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Alessandra Giovagnoli and
Paola Sebastiani Experimental designs for mean and
variance estimation in variance
components models . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Alexandre B. Uspensky Some new aspects of analysis and design
of experiments in inverse problems of
remote meteorological sounding . . . . . 1--10
Ewaryst Rafaj\lwicz Optimum input signals for parameter
estimation in systems described by
linear integral equations . . . . . . . 11--19
B. C. Sutradhar and
R. F. Bartlett An empirical study of the estimation of
eigenvalues in connection with
non-negative estimation of variance
components of a one-way random effect
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--35
Serge B. Provost Estimators for the parameters of a
multivariate normal random vector with
incomplete data on two subvectors and
test of independence . . . . . . . . . . 37--46
Alessandra Salvan Planning sequential clinical trials: a
review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56
Guy der Megreditchian Meteorological networks optimization
from a statistical point of view . . . . 57--75
Olli Varis and
Juhani Kettunen and
Hannu Sirviö Bayesian influence diagram approach to
complex environmental management
including observational design . . . . . 77--91
Carla Rossi Survival analysis and prognosis: a
comparison of three approaches (for the
analysis of nasopharix data) . . . . . . 93--111
R. J. Martin Some results on the $ \Phi_p $-value
when errors are correlated . . . . . . . 113--121
Johann Joss and
Alfio Marazzi Probabilistic algorithms for least
median of squares regression . . . . . . 123--133
Danuta Kachlicka and
Stanis\law Mejza Incomplete split-plot experiments ---
whole-plot treatments in a row-column
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146
Giuseppe Arbia On second-order non-stationarity in
two-dimensional lattice processes . . . 147--160
Anonymous SPSS announces Macintosh package . . . . 161
Anonymous SYSTAT, Inc. announces new Mac MYSTAT
with brushing tools . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
Anonymous SYSTAT, Inc. announces new data transfer
package for SYSTAT software on
IBM-compatible computers . . . . . . . . 162--163
Anonymous SYSTAT, Inc. announces EzPATH, a new
casual modeling supplement to SYSTAT
software on IBM-compatible computers . . 163
Anonymous Installed base passes 50,000
``milestone'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
Anonymous Minitab introduces advanced features for
industrial statistics . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Anonymous MicrOsiris for the PC . . . . . . . . . 166--167
Anonymous SIR/Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
B. Abdous Adapting the classical kernel density
estimator to data . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
Stephen Haslett Degrees of freedom and parameter
estimability in hierarchical models for
sparse complete contingency tables . . . 179--195
Miguel A. Herce An example showing that a new technique
for LAV estimation breaks down in
certain cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202
G. S. Christensen and
S. A. Soliman and
A. Rouhi Discussion of ``An example showing that
a new technique for LAV estimation
breaks down in certain cases'' . . . . . 203--213
Miguel A. Herce Some comments on Christensen, Soliman
and Rouhi's ``Discussion \ldots'' . . . 215--216
John B. Cologne and
Norman E. Breslow A small sample simulation study of
methods for log odds ratio regression
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--235
Michael Conlon and
Ronald G. Thomas A new confidence interval for the
difference of two binomial proportions 237--241
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMultiway data
analysis: edited by R. Coppi, University
of Rome, Italy and S. Bolasco,
University of Salerno, Italy, 1989 xiv +
552 pages, Price: US\$136.75/Dfl.
260.00, ISBN 0-444-87410-0 (Elsevier
Science Publishers, Amsterdam)} . . . . 248
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStatistical data
analysis and inference: edited by Y.
Dodge, University of Neuchatel,
Switzerland, 1989 xii + 618 pages,
Price: US\$131.50/Dfl. 250.00, ISBN
0-444-88029-1 (Elsevier Science
Publishers, Amsterdam)} . . . . . . . . 248
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleData exchange: by
Steven S. Ross; 411 pages; illustrated;
6'' $ \times $ 9''; paperback; \$24.95
(McGraw-Hill)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleUsing autoCAD
with autoLISP: by John D. Hood; 239
pages; illustrated; $ 6 ' \times 9 ' $;
spiral-bound paperback: \$29.95
(McGraw-Hill)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Tom Greene The depiction of linear association by
matroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--269
Chris C. Frangos and
William R. Schucany Jackknife estimation of the bootstrap
acceleration constant . . . . . . . . . 271--281
Rudolph S. Parrish Generating random deviates from
multivariate Pearson distributions . . . 283--295
James C. Spall and
Daniel C. Chin First-order data sensitivity measures
with applications to a multivariate
signal-plus-noise problem . . . . . . . 297--307
A. H. Welsh A note on the statistical properties of
the secant algorithm for calculating
rank estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--315
Anonymous Software for statistical and social
survey analysis 1989--1990 prepared for
the Study Group on Computers in Survey
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--340
Anonymous Call for papers on optimization
techniques in statistics . . . . . . . . 341
Anonymous Author index volume 9 (1990) . . . . . . 343--344
Anonymous Package report/review index volume 9
(1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Robert J. Boik A likelihood ratio test for three-mode
singular values: upper percentiles and
an application to three-way ANOVA . . . 1--9
Hamid Namini and
Subir Ghosh On robustness of $ 2^m \times 3^n $
fractional factorial resolution III
designs against the unavailability of
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16
Wai-Yin Poon and
Sik-Yum Lee and
Abdelmonem A. Afifi and
Peter M. Bentler Analysis of multivariate polytomous
variates in several groups via the
partition maximum likelihood approach 17--27
Fernando Tusell Testing for interaction in two-way ANOVA
tables with no replication . . . . . . . 29--45
S. W. Cheng and
F. A. Spiring Some applications of $3$-D scatterplots
in data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--61
S. W. Cheng and
F. A. Spiring Extension of the $ W_u $ statistic with
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69
V. P. Singh and
J. F. Cruise and
Ming Ma A comparative evaluation of the
estimators of the three-parameter
lognormal distribution by Monte Carlo
simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
Sangit Chatterjee and
Samprit Chatterjee A note on finding extreme points in
multivariate space . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92
Anonymous ``Experimental designs for mean and
variance estimation in variance
components models'': by Alessandra
Giovagnoli and Paola Sebastiani,
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
\bf 8, 21--28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous BMDP introduces new add-ons for Solo
statistics package . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
Stanley P. Azen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
Erkki P. Liski and
Tapio Nummi Prediction in growth curve models using
the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108
Mong-Na Lo Huang Optimal extrapolation designs for a
partly linear model . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
M. Ahsanullah Some characteristic properties of normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120
Bronis\law Ceranka and
Krystyna Katulska Constructions of optimum biased spring
balance weighing designs with the
diagonal covariance matrix of errors . . 121--131
Wolfgang Polasek Vector distributed lag models with
smoothness priors . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
L. Kannaiah Naidu An adjusted linear estimator . . . . . . 143--151
Colin R. Blyth Temporality in probability and
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162
G. B. Khosrovshahi On trades and designs . . . . . . . . . 163--167
Ramses Abul Naga and
Gérard Antille Stability of robust and non-robust
principal components analysis . . . . . 169--174
M. Bhaskara Rao and
K. Subramanyam The structure of some classes of
bivariate distributions and some
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--187
Javad Behboodian Some characterization theorems on
symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--192
S. E. Ahmed and
A. K. Md. E. Saleh Estimation strategies for the intercept
vector in a simple linear multivariate
normal regression model . . . . . . . . 193--206
Elvezio Ronchetti Small sample asymptotics: a review with
applications to robust statistics . . . 207--223
J. J. J. Roux and
A. Bekker Characterizing priors by posterior
expectations in multivariate analysis 225--233
Albert Satorra and
Peter M. Bentler Model conditions for asymptotic
robustness in the analysis of linear
relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249
Haruo Yanai Some generalized forms a least squares
$g$-inverse, minimum norm $g$-inverse,
and Moore--Penrose inverse matrices . . 251--260
Ram C. Tiwari and
Jyoti N. Zalkikar Empirical Bayes estimation of the scale
parameter in a Pareto distribution . . . 261--270
João Tiago Mexia Best linear unbiased estimates, duality
of $F$ tests and the Scheffé multiple
comparison method in the presence of
controlled heteroscedasticity . . . . . 271--281
Hans-Jürgen Witte Characterizations of distributions of
exponential or geometric type by the
integrated lack of memory property and
record values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--288
F.-W. Scholz Characterization of the Weibull
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--292
Alan E. Stark An algorithm for computing standard
errors from categorical data . . . . . . 293--296
H. Toutenburg and
G. Trenkler Mean square error matrix comparisons of
optimal and classical predictors and
estimators in linear regression . . . . 297--305
M. A. Amaral Turkman and
K. F. Turkman Optimal alarm systems for autoregressive
processes: a Bayesian approach . . . . . 307--314
Derrick S. Tracy Balanced partitioned matrices and their
Kronecker products . . . . . . . . . . . 315--323
Rainer Schwabe Local optimality and global superiority
of adaptive designs in linear models . . 325--330
Christina Schneider Structural inference and a modification
of Dempster's combination rule . . . . . 331--338
M. M. Shoukri and
D. S. Tracy and
I. U. H. Mian The effect of kurtosis in the estimation
of the parameters of the one-way random
effects model from familial data . . . . 339--345
Anonymous Author index volume 10 (1990) . . . . . 347--348
Anonymous Package report/review index volume 10
(1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
Stanley P. Azen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
M. C. Jones On correcting for variance inflation in
kernel density estimation . . . . . . . 3--15
William Rayens and
