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Volume 1, Number 1, June, 1964
Volume 1, Number 2, December, 1964
Volume 2, Number 1, June, 1965
Volume 2, Number 2, December, 1965
Volume 3, Number 1, June, 1966
Volume 3, Number 2, December, 1966
Volume 4, Number 1, April, 1967
Volume 4, Number 2, August, 1967
Volume 4, Number 3, December, 1967
Volume 5, Number 1, April, 1968
Volume 5, Number 2, August, 1968
Volume 5, Number 3, December, 1968
Volume 6, Number 1, April, 1969
Volume 6, Number 2, August, 1969
Volume 6, Number 3, December, 1969
Volume 7, Number 1, April, 1970
Volume 7, Number 2, August, 1970
Volume 7, Number 3, December, 1970
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1971
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 1971
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 1971
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 1971
Volume 9, Number 1, March, 1972
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 1972
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 1972
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 1972
Volume 10, Number 1, March, 1973
Volume 10, Number 2, June, 1973
Volume 10, Number 3, September, 1973
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 1973
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 1974
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 1974
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 1974
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1974
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 1975
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 1975
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1975
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 1975
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 1976
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 1976
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 1976
Volume 13, Number 4, December, 1976
Volume 14, Number 1, March, 1977
Volume 14, Number 2, June, 1977
Volume 14, Number 3, September, 1977
Volume 14, Number 4, December, 1977
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 1978
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1978
Volume 15, Number 3, September, 1978
Volume 15, Number 4, December, 1978
Volume 16, Number 1, March, 1979
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 1979
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1979
Volume 16, Number 4, December, 1979
Volume 17, Number 1, March, 1980
Volume 17, Number 2, June, 1980
Volume 17, Number 3, September, 1980
Volume 17, Number 4, December, 1980
Volume 18, Number 1, March, 1981
Volume 18, Number 2, June, 1981
Volume 18, Number 3, September, 1981
Volume 18, Number 4, December, 1981
Volume 19, Number 1, March, 1982
Volume 19, Number 2, June, 1982
Volume 19, Number 3, September, 1982
Volume 19, Number 4, December, 1982
Volume 19A, 1982
Volume 20, Number 1, March, 1983
Volume 20, Number 2, June, 1983
Volume 20, Number 3, September, 1983
Volume 20, Number 4, December, 1983
Volume 21, Number 1, March, 1984
Volume 21, Number 2, June, 1984
Volume 21, Number 3, September, 1984
Volume 21, Number 4, December, 1984
Volume 22, Number 1, March, 1985
Volume 22, Number 2, June, 1985
Volume 22, Number 3, September, 1985
Volume 22, Number 4, December, 1985
Volume 23, Number 1, March, 1986
Volume 23, Number 2, June, 1986
Volume 23, Number 3, September, 1986
Volume 23, Number 4, December, 1986
Volume 23A, 1986
Volume 24, Number 1, March, 1987
Volume 24, Number 2, June, 1987
Volume 24, Number 3, September, 1987
Volume 24, Number 4, December, 1987
Volume 25, Number 1, March, 1988
Volume 25, Number 2, June, 1988
Volume 25, Number 3, September, 1988
Volume 25, Number 4, December, 1988
Volume 25A, 1988
Volume 26, Number 1, March, 1989
Volume 26, Number 2, June, 1989
Volume 26, Number 3, September, 1989
Volume 26, Number 4, December, 1989
Volume 27, Number 1, March, 1990
Volume 27, Number 2, June, 1990
Volume 27, Number 3, September, 1990
Volume 27, Number 4, December, 1990
Volume 28, Number 1, March, 1991
Volume 28, Number 2, June, 1991
Volume 28, Number 3, September, 1991
Volume 28, Number 4, December, 1991
Volume 29, Number 1, March, 1992
Volume 29, Number 2, June, 1992
Volume 29, Number 3, September, 1992
Volume 29, Number 4, December, 1992
Volume 30, Number 1, March, 1993
Volume 30, Number 2, June, 1993
Volume 30, Number 3, September, 1993
Volume 30, Number 4, December, 1993
Volume 31, Number 1, March, 1994
Volume 31, Number 2, June, 1994
Volume 31, Number 3, September, 1994
Volume 31, Number 4, December, 1994
Volume 31A, 1994
Volume 32, Number 1, March, 1995
Volume 32, Number 2, June, 1995
Volume 32, Number 3, September, 1995
Volume 32, Number 4, December, 1995
Volume 33, Number 1, March, 1996
Volume 33, Number 2, June, 1996
Volume 33, Number 3, September, 1996
Volume 33, Number 4, December, 1996
Volume 34, Number 1, March, 1997
Volume 34, Number 2, June, 1997
Volume 34, Number 3, September, 1997
Volume 34, Number 4, December, 1997
Volume 35, Number 1, March, 1998
Volume 35, Number 2, June, 1998
Volume 35, Number 3, September, 1998
Volume 35, Number 4, December, 1998
Volume 36, Number 1, March, 1999
Volume 36, Number 2, June, 1999
Volume 36, Number 3, September, 1999
Volume 36, Number 4, December, 1999
Volume 37, Number 1, March, 2000
Volume 37, Number 2, June, 2000
Volume 37, Number 3, September, 2000
Volume 37, Number 4, December, 2000
Volume 38, Number 1, March, 2001
Volume 38, Number 2, June, 2001
Volume 38, Number 3, September, 2001
Volume 38, Number 4, December, 2001
Volume 38A, 2001
Volume 39, Number 1, March, 2002
Volume 39, Number 2, June, 2002
Volume 39, Number 3, September, 2002
Volume 39, Number 4, December, 2002
Volume 40, Number 1, March, 2003
Volume 40, Number 2, June, 2003
Volume 40, Number 3, September, 2003
Volume 40, Number 4, December, 2003
Volume 41, Number 1, March, 2004
Volume 41, Number 2, June, 2004
Volume 41, Number 3, September, 2004
Volume 41, Number 4, December, 2004
Volume 41A, 2004
Volume 42, Number 1, March, 2005
Volume 42, Number 2, June, 2005
Volume 42, Number 3, September, 2005
Volume 42, Number 4, December, 2005
Volume 43, Number 1, March, 2006
Volume 43, Number 2, June, 2006
Volume 43, Number 3, September, 2006
Volume 43, Number 4, December, 2006
Volume 44, Number 1, March, 2007
Volume 44, Number 2, June, 2007
Volume 44, Number 3, September, 2007
Volume 44, Number 4, December, 2007
Volume 45, Number 1, March, 2008
Volume 45, Number 2, June, 2008
Volume 45, Number 3, September, 2008
Volume 45, Number 4, December, 2008
Volume 46, Number 1, March, 2009
Volume 46, Number 2, June, 2009
Volume 46, Number 3, September, 2009
Volume 46, Number 4, December, 2009
Volume 47, Number 1, March, 2010
Volume 47, Number 2, June, 2010
Volume 47, Number 3, September, 2010
Volume 47, Number 4, December, 2010
Volume 48, Number 1, March, 2011
Volume 48, Number 2, June, 2011
Volume 48, Number 3, September, 2011
Volume 48, Number 4, December, 2011
Volume 49, Number 1, March, 2012
Volume 49, Number 2, June, 2012
Volume 49, Number 3, September, 2012
Volume 49, Number 4, December, 2012
Volume 50, Number 1, March, 2013
Volume 50, Number 2, June, 2013
Volume 50, Number 3, September, 2013
Volume 50, Number 4, December, 2013
Volume 51, Number 1, March, 2014
Volume 51, Number 2, June, 2014
Volume 51, Number 3, September, 2014
Volume 51, Number 4, December, 2014
Volume 52, Number 1, March, 2015
Volume 52, Number 2, June, 2015
Volume 52, Number 3, September, 2015
Volume 52, Number 4, December, 2015
Volume 53, Number 1, March, 2016
Volume 53, Number 2, June, 2016
Volume 53, Number 3, September, 2016
Volume 53, Number 4, December, 2016
Volume 54, Number 1, March, 2017
Volume 54, Number 2, June, 2017
Volume 54, Number 3, September, 2017
Volume 54, Number 4, December, 2017
Volume 55, Number 1, March, 2018
Volume 55, Number 2, June, 2018
Volume 55, Number 3, September, 2018
Volume 55, Number 4, December, 2018
Volume 56, Number 1, March, 2019
Volume 56, Number 2, June, 2019
Volume 56, Number 3, September, 2019
Volume 56, Number 4, December, 2019
Volume 57, Number 1, March, 2020
Volume 57, Number 2, June, 2020
Volume 57, Number 3, September, 2020
Volume 57, Number 4, December, 2020
Volume 58, Number 1, March, 2021
Volume 58, Number 2, June, 2021
Volume 58, Number 3, September, 2021
Volume 58, Number 4, December, 2021
Volume 59, Number 1, March, 2022
Volume 59, Number 2, June, 2022
Volume 59, Number 3, September, 2022
Volume 59, Number 4, December, 2022
Volume 60, Number 1, March, 2023
Volume 60, Number 2, June, 2023
Volume 60, Number 3, September, 2023
Volume 24, Number 2, June, 1953
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1976
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 1977
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1979
Volume 110, Number 973, May / June, 1976
Volume 7, Number ??, 1979


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 1, Number 1, June, 1964

                   N. U. Prabhu   Time-Dependent Results in Storage Theory 1--46
                   Harold Ruben   Generalised Concentration Fluctuations
                                  under Diffusion Equilibrium  . . . . . . 47--68
            Lajos Takács   Combinatorial Methods in the Theory of
                                  Dams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--76
            Joseph L. Gastwirth   On a Telephone Traffic System with
                                  Several Kinds of Service Distributions   77--84
                     J. Keilson   An Alternative to Wiener--Hopf Methods
                                  for the Study of Bounded Processes . . . 85--120
                    P. D. Finch   The Theory of Information and
                                  Statistical Inference. I . . . . . . . . 121--140
                    W. J. Ewens   The Pseudo-Transient Distribution and
                                  Its Uses in Genetics . . . . . . . . . . 141--156
                    A. W. Davis   A Note on the Characteristic Functional
                                  for a Replacement Process of Gani  . . . 157--160
                P. J. Brockwell   An Asymptotic Expansion for the Tail of
                                  a Binomial Distribution and Its
                                  Application in Queueing Theory . . . . . 161--167
                  Ora Engelberg   Exact and Limiting Distributions of the
                                  Number of Lead Positions in
                                  ``Unconditional'' Ballot Problems  . . . 168--172
                    C. C. Heyde   On the Stationary Waiting Time
                                  Distribution in the Queue GI/G/1 . . . . 173--176
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 1, Number 2, December, 1964

                   Motoo Kimura   Diffusion Models in Population Genetics  177--232
                G. A. Watterson   The Application of Diffusion Theory to
                                  Two Population Genetic Models of Moran   233--246
                     J. Keilson   A Review of Transient Behavior in
                                  Regular Diffusion and Birth-Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--266
                    J. E. Moyal   Multiplicative Population Processes  . . 267--283
            David Blackwell and   
                  David Kendall   The Martin Boundary for Pólya's Urn
                                  Scheme, and an Application to Stochastic
                                  Population Growth  . . . . . . . . . . . 284--296
                  G. F. Yeo and   
                    B. Weesakul   Delays to Road Traffic at an
                                  Intersection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--310
                A. Rényi   On Two Mathematical Models of the
                                  Traffic on a Divided Highway . . . . . . 311--320
                  V. D. Barnett   A Three-Player Extension of the
                                  Gambler's Ruin Problem . . . . . . . . . 321--334
                 A. Reichel and   
                  C. A. Wilkins   On the Theory of Resonance Integrals in
                                  the Statistical Region . . . . . . . . . 335--346
                 P. A. W. Lewis   Implications of a Failure Model for the
                                  Use and Maintenance of Computers . . . . 347--368
                  A. M. Hasofer   On the Single-Server Queue with
                                  Non-Homogeneous Poisson Input and
                                  General Service Time . . . . . . . . . . 369--384
               Charles H. Kraft   A Class of Distribution Function
                                  Processes Which Have Derivatives . . . . 385--388
            Lajos Takács   The Use of a Ballot Theorem in Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--392
            Lajos Takács   Fluctuations in the Ratio of Scores in
                                  Counting a Ballot  . . . . . . . . . . . 393--396
                      Anonymous   Correction: An Alternative to
                                  Wiener--Hopf Methods for the Study of
                                  Bounded Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 2, Number 1, June, 1965

                   E. J. Hannan   Group Representations and Applied
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--68
                    J. E. Moyal   Incomplete Discontinuous Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--78
             Masanobu Shinozuka   On the Two Sided Barrier Problem . . . . 79--87
              J. N. Darroch and   
                      E. Seneta   On Quasi-Stationary Distributions in
                                  Absorbing Discrete-Time Finite Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--100
                 T. N. Bhargava   On Time Changes in a Digraph . . . . . . 101--118
               Simeon M. Berman   A Renewal Theoretic Model for Chronic
                                  Disease Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 119--128
            George H. Weiss and   
                   Motoo Kimura   A Mathematical Analysis of the Stepping
                                  Stone Model of Genetic Correlation . . . 129--149
                    J. Gani and   
                      G. F. Yeo   Some Birth-Death and Mutation Models for
                                  Phage Reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . 150--161
               J. F. C. Kingman   Mean Free Paths in a Convex Reflecting
                                  Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--168
               Maurice Horowitz   Probability of Random Paths across
                                  Elementary Geometrical Shapes  . . . . . 169--177
                     Martin Fox   A Simplified Model for the Formation,
                                  Movement, and Dissipation of Fair
                                  Weather Cumulus Clouds . . . . . . . . . 178--185
                    D. J. Daley   General Customer Impatience in the Queue
                                  GI/G/1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--205
                C. R. Heathcote   On the Maximum of the Queue GI/M/1 . . . 206--214
                   S. Odoom and   
                    E. H. Lloyd   A Note on the Equilibrium Distribution
                                  of Levels in a Semi-Infinite Reservoir
                                  Subject to Markovian Inputs and Unit
                                  Withdrawals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--222
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Class of Distribution
                                  Function Processes Which Have
                                  Derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Review of Transient
                                  Behavior in Regular Diffusion and
                                  Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . 223--223
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 2, Number 2, December, 1965

                        J. Gani   Stochastic Models for Bacteriophage  . . 225--268
            George H. Weiss and   
                   Marvin Zelen   A Semi-Markov Model for Clinical Trials  269--285
              M. Ten Hoopen and   
                   H. A. Reuver   Selective Interaction of Two Independent
                                  Recurrent Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 286--292
                    A. W. Davis   On the Theory of Birth, Death and
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 293--322
                   T. E. Harris   Diffusion with ``Collisions'' between
                                  Particles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--338
           Allan M. Russell and   
              Nora S. Josephson   Measurement of Area by Counting  . . . . 339--351
              Samuel Karlin and   
                 James McGregor   Ehrenfest Urn Models . . . . . . . . . . 352--376
                  J. Chover and   
                         G. Yeo   Solutions of Some Two-Sided Boundary
                                  Problems for Sums of Variables with
                                  Alternating Distributions  . . . . . . . 377--395
                  Ora Engelberg   On Some Problems concerning a Restricted
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--404
                     J. Keilson   A Review of Transient Behavior in
                                  Regular Diffusion and Birth-Death
                                  Processes. Part II . . . . . . . . . . . 405--428
             Donald L. Iglehart   Limiting Diffusion Approximations for
                                  the Many Server Queue and the Repairman
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--441
                      C. Pearce   A Queueing System with Non-Recurrent
                                  Input and Batch Servicing  . . . . . . . 442--448
             R. V. Ambartzumian   Two Inverse Problems concerning the
                                  Superposition of Recurrent Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--454
                     D. Mejzler   On a Characteristic Property of
                                  Stationary Streams without Aftereffect   455--461
                  A. M. Hasofer   Some Perturbation Results for the
                                  Single-Server Queue with Poisson Input   462--466
                     U. N. Bhat   On a Stochastic Process Occurring in
                                  Queueing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--469
                   Eve Bofinger   Sufficiency for Multinomial and
                                  Transition Probabilities . . . . . . . . 470--474
                      Anonymous   Correction: On Time Changes in a
                                  Diagraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--475
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 476--476
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--477
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 3, Number 1, June, 1966

                    Samuel Kotz   Recent Results in Information Theory . . 1--93
                  B. E. Ellison   Limit Theorems for Random Mating in
                                  Infinite Populations . . . . . . . . . . 94--114
                     P. Holgate   A Mathematical Study of the Founder
                                  Principle of Evolutionary Genetics . . . 115--128
                  M. W. Feldman   On the Offspring Number Distribution in
                                  a Genetic Population . . . . . . . . . . 129--141
                  Edward Pollak   On the Survival of a Gene in a
                                  Subdivided Population  . . . . . . . . . 142--155
                   D. C. Dowson   Simple Random Walks on Semi-Groups of
                                  Nilpotency Class Two . . . . . . . . . . 156--170
                       D. Brook   Bounds for Moment Generating Functions
                                  and for Extinction Probabilities . . . . 171--178
               Howard J. Weiner   Applications of the Age Distribution in
                                  Age Dependent Branching Processes  . . . 179--201
                Marcel F. Neuts   The Single Server Queue with Poisson
                                  Input and Semi-Markov Service Times  . . 202--230
               J. Sudarsana Rao   An Application of Stationary Point
                                  Processes to Queueing Theory and Textile
                                  Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--246
                   G. F. Newell   Equilibrium Probability Distributions
                                  for Low Density Highway Traffic  . . . . 247--260
            C. R. Heathcote and   
                      E. Seneta   Inequalities for Branching Processes . . 261--267
                Richard Bellman   Dynamic Programming, Pattern Recognition
                                  and Location of Faults in Complex
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--271
                 H. Robbins and   
                      E. Samuel   An Extension of a Lemma of Wald  . . . . 272--273
                 D. N. Shanbhag   On Infinite Server Queues with Batch
                                  Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--279
            P. J. Brockwell and   
                    J. E. Moyal   A Stochastic Population Process and Its
                                  Application to Bubble Chamber
                                  Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--284
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Correction: Probability of Random Paths
                                  across Elementary Geometrical Shapes . . ??
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Review of Transient
                                  Behavior in Regular Diffusion and
                                  Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 3, Number 2, December, 1966

               J. F. C. Kingman   On the Algebra of Queues . . . . . . . . 285--326
                Charles J. Mode   A Stochastic Calculus and Its
                                  Application to Some Fundamental Theorems
                                  of Natural Selection . . . . . . . . . . 327--352
             R. G. Khazanie and   
                   H. E. McKean   A Mendelian Markov Process with
                                  Multinomial Transition Probabilities . . 353--364
           Marvin A. Kastenbaum   A Dialysis System with One Absorbing and
                                  One Semi-Reflecting State  . . . . . . . 365--374
                    Klaus Dietz   On the Model of Weiss for the Spread of
                                  Epidemics by Carriers  . . . . . . . . . 375--382
                  Howard Weiner   On Age Dependent Branching Processes . . 383--402
                  E. Seneta and   
                  D. Vere-Jones   On Quasi-Stationary Distributions in
                                  Discrete-Time Markov Chains with a
                                  Denumerable Infinity of States . . . . . 403--434
                John N. Darroch   Identities for Passage Times with
                                  Applications to Recurrent Events and
                                  Homogeneous Differential Functions . . . 435--444
                      S. Gallot   Asymptotic Absorption Probabilities for
                                  a Poisson Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 445--452
                 P. A. P. Moran   A Note on Recent Research in Geometrical
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--463
                    M. F. James   On the Conditional Expected Value of
                                  Contributions from a Renewal Process . . 464--480
                Morris L. Eaton   Characterization of Distributions by the
                                  Identical Distribution of Linear Forms   481--494
            Rodrigo A. Restrepo   A Combinatorial Method for a Class of
                                  Matrix Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--511
                  J. H. Jenkins   Stationary Joint Distributions Arising
                                  in the Analysis of the M/G/1 Queue by
                                  the Method of the Imbedded Markov Chain  512--520
                Jon Folkman and   
                    Sidney Port   Optimal Procedures for Stochastically
                                  Failing Equipment  . . . . . . . . . . . 521--537
                   J. A. Bather   A Continuous Time Inventory Model  . . . 538--549
                  Gedalia Ailam   Moments of Coverage and Coverage Spaces  550--555
                      S. Gallot   A Bound for the Maximum of a Number of
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--558
                R. R. A. Morton   The Expected Number and Angle of
                                  Intersections between Random Curves in a
                                  Plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--562
                      Anonymous   Correction: Simple Random Walks on
                                  Semi-Groups of Nilpotency Class Two  . . 562--562
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 4, Number 1, April, 1967

                     P. Holgate   Divergent Population Processes and
                                  Mammal Outbreaks . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
               R. C. Srivastava   Some Aspects of the Stochastic Model for
                                  the Attachment of Phages to Bacteria . . 9--18
              C. J. Ridler-Rowe   On a Stochastic Model of an Epidemic . . 19--33
                   R. T. Leslie   Recurrent Composite Events . . . . . . . 34--61
                Charles J. Mode   A Renewal Density Theorem in the
                                  Multi-Dimensional Case . . . . . . . . . 62--76
                     G. Elfving   A Persistency Problem Connected with a
                                  Point Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89
                   E. J. Hannan   Measurement of a Wandering Signal Amid
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--102
               D. E. Cartwright   Time-Series Analysis of Tides and
                                  Similar Motions of the Sea Surface . . . 103--112
                    R. G. Keats   A Note on the Black Box Problem  . . . . 113--122
                     C. B. Mehr   Characterization of a Class of
                                  Second-Order Density Functions . . . . . 123--129
                    L. L. Helms   Biharmonic Functions and Brownian Motion 130--136
           Edward C. Posner and   
             Howard Rumsey, Jr.   An Uncertainty Function Arising in
                                  Sequential Search Theory . . . . . . . . 137--143
                    C. C. Heyde   A Limit Theorem for Random Walks with
                                  Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--150
            Lajos Takács   The Distribution of the Content of
                                  Finite Dams  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--161
                    J. W. Cohen   The Distribution of the Maximum Number
                                  of Customers Present Simultaneously
                                  during a Busy Period for the Queueing
                                  Systems M/G/1 and G/M/1  . . . . . . . . 162--179
                     D. H. Reid   A Mathematical Model for Delays Caused
                                  by Right-Turning Vehicles at an
                                  Uncontrolled Intersection  . . . . . . . 180--191
              J. N. Darroch and   
                      E. Seneta   On Quasi-Stationary Distributions in
                                  Absorbing Continuous-Time Finite Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--196
                   Ester Samuel   On the Existence of the Expectation of
                                  Randomly Stopped Sums  . . . . . . . . . 197--200
               D. C. Gilles and   
                 P. A. W. Lewis   The Spectrum of Intervals of a Geometric
                                  Branching Poisson Process  . . . . . . . 201--205
                Marcel F. Neuts   Waitingtimes between Record Observations 206--208
                  J. H. Pollard   Hierarchical Population Models with
                                  Poisson Recruitment  . . . . . . . . . . 209--213
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Renewal Theoretic Model
                                  for Chronic Disease Statistics . . . . . 214--214
                      Anonymous   Correction: Inequalities for Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 4, Number 2, August, 1967

                C. R. Heathcote   Complete Exponential Convergence and
                                  Some Related Topics  . . . . . . . . . . 217--256
          Hugh M. Pettigrew and   
                George H. Weiss   Epidemics with Carriers: The Large
                                  Population Approximation . . . . . . . . 257--263
                     F. Downton   Epidemics with Carriers: A Note on a
                                  Paper of Dietz . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--270
               Norman C. Severo   Two Theorems on Solutions of
                                  Differential-Difference Equations and
                                  Applications to Epidemic Theory  . . . . 271--280
            Elliott W. Montroll   On Nonlinear Processes Involving
                                  Population Growth and Diffusion  . . . . 281--290
         Albert W. Marshall and   
                   Ingram Olkin   A Generalized Bivariate Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--302
             J. A. McFadden and   
                 James L. Lewis   Multivariate Normal Integrals for Highly
                                  Correlated Samples from a Wiener Process 303--312
                  C. L. Mallows   Linear Processes Are Nearly Gaussian . . 313--329
                   Eugene Sobel   Prediction of a Noise-Distorted,
                                  Multivariate, Non-Stationary Signal  . . 330--342
                    J. W. Cohen   On Two Integral Equations of Queueing
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--355
            Erhan Çinlar   Time Dependence of Queues with
                                  Semi-Markovian Services  . . . . . . . . 356--364
            Erhan Çinlar   Queues with Semi-Markovian Arrivals  . . 365--379
                 P. A. P. Moran   Dams in Series with Continuous Release   380--388
                   J. G. Gilson   Statistical Relativistic Particle  . . . 389--396
                   L. H. Harper   A Necessary Condition on Minimal Cube
                                  Numberings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--401
                   H. D. Miller   A Note on Passage Times and Infinitely
                                  Divisible Distributions  . . . . . . . . 402--405
                  Sven Erlander   A Note on Telephone Traffic with Losses  406--408
              M. Ten Hoopen and   
                   H. A. Reuver   On a First Passage Problem in Stochastic
                                  Storage Systems with Total Release . . . 409--412
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 4, Number 3, December, 1967

            Donald A. McQuarrie   Stochastic Approach to Chemical Kinetics 413--478
                   W. Smith and   
                   G. S. Watson   Diffusion out of a Triangle  . . . . . . 479--488
                      E. Seneta   The Galton--Watson Process with Mean One 489--495
              J. N. Darroch and   
                   K. W. Morris   Some Passage-Time Generating Functions
                                  for Discrete-Time and Continuous-Time
                                  Finite Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . 496--507
              Richard A. Olshen   Asymptotic Properties of the Periodogram
                                  of a Discrete Stationary Process . . . . 508--528
                       T. Lewis   The Factorisation of the Rectangular
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--542
               Morris Skibinsky   The Range of the (n + 1)th Moment for
                                  Distributions on [0, 1]  . . . . . . . . 543--552
                      C. Pearce   Queues with Moving Average Service Times 553--570
            David K. Hildebrand   Stability of Finite Queue, Tandem Server
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--583
                John Bather and   
                Herman Chernoff   Sequential Decisions in the Control of a
                                  Space-Ship (Finite Fuel) . . . . . . . . 584--604
                    Meyer Dwass   Poisson Recurrence Times . . . . . . . . 605--608
                Charles J. Mode   Some Corrections to My Paper
                                  ``\booktitleA Stochastic Calculus and
                                  Its Application to Some Fundamental
                                  Theorems of Natural Selection''  . . . . 609--611
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 612--613
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--614
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 5, Number 1, April, 1968

                     P. Holgate   Interaction between Migration and
                                  Breeding Studied by Means of Genetic
                                  Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
       Jostein Lillestòl   Another Approach to Some Markov Chain
                                  Models in Population Genetics  . . . . . 9--20
                     A. B. Chia   Random Mating in a Population of Cyclic
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
                   K. Dietz and   
                     F. Downton   Carrier-Borne Epidemics with
                                  Immigration. I: Immigration of Both
                                  Susceptibles and Carriers  . . . . . . . 31--42
      A. H. Zaludová and   
            Z. Rezný and   
                     M. Ullrich   A Survey of Some Recent Czechoslovak
                                  Work in Automatic Statistical Process
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54
                   J. A. Bather   A Diffusion Model for the Control of a
                                  Dam  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--71
             M. S. Ali Khan and   
                        J. Gani   Infinite Dams with Inputs Forming a
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--83
                   A. G. Hawkes   Gap-Acceptance in Road Traffic . . . . . 84--92
                    J. W. Cohen   Single Server Queue with Uniformly
                                  Bounded Virtual Waiting Time . . . . . . 93--122
                Marcel F. Neuts   Two Queues in Series with a Finite,
                                  Intermediate Waitingroom . . . . . . . . 123--142
                     D. Mejzler   A Generalisation of Erlang's Formulas in
                                  Queueing Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--157
                U. Narayan Bhat   Transient Behavior of Multi-Server
                                  Queues with Recurrent Input and
                                  Exponential Service Times  . . . . . . . 158--168
            Erhan Çinlar   On the Superposition of $m$-Dimensional
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--176
                    R. J. Beran   Testing for Uniformity on a Compact
                                  Homogeneous Space  . . . . . . . . . . . 177--195
                  Gedalia Ailam   On Probability Properties of Measures of
                                  Random Sets and the Asymptotic Behavior
                                  of Empirical Distribution Functions  . . 196--202
                    V. E. Benes   Finite Regular Invariant Measures for
                                  Feller Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--209
                    C. C. Heyde   On the Converse to the Iterated
                                  Logarithm Law  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--215
                   H. Rubin and   
                  D. Vere-Jones   Domains of Attraction for the
                                  Subcritical Galton--Watson Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--219
                Barry C. Arnold   A Modification of a Result Due to Moran  220--223
                Marcel F. Neuts   The Joint Distribution of the Virtual
                                  Waitingtime and the Residual Busy Period
                                  for the M/G/1 Queue  . . . . . . . . . . 224--229
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 5, Number 2, August, 1968

                  Samuel Karlin   Equilibrium Behavior of Population
                                  Genetic Models with Non-Random Mating    231--313
                  Edward Pollak   On Random Genetic Drift in a Subdivided
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--333
                   Prem S. Puri   Interconnected Birth and Death Processes 334--349
                 R. G. Khazanie   An Indication of the Asymptotic Nature
                                  of the Mendelian Markov Process  . . . . 350--356
                 T. W. Mullikin   Some Probability Distributions for
                                  Neutron Transport in a Half-Space  . . . 357--374
                   J. G. Gilson   Feynman Integral and Phase Space
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--386
               Jozef L. Teugels   Exponential Ergodicity in Markov Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--400
             Paul J. Schweitzer   Perturbation Theory and Finite Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--413
              J. N. Darroch and   
                   K. W. Morris   Passage-Time Generating Functions for
                                  Continuous-Time Finite Markov Chains . . 414--426
               John P. Mullooly   A One Dimensional Random Space-Filling
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--435
                   G. F. Newell   Queues with Time-Dependent Arrival Rates
                                  I:The Transition through Saturation  . . 436--451
                   N. U. Prabhu   Some New Results in Storage Theory . . . 452--460
              Gerold Pestalozzi   A Queue with Markov-Dependent Service
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--466
               John F. Reynolds   On the Autocorrelation and Spectral
                                  Functions of Queues  . . . . . . . . . . 467--475
                  T. Narasimham   A Note on the Asymptotic Distribution of
                                  the Traffic-Time-Average in a GI/G/$
                                  \infty $ with Bulk Arrivals  . . . . . . 476--480
                    C. C. Heyde   An Extension of the Hájek--Rényi
                                  Inequality for the Case without
                                  Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--483
                      Anonymous   Corrections: Stochastic Approach to
                                  Chemical Kinetics  . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 5, Number 3, December, 1968

                  Samuel Karlin   Equilibrium Behavior of Population
                                  Genetic Models with Non-Random Mating:
                                  Part II: Pedigrees, Homozygosity and
                                  Stochastic Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 487--566
                     P. Whittle   Equilibrium Distributions for an Open
                                  Migration Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 567--571
                     B. R. Bhat   On an Extension of Gani's Model for
                                  Attachment of Phages to Bacteria . . . . 572--578
                   G. F. Newell   Queues with Time-Dependent Arrival
                                  Rates: II. The Maximum Queue and the
                                  Return to Equilibrium  . . . . . . . . . 579--590
                   G. F. Newell   Queues with Time-Dependent Arrival
                                  Rates: III. A Mild Rush Hour . . . . . . 591--606
               D. P. Gaver, Jr.   Diffusion Approximations and Models for
                                  Certain Congestion Problems  . . . . . . 607--623
               Donald R. McNeil   A Solution to the Fixed-Cycle Traffic
                                  Light Problem for Compound Poisson
                                  Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--635
                       P. M. Wu   Storage with Deterministic Outputs and
                                  Inputs Subject to Breakdown  . . . . . . 636--647
                  D. G. Lampard   A Stochastic Process Whose Successive
                                  Intervals between Events Form a First
                                  Order Markov Chain: I  . . . . . . . . . 648--668
               Jozef L. Teugels   Exponential Ergodicity in Derived Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--678
                 Richard Morton   On the Dynamic Programming Approach to
                                  Pontriagin's Maximum Principle . . . . . 679--692
               Morris Skibinsky   Extreme nth Moments for Distributions on
                                  [0, 1] and the Inverse of a Moment Space
                                  Map  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--701
             D. G. Tambouratzis   On a Property of the Variance of the
                                  Waiting Time of a Queue  . . . . . . . . 702--703
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 6, Number 1, April, 1969

               J. F. C. Kingman   Markov Population Processes  . . . . . . 1--18
               Louis Jensen and   
                  Edward Pollak   Random Selective Advantages of a Gene in
                                  a Finite Population  . . . . . . . . . . 19--37
                 R. Coleman and   
                J. L. Gastwirth   Some Models for Interaction of Renewal
                                  Processes Related to Neuron Firing . . . 38--58
                  J. F. Bithell   A Stochastic Model for the Breaking of
                                  Molecular Segments . . . . . . . . . . . 59--73
               G. M. Tallis and   
                   R. T. Leslie   General Models for $r$-Molecular
                                  Reactions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--87
                 P. A. P. Moran   A Theory of Dams with Continuous Input
                                  and a General Release Rule . . . . . . . 88--98
                Irwin Greenberg   Some Duality Results in the Theory of
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--121
              B. W. Conolly and   
                      N. Hadidi   A Correlated Queue . . . . . . . . . . . 122--136
           Donald P. Gaver, Jr.   Highway Delays Resulting from
                                  Flow-Stopping Incidents  . . . . . . . . 137--153
                     E. G. Enns   The Trivariate Distribution of the
                                  Maximum Queue Length, the Number of
                                  Customers Served and the Duration of the
                                  Busy Period for the M/G/1 Queueing
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--161
       Ora Engelberg Percus and   
               Jerome K. Percus   On the Distribution of the Number of
                                  Zero Partial Sums  . . . . . . . . . . . 162--176
                     A. Tortrat   Sur un Théor\`eme de Lewis et la
                                  Décomposition en Facteurs Premiers de la
                                  Loi Rectangulaire. (French) [On a
                                  theorem of Lewis and Decomposition in
                                  Prime Factors of the Rectangular Law]    177--185
               J. Radcliffe and   
                    P. J. Staff   First-Order Conservative Processes with
                                  Multiple Latent Roots  . . . . . . . . . 186--194
               Howard J. Weiner   Sums of Lifetimes in Age Dependent
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 195--200
                  Edward Pollak   Bounds for Certain Branching Processes   201--204
             Kenny S. Crump and   
                Charles J. Mode   An Age-Dependent Branching Process with
                                  Correlations among Sister Cells  . . . . 205--210
               Edward S. Boylan   Stability Theorems for Solutions to the
                                  Optimal Inventory Equation . . . . . . . 211--217
                    M. T. Wasan   Sufficient Conditions for a First
                                  Passage Time Process to be That of
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--223
               J. C. Hardin and   
                    A. L. Sweet   A Note on Absorption Probabilities for a
                                  Random Walk between a Reflecting and an
                                  Absorbing Barrier  . . . . . . . . . . . 224--226
                R. M. Phatarfod   A Note on the First Emptiness Problem of
                                  a Finite Dam with Poisson Type Inputs    227--230
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 6, Number 2, August, 1969

                 A. B. Chia and   
                G. A. Watterson   Demographic Effects on the Rate of
                                  Genetic Evolution: I. Constant Size
                                  Populations with Two Genotypes . . . . . 231--248
                      P. Jagers   The Proportions of Individuals of
                                  Different Kinds in Two-Type Populations.
                                  A Branching Process Problem Arising in
                                  Biology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--260
                 Norman Breslow   On Large Sample Sequential Analysis with
                                  Applications to Survivorship Data  . . . 261--274
                  Samuel Litwin   The Distribution of Radioactive Recovery
                                  in Randomly Cut and Sedimented DNA . . . 275--284
             Donald L. Iglehart   Diffusion Approximations in Collective
                                  Risk Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--292
                     Mark Brown   Some Results on a Traffic Model of Rényi  293--300
              A. M. V. Verhagen   Random Size Trees on the One and Two
                                  Dimensional Integer Lattice  . . . . . . 301--308
                     B. R. Bhat   Used Item Replacement Policy . . . . . . 309--318
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                 S. C. Saunders   A New Family of Life Distributions . . . 319--327
             Z. W. Birnbaum and   
                 S. C. Saunders   Estimation for a Family of Life
                                  Distributions with Applications to
                                  Fatigue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--347
                     Petr Mandl   An Identity for Markovian Replacement
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--354
                 P. A. W. Lewis   Asymptotic Properties and Equilibrium
                                  Conditions for Branching Poisson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--371
                   R. T. Leslie   Recurrence Times of Clusters of Poisson
                                  Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--388
                   G. M. Tallis   The Identifiability of Mixtures of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--398
                  H. E. Daniels   The Minimum of a Stationary Markov
                                  Process Superimposed on a U-Shaped Trend 399--408
                  Eugene Lukacs   A Characterization of Stable Processes   409--418
                    C. C. Heyde   On the Maximum of Sums of Random
                                  Variables and the Supremum Functional
                                  for Stable Processes . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
                 Rodney Coleman   Random Paths through Convex Bodies . . . 430--441
                   Lionel Weiss   The Joint Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  $k$-Smallest Sample Spacings . . . . . . 442--448
                  M. S. Bingham   A Note on Stochastic Processes with
                                  Independent Increments Taking Values in
                                  an Abelian Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--452
                     Mark Brown   An Invariance Property of Poisson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--458
                  Duane C. Boes   Note on the Output of a Queuing System   459--461
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 6, Number 3, December, 1969

                 Takeo Maruyama   Genetic Correlation in the Stepping
                                  Stone Model with Non-Symmetrical
                                  Migration Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--477
           William E. Wilkinson   On Calculating Extinction Probabilities
                                  for Branching Processes in Random
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--492
                   Prem S. Puri   Some New Results in the Mathematical
                                  Theory of Phage-Reproduction . . . . . . 493--504
                      J. Orriss   Equilibrium Distributions for Systems of
                                  Chemical Reactions with Applications to
                                  the Theory of Molecular Adsorption . . . 505--515
               Hisashi Mine and   
              Tatsuyuki Asakura   The Effect of an Age Replacement to a
                                  Standby Redundant System . . . . . . . . 516--523
   Torbjörn Thedéen   On Road Traffic with Free Overtaking . . 524--549
                    D. J. Daley   The Total Waiting Time in a Busy Period
                                  of a Stable Single-Server Queue, I . . . 550--564
                D. J. Daley and   
              D. R. Jacobs, Jr.   The Total Waiting Time in a Busy Period
                                  of a Stable Single-Server Queue, II  . . 565--572
                   B. D. Craven   Asymptotic Correlation in a Queue  . . . 573--583
            T. C. T. Kotiah and   
             J. W. Thompson and   
               W. A. O'N. Waugh   Use of Erlangian Distributions for
                                  Single-Server Queueing Systems . . . . . 584--593
                  Nasser Hadidi   On the Service Time Distribution and the
                                  Waiting Time Process of a Potentially
                                  Infinite Capacity Queueing System  . . . 594--603
                 Mark Brown and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Some Results for Infinite Server Poisson
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--611
                     W. J. Hall   Embedding Submartingales in Wiener
                                  Processes with Drift, with Applications
                                  to Sequential Analysis . . . . . . . . . 612--632
      Ole Barndorff-Nielsen and   
                      G. F. Yeo   Negative Binomial Processes  . . . . . . 633--647
                    D. J. Daley   Integral Representations of Transition
                                  Probabilities and Serial Covariances of
                                  Certain Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . 648--659
               J. F. C. Kingman   Random Secants of a Convex Body  . . . . 660--672
               Norman C. Severo   A Recursion Theorem on Solving
                                  Differential-Difference Equations and
                                  Applications to Some Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--681
                    Meyer Dwass   The Total Progeny in a Branching Process
                                  and a Related Random Walk  . . . . . . . 682--686
                     S. R. Adke   A Birth, Death and Migration Process . . 687--691
                Sheldon M. Ross   Optimal Dispatching of a Poisson Process 692--699
           Adrienne W. Kemp and   
                     C. D. Kemp   Branching and Clustering Models
                                  Associated with the `Lost-Games
                                  Distribution'  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--703
            Thomas L. Vlach and   
                Ralph L. Disney   The Departure Process from the GI/G/1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--707
                    P. D. Finch   A Note on the Queueing System GI/E$_k$
                                  /1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--710
             Paul T. Holmes and   
         William E. Strawderman   A Note on the Waiting Times between
                                  Record Observations  . . . . . . . . . . 711--714
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 7, Number 1, April, 1970

       Ora Engleberg Percus and   
               Jerome K. Percus   Extended Criterion for Comparison of
                                  Empirical Distributions  . . . . . . . . 1--20
          Richard A. Olshen and   
              Leonard J. Savage   A Generalized Unimodality  . . . . . . . 21--34
                     H. Raynaud   Sur l'Enveloppe Convexe des Nuages de
                                  Points Aléatoires dans $ R^n $. I.
                                  (French) [On the convex envelope of
                                  clouds of random points in $ R^n $. I]   35--48
                Thomas G. Kurtz   Solutions of Ordinary Differential
                                  Equations as Limits of Pure Jump Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
                     W. J. Hall   On Wald's Equations in Continuous Time   59--68
                Barron Brainerd   A Stochastic Process Related to Language
                                  Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--78
                     John Haigh   The Recovery of the Root of a Tree . . . 79--88
                  John Lamperti   Maximal Branching Processes and
                                  `Long-Range Percolation' . . . . . . . . 89--98
                 C. W. Anderson   Extreme Value Theory for a Class of
                                  Discrete Distributions with Applications
                                  to Some Stochastic Processes . . . . . . 99--113
            Lajos Takács   On the Fluctuations of Election Returns  114--123
               Pushpa N. Rathie   On a Generalized Entropy and a Coding
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--133
             P. W. A. Dayananda   Optimal Reinsurance  . . . . . . . . . . 134--156
                   Ester Samuel   On Some Problems in Operations Research  157--164
         Albert W. Marshall and   
                 Frank Proschan   Mean Life of Series and Parallel Systems 165--174
                   A. G. Hawkes   Bunching in a Semi-Markov Process  . . . 175--182
            Roger B. Nelsen and   
                Trevor Williams   Random Displacements of Regularly Spaced
                                  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--195
                    Micha Yadin   Queueing with Alternating Priorities,
                                  Treated as Random Walk on the Lattice in
                                  the Plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--218
                         H. Ali   Two Results in the Theory of Queues  . . 219--226
                   N. U. Prabhu   Limit Theorems for the Single Server
                                  Queue with Traffic Intensity One . . . . 227--233
                Haskel Benishay   Inflow-Stock-Outflow Time Series,
                                  Stochastic Lag and Disaggregation: A
                                  Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--239
              C. L. Mallows and   
                 J. M. C. Clark   Linear-Intercept Distributions Do Not
                                  Characterize Plane Sets  . . . . . . . . 240--244
                 Victor Siskind   The Fixed Cycle Traffic Light Problem: A
                                  Note on a Paper by McNeil  . . . . . . . 245--248
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Correction: Negative Binomial Processes  ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 7, Number 2, August, 1970

           S. K. Srinivasan and   
                      A. Rangan   Age Dependent Stochastic Models for
                                  Phage Reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . 251--261
              Samuel Karlin and   
              Marcus W. Feldman   Convergence to Equilibrium of the Two
                                  Locus Additive Viability Model . . . . . 262--271
                P. J. Brockwell   Stochastic Population Processes in the
                                  Theory of Radiative Transfer . . . . . . 272--290
                 M. S. Ali Khan   Finite Dams with Inputs Forming a Markov
                                  Chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--303
               Donald R. McNeil   A Theoretical Analysis of Congestion in
                                  a Two-Lane Freeway . . . . . . . . . . . 304--315
                  P. B. M. Roes   The Finite Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--326
                Ronald W. Wolff   Work-Conserving Priorities . . . . . . . 327--337
                David S. Newman   A New Family of Point Processes Which
                                  Are Characterized by Their Second Moment
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--358
                 A. J. Lawrance   Selective Interaction of a Poisson and
                                  Renewal Process: First-Order Stationary
                                  Point Results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--372
                 Richard Gordon   On Monte Carlo Algebra . . . . . . . . . 373--387
                   C. K. Cheong   Quasi-Stationary Distributions in
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 388--399
                  Tore Schweder   Composable Markov Processes  . . . . . . 400--410
                    M. P. Quine   The Multi-Type Galton--Watson Process
                                  with Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--422
                A. L. Sweet and   
                   J. C. Hardin   Solutions for Some Diffusion Processes
                                  with Two Barriers  . . . . . . . . . . . 423--431
     William E. Strawderman and   
                 Paul T. Holmes   On the Law of the Iterated Logarithm for
                                  Inter-Record Times . . . . . . . . . . . 432--439
                     D. Jerwood   A Note on the Cost of the Simple
                                  Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--443
               Norman C. Severo   A Note on the Ehrenfest Multiurn Model   444--445
               John F. Reynolds   A Theorem on Discrete Time Branching
                                  Processes Allowing Immigration . . . . . 446--450
                    C. C. Heyde   A Rate of Convergence Result for the
                                  Super-Critical Galton--Watson Process    451--454
                  D. A. Darling   The Galton--Watson Process with Infinite
                                  Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--456
             D. G. Tambouratzis   A Note on Belyaev's Limiting
                                  Distribution of the Intervals between
                                  Losses in an $n$-Server System . . . . . 457--464
                    A. G. Pakes   A Note on the Queueing Systems GI/D/1
                                  and D/G/1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--468
               Edward S. Boylan   Further Existence Theorems for the
                                  Optimal Inventory Equation . . . . . . . 469--472
               J. Henderson and   
                    P. D. Finch   A Note on the Queueing System E$_k$ /G/1 473--475
           S. K. Srinivasan and   
                  G. Rajamannar   Selective Interaction between Two
                                  Independent Stationary Recurrent Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--482
                 A. J. Lawrance   Selective Interaction of a Stationary
                                  Point Process and a Renewal Process  . . 483--489
                      C. W. Kim   Two Classification Theorems of States of
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--496
           R. C. Srivastava and   
            A. B. L. Srivastava   On a Characterization of Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--501
           Stephen R. Kimbleton   A Simple Proof of a Random Stable Limit
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--504
              Gedalia Ailam and   
              Mahabanoo N. Tata   One-to-One Functions on the Positive
                                  Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--507
                  David Kendall   Obituary: Alfréd Rényi . . . . . . . . . . 509--522
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 7, Number 3, December, 1970

                   H. J. Weiner   On a Multi-Type Critical Age-Dependent
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 523--543
                Niels G. Becker   A Stochastic Model for Two Interacting
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--564
                 Kenny S. Crump   Migratory Populations in Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--572
               Hisashi Mine and   
                 Katsuhisa Ohno   Low Density Inhomogeneous Traffic Flow   573--598
                  P. B. M. Roes   The Finite Dam II  . . . . . . . . . . . 599--616
                   S. Zacks and   
                       M. Yadin   Analytic Characterization of the Optimal
                                  Control of a Queueing System . . . . . . 617--633
                  John A. Hooke   On Some Limit Theorems for the GI/G/1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634--640
               Shunji Osaki and   
              Tatsuyuki Asakura   A Two-Unit Standby Redundant System with
                                  Repair and Preventive Maintenance  . . . 641--648
                Sheldon M. Ross   Average Cost Semi-Markov Decision
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--656
               Hisashi Mine and   
                  Yoshio Tabata   Linear Programming and Continuous
                                  Markovian Decision Problems  . . . . . . 657--666
         B. Edwin Blaisdell and   
                Herbert Solomon   On Random Sequential Packing in the
                                  Plane and a Conjecture of Palásti . . . . 667--698
             Julian Keilson and   
                   S. Subba Rao   A Process with Chain Dependent Growth
                                  Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--711
                  M. W. Suh and   
        B. B. Bhattacharyya and   
                    A. Grandage   On the Distribution and Moments of the
                                  Strength of a Bundle of Filaments  . . . 712--720
               Simeon M. Berman   Occupation Times of Stationary Gaussian
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--733
             Kenny S. Crump and   
                  David G. Hoel   Some Applications of Renewal Theory on
                                  the Whole Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734--746
         Donald L. Iglehart and   
             Douglas P. Kennedy   Weak Convergence of the Average of Flag
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--753
         Augustus J. Fabens and   
                Marcel F. Neuts   The Limiting Distribution of the Maximum
                                  Term in a Sequence of Random Variables
                                  Defined on a Markov Chain  . . . . . . . 754--760
                  H. J. Helgert   On Sums of Random Variables Defined on a
                                  Two-State Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . 761--765
                  P. B. M. Roes   On the Expected Number of Crossings of a
                                  Level in Certain Stochastic Processes    766--770
                   I. V. Basawa   On a Characterization Property of Finite
                                  Irreducible Markov Chains  . . . . . . . 771--775
                Sheldon M. Ross   Identifiability in GI/G/k Queues . . . . 776--780
                   A. J. Dobson   Interval Estimates of Language
                                  Divergence Times . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--784
                 Z. Ivkovic and   
                  M. Kocher and   
               C. V. Stanojevic   On Random $n$-Fold Coincidences  . . . . 785--787
                      Anonymous   Correction: Quasi-Stationary
                                  Distributions in Semi-Markov Processes   788--788
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1971

              Stephen D. Durham   Limit Theorems for a General Critical
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
             Edward W. Weissner   Multitype Branching Processes in Random
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31
                    A. G. Pakes   Branching Processes with Immigration . . 32--42
                      E. Seneta   On Invariant Measures for Simple
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 43--51
                    C. C. Heyde   Some Central Limit Analogues for
                                  Super-Critical Galton--Watson Processes  52--59
           Morton I. Kamien and   
              Nancy L. Schwartz   Expenditure Patterns for Risky R and D
                                  Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--73
                     Ward Whitt   Weak Convergence Theorems for Priority
                                  Queues: Preemptive-Resume Discipline . . 74--94
             Sreekantan S. Nair   A Single Server Tandem Queue . . . . . . 95--109
       Ora Engelberg Percus and   
               Jerome K. Percus   Generating Functions for a Class of
                                  One-Dimensional Random Walks . . . . . . 110--117
                    A. Papoulis   High Density Shot Noise and Gaussianity  118--127
                    D. J. Daley   The Definition of a Multi-Dimensional
                                  Generalization of Shot Noise . . . . . . 128--135
              Sidney I. Resnick   Tail Equivalence and Its Applications    136--156
               E. J. Hannan and   
                  P. J. Thomson   Spectral Inference over Narrow Bands . . 157--169
                 A. J. Lawrance   Selective Interaction of a Poisson and
                                  Renewal Process: The Dependency
                                  Structure of the Intervals between
                                  Responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--183
              S. Blumenthal and   
            J. A. Greenwood and   
                     L. Herbach   Superimposed Non-Stationary Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--192
                   I. V. Basawa   Some Models Based on the Interaction of
                                  Two Independent Markovian Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--197
            R. M. Phatarfod and   
                T. P. Speed and   
                   A. M. Walker   A Note on Random Walks . . . . . . . . . 198--201
                  B. W. Conolly   Some Applications of the Theory of
                                  Infinite Capacity Service Systems to a
                                  Single Server System with Linearly State
                                  Dependent Service  . . . . . . . . . . . 202--207
              C. L. Mallows and   
                 J. M. C. Clark   Corrections to
                                  ``\booktitleLinear-Intercept
                                  Distributions Do Not Characterize Plane
                                  Sets'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--209
                        J. Gani   Obituary: Sir Edward Collingwood . . . . 211+213--214
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 1971

             Byron J. T. Morgan   On the Solution of Differential
                                  Equations Arising in Some Attachment
                                  Models of Virology . . . . . . . . . . . 215--221
                 M. S. Bartlett   Physical Nearest-Neighbour Models and
                                  Non-Linear Time-Series . . . . . . . . . 222--232
                  David Sankoff   Branching Processes with Terminal Types:
                                  Application to Context-Free Grammars . . 233--240
        Jacqueline Loris-Teghem   On the Waiting Time Distribution in a
                                  Generalized GI/G/1 Queueing System . . . 241--251
                    Izzet Sahin   Equilibrium Behavior of a Stochastic
                                  System with Secondary Input  . . . . . . 252--260
                   Leonard Shaw   Busy Periods in Vehicle Queues . . . . . 261--268
              W. J. Padgett and   
                   C. P. Tsokos   On a Stochastic Integral Equation of the
                                  Volterra Type in Telephone Traffic
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--275
                 J. P. Lehoczky   A Note on the First Emptiness Time of an
                                  Infinite Reservoir with Inputs Forming a
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--284
              Paul I. Feder and   
                  Thomas Stroud   Sequential Decisions in the Control of a
                                  Space-Ship (Terminal Cost Proportional
                                  to Magnitude of Miss Distance) . . . . . 285--297
                Chris P. Tsokos   The Method of V. M. Popov for
                                  Differential Systems with Random
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--310
             Richard L. Tweedie   Truncation Procedures for Non-Negative
                                  Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--320
            Lajos Takács   On the Comparison of a Theoretical and
                                  an Empirical Distribution Function . . . 321--330
                   Prem S. Puri   A Method for Studying the Integral
                                  Functionals of Stochastic Processes with
                                  Applications: I. Markov Chain Case . . . 331--343
                    T. G. Kurtz   Limit Theorems for Sequences of Jump
                                  Markov Processes Approximating Ordinary
                                  Differential Processes . . . . . . . . . 344--356
                     Petr Mandl   Some Results on Markovian Replacement
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--365
                F. K. Hwang and   
                         S. Lin   On Generating a Random Sequence  . . . . 366--373
               A. E. Gibson and   
                  B. W. Conolly   On Certain Unrestricted, Linear, Unit
                                  Step, Continuous Time Random Walks . . . 374--380
                   P. J. Pedler   Occupation Times for Two State Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--390
                 Julian Keilson   Log-Concavity and Log-Convexity in
                                  Passage Time Densities of Diffusion and
                                  Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . 391--398
                Frank B. Knight   Some Condensation Processes of McKean
                                  Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--406
                    R. A. Doney   The Progeny of a Branching Process . . . 407--412
            William K. Hall and   
                Ralph L. Disney   Finite Queues in Parallel under a
                                  Generalized Channel Selection Rule . . . 413--416
                     Ward Whitt   Weak Convergence of First Passage Time
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--422
                Arne Jensen and   
                  David Kendall   Denumerable Markov Processes with
                                  Bounded Generators: A Routine for
                                  Calculating $ p_{ij}(\infty) $ . . . . . 423--427
                  R. J. Tomkins   On an Inequality of Heyde  . . . . . . . 428--429
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Corrections: An Extension of the
                                  Hájek--Rényi Inequality for the Case
                                  without Moment Conditions  . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 1971

                      J. Durbin   Boundary-Crossing Probabilities for the
                                  Brownian Motion and Poisson Processes
                                  and Techniques for Computing the Power
                                  of the Kolmogorov--Smirnov Test  . . . . 431--453
               C. D. Cushen and   
                   R. L. Hudson   A Quantum-Mechanical Central Limit
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--469
                   S. J. Galley   A Stochastic Model for the Formation of
                                  a Planetary System . . . . . . . . . . . 470--479
               Hisashi Mine and   
                 Katsuhisa Ohno   Traffic Light Queues as a Generalization
                                  to Queueing Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 480--493
                E. K. Kyprianou   On the Quasi-Stationary Distribution of
                                  the Virtual Waiting Time in Queues with
                                  Poisson Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--507
             Shelby L. Brumelle   On the Relation between Customer and
                                  Time Averages in Queues  . . . . . . . . 508--520
               Donald Gross and   
             Carl M. Harris and   
               James A. Lechner   Stochastic Inventory Models with Bulk
                                  Demand and State-Dependent Leadtimes . . 521--534
         Kneale T. Marshall and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   Customer Average and Time Average Queue
                                  Lengths and Waiting Times  . . . . . . . 535--542
               Richard V. Evans   Programming Problems and Changes in the
                                  Stable Behavior of a Class of Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--550
                      R. Morton   On the Optimal Control of Stationary
                                  Diffusion Processes with Inaccessible
                                  Boundaries and no Discounting  . . . . . 551--560
                      R. Morton   On the Optimal Control of Stationary
                                  Diffusion Processes with Natural
                                  Boundaries and Discounted Cost . . . . . 561--572
                   Barry Belkin   First Passage to a General Threshold for
                                  a Process Corresponding to Sampling at
                                  Poisson Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--588
             Krishna B. Athreya   A Note on a Functional Equation Arising
                                  in Galton--Watson Branching Processes    589--598
                   G. C. Taylor   Moments in Markovian Systems with Lumped
                                  States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--605
                  Olavi Hellman   Optimal Search for a Randomly Moving
                                  Object in a Special Case . . . . . . . . 606--611
                   Jan Grandell   A Note on Linear Estimation of the
                                  Intensity in a Doubly Stochastic Poisson
                                  Field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--614
               R. C. Srivastava   On a Characterization of the Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--616
                Rasoul Haji and   
               Gordon F. Newell   A Relation between Stationary Queue and
                                  Waiting Time Distributions . . . . . . . 617--620
                Sheldon M. Ross   Goofspiel: The Game of Pure Strategy . . 621--625
                Michael Skalsky   A Note on the Estimation of the Mean of
                                  a Homogeneous Random Field . . . . . . . 626--629
             D. G. Tambouratzis   Study of a Special M/M/1 Queue . . . . . 630--631
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 1971

                  Edward Pollak   On Survival Probabilities and Extinction
                                  Times for Some Branching Processes . . . 633--654
                  M. L. Samuels   Distribution of the Branching-Process
                                  Population among Generations . . . . . . 655--667
                P. J. Staff and   
                M. K. Vagholkar   Stationary Distributions of Open Markov
                                  Processes in Discrete Time with
                                  Application to Hospital Planning . . . . 668--680
          János Galambos   On a Model for a Fair Distribution of
                                  Gifts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--690
            Lajos Takács   Discrete Queues with One Server  . . . . 691--707
                 Emlyn H. Lloyd   A Note on the Time-Dependent and the
                                  Stationary Behaviour of a Semi-Infinite
                                  Reservoir Subject to a Combination of
                                  Markovian Inflows  . . . . . . . . . . . 708--715
               A. E. Gibson and   
                  B. W. Conolly   On a Three-State Sojourn Time Problem    716--723
                    Mark Pinsky   Recurrence for Markov Processes on $N$
                                  Lines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724--730
                 A. J. Lawrance   Selective Interaction of a Poisson and
                                  Renewal Process: The Spectrum of the
                                  Intervals between Responses  . . . . . . 731--744
             James Pickands III   The Two-Dimensional Poisson Process and
                                  Extremal Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 745--756
              G. S. Marliss and   
                 J. R. McGregor   The Construction of Limiting
                                  Distributions of Response Probabilities  757--766
                   E. J. Hannan   Non-Linear Time Series Regression  . . . 767--780
              Sidney I. Resnick   Products of Distribution Functions
                                  Attracted to Extreme Value Laws  . . . . 781--793
            Morris L. Eaton and   
                Carl Morris and   
                   Herman Rubin   On Extreme Stable Laws and Some
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794--801
          Howard G. Hochman and   
            Stephen E. Fienberg   Some Renewal Process Models for Single
                                  Neuron Discharge . . . . . . . . . . . . 802--808
                Edward A. Brill   Point Processes Arising in Vehicular
                                  Traffic Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--814
                    J. Gani and   
                    J. Lehoczky   An Asymptotic Result in Traffic Theory   815--820
                    J. W. Cohen   On the Busy Periods for the M/G/1 Queue
                                  with Finite and with Infinite Waiting
                                  Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--827
              Asha Seth Kapadia   The General $N$ Server Finite Queue  . . 828--834
                    Izzet Sahin   On the Single Server Queue with
                                  Preemptive Service Interruptions . . . . 835--837
            Arthur Nádas   Times to Intermittent and to Permanent
                                  Failures as Brownian Crossing Times  . . 838--840
                      M. Pagano   Some Asymptotic Properties of a
                                  Two-Dimensional Periodogram  . . . . . . 841--847
           L. Takács and   
                  John A. Hooke   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 848--849
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 9, Number 1, March, 1972

                  Norman Kaplan   A Theorem on Compositions of Random
                                  Probability Generating Functions and
                                  Applications to Branching Processes with
                                  Random Environments  . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
                   J. Radcliffe   An Immigration Super-Critical Branching
                                  Diffusion Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 13--23
                     Y. S. Yang   On Branching Processes Allowing
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--31
               John P. Mullooly   Maximum Likelihood Estimation for
                                  Stochastic $R$ th-Order Reactions  . . . 32--42
           S. K. Srinivasan and   
                   K. M. Mehata   A Stochastic Model for Polymer
                                  Degradation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--53
              B. Littlewood and   
                  J. L. Verrall   Equilibrium Distributions of Polymers on
                                  Sites Which Are Linearly Arrayed . . . . 54--64
                D. A. Griffiths   A Bivariate Birth-Death Process Which
                                  Approximates to the Spread of a Disease
                                  Involving a Vector . . . . . . . . . . . 65--75
                 M. S. Bartlett   Physical Nearest-Neighbour Models and
                                  Non-Linear Time-Series. II. Further
                                  Discussion of Approximate Solutions and
                                  Exact Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--86
                   Joseph Tomko   The Rate of Convergence in Limit
                                  Theorems for Service Systems with Finite
                                  Queue Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--102
                      H. Emmons   The Optimal Admission Policy to a
                                  Multiserver Queue with Finite Horizon    103--116
                E. K. Kyprianou   On the Quasi-Stationary Distributions of
                                  the GI/M/1 Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--128
                P. J. Brockwell   A Storage Model in Which the Net
                                  Growth-Rate Is a Markov Chain  . . . . . 129--139
       L. A. Santaló and   
                I. Yañez   Averages for Polygons Formed by Random
                                  Lines in Euclidean and Hyperbolic Planes 140--157
              J. N. Darroch and   
            Heather J. Whitford   Exact Fluctuation Results for
                                  Markov-Dependent Coin-Tossing  . . . . . 158--168
            Chris P. Tsokos and   
                   M. A. Hamdan   Stochastic Asymptotic Exponential
                                  Stability of Stochastic Integral
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
            Marcel F. Neuts and   
                  Shun-Zer Chen   The Infinite Server Queue with
                                  Semi-Markovian Arrivals and Negative
                                  Exponential Services . . . . . . . . . . 178--184
                     Ward Whitt   Complements to Heavy Traffic Limit
                                  Theorems for the GI/G/1 Queue  . . . . . 185--191
             Jan M. Chaiken and   
                  Edward Ignall   An Extension of Erlang's Formulas Which
                                  Distinguishes Individual Servers . . . . 192--197
              Krishan Lall Arya   Study of a Network of Serial and
                                  Non-Serial Servers with Phase Type
                                  Service and Finite Queueing Space  . . . 198--201
                Izzet Sahin and   
                  Oussama Achou   On the Limiting Behaviour of a Basic
                                  Stochastic Process . . . . . . . . . . . 202--207
               John F. Reynolds   On Linearly Regressive Processes . . . . 208--213
               John F. Reynolds   Some Theorems on the Transient
                                  Covariance of Markov Chains  . . . . . . 214--218
                 R. W. Shorrock   A Limit Theorem for Inter-Record Times   219--223
          János Galambos   Characterization of Certain Populations
                                  by Independence of Order Statistics  . . 224--230
                W. J. Hendricks   The Stationary Distribution of an
                                  Interesting Markov Chain . . . . . . . . 231--233
                      Anonymous   Correction: Study of a Special M/M/1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 1972

                C. C. Heyde and   
                      E. Seneta   Estimation Theory for Growth and
                                  Immigration Rates in a Multiplicative
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--256
                    J. Gani and   
                     D. Jerwood   The Cost of a General Stochastic
                                  Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
            R. M. Capocelli and   
                L. M. Ricciardi   On the Inverse of the First Passage Time
                                  Probability Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 270--287
             Richard F. Serfozo   Conditional Poisson Processes  . . . . . 288--302
             Richard F. Serfozo   Processes with Conditional Stationary
                                  Independent Increments . . . . . . . . . 303--315
                 R. W. Shorrock   On Record Values and Record Times  . . . 316--326
                N. S. Kambo and   
                    Samar Singh   Best Asymptotic Value of the Error
                                  Exponent with Random Coding on Discrete
                                  Memoryless Channels  . . . . . . . . . . 327--336
                   E. Laska and   
                 M. Meisner and   
                      C. Siegel   Contributions to the Theory of Optimal
                                  Resource Allocation  . . . . . . . . . . 337--359
                  J. C. Gittins   Some Problems of Stochastic Resource
                                  Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--369
             Douglas P. Kennedy   The Continuity of the Single Server
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--381
                 J. P. Lehoczky   Traffic Intersection Control and
                                  Zero-Switch Queues under Conditions of
                                  Markov Chain Dependence Input  . . . . . 382--395
                John H. Jenkins   The Relative Efficiency of Direct and
                                  Maximum Likelihood Estimates of Mean
                                  Waiting Time in the Simple Queue, M/M/1  396--403
                  H. G. Herbert   An Infinite Discrete Dam with Dependent
                                  Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--413
                     F. Downton   The Area under the Infectives Trajectory
                                  of the General Stochastic Epidemic . . . 414--417
                    J. E. Besag   Nearest-Neighbour Systems: A Lemma with
                                  Application to Bartlett's Global
                                  Solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--421
           E. Çinlar and   
                      M. Pinsky   On Dams with Additive Inputs and a
                                  General Release Rule . . . . . . . . . . 422--429
                  S. G. Mohanty   On Queues Involving Batches  . . . . . . 430--435
            A. D. Proudfoot and   
                  D. G. Lampard   A Random Walk Problem with Correlation   436--440
                Robert A. Agnew   Inequalities with Application in
                                  Economic Risk Analysis . . . . . . . . . 441--444
                Torgny Lindvall   Convergence of Critical Galton--Watson
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 445--450
             Lennart Råde   A Model for Interaction of a Poisson and
                                  a Renewal Process and Its Relation with
                                  Queuing Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--456
              M. Ahsanullah and   
                      M. Rahman   A Characterization of the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--461
                     Ward Whitt   Limits for the Superposition of
                                  $m$-Dimensional Point Processes  . . . . 462--465
               Jozef L. Teugels   An Example on Geometric Ergodicity of a
                                  Finite Markov Chain  . . . . . . . . . . 466--469
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 470--470
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 1972

