mode Estimator Under Strong Mixing
                                  Hypothesis and Left Truncation . . . . . 1154--1169
                     Wen Yu and   
                Yunting Sun and   
                     Ming Zheng   Empirical Likelihood Method for Censored
                                  Median Regression Models . . . . . . . . 1170--1183
                     Fei Li and   
                     Yifeng Xue   Zonal Polynomials and Hypergeometric
                                  Functions of Quaternion Matrix Argument  1184--1206
             N. Balakrishna and   
                   Angel Mathew   Nonparametric Estimation of the Average
                                  Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1218
                   Reza Pakyari   A Note on Asymptotic Behavior of the
                                  Nonparametric Density Estimators in
                                  Multivariate Mixtures  . . . . . . . . . 1219--1223
            Vilelmine Carayanni   Handling Uncertainty in the Cost
                                  Effectiveness Healthcare Evaluations. A
                                  Review of Statistical Approaches . . . . 1224--1240
                Liuquan Sun and   
                Shaojun Guo and   
                       Min Chen   Marginal Regression Model with
                                  Time-Varying Coefficients for Panel Data 1241--1261
           Laura L. R. Rifo and   
                 Soledad Torres   Full Bayesian Analysis for a Class of
                                  Jump-Diffusion Models  . . . . . . . . . 1262--1271
              Robert Frouin and   
                Bruno Pelletier   Consistency of Ridge Function Fields for
                                  Varying Nonparametric Regression . . . . 1272--1283
   Shashibhushan B. Mahadik and   
             Digambar T. Shirke   A Special Variable Sample Size and
                                  Sampling Interval Chart  . . . . . . . . 1284--1299
                    Lei Shi and   
                       Peng Bai   Bayesian Confidence Interval for the
                                  Ratio of Marginal Probabilities in the
                                  Matched-Pair Design  . . . . . . . . . . 1300--1316
           Mohammed Attouch and   
                Ali Laksaci and   
             Elias Ould-Sa\"\id   Asymptotic Distribution of Robust
                                  Estimator for Functional Nonparametric
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317--1335

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 9, 2009

                   Mike Jacroux   Minimum Aberration Two-Level Fractional
                                  Factorial Split-Plot Designs with Hard
                                  to Change Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . 1337--1349
                Tsung-Shan Tsou   A Robust Score Test for Testing Several
                                  Coefficients of Variation with Unknown
                                  Underlying Distributions . . . . . . . . 1350--1360
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Bayesian Inference Using Artificial
                                  Augmenting Regressions . . . . . . . . . 1361--1370
                   Wei Ning and   
             Arjun K. Gupta and   
                   Chang Yu and   
                   Sanguo Zhang   A Moment-Based Test for Homogeneity in
                                  Finite Mixture Models  . . . . . . . . . 1371--1382
                   Hong Qin and   
           Kashinath Chatterjee   Lower Bounds for the Uniformity Pattern
                                  of Asymmetric Fractional Factorials  . . 1383--1392
                     Sarika and   
                Seema Jaggi and   
                   V. K. Sharma   Second-Order Response Surface Model with
                                  Neighbor Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393--1403
                        Fang Li   Testing for the Equality of Two
                                  Autoregressive Functions Using
                                  Quasi-Residuals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1404--1421
               Tang Qingguo and   
                Cheng Longsheng   Asymptotic Normality of $M$-Estimators
                                  for Varying Coefficient Models with
                                  Longitudinal Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1422--1440
                S. M. Sunoj and   
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                     S. S. Maya   Characterizations of Life Distributions
                                  Using Conditional Expectations of Doubly
                                  (Interval) Truncated Random Variables    1441--1452
                Dhafer Malouche   Mixed Graphical Model Selection Using
                                  Holm's Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1464
         Joseph Ngatchou-Wandji   Testing Symmetry of the Error
                                  Distribution in Nonlinear
                                  Heteroscedastic Models . . . . . . . . . 1465--1485
              Jianping Dong and   
                  Renfang Jiang   Multinomial Probability Estimation by
                                  Wavelet Thresholding . . . . . . . . . . 1486--1507
               Jau-Chuan Ke and   
              Zheng-Long Su and   
                Kuo-Hsiung Wang   An Availability System with General
                                  Repair Distribution: Statistical
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1508--1525
               Kjell Pettersson   On Unimodal Regression in the
                                  Exponential Family . . . . . . . . . . . 1526--1538
              Oguz Akbilgic and   
             Eylem Deniz Akinci   A Novel Regression Approach: Least
                                  Squares Ratio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1539--1545