Tom Greene Covariance pooling and stabilization for
classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--42
J. K. Cunningham and
R. L. Eubank and
T. Hsing $M$-type smoothing splines with
auxiliary scale estimation . . . . . . . 43--51
Lawrence H. Moulton and
Scott L. Zeger Bootstrapping generalized linear models 53--63
John A. Bunge and
John C. Handley Sampling to estimate the number of
duplicates in a database . . . . . . . . 65--74
Michael R. Harwell Using randomization tests when errors
are unequally correlated . . . . . . . . 75--85
A. Shapiro and
J. D. Botha Variogram fitting with a general class
of conditionally nonnegative definite
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
S. A. Soliman and
G. S. Christensen and
A. H. Rouhi A new algorithm for nonlinear $ L_1
$-norm minimization with nonlinear
equality constraints . . . . . . . . . . 97--109
F. G. Boese Estimating and testing with the
Bhattacharya plot . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124
Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 125
Peter J. Rousseeuw A diagnostic plot for regression
outliers and leverage points . . . . . . 127--129
Anonymous News about statistical software & related
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 133--139
Anonymous Courses & workshops . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Anonymous Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
Mario Romanazzi Influence in canonical variates analysis 143--164
Ehsan S. Soofi and
D. V. Gokhale Minimum discrimination information
estimator of the mean with known
coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 165--177
Song-Gui Wang and
Hans Nyquist Effects on the eigenstructure of a data
matrix when deleting an observation . . 179--188
Robert Schall and
René Gonin Diagnostics for nonlinear $ L_p $-norm
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--198
George H. Guirguis A rational approximation of the inverse
normal probability function . . . . . . 199--201
J. A. Menéndez and
B. Salvador An algorithm for isotonic median
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Ulf Strömberg An algorithm for isotonic regression
with arbitrary convex distance function 205--219
Hanns Ackermann BIAS. A program package for biometrical
analysis of samples . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Armin Koch Software presentations at statistical
computing '90: Reisensburg, Germany,
June 16--19, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
Anonymous Statistical software: BMDP introduces
PC-90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDistribution-free
statistics: an application-oriented
approach: Krauth, J.: Elsevier Science
Publishers B.V., Amsterdam (1988), ISBN
0-444-80934-1 (hardback), 0-444-80988-0
(paper-back, \pounds 21.-) . . . . . . . 230
Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleRegression
estimators a comparative study: Gruber,
Marvin H. J.: Academic Press, Inc.,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers,
Boston (1990), ISBN 0-12-304752-8, 347
pp, \$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
G. Pabst Disfree (Manual and 2 diskettes, DOS 2.0
or later).: Krauth, J.: Blosoft,
Cambridge (1989), \pounds 250.- . . . . 230--231
Anonymous Society for the advancement of economic
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 232--238
Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 238
John Buonaccorsi Measurement errors, linear calibration
and inferences for means . . . . . . . . 239--257
R. W. Farebrother A general estimation procedure based on
group means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--264
Roger C. Pfaffenberger and
Terry E. Dielman Testing normality of regression
disturbances: a Monte Carlo study of the
Filleben test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--273
Gerhard Tutz Sequential models in categorical
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--295
Johan M. Van Zyl Distributional aspects if a zero
correlation is assumed in a paired
comparison of means . . . . . . . . . . 297--307
Hideo Hirose Percentile point estimation in the three
parameter Weibull distribution by the
extended maximum likelihood estimate . . 309--331
Giovanni B. Moneta Implicit construction of McCulloch's $G$
matrix for the numerical evaluation of
Fisher information matrixes . . . . . . 333--344
Rahul Mukerjee and
Sudhir Gupta Q-designs for bioassays . . . . . . . . 345--350
Anonymous News about statistical software & related
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
M. Bismarck Book Review: \booktitleMultiway data
analysis: Coppi, R., Bolasco, S. (eds.)
(1989): Amsterdam, New York, Oxford,
Tokyo: North-Holland. 552 pp. ISBN
0-444-87410-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357
Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
M. Bismarck Book Review: \booktitleMedical expert
systems using personal computers:
Chytil, M. K. Engelbrecht, R. (eds.)
(1987): Wilmslow: Sigma Press. 206 pp,
ISBN 1-85058-047-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 358--364
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
Yadolah Dodge Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII--VIII
Jerome P. Keating and
Robert L. Mason and
P. K. Sen and
C. Radhakrishna Rao Pitman nearness in statistical
estimation: a panel discussion on recent
developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Jagdish S. Rustagi and
Walfredo R. Javier and
Jose S. Victoria Trimmed jackknife kernel estimate for
the probability density function . . . . 19--26
Nan M. Laird and
Thomas A. Louis Smoothing the non-parametric estimate of
a prior distribution by roughening: a
computational study . . . . . . . . . . 27--37
Victor Kipnis Evaluating the impact of exploratory
procedures in regression prediction: a
pseudosample approach . . . . . . . . . 39--55
Antonio Ciampi Generalized regression trees . . . . . . 57--78
Gabriela Stangenhaus and
Subhash C. Narula Inference procedures for the $ L_1 $
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
Yadolah Dodge and
Jaromir Antoch and
Jana Jure\vcková Computational aspects of adaptive
combination of least squares and least
absolute deviations estimators . . . . . 87--99
Hilmar Drygas Linear minimax-estimation in linear
models with affine and ellipsoidal
restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--113
D. N. Shanbhag Extended versions of Deny's theorem via
de Finetti's theorem . . . . . . . . . . 115--126
Birgit Dohmann and
Michael Falk and
Karin Lessenich The random number generators of the
Turbo Pascal family . . . . . . . . . . 129--132
Anonymous News about statistical software & related
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 136--141
O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and
M. Sòrensen Information quantities in non-classical
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--158
Herman Chernoff Simple computer intensive methods for
estimating parameters of complex models 159--178
D. A. S. Fraser and
N. Reid Converting observed likelihood functions
to tail probabilities . . . . . . . . . 179--185
Erik W. Grafarend and
Burkhard Schaffrin The planar trisection problem and the
impact of curvature on non-linear
least-squares estimation . . . . . . . . 187--199
Laurie Davies A stochastic model for interlaboratory
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--209
Yadolah Dodge and
Jana Jure\vcková Flexible $L$-estimation in the linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--220
Jerzy K. Baksalary and
Götz Trenkler Covariance adjustment in biased
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--230
D. V. Chopra Further investigations on balanced
arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--237
Micha\l Abrahamowicz and
Antonio Ciampi Information theoretic criteria in
non-parametric density estimation: Bias
and variance in the infinite dimensional
case. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--247
Marvin Zelen Multinomial response models . . . . . . 249--254
Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 255
JohnA. Nelder Data matrices and multi-way tables . . . 257--259
Anonymous News about statistical software & related
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--262
Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--265
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 266--269
Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 270
Dipak K. Dey and
Lynn Kuo A new empirical Bayes estimator with
type II censored data . . . . . . . . . 271--279
Shu-Ing Liu A robust and easy confidence procedure
with moderately long-tailed symmetric
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294
Wei-Yin Loh Survival modeling through recursive
stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--313
W. Olbricht On mergers of distributions and
distributions with exponential tails . . 315--326
Charles Kooperberg and
Charles J. Stone A study of logspline density estimation 327--347
Cathie Spino and
Marcello Pagano Efficient calculation of the permutation
distribution of robust two-sample
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--365
Yadolah Dodge and
David J. Hand What should future statistical software
look like? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--372
Anonymous Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--378
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 379--383
Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 383--385
Anonymous Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Anonymous Author index volume 12 (1991) . . . . . 387--388
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Harold J. Larson Least squares estimation of linear
splines with unknown knot locations . . 1--8
David M. Rocke Estimation of variation after outlier
rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--20
Sheng G. Shi Accurate and efficient double-bootstrap
confidence limit method . . . . . . . . 21--32
Jeremy M. G. Taylor Properties of modelling the error
distribution with an extra shape
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46
M. Ferri and
M. Piccioni Optimal selection of statistical units:
an approach via simulated annealing . . 47--61
Harvey Goldstein and
Jon Rasbash Efficient computational procedures for
the estimation of parameters in
multilevel models based on iterative
generalised least squares . . . . . . . 63--71
A. Saltelli and
T. Homma Sensitivity analysis for model output:
Performance of black box techniques on
three international benchmark exercises 73--94
Karan P. Singh and
Karan P. Singh and
George E. Relyea Computation of noncentral Æ'
probabilities: a computer program . . . 95--102
Lutz Edler IASC meeting activities during the 48th
session of the ISI in Cairo . . . . . . 105--106
Anonymous News about statistical software & related
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Sung H. Park Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
methods in engineering and quality
assurance: John, Peter M. W. (1990):
Wiley-Interscience Publication, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. 313 pp., ISBN
0-471-82986-2, 39.80 \pounds . . . . . . 108
N. Victor Book Review: \booktitleTheory and
application in computational statistics:
Asano, Ch., Niki, N. and Okazaki, T.