             Richard J. Kryscio   The Transition Probabilities of the
                                  Extended Simple Stochastic Epidemic
                                  Model and the Haskey Model . . . . . . . 471--485
               W. A. O'N. Waugh   Taboo Extinction, Sojourn Times, and
                                  Asymptotic Growth for the Markovian
                                  Birth and Death Process  . . . . . . . . 486--506
                Barron Brainerd   On the Relation between Types and Tokens
                                  in Literary Text . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--518
              Andrew D. Barbour   The Principle of the Diffusion of
                                  Arbitrary Constants  . . . . . . . . . . 519--541
                   Jan Grandell   On the Estimation of Intensities in a
                                  Stochastic Process Generated by a
                                  Stochastic Intensity Sequence  . . . . . 542--556
              Hans Föllmer   Optimal Stopping of Constrained Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--571
                    D. J. Emery   Limiting Behaviour of the Distributions
                                  of the Maxima of Partial Sums of Certain
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--579
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Some Characterizations Based on the
                                  Bhattacharya Matrix  . . . . . . . . . . 580--587
                R. Schassberger   On the Work Load Process in a General
                                  Preemptive Resume Priority Queue . . . . 588--603
           S. K. Srinivasan and   
             R. Subramanian and   
                   R. Vasudevan   Correlation Functions in Queueing Theory 604--616
              Bruce W. Turnbull   Chebyshev-Like Inequalities for Dam
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--629
             Katsuhisa Ohno and   
                   Hisashi Mine   Traffic Light Queues with Dependent
                                  Arrivals as a Generalization to Queueing
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--641
        Jacqueline Loris-Teghem   On the Waiting Time Distribution in a
                                  Generalized Queueing System with
                                  Uniformly Bounded Sojourn Times  . . . . 642--649
                     Ward Whitt   Embedded Renewal Processes in the GI/G/s
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650--658
                   R. K. Watson   On an Epidemic in a Stratified
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--666
               John F. Reynolds   A Theorem on Markov Branching Processes  667--670
        David C. Flaspohler and   
                 Paul T. Holmes   Additional Quasi-Stationary
                                  Distributions for Semi-Markov Processes  671--676
                Sheldon M. Ross   On the Maximum of a Stationary
                                  Independent Increment Process  . . . . . 677--680
                Leon Podkaminer   On the Distribution of the Number of
                                  Cyclically Occurring Random Events . . . 681--683
                   P. Ghosh and   
                 D. N. Shanbhag   A Note on the Characterization of a
                                  U-Shaped Probability Density Function    684--685
                      Anonymous   Correction: Non-Linear Time Series
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686--686
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 1972

             Peter Clifford and   
                  Aidan Sudbury   The Linear Cell-Size-Dependent Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--696
               Howard J. Weiner   A Multi-Type Critical Age-Dependent
                                  Branching Process with Immigration . . . 697--706
                    R. A. Doney   A Limit Theorem for a Class of
                                  Supercritical Branching Processes  . . . 707--724
          John Donelson III and   
                     Fred Maltz   A Comparison of Linear versus Non-Linear
                                  Prediction for Polynomial Functions of
                                  the Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process  . . . . 725--744
                       Roch Roy   Spectral Analysis for a Random Process
                                  on the Circle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--757
                 P. M. Robinson   Non-Linear Regression for Multiple
                                  Time-Series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758--768
               Barry Belkin and   
          Lawrence D. Stone and   
            Martin Avery Snyder   Crossing Problems for Non-Constant
                                  Thresholds and Certain Non-Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--788
           Choong K. Cheong and   
               Jozef L. Teugels   General Solidarity Theorems for
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 789--802
                 A. Ben-Tal and   
                     E. Hochman   More Bounds on the Expectation of a
                                  Convex Function of a Random Variable . . 803--812
                  Michael Orkin   Recursive Matrix Games . . . . . . . . . 813--820
                E. K. Kyprianou   The Quasi-Stationary Distributions of
                                  Queues in Heavy Traffic  . . . . . . . . 821--831
              P. Bloomfield and   
                      D. R. Cox   A Low Traffic Approximation for Queues   832--840
                Barry C. Arnold   The Waiting Time until First Duplication 841--846
                  L. Råde   Limit Theorems for Thinning of Renewal
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--851
                J. Aczél   On a Characterization of Poisson
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852--856
                    C. S. Smith   A Note on Boundary-Crossing
                                  Probabilities for the Brownian Motion    857--861
                   D. W. Balmer   A Single Server Queue in Discrete Time
                                  with Customers Served in Random Order    862--867
             Douglas P. Kennedy   A Note on the Number of Busy Servers in
                                  a GI/G/s Queue in Light Traffic  . . . . 868--869
                     J. L. Doob   Obituary: Paul Lévy . . . . . . . . . . . 871--872
                     F. Downton   A Correction to ``\booktitleThe Area
                                  under the Infectives Trajectory of the
                                  General Stochastic Epidemic''  . . . . . 873--876
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Limit Theorem for
                                  Inter-Record Times . . . . . . . . . . . 877--877
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 10, Number 1, March, 1973

                     E. Renshaw   Interconnected Population Processes  . . 1--14
                D. A. Griffiths   Multivariate Birth-and-Death Processes
                                  as Approximations to Epidemic Processes  15--26
                    L. L. Helms   Stochastic Formation of Hierarchies  . . 27--38
                    A. G. Pakes   Conditional Limit Theorems for a
                                  Left-Continuous Random Walk  . . . . . . 39--53
                 P. A. P. Moran   A Gaussian Markovian Process on a Square
                                  Lattice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--62
                   D. A. Dawson   Information Flow in Discrete Markov
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--83
             Richard L. Tweedie   The Calculation of Limit Probabilities
                                  for Denumerable Markov Processes from
                                  Infinitesimal Properties . . . . . . . . 84--99
                    S. Beer and   
                      E. Lukacs   Characterizations of the Normal
                                  Distribution by Suitable Transformations 100--108
                Torgny Lindvall   Weak Convergence of Probability Measures
                                  and Random Functions in the Function
                                  Space $ D[0, \infty) $ . . . . . . . . . 109--121
          János Galambos   The Distribution of the Maximum of a
                                  Random Number of Random Variables with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--129
                   E. J. Hannan   The Asymptotic Theory of Linear
                                  Time-Series Models . . . . . . . . . . . 130--145
                    C. C. Heyde   An Iterated Logarithm Result for
                                  Martingales and Its Application in
                                  Estimation Theory for Autoregressive
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--157
                     P. Whittle   An Approximate Characterisation of
                                  Optimal Stopping Boundaries  . . . . . . 158--165
            R. M. Phatarfod and   
                   K. V. Mardia   Some Results for Dams with Markovian
                                  Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--180
        Jacqueline Loris-Teghem   An Algebraic Approach to the Waiting
                                  Time Process in GI/M/S . . . . . . . . . 181--191
                    A. G. Pakes   On the Busy Period of the Modified
                                  GI/G/1 Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--197
                    R. A. Doney   On a Functional Equation for General
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 198--205
                      E. Seneta   The Simple Branching Process with
                                  Infinite Mean. I . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--212
                     P. A. Pegg   Some Ratio Identities for a Class of
                                  Skip Free Random Walks . . . . . . . . . 213--217
                    T. P. Speed   A Note on Random Walks. II . . . . . . . 218--222
                 Nils Blomqvist   A Heavy Traffic Result for the Finite
                                  Dam  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--228
                    T. P. Speed   Some Remarks on a Result of Blomqvist    229--232
             D. N. Shanbhag and   
             D. G. Tambouratzis   Erlang's Formula and Some Results on the
                                  Departure Process for a Loss System  . . 233--240
               Elizabeth Berman   Regular Stochastic Matrices and Digraphs 241--243
                 P. A. P. Moran   Obituary: Yu. V. Linnik  . . . . . . . . 245--246
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 10, Number 2, June, 1973

                 Andris Abakuks   An Optimal Isolation Policy for an
                                  Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262
                  Donald Ludwig   Stochastic Approximation for the General
                                  Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--276
                     L. Billard   Factorial Moments and Probabilities for
                                  the General Stochastic Epidemic  . . . . 277--288
              Aidan Sudbury and   
                 Peter Clifford   Some Results for General
                                  Cell-Size-Dependent Branching Processes  289--298
                   J. R. Leslie   Some Limit Theorems for Markov Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306
                    S. Katz and   
                    P. Naor and   
                     R. Shinnar   Moments of Age and Remaining Life in
                                  Renewal Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 307--316
                    A. G. Pakes   On Dams with Markovian Inputs  . . . . . 317--329
                 J. P. Lehoczky   First-Emptiness Problems in Applied
                                  Probability under First-Order Dependent
                                  Input and General Output Conditions  . . 330--342
                    J. W. Cohen   Some Results on Regular Variation for
                                  Distributions in Queueing and
                                  Fluctuation Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 343--353
            J. Michael Harrison   Assembly-like Queues . . . . . . . . . . 354--367
               Donald R. McNeil   Diffusion Limits for Congestion Models   368--376
                Allan H. Marcus   Traffic Noise as a Filtered Markov
                                  Renewal Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--386
          Sidney I. Resnick and   
                  R. J. Tomkins   Almost Sure Stability of Maxima  . . . . 387--401
             Chandrakant M. Deo   An Iterated Logarithm Law for Maxima of
                                  Nonstationary Gaussian Processes . . . . 402--408
            R. S. Anderssen and   
              F. R. De Hood and   
                       R. Weiss   On the Numerical Solution of Brownian
                                  Motion Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--418
            David R. Brillinger   Estimation of the Mean of a Stationary
                                  Time Series by Sampling  . . . . . . . . 419--431
                    C. Cannings   The Equivalence of Some Overlapping and
                                  Non-Overlapping Generation Models for
                                  the Study of Genetic Drift . . . . . . . 432--436
                Basil Diamantis   An Application of the Generating
                                  Function to the Solution of a Genetic
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--440
               John P. Mullooly   Maximum Likelihood Estimation for
                                  Stochastic $r$ th-Order Reactions. II    441--446
                     Y. S. Yang   Asymptotic Properties of the Stationary
                                  Measure of a Markov Branching Process    447--450
                B. M. Brown and   
                 G. K. Eagleson   Simpler Conditions for Wald Equations    451--455
                  J. C. Gittins   Observations on a Result in Sequential
                                  Analysis by P. Whittle . . . . . . . . . 456--460
            A. D. Proudfoot and   
                  D. G. Lampard   The Divided Pooled Output of Several
                                  Strictly-Periodic Point Processes  . . . 461--463
             Bhu Dev Sharma and   
                      Ram Autar   On Characterization of a Generalized
                                  Inaccuracy Measure in Information Theory 464--468
              E. L. Melnick and   
                    S. Kullback   An Application of the Minimum
                                  Discrimination Information Estimate to
                                  Compute Log-Likelihood Ratios  . . . . . 469--474
                T. J. Brown and   
                   J. C. Hardin   A Note on Kendall's Autoregressive
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--478
                   H. Ruben and   
                     W. J. Reed   A More General Form of a Theorem of
                                  Crofton  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--482
                 P. A. P. Moran   The Random Volume of Interpenetrating
                                  Spheres in Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--490
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 10, Number 3, September, 1973

                   Niels Becker   Carrier-Borne Epidemics in a Community
                                  Consisting of Different Groups . . . . . 491--501
                   R. L. Hudson   A Quantum-Mechanical Central Limit
                                  Theorem for Anti-Commuting Observables   502--509
                   E. J. Hannan   The Estimation of Frequency  . . . . . . 510--519
                   B. D. Craven   The Spectral Density of a Markov Process 520--527
            Laurens de Haan and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Almost Sure Limit Points of Record
                                  Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--542
                 R. W. Shorrock   Record Values and Inter-Record Times . . 543--555
     Dariush Haghighi-Talab and   
             Christopher Wright   On the Distribution of Records in a
                                  Finite Sequence of Observations, with an
                                  Application to a Road Traffic Problem    556--571
             Gordon Pledger and   
                 Frank Proschan   Stochastic Comparisons of Random
                                  Processes, with Applications in
                                  Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572--585
               Pranab Kumar Sen   An Asymptotically Efficient Test for the
                                  Bundle Strength of Filaments . . . . . . 586--596
               Matthew J. Sobel   Continuous Stochastic Games  . . . . . . 597--604
                 P. A. P. Moran   Necessary Conditions for Markovian
                                  Processes on a Lattice . . . . . . . . . 605--612
            J. Michael Harrison   The Heavy Traffic Approximation for
                                  Single Server Queues in Series . . . . . 613--629
               Michael A. Crane   Queues in Transportation Systems, I: A
                                  Markovian System . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--643
                   Peter Purdue   Non-Linear Matrix Integral Equations of
                                  Volterra Type in Queueing Theory . . . . 644--651
                   J. Radcliffe   The Asymptotic Frequencies of the Types
                                  in a Multitype Age-Dependent Branching
                                  Process Allowing Immigration . . . . . . 652--658
              Donald C. Raffety   Random Environment Branching Processes
                                  with Equal Environmental Extinction
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--665
             S. G. S. Shiva and   
                N. U. Ahmed and   
                N. D. Georganas   Order Preserving Measures of Information 666--670
                 D. C. Boes and   
            J. D. Salas-La Cruz   On the Expected Range and Expected
                                  Adjusted Range of Partial Sums of
                                  Exchangeable Random Variables  . . . . . 671--677
        Erhan Çinlar and   
                   Peter Jagers   Two Mean Values Which Characterize the
                                  Poisson Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--681
                   P. L. Davies   A Class of Almost Nowhere Differentiable
                                  Stationary Gaussian Processes Which Are
                                  Somewhere Differentiable . . . . . . . . 682--684
                 Woolcott Smith   Shot Noise Generated by a Semi-Markov
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--690
                   O. P. Sharma   A Model for Queues in Series . . . . . . 691--696
             P. J. Burville and   
               J. F. C. Kingman   On a Model for Storage and Search  . . . 697--701
                      Anonymous   Correction: Crossing Problems for
                                  Non-Constant Thresholds and Certain
                                  Non-Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . 702--702
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 1973

                   J. Radcliffe   The Initial Geographical Spread of
                                  Host-Vector and Carrier-Borne Epidemics  703--717
                   S. Raman and   
                   C. L. Chiang   On a Solution of the Migration Process
                                  and the Application to a Problem in
                                  Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718--727
                     Ilan Eshel   Clone-Selection and Optimal Rates of
                                  Mutation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728--738
            P. J. Brockwell and   
                      W. H. Kuo   Labelling Experiments and Phase-Age
                                  Distributions for Multiphase Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--747
              J. C. Gittins and   
                    M. J. Maher   A Generalised Incomplete Beta Function
                                  and Its Application to Multi-Line Stock
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--760
                 Mark Brown and   
                Herbert Solomon   Optimal Issuing Policies under
                                  Stochastic Field Lives . . . . . . . . . 761--768
                 Richard Loulou   Multi-Channel Queues in Heavy Traffic    769--777
              Stig I. Rosenlund   An M/G/1 Model with Finite Waiting Room
                                  in Which a Customer Remains during Part
                                  of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778--785
                       M. Henke   Expectations and Variances of Stopping
                                  Variables in Sequential Selection
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786--806
                    M. Westcott   Results in the Asymptotic and
                                  Equilibrium Theory of Poisson Cluster
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--823
                Rudolf Ahlswede   Channel Capacities for List Codes  . . . 824--836
                 P. A. P. Moran   A Central Limit Theorem for Exchangeable
                                  Variates with Geometric Applications . . 837--846
                Lauri Saretsalo   On the Optimal Search for a Target Whose
                                  Motion Is a Markov Process . . . . . . . 847--856
                     Marc Moore   Non-Stationary Random Set Processes with
                                  Application to Pattern Reconstruction    857--863
              Sidney I. Resnick   Extremal Processes and Record Value
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864--868
                    L. M. Marsh   An Expansion for the Distribution
                                  Function of a Random Sum . . . . . . . . 869--874
            S. R. Paranjape and   
                        C. Park   Distribution of the Supremum of the
                                  Two-Parameter Yeh--Wiener Process on the
                                  Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--880
                        H. Tong   Some Comments on Spectral
                                  Representations of Non-Stationary
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 881--885
                W. J. Hendricks   An Extension of a Theorem concerning an
                                  Interesting Markov Chain . . . . . . . . 886--890
                     H. P. Wynn   Limiting Second Moments for Transient
                                  States of Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . 891--894
              Murray A. Cameron   A Note on Functions of Markov Processes
                                  with an Application to a Sequence of $
                                  \chi^2 $ Statistics  . . . . . . . . . . 895--900
            Tapan P. Bagchi and   
             J. G. C. Templeton   A Note on the M$^X$ /G$^Y$ /1, $K$ Bulk
                                  Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--906
            J. Michael Harrison   A Limit Theorem for Priority Queues in
                                  Heavy Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--912
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Asymptotic Theory of
                                  Linear Time-Series Models  . . . . . . . 913--913
                      Anonymous   Correction: On Characterization of a
                                  Generalized Inaccuracy Measure in
                                  Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 913--913
                      Anonymous   Note to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . 914--914
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 1974

                   Louis Jensen   Solving a Singular Diffusion Equation
                                  Occurring in Population Genetics . . . . 1--15
                     E. Renshaw   Stepping Stone Models for Population
                                  Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--31
              Annette J. Dobson   Unrooted Trees for Numerical Taxonomy    32--42
          V. R. R. Uppuluri and   
                     W. J. Blot   Asymptotic Properties of the Number of
                                  Replications of a Paired Comparison  . . 43--52
                        H. Tong   On Time-Dependent Linear Transformations
                                  of Non-Stationary Stochastic Processes   53--62
            R. F. Galbraith and   
                J. I. Galbraith   On the Inverses of Some Patterned
                                  Matrices Arising in the Theory of
                                  Stationary Time Series . . . . . . . . . 63--71
                  S. M. Samuels   A Characterization of the Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--85
              Bernard J. McCabe   Searching for a One-Dimensional Random
                                  Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--93
                 Masao Nakamura   Some Limit Theorems for a Class of
                                  Network Problems as Related to Finite
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--101
            Toshio Nakagawa and   
                   Shunji Osaki   Optimum Replacement Policies with Delay  102--110
                    M. J. Faddy   Optimal Control of Finite Dams: Discrete
                                  ($2$-Stage) Output Procedure . . . . . . 111--121
                      G. F. Yeo   A Finite Dam with Exponential Release    122--133
               S. K. Srinivasan   Analytic Solution of a Finite Dam
                                  Governed by a General Input  . . . . . . 134--144
               Michael A. Crane   Queues in Transportation Systems, II: An
                                  Independently-Dispatched System  . . . . 145--158
                   D. P. Heyman   An Approximation for the Busy Period of
                                  the M/G/1 Queue Using a Diffusion Model  159--169
                   J. Radcliffe   A Note on the Recurrence of Yellow Fever
                                  Epidemics in Urban Populations . . . . . 170--173
                   Peter Jagers   Galton--Watson Processes in Varying
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--178
                  C. L. Mallows   Another Definition of Genealogical
                                  Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
                    G. Matheron   Un Théor\`eme d'Unicité Pour Les
                                  Hyperplans Poissoniens. (French) [A
                                  uniqueness theorem for Poissonian
                                  hyperplanes] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--189
                 M. B. Rajarshi   Success Runs in a Two-State Markov Chain 190--192
               Edward P. C. Kao   A Note on the First Two Moments of Times
                                  in Transient States in a Semi-Markov
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--198
                   Noel Cressie   A Two-Dimensional Random Walk in the
                                  Presence of a Partially Reflecting
                                  Barrier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--205
                P. J. Brockwell   Deviations from Monotonicity of a Wiener
                                  Process with Drift . . . . . . . . . . . 206--210
                 D. N. Shanbhag   An Elementary Proof for the Rao--Rubin
                                  Characterization of the Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--215
                    J. S. Huang   On a Theorem of Ahsanullah and Rahman    216--218
          János Galambos   A Limit Theorem with Applications in
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
                      Anonymous   Correction: Multivariate Birth-and-Death
                                  Processes as Approximations to Epidemic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 1974

                  Norman Kaplan   Multidimensional Age-Dependent Branching
                                  Processes Allowing Immigration: The
                                  Limiting Distribution  . . . . . . . . . 225--236
               W. A. O'N. Waugh   Modes of Growth of Counting Processes
                                  with Increasing Arrival Rates  . . . . . 237--247
               W. A. O'N. Waugh   Asymptotic Growth of a Class of
                                  Size-and-Age-Dependent Birth Processes   248--254
                  J. C. Gittins   Resource Allocation in Speculative
                                  Chemical Research  . . . . . . . . . . . 255--265
              Shoichi Nishimura   Random Collision Processes and Their
                                  Limiting Distribution Using the
                                  Discrimination Information . . . . . . . 266--280
                 Peter J. Cooke   Bounds for Coverage Probabilities with
                                  Applications to Sequential Coverage
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--293
                   Norman Starr   Optimal and Adaptive Stopping Based on
                                  Capture Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--301
                N. U. Ahmed and   
                      K. L. Teo   Optimal Feedback Control of Stochastic
                                  McShane Differential Systems . . . . . . 302--309
                  Valerie Isham   The Effect of Intermittent Exposure to
                                  Risk on Failure Time Distributions . . . 310--319
          Hans D. Unkelbach and   
                 Helmut Wegmann   The Number of Meetings in Free Poisson
                                  Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--331
                  H. G. Herbert   Some Approximate Results for Storage
                                  Systems with Continuous Inputs . . . . . 332--344
                    Bent Natvig   On the Transient State Probabilities for
                                  a Queueing Model Where Potential
                                  Customers Are Discouraged by Queue
                                  Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--354
             Douglas P. Kennedy   Limiting Diffusions for the Conditioned
                                  M/G/1 Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--362
                  Samuel Litwin   The Distribution on the Shortest
                                  Distance between Random Cuts on Opposite
                                  Strands of DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--368
                B. F. Logan and   
                    L. A. Shepp   A Birth and Death Model of Neuron Firing 369--373
                     Marc Moore   Anisotropically Random Mosaics . . . . . 374--376
                 P. Whittle and   
                       J. Rudge   The Optimal Linear Solution of a
                                  Symmetric Team Control Problem . . . . . 377--381
              Jan-Erik Karlsson   A Stochastic Model for Time Lag in
                                  Reporting of Claims  . . . . . . . . . . 382--387
                Herman Callaert   Geometric and Exponential Decay in
                                  Derived Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . 388--393
            B. J. N. Blight and   
                   J. L. Devore   The Recursive Estimation of a Markov
                                  Chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--400
                   K. C. Chanda   Strong Mixing Properties of Linear
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 401--408
              Matthew Goldstein   Some Inequalities on Variances . . . . . 409--412
               Joseph B. Kadane   A Characterization of Triangular Arrays
                                  Which Are Expectations of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--416
                Sheldon M. Ross   Bounds on the Delay Distribution in
                                  GI/G/1 Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--421
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 1974

             Byron J. T. Morgan   On the Distribution of Inanimate Marks
                                  over a Linear Birth-and-Death Process    423--436
           Beno\^\it Mandelbrot   A Population Birth-and-Mutation Process,
                                  I: Explicit Distributions for the Number
                                  of Mutants in an Old Culture of Bacteria 437--444
           Jenö Gazdag and   
             José Canosa   Numerical Solution of Fisher's Equation  445--457
               Howard J. Weiner   Total Progeny in a Multitype Critical
                                  Age Dependent Branching Process with
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--470
                   Peter Jagers   Convergence of General Branching
                                  Processes and Functionals Thereof  . . . 471--478
                  R. Hafner and   
                     W. Sendler   Some Asymptotic Results on Multiple
                                  Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--492
             Alan G. Hawkes and   
                    David Oakes   A Cluster Process Representation of a
                                  Self-Exciting Process  . . . . . . . . . 493--503
                Mark C. K. Yang   Recognizing the Maximum of a Random
                                  Sequence Based on Relative Rank with
                                  Backward Solicitation  . . . . . . . . . 504--512
             D. M. Titterington   An Example of a Perturbation-Type
                                  Extremum Controller  . . . . . . . . . . 513--520
           Domokos Szász   A Limit Theorem for Semi-Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--528
            Horand Störmer   On the Distribution of Attributes in
                                  Organizations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--543
   Julian Köllerström   Heavy Traffic Theory for Queues with
                                  Several Servers. I . . . . . . . . . . . 544--552
                   Pyke Tin and   
                R. M. Phatarfod   On Infinite Dams with Inputs Forming a
                                  Stationary Process . . . . . . . . . . . 553--561
                   J. Radcliffe   The Periodicity of Endemic Malaria . . . 562--567
                     L. Billard   The Recurrent Epidemic . . . . . . . . . 568--571
                C. C. Heyde and   
                      E. Seneta   Notes on ``\booktitleEstimation Theory
                                  for Growth and Immigration Rates in a
                                  Multiplicative Process'' . . . . . . . . 572--577
               Herbert T. Davis   Asymptotic Properties of Certain
                                  Functionals of the Periodogram . . . . . 578--581
                  G. L. O'Brien   Limit Theorems for Sums of
                                  Chain-Dependent Processes  . . . . . . . 582--587
                    J. P. Imhof   Runs of a Discrete Time Regenerative
                                  Phenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--593
                   D. A. Dawson   Information Flow in Some Classes of
                                  Markov Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--600
                      Pedro Vit   On the Equivalence of Certain Truncated
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--604
                    J. S. Huang   Characterizations of the Exponential
                                  Distribution by Order Statistics . . . . 605--608
                   A. C. Dallas   A Characterization of the Geometric
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--611
            Lajos Takács   A Single-Server Queue with Limited
                                  Virtual Waiting Time . . . . . . . . . . 612--617
                  B. W. Conolly   The Generalised State-Dependent
                                  Erlangian Queue: The Busy Period . . . . 618--623
                R. M. Phatarfod   Note on the Reversible Counters System
                                  of Lampard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--628
               Michael A. Crane   Multi-Server Assembly Queues . . . . . . 629--632
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1974

                    C. Cannings   Genetic Drift with Polygamy and
                                  Arbitrary Offspring Distribution . . . . 633--641
                     D. Jerwood   The Cost of a Carrier-Borne Epidemic . . 642--651
                A. G. Pakes and   
                  Norman Kaplan   On the Subcritical Bellman--Harris
                                  Process with Immigration . . . . . . . . 652--668
                     D. R. Grey   Asymptotic Behaviour of Continuous Time,
                                  Continuous State-Space Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--677
            Edgar Z. Ganuza and   
                   S. D. Durham   Mean-Square and Almost-Sure Convergence
                                  of Supercritical Age-Dependent Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--686
               Jean-Pierre Dion   Estimation of the Mean and the Initial
                                  Probabilities of a Branching Process . . 687--694
              K. B. Athreya and   
        P. R. Parthasarathy and   
            G. Sankaranarayanan   Supercritical Age-Dependent Branching
                                  Processes with Immigration . . . . . . . 695--702
              Shoichi Nishimura   Random Collision Processes with
                                  Transition Probabilities Belonging to
                                  the Same Type of Distribution  . . . . . 703--714
                 M. S. Bartlett   Physical Nearest-Neighbour Models and
                                  Non-Linear Time-Series: III Non-Zero
                                  Means and Sub-Critical Temperatures  . . 715--725
             Richard L. Tweedie   Quasi-Stationary Distributions for
                                  Markov Chains on a General State Space   726--741
             Donald L. Iglehart   Random Walks with Negative Drift
                                  Conditioned to Stay Positive . . . . . . 742--751
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Some Extensions of Takác's Limit Theorems 752--761
                H. A. David and   
                    J. Galambos   The Asymptotic Theory of Concomitants of
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--770
            Jacob Grinstein and   
            Michael Rubinovitch   Queues with Random Service Output: The
                                  Case of Poisson Arrivals . . . . . . . . 771--784
                   Oliver S. Yu   Stochastic Bounds for
                                  Heterogeneous-Server Queues with Erlang
                                  Service Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--796
                     F. Garwood   The Vectorial Representation of the
                                  Frequency of Encounters of Freely
                                  Flowing Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--808
                   S. D. Durham   Limiting Distributions for the General
                                  Branching Process with Immigration . . . 809--813
                    A. G. Pakes   On Supercritical Galton--Watson
                                  Processes Allowing Immigration . . . . . 814--817
            Gérard Letac   Transience and Recurrence of an
                                  Interesting Markov Chain . . . . . . . . 818--824
                 D. C. McNickle   The Number of Departures from a
                                  Semi-Markov Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . 825--828
              Dean Isaacson and   
                 Richard Madsen   Positive Columns for Stochastic Matrices 829--835
                Laurens De Haan   Weak Limits of Sample Range  . . . . . . 836--841
                  Nasser Hadidi   Busy Period of Queues with State
                                  Dependent Arrival and Service Rates  . . 842--848
              Austin J. Lemoine   On Two Stationary Distributions for the
                                  Stable GI/G/1 Queue  . . . . . . . . . . 849--852
                 T. Gergely and   
          T. L. Török   On the Busy Period of Discrete-Time
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--857
                 P. S. Collings   Dams with Random Outputs . . . . . . . . 858--861
                      Anonymous   Corrections: On the Distribution of
                                  Inanimate Marks over a Linear
                                  Birth-and-Death Process  . . . . . . . . 862--862
                      Anonymous   Corrections: The Generalised
                                  State-Dependent Erlangian Queue: The
                                  Busy Period  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--862
                      Anonymous   Corrections: Some Asymptotic Results on
                                  Multiple Matching  . . . . . . . . . . . 862--862
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 863--865
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 1975

                   Prem S. Puri   A Linear Birth and Death Process under
                                  the Influence of Another Process . . . . 1--17
             M. S. A-Hameed and   
                    F. Proschan   Shock Models with Underlying Birth
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--28
                     L. Billard   General Stochastic Epidemic with
                                  Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--38
                   Alan Agresti   On the Extinction Times of Varying and
                                  Random Environment Branching Processes   39--46
              Norman Kaplan and   
              Aidan Sudbury and   
               Trygve S. Nilsen   A Branching Process with Disasters . . . 47--59
              Mioara Buiculescu   On Quasi-Stationary Distributions for
                                  Multi-Type Galton--Watson Processes  . . 60--68
                    David Oakes   The Markovian Self-Exciting Process  . . 69--77
                 L. Adamopoulos   Some Counting and Interval Properties of
                                  the Mutually-Exciting Processes  . . . . 78--86
                   D. W. Balmer   On a Quickest Detection Problem with
                                  Costly Information . . . . . . . . . . . 87--97
               K. Gopalsamy and   
            A. T. Bharucha-Reid   On a Class of Parabolic Differential
                                  Equations Driven by Stochastic Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--106
                John A. Beekman   Asymptotic Distributions for the
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process  . . . . . . 107--114
                   S. D. Sharma   On a Continuous/Discrete Time Queueing
                                  System with Arrivals in Batches of
                                  Variable Size and Correlated Departures  115--129
                  Norman Kaplan   A Note on the Age-Dependent Branching
                                  Process with Immigration . . . . . . . . 130--134
              Niels Keiding and   
                John E. Nielsen   Branching Processes with Varying and
                                  Random Geometric Offspring Distributions 135--141
                Barry C. Arnold   Multivariate Exponential Distributions
                                  Based on Hierarchical Successive Damage  142--147
                Mark C. K. Yang   On the Distribution of the Inter-Record
                                  Times in an Increasing Population  . . . 148--154
                   M. Goldstein   Some Remarks on Probability Inequalities
                                  for Sums of Bounded Convex Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--158
          Sidney I. Resnick and   
            Michael Rubinovitch   The Behavior near the Origin of the
                                  Supremum Functional in a Process with
                                  Stationary Independent Increments  . . . 159--160
             Richard L. Tweedie   Truncation Approximation of the Limit
                                  Probabilities for Denumerable
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 161--163
                Aaron Tenenbein   Distribution of Minimum Path . . . . . . 164--166
                    Mats Rudemo   Some Non-Stationary Point Processes with
                                  Stationary Forward Recurrence Time
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169
                     Jean Jacod   Two Dependent Poisson Processes Whose
                                  Sum Is Still a Poisson Process . . . . . 170--172
                    C. C. Heyde   A Supplement to the Strong Law of Large
                                  Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
                 G. K. Eagleson   On Gordin's Central Limit Theorem for
                                  Stationary Processes . . . . . . . . . . 176--179
              Jay C. Hardin and   
                Thomas J. Brown   Further Results on Kendall's
                                  Autoregressive Series  . . . . . . . . . 180--182
            Michael F. Driscoll   The Signal-Noise Problem: A Solution for
                                  the Case That Signal and Noise Are
                                  Gaussian and Independent . . . . . . . . 183--187
                 C. W. Anderson   Weak Convergence in an Appointment
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--194
                    K. C. Madan   On a Certain Type of Network of Queues   195--200
              Stig I. Rosenlund   Busy Period of a Finite Queue with Phase
                                  Type Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--204
                      G. F. Yeo   A Finite Dam with Variable Release Rate  205--211
            P. J. Brockwell and   
                    K. L. Chung   Emptiness Times of a Dam with Stable
                                  Input and General Release Function . . . 212--217
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 1975

                     Fred Hoppe   Stationary Measures for Multitype
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 219--227
                B. M. Brown and   
                   J. I. Hewitt   Asymptotic Likelihood Theory for
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 228--238
              Shoichi Nishimura   An Inequality for a Metric in a Random
                                  Collision Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 239--247
                 Mynda Schreuer   Stochastic Pursuit-Evasion Games with
                                  Information Lag: I. Perfect Observation  248--256
             A. J. Lawrance and   
                 P. A. W. Lewis   Properties of the Bivariate Delayed
                                  Poisson Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--268
                Olav Kallenberg   Limits of Compound and Thinned Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--278
             N. Veraverbeke and   
                  J. L. Teugels   The Exponential Rate of Convergence of
                                  the Distribution of the Maximum of a
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--288
              Andrew D. Barbour   Limit Theorems for Processes Such as the
                                  Markov Branching Process . . . . . . . . 289--297
               Arie Hordijk and   
         Paul J. Schweitzer and   
                     Henk Tijms   The Asymptotic Behaviour of the Minimal
                                  Total Expected Cost for the Denumerable
                                  State Markov Decision Model  . . . . . . 298--305
Vacláv Chvátal and   
                  David Sankoff   Longest Common Subsequences of Two
                                  Random Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--315
                 R. W. Shorrock   Extremal Processes and Random Measures   316--323
                      Allan Gut   Weak Convergence and First Passage Times 324--332
              Richard W. Madsen   Decidability of $ \alpha (P^k) > 0 $ for
                                  Some $k$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--340
                  Norman Kaplan   A Note on the Supercritical Generalized
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Process  . . . . 341--345
                R. Schassberger   Basic Analysis of a Head-of-the-Line
                                  Priority Queue with Renewal Type Input   346--352
                   Peter Purdue   A Queue with Poisson Input and
                                  Semi-Markov Service Times: Busy Period
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--357
                  B. W. Conolly   Generalized State-Dependent Erlangian
                                  Queues: Speculations about Calculating
                                  Measures of Effectiveness  . . . . . . . 358--363
             James L. Dolby and   
                Herbert Solomon   Information Density Phenomena and Random
                                  Packing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--370
                   Marek Kanter   Autoregression for Discrete Processes
                                  Mod 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--375
                   G. S. Davies   Maintainability of Structures in Markov
                                  Chain Models under Recruitment Control   376--382
                D. J. Daley and   
                    R. K. Milne   Orderliness, Intensities and
                                  Palm--Khinchin Equations for
                                  Multivariate Point Processes . . . . . . 383--389
                Felix Pollaczek   Order Statistics of Partial Sums of
                                  Mutually Independent Random Variables    390--395
                     P. Bremaud   An Extension of Watanabe's Theorem of
                                  Characterization of Poisson Processes
                                  over the Positive Real Half Line . . . . 396--399
        Ignacy I. Kotlarski and   
               William E. Hinds   Characterization Theorems Using
                                  Conditional Expectations . . . . . . . . 400--406
                      Ram Autar   On a Characterization of Information
                                  Improvement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--411
                 J. W. Thompson   A Note on the Lévy Distance . . . . . . . 412--414
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1975

             Richard J. Kryscio   The Transition Probabilities of the
                                  General Stochastic Epidemic Model  . . . 415--424
          Michael Woodroofe and   
                     Bruce Hill   On Zipf's Law  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--434
                  Valerie Isham   On a Point Process with Independent
                                  Locations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--446
                   Roy Saunders   Conservative Processes with Stochastic
                                  Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--456
                   W. F. Foster   Optimal Reserves Growth under a Wiener
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--465
                     V. Barnett   A Simple Random Walk on Parallel Axes
                                  Moving at Different Rates  . . . . . . . 466--476
                 Ishay Weissman   Multivariate Extremal Processes
                                  Generated by Independent Non-Identically
                                  Distributed Random Variables . . . . . . 477--487
                        H. Tong   Determination of the Order of a Markov
                                  Chain by Akaike's Information Criterion  488--497
                G. G. S. Pegram   A Multinomial Model for Transition
                                  Probability Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 498--506
                    Henry Braun   Polynomial Bounds for Probability
                                  Generating Functions . . . . . . . . . . 507--514
                   John T. Kent   A Weak Convergence Theorem for the
                                  Empirical Characteristic Function  . . . 515--523
                    Bent Natvig   On the Waiting-Time and Busy Period
                                  Distributions for a General
                                  Birth-and-Death Queueing Model . . . . . 524--532
                 P. S. Collings   Dams with Autoregressive Inputs  . . . . 533--541
                    F. P. Kelly   Networks of Queues with Customers of
                                  Different Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . 542--554
                    A. G. Pakes   On the Tails of Waiting-Time
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--564
                    K. Wickwire   A Note on the Optimal Control of
                                  Carrier-Borne Epidemics  . . . . . . . . 565--568
                   S. D. Durham   An Optimal Branching Migration Process   569--573
                 Warren W. Esty   The Reverse Galton--Watson Process . . . 574--580
               Howard J. Weiner   Conditional Moments in a Critical
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Process  . . . . 581--587
                B. M. Brown and   
                   J. I. Hewitt   Inference for the Diffusion Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--594
                 John P. Dirkse   An Absorption Probability for the
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process  . . . . . . 595--599
               Marlin U. Thomas   Some Mean First-Passage Time
                                  Approximations for the
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process  . . . . . . 600--604
                Joseph A. Yahav   On a Fixed Point Theorem and Its
                                  Stochastic Equivalent  . . . . . . . . . 605--611
              Seymour M. Kwerel   Most Stringent Bounds on the Probability
                                  of the Union and Intersection of $m$
                                  Events for Systems Partially Specified
                                  by $ S_1, S_2, \cdots S_k, 2 \leq k < m$  612--619
                    M. H. Smith   A Secretary Problem with Uncertain
                                  Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--624
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Asymptotic Distribution for the
                                  Coupon-Collector's and Sampling-Tagging
                                  Problems, When Tagging Affects
                                  Catchability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--628
                  B. Saperstein   Note on a Clustering Problem . . . . . . 629--632
              P. J. Thomson and   
                K. M. Wilkinson   A Note on Harris's Condition for
                                  Recurrence in Random Walk Processes  . . 633--634
                  N. S. Barnett   A Further Note on Duality of Random
                                  Walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--638
                R. M. Phatarfod   On the Reversible Counters System of
                                  Lampard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--646
                G. G. S. Pegram   Recurrence Times of Draft-Patterns from
                                  Reservoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--652
                  G. L. O'Brien   Inequalities for Queues with Dependent
                                  Interarrival and Service Times . . . . . 653--656
                      Anonymous   Corrections: Limiting Distributions for
                                  the General Branching Process with
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--657
                      Anonymous   Corrections: Further Results on
                                  Kendall's Autoregressive Series  . . . . 658--659
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 1975

                M. Frank Norman   An Ergodic Theorem for Evolution in a
                                  Random Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 661--672
                 G. R. Grimmett   A Non-Markovian Birth Process with
                                  Logarithmic Growth . . . . . . . . . . . 673--683
               G. A. Keenay and   
               R. W. Morgan and   
                      K. H. Ray   Convergence Properties of Age
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684--691
          Will T. Rasmussen and   
                Herbert Robbins   The Candidate Problem with Unknown
                                  Population Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . 692--701
               David J. Strauss   Analysing Binary Lattice Data with the
                                  Nearest-Neighbor Property  . . . . . . . 702--712
                   J. Wolfowitz   Signalling over a Gaussian Channel with
                                  Feedback and Autoregressive Noise  . . . 713--723
               Israel Bar-David   Radon--Nikodym Derivatives, Passages and
                                  Maxima for a Gaussian Process with
                                  Particular Covariance and Mean . . . . . 724--733
                    Toshio Mori   Ergodicity and Identifiability for
                                  Random Translations of Stationary Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734--743
             Richard L. Tweedie   The Robustness of Positive Recurrence
                                  and Recurrence of Markov Chains under
                                  Perturbations of the Transition
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744--752
                David Griffeath   Uniform Coupling of Non-Homogeneous
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--762
                    O. J. Boxma   The Single-Server Queue with Random
                                  Service Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--778
                    Per Hokstad   The G/M/m Queue with Finite Waiting Room 779--792
                   Roy Saunders   Limiting Results for Carrier-Borne
                                  Epidemics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--799
             Douglas P. Kennedy   The Galton--Watson Process Conditioned
                                  on the Total Progeny . . . . . . . . . . 800--806
                 Mark Brown and   
               Sheldon Ross and   
               Richard Shorrock   Evacuation of a Yule Process with
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--811
              Luis G. Gorostiza   Convergence of Transport Processes with
                                  Radially Symmetric Direction Changes,
                                  and Chain Molecules  . . . . . . . . . . 812--816
                   Franz Streit   Results on the Intersection of Randomly
                                  Located Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--823
              Arthur H. C. Chan   Some Lower Bounds for the Distribution
                                  of the Supremum of the Yeh--Wiener
                                  Process over a Rectangular Region  . . . 824--830
                   Gideon Weiss   Time-Reversibility of Linear Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--836
                  Kai Lai Chung   A Bivariate Distribution in Regeneration 837--839
                     W. J. Park   The Law of the Iterated Logarithm for
                                  Brownian Sheets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 840--844
                  Ram Autar and   
            Raminder Singh Soni   Inaccuracy and a Coding Theorem  . . . . 845--851
                Robert A. Agnew   Inequalities with Application in Retail
                                  Inventory Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 852--858
              Stanley R. Pliska   A Diffusion Process Model for the
                                  Optimal Operation of a Reservoir System  859--863
                      Anonymous   Correction: Order Statistics of Partial
                                  Sums of Mutually Independent Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864--864
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 865--868
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 1976

                      Knut Aase   A Note on a Singular Diffusion Equation
                                  in Population Genetics . . . . . . . . . 1--8
                    M. P. Quine   Bounds for the Extinction Probability of
                                  a Simple Branching Process . . . . . . . 9--16
                    A. G. Pakes   Some Limit Theorems for a Supercritical
                                  Branching Process Allowing Immigration   17--26
                L. A. Shepp and   
                     D. Slepian   First-Passage Time for a Particular
                                  Stationary Periodic Gaussian Process . . 27--38
              Henry C. Tuckwell   On the First-Exit Time Problem for
                                  Temporally Homogeneous Markov Processes  39--48
                  W. D. Ray and   
                       F. Margo   The Inverse Problem in Reducible Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56
                  Wei Shen Hsia   The Joint Probability Density Function
                                  of the Occupation Time of a Three-State
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64
         Richard T. Durrett and   
                   S. G. Ghurye   Waiting Times without Memory . . . . . . 65--75
                David W. Walkup   Pólya Sequences, Binomial Convolution and
                                  the Union of Random Sets . . . . . . . . 76--85
                   Paul Switzer   Geometrical Measures of the Smoothness
                                  of Random Functions  . . . . . . . . . . 86--95
              Philip Parker and   
                  Richard Cowan   Some Properties of Line Segment
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--107
             Richard M. Feldman   Optimal Replacement with Semi-Markov
                                  Shock Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--117
         William G. Marchal and   
                 Carl M. Harris   A Modified Erlang Approach to
                                  Approximating GI/G/1 Queues  . . . . . . 118--126
                    F. P. Kelly   On Stochastic Population Models in
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--131
                Miloslav Jirina   Extinction of Non-Homogeneous
                                  Galton--Watson Processes . . . . . . . . 132--137
                     D. R. Grey   On Possible Rates of Growth of
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Processes with
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
            James H. Foster and   
              Robert T. Goettge   The Rates of Growth of the
                                  Galton--Watson Process in Varying
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--147
                  D. L. McLeish   Functional and Random Central Limit
                                  Theorems for the Robbins-Munro Process   148--154
                   Alan F. Karr   Stability of One-Dimensional Systems of
                                  Colliding Particles  . . . . . . . . . . 155--158
               Richard F. Green   Partial Attraction of Maxima . . . . . . 159--163
                 S. M. Rudolfer   On the Distribution of Hits  . . . . . . 164--168
                  Saroj Dua and   
           Shobha Khadilkar and   
                     Kanwar Sen   A Modified Random Walk in the Presence
                                  of Partially Reflecting Barriers . . . . 169--175
                  Larry Lee and   
            W. A. Thompson, Jr.   Failure Rate: A Unified Approach . . . . 176--182
                 E. G. Enns and   
                   P. F. Ehlers   Optimal Issuing Policies for
                                  Non-Identical Units with Stochastic
                                  Lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--189
                   Alan F. Karr   Two Extreme Value Processes Arising in
                                  Hydrology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--194
           Robert B. Cooper and   
                     Borge Tilt   On the Relationship between the
                                  Distribution of Maximal Queue Length in
                                  the M/G/1 Queue and the Mean Busy Period
                                  in the M/G/1/n Queue . . . . . . . . . . 195--199
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 1976

                     P. Holgate   The Total Number of Heterozygotes before
                                  Fixation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
             Kenny S. Crump and   
              John H. Gillespie   The Dispersion of a Neutral Allele
                                  Considered as a Branching Process  . . . 208--218
                    J. Gani and   
                 I. W. Saunders   On the Parity of Individuals in a
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 219--230
                 I. W. Saunders   A Convergence Theorem for Parities in a
                                  Birth-and-Death Process  . . . . . . . . 231--238
                    R. A. Doney   On Single- and Multi-Type General
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Processes  . . . 239--246
                 Warren W. Esty   Diffusion Limits of Critical Branching
                                  Processes Conditioned on Extinction in
                                  the near Future  . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
                   B. D. Ripley   The Second-Order Analysis of Stationary
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--266
                    C. Park and   
               F. J. Schuurmann   Evaluations of Barrier-Crossing
                                  Probabilities of Wiener Paths  . . . . . 267--275
                Robert J. Adler   Excursions above a Fixed Level by
                                  $n$-Dimensional Random Fields  . . . . . 276--289
                   R. T. Smythe   Remarks on Renewal Theory for
                                  Percolation Processes  . . . . . . . . . 290--300
                    N. R. Mohan   Limit Distributions of the Number of
                                  Renewals and Waiting Times . . . . . . . 301--312
                 Mynda Schreuer   Stochastic Pursuit-Evasion Games with
                                  Information Lag: II. Observation with
                                  Error  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--328
                   Pyke Tin and   
                R. M. Phatarfod   Some Exact Results for Dams with
                                  Markovian Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--337
                   J. Radcliffe   The Convergence of a Position-Dependent
                                  Branching Process Used as an
                                  Approximation to a Model Describing the
                                  Spread of an Epidemic  . . . . . . . . . 338--344
                 Robert C. Wang   The Extinction Time of Markov Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--347
               Sally I. McClean   A Continuous-Time Population Model with
                                  Poisson Recruitment  . . . . . . . . . . 348--354
                  Aidan Sudbury   The Size of the Region Occupied by One
                                  Type in an Invasion Process  . . . . . . 355--356
                      Pedro Vit   On the Equivalence of Certain Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--360
               M. E. Solari and   
               J. E. A. Dunnage   A Note on Spitzer's Lemma and Its
                                  Application to the Maximum of Partial
                                  Sums of Dependent Random Variables . . . 361--364
          Holger Rootzén   Gordin's Theorem and the Periodogram . . 365--370
             Douglas P. Kennedy   The Distribution of the Maximum Brownian
                                  Excursion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--376
                  A. M. Hasofer   The Mean Number of Maxima above High
                                  Levels in Gaussian Random Fields . . . . 377--379
              Matthew Goldstein   A Bound for Bivariate Probability of
                                  Large Deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--384
                     Y. H. Wang   A Functional Equation and Its
                                  Application to the Characterization of
                                  the Weibull and Stable Distributions . . 385--391
              N. L. Johnson and   
                    Samuel Kotz   On a Multivariate Generalized Occupancy
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--399
                   I. Gertsbach   Sufficient Optimality Conditions for
                                  Control-Limit Policy in a Semi-Markov
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--406
                  L. Råde   Reliability Systems in Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--410
                R. Bergmann and   
                      D. Stoyan   On Exponential Bounds for the
                                  Waiting-Time Distribution Function in
                                  GI/G/1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--417
                 Helmut Wegmann   The Capacity of an Intersection with
                                  Non-Stationary Traffic . . . . . . . . . 418--422
              Stig I. Rosenlund   Recurrent Emptiness in a Finite Queue
                                  with Increasing Arrival Rate . . . . . . 423--426
                    K. C. Madan   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 1976

                 T. C. Gard and   
                      D. Kannan   On a Stochastic Differential Equation
                                  Modeling of Prey-Predator Evolution  . . 429--443
                    P. J. Green   The Maximum and Time to Absorption of a
                                  Left-Continuous Random Walk  . . . . . . 444--454
                 D. I. Saunders   Malthusian Behaviour of the Critical and
                                  Subcritical Age-Dependent Branching
                                  Processes with Arbitrary State Space . . 455--465
              K. B. Athreya and   
                      N. Kaplan   Limit Theorems for a Branching Process
                                  with Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--475
               Howard J. Weiner   Asymptotic Probabilities in a Critical
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Process  . . . . 476--485
                  D. K. Pickard   Asymptotic Inference for an Ising
                                  Lattice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--497
             Sidney C. Port and   
               Charles J. Stone   Random Measures and Their Application to
                                  Motion in an Incompressible Fluid  . . . 498--506
                  Ulrich Rieder   On Optimal Policies and Martingales in
                                  Dynamic Programming  . . . . . . . . . . 507--518
              Douglas R. Miller   Order Statistics, Poisson Processes and
                                  Repairable Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 519--529
                 P. S. Collings   Limit Theorems for Processes of Randomly
                                  Displaced Regular Events . . . . . . . . 530--537
                Donald P. Gaver   Random Record Models . . . . . . . . . . 538--547
            R. F. Galbraith and   
                      D. Walley   On a Two-Dimensional Binary Process  . . 548--557
             Vangalur S. Alagar   The Distribution of the Distance between
                                  Random Points  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558--566
                     L. Billard   A Stochastic General Epidemic in $m$
                                  Sub-Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--572
                  Dean H. Fearn   Probability of Extinction of Critical
                                  Generation-Dependent Galton--Watson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--577
            Stephen A. Book and   
                Donald R. Truax   An Erd\Hos--Rényi Strong Law for Sample
                                  Quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578--583
                   Roy Saunders   On Joint Exchangeability and
                                  Conservative Processes with Stochastic
                                  Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--590
                 S. M. Rudolfer   A Note on Roots of Markov Shifts . . . . 591--596
                   David Hunter   An Upper Bound for the Probability of a
                                  Union  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--603
          Raymond J. Huntington   Mean Recurrence Times for $k$ Successes
                                  within $m$ Trials  . . . . . . . . . . . 604--607
                    Robert Chen   Subfair Discounted Red-and-Black Game
                                  with a House Limit . . . . . . . . . . . 608--613
                 Persi Diaconis   Buffon's Problem with a Long Needle  . . 614--618
                    J. W. Cohen   On a Single-Server Queue with Group
                                  Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--622
            Lajos Takács   Some Remarks on a Counter Process  . . . 623--627
            Ronald W. Wolff and   
           Charles W. Wrightson   An Extension of Erlang's Loss Formula    628--632
               Robert Gilchrist   The Inter-Arrival Times of Accepted
                                  Customers in an M/G/1 Queue with Finite
                                  Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--638
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 13, Number 4, December, 1976

                G. A. Watterson   The Stationary Distribution of the
                                  Infinitely-Many Neutral Alleles
                                  Diffusion Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--651
         Richard J. Kryscio and   
                   Roy Saunders   A Note on the Cost of Carrier-Borne,
                                  Right-Shift, Epidemic Models . . . . . . 652--661
                Peter J. Diggle   A Spatial Stochastic Model of
                                  Inter-Plant Competition  . . . . . . . . 662--671
         Byron J. T. Morgan and   
                  John P. Hinde   On an Approximation Made When Analysing
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 672--683
                       Karmeshu   Motion of a Particle in a
                                  Velocity-Dependent Random Force  . . . . 684--695
                   David Burman   Estimation of Transition Probabilities
                                  in a Multiparticle Semi-Markov System    696--706
               Georges Matheron   La Formule de Crofton Pour les Sections
                                  Épaisses. (French) [The Crofton formula
                                  for thick sections]  . . . . . . . . . . 707--713
                    Pamela Davy   Projected Thick Sections through
                                  Multi-Dimensional Particle Aggregates    714--722
                  M. Rosenblatt   Fractional Integrals of Stationary
                                  Processes and the Central Limit Theorem  723--732
             N. Veraverbeke and   
                  J. L. Teugels   The Exponential Rate of Convergence of
                                  the Distribution of the Maximum of a
                                  Random Walk. Part II . . . . . . . . . . 733--740
              Robert L. Wardrop   Some Asymptotic Results for Optimal
                                  Stopping Based on Capture Times  . . . . 741--750
                  Menachem Berg   A Proof of Optimality for Age
                                  Replacement Policies . . . . . . . . . . 751--759
                   D. W. Balmer   On a Quickest Detection Problem with
                                  Variable Monitoring  . . . . . . . . . . 760--767
            Donald P. Gaver and   
               John P. Lehoczky   Gaussian Approximations to Service
                                  Problems: A Communication System Example 768--780
            Inge S. Helland and   
               Trygve S. Nilsen   On a General Random Exchange Model . . . 781--790
                   J. Radcliffe   The Severity of a Viral Host-Vector
                                  Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--794
                   Jean Chesson   A Non-Central Multivariate
                                  Hypergeometric Distribution Arising from
                                  Biased Sampling with Application to
                                  Selective Predation  . . . . . . . . . . 795--797
                    R. A. Doney   A Note on the Subcritical Generalized
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Process  . . . . 798--803
                  Fred M. Hoppe   On a Result of Rubin and Vere-Jones
                                  concerning Subcritical Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--808
          Holger Rootzén   A Note on the Central Limit Theorem for
                                  Doubly Stochastic Poisson Processes  . . 809--813
        Gérard Letac and   
               Pierre Mazet and   
       Gérard Schiffmann   A Note on Left-Continuous Random Walks   814--817
                  M. Ahsanullah   On a Characterization of the Exponential
                                  Distribution by Order Statistics . . . . 818--822
                       M. Breth   On a Recurrence of Steck . . . . . . . . 823--825
                 Robert C. Wang   Computing Optimal Quality Control
                                  Policies: Two Actions  . . . . . . . . . 826--832
        J. Michael Harrison and   
              Austin J. Lemoine   On the Virtual and Actual Waiting Time
                                  Distributions of a GI/G/1 Queue  . . . . 833--836
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 837--840
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 14, Number 1, March, 1977

               William H. Olson   Non-Uniform Breakage-Mechanism Branching
                                  Processes and Degradation of Long-Chain
                                  Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
                    Carla Lipow   Limiting Diffusions for Population-Size
                                  Dependent Branching Processes  . . . . . 14--24
                  J. D. Biggins   Martingale Convergence in the Branching
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--37
         Jacques De Maré   Reconstruction of a Stationary Gaussian
                                  Process from its Sign-Changes  . . . . . 38--57
             Harry A. Guess and   
              John H. Gillespie   Diffusion Approximations to Linear
                                  Stochastic Difference Equations with
                                  Stationary Coefficients  . . . . . . . . 58--74
            Lajos Takács   On the Ordered Partial Sums of Real
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88
              S. Chatterjee and   
                      E. Seneta   Towards Consensus: Some Convergence
                                  Theorems on Repeated Averaging . . . . . 89--97
             A. J. Lawrance and   
                 P. A. W. Lewis   An Exponential Moving-Average Sequence
                                  and Point Process (EMA1) . . . . . . . . 98--113
                A. M. Liebetrau   On the Weak Convergence of a Class of
                                  Estimators of the Variance-Time Curve of
                                  a Weakly Stationary Point Process  . . . 114--126
                 G. K. Osei and   
                 J. W. Thompson   The Supersession of One Rumour by
                                  Another  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--134
               David J. Strauss   Clustering on Coloured Lattices  . . . . 135--143
             S. D. Deshmukh and   
                   S. D. Chikte   Dynamic Investment Strategies for a
                                  Risky R and D Project  . . . . . . . . . 144--152
           George Kimeldorf and   
              John Patrick Lang   Asymptotic Properties of Non-Discrete
                                  Duels  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--161
                M. Abdel-Hameed   Optimality of the One Step Look-Ahead
                                  Stopping Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--169
                 M. S. Ali Khan   Infinite Dams with Discrete Additive
                                  Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--180
                  Wayne Winston   Optimality of the Shortest Line
                                  Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--189
                     A. J. Stam   The Reversed Ladder of a Random Walk . . 190--194
                    Mark Berman   Distance Distributions Associated with
                                  Poisson Processes of Geometric Figures   195--199
                  Yoshifusa Ito   Superposition of Distinguishable Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--204
                        Ted Cox   An Example of Phase Transition in
                                  Countable One-Dimensional Markov Random
                                  Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--211
                  Norman Kaplan   A Generalization of a Result of Erd\Hos
                                  and Rényi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--216
                  Cristina Gzyl   Regenerative Sets and Subordinators  . . 217--220
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 14, Number 2, June, 1977

               Frank J. S. Wang   Gaussian Approximation of Some Closed
                                  Stochastic Epidemic Models . . . . . . . 221--231
                     L. Billard   Mean Duration Time for a General
                                  Epidemic Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--240
                Keith Gladstien   Subdivided Populations: The
                                  Characteristic Values and Rate of Loss
                                  of Alleles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--248
             Alexander Mehlmann   Markovian Manpower Models in Continuous
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--259
                  E. N. Gilbert   Estimators for Distances . . . . . . . . 260--271
                   Noel Cressie   On Some Properties of the Scan Statistic
                                  on the Circle and the Line . . . . . . . 272--283
                   V. S. Alagar   On the Distribution of a Random Triangle 284--297
                Peter R. Nelson   Single-Shelf Library-Type Markov Chains
                                  with Infinitely Many Books . . . . . . . 298--308
              A. A. Balkema and   
                  S. I. Resnick   Max-Infinite Divisibility  . . . . . . . 309--319
        Ludger Rüschendorf   On Two Marked Point Processes  . . . . . 320--327
             S. D. Deshmukh and   
                  Wayne Winston   A Controlled Birth and Death Process
                                  Model of Optimal Product Pricing under
                                  Stochastically Changing Demand . . . . . 328--339
                 Robert C. Wang   Optimal Replacement Policy with
                                  Unobservable States  . . . . . . . . . . 340--348
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Time and Customer Processes in Queues
                                  with Stationary Inputs . . . . . . . . . 349--357
                    Per Hokstad   Asymptotic Behaviour of the E$_k$ /G/1
                                  Queue with Finite Waiting Room . . . . . 358--366
                 P. A. Pegg and   
                R. M. Phatarfod   Dams with Additive Inputs Revisited  . . 367--374
                     L. Billard   On Lotka--Volterra Predator Prey Models  375--381
                      Eric Slud   Relative Extinction Times for
                                  Independent Branching Processes  . . . . 382--386
                     Harry Cohn   On the Convergence of the Supercritical
                                  Branching Processes with Immigration . . 387--390
                  Aidan Sudbury   Clumping Effects in Models of Isolation
                                  by Distance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--395
                  Mark Westcott   A Note on the Non-Homogeneous Poisson
                                  Cluster Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--398
                M. Frank Norman   Ergodicity of Diffusion and Temporal
                                  Uniformity of Diffusion Approximation    399--404
                    J. W. Cohen   On Up- and Downcrossings . . . . . . . . 405--410
               E. J. Hannan and   
                   Marek Kanter   Autoregressive Processes with Infinite
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--415
                      Edi Karni   The Probability Distribution of the
                                  Duration of the Game in the Classical
                                  Ruin Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--420
                 Dror Zuckerman   Two-Stage Output Procedure of a Finite
                                  Dam  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--425
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 14, Number 3, September, 1977

                I. B. Gertsbakh   Epidemic Process on a Random Graph: Some
                                  Preliminary Results  . . . . . . . . . . 427--438
                 Stanley Sawyer   On the past History of an Allele Now
                                  Known to Have Frequency $p$  . . . . . . 439--450
                    P. J. Green   Conditional Limit Theorems for General
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 451--463
                      C. D. Lai   A Two-Dimensional
                                  `Immigration-Branching' Model with
                                  Application to Earthquake Occurrence
                                  Times and Energies . . . . . . . . . . . 464--474
                 Violet R. Cane   A Class of Non-Identifiable Stochastic
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--482
               B. D. Ripley and   
                   J.-P. Rasson   Finding the Edge of a Poisson Forest . . 483--491
                 Benny Levikson   The Age Distribution of Markov Processes 492--506
                  Valerie Isham   A Markov Construction for a
                                  Multidimensional Point Process . . . . . 507--515
                         W. Reh   Generalizations of the Elementary
                                  Renewal Theorem to Distributions Defined
                                  by Concave Recurrence Relations  . . . . 516--526
                  T. S. Lee and   
                       F. Kozin   Almost Sure Asymptotic Likelihood Theory
                                  for Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . 527--537
                Nancy L. Geller   On Limit Distributions for One- and
                                  Two-Sample Kolmogorov--Smirnov Type
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--547
                       M. Miura   Stochastic Analysis of the Raw Silk
                                  Reeling Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 548--555
              J. C. Gittins and   
               K. D. Glazebrook   On Bayesian Models in Stochastic
                                  Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--565
        J. Michael Harrison and   
              Austin J. Lemoine   Limit Theorems for Periodic Queues . . . 566--576
               J. F. C. Kingman   Remarks on the Spatial Distribution of a
                                  Reproducing Population . . . . . . . . . 577--583
                    F. P. Kelly   The Asymptotic Behaviour of an Invasion
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--590
                   Eric Renshaw   Velocities of Propagation for
                                  Stepping-Stone Models of Population
                                  Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--597
                Richard W. Katz   An Application of Chain-Dependent
                                  Processes to Meteorology . . . . . . . . 598--603
              Charles M. Goldie   Lanchester Square-Law Battles: Transient
                                  and Terminal Distributions . . . . . . . 604--610
             Alexander Mehlmann   A Note on the Limiting Behaviour of
                                  Discrete-Time Markovian Manpower Models
                                  with Inhomogeneous Independent Poisson
                                  Input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--613
               David B. Wolfson   Limit Theorems for Sums of a Sequence of
                                  Random Variables Defined on a Markov
                                  Chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--620
                A. O. Pittenger   A Note on the Inverse Problem for
                                  Reducible Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . 621--625
                   Knut K. Aase   A Conditional Expectation Formula for
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 626--629
                  J. D. Biggins   Chernoff's Theorem in the Branching
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--636
                  Mark Westcott   A Note on Record Times . . . . . . . . . 637--639
                 D. N. Shanbhag   An Extension of the Rao--Rubin
                                  Characterization of the Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640--646
                   Harold Ruben   The Volume of a Random Simplex in an
                                  $n$-Ball Is Asymptotically Normal  . . . 647--653
                     J. E. Mann   On the Length Distribution of Stochastic
                                  Subarcs of a Rectifiable Arc . . . . . . 654--660
                      Anonymous   Correction: Success Runs in a Two-State
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--661
                      S. Wilson   Letter to the Editor: On Clumping
                                  Effects in Models of Isolation by
                                  Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--662
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 14, Number 4, December, 1977

                       Leo Katz   Representation of Disease Etiologies by
                                  Certain Stochastic Models  . . . . . . . 663--674
         Byron J. T. Morgan and   
                   B. Leventhal   A Model for Blue-Green Algae and
                                  Gorillas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--688
                  H. E. Daniels   The Advancing Wave in a Spatial Birth
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--701
                     D. R. Grey   Almost Sure Convergence in Markov
                                  Branching Processes with Infinite Mean   702--716
                  D. K. Pickard   A Curious Binary Lattice Process . . . . 717--731
             Bruce M. Brown and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Extreme Values of Independent Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732--739
          Ester Samuel-Cahn and   
                   Shmuel Zamir   Algebraic Characterization of Infinite
                                  Markov Chains Where Movement to the
                                  Right Is Limited to One Step . . . . . . 740--747
                    Mark Berman   Some Multivariate Generalizations of
                                  Results in Univariate Stationary Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--757
                    C. C. Heyde   On Central Limit and Iterated Logarithm
                                  Supplements to the Martingale
                                  Convergence Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . 758--775
               Roy Saunders and   
                 Gerald M. Funk   Poisson Limits for a Clustering Model of
                                  Strauss  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776--784
                E. J. Godolphin   On the Autocorrelation Structure for
                                  Seasonal Moving Average Models and Its
                                  Implications for the Cramér--Wold
                                  Factorization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--794
           Ernst-Erich Doberkat   Optimal Strategies in Measurable
                                  Learning Systems on Metric Spaces  . . . 795--805
                 Robert H. Berk   Characterizations via Conditional
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806--816
            Per K. Andersen and   
      Sòren Andersen and   
           Steffen L. Lauritzen   The Average Noise from a Poisson Stream
                                  of Vehicles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--828
                M. P. Quine and   
                      P. Durham   Estimation for Multitype Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--835
            Irene L. Hudson and   
                      E. Seneta   A Note on Simple Branching Processes
                                  with Infinite Mean . . . . . . . . . . . 836--842
                    R. A. Doney   A Note on a Condition Satisfied by
                                  Certain Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . 843--849
                  Shunsuke Sato   Evaluation of the First-Passage Time
                                  Probability to a Square Root Boundary
                                  for the Wiener Process . . . . . . . . . 850--856
                    Elias Masry   A Note on Gaussian Processes and
                                  Zero-Memory Non-Linear Transformations   857--861
             T. R. Welberry and   
                   G. H. Miller   An Approximation to a Two-Dimensional
                                  Binary Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--868
                  Edi Karni and   
                   Aba Schwartz   Two Theorems on Optimal Stopping with
                                  Backward Solicitation  . . . . . . . . . 869--875
                    Bent Natvig   On the Reversibility of the Input and
                                  Output Processes for a General
                                  Birth-and-Death Queueing Model . . . . . 876--883
                Ronald W. Wolff   An Upper Bound for Multi-Channel Queues  884--888
                   Ingram Olkin   Obituary: Leo Katz . . . . . . . . . . . 891--896
                      Anonymous   Correction: Partial Attraction of Maxima 897--897
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Stationary Distribution
                                  of the Infinitely-Many Neutral Alleles
                                  Diffusion Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--897
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 898--901
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 1978