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 10, 2009

           S. Panchapakesan and   
         Sheng-Tsaing Tseng and   
  Ming-Chung Yang Guest Editors   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1547--1547
           S. Panchapakesan and   
         Sheng-Tsaing Tseng and   
                Ming-Chung Yang   Deng-Yuan Huang: Life and Works  . . . . 1548--1552
           Shuenn-Ren Cheng and   
               S. Panchapakesan   Is the Selected Population the
                                  Best-Location and Scale Parameter Cases  1553--1560
              Tsai-Hung Fan and   
                  Wen-Kuei Jian   Expected Posterior Priors in Selecting
                                  the Largest Mean of the Exponential
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1561--1575
              Wen-Tao Huang and   
                  Yao-Tsung Lai   Selecting the Best Process Based on
                                  Capability Index via Empirical Bayes
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576--1588
                   Tachen Liang   Simultaneous Variable Sampling
                                  Inspection for Finite Populations  . . . 1589--1606
            Miao-Kuan Huang and   
               Mong-Na Lo Huang   $ D_s $-Optimal Designs for Quadratic
                                  Log Contrast Model for Experiments with
                                  Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1607--1621
             Fu-Chuen Chang and   
                   Yang-Chan Su   Computing $A$-optimal Designs for
                                  Weighted Polynomial Regression by Taylor
                                  Expansion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1622--1634
              Lee-Shen Chen and   
                   Che-Yang Lin   Bayesian $p$-Values for Testing
                                  Independence in $ 2 \times 2$
                                  Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 1635--1648
              Lee-Shen Chen and   
                Ming-Chung Yang   Improved $p$-Values for Testing Marginal
                                  Homogeneity in $ 2 \times 2$ Contingency
                                  Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1649--1663
        Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau and   
          Hsiang-Ling Huang and   
               Shuo-Hui Lin and   
                   Ming-Ye Tsai   Monitoring Nonlinear Profiles with
                                  Random Effects by Nonparametric
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1664--1679
                Tsung-Shan Tsou   Performing Legitimate Parametric
                                  Regression Analysis without Knowing the
                                  True Underlying Random Mechanisms  . . . 1680--1689
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                   Li Zhang and   
                      Qihao Xie   Inference for a Simple Step-Stress Model
                                  with Type-I Censoring and Lognormally
                                  Distributed Lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . 1690--1709
              Chien-Tai Lin and   
          Hon Keung Tony Ng and   
                Ping Shing Chan   Statistical Inference of Type-II
                                  Progressively Hybrid Censored Data with
                                  Weibull Lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . . . 1710--1729
                 Bo-Yan Jou and   
             Sheng-Tsaing Tseng   An Enhanced Double MEWMA Controller for
                                  Drifted MIMO Systems . . . . . . . . . . 1730--1740
               Pinyuen Chen and   
                     Lifang Hsu   A Selection Procedure for the Number of
                                  Signals in Presence of Colored Noise . . 1741--1757

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 11, 2009

                   Yuxia Su and   
                         Lu Lin   Semi-Parametric Estimation for
                                  Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759--1775
       Alicja Jokiel-Rokita and   
                Ryszard Magiera   Minimax Prediction of the Empirical
                                  Distribution Function  . . . . . . . . . 1776--1791
            Daniel M. Ennis and   
                  John M. Ennis   Hypothesis Testing for Equivalence
                                  Defined on Symmetric Open Intervals  . . 1792--1803
           Zdenek Fabián   Confidence Intervals for a New
                                  Characteristic of Central Tendency of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1804--1814
                  Chen Xue-Dong   Bayesian Analysis of Semiparametric
                                  Mixed-Effects Models for Zero-Inflated
                                  Count Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1815--1833
                 A. Vaghefi and   
           Sam D. Tajbakhsh and   
                  R. Noorossana   Phase II Monitoring of Nonlinear
                                  Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1834--1851
Fìkrì Akdenìz and   
      Gülìn Tabakan   Restricted Ridge Estimators of the
                                  Parameters in Semiparametric Regression
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852--1869
José A. Villasenor Alva and   
Elizabeth González Estrada   A Generalization of Shapiro--Wilk's Test
                                  for Multivariate Normality . . . . . . . 1870--1883
              Peng Zuoxiang and   
                   Tong Bin and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Tail Behavior of the General Error
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1884--1892
                      Heng Lian   On Rates of Convergence for Posterior
                                  Distributions Under Misspecification . . 1893--1900
              Kahadawala Cooray   The Weibull--Pareto Composite Family
                                  with Applications to the Analysis of
                                  Unimodal Failure Rate Data . . . . . . . 1901--1915
               Assad Jalali and   
                Alan J. Watkins   On Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the
                                  Two Parameter Burr XII Distribution  . . 1916--1926
                Zhiming Xia and   
              Pengjiang Guo and   
                    Wenzhi Zhao   Monitoring Structural Changes in
                                  Generalized Linear Models  . . . . . . . 1927--1947