(eds.): Scientist Inc., Tokyo (1991),
ISBN 4-914903-03-2, 290 pp, Yen 5000 (to
be sold only in Japan) . . . . . . . . . 108
G. Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleAngewandte
lineare algebra (applied linear
algebra): Huppert, B.: De Gruyter,
Berlin (1990), ISBN 3-11-012107-7, 646
pp, DM 198 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
H. Toutenburg Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
statistics with applications, 4th
edition: Mendenhall, W., Wackerly, D.
D., Schaeffer, R. L., PWS-KENT
Publishing Company, Boston (1990),752
pp,ISBN 0-534-92026-8 . . . . . . . . . 109
G. Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleRegression
analysis, theory, methods and
applications: Sen, A. and Srivastava, M.
Springer, Berlin (1990), 347 pp, ISBN
3-540-97211-0, DM 88 . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Anonymous IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 113--118
Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 118--119
F. Tussell Corrigendum: Testing for interaction in
two-way ANOVA tables with no replication 121
Anonymous Second international conference on
statistical data analysis based on the $
L_1 $-norm and related methods: August
17--20, 1992, Neuchâtel, Switzerland . . 122
N. Balakrishnan and
P. S. Chan Estimation for the scaled half logistic
distribution under Type II censoring . . 123--141
W. Feluch and
J. Koronacki A note on modified cross-validation in
density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151
Anthony J. Hayter Multiple comparisons of three ordered
normal means for unbalanced models . . . 153--162
Rand R. Wilcox An improved method for comparing
variances when distributions have
non-identical shapes . . . . . . . . . . 163--172
David Wypij and
Thomas J. Santner Pseudotable methods for the analysis of
$ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . . . . . . 173--190
A. Angelidou and
M. G. Strintzis and
S. Panas Correction of periodogram method for
Power Spectrum estimation . . . . . . . 191--195
Morgan Wang and
W. J. Kennedy A numerical method for accurately
approximating multivariate normal
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--210
Douglas P. Wiens A note on the computation of robust,
bounded influence estimates and test
statistics in regression . . . . . . . . 211--220
Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 221
Roel Popping More agreeable software? . . . . . . . . 223--227
Norbert Victor President's statement . . . . . . . . . 228--229
Anonymous News about statistical software & related
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Anonymous Information: National activities in the
area of statistical computing: Germany 231
Hilmar Drygas Book Review: \booktitleTheory of random
determinants: Girko, V. L. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Doordrecht / Boston
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Henri Caussinus and
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Marc Ivaldi Estimation of errors-in-latent-variable
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Christian Holzer and
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Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Bert C. van Zomeren A comparison of some quick algorithms
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Knut M. Wittkowski Statistical analysis of unbalanced and
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Byeong U. Park and
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Kyung H. Seog An empirical investigation of the
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James H. Albert Using a probability plot to summarize a
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Gilbert W. Bassett and
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Joseph Glaz Approximations for tail probabilities
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D. M. Smith A comparison of algorithms for forming
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Yuh-Wen Soo and
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Jacob Burbea and
Joan del Castillo Geodesic submanifolds of statistical
models with location parameters . . . . 301--313
Gilles Celeux and
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D. Collombier Generally optimal main-effect fractions
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Ashish Das and
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Holger Dette Experimental designs for a class of
weighted polynomial regression models 359--373
Terry E. Dielman and
Roger C. Pfaffenberger A further comparison of tests of
hypotheses in LAV regression . . . . . . 375--384
Yadolah Dodge and
Nikolai Roenko Stability of $ L_1 $-norm regression
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C. C. Y. Dorea and
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John A. Nelder Statistical packages and unbalanced data 403--406
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K. Felsenstein Optimal Bayesian design for
discrimination among rival models . . . 427--436
László Györfi and
Gábor Lugosi Kernel density estimation from ergodic
sample is not universally consistent . . 437--442
Alfredo N. Iusem and
Marc Teboulle A primal-dual iterative algorithm for a
maximum likelihood estimation problem 443--456
Michel Lejeune and
Pascal Sarda Smooth estimators of distribution and
density functions . . . . . . . . . . . 457--471
Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian and
Mohammad B. Rostam Abadi A computer algorithm for generating
$3$-designs by the method of trade off 473--476
Hiroshi Morita and
Hiroaki Ishii A stochastic improvement method for
stochastic programming . . . . . . . . . 477--487
Nam-Ky Nguyen and
Alan J. Miller A review of some exchange algorithms for
constructing discrete $D$-optimal
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Hans Nyquist Restricted $M$-estimation . . . . . . . 499--507
Dimitri A. Stolyarenko Two-dimensional spline approximation on
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Valentin Todorov Computing the minimum covariance
determinant estimator (MCD) by simulated
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H. Toutenburg and
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Heiner Ritter and
Cornella Züll Data exchange between statistical
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Brian P. Murphy COMPSTAT'92 review: `far sight' . . . . 545--546
Clemens Tilke Statistics for spatial data . . . . . . 547
Andreas Handl Nonlinear multivariate analysis . . . . 548
Matthias Nagel LISP-Stat: an object-oriented
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Leo Breiman Fitting additive models to regression
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Bernard Van Cutsem and
Isak Gath Detection of outliers and robust
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P. C. Saxena and
K. Navaneetham Comparison of Chernoff-type face and
non-graphical methods for clustering
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G. Mann and
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Michael Wiseman An efficient method for computing factor
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Mortaza Jamshidian and
Peter M. Bentler A modified Newton method for constrained
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Dennis K. J. Lin and
Norman R. Draper Generating alias relationships for
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Linda H.-Y. Yau and
Sik-Yum Lee and
Wai-Yin Poon Covariance structure analysis with
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Mario Romanazzi Jackknife estimation of the eigenvalues
of the covariance matrix . . . . . . . . 179--198
Vincent Granville and
Mirko K\vrivánek and
Jean-Paul Rasson Clustering, classification and image
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George Ostrouchov and
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models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296
V. Granville and
J. P. Rasson A Bayesian filter for a mixture model of
noise in image remote sensing . . . . . 297--308
Prem P. Talwar A simulation study of some
non-parametric regression estimators . . 309--327
Douglas Bates and
Fred Reames and
Grace Wahba Getting better contour plots with $S$
and GCVPACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--342
Suojin Wang and
H. L. Gray Approximating tail probabilities of
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Götz Uebe Book Review: \booktitleStatistics tutor,
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Anonymous IASC meetings in Neuchâtel, August 1992 359--360
Jorge Alberto Achcar Inferences for the Birnbaum--Saunders
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Edward J. Bedrick and
Chih-Ling Tsai Diagnostics for binomial response models
using power divergence statistics . . . 381--392
Jacques Bénasséni Perturbational aspects in correspondence
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--410
Robert J. Boik A comparison of three invariant tests of
additivity in two-way classifications
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D. Posa A simple description of spatial-temporal
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--437
Xin M. Tu and
Donald S. Burdick and
Robert E. Albright Regression analysis of data with
repeated measurements using the method
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David M. Rocke Almost-exact parametric bootstrap
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William P. Alexander Testing the means of independent normal
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Peter Hall and
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Léopold Simar On the inconsistency of bootstrap
distribution estimators . . . . . . . . 11--18
B. Kalantari and
I. Lari and
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B. Simeone Sharp bounds for the maximum of the
chi-square index in a class of
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TaChen Liang Convergence rates for empirical Bayes
estimation of the scale parameter in a
Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . 35--45
Mervyn G. Marasinghe and
Robert J. Boik A three-degree of freedom test of
additivity in three-way classifications 47--61
Gilberto A. Paula Assessing local influence in restricted