               J. F. C. Kingman   A Simple Model for the Balance between
                                  Selection and Mutation . . . . . . . . . 1--12
            Allan H. Marcus and   
        Stanley Czajkowski, Jr.   Moments of the Exit-Time Distribution
                                  for Carboxyhemoglobin Due to Cigarette
                                  Smoking  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--25
               Sally I. McClean   Continuous-Time Stochastic Models of a
                                  Multigrade Population  . . . . . . . . . 26--37
              Annette J. Dobson   A Stochastic Model of Lexical Change . . 38--45
                 David L. Quigg   A Local Limit Theorem for the Critical
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Process  . . . . 46--53
                F. Thomas Bruss   Branching Processes with Random
                                  Absorbing Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 54--64
               Anthony G. Pakes   On the Age Distribution of a Markov
                                  Chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--77
              Cristina Gzyl and   
                    Henryk Gzyl   On Entrance-Exit Distributions of Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--86
              Dean Isaacson and   
             Richard L. Tweedie   Criteria for Strong Ergodicity of Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--95
               Josef Steinebach   A Strong Law of Erd\Hos--Rényi Type for
                                  Cumulative Processes in Renewal Theory   96--111
                 Elja Arjas and   
               Esa Nummelin and   
             Richard L. Tweedie   Uniform Limit Theorems for Non-Singular
                                  Renewal and Markov Renewal Processes . . 112--125
                    G. Matheron   La Formule de Steiner Pour Les Érosions.
                                  (French) [Steiner's erosion formula] . . 126--135
                B. W. Silverman   Distances on Circles, Toruses and
                                  Spheres  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--143
                 E. G. Enns and   
                   P. F. Ehlers   Random Paths through a Convex Region . . 144--152
            M. Abdel-Hameed and   
                    I. N. Shimi   Optimal Replacement of Damaged Devices   153--161
                     J. Keilson   Exponential Spectra as a Tool for the
                                  Study of Server-Systems with Several
                                  Classes of Customers . . . . . . . . . . 162--170
             Douglas P. Kennedy   On the Time to First Overflow in Dams
                                  with Inputs Forming a Markov Chain . . . 171--178
         Peter L. Antonelli and   
                 Kenneth Morgan   On the Persistence of Random Genetic
                                  Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--183
             Peter L. Antonelli   An Asymptotic Formula for the Transition
                                  Density of Random Genetic Drift  . . . . 184--186
                     John Haigh   The Asymptotic Behaviour of a Divergent
                                  Linear Birth and Death Process . . . . . 187--191
                   Moshe Pollak   The Expected Number of Visits of a
                                  Sequence of Normal Partial Sums to Each
                                  Side of a Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . 192--198
              Lawrence S. Evans   An Upper Bound for the Mean of Yaglom's
                                  Limit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--201
             L. E. N. Delbrouck   Numerical Approximations for Compound
                                  Geometric Distributions with
                                  Applications in Queueing Theory  . . . . 202--208
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1978

              Kenneth Lange and   
              Norman J. Johnson   Renewal Processes with Random Numbers of
                                  Delays: Application to a Conception and
                                  Birth Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--224
                 Harry Cohn and   
               Anthony G. Pakes   A Representation for the Limiting Random
                                  Variable of a Branching Process with
                                  Infinite Mean and Some Related Problems  225--234
            Martin I. Goldstein   A Uniform Limit Theorem and Exponential
                                  Limit Law for Critical Multitype
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Processes  . . . 235--242
                C. C. Heyde and   
                    H.-J. Schuh   Uniform Bounding of Probability
                                  Generating Functions and the Evolution
                                  of Reproduction Rates in Birds . . . . . 243--250
                G. Latouche and   
                    G. Louchard   Return Times in Nearly-Completely
                                  Decomposable Stochastic Processes  . . . 251--267
                  Jean-Guy Dion   Sur Une Caractérisation Des Vidanges
                                  Fortes: Corrections and Extensions.
                                  (French) [On a characterization of
                                  strong drains: corrections and
                                  extensions]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--279
                   Peichuen Kao   Limiting Diffusion for Random Walks with
                                  Drift Conditioned to Stay Positive . . . 280--291
               Anthony G. Pakes   On the Maximum and Absorption Time of
                                  Left-Continuous Random Walk  . . . . . . 292--299
             Julian Keilson and   
                 Jon A. Wellner   Oscillating Brownian Motion  . . . . . . 300--310
             Charles J. Holland   Stochastically Perturbed Limit Cycles    311--320
            Gérard Letac   Cha\^\ines Colorées: Trois Extensions
                                  d'une Formule de P. Nelson. (French)
                                  [Colored chains: three extensions of a
                                  formula of P. Nelson]  . . . . . . . . . 321--339
               Andrew F. Siegel   Random Space Filling and Moments of
                                  Coverage in Geometrical Probability  . . 340--355
              A. Federgruen and   
                    H. C. Tijms   The Optimality Equation in Average Cost
                                  Denumerable State Semi-Markov Decision
                                  Problems, Recurrency Conditions and
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--373
           George Kimeldorf and   
              John Patrick Lang   Asymptotic Properties of Discrete Duels  374--383
                  Richard Cowan   An Improved Model for Signalised
                                  Intersections with Vehicle-Actuated
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--396
              P. Brémaud   On the Output Theorem of Queueing
                                  Theory, Via Filtering  . . . . . . . . . 397--405
               Richard R. Weber   On the Optimal Assignment of Customers
                                  to Parallel Servers  . . . . . . . . . . 406--413
               Claude Lef\`evre   The Expected Ultimate Size of a
                                  Carrier-Borne Epidemic . . . . . . . . . 414--419
                 Philip F. Rust   The Variance of Duration of Stay in an
                                  Absorbing Markov Process . . . . . . . . 420--425
             I. W. Saunders and   
                 P. A. P. Moran   On the Quantiles of the Gamma and $F$
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--432
                A. M. Liebetrau   The Weak Convergence of a Class of
                                  Estimators of the Variance Function of a
                                  Two-Dimensional Poisson Process  . . . . 433--439
              Charles M. Goldie   Subexponential Distributions and
                                  Dominated-Variation Tails  . . . . . . . 440--442
                  Norman Kaplan   A Limit Theorem for Random Coverings of
                                  a Circle Which Do Not Quite Cover  . . . 443--446
              James M. Hill and   
              Keith P. Tognetti   The Autocorrelation Function of the
                                  Queue Length Process for the Two-Server
                                  Poisson Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--451
                 Richard Loulou   An Explicit Upper Bound for the Mean
                                  Busy Period in a GI/G/1 Queue  . . . . . 452--455
                      Anonymous   Correction: Projected Thick Sections
                                  through Multi-Dimensional Particle
                                  Aggregates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--456
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 15, Number 3, September, 1978

              C. J. Ridler-Rowe   On Competition between Two Species . . . 457--465
                   P. L. Davies   The Simple Branching Process: A Note on
                                  Convergence When the Mean Is Infinite    466--480
                  Yoshifusa Ito   Superposition and Decomposition of
                                  Stationary Point Processes . . . . . . . 481--493
                 N. A. Fava and   
           L. A. Santaló   Plate and Line Segment Processes . . . . 494--501
                    R. J. Adler   On the Envelope of a Gaussian Random
                                  Field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--513
           Wayne W. Barrett and   
           Philip J. Feinsilver   Gaussian Families and a Theorem on
                                  Patterned Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 514--522
               Geung Ho Kim and   
                    H. T. David   Bivariate Distributions as Saddle Points
                                  of Mutual Information  . . . . . . . . . 523--530
                    Izzet Sahin   Cumulative Constrained Sojourn Times in
                                  Semi-Markov Processes with an
                                  Application to Pensionable Service . . . 531--542
                Joseph G. Deken   Scheduled Maxima Sequences . . . . . . . 543--551
            Donald P. Gaver and   
             Patricia A. Jacobs   Non-Homogeneously Paced Random Records
                                  and Associated Extremal Processes  . . . 552--559
                  Toshiro Tango   Extended Block Replacement Policy with
                                  Used Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560--572
             Patricia A. Jacobs   A Cyclic Queueing Network with Dependent
                                  Exponential Service Times  . . . . . . . 573--589
                     Do Le Minh   The Discrete-Time Single-Server Queue
                                  with Time-Inhomogeneous Compound Poisson
                                  Input and General Service Time
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590--601
                Sheldon M. Ross   Average Delay in Queues with
                                  Non-Stationary Poisson Arrivals  . . . . 602--609
                  D. R. Cox and   
                       V. Isham   Series Expansions for the Properties of
                                  a Birth Process of Controlled
                                  Variability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--616
             Donald G. Morrison   On Linearly Increasing Mean Residual
                                  Lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--620
             Henry W. Block and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Shock Models with NBUE Survival  . . . . 621--628
                 Dror Zuckerman   Optimal Stopping in a Semi-Markov Shock
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--634
                    J. P. Imhof   One-Sided Excursions of Brownian Motion,
                                  and an Application . . . . . . . . . . . 635--638
                     Peter Hall   Representations and Limit Theorems for
                                  Extreme Value Distributions  . . . . . . 639--644
                  Svante Janson   On Random Divisions of a Convex Set  . . 645--649
                  M. Ahsanullah   A Characterization of the Exponential
                                  Distribution by Spacings . . . . . . . . 650--653
             Richard M. Feldman   A Continuous Review (s, S) Inventory
                                  System in a Random Environment . . . . . 654--659
                     D. R. Grey   Supercritical Galton--Watson Branching
                                  Processes: Corrections to a Paper of
                                  Foster and Goettge . . . . . . . . . . . 660--660
                      Anonymous   Correction: An Asymptotic Formula for
                                  the Transition Density of Random Genetic
                                  Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--661
                      Anonymous   Correction: Asymptotic Probabilities in
                                  a Critical Age-Dependent Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--661
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 15, Number 4, December, 1978

              Philip McDunnough   Some Aspects of the Smoluchowski Process 663--674
              E. El-Neweihi and   
                F. Proschan and   
                  J. Sethuraman   Multistate Coherent Systems  . . . . . . 675--688
               K. D. Glazebrook   On a Class of Non-Markov Decision
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--698
              Dean Isaacson and   
                   Barry Arnold   Strong Ergodicity for Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--706
                Marcel F. Neuts   The Second Moments of the Absorption
                                  Times in the Markov Renewal Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--714
                  G. M. Laslett   Mixing of Cluster Point Processes  . . . 715--725
                   Prem S. Puri   A Limit Theorem for Point Processes with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726--747
                      C. D. Lai   An Example of Wold's Point Processes
                                  with Markov-Dependent Intervals  . . . . 748--758
              M. J. Katzoff and   
                  R. H. Shumway   Distributed Lag Regression with an
                                  Almost Periodic Design Matrix  . . . . . 759--773
               Andrew F. Siegel   Random Arcs on the Circle  . . . . . . . 774--789
                L. C. G. Rogers   The Probability That Two Samples in the
                                  Plane Will Have Disjoint Convex Hulls    790--802
               Howard J. Weiner   Sequential Random Packing in the Plane   803--814
          Bernard Silverman and   
                      Tim Brown   Short Distances, Flat Triangles and
                                  Poisson Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--825
          Shirley A. Nozaki and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Approximations in Finite-Capacity
                                  Multi-Server Queues with Poisson
                                  Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826--834
               William H. Olson   A Markov Chain Model for the Kinetics of
                                  Reactant Isolation . . . . . . . . . . . 835--841
              A. Federgruen and   
                 A. Hordijk and   
                    H. C. Tijms   A Note on Simultaneous Recurrence
                                  Conditions on a Set of Denumerable
                                  Stochastic Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 842--847
Jean-François Mertens and   
          Ester Samuel-Cahn and   
                   Shmuel Zamir   Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for
                                  Recurrence and Transience of Markov
                                  Chains, in Terms of Inequalities . . . . 848--851
                  M. S. Bingham   A Characterization of the Uniform
                                  Distribution on the Circle in the
                                  Analysis of Directional Data . . . . . . 852--857
                   K. Balagopal   Dryness of Discrete Dams: Comments on a
                                  Paper by Tin and Phatarfod . . . . . . . 858--864
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Probability Distribution
                                  of the Duration of the Game in the
                                  Classical Ruin Problem . . . . . . . . . 865--865
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 866--869
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 16, Number 1, March, 1979

                   Eric Renshaw   Waveforms and Velocities for
                                  Non-Nearest-Neighbour Contact
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
               David K. Pickard   Asymptotic Inference for an Ising
                                  Lattice. III. Non-Zero Field and
                                  Ferromagnetic States . . . . . . . . . . 12--24
              Philip McDunnough   Estimating the Law of Randomly Moving
                                  Particles by Counting  . . . . . . . . . 25--35
                  Yoshiaki Itoh   Random Collision Models in Oriented
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--44
                    D. J. Daley   Return Probabilities for Certain
                                  Three-Dimensional Random Walks . . . . . 45--53
          Torbjörn Thedeen   On the Relation between Offered,
                                  Critical and Accepted Gap Distributions  54--64
             Vera Lánska   Minimum Contrast Estimation in Diffusion
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--75
                Peter D. Taylor   Evolutionarily Stable Strategies with
                                  Two Types of Player  . . . . . . . . . . 76--83
                   Harold Ruben   The Volume of an Isotropic Random
                                  Parallelotope  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--94
             Luis-M. Cruz Orive   Distortion of Certain Voronoi
                                  Tessellations When One Particle Moves    95--103
                   S. Gross and   
                  W. L. Steiger   Least Absolute Deviation Estimates in
                                  Autoregression with Infinite Variance    104--116
                E. H. Lloyd and   
                   S. D. Saleem   A Note on Seasonal Markov Chains with
                                  Gamma or Gamma-like Distributions  . . . 117--128
                 John S. Devitt   An Enumerative Approach to a Problem in
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--137
               Prem S. Puri and   
              Charles M. Goldie   Poisson Mixtures and Quasi-Infinite
                                  Divisibility of Distributions  . . . . . 138--153
                     Lars Holst   A Unified Approach to Limit Theorems for
                                  Urn Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--162
                   B. B. Winter   Convergence Rate of Perturbed Empirical
                                  Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 163--173
                    P. H. Brill   An Embedded Level Crossing Technique for
                                  Dams and Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--186
                  Teunis J. Ott   Some More Results for the Stable M/G/1
                                  Queue in Heavy Traffic . . . . . . . . . 187--197
                 L. Billard and   
                  H. Lacayo and   
                 N. A. Langberg   A New Look at the Simple Epidemic
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--202
                    T. Nakagawa   Replacement Problem of a Parallel System
                                  in Random Environment  . . . . . . . . . 203--205
                     Ken Sharpe   Level Crossings of a Constructed Process 206--212
            Herbert Robbins and   
                 John Whitehead   Sequential Rank and the Pólya Urn . . . . 213--219
             J. H. B. Kemperman   On the Variance of a Trimmed Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--225
                     P. Suomela   Invariant Measures of Time-Reversible
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--229
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 1979

               Claude Lef\`evre   The Area under the Trajectory of
                                  Carriers in a Carrier-Borne Epidemic . . 231--241
                 M. H. Gail and   
                G. H. Weiss and   
                  N. Mantel and   
                  S. J. O'Brien   A Solution to the Generalized Birthday
                                  Problem with Application to Allozyme
                                  Screening for Cell Culture Contamination 242--251
                   T. Moore and   
                    J. L. Snell   A Branching Process Showing a Phase
                                  Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--260
            Larry P. Ammann and   
                 Peter F. Thall   Count Distributions, Orderliness and
                                  Invariance of Poisson Cluster Processes  261--273
                    K. Wickwire   The Expected First-Passage Time for a
                                  Sufficient Statistic Arising in the
                                  Poisson Disorder Problem . . . . . . . . 274--286
                 A. J. Lawrance   The Rate and Variance Functions Arising
                                  from the Interaction of Two Stationary
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--296
                 Paul D. Feigin   On the Characterization of Point
                                  Processes with the Order Statistic
                                  Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--304
                     P. Whittle   A Simple Condition for Regularity in
                                  Negative Programming . . . . . . . . . . 305--318
                 Andris Abakuks   An Optimal Hunting Policy for a
                                  Stochastic Logistic Model  . . . . . . . 319--331
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   A Formal Approach to Queueing Processes
                                  in the Steady State and Their
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--346
               Zeev Barzily and   
            Michael Rubinovitch   On Platoon Formation on Two-Lane Roads   347--361
                      S. Halfin   A Singular Property of Multiserver
                                  Systems with Constant Service Time . . . 362--372
                    P. J. Burke   A Queuing-Theoretic Anomaly  . . . . . . 373--383
                  Richard Cowan   The Uncontrolled Traffic Merge . . . . . 384--392
   Julian Köllerström   Heavy Traffic Theory for Queues with
                                  Several Servers. II  . . . . . . . . . . 393--401
                   S. N. Ethier   A Limit Theorem for Two-Locus Diffusion
                                  Models in Population Genetics  . . . . . 402--408
                John C. Wierman   The Front Velocity of the Simple
                                  Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--415
             Alexander Mehlmann   Semi-Markovian Manpower Models in
                                  Continuous Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--422
                    L. A. Shepp   The Joint Density of the Maximum and Its
                                  Location for a Wiener Process with Drift 423--427
                T. C. Brown and   
                B. W. Silverman   Rates of Poisson Convergence for
                                  $U$-Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--432
                     Peter Hall   On the Rate of Convergence of Normal
                                  Extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--439
                 Paul D. Feigin   Some Comments concerning a Curious
                                  Singularity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--444
                Stephen A. Book   The Stochastic Geyser Problem for Sample
                                  Quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--448
             Tea-Yuan Hwang and   
                 Nae-Sheng Wang   On Best Fractional Linear Generating
                                  Function Bounds  . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--453
                   Harry H. Tan   Another Martingale Bound on the
                                  Waiting-Time Distribution in GI/G/1
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--457
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1979

                      Haim Avni   Weak Limit for the Stationary
                                  Distribution of the Infinite-Alleles
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--472
                     P. Holgate   Notes on Information in Population
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--481
                 Stanley Sawyer   A Limit Theorem for Patch Sizes in a
                                  Selectively-Neutral Migration Model  . . 482--495
                  Kenneth Lange   On Cohen's Stochastic Generalization of
                                  the Strong Ergodic Theorem of Demography 496--504
                Torgny Lindvall   A Note on Coupling of Birth and Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--512
          Andrew D. Barbour and   
                    H.-J. Schuh   Functional Normalizations for the
                                  Branching Process with Infinite Mean . . 513--525
                J. G. Oxley and   
                 D. J. A. Welsh   On Some Percolation Results of J. M.
                                  Hammersley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--540
                 P. A. P. Moran   Asymptotic Analysis and Local Lattice
                                  Central Limit Theorems . . . . . . . . . 541--553
               Roy Saunders and   
         Richard J. Kryscio and   
                 Gerald M. Funk   Limiting Results for Arrays of Binary
                                  Random Variables on Rectangular Lattices
                                  under Sparseness Conditions  . . . . . . 554--566
                  Attila Csenki   An Invariance Principle in
                                  $k$-dimensional Extended Renewal Theory  567--574
             Masanobu Taniguchi   On Estimation of Parameters of Gaussian
                                  Stationary Processes . . . . . . . . . . 575--591
                    R. E. Miles   Some New Integral Geometric Formulae,
                                  with Stochastic Applications . . . . . . 592--606
                   K. Balagopal   Some Limit Theorems for the General
                                  Semi-Markov Storage Model  . . . . . . . 607--617
                Bharat T. Doshi   Generalized Semi-Markov Decision
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--630
              Qui Hoon Choo and   
                  Brian Conolly   New Results in the Theory of Repeated
                                  Orders Queueing Systems  . . . . . . . . 631--640
                   W. Henderson   A Solution of the Carrier-Borne Epidemic 641--645
               Roy Saunders and   
      Claude Lefévre and   
             Richard J. Kryscio   A Note on the Expected Number of
                                  Survivors in Supercritical Carrier-Borne
                                  Epidemics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646--650
              Bo Berndtsson and   
                   Peter Jagers   Exponential Growth of a Branching
                                  Process Usually Implies Stable Age
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--656
              David W. Boyd and   
              J. Michael Steele   Random Exchanges of Information  . . . . 657--661
                   Yu-Sheng Hsu   A Note on Exchangeable Events  . . . . . 662--664
                  Burt V. Bronk   Some Inequalities for Moments and
                                  Coefficients of Variation for a Large
                                  Class of Probability Functions . . . . . 665--670
            Isaac Meilijson and   
            Arthur Nádas   Convex Majorization with an Application
                                  to the Length of Critical Paths  . . . . 671--677
                 Itzhak Venezia   Optimal Insurance Premium Rates When the
                                  Distribution of Claims Is Unknown  . . . 678--684
               K. D. Glazebrook   Scheduling Tasks with Exponential
                                  Service Times on Parallel Processors . . 685--689
               Richard R. Weber   The Interchangeability of $ \cdot $ /M/1
                                  Queues in Series . . . . . . . . . . . . 690--695
                      Anonymous   Corrections: A New Look at the Simple
                                  Epidemic Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--696
                      Anonymous   Corrections: Poisson Mixtures and
                                  Quasi-Infinite Divisibility of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--696
                    M. Tanemura   Has the Palásti Conjecture Been Proved?:
                                  A Criticism of a Paper by H. J. Weiner   697--698
              Elmer M. Tory and   
               David K. Pickard   Some Comments on '\booktitleSequential
                                  Random Packing in the Plane' by H. J.
                                  Weiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--702
                     Motoo Hori   On Weiner's Proof of the Palásti
                                  Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702--706
                  Howard Weiner   Reply to Letters of M. Tanemura and E.
                                  M. Tory and D. K. Pickard  . . . . . . . 706--707
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 16, Number 4, December, 1979

              William C. Torrez   Calculating Extinction Probabilities for
                                  the Birth and Death Chain in a Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--720
                  Samuel Litwin   The Lengths of Fragments Covering a
                                  Fixed Marker in Randomly Cut Linear or
                                  Circular DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--731
                    Fergus Daly   Collapsing Supercritical Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732--739
              J. D. Biggins and   
                     D. R. Grey   Continuity of Limit Random Variables in
                                  the Branching Random Walk  . . . . . . . 740--749
                   Wolfgang Reh   First-Passage Percolation under Weak
                                  Moment Conditions  . . . . . . . . . . . 750--763
                Marcel F. Neuts   A Versatile Markovian Point Process  . . 764--779
                    David Oakes   Matched Pairs in Independent Poisson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--793
                 G. K. Eagleson   A Poisson Limit Theorem for Weakly
                                  Exchangeable Events  . . . . . . . . . . 794--802
                      M. Tamaki   Recognizing Both the Maximum and the
                                  Second Maximum of a Sequence . . . . . . 803--812
             Per Kragh Andersen   Filtered Renewal Processes with a
                                  Two-Sided Impact Function  . . . . . . . 813--821
                  A. M. Hasofer   A Uniqueness Problem for the Envelope of
                                  an Oscillatory Process . . . . . . . . . 822--829
                Dana B. Kamerud   Repeated Matrix Games  . . . . . . . . . 830--842
               K. D. Glazebrook   Stoppable Families of Alternative Bandit
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--854
            Eduardo J. Subelman   The Dependence of Betting Strategies on
                                  the Probability of Winning . . . . . . . 855--866
             Pekka Tuominen and   
             Richard L. Tweedie   Exponential Ergodicity in Markovian
                                  Queueing and Dam Models  . . . . . . . . 867--880
          Hans Dieter Unkelbach   Convergence to Equilibrium in a Traffic
                                  Model with Restricted Passing  . . . . . 881--889
                      K. Nanthi   Estimation of the Criticality Parameter
                                  of a Superitical Branching Process with
                                  Random Environments  . . . . . . . . . . 890--896
              Maury Bramson and   
                David Griffeath   A Note on the Extinction Rates of Some
                                  Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . 897--902
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Characterizations of Distributions
                                  through Some Identities  . . . . . . . . 903--909
                     Do Le Minh   The Actual Waiting Time of Each Customer
                                  in a GI/G/1 Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . 910--916
                R. M. Phatarfod   A Note on the Infinitely Deep Dam with a
                                  Markovian Input  . . . . . . . . . . . . 917--922
                Toshio Nakagawa   Further Results of Replacement Problem
                                  of a Parallel System in Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--926
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 927--930
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 17, Number 1, March, 1980

                  B. G. Ivanoff   The Branching Diffusion with Immigration 1--15
                  Dean H. Fearn   Extinction Probability for Critical
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Processes with
                                  Generation Dependence  . . . . . . . . . 16--24
                 L. Billard and   
                  H. Lacayo and   
                 N. A. Langberg   The Discrete Asymptotic Behaviour of a
                                  Simple Batch Epidemic Process  . . . . . 25--32
               S. Tavaré   Time Reversal and Age Distributions, I.
                                  Discrete-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . . 33--46
                    Marc Pirlot   A Strong Variational Principle for
                                  Continuous Spin Systems  . . . . . . . . 47--58
                 Yosihiko Ogata   Maximum Likelihood Estimates of
                                  Incorrect Markov Models for Time Series
                                  and the Derivation of AIC  . . . . . . . 59--72
             Masanobu Taniguchi   On Estimation of the Integrals of
                                  Certain Functions of Spectral Density    73--83
                       T. Ozaki   Non-Linear Time Series Models for
                                  Non-Linear Random Vibrations . . . . . . 84--93
        Richard C. Bradley, Jr.   A Remark on the Central Limit Question
                                  for Dependent Random Variables . . . . . 94--101
    Arthur V. Peterson, Jr. and   
             Richard A. Kronmal   A Representation for Discrete
                                  Distributions by Equiprobable Mixtures   102--111
                     Ward Whitt   Uniform Conditional Stochastic Order . . 112--123
            R. F. Galbraith and   
                      D. Walley   Ergodic Properties of a Two-Dimensional
                                  Binary Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--133
                  Yoshiaki Itoh   On the Minimum of Gaps Generated by
                                  One-Dimensional Random Packing . . . . . 134--144
                 H. Solomon and   
                 M. A. Stephens   Approximations to Densities in Geometric
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--153
              Peter Franken and   
              Arnfried Streller   Reliability Analysis of Complex
                                  Repairable Systems by Means of Marked
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--167
                 Dror Zuckerman   Inspection and Replacement Policies  . . 168--177
                     Bo Bergman   On the Optimality of Stationary
                                  Replacement Strategies . . . . . . . . . 178--186
               Gideon Weiss and   
                 Michael Pinedo   Scheduling Tasks with Exponential
                                  Service Times on Non-Identical
                                  Processors to Minimize Various Cost
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--202
                      P. A. Lee   Correlation Structure of Teletraffic
                                  Measurements from Randomly-Scanned Calls
                                  Arrival Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--217
        Michael Rubinovitch and   
                    J. W. Cohen   Level Crossings and Stationary
                                  Distributions for General Dams . . . . . 218--226
                   G. Dalen and   
                      B. Natvig   On the Transient Waiting Times for a
                                  GI/M/1 Priority Queue  . . . . . . . . . 227--234
                   Yehuda Vardi   On a Stopping Time of Starr and Its Use
                                  in Estimating the Number of Transmission
                                  Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--242
               Thomas L. Corwin   On Search for a Brownian Target  . . . . 243--247
                    R. A. Doney   Moments of Ladder Heights in Random
                                  Walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--252
                 R. B. Nain and   
                     Kanwar Sen   Transition Probability Matrices for
                                  Correlated Random Walks  . . . . . . . . 253--258
                   Grant Ritter   A Continuous-Time Analogue of Random
                                  Walk in a Random Environment . . . . . . 259--264
                  M. Rosenblatt   Linear Processes and Bispectra . . . . . 265--270
              PL. Kannappan and   
                       C. T. Ng   On Functional Equations and Measures of
                                  Information. II  . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--277
                Colin McDiarmid   Percolation on Subsets of the Square
                                  Lattice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--283
                     Lars Holst   On Multiple Covering of a Circle with
                                  Random Arcs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--290
                Marcel F. Neuts   The Probabilistic Significance of the
                                  Rate Matrix in Matrix-Geometric
                                  Invariant Vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . 291--296
                Arun P. Sanghvi   Convergence of Successive Approximations
                                  to a Stochastic Fixed Point  . . . . . . 297--299
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 17, Number 2, June, 1980

               Frank J. S. Wang   The Convergence of a Branching Brownian
                                  Motion Used as a Model Describing the
                                  Spread of an Epidemic  . . . . . . . . . 301--312
           Linda P. Gilbert and   
                  A. M. Johnson   An Application of the Jordan Canonical
                                  Form to the Epidemic Problem . . . . . . 313--323
                     Ray Watson   A Useful Random Time-Scale
                                  Transformation for the Standard Epidemic
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--332
                 W. G. S. Hines   Three Characterizations of Population
                                  Strategy Stability . . . . . . . . . . . 333--340
            Craig Whittaker and   
             Richard M. Feldman   Moments for a General Branching Process
                                  in a Semi-Markovian Environment  . . . . 341--349
                G. G. S. Pegram   An Autoregressive Model for Multilag
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--362
                    C. Park and   
               F. J. Schuurmann   Evaluations of Absorption Probabilities
                                  for the Wiener Process on Large
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--372
                   G. Letac and   
               L. Takács   Random Walks on a Dodecahedron . . . . . 373--384
            Klaus Schürger   On the Asymptotic Geometrical Behaviour
                                  of Percolation Processes . . . . . . . . 385--402
               Y. D. Burtin and   
               I. Gertsbakh and   
                      B. Pittel   On a Simple Formula for Random Mappings
                                  and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . 403--414
                     H. Groemer   The Average Distance between Two Convex
                                  Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--422
                Richard Serfozo   High-Level Exceedances of Regenerative
                                  and Semi-Stationary Processes  . . . . . 423--431
                 A. A. Anis and   
                      M. Gharib   On the Variance of the Maximum of
                                  Partial Sums of $n$-Exchangeable Random
                                  Variables with Applications  . . . . . . 432--439
    Sándor Csörg\Ho   On the Quantogram of Kendall and Kent    440--447
                      M. Riedel   Representation of the Characteristic
                                  Function of a Stochastic Integral  . . . 448--455
                        G. Laue   Remarks on the Relation between
                                  Fractional Moments and Fractional
                                  Derivatives of Characteristic Functions  456--466
            Erhan Çinlar   On a Generalization of Gamma Processes   467--480
            Dalen T. Chiang and   
                  Shun-Chen Niu   On the Distribution of Time to First
                                  System Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--489
           F. J. M. Raaijmakers   The Lifetime of a Standby System of
                                  Units Having the Birnbaum and Saunders
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--497
               V. Ramaswami and   
                Marcel F. Neuts   Some Explicit Formulas and Computational
                                  Methods for Infinite-Server Queues with
                                  Phase-Type Arrivals  . . . . . . . . . . 498--514
              A. Federgruen and   
                    H. C. Tijms   Computation of the Stationary
                                  Distribution of the Queue Size in an
                                  M/G/1 Queueing System with Variable
                                  Service Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--522
                  Richard Cowan   Further Results on Single-Lane Traffic
                                  Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--531
                   Ross Dunstan   A Note on the Moments of the Final Size
                                  of the General Epidemic Model  . . . . . 532--538
                  G. L. O'Brien   A Limit Theorem for Sample Maxima and
                                  Heavy Branches in Galton--Watson Trees   539--545
                 A. J. Lawrance   The Mixed Exponential Solution to the
                                  First-Order Autoregressive Model . . . . 546--552
                Hiroshi Maehara   On Random Simplices in Product
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--558
                 Andris Abakuks   Conditions for Evolutionarily Stable
                                  Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--562
               Sheela Talwalker   A Note on the Generalized Rao--Rubin
                                  Condition and Characterization of
                                  Certain Discrete Distributions . . . . . 563--569
                Barry C. Arnold   Two Characterizations of the Geometric
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--573
        Manish C. Bhattacharjee   On a Characterization of Gamma
                                  Distributions Via Exponential Mixtures   574--576
                  C. Derman and   
            G. J. Lieberman and   
                     S. M. Ross   On the Optimal Assignment of Servers and
                                  a Repairman  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--581
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 17, Number 3, September, 1980

                Philippe Picard   Applications of Martingale Theory to
                                  Some Epidemic Models . . . . . . . . . . 583--599
                 W. G. S. Hines   Strategy Stability in Complex
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--610
                  Wen-Chen Chen   On the Weak Form of Zipf's Law . . . . . 611--622
                     Lars Holst   On the Lengths of the Pieces of a Stick
                                  Broken at Random . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--634
                     P. Whittle   Stability and Characterisation
                                  Conditions in Negative Programming . . . 635--645
                 Dror Zuckerman   A Diffusion Process Model for the
                                  Optimal Investment Strategies of an R&D
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646--653
                     D. R. Grey   The Fair Charge on a Car Ferry . . . . . 654--661
                    N. C. Weber   A Martingale Approach to Central Limit
                                  Theorems for Exchangeable Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--673
         Richard J. Kryscio and   
               Roy Saunders and   
                 Gerald M. Funk   Normal Approximations for Binary Lattice
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--685
                William F. Eddy   The Distribution of the Convex Hull of a
                                  Gaussian Sample  . . . . . . . . . . . . 686--695
                    H. Cohn and   
                    H.-J. Schuh   On the Continuity and the Positivity of
                                  the Finite Part of the Limit
                                  Distribution of an Irregular Branching
                                  Process with Infinite Mean . . . . . . . 696--703
      Walter A. Rosenkrantz and   
                 C. C. Y. Dorea   Limit Theorems for Markov Processes via
                                  a Variant of the Trotter--Kato Theorem   704--715
    Manish C. Bhattacharjee and   
                  Sujit K. Basu   On the Kesten-Spitzer Algorithm for
                                  Minimal Hitting Time in Controlled
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--725
               Bharat Doshi and   
               Steven E. Shreve   Strong Consistency of a Modified Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimator for Controlled
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726--734
            William S. Griffith   Multistate Reliability Models  . . . . . 735--744
                  Gary Gottlieb   Failure Distributions of Shock Models    745--752
              D. König and   
                     V. Schmidt   Imbedded and Non-Imbedded Stationary
                                  Characteristics of Queueing Systems with
                                  Varying Service Rate and Point Processes 753--767
              D. König and   
                     V. Schmidt   Stochastic Inequalities between
                                  Customer-Stationary and Time-Stationary
                                  Characteristics of Queueing Systems with
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--777
            P. J. Brockwell and   
            N. Pacheco-Santiago   Invariant Imbedding and Dams with
                                  Markovian Input Rate . . . . . . . . . . 778--789
                    Zvi Rosberg   A Positive Recurrence Criterion
                                  Associated with Multidimensional
                                  Queueing Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 790--801
                A. De Meyer and   
                  J. L. Teugels   On the Asymptotic Behaviour of the
                                  Distributions of the Busy Period and
                                  Service Time in M/G/1  . . . . . . . . . 802--813
             J. G. Shanthikumar   Some Analyses on the Control of Queues
                                  Using Level Crossings of Regenerative
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814--821
                     Masao Mori   Relations between Queue-Size and
                                  Waiting-Time Distributions . . . . . . . 822--830
                  Shun-Chen Niu   Bounds for the Expected Delays in Some
                                  Tandem Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--838
                M. J. Faddy and   
                  I. H. Slorach   Bounds on the Velocity of Spread of
                                  Infection for a Spatially Connected
                                  Epidemic Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 839--845
               Sally I. McClean   A Semi-Markov Model for a Multigrade
                                  Population with Poisson Recruitment  . . 846--852
             S. A. De Vries and   
                 A. J. Stam and   
                  J. Reddingius   Note on a Death Process  . . . . . . . . 853--855
                    R. A. Doney   Spitzer's Condition for Asymptotically
                                  Symmetric Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . 856--859
                 Pamela J. Davy   The Stereology of Location . . . . . . . 860--864
                Irwin Greenberg   The Moments of Coverage of a Linear Set  865--868
            Michael R. Chernick   A Limit Theorem for the Maximum Term in
                                  a Particular $ {\rm EARMA}(1, 1) $
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--873
               E. Grosswald and   
                Samuel Kotz and   
                  N. L. Johnson   Characterizations of the Exponential
                                  Distribution by Relevation-Type
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--877
                  Howard Weiner   An Alternative Argument for Lemma 3 and
                                  Theorem 1 of [9] . . . . . . . . . . . . 878--880
           David K. Pickard and   
                     E. M. Tory   A Critique of Weiner's Work on Palásti's
                                  Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880--884
                    M. Tanemura   Some Comments on the Letters by H. J.
                                  Weiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884--887
                     Motoo Hori   Comments on the Second Letter of Weiner
                                  [11] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888--890
                  Howard Weiner   Reply to Remarks of Professor M. Hori    890--892
                      Anonymous   Correction: On a Generalization of Gamma
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--893
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 17, Number 4, December, 1980

                   Eric Renshaw   The Spatial Distribution of \em
                                  Tribolium Confusum . . . . . . . . . . . 895--911
                     Ray Watson   On the Size Distribution for Some
                                  Epidemic Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--921
          Wolfgang Mergenthaler   A State-Dependent Lifetime Process of
                                  Individuals Subject to External
                                  Perturbations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922--938
                D. J. Daley and   
                Prakash Narayan   Series Expansions of Probability
                                  Generating Functions and Bounds for the
                                  Extinction Probability of a Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--947
                 K. Rama Murthy   Convergence of Age and Type
                                  Distributions in Multitype Critical
                                  Bellman--Harris Processes  . . . . . . . 948--955
             H. L. MacGillivray   The Moment Ratios of Particle Size
                                  Distributions in Some Simple Growth
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956--967
                John C. Wierman   Weak Moment Conditions for Time
                                  Coordinates in First-Passage Percolation
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968--978
              Lawrence Gray and   
            John C. Wierman and   
                   R. T. Smythe   Lower Bounds for the Critical
                                  Probability in Percolation Models with
                                  Oriented Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979--986
                  Valerie Isham   Dependent Thinning of Point Processes    987--995
                 D. R. Robinson   Optimality Conditions for a Markov
                                  Decision Chain with Unbounded Costs  . . 996--1003
                  Y. C. Kan and   
                     S. M. Ross   Optimal List Order under Partial Memory
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004--1015
               K. D. Glazebrook   On Stochastic Scheduling with Precedence
                                  Relations and Switching Costs  . . . . . 1016--1024
                 Michael Pinedo   Scheduling Spares with Exponential
                                  Lifetimes in a Two-Component Parallel
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1032
             C. M. Woodside and   
                 B. Pagurek and   
                   G. F. Newell   A Diffusion Approximation for
                                  Correlation in Queues  . . . . . . . . . 1033--1047
            S. S. Lavenberg and   
                      M. Reiser   Stationary State Probabilities at
                                  Arrival Instants for Closed Queueing
                                  Networks with Multiple Types of
                                  Customers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048--1061
                     Ward Whitt   The Effect of Variability in the GI/G/s
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062--1071
                 L. Billard and   
                  H. Lacayo and   
                 N. A. Langberg   Generalizations of the Simple Epidemic
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072--1078
                    C. C. Heyde   On a Probabilistic Analogue of the
                                  Fibonacci Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1082
                      Prajneshu   Time-Dependent Solution of the Logistic
                                  Model for Population Growth in Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1086
       Richard C. Hertzberg and   
            Vincent F. Gallucci   First-Order Stochastic Chemical
                                  Reactions and Oscillations in the
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1093
                F. Thomas Bruss   A Counterpart of the Borel--Cantelli
                                  Lemma  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1094--1101
             J. Haezendonck and   
                   F. De Vylder   A Comparison Criterion for Explosions in
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102--1107
                 Gunnar Englund   Remainder Term Estimate for the
                                  Asymptotic Normality of the Number of
                                  Renewals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108--1113
                  Roger Hartley   A Simple Proof of Whittle's Bridging
                                  Condition in Dynamic Programming . . . . 1114--1116
           L. Valadares Tavares   An Exponential Markovian Stationary
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117--1120
              Gerhard Schroeter   The Application of the Hankel
                                  Transformation to Spherically Symmetric
                                  Coverage Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 1121--1126
                Y. S. Sathe and   
              Meena Pradhan and   
                     S. P. Shah   Inequalities for the Probability of the
                                  Occurrence of at Least $m$ out of $n$
                                  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127--1132
                A. O. Pittenger   Success Probabilities for Second
                                  Guessers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1137
                  Jan Engel and   
                  Mynt Zijlstra   A Characterization of the Gamma
                                  Distribution by the Negative Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138--1144
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1145--1149
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 18, Number 1, March, 1981

                   Norbert Lenz   Extinction Probability, Regularity and
                                  Asymptotic Growth of Markovian
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
             Robert Cogburn and   
              William C. Torrez   Birth and Death Processes with Random
                                  Environments in Continuous Time  . . . . 19--30
            Naftali A. Langberg   On the Normal Convergence of a Class of
                                  Simple Batch Epidemics . . . . . . . . . 31--41
                R. C. Griffiths   Transient Distribution of the Number of
                                  Segregating Sites in a Neutral
                                  Infinite-Sites Model with no
                                  Recombination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
              Kenneth Lange and   
            Michael Boehnke and   
                 Richard Carson   Moment Computations for Subcritical
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 52--64
                  Aidan Sudbury   The Expected Population Size in a
                                  Cell-Size-Dependent Branching Process    65--75
                 Toby Lewis and   
                 J. W. Thompson   Dispersive Distributions, and the
                                  Connection between Dispersivity and
                                  Strong Unimodality . . . . . . . . . . . 76--90
               Josef Steinebach   The Stochastic Geyser Problem for
                                  First-Passage Times  . . . . . . . . . . 91--103
                 Peter F. Thall   Cluster Shock Models . . . . . . . . . . 104--111
                    Zvi Rosberg   A Note on the Ergodicity of Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--121
                  R. L. Tweedie   Criteria for Ergodicity, Exponential
                                  Ergodicity and Strong Ergodicity of
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--130
               Noel Cressie and   
                Robert W. Davis   The Supremum Distribution of Another
                                  Gaussian Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--138
                  Wen-Chen Chen   Limit Theorems for General Size
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
                     A. J. Stam   A Non-Random Limit for the Volume
                                  Covered $k$ Times  . . . . . . . . . . . 148--156
            P. Frank Ehlers and   
                 Ernest G. Enns   Random Secants of a Convex Body
                                  Generated by Surface Randomness  . . . . 157--166
               Thomas L. Corwin   Search for a Moving Target under Minimax
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--180
                    Ed McKenzie   Extending the Correlation Structure of
                                  Exponential
                                  Autoregressive-Moving-Average Processes  181--189
                   Guy Latouche   On a Markovian Queue with Weakly
                                  Correlated Interarrival Times  . . . . . 190--203
                Bharat T. Doshi   Adaptive Control of a
                                  Production-Inventory System  . . . . . . 204--215
        J. Michael Harrison and   
              Austin J. Lemoine   Sticky Brownian Motion as the Limit of
                                  Storage Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 216--226
             Laurence A. Baxter   Availability Measures for a Two-State
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--235
                  P. Purdue and   
                      D. Linton   An Infinite-Server Queue Subject to an
                                  Extraneous Phase Process and Related
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--244
                Constantin Ivan   Weak Convergence of the Simple
                                  Birth-and-Death Process  . . . . . . . . 245--252
                    Fergus Daly   On a General Branching Process . . . . . 253--255
                  Svante Janson   An Upper Bound for the Velocity of
                                  First-Passage Percolation  . . . . . . . 256--262
           F. D. J. Dunstan and   
                 J. F. Reynolds   Normal Approximations for Distributions
                                  Arising in the Stochastic Approach to
                                  Chemical Reaction Kinetics . . . . . . . 263--267
                    Joseph Glaz   Clustering of Events in a Stochastic
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--275
                 Rodney Coleman   Intercept Lengths of Random Probes
                                  through Boxes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--282
                      Sven Berg   On Snowball Sampling, Random Mappings
                                  and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . 283--290
               Pranab Kumar Sen   Weak Convergence of an Iterated Renewal
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--296
              Lennart Bondesson   On Occupation Times for Quasi-Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--301
                Paul V. Kabaila   The Use of Prior Information in the
                                  Estimation of the Optimal Interpolator
                                  Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--308
                Sheldon M. Ross   A Random Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--315
           George Kimeldorf and   
             Detlef Plachky and   
               Allan R. Sampson   A Simultaneous Characterization of the
                                  Poisson and Bernoulli Distributions  . . 316--320
                  J. C. Gittins   Multiserver Scheduling of Jobs with
                                  Increasing Completion Rates  . . . . . . 321--324
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 18, Number 2, June, 1981

              Kenneth Lange and   
                 William Holmes   Stochastic Stable Population Growth  . . 325--334
                     L. Billard   Generalized Two-Dimensional Bounded
                                  Birth and Death Processes and Some
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--347
                     Neil Dubin   Predicting the Benefit of Screening for
                                  Disease  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--360
                Bruce L. Miller   Countable-State Average-Cost
                                  Regenerative Stopping Problems . . . . . 361--377
            Barry C. Arnold and   
          Richard A. Groeneveld   On Excess Life in Certain Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--389
                   Peter Breuer   A Strong Approximation for Some
                                  Non-Stationary Complex Gaussian
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--402
               Eric Renshaw and   
                Robin Henderson   The Correlated Random Walk . . . . . . . 403--414
          Joseph D. Petruccelli   Best-Choice Problems Involving
                                  Uncertainty of Selection and Recall of
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--425
                 Mark Brown and   
            Herbert Solomon and   
            Michael A. Stephens   Monte Carlo Simulation of the Renewal
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--434
                     Lars Holst   On Sequential Occupancy Problems . . . . 435--442
                    Tohru Ozaki   Non-Linear Threshold Autoregressive
                                  Models for Non-Linear Random Vibrations  443--451
                Barron Brainerd   Some Elaborations upon Gani's Model for
                                  the Type-Token Relationship  . . . . . . 452--460
                   V. Ramaswami   Algorithms for a Continuous-Review (s,
                                  S) Inventory System  . . . . . . . . . . 461--472
               Prem S. Puri and   
             Samuel W. Woolford   On a Generalized Storage Model with
                                  Moment Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . 473--481
                 P. G. Harrison   Transient Behaviour of Queueing Networks 482--490
                   Karmeshu and   
                  N. K. Jaiswal   A Machine Interference Model with
                                  Threshold Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--498
              Erik A. Van Doorn   The Transient State Probabilities for a
                                  Queueing Model Where Potential Customers
                                  Are Discouraged by Queue Length  . . . . 499--506
                 W. G. S. Hines   Multi-Species Population Models and
                                  Evolutionarily Stable Strategies . . . . 507--513
                  Dean H. Fearn   A Fixed-Point Property for
                                  Galton--Watson Processes with Generation
                                  Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--519
               Jeremy E. Dawson   The Algebraic Equivalence of Two
                                  Measures of Genetic Distance . . . . . . 520--522
              Lawrence E. Myers   Survival Functions Induced by Stochastic
                                  Covariate Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 523--529
             H. L. MacGillivray   A Note on the Normalised Moments of
                                  Distributions with Non-Monotonic Hazard
                                  Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--535
        E. M. Cabaña and   
                    M. Wschebor   An Estimate for the Tails of the
                                  Distribution of the Supremum for a Class
                                  of Stationary Multiparameter Gaussian
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--541
                Gavin Brown and   
                  J. W. Sanders   Lognormal Genesis  . . . . . . . . . . . 542--547
                 Harry A. Guess   An Invariance Principle for Solutions to
                                  Stochastic Difference Equations  . . . . 548--553
             Bengt Klefsjö   Survival under the Pure Birth Shock
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--560
        J. Michael Harrison and   
              Austin J. Lemoine   A Note on Networks of Infinite-Server
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--567
                  Mark Westcott   Characterizing the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--568
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Limit Theorem for the
                                  Maximum Term in a Particular $ {\rm
                                  EARMA} (1, 1) $ Sequence . . . . . . . . 569--569
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Spatial Distribution of
                                  \em Tribolium Confusum . . . . . . . . . 569--569
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 18, Number 3, September, 1981

                A. C. Trajstman   A Bounded Growth Population Subjected to
                                  Emigrations Due to Population Pressure   571--582
                    C. C. Heyde   On Fibonacci (Or Lagged
                                  Bienaymé--Galton--Watson) Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--591
                     Harry Cohn   On the Convergence of Stochastically
                                  Monotone Sequences of Random Variables
                                  and Some Applications  . . . . . . . . . 592--605
                     Peter Hall   On the Distribution of Random Lines  . . 606--616
             Tuan Dinh Pham and   
                  Lanh Tat Tran   On the First-Order Bilinear Time Series
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--627
            Eduardo J. Subelman   A Hide-Search Game . . . . . . . . . . . 628--640
          Johannes Siedersleben   Dynamically Optimized Replacement with a
                                  Markovian Renewal Process  . . . . . . . 641--651
                 M. J. Phillips   A Characterization of the Negative
                                  Exponential Distribution with
                                  Application to Reliability Theory  . . . 652--659
             J. P. Lehoczky and   
                    D. P. Gaver   Diffusion Approximations for the
                                  Cooperative Service of Voice and Data
                                  Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660--671
                  Richard Cowan   An Analysis of the Fixed-Cycle
                                  Traffic-Light Problem  . . . . . . . . . 672--683
                   Guy Latouche   Queues with Paired Customers . . . . . . 684--696
               Norman L. Kaplan   Another Look at the Two-Lift Problem . . 697--706
                  Shun-Chen Niu   On the Comparison of Waiting Times in
                                  Tandem Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--714
                   Eric Renshaw   Waveforms and Velocities for Models of
                                  Spatial Infection  . . . . . . . . . . . 715--720
                 M. B. Rajarshi   Simpler Proofs of Two Threshold Theorems
                                  for a General Stochastic Epidemic  . . . 721--724
              Aidan Sudbury and   
                 Peter Clifford   The Determination of the Age of a Clone
                                  from Characteristics of Its Geographical
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--731
              D. Y. Downham and   
               S. B. Fotopoulos   Some Aspects of the Non-Asymptotic
                                  Behaviour of a Two-Dimensional Invasion
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732--737
                   G. S. Davies   Maintainable Regions in a Markov
                                  Manpower Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--742
                     John Haigh   Random Exchanges of Information  . . . . 743--746
              Stig I. Rosenlund   Markov Chains in Small Time Intervals    747--751
             Per Kragh Andersen   A Note on Filtered Markov Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752--756
                   A. M. Walker   On the Classical Bonferroni Inequalities
                                  and the Corresponding Galambos
                                  Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--763
            Michael R. Chernick   On Strong Mixing and Leadbetter's $D$
                                  Condition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764--769
              D. Y. Downham and   
               S. B. Fotopoulos   Some Inequalities on the Distribution of
                                  Ladder Epochs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--775
                 G. B. Nath and   
                     E. G. Enns   Optimal Service Rates in the Multiserver
                                  Loss System with Heterogeneous Servers   776--781
                    Mark Berman   The Covariance of Two Type II Counters   782--787
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 18, Number 4, December, 1981

                     P. Holgate   Linked Loci in Finite Populations  . . . 789--798
                    P. J. Green   Modelling Yeast Cell Growth Using
                                  Stochastic Branching Processes . . . . . 799--808
            J. Theodore Cox and   
                   Harry Kesten   On the Continuity of the Time Constant
                                  of First-Passage Percolation . . . . . . 809--819
              Svante Janson and   
                Olav Kallenberg   Maximizing the Intersection Density of
                                  Fibre Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 820--828
                Isaac Meilijson   Estimation of the Lifetime Distribution
                                  of the Parts from the Autopsy Statistics
                                  of the Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--838
                   R. J. Henery   Place Probabilities in Normal Order
                                  Statistics Models for Horse Races  . . . 839--852
                   Moshe Shaked   Bounds on the Distance of a Mixture from
                                  Its Parent Distribution  . . . . . . . . 853--863
                     Karen Byth   $ \theta $-Stationary Point Processes
                                  and Their Second-Order Analysis  . . . . 864--878
                  Michel Baudin   Likelihood and Nearest-Neighbor Distance
                                  Properties of Multidimensional Poisson
                                  Cluster Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 879--888
              Austin J. Lemoine   On Queues with Periodic Poisson Input    889--900
                Marcel F. Neuts   Stationary Waiting-Time Distributions in
                                  the GI/PH/1 Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . 901--912
                 Dror Zuckerman   Characterization of the Optimal Class of
                                  Output Policies in a Control Model of a
                                  Finite Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--923
             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   Stability in a Non-Homogeneous Markov
                                  Chain Model in Manpower Systems  . . . . 924--930
              James M. Hill and   
              Chandra M. Gulati   The Random Walk Associated with the Game
                                  of Roulette  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--936
                     Y. H. Wang   On the Limit of the Markov Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937--942
          Sylvia Richardson and   
                    Denis Hemon   On the Variance of the Sample
                                  Correlation between Two Independent
                                  Lattice Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 943--948
                   A. C. Dallas   Record Values and the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--951
            Alan G. Konheim and   
            Isaac Meilijson and   
                Abraham Melkman   Processor-Sharing of Two Parallel Lines  952--956
           L. Valadares Tavares   The Distribution of the Maximum of $i$
                                  Consecutive Values of a Process  . . . . 957--957
                    J. W. Cohen   Obituary: Félix Pollaczek . . . . . . . . 959--963
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 964--967
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 19, Number 1, March, 1982

                  H. Lacayo and   
            Naftali A. Langberg   The Exact and Symptotic Formulas for the
                                  State Probabilities in Simple Epidemics
                                  with $m$ Kinds of Susceptibles . . . . . 1--9
               Philip C. Prorok   Bounded Recurrence Times and Lead Time
                                  in the Design of a Repetitive Screening
                                  Program  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--19
                  H. E. Daniels   The Saddlepoint Approximation for a
                                  General Birth Process  . . . . . . . . . 20--28
                    H.-J. Schuh   Sums of I.I.D. Random Variables and an
                                  Application to the Explosion Criterion
                                  for Markov Branching Processes . . . . . 29--38
                   Prem S. Puri   On the Characterization of Point
                                  Processes with the Order Statistic
                                  Property without the Moment Condition    39--51
                     Peter Hall   On Starr and Vardi's Estimates of the
                                  Number of Transmission Sources . . . . . 52--63
      Sòren Andersen and   
                    Mats Rudemo   Filtering Counts of Cars Entering and
                                  Leaving a Parking Place  . . . . . . . . 64--71
              George E. Monahan   Optimal Stopping in a Partially
                                  Observable Binary-Valued Markov Chain
                                  with Costly Perfect Information  . . . . 72--81
                Torgny Lindvall   On Coupling of Continuous-Time Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
                 J. Janssen and   
                 J. M. Reinhard   Some Duality Results for a Class of
                                  Multivariate Semi-Markov Processes . . . 90--98
               K. D. Glazebrook   On a Sufficient Condition for
                                  Superprocesses Due to Whittle  . . . . . 99--110
                   Shigeru Mase   Asymptotic Properties of Stereological
                                  Estimators of Volume Fraction for
                                  Stationary Random Sets . . . . . . . . . 111--126
                Dietmar Pfeifer   Characterizations of Exponential
                                  Distributions by Independent
                                  Non-Stationary Record Increments . . . . 127--135
                    Gunnar Blom   On the Mean Number of Random Digits
                                  until a Given Sequence Occurs  . . . . . 136--143
                 Haim Mendelson   A Batch-Ballot Problem and Applications  144--157
                Malay Ghosh and   
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Shock Models Leading to Increasing
                                  Failure Rate and Decreasing Mean
                                  Residual Life Survival . . . . . . . . . 158--166
               Richard R. Weber   Scheduling Jobs with Stochastic
                                  Processing Requirements on Parallel
                                  Machines to Minimize Makespan or
                                  Flowtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--182
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Simple Derivations of the Invariance
                                  Relations and Their Applications . . . . 183--194
                     J. Walrand   On the Equivalence of Flows in Networks
                                  of Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--203
                 W. G. S. Hines   Mutations, Perturbations and
                                  Evolutionarily Stable Strategies . . . . 204--209
               Julian Besag and   
                Robin Milne and   
                   Stan Zachary   Point Process Limits of Lattice
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--216
                    A. De Meyer   On a Theorem of Bingham and Doney  . . . 217--220
                     A. J. Stam   Limit Theorems for Uniform Distributions
                                  on Spheres in High-Dimensional Euclidean
                                  Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--228
              Raymond J. Hickey   A Note on the Measurement of Randomness  229--232
                 H. N. Nagaraja   Record Values and Extreme Value
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--239
                     J. Keilson   On the Distribution and Covariance
                                  Structure of the Present Value of a
                                  Random Income Stream . . . . . . . . . . 240--244
                   D. P. Heyman   On Ross's Conjectures about Queues with
                                  Non-Stationary Poisson Arrivals  . . . . 245--249
            Michael R. Chernick   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
                 G. B. Nath and   
                     E. G. Enns   Retraction: Optimal Service Rates in the
                                  Multiserver Loss System with
                                  Heterogeneous Servers  . . . . . . . . . 250--251
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 19, Number 2, June, 1982

                 H. N. Nagaraja   Some Asymptotic Results for the Induced
                                  Selection Differential . . . . . . . . . 253--261
                R. Höpfner   Local Limit Theorems for Non-Critical
                                  Galton--Watson Processes with or without
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--271
            P. J. Brockwell and   
              S. I. Resnick and   
            N. Pacheco-Santiago   Extreme Values, Range and Weak
                                  Convergence of Integrals of Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--288
       Frederick J. Beutler and   
               Benjamin Melamed   Multivariate Poisson Flows on Markov
                                  Step Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--300
                    Zvi Rosberg   Semi-Markov Decision Processes with
                                  Polynomial Reward  . . . . . . . . . . . 301--309
                   Moshe Shaked   Dispersive Ordering of Distributions . . 310--320
           Jiunn Tzon Hwang and   
                 James V. Zidek   Limit Theorems for Out-Guesses with
                                  Mean-Guided Second Guessing  . . . . . . 321--331
            R. F. Galbraith and   
                      D. Walley   Further Properties for Unilateral Binary
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--343
                  Norbert Henze   The Limit Distribution for Maxima of
                                  'Weighted' $R$ th-Nearest-Neighbour
                                  Distances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--354
                     John Gates   The Number of Intersections of Random
                                  Chords to a Circle: Third and Fourth
                                  Moments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--372
           Andrew F. Siegel and   
                     Lars Holst   Covering the Circle with Random Arcs of
                                  Random Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--381
         B. Edwin Blaisdell and   
                Herbert Solomon   Random Sequential Packing in Euclidean
                                  Spaces of Dimensions Three and Four and
                                  a Conjecture of Palásti . . . . . . . . . 382--390
             Henry W. Block and   
               Thomas H. Savits   A Decomposition for Multistate Monotone
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--402
                    C. Routleff   A Variation of Weiss's Carrier-Borne
                                  Epidemic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--407
                      K. Nanthi   Estimation of the Variance for the
                                  Multitype Galton--Watson Process . . . . 408--414
           Anthony G. Pakes and   
                    C. C. Heyde   Optimal Estimation of the Criticality
                                  Parameter of a Supercritical Branching
                                  Process Having Random Environments . . . 415--420
                  Norman Kaplan   A Note on the Branching Random Walk  . . 421--424
              Dean Isaacson and   
                  Peter Colwell   Levels of Null Persistency for Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--429
                    A. J. Woods   First-Passage Times for the Partial Sums
                                  of a Sequence of Geometric Distributions 430--432
             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   On the Limiting Behaviour of a
                                  Non-Homogeneous Markovian Manpower Model
                                  with Independent Poisson Input . . . . . 433--438
                   G. S. Davies   Control of Grade Sizes in a Partially
                                  Stochastic Markov Manpower Model . . . . 439--443
               David K. Pickard   Isolated Nearest Neighbors . . . . . . . 444--449
           W. G. Cumberland and   
                    Z. M. Sykes   Weak Convergence of an Autoregressive
                                  Process Used in Modeling Population
                                  Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--455
                     Y. Isokawa   An Identification Problem in Almost and
                                  Asymptotically Almost Periodically
                                  Correlated Processes . . . . . . . . . . 456--462
                    Ed McKenzie   Product Autoregression: A Time-Series
                                  Characterization of the Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--468
                  A. D. Barbour   Generalized Semi-Markov Schemes and Open
                                  Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 469--474
                 Ishay Weissman   Asymptotic Sample Extremes Are Not
                                  Functions of an Extremal Process: A
                                  Counterexample . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 19, Number 3, September, 1982

              Samuel Karlin and   
            Simon Tavaré   Linear Birth and Death Processes with
                                  Killing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--487
                    Bruce Hajek   Birth-and-Death Processes on the
                                  Integers with Phases and General
                                  Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--499
             Paul D. Feigin and   
              Emmanuel Yashchin   Extreme-Value Properties of the
                                  Explosion-Time Distribution in a Pure
                                  Birth Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--509
                   J. H. Bagley   Asymptotic Properties of Subcritical
                                  Galton--Watson Processes . . . . . . . . 510--517
                Gunnar Blom and   
                Daniel Thorburn   How Many Random Digits Are Required
                                  until Given Sequences Are Obtained?  . . 518--531
                Michael Kolonko   Strongly Consistent Estimation in a
                                  Controlled Markov Renewal Model  . . . . 532--545
         Nicholas P. Jewell and   
               Joseph P. Romano   Coverage Problems and Random Convex
                                  Hulls  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546--561
                   M. Yadin and   
                       S. Zacks   Random Coverage of a Circle with
                                  Applications to a Shadowing Problem  . . 562--577
                 J. Hüsler   Random Coverage of the Circle and
                                  Asymptotic Distributions . . . . . . . . 578--587
                  A. J. Girling   Approximate Variances Associated with
                                  Random Configurations of Hard Spheres    588--596
                   J. S. Willie   Measuring the Association of a Time
                                  Series and a Point Process . . . . . . . 597--608
                   J. S. Willie   Covariation of a Time Series and a Point
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--618
          A. R. Abdel-Hamid and   
               J. A. Bather and   
                 G. B. Trustrum   The Secretary Problem with an Unknown
                                  Number of Candidates . . . . . . . . . . 619--630
                  D. P. Kennedy   On a Constrained Optimal Stopping
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--641
                    Bent Natvig   On the Reduction in Remaining System
                                  Lifetime Due to the Failure of a
                                  Specific Component . . . . . . . . . . . 642--652
                 W. G. S. Hines   Strategy Stability in Complex Randomly
                                  Mating Diploid Populations . . . . . . . 653--659
                  Anatole Joffe   Un Mod\`ele Probabiliste Utile En
                                  Biologie Moléculaire. (French)
                                  [Probabilistic Model Useful in Molecular
                                  Biology] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660--663
                Dietmar Pfeifer   The Structure of Elementary Pure Birth
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--667
                  Thomas Kuczek   Almost Sure Limit Results for the
                                  Supercritical Bellman--Harris Process    668--674
                  D. Najock and   
                    C. C. Heyde   On the Number of Terminal Vertices in
                                  Certain Random Trees with an Application
                                  to Stemma Construction in Philology  . . 675--680
             F. C. Klebaner and   
                    H.-J. Schuh   A Connection between the Limit and the
                                  Maximum Random Variable of a Branching
                                  Process in Varying Environments  . . . . 681--684
       Atef M. Abdel-Moneim and   
        Frederick W. Leysieffer   Weak Lumpability in Finite Markov Chains 685--691
                 Mark Scott and   
            Barry C. Arnold and   
               Dean L. Isaacson   Strong Ergodicity for Continuous-Time,
                                  Non-Homogeneous Markov Chains  . . . . . 692--694
                     Ward Whitt   Multivariate Monotone Likelihood Ratio
                                  and Uniform Conditional Stochastic Order 695--701
           Charles E. Smith and   
                     Loren Cobb   The Stationary Moments of Poisson-Driven
                                  Non-Linear Dynamical Systems . . . . . . 702--706
                   Kai-Tai Fang   A Restricted Occupancy Problem . . . . . 707--711
              Glen Richard Hall   Acute Triangles in the $n$-Ball  . . . . 712--715
               K. D. Glazebrook   On the Evaluation of Suboptimal
                                  Strategies for Families of Alternative
                                  Bandit Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--722
            Mark C. K. Yang and   
         Dennis D. Wackerly and   
                Andrew Rosalsky   Optimal Stopping Rules in Proofreading   723--729
             E. J. Anderson and   
                    P. Nash and   
                    R. R. Weber   A Counterexample to a Conjecture on
                                  Optimal List Ordering  . . . . . . . . . 730--732
                Peter R. Nelson   The Transposition Replacement Policy
                                  with a Partial Memory  . . . . . . . . . 733--736
               Bhaskar Sengupta   An Exponential Riddle  . . . . . . . . . 737--740
             V. Rajendra Prasad   Comment on ``\booktitleScheduling Tasks
                                  with Exponential Service Times on
                                  Non-Identical Processors to Minimize
                                  Various Cost Functions'' . . . . . . . . 741--741
       Theophilos Cacoullos and   
                H. Papageorgiou   Characterizing the Negative Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--743
                      Anonymous   Correction: On the First-Order Bilinear
                                  Time Series Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 744--744
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 19, Number 4, December, 1982