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 12, 2009

             H. N. Nagaraja and   
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1949--1949
               Eric Beutner and   
                      Udo Kamps   Identical Distributions of Single
                                  Variates and Random Convex Combinations
                                  of Uniform Fractional Order Statistics   1950--1959
                  H. M. Barakat   A Nonparametric General Criterion of
                                  Asymptotic Dependence Between Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1960--1968
           Serge B. Provost and   
                  Min Jiang and   
                   Hyung-Tae Ha   Moment-Based Approximations of
                                  Probability Mass Functions with
                                  Applications Involving Order Statistics  1969--1981
          Agnieszka Goroncy and   
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Lower Bounds on Spacings Based on
                                  With-Replacement Model . . . . . . . . . 1982--1988
              Agnieszka Goroncy   Lower Bounds on Positive $L$-Statistics  1989--2002
                 Qinying He and   
                 H. N. Nagaraja   Correlation Estimation Using
                                  Concomitants of Order Statistics from
                                  Bivariate Normal Samples . . . . . . . . 2003--2015
            Mohamed T. Madi and   
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   Bayesian Inference for the Generalized
                                  Exponential Distribution Based on
                                  Progressively Censored Data  . . . . . . 2016--2029
              Debasis Kundu and   
             Biswabrata Pradhan   Estimating the Parameters of the
                                  Generalized Exponential Distribution in
                                  Presence of Hybrid Censoring . . . . . . 2030--2041
           Ch. A. Charalambides   Distribution of Record Statistics in a
                                  $q$-Factorially Increasing Population    2042--2055
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
           Fariba Amiripour and   
                Taizhong Hu and   
           S. Roohollah Shojaei   Some New Results on Stochastic
                                  Comparisons of Record Values . . . . . . 2056--2066
F. López-Blázquez and   
       B. Salamanca-Miño   Random Translation of Records from
                                  Geometric Distributions  . . . . . . . . 2067--2077
                  E. Cramer and   
                   K. Herle and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Permanent Expansions and Distributions
                                  of Order Statistics in the INID Case . . 2078--2088
               M. Burkschat and   
                        B. Lenz   Marginal Distributions of the Counting
                                  Process Associated with Generalized
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 2089--2106
             A. Jamalizadeh and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                     A. Sheikhy   Distributions of Ratios of Two
                                  Correlated Skew-Normal Variables and of
                                  Ratios of Two Linear Functions of Order
                                  Statistics from Bivariate Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2107--2115
               Haiying Chen and   
        Elizabeth A. Stasny and   
           Douglas A. Wolfe and   
           Steven N. MacEachern   Unbalanced Ranked Set Sampling for
                                  Estimating A Population Proportion Under
                                  Imperfect Rankings . . . . . . . . . . . 2116--2125
        Roxana Alexandridis and   
                    Omer Ozturk   Robust Inference Against Imperfect
                                  Ranking in Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . 2126--2143