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
Douglas M. Hawkins The feasible set algorithm for least
median of squares regression . . . . . . 81--101
Henk A. L. Kiers An alternating least squares algorithm
for PARAFAC2 and three-way DEDICOM . . . 103--118
John D. Vedder An invertible approximation to the
normal distribution function . . . . . . 119--123
Olaf Gefeller and
Franz Woltering A general method of estimating measures
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Richard B. Davies Nonparametric control for residual
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James R. Schott Dimensionality reduction in quadratic
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Jenny Baglivo and
Donald Olivier and
Marcello Pagano Analysis of discrete data:
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D. Contini and
G. Lovison The effect of marginal disuniformity on
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Jos M. F. ten Berge and
Paul A. Bekker The isotropic scaling problem in
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Charles S. Davis The computer generation of multinomial
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Yasar Yesilcay The BOYS algorithm for determining
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Uwe Haag and
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Dan Bradu and
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Wing-Kam Fung and
J. Bacon-Shone Quasi-Bayesian modelling of multivariate
outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--278
Harry Joe Multivariate dependence measures and
data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--297
Santiago Velilla On eigenvalues, case deletion and
extremes in regression . . . . . . . . . 299--309
M. P. Wand and
Luc Devroye How easy is a given density to estimate? 311--323
Daniel C. Coster Tables of minimum cost, linear
trend-free run sequences for two- and
three-level fractional factorial designs 325--336
Augustine C. M. Wong Numerical conversion of likelihood to
significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--348
Chong-wei Xu and
Wei-Kei Shiue Parallel algorithms for least median of
squares regression . . . . . . . . . . . 349--362
Ralf Bender Using common statistical program
packages for the Friedman test when
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multiple comparison procedure is needed 365--369
Anonymous Mihalsin Associates & StatSci new range
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Anonymous ESRI & StatSci statistical software
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Anonymous Poly software international PSI-Plot
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Magne Aldrin and
Erik Bòlviken and
Tore Schweder Projection pursuit regression for
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Oliver D. Anderson Approximate moments to $ O(n^{-2}) $ for
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Jean-François Durand Generalized principal component analysis
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Sik-Yum Lee and
Wai-Tung Ho Analysis of multisample identified and
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Karsten Schmidt On the performance of minimax estimators
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Brian P. Murphy and
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Anonymous Author index of SSNinCSDA: volume 11
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Anonymous Author index volume 16 (1993) . . . . . 489--490
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
N. T. Longford Logistic regression with random
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Ruth M. Mickey and
Sarah J. Shema and
Pamela M. Vacek and
Dianne Y. Bell Analysis of multiple outcome variables
measured longitudinally . . . . . . . . 17--33
Michael R. Harwell and
Ronald C. Serlin A Monte Carlo study of the Friedman test
and some competitors in the single
factor, repeated measures design with
unequal covariances . . . . . . . . . . 35--49
Alberto Luceño Fast optimization of the exact
likelihood of AR and ARMA processes . . 51--63
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Joachim Wagner Robust regression with a distributed
intercept using least median of squares 65--76
Benzion Boukai Graphically based interval estimation
for the change-point . . . . . . . . . . 77--86
Robert K. Rayner The small-sample power of Durbin's $h$
test revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--94
W. Kössler and
B. Lenz and
H.-J. Lenz ExVar --- exact variable inspection
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in the case of the exponential
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Amy Fisher and
Paul S. Horn Robust prediction intervals in a
regression setting . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
Jutta Arrenberg Natural ranks in the conditional
Wilcoxon rank sum test . . . . . . . . . 141--152
Ricardo Cao and
Antonio Cuevas and
Wensceslao González Manteiga A comparative study of several smoothing
methods in density estimation . . . . . 153--176
Ove Frank and
John Örvik Entropy of sums of random digits . . . . 177--184
Douglas M. Hawkins The feasible solution algorithm for
least trimmed squares regression . . . . 185--196
Douglas M. Hawkins The feasible solution algorithm for the
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Armin Koch and
Uwe Haag The \booktitleStatistical Software Guide
'93/94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--238
Wenzel Matiaske Correspondence Analysis with P-STAT: the
Macro COR.ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Günther Pabst Book Review: \booktitleSoftstat' 91 ---
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Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, ISBN
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VCH Publishers, ISBN 1-56081-348-2 . . . 240
Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleUnivariate
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Johannes Haerting Book Review: \booktitleStatistische
Methoden, Planung und Auswertung. 7.
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Anonymous IASC News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--244
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Anonymous In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Mortaza Jamshidian and
Robert I. Jennrich Conjugate gradient methods in
confirmatory factor analysis . . . . . . 247--263
Wai-Yin Poon and
Sik-Yum Lee A distribution free approach for
analysis of two-level structural
equation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--275
Ayala Cohen and
Meir Rom A method for hypothesis tests in
polychotomous logistic regression . . . 277--288
Valentin Todorov and
Neyko Neykov and
Plamen Neytchev Robust two-group discrimination by
bounded influence regression. A Monte
Carlo simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--302
R. Dennis Cook and
Sanford Weisberg ARES plots for generalized linear models 303--315
Steven P. Ellis and
Maria McDermott Measuring the local dimension of point
clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--326
Robert W. Mee and
Debashis Kushary Prediction limits for the Weibull
distribution utilizing simulation . . . 327--336
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Joan F. Hilton and
Cyrus R. Mehta and
Nitin R. Patel An algorithm for conducting exact
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Emmanuel Lesaffre and
Geert Verbeke and
Geert Molenberghs A sensitivity analysis of two
multivariate response models . . . . . . 363--391
Ruth Marcus and
Abraham Genizi Simultaneous confidence intervals for
umbrella contrasts of normal means . . . 393--407
Stephen Olejnik and
Wei-Ming Luh Type $I$ error rates, power, and sample
sizes for two-stage solutions to the
Behrens--Fisher problem when population
distributions are non-normal . . . . . . 409--420
Jayachandran N. Variyam A common framework for estimating
multivariate autoregressive index models 421--432
Albert K. Tsui and
Mukhtar M. Ali Exact distributions, density functions
and moments of the last squares
estimator in a first-order
autoregressive model . . . . . . . . . . 433--454
Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 455
Michael G. Schimek and
Klaus G. Schmaranz Dependent error regression smoothing: a
new method and PC program . . . . . . . 457--464
Lutz Edler IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--470
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Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 471
Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 471--472
W. David Furman and
Bruce G. Lindsay Testing for the number of components in
a mixture of normal distributions using
moment estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 473--492
W. David Furman and
Bruce G. Lindsay Measuring the relative effectiveness of
moment estimators as starting values in
maximizing likelihoods . . . . . . . . . 493--507
Ken Sejling and
Henrik Madsen and
Jan Holst and
Ulla Holst and
Jan-Eric Englund Methods for recursive robust estimation
of AR parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--536
S. Ejaz Ahmed Improved estimation in a multivariate
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--554
A. Martín Andrés and
A. Silva Mato Choosing the optimal unconditioned test
for comparing two independent
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--574
Philippe Vieu Choice of regressors in nonparametric
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Anonymous News about statistical software and
related systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--599
Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
statistics --- computational statistics:
C. R. Rao, ed. (1993): Amsterdam,
London, New York, Tokyo: North Holland,
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Siegfried Schmerling Book Review: \booktitleComputer
intensive methods in statistics. Series
statistics and computing: W. Härdle and
L. Simar, eds. (1993): Heidelberg:
Physica-Verlag and New York: Springer
Verlag, viii + 176 p., 34 Fig., 16 Tab.,
ISBN 3-7908-0677-3 and 0-387-91443-9,
75,00 DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--603
Siegfried Schmerling Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
Fibonacci numbers --- volume 5: G. E.