                 Kari Kuulasmaa   The Spatial General Epidemic and Locally
                                  Dependent Random Graphs  . . . . . . . . 745--758
                   Ross Dunstan   The Rumour Process . . . . . . . . . . . 759--766
                   A. Joffe and   
               W. A. O'N. Waugh   Exact Distributions of Kin Numbers in a
                                  Galton--Watson Process . . . . . . . . . 767--775
                  M. Ad\`es and   
                 J.-P. Dion and   
                 G. Labelle and   
                      K. Nanthi   Recurrence Formula and the Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimation of the Age in a
                                  Simple Branching Process . . . . . . . . 776--784
                Barron Brainerd   On the Relation between the Type-Token
                                  and Species-Area Problems  . . . . . . . 785--793
               Matthew J. Sobel   The Variance of Discounted Markov
                                  Decision Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 794--802
                Mitsushi Tamaki   An Optimal Parking Problem . . . . . . . 803--814
                F. A. Attia and   
                P. J. Brockwell   The Control of a Finite Dam  . . . . . . 815--825
                     D. Fakinos   The M/G/k Group-Arrival Group-Departure
                                  Loss System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826--834
                 Grace Yang and   
                   C. L. Chiang   On Interarrival Times in Simple
                                  Stochastic Epidemic Models . . . . . . . 835--841
               Richard Lockhart   On the Non-Existence of Consistent
                                  Estimates in Galton--Watson Processes    842--846
                  David M. Hull   A Necessary Condition for Extinction in
                                  Those Bisexual Galton--Watson Branching
                                  Processes Governed by Superadditive
                                  Mating Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--850
             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   Asymptotic Behavior of Markov Systems    851--857
                 Choon-Peng Tan   A Functional Form for a Particular
                                  Coefficient of Ergodicity  . . . . . . . 858--863
        Ludger Rüschendorf   Comparison of Percolation Probabilities  864--868
                      U. Dieter   An Alternate Proof for the
                                  Representation of Discrete Distributions
                                  by Equiprobable Mixtures . . . . . . . . 869--872
                       J. Gates   Recognition of Triangles and
                                  Quadrilaterals by Chord Length
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--879
              Chang C. Y. Dorea   Connectivity of Random Graphs  . . . . . 880--884
            D. N. P. Murthy and   
                   D. G. Nguyen   A Note on Extended Block Replacement
                                  Policy with Used Items . . . . . . . . . 885--889
                 A. Stulman and   
                      A. Mehrez   A Note Describing the Marginal Benefits
                                  of Spares on Availability  . . . . . . . 890--893
                     J. Haslett   New Bounds for the Thermal Energy
                                  Storage Process with Stationary Input    894--899
                   Harry Reuter   Appreciation: Professor D. G. Kendall,
                                  FRS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900--900
             V. S. Koroljuk and   
      Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni and   
                  B. W. Conolly   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . 901--905
                      Anonymous   Correction: Bounded Recurrence Times and
                                  Lead Time in the Design of a Repetitive
                                  Screening Program  . . . . . . . . . . . 906--906
                      Anonymous   Correction: Characterizations of
                                  Exponential Distributions by Independent
                                  Non-Stationary Record Increments . . . . 906--906
                      Anonymous   Correction: Some Classes of Conditional
                                  Inference Procedures . . . . . . . . . . 907--907
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 908--911
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 19A, 1982

                      Anonymous   Publications of P. A. P. Moran . . . . . 1--6
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--185
                    W. J. Ewens   Aspects of Population Genetics Theory    9--17
                    C. C. Heyde   The Effect of Differential Reproductive
                                  Rates on the Survival of a Gene
                                  Represented in a Founder Population  . . 19--25
               J. F. C. Kingman   On the Genealogy of Large Populations    27--43
             Cedric A. B. Smith   Correlations and Regressions in `Family'
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
                G. A. Watterson   Substitution Times for Mutant
                                  Nucleotides  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70
                Susan R. Wilson   Heritability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
                 P. Erd\Hos and   
                      I. Vincze   On the Approximation of Convex, Closed
                                  Plane Curves by Multifocal Ellipses  . . 89--96
                R. E. Miles and   
               R. J. Maillardet   The Basic Structures of Voronoi and
                                  Generalized Voronoi Polygons . . . . . . 97--111
                  B. H. Neumann   Plane Polygons Revisited . . . . . . . . 113--122
               David G. Kendall   The Scale of Perfection  . . . . . . . . 125--138
                   B. C. Rennie   On Generalized Functions . . . . . . . . 139--156
               Bernard Benjamin   The Human Lifespan . . . . . . . . . . . 159--172
                Violet Cane and   
                Rosanne McNamee   The Spread of Infection in a
                                  Heterogeneous Population . . . . . . . . 173--184
                 M. S. Bartlett   The `Ideal' Estimation Equation  . . . . 187--200
                  H. E. Daniels   A Transformation for Normal Extremes . . 201--206
                    A. W. Davis   On the Distribution of Hotelling's
                                  One-Sample $ T^2 $ under Moderate
                                  Non-Normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216
                    P. D. Finch   Functional Dependence from a Descriptive
                                  Viewpoint  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--224
                C. R. Heathcote   Linear Regression by Functional Least
                                  Squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--239
                  M. R. Osborne   A Finite Algorithm for the Rank
                                  Regression Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 241--252
             Elizabeth L. Scott   Comparison of Two Treatments When There
                                  May be an Initial Effect . . . . . . . . 253--264
             Geoffrey S. Watson   Distributions on the Circle and Sphere   265--280
                  Mark Westcott   Approximations to Hard-Core Models and
                                  Their Application to Statistical
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--292
                 E. J. Williams   Some Classes of Conditional Inference
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--303
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--434
                     Harry Cohn   Another Look at the Finite Mean
                                  Supercritical Bienaymé--Galton--Watson    307--312
                    D. J. Daley   Stationary Point Processes with
                                  Markov-Dependent Intervals and Infinite
                                  Intensity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--320
                        J. Gani   On the Probability Generating Function
                                  of the Sum of Markov Bernoulli Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--326
               J. M. Hammersley   Critical Phenomena in Semi-Infinite
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--331
                  A. M. Hasofer   Simple Trigonometric Models for
                                  Narrow-Band Stationary Processes . . . . 333--343
               David K. Pickard   Inference for General Ising Models . . . 345--357
                  David Pollard   Beyond the Heuristic Approach to
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov Theorems . . . . . . 359--365
                      E. Seneta   Entropy and Martingales in Markov Chain
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--381
                  D. Vere-Jones   On the Estimation of Frequency in
                                  Point-Process Data . . . . . . . . . . . 383--394
                     P. Whittle   Identities Relating Forward and Backward
                                  Treatments of Optimisation . . . . . . . 395--399
                   E. J. Hannan   Testing for Autocorrelation and Akaike's
                                  Criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--412
                     Don McNeil   Time Series Modelling: An Integrated
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--425
                    J. Gani and   
                   E. J. Hannan   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 20, Number 1, March, 1983

             Stanley Sawyer and   
             Joseph Felsenstein   Isolation by Distance in a
                                  Hierarchically Clustered Population  . . 1--10
                  E. Seneta and   
               S. Tavaré   A Note on Models Using the Branching
                                  Process with Immigration Stopped at Zero 11--18
                  Mark Woodward   The Limiting Properties of Population
                                  Distributions with Particular
                                  Application to Manpower Planning . . . . 19--30
                      Sven Berg   Random Contact Processes, Snowball
                                  Sampling and Factorial Series
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--46
                  M. Berman and   
                 G. K. Eagleson   A Poisson Limit Theorem for Incomplete
                                  Symmetric Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 47--60
         Peter G. Buckholtz and   
          L. Lorne Campbell and   
          Ross D. Milbourne and   
                    M. T. Wasan   Analysis of Transient Behaviour of
                                  Certain Processes with Return to a
                                  Central State  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--70
                  Masami Yasuda   On a Stopping Problem Involving Refusal
                                  and Forced Stopping  . . . . . . . . . . 71--81
                Torgny Lindvall   On Coupling of Diffusion Processes . . . 82--93
                 Brooks Ferebee   An Unbiased Estimator for the Drift of a
                                  Stopped Wiener Process . . . . . . . . . 94--102
                    C. Park and   
               F. J. Schuurmann   Partial Barrier-Absorption Probabilities
                                  for the Wiener Process . . . . . . . . . 103--110
                  Norbert Henze   Random Triangles in Convex Regions . . . 111--125
                 A. M. Kellerer   On the Number of Clumps Resulting from
                                  the Overlap of Randomly Placed Figures
                                  in a Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--135
                  Michel Baudin   Note on the Determination of Cluster
                                  Centers from a Realization of a
                                  Multidimensional Poisson Cluster Process 136--143
                   W. M. Nawijn   A Note on Many-Server Queueing Systems
                                  with Ordered Entry, with an Application
                                  to Conveyor Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 144--152
                     Frank Ball   A Threshold Theorem for the Reed--Frost
                                  Chain-Binomial Epidemic  . . . . . . . . 153--157
           Andrew F. Siegel and   
                George Sugihara   Moments of Particle Size Distributions
                                  under Sequential Breakage with
                                  Applications to Species Abundance  . . . 158--164
          Joseph D. Petruccelli   On the Best-Choice Problem When the
                                  Number of Observations Is Random . . . . 165--171
                  K. G. Russell   On the Number of Uniform Random
                                  Variables Which Must Be Added to Exceed
                                  a Given Level  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--177
                     Harry Cohn   On the Fluctuation of Stochastically
                                  Monotone Markov Chains and Some
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--184
                 Mark Scott and   
               Dean L. Isaacson   Proportional Intensities and Strong
                                  Ergodicity for Markov Processes  . . . . 185--190
                  R. L. Tweedie   The Existence of Moments for Stationary
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--196
            L. M. Ricciardi and   
                        S. Sato   A Note on the Evaluation of
                                  First-Passage-Time Probability Densities 197--201
           George Kimeldorf and   
                 Peter F. Thall   A Joint Characterization of the
                                  Multinomial Distribution and the Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--208
                    M. Sreehari   A Characterization of the Geometric
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--212
                    Izzet Sahin   On the Continuous-Review (s, S)
                                  Inventory Model under Compound Renewal
                                  Demand and Random Lead Times . . . . . . 213--219
                      Ole Platz   A Central Limit Theorem for a Security
                                  of Supply Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--225
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 20, Number 2, June, 1983

                     Frank Ball   The Threshold Behaviour of Epidemic
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--241
                 F. C. Klebaner   Population-Size-Dependent Branching
                                  Process with Linear Rate of Growth . . . 242--250
                  David Mannion   Sequential Random Displacements of
                                  Points in an Interval  . . . . . . . . . 251--263
              Gregory F. Lawler   A Connective Constant for Loop-Erased
                                  Self-Avoiding Random Walk  . . . . . . . 264--276
                 Choon-Peng Tan   Coefficients of Ergodicity with Respect
                                  to Vector Norms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--287
                   W. Henderson   Non-Standard Insensitivity . . . . . . . 288--296
              Brent M. Troutman   Weak Convergence of the Adjusted Range
                                  of Cumulative Sums of Exchangeable
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--304
                 J. Grasman and   
                      D. Ludwig   The Accuracy of the Diffusion
                                  Approximation to the Expected Time to
                                  Extinction for Some Discrete Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--321
              Daren B. H. Cline   Limit Theorems for the Shifting Level
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--337
                    C. Park and   
                  J. A. Beekman   Stochastic Barriers for the Wiener
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--348
               Anthony G. Pakes   Remarks on a Model of Competitive
                                  Bidding for Employment . . . . . . . . . 349--357
               D. G. Harlow and   
                R. L. Smith and   
                   H. M. Taylor   Lower Tail Analysis of the Distribution
                                  of the Strength of Load-Sharing Systems  358--367
                    Lam Yeh and   
                   L. C. Thomas   Adaptive Control of M/M/1 Queues:
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Decision Process
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--379
          Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni   On Queueing Systems with Retrials  . . . 380--389
                  Thomas Sellke   On the Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  Size of a Stochastic Epidemic  . . . . . 390--394
             W. G. S. Hines and   
                   D. T. Bishop   Evolutionarily Stable Strategies in
                                  Diploid Populations with General
                                  Inheritance Patterns . . . . . . . . . . 395--399
                   J. C. Tanner   The Proportion of Quadrilaterals Formed
                                  by Random Lines in a Plane . . . . . . . 400--404
                   Paul Kabaila   Parameter Values of ARMA Models
                                  Minimising the One-Step-Ahead Prediction
                                  Error When the True System Is Not in the
                                  Model Set  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--408
                    R. A. Doney   A Note on Conditioned Random Walk  . . . 409--412
                 Ehud D. Karnin   The First Repetition of a Pattern in a
                                  Symmetric Bernoulli Sequence . . . . . . 413--418
                Barron Brainerd   A Limiting Distribution for Bernoulli
                                  Trials with Second-Order Markov
                                  Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--422
                   G. S. Davies   A Note on the Geometric/Probabilistic
                                  Relationship in a Markov Manpower Model  423--428
                S. Kalpakam and   
            M. A. Shahul Hameed   Quasi-Stationary Distribution of a
                                  Two-Unit Warm-Standby Redundant System   429--435
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   Coupling Methods and the Storage
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--441
                     J. Walrand   A Note on Norton's Theorem for Queuing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--444
                R. D. Foley and   
                       M. Yadin   On the Moments of the Cumulative Idle
                                  Time in an M/D/$ \infty $ Queue  . . . . 445--447
                      Anonymous   Acknowledgement: Weak Convergence of the
                                  Simple Birth-and-Death Process . . . . . 448--448
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 20, Number 3, September, 1983

                 Stanley Sawyer   A Stability Property of the Ewens
                                  Sampling Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--459
                   Ken-Iti Sato   Limit Diffusions of Some Stepping-Stone
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--471
             M. V. Kulkarni and   
                    A. G. Pakes   The Total Progeny of a Simple Branching
                                  Process with State-Dependent Immigration 472--481
         C. Cocozza-Thivent and   
                  C. Kipnis and   
                  M. Roussignol   Stabilité de la Récurrence Nulle Pour
                                  Certaines Cha\^\ines de Markov
                                  Perturbées. (French) [Stability of the
                                  null recurrence for some perturbed
                                  Markov chains] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--504
                Russell Gerrard   Regularity Conditions for Semi-Markov
                                  and Markov Chains in Continuous Time . . 505--512
         Richard J. Kryscio and   
                   Roy Saunders   On Interpoint Distances for Planar
                                  Poisson Cluster Processes  . . . . . . . 513--528
                W. J. R. Eplett   Minimal Distributions in a Stochastic
                                  Partial Ordering and Bounds for Gaussian
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--536
                 Paul Embrechts   A Property of the Generalized Inverse
                                  Gaussian Distribution with Some
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--544
                  Svante Janson   Limit Theorems for Some Sequential
                                  Occupancy Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 545--553
                V. V. Menon and   
                   N. K. Indira   On the Asymptotic Normality of the
                                  Number of Replications of a Paired
                                  Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--562
               S. N. Ethier and   
               S. Tavaré   The Proportional Bettor's Return on
                                  Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--573
          Dieter König and   
                 Volker Schmidt   The Palm-Type Grain Size Distribution in
                                  Stationary Grain Models  . . . . . . . . 574--584
                     Peter Hall   On the Roles of the Bessel and Poisson
                                  Distributions in Chemical Kinetics . . . 585--599
         J. G. Shanthikumar and   
                      U. Sumita   General Shock Models Associated with
                                  Correlated Renewal Sequences . . . . . . 600--614
             Bengt Klefsjö   A Useful Ageing Property Based on the
                                  Laplace Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . 615--626
             Laurence A. Baxter   Availability Measures for Coherent
                                  Systems of Separately Maintained
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--636
                 Dror Zuckerman   Job Search: The Continuous Case  . . . . 637--648
         R. N. Bhattacharya and   
             Vijay K. Gupta and   
                     Ed Waymire   The Hurst Effect under Trends  . . . . . 649--662
             Samuel W. Woolford   On a Generalized Finite-Capacity Storage
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--674
                G. Hooghiemstra   Conditioned Limit Theorems for
                                  Waiting-Time Processes of the M/G/1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--688
             W. G. S. Hines and   
                   D. T. Bishop   On Learning and the Evolutionarily
                                  Stable Strategy  . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--695
            Robin Henderson and   
               Eric Renshaw and   
                     David Ford   A Note on the Recurrence of a Correlated
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--699
                     John Haigh   Maintainability of Manpower Structures:
                                  Counterexamples, Results and Conjectures 700--705
                     D. Fakinos   The M/G/k Loss System with Servers
                                  Subject to Breakdown . . . . . . . . . . 706--712
                      Anonymous   Correction: On the Reduction in
                                  Remaining System Lifetime Due to the
                                  Failure of a Specific Component  . . . . 713--713
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 20, Number 4, December, 1983

                    M. J. Faddy   The Outcome of a General Spatial
                                  Epidemic on the Line . . . . . . . . . . 715--727
                  Aidan Sudbury   The Time Taken for a Population to Grow
                                  from Size $m$ to Size $ k m$ . . . . . . 728--736
            C. R. Heathcote and   
                    A. H. Welsh   The Robust Estimation of Autoregressive
                                  Processes by Functional Least Squares    737--753
                Etsuo Isobe and   
                  Shunsuke Sato   Wiener--Hermite Expansion of a Process
                                  Generated by an Itô Stochastic
                                  Differential Equation  . . . . . . . . . 754--765
                  Martin V. Day   Comparison Results for Diffusions
                                  Conditioned on Positivity  . . . . . . . 766--777
                   J. C. Tanner   Polygons Formed by Random Lines in a
                                  Plane: Some Further Results  . . . . . . 778--787
                Larry P. Ammann   Some Limit Theorems for Clustered
                                  Occupancy Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 788--802
             E. R. Canfield and   
                W. P. McCormick   Exact and Limiting Distribution of
                                  Sustained Maxima . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--813
              K. F. Turkman and   
                   A. M. Walker   Limit Laws for the Maxima of a Class of
                                  Quasi-Stationary Sequences . . . . . . . 814--821
               Robert J. Henery   Permutation Probabilities for Gamma
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 822--834
                    David Assaf   Extreme-Point Solutions in Markov
                                  Decision Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 835--842
                  Mynt Zijlstra   Characterizations of the Geometric
                                  Distribution by Distributional
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--850
                 Mark Brown and   
                 Frank Proschan   Imperfect Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--859
          Dieter König and   
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                 Volker Schmidt   On the Identification of Poisson
                                  Arrivals in Queues with Coinciding
                                  Time-Stationary and Customer-Stationary
                                  State Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . 860--871
           Ch. A. Charalambides   On Restricted and Pseudo-Contagious
                                  Occupancy Distributions  . . . . . . . . 872--876
                     Peter Hall   On the Interpretation of Random
                                  Fluctuations in Competing Chemical
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877--883
                 Helmut Pruscha   Learning Models with Continuous Time
                                  Parameter and Multivariate Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884--890
                 K. I. Choe and   
                      D. S. Bai   A Secretary Problem with Backward
                                  Solicitation and Uncertain Employment    891--896
              Raymond J. Hickey   Majorisation, Randomness and Some
                                  Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 897--902
                   Jean Walrand   A Discrete-Time Queueing Network . . . . 903--909
                B. K. Asare and   
                   F. G. Foster   Conditional Response Times in the M/G/1
                                  Processor-Sharing System . . . . . . . . 910--915
                   W. Grassmann   The Convexity of the Mean Queue Size of
                                  the M/M/c Queue with Respect to the
                                  Traffic Intensity  . . . . . . . . . . . 916--919
              Hau Leung Lee and   
                Morris A. Cohen   A Note on the Convexity of Performance
                                  Measures of M/M/c Queueing Systems . . . 920--923
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 924--927
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 21, Number 1, March, 1984

                R. Cressman and   
                 W. G. S. Hines   Evolutionarily Stable Strategies of
                                  Diploid Populations with Semi-Dominant
                                  Inheritance Patterns . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
                   Ushio Sumita   On Conditional Passage Time Structure of
                                  Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . 10--21
                K. V. Mitov and   
                    N. M. Yanev   Critical Galton--Watson Processes with
                                  Decreasing State-Dependent Immigration   22--39
                 F. C. Klebaner   Geometric Rate of Growth in
                                  Population-Size-Dependent Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--49
                 Y. S. Chow and   
                       K. F. Yu   Some Limit Theorems for a Subcritical
                                  Branching Process with Immigration . . . 50--57
           Douglas H. Frank and   
                 Stephen Durham   Random Motion on Binary Trees  . . . . . 58--69
                 E. G. Enns and   
                B. R. Smith and   
                   P. F. Ehlers   Hitting Spheres with Straight-Line
                                  Motion or Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . 70--79
             Paul Embrechts and   
                    Edward Omey   A Property of Longtailed Distributions   80--87
                    Victor Solo   Consistency for the Least Squares
                                  Estimator in a Transfer Function Model   88--97
                 Minoru Yoshida   Probability Maximizing Approach to a
                                  Secretary Problem with Random
                                  Change-Point of the Distribution Law of
                                  the Observed Process . . . . . . . . . . 98--107
              Gary Gottlieb and   
                 Benny Levikson   Optimal Replacement for Self-Repairing
                                  Shock Models with General Failure Rate   108--119
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
               Eric S. Langford   On the Determination of a Distribution
                                  by Its Median Residual Life Function: A
                                  Functional Equation  . . . . . . . . . . 120--128
                  Teunis J. Ott   On the M/G/1 Queue with Additional
                                  Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--142
           Daniel P. Heyman and   
                     Ward Whitt   The Asymptotic Behavior of Queues with
                                  Time-Varying Arrival Rates . . . . . . . 143--156
            Marcel F. Neuts and   
                M. F. Ramalhoto   A Service Model in Which the Server Is
                                  Required to Search for Customers . . . . 157--166
                Peter McCullagh   Recurrence Processes . . . . . . . . . . 167--172
                  Michel Baudin   Multidimensional Point Processes and
                                  Random Closed Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 173--178
                Bruce R. Ebanks   Polynomially Additive Entropies  . . . . 179--185
                 Jerzy Jaworski   On a Random Mapping $ (T, P_j) $ . . . . 186--191
                    R. A. Doney   A Note on Some Results of Schuh  . . . . 192--196
            E. M. Cabaña   On the Transition Density of a
                                  Multidimensional Parameter Wiener
                                  Process with One Barrier . . . . . . . . 197--200
            A. Dvurecenskij and   
            L. A. Kuljukina and   
                  G. A. Ososkov   On a Problem of the Busy-Period
                                  Determination in Queues with Infinitely
                                  Many Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--206
                A. Dvurecenskij   The Busy Period of Order $n$ in the
                                  GI/D/$ \infty $ Queue  . . . . . . . . . 207--212
                R. Cressman and   
                 W. G. S. Hines   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 21, Number 2, June, 1984

             W. G. S. Hines and   
                   D. T. Bishop   On the Local Stability of an
                                  Evolutionarily Stable Strategy in a
                                  Diploid Population . . . . . . . . . . . 215--224
                  Abebe Tessera   Population Processes Allowing Emigration
                                  of Families  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--232
            Robin Henderson and   
               Eric Renshaw and   
                     David Ford   A Correlated Random Walk Model for
                                  Two-Dimensional Diffusion  . . . . . . . 233--246
                John C. Wierman   Mixed Percolation on the Square Lattice  247--259
                 Pamela J. Davy   Probability Models for Liberation  . . . 260--269
      Joseph D. Petruccelli and   
             Samuel W. Woolford   A Threshold AR(1) Model  . . . . . . . . 270--286
                   John A. Lane   The Central Limit Theorem for the
                                  Poisson Shot-Noise Process . . . . . . . 287--301
            L. M. Ricciardi and   
               L. Sacerdote and   
                        S. Sato   On an Integral Equation for
                                  First-Passage-Time Probability Densities 302--314
             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   Cyclic Behaviour and Asymptotic
                                  Stability of Non-Homogeneous Markov
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--325
                 Paul Deheuvels   The Characterization of Distributions by
                                  Order Statistics and Record Values: A
                                  Unified Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--334
              D. Vere-Jones and   
                       Y. Ogata   On the Moments of a Self-Correcting
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--342
                    Kin Lam and   
            Ming-Ying Leung and   
                  Man-Keung Siu   Self-Organizing Files with Dependent
                                  Accesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--359
                  Teunis J. Ott   The Sojourn-Time Distribution in the
                                  M/G/1 Queue with Processor Sharing . . . 360--378
              William A. Massey   An Operator-Analytic Approach to the
                                  Jackson Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--393
                  B. W. Conolly   The Autostrada Queueing Problem  . . . . 394--403
            Osman M. E. Ali and   
                Marcel F. Neuts   A Service System with Two Stages of
                                  Waiting and Feedback of Customers  . . . 404--413
                  David M. Hull   Conditions for Extinction in Certain
                                  Bisexual Galton--Watson Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--418
                     John Gates   Bounds for the Probability of Complete
                                  Intersection of Random Chords in a
                                  Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--424
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Relationships between Order Statistics
                                  and Record Values and Some
                                  Characterization Results . . . . . . . . 425--430
                Toshio Nakagawa   Optimal Number of Units for a Parallel
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--436
                   V. Ramaswami   The Sojourn Time in the GI/M/1 Queue
                                  with Processor Sharing . . . . . . . . . 437--442
                     Frank Ball   The Threshold Behaviour of Epidemic
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Effect of Variability in
                                  the GI/G/s Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 21, Number 3, September, 1984

                    Olle Nerman   The Stable Pedigrees of Critical
                                  Branching Populations  . . . . . . . . . 447--463
            William J. Anderson   A Multitrap Model for High-Intensity
                                  Reciprocity Failure in the Photographic
                                  Grain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--478
                    G. Louchard   Kac's Formula, Levy's Local Time and
                                  Brownian Excursion . . . . . . . . . . . 479--499
                    J.-P. Imhof   Density Factorizations for Brownian
                                  Motion, Meander and the
                                  Three-Dimensional Bessel Process, and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--510
                Ian W. McKeague   Estimation for Diffusion Processes under
                                  Misspecified Models  . . . . . . . . . . 511--520
                  Masami Yasuda   Asymptotic Results for the Best-Choice
                                  Problem with a Random Number of Objects  521--536
                 R. W. Chen and   
                 V. N. Nair and   
              A. M. Odlyzko and   
                L. A. Shepp and   
                       Y. Vardi   Optimal Sequential Selection of $N$
                                  Random Variables under a Constraint  . . 537--547
                M. P. Quine and   
                   D. F. Watson   Radial Generation of $n$-Dimensional
                                  Poisson Procesess  . . . . . . . . . . . 548--557
                   L. Holst and   
                 J. Hüsler   On the Random Coverage of the Circle . . 558--566
       Atef M. Abdel-Moneim and   
        Frederick W. Leysieffer   Lumpability for Non-Irreducible Finite
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--574
                  H. W. Lotwick   Some Models for Multitype Spatial Point
                                  Processes with Remarks on Analysing
                                  Multitype Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . 575--582
             Awi Federgruen and   
                    Linda Green   An M/G/c Queue in Which the Number of
                                  Servers Required Is Random . . . . . . . 583--601
             Werner E. Helm and   
            Karl-Heinz Waldmann   Optimal Control of Arrivals to
                                  Multiserver Queues in a Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--615
        P. R. Parthasarathy and   
                   M. Sharafali   Some Notes on the Total Service Time in
                                  Certain Loss Systems . . . . . . . . . . 616--627
          Christos Langaris and   
                  Brian Conolly   On the Waiting Time of a Two-Stage
                                  Queueing System with Blocking  . . . . . 628--638
            Stefan P. Niculescu   On the Asymptotic Distribution of
                                  Multivariate Renewal Processes . . . . . 639--645
                  Rudolf Mathar   The Limit Behaviour of the Maximum of
                                  Random Variables with Applications to
                                  Outlier-Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . 646--650
                     John Gates   A Note on the Volume of Small Random
                                  Simplexes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--653
              Sujit K. Basu and   
        Manish C. Bhattacharjee   On Weak Convergence within the HNBUE
                                  Family of Life Distributions . . . . . . 654--660
                     Xi-Ren Cao   The Dependence of Sojourn Times on
                                  Service Times in Tandem Queues . . . . . 661--667
                        J. Gani   Obituary: Dr. Norma Ruth McArthur  . . . 669--672
                    R. A. Doney   On Conditional Passage-Time Structure of
                                  Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . 673--674
                  Michel Baudin   Acknowledgement of Priority:
                                  Multidimensional Point Processes and
                                  Random Closed Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 675--675
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 21, Number 4, December, 1984

                Philippe Picard   Applications of Martingale Theory to
                                  Some Epidemic Models, II . . . . . . . . 677--684
                     D. R. Grey   Non-Negative Matrices, Dynamic
                                  Programming and a Harvesting Problem . . 685--694
          Henry C. Tuckwell and   
             Frederic Y. M. Wan   First-Passage Time of Markov Process to
                                  Moving Barriers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--709
             Richard F. Serfozo   Rarefactions of Compound Point Processes 710--719
                 W. Dziubdziela   Limit Laws for kth Order Statistics from
                                  Strong-Mixing Processes  . . . . . . . . 720--729
                    Gunnar Blom   On the Stochastic Ordering of Waiting
                                  Times for Patterns in Sequences of
                                  Random Digits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--737
                     Peter Hall   Mean and Variance of Vacancy for
                                  Distribution of $k$-Dimensional Spheres
                                  within $k$-Dimensional Space . . . . . . 738--752
                  C. Buchta and   
                 J. Müller   Random Polytopes in a Ball . . . . . . . 753--762
                         K. Lam   Comparison of Self-Organizing Linear
                                  Search Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--776
            C. Courcoubetis and   
                 P. Varaiya and   
                     J. Walrand   Invariance in Resource-Sharing Systems   777--785
               S. G. Ghurye and   
             Albert W. Marshall   Shock Processes with Aftereffects and
                                  Multivariate Lack of Memory  . . . . . . 786--801
             Laurence A. Baxter   Continuum Structures I . . . . . . . . . 802--815
           Mohamed Abdel-Hameed   Life Distribution Properties of Devices
                                  Subject to a Pure Jump Damage Process    816--825
                Bent Natvig and   
              Arnfried Streller   The Steady-State Behaviour of Multistate
                                  Monotone Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 826--835
          Brent M. Troutman and   
           Michael R. Karlinger   On the Expected Width Function for
                                  Topologically Random Channel Networks    836--849
               D. Y. Burman and   
             J. P. Lehoczky and   
                         Y. Lim   Insensitivity of Blocking Probabilities
                                  in a Circuit-Switching Network . . . . . 850--859
        Jonathan B. Goodman and   
              William A. Massey   The Non-Ergodic Jackson Network  . . . . 860--869
                 J. P. C. Blanc   Asymptotic Analysis of a Queueing System
                                  with a Two-Dimensional State Space . . . 870--886
                D. J. Daley and   
                      T. Rolski   Some Comparability Results for Waiting
                                  Times in Single- and Many-Server Queues  887--900
                  Barry Wolfson   Some Moment Results for Certain Tandem
                                  and Multiple-Server Queues . . . . . . . 901--910
             Kari Kuulasmaa and   
                   Stan Zachary   On Spatial General Spidemics and Bond
                                  Percolation Processes  . . . . . . . . . 911--914
                F. Thomas Bruss   A Note on Extinction Criteria for
                                  Bisexual Galton--Watson Processes  . . . 915--919
                  Howard Weiner   Moments of the Maximum in a Critical
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 920--923
              Raymond J. Hickey   Continuous Majorisation and Randomness   924--929
           Donald W. K. Andrews   Non-Strong Mixing Autoregressive
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930--934
                        J. Gani   Obituary: Richard Bellman  . . . . . . . 935--936
                    J. W. Cohen   On Processor Sharing and Random Service  937--937
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 938--941
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 22, Number 1, March, 1985

                R. Cressman and   
                     A. T. Dash   Evolutionarily Stable Strategies with
                                  Two Types of Player. I. Two-Species
                                  Haploid or Randomly Mating Diploid . . . 1--14
              Rakesh Shukla and   
               R. C. Srivastava   The Statistical Analysis of Direct
                                  Repeats in Nucleic Acid Sequences  . . . 15--24
          Reinhard Höpfner   On Some Classes of
                                  Population-Size-Dependent Galton--Watson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--36
                   A. Joffe and   
               W. A. O'N. Waugh   The Kin Number Problem in a Multitype
                                  Galton--Watson Population  . . . . . . . 37--47
                 F. C. Klebaner   A Limit Theorem for
                                  Population-Size-Dependent Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--57
                 A. J. Branford   A Self-Excited Migration Process . . . . 58--67
                 A. M. Kellerer   Counting Figures in Planar Random
                                  Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--81
               E. B. Jensen and   
             H. J. G. Gundersen   The Stereological Estimation of Moments
                                  of Particle Volume . . . . . . . . . . . 82--98
                      J. Durbin   The First-Passage Density of a
                                  Continuous Gaussian Process to a General
                                  Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--122
                  Hideo \=Osawa   Reversibility of Markov Chains with
                                  Applications to Storage Models . . . . . 123--137
           Wojciech Szpankowski   Some Sufficient Conditions for
                                  Non-Ergodicity of Markov Chains  . . . . 138--147
                  E. Seneta and   
                  R. L. Tweedie   Moments for Stationary and
                                  Quasi-Stationary Distributions of Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--155
                     Ward Whitt   The Renewal-Process Stationary-Excess
                                  Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--167
                     P. Whittle   Partial Balance and Insensitivity  . . . 168--176
           Theodore P. Hill and   
                   Arie Hordijk   Selection of Order of Observation in
                                  Optimal Stopping Problems  . . . . . . . 177--184
                David Assaf and   
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   First-Passage Times with PF$_r$
                                  Densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--196
               Thomas H. Savits   A Multivariate IFR Class . . . . . . . . 197--204
            Michael Rubinovitch   The Slow Server Problem  . . . . . . . . 205--213
              Jos H. A. De Smit   The Queue GI/H$_m$ /s in Continuous Time 214--222
            B. Gail Ivanoff and   
                      E. Seneta   The Critical Branching Process with
                                  Immigration Stopped at Zero  . . . . . . 223--227
              Stephen Breen and   
        Michael S. Waterman and   
                     Ning Zhang   Renewal Theory for Several Patterns  . . 228--234
                  W. Droste and   
                  W. Wefelmeyer   A Note on Strong Unimodality and
                                  Dispersivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--239
                 E. Frostig and   
                       I. Adiri   Stochastic Flowshop No-Wait Scheduling   240--246
                David Assaf and   
            Naftali A. Langberg   Presentation of Phase-Type Distributions
                                  as Proper Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . 247--250
            Robin Henderson and   
               Eric Renshaw and   
                     David Ford   Acknowledgement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 22, Number 2, June, 1985

                    Seppo Niemi   On Non-Singular Markov Renewal Processes
                                  with an Application to a
                                  Growth-Catastrophe Model . . . . . . . . 253--266
                 K. S. Chan and   
      Joseph D. Petruccelli and   
                    H. Tong and   
             Samuel W. Woolford   A Multiple-Threshold AR(1) Model . . . . 267--279
        Stefan P. Niculescu and   
                    Edward Omey   On the Exact Order of Normal
                                  Approximation in Multivariate Renewal
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--287
                   Knut K. Aase   R&D Projects Analyzed by Semimartingale
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--299
                     Y. L. Deng   On the Comparison of Point Processes . . 300--313
                 A. Deffner and   
                    E. Haeusler   A Characterization of Order Statistic
                                  Point Processes That Are Mixed Poisson
                                  Processes and Mixed Sample Processes
                                  Simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--323
                 J. M. McNamara   An Optimal Sequential Policy for
                                  Controlling a Markov Renewal Process . . 324--335
                  Kyle Siegrist   Estimation and Optimal Stopping in a
                                  Debugging Model with Masking . . . . . . 336--345
               A. G. Nobile and   
            L. M. Ricciardi and   
                   L. Sacerdote   A Note on First-Passage Time and Some
                                  Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--359
               A. G. Nobile and   
            L. M. Ricciardi and   
                   L. Sacerdote   Exponential Trends of
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck First-Passage-Time
                                  Densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--369
             Henry W. Block and   
           Wagner S. Borges and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Age-Dependent Minimal Repair . . . . . . 370--385
                     Y. L. Tong   A Rearrangement Inequality for the
                                  Longest Run, with an Application to
                                  Network Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . 386--393
          Dieter König and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Stationary Queue-Length Characteristics
                                  in Queues with Delayed Feedback  . . . . 394--407
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   The Intensity Conservation Law for
                                  Queues with Randomly Changed Service
                                  Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--418
                Bharat T. Doshi   A Note on Stochastic Decomposition in a
                                  GI/G/1 Queue with Vacations or Set-up
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--428
                   Marek Kanter   Lower Bounds for the Probability of
                                  Overload in Certain Queueing Networks    429--436
             Peter Clifford and   
                  Aidan Sudbury   Looking Backwards in Time in the Moran
                                  Model in Population Genetics . . . . . . 437--442
                  Aidan Sudbury   The Proportion of the Population Never
                                  Hearing a Rumour . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--446
              Peter Guttorp and   
              Reg Kulperger and   
               Richard Lockhart   A Coupling Proof of Weak Convergence . . 447--453
               Simeon M. Berman   An Asymptotic Formula for the
                                  Distribution of the Maximum of a
                                  Gaussian Process with Stationary
                                  Increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--460
             Valeri T. Stefanov   On the Moments of Some First-Passage
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--466
                 Nader Ebrahimi   A Stress-Strength System . . . . . . . . 467--472
             Nils Lid Hjort and   
                Bent Natvig and   
                Espen Funnemark   The Association in Time of a Markov
                                  Process with Application to Multistate
                                  Reliability Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 473--479
                        Lam Yeh   Optimal Control of a Finite Dam:
                                  Average-Cost Case  . . . . . . . . . . . 480--484
                      Anonymous   Correction: How Many Random Digits Are
                                  Required until Given Sequences Are
                                  Obtained?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--485
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 22, Number 3, September, 1985

            Rocco Ballerini and   
                 Sidney Resnick   Records from Improving Populations . . . 487--502
                 Helmut Pruscha   Parametric Inference in Markov Branching
                                  Processes with Time-Dependent Random
                                  Immigration Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--517
             Luis-M. Cruz-Orive   Estimating Volumes from Systematic
                                  Hyperplane Sections  . . . . . . . . . . 518--530
                D. J. Gates and   
                    M. Westcott   Accurate and Asymptotic Results for
                                  Distributions of Scan Statistics . . . . 531--542
           William P. McCormick   Weak and Strong Law Results for a
                                  Function of the Spacings . . . . . . . . 543--555
            J. Van Den Berg and   
                      H. Kesten   Inequalities with Applications to
                                  Percolation and Reliability  . . . . . . 556--569
          Mary G. Leitnaker and   
                   Peter Purdue   Compartmental Models with Transfer
                                  Delays: A Semi-Markov Approach . . . . . 570--582
         P.-C. G. Vassiliou and   
                  I. Gerontidis   Variances and Covariances of the Grade
                                  Sizes in Manpower Systems  . . . . . . . 583--597
                Rainer Dahlhaus   On a Spectral Density Estimate Obtained
                                  by Averaging Periodograms  . . . . . . . 598--610
               A. G. Nobile and   
            L. M. Ricciardi and   
                   L. Sacerdote   Exponential Trends of First-Passage-Time
                                  Densities for a Class of Diffusion
                                  Processes with Steady-State Distribution 611--618
                     Ward Whitt   Uniform Conditional Variability Ordering
                                  of Probability Distributions . . . . . . 619--633
         Anders Martin-Löf   A Limit Theorem Which Clarifies the
                                  'Petersburg Paradox' . . . . . . . . . . 634--643
                Mitsushi Tamaki   Adaptive Approach to Some Stopping
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644--652
                   A. G. De Kok   Asymptotic Analysis for a
                                  Production-Inventory Control Model with
                                  Renewal Arrivals and Exponential Demands 653--667
                       Pyke Tin   A Queueing System with Markov-Dependent
                                  Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668--677
            A. Dvurecenskij and   
                  G. A. Ososkov   On a Modified Counter with Prolonging
                                  Dead Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--687
               A. G. De Kok and   
                    H. G. Tijms   A Queueing System with Impatient
                                  Customers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--696
                Wolfgang Stadje   The Busy Period of the Queueing System
                                  M/G/$ \infty $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--704
             Rudolf Grübel   Tail Behaviour of Ladder-Height
                                  Distributions in Random Walks  . . . . . 705--709
                 Rolf Schneider   Inequalities for Random Flats Meeting a
                                  Convex Body  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710--716
                   Uri Liberman   An Order Statistic Characterization of
                                  the Poisson Renewal Process  . . . . . . 717--722
                     Terje Aven   Upper (Lower) Bounds on the Mean of the
                                  Maximum (Minimum) of a Number of Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--728
           Donald W. K. Andrews   A Nearly Independent, but Non-Strong
                                  Mixing, Triangular Array . . . . . . . . 729--731
         Paulo Renato De Morais   Optimal Design of a Storage System with
                                  Constant or Linear Release Rate  . . . . 732--738
             Michael Pinedo and   
                   Zvi Chechner   Inequalities and Bounds for the
                                  Scheduling of Stochastic Jobs on
                                  Parallel Machines  . . . . . . . . . . . 739--744
                      Anonymous   Correction: Dispersive Ordering of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--745
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 22, Number 4, December, 1985

             W. G. S. Hines and   
                     John Haigh   Non-Linear ESS Models and Polymorphism   747--756
                K. V. Mitov and   
                    N. M. Yanev   Bellman--Harris Branching Processes with
                                  State-Dependent Immigration  . . . . . . 757--765
              Norbert Herrndorf   First-Passage Percolation Processes with
                                  Finite Height  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766--775
                   M. Yadin and   
                       S. Zacks   The Visibility of Stationary and Moving
                                  Targets in the Plane Subject to a
                                  Poisson Field of Shadowing Elements  . . 776--786
                  Gary Gottlieb   An Optimal Betting Strategy for Repeated
                                  Games  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--795
                  Jonathan Kuhn   The Risk-Sensitive Homing Problem  . . . 796--803
                    J. Gani and   
                       Pyke Tin   On a Class of Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--815
                 Paul Deheuvels   The Limiting Behaviour of the Maximal
                                  Spacing Generated by an I.I.D. Sequence
                                  of Gaussian Random Variables . . . . . . 816--827
            J. Chandramohan and   
               Lung-Kuang Liang   Bernoulli, Multinomial and Markov Chain
                                  Thinning of Some Point Processes and
                                  Some Results about the Superposition of
                                  Dependent Renewal Processes  . . . . . . 828--835
Tamás F. Móri and   
 Gábor J. Székely   A Note on the Background of Several
                                  Bonferroni--Galambos-Type Inequalities   836--843
                      A. Gravey   A Simple Construction of an Upper Bound
                                  for the Mean of the Maximum of $n$
                                  Identically Distributed Random Variables 844--851
            G. Hooghiemstra and   
                       M. Keane   Calculation of the Equilibrium
                                  Distribution for a Solar Energy Storage
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852--864
                  Shlomo Halfin   The Shortest Queue Problem . . . . . . . 865--878
            Michael Rubinovitch   The Slow Server Problem: A Queue with
                                  Stalling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--892
              Hermann Thorisson   On Regenerative and Ergodic Properties
                                  of the $k$-Server Queue with
                                  Non-Stationary Poisson Arrivals  . . . . 893--902
                  V. Giorno and   
                   C. Negri and   
                   A. G. Nobile   A Solvable Model for a Finite-Capacity
                                  Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--911
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                   Ushio Sumita   On the Busy-Period Distributions of
                                  M/G/1/K Queues with State-Dependent
                                  Arrivals and FCFS/LCFS-P Service
                                  Disciplines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--919
                R. Höpfner   A Note on the Probability of Extinction
                                  in a Class of Population-Size-Dependent
                                  Galton--Watson Processes . . . . . . . . 920--925
   Z. Seyda Deligönül   An Approximate Solution of the Integral
                                  Equation of Renewal Theory . . . . . . . 926--931
                   G. S. Davies   A Note on a Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Manpower Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932--938
                   David D. Yao   First-Passage-Time Moments of Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--945
                      Jan Vrbik   Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  Coefficient of Cross-Association Based
                                  on a Simple Markov-Chain Model . . . . . 946--950
           J. B. T. M. Roerdink   A Note on the Asymptotic Properties of
                                  Correlated Random Walks  . . . . . . . . 951--956
            Ian B. MacNeill and   
                V. K. Jandhyala   The Residual Process for Non-Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957--963
                        C. Park   Boundaries with Negative Jumps for the
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 964--970
             Chung-Wen Chow and   
                  Zvi Schechner   On Stopping Rules in Proofreading  . . . 971--977
                      Ole Platz   A Sharp Upper Probability Bound for the
                                  Occurrence of at Least $m$ out of $n$
                                  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978--981
        William S. Griffith and   
                  C. Srinivasan   A Note on Survival Models under a Markov
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982--988
                P. R. Kumar and   
                     J. Walrand   Individually Optimal Routing in Parallel
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989--995
                   P. Todorovic   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 996--996
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Characterization of
                                  Distributions by Order Statistics and
                                  Record Values: A Unified Approach  . . . 997--997
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 998--1002
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 23, Number 1, March, 1986

                S. E. Hitchcock   Extinction Probabilities in
                                  Predator-Prey Models . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
                 B. Mellein and   
                  J. L. Vicente   On the Kinetics of Multitype Polymer
                                  Reactions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--27
            A. Reza Soltani and   
                   A. Khodadadi   Run Probabilities and the Motion of a
                                  Particle on a Given Path . . . . . . . . 28--41
                  Gaston Giroux   Asymptotic Results for Non-Linear
                                  Processes of the McKean Tagged-Molecule
                                  Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
             Emily Murphree and   
                Walter L. Smith   On Transient Regenerative Processes  . . 52--70
             Masaaki Kijima and   
                   Ushio Sumita   A Useful Generalization of Renewal
                                  Theory: Counting Processes Governed by
                                  Non-Negative Markovian Increments  . . . 71--88
               Michael L. Hogan   Comment on ``\booktitleCorrected
                                  Diffusion Approximations in Certain
                                  Random Walk Problems'' . . . . . . . . . 89--96
                    Fred Huffer   Variability Orderings Related to
                                  Coverage Problems on the Circle  . . . . 97--106
           Mohamed Abdel-Hameed   Optimum Replacement of a System Subject
                                  to Shocks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--114
                Tapani Lehtonen   On the Ordering of Tandem Queues with
                                  Exponential Servers  . . . . . . . . . . 115--129
               Donald M. Topkis   Reordering Heuristics for Routing in
                                  Communications Networks  . . . . . . . . 130--143
                 V. G. Kulkarni   Expected Waiting Times in a Multiclass
                                  Batch Arrival Retrial Queue  . . . . . . 144--154
                    C. Langaris   A Correlated Queue with Infinitely Many
                                  Servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
                    C. Langaris   The Waiting-Time Process of a Queueing
                                  System with Gamma-Type Input and
                                  Blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--174
           C. A. O'Cinneide and   
                      P. Purdue   The M/M/$ \infty $ Queue in a Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
                    G. I. Falin   On the Waiting-Time Process in a
                                  Single-Line Queue with Repeated Calls    185--192
             Toshinao Nakatsuka   The Substability and Ergodicity of
                                  Complicated Queueing Systems . . . . . . 193--200
                 Gillian Iossif   Return Probabilities for Correlated
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
          Donald R. Fredkin and   
                   John A. Rice   On Aggregated Markov Processes . . . . . 208--214
               Moshe Pollak and   
                 David Siegmund   Convergence of Quasi-Stationary to
                                  Stationary Distributions for
                                  Stochastically Monotone Markov Processes 215--220
                  Norbert Henze   On the Probability That a Random Point
                                  Is the jth Nearest Neighbour to Its Own
                                  kth Nearest Neighbour  . . . . . . . . . 221--226
               R. C. Srivastava   On Characterizations of the Geometric
                                  Distribution by Independence of
                                  Functions of Order Statistics  . . . . . 227--232
          Pushpa Lata Gupta and   
                Ramesh C. Gupta   A Characterization of the Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235
           Behnam Pourbabai and   
                David Sonderman   Server Utilization Factors in Queueing
                                  Loss Systems with Ordered Entry and
                                  Heterogeneous Servers  . . . . . . . . . 236--242
                     D. Fakinos   On the Single-Server Queue with the
                                  Preemptive-Resume Last-Come-First-Served
                                  Queue Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248
            John R. Hubbard and   
       Claude Dennis Pegden and   
             Matthew Rosenshine   The Departure Process for the M/M/1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--255
                Robert D. Foley   Stationary Poisson Departure Processes
                                  from Non-Stationary Queues . . . . . . . 256--260
               Saeed Ghahramani   Finiteness of Moments of Partial Busy
                                  Periods for M/G/C Queues . . . . . . . . 261--264
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 23, Number 2, June, 1986

         Anders Martin-Löf   Symmetric Sampling Procedures, General
                                  Epidemic Processes and Their Threshold
                                  Limit Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--282
                 Peter Donnelly   A Genealogical Approach to
                                  Variable-Population-Size Models in
                                  Population Genetics  . . . . . . . . . . 283--296
          Reinhard Höpfner   Some Results on
                                  Population-Size-Dependent Galton--Watson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--306
                 A. M. Kellerer   The Variance of a Poisson Process of
                                  Domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--321
          Jürg Hüsler   On Point Processes on the Circle . . . . 322--331
           Chern-Ching Chao and   
                    John Slivka   Some Exact Distributions of a Last
                                  One-Sided Exit Time in the Simple Random
                                  Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--340
                   G. Mazziotto   Approximations of the Optimal Stopping
                                  Problem in Partial Observation . . . . . 341--354
             Paul Deheuvels and   
               Josef Steinebach   Exact Convergence Rate of an
                                  Erd\Hos--Rényi Strong Law for Moving
                                  Quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--369
                   P. L. Davies   Rates of Convergence to the Stationary
                                  Distribution for $k$-Dimensional
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 370--384
                 Enzo Orsingher   A Planar Random Motion Governed by the
                                  Two-Dimensional Telegraph Equation . . . 385--397
                  V. Giorno and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
            L. M. Ricciardi and   
                   L. Sacerdote   Some Remarks on the Rayleigh Process . . 398--408
           A. Thavaneswaran and   
                 M. E. Thompson   Optimal Estimation for Semimartingales   409--417
          Dennis V. Lindley and   
          Nozer D. Singpurwalla   Multivariate Distributions for the Life
                                  Lengths of Components of a System
                                  Sharing a Common Environment . . . . . . 418--431
                 Terje Aven and   
                     Bo Bergman   Optimal Replacement Times: A General
                                  Set-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--442
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Approximation of the Queue-Length
                                  Distribution of an M/GI/s Queue by the
                                  Basic Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--458
          V. V. Kalashnikov and   
                   S. T. Rachev   Characterizations of Inverse Problems in
                                  Queueing and Their Stability . . . . . . 459--473
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                   David D. Yao   The Effect of Increasing Service Rates
                                  in a Closed Queueing Network . . . . . . 474--483
            M. H. van Hoorn and   
                   L. P. Seelen   Approximations for the GI/G/c Queue  . . 484--494
                Bruno Viscolani   An Adaptive Multistage Queueing System   495--503
                    N. C. Weber   The Wright--Fisher Model with Varying
                                  Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--508
                 Kim-Anh Do and   
                Herbert Solomon   A Simulation Study of Sylvester's
                                  Problem in Three Dimensions  . . . . . . 509--513
                 Dror Zuckerman   Optimal Stopping in a Continuous Search
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--518
                  Kyle Siegrist   Markov Chains with Binomial Time Change  519--523
          J. Michael Steele and   
                   Luke Tierney   Boundary Domination and the Distribution
                                  of the Largest Nearest-Neighbor Link in
                                  Higher Dimensions  . . . . . . . . . . . 524--528
                   R. J. Martin   A Note on the Asymptotic Eigenvalues and
                                  Eigenvectors of the Dispersion Matrix of
                                  a Second-Order Stationary Process on a
                                  $d$-Dimensional Lattice  . . . . . . . . 529--535
                Toshio Nakagawa   Periodic and Sequential Preventive
                                  Maintenance Policies . . . . . . . . . . 536--542
              William A. Massey   A Family of Bounds for the Transient
                                  Behavior of a Jackson Network  . . . . . 543--549
           Robert B. Cooper and   
                  Shun-Chen Niu   Bene\vs's Formula for M/G/1-FIFO
                                  `Explained' by Preemptive-Resume LIFO    550--554
                      R. Szekli   On the Concavity of the Waiting-Time
                                  Distribution in Some GI/G/I Queues . . . 555--561
                      Anonymous   Correction: Extreme-Value Properties of
                                  the Explosion-Time Distribution in a
                                  Pure Birth Process . . . . . . . . . . . 562--562
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 23, Number 3, September, 1986

         Gianpaolo Scalia-Tomba   Asymptotic Final Size Distribution of
                                  the Multitype Reed-Frost Process . . . . 563--584
                D. J. Daley and   
              David M. Hull and   
                James M. Taylor   Bisexual Galton--Watson Branching
                                  Processes with Superadditive Mating
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--600
           K. Kämmerle and   
                    H.-J. Schuh   The Maximum in Critical Galton--Watson
                                  and Birth and Death Processes  . . . . . 601--613
                    G. Kersting   On Recurrence and Transience of Growth
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--625
         Narendra Karmarkar and   
            Richard M. Karp and   
           George S. Lueker and   
              Andrew M. Odlyzko   Probabilistic Analysis of Optimum
                                  Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--645
                   Shigeru Mase   On the Possible Form of Size
                                  Distributions for Gibbsian Processes of
                                  Mutually Non-Intersecting Balls  . . . . 646--659
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
                       Chul Kim   Bounding the Stochastic Performance of
                                  Continuum Structure Functions. I . . . . 660--669
                      S. Lalley   A First-Passage Problem for a
                                  Two-Dimensional Controlled Random Walk   670--678
                 W. Dziubdziela   Limit Laws for kth Order Statistics from
                                  Conditionally Mixing Arrays of Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--687
              Yoshiaki Itoh and   
                Herbert Solomon   Random Sequential Coding by Hamming
                                  Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--695
                 Teruhisa Nakai   A Search Game with One Object and Two
                                  Searchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--707
                    R. R. Weber   Optimal Search for a Randomly Moving
                                  Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--717
                Mitsushi Tamaki   A Full-Information Best-Choice Problem
                                  with Finite Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 718--735
                   Ilkka Norros   Notes on Natvig's Measure of Importance
                                  of System Components . . . . . . . . . . 736--747
        Jayant V. Deshpande and   
          Subhash C. Kochar and   
               Harshinder Singh   Aspects of Positive Ageing . . . . . . . 748--758
Antonín Lesanovský   Comparison of Two Replacement Policies   759--769
            Emad El-Neweihi and   
             Frank Proschan and   
             Jayaram Sethuraman   Optimal Allocation of Components in
                                  Parallel-Series and Series-Parallel
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--777
                  K. Azoury and   
                    P. H. Brill   An Application of the System-Point
                                  Method to Inventory Models under
                                  Continuous Review  . . . . . . . . . . . 778--789
                 J. Keilson and   
                    L. D. Servi   Oscillating Random Walk Models for
                                  GI/G/1 Vacation Systems with Bernoulli
                                  Schedules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790--802
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   The Non-Renewal Nature of the
                                  Quasi-Input Process in the M/G/1/$
                                  \infty $ Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--811
       François Baccelli   Exponential Martingales and Wald's
                                  Formulas for Two-Queue Networks  . . . . 812--819
                   J. H. Bagley   On the Asymptotic Properties of a
                                  Supercritical Bisexual Branching Process 820--826
                   J. H. Bagley   On the Almost Sure Convergence of
                                  Controlled Branching Processes . . . . . 827--831
                     Frank Ball   A Note on the Total Size Distribution of
                                  Epidemic Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 832--836
                  Norbert Henze   On the Moments of Vacancy of Random Arcs
                                  on the Circle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--840
                R. R. Weber and   
                 P. Varaiya and   
                     J. Walrand   Scheduling Jobs with Stochastically
                                  Ordered Processing Times on Parallel
                                  Machines to Minimize Expected Flowtime   841--847
                      Anonymous   Correction: Mixed Cox Processes, with an
                                  Application to Accident Statistics . . . 848--849
                      Anonymous   Correction: Maintainability of Manpower
                                  Structures: Counterexamples, Results and
                                  Conjectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--849
                      Anonymous   Correction: Some Exact Distribution of a
                                  Last One-Sided Exit Time in the Simple
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--849
                      Anonymous   Acknowledgement: A Simple Construction
                                  of an Upper Bound for the Mean of the
                                  Maximum of $n$ Identically Distributed
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 850--850
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 23, Number 4, December, 1986

                P. J. Brockwell   The Extinction Time of a General Birth
                                  and Death Process with Catastrophes  . . 851--858
                 A. J. Branford   On a Property of Finite-State Birth and
                                  Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--866
                  F. W. Steutel   Avalanches of Electrons in a Gas . . . . 867--879
         Krishna B. Athreya and   
              Sastry G. Pantula   Mixing Properties of Harris Chains and
                                  Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 880--892
             Michael L. Wenocur   Brownian Motion with Quadratic Killing
                                  and Some Implications  . . . . . . . . . 893--903
             Claude Lefevre and   
                Marc Hallin and   
                Prakash Narayan   On Fractional Linear Bounds for
                                  Probability Generating Functions . . . . 904--913
              Raymond J. Hickey   Concepts of Dispersion in Distributions:
                                  A Comparative Note . . . . . . . . . . . 914--921
                   Gane Samb Lo   Asymptotic Behavior of Hill's Estimate
                                  and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 922--936
          Jürg Hüsler   Extreme Values of Non-Stationary Random
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937--950
                 H. Solomon and   
                      C. Sutton   A Simulation Study of Random Caps on a
                                  Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951--960
            Ursula Maria Molter   Tangential Measure on the Set of Convex
                                  Infinite Cylinders . . . . . . . . . . . 961--972
          Masamitsu Ohnishi and   
               Hajime Kawai and   
                   Hisashi Mine   An Optimal Inspection and Replacement
                                  Policy for a Deteriorating System  . . . 973--988
            C. Courcoubetis and   
                    R. R. Weber   Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for
                                  Stability of a Bin-Packing System  . . . 989--999
                   Gerd Schmidt   The Spitzer Identity for Some Bivariate
                                  Processes in Queueing Theory: An
                                  Algebraic Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 1000--1007
                  Fred M. Hoppe   Size-Biased Filtering of
                                  Poisson--Dirichlet Samples with an
                                  Application to Partition Structures in
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008--1012
                B. G. Quinn and   
             H. L. MacGillivray   Normal Approximations to Discrete
                                  Unimodal Distributions . . . . . . . . . 1013--1018
              Walter Van Assche   Products of $ 2 \times 2 $ Stochastic
                                  Matrices with Random Entries . . . . . . 1019--1024
                 H. Künsch   Discrimination between Monotonic Trends
                                  and Long-Range Dependence  . . . . . . . 1025--1030
               E. B. Jensen and   
               J. Mòller   Stereological Versions of Integral
                                  Geometric Formulae for $n$-Dimensional
                                  Ellipsoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1037
                 A. P. Basu and   
            S. N. U. A. Kirmani   Some Results Involving HNBUE
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038--1044
                      J. Newton   A Solvable Model for a Finite-Capacity
                                  Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1047
         Villy Baek Iversen and   
               Bo Friis Nielsen   Comments on a Paper by V. Giorno, C.
                                  Negri and A. G. Nobile [1] . . . . . . . 1047--1048
                  V. Giorno and   
                   C. Negri and   
                   A. G. Nobile   A Reply to Iversen and Nielsen's Letter  1049--1050
                     D. R. Grey   Comment on Survey at Earlier Work [That]
                                  Omitted the Paper of Mendelssohn . . . . 1050--1050
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1055
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 23A, 1986

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i-157
                        J. Gani   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
                      Anonymous   Publications of E. J. Hannan . . . . . . 1--5
               Peter Bloomfield   Non-Singularity and Asymptotic
                                  Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--21
                    M. Deistler   Linear Dynamic Errors-in-Variables
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--39
                 Emanuel Parzen   Quantile Spectral Analysis and
                                  Long-Memory Time Series  . . . . . . . . 41--54
                 Jorma Rissanen   Order Estimation by Accumulated
                                  Prediction Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . 55--61
                    Victor Solo   Identifiability of Time Series Models
                                  with Errors in Variables . . . . . . . . 63--71
                An Hong-Zhi and   
                  Chen Zhao-Guo   The Identification of ARMA Processes . . 75--87
               Richard H. Jones   Time Series Regression with Unequally
                                  Spaced Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
              J. H. W. Penm and   
                  R. D. Terrell   The `Derived' Moving-Average Model and
                                  Its Role in Causality  . . . . . . . . . 99--111
                 P. M. Robinson   On a Model for a Time Series of
                                  Cross-Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--125
                  Ritei Shibata   Consistency of Model Selection and
                                  Parameter Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 127--141
                  P. J. Thomson   Band-Limited Spectral Estimation of
                                  Autoregressive: Moving-Average Processes 143--155
              Murray A. Cameron   The Comparison of Transient Responses to
                                  Stimuli  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--172
                      J. Durbin   Approximate Distributions of Student's
                                  $t$-Statistics for Autoregressive
                                  Coefficients Calculated from Regression
                                  Residuals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185
                    Yuzo Hosoya   A Simultaneous Test in the Presence of
                                  Nested Alternative Hypotheses  . . . . . 187--200
                    B. G. Quinn   Testing for the Presence of Sinusoidal
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--210
                 Katsuto Tanaka   Asymptotic Expansions for Time Series
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--227
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--438
                 D. F. Nicholls   The Box--Jenkins Approach to Random
                                  Coefficient Autoregressive Modelling . . 231--240
                    Tohru Ozaki   Local Gaussian Modelling of Stochastic
                                  Dynamical Systems in the Analysis of
                                  Non-Linear Random Vibrations . . . . . . 241--255
            M. B. Priestley and   
                   S. M. Heravi   Identification of Non-Linear Systems
                                  Using General State-Dependent Models . . 257--272
            David R. Brillinger   Regression for Randomly Sampled Spatial
                                  Series: The Trigonometric Case . . . . . 275--289
             Yosihiko Ogata and   
                 Koichi Katsura   Point-Process Models with Linearly
                                  Parametrized Intensity for Application
                                  to Earthquake Data . . . . . . . . . . . 291--310
                  M. Rosenblatt   Parameter Estimation for
                                  Finite-Parameter Stationary Random
                                  Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--318
                 M. S. Bartlett   Mixed Cox Processes, with an Application
                                  to Accident Statistics . . . . . . . . . 321--333
                    J. Gani and   
                       Pyke Tin   A Note on the Two-Sex Population Process 335--344
                    C. C. Heyde   On the Use of Time Series
                                  Representations of Population Models . . 345--353
                    T. P. Speed   ANOVA Models with Random Effects: An
                                  Approach via Symmetry  . . . . . . . . . 355--368
               J. G. Veitch and   
                   G. S. Watson   Random Cyclic Transformations of Points  369--382
                  Peter Whittle   The Risk-Sensitive Certainty Equivalence
                                  Principle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--388
            Craig F. Ansley and   
                    Robert Kohn   On the Equivalence of Two Stochastic
                                  Approaches to Spline Smoothing . . . . . 391--405
                John Henstridge   Data Structures: The Problem of Time
                                  Series Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--411
                 P. A. P. Moran   Orthant Probabilities and Gaussian
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--417
              M. R. Osborne and   
                    G. K. Smyth   An Algorithm for Exponential Fitting
                                  Revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--430


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 24, Number 1, March, 1987

            Charles J. Mode and   
           Marc E. Jacobson and   
                Gary T. Pickens   A Stochastic Population Projection
                                  System Based on General Age-Dependent
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
                V. G. Gadag and   
                 M. B. Rajarshi   On Multitype Processes Based on Progeny
                                  Length of Particles of a Supercritical
                                  Galton--Watson Process . . . . . . . . . 14--24
                 Richard Cornez   Birth and Death Processes in Random
                                  Environments with Feedback . . . . . . . 25--34
              T. Björk and   
                 J. Myhrman and   
                     M. Persson   Optimal Consumption with Stochastic
                                  Prices in Continuous Time  . . . . . . . 35--47
        Naftali A. Langberg and   
               David S. Stoffer   Moving-Average Models with Bivariate
                                  Exponential and Geometric Distributions  48--61
                 L. De Haan and   
                     E. Verkade   On Extreme-Value Theory in the Presence
                                  of a Trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--76
              Steinar Engen and   
                       Eva Seim   Uniformly Best Invariant Stopping Rules  77--87
              Emily S. Murphree   Transient Renewal Processes in the
                                  Subexponential Case  . . . . . . . . . . 88--96
                   Knut K. Aase   Stochastic Control of Geometric
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104
                   Gejza Dohnal   On Estimating the Diffusion Coefficient  105--114
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Bivariate Processes with Positive or
                                  Negative Dependent Structures  . . . . . 115--122
         J. George Shanthikumar   On Stochastic Comparison of Random
                                  Vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--136
            Chia-Chyuan Kuo and   
               S. Leigh Phoenix   Recursions and Limit Theorems for the
                                  Strength and Lifetime Distributions of a
                                  Fibrous Composite  . . . . . . . . . . . 137--159
           Enrique Castillo and   
                 Janos Galambos   Lifetime Regression Models Based on a
                                  Functional Equation of Physical Nature   160--169
              Tapan Kumar Nayak   Multivariate Lomax Distribution:
                                  Properties and Usefulness in Reliability
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--177
          Norman L. Johnson and   
                    Samuel Kotz   A Modified Repair Strategy for
                                  Two-Component Systems with Revealed and
                                  Unrevealed Faults  . . . . . . . . . . . 178--185
                    Lam Yeh and   
                  Lou Jiann Hua   Optimal Control of a Finite Dam: Wiener
                                  Process Input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--199
                Wolfgang Stadje   Asymptotic Behaviour of a Stopping Time
                                  Related to Cumulative Sum Procedures and
                                  Single-Server Queues . . . . . . . . . . 200--214
      Sòren Asmussen and   
              Hermann Thorisson   A Markov Chain Approach to Periodic
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--225
              William A. Massey   Calculating Exit Times for Series
                                  Jackson Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--234
                      U. Sumita   On Limiting Behavior of Ordinary and
                                  Conditional First-Passage Times for a
                                  Class of Birth-Death Processes . . . . . 235--240
                M. J. Faddy and   
                 Warren W. Esty   A Stochastic Death Process with
                                  Elimination by Pairing . . . . . . . . . 241--245
            Dietmar Pfeifer and   
                  Ursula Heller   A Martingale Characterization of Mixed
                                  Poisson Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 246--251
                G. Hooghiemstra   On Functionals of the Adjusted Range
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--257
           Ljuben R. Mutafchiev   On Random Mappings with a Single
                                  Attracting Centre  . . . . . . . . . . . 258--264
                    James Lynch   Antistarshapedness, Dispersiveness and
                                  Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--269
                  Masami Kurano   Learning Algorithms for Markov Decision
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--276
                L. E. Garey and   
                    R. D. Gupta   A Note on Continuous Search Algorithms   277--280
                 Terje Aven and   
                  Simen Gaarder   Optimal Replacement in a Shock Model:
                                  Discrete Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--287
                      C. D. Lai   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
                      W. Stadje   Acknowledgement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
                      Anonymous   Corrections: A Correlated Queue with
                                  Infinitely Many Servers  . . . . . . . . 291--291
                      Anonymous   Corrections: On the Moments of a
                                  Self-Correcting Process  . . . . . . . . 291--291
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 24, Number 2, June, 1987