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 13, 2009

                  Xuemei Hu and   
              Zhizhong Wang and   
                       Feng Liu   Testing Serial Correlation in
                                  Semiparametric Varying-Coefficient
                                  Partially Linear Models  . . . . . . . . 2145--2163
                     Salma Ayis   Quantifying the Impact of Unobserved
                                  Heterogeneity on Inference from the
                                  Logistic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2164--2177
        Govind S. Mudholkar and   
                   Hongyue Wang   $R$-Symmetry and the Power Functions of
                                  the Tests for Inverse Gaussian Means . . 2178--2186
                    Lili Yu and   
                 Ruifeng Yu and   
                      Liang Liu   Quasi-Likelihood for Right-Censored Data
                                  in the Generalized Linear Model  . . . . 2187--2200
         Feras Sh. M. Batah and   
       M. Revan Özkale and   
                     S. D. Gore   Combining Unbiased Ridge and Principal
                                  Component Regression Estimators  . . . . 2201--2209
           Abdelghani Hamaz and   
               Mohamed Ibazizen   Comparison of Two Estimation Methods of
                                  Missing Values Using Pitman-Closeness
                                  Criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2210--2213
              Albert Vexler and   
               Gregory Gurevich   Average Most Powerful Tests for a
                                  Segmented Regression . . . . . . . . . . 2214--2231
                      P. Blazej   Some Remarks about Robust Estimation of
                                  the Scale Parameter in Weighted Models   2232--2240
              Jianzhong Zhu and   
                      Wang Zhou   Saddlepoint Approximation for Sample
                                  Quantiles with Some Applications . . . . 2241--2250
            Wayne R. Wesley and   
           James R. Simpson and   
            Peter A. Parker and   
     Joseph J. Pignatiello, Jr.   Maximum and Minimum Prediction Variance
                                  for Spherical and Cuboidal Split Plot
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2251--2266
              H. M. Barakat and   
              M. E. Ghitany and   
              E. K. Al-Hussaini   Asymptotic Distributions of Order
                                  Statistics and Record Values Under the
                                  Marshall--Olkin Parametrization
                                  Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2267--2273

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 14, 2009

   Alexsandro B. Cavalcanti and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
           Denise A. Botter and   
        Lúcia P. Barroso   Asymptotic Skewness in Exponential
                                  Family Nonlinear Models  . . . . . . . . 2275--2287
     Patricia Pepple Williamson   Bayesian Alternatives to the $F$ Test
                                  for Two Population Variances . . . . . . 2288--2301
                     Zijun Wang   Finite Sample Performances of the Model
                                  Selection Approach in Nonparametric
                                  Model Specification for Time Series  . . 2302--2320
                    Hu Yang and   
                  Yalian Li and   
                     Jianwen Xu   Mean Squared Error Matrix Comparisons of
                                  Some Restricted Almost Unbiased
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2321--2332
          Karthik Devarajan and   
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Testing for Covariate Effect in the Cox
                                  Proportional Hazards Regression Model    2333--2347
             Peter M. Njuho and   
             George A. Milliken   Analysis of Linear Models with Two
                                  Factors Having Both Fixed and Random
                                  Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2348--2365
                    Omar Eidous   Kernel Method Starting with Half-Normal
                                  Detection Function for Line Transect
                                  Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 2366--2378
Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   A Bayesian Inference and Stochastic
                                  Dynamic Programming Approach to
                                  Determine the Best Binomial Distribution 2379--2397
             Nursel Koyuncu and   
                    Cem Kadilar   Family of Estimators of Population Mean
                                  Using Two Auxiliary Variables in
                                  Stratified Random Sampling . . . . . . . 2398--2417
                        Q. Shao   Nonparametric Trend Estimation for
                                  Periodic Autoregressive Time Series  . . 2418--2427
             Saralees Nadarajah   Reply to ``Comments on `Sums, Products,
                                  and Ratios of Non-Central Beta
                                  Variables' by Saralees Nadarajah'' by
                                  Antonio Mauricio F. L. Miranda de Sa,
                                  Leonardo B. Felix, and Eduardo M. A. M.
                                  Mendes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2428--2433