Bergum, A. N. Philippou, A. F. Horadam,
eds. (1993): Dordrecht, Boston, London:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, xxxiv + 625
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Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 609--610
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Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Renato Coppi An introduction to multiway data and
their analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--13
Giuseppe Bove and
Agostino Di Ciaccio A user-oriented overview of multiway
methods and software . . . . . . . . . . 15--37
Richard A. Harshman and
Margaret E. Lundy PARAFAC: Parallel factor analysis . . . 39--72
Pieter M. Kroonenberg The TUCKALS line: a suite of programs
for three-way data analysis . . . . . . 73--96
Christine Lavit and
Yves Escoufier and
Robert Sabatier and
Pierre Traissac The ACT (STATIS method) . . . . . . . . 97--119
B. Escofier and
J. Pag\`es Multiple factor analysis (AFMULT
package) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--140
Eeke van der Burg and
Jan de Leeuw and
Garmt Dijksterhuis OVERALS: Nonlinear canonical correlation
with $k$ sets of variables . . . . . . . 141--163
Wayne S. DeSarbo and
Robert Libby and
Kamel Jedidi CATSCALE: a stochastic multidimensional
scaling methodology for the spatial
analysis of sorting data and the study
of stimulus categorization . . . . . . . 165--184
Annie Bouvier and
Sylvie Huet nls2: Non-linear regression by S-PLUS
--- functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190
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Stanley Azen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
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K. Balasubramanian and
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Barry C. Arnold Where's the lack of memory? . . . . . . 243--253
Maia Berkane and
Yutaka Kano and
Peter M. Bentler Pseudo maximum likelihood estimation in
elliptical theory: Effects of
misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--267
Günther Sawitzki Testing numerical reliability of data
analysis systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--286
Günther Sawitzki Report on the Numerical Reliability of
Data Analysis Systems . . . . . . . . . 289--301
Diethelm Würtz and
Myra Woolf Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
Clemens Tilke Book Review: \booktitleGeostatistics
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Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleAlternative
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Malte Bismark Book Review: \booktitleSoftware: Recht,
Band 1. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York:
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Anonymous IASC News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Pedro Delicado and
Manuel del Río Bootstrapping the general linear
hypothesis test . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--316
J. Koronacki and
U. Luboi\'nska Estimating the density of a functional
of several random variables . . . . . . 317--330
Henk A. L. Kiers and
Robert Cléroux and
Jos M. F. Ten Berge Generalized canonical analysis based on
optimizing matrix correlations and a
relation with IDIOSCAL . . . . . . . . . 331--340
Abraham Silvers and
Nira Herrmann and
Kathy Godfrey and
Bruce Roberts and
Dan Cerys A prototype statistical advisory system
for biomedical researchers I: Overview 341--355
Nira Herrmann and
Abraham Silvers and
Katherine Godfrey and
Bruce Roberts and
Daniel Cerys A prototype statistical advisory system
for biomedical researchers II:
Development of a statistical strategy 357--369
Anonymous Statistical software newsletter . . . . 371
Uwe Haag Knowledge-based systems in statistics:
critical review of a decade of research 373--375
Allmut Hörmann News about statistical software & related
systems: Software news editor . . . . . 376--378
Allmut Hörmann Information: Information editor . . . . 378--380
Lutz Edler IASC news: IASC news editor . . . . . . 380--382
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 383--387
Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 387--388
Shixian Qian The structure of isotonic regression
class for LAD problems with quasi-order
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--401
Joel K. Jolayemi Convolution of independent binomial
variables: an approximation method and a
comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 403--417
Karen Kafadar Choosing among two-dimensional smoothers
in practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--439
Weng Kee Wong Comparing robust properties of $A$, $D$,
$E$ and $G$-optimal designs . . . . . . 441--448
Cherng G. Ding On the computation of the noncentral
beta distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 449--455
Peter Verboon and
Willem J. Heiser Resistant lower rank approximation of
matrices by iterative majorization . . . 457--467
Toine de Wit Interuniversity expertise center
ProGAMMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--472
Jürgen Kübler Book Review: \booktitleParameter
estimation in reliability and life span
models: A. Clifford Cohen and Betty
Jones Whitten (1988): New York, Marcel
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Günther Pabst Book Review: \booktitleDeskriptive
statistik: P.v.d. Lippe (1993): 468 pp.
Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, ISBN
3-437-40268-4, Uni--Taschenbücher für
Wissenschaft No. 1632, ISBN
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Siegfried Schmerling Book Review: \booktitleNumerical methods
for stochastic processes: N. Bouleau and
D. Lépingle: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,
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Rudolf Dutter Report on COMPSTAT '94 in Vienna . . . . 475--479
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 480--483
Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 483--484
Paul A. Bekker Counting rules for identification in
linear structural models . . . . . . . . 485--498
N. I. Fischer and
E. Mammen and
J. S. Marron Testing for multimodality . . . . . . . 499--512
Wolfgang Kössler Restrictive adaptive tests for the
treatment of the two-sample scale
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--524
Debasis Kundu Estimating the parameters of
complex-valued exponential signals . . . 525--534
Kwok-Leung Tsui Avoiding unnecessary bias in robust
design analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--546
Pascale Tubert-Bitter and
Andrew Kramar and
Jean-Jacques Chalé and
Thierry Moreau Linear rank tests for comparing survival
in two groups with crossing hazards . . 547--559
A. D. Gordon Identifying genuine clusters in a
classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--581
Allmut Hö News about statistical software & related
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Lutz Edler IASC news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586--590
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 591--594
Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 594
Anonymous Author index of SSNinCSDA: volume 17 & 18
(1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Anonymous Book reviews of SSNinCSDA: volume 17 & 18
(1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Anonymous Software news of SSNinCSDA: volume 17 &
18 (1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Anonymous Author index volume 18 (1994) . . . . . 599--600
Stanley Azen Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . V--VI
Myung-Sang Moon and
Richard F. Gunst Polynomial measurement error modeling 1--21
Lon-Mu Liu and
Ki-Kan Chan and
Alan L. Montgomery and
Mervin E. Muller A system-independent graphical user
interface for statistical software . . . 23--44
Ziqiang Yang An algorithm for nonlinear $ L_1 $
curve-fitting based on the smooth
approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--52
Richard William Farebrother On hyperplanes of closest fit . . . . . 53--58
Jan \vCwik and
Jan Mielniczuk Nonparametric rank discrimination method 59--74
S. Huda and
I. H. Khan and
Rahul Mukerjee On optimal designs with restricted
circular string property . . . . . . . . 75--83
H. Mansouri and
G.-H. Chang A comparative study of some rank tests
for interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96
Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Tips & Tricks for using today's
statistical software systems efficiently 99--101
Dietrich Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of
small data sets: Hand, D. J., Daly, F.,
Lunn, A. D., McConway, K. J. & Ostrowski,
E. (1994): Chapman & Hall, London. xvi +
458 pages, including one diskette with
data files (MS-DOS), 40 British Pounds,
ISBN 0-412-39920-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Rolf Holle Book Review: \booktitleDesign of
experiments. A no-name approach:
Lorenzen, T. J. & Anderson, V. L. (1993):
Marcel Dekker, New York. 414 pages,
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Anonymous From the bookstore for your library . . 102
Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 103--110
Jaromír Antoch and
Petr Hájek and
Radim Jirou\vsek Tomá\vs Havránek . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
Jaromír Antoch and
Hakan Ekblom Recursive robust regression
computational aspects and comparison . . 115--128
P. Bo\vcek and
P. Lachout Linear programming approach to
LMS-estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--134
William A. Gale Cognition, computation, and formal
systems: Some of Tomás Havránek's
interests and disambiguating word senses 135--148
P. Hájek and
A. Sochorová and
J. Zvárová GUHA for personal computers . . . . . . 149--153
Sòren Hòjsgaard and
Bo Thiesson BIFROST --- Block recursive models
induced from relevant knowledge,
observations, and statistical techniques 155--175
Radim Jirou\vsek and
Stanislav P\vreu\vcil On the effective implementation of the
iterative proportional fitting procedure 177--189
Steffen L. Lauritzen The EM algorithm for graphical
association models with missing data . . 191--201
Alfredo Rizzi and
Maurizio Vichi Representation, synthesis, variability
and data preprocessing of a three-way
data set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--222
Nanny Wermuth and
D. R. Cox Derived variables calculated from
similar joint responses: some
characteristics and examples . . . . . . 223--234
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
Software Guide '94/95: edited by Armin
Koch and Uwe Haag . . . . . . . . . . . 237--261
Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
Anonymous Calendar: topical deadlines only . . . . 263--264
Ola Hössjer Exact computation of the least trimmed
squares estimate in simple linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--282
Zvi Drezner Multirelation --- a correlation among
more than two variables . . . . . . . . 283--292
M. Ebneshahrashoob and
Milton Sobel Dirichlet analysis for inverse
multinomial with both quota and
quota-free cells . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--307
Gemai Chen Generalized log-normal distributions
with reliability application . . . . . . 309--319
Wing K. Fung A cautionary note on the use of
generalized Cook-type measures . . . . . 321--326
D. M. Smith Iterative refinement of parameter
estimates and residuals from a
regression model fitted using QR
decomposition methods . . . . . . . . . 327--349
Ernst Schuster Preference of equivalence tests with
standardized mean difference
demonstrated by an application . . . . . 353--356
Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Anonymous Tips & Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Götz Uebe Book Review: \booktitleComputational
techniques for Econometrics and Economic
Analysis: D. A. Belsley (ed.) (1994)
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Dietrich Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleÖkonometrie: Hans
Schneeweiß (1990) (4th ed.), Heidelberg:
Physica-Verlag. ISBN 3-7908-0486-X, pp.