                F. W. O. Saporu   On the Solution of Compartmental
                                  Processes and Their Use in Modelling
                                  Stages of Infection of a Disease with
                                  Reference to Onchocerciasis  . . . . . . 293--303
              J. D. Biggins and   
               Thomas Götz   Expected Population Size in the
                                  Generation-Dependent Branching Process   304--314
                 Enzo Orsingher   Stochastic Motions on the $3$-Sphere
                                  Governed by Wave and Heat Equations  . . 315--327
                  M. Rosenblatt   Scale Renormalization and Random
                                  Solutions of the Burgers Equation  . . . 328--338
                Linn I. Sennott   Conditions for the Non-Ergodicity of
                                  Markov Chains with Application to a
                                  Communication System . . . . . . . . . . 339--346
                Guy Fayolle and   
          Rudolph Iasnogorodski   Criteria for the Non-Ergodicity of
                                  Stochastic Processes: Application to the
                                  Exponential Back-off Protocol  . . . . . 347--354
            L. M. Ricciardi and   
                   L. Sacerdote   On the Probability Densities of an
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process with a
                                  Reflecting Boundary  . . . . . . . . . . 355--369
                  E. J. Pauwels   Smooth First-Passage Densities for
                                  One-Dimensional Diffusions . . . . . . . 370--377
                   Igor Rychlik   Joint Distribution of Successive Zero
                                  Crossing Distances for Stationary
                                  Gaussian Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 378--385
                  John W. Mamer   Monotone Stopping Games  . . . . . . . . 386--401
                  Gary Gottlieb   Non-Random Shuffling for Multiple Decks  402--410
         Wilfrid S. Kendall and   
                   Joseph Mecke   The Range of the Mean-Value Quantities
                                  of Planar Tessellations  . . . . . . . . 411--421
               F. W. Huffer and   
                    L. A. Shepp   On the Probability of Covering the
                                  Circle by Random Arcs  . . . . . . . . . 422--429
             Thomas Kämpke   On the Optimality of Static Priority
                                  Policies in Stochastic Scheduling on
                                  Parallel Machines  . . . . . . . . . . . 430--448
              Kevin K. Anderson   Limit Theorems for General Shock Models
                                  with Infinite Mean Intershock Times  . . 449--456
                    F. A. Attia   The Control of a Finite Dam with Penalty
                                  Cost Function: Markov Input Rate . . . . 457--465
         Betsy S. Greenberg and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   An Upper Bound on the Performance of
                                  Queues with Returning Customers  . . . . 466--475
              Christos Langaris   Busy-Period Analysis of a Correlated
                                  Queue with Exponential Demand and
                                  Service  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--485
                Thomas Hanschke   Explicit Formulas for the
                                  Characteristics of the M/M/2/2 Queue
                                  with Repeated Attempts . . . . . . . . . 486--494
              Austin J. Lemoine   On Sojourn Time in Jackson Networks of
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--510
            R. Schassberger and   
                      H. Daduna   Sojourn Times in Queuing Networks with
                                  Multiserver Modes  . . . . . . . . . . . 511--521
                      B. Pittel   An Urn Model for Cannibal Behavior . . . 522--526
              Peter A. Rogerson   Probabilities of Choosing Applicants of
                                  Arbitrary Rank in the Secretary Problem  527--533
                   A. C. Dallas   Characterizing the Geometric
                                  Distribution Using Expectations of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--539
                 J. P. C. Blanc   A Note on Waiting Times in Systems with
                                  Queues in Parallel . . . . . . . . . . . 540--546
                Ronald W. Wolff   Upper Bounds on Work in System for
                                  Multichannel Queues  . . . . . . . . . . 547--551
          Erik A. van Doorn and   
               Alan J. Branford   Comments on a Paper by A. J. Branford    552--554
                    Roman Boyko   Comment on Paper by Gani and Tin . . . . 554--554
                      Anonymous   Correction: First-Passage Times with $
                                  {\rm PF}_r $ Densities . . . . . . . . . 555--555
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 24, Number 3, September, 1987

               Edward I. George   Sampling Random Polygons . . . . . . . . 557--573
                 Enzo Orsingher   On the Maximum of Random Fields
                                  Represented by Stochastic Integrals over
                                  Circles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--585
              A. D. Barbour and   
                 G. K. Eagleson   An Improved Poisson Limit Theorem for
                                  Sums of Dissociated Random Variables . . 586--599
               Diana Gibson and   
                      E. Seneta   Augmented Truncations of Infinite
                                  Stochastic Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 600--608
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
                       Chul Kim   Bounding the Stochastic Performance of
                                  Continuum Structure Functions. II  . . . 609--618
           Richard L. Smith and   
                 Ishay Weissman   Large Deviations of Tail Estimators
                                  Based on the Pareto Approximation  . . . 619--630
                 Masaaki Kijima   Spectral Structure of the
                                  First-Passage-Time Densities for Classes
                                  of Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--643
       Frederick J. Beutler and   
                  Keith W. Ross   Uniformization for Semi-Markov Decision
                                  Processes under Stationary Policies  . . 644--656
                   S. Anily and   
                  A. Federgruen   Simulated Annealing Methods with General
                                  Acceptance Probabilities . . . . . . . . 657--667
                R. J. Kulperger   Some Remarks on Regression with
                                  Autoregressive Errors and Their Residual
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668--678
             Bo Henry Lindqvist   Monotone and Associated Markov Chains,
                                  with Applications to Reliability Theory  679--695
               Arie Hordijk and   
                      Ad Ridder   Stochastic Inequalities for an Overflow
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--708
              A. Federgruen and   
                  H. Groenevelt   The Impact of the Composition of the
                                  Customer Base in General Queueing Models 709--724
                 Arie Harel and   
                    Paul Zipkin   The Convexity of a General Performance
                                  Measure for Multiserver Queues . . . . . 725--736
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                   Ushio Sumita   Convex Ordering of Sojourn Times in
                                  Single-Server Queues: Extremal
                                  Properties of FIFO and LIFO Service
                                  Disciplines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--748
                    Zvi Rosberg   Bounds on the Expected Waiting Time in a
                                  GI/G/1 Queue: Upgrading for Low Traffic
                                  Intensity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749--757
                     D. Fakinos   The Single-Server Queue with Service
                                  Depending on Queue Size and with the
                                  Preemptive-Resume Last-Come-First-Served
                                  Queue Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . 758--767
               Anthony G. Pakes   Remarks on the Maxima of a Martingale
                                  Sequence with Application to the Simple
                                  Critical Branching Process . . . . . . . 768--772
                    David Gilat   On the Best Order of Observation in
                                  Optimal Stopping Problems  . . . . . . . 773--778
                   Chul Kim and   
             Laurence A. Baxter   Reliability Importance for Continuum
                                  Structure Functions  . . . . . . . . . . 779--785
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Stress-Strength System . . 786--786
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 24, Number 4, December, 1987

               P. Todorovic and   
                        J. Gani   Modeling the Effect of Erosion on Crop
                                  Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--797
                  F. M. Dekking   Subcritical Branching Processes in a
                                  Two-State Random Environment, and a
                                  Percolation Problem on Trees . . . . . . 798--808
          J. Michael Steele and   
          Lawrence A. Shepp and   
                William F. Eddy   On the Number of Leaves of a Euclidean
                                  Minimal Spanning Tree  . . . . . . . . . 809--826
            Rocco Ballerini and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Embedding Sequences of Successive Maxima
                                  in Extremal Processes, with Applications 827--837
                    W. J. Voorn   Characterization of the Logistic and
                                  Loglogistic Distributions by Extreme
                                  Value Related Stability with Random
                                  Sample Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838--851
               Henk Brozius and   
                Laurens de Haan   On Limiting Laws for the Convex Hull of
                                  a Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852--862
                       J. Gates   Some Properties of Chord Length
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863--874
                Ib M. Skovgaard   Saddlepoint Expansions for Conditional
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--887
     Václav E. Benes and   
               Ioannis Karatzas   Transition Probabilities for Some
                                  `Special' Diffusions . . . . . . . . . . 888--898
    Jacques-Édouard Dies   Transience des Cha\^\ines de Markov
                                  Linéaires sur les Permutations. (French)
                                  [Transience of Markov chains on linear
                                  permutations]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--907
                   Eric Renshaw   The Discrete Uhlenbeck--Ornstein Process 908--917
                F. Thomas Bruss   On an Optimal Selection Problem of Cowan
                                  and Zabczyk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918--928
                   A. J. Heunis   Non-Linear Filtering of Rare Events with
                                  Large Signal-to-Noise Ratio  . . . . . . 929--948
                O. J. Boxma and   
              W. P. Groenendijk   Pseudo-Conservation Laws in
                                  Cyclic-Service Systems . . . . . . . . . 949--964
                   Ilze Ziedins   Quasi-Stationary Distributions and
                                  One-Dimensional Circuit-Switched
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965--977
                 Fred W. Huffer   Inequalities for the M/G/$ \infty $
                                  Queue and Related Shot Noise Processes   978--989
        Benjamin Avi-Itzhak and   
                  Shlomo Halfin   Server Sharing with a Limited Number of
                                  Service Positions and Symmetric Queues   990--1000
                   Prem S. Puri   On Almost Sure Convergence of an Erosion
                                  Process Due to Todorovic and Gani  . . . 1001--1005
                  G. Abdallaoui   Probability of Maintaining or Attaining
                                  a Structure in One Step  . . . . . . . . 1006--1011
        Gerard Hooghiemstra and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 1012--1013
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Modified Repair Strategy
                                  for Two-Component Systems with Revealed
                                  and Unrevealed Faults  . . . . . . . . . 1014--1014
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1018
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 25, Number 1, March, 1988

            Herbert Ziezold and   
        Christian Grillenberger   On the Critical Infection Rate of the
                                  One-Dimensional Basic Contact Process:
                                  Numerical Results  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
               Arie Hordijk and   
                      Ad Ridder   Insensitive Bounds for the Stationary
                                  Distribution of Non-Reversible Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--20
               G. Tsaklidis and   
             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   Asymptotic Periodicity of the Variances
                                  and Covariances of the State Sizes in
                                  Non-Homogeneous Markov Systems . . . . . 21--33
               Jean Johnson and   
                  Dean Isaacson   Conditions for Strong Ergodicity Using
                                  Intensity Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 34--42
         Luigi M. Ricciardi and   
                  Shunsuke Sato   First-Passage-Time Density and Moments
                                  of the Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process . . . 43--57
              D. Y. Downham and   
               S. B. Fotopoulos   The Transient Behaviour of the Simple
                                  Random Walk in the Plane . . . . . . . . 58--69
               O. E. Percus and   
                   J. K. Percus   Coin Tossing, Revisited  . . . . . . . . 70--80
                    J. Glaz and   
                     B. Johnson   Boundary Crossing for Moving Sums  . . . 81--88
                  K. B. Athreya   Hitting Times of Decreasing Sets for
                                  Regenerative Processes . . . . . . . . . 89--96
               J. H. Reeves and   
                    V. F. Flack   A Generalization of the Classical
                                  Secretary Problem: Dependent Arrival
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--105
            Richard Arratia and   
            Pricilla Morris and   
            Michael S. Waterman   Stochastic Scrabble: Large Deviations
                                  for Sequences with Scores  . . . . . . . 106--119
              N. H. Bingham and   
                    R. A. Doney   On Higher-Dimensional Analogues of the
                                  Arc-Sine Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--131
       Claudia Klüppelberg   Subexponential Distributions and
                                  Integrated Tails . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--141
                 Eric S. Tollar   A Characterization of the Gamma
                                  Distribution from a Random Difference
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--149
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Multivariate Conditional Hazard Rates
                                  and the MIFRA and MIFR Properties  . . . 150--168
              D. König and   
                    M. Miyazawa   Relationships and Decomposition in the
                                  Delayed Bernoulli Feedback Queueing
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--183
                  V. Anantharam   Modelling the Flow of Coalescing Data
                                  Streams through a Processor  . . . . . . 184--193
                R. Schassberger   The Steady-State Distribution of Spent
                                  Service Times Present in the M/G/1
                                  Foreground-Background Processor-Sharing
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--203
          Ravindra M. Phatarfod   Sums and Weighted Sums of a Gamma Markov
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--209
           Timothy C. Brown and   
                M. Gopalan Nair   A Simple Proof of the Multivariate
                                  Random Time Change Theorem for Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--214
                  Svante Janson   Random Coverings of the Circle by Arcs
                                  with Restricted Endpoints  . . . . . . . 215--219
              Kevin K. Anderson   A Note on Cumulative Shock Models  . . . 220--223
            Antony Svoronos and   
                    Linda Green   A Convexity Result for Single-Server
                                  Exponential Loss Systems with
                                  Non-Stationary Arrivals  . . . . . . . . 224--227
              Gordon E. Willmot   A Note on the Equilibrium M/G/1 Queue
                                  Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--231
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 25, Number 2, June, 1988

                     John Haigh   The Distribution of Evolutionarily
                                  Stable Strategies  . . . . . . . . . . . 233--246
               Fima C. Klebaner   Conditions for Fixation of an Allele in
                                  the Density-Dependent Wright--Fisher
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--256
                  D. Szynal and   
                S. Wedrychowicz   On Solutions of a Stochastic Integral
                                  Equation of the Volterra Type with
                                  Applications for Chemotherapy  . . . . . 257--267
             A. G. Kalamatianou   A Model for Responding to Promotion
                                  Blockages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--278
                 Masaaki Kijima   On Passage and Conditional Passage Times
                                  for Markov Chains in Continuous Time . . 279--290
             Hsiaw-Chan Yeh and   
            Barry C. Arnold and   
       Christopher A. Robertson   Pareto Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--301
             Tomás Cipra   Autoregressive Processes in Optimization 302--312
                    Ed McKenzie   The Distributional Structure of Finite
                                  Moving-Average Processes . . . . . . . . 313--321
               J. Mòller   Stereological Analysis of Particles of
                                  Varying Ellipsoidal Shape  . . . . . . . 322--335
                R. C. Griffiths   On the Distribution of Points in a
                                  Poisson Dirichlet Process  . . . . . . . 336--345
                    Fred Huffer   Divided Differences and the Joint
                                  Distribution of Linear Combinations of
                                  Spacings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--354
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
                  T. Ramalingam   On the Dependence Structure of Hitting
                                  Times of Univariate Processes  . . . . . 355--362
                Mitsushi Tamaki   Optimal Stopping in the Parking Problem
                                  with U-Turn  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--374
                  A. Rangan and   
                R. Esther Grace   A Non-Markov Model for the Optimum
                                  Replacement of Self-Repairing Systems
                                  Subject to Shocks  . . . . . . . . . . . 375--382
               Thomas H. Savits   Some Multivariate Distributions Derived
                                  from a Non-Fatal Shock Model . . . . . . 383--390
                    Karl Sigman   Regeneration in Tandem Queues with
                                  Multiserver Stations . . . . . . . . . . 391--403
             Julian Keilson and   
                 Ravi Ramaswamy   The Backlog and Depletion-Time Process
                                  for M/G/1 Vacation Models with
                                  Exhaustive Service Discipline  . . . . . 404--412
                 Eric Willekens   On Higher Moments of the Population Size
                                  in a Subcritical Branching Process . . . 413--417
             M. R. Chernick and   
                D. J. Daley and   
               R. P. Littlejohn   A Time-Reversibility Relationship
                                  between Two Markov Chains with
                                  Exponential Stationary Distributions . . 418--422
                 Nikos Yannaros   On Cox Processes and Gamma Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--427
           O. Chryssaphinou and   
               S. Papastavridis   A Limit Theorem for the Number of
                                  Non-Overlapping Occurrences of a Pattern
                                  in a Sequence of Independent Trials  . . 428--431
                Ronald W. Wolff   Sample-Path Derivations of the Excess,
                                  Age, and Spread Distributions  . . . . . 432--436
              Bert Fristedt and   
                Donald A. Berry   Optimality of Myopic Stopping Times for
                                  Geometric Discounting  . . . . . . . . . 437--443
            K. R. Parthasarathy   Obituary: Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov  445--450
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 25, Number 3, September, 1988

    W. Th. F. Den Hollander and   
                    G. H. Weiss   On the Range of a Constrained Random
                                  Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--463
               Laurel Smith and   
                 Persi Diaconis   Honest Bernoulli Excursions  . . . . . . 464--477
                 Ilan Eshel and   
               Daphna Weinshall   Cooperation in a Repeated Game with
                                  Random Payment Function  . . . . . . . . 478--491
                  P. B. Cerrito   An Improved Stochastic Model Allowing
                                  Interaction among Individuals  . . . . . 492--500
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   On the First-Passage Times of Pure Jump
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--509
                  Dilip Roy and   
                S. P. Mukherjee   Generalised Mixtures of Exponential
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--518
          Jürg Hüsler   Maximal, Non-Uniform Spacings and the
                                  Coverage Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--528
              L. Benkherouf and   
                   J. A. Bather   Oil Exploration: Sequential Decisions in
                                  the Face of Uncertainty  . . . . . . . . 529--543
                  Masami Yasuda   The Optimal Value of Markov Stopping
                                  Problems with One-Step Look Ahead Policy 544--552
                   Jian Liu and   
             Peter J. Brockwell   On the General Bilinear Time Series
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--564
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                 Genji Yamazaki   The Basic Equations for a Supplemented
                                  GSMP and Its Applications to Queues  . . 565--578
        Benjamin Avi-Itzhak and   
                  Shlomo Halfin   Response Times in M/M/1 Time-Sharing
                                  Schemes with Limited Number of Service
                                  Positions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--595
                       Xing Jin   On Berry--Esseen Rate for Queue Length
                                  of the GI/G/K System in Heavy Traffic    596--611
              C. J. Ridler-Rowe   Extinction Times for Certain
                                  Predator-Prey Processes  . . . . . . . . 612--616
 Irini Papaderou-Vogiatzaki and   
                 Rolf Schneider   A Collision Probability Problem  . . . . 617--623
             Stephen Scheinberg   Waiting Times for Multiple Occurrences
                                  of Several Events  . . . . . . . . . . . 624--629
             Anatoli Yashin and   
                     Elja Arjas   A Note on Random Intensities and
                                  Conditional Survival Functions . . . . . 630--635
               V. Ramaswami and   
                D. M. Lucantoni   Moments of the Stationary Waiting Time
                                  in the GI/PH/1 Queue . . . . . . . . . . 636--641
               Vijay K. Rohatgi   Obituary: Eugene Lukacs  . . . . . . . . 642--646
                      Anonymous   Correction: Optimum Replacement of a
                                  System Subject to Shocks . . . . . . . . 647--647
                      Anonymous   Correction: On an Optimal Selection
                                  Problem of Cowan and Zabczyk . . . . . . 647--647
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 25, Number 4, December, 1988

                 L. Billard and   
             P. W. A. Dayananda   A Drug Addiction Model . . . . . . . . . 649--662
             Claude Lefevre and   
            Marie-Pierre Malice   Comparisons for Carrier-Borne Epidemics
                                  in Heterogeneous and Homogeneous
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--674
               Ushio Sumita and   
                  Maria Rieders   First Passage Times and Lumpability of
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 675--687
                   Rex A. Dwyer   On the Convex Hull of Random Points in a
                                  Polytope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--699
                 E. G. Enns and   
                   P. F. Ehlers   Chords through a Convex Body Generated
                                  from within an Embedded Body . . . . . . 700--707
                  Peter Waksman   Inverting the Statistics of the Circle
                                  Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--716
                   L. Holst and   
              J. E. Kennedy and   
                    M. P. Quine   Rates of Poisson Convergence for Some
                                  Coverage and Urn Problems Using Coupling 717--724
            Anders Rygh Swensen   A Note on a Randomized Occupancy Problem 725--732
                  David Balding   Diffusion-Reaction in One Dimension  . . 733--743
                   Eric Renshaw   The High-Order Autocovariance Structure
                                  of the Telegraph Wave  . . . . . . . . . 744--751
                Tapani Lehtonen   Scheduling Jobs with Exponential
                                  Processing Times on Parallel Machines    752--762
               Allen Currit and   
          Nozer D. Singpurwalla   On the Reliability Function of a System
                                  of Components Sharing a Common
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--771
           S. Papastavridis and   
               I. Hadzichristos   Formulas for the Reliability of a
                                  Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$: $F$ System   772--779
            Naftali A. Langberg   Comparisons of Replacement Policies  . . 780--788
               Thomas H. Savits   A Cost Relationship between Age and
                                  Block Replacement Policies . . . . . . . 789--796
                   Vinod Sharma   Stability and Continuity for Slotted
                                  Aloha with Stationary Non-Independent
                                  Input Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--807
                 Keith N. Crank   A Method for Approximating the
                                  Probability Functions of a Markov Chain  808--814
              Dragan Banjevi\'c   On Some Statistics Connected with Runs
                                  in Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--821
                 Nikos Yannaros   The Inverses of Thinned Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822--828
                      J. Durbin   A Reconciliation of Two Different
                                  Expressions for the First-Passage
                                  Density of Brownian Motion to a Curved
                                  Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--832
                 Fred W. Huffer   Some Results concerning Random Arcs on
                                  the Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--838
              Gordon E. Willmot   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 839--839
                      Anonymous   Correction: The First-Passage Density of
                                  a Continuous Gaussian Process to a
                                  General Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . 840--840
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 841--844
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 25A, 1988

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i-320
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--viii
                        J. Gani   Adventures in Applied Probability  . . . 3--23
               David G. Kendall   Applied Probability: Past, Present and
                                  Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--30
                Marcel F. Neuts   Computer Experimentation in Applied
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--43
                Mavis Hitchcock   The Origin and Growth of the Applied
                                  Probability Trust  . . . . . . . . . . . 47--64
               Kathleen M. Lyle   Hot Metal to Hard Disc . . . . . . . . . 65--75
                 M. S. Bartlett   Stochastic Models and Field Trials . . . 79--89
             Peter J. Brockwell   Stochastic Models in Cell Kinetics . . . 91--111
               J. F. C. Kingman   Typical Polymorphisms Maintained by
                                  Selection at a Single Locus  . . . . . . 113--125
         Cedric A. B. Smith and   
                 Robert Thomson   Estimation of Inbreeding from Population
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--135
                    P. D. Finch   Bell's Inequality, Probability Modelling
                                  and Quantum Correlation Experiments  . . 139--150
            K. R. Parthasarathy   The Passage from Random Walk to
                                  Diffusion in Quantum Probability . . . . 151--166
             Geoffrey S. Watson   Some Discrete Distributions Associated
                                  with Orthogonal Polynomials  . . . . . . 167--171
                  A. D. Barbour   Stein's Method and Poisson Process
                                  Convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
                  Samuel Karlin   Coincident Probabilities and
                                  Applications in Combinatorics  . . . . . 185--200
                   R. M. Loynes   Some Applications of Weak Convergence to
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211
                  N. H. Bingham   On the Limit of a Supercritical
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 215--228
                Ron Engelen and   
             Paul Tommassen and   
                    Wim Vervaat   Ignatov's Theorem: A New and Short Proof 229--236
                 J. Keilson and   
                    M. Zachmann   Homogeneous Row-Continuous Bivariate
                                  Markov Chains with Boundaries  . . . . . 237--256
                   N. U. Prabhu   Theory of Semiregenerative Phenomena . . 257--274
                  R. L. Tweedie   Invariant Measures for Markov Chains
                                  with no Irreducibility Assumptions . . . 275--285
                     P. Whittle   Restless Bandits: Activity Allocation in
                                  a Changing World . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--298
               E. J. Hannan and   
                    J. Rissanen   The Width of a Spectral Window . . . . . 301--307
                    C. C. Heyde   Some Thoughts on Stationary Processes
                                  and Linear Time Series Analysis  . . . . 309--318
                    J. W. Cohen   On Entrance Times of a Homogeneous
                                  $N$-Dimensional Random Walk: An Identity 321--333
                        J. Gani   A Correlated Random Walk for the
                                  Transport and Sedimentation of Particles 335--346
               J. M. Hammersley   Mesoadditive Processes and the Specific
                                  Conductivity of Lattices . . . . . . . . 347--358
            Lajos Takács   On the Limit Distribution of the Number
                                  of Cycles in a Random Graph  . . . . . . 359--376
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--387


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 26, Number 1, March, 1989

                V. G. Gadag and   
                 M. B. Rajarshi   Multitype Branching Processes Based on
                                  Exact Progeny Lengths of Particles in a
                                  Galton--Watson Branching Process . . . . 1--8
           Donald A. Dawson and   
              Klaus Fleischmann   A Stochastic Explosive Reaction System
                                  with Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--22
                  S. Kalpazidou   Representation of Denumerable Markov
                                  Chains with Multiple States by Weighted
                                  Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--35
                 Georg Lindgren   Slepian Models for $ \chi^2 $-Processes
                                  with Dependent Components with
                                  Application to Envelope Upcrossings  . . 36--49
                 Mario Lefebvre   Commande Optimale du Processus de
                                  Wiener. (French) [Optimal control of
                                  Wiener processes]  . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
                   J. R. Leslie   On the Non-Closure under Convolution of
                                  the Subexponential Family  . . . . . . . 58--66
               Holger Dette and   
                  Norbert Henze   The Limit Distribution of the Largest
                                  Nearest-Neighbour Link in the Unit
                                  $d$-Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--80
           Philip J. Boland and   
             Frank Proschan and   
                     Y. L. Tong   Modelling Dependence in Simple and
                                  Indirect Majority Systems  . . . . . . . 81--88
                 Masaaki Kijima   Some Results for Repairable Systems with
                                  General Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--102
            Lajos Takács   Ballots, Queues and Random Graphs  . . . 103--112
               Nico M. Van Dijk   A Proof of Simple Insensitive Bounds for
                                  a Pure Overflow System . . . . . . . . . 113--120
                  James McKenna   A Generalization of Little's Law to
                                  Moments of Queue Lengths and Waiting
                                  Times in Closed, Product-Form Queueing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133
           Pantelis Tsoucas and   
                   Jean Walrand   Monotonicity of Throughput in
                                  Non-Markovian Networks . . . . . . . . . 134--141
                   S. D. Sharma   On a Non-Markovian Time-Dependent
                                  Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--151
             Betsy S. Greenberg   M/G/1 Queueing Systems with Returning
                                  Customers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--163
                     John Haigh   How Large Is the Support of an ESS?  . . 164--170
               Pierre Baldi and   
                   Yosef Rinott   Asymptotic Normality of Some
                                  Graph-Related Statistics . . . . . . . . 171--175
                 Wen-Jang Huang   On Some Characterizations of the Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--181
                 Enzo Orsingher   On the Maximum of Gaussian Fourier
                                  Series Emerging in the Analysis of
                                  Random Vibrations  . . . . . . . . . . . 182--188
                   P. A. Blight   Time Series Formed from the
                                  Superposition of Discrete Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--195
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
                  Seung Min Lee   Structure Functions with Finite Minimal
                                  Vector Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--201
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
            Marie-Pierre Malice   On a System of Components with Joint
                                  Lifetimes Distributed as a Mixture of
                                  Independent Exponential Laws . . . . . . 202--208
               Bhaskar Sengupta   A Perturbation Method for Solving Some
                                  Queues with Processor Sharing Discipline 209--214
                   E. J. Hannan   Obituary: Some Memories of Pat Moran . . 215--218
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 26, Number 2, June, 1989

               M. Teresa Alpuim   An Extremal Markovian Sequence . . . . . 219--232
            Stratis Kounias and   
              Kiki Sotirakoglou   Bonferroni Bounds Revisited  . . . . . . 233--241
               W. Henderson and   
                      P. Taylor   Insensitivity of Processes with
                                  Interruptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--258
            Barthold F. Van Wel   The Convex Hull of a Uniform Sample from
                                  the Interior of a Simple $d$-Polytope    259--273
                 Gy. Terdik and   
                   T. Subba Rao   On Wiener--Itô Representation and the
                                  Best Linear Predictors for Bilinear Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--286
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
                 T. Ramallingam   On the Dependence Structure of Hitting
                                  Times of Multivariate Processes  . . . . 287--295
             Rudolf Grübel   Stochastic Models as Functionals: Some
                                  Remarks on the Renewal Case  . . . . . . 296--303
             T. S. Ferguson and   
                 J. P. Hardwick   Stopping Rules for Proofreading  . . . . 304--313
                    F. A. Attia   Resolvent Operators of Markov Processes
                                  and Their Applications in the Control of
                                  a Finite Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--324
               R. W. R. Darling   Infinite-Dimensional Stochastic
                                  Difference Equations for Particle
                                  Systems and Network Flows  . . . . . . . 325--344
              Jewgeni Dshalalow   Multichannel Queueing Systems with
                                  Infinite Waiting Room and Stochastic
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--362
             S. A. Berezner and   
                 V. A. Malyshev   The Stability of Infinite-Server
                                  Networks with Random Routing . . . . . . 363--371
               Nico M. van Dijk   An LCFS Finite Buffer Model with Finite
                                  Source Batch Input . . . . . . . . . . . 372--380
            Nicholas Bambos and   
                   Jean Walrand   On Queues with Periodic Inputs . . . . . 381--389
              Austin J. Lemoine   Waiting Time and Workload in Queues with
                                  Periodic Poisson Input . . . . . . . . . 390--397
                     Harry Cohn   Multitype Finite Mean Supercritical
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Processes  . . . 398--403
                   B. B. Winter   Joint Simulation of Backward and Forward
                                  Recurrence Times in a Renewal Process    404--407
          Fernando Affentranger   Random Circles in the $d$-Dimensional
                                  Unit Ball  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--412
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                   David D. Yao   Stochastic Monotonicity in General
                                  Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 413--417
   François Baccelli and   
              William A. Massey   A Sample Path Analysis of the M/M/1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--422
               Saeed Ghahramani   Finiteness of Moments of Virtual Work
                                  for GI/G/c Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . 423--425
                       A. Joffe   Obituary: Michel Métivier 1931--1988  . . 426--429
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 26, Number 3, September, 1989

               Fima C. Klebaner   Linear Growth in Near-Critical
                                  Population-Size-Dependent Multitype
                                  Galton--Watson Processes . . . . . . . . 431--445
             Gerardo Rubino and   
                 Bruno Sericola   On Weak Lumpability in Markov Chains . . 446--457
                 Jonathan Cohen   On the Compound Poisson Limit for High
                                  Level Exceedances  . . . . . . . . . . . 458--465
           Christopher J. Lloyd   Some Further Results on Random Splitting
                                  of an Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--476
             Peter Donnelly and   
                     Ward Whitt   On Reinforcement-Depletion Compartmental
                                  Urn Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--489
                  Jan Rataj and   
                      Ivan Saxl   Analysis of Planar Anisotropy by Means
                                  of the Steiner Compact . . . . . . . . . 490--502
                  Shlomo Halfin   Next-Fit Bin Packing with Random Piece
                                  Sizes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--511
                 Clifton Sutton   Packing Densities of Randomly
                                  Constructed Codes  . . . . . . . . . . . 512--523
            Barry C. Arnold and   
                C. A. Robertson   Autoregressive Logistic Processes  . . . 524--531
               Joseph Kupka and   
                      Sonny Loo   The Hazard and Vitality Measures of
                                  Ageing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--542
                 Dror Zuckerman   Optimal Inspection Policy for a
                                  Multi-Unit Machine . . . . . . . . . . . 543--551
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                   Ushio Sumita   Modified Lindley Process with
                                  Replacement: Dynamic Behavior,
                                  Asymptotic Decomposition and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--565
                  John E. Glynn   A Discrete-Time Storage Process with a
                                  General Release Rule . . . . . . . . . . 566--583
        P. R. Parthasarathy and   
                   M. Sharafali   Transient Solution to the Many-Server
                                  Poisson Queue: A Simple Approach . . . . 584--594
           Tetsuji Hirayama and   
             Masaaki Kijima and   
              Shoichi Nishimura   Further Results for Dynamic Scheduling
                                  of Multiclass G/G/1 Queues . . . . . . . 595--603
 Panagiotis Konstantopoulos and   
                   Jean Walrand   Stationary and Stability of Fork-Join
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--614
                     Xi-Ren Cao   Realization Probability and Throughput
                                  Sensitivity in a Closed Jackson Network  615--624
                 James G. Booth   On the Limiting Behaviour of Downton's
                                  Carrier Epidemic in the Case of a
                                  General Infection Mechanism  . . . . . . 625--630
                    V. G. Gadag   A Note on the Multitype Markov Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--636
               Janusz Pawlowski   Poisson Theorem for Non-Homogeneous
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--642
                  A. I. Zeifman   Quasi-Ergodicity for Non-Homogeneous
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 643--648
                  Wolfgang Weil   Collision Probabilities for Convex Sets  649--654
             Brendan O'Flaherty   Some Results on Two-Armed Bandits When
                                  Both Projects Vary . . . . . . . . . . . 655--658
                R. A. Doney and   
                     D. R. Grey   Some Remarks on Brownian Motion with
                                  Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--663
              Douglas W. Cooper   Random Sequential Packing Simulations in
                                  Three Dimensions for Aligned Cubes . . . 664--670
                R. D. Foley and   
             Georgia-Ann Klutke   Stationary Increments in the Accumulated
                                  Work Process in Processor-Sharing Queues 671--677
                    Karl Sigman   Notes on the Stability of Closed
                                  Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 678--682
                 Gennadij Falin   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 683--684
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 26, Number 4, December, 1989

         Richard J. Kryscio and   
          Claude Lefévre   On the Extinction of the S-I-S
                                  Stochastic Logistic Epidemic . . . . . . 685--694
            Gerold Alsmeyer and   
                  Albrecht Irle   Optimal Strategies for Discovering New
                                  Species in Continuous Time . . . . . . . 695--706
                  V. Giorno and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
                L. M. Ricciardi   A Symmetry-Based Constructive Approach
                                  to Probability Densities for
                                  One-Dimensional Diffusion Processes  . . 707--721
                Dietmar Pfeifer   Extremal Processes, Secretary Problems
                                  and the 1/e Law  . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--733
                    W. J. Voorn   Stability of Extremes with Random Sample
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734--743
             Gerardo Rubino and   
                 Bruno Sericola   Sojourn Times in Finite Markov Processes 744--756
                    Ram Lal and   
                U. Narayan Bhat   Some Explicit Results for Correlated
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--766
                    Brahim Ksir   Shepp Statistic for Markov Chains
                                  Application to a Long-Run Average Cost
                                  Criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--775
         P.-C. G. Vassiliou and   
                   G. Tsaklidis   The Rate of Convergence of the Vector of
                                  Variances and Covariances in
                                  Non-Homogeneous Markov Systems . . . . . 776--783
               Heikki Bonsdorff   A Comparison of the Ordinary and a
                                  Varying Parameter Exponential Smoothing  784--792
                   Keigo Yamada   Limit Theorems for Jump Shock Models . . 793--806
                  Kyle Siegrist   $n$-Point, Win-by-$k$ Games  . . . . . . 807--814
              Philippe Nain and   
           Pantelis Tsoucas and   
                   Jean Walrand   Interchange Arguments in Stochastic
                                  Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--826
                 Izi Karasu and   
     Süleyman Özekici   NBUE and NWUE Properties of Increasing
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--834
                 Raya Kaspi and   
                    David Perry   On a Duality between a Non-Markovian
                                  Storage/Production Process and a
                                  Markovian Dam Process with
                                  State-Dependent Input and Output . . . . 835--844
               Michael Alex and   
               Josef Steinebach   Invariance Principles in Queueing Theory 845--857
               Douglas P. Wiens   On the Busy Period Distribution of the
                                  M/G/2 Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . 858--865
     Pedro Saavedra Santana and   
          Miguel Sanchez Garcia   A Population Process with Offspring
                                  Distribution Depending on Both
                                  Population Size and Generation . . . . . 866--872
           E. G. Kyriakidis and   
                 Andris Abakuks   Optimal Pest Control through
                                  Catastrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--879
               K. Kämmerle   Looking Forwards and Backwards in a
                                  Bisexual Moran Model . . . . . . . . . . 880--885
                      Dilip Roy   A Characterization of Gumbel's Bivariate
                                  Exponential and Lindley and
                                  Singpurwalla's Bivariate Lomax
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886--891
              Emily S. Murphree   Some New Results on the Subexponential
                                  Class  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892--897
                  Yoshiaki Itoh   A Certain Configuration of Random Points
                                  on a Circle Associated with a
                                  Generalized Lotka--Volterra Equation . . 898--900
                 Rahim Shamsiev   Circuit-Switching Networks with
                                  Priorities on a One-Dimensional Lattice  901--905
                      Anonymous   Correction: \booktitleApplied
                                  Probability Complete Author and Subject
                                  Index no. 7  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906--906
                      Anonymous   Correction: Obituary: Some Memories of
                                  Pat Moran  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906--906
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 907--910
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 27, Number 1, March, 1990

                R. D. Routledge   Spatial Patterns Arising from Plant
                                  Dispersal as Modelled by a Correlated
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
                      B. Pittel   On a Daley-Kendall Model of Random
                                  Rumours  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--27
               Jennie C. Hansen   A Functional Central Limit Theorem for
                                  the Ewens Sampling Formula . . . . . . . 28--43
           James A. Bucklew and   
                  Peter Ney and   
               John S. Sadowsky   Monte Carlo Simulation and Large
                                  Deviations Theory for Uniformly
                                  Recurrent Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . 44--59
                 O. L. V. Costa   Stationary Distributions for
                                  Piecewise-Deterministic Markov Processes 60--73
              Peter G. Harrison   Laplace Transform Inversion and
                                  Passage-Time Distributions in Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--87
Sándor Csörg\Ho and   
                 Jef L. Teugels   Empirical Laplace Transform and
                                  Approximation of Compound Distributions  88--101
               A. Buonocore and   
                  V. Giorno and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
                L. M. Ricciardi   On the Two-Boundary First-Crossing-Time
                                  Problem for Diffusion Processes  . . . . 102--114
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                    Hui-Wen Koo   On Uniform Conditional Stochastic Order
                                  Conditioned on Planar Regions  . . . . . 115--123
             Vijay K. Gupta and   
              Oscar J. Mesa and   
                     E. Waymire   Tree-Dependent Extreme Values: The
                                  Exponential Case . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--133
            Matthias Fassbender   Optimal Stationary Strategies in
                                  Leavable Markov Decision Processes . . . 134--145
                     P. Whittle   A Construction for Multi-Modal
                                  Processes, and a Potential Memory Device 146--155
                 R. J. Bhansali   On a Relationship between the Inverse of
                                  a Stationary Covariance Matrix and the
                                  Linear Interpolator  . . . . . . . . . . 156--170
                 Jane L. Hutton   Non-Negative Time Series Models for Dry
                                  River Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--182
                  Grace L. Yang   A Renewal Look at Switching Rules in the
                                  MIL-STD-105D Sampling System . . . . . . 183--192
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Ordering of Repairable Systems . . . . . 193--201
                   Joseph Kupka   The Distribution and Moments of the
                                  Number of Components of a Random
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--207
             Andreas Brandt and   
             Manfred Brandt and   
              Hannelore Sulanke   A Representation of a Discrete
                                  Distribution by Its Binomial Moments . . 208--214
               K. D. Glazebrook   Procedures for the Evaluation of
                                  Strategies for Resource Allocation in a
                                  Stochastic Environment . . . . . . . . . 215--220
                B. Dimitrov and   
                      Z. Khalil   On a New Characterization of the
                                  Exponential Distribution Related to a
                                  Queueing System with an Unreliable
                                  Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--226
        Jacqueline Loris-Teghem   On a Decomposition Result for a Class of
                                  Vacation Queueing Systems  . . . . . . . 227--231
               Saeed Ghahramani   On Remaining Full Busy Periods of GI/G/c
                                  Queues and Their Relation to Stationary
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--236
                      Anonymous   Acknowledgement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
                      Anonymous   Correction: On a System of Components
                                  with Joint Lifetimes Distributed as a
                                  Mixture of Independent Exponential Laws  238--238
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 27, Number 2, June, 1990

           Mark Finkelstein and   
           Howard G. Tucker and   
                Jerry Alan Veeh   The Limit Distribution of the Number of
                                  Rare Mutants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--250
                 A. W. Kemp and   
                      J. Newton   Certain State-Dependent Processes for
                                  Dichotomised Parasite Populations  . . . 251--258
                 Peter Matthews   Mixing Rates for Brownian Motion in a
                                  Convex Polyhedron  . . . . . . . . . . . 259--268
                 Bao Gia Nguyen   Percolation of Coalescing Random Walks   269--277
                  P. K. Pollett   A Note on the Classification of
                                  $Q$-Processes When $Q$ Is Not Regular    278--290
               M. T. Alpuim and   
                     E. Athayde   On the Stationary Distribution of Some
                                  Extremal Markovian Sequences . . . . . . 291--302
                Claudine Robert   An Entropy Concentration Theorem:
                                  Applications in Artificial Intelligence
                                  and Descriptive Statistics . . . . . . . 303--313
               A. A. Alzaid and   
                      M. Al-Osh   An Integer-Valued $p$-th-Order
                                  Autoregressive Structure (INAR(p))
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--324
                      C. H. Sim   First-Order Autoregressive Models for
                                  Gamma and Exponential Processes  . . . . 325--332
                 E. G. Enns and   
               E. Z. Ferenstein   A Competitive Best-Choice Problem with
                                  Poisson Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342
            M. J. M. Posner and   
                   D. Zuckerman   Optimal R&D Programs in a Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--350
                 Rhonda Righter   Stochastically Maximizing the Number of
                                  Successes in a Sequential Assignment
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364
                    Bent Natvig   On Information-Based Minimal Repair and
                                  the Reduction in Remaining System
                                  Lifetime Due to the Failure of a
                                  Specific Module  . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--375
           Benjamin Melamed and   
                     Ward Whitt   On Arrivals That See Time Averages: A
                                  Martingale Approach  . . . . . . . . . . 376--384
               Behnam Pourbabai   A Note on a D/G/K Loss System with
                                  Retrials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--392
               Nico M. Van Dijk   Queueing Systems with Restricted
                                  Workload: An Explicit Solution . . . . . 393--400
           Nico M. Van Dijk and   
                  Eric Smeitink   A Non-Exponential Queueing System with
                                  Independent Arrivals and Batch Servicing 401--408
             Rhonda Righter and   
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                 Genji Yamazaki   On Extremal Service Disciplines in
                                  Single-Stage Queueing Systems  . . . . . 409--416
                   Xing Jin and   
                   Rongxin Wang   On the Speed of Convergence for the
                                  Queue Length Process of the GI/G/K
                                  System in Heavy Traffic  . . . . . . . . 417--424
             Hahn-Kyou Rhee and   
                B. D. Sivazlian   Distribution of the Busy Period in a
                                  Controllable M/M/2 Queue Operating under
                                  the Triadic (0,K,N,M) Policy . . . . . . 425--432
              Richard Cowan and   
               David Culpin and   
                    David Gates   Asymptotic Results for a Problem of DNA
                                  Breakage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--439
      J. Muñoz-Perez and   
               A. Sanchez-Gomez   Dispersive Ordering by Dilation  . . . . 440--444
                     D. Fakinos   On the Relation between Partial Balance
                                  and Insensitivity  . . . . . . . . . . . 445--451
      Ourania Chryssaphinou and   
          Stavros Papastavridis   Reliability of a
                                  Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$ System in a
                                  Random Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 452--458
             Masaaki Kijima and   
                 Naoki Makimoto   On Interchangeability for Exponential
                                  Single-Server Queues in Tandem . . . . . 459--464
                     Arie Harel   Convexity Results for Single-Server
                                  Queues and for Multiserver Queues with
                                  Constant Service Times . . . . . . . . . 465--468
                   Josef Hemker   A Note on Sojourn Times in Queuing
                                  Networks with Multiserver Nodes  . . . . 469--474
                     Arie Harel   On Honest Bernoulli Excursions . . . . . 475--476
                R. Cressman and   
                 W. G. S. Hines   A Note on the Stability of Interior ESSs
                                  in a Diploid Population  . . . . . . . . 476--477
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 27, Number 3, September, 1990

                 Frank Ball and   
                  A. D. Barbour   Poisson Approximation for Some Epidemic
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--490
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
        György Michaletzky   Interparticle Dependence in a Linear
                                  Death Process Subjected to a Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--498
                M. P. Quine and   
                    J. Robinson   A Linear Random Growth Model . . . . . . 499--509
           Brigitte Chauvin and   
                  Gaston Giroux   A Geometric Rate of Convergence to the
                                  Equilibrium for Boltzmann Processes with
                                  Multiple Particle Interactions . . . . . 510--520
               Guy Louchard and   
                   Guy Latouche   Geometric Bounds on Iterative
                                  Approximations for Nearly Completely
                                  Decomposable Markov Chains . . . . . . . 521--529
          Ioannis I. Gerontidis   On Certain Aspects of Non-Homogeneous
                                  Markov Systems in Continuous Time  . . . 530--544
                  S. Kalpazidou   Asymptotic Behaviour of Sample Weighted
                                  Circuits Representing Recurrent Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--556
      Winfried K. Grassmann and   
               Daniel P. Heyman   Equilibrium Distribution of
                                  Block-Structured Markov Chains with
                                  Repeating Rows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--576
              A. A. Balkema and   
                     L. De Haan   A Convergence Rate in Extreme-Value
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--585
                    Suojin Wang   Saddlepoint Approximations for Bivariate
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586--597
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
            Colm Art O'Cinneide   On the Maximum and Its Uniqueness for
                                  Geometric Random Samples . . . . . . . . 598--610
         Hans-Jürgen Witte   A Unification of Some Approaches to
                                  Poisson Approximation  . . . . . . . . . 611--621
                  Sven Berg and   
              Ljuben Mutafchiev   Random Mappings with an Attracting
                                  Center: Lagrangian Distributions and a
                                  Regression Function  . . . . . . . . . . 622--636
           Richard R. Weber and   
                   Gideon Weiss   On an Index Policy for Restless Bandits  637--648
             Henry W. Block and   
        Naftali A. Langberg and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Maintenance Comparisons: Block Policies  649--657
               Zhang Hanqin and   
               Hsu Guanghui and   
                   Wang Rongxin   Strong Approximations for Multiple
                                  Channel Queues in Heavy Traffic  . . . . 658--670
                     L. Liu and   
           B. R. K. Kashyap and   
             J. G. C. Templeton   On the GI$^X$ /G/$ \infty $ System . . . 671--683
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Complementary Generating Functions for
                                  the M$^X$ /GI/1/k and GI/M$^Y$ /1/k
                                  Queues and Their Application to the
                                  Comparison of Loss Probabilities . . . . 684--692
               Matthew J. Sobel   Throughput Maximization in a Loss
                                  Queueing System with Heterogeneous
                                  Servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--700
                  M. Zähle   Wicksell's Corpuscle Problem in
                                  Spherical Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--706
             Michael L. Wenocur   Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process with
                                  Quadratic Killing  . . . . . . . . . . . 707--712
                 Bruno Sericola   Closed-Form Solution for the
                                  Distribution of the Total Time Spent in
                                  a Subset of States of a Homogeneous
                                  Markov Process during a Finite
                                  Observation Period . . . . . . . . . . . 713--719
    Manish C. Bhattacharjee and   
             Jayaram Sethuraman   Families of Life Distributions
                                  Characterized by Two Moments . . . . . . 720--725
                Ka Sing Lau and   
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Characterization of the Exponential
                                  Distribution by the Relevation Transform 726--729
              Joel E. Cohen and   
                 Frank P. Kelly   A Paradox of Congestion in a Queuing
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--734
                      Anonymous   Correction: Notes on the Stability of
                                  Closed Queueing Networks . . . . . . . . 735--735
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Characterization of
                                  Gumbel's Bivariate Exponential and
                                  Lindley and Singpurwalla's Bivariate
                                  Lomax Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . 736--736
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 27, Number 4, December, 1990

                     John Haigh   Random Polymorphisms and Random
                                  Evolutionarily Stable Strategies: A
                                  Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--755
         P.-C. G. Vassiliou and   
             A. C. Georgiou and   
                     N. Tsantas   Control of Asymptotic Variability in
                                  Non-Homogeneous Markov Systems . . . . . 756--766
                  W. S. Kendall   A Spatial Markov Property for
                                  Nearest-Neighbour Markov Point Processes 767--778
                Gerhard Winkler   An Ergodic $ L^2 $-Theorem for Simulated
                                  Annealing in Bayesian Image
                                  Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--791
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   Further Results on ASTA for General
                                  Stationary Processes and Related
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--804
                  S. Rachev and   
                   P. Todorovic   On the Rate of Convergence of Some
                                  Functionals of a Stochastic Process  . . 805--814
             J. M. McNamara and   
                  E. J. Collins   The Job Search Problem as an
                                  Employer-Candidate Game  . . . . . . . . 815--827
                 T. P. Hill and   
                  D. P. Kennedy   Optimal Stopping Problems with
                                  Generalized Objective Functions  . . . . 828--838
             E. J. Anderson and   
                    R. R. Weber   The Rendezvous Problem on Discrete
                                  Locations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839--851
                Susan H. Xu and   
        Pitu B. Mirchandani and   
       Srikanta P. R. Kumar and   
               Richard R. Weber   Stochastic Dispatching of Multi-Priority
                                  Jobs to Heterogeneous Processors . . . . 852--861
                   Shmuel Nowik   Identifiability Problems in Coherent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--872
                B. B. Fawzi and   
                   A. G. Hawkes   Availability of a Series System with
                                  Replacement and Repair . . . . . . . . . 873--887
            M. Abdel-Hameed and   
                       Y. Nakhi   Optimal Control of a Finite Dam Using
                                  P$_\lambda, \tau^M$ Policies and Penalty
                                  Cost: Total Discounted and Long Run
                                  Average Cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888--898
                  Hong Chen and   
                   David D. Yao   Derivatives of the Expected Delay in the
                                  GI/G/1 Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--907
                     Frank Ball   A Note on the Total Size Distribution of
                                  Carrier-Borne Epidemic Models  . . . . . 908--912
            J. A. C. Resing and   
            G. Hooghiemstra and   
                    M. S. Keane   The M/G/1 Processor Sharing Queue as the
                                  Almost Sure Limit of Feedback Queues . . 913--918
                      Anonymous   Obituary: Peter Franken 1937--1989 . . . 919--923
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 924--927
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 28, Number 1, March, 1991

                    J. Gani and   
                Gy. Michaletzky   A Carrier-Borne Epidemic with Multiple
                                  Stages of Infection  . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
                John Coffey and   
        Wolfgang J. Bühler   The Galton--Watson Predator-Prey Process 9--16
                O. V. Seleznjev   Limit Theorems for Maxima and Crossings
                                  of a Sequence of Gaussian Processes and
                                  Approximation of Random Processes  . . . 17--32
             C. W. Anderson and   
                  K. F. Turkman   The Joint Limiting Distribution of Sums
                                  and Maxima of Stationary Sequences . . . 33--44
          Peter A. W. Lewis and   
                    Ed McKenzie   Minification Processes and Their
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
          Ioannis I. Gerontidis   Periodic Strong Ergodicity in
                                  Non-Homogeneous Markov Systems . . . . . 58--73
                  G. O. Roberts   A Comparison Theorem for Conditioned
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--83
            Marcel F. Neuts and   
           Charles E. M. Pearce   The Superposition of Independent
                                  Discrete Markovian Packet Streams  . . . 84--95
               Daniel P. Heyman   Approximating the Stationary
                                  Distribution of an Infinite Stochastic
                                  Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
                  S. Kalpazidou   On Beurling's Inequality in Terms of
                                  Thermal Power  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--115
          Abdulhamid Alzaid and   
                Jee Soo Kim and   
                 Frank Proschan   Laplace Ordering and Its Applications    116--130
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                   David D. Yao   Strong Stochastic Convexity: Closure
                                  Properties and Applications  . . . . . . 131--145
         Josep M. Ferrandiz and   
                 Aurel A. Lazar   Rate Conservation for Stationary
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--158
               Nico M. Van Dijk   On `Stop = Repeat' Servicing for
                                  Non-Exponential Queueing Networks with
                                  Blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--173
                     C. Blondia   Finite Capacity Vacation Models with
                                  Non-Renewal Input  . . . . . . . . . . . 174--197
             Genji Yamazaki and   
        Hirotaka Sakasegawa and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   A Conservation Law for Single-Server
                                  Queues and Its Applications  . . . . . . 198--209
               Kazuyoshi Wakuta   Optimal Control of an M/G/1 Queue with
                                  Imperfectly Observed Queue Length When
                                  the Input Source Is Finite . . . . . . . 210--220
                   M. A. Guerry   Monotonicity Property of $t$-Step
                                  Maintainable Structures in Three-Grade
                                  Manpower Systems: A Counterexample . . . 221--224
               David G. Kendall   The Mardia--Dryden Shape Distribution
                                  for Triangles: A Stochastic Calculus
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--230
                  H. Carnal and   
                 J. Hüsler   On the Convex Hull of $n$ Random Points
                                  on a Circle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--237
             Genji Yamazaki and   
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   The Equality of the Workload and Total
                                  Attained Waiting Time in Average . . . . 238--244
               Erol Gelenbe and   
                Peter Glynn and   
                    Karl Sigman   Queues with Negative Arrivals  . . . . . 245--250
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Limit Theorem for the
                                  Number of Non-Overlapping Occurrences of
                                  a Pattern in a Sequence of Independent
                                  Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 28, Number 2, June, 1991

                   B. Schmuland   A Result on the Infinitely Many Neutral
                                  Alleles Diffusion Model  . . . . . . . . 253--267
                  A. I. Zeifman   Some Estimates of the Rate of
                                  Convergence for Birth and Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--277
              A. D. Barbour and   
                T. Lindvall and   
                L. C. G. Rogers   Stochastic Ordering of Order Statistics  278--286
            David J. Aldous and   
              Bert Fristedt and   
          Philip S. Griffin and   
              William E. Pruitt   The Number of Extreme Points in the
                                  Convex Hull of a Random Sample . . . . . 287--304
                     Mu-Fa Chen   On Three Classical Problems for Markov
                                  Chains with Continuous Time Parameters   305--320
                 Peter Donnelly   The Heaps Process, Libraries, and
                                  Size-Biased Permutations . . . . . . . . 321--335
                R. M. Phatarfod   On the Matrix Occurring in a Linear
                                  Search Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--346
          Raisa Epstein Feldman   Autoregressive Processes and First-Hit
                                  Probabilities for Randomized Random
                                  Walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--359
             Yasushi Masuda and   
                   Ushio Sumita   A Multivariate Reward Process Defined on
                                  a Semi-Markov Process and Its
                                  First-Passage-Time Distributions . . . . 360--373
            M. C. Bhattacharjee   Some Generalized Variability Orderings
                                  among Life Distributions with
                                  Reliability Applications . . . . . . . . 374--383
            Wolfgang Stadje and   
                 Dror Zuckerman   Optimal Maintenance Strategies for
                                  Repairable Systems with General Degree
                                  of Repair  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--396
                B. B. Fawzi and   
                 Alan G. Hawkes   Availability of an $R$-out-of-$N$ System
                                  with Spares and Repairs  . . . . . . . . 397--408
               W. Henderson and   
                   P. G. Taylor   Some New Results on Queueing Networks
                                  with Batch Movement  . . . . . . . . . . 409--421
                  T. Takine and   
                  H. Takagi and   
                    T. Hasegawa   Sojourn Times in Vacation and Polling
                                  Systems with Bernoulli Feedback  . . . . 422--432
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                 Genji Yamazaki   Convex Ordering of the Attained Waiting
                                  Times in Single-Server Queues and
                                  Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--445
                   G. Falin and   
                     C. Fricker   On the Virtual Waiting Time in an M/G/1
                                  Retrial Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--460
                   R. N. Pillai   Semi-Pareto Processes  . . . . . . . . . 461--465
                 Yoshio Ohtsubo   On a Discrete-Time Non-Zero-Sum Dynkin
                                  Problem with Monotonicity  . . . . . . . 466--472
                 Jinhua Cao and   
                   Yuedong Wang   The NBUC and NWUC Classes of Life
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--479
         Richard H. Stockbridge   A Martingale Approach to the Slow Server
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--486
                      Anonymous   Correction: Monotonicity Property of
                                  $t$-Step Maintainable Structures in
                                  Three-Grade Manpower Systems: A
                                  Counterexample . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--487
                      Anonymous   Correction: Periodic Strong Ergodicity
                                  in Non-Homogeneous Markov Systems  . . . 487--487
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 28, Number 3, September, 1991

               K. Kämmerle   The Extinction Probability of
                                  Descendants in Bisexual Models of Fixed
                                  Population Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--502
             Masaaki Kijima and   
                      E. Seneta   Some Results for Quasi-Stationary
                                  Distributions of Birth-Death Processes   503--511
               Fima C. Klebaner   Asymptotic Behavior of Near-Critical
                                  Multitype Branching Processes  . . . . . 512--519
                V. G. Gadag and   
                    R. P. Gupta   On the Properties of Processes
                                  Associated with a Markov Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--528
                    M. P. Quine   A Model for Random Instantaneous Growth
                                  on an Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--538
           R. P. C. Rodgers and   
                 A. J. Baddeley   Nested Monte Carlo Study of Random
                                  Packing on the Sphere  . . . . . . . . . 539--552
       François Baccelli   Stochastic Ordering of Random Processes
                                  with an Imbedded Point Process . . . . . 553--567
            Friedrich Liese and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Asymptotic Properties of Intensity
                                  Estimators for Poisson Shot-Noise
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--583
                 Meihui Guo and   
          Joseph D. Petruccelli   On the Null Recurrence and Transience of
                                  a First-Order SETAR Model  . . . . . . . 584--592
          H. U. Bräker and   
                 J. Hüsler   On the First Zero of an Empirical
                                  Characteristic Function  . . . . . . . . 593--601
                  N. A. Fay and   
                  J. C. Walrand   On Approximately Optimal Index
                                  Strategies for Generalised Arm Problems  602--612
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Dynamic Multivariate Mean Residual Life
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--629
              Teunis J. Ott and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   On a Buffer Problem for Packetized Voice
                                  with an $N$-Periodic Strongly
                                  Interchangeable Input Process  . . . . . 630--646
            Paul Glasserman and   
                    Wei-Bo Gong   Time-Changing and Truncating
                                  $K$-Capacity Queues from One $K$ to
                                  Another  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--655
                   Erol Gelenbe   Product-Form Queueing Networks with
                                  Negative and Positive Customers  . . . . 656--663
                    Moshe Haviv   Two Sufficient Properties for the
                                  Insensitivity of a Class of Queueing
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--672
     Partha P. Bhattacharya and   
             Anthony Ephremides   Stochastic Monotonicity Properties of
                                  Multiserver Queues with Impatient
                                  Customers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--682
         P. Konstantopoulos and   
                    F. Baccelli   On the Cut-off Phenomenon in Some
                                  Queueing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--694
                Philip Hougaard   Modelling Heterogeneity in Survival Data 695--701
                 Michel Schmitt   Estimation of the Density in a
                                  Stationary Boolean Model . . . . . . . . 702--708
            Gopal Chaudhuri and   
        Jayant V. Deshpande and   
       Avinash D. Dharmadhikari   Some Bounds on Reliability of Coherent
                                  Systems of IFRA Components . . . . . . . 709--714
             C. W. Anderson and   
                  K. F. Turkman   Sums and Maxima in Stationary Sequences  715--716
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 28, Number 4, December, 1991

      Claude Bélisle and   
                 Julian Faraway   Winding Angle and Maximum Winding Angle
                                  of the Two-Dimensional Random Walk . . . 717--726
                  S. Kalpazidou   Invariant Stochastic Properties of a
                                  Class of Directed Circuits . . . . . . . 727--736
         E. G. Coffman, Jr. and   
             P.-J. Courtois and   
              E. N. Gilbert and   
                      Ph. Piret   A Distributed Clustering Process . . . . 737--750
            A. Kwieci\'nski and   
                      R. Szekli   Compensator Conditions for Stochastic
                                  Ordering of Point Processes  . . . . . . 751--761
              Ravi Mazumdar and   
       Raghavan Kannurpatti and   
            Catherine Rosenberg   On Rate Conservation for Non-Stationary
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--770
                Wolfgang Stadje   A New Continuous-Time Search Model . . . 771--778
                 Rajeev Agrawal   Minimizing the Learning Loss in Adaptive
                                  Control of Markov Chains under the Weak
                                  Accessibility Condition  . . . . . . . . 779--790
               K. D. Glazebrook   Bounds for Discounted Stochastic
                                  Scheduling Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 791--801
                 Yu-Sheng Zheng   A Simple Proof for Optimality of (s, S)
                                  Policies in Infinite-Horizon Inventory
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802--810
               B. G. Hansen and   
                 J. B. G. Frenk   Some Monotonicity Properties of the
                                  Delayed Renewal Function . . . . . . . . 811--821
                  Attila Csenki   Some Renewal-Theoretic Investigations in
                                  the Theory of Sojourn Times in Finite
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 822--832
             A. D. Solovyev and   
                 D. G. Konstant   Reliability Estimation of a Complex
                                  Renewable System with an Unbounded
                                  Number of Repair Units . . . . . . . . . 833--842
                        Lam Yeh   An Optimal Repairable Replacement Model
                                  for Deteriorating Systems  . . . . . . . 843--851
          Rengarajan Srinivasan   Stochastic Comparisons of Density
                                  Profiles for the Road-Hog Process  . . . 852--863
                R. D. Foley and   
         Georgia-Ann Klutke and   
              Dieter König   Stationary Increments of Accumulation
                                  Processes in Queues and Generalized
                                  Semi-Markov Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . 864--872
      Dimitris J. Bertsimas and   
             Julian Keilson and   
           Daisuke Nakazato and   
                  Hongtao Zhang   Transient and Busy Period Analysis of
                                  the GI/G/1 Queue as a Hilbert
                                  Factorization Problem  . . . . . . . . . 873--885
                  Richard Cowan   Expected Frequencies of DNA Patterns
                                  Using Whittle's Formula  . . . . . . . . 886--892
                  Aurel Spataru   A Maximum Sequence in a Critical
                                  Multitype Branching Process  . . . . . . 893--897
       Enrique M. Cabaña   A Gaussian Process with Parabolic
                                  Covariances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898--902
R. Gutiérrez Jíamez and   
           A. Juan Gonzalez and   
   P. Román Román   Construction of First-Passage-Time
                                  Densities for a Diffusion Process Which
                                  Is Not Necessarily Time-Homogeneous  . . 903--909
                 D. J. Hartfiel   Sequential Limits in Markov Set-Chains   910--913
             T. M. Mortimer and   
                 David Williams   Change of Measure up to a Random Time:
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914--918
                Wansoo Rhee and   
               Michel Talagrand   A Note on the Selection of Random
                                  Variables under a Sum Constraint . . . . 919--923
                 Teruhisa Nakai   An Optimal Stopping Problem in the
                                  Excavation of Archaeological Remains . . 924--929
               C. Y. Teresa Lam   Joint Simulation of Backward and Forward
                                  Recurrence Times in a Superposition of
                                  Independent Renewal Processes  . . . . . 930--933
                     Yuping Qiu   A Note on Optimal Inspection Policy for
                                  Stochastically Deteriorating Series
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934--939
                 Nader Ebrahimi   How to Compare Two Systems . . . . . . . 940--946
                K. Van Harn and   
                  F. W. Steutel   On a Characterization of the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--949
              P. Brémaud   An Elementary Proof of Sengupta's
                                  Invariance Relation and a Remark on
                                  Miyazawa's Conservation Principle  . . . 950--954
               Nico M. Van Dijk   A Note on Extended Uniformization for
                                  Non-Exponential Stochastic Networks  . . 955--961
                      Anonymous   Corrections: Asymptotic Behavior of
                                  Near-Critical Multitype Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962--962
                      Anonymous   Corrections: Spectral Structure of the
                                  First-Passage-Time Densities for Classes
                                  of Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . 962--962
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 963--966
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 29, Number 1, March, 1992

                   Gudrun Trieb   A Pólya Urn Model and the Coalescent  . . 1--10
                     R. Durrett   Stochastic Growth Models: Bounds on
                                  Critical Values  . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
                 Masaaki Kijima   On the Existence of Quasi-Stationary
                                  Distributions in Denumerable
                                  $R$-Transient Markov Chains  . . . . . . 21--36
               Richard L. Smith   The Extremal Index for a Markov Chain    37--45
             Adam D. Helfer and   
                  Zhongxin Zhao   Gaussian Integrals on Wiener Spaces  . . 46--55
              Arbind K. Lal and   
                   Sagnik Sinha   Zero-Sum Two-Person Semi-Markov Games    56--72
              Thomas H. Scheike   A General Risk Process and Its
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81
               R. P. Littlejohn   Discrete Minification Processes and
                                  Reversibility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--91
            Robert S. Maier and   
            Colm Art O'Cinneide   A Closure Characterisation of Phase-Type
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--103
                         M. Sun   Nested Variational Inequalities and
                                  Related Optimal Starting-Stopping
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--115
               C. Y. Teresa Lam   New Better than Used in Expectation
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--128
                 Shey-Huei Sheu   Optimal Block Replacement Policies with
                                  Multiple Choice at Failure . . . . . . . 129--141
             E. R. Canfield and   
                W. P. McCormick   Asymptotic Reliability of Consecutive
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ Systems . . . . . . . . . 142--155
         Armand M. Makowski and   
              Thomas K. Philips   Stochastic Convexity of Sums of I.I.D.
                                  Non-Negative Random Variables with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--167
               Pantelis Tsoucas   Rare Events in Series of Queues  . . . . 168--175
                Wei-Bo Gong and   
                          H. U.   The MacLaurin Series for the GI/G/1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--184
                   S. N. Ethier   Equivalence of Two Descriptions of the
                                  Ages of Alleles  . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--189
                  Richard Cowan   The Allocation of Offensive and
                                  Defensive Resources in a Territorial
                                  Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--195
                 Yuan Lin Zhang   Some Problems on a One-Dimensional
                                  Correlated Random Walk with Various
                                  Types of Barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--201
                       Marc Yor   Sur Certaines Fonctionnelles
                                  Exponentielles du Mouvement Brownien
                                  Réel. (French) [Some functional features
                                  of real exponential Brownian motion] . . 202--208
                    Offer Kella   Concavity and Reflected Lévy Processes    209--215
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   A Remark on the Proof of Itô's Formula
                                  for $ C^2 $ Functions of Continuous
                                  Semimartingales  . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--221
              K. F. Turkman and   
                 M. F. Oliveira   Limit Laws for the Maxima of
                                  Chain-Dependent Sequences with Positive
                                  Extremal Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--227
                 Peter Matthews   Strong Stationary Times and Eigenvalues  228--233
               R. P. Littlejohn   An Operation Which Inverts Bernoulli
                                  Multiplication and Associated Stationary
                                  Reversible Markov Processes  . . . . . . 234--238
            J. Van Den Berg and   
                    A. Gandolfi   LRU Is Better than FIFO under the
                                  Independent Reference Model  . . . . . . 239--243
                R. A. Doney and   
              Charles M. Goldie   A Simple Comparison Proof  . . . . . . . 244--244
                      Anonymous   Acknowledgement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
                      Anonymous   Correction: Asymptotic Behavior of
                                  Near-Critical Multitype Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
                      Anonymous   Correction: Linear Growth in
                                  Near-Critical Population-Size-Dependent
                                  Multitype Galton--Watson Processes . . . 246--246
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 29, Number 2, June, 1992