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 15, 2009

              Claudio Macci and   
                   Lea Petrella   Censored Exponential Data: Large
                                  Deviations for MLEs and Posterior
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2435--2452
            Steven P. Ellis and   
            Jonathan W. Stewart   Temporal Dependence and Bias in
                                  Meta-Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2453--2462
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
  Audrey H. M. A. Cysneiros and   
Francisco José A. Cysneiros   Bias-Corrected Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimators in Nonlinear Heteroscedastic
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2463--2478
        Alessandra Amendola and   
            Marcella Niglio and   
                  Cosimo Vitale   Statistical Properties of Threshold
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2479--2497
                   Xia Chen and   
                   Hengjian Cui   Empirical Likelihood for Partially
                                  Linear Single-Index Errors-in-Variables
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2498--2514
           Fabrizio Durante and   
     Susanne Saminger-Platz and   
                  Peter Sarkoci   Rectangular Patchwork for Bivariate
                                  Copulas and Tail Dependence  . . . . . . 2515--2527
                       Liwen Xu   Admissible Linear Predictors in the
                                  Superpopulation Model with Respect to
                                  Inequality Constraints . . . . . . . . . 2528--2540
             Jian-Ying Rong and   
                    Xu-Qing Liu   On the Closed Form of Optimal Invariant
                                  Quadratic Predictors in Finite
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2541--2551
                   I. Boutouria   Characterization of the Wishart
                                  Distribution on Homogeneous Cones in the
                                  Bobecka and Weso\lowski Way  . . . . . . 2552--2566
             M. L. Aggarwal and   
            Mithilesh Kumar Jha   Constructions of Residual Treatment
                                  Effects Designs for Comparing Test
                                  Treatments with a Control  . . . . . . . 2567--2577
                S. Sengupta and   
                  Sujay Mukhuti   Unbiased Estimation of the Distribution
                                  Function of a Two-Parameter Exponential
                                  Population Using Order Statistics  . . . 2578--2585
          Brandon D. Gallas and   
              Andriy Bandos and   
         Frank W. Samuelson and   
               Robert F. Wagner   A Framework for Random-Effects ROC
                                  Analysis: Biases with the Bootstrap and
                                  Other Variance Estimators  . . . . . . . 2586--2603
                     Li Qin and   
          Lisa A. Weissfeld and   
               Changyu Shen and   
              Michele D. Levine   A Two-Latent-Class Model for Smoking
                                  Cessation Data with Informative Dropouts 2604--2619