392, -DM45.- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Volker Weiberger Book Review: \booktitleUNIX: Einstieg für
DOS-Anwender: Taudes, Alfred, Reepmeyer,
Jan-Armin, & Bensberg, Frank (1993)
Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag. ISBN
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Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--364
Anonymous Urgent: Questionnaire for IASC members 365
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Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 367--368
E. J. Kontoghiorghes and
M. R. B. Clarke An alternative approach for the
numerical solution of seemingly
unrelated regression equations models 369--377
Haruo Onishi A user-knowledge-based variable
selection method for limited information
maximum likelihood using principal
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--399
S. S. Kim and
S. H. Park Dynamic plots for displaying the roles
of variables and observations in
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--418
W. J. Krzanowski Selection of variables, and assessment
of their performance, in mixed-variable
discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 419--431
Berlin Wu Model-free forecasting for nonlinear
time series (with application to
exchange rates) . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--459
Peter Zörnig and
Gabriel Altmann Unified representation of Zipf
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--473
Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Anonymous Tips & Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478
H.-J. Lenz Book Review: \booktitleStatistical and
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Michalewicz (ed.) (1991): New York,
London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo,
Singapore: Ellis Horwood. 544 pages,
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H.-J. Lenz Book Review: \booktitlePanel data
analysis: Baldev Raj and Badi H. Baltagi
(eds.) (1992): Heidelberg:
Physica-Verlag. ISBN 3-7908-0593-9, 220
pages, DM 128.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--483
Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
distributions: M. Evans, N. Hastings & B.
Peacock (1993): (2nd Edition). New: John
Wiley. 170 pages, ISBN 0-471-55951-2,
\pounds 24.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484
Anonymous From the bookstore for your library . . 484
Anonymous IASC-News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
Anonymous Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 485--490
Anonymous Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 490--492
Karl Anton Froeschl A formal model evaluation approach to
the analysis of treatment effects in
paired sample data . . . . . . . . . . . 493--517
Douglas M. Hawkins Convergence of the feasible solution
algorithm for least median of squares
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--538
J. L. du Plessis and
A. J. van der Merwe A Bayesian approach to multivariate and
conditional calibration . . . . . . . . 539--552
S. K. Panda and
A. Nagabhushanam Fuzzy data distortion . . . . . . . . . 553--562
Haim Shore Fitting a distribution by the first two
moments (partial and complete) . . . . . 563--577
A. Martín Andrés and
I. Herranz Tejedor Is Fisher's exact test very
conservative? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--591
Andreas Krause Electronic services in statistics . . . 595--604
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Esteban Vegas Variance reduction for Bernoulli
response variables in simulation . . . . 631--640
W. Härdle and
B. U. Park Testing increasing dispersion . . . . . 641--653
Paul Jordan Estimation of tolerance limits from
reference data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--668
Louis Ferré Selection of components in principal
component analysis: a comparison of
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--682
Philip Hans Franses The effects of seasonally adjusting a
periodic autoregressive process . . . . 683--704
Hermann Kulmann Notes on the computation of the exact
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J. S. Marron Fast and simple scatterplot smoothing 1--17
Ya'acov Ritov PM algorithms for calculating minimum $
\chi^2 $ estimators with partially
observed sub-tables . . . . . . . . . . 19--33
W. Liu Fixed-width simultaneous confidence
intervals for all-pairwise comparisons 35--44
A. L. Bello Imputation techniques in regression
analysis: Looking closely at their
implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
Borko D. Jovanovic and
David W. Hosmer and
John P. Buonaccorsi Equivalence of several methods for
efficient best subsets selection in
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 59--64
Suojin Wang One-step saddlepoint approximations for
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
M. Zaki and
F. El Tohamy and
A. Hassan Landsat image interpretation . . . . . . 75--97
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Lloyd J. Edwards and
Scott A. Hamilton Errors-in-variables and the Box--Cox
transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--140
Jörg Polzehl Projection pursuit discriminant analysis 141--157
Danny Dyer and
Rebecca L. Pierce Bayesian HPM intervals for the number of
nonconforming items in a lot . . . . . . 159--172
Xingye Lei and
Y. B. Peng and
F. T. Wright Testing homogeneity of normal means with
a simply ordered alternative and
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Gunar Schröer and
Dietrich Trenkler Exact and randomization distributions of
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samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--202
V. Granville and
J. P. Rasson Bayesian filtering and supervised
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Josef Tvrdík The controlled random search algorithm
in optimizing regression models . . . . 229--234
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Ilia Pinsker Conditional $p$-values for the
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Stephen Black and
H. Mansouri On exact distributions of rank tests for
ordered alternatives in block designs 265--274
Lee Sik-Yum and
Poon Wai-Yin Estimation of factor scores in a
two-level confirmatory factor analysis
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--284
V. K. Madan and
R. K. Sinha Digital smoothing of census data
employing Fourier transforms . . . . . . 285--294
Peter Winker Identification of multivariate AR-models
by threshold accepting . . . . . . . . . 295--307
Samuel D. Oman Checking the assumptions in mixed-model
analysis of variance: a residual
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Jeffrey Jarrett Review of a quality control and
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Hideo Hirose Maximum likelihood parameter estimation
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Dan Bradu and
Douglas M. Hawkins An Anscombe type robust regression
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--386
A. Saltelli and
T. H. Andres and
T. Homma Sensitivity analysis of model output.
Performance of the iterated fractional
factorial design method . . . . . . . . 387--407
Friedrich Schmid and
Mark Trede A distribution free test for the two
sample problem for general alternatives 409--419
Enrique Castillo and
Ali S. Hadi A method for estimating parameters and
quantiles of distributions of continuous
random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--439
Dieter Rasch The robustness against parameter
variation of exact locally optimum
designs in nonlinear regression --- a
case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--453
Arndt von Haeseler and
Michael Schöniger Modelling evolution of autocorrelated
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Emilio Carrizosa and
Frank Plastria The determination of a ``least quantile
of squares regression line'' for all
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R. Chattamvelli On the doubly noncentral $F$
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--489
Paul J. Elson Use of the Fast Fourier Transform
algorithm in the calculation of the
operating characteristics of group
sequential clinical trials . . . . . . . 491--498
Thomas Lumley Efficient execution of Stone's
likelihood ratio tests for disease
clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--510
Alberto Luceño A family of partially correlated Poisson
models for overdispersion . . . . . . . 511--520
W. Gonzalez Manteiga and
J. M. Vilar Fernandez Testing linear regression models using
non-parametric regression estimators
when errors are non-independent . . . . 521--541
L. De Cesare and
D. Posa A simulation technique of a non-Gaussian
spatial process . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--555
Wing K. Fung Detecting influential observations for
estimated probabilities in multiple
discriminant analysis . . . . . . . . . 557--568
Michael A. Hauser and
Erhard Reschenhofer Estimation of the fractionally
differencing parameter with the $ R / S
$ method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--579
Ekkehard Krause and
Christoph Bandt and
Anne Schulz and
Holger Schulz Fractal exponents for the upper airways
of mammalian lungs . . . . . . . . . . . 583--590
Gerhard Held Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--592
Rainer. Schlittgen Book Review: \booktitleSurvival
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Plamen Nikolov Neytchev SWEEP operator for least-squares subject
to linear constraints . . . . . . . . . 599--609
Ricardo Cao and
Antonio Cuevas and
Ricardo Fraiman Minimum distance density-based
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--631
Joel K. Jolayemi A power function model for determining
sample sizes for the operations of
multivariate control charts . . . . . . 633--641
Frédérique Kazi-Aoual and
Simon Hitier and
Robert Sabatier and
Jean-Dominique Lebreton Refined approximations to permutation
tests for multivariate inference . . . . 643--656
Jukka Öfversten Estimation in mixed models via layer
triangular transformation . . . . . . . 657--667
Christian Posse Projection pursuit exploratory data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--687
P. C. Wang and
M. H. Chen and
S. C. Wei To analyze binary data from mixed-level
orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . . . 689--695
Leo Knüsel On the accuracy of the statistical
distributions in GAUSS . . . . . . . . . 699--702
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Anna Clara Monti A new preliminary estimator for MA(1)
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A. D. Gordon A survey of constrained classification 17--29
Ja-Yong Koo Bivariate B-splines for tensor logspline
density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
Moira A. Mugglestone and
Eric Renshaw A practical guide to the spectral
analysis of spatial point processes . . 43--65
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Mia Hubert Regression-free and robust estimation of
scale for bivariate data . . . . . . . . 67--85