                 Philip Holgate   Biometric and Chromosome Algebras  . . . 247--254
                   W. T. Ma and   
              G. Vh. Sandri and   
                      S. Sarkar   Analysis of the Luria--Delbrück
                                  Distribution Using Discrete Convolution
                                  Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--267
               Leigh A. Roberts   On Ratios of Random Variables and
                                  Generalised Mortality Rates  . . . . . . 268--279
                 Paul Joyce and   
            Simon Tavaré   A Convergence Theorem for Symmetric
                                  Functionals of Random Partitions . . . . 280--290
                  J. Durbin and   
                    D. Williams   The First-Passage Density of the
                                  Brownian Motion Process to a Curved
                                  Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--304
           W. Katzenbeisser and   
                       W. Panny   On the Number of Times Where a Simple
                                  Random Walk Reaches Its Maximum  . . . . 305--312
                Paul Glasserman   Processes with Associated Increments . . 313--333
                      A. Milian   Transition Probability Density of a
                                  Certain Diffusion Process Concentrated
                                  on a Finite Spatial Interval . . . . . . 334--342
Felisa J. Vázquez-Abad and   
              Harold J. Kushner   Estimation of the Derivative of a
                                  Stationary Measure with Respect to a
                                  Control Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . 343--352
                 Peter Hall and   
           Jozef L. Teugels and   
                  Ann Vanmarcke   The Abscissa of Convergence of the
                                  Laplace Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . 353--362
                   Jian Liu and   
                       Ed Susko   On Strict Stationarity and Ergodicity of
                                  a Non-Linear ARMA Model  . . . . . . . . 363--373
              Sophia Kalpazidou   On the Weak Convergence of Sequences of
                                  Circuit Processes: A Probabilistic
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--383
             Richard F. Serfozo   Applications of the Key Renewal Theorem:
                                  Crudely Regenerative Processes . . . . . 384--395
                Offer Kella and   
                     Ward Whitt   Useful Martingales for Stochastic
                                  Storage Processes with Lévy Input . . . . 396--403
             D. A. Stanford and   
                     B. Pagurek   On the Serial Correlation for Number in
                                  System in the Stationary GI/M/1 Bulk
                                  Arrival and GI/E$_m$ /1 Queues . . . . . 404--417
                 Hideaki Takagi   Time-Dependent Process of M/G/1 Vacation
                                  Models with Exhaustive Service . . . . . 418--429
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   On the System Queue Length Distributions
                                  of LCFS-P Queues with Arbitrary
                                  Acceptance and Restarting Policies . . . 430--440
                     John Haigh   Further Counterexamples to the
                                  Monotonicity Property of $t$-Step
                                  Maintainable Structures  . . . . . . . . 441--447
              Thomas H. Scheike   A Boundary-Crossing Result for Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--453
                  Zhou Xian-Yin   On the Recurrence of Simple Random Walks
                                  on Some Fractals . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--459
                  Peter J. Haas   The Maximum and Mean of a Random Length
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--466
                 Lutz Muche and   
                Dietrich Stoyan   Contact and Chord Length Distributions
                                  of the Poisson Voronoi Tessellation  . . 467--471
                Vivek S. Borkar   Pathwise Recurrence Orders and Simulated
                                  Annealing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--476
              Bong Dae Choi and   
                 Kwang Kyu Park   The M$^k$ /m/$ \infty $ Queue with
                                  Heterogeneous Customers in a Batch . . . 477--481
                S. C. Borst and   
             M. B. Combé   Busy-Period Analysis of a Correlated
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
                    J. Gani and   
                    C. C. Heyde   On the Retirement of Mavis Hitchcock . . 484--486
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 29, Number 3, September, 1992

                   S. N. Ethier   Eigenstructure of the
                                  Infinitely-Many-Neutral-Alleles
                                  Diffusion Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--498
                     Ben Hambly   On the Limiting Distribution of a
                                  Supercritical Branching Process in a
                                  Random Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 499--518
         P.-C. G. Vassiliou and   
             A. A. Papadopoulou   Non-Homogeneous Semi-Markov Systems and
                                  Maintainability of the State Sizes . . . 519--534
                 James G. Booth   A Note on a One-Compartment Model with
                                  Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--542
                   Lajos Takacs   On the Total Heights of Random Rooted
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--556
               Jan Beirlant and   
               Jozef L. Teugels   Limit Distributions for Compounded Sums
                                  of Extreme Order Statistics  . . . . . . 557--574
                 Mohamed Berred   On Record Values and the Exponent of a
                                  Distribution with Regularly Varying
                                  Upper Tail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--586
                J. A. Bunge and   
                 H. N. Nagaraja   Dependence Structure of Poisson-Paced
                                  Records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--596
               Wolfgang Schwarz   The Wiener Process between a Reflecting
                                  and an Absorbing Barrier . . . . . . . . 597--604
                   J. A. Bather   Search Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--615
              Michael Frenz and   
                 Volker Schmidt   An Insensitivity Property of Ladder
                                  Height Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 616--624
           Jeffrey S. Banks and   
         Rangarajan K. Sundaram   A Class of Bandit Problems Yielding
                                  Myopic Optimal Strategies  . . . . . . . 625--632
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
          Michael P. Bailey and   
                Lyn R. Whitaker   Cost Rate Heuristics for Semi-Markov
                                  Decision Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 633--644
           Philip J. Boland and   
             Frank Proschan and   
                     Y. L. Tong   A Stochastic Ordering of Partial Sums of
                                  Independent Random Variables and of Some
                                  Random Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--654
        Antal Kováts and   
    Tamás F. Móri   Ageing Properties of Certain Dependent
                                  Geometric Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--666
          Cheng-Shang Chang and   
                 Xiuli Chao and   
             Michael Pinedo and   
                  Richard Weber   On the Optimality of LEPT and $ c \mu $
                                  Rules for Machines in Parallel . . . . . 667--681
                  V. Anantharam   On Fast Simulation of the Time to
                                  Saturation of Slotted ALOHA  . . . . . . 682--690
                 S. Chukova and   
                    B. Dimitrov   On Distributions Having the
                                  Almost-Lack-of-Memory Property . . . . . 691--698
                 Sid Browne and   
                    Karl Sigman   Work-Modulated Queues with Applications
                                  to Storage Processes . . . . . . . . . . 699--712
                D. J. Daley and   
                    L. D. Servi   Exploiting Markov Chains to Infer Queue
                                  Length from Transactional Data . . . . . 713--732
                  K. B. Athreya   On Measures of Non-Degeneracy  . . . . . 733--739
                   P. N. Rathie   On the Volume Distribution of the
                                  Typical Poisson--Delaunay Cell . . . . . 740--744
                F. Matús   On Equivalence of Markov Properties over
                                  Undirected Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 745--749
            Jianliang Zhang and   
                  Rakesh Shukla   A Note on ``\booktitleThe Statistical
                                  Analysis of Direct Repeats in Nucleic
                                  Acid Sequences'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--752
                      Anonymous   Correction: The NBUC and NWUC Classes of
                                  Life Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 753--753
                  N. H. Bingham   Obituary: G. E. H. Reuter  . . . . . . . 754--757
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 29, Number 4, December, 1992

                R. C. Griffiths   Distribution of the Number of Alleles in
                                  Multigene Families . . . . . . . . . . . 759--769
                   Peter Jagers   Stabilities and Instabilities in
                                  Population Dynamics  . . . . . . . . . . 770--780
                 Masaaki Kijima   Evaluation of the Decay Parameter for
                                  Some Specialized Birth-Death Processes   781--791
                 Anyue Chen and   
                   Eric Renshaw   The Gillis-Domb-Fisher Correlated Random
                                  Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--813
                 Paul Blackwell   Convex Hulls of Selected Subsets of a
                                  Poisson Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 814--824
                E. Kaufmann and   
                    R.-D. Reiss   Poisson Approximation of Intermediate
                                  Empirical Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 825--837
                Thomas Hanschke   Markov Chains and Generalized Continued
                                  Fractions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838--849
               G. Ch. Pflug and   
               W. Schachermayer   Coefficients of Ergodicity for
                                  Stochastically Monotone Markov Chains    850--860
                     Y. H. Wang   Approximating $k$-th-Order Two-State
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861--868
                     A. W. Kemp   Steady-State Markov Chain Models for the
                                  Heine and Euler Distributions  . . . . . 869--876
               Noel Cressie and   
                   Subhash Lele   New Models for Markov Random Fields  . . 877--884
    Claude J. P. Bélisle   Convergence Theorems for a Class of
                                  Simulated Annealing Algorithms on $ R^d
                                  $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--895
                 A. J. Lawrance   Uniformly Distributed First-Order
                                  Autoregressive Time Series Models and
                                  Multiplicative Congruential Random
                                  Number Generators  . . . . . . . . . . . 896--903
       William P. McCormick and   
                  You Sung Park   Asymptotic Analysis of Extremes from
                                  Autoregressive Negative Binomial
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904--920
              Mohsen Pourahmadi   Alternating Projections and
                                  Interpolation of Stationary Processes    921--931
               Moshe Shaked and   
                    Haolong Zhu   Some Results on Block Replacement
                                  Policies and Renewal Theory  . . . . . . 932--946
             Shey-Huei Sheu and   
            William S. Griffith   Multivariate Imperfect Repair  . . . . . 947--956
           Mark P. Van Oyen and   
      Dimitrios G. Pandelis and   
         Demosthenis Teneketzis   Optimality of Index Policies for
                                  Stochastic Scheduling with Switching
                                  Penalties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957--966
             Rhonda Righter and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Extremal Properties of the FIFO
                                  Discipline in Queueing Networks  . . . . 967--978
                Nicholas Bambos   On Closed Ring Queueing Networks . . . . 979--995
                 R. J. Williams   Asymptotic Variance Parameters for the
                                  Boundary Local Times of Reflected
                                  Brownian Motion on a Compact Interval    996--1002
             K. A. Sing Lau and   
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Characterization of the Exponential
                                  Distribution by the Relevation Transform 1003--1004
Maria Antónia Amaral Turkman   Obituary: José Tiago de Oliveira  . . . . 1005--1005
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1010
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 30, Number 1, March, 1993

             Byron J. T. Morgan   Expected Size Distributions in Models of
                                  Group Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
             Aimé Lachal   L'intégrale du Mouvement Brownien.
                                  (French) [The integral of Brownian
                                  motion]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--27
                  S. Kalpazidou   On Levy's Theorem concerning
                                  Positiveness of Transition Probabilities
                                  of Markov Processes: The Circuit
                                  Processes Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--39
              P. Brémaud   A Swiss Army Formula of Palm Calculus    40--51
                      Qiwei Yao   Boundary-Crossing Probabilities of Some
                                  Random Fields Related to Likelihood
                                  Ratio Tests for Epidemic Alternatives    52--65
              A. A. Balkema and   
                 L. de Haan and   
               R. L. Karandikar   Asymptotic Distribution of the Maximum
                                  of $n$ Independent Stochastic Processes  66--81
             D. G. Konstant and   
                V. I. Piterbarg   Extreme Values of the Cyclostationary
                                  Gaussian Random Process  . . . . . . . . 82--97
              Tamar Gadrich and   
                Robert J. Adler   Slepian Models for Non-Stationary
                                  Gaussian Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 98--111
                Helena Ferreira   Joint Exceedances of High Levels under a
                                  Local Dependence Condition . . . . . . . 112--120
             Wen-Jang Huang and   
                Shun-Hwa Li and   
                  Jyh-Cherng Su   Some Characterizations of the Poisson
                                  Process and Geometric Renewal Process    121--130
            T. S. Mountford and   
                     S. C. Port   Random Splittings of an Interval . . . . 131--152
         Martin J. B. Appel and   
                John C. Wierman   AB Percolation on Bond-Decorated Graphs  153--166
               Brian J. English   Factorial Moments for Random Mappings by
                                  Means of Indicator Variables . . . . . . 167--174
           Edward P. C. Kao and   
           Marion Spokony Smith   On Renewal Processes Relating to Counter
                                  Models: The Case of Phase-Type
                                  Interarrival Times . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183
               K. D. Glazebrook   On Permutation Policies for the
                                  Scheduling of Deteriorating Stochastic
                                  Jobs on a Single Machine . . . . . . . . 184--193
             Henry W. Block and   
        Naftali A. Langberg and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Repair Replacement Policies  . . . . . . 194--206
                 Issei Kino and   
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   The Stationary Work in System of a G/G/1
                                  Gradual Input Queue  . . . . . . . . . . 207--222
            P. D. Sparaggis and   
                 D. Towsley and   
               C. G. Cassandras   Extremal Properties of the
                                  Shortest/Longest Non-Full Queue Policies
                                  in Finite-Capacity Systems with
                                  State-Dependent Service Rates  . . . . . 223--236
              B. W. Conolly and   
              Christos Langaris   On a New Formula for the Transient State
                                  Probabilities for M/M/1 Queues and
                                  Computational Implications . . . . . . . 237--246
                   A. I. Yashin   An Extension of the Cameron--Martin
                                  Result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--251
              Michael Scheutzow   A Martingale Approach to the Pasta
                                  Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--257
                T. S. Mountford   A Coupling of Finite Particle Systems    258--262
                  Richard Cowan   A Constraint on the Random Packing of
                                  Disks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--268
          A. V. Wheelwright and   
                  C. A. Glasbey   Distances between Censored Intersections
                                  between a Square Lattice and a Random
                                  Smooth Path  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--274
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 30, Number 2, June, 1993

             Peter Donnelly and   
               Thomas Kurtz and   
                  Paul Marjoram   Correlation and Variability in Birth
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--284
                 N. Tsantas and   
             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   The Non-Homogeneous Markov System in a
                                  Stochastic Environment . . . . . . . . . 285--301
          Mei-Ling Ting Lee and   
               G. Alex Whitmore   Stochastic Processes Directed by
                                  Randomized Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--314
               Jean Diebolt and   
        Dominique Guégan   Tail Behaviour of the Stationary Density
                                  of General Non-Linear Autoregressive
                                  Processes of Order 1 . . . . . . . . . . 315--329
           Dale N. Anderson and   
                Barry C. Arnold   Linnik Distributions and Processes . . . 330--340
                 Nader Ebrahimi   More Predictable, Less Predictable and
                                  Stable Counting Processes  . . . . . . . 341--352
                 Ray Watson and   
                       Paul Yip   A Bivariate Counting Process . . . . . . 353--364
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                      Ger Koole   Marked Point Processes as Limits of
                                  Markovian Arrival Streams  . . . . . . . 365--372
         Hans-Jürgen Witte   Some Characterizations of Exponential or
                                  Geometric Distributions in a
                                  Non-Stationary Record Value Model  . . . 373--381
                Hideki Tanemura   Behavior of the Supercritical Phase of a
                                  Continuum Percolation Model on $ R^d $   382--396
                    Suojin Wang   Saddlepoint Approximations in
                                  Conditional Inference  . . . . . . . . . 397--404
                 O. L. V. Costa   Discretizations for the Average Impulse
                                  Control of Piecewise Deterministic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--420
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Dynamic Conditional Marginal
                                  Distributions in Reliability Theory  . . 421--428
        Benjamin Avi-Itzhak and   
                  Shlomo Halfin   Servers in Tandem with Communication and
                                  Manufacturing Blocking . . . . . . . . . 429--437
                R. M. Phatarfod   The Geometricity of the Limiting
                                  Distributions in Queues and Dams . . . . 438--445
                  T. Takine and   
                  H. Takagi and   
                    T. Hasegawa   Analysis of an M/G/1/K/N Queue . . . . . 446--454
                 L. Buttell and   
                  J. T. Cox and   
                     R. Durrett   Estimating the Critical Values of
                                  Stochastic Growth Models . . . . . . . . 455--461
               K. Jayakumar and   
                   R. N. Pillai   The First-Order Autoregressive
                                  Mittag--Leffler Process  . . . . . . . . 462--466
                      C. H. Sim   First-Order Autoregressive Logistic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--470
               Mikhail Revyakov   Component Allocation for a Distributed
                                  System: Reliability Maximization . . . . 471--477
     Panayotis D. Sparaggis and   
                    Wei-Bo Gong   Optimal Buffer Allocation in a Two-Stage
                                  Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--482
           Josef Steinebach and   
                   Hanqin Zhang   Note on the Strong Limiting Behaviour of
                                  Busy Periods in GI/G/1 Queues under
                                  Heavy Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--488
                      W. Stadje   A New Look at the Moran Dam  . . . . . . 489--495
                      Anonymous   Correction: On the Existence of
                                  Quasi-Stationary Distributions in
                                  Denumerable $R$-Transient Markov Chains  496--496
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 30, Number 3, September, 1993

         Albert W. Marshall and   
                   Ingram Olkin   Bivariate Life Distributions from Pólya's
                                  Urn Model for Contagion  . . . . . . . . 497--508
                 Masaaki Kijima   Quasi-Limiting Distributions of Markov
                                  Chains That Are Skip-Free to the Left in
                                  Continuous Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--517
                 Frank Ball and   
                Geoffrey F. Yeo   Lumpability and Marginalisability for
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 518--528
                 Frank Ball and   
             Robin K. Milne and   
                Geoffrey F. Yeo   On the Exact Distribution of Observed
                                  Open Times in Single Ion Channel Models  529--537
                    C. Chris Wu   Critical Behavior of Percolation and
                                  Markov Fields on Branching Planes  . . . 538--547
                 Yasushi Masuda   Partially Observable Semi-Markov Reward
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548--560
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   On the Empty Cells of Poisson Histograms 561--574
              Robert J. Elliott   A General Recursive Discrete-Time Filter 575--588
                 Sid Browne and   
              J. Michael Steele   Transient Behavior of Coverage Processes
                                  with Applications to the Infinite-Server
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--601
               R. A. Maller and   
                        S. Zhou   The Probability That the Largest
                                  Observation Is Censored  . . . . . . . . 602--615
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
             Thomas S. Ferguson   Minimizing the Expected Rank with Full
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--626
                    M. T. Dixon   Equilibrium Points for Three Games Based
                                  on the Poisson Process . . . . . . . . . 627--638
         Richard M. Feldman and   
        Bryan L. Deuermeyer and   
          Ciriaco Valdez-Flores   Utilization of the Method of Linear
                                  Matrix Equations to Solve a
                                  Quasi-Birth-Death Problem  . . . . . . . 639--649
               Guy Latouche and   
                   V. Ramaswami   A Logarithmic Reduction Algorithm for
                                  Quasi-Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . 650--674
             Henry W. Block and   
        Timothy M. Costigan and   
               Allan R. Sampson   Optimal Second-Order Product Probability
                                  Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--691
             Henry W. Block and   
                     Jie Mi and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Burn-In and Mixed Populations  . . . . . 692--702
                 Esther Frostig   Optimal Policies for Machine Repairmen
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--715
                     Xiuli Chao   On Klimov's Model with Two Job Classes
                                  and Exponential Processing Times . . . . 716--724
                 Neil O'Connell   Yule Process Approximation for the
                                  Skeleton of a Branching Process  . . . . 725--729
                       W. Nagel   Orientation-Dependent Chord Length
                                  Distributions Characterize Convex
                                  Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--736
           Walter Böhm and   
                 J. L. Jain and   
                  S. G. Mohanty   On Zero-Avoiding Transition
                                  Probabilities of an $r$-Node Tandem
                                  Queue: A Combinatorial Approach  . . . . 737--741
                   Erol Gelenbe   $G$-Networks with Triggered Customer
                                  Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--748
                      Anonymous   Correction: Contact and Chord Length
                                  Distributions of the Poisson Voronoi
                                  Tessellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749--749
                      Anonymous   Correction: Ordering of Repairable
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749--749
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 30, Number 4, December, 1993

                D. J. Daley and   
                        J. Gani   A Random Allocation Model for
                                  Carrier-Borne Epidemics  . . . . . . . . 751--765
               Eleanor Feingold   Markov Processes for Modeling and
                                  Analyzing a New Genetic Mapping Method   766--779
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Random Walks on Discrete and Continuous
                                  Circles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--789
        Danielle Florens-Zmirou   On Estimating the Diffusion Coefficient
                                  from Discrete Observations . . . . . . . 790--804
                    R. A. Doney   Some Results Involving the Maximum of
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--818
               Kerry W. Fendick   An Asymptotically Exact Decomposition of
                                  Coupled Brownian Systems . . . . . . . . 819--834
                S. F. L. Gallot   Absorption and First-Passage Times for a
                                  Compound Poisson Process in a General
                                  Upper Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--850
           L. Chayés and   
                    C. Winfield   The Density of Interfaces: A New
                                  First-Passage Problem  . . . . . . . . . 851--862
       William P. McCormick and   
                    Jiayang Sun   Sums and Maxima of Discrete Stationary
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863--876
                 J. Hüsler   A Note on Exceedances and Rare Events of
                                  Non-Stationary Sequences . . . . . . . . 877--888
                 E. G. Enns and   
                   P. F. Ehlers   Notes on Random Chords in Convex Bodies  889--897
              Jian-Qiang Hu and   
          Soracha Nananukul and   
                    Wei-Bo Gong   A New Approach to (s,S) Inventory
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898--912
              Robin Antoine and   
                  Hani Doss and   
                Myles Hollander   On Identifiability in the Autopsy Model
                                  of Reliability Theory  . . . . . . . . . 913--930
                   W. Henderson   Queueing Networks with Negative
                                  Customers and Negative Queue Lengths . . 931--942
             P. G. Harrison and   
                       E. Pitel   Sojourn Times in Single-Server Queues
                                  with Negative Customers  . . . . . . . . 943--963
                Olaf Krafft and   
                Martin Schaefer   Mean Passage Times for Tridiagonal
                                  Transition Matrices and a Two-Parameter
                                  Ehrenfest Urn Model  . . . . . . . . . . 964--970
                Andrei Duma and   
                   Marius Stoka   Hitting Probabilities for Random
                                  Ellipses and Ellipsoids  . . . . . . . . 971--974
                M. I. Hendi and   
             A. F. Mashhour and   
                M. A. Montasser   Closure of the NBUC Class under
                                  Formation of Parallel Systems  . . . . . 975--978
               Eui Yong Lee and   
                     Jiyeon Lee   A Model for a System Subject to Random
                                  Shocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979--984
             Wen-Jang Huang and   
                Jyh-Ming Shoung   Some Characterizations of the
                                  Exponential and Geometric Distributions
                                  Arising in a Queueing System with an
                                  Unreliable Server  . . . . . . . . . . . 985--990
               Anthony G. Pakes   Remarks on the Luria--Delbrück
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991--994
                      Anonymous   Correction: Semi-Pareto Processes  . . . 995--995
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 996--999
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 31, Number 1, March, 1994

                David Gates and   
                  Mark Westcott   Replacement of Train Wheels: An
                                  Application of Dynamic Reversal of a
                                  Markov Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
                  Damian Clancy   Some Comparison Results for Multitype
                                  Epidemic Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--21
       Daniel Pierre Loti Viaud   A Strong Law and a Central Limit Theorem
                                  for Controlled Galton--Watson Processes  22--37
                 D. R. Grey and   
                     Lu Zhunwei   The Fractional Linear Probability
                                  Generating Function in the Random
                                  Environment Branching Process  . . . . . 38--47
                Marcel F. Neuts   An Interesting Random Walk on the
                                  Non-Negative Integers  . . . . . . . . . 48--58
                 Peter Buchholz   Exact and Ordinary Lumpability in Finite
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--75
               R. K. Getoor and   
                   M. J. Sharpe   On the Arc-Sine Laws for Lévy Processes   76--89
              G. O. Roberts and   
                    S. D. Jacka   Weak Convergence of Conditioned Birth
                                  and Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 90--100
                     Huiling Le   Brownian Motions on Shape and
                                  Size-and-Shape Spaces  . . . . . . . . . 101--113
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Time-Dependent Rate Conservation Laws
                                  for a Process Defined with a Stationary
                                  Marked Point Process and Their
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--129
           Richard A. Davis and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Crossings of Max-Stable Processes  . . . 130--138
                       M. Bladt   Multivariate Self-Similar Processes:
                                  Second-Order Theory  . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
                        Cai Jun   Characterizations of Life Distributions
                                  by Moments of Extremes and Sample Mean   148--155
                Franco Pellerey   Shock Models with Underlying Counting
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--166
           Jaimie L. Hebert and   
            John W. Seaman, Jr.   The Variance of a Truncated Mixed
                                  Exponential Process  . . . . . . . . . . 167--179
           Philip J. Boland and   
            Emad El-Neweihi and   
                 Frank Proschan   Applications of the Hazard Rate Ordering
                                  in Reliability and Order Statistics  . . 180--192
             Martin J. B. Appel   AB Percolation on Plane Triangulations
                                  Is Unimodal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--204
                 K. A. Borovkov   On Simulation of Random Vectors with
                                  Given Densities in Regions and on Their
                                  Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--220
            Alexander V. Gnedin   On a Best-Choice Problem with Dependent
                                  Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234
         David M. Lucantoni and   
                Marcel F. Neuts   Simpler Proofs of Some Properties of the
                                  Fundamental Period of the MAP/G/1 Queue  235--243
             Claude Lefevre and   
                Philippe Picard   Distribution of the Final Extent of a
                                  Rumour Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--249
          Gregory J. Morrow and   
        Rinaldo B. Schinazi and   
                       Yu Zhang   The Critical Contact Process on a
                                  Homogeneous Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--255
                 S. R. Adke and   
                    C. Chandran   Asymptotic Distributions of Extremes of
                                  Extremal Markov Sequences  . . . . . . . 256--261
             Eugene A. Feinberg   A Generalization of 'Expectation Equals
                                  Reciprocal of Intensity' to
                                  Non-Stationary Exponential Distributions 262--267
                 J. B. Lasserre   A New Policy Iteration Scheme for Markov
                                  Decision Processes Using Schweitzer's
                                  Formula  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--273
             Janos Galambos and   
                Charles Hagwood   An Unreliable Server Characterization of
                                  the Exponential Distribution . . . . . . 274--279
                  Tang Dac Cong   On the M$^X$ /G/$ \infty $ Queue with
                                  Heterogeneous Customers in a Batch . . . 280--286
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 31, Number 2, June, 1994

                   S. Merad and   
                 J. M. McNamara   Optimal Foraging of a Reproducing Animal
                                  as a Discounted Reward Problem . . . . . 287--300
              Richard Cowan and   
                     S. N. Chiu   A Stochastic Model of Fragment Formation
                                  When DNA Replicates  . . . . . . . . . . 301--308
                  M. Möhle   Forward and Backward Processes in
                                  Bisexual Models with Fixed Population
                                  Sizes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--332
            Thierry Huillet and   
            Andrzej Klopotowski   Sur Une Procédure de Branchement
                                  Déterministe et ses Dérivees Aléatoires.
                                  (French) [On a deterministic branching
                                  procedure and its random derivatives]    333--347
            George M. Tsaklidis   The Evolution of the Attainable
                                  Structures of a Homogeneous Markov
                                  System with Fixed Size . . . . . . . . . 348--361
                 D. J. Hartfiel   Homogeneous Markov Chains with Bounded
                                  Transition Matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 362--372
                 Harri Nyrhinen   Rough Limit Results for Level-Crossing
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--382
                Rocco Ballerini   Archimedean Copulas, Exchangeability,
                                  and Max-Stability  . . . . . . . . . . . 383--390
       José A. Adell and   
         Jesús De la Cal   Approximating Gamma Distributions by
                                  Normalized Negative Binomial
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--400
                  F. Papangelou   On a Distributional Bound Arising in
                                  Autoregressive Model Fitting . . . . . . 401--408
              Thomas H. Spencer   Generalized Bonferroni Inequalities  . . 409--417
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
                  Ravi Mazumdar   The Bene\vs Equations for the
                                  Distribution of Excursions for General
                                  Storage Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 418--429
            Shaler Stidham, Jr.   A Sample-Path Approach to Palm
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--437
                David Assaf and   
        Ariela Sharlin-Bilitzky   Dynamic Search for a Moving Target . . . 438--457
            Enrico Fagiuoli and   
                Franco Pellerey   Preservation of Certain Classes of Life
                                  Distributions under Poisson Shock Models 458--465
                   Zhen Liu and   
                    Don Towsley   Optimality of the Round-Robin Routing
                                  Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--475
                 Ho Woo Lee and   
              Soon Seok Lee and   
              Jeong Ok Park and   
                     K. C. Chae   Analysis of the M$^X$ /G/1 Queue with
                                  $N$-Policy and Multiple Vacations  . . . 476--496
                  R. Szekli and   
               R. L. Disney and   
                         S. Hur   MR/GI/1 Queues with Positively
                                  Correlated Arrival Stream  . . . . . . . 497--514
                 C. Olivier and   
                     J. Walrand   On the Existence of Finite-Dimensional
                                  Filters for Markov-Modulated Traffic . . 515--525
                 Robert B. Lund   A Dam with Seasonal Input  . . . . . . . 526--541
            Mats Gyllenberg and   
                 Timo Koski and   
              Edwin Reilink and   
                 Martin Verlaan   Non-Uniqueness in Probabilistic
                                  Numerical Identification of Bacteria . . 542--548
         Boris L. Granovsky and   
                     Liat Rozov   On Transient Behaviour of a
                                  Nearest-Neighbour Birth-Death Process on
                                  a Lattice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--553
                    Huaigao Liu   On Cowan and Mecke's Markov Chain  . . . 554--560
                 Joanne Kennedy   Understanding the Wiener--Hopf
                                  Factorization for the Simple Random Walk 561--563
                 Alan C. Kimber   An Application of Random Packing to the
                                  Multiple Fracture of Composite Materials 564--569
                R. M. Phatarfod   On the Transition Probabilities of the
                                  Move-to-Front Scheme . . . . . . . . . . 570--574
               R. P. Littlejohn   A Reversibility Relationship for Two
                                  Markovian Time Series Models with
                                  Stationary Exponential Tailed
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--581
              Tomasz Luczak and   
                 Zbigniew Palka   On the Clique Number of a Random Overlap
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--588
          Martin A. Wortman and   
             Georgia-Ann Klutke   On Maintained Systems Operating in a
                                  Random Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 589--594
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 31, Number 3, September, 1994

                     Paul Joyce   Likelihood Ratios for the Infinite
                                  Alleles Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--605
                  V. M. Abramov   On the Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  Maximum Number of Infectives in Epidemic
                                  Models with Immigration  . . . . . . . . 606--613
                 F. C. Klebaner   Asymptotic Behaviour of Markov
                                  Population Processes with Asymptotically
                                  Linear Rate of Change  . . . . . . . . . 614--625
               James Ledoux and   
             Gerardo Rubino and   
                 Bruno Sericola   Exact Aggregation of Absorbing Markov
                                  Processes Using the Quasi-Stationary
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--634
              Guang-Hui Hsu and   
                  Xue-Ming Yuan   Transient Solutions for
                                  Denumerable-State Markov Processes . . . 635--645
                James W. Miller   A Matrix Equation Approach to Solving
                                  Recurrence Relations in Two-Dimensional
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646--659
                      Ted Sweet   Optimizing a Single Uncertain Selection
                                  with Recall of Observations  . . . . . . 660--672
              Ulrich Herkenrath   Generalized Adaptive Exponential
                                  Smoothing Procedures . . . . . . . . . . 673--690
            A. Reza Soltani and   
                  R. Moeanaddin   On Dispersion of Stable Random Vectors
                                  and Its Application in the Prediction of
                                  Multivariate Stable Processes  . . . . . 691--699
                 L. De Haan and   
                 Sidney Resnick   Estimating the Home Range  . . . . . . . 700--720
       Abdulhamid A. Alzaid and   
                 Frank Proschan   Max-Infinite Divisibility and
                                  Multivariate Total Positivity  . . . . . 721--730
                   Tae Yoon Kim   Moment Bounds for Non-Stationary
                                  Dependent Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . 731--742
          Gordon E. Willmot and   
                   Xiaodong Lin   Lundberg Bounds on the Tails of Compound
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--756
      Patrik Floréen and   
               Taneli Huuskonen   Uniqueness of Maximum Values in Discrete
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--764
      Takis Konstantopoulos and   
        Spyros N. Papadakis and   
                   Jean Walrand   Functional Approximation Theorems for
                                  Controlled Renewal Processes . . . . . . 765--776
               Debasis Sengupta   Another Look at the Moment Bounds on
                                  Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777--787
          Cheng-Shang Chang and   
                 Rhonda Righter   The Optimality of LEPT in Parallel
                                  Machine Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . 788--796
      Sòren Asmussen and   
       Reuven Y. Rubinstein and   
                   Chia-Li Wang   Regenerative Rare Events Simulation via
                                  Likelihood Ratios  . . . . . . . . . . . 797--815
                 J. Bertoin and   
                    R. A. Doney   On the Local Behaviour of Ladder Height
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816--821
               Adrienne W. Kemp   Comments on the Luria--Delbrück
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822--828
               Jean B. Lasserre   A Formula for Singular Perturbations of
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--833
             Armand M. Makowski   On an Elementary Characterization of the
                                  Increasing Convex Ordering, with an
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834--840
                  Gennadi Falin   The M$^k$ /G/$ \infty $ Batch Arrival
                                  Queue with Heterogeneous Dependent
                                  Demands  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--846
             A. A. Borovkov and   
                R. Schassberger   Ergodicity of a Jackson Network with
                                  Batch Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--853
                   Gwo Dong Lin   A Note on Distributions Having the
                                  Almost-Lack-of-Memory Property . . . . . 854--856
                      Anonymous   Obituary: Edward James Hannan  . . . . . 857--866
                      Anonymous   Correction: Sums and Maxima of Discrete
                                  Stationary Processes . . . . . . . . . . 867--867
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 31, Number 4, December, 1994

                 Anyue Chen and   
                   Eric Renshaw   The General Correlated Random Walk . . . 869--884
            L. C. G. Rogers and   
                         Z. Shi   Computing the Invariant Law of a Fluid
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--896
                  P. K. Pollett   On the Identification of Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains with a Given Invariant
                                  Measure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--910
            Servet Martinez and   
        Jaime San Martín   Quasi-Stationary Distributions for a
                                  Brownian Motion with Drift and
                                  Associated Limit Laws  . . . . . . . . . 911--920
             R. A. Atkinson and   
                 Peter Clifford   The Escape Probability for Integrated
                                  Brownian Motion with Non-Zero Drift  . . 921--929
                   Holger Dette   On a Generalization of the Ehrenfest Urn
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930--939
           Chris A. J. Klaassen   Dixie Cups: Sampling with Replacement
                                  from a Finite Population . . . . . . . . 940--948
                  Markus Roters   On the Validity of Wald's Equation . . . 949--957
          Sidney I. Resnick and   
                     Rishin Roy   Super-Extremal Processes and the Argmax
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958--978
               Jean B. Lasserre   Detecting Optimal and Non-Optimal
                                  Actions in Average-Cost Markov Decision
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979--990
           Debasis Sengupta and   
            Jayant V. Deshpande   Some Results on the Relative Ageing of
                                  Two Life Distributions . . . . . . . . . 991--1003
           Harshinder Singh and   
                   Neeraj Misra   On Redundancy Allocations in Systems . . 1004--1014
            Giovanni Parmigiani   Inspection Times for Stand-by Units  . . 1015--1025
                         Jie Mi   Maximization of a Survival Probability
                                  and Its Application  . . . . . . . . . . 1026--1033
                Kenji Handa and   
       Prasansa Kalukottege and   
                    Yukio Ogura   A Probabilistic Interpretation of the
                                  Degree of Fuzziness  . . . . . . . . . . 1034--1048
                  E. Buffet and   
                 N. G. Duffield   Exponential Upper Bounds via Martingales
                                  for Multiplexers with Markovian Arrivals 1049--1060
            Benjamin Avi-Itzhak   Servers in Tandem with $k$-Stage
                                  Blocking and Communications-Type Flow    1061--1069
                   Yinghui Tang   The Departure Process of the M/G/1
                                  Queueing Model with Server Vacation and
                                  Exhaustive Service Discipline  . . . . . 1070--1082
                    Huan Li and   
                      Yixin Zhu   A New Approach to the G/G/1 Queue with
                                  Generalized Setup Time and Exhaustive
                                  Service  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1097
                Mitchell Kotler   Drift Vectors Are Not Sufficient to
                                  Determine Recurrence of a Markov Chain
                                  on $ Z_+^3 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1098--1102
                 Rob J. Hyndman   Approximations and Boundary Conditions
                                  for Continuous-Time Threshold
                                  Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 1103--1109
                    Yi-Hau Chen   Classes of Life Distributions and
                                  Renewal Counting Process . . . . . . . . 1110--1115
                Karl Sigman and   
          Hermann Thorisson and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   A Note on the Existence of Regeneration
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116--1122
                 Yuan Lin Zhang   A Bivariate Optimal Replacement Policy
                                  for a Repairable System  . . . . . . . . 1123--1127
              Cheng-Shang Chang   On the Input-Output Map of a G/G/1 Queue 1128--1133
                  Jacky Guibert   Overflow Probability Upper Bound in
                                  Fluid Queues with General on-off Sources 1134--1139
                Offer Kella and   
              Michail Sverchkov   On Concavity of the Mean Function and
                                  Stochastic Ordering for Reflected
                                  Processes with Stationary Increments . . 1140--1142
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1147
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 31A, 1994

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i-97
                J. Galambos and   
                        J. Gani   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
                    J. Gani and   
                    J. Galambos   Lajos Takács: An Appreciation . . . . . . xi--xiii
                      Anonymous   Publications of Lajos Takácz  . . . . . . xv--xxiv
               Simeon M. Berman   Optimal Timing of Antiviral Therapy in
                                  HIV Infection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--15
                        J. Gani   A Simple Deterministic Epidemic in
                                  Several Related Growing Communities  . . 17--25
                  N. H. Bingham   The Work of Lajos Takács on Probability
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--39
                   A. De Acosta   On Large Deviations of Empirical
                                  Measures in the $ \tau $-Topology  . . . 41--47
             Persi Diaconis and   
            Mehrdad Shahshahani   On the Eigenvalues of Random Matrices    49--62
             Janos Galambos and   
                  Min-Young Lee   Further Studies of Bivariate
                                  Bonferroni-Type Inequalities . . . . . . 63--69
            Gérard Letac   Les familles exponentielles statistiques
                                  invariantes par les groupes du Cône et du
                                  parabolo\"\ide de révolution. (French)
                                  [Exponential statistical invariant
                                  families groups of Cône and the
                                  paraboloid of revolution]  . . . . . . . 71--95
            U. Narayan Bhat and   
               Richard E. Nance   A Queueing Network Analysis of Dynamic
                                  Reconfigurability in a Hierarchical
                                  Information Network  . . . . . . . . . . 99--114
               W. Böhm and   
                  S. G. Mohanty   Transient Analysis of M/M/1 Queues in
                                  Discrete Time with General Server
                                  Vacations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--129
             Peter W. Glynn and   
                     Ward Whitt   Logarithmic Asymptotics for Steady-State
                                  Tail Probabilities in a Single-Server
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--156
                 J. Keilson and   
                    L. D. Servi   Networks of Non-Homogeneous M/G/$ \infty
                                  $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--168
               N. U. Prabhu and   
                     L. C. Tang   Markov-Modulated Single-Server Queueing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--184
             Masaaki Sibuya and   
          Norihiko Miyawaki and   
                   Ushio Sumita   Aspects of Lagrangian Probability
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--375
                   Yuan S. Chow   On the Moments of Ladder Epochs for
                                  Driftless Random Walks . . . . . . . . . 201--205
                    J. W. Cohen   On a Class of Two-Dimensional
                                  Nearest-Neighbour Random Walks . . . . . 207--237
             Endre Csáki   Some Joint Distributions in Bernoulli
                                  Excursions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--250
                D. J. Daley and   
                    L. D. Servi   Approximating Last-Exit Probabilities of
                                  a Random Walk, with Application to
                                  Conditional Queue Length Moments within
                                  Busy Periods of M/GI/1 Queues  . . . . . 251--267
                Joseph Glaz and   
                Joseph Naus and   
           Ma\lgorzata Roos and   
             Sylvan Wallenstein   Poisson Approximations for the
                                  Distribution and Moments of Ordered
                                  $m$-Spacings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--281
                    C. C. Heyde   A Quasi-Likelihood Approach to
                                  Estimating Parameters in Diffusion-Type
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--290
                    Ronald Pyke   Minimax One-Sided Kolmogorov-Type
                                  Distribution-Free Tests  . . . . . . . . 291--308
Mátyás Arató   On the Solution of Kac-Type Partial
                                  Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 311--324
           Jewgeni H. Dshalalow   On Termination Time Processes  . . . . . 325--336
                Marcel F. Neuts   An Explicit Solution to a Particular
                                  Markov Chain of M/G/1 Type . . . . . . . 337--342
   András Prékopa   Estimation of Cause-Effect Relationship
                                  under Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--350
          Donatas Surgailis and   
           Wojbor A. Woyczynski   Burgers' Equation with Non-Local Shot
                                  Noise Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--362
                  Ryszard Syski   A Simple Increasing Process  . . . . . . 363--371
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 377--381


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 32, Number 1, March, 1995

                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
                      Ziad Taib   Branching Processes and Functional
                                  Differential Equations Determining
                                  Steady-Size Distributions in Cell
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
             Åke Svensson   On the Asymptotic Size and Duration of a
                                  Class of Epidemic Models . . . . . . . . 11--24
     Servet Martínez and   
     Maria Eulália Vares   A Markov Chain Associated with the
                                  Minimal Quasi-Stationary Distribution of
                                  Birth-Death Chains . . . . . . . . . . . 25--38
                     Xi-Ren Cao   State Aggregation and Discrete-State
                                  Markov Chains Embedded in a Class of
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--51
               Marc Séva   On the Local Limit Theorem for
                                  Non-Uniformly Ergodic Markov Chains  . . 52--62
                A. J. Coyle and   
                   P. G. Taylor   Tight Bounds on the Sensitivity of
                                  Generalised Semi-Markov Processes with a
                                  Single Generally Distributed Lifetime    63--73
    Christian Max Mòller   Stochastic Differential Equations for
                                  Ruin Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . 74--89
                 Ronald Meester   Equality of Critical Densities in
                                  Continuum Percolation  . . . . . . . . . 90--104
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Note on Generalizations of Mecke's
                                  Formula and Extensions of $ H = \lambda
                                  G $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--122
               Assad Jalali and   
                 John Pemberton   Mixture Models for Time Series . . . . . 123--138
             Sidney Resnick and   
                Catalin Starica   Consistency of Hill's Estimator for
                                  Dependent Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--167
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
                    S. Greatrix   On Transforming an Index for Generalised
                                  Bandit Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--182
           Robert M. Burton and   
                Uwe Rösler   An $ L_2 $ Convergence Theorem for
                                  Random Affine Mappings . . . . . . . . . 183--192
                      Shui Feng   Phase Transitions of Some Non-Linear
                                  Stochastic Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 193--201
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
                Franco Pellerey   New Partial Ordering of Survival
                                  Functions Based on the Notion of
                                  Uncertainty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--211
                        Lam Yeh   An Optimal Inspection-Repair-Replacement
                                  Policy for Standby Systems . . . . . . . 212--223
          Peter G. Harrison and   
                   Edwige Pitel   Response Time Distributions in Tandem
                                  $G$-Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--246
                 Jingwen Li and   
                      Jihong Ou   Characterizing the Idle-Period
                                  Distribution of GI/G/1 Queues  . . . . . 247--255
          Soracha Nananukul and   
                    Wei-Bo Gong   The Mean Waiting Time of a GI/G/1 Queue
                                  in Light Traffic via Random Thinning . . 256--266
                   B. M. Hambly   On Constant Tail Behaviour for the
                                  Limiting Random Variable in a
                                  Supercritical Branching Process  . . . . 267--273
                    John Coffey   A Linear Birth-and-Death Predator-Prey
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--277
                      Anonymous   Correction: Overflow Probability Upper
                                  Bound in Fluid Queues with General
                                  on-off Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 32, Number 2, June, 1995

                   David Aldous   Darwin's Log: A Toy Model of Speciation
                                  and Extinction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--295
              Richard Cowan and   
                 S. N. Chiu and   
                     Lars Holst   A Limit Theorem for the Replication Time
                                  of a DNA Molecule  . . . . . . . . . . . 296--303
                 Frank Ball and   
                  Damian Clancy   The Final Outcome and Temporal Solution
                                  of a Carrier-Borne Epidemic Model  . . . 304--315
         A. G. Di Crescenzo and   
                  V. Giorno and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
                L. M. Ricciardi   On a Symmetry-Based Constructive
                                  Approach to Probability Densities for
                                  Two-Dimensional Diffusion Processes  . . 316--336
                 Mario Lefebvre   Probl\`emes de Premier Passage Résolubles
                                  par la Méthode de Séparation des
                                  Variables. (French) [First-Passage
                                  problems solvable by the method of
                                  separation of variables] . . . . . . . . 337--348
                 William Rising   Geometric Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . 349--374
            Lajos Takács   Limit Distributions for the Bernoulli
                                  Meander  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--395
              M. V. Koutras and   
         G. K. Papadopoulos and   
            S. G. Papastavridis   Runs on a Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--404
                       Marc Yor   The Distribution of Brownian Quantiles   405--416
                     M. Elshamy   Randomly Perturbed Vibrations  . . . . . 417--428
              A. N. Balabushkin   Approximation to the Exit Probability of
                                  a Continuous Gaussian Process over a
                                  U-Shaped Boundary of Increasing
                                  Curvature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--442
      Hélyette Geman and   
           Nicole El Karoui and   
            Jean-Charles Rochet   Changes of Numéraire. Changes of
                                  Probability Measure and Option Pricing   443--458
           Krzysztof Loskot and   
               Ryszard Rudnicki   Limit Theorems for Stochastically
                                  Perturbed Dynamical Systems  . . . . . . 459--469
           P. Zeephongsekul and   
                      C. Chiera   Optimal Software Release Policy Based on
                                  a Two-Person Game of Timing  . . . . . . 470--481
                         Jie Mi   Limiting Behavior of Some Measures of
                                  System Availability  . . . . . . . . . . 482--493
   François Baccelli and   
                   Serguei Foss   On the Saturation Rule for the Stability
                                  of Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--507
           Richard J. Boucherie   Product Forms Based on Backward Traffic
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--518
                     P. J. Hunt   Pathological Behaviour in Loss Networks  519--533
          Luis G. Gorostiza and   
        Kenneth J. Hochberg and   
              Anton Wakolbinger   Persistence of a Critical Super-2
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--540
                   K. Hamza and   
                 F. C. Klebaner   Conditions for Integrability of Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--547
              M. E. Ghitany and   
             M. A. El-Saidi and   
                      Z. Khalil   Characterization of a General Class of
                                  Life-Testing Models  . . . . . . . . . . 548--553
         Erol A. Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   A Simple Derivation of Exact Reliability
                                  Formulas for Linear and Circular
                                  Consecutive-$k$-of-$n$: $F$ Systems  . . 554--557
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 32, Number 3, September, 1995

       Daniel Pierre Loti Viaud   Random Perturbations of Recursive
                                  Sequences with an Application to an
                                  Epidemic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--578
                 Frank Ball and   
                  Damian Clancy   The Final Outcome of an Epidemic Model
                                  with Several Different Types of
                                  Infective in a Large Population  . . . . 579--590
                Chinsan Lee and   
                  Grace L. Yang   A Multitype Decomposable Age-Dependent
                                  Branching Process and Its Applications   591--608
                     Paul Joyce   Robustness of the Ewens Sampling Formula 609--622
                  A. I. Zeifman   On the Estimation of Probabilities for
                                  Birth and Death Processes  . . . . . . . 623--634
R. Gutiérrez Jáimez and   
P. Román Román and   
                 F. Torres Ruiz   A Note on the Volterra Integral Equation
                                  for the First-Passage-Time Probability
                                  Density  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--648
                     M. Kolonko   A Piecewise Markovian Model for
                                  Simulated Annealing with Stochastic
                                  Cooling Schedules  . . . . . . . . . . . 649--658
              Michael C. Fu and   
                  Jian-Qiang Hu   On Unbounded Hazard Rates for Smoothed
                                  Perturbation Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 659--667
                     Fan Ai Hua   Sur la $ L^p $ Convergence des
                                  Martingales Liées au Recouvrement.
                                  (French) [On the $ L^p $ convergence
                                  Martingales Related to Recovery] . . . . 668--678
                      Tim Zajic   Large Exceedences for Uniformly
                                  Recurrent Markov-Additive Processes and
                                  Strong-Mixing Stationary Processes . . . 679--691
                 V. A. Kalamkar   Minification Processes with Discrete
                                  Marginals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692--706
             Patrick Homble and   
           William P. McCormick   Weak Limit Results for the Extremes of a
                                  Class of Shot Noise Processes  . . . . . 707--726
                 Y. H. Wang and   
                     Shuixin Ji   Limit Theorems for the Number of
                                  Occurrences of Consecutive $k$ Successes
                                  in $n$ Markovian Trials  . . . . . . . . 727--735
      Sòren Asmussen and   
          Hanne Mandrup Nielsen   Ruin Probabilities via Local Adjustment
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736--755
                 J. Hüsler   A Note on a Model for Restoring a
                                  Destroyed Region . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--767
            Eliane R. Rodrigues   Convergence to Stationary State for a
                                  Markov Move-to-Front Scheme  . . . . . . 768--776
               Shiowjen Lee and   
                  S. Durham and   
                       J. Lynch   On the Calculation of the Reliability of
                                  General Load Sharing Systems . . . . . . 777--792
             R. S. Valiveti and   
               B. J. Oommen and   
                 J. R. Zgierski   Adaptive Linear List Reorganization
                                  under a Generalized Query System . . . . 793--804
           Norman A. Marlow and   
             Michael Tortorella   Some General Characteristics of
                                  Two-State Reliability Models for
                                  Maintained Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 805--820
               Nobuko Igaki and   
               Ushio Sumita and   
                 Masashi Kowada   Analysis of Markov Renewal Shock Models  821--831
               Debasis Sengupta   Reliability Bounds for the $ \mathcal
                                  {L} $-Class and Laplace Order  . . . . . 832--835
                 W. G. S. Hines   Comment on ``\booktitleMutations,
                                  Perturbations and Evolutionarily Stable
                                  Strategies'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836--839
              Charles M. Goldie   Asymptotics of the Luria--Delbrück
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840--841
                 Dietmar Ferger   The Joint Distribution of the Running
                                  Maximum and Its Location of $D$-Valued
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 842--845
             Valeri T. Stefanov   Mean Passage Times for Tridiagonal
                                  Transition Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 846--849
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 32, Number 4, December, 1995

            Paul Glasserman and   
                   David D. Yao   Stochastic Vector Difference Equations
                                  with Stationary Coefficients . . . . . . 851--866
               Wojciech Niemiro   Tail Events of Simulated Annealing
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--876
              Mark X. Geske and   
           Anant P. Godbole and   
        Andrew A. Schaffner and   
        Allison M. Skolnick and   
           Garrick L. Wallstrom   Compound Poisson Approximations for Word
                                  Patterns under Markovian Hypotheses  . . 877--892
               Daniel P. Heyman   A Decomposition Theorem for Infinite
                                  Stochastic Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 893--901
                S. D. Jacka and   
                  G. O. Roberts   Weak Convergence of Conditioned
                                  Processes on a Countable State Space . . 902--916
      Takis Konstantopoulos and   
                Michael Zazanis   A Discrete-Time Proof of Neveu's
                                  Exchange Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . 917--921
                  D. Kofman and   
                 H. Korezlioglu   Some EATA Properties for Marked Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922--929
                J.-C. Gruet and   
                         Z. Shi   Some Asymptotic Results for Exponential
                                  Functionals of Brownian Motion . . . . . 930--940
              I. M. Asymont and   
                 G. Fayolle and   
                M. V. Menshikov   Random Walks in a Quarter Plane with
                                  Zero Drifts: Transience and Recurrence   941--955
                  Markus Roters   An Optimal Stopping Problem for Random
                                  Walks with Non-Zero Drift  . . . . . . . 956--959
               Arthur Cohen and   
           Harold B. Sackrowitz   On Stochastic Ordering of Random Vectors 960--965
               Cemal Koç   Recurring-with-Carry Sequences . . . . . 966--971
             Ishay Weissman and   
                      Uri Cohen   The Extremal Index and Clustering of
                                  High Values for Derived Stationary
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972--981
                 Ishay Weissman   Records from a Power Model of
                                  Independent Observations . . . . . . . . 982--990
                 K. A. Borovkov   On Crossing Times for Multidimensional
                                  Walks with Skip-Free Components  . . . . 991--1006
            Marco Dominé   Moments of the First-Passage Time of a
                                  Wiener Process with Drift between Two
                                  Elastic Barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1013
              Sunil K. Dhar and   
                    Xulun Jiang   Probability Bounds on the Finite Sum of
                                  the Binary Sequence of Order $k$ . . . . 1014--1027
                   Gwo Dong Lin   On Weak Convergence within a Lorenz
                                  Ordering Family of Distributions . . . . 1028--1031
             L. L. Campbell and   
            A. L. McKellips and   
                   P. H. Wittke   Distributions and Expectations of
                                  Singular Random Variables  . . . . . . . 1032--1040
             Bruno Massé   Invariance Principle for the Deviation
                                  between the Probability Content and the
                                  Interior Point Proportion of a Random
                                  Convex Hull  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1047
               Eric Jakeman and   
                Sean Phayre and   
                   Eric Renshaw   The Evolution and Measurement of a
                                  Population of Pairs  . . . . . . . . . . 1048--1062
                    J. Gani and   
                   Sid Yakowitz   Error Bounds for Deterministic
                                  Approximations to Markov Processes, with
                                  Applications to Epidemic Models  . . . . 1063--1076
            L. C. G. Rogers and   
                         Z. Shi   The Value of an Asian Option . . . . . . 1077--1088
            Eliane R. Rodrigues   The Performance of the Move-to-Front
                                  Scheme under Some Particular Forms of
                                  Markov Requests  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089--1102
                        Qing Du   A Monotonicity Result for a
                                  Single-Server Queue Subject to a
                                  Markov-Modulated Poisson Process . . . . 1103--1111
                 Xiuli Chao and   
                       Liyi Dai   A Monotonicity Result for a
                                  Single-Server Loss System  . . . . . . . 1112--1117
                 Xunjing Li and   
                  Shanjian Tang   General Necessary Conditions for
                                  Partially Observed Optimal Stochastic
                                  Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118--1137
      Claude Lefévre and   
                    Sergey Utev   On a Conjecture for the Non-Existence of
                                  the Expectation of Randomly Stopped Sums 1138--1141
                W. J. Ewens and   
                    C. C. Heyde   Obituary: Motoo Kimura . . . . . . . . . 1142--1144
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1145--1149
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 33, Number 1, March, 1996

            Larry Goldstein and   
                   Yosef Rinott   Multivariate Normal Approximations by
                                  Stein's Method and Size Bias Couplings   1--17
                  F. Papangelou   Large Deviations and the Bayesian
                                  Estimation of Higher-Order Markov
                                  Transition Functions . . . . . . . . . . 18--27
                    Nan Fu Peng   Spectral Representations of the
                                  Transition Probability Matrices for
                                  Continuous Time Finite Markov Chains . . 28--33
            George M. Tsaklidis   The Evolution of the Attainable
                                  Structures of a Continuous Time
                                  Homogeneous Markov System with Fixed
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--47
                Dragan Banjevic   Recursive Relations for the Distribution
                                  of Waiting Times in a Markov Chain . . . 48--56
    Bartlomiej Blaszczyszyn and   
                  Tomasz Rolski   Expansions for Markov-Modulated Systems
                                  and Approximations of Ruin Probability   57--70
              Michael J. Phelan   Birth and Death on a Brownian Flow: A
                                  Feller Semigroup and Its Generator and a
                                  Martingale Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 71--87
              Michael J. Phelan   A Girsanov Transformation for Birth and
                                  Death on a Brownian Flow . . . . . . . . 88--100
               D. I. Warren and   
                      E. Seneta   Peaks and Eulerian Numbers in a Random
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--114
    Tamás F. Móri   Bonferroni Inequalities and Deviations
                                  of Discrete Distributions  . . . . . . . 115--121
            Torgny Lindvall and   
                L. C. G. Rogers   On Coupling of Random Walks and Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--126
              P. Vellaisamy and   
                   B. Chaudhuri   Poisson and Compound Poisson
                                  Approximations for Random Sums of Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137
              Hwai-Chung Ho and   
                   Tailen Hsing   On the Asymptotic Joint Distribution of
                                  the Sum and Maximum of Stationary Normal
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--145
                K. Borovkov and   
                     D. Pfeifer   On Improvements of the Order of
                                  Approximation in the Poisson Limit
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--155
                    Taizhong Hu   Stochastic Comparisons of Order
                                  Statistics under Multivariate Imperfect
                                  Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--163
            Marco Dominé   First Passage Time Distribution of a
                                  Wiener Process with Drift concerning Two
                                  Elastic Barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--175
              Gordon E. Willmot   A Non-Exponential Generalization of an
                                  Inequality Arising in Queueing and
                                  Insurance Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--183
                   Xiaodong Lin   Tail of Compound Distributions and
                                  Excess Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--195
             Hanspeter Schmidli   Lundberg Inequalities for a Cox Model
                                  with a Piecewise Constant Intensity  . . 196--210
                       G. Falin   A Heterogeneous Blocking System in a
                                  Random Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 211--216
                 Isaac M. Sonin   Increasing the Reliability of a Machine
                                  Reduces the Period of Its Work . . . . . 217--223
                Matthew Roughan   An Analysis of a Modified M/G/1 Queue
                                  Using a Martingale Technique . . . . . . 224--238
             M. L. Chaudhry and   
                    U. C. Gupta   Performance Analysis of the
                                  Discrete-Time GI/Geom/1/N Queue  . . . . 239--255
               Sridhar Seshadri   A Sample Path Analysis of the Delay in
                                  the M/G/C System . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--266
         F. I. Karpelevitch and   
                 A. Ya. Kreinin   Asymptotic Analysis of Queueing Systems
                                  with Identical Service . . . . . . . . . 267--281
               Helmut Prodinger   Asymptotics of the Luria--Delbrück
                                  Distribution via Singularity Analysis    282--283
                I. Karatzas and   
                    C. C. Heyde   Obituary: Stamatis Cambanis (1943--1995) 284--284
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 33, Number 2, June, 1996

           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                    Sergey Utev   Comparing Sums of Exchangeable Bernoulli
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--310
           W. Katzenbeisser and   
                       W. Panny   Simple Random Walk Statistics. Part I:
                                  Discrete Time Results  . . . . . . . . . 311--330
               W. Böhm and   
                       W. Panny   Simple Random Walk Statistics. Part II:
                                  Continuous Time Results  . . . . . . . . 331--339
                   Michael Voit   Asymptotic Distributions for the
                                  Ehrenfest Urn and Related Random Walks   340--356
                  M. V. Koutras   On a Markov Chain Approach for the Study
                                  of Reliability Structures  . . . . . . . 357--367
                C. Commault and   
                   J. P. Chemla   An Invariant of Representations of
                                  Phase-Type Distributions and Some
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--381
                     John Haigh   More on $n$-Point, Win-by-$k$ Games  . . 382--387
    Christian Max Mòller   Integral Equations for Compound
                                  Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 388--399
          Gustaf Gripenberg and   
                   Ilkka Norros   On the Prediction of Fractional Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--410
              P. A. Ferrari and   
                L. R. G. Fontes   Poissonian Approximation for the Tagged
                                  Particle in Asymmetric Simple Exclusion  411--419
                J. Van Den Berg   A Note on Disjoint-Occurrence
                                  Inequalities for Marked Poisson Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--426
                       Yu Zhang   Continuity of Percolation Probability in
                                  $ \infty + 1 $ Dimensions  . . . . . . . 427--433
                  M. S. Sgibnev   An Infinite Variance Solidarity Theorem
                                  for Markov Renewal Functions . . . . . . 434--438
                   Yi-Ching Yao   On Kingman's Characteristic Functional
                                  Approach to Rényi's Characterization of
                                  Poisson Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 439--442
              Richard Cowan and   
            Philip L. H. Yu and   
             Thomas S. Ferguson   Restrictions on the Saddle-Point
                                  Solution in the Game of Teamball . . . . 443--447
                 Philip O'Neill   Strong Approximations for Some Open
                                  Population Epidemic Models . . . . . . . 448--457
                L. G. Hanin and   
             L. B. Klebanov and   
                A. Yu. Yakovlev   Randomized Multihit Models and Their
                                  Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--471
              A. D. Barbour and   
               Timothy C. Brown   Approximate Versions of Melamed's
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--489
       Fabrice M. Guillemin and   
           Ravi R. Mazumdar and   
              Alain D. Simonian   On Heavy Traffic Approximations for
                                  Transient Characteristics of M/M/$
                                  \infty $ Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--506
                     Jingwen Li   From Fifo to Lifo: A Functional Ordering
                                  of Service Delay Via Arrival Discipline  507--512
                 Haya Kaspi and   
                    Offer Kella   Stability of Feed-Forward Fluid Networks
                                  with Lévy Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--522
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                    Offer Kella   Rate Modulation in Dams and Ruin
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--535
                 Rhonda Righter   Optimal Policies for Scheduling Repairs
                                  and Allocating Heterogeneous Servers . . 536--547
                    Fan C. Meng   More on Optimal Allocation of Components
                                  in Coherent Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 548--556
                 Shey-Huei Sheu   A Modified Block Replacement Policy with
                                  Two Variables and General Random Minimal
                                  Repair Cost  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--572
                 A. A. Borovkov   Asymptotic Expansions for Functionals of
                                  Dilation of Point Processes  . . . . . . 573--591
           Vladimir Kalashnikov   Obituary: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko   592--599
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 33, Number 3, September, 1996

             Eckhard Platen and   
              Rolando Rebolledo   Principles for Modelling Financial
                                  Markets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--613
             K. A. Borovkov and   
                  V. A. Vatutin   On Distribution Tails and Expectations
                                  of Maxima in Critical Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--622
            Y. Quennel Zhao and   
                   Danielle Liu   The Censored Markov Chain and the Best
                                  Augmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--629
                M. P. Quine and   
                      J. S. Law   Exact Results for a Secretary Problem    630--639
            Tobias Rydén   On Identifiability and Order of
                                  Continuous-Time Aggregated Markov
                                  Chains, Markov-Modulated Poisson
                                  Processes, and Phase-Type Distributions  640--653
             J. Hüsler and   
                     M. Schmidt   A Note on the Point Processes of Rare
                                  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654--663
                      Harry Joe   Time Series Models with Univariate
                                  Margins in the Convolution-Closed
                                  Infinitely Divisible Class . . . . . . . 664--677
            Alexander V. Gnedin   On the Full Information Best-Choice
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--687
               Djaouad Ta\"\ibi   Une Généralisation du Mod\`ele de
                                  Diffusion de Bernoulli--Laplace.
                                  (French) [A generalization of the
                                  Bernoulli--Laplace diffusion model]  . . 688--697
              Asok K. Nanda and   
               Kanchan Jain and   
               Harshinder Singh   On Closure of Some Partial Orderings
                                  under Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698--706
             Erol A. Peköz   Stein's Method for Geometric
                                  Approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--713
          Douglas W. McBeth and   
       Ananda P. N. Weerasinghe   Finite-Time Optimal Control of a Process
                                  Leaving an Interval  . . . . . . . . . . 714--728
                 Tuhao Chen and   
                      E. Seneta   Multivariate Bonferroni-Type Lower
                                  Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--740
             Enrique Andjel and   
               Rinaldo Schinazi   A Complete Convergence Theorem for an
                                  Epidemic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--748
               Robert P. Dobrow   On the Distribution of Distances in
                                  Recursive Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . 749--757
                    Ivy Hsu and   
                   Jean Walrand   Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for ATM
                                  Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758--771
        Harald Haukås and   
                     Terje Aven   A General Formula for the Downtime
                                  Distribution of a Parallel System  . . . 772--785
                      Ad Ridder   Fast Simulation of Markov Fluid Models   786--803
                      Hong Chen   Rate of Convergence of the Fluid
                                  Approximation for Generalized Jackson
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--814
                 Liming Liu and   
                   Ding-Hua Shi   Busy Period in GI$^X$ /G/$ \infty $  . . 815--829
                 Robert B. Lund   The Stability of Storage Models with
                                  Shot Noise Input . . . . . . . . . . . . 830--839
                 N. G. Duffield   Economies of Scale in Queues with
                                  Sources Having Power-Law Large Deviation
                                  Scalings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840--857
                 Xiuli Chao and   
             Michael Pinedo and   
                    Dequan Shaw   Networks of Queues with Batch Services
                                  and Customer Coalescence . . . . . . . . 858--869
        William P. Peterson and   
               Lawrence M. Wein   Heavy Traffic Analysis of a
                                  Transportation Network Model . . . . . . 870--885
        Costas Courcoubetis and   
                  Richard Weber   Buffer Overflow Asymptotics for a Buffer
                                  Handling Many Traffic Sources  . . . . . 886--903
                Rainer Wittmann   Superprophet Inequalities for
                                  Independent Random Variables . . . . . . 904--908
          Takis Konstantopoulos   A Local Proof of the Swiss Army Formula
                                  of Palm Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--914
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 33, Number 4, December, 1996