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 16--17, 2009

Nitis Mukhopadhyay Guest Editor   Guest Editorial: Recent Advances in
                                  Theory and Applications of Statistics    2621--2622
Nitis Mukhopadhyay Guest Editor   A Glimpse at the Career of Professor
                                  Shelemyahu Zacks . . . . . . . . . . . . 2623--2624
                   E. Andersson   Hotelling's $ T^2 $ Method in
                                  Multivariate On-Line Surveillance: On
                                  the Delay of an Alarm  . . . . . . . . . 2625--2633
             Kazuyoshi Yata and   
                 Makoto Aoshima   PCA Consistency for Non-Gaussian Data in
                                  High Dimension, Low Sample Size Context  2634--2652
             A. Jamalizadeh and   
               R. Pourmousa and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Truncated and Limited Skew-Normal and
                                  Skew-  $t$  Distributions: Properties
                                  and an Illustration  . . . . . . . . . . 2653--2668
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                 Abram M. Kagan   Bivariate Distributions with
                                  Gaussian-Type Dependence Structure . . . 2669--2676
                    Sanjib Basu   Inference About the Masking
                                  Probabilities in the Competing Risks
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2677--2690
        Uttam Bandyopadhyay and   
               Atanu Biswas and   
             Rahul Bhattacharya   Kernel-Based Response-Adaptive Design
                                  for Continuous Responses . . . . . . . . 2691--2705
              Onno J. Boxma and   
                    David Perry   On the Cycle Maximum of Mountains, Dams
                                  and Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2706--2720
                    Marlo Brown   Detecting Changes in a Poisson Process
                                  Monitored at Unequal Discrete Time
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2721--2732
                 D. Causeur and   
                 M. Kloareg and   
                     C. Friguet   Control of the FWER in Multiple Testing
                                  Under Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . 2733--2747
                Sungduk Kim and   
                 Sonali Das and   
              Ming-Hui Chen and   
                Nicholas Warren   Bayesian Structural Equations Modeling
                                  for Ordinal Response Data with Missing
                                  Responses and Missing Covariates . . . . 2748--2768
          Elena M. Buzaianu and   
                   Pinyuen Chen   Partitioning Bernoulli Populations with
                                  Respect to a Control . . . . . . . . . . 2769--2783
                      Zhiyi Chi   Data Volume and Power of Multiple Tests
                                  with Small Sample Size Per Null  . . . . 2784--2803
               Boris Darkhovsky   Minimax Estimation of the First
                                  Derivative by Finite Number of Noisy
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2804--2811
                 Hakan Demirtas   Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal
                                  Data Under a Bayesian Multilevel Model   2812--2828
                 Sam Efromovich   Multiwavelets: Theory and Bioinformatic
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2829--2842
                 Hongyan Xu and   
                Varghese George   Assessment of Population Structure and
                                  Its Effects on Genome-Wide Association
                                  Studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2843--2855
          Kaushal K. Mishra and   
                 Sujit K. Ghosh   Estimation of SCRAM Rate Trends in
                                  Nuclear Power Plants Using Hierarchical
                                  Bayes Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2856--2871
                Edit Gombay and   
           Lajos Horváth   Sequential Tests and Change Detection in
                                  the Covariance Structure of Weakly
                                  Stationary Time Series . . . . . . . . . 2872--2883
                 Ofer Harel and   
               Jeffrey Stratton   Inferences on the Outfluence --- How do
                                  Missing Values Impact Your Analysis? . . 2884--2898
              A. S. Hedayat and   
               Congrong Lou and   
                 Bikas K. Sinha   A Statistical Approach to Assessment of
                                  Agreement Involving Multiple Raters  . . 2899--2922
                 Sven Knoth and   
       Manuel Cabral Morais and   
     António Pacheco and   
                Wolfgang Schmid   Misleading Signals in Simultaneous
                                  Residual Schemes for the Mean and
                                  Variance of a Stationary Process . . . . 2923--2943
                 Yuko Araki and   
           Sadanori Konishi and   
             Shuichi Kawano and   
               Hidetoshi Matsui   Functional Logistic Discrimination Via
                                  Regularized Basis Expansions . . . . . . 2944--2957
              Tze Leung Lai and   
                Tongwei Liu and   
                   Haipeng Xing   A Bayesian Approach to Sequential
                                  Surveillance in Exponential Families . . 2958--2968
               Sangyeol Lee and   
                Youngmi Lee and   
                     Okyoung Na   Monitoring Distributional Changes in
                                  Autoregressive Models  . . . . . . . . . 2969--2982
                     Li Cao and   
                  Thomas Mathew   Testing the Equivalence of Generalized
                                  Variances in Multivariate Bioequivalence 2983--2991
           Shelemyahu Zacks and   
             Nitis Mukhopadhyay   On Exact and Asymptotic Properties of
                                  Two-Stage and Sequential Estimation of
                                  the Normal Mean Under LINEX Loss . . . . 2992--3014
               Balgobin Nandram   Bayesian Inference of the Cell
                                  Probabilities of a Two-Way Categorical
                                  Table Under Non Ignorability . . . . . . 3015--3030
   Vilijandas Bagdonavicius and   
                Mikhail Nikulin   Statistical Models to Analyze Failure,
                                  Wear, Fatigue, and Degradation Data with
                                  Explanatory Variables  . . . . . . . . . 3031--3047
                 Emanuel Parzen   Quantiles, Conditional Quantiles,
                                  Confidence Quantiles for $p$, $ {\rm
                                  Logodds}(p)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3048--3058
                Roy T. Sabo and   
                N. Rao Chaganty   Adaptation of Quasi-Least Squares to
                                  Estimate Correlations within a Nuclear
                                  Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3059--3076
                Agnieszka Rossa   The Nelson--Aalen and Kaplan--Meier
                                  Estimators Under a Sequential Sampling
                                  Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3077--3098
                 Kush Kapur and   
                Anindya Roy and   
           Dulal K. Bhaumik and   
          Robert D. Gibbons and   
            Nicole A. Lazar and   
            John A. Sweeney and   
              Subhash Aryal and   
                 Dave Patterson   Estimation and Classification of BOLD
                                  Responses Over Multiple Trials . . . . . 3099--3113
               Andrew L. Rukhin   Sequential Testing to Guarantee the
                                  Necessary Sample Size in Clinical Trials 3114--3122
               Anton Schick and   
            Wolfgang Wefelmeyer   Improved Density Estimators for
                                  Invertible Linear Processes  . . . . . . 3123--3147
     Tumulesh K. S. Solanky and   
                     Yuefeng Wu   On Approximate Optimality of the Sample
                                  Size for the Partition Problem . . . . . 3148--3157
                Wolfgang Stadje   A Queueing System with Two Parallel
                                  Lines, Cost-Conscious Customers, and
                                  Jockeying  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3158--3169
              Ming-Hung Kao and   
            Abhyuday Mandal and   
                   John Stufken   Efficient Designs for Event-Related
                                  Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
                                  with Multiple Scanning Sessions  . . . . 3170--3182
                Stefan Kurz and   
                 Winfried Stute   The Bahadur Representation of the
                                  TTT-Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3183--3189
                Mario Stylianou   Derivation of Exact Distributions
                                  Following an Up-and-Down Design  . . . . 3190--3197
               Yoshikazu Takada   Selecting the Best Component of a
                                  Multivariate Normal Population . . . . . 3198--3212
         Masanobu Taniguchi and   
              Hiroaki Ogata and   
              Hiroshi Shiraishi   Preliminary Test Estimation for
                                  Regression Models with Long-Memory
                                  Disturbance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213--3224
      George V. Moustakides and   
     Aleksey S. Polunchenko and   
       Alexander G. Tartakovsky   Numerical Comparison of CUSUM and
                                  Shiryaev--Roberts Procedures for
                                  Detecting Changes in Distributions . . . 3225--3239
                Emanuele Taufer   Wilcoxon-Signed Rank Test for Long
                                  Memory Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 3240--3248
             Linda J. Young and   
            Carol A. Gotway and   
               Greg Kearney and   
                   Chris DuClos   Assessing Uncertainty in
                                  Support-Adjusted Spatial Misalignment
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3249--3264
                      Anonymous   Thanks to the Referees . . . . . . . . . 3265--3266