Trygve Almòy A simulation study on comparison of
prediction methods when only a few
components are relevant . . . . . . . . 87--107
Thomas Scheuchenpflug and
Maria Blettner Coding Confusion using PROC LOGISTIC in
SAS$^\reg $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--115
Anonymous Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
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Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced Linear
Models: Song-Gui Wang & Shein-Chung Chow:
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univariate distributions: N. L. Johnson,
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Wim P. Krijnen Algorithms for unweighted least-squares
factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--147
Anne Ruiz-Gazen A very simple robust estimator of a
dispersion matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 149--162
Alexander Steinwolf Approximation and simulation of
probability distributions with a
variable kurtosis value . . . . . . . . 163--180
Joo Sung Jung and
Bong Jin Yum Construction of exact $D$-optimal
designs by tabu search . . . . . . . . . 181--191
Robert Kalaba and
Leigh Tesfatsion A multicriteria approach to model
specification and estimation . . . . . . 193--214
W. Liu On some single-stage, step-down and
step-up procedures for comparing three
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Robert A. Wijsman New algorithms for the function $ T(h,
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Holger Dette and
Stefan Sperlich Some applications of Stieltjes
transforms in the construction of
optimal designs for nonlinear regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--292
Danuta Kachlicka and
Stanislaw Mejza Repeated row-column designs with split
units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305
Berthold Lausen and
Martin Schumacher Evaluating the effect of optimized
cutoff values in the assessment of
prognostic factors . . . . . . . . . . . 307--326
Biao Zhang Confidence intervals for a distribution
function in the presence of auxiliary
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--342
M. J. Brewer and
C. G. G. Aitken and
M. Talbot A comparison of hybrid strategies for
Gibbs sampling in mixed graphical models 343--365
Jean Thioulouse and
François Chevenet NetMul, a World-Wide Web user interface
for multivariate analysis software . . . 369--372
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Hongshik Ahn Log-normal regression modeling through
recursive partitioning . . . . . . . . . 381--398
Lin-An Chen Bivariate regression splines . . . . . . 399--418
Karim F. Hirji and
Timothy D. Johnson A comparison of algorithms for exact
analysis of unordered $ 2 \times K $
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
Tobias Rydén An EM algorithm for estimation in
Markov-modulated Poisson processes . . . 431--447
Christopher Cox Nonlinear quasi-likelihood models:
applications to continuous proportions 449--461
Terry E. Dielman and
Elizabeth L. Rose A note on hypothesis testing in LAV
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T. P. Hutchinson On the generalised Friedman test . . . . 473--476
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Ibrahim Akman and
Jan G. De Gooijer Component extraction analysis of
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Magne Aldrin Moderate projection pursuit regression
for multivariate response data . . . . . 501--531
Alicja Ciok An estimator of Gini Separation Index
which is nearly median-unbiased . . . . 533--546
J. M. Fernández-Ponce and
R. Infante-Macías and
J. Muñoz-Pérez Characterization of lifetime
distributions based on a quantile
dispersion measure . . . . . . . . . . . 547--561
Alejandro Quintela del Río Comparison of bandwidth selectors in
nonparametric regression under
dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--580
Rien van der Leeden and
Karen Vrijburg and
Jan de Leeuw A review of two different approaches for
the analysis of growth data using
longitudinal mixed linear models:
Comparing hierarchical linear regression
(ML3, HLM) and repeated measures designs
with structured covariance matrices
(BMDP5V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--605
Clemens Tilke Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of
statistical analyses using S-Plus: Brian
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for researchers and social scientists:
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Randy Banks Meetings: Association for Survey
Computing: Second International
Conference On Survey and Statistical
Computing London, UK, September 11--13,
1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--608
Iris Burger Workshop on statistical modelling of
discrete data and structures: Munich,
Germany, October 24--26, 1996 . . . . . 608
A. Martín Andrés and
A. Silva Mato Optimal correction for continuity and
conditions for validity in the
unconditional chi-squared test . . . . . 609--626
Chi-Ying Leung Error rates for classifying observations
based on binary and continuous variables
with covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--645
Anders Rosenqvist Asymptotic theory for a two-step
pseudo-linear Doppler-bearing tracker 647--660
Martin Schumacher and
Reinhard Roßner and
Werner Vach Neural networks and logistic regression:
Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--682
Werner Vach and
Reinhard Roßner and
Martin Schumacher Neural networks and logistic regression:
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Christoph Berding and
Wilhelm Kleider and
Rüdiger Gössl DoPE: $D$-optimal planning &
experimentation the tool for
experimental design in research and
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--710
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Estonia, June 2--8, 1996 . . . . . . . . 711
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Barcelona, summer 1996 . . . . . . . . . 711--712
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W. González-Manteiga and
C. Sánchez-Sellero and
M. P. Wand Accuracy of binned kernel functional
approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
A. J. Hayter and
W. Liu Exact calculations for the one-sided
Studentized range test for testing
against a simple ordered alternative . . 17--25
Vincent Granville Discriminant analysis and density
estimation on the finite $d$-dimensional
grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--51
Todd Ogden and
Emanuel Parzen Data dependent wavelet thresholding in
nonparametric regression with
change-point applications . . . . . . . 53--70
Jian-Xin Pan and
Kai-Tai Fang Influential observation in the growth
curve model with unstructured covariance
matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--87
Rand R. Wilcox Confidence intervals for the slope of a
regression line when the error term has
nonconstant variance . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
T. Ng Pin An algorithm for quantile smoothing
splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--118
Bradley M. Bell and
James V. Burke and
Alan Schumitzky A relative weighting method for
estimating parameters and variances in
multiple data sets . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135
H. L. Gray and
J. Baek and
W. A. Woodward and
J. Miller and
M. Fisk A bootstrap generalized likelihood ratio
test in discriminant analysis . . . . . 137--158
Hsin-Cheng Huang and
Noel Cressie Spatio-temporal prediction of snow water
equivalent using the Kalman filter . . . 159--175
Yi-Hwei Li and
John P. Klein and
M. L. Moeschberger Effects of model misspecification in
estimating covariate effects in survival
analysis for small sample sizes . . . . 177--192
Uwe Beyer and
Frank \vSmieja Data exploration with reflective
adaptive models . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--211
Salim U. Rehman and
A. Shapiro An integral transform approach to
cross-variograms modeling . . . . . . . 213--233
Yuh-Ing Chen and
Sheng-Shu Cheng and
Hong-Long Wang Rank-based comparisons of treatments
with a control for repeated measures
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249
Jennifer Hoeting and
Adrian E. Raftery and
David Madigan A method for simultaneous variable
selection and outlier identification in
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 251--270
Koon-Shing Kwong and
Boris Iglewicz On singular multivariate normal
distribution and its applications . . . 271--285
Tjen-Sien Lim and
Wei-Yin Loh A comparison of tests of equality of
variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--301
Wai-Yin Poon and
Hin-Yan Hung Analysis of square tables with ordered
categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--322
Oliver Kuss and
Armin Koch Meta-analysis macros for SAS . . . . . . 325--333
Walter Krämer Book Review: \booktitleSignal processing
with alpha-stable distributions and
applications: C. L. Nikias and Min Shoa
(1995): Wiley, ISBN 0-471-10647-X,
\pounds 50.00, pp. 168 . . . . . . . . . 334
Götz Trenkler Book Review: \booktitleMethods of
multivariate analysis. Wiley series in
probability and mathematical statistics:
Probability and mathematical statistics
section: Alvin C. Rencher (1995): ISBN
0-471-57152-0, \pounds 58.00, xvi + 627
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
Walter Krämer Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to computational statistics ---
Regression analysis: Robert I. Jennrich
(1995): Prentice Hall, ISBN
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Cherng G. Ding On the computation of the distribution
of the square of the sample multiple
correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 345--350
Felix Abramovich and
Yoav Benjamini Adaptive thresholding of wavelet
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--361
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and
Sana S. BuHamra Rank tests for two change points . . . . 363--372
Shanti S. Gupta and
Tommaso Gastaldi Life testing for multi-component systems
with incomplete information on the cause
of failure: a study on some inspection
strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--393
AndréI. Khuri and
Hyuk Joo Kim and
Yonghwan Um Quantile plots of the prediction
variance for response surface designs 395--407
Dejian Lai Comparison study of AR models of the
Canadian lynx data: a close look at BDS
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--423
Nathaniel Schenker and
Jeremy M. G. Taylor Partially parametric techniques for
multiple imputation . . . . . . . . . . 425--446
Wolfgang Reh and
Bernard Scheffler Significance tests and confidence
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Carlo Lauro Computational statistics or statistical
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Michael Schemper and
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Mark S. Kaiser Maximum likelihood estimation of link
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Michael LeBlanc Restricted polynomial regression . . . . 153--167