          P. J. M. Milligan and   
                  D. Y. Downham   Models of Superinfection and Acquired
                                  Immunity to Multiple Parasite Strains    915--932
              Mathew D. Penrose   Spatial Epidemics with Large Finite
                                  Range  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--939
                 Peter Olofsson   General Branching Processes with
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940--948
             Boleslaw Gawel and   
                   Marek Kimmel   The Iterated Galton--Watson Process  . . 949--959
                M. Gonzalez and   
                      M. Molina   On the Limit Behaviour of a
                                  Superadditive Bisexual Galton--Watson
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 960--967
                  F. M. Dekking   An Inequality for Pairs of Martingales
                                  and Its Application to Fractal Image
                                  Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968--973
                 F. Simonot and   
                     Y. Q. Song   Characterization of Convergence Rates
                                  for the Approximation of the Stationary
                                  Distribution of Infinite Monotone
                                  Stochastic Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 974--985
     Rolando Cavazos-Cadena and   
Emmanuel Fernández-Gaucherand   Value Iteration in a Class of Average
                                  Controlled Markov Chains with Unbounded
                                  Costs: Necessary and Sufficient
                                  Conditions for Pointwise Convergence . . 986--1002
Vittoria de Nitto Person\`e and   
                Vincenzo Grassi   Solution of Finite QBD Processes . . . . 1003--1010
                A. Reza Soltani   Reward Processes with Nonlinear Reward
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1017
                Angelos Dassios   Sample Quantiles of Additive Renewal
                                  Reward Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018--1032
                   Holger Dette   On the Generating Functions of a Random
                                  Walk on the Non-Negative Integers  . . . 1033--1052
          Stamatis Cambanis and   
             Issa Fakhre-Zakeri   Forward and Reversed Time Prediction of
                                  Autoregressive Sequences . . . . . . . . 1053--1060
              P. E. Kloeden and   
                  E. Platen and   
                  H. Schurz and   
             M. Sòrensen   On Effects of Discretization on
                                  Estimators of Drift Parameters for
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 1061--1076
            Dominique Dehay and   
                 Jacek Le\'skow   Functional Limit Theory for the Spectral
                                  Covariance Estimator . . . . . . . . . . 1077--1092
               Daniel Barry and   
               John A. Hartigan   The Minimax Bookie . . . . . . . . . . . 1093--1107
              Asok K. Nanda and   
               Kanchan Jain and   
               Harshinder Singh   Properties of Moments for $s$-Order
                                  Equilibrium Distributions  . . . . . . . 1108--1111
           Kenneth S. Alexander   Shortest Common Superstrings of Random
                                  Strings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1112--1126
                   M. Locatelli   Convergence Properties of Simulated
                                  Annealing for Continuous Global
                                  Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127--1140
                Dawei Huang and   
                  N. M. Spencer   On a Random Vibration Model  . . . . . . 1141--1158
                  Maged Elshamy   Stochastic Models of Damped Vibrations   1159--1168
                Offer Kella and   
                     Ward Whitt   Stability and Structural Properties of
                                  Stochastic Storage Networks  . . . . . . 1169--1180
      Sòren Asmussen and   
               Jozef L. Teugels   Convergence Rates for M/G/1 Queues and
                                  Ruin Problems with Heavy Tails . . . . . 1181--1190
                Gautam Jain and   
                    Karl Sigman   A Pollaczek--Khintchine Formula for
                                  M/G/1 Queues with Disasters  . . . . . . 1191--1200
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1201--1204
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 34, Number 1, March, 1997

                  Haijum Li and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Ageing First-Passage Times of Markov
                                  Processes: A Matrix Approach . . . . . . 1--13
                 Rong-Rong Chen   An Extended Class of Time-Continuous
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 14--23
                Shoou-Ren Hsiau   Compound Poisson Limit Theorems for
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--34
              G. O. Roberts and   
                S. D. Jacka and   
                  P. K. Pollett   Non-Explosivity of Limits of Conditioned
                                  Birth and Death Processes  . . . . . . . 35--45
          Pauline Schrijner and   
              Erik A. Van Doorn   Weak Convergence of Conditioned
                                  Birth-Death Processes in Discrete Time   46--53
                 Liqun Wang and   
        Klaus Pötzelberger   Boundary Crossing Probability for
                                  Brownian Motion and General Boundaries   54--65
            S. E. Graversen and   
                      G. Peskir   On Wald-Type Optimal Stopping for
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
                Robert Lund and   
                   Walter Smith   A Comparison of Convergence Rates for
                                  Three Models in the Theory of Dams . . . 74--83
                     Y. L. Tong   Some Majorization Orderings of
                                  Heterogeneity in a Class of Epidemics    84--93
                   M. A. Guerry   Properties of Calculated Predictions of
                                  Grade Sizes and the Associated Integer
                                  Valued Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--100
                E. B. Fosam and   
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Variants of the Choquet-Deny Theorem
                                  with Applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106
              Piercesare Secchi   Two-Person Red-and-Black Stochastic
                                  Games  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--126
              G. E. Willmot and   
                   Xiaodong Lin   Simplified Bounds on the Tails of
                                  Compound Distributions . . . . . . . . . 127--133
              Bruce Calvert and   
             Wiremu Solomon and   
                   Ilze Ziedins   Braess's Paradox in a Queueing Network
                                  with State-Dependent Routing . . . . . . 134--154
                 N. G. Bean and   
                F. P. Kelly and   
                   P. G. Taylor   Braess's Paradox in a Loss Network . . . 155--159
              J. L. Coleman and   
               W. Henderson and   
            C. E. M. Pearce and   
                   P. G. Taylor   A Correspondence between Product-Form
                                  Batch-Movement Queueing Networks and
                                  Single-Movement Networks . . . . . . . . 160--175
                  Duan-Shin Lee   Analysis of a Two-Queue Model with
                                  Bernoulli Schedules  . . . . . . . . . . 176--191
                 Anyue Chen and   
                   Eric Renshaw   The M/M/1 Queue with Mass Exodus and
                                  Mass Arrivals When Empty . . . . . . . . 192--207
      Sòren Asmussen and   
       Claudia Klüppelberg   Stationary M/G/1 Excursions in the
                                  Presence of Heavy Tails  . . . . . . . . 208--212
                  Helmut Willie   A Note on Single Server Loss Systems
                                  with a Superposition of Inputs . . . . . 213--222
             J. R. Artalejo and   
                A. Gomez-Corral   Steady State Solution of a Single-Server
                                  Queue with Linear Repeated Requests  . . 223--233
                        Lam Yeh   The Rate of Occurrence of Failures . . . 234--247
               Ushio Sumita and   
                 Yasushi Masuda   Tandem Queues with Bulk Arrivals,
                                  Infinitely Many Servers and Correlated
                                  Service Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--257
                Shokri Z. Selim   Time-Dependent Solution and Optimal
                                  Control of a Bulk Service Queue  . . . . 258--266
              C. Costantini and   
                 F. Spizzichino   Explicit Solution of an Optimal Stopping
                                  Problem: The Burn-in of Conditionally
                                  Exponential Components . . . . . . . . . 267--282
           Harshinder Singh and   
                    R. S. Singh   On Allocation of Spares at Component
                                  Level versus System Level  . . . . . . . 283--287
              Pieter C. Allaart   An Invariant-Sum Characterization of
                                  Benford's Law  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--291
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 34, Number 2, June, 1997

        C. Klüppelberg and   
                     T. Mikosch   Large Deviations of Heavy-Tailed Random
                                  Sums with Applications in Insurance and
                                  Finance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--308
                 J. P. Dion and   
                    N. M. Yanev   Limit Theorems and Estimation Theory for
                                  Branching Processes with an Increasing
                                  Random Number of Ancestors . . . . . . . 309--327
                  Akio Tanikawa   On the Rate of Convergence of Borovkov's
                                  Multidimensional Ergodic Markov Chain    328--339
                  Tommy Norberg   On the Time a Markov Chain Spends in a
                                  Lumped State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--345
                      Shui Feng   The Propagation of Chaos of Multitype
                                  Mean Field Interacting Particle Systems  346--362
                   Anish Sarkar   Continuity and Convergence of the
                                  Percolation Function in Continuum
                                  Percolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--371
                    Marco Campi   A Unique Representation Theorem for the
                                  Conditional Expectation of Stationary
                                  Processes and Application to Dynamic
                                  Estimation Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 372--380
                    Dirk Tasche   On the Second Borel--Cantelli Lemma for
                                  Strongly Mixing Sequences of Events  . . 381--394
                       Y. Kebir   Laplace Transforms and the Renewal
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--403
               Moshe Shaked and   
                    Tityik Wong   Stochastic Orders Based on Ratios of
                                  Laplace Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . 404--419
               Moshe Shaked and   
                    Tityik Wong   Stochastic Comparisons of Random Minima
                                  and Maxima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--425
              Raúl Gouet   Strong Convergence of Proportions in a
                                  Multicolor Pólya Urn  . . . . . . . . . . 426--435
                  M. Möhle   Fixation in Bisexual Models with
                                  Variable Population Sizes  . . . . . . . 436--448
    Dhaifalla K. Al-Mutairi and   
         Talal M. Al-Khamis and   
        Mohamed S. Abdel-Hameed   A Bayesian Analysis of Layered Defense
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--457
          M. D. Ruiz-Medina and   
               M. J. Valderrama   Orthogonal Representations of Random
                                  Fields and an Application to Geophysics
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--476
              A. D. Barbour and   
                R. M. Phatarfod   Dimensioning a Multiple Hashing Scheme   477--486
             Esther Frostig and   
                Tapani Lehtonen   Stochastic Comparisons for Fork-Join
                                  Queues with Exponential Processing Times 487--497
                    Offer Kella   Stochastic Storage Networks:
                                  Stationarity and the Feedforward Case    498--507
                     J. Preater   A Perpetuity and the M/M/$ \infty $
                                  Ranked Server System . . . . . . . . . . 508--513
            Nicole Bäuerle   Monotonicity Results for MR/GI/1 Queues  514--524
            Enrico Fagiuoli and   
                Franco Pellerey   Moment Inequalities for Sums of DMRL
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--535
          Sara-Anne Woodham and   
         Donald St. P. Richards   Comparison of System Reliability
                                  Functions under Laboratory and Common
                                  Operating Environments . . . . . . . . . 536--545
                     Wei Li and   
                Dinghua Shi and   
                     Xiuli Chao   Reliability Analysis of M/G/1 Queueing
                                  Systems with Server Breakdowns and
                                  Vacations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546--555
                Geoffrey F. Yeo   Duration of a Secretary Problem  . . . . 556--558
                  Yong-Jin Wang   A Proof of the Persistence Criterion for
                                  a Class of Superprocesses  . . . . . . . 559--563
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 34, Number 3, September, 1997

               Claudia Ceci and   
                   Anna Gerardi   Filtering of a Branching Process Given
                                  Its Split Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--574
         M. González and   
                      M. Molina   On the $ L^2 $-Convergence of a
                                  Superadditive Bisexual Galton--Watson
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 575--582
                K. S. Chong and   
                         K. Lam   Cost Comparison of a Spectrum of
                                  Self-Organizing Rules  . . . . . . . . . 583--592
              M. V. Koutras and   
               V. A. Alexandrou   Sooner Waiting Time Problems in a
                                  Sequence of Trinary Trials . . . . . . . 593--609
                 Mario Lefebvre   On the Inverse of the First Hitting Time
                                  Problem for Bidimensional Processes  . . 610--622
        R. Gutiérrez and   
            L. M. Ricciardi and   
            P. Román and   
                      F. Torres   First-Passage-Time Densities for
                                  Time-Non-Homogeneous Diffusion Processes 623--631
            James M. Calvin and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   Average Case Behavior of Random Search
                                  for the Maximum  . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--642
           William P. McCormick   Extremes for Shot Noise Processes with
                                  Heavy Tailed Amplitudes  . . . . . . . . 643--656
               R. J. Martin and   
                   A. M. Walker   A Power-Law Model and Other Models for
                                  Long-Range Dependence  . . . . . . . . . 657--670
           Ilaria Di Matteo and   
                 Enzo Orsingher   Detailed Probabilistic Analysis of the
                                  Integrated Three-Valued Telegraph Signal 671--684
               Eric Renshaw and   
                   Yonglong Dai   Regularity and Reversibility Results for
                                  Birth-Death-Migration Processes  . . . . 685--697
      Håkan Andersson and   
               Boualem Djehiche   Limit Theorems for the Total Size of a
                                  Spatial Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . 698--710
                    Jun Cai and   
                     Yanhong Wu   Characterization of Life Distributions
                                  under Some Generalized Stochastic
                                  Orderings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--719
                 Dirk P. Kroese   Heavy Traffic Analysis for Continuous
                                  Polling Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--732
                 Rhonda Righter   Stochastic Scheduling for a Two-Machine
                                  Open Shop  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--744
                     Xiuli Chao   Partial Balances in Batch Arrival Batch
                                  Service and Assemble-Transfer Queueing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--752
                 Neil O'Connell   Large Deviations for Departures from a
                                  Shared Buffer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--766
             John A. Barnes and   
                  Richard Meili   A Stationary Poisson Departure Process
                                  from a Minimally Delayed Infinite Server
                                  Queue with Non-Stationary Poisson
                                  Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--772
              Onno J. Boxma and   
                   Uri Yechiali   An M/G/1 Queue with Multiple Types of
                                  Feedback and Gated Vacations . . . . . . 773--784
                   Chunsheng Ma   A Note on Stochastic Ordering of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--789
            R. M. Phatarfod and   
                A. J. Pryde and   
                     David Dyte   On the Move-to-Front Scheme with Markov
                                  Dependent Requests . . . . . . . . . . . 790--794
              Hiroshi Toyoizumi   Sengupta's Invariant Relationship and
                                  Its Application to Waiting Time
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--799
          Vyacheslav M. Abramov   On a Property of a Refusals Stream . . . 800--805
                 Robert B. Lund   The Geometric Convergence Rate of a
                                  Lindley Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . 806--811
               S. V. Sabnis and   
                   Mini R. Nair   Coherent Structures and Unimodality  . . 812--817
        Gerard Hooghiemstra and   
              Ludolf E. Meester   The Extremal Index in $ 10 $ Seconds . . 818--822
                   Gwo Dong Lin   On Weak Convergence within a Family of
                                  Life Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 823--826
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 34, Number 4, December, 1997

              Joseph C. Watkins   Mechanical Models for Cell Movement:
                                  Locomotion, Translocation, Migration . . 827--846
                   James Ledoux   A Geometric Invariant in Weak
                                  Lumpability of Finite Markov Chains  . . 847--858
Béla Bollabás and   
                    Alan Stacey   Approximate Upper Bounds for the
                                  Critical Probability of Oriented
                                  Percolation in Two Dimensions Based on
                                  Rapidly Mixing Markov Chains . . . . . . 859--867
          Hans-Otto Georgii and   
            Torsten Küneth   Stochastic Comparison of Point Random
                                  Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868--881
                 J. Bertoin and   
                L. Chaumont and   
                         M. Yor   Two Chain-Transformations and Their
                                  Applications to Quantiles  . . . . . . . 882--897
                      Aihua Xia   On the Rate of Poisson Process
                                  Approximation to a Bernoulli Process . . 898--907
             Marie F. Kratz and   
          Holger Rootzén   On the Rate of Convergence for Extremes
                                  of Mean Square Differentiable Stationary
                                  Normal Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 908--923
        Antonella Calzolari and   
             Federico Marchetti   Limit Motion of an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  Particle on the Equilibrium Manifold of
                                  a Force Field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924--938
                C. C. Heyde and   
                        Y. Yang   On Defining Long-Range Dependence  . . . 939--944
              D. P. Kennedy and   
                    R. P. Kertz   A Prophet Inequality for Independent
                                  Random Variables with Finite Variances   945--958
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
             Thomas S. Ferguson   Multiple Buying or Selling with Vector
                                  Offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959--973
         Thomas S. Ferguson and   
                 C. Melolidakis   Last Round Betting . . . . . . . . . . . 974--987
          George Christakos and   
      Dionissios T. Hristopulos   Stochastic Indicator Analysis of
                                  Contaminated Sites . . . . . . . . . . . 988--1008
                    Tityik Wong   Preservation of Multivariate Stochastic
                                  Orders under Multivariate Poisson Shock
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1020
           Kyriakos Petakos and   
           Theothosios Tsapelas   Reliability Analysis for Systems in a
                                  Random Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1031
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Multivariate Age Replacement . . . . . . 1032--1040
           W\ladys\law Szczotka   Asymptotic Stationarity of Queueing
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1048
                     F. Simonot   Convergence Rate for the Distributions
                                  of GI/M/1/n and M/GI/1/n as $n$ Tends to
                                  Infinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1060
                     J. Preater   M/M/$ \infty $ Transience Revisited  . . 1061--1067
             Robert W. Chen and   
           Burton Rosenberg and   
                 Larry A. Shepp   A Secretary Problem with Two Decision
                                  Makers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1068--1074
             S. A. Berezner and   
           A. E. Krzesinski and   
                   P. G. Taylor   A Product-Form 'Loss Network' with a
                                  Form of Queueing . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1078
                Volkert Paulsen   The Moments of FIND  . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1082
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1087
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 35, Number 1, March, 1998

          Gareth O. Roberts and   
       Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and   
              Peter O. Schwartz   Convergence Properties of Perturbed
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                   T. N. Sriram   Asymptotic Expansions for Array
                                  Branching Processes with Applications to
                                  Bootstrapping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--26
             Alexander Kolesnik   The Equations of Markovian Random
                                  Evolution on the Line  . . . . . . . . . 27--35
             Rudolf Grübel   Hoare's Selection Algorithm: A Markov
                                  Chain Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--45
           Mohamed Bentarzi and   
                    Marc Hallin   Spectral Factorization of Periodically
                                  Correlated MA(1) Processes . . . . . . . 46--54
                  Franck Vermet   Phase Transition and Law of Large
                                  Numbers for a Non-Symmetric
                                  One-Dimensional Random Walk with
                                  Self-Interactions  . . . . . . . . . . . 55--63
              Zhao-Guo Chen and   
             Oliver D. Anderson   Increment-Vector Methodology:
                                  Transforming Non-Stationary Series to
                                  Stationary Series  . . . . . . . . . . . 64--77
      Bent Jòrgensen and   
             Peter Xue-Kun Song   Stationary Time Series Models with
                                  Exponential Dispersion Model Margins . . 78--92
                 Marco Scarsini   Multivariate Convex Orderings,
                                  Dependence, and Stochastic Equality  . . 93--103
                     M. Xie and   
                      C. D. Lai   On Reliability Bounds via Conditional
                                  Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--114
                A. Schöttl   Optimal Stopping of a Risk Reserve
                                  Process with Interest and Cost Rates . . 115--123
           Steven T. Garren and   
         Donald St. P. Richards   General Conditions for Comparing the
                                  Reliability Functions of Systems of
                                  Components Sharing a Common Environment  124--135
                Moshe Haviv and   
             Martin L. Puterman   Bias Optimality in Controlled Queueing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--150
                 Xiuli Chao and   
                  Shaohui Zheng   A Result on Networks of Queues with
                                  Customer Coalescence and State-Dependent
                                  Signaling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--164
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
                 Didier Pinchon   Continued Fraction Analysis of the
                                  Duration of an Excursion in an M/M/$
                                  \infty $ System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--183
                   Samuli Aalto   Characterization of the Output Rate
                                  Process for a Markovian Storage Model    184--199
                   Martin Benda   A Central Limit Theorem for Contractive
                                  Stochastic Dynamical Systems . . . . . . 200--205
           Lajos Horváth   Diffusion Approximation for Random Walks
                                  on Anisotropic Lattices  . . . . . . . . 206--212
           Raisa E. Feldman and   
               Srikanth K. Iyer   Non-Gaussian Density Processes Arising
                                  from Non-Poisson Systems of Independent
                                  Brownian Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220
      J. M. Fernandez-Ponce and   
               S. C. Kochar and   
          J. Muñoz-Perez   Partial Orderings of Distributions Based
                                  on Right-Spread Functions  . . . . . . . 221--228
                  Markus Roters   Optimal Stopping in a Dice Game  . . . . 229--235
                    Jian-Lun Xu   Characterizations of the Exponential
                                  Distribution via the Blocking Time in a
                                  Queueing System with an Unreliable
                                  Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--239
                 Neil O'Connell   Large Deviations for Queue Lengths at a
                                  Multi-Buffered Resource  . . . . . . . . 240--245
             S. A. Berezner and   
           A. E. Krzesinski and   
                   P. G. Taylor   On the Inverse of Erlang's Function  . . 246--252
                      Anonymous   Correction: Distributions and
                                  Expectations of Singular Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 35, Number 2, June, 1998

               Alain Comtet and   
      Cécile Monthus and   
                       Marc Yor   Exponential Functionals of Brownian
                                  Motion and Disordered Systems  . . . . . 255--271
                R. A. Doney and   
                         M. Yor   On a Formula of Takács for Brownian
                                  Motion with Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . 272--280
                Ibrahim Rahimov   Multitype Processes with
                                  Reproduction-Dependent Immigration . . . 281--292
              Masami Kurano and   
                Jinjie Song and   
            Masanori Hosaka and   
                 Youqiang Huang   Controlled Markov Set-Chains with
                                  Discounting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--302
           Timothy C. Brown and   
                 Kais Hamza and   
                      Aihua Xia   On the Variance to Mean Ratio for Random
                                  Variables from Markov Chains and Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--312
                    Bret Larget   A Canonical Representation for
                                  Aggregated Markov Processes  . . . . . . 313--324
    Predrag R. Jelenkovi\'c and   
                 Aurel A. Lazar   Subexponential Asymptotics of a
                                  Markov-Modulated Random Walk with
                                  Queueing Applications  . . . . . . . . . 325--347
           Günter Last and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Stochastic Comparison of Repairable
                                  Systems by Coupling  . . . . . . . . . . 348--370
               J. M. Angulo and   
              M. D. Ruiz-Medina   A Series Expansion Approach to the
                                  Inverse Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--382
           Antonio Di Crescenzo   First-Passage-Time Densities and
                                  Avoiding Probabilities for
                                  Birth-and-Death Processes with Symmetric
                                  Sample Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--394
             Jürgen Dippon   Globally Convergent Stochastic
                                  Optimization with Optimal Asymptotic
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--406
                    Han-Fu Chen   Stochastic Approximation with
                                  Non-Additive Measurement Noise . . . . . 407--417
             Toshinao Nakatsuka   Absorbing Process in Recursive
                                  Stochastic Equations . . . . . . . . . . 418--426
    Jòrund Gåsemyr   On Identifiability in the Autopsy Model
                                  of Reliability Systems of Lifemonitored
                                  and Conditionally Lifemonitored
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--437
                  M. Möhle   Robustness Results for the Coalescent    438--447
                O. Diekmann and   
           M. C. M. De Jong and   
                  J. A. J. Metz   A Deterministic Epidemic Model Taking
                                  Account of Repeated Contacts between the
                                  Same Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--462
                  Avner Dor and   
          Eitan Greenshtein and   
                 Ephraim Korach   Optimal and Myopic Search in a Binary
                                  Random Vector  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--472
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
                  Matteo Sereno   On Closed Support $T$-Invariants and the
                                  Traffic Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . 473--481
               Eui Yong Lee and   
                    Sung K. Ahn   P$_\lambda^M$-Policy for a Dam with
                                  Input Formed by a Compound Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--488
               Adrienne W. Kemp   Absorption Sampling and the Absorption
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--494
           Chern-Ching Chao and   
           Hsien-Kuei Hwang and   
                   Wen-Qi Liang   Expected Measure of the Union of Random
                                  Rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--500
          Rüdiger Frey and   
                  Daniel Sommer   The Generalization of the Geske-Formula
                                  for Compound Options to Stochastic
                                  Interest Rates is Not Trivial --- a Note 501--509
                     F. Simonot   A Comparison of the Stationary
                                  Distributions of GI/M/c/n and GI/M/c . . 510--515
                      Anonymous   Correction: Stationary Time Series
                                  Models with Exponential Dispersion Model
                                  Margins  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--516
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 35, Number 3, September, 1998

                  R. L. Tweedie   Truncation Approximations of Invariant
                                  Measures for Markov Chains . . . . . . . 517--536
                 Peter Olofsson   The $ x \log x $ Condition for General
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 537--544
                 Masaaki Kijima   Hazard Rate and Reversed Hazard Rate
                                  Monotonicities in Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--556
          Alexis Bienvenüe   Un Principe d'Invariance pour une Classe
                                  de Marches $p$-Corrélées sur $ Z^d$.
                                  (French) [An Invariance Principle for a
                                  Class of $p$-Correlated Walks on $ Z^d$] 557--565
              Cheng Der Fuh and   
                  Tze Leung Lai   Wald's Equations, First Passage Times
                                  and Moments of Ladder Variables in
                                  Markov Random Walks  . . . . . . . . . . 566--580
             Laurence A. Baxter   Dynamical Systems Defined on Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--588
              William L. Cooper   Negative Binomial Sums of Random
                                  Variables and Discounted Reward
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--599
          Ulrich A. W. Tetzlaff   On Normalization Constants for Closed
                                  Queueing Networks with Finite Local
                                  Buffers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--607
             Francis Comets and   
                 Martin Janzura   A Central Limit Theorem for
                                  Conditionally Centred Random Fields with
                                  an Application to Markov Fields  . . . . 608--621
                     Paul Joyce   Partition Structures and Sufficient
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--632
              Yoshiaki Itoh and   
              Colin Mallows and   
                    Larry Shepp   Explicit Sufficient Invariants for an
                                  Interacting Particle System  . . . . . . 633--641
            Alexander V. Gnedin   On Convergence and Extensions of
                                  Size-Biased Permutations . . . . . . . . 642--650
      Håkan Andersson and   
                    Tom Britton   Heterogeneity in Epidemic Models and Its
                                  Effect on the Spread of Infection  . . . 651--661
      Håkan Andersson and   
               Boualem Djehiche   A Threshold Limit Theorem for the
                                  Stochastic Logistic Epidemic . . . . . . 662--670
         Anders Martin-Löf   The Final Size of a Nearly Critical
                                  Epidemic, and the First Passage Time of
                                  a Wiener Process to a Parabolic Barrier  671--682
   Olle Häggström and   
                 Robin Pemantle   First Passage Percolation and a Model
                                  for Competing Spatial Growth . . . . . . 683--692
                David Assaf and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Optimal Multivariate Stopping Rules  . . 693--706
             Sergei Grishechkin   Inequalities for Multinomial Allocations
                                  with Application to DNA Fingerprinting   707--717
             Pierre Bernard and   
                      Liming Wu   Stochastic Linearization: The Theory . . 718--730
           Philip J. Boland and   
                Emad El-Neweihi   Statistical and Information Based
                                  (Physical) Minimal Repair for $k$ out of
                                  $n$ Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--740
        Nicole Bäuerle and   
                  Tomasz Rolski   A Monotonicity Result for the Workload
                                  in Markov-Modulated Queues . . . . . . . 741--747
      José M. Gouweleeuw   A Minimax Optimal Stop Rule in
                                  Reliability Checking . . . . . . . . . . 748--761
                K. S. Chong and   
                         K. Lam   Applying POS(i) Rules to Communication
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--769
          Daniel Richardson and   
                   Wayne Burton   A Relatively Quick Way to Simulate Local
                                  Random Processes on a Lattice  . . . . . 770--775
                    O. Zeitouni   Superexponential Decay for the Gem
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776--781
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 35, Number 4, December, 1998

      Sòren Asmussen and   
              Tatyana S. Turova   Stationarity Properties of Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--794
                A. E. Kyprianou   Slow Variation and Uniqueness of
                                  Solutions to the Functional Equation in
                                  the Branching Random Walk  . . . . . . . 795--801
J. Alfredo López-Mimbela and   
              Anton Wakolbinger   Length of Galton--Watson Trees and
                                  Blow-Up of Semilinear Systems  . . . . . 802--811
                   D. M. Walker   The Expected Time until Absorption When
                                  Absorption Is Not Certain  . . . . . . . 812--823
           George R. Barnes and   
        Patricia B. Cerrito and   
                    Inessa Levi   Random Walks on Finite Semigroups  . . . 824--832
            A. Reza Soltani and   
                 K. Khorshidian   Reward Processes for Semi-Markov
                                  Processes: Asymptotic Behaviour  . . . . 833--842
                 Karim Benhenni   Approximating Integrals of Stochastic
                                  Processes: Extensions  . . . . . . . . . 843--855
            S. E. Graversen and   
                      G. Peskir   Optimal Stopping and Maximal
                                  Inequalities for Geometric Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856--872
                   P. Del Moral   A Uniform Convergence Theorem for the
                                  Numerical Solving of the Nonlinear
                                  Filtering Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 873--884
                 J. R. Cruz and   
                 C. C. Y. Dorea   Simple Conditions for the Convergence of
                                  Simulated Annealing Type Algorithms  . . 885--892
           Mark D. Rothmann and   
                 Ralph P. Russo   Weak Convergence on Randomly Deleted
                                  Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--902
           Stephen E. Chick and   
                  Max B. Mendel   New Characterizations of the No-Aging
                                  Property and the $ \ell_1$-Isotropic
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--910
            R. M. Phatarfod and   
                    A. J. Pryde   On Some Multi-Request Move-to-Front
                                  Heuristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--918
            J. Van Den Berg and   
                     A. Ermakov   On a Distributed Clustering Process of
                                  Coffman, Courtois, Gilbert and Piret . . 919--924
                        D. Down   On the Stability of Polling Models with
                                  Multiple Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--935
              Xiaoyue Jiang and   
                  Kan Cheng and   
                   Viliam Makis   On the Optimality of Repair-Cost-Limit
                                  Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936--949
                D. J. Daley and   
                    L. D. Servi   Idle and Busy Periods in Stable M/M/k
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 950--962
           Pablo A. Ferrari and   
             Nancy Lopes Garcia   One-Dimensional Loss Networks and
                                  Conditioned M/G/$ \infty $ Queues  . . . 963--975
           Jewgeni H. Dshalalow   Queueing Processes in Bulk Systems under
                                  the D-Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976--989
                 Wansoo T. Rhee   Tight Bound of Random Interval Packing   990--997
                 Nigel Bean and   
                David Green and   
                   Peter Taylor   The Output Process of an MMPP/M/1 Queue  998--1002
                    Tom Britton   On Critical Vaccination Coverage in
                                  Multitype Epidemics  . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1006
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
                   Guy Louchard   Sharp Bounds for Winning Probabilities
                                  in the Competitive Rank Selection
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1011
                        J. Gani   Obituary: José Enrique Moyal  . . . . . . 1012--1017
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1018--1022
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 36, Number 1, March, 1999

                    S. D. Jacka   Keeping a Satellite Aloft: Two Finite
                                  Fuel Stochastic Control Models . . . . . 1--20
            George M. Tsaklidis   The Stress Tensor and the Energy of a
                                  Continuous Time Homogeneous Markov
                                  System with Fixed Size . . . . . . . . . 21--29
                      Di Warren   The Frobenius--Harper Technique in a
                                  General Recurrence Model . . . . . . . . 30--47
          George V. Moustakides   Extension of Wald's First Lemma to
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--59
   Danielle Florens-Landais and   
               Huyên Pham   Large Deviations in Estimation of an
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Model  . . . . . . . 60--77
                  M. S. Sgibnev   On the Existence of Submultiplicative
                                  Moments for the Stationary Distributions
                                  of Some Markovian Random Walks . . . . . 78--85
           Nikolay Likhanov and   
               Ravi R. Mazumdar   Cell Loss Asymptotics for Buffers Fed
                                  with a Large Number of Independent
                                  Stationary Sources . . . . . . . . . . . 86--96
                   Michael Weba   Bounds for the Total Variation Distance
                                  between the Binomial and the Poisson
                                  Distribution in Case of Medium-Sized
                                  Success Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . 97--104
                   Zhen Liu and   
              Philippe Nain and   
                Don Towsley and   
                   Zhi-Li Zhang   Asymptotic Behavior of a Multiplexer Fed
                                  by a Long-Range Dependent Process  . . . 105--118
             Marco Scarsini and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Simpson-Type Paradoxes, Dependence, and
                                  Ageing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--131
                M. P. Quine and   
                    W. Szczotka   Existence and Positivity of the Limit in
                                  Processes with a Branching Structure . . 132--138
              Owen Dafydd Jones   Continuity for Multi-Type Branching
                                  Processes with Varying Environments  . . 139--145
                  Han-Xing Wang   Extinction of Population-Size-Dependent
                                  Branching Processes in Random
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--154
                   M. A. Guerry   Using Fuzzy Sets in Manpower Planning    155--162
            Pierre-F. Koehl and   
           Huyên Pham and   
                    Nizar Touzi   Hedging in Discrete Time under
                                  Transaction Costs and Continuous-Time
                                  Limit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--178
                   S. Robin and   
                   J. J. Daudin   Exact Distribution of Word Occurrences
                                  in a Random Sequence of Letters  . . . . 179--193
              Sungyeol Kang and   
             Richard F. Serfozo   Extreme Values of Phase-Type and Mixed
                                  Random Variables with
                                  Parallel-Processing Examples . . . . . . 194--210
          Yannis A. Korilis and   
             Aurel A. Lazar and   
                     Ariel Orda   Avoiding the Braess Paradox in
                                  Non-Cooperative Networks . . . . . . . . 211--222
               Steve Alpern and   
               V. J. Baston and   
              Skander Essegaier   Rendezvous Search on a Graph . . . . . . 223--231
              R. D. Van Der Mei   Delay in Polling Systems with Large
                                  Switch-Over Times  . . . . . . . . . . . 232--243
                Offer Kella and   
                     Ward Whitt   Linear Stochastic Fluid Networks . . . . 244--260
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
          M. Slavtchova-Bojkova   On Waiting Times to Populate an
                                  Environment and a Question of
                                  Statistical Inference  . . . . . . . . . 261--267
                  P. K. Pollett   Quasistationary Distributions for
                                  Continuous Time Markov Chains When
                                  Absorption Is Not Certain  . . . . . . . 268--272
                M. P. Quine and   
                      J. S. Law   Modelling Random Linear Nucleation and
                                  Growth by a Markov Chain . . . . . . . . 273--278
               Yi-Ching Yao and   
                      Hari Iyer   On an Inequality for the Normal
                                  Distribution Arising in Bioequivalence
                                  Studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--286
                      Aihua Xia   A Probabilistic Proof of Stein's Factors 287--290
                Wolfgang Stadje   Stationarity of a Stochastic Population
                                  Flow Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--294
                      Anonymous   Axiomatic Principles for a Market Model  295--300
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 36, Number 2, June, 1999

                  Jochen Geiger   Elementary New Proofs of Classical Limit
                                  Theorems for Galton--Watson Processes    301--309
                Christian Meise   On Spectral Gap Estimates of a Markov
                                  Chain Via Hitting Times and Coupling . . 310--319
               Howard M. Taylor   The Fundamental Matrix for a Certain
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--333
                       S. Alili   Asymptotic Behaviour for Random Walks in
                                  Random Environments  . . . . . . . . . . 334--349
      Bernhard Gittenberger and   
                   Guy Louchard   The Brownian Excursion Multi-Dimensional
                                  Local Time Density . . . . . . . . . . . 350--373
             Robert B. Lund and   
           Ronald W. Butler and   
                Robert L. Paige   Prediction of Shot Noise . . . . . . . . 374--388
          Jens Ledet Jensen and   
                   Jan Pedersen   Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Type Processes with
                                  Non-Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . 389--402
               Stan Zachary and   
                   Ilze Ziedins   Loss Networks and Markov Random Fields   403--414
                     Frank Ball   Central Limit Theorems for Multivariate
                                  Semi-Markov Sequences and Processes,
                                  with Applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 415--432
               S. T. Rachev and   
                       I. Olkin   Mass Transportation Problems with
                                  Capacity Constraints . . . . . . . . . . 433--445
                  M. Möhle   Weak Convergence to the Coalescent in
                                  Neutral Population Models  . . . . . . . 446--460
               E. G. Kyriakidis   Optimal Control of a Truncated General
                                  Immigration Process through Total
                                  Catastrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--472
                 Frank Ball and   
                 Philip O'Neill   The Distribution of General Final State
                                  Random Variables for Stochastic Epidemic
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--491
                  Janko Gravner   Recurrent Ring Dynamics in
                                  Two-Dimensional Excitable Cellular
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--511
                 Rhonda Righter   A Brokered Market with Heterogeneous
                                  Suppliers and Consumers  . . . . . . . . 512--522
           Jaksa Cvitani\'c and   
           Huyên Pham and   
                    Nizar Touzi   Super-Replication in Stochastic
                                  Volatility Models under Portfolio
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--545
            Wolfgang Stadje and   
            P. R. Parthasarathy   On the Convergence to Stationarity of
                                  the Many-Server Poisson Queue  . . . . . 546--557
                   H. Ayhan and   
            J. Limon-Robles and   
                  M. A. Wortman   On the Time-Dependent Occupancy and
                                  Backlog Distributions for the GI/G/$
                                  \infty $ Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558--569
              Gordon E. Willmot   A Laplace Transform Representation in a
                                  Class of Renewal Queueing and Risk
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--584
           Robert B. Cooper and   
              Shun-Chen Niu and   
          Mandyam M. Srinivasan   Setups in Polling Models: Does It Make
                                  Sense to Set up If no Work Is Waiting?   585--592
                   Jean Bertoin   On Overshoots and Hitting Times for
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--600
             Yunshyong Chow and   
                       Yu Zhang   Inequalities for the Score Constant in
                                  Matching Random Sequences  . . . . . . . 601--606
Jérôme Manuceau and   
   Maryl\`ene Troupé and   
                  Jean Vaillant   On an Entropy Conservation Principle . . 607--610
              Han-Xing Wang and   
                     Dafan Fang   Asymptotic Behaviour of
                                  Population-Size-Dependent Branching
                                  Processes in Markovian Random
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--619
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 36, Number 3, September, 1999

            Richard Durrett and   
                Semyon Kruglyak   A New Stochastic Model of Microsatellite
                                  Evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--631
            Ibrahim Rahimov and   
                George P. Yanev   On Maximum Family Size in Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--643
               Philippe Carette   Modelling Hierarchical Systems by a
                                  Continuous-Time Homogeneous Markov Chain
                                  Using Two-Wave Panel Data  . . . . . . . 644--653
  Tolga Tüfekçi and   
          Refik Güllü   An Iterative Approximation Scheme for
                                  Repetitive Markov Processes  . . . . . . 654--667
                    K. Borovkov   On Records and Related Processes for
                                  Sequences with Trends  . . . . . . . . . 668--681
                    J. P. Imhof   On Some Equalities of Laws for Brownian
                                  Motion with Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . 682--687
                   Shiqing Ling   On the Probabilistic Properties of a
                                  Double Threshold ARMA Conditional
                                  Heteroskedastic Model  . . . . . . . . . 688--705
           Antonio Di Crescenzo   A Probabilistic Analogue of the Mean
                                  Value Theorem and Its Applications to
                                  Reliability Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 706--719
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Stochastic Properties of a Cumulative
                                  Damage Threshold Crossing Model  . . . . 720--732
                 Harri Nyrhinen   Large Deviations for the Time of Ruin    733--746
             Stephen Walker and   
                    Paul Damien   Characterizations, Stochastic Equations,
                                  and the Gibbs Sampler  . . . . . . . . . 747--751
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
                 Didier Pinchon   Excursions of Birth and Death Processes,
                                  Orthogonal Polynomials, and Continued
                                  Fractions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752--770
           C. P. Farrington and   
                    A. D. Grant   The Distribution of Time to Extinction
                                  in Subcritical Branching Processes:
                                  Applications to Outbreaks of Infectious
                                  Disease  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--779
                 Jerzy Jaworski   Epidemic Processes on Digraphs of Random
                                  Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--798
                  Damian Clancy   Outcomes of Epidemic Models with General
                                  Infection and Removal Rate Functions at
                                  Certain Stopping Times . . . . . . . . . 799--813
           J. Gåsemyr and   
                     Terje Aven   Asymptotic Distributions for Downtimes
                                  of Monotone Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 814--824
          Chang C. Y. Dorea and   
Cátia R. Gonçalves   Search Schemes for Random Optimization
                                  Algorithms That Preserve the Asymptotic
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--836
                     Kevin Ruth   Favorable Red and Black on the Integers
                                  with a Minimum Bet . . . . . . . . . . . 837--851
                 Johan Jonasson   The Random Triangle Model  . . . . . . . 852--867
            Alexander Dudin and   
              Shoichi Nishimura   A BMAP/SM/1 Queueing System with
                                  Markovian Arrival Input of Disasters . . 868--881
                   Chia-Li Wang   On the Transient Delays of M/G/1 Queues  882--893
          Laurent Massoulie and   
                 Alain Simonian   Large Buffer Asymptotics for the Queue
                                  with Fractional Brownian Input . . . . . 894--906
             J. R. Artalejo and   
                A. Gomez-Corral   On a Single Server Queue with Negative
                                  Arrivals and Request Repeated  . . . . . 907--918
              Jacek Wesollowski   Poisson Process via Martingale and
                                  Related Characteristics  . . . . . . . . 919--926
                         Jie Mi   Optimal Active Redundancy Allocation in
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ System  . . . . . . . . . 927--933
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
               Sridhar Seshadri   Hitting Time in an M/G/1 Queue . . . . . 934--940
                   Anton Bovier   Sharp Upper Bounds on Perfect Retrieval
                                  in the Hopfield Model  . . . . . . . . . 941--950
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 36, Number 4, December, 1999

               J. K. Percus and   
               O. E. Percus and   
                W. J. Bruno and   
                   D. C. Torney   Asymptotics of Pooling Design
                                  Performance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951--964
          Raúl Gouet and   
        Jaime San Martín   Partial Orders and Minimization of
                                  Records in a Sequence of Independent
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 965--973
                   Bruno Tuffin   Bounded Normal Approximation in
                                  Simulations of Highly Reliable Markovian
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974--986
              Ulrich Herkenrath   Generalized Adaptive Exponential
                                  Smoothing of Observations from an
                                  Ergodic Hidden Markov Model  . . . . . . 987--998
        András Telcs and   
            Nicholas C. Wormald   Branching and Tree Indexed Random Walks
                                  on Fractals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1011
             Valeri T. Stefanov   On the Occurrence of Composite Events
                                  and Clusters of Points . . . . . . . . . 1012--1018
               Alex Novikov and   
             Volf Frishling and   
                Nino Kordzakhia   Approximations of Boundary Crossing
                                  Probabilities for a Brownian Motion  . . 1019--1030
              Hwai-Chung Ho and   
           William P. McCormick   Asymptotic Distribution of Sum and
                                  Maximum for Gaussian Processes . . . . . 1031--1044
            Yiqiang Q. Zhao and   
                     Wei Li and   
             Attahiru Sule Alfa   Duality Results for Block-Structured
                                  Transition Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1057
                    Jun Cai and   
            José Garrido   A Unified Approach to the Study of Tail
                                  Probabilities of Compound Distributions  1058--1073
            Alexander V. Gnedin   Sequential Selection of an Increasing
                                  Subsequence from a Sample of Random Size 1074--1085
           Carlos F. Borges and   
                Craig S. Peters   Computing Approximate Stationary
                                  Distributions for Discrete Markov
                                  Processes with Banded Infinitesimal
                                  Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1086--1100
   Olle Häggström and   
                 Johan Jonasson   Phase Transition in the Random Triangle
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1115
                  Serik Sagitov   The General Coalescent with Asynchronous
                                  Mergers of Ancestral Lines . . . . . . . 1116--1125
                 F. Biagini and   
                    M. Pratelli   Local Risk Minimization and Numéraire . . 1126--1139
               Laurence Dieulle   Reliability of a System with Poisson
                                  Inspection Times . . . . . . . . . . . . 1140--1154
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Heavy Traffic Analysis of a Queueing
                                  System with Bounded Capacity for Two
                                  Types of Customers . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1166
          Christine Fricker and   
            Philippe Robert and   
                  Danielle Tibi   On the Rates of Convergence of Erlang's
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167--1184
                  Ger Koole and   
     Panayotis D. Sparaggis and   
                    Don Towsley   Minimizing Response Times and Queue
                                  Lengths in Systems of Parallel Queues    1185--1193
         Raúl Fierro and   
     Servet Martínez and   
        Jaime San Martín   Limiting Conditional and Conditional
                                  Invariant Distributions for the Poisson
                                  Process with Negative Drift  . . . . . . 1194--1209
                  G. O. Roberts   A Note on Acceptance Rate Criteria for
                                  CLTs for Metropolis--Hastings Algorithms 1210--1217
              Wen-Ming Hong and   
                     Zeng-Hu Li   A Central Limit Theorem for
                                  Super-Brownian Motion with
                                  Super-Brownian Immigration . . . . . . . 1218--1224
              R. M. Huggins and   
                   I. V. Basawa   Extensions of the Bifurcating
                                  Autoregressive Model for Cell Lineage
                                  Studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1233
                    C. C. Heyde   A Risky Asset Model with Strong
                                  Dependence through Fractal Activity Time 1234--1239
                 Rhonda Righter   A Note on Losses in M/GI/1/n Queues  . . 1240--1243
             Olivier Perrin and   
                  Wendy Meiring   Identifiability for Non-Stationary
                                  Spatial Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . 1244--1250
             Erol A. Peköz   A Note on Reliability Bounds via
                                  Conditional Inequalities . . . . . . . . 1251--1254
                      D. Stoyan   Obituary: Klaus Matthes  . . . . . . . . 1255--1257
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1258--1262
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 37, Number 1, March, 2000

               Peter Jagers and   
                  Serik Sagitov   The Growth of General
                                  Population-Size-Dependent Branching
                                  Processes Year by Year . . . . . . . . . 1--14
        Olivier François   Geometric Inequalities for the
                                  Eigenvalues of Concentrated Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--28
                   Seokhoon Yun   The Distributions of Cluster Functionals
                                  of Extreme Events in a $d$ th-Order
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--44
             N. M. Van Dijk and   
                 H. Korezlioglu   Sensitivity Analysis for Markov Reward
                                  Structures until Entrance Times  . . . . 45--63
          Robert Kühne and   
        Ludger Rüschendorf   Optimal Stopping with Discount and
                                  Observation Costs  . . . . . . . . . . . 64--72
             Paul Embrechts and   
                     Harro Walk   Recursive Estimation of Distributional
                                  Fix-Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--87
               Andrew L. Rukhin   Approximate Entropy for Testing
                                  Randomness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--100
              Torkel Erhardsson   Compound Poisson Approximation for the
                                  Johnson-Mehl Model . . . . . . . . . . . 101--117
          Raúl Gouet and   
     F. Javier López and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Estimation of Critical Values in
                                  Interacting Particle Systems . . . . . . 118--125
                     Sid Browne   Stochastic Differential Portfolio Games  126--147
              Morihiro Notohara   A Perturbation Method for the Structured
                                  Coalescent with Strong Migration . . . . 148--167
                M. Cottrell and   
                   T. S. Turova   Use of an Hourglass Model in Neuronal
                                  Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--186
                 Terje Aven and   
                     Uwe Jensen   A General Minimal Repair Model . . . . . 187--197
                    Carl Graham   Chaoticity on Path Space for a Queueing
                                  Network with Selection of the Shortest
                                  Queue among Several  . . . . . . . . . . 198--211
           Stephen R. E. Turner   A Join the Shorter Queue Model in Heavy
                                  Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--223
László Györfi and   
  András Rácz and   
                  Ken Duffy and   
              John T. Lewis and   
                  Fergal Toomey   Distribution-Free Confidence Intervals
                                  for Measurement of Effective Bandwidth   224--235
            Robert J. Adler and   
               Srikanth K. Iyer   An Exponential Change of Measure for the
                                  Feller Diffusion and Some Implications
                                  for Superprocesses . . . . . . . . . . . 236--245
                  S. Balaji and   
             S. Ramasubramanian   Passage Time Moments for
                                  Multidimensional Diffusions  . . . . . . 246--251
              Wei-Bin Chang and   
                 John A. Gubner   Poisson Limits and Nonparametric
                                  Estimation for Pairwise Interaction
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--260
                    Yu Hayakawa   A New Characterisation Property of Mixed
                                  Poisson Processes via Berman's Theorem   261--268
                    Didier Piau   Quasi-Renewal Estimates  . . . . . . . . 269--275
                 Tuhao Chen and   
                      E. Seneta   A Refinement of Multivariate
                                  Bonferroni-Type Inequalities . . . . . . 276--282
                    Jun Cai and   
           Vladimir Kalashnikov   NWU Property of a Class of Random Sums   283--289
                     F. Simonot   Moments Based Approximation for the
                                  Stationary Distribution of a Random Walk
                                  in $ Z_+ $ with an Application to the
                                  M/GI/1/n Queueing System . . . . . . . . 290--299
              Mark E. Lewis and   
             Martin L. Puterman   A Note on Bias Optimality in Controlled
                                  Queueing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--305
                   Shunlong Luo   Probabilistic Aspects of the
                                  SU(2)-Harmonic Oscillator  . . . . . . . 306--314
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 37, Number 2, June, 2000

                K. Borovkov and   
                  D. Vere-Jones   Explicit Formulae for Stationary
                                  Distributions of Stress Release
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--321
                 James D. Lynch   The Galton--Watson Process Revisited:
                                  Some Martingale Relationships and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--328
           Nico M. Van Dijk and   
            Karel Sladký   A Note on Uniformization for Dynamic
                                  Non-Negative Systems . . . . . . . . . . 329--341
             Keith Baggerly and   
                 Dennis Cox and   
                    Rick Picard   Exponential Convergence of Adaptive
                                  Importance Sampling for Markov Chains    342--358
              G. O. Roberts and   
                  R. L. Tweedie   Rates of Convergence of Stochastically
                                  Monotone and Continuous Time Markov
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--373
              Glenn Hofmann and   
                 H. N. Nagaraja   Random and Poisson Paced Record Models
                                  in the $ F^\alpha $ Setup  . . . . . . . 374--388
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
               Davy Paindaveine   Selecting a Sequence of Last Successes
                                  in Independent Trials  . . . . . . . . . 389--399
            Rosario Delgado and   
                    Maria Jolis   Weak Approximation for a Class of
                                  Gaussian Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 400--407
           Mohamed Abdel-Hameed   Optimal Control of a Dam Using $
                                  P_\lambda, \tau^M $ Policies and Penalty
                                  Cost When the Input Process Is a
                                  Compound Poisson Process with Positive
                                  Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--416
              John E. Glynn and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   On the Behaviour of a Long Cascade of
                                  Linear Reservoirs  . . . . . . . . . . . 417--428
             Carl J. Nuzman and   
                H. Vincent Poor   Linear Estimation of Self-Similar
                                  Processes via Lamperti's Transformation  429--452
                      Haijun Li   Stochastic Models for Dependent Life
                                  Lengths Induced by Common Pure Jump
                                  Shock Environments . . . . . . . . . . . 453--469
                   W. Böhm   The Correlated Random Walk with
                                  Boundaries: A Combinatorial Solution . . 470--479
         Endre Csáki and   
Miklós Csörg\Ho and   
 Antónia Földes and   
Pál Révész   Asymptotic Properties of Integral
                                  Functionals of Geometric Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--493
    Ludger Rüschendorf and   
                   Gernot Sachs   Stochastic Analysis of Partitioning
                                  Algorithms for Matching Problems . . . . 494--503
             Marzia Marcheselli   A Generalized Delta Method with
                                  Applications to Intrinsic Diversity
                                  Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--510
             Manuel Lladser and   
        Jaime San Martín   Domain of Attraction of the
                                  Quasi-Stationary Distributions for the
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process  . . . . . . 511--520
               Juanjuan Fan and   
               S. G. Ghurye and   
              Richard A. Levine   Multicomponent Lifetime Distributions in
                                  the Presence of Ageing . . . . . . . . . 521--533
              Yoshiaki Itoh and   
            Hiroshi Maehara and   
             Norihide Tokushige   Oriented Graphs Generated by Random
                                  Points on a Circle . . . . . . . . . . . 534--539
              J. H. Crosbie and   
               K. D. Glazebrook   Evaluating Policies for Generalized
                                  Bandits via a Notion of Duality  . . . . 540--546
          J. Kate Duckworth and   
                  Mihail Zervos   An Investment Model with Entry and Exit
                                  Decisions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--559
               Nicolas Privault   Hypothesis Testing and Skorokhod
                                  Stochastic Integration . . . . . . . . . 560--574
             Sidney Resnick and   
              Eric Van Den Berg   Weak Convergence of High-Speed Network
                                  Traffic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--597
           S. J. Darlington and   
                  P. K. Pollett   Quasistationarity in Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains Where Absorption Is Not
                                  Certain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--600
            Hiroshi Maehara and   
                     Sumie Ueda   On the Waiting Time in a Janken Game . . 601--605
                      Anonymous   Obituary: Sidney Jesse Yakowitz  . . . . 606--611
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 37, Number 3, September, 2000

                David Assaf and   
            Larry Goldstein and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   An Unexpected Connection between
                                  Branching Processes and Optimal Stopping 613--626
                     Zeng-Hu Li   Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Type Processes and
                                  Branching Processes with Immigration . . 627--634
J. Alfredo López-Mimbela and   
              Anton Wakolbinger   A Probabilistic Proof of Non-Explosion
                                  of a Non-Linear PDE System . . . . . . . 635--641
                John E. Kolassa   Explicit Bounds for Geometric
                                  Convergence of Markov Chains . . . . . . 642--651
      Takis Konstantopoulos and   
               Günter Last   On the Dynamics and Performance of
                                  Stochastic Fluid Systems . . . . . . . . 652--667
               Eitan Altman and   
             Sandjai Bhulai and   
               Bruno Gaujal and   
                   Arie Hordijk   Open-Loop Routing to $M$ Parallel
                                  Servers with no Buffers  . . . . . . . . 668--684
                   Stan Zachary   Dynamics of Large Uncontrolled Loss
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--695
                 B. Abraham and   
                 N. Balakrishna   Estimation of Limiting Availability for
                                  a Stationary Bivariate Process . . . . . 696--704
             Peter Donnelly and   
            Eliane R. Rodrigues   Convergence to Stationarity in the Moran
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--717
                 Hagit Glickman   A Best-Choice Problem with Multiple
                                  Selectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718--735
              C. Douglas Howard   Zero-Temperature Ising Spin Dynamics on
                                  the Homogeneous Tree of Degree Three . . 736--747
                Wei Biao Wu and   
              Michael Woodroofe   A Central Limit Theorem for Iterated
                                  Random Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--755
             Valeri T. Stefanov   On Some Waiting Time Problems  . . . . . 756--764
       José A. Adell and   
                Alberto Lekuona   Taylor's Formula and Preservation of
                                  Generalized Convexity for Positive
                                  Linear Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--777
       Michael V. Boutsikas and   
              Markos V. Koutras   Generalized Reliability Bounds for
                                  Coherent Structures  . . . . . . . . . . 778--794
                Laurent Truffet   Reduction Techniques for Discrete-Time
                                  Markov Chains on Totally Ordered State
                                  Space Using Stochastic Comparisons . . . 795--806
               Yuri Belyaev and   
     Sara Sjöstedt-De Luna   Weakly Approaching Sequences of Random
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--822
                 A. Gerardi and   
             F. Spizzichino and   
                       B. Torti   Filtering Equations for the Conditional
                                  Law of Residual Lifetimes from a
                                  Heterogeneous Population . . . . . . . . 823--834
                R. B. Lenin and   
        P. R. Parthasarathy and   
       W. R. W. Scheinhardt and   
                E. A. Van Doorn   Families of Birth-Death Processes with
                                  Similar Time-Dependent Behaviour . . . . 835--849
                Sharon Browning   A Monte Carlo Approach to Calculating
                                  Probabilities for Continuous Identity by
                                  Descent Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850--864
              Chingfer Chen and   
                  Samuel Karlin   Poisson Approximations for Conditional
                                  $r$-Scan Lengths of Multiple Renewal
                                  Processes and Application to Marker
                                  Arrays in Biomolecular Sequences . . . . 865--880
               Antonis Economou   A Stochastic Lower Bound for
                                  Assemble-Transfer Batch Service Queueing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--889
José Niño-Mora and   
            Kevin D. Glazebrook   Assessing an Intuitive Condition for
                                  Stability under a Range of Traffic
                                  Conditions Via a Generalised Lu-Kumar
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890--899
               Arie Hordijk and   
                   Zhen Liu and   
                    Don Towsley   Smoothing Effect of the Superposition of
                                  Homogeneous Sources in Tandem Networks   900--913
          Pierre Brémaud   An Insensitivity Property of Lundberg's
                                  Estimate for Delayed Claims  . . . . . . 914--917
                   Michael Voit   A Note on the Rate of Convergence to
                                  Equilibrium for Erlang's Model in the
                                  Subcritical Case . . . . . . . . . . . . 918--923
                      Anonymous   Acknowledgement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 924--924
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 37, Number 4, December, 2000

             Georgios Skoulakis   A General Shock Model for a Reliability
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--935
          Griselda Deelstra and   
          Martino Grasselli and   
   Pierre-François Koehl   Optimal Investment Strategies in a CIR
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936--946
                David Heath and   
               Martin Schweizer   Martingales versus PDEs in Finance: An
                                  Equivalence Result with Examples . . . . 947--957
            W. P. McCormick and   
                          Y. Qi   Asymptotic Distribution for the Sum and
                                  Maximum of Gaussian Processes  . . . . . 958--971
           Jesper Lund Pedersen   Discounted Optimal Stopping Problems for
                                  the Maximum Process  . . . . . . . . . . 972--983
               Guy Latouche and   
                   P. G. Taylor   Level-Phase Independence for GI/M/1-Type
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984--998
        M. C. Bhattacharjee and   
            A. M. Abouammoh and   
                A. N. Ahmed and   
                    A. M. Barry   Preservation Results for Life
                                  Distributions Based on Comparisons with
                                  Asymptotic Remaining Life under
                                  Replacements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1009
              Bong Dae Choi and   
                       Bara Kim   Sharp Results on Convergence Rates for
                                  the Distribution of GI/M/1/K Queues as
                                  $K$ Tends to Infinity  . . . . . . . . . 1010--1019
                  Haijun Li and   
                    Susan H. Xu   On the Dependence Structure and Bounds
                                  of Correlated Parallel Queues and Their
                                  Applications to Synchronized Stochastic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020--1043
           Stephen M. Krone and   
              Claudia Neuhauser   A Spatial Model of Range-Dependent
                                  Succession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1060
              C. Douglas Howard   Lower Bounds for Point-to-Point
                                  Wandering Exponents in Euclidean
                                  First-Passage Percolation  . . . . . . . 1061--1073
                    Lars Holden   Convergence of Markov Chains in the
                                  Relative Supremum Norm . . . . . . . . . 1074--1083
                David Assaf and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Simple Ratio Prophet Inequalities for a
                                  Mortal with Multiple Choices . . . . . . 1084--1091
               Olivier Brun and   
              Jean-Marie Garcia   Analytical Solution of Finite Capacity
                                  M/D/1 Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092--1098
                    Ji Hwan Cha   On a Better Burn-in Procedure  . . . . . 1099--1103
               Tilmann Gneiting   Power-Law Correlations, Related Models
                                  for Long-Range Dependence and Their
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104--1109
                 John Haigh and   
                  Markus Roters   Optimal Strategy in a Dice Game  . . . . 1110--1116
                    Offer Kella   Non-Product Form of Two-Dimensional
                                  Fluid Networks with Dependent Lévy Inputs 1117--1122
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
                 Subhash Kochar   Some New Results on Stochastic
                                  Comparisons of Parallel Systems  . . . . 1123--1128
                  Sun-Tsung Kim   A Use of the Stein--Chen Method in Time
                                  Series Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1136
            Lev B. Klebanov and   
             Stefan Mittnik and   
        Svetlozar T. Rachev and   
          Vladimir E. Volkovich   A New Representation for the
                                  Characteristic Function of Strictly
                                  Geo-Stable Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1142
           Damien Lamberton and   
                L. C. G. Rogers   Optimal Stopping and Embedding . . . . . 1143--1148
             David McDonald and   
François Théberge   Cell Loss Probability for M/G/1 and
                                  Time-Slotted Queues  . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1156
              F. P. Machado and   
                   S. Yu. Popov   One-Dimensional Branching Random Walks
                                  in a Markovian Random Environment  . . . 1157--1163
                  Marco Muselli   New Improved Bounds for Reliability of
                                  Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$:F Systems . . 1164--1170
                    Didier Piau   Addendum to `\booktitleQuasi-Renewal
                                  Estimates' for Modelling DNA Replication 1171--1172
                L. C. G. Rogers   Evaluating First-Passage Probabilities
                                  for Spectrally One-Sided Lévy Processes   1173--1180
             Graham V. Weinberg   Stein Factor Bounds for Random Variables 1181--1187
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1188--1192
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 38, Number 1, March, 2001

              Morihiro Notohara   The Structured Coalescent Process with
                                  Weak Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
                 A. N. Startsev   Asymptotic Analysis of the General
                                  Stochastic Epidemic with Variable
                                  Infectious Periods . . . . . . . . . . . 18--35
              P. Vellaisamy and   
              Abraham P. Punnen   On the Nature of the Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--44
               Nelly Litvak and   
                       Ivo Adan   The Travel Time in Carousel Systems
                                  under the Nearest Item Heuristic . . . . 45--54
                     V. Paulsen   Bounds for the American Perpetual Put on
                                  a Stock Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66
                    A. Irle and   
                O. Kubillus and   
                     V. Paulsen   An Asymptotic Expansion for the Optimal
                                  Stopping Boundary in Problems with
                                  Non-Linear Costs of Observation  . . . . 67--79
                   Ulrich Horst   The Stochastic Equation $ Y_{t + 1} =
                                  A_t Y_t + B_t $ with Non-Stationary
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--94
           Mark D. Rothmann and   
                Hammou El Barmi   Stochastic Processes Involving Random
                                  Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--107
          Aleksandras Baltrunas   Some Asymptotic Results for Transient
                                  Random Walks with Applications to
                                  Insurance Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--121
      Pierre Brémaud and   
       Laurent Massoulié   Hawkes Branching Point Processes without
                                  Ancestors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--135
                 Ali A. Sadeghi   Convergence in Distribution of the
                                  Multi-Dimensional Kohonen Algorithm  . . 136--151
    Klaus Pötzelberger and   
                     Liqun Wang   Boundary Crossing Probability for
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--164
                K. V. Mitov and   
                    N. M. Yanev   Regenerative Processes in the Infinite
                                  Mean Cycle Case  . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--179
       Kenneth S. Berenhaut and   
                    Robert Lund   Geometric Renewal Convergence Rates from
                                  Hazard Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--194
           Sophie Bloch-Mercier   Monotone Markov Processes with Respect
                                  to the Reversed Hazard Rate Ordering: An
                                  Application to Reliability . . . . . . . 195--208
             J. R. Artalejo and   
            M. J. Lopez-Herrero   Analysis of the Busy Period for the
                                  M/M/c Queue: An Algorithmic Approach . . 209--222
              Martin O'Hely and   
                  Aidan Sudbury   The Annihilating Process . . . . . . . . 223--231
          Vyacheslav M. Abramov   Inequalities for the GI/M/1/n Loss
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--234
              Manuel Franco and   
        José M. Ruiz and   
                 M. Carmen Ruiz   On Closure of the IFR(2) and NBU(2)
                                  Classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--241
                  Xiaohu Li and   
              Subhash C. Kochar   Some New Results Involving the NBU(2)
                                  Class of Life Distributions  . . . . . . 242--247
           Charles T. C. Mo and   
               Samuel S. Wu and   
                Robert Chen and   
                Mark C. K. Yang   Optimal Sequential Allocation with
                                  Imperfect Feedback Information . . . . . 248--254
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   The Busy Cycle of the Reflected
                                  Superposition of Brownian Motion and a
                                  Compound Poisson Process . . . . . . . . 255--261
         Geoffrey Pritchard and   
                 David J. Scott   Empirical Convergence Rates for
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 262--269
                   Yu-Hui Zhang   Strong Ergodicity for Single-Birth
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--277
              Kyung C. Chae and   
                     Yonil Park   The Queue Length Distribution for the
                                  M/G/1 Queue under the D-Policy . . . . . 278--279
           Jewgeni H. Dshalalow   A Note on $D$-Policy Bulk Queueing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--283
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 38, Number 2, June, 2001

                Ingemar Kaj and   
           Stephen M. Krone and   
                 Martin Lascoux   Coalescent Theory for Seed Bank Models   285--300
             Hsiao-Chi Chen and   
                Yunshyoung Chow   On the Convergence of Evolution
                                  Processes with Time-Varying Mutations
                                  and Local Interaction  . . . . . . . . . 301--323
                Arkendra De and   
           Michael Ferguson and   
              Suzanne Sindi and   
                Richard Durrett   The Equilibrium Distribution for a
                                  Generalized Sankoff-Ferretti Model
                                  Accurately Predicts Chromosome Size
                                  Distributions in a Wide Variety of
                                  Species  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--334
             Mengxiang Tang and   
            Michael S. Waterman   Local Matching of Random Restriction
                                  Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--356
              I. Kipouridis and   
                   G. Tsaklidis   The Size Order of the State Vector of
                                  Discrete-Time Homogeneous Markov Systems 357--368
                  Mark E. Lewis   Average Optimal Policies in a Controlled
                                  Queueing System with Dual Admission
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--385
               Bernd Heidergott   A Weak Derivative Approach to
                                  Optimization of Threshold Parameters in
                                  a Multicomponent Maintenance System  . . 386--406
             Henry W. Block and   
                     Tuhao Chen   Multivariate Product-Type Lower Bounds   407--420
                  Svante Janson   Moment Convergence in Conditional Limit
                                  Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--437
                  F. Mallor and   
                        E. Omey   Shocks, Runs and Random Sums . . . . . . 438--448
      Ourania Chryssaphinou and   
            Eutichia Vaggelatou   Compound Poisson Approximation for Long
                                  Increasing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 449--463
                        Xin Guo   An Explicit Solution to an Optimal
                                  Stopping Problem with Regime Switching   464--481
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                 Jan Rosi\'nski   Approximations of Small Jumps of Lévy
                                  Processes with a View Towards Simulation 482--493
               S. F. Jarner and   
                  R. L. Tweedie   Locally Contracting Iterated Functions
                                  and Stability of Markov Chains . . . . . 494--507
       Demetrios L. Antzoulakos   Waiting Times for Patterns in a Sequence
                                  of Multistate Trials . . . . . . . . . . 508--518
                 Qi-Ming He and   
                Marcel F. Neuts   On the Convergence and Limits of Certain
                                  Matrix Sequences Arising in
                                  Quasi-Birth-and-Death Markov Chains  . . 519--541
                    Ji Hwan Cha   Burn-in Procedures for a Generalized
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542--553
                 John L. Spouge   Finite-Size Corrections to Poisson
                                  Approximations of Rare Events in Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--569
                Rafal Kulik and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Sufficient Conditions for Long-Range
                                  Count Dependence of Stationary Point
                                  Processes on the Real Line . . . . . . . 570--581
                      Eric Bach   Random Bisection and Evolutionary Walks  582--596
               Philip J. Boland   Signatures of Indirect Majority Systems  597--603
              Onno J. Boxma and   
                  Ryszard Syski   Obituary: Jacob Willem Cohen . . . . . . 604--608
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 38, Number 3, September, 2001