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 18, 2009

    Weng Kee Wong, Guest Editor   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3267--3267
       Peter A. Lachenbruch and   
        Frederick W. Miller and   
                  Lisa G. Rider   On Determining the Effects of Therapy on
                                  Disease Damage in Non Randomized Studies
                                  with Multiple Treatments: A Study of
                                  Juvenile Myositis  . . . . . . . . . . . 3268--3281
                    Naitee Ting   Practical and Statistical Considerations
                                  in Designing an Early Phase II
                                  Osteoarthritis Clinical Trial: A Case
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3282--3296
                  Bin Zhang and   
                 Haiqun Lin and   
            David J. Hunter and   
               Tuhina Neogi and   
                Barton Wise and   
                Ernest Choy and   
                 Jingbo Niu and   
                   Yuqing Zhang   A Multistate Transition Model for
                                  Osteoarthritis Pain Change . . . . . . . 3297--3306
              David Tolusso and   
                Richard J. Cook   Robust Estimation of State Occupancy
                                  Probabilities for Interval-Censored
                                  Multistate Data: An Application
                                  Involving Spondylitis in Psoriatic
                                  Arthritis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307--3325
              Dongseok Choi and   
       Srilakshmi M. Sharma and   
         Sirichai Pasadhika and   
                Zhixin Kang and   
    Christina A. Harrington and   
           Justine R. Smith and   
          Stephen R. Planck and   
             James T. Rosenbaum   Application of Biostatistics and
                                  Bioinformatics Tools to Identify
                                  Putative Transcription Factor-Gene
                                  Regulatory Network of Ankylosing
                                  Spondylitis and Sarcoidosis  . . . . . . 3326--3338
                    Jialiang Li   Semiparametric Residuals and Analysis
                                  for a Scleroderma Clinical Trial . . . . 3339--3350
              Sylvie Retout and   
          Emmanuelle Comets and   
           Caroline Bazzoli and   
           France Mentré   Design Optimization in Nonlinear Mixed
                                  Effects Models Using Cost Functions:
                                  Application to a Joint Model of
                                  Infliximab and Methotrexate
                                  Pharmacokinetics . . . . . . . . . . . . 3351--3368
                E. J. Allen and   
             Vernon T. Farewell   Pragmatic Analysis of Longitudinal Data
                                  on Disease Activity in Systemic Lupus
                                  Erythematosus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3369--3388
            Rinku Sutradhar and   
                Richard J. Cook   A Bivariate Mover-Stayer Model for
                                  Interval-Censored Recurrent Event Data:
                                  Application to Joint Damage in
                                  Rheumatology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3389--3405
            Stephanie Kovalchik   A Bayesian Approach to Therapy Selection
                                  in the Treatment of Refractory
                                  Rheumatoid Arthritis . . . . . . . . . . 3406--3418
                 Xiaoming Sheng   A Bayesian Model for Measurement Errors
                                  in Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis . . 3419--3431
                 Xiao Zhang and   
                    Gary Cutter   A Bayesian Method of Estimating Kappa
                                  Coefficient with Application to a
                                  Rheumatoid Arthritis Study . . . . . . . 3432--3444
                Nianjun Liu and   
             Richard Bucala and   
                    Hongyu Zhao   Modeling Informatively Missing Genotypes
                                  in Haplotype Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 3445--3460
               Jaap Fransen and   
           Arthur Kavanaugh and   
                 George F. Borm   Desirability Scores for Assessing
                                  Multiple Outcomes in Systemic Rheumatic
                                  Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3461--3471
            Brian D. M. Tom and   
             Vernon T. Farewell   Statistical Methods for Individual-Level
                                  Data in Cohort Mortality Studies of
                                  Rheumatic Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . 3472--3487