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Hartmut Hecker and
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Cathy W. S. Chen Detection of additive outliers in
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Erhard Reschenhofer Generalization of the
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Gilberto A. Paula and
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Keming Yu and
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W. Schaafsma A semi-Bayesian method for nonparametric
density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
Jia-Juan Liang and
Peter M. Bentler A $t$-distribution plot to detect
non-multinormality . . . . . . . . . . . 31--44
J. Timmer and
M. Lauk and
W. Vach and
C. H. Lücking A test for a difference between spectral
peak frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55
Kelvin K. W. Yau and
C. A. McGilchrist Power family of transformation for Cox's
regression with random effects . . . . . 57--66
Peter Hall and
Berwin A. Turlach Reducing bias in curve estimation by use
of weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--86
Francesco Lisi and
Rosa A. Schiavo A comparison between neural networks and
chaotic models for exchange rate
prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--102
J. Beirlant and
D. M. Mason and
C. Vynckier Goodness-of-fit analysis for
multivariate normality based on
generalized quantiles . . . . . . . . . 119--142
Mark Farmen and
J. S. Marron An assessment of finite sample
performance of adaptive methods in
density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 143--168
Honghu Liu and
Robert E. Weiss and
Robert I. Jennrich and
Neil S. Wenger PRESS model selection in repeated
measures data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--184
Wei Pan and
Thomas A. Louis Two semi-parametric empirical Bayes
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--196
Carlos Daniel M. Paulino and
Giovani Loiola Silva On the maximum-likelihood analysis of
the general linear model in categorical
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204
Jiazhong You A Monte Carlo comparison of several high
breakdown and efficient estimators . . . 205--219
Han Son Seo A dynamic plot for the specification of
curvature in linear regression . . . . . 221--228
Cécile Contal and
John O'Quigley An application of changepoint methods in
studying the effect of age on survival
in breast cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--270
C. N. Hernández-Flores and
J. Artiles-Romero and
P. Saavedra-Santana Estimation of the population spectrum
with replicated time series . . . . . . 271--280
Tomoyuki Higuchi Applications of quasi-periodic
oscillation models to seasonal small
count time series . . . . . . . . . . . 281--301
Ethan Reiner and
Xavier Paoletti and
John O'Quigley Operating characteristics of the
standard phase $I$ clinical trial design 303--315
Victoria C. P. Chen Application of orthogonal arrays and
MARS to inventory forecasting stochastic
dynamic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--341
Ab Mooijaart and
Peter G. M. van der Heijden and
L. Andries van der Ark A least squares algorithm for a mixture
model for compositional data . . . . . . 359--379
Greet Pison and
Anja Struyf and
Peter J. Rousseeuw Displaying a clustering with CLUSPLOT 381--392
A. J. Hayter and
W. Liu A new test against an umbrella
alternative and the associated
simultaneous confidence intervals . . . 393--401
Markus Neuhäuser and
Ludwig A. Hothorn An exact Cochran--Armitage test for
trend when dose--response shapes are a
priori unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--412
Gilberto A. Paula One-sided tests in generalized linear
dose--response models . . . . . . . . . 413--427
Wen Hsiang Wei and
Wing Kam Fung The mean-shift outlier model in general
weighted regression and its applications 429--441
Giuseppe Arbia and
Roberto Benedetti and
Giuseppe Espa Contextual classification in image
analysis: an assessment of accuracy of
ICM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--455
T. Oke and
J. Lyhagen Small-sample properties of some tests
for unit root with data-based choice of
the degree of augmentation . . . . . . . 457--469
Anonymous $ G^\star $ Power a general power
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Anonymous ESBPDF analysis v1.3, probability
analysis package for Win32 . . . . . . . 473--474
Anonymous Reference data sets for improving the
accuracy of statistical software . . . . 474
Anonymous SMART --- Explorapedia of Statistical
and Mathematical Techniques for use in
research and technology . . . . . . . . 474--475
Anonymous New Zealand Statistical Association
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Anonymous New Internet discussion list ---
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Anonymous Recursive-partitioning.com mailing list 476
Anonymous Section IV: New resampling book, Missing
data listserv . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
Anonymous New book on multivariate permutation
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--477
Anonymous Computational intelligence website . . . 477
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Anonymous Author index volume 30 (1999) . . . . . 491--492
Dan Coleman and
Xioapeng Dong and
Johanna Hardin and
David M. Rocke and
David L. Woodruff Some computational issues in cluster
analysis with no a priori metric . . . . 1--11
Chris Fraley On computing the largest fraction of
missing information for the EM algorithm
and the worst linear function for data
augmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--26
B. D. McCullough and
Berry Wilson On the accuracy of statistical
procedures in Microsoft Excel 97 . . . . 27--37
Friedrich Gebhardt Cluster tests for geographical areas
with binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--58
Joseph B. Lang Bayesian ordinal and binary regression
models with a parametric family of
mixture links . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--87
Shili Lin Monte Carlo Bayesian methods for
quantitative traits . . . . . . . . . . 89--108
Song Xi Chen Beta kernel estimators for density
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--145
John R. Gleason An accurate, non-iterative approximation
for Studentized range quantiles . . . . 147--158
Karim F. Hirji and
Timothy D. Johnson Exact inference on stratified two-stage
Markov chain models . . . . . . . . . . 159--186
Daesu Park and
Thomas R. Willemain The threshold bootstrap and threshold
jackknife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--202
Tor Jacobson and
Rolf Larsson Bartlett corrections in cointegration
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--225
Hojin Moon and
Hongshik Ahn and
Ralph L. Kodell and
Bruce A. Pearce A comparison of a mixture likelihood
method and the EM algorithm for an
estimation problem in animal
carcinogenicity studies . . . . . . . . 227--238
Claus A. Andersson and
Rene Henrion A general algorithm for obtaining simple
structure of core arrays in $N$-way PCA
with application to fluorometric data 255--278
M. J. del Moral and
M. J. Valderrama An entropic approach to dimensionality
reduction on discrete processes . . . . 279--293
Peter Bühlmann and
Hans R. Künsch Block length selection in the bootstrap
for time series . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--310
Martín Andrés and
Tapia García Optimal unconditional test in $ 2 \times
2 $ multinomial trials . . . . . . . . . 311--321
S. G. Meintanis and
G. S. Donatos Finite-sample performance of alternative
estimators for autoregressive models in
the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . 323--339
Lei Shi and
Xueren Wang Local influence in ridge regression . . 341--353
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375
Markus Hegland and
Ian McIntosh and
Berwin A. Turlach A parallel solver for generalised
additive models . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--396
Janis Hardwick and
Robert Oehmke and
Quentin F. Stout A program for sequential allocation of
three Bernoulli populations . . . . . . 397--416
H. Jones and
G. Mitra and
D. Parkinson and
T. Spinks A parallel implementation of the maximum
likelihood method in positron emission
tomography image reconstruction . . . . 417--439
K. Murphy and
M. Clint and
R. H. Perrott Re-engineering statistical software for
efficient parallel execution . . . . . . 441--456
J. M. Bull and
G. D. Riley and
J. Rasbash and
H. Goldstein Parallel implementation of a multilevel
modelling package . . . . . . . . . . . 457--474
A. Christofides and
B. Tanyi and
S. Christofides and
D. Whobrey and
N. Christofides The optimal discretization of
probability density functions . . . . . 475--486
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--516
Georges A. Darbellay An estimator of the mutual information
based on a criterion for conditional
independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Alan J. Watkins An algorithm for maximum likelihood
estimation in the three parameter Burr
XII distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27
Cathy W. S. Chen and
Shen-Ming Lee and
Ying-Hen Hsieh and
Kumnuan Ungchusak A unified approach to estimating
population size for a births only model 29--46
Hye-Seung Lee and
Jae Won Lee Statistical methods in criminal
inference using DNA fingerprints . . . . 47--67
Jae Won Lee and
David L. DeMets Estimation following group sequential
tests with repeated measurements data 69--77
A. Marazzi and
C. Ruffieux The truncated mean of an asymmetric
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--100
Douglas M. Hawkins and
David Olive Applications and algorithms for least
trimmed sum of absolute deviations
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--134
James R. Schott A test for proportional covariance
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146
Juan Esteban Ramírez Cid and
Jorge Alberto Achcar Bayesian inference for nonhomogeneous
Poisson processes in software
reliability models assuming nonmonotonic
intensity functions . . . . . . . . . . 147--159
J. J. Daudin and
A. Bar-Hen Selection in discriminant analysis with
continuous and discrete variables . . . 161--175
Alberto Luceño Average run lengths and run length
probability distributions for cuscore
charts to control normal mean . . . . . 177--195
Yutaka Tanaka and
Fanghong Zhang $R$-mode and $Q$-mode influence analyses
in statistical modelling: relationship
between influence function approach and
local influence approach . . . . . . . . 197--218
C. Fraley Comments on: D. Coleman, X. Dong, J.
Hardin, D. M. Rocke, D. L. Woodruff,
``Some computational issues in cluster
analysis with no a priori metric'',
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
\bf 31:1--12 (July 1999) . . . . . . . . 131--133
David M. Rocke and
David L. Woodruff Author's Response: Comments on ``Some
computational issues in cluster analysis
with no a priori metric'' . . . . . . . 135--136
John R. Gleason A note on a proposed Student $t$
approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--66