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 19, 2009

              M. I. Alheety and   
               T. V. Ramanathan   Confidence Interval for Shrinkage
                                  Parameters in Ridge Regression . . . . . 3489--3497
                Anna Esteve and   
                    Eva Boj and   
                 Josep Fortiana   Interaction Terms in Distance-Based
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3498--3509
    Jean-François Quessy   Tests of Multivariate Independence for
                                  Ordinal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3510--3531
              M. E. Ghitany and   
           D. K. Al-Mutairi and   
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Reliability Studies of the
                                  Log-Exponential Inverse Gaussian
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3532--3543
         Wheyming Tina Song and   
            Chia-Jung Chang and   
                   Sin-Long Liu   Robust Confidence Intervals for the
                                  Bernoulli Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . 3544--3560
           L. Hedhili Zaier and   
                    A. Trabelsi   A Benchmarking Approach to Temporal
                                  Disaggregation of Economic Time Series
                                  by Related Series  . . . . . . . . . . . 3561--3582
                 Nora Saadi and   
                   Smail Adjabi   On the Estimation of the Probability
                                  Density by Trigonometric Series  . . . . 3583--3595
                     S. Sampath   Finite Population Variance Estimation
                                  Under LSS with Multiple Random Starts    3596--3607
            Sarjinder Singh and   
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Rajesh Tailor and   
                 Jack Allen and   
                   Marcin Kozak   Estimation of Ratio of Two
                                  Finite-Population Means in the Presence
                                  of Non Response  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3608--3621

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 38, Number 20, 2009

              Jianfeng Yang and   
               Min-Qian Liu and   
                   Runchu Zhang   Some Results on Fractional Factorial
                                  Split-Plot Designs with Multi-Level
                                  Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3623--3633
               Jingyun Yang and   
           Vernon M. Chinchilli   Fixed-Effects Modeling of Cohen's Kappa
                                  for Bivariate Multinomial Data . . . . . 3634--3653
               Kaiping Wang and   
                     Lu Lin and   
                      Ruihua Qi   Multiplicative Adjustment Method for
                                  Semiparametric Regression with Mixing
                                  Dependent Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3654--3665
                   Rong Liu and   
       Viswanathan Ramakrishnan   Application of Multiple Imputation in
                                  Analysis of Data from Clinical Trials
                                  with Treatment Related Dropouts  . . . . 3666--3677
                    Jiexiang Li   Kernel Estimators for Distribution
                                  Functions on Dependent Random Fields . . 3678--3685
                 Ijaz Iqbal and   
                    M. H. Tahir   Circular Strongly Balanced Repeated
                                  Measurements Designs . . . . . . . . . . 3686--3696
        Cheikh Tidiane Seck and   
                   Gane Samb Lo   Uniform Convergence of the Non-Weighted
                                  Poverty Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . 3697--3704
              Xiaogang Duan and   
                 Liping Liu and   
                      Ping Zhao   Estimation of Covariate Distribution
                                  with Capture-Recapture Data  . . . . . . 3705--3712
               Tachen Liang and   
                  Wen-Tao Huang   Empirical Bayes Estimation for Uniform
                                  Distributions with Random Right
                                  Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3713--3724
             Feng-Shun Chai and   
       Kashinath Chatterjee and   
                   Sudhir Gupta   Generalized $ E(s^2) $ Criterion for
                                  Multilevel Supersaturated Designs  . . . 3725--3735
                      Yang Zhao   Regression Analysis with Covariates
                                  Missing at Random: A Piece-wise
                                  Nonparametric Model for Missing
                                  Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3736--3744
                  Wangli Xu and   
                     Yiqiang Lu   Goodness-of-Fit for Longitudinal Count
                                  Data with Overdispersion . . . . . . . . 3745--3754
                       Zhu Wang   Correction to ``Estimation of the
                                  Weibull Parameters with Grouped Data''   3755--3755
              Amir Ahmadi Javid   Copulas with Truncation-Invariance
                                  Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3756--3771
              Amir Ahmadi Javid   Limiting Tail Dependence Copulas . . . . 3772--3781


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Volume 46, Number 21, 2017

  Tiago M. Magalhães and   
           Denise A. Botter and   
       Mônica C. Sandoval   Corrigendum to: ``Covariance matrix
                                  formula for generalized linear models
                                  with unknown dispersion'' by G. M.
                                  Cordeiro, L. P. Barroso, and D. A.
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