                Offer Kella and   
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Parallel Fluid Queues with Constant
                                  Inflows and Simultaneous Random
                                  Reductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--620
               David Aldous and   
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                  Tomasz Rolski   On the Stability of a Batch Clearing
                                  System with Poisson Arrivals and
                                  Subadditive Service Times  . . . . . . . 621--634
              I. Kipouridis and   
                   G. Tsaklidis   The Size Order of the State Vector of a
                                  Continuous-Time Homogeneous Markov
                                  System with Fixed Size . . . . . . . . . 635--646
                    Xin Guo and   
                    Larry Shepp   Some Optimal Stopping Problems with
                                  Nontrivial Boundaries for Pricing Exotic
                                  Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--658
             Zhiqiang Zhang and   
                    Howell Tong   On Some Distributional Properties of a
                                  First-Order Nonnegative Bilinear Time
                                  Series Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--671
         Alfred Müller and   
        Ludger Rüschendorf   On the Optimal Stopping Values Induced
                                  by General Dependence Structures . . . . 672--684
           Marina Alexandersson   On the Existence of the Stable
                                  Birth-Type Distribution in a General
                                  Branching Process Cell Cycle Model with
                                  Unequal Cell Division  . . . . . . . . . 685--695
   Pauline Coolen-Schrijner and   
              Erik A. Van Doorn   On the Convergence to Stationarity of
                                  Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . 696--706
           Jewgeni H. Dshalalow   Time Dependent Analysis of Multivariate
                                  Marked Renewal Processes . . . . . . . . 707--721
              G. Mercankosk and   
                 G. M. Nair and   
                     W. J. Soet   Combinatorial Techniques for M/G/1-Type
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--736
                 Ilan Adler and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   The Coupon Subset Collection Problem . . 737--746
      Félix Belzunce and   
              Eva M. Ortega and   
            José M. Ruiz   A Note on Stochastic Comparisons of
                                  Excess Lifetimes of Renewal Processes    747--753
                  Richard Cowan   A New Discrete Distribution Arising in a
                                  Model of DNA Replication . . . . . . . . 754--760
                 Nader Ebrahimi   A Stochastic Covariate Failure Model for
                                  Assessing System Reliability . . . . . . 761--767
         Rudolf Grübel and   
                   Anke Reimers   On the Total Time Spent in Records by a
                                  Discrete Uniform Sequence  . . . . . . . 768--775
                  David M. Hull   A Reconsideration of Lotka's Extinction
                                  Probability Using a Bisexual Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776--780
                Offer Kella and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   On Hitting Times for Compound Poisson
                                  Dams with Exponential Jumps and Linear
                                  Release Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--786
                   Nelly Litvak   Some Peculiarities of Exponential Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--792
                  Naoto Miyoshi   On the Stationary Workload Distribution
                                  of Work-Conserving Single-Server Queues:
                                  A General Formula via Stochastic
                                  Intensity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--798
                Ralph Neininger   Rates of Convergence for Products of
                                  Random Stochastic $ 2 \times 2 $
                                  Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--806
                  M. S. Sgibnev   An Asymptotic Expansion for the
                                  Expectation of an Age-Dependent
                                  Branching Process with a
                                  Submultiplicative Estimate of the
                                  Remainder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--814
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 38, Number 4, December, 2001

              C. Douglas Howard   Differentiability and Monotonicity of
                                  Expected Passage Time in Euclidean
                                  First-Passage Percolation  . . . . . . . 815--827
                     Dayue Chen   On the Infinite Cluster of Bernoulli
                                  Bond Percolation in Scherk's Graph . . . 828--840
           Timothy I. Matis and   
             Richard M. Feldman   Transient Analysis of State-Dependent
                                  Queueing Networks via Cumulant Functions 841--859
                 Lirong Cui and   
                         M. Xie   Availability Analysis of Periodically
                                  Inspected Systems with Random Walk Model 860--871
         F. G. Badía and   
              M. D. Berrade and   
             Clemente A. Campos   Optimization of Inspection Intervals
                                  Based on Cost  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872--881
             Jean-Louis Bon and   
             Eugen P\ualt\uanea   Convergence of the Number of Failed
                                  Components in a Markov System with
                                  Nonidentical Components  . . . . . . . . 882--897
                Otso Ovaskainen   The Quasistationary Distribution of the
                                  Stochastic Logistic Model  . . . . . . . 898--907
                    James C. Fu   Distribution of the Scan Statistic for a
                                  Sequence of Bistate Trials . . . . . . . 908--916
                  Claudio Macci   Continuous-Time Markov Additive
                                  Processes: Composition of Large
                                  Deviations Principles and Comparison
                                  between Exponential Rates of Convergence 917--931
           Tyrone E. Duncan and   
                     Yi Yan and   
                       Peng Yan   Exact Asymptotics for a Queue with
                                  Fractional Brownian Input and
                                  Applications in ATM Networks . . . . . . 932--945
                Mitsushi Tamaki   Optimal Stopping on Trajectories and the
                                  Ballot Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946--959
         Boris P. Belinskiy and   
                Peter Caithamer   Energy of a String Driven by a
                                  Two-Parameter Gaussian Noise White in
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960--974
         Christophe Andrieu and   
            Laird A. Breyer and   
                  Arnaud Doucet   Convergence of Simulated Annealing Using
                                  Foster--Lyapunov Criteria  . . . . . . . 975--994
                 Frank Ball and   
             Valeri T. Stefanov   Further Approaches to Computing
                                  Fundamental Characteristics of
                                  Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . 995--1005
              Kyle Siegrist and   
                    John Steele   Sequential Games . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006--1017
              T. Komorowski and   
                       G. Krupa   Random Walk in a Random Environment with
                                  Correlated Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018--1032
            Liudas Giraitis and   
             Piotr Kokoszka and   
               Remigijus Leipus   Testing for Long Memory in the Presence
                                  of a General Trend . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1054
                     D. R. Grey   A Note on Convergence of Probability
                                  Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1058
                       Xinyu He   A Probabilistic Method for
                                  Navier--Stokes Vortices  . . . . . . . . 1059--1066
             Hyung Geun Kim and   
                      Dougu Nam   Optimal Estimation of Diffusion
                                  Processes Hidden by General Obstacles    1067--1073
                  Aidan Sudbury   Rigorous Lower Bounds for the Critical
                                  Infection Rate in the Diffusive Contact
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1074--1078
          Vyacheslav M. Abramov   On Losses in M$^X$ /GI/1/n Queues  . . . 1079--1080
                Won S. Yang and   
                  Kyung C. Chae   A Note on the GI/M/1 Queue with Poisson
                                  Negative Arrivals  . . . . . . . . . . . 1081--1085
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1086--1089
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 38A, 2001

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
                    Daryl Daley   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
                      Anonymous   Publications of David Vere-Jones . . . . ix--xvi
               David Vere-Jones   The Marriage of Statistics and
                                  Seismology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
                 Brian Phillips   David Vere-Jones's Influence on
                                  Statistical Education  . . . . . . . . . 6--19
                  K. G. Russell   The Teaching of Statistical Consulting   20--26
            K. R. Parthasarathy   An Inducing Construction of Quantum
                                  Codes from Classical Error Correcting
                                  Codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--32
                    D. J. Daley   The Moment Index of Minima . . . . . . . 33--36
          Gareth O. Roberts and   
             Richard L. Tweedie   Geometric $ L^2 $ and $ L^1 $
                                  Convergence are Equivalent for
                                  Reversible Markov Chains . . . . . . . . 37--41
                      E. Seneta   Characterization by Orthogonal
                                  Polynomial Systems of Finite Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--52
                  P. K. Pollett   Similar Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . 53--65
              Albrecht Irle and   
                    Joseph Gani   The Detection of Words and an Ordering
                                  for Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . 66--77
                Tohru Ozaki and   
                 Mitsunori Iino   An Innovation Approach to Non-Gaussian
                                  Time Series Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 78--92
           Richard A. Davis and   
                 Thomas Mikosch   Point Process Convergence of Stochastic
                                  Volatility Processes with Application to
                                  Sample Autocorrelation . . . . . . . . . 93--104
               Robert B. Davies   Integrated Processes and the Discrete
                                  Cosine Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--121
               Ali S. Dabye and   
              Yury A. Kutoyants   Misspecified Change-Point Estimation
                                  Problem for a Poisson Process  . . . . . 122--130
                   A. V. Nagaev   An Asymptotic Formula for the Bayes Risk
                                  in Discriminating between Two Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--141
                John Sansom and   
                  Peter Thomson   Fitting Hidden Semi-Markov Models to
                                  Breakpoint Rainfall Data . . . . . . . . 142--157
                Y. Y. Kagan and   
                  F. Schoenberg   Estimation of the Upper Cutoff Parameter
                                  for the Tapered Pareto Distribution  . . 158--175
            Mark Bebbington and   
                 David S. Harte   On the Statistics of the Linked Stress
                                  Release Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--187
        David R. Brillinger and   
               Chang Chiann and   
         Rafael A. Irizarry and   
              Pedro A. Morettin   Automatic Methods for Generating Seismic
                                  Intensity Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--201
                 Yosihiko Ogata   Exploratory Analysis of Earthquake
                                  Clusters by Likelihood-Based Trigger
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--212
                      Li Ma and   
                Jiancang Zhuang   Relative Quiescence within the Jiashi
                                  Swarm in Xinjiang, China: An Application
                                  of the ETAS Point Process Model  . . . . 213--221
                 Yaolin Shi and   
                    Jie Liu and   
                   Guomin Zhang   An Evaluation of Chinese Annual
                                  Earthquake Predictions, 1990--1998 . . . 222--231
                 Masajiro Imoto   Point Process Modelling of
                                  Reservoir-Induced Seismicity . . . . . . 232--242
                  Peter Whittle   On the Structure of Proper
                                  Black--Scholes Formulae  . . . . . . . . 243--248
             Julian Herbert and   
                  Valerie Isham   A Study of the Role of the Transmission
                                  Mechanism in Macroparasite Aggregation   249--262
                Yonglu Deng and   
                     Jiqing Tan   Priority Queueing Model with Changeover
                                  Times and Switching Threshold  . . . . . 263--273
               Xiaogu Zheng and   
                  James Renwick   Estimating Interannual Variability
                                  Arising from Weather Events  . . . . . . 274--288
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 289--292
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 39, Number 1, March, 2002

                 Masato Shinoda   Existence of Phase Transition of
                                  Percolation on Sierpi\'nski Carpet
                                  Lattices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
                        B. Klar   A Note on the $ \mathcal {L} $-Class of
                                  Life Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 11--19
              Mark E. Lewis and   
              Hayriye Ayhan and   
                Robert D. Foley   Bias Optimal Admission Control Policies
                                  for a Multiclass Nonstationary Queueing
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--37
                 Paul Fearnhead   The Common Ancestor at a Nonneutral
                                  Locus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--54
                        Xin Guo   Some Risk Management Problems for Firms
                                  with Internal Competition and Debt . . . 55--69
                James C. Fu and   
                    Y. M. Chang   On Probability Generating Functions for
                                  Waiting Time Distributions of Compound
                                  Patterns in a Sequence of Multistate
                                  Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--80
              Eugene Seneta and   
                John Tuhao Chen   On Explicit and Fréchet--Optimal Lower
                                  Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--90
        Peter Eichelsbacher and   
                Ayalvadi Ganesh   Bayesian Inference for Markov Chains . . 91--99
           Narn-Rueih Shieh and   
                S. James Taylor   Multifractal Spectra of Branching
                                  Measure on a Galton--Watson Tree . . . . 100--111
               Claudia Ceci and   
                   Anna Gerardi   Conditional Law of a Branching Process
                                  Observing a Subpopulation  . . . . . . . 112--122
          P. Brémaud and   
                   G. Nappo and   
                  G. L. Torrisi   Rate of Convergence to Equilibrium of
                                  Marked Hawkes Processes  . . . . . . . . 123--136
                  G. L. Torrisi   A Class of Interacting Marked Point
                                  Processes: Rate of Convergence to
                                  Equilibrium  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--160
               Fred Richman and   
      Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak   Computing Limiting Stationary
                                  Distributions of Small Noisy Networks    161--178
                    F. Ball and   
                R. K. Milke and   
                      G. F. Yeo   Multivariate Semi-Markov Analysis of
                                  Burst Properties of Multiconductance
                                  Single Ion Channels  . . . . . . . . . . 179--196
     F. Javier López and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Markovian Couplings Staying in Arbitrary
                                  Subsets of the State Space . . . . . . . 197--212
               B. Van Houdt and   
                     C. Blondia   The Delay Distribution of a Type $k$
                                  Customer in a First-Come-First-Served
                                  MMAP[K]/PH[K]/1 Queue  . . . . . . . . . 213--223
                Taizhong Hu and   
                   Huiliang Xie   Proofs of the Closure Property of NBUC
                                  and NBU(2) under Convolution . . . . . . 224--227
                     J. Preater   On the Severity of M/M/$ \infty $
                                  Congested Episodes . . . . . . . . . . . 228--230
                      Anonymous   Correction: A Note on Stochastic
                                  Comparisons of Excess Lifetimes of
                                  Renewal Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 39, Number 2, June, 2002

               Xianping Guo and   
                    Weiping Zhu   Denumerable-State Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Decision Processes with Unbounded
                                  Transition and Reward Rates under the
                                  Discounted Criterion . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
                   Oliver Bonin   Large Deviation Theorems for Weighted
                                  Sums Applied to a Geographical Problem   251--260
        Bogdan Krzysztof Muciek   Optimal Stopping of a Risk Process:
                                  Model with Interest Rates  . . . . . . . 261--270
            Shoou-Ren Hsiau and   
                  Jiing-Ru Yang   Selecting the Last Success in
                                  Markov-Dependent Trials  . . . . . . . . 271--281
              Mykola Bratiychuk   Remarks on the Absolute Maximum of a Lévy
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--295
                         Jie Mi   Age-Replacement Policy and Optimal Work
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--311
                        Jun Cai   Ruin Probabilities with Dependent Rates
                                  of Interest  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--323
              Gordon E. Willmot   On Higher-Order Properties of Compound
                                  Geometric Distributions  . . . . . . . . 324--340
             V. G. Kulkarni and   
               K. D. Glazebrook   Output Analysis of a Single-Buffer
                                  Multiclass Queue: FCFS Service . . . . . 341--358
                  N. Barbot and   
                    B. Sericola   Stationary Solution to the Fluid Queue
                                  Fed by an M/M/1 Queue  . . . . . . . . . 359--369
                   Chunsheng Ma   Correlation Models with Long-Range
                                  Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--382
Guillermo Tomás Tetzlaff   Breakage and Restoration in Recursive
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--390
            Vicky Henderson and   
               Rafal Wojakowski   On the Equivalence of Floating and
                                  Fixed-Strike Asian Options . . . . . . . 391--394
               Peter Jagers and   
                     Lu Zhunwei   Branching Processes with Deteriorating
                                  Random Environments  . . . . . . . . . . 395--401
            Ronald W. Wolff and   
                   Chia-Li Wang   On the Convexity of Loss Probabilities   402--406
            M. J. Lopez-Herrero   Distribution of the Number of Customers
                                  Served in an M/G/1 Retrial Queue . . . . 407--412
                Offer Kella and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Markov-Modulated Linear Fluid Networks
                                  with Markov Additive Input . . . . . . . 413--420
            Franco Pellerey and   
              Patrizia Semeraro   Ageing and Stochastic Comparisons for a
                                  Covariate Failure Model  . . . . . . . . 421--425
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                    Ming J. Zuo   On the Behaviour of Some New Ageing
                                  Properties Based upon the Residual Life
                                  of $k$-out-of-$n$ Systems  . . . . . . . 426--433
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
               Maria Longobardi   Entropy-Based Measure of Uncertainty in
                                  past Lifetime Distributions  . . . . . . 434--440
     William T. M. Dunsmuir and   
               Sean P. Meyn and   
                 Gareth Roberts   Obituary: Richard Lewis Tweedie  . . . . 441--454
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 39, Number 3, September, 2002

               J. F. C. Kingman   Stochastic Aspects of Lanchester's
                                  Theory of Warfare  . . . . . . . . . . . 455--465
                  Aidan Sudbury   Inclusion-Exclusion Methods for Treating
                                  Annihilating and Deposition Processes    466--478
                  M. Molina and   
                    M. Mota and   
                       A. Ramos   Bisexual Galton--Watson Branching
                                  Process with Population-Size-Dependent
                                  Mating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--490
                         Jie Mi   On Bounds for Some Optimal Policies in
                                  Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502
         Attahiru Sule Alfa and   
                   I. T. Castro   Discrete-Time Analysis of a Repairable
                                  Machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--516
            Chunsheng Zhang and   
                        Rong Wu   Total Duration of Negative Surplus for
                                  the Compound Poisson Process That Is
                                  Perturbed by Diffusion . . . . . . . . . 517--532
               Bruno Bassan and   
             Subhash Kochar and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Some Bivariate Notions of IFR and DMRL
                                  and Related Properties . . . . . . . . . 533--544
               Gwo Dong Lin and   
                Jordan Stoyanov   On the Moment Determinacy of the
                                  Distributions of Compound Geometric Sums 545--554
           Philip J. Boland and   
           Harshinder Singh and   
                    Bojan Cukic   Stochastic Orders in Partition and
                                  Random Testing of Software . . . . . . . 555--565
                  Serge Guillas   Doubly Stochastic Hilbertian Processes   566--580
                N. R. Mohan and   
                        S. Ravi   Some Properties of Two Families of
                                  Classes of Life Distributions  . . . . . 581--589
               Tijs Huisman and   
           Richard J. Boucherie   The Sojourn Time Distribution in an
                                  Infinite Server Resequencing Queue with
                                  Dependent Interarrival and Service Times 590--603
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                Hiroyuki Takada   A Matrix Exponential Form for Hitting
                                  Probabilities and Its Application to a
                                  Markov-Modulated Fluid Queue with
                                  Downward Jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--618
              Gang Uk Hwang and   
              Bong Dae Choi and   
                  Jae-Kyoon Kim   The Waiting Time Analysis of a
                                  Discrete-Time Queue with Arrivals as a
                                  Discrete Autoregressive Process of Order
                                  1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--629
         Erol A. Peköz and   
              Nitindra Joglekar   Poisson Traffic Flow in a General
                                  Feedback Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--636
      Felíx Belzunce and   
  José-María Ruiz   Multivariate Dispersive Ordering of
                                  Epoch Times of Nonhomogeneous Poisson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--643
        Vladimir V. Mazalov and   
                    Vesa Saario   The House-Selling Problem with Reward
                                  Rate Criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644--649
          Ludwig Baringhaus and   
             Rudolf Grübel   From Matchbox to Bottle: A Storage
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650--656
           Antonio Murciano and   
              Javier Zamora and   
        Jesus Lopez-Sanchez and   
    Emilia Rodriguez-Santamaria   Probability Distribution of the Number
                                  of Deceits in Collective Robotics  . . . 657--663
                       Joe Gani   Obituary: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett . . 664--670
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 39, Number 4, December, 2002

            Krishanu Maulik and   
             Sidney Resnick and   
          Holger Rootzén   Asymptotic Independence and a Network
                                  Traffic Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--699
          Peter C. Kiessler and   
         Georgia-Ann Klutke and   
                  Yoonjung Yang   Availability of Periodically Inspected
                                  Systems Subject to Markovian Degradation 700--711
           Jennie C. Hansen and   
                 Jerzy Jaworski   Compound Random Mappings . . . . . . . . 712--729
                  V. V. Anh and   
                C. C. Heyde and   
                 N. N. Leonenko   Dynamic Models of Long-Memory Processes
                                  Driven by Lévy Noise  . . . . . . . . . . 730--747
                   Jan Pedersen   Periodic Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Processes
                                  Driven by Lévy Processes  . . . . . . . . 748--763
             Matthew A. Carlton   A Family of Densities Derived from the
                                  Three-Parameter Dirichlet Process  . . . 764--774
         Christian Commault and   
         Stéphane Mocanu   A Generic Property of Phase-Type
                                  Representations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--785
                     Anyue Chen   Ergodicity and Stability of Generalised
                                  Markov Branching Processes with
                                  Resurrection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786--803
         M. González and   
                  M. Molina and   
                  I. Del Puerto   On the Class of Controlled Branching
                                  Processes with Random Control Functions  804--815
             F. C. Klebaner and   
                     S. Sagitov   The Age of a Galton--Watson Population
                                  with a Geometric Offspring Distribution  816--828
                  Wen-Ming Hong   Moderate Deviation for Super-Brownian
                                  Motion with Super-Brownian Immigration   829--838
                   Yong-Hua Mao   Strong Ergodicity for Markov Processes
                                  by Coupling Methods  . . . . . . . . . . 839--852
          Jean-Marie Garcia and   
               Olivier Brun and   
                 David Gauchard   Transient Analytical Solution of M/D/1/N
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--864
                Hans Daduna and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Conditional Job-Observer Property for
                                  Multitype Closed Queueing Networks . . . 865--881
                    C. C. Heyde   On Modes of Long-Range Dependence  . . . 882--888
                K. Borovkov and   
                     A. Novikov   On a New Approach to Calculating
                                  Expectations for Option Pricing  . . . . 889--895
              Tsuyoshi Katayama   A Note on Level-Crossing Analysis for
                                  the Excess, Age, and Spread
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--900
              P. K. Pollett and   
                 V. T. Stefanov   Path Integrals for Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--904
                Ronald W. Wolff   Losses per Cycle in a Single-Server
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--909
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 910--913
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 40, Number 1, March, 2003

             Sophie Mercier and   
              Michel Roussignol   Asymptotic Failure Rate of a Markov
                                  Deteriorating System with Preventive
                                  Maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
              Bernhard Klar and   
             Alfred Müller   Characterizations of Classes of Lifetime
                                  Distributions Generalizing the NBUE
                                  Class  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--32
                Ingemar Kaj and   
               Stephen M. Krone   The Coalescent Process in a Population
                                  with Stochastically Varying Size . . . . 33--48
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
                   Guy Louchard   Optimal Stopping on Patterns in Strings
                                  Generated by Independent Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--72
                   Qing Han and   
                 Katuomi Hirano   Sooner and Later Waiting Time Problems
                                  for Patterns in Markov Dependent Trials  73--86
                  Bero Roos and   
                Dietmar Pfeifer   On the Distance between the
                                  Distributions of Random Sums . . . . . . 87--106
                Eilon Solan and   
                Nicolas Vieille   Perturbed Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . 107--122
                    G. Fort and   
                E. Moulines and   
              G. O. Roberts and   
                J. S. Rosenthal   On the Geometric Ergodicity of Hybrid
                                  Samplers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--146
      Vytautas Kazakevicius and   
               Remigijus Leipus   A New Theorem on the Existence of
                                  Invariant Distributions with
                                  Applications to Arch Processes . . . . . 147--162
                 Anyue Chen and   
                        Kai Liu   Birth-Death Processes with an
                                  Instantaneous Reflection Barrier . . . . 163--179
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
              Ravi Mazumdar and   
               Alain Dupuis and   
               Jacqueline Boyer   Analysis of the Fluid Weighted Fair
                                  Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--199
             A. A. Borovkov and   
                O. J. Boxma and   
                   Z. Palmowski   On the Integral of the Workload Process
                                  of the Single Server Queue . . . . . . . 200--225
              Sunder Sethuraman   A Clustering Law for Some Discrete Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--241
         Erol A. Peköz and   
             Rhonda Righter and   
                   Cathy H. Xia   Characterizing Losses during Busy
                                  Periods in Finite Buffer Systems . . . . 242--249
             Erol A. Peköz   Some Memoryless Bandit Policies  . . . . 250--256
           Chern-Ching Chao and   
              Yi-Liang Chen and   
                  Wei-Hou Cheng   The Asymptotic Joint Normality of the
                                  Numbers of Upper Records, Lower Records
                                  and Inversions in a Random Sequence  . . 257--263
                    Ji Hwan Cha   A Further Extension of the Generalized
                                  Burn-in Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--270
                     John Haigh   An Intuitive Insight into a Result of
                                  Cowan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 40, Number 2, June, 2003

                     J. Xue and   
              Attahiru Sulealfa   Accurate Bounds for the Asymptotic
                                  Constant in a Statistical Multiplexer
                                  with Homogeneous Generalized Binary
                                  Markov Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--292
                Amy R. Ward and   
                Nicholas Bambos   On Stability of Queueing Networks with
                                  Job Deadlines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--304
          Tava Lennon Olsen and   
              R. D. Van Der Mei   Polling Systems with Periodic Server
                                  Routeing in Heavy Traffic: Distribution
                                  of the Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--326
               Xianping Guo and   
Onésimo Hernández-Lerma   Zero-Sum Games for Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains with Unbounded Transition
                                  and Average Payoff Rates . . . . . . . . 327--345
                James C. Fu and   
                 Liqun Wang and   
                W. Y. Wendy Lou   On Exact and Large Deviation
                                  Approximation for the Distribution of
                                  the Longest Run in a Sequence of
                                  Two-State Markov Dependent Trials  . . . 346--360
                        A. Irle   Stochastic Ordering for Continuous-Time
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
                      Bero Roos   Poisson Approximation of Multivariate
                                  Poisson Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--390
                  Kai W. Ng and   
                  Qihe Tang and   
                  Jiaan Yan and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Precise Large Deviations for the
                                  Prospective-Loss Process . . . . . . . . 391--400
                I. Higueras and   
                   J. Moler and   
                     F. Plo and   
                  M. San Miguel   Urn Models and Differential Algebraic
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--412
      Tamás Szabados and   
   Balázs Székely   An Exponential Functional of Random
                                  Walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--426
                 S. Mercier and   
                 D. Cellier and   
                     D. Charlot   An Improved Approximation for Assessing
                                  the Statistical Significance of
                                  Molecular Sequence Features  . . . . . . 427--441
           Efraim Shmerling and   
            Kenneth J. Hochberg   Solution of Jump Parameter Systems of
                                  Differential and Difference Equations
                                  with Semi-Markov Coefficients  . . . . . 442--454
              Ulrich Herkenrath   On the Uniform Ergodicity of Markov
                                  Processes of Order 2 . . . . . . . . . . 455--472
               Thomas H. Savits   Preservation of Generalized
                                  Bathtub-Shaped Functions . . . . . . . . 473--484
             Henry W. Block and   
           Thomas H. Savits and   
        Eshetu T. Wondmagegnehu   Mixtures of Distributions with
                                  Increasing Linear Failure Rates  . . . . 485--504
                 Paul Fearnhead   Haplotypes: The Joint Distribution of
                                  Alleles at Linked Loci . . . . . . . . . 505--512
                 Ilan Adler and   
                Shmuel Oren and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   The Coupon-Collector's Problem Revisited 513--518
                 Jongho Bae and   
                Sunggon Kim and   
                   Eui Yong Lee   Average Cost under the $ P_\lambda,
                                  \tau^M $ Policy in a Finite Dam with
                                  Compound Poisson Inputs  . . . . . . . . 519--526
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 40, Number 3, September, 2003

            Philippe Picard and   
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
              Ibrahim Coulibaly   Probl\`emes de Ruine en Théorie du Risque
                                  \`a Temps Discret Avec Horizon Fini.
                                  (French) [Problems in Ruin Theory of
                                  Risk with Finite Discrete Time Horizon]  527--542
            Philippe Picard and   
               Claude Lef\`evre   Probabilité de Ruine Éventuelle dans un
                                  Mod\`ele de Risque \`a Temps Discret.
                                  (French) [Probability of eventual ruin
                                  in a discrete-time risk model] . . . . . 543--556
            Otso Ovaskainen and   
             Stephen J. Cornell   Biased Movement at a Boundary and
                                  Conditional Occupancy Times for
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 557--580
Bárbara González-Arévalo and   
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   Buffer Content of a Leaky-Bucket System
                                  with Long-Range Dependent Input Traffic  581--601
            Byung Chun Park and   
             Jae Young Park and   
                Robert D. Foley   Carousel System Performance  . . . . . . 602--612
             Sandjai Bhulai and   
                      Ger Koole   On the Structure of Value Functions for
                                  Threshold Policies in Queueing Models    613--622
                James C. Fu and   
                Yung-Ming Chang   On Ordered Series and Later Waiting Time
                                  Distributions in a Sequence of Markov
                                  Dependent Multistate Trials  . . . . . . 623--642
                     Suyono and   
         J. A. M. Van Der Weide   A Method for Computing Total Downtime
                                  Distributions in Repairable Systems  . . 643--653
              Yoshiaki Itoh and   
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   One-Sided Variations on Interval Trees   654--670
Jean-Franiçois Marckert and   
            Abdelkader Mokkadem   Ladder Variables, Internal Structure of
                                  Galton--Watson Trees and Finite
                                  Branching Random Walks . . . . . . . . . 671--689
                   Chunsheng Ma   Power-Law Correlations and Other Models
                                  with Long-Range Dependence on a Lattice  690--703
          Krzysztof Debicki and   
                 Michel Mandjes   Exact Overflow Asymptotics for Queues
                                  with Many Gaussian Inputs  . . . . . . . 704--720
             Henry W. Block and   
                   Yulin Li and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Initial and Final Behaviour of Failure
                                  Rate Functions for Mixtures and Systems  721--740
                 Y. H. Wang and   
            Hsiao-Fen Chang and   
                   Shun-Yi Chen   Convergence Theorems for the Lengths of
                                  Consecutive Successes of Markov
                                  Bernoulli Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . 741--749
           M. Ispány and   
                     G. Pap and   
           M. C. A. Van Zuijlen   Asymptotic Inference for Nearly Unstable
                                  INAR(1) Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--765
              Marcus A. Agustin   Statistical Properties of a System
                                  Reliability Estimator Using the
                                  Littlewood Software Reliability Model    766--778
                     Peter Neal   SIR Epidemics on a Bernoulli Random
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--782
              Erik Ekström   Perpetual American Put Options in a
                                  Level-Dependent Volatility Model . . . . 783--789
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Mixed Distributions in Sattolo's
                                  Algorithm for Cyclic Permutations Via
                                  Randomization and Derandomization  . . . 790--796
                      Allan Gut   On the Moment Problem for Random Sums    797--802
                    Jinwen Chen   From the Central Limit Theorem to
                                  Heavy-Tailed Distributions . . . . . . . 803--806
        S. N. U. A. Kirmani and   
               Jacek Wesolowski   Time Spent below a Random Threshold by a
                                  Poisson Driven Sequence of Observations  807--814
             Olivier Perrin and   
                  Wendy Meiring   Nonstationarity in $ R^n $ Is
                                  Second-Order Stationarity in $ R^{2n} $  815--820
              Damian Clancy and   
              Philip K. Pollett   A Note on Quasi-Stationary Distributions
                                  of Birth-Death Processes and the SIS
                                  Logistic Epidemic  . . . . . . . . . . . 821--825
             H. N. Nagaraja and   
                   Gadi Barlevy   Characterizations Using Record Moments
                                  in a Random Record Model and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826--833
          Ulrich Herkenrath and   
           Marius Iosifescu and   
                Andreas Rudolph   A Note on Invariance Principles for
                                  Iterated Random Functions  . . . . . . . 834--837
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 40, Number 4, December, 2003

                  Serik Sagitov   Convergence to the Coalescent with
                                  Simultaneous Multiple Mergers  . . . . . 839--854
          Michael Schröder   Brownian Excursions and Parisian Barrier
                                  Options: A Note  . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--864
                  Arup Bose and   
        Sreela Gangopadhyay and   
               Anish Sarkar and   
               Arindam Sengupta   Convergence of Lower Records and
                                  Infinite Divisibility  . . . . . . . . . 865--880
             Valeri T. Stefanov   The Intersite Distances between Pattern
                                  Occurrences in Strings Generated by
                                  General Discrete- and Continuous-Time
                                  Models: An Algorithmic Approach  . . . . 881--892
               Per Hörfelt   Geometric Bounds on Certain Sublinear
                                  Functionals of Geometric Brownian Motion 893--905
              Youri Davydov and   
               Ricardas Zitikis   Generalized Lorenz Curves and
                                  Convexifications of Stochastic Processes 906--925
         Davar Khoshnevisan and   
                Thomas M. Lewis   Optimal Reward on a Sparse Tree with
                                  Random Edge Weights  . . . . . . . . . . 926--945
                Peter Caithamer   Large and Small Deviations of a String
                                  Driven by a Two-Parameter Gaussian Noise
                                  White in Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946--960
              Eric Fontenas and   
        Olivier François   Improved Bounds for the Large-Time
                                  Behaviour of Simulated Annealing . . . . 961--969
             A. Yu. Mitrophanov   Stability and Exponential Convergence of
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 970--979
       Johannes Müller and   
              Martin Möhle   Family Trees of Continuous-Time
                                  Birth-and-Death Processes  . . . . . . . 980--994
         M. González and   
                  M. Molina and   
                  I. Del Puerto   On the Geometric Growth in Controlled
                                  Branching Processes with Random Control
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1006
                Christine Reder   Transient Behaviour of a Galton--Watson
                                  Process with a Large Number of Types . . 1007--1030
                        Lam Yeh   An Inspection-Repair-Replacement Model
                                  for a Deteriorating System with
                                  Unobservable State . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1042
                  Haijun Li and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Imperfect Repair Models with Preventive
                                  Maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1059
           Valerie Girardin and   
               Nikolaos Limnios   On the Entropy for Semi-Markov Processes 1060--1068
        Arturo Kohatsu-Higa and   
                Makoto Yamazato   On Moments and Tail Behaviors of Storage
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1086
                     Qi-Ming He   The Classification of Matrix GI/M/1-Type
                                  Markov Chains with a Tree Structure and
                                  Its Applications to Queueing . . . . . . 1087--1102
               Antonis Economou   On the Stochastic Domination for
                                  Batch-Arrival, Batch-Service and
                                  Assemble-Transfer Queueing Networks  . . 1103--1120
                   John T. Chen   A Lower Bound Using Hamilton-Type
                                  Circuits and Its Applications  . . . . . 1121--1132
                   Chunsheng Ma   Long-Memory Continuous-Time Correlation
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1146
             Aiko Kurushima and   
                  Katsunori Ano   A Note on the Full-Information Poisson
                                  Arrival Selection Problem  . . . . . . . 1147--1154
                   E. D. Andjel   Stochastic Order for Invariant Measures
                                  of the Contact Process . . . . . . . . . 1155--1157
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1158--1161
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 41, Number 1, March, 2004

                  T. Fujita and   
                   F. Petit and   
                         M. Yor   Pricing Path-Dependent Options in a
                                  Black--Scholes Market from the
                                  Distribution of Homogeneous Brownian
                                  Functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
                 Eckhard Platen   A Class of Complete Benchmark Models
                                  with Intensity-Based Jumps . . . . . . . 19--34
                    Lukasz Kruk   Limiting Distributions for Minimum
                                  Relative Entropy Calibration . . . . . . 35--50
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
               P. S. Ansell and   
                 R. T. Dunn and   
                   R. R. Lumley   On the Optimal Allocation of Service to
                                  Impatient Tasks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--72
           Philip J. Boland and   
           Harshinder Singh and   
                    Bojan Cukic   The Stochastic Precedence Ordering with
                                  Applications in Sampling and Testing . . 73--82
                  Jean B\`erard   The Almost Sure Central Limit Theorem
                                  for One-Dimensional Nearest-Neighbour
                                  Random Walks in a Space-Time Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--92
                  Kai W. Ng and   
                  Qihe Tang and   
                 Jia-an Yan and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Precise Large Deviations for Sums of
                                  Random Variables with Consistently
                                  Varying Tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--107
                  Kai W. Ng and   
                      Qihe Tang   Asymptotic Behavior of Tail and Local
                                  Probabilities for Sums of Subexponential
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--116
                    Jun Cai and   
                      Qihe Tang   On Max-Sum Equivalence and Convolution
                                  Closure of Heavy-Tailed Distributions
                                  and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . 117--130
                   Mario Stanke   Sequential Selection of Random Vectors
                                  under a Sum Constraint . . . . . . . . . 131--146
        Malik Magdon-Ismail and   
              Amir F. Atiya and   
               Amrit Pratap and   
           Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa   On the Maximum Drawdown of a Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--161
      Jean-Pierre Lepeltier and   
        Jaime San Martín   Backward SDEs with Two Barriers and
                                  Continuous Coefficient: An Existence
                                  Result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--175
                 Lu Zhunwei and   
                   Peter Jagers   A Note on the Asymptotic Behaviour of
                                  the Extinction Probability in
                                  Supercritical Population-Size-Dependent
                                  Branching Processes with Independent and
                                  Identically Distributed Random
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--186
                      Mei Zhang   Large Deviations for Super-Brownian
                                  Motion with Immigration  . . . . . . . . 187--201
                  Wen-Ming Hong   A Note on Two-Level Superprocesses . . . 202--210
                 Daming Lin and   
                   Viliam Makis   On-Line Parameter Estimation for a
                                  Failure-Prone System Subject to
                                  Condition Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . 211--220
               Hai-Bin Wang and   
                   Bo-Cheng Wei   Separable Lower Triangular Bilinear
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--235
             Marc G. Genton and   
                 Olivier Perrin   On a Time Deformation Reducing
                                  Nonstationary Stochastic Processes to
                                  Local Stationarity . . . . . . . . . . . 236--249
            Javiera Barrera and   
            Christian Paroissin   On the Distribution of the Search Cost
                                  for the Move-to-Front Rule with Random
                                  Weights  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--262
                    Takuji Arai   Minimal Martingale Measures for Jump
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 263--270
                 P. S. Ruzankin   On the Rate of Poisson Process
                                  Approximation to a Bernoulli Process . . 271--276
                    Ji Hwan Cha   A Note on the Upper Bound for the
                                  Optimal Work Size  . . . . . . . . . . . 277--280
              M. S. Finkelstein   Minimal Repair in Heterogeneous
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--286
        Jacqueline Loris-Teghem   A Note on the Waiting Time in $ M^{[X]}
                                  $ /G/1 Queueing Systems with a Removable
                                  Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
               L. R. Fontes and   
              F. P. Machado and   
                      A. Sarkar   The Critical Probability for the Frog
                                  Model Is Not a Monotonic Function of the
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--298
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 41, Number 2, June, 2004

                      Juri Hinz   A Revenue-Equivalence Theorem for
                                  Electricity Auctions . . . . . . . . . . 299--312
              Erik Ekström   Russian Options with a Finite Time
                                  Horizon  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--326
                 Vadim Linetsky   The Spectral Representation of Bessel
                                  Processes with Constant Drift:
                                  Applications in Queueing and Finance . . 327--344
             Valeri T. Stefanov   Distribution of the Amount of Genetic
                                  Material from a Chromosomal Segment
                                  Surviving to the Following Generation    345--354
             Ilya Molchanov and   
          Vadim Shcherbakov and   
                   Sergei Zuyev   Critical Growth of a Semi-Linear Process 355--367
               Peter Jagers and   
                  Serik Sagitov   Convergence to the Coalescent in
                                  Populations of Substantially Varying
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--378
                Majid Asadi and   
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                 Ehsan S. Soofi   Maximum Dynamic Entropy Models . . . . . 379--390
        Ludger Rüschendorf   Comparison of Multivariate Risks and
                                  Positive Dependence  . . . . . . . . . . 391--406
               Anthony G. Pakes   Convolution Equivalence and Infinite
                                  Divisibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--424
                Wei Biao Wu and   
                  Xiaofeng Shao   Limit Theorems for Iterated Random
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--436
                Yu. Davydov and   
                   A. V. Nagaev   On the Role Played by Extreme Summands
                                  When a Sum of Independent and
                                  Identically Distributed Random Vectors
                                  Is Asymptotically $ \alpha $-Stable  . . 437--454
          Peter Becker-Kern and   
        Mark M. Meerschaert and   
           Hans-Peter Scheffler   Limit Theorem for Continuous-Time Random
                                  Walks with Two Time Scales . . . . . . . 455--466
                       Jiti Gao   Modelling Long-Range-Dependent Gaussian
                                  Processes with Application in
                                  Continuous-Time Financial Models . . . . 467--482
                 Pieter Allaart   Optimal Stopping Rules for Correlated
                                  Random Walks with a Discount . . . . . . 483--496
                       S. Zacks   Generalized Integrated Telegraph
                                  Processes and the Distribution of
                                  Related Stopping Times . . . . . . . . . 497--507
               Antonis Economou   The Compound Poisson Immigration Process
                                  Subject to Binomial Catastrophes . . . . 508--523
                 Fumio Ishizaki   Decomposition Property in a
                                  Discrete-Time Queue with Multiple Input
                                  Streams and Service Interruptions  . . . 524--534
                Kyle Y. Lin and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Optimal Admission Control for a
                                  Single-Server Loss Queue . . . . . . . . 535--546
            Alexander Dudin and   
                  Olga Semenova   A Stable Algorithm for Stationary
                                  Distribution Calculation for a BMAP/SM/1
                                  Queueing System with Markovian Arrival
                                  Input of Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . 547--556
                  Nail Akar and   
                Khosrow Sohraby   Infinite- and Finite-Buffer Markov Fluid
                                  Queues: A Unified Analysis . . . . . . . 557--569
          Zvetan G. Ignatov and   
            Vladimir K. Kaishev   A Finite-Time Ruin Probability Formula
                                  for Continuous Claim Severities  . . . . 570--578
              Jiing-Ru Yang and   
                Shoou-Ren Hsiau   On Markov-Dependent Parking Problems . . 579--586
             Robert W. Chen and   
             Larry A. Shepp and   
                      Alan Zame   A Bold Strategy Is Not Always Optimal in
                                  the Presence of Inflation  . . . . . . . 587--592
             A. Yu. Mitrophanov   Note on Zeifman's Bounds on the Rate of
                                  Convergence for Birth-Death Processes    593--596
                       Joe Gani   Obituary: Mavis Hitchcock  . . . . . . . 597--600
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 41, Number 3, September, 2004

   Claudia Klüppelberg and   
          Alexander Lindner and   
                    Ross Maller   A Continuous-Time GARCH Process Driven
                                  by a Lévy Process: Stationarity and
                                  Second-Order Behaviour . . . . . . . . . 601--622
        Mark M. Meerschaert and   
           Hans-Peter Scheffler   Limit Theorems for Continuous-Time
                                  Random Walks with Infinite Mean Waiting
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--638
                Assaf Zeevi and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   Recurrence Properties of Autoregressive
                                  Processes with Super-Heavy-Tailed
                                  Innovations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--653
               Bernard Wong and   
                    C. C. Heyde   On the Martingale Property of Stochastic
                                  Exponentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654--664
                  W. Stadje and   
                       S. Zacks   Telegraph Processes with Random
                                  Velocities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--678
             Miljenko Huzak and   
              Mihael Perman and   
             Hrvoje Siki\'c and   
                Zoran Vondracek   Ruin Probabilities for Competing Claim
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--690
          Yuliy Baryshnikov and   
         E. G. Coffman, Jr. and   
           Predrag Jelenkovi\'c   Space Filling and Depletion  . . . . . . 691--702
              Owen Dafydd Jones   Large Deviations for Supercritical
                                  Multitype Branching Processes  . . . . . 703--720
                 Yibei Ling and   
                         Jie Mi   An Optimal Trade-off between Content
                                  Freshness and Refresh Cost . . . . . . . 721--734
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Burn-in and Covariates . . . . . . . . . 735--745
               Guy Latouche and   
                 Tetsuya Takine   Markov-Renewal Fluid Queues  . . . . . . 746--757
          Landy Rabehasaina and   
                 Bruno Sericola   A Second-Order Markov-Modulated Fluid
                                  Queue with Linear Service Rate . . . . . 758--777
               Zhenting Hou and   
                   Yuanyuan Liu   Explicit Criteria for Several Types of
                                  Ergodicity of the Embedded M/G/1 and
                                  GI/M/n Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778--790
                   H. Ayhan and   
               Z. Palmowski and   
                    S. Schlegel   Cyclic Queueing Networks with
                                  Subexponential Service Times . . . . . . 791--801
          Gordon E. Willmot and   
                        Jun Cai   On Applications of Residual Lifetimes of
                                  Compound Geometric Convolutions  . . . . 802--815
                  Aidan Sudbury   The Annihilating Process on Random Trees
                                  and the Square Lattice . . . . . . . . . 816--831
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
                 Didier Pinchon   Analysis of Generalized
                                  Processor-Sharing Systems with Two
                                  Classes of Customers and Exponential
                                  Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832--858
         Shane G. Henderson and   
                     Burt Simon   Adaptive Simulation Using Perfect
                                  Control Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--876
             Mireille Bossy and   
             Emmanuel Gobet and   
                    Denis Talay   A Symmetrized Euler Scheme for an
                                  Efficient Approximation of Reflected
                                  Diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877--889
              Katarzyna Horbacz   Random Dynamical Systems with Jumps  . . 890--910
                Robert Lund and   
       William P. McCormick and   
                   Yuanhui Xiao   Limiting Properties of Poisson Shot
                                  Noise Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--918
            M. Ivette Gomes and   
            Laurens De Haan and   
                  Dinis Pestana   Joint Exceedances of the ARCH Process    919--926
                      Xiaohu Li   Some Properties of Ageing Notions Based
                                  on the Moment-Generating-Function Order  927--934
                      Ger Koole   Letter to the Editor: A Formula for Tail
                                  Probabilities of Cox Distributions . . . 935--938
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 41, Number 4, December, 2004

           Emilio de Santis and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Change-Point Models and Conditionally
                                  Pure Birth Processes: An Inequality on
                                  the Stochastic Intensity . . . . . . . . 939--952
            Jordan Stoyanov and   
               M. H. M. Al-Sadi   Properties of Classes of Life
                                  Distribution Based on the Conditional
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--960
      Félix Belzunce and   
              Patrizia Semeraro   Preservation of Positive and Negative
                                  Orthant Dependence Concepts under
                                  Mixtures and Applications  . . . . . . . 961--974
                 John L. Spouge   Path Reversal, Islands, and the Gapped
                                  Alignment of Random Sequences  . . . . . 975--983
                  Zhao Dong and   
                      Shui Feng   Occupation Time Processes of
                                  Super-Brownian Motion with Cut-off
                                  Branching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984--997
                 Pieter Allaart   Stopping the Maximum of a Correlated
                                  Random Walk, with Cost for Observation   998--1007
            Nilanjana Datta and   
                 Tony C. Dorlas   Random Walks on a Complete Graph: A
                                  Model for Infection  . . . . . . . . . . 1008--1021
               Yong-Hua Mao and   
                   Yu-Hui Zhang   Exponential Ergodicity for Single-Birth
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022--1032
                 Anyue Chen and   
               Phil Pollett and   
               Hanjun Zhang and   
                     Junping Li   The Collision Branching Process  . . . . 1033--1048
                 P. Barrieu and   
                 A. Rouault and   
                         M. Yor   A Study of the Hartman--Watson
                                  Distribution Motivated by Numerical
                                  Problems Related to the Pricing of Asian
                                  Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1058
                   D. Perry and   
                  W. Stadje and   
                       S. Zacks   The First Rendezvous Time of Brownian
                                  Motion and Compound Poisson-Type
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1070
                   Yong-Hua Mao   The Eigentime Identity for
                                  Continuous-Time Ergodic Markov Chains    1071--1080
                  P. Vellaisamy   Poisson Approximation for $ (k_1,
                                  k_2)$-Events via the Stein--Chen Method  1081--1092
                   Chunsheng Ma   The Use of the Variogram in Construction
                                  of Stationary Time Series Models . . . . 1093--1103
             Peter Mathé   Numerical Integration Using
                                  $V$-Uniformly Ergodic Markov Chains  . . 1104--1112
             Zhengjun Zhang and   
               Richard L. Smith   The Behavior of Multivariate Maxima of
                                  Moving Maxima Processes  . . . . . . . . 1113--1123
            Marcel F. Neuts and   
             Attahiru Sule Alfa   Pair Formation in a Markovian Arrival
                                  Process with Two Event Labels  . . . . . 1124--1137
                    K. Borovkov   On Pair and Tuple Formation under
                                  Independent Poisson or Renewal Arrival
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138--1144
               Parijat Dube and   
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
               Ravi R. Mazumdar   Scale Functions of Lévy Processes and
                                  Busy Periods of Finite-Capacity M/GI/1
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145--1156
                  Yijun Zhu and   
               Zhe George Zhang   M/GI/1 Queues with Services of Both
                                  Positive and Negative Customers  . . . . 1157--1170
                 M. Vlasiou and   
           I. J. B. F. Adan and   
                     J. Wessels   A Lindley-Type Equation Arising from a
                                  Carousel Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171--1181
              I. M. MacPhee and   
           Jonathan Rougier and   
                  G. H. Pollard   Server Advantage in Tennis Matches . . . 1182--1186
          Aleksander M. Iksanov   Infinite Divisibility of Infinite Sums
                                  of Lower Records: A Simple Proof . . . . 1187--1190
                   Xiaowen Zhou   Some Fluctuation Identities for Lévy
                                  Processes with Jumps of the Same Sign    1191--1198
                  Jan Vecer and   
                     Mingxin Xu   The Mean Comparison Theorem Cannot Be
                                  Extended to the Poisson Case . . . . . . 1199--1202
     Élise Janvresse and   
              Thierry de la Rue   From Uniform Distributions to Benford's
                                  Law  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1210
                 Ben Cairns and   
                  P. K. Pollett   Extinction Times for a General Birth,
                                  Death and Catastrophe Process  . . . . . 1211--1218
             A. Yu. Mitrophanov   The Spectral Gap and Perturbation Bounds
                                  for Reversible Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1219--1222
         Peter Mörters and   
               Narn-Rueih Shieh   On the Multifractal Spectrum of the
                                  Branching Measure on a Galton--Watson
                                  Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223--1229
                   S. N. Ethier   The Kelly System Maximizes Median
                                  Fortune  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1230--1236
                Offer Kella and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   A Brownian Motion with Two Reflecting
                                  Barriers and Markov-Modulated Speed  . . 1237--1242
       Manuel Cabral Morais and   
         António Pacheco   A Note on the Ageing Character of the
                                  Run Length of Markov-Type
                                  Quality-Control Schemes  . . . . . . . . 1243--1247
                      Anonymous   Correction: [Distribution of the Amount
                                  of Genetic Material from a Chromosomal
                                  Segment Surviving to the Following
                                  Generation]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248--1249
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1250--1254
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 41A, 2004

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i-189
                      Anonymous   Christopher Charles Heyde, AM, DSc, FAA,
                                  FASSA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--x
                      Anonymous   Publications of Christopher Charles
                                  Heyde  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi--xviii
                  Richard Cowan   A Mosaic of Triangular Cells Formed with
                                  Sequential Splitting Rules . . . . . . . 3--15
               Peter Jagers and   
                  Fima Klebaner   Branching Processes in Near-Critical
                                  Random Environments  . . . . . . . . . . 17--23
        P. Révész   A Prediction Problem of the Branching
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--31
                  V. V. Anh and   
             N. N. Leonenko and   
                   L. M. Sakhno   Quasi-Likelihood-Based Higher-Order
                                  Spectral Estimation of Random Fields
                                  with Possible Long-Range Dependence  . . 35--53
               I. V. Basawa and   
                        J. Zhou   Non-Gaussian Bifurcating Models and
                                  Quasi-Likelihood Estimation  . . . . . . 55--64
            Ir\`ene Gijbels and   
                 Peter Hall and   
                 Alo\"\is Kneip   Interval and Band Estimation for Curves
                                  with Jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79
          Iain M. Johnstone and   
           Bernard W. Silverman   Boundary Coiflets for Wavelet Shrinkage
                                  in Function Estimation . . . . . . . . . 81--98
                 Leah Kelly and   
             Eckhard Platen and   
        Michael Sòrensen   Estimation for Discretely Observed
                                  Diffusions Using Transform Functions . . 99--118
                  Y.-X. Lin and   
                   D. Steel and   
                 R. L. Chambers   Restricted Quasi-Score Estimating
                                  Functions for Sample Survey Data . . . . 119--130
   Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
       Svend Erik Graversen and   
                  Neil Shephard   Power Variation and Stochastic
                                  Volatility: A Review and Some New
                                  Results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--143
Victor H. De La Peña and   
           Rustam Ibragimov and   
                   Steve Jordan   Option Bounds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--156
                      Roger Gay   Pricing Risk When Distributions Are Fat
                                  Tailed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--175
                  Eugene Seneta   Fitting the Variance-Gamma Model to
                                  Financial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--187
                 Sidney Resnick   On the Foundations of Multivariate
                                  Heavy-Tail Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 191--212
             Jef L. Teugels and   
             Giovanni Vanroelen   Box--Cox Transformations and
                                  Heavy-Tailed Distributions . . . . . . . 213--227
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--414
              N. H. Bingham and   
                H. R. Nili Sani   Summability Methods and Negatively
                                  Associated Random Variables  . . . . . . 231--238
               Timothy C. Brown   Transforming a Random Variable to a
                                  Prescribed Distribution: An Application
                                  to School-Based Assessment . . . . . . . 239--252
               Harry Kesten and   
                    Ross Maller   Some Effects of Trimming on the Law of
                                  the Iterated Logarithm . . . . . . . . . 253--271
         Marvin K. Nakayama and   
         Perwez Shahabuddin and   
                    Karl Sigman   On Finite Exponential Moments for
                                  Branching Processes and Busy Periods for
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--280
                Jordan Stoyanov   Stieltjes Classes for
                                  Moment-Indeterminate Probability
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294
             Daryl J. Daley and   
               David Vere-Jones   Scoring Probability Forecasts for Point
                                  Processes: The Entropy Score and
                                  Information Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--312
                        J. Gani   Random-Allocation and Urn Models . . . . 313--320
            Paul Glasserman and   
                   David D. Yao   Optimal Couplings Are Totally Positive
                                  and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--332
               J. F. C. Kingman   Extremal Problems for Regenerative
                                  Phenomena  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--346
         Geoffrey Pritchard and   
                 David J. Scott   The Eigenvalues of the Empirical
                                  Transition Matrix of a Markov Chain  . . 347--360
                    Victor Solo   Averaging Analysis of a Point Process
                                  Adaptive Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 361--372
             Peter J. Brockwell   Representations of Continuous-Time ARMA
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--382
                        Wen Dai   Asymptotics of the Sample Mean and
                                  Sample Covariance of
                                  Long-Range-Dependent Series  . . . . . . 383--392
                  Shuangzhe Liu   On Diagnostics in Conditionally
                                  Heteroskedastic Time Series Models under
                                  Elliptical Distributions . . . . . . . . 393--405


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 42, Number 1, March, 2005

                        Lam Yeh   A Monotone Process Maintenance Model for
                                  a Multistate System  . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
                 Rhonda Righter   Multi-Actor Markov Decision Processes    15--26
          Erik Ekström and   
              Svante Janson and   
                     Johan Tysk   Superreplication of Options on Several
                                  Underlying Assets  . . . . . . . . . . . 27--38
        Véronique Ladret   Asymptotic Hitting Time for a Simple
                                  Evolutionary Model of Protein Folding    39--51
     Fátima Ferreira and   
         António Pacheco   Level Crossing Ordering of
                                  Skip-Free-to-the-Right Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--60
                  Ola Hammarlid   Tools to Estimate the First Passage Time
                                  to a Convex Barrier  . . . . . . . . . . 61--81
                K. Borovkov and   
                     A. Novikov   Explicit Bounds for Approximation Rates
                                  of Boundary Crossing Probabilities for
                                  the Wiener Process . . . . . . . . . . . 82--92
            Angelos Dassios and   
                   Ji-Wook Jang   Kalman--Bucy Filtering for Linear
                                  Systems Driven by the Cox Process with
                                  Shot Noise Intensity and Its Application
                                  to the Pricing of Reinsurance Contracts  93--107
                F. Thomas Bruss   What Is Known about Robbins' Problem?    108--120
             Robert W. Chen and   
             Larry A. Shepp and   
               Yi-Ching Yao and   
                  Cun-Hui Zhang   On Optimality of Bold Play for Primitive
                                  Casinos in the Presence of Inflation . . 121--137
                Matthias Winkel   Electronic Foreign-Exchange Markets and
                                  Passage Events of Independent
                                  Subordinators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--152
            Christian Y. Robert   Asymptotic Probabilities of an
                                  Exceedance over Renewal Thresholds with
                                  an Application to Risk Theory  . . . . . 153--162
                Kam C. Yuen and   
                  Junyi Guo and   
                      Kai W. Ng   On Ultimate Ruin in a Delayed-Claims
                                  Risk Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--174
             Yongsheng Xing and   
                   Yongjin Wang   On the Extinction of a Class of
                                  Population-Size-Dependent Bisexual
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
          Erik A. van Doorn and   
           Alexander I. Zeifman   Extinction Probability in a Birth-Death
                                  Process with Killing . . . . . . . . . . 185--198
              Yutaka Sakuma and   
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   On the Effect of Finite Buffer
                                  Truncation in a Two-Node Jackson Network 199--222
                Offer Kella and   
                 Bert Zwart and   
                     Onno Boxma   Some Time-Dependent Properties of
                                  Symmetric M/G/1 Queues . . . . . . . . . 223--234
             David Gamarnik and   
             Petar Momcilovi\'c   A Transposition Rule Analysis Based on a
                                  Particle Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--246
                J. Laurie Snell   Obituary: Joseph Leonard Doob  . . . . . 247--256
                  N. H. Bingham   Doob: A Half-Century On  . . . . . . . . 257--266
                  Ken Duffy and   
            Anthony P. Metcalfe   The Large Deviations of Estimating Rate
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--274
           Saeed Ghahramani and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   On Finite Moments of Full Busy Periods
                                  of GI/G/c Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--278
             Jean-Louis Bon and   
                   Abbas Illayk   Ageing Properties and Series Systems . . 279--286
           Thomas Mountford and   
            Rinaldo B. Schinazi   A Note on Branching Random Walks on
                                  Finite Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--294
      Nadine Guillotin-Plantard   Gillis's Random Walks on Graphs  . . . . 295--301
                      Anonymous   Correction: Transient Analysis of
                                  State-Dependent Queueing Networks via
                                  Cumulant Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 302--302
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 42, Number 2, June, 2005

               Xianping Guo and   
Onésimo Hernández-Lerma   Nonzero-Sum Games for Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains with Unbounded Discounted
                                  Payoffs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--320
             Jason Schweinsberg   Improving on Bold Play When the Gambler
                                  Is Restricted  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--333
                     Peter Neal   Compound Poisson Limits for Household
                                  Epidemics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--345
                 A. Gerardi and   
                    P. Tardelli   Heterogeneous Population Dynamical
                                  Model: A Filtering Problem . . . . . . . 346--361
              Ulrich Rieder and   
            Nicole Bäuerle   Portfolio Optimization with Unobservable
                                  Markov-Modulated Drift Process . . . . . 362--378
         Stéphane Loisel   Differentiation of Some Functionals of
                                  Risk Processes, and Optimal Reserve
                                  Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--392
         Rudolf Grübel and   
                   Marcus Reich   Rarity and Exponentiality: An Extension
                                  of Keilson's Theorem, with Applications  393--406
         Jean-Marc Aza\"\is and   
 José R. León and   
              Joaqu\"\in Ortega   Geometrical Characteristics of Gaussian
                                  Sea Waves  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--425
        Raymond Brummelhuis and   
        Dominique Guégan   Multiperiod Conditional Distribution
                                  Functions for Conditionally Normal
                                  Garch(1, 1) Models . . . . . . . . . . . 426--445
               Claudia Ceci and   
                   Anna Gerardi   Multitype Branching Processes Observing
                                  Particles of a Given Type  . . . . . . . 446--462
         M. González and   
                  M. Molina and   
                  I. Del Puerto   Asymptotic Behaviour of Critical
                                  Controlled Branching Processes with
                                  Random Control Functions . . . . . . . . 463--477
                   De-An Wu and   
                 Hideaki Takagi   Processor-Sharing and Random-Service
                                  Queues with Semi-Markovian Arrivals  . . 478--490
                   Marc Lelarge   Fluid Limit of Generalized Jackson
                                  Queueing Networks with Stationary and
                                  Ergodic Arrivals and Service Times . . . 491--512
   François Baccelli and   
               Serguei Foss and   
                   Marc Lelarge   Tails in Generalized Jackson Networks
                                  with Subexponential Service-Time
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--530
                 Soohan Ahn and   
                   V. Ramaswami   Efficient Algorithms for Transient
                                  Analysis of Stochastic Fluid Flow Models 531--549
    O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
                 N. N. Leonenko   Burgers' Turbulence Problem with Linear
                                  or Quadratic External Potential  . . . . 550--565
          Peter C. Kiessler and   
         Kanoktip Nimitkiatklai   The Lifetime of a Random Set . . . . . . 566--580
              Colin Mallows and   
                    Larry Shepp   $B$-Stability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--586
              Kyung Eun Lim and   
              Jee Seon Baek and   
                   Eui Yong Lee   Optimization under the $ P_{\lambda,
                                  \tau }^M $ Policy of a Finite Dam with
                                  Both Continuous and Jumpwise Inputs  . . 587--594
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 42, Number 3, September, 2005

                 Esther Frostig   On the Expected Time to Ruin and the
                                  Expected Dividends When Dividends Are
                                  Paid while the Surplus Is above a
                                  Constant Barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--607
                      Qihe Tang   The Finite-Time Ruin Probability of the
                                  Compound Poisson Model with Constant
                                  Interest Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--619
                  M. Möhle   Convergence Results for Compound Poisson
                                  Distributions and Applications to the
                                  Standard Luria--Delbrück Distribution . . 620--631
  Alexander Yu. Mitrophanov and   
         Alexandre Lomsadze and   
                Mark Borodovsky   Sensitivity of Hidden Markov Models  . . 632--642
                Majid Asadi and   
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                 Ehsan S. Soofi   Minimum Dynamic Discrimination
                                  Information Models . . . . . . . . . . . 643--660
                Larry Goldstein   Berry--Esseen Bounds for Combinatorial
                                  Central Limit Theorems and Pattern
                                  Occurrences, Using Zero and Size Biasing 661--683
                   James Ledoux   Recursive Filters for Partially
                                  Observable Finite Markov Chains  . . . . 684--697
               Zhenting Hou and   
               Yuanyuan Liu and   
                   Hanjun Zhang   Subgeometric Rates of Convergence for a
                                  Class of Continuous-Time Markov Process  698--712
               Brenton Gray and   
               Phil Pollett and   
                   Hanjun Zhang   On the Existence of Uni-Instantaneous
                                  $Q$-Processes with a Given Finite $ \mu
                                  $-Invariant Measure  . . . . . . . . . . 713--725
                  Damian Clancy   A Stochastic SIS Infection Model
                                  Incorporating Indirect Transmission  . . 726--737
              Zengjing Chen and   
                  Reg Kulperger   A Stochastic Competing-Species Model and
                                  Ergodicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--753
                     P. Whittle   Tax Problems in the Undiscounted Case    754--765
                B. H. Margolius   Transient Solution to the Time-Dependent
                                  Multiserver Poisson Queue  . . . . . . . 766--777
         Klaus Schiefermayr and   
                Josef Weichbold   A Complete Solution for the Optimal
                                  Stochastic Scheduling of a Two-Stage
                                  Tandem Queue with Two Flexible Servers   778--796
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                     Zegang Zhu   On Increasing-Failure-Rate Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--809
                    Jun Cai and   
                      Haijun Li   Conditional Tail Expectations for
                                  Multivariate Phase-Type Distributions    810--825
                     X. Guo and   
                         J. Liu   Stopping at the Maximum of Geometric
                                  Brownian Motion When Signals Are
                                  Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826--838
                   Zsolt Katona   Width of a Scale-Free Tree . . . . . . . 839--850
               Per Hörfelt   The Moment Problem for Some Wiener
                                  Functionals: Corrections to Previous
                                  Proofs (with an Appendix by H. L.
                                  Pedersen)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--860
             Ragnar Norberg and   
              Mogens Steffensen   What Is the Time Value of a Stream of
                                  Investments? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861--866
Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos and   
         Özgür Simsek   Optimal Doubling Strategy against a
                                  Suboptimal Opponent  . . . . . . . . . . 867--872
             O. L. V. Costa and   
                      F. Dufour   A Sufficient Condition for the Existence
                                  of an Invariant Probability Measure for
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--878
                   Gideon Weiss   Jackson Networks with Unlimited Supply
                                  of Work  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--882
                  Ger Koole and   
               Misja Nuyens and   
                 Rhonda Righter   The Effect of Service Time Variability
                                  on Maximum Queue Lengths in $ M^X / G /
                                  1 $ Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883--891
                       Yulin Li   Asymptotic Baseline of the Hazard Rate
                                  Function of Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . 892--901
                  Aidan Sudbury   Rigorous Lower Bounds for Extinction
                                  Probabilities of the Contact Process . . 902--904
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 42, Number 4, December, 2005

     Rolando Cavazos-Cadena and   
      Raúl Montes-de-Oca   Nonstationary Value Iteration in
                                  Controlled Markov Chains with
                                  Risk-Sensitive Average Criterion . . . . 905--918
                 Ilan Adler and   
               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
            Richard M. Karp and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   A Probabilistic Model for the
                                  Survivability of Cells . . . . . . . . . 919--931
                 Frank Ball and   
                    Tom Britton   An Epidemic Model with
                                  Exposure-Dependent Severities  . . . . . 932--949
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                Philippe Picard   Nonstationarity and Randomization in the
                                  Reed--Frost Epidemic Model . . . . . . . 950--963
                May-Ru Chen and   
                 Ching-Zong Wei   A New Urn Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 964--976
           John A. D. Aston and   
            Donald E. K. Martin   Waiting Time Distributions of Competing
                                  Patterns in Higher-Order Markovian
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--988
     Fátima Ferreira and   
         António Pacheco   Level-Crossing Ordering of Semi-Markov
                                  Processes and Markov Chains  . . . . . . 989--1002
             A. Yu. Mitrophanov   Sensitivity and Convergence of Uniformly
                                  Ergodic Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . 1003--1014
         M. González and   
         R. Martínez and   
                        M. Mota   On the Geometric Growth in a Class of
                                  Homogeneous Multitype Markov Chain . . . 1015--1030
                 Frank Ball and   
                 Robin K. Milne   Simple Derivations of Properties of
                                  Counting Processes Associated with
                                  Markov Renewal Processes . . . . . . . . 1031--1043
                  Ken Duffy and   
            Anthony P. Metcalfe   How to Estimate the Rate Function of a
                                  Cumulative Process . . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1052
         Anastasia Papavasiliou   A Uniformly Convergent Adaptive Particle
                                  Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053--1068
                     B. Lachaud   Cut-off and Hitting Times of a Sample of
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Processes and Its
                                  Average  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1080
Pál Révész and   
                  Jay Rosen and   
                       Zhan Shi   Large-Time Asymptotics for the Density
                                  of a Branching Wiener Process  . . . . . 1081--1094
                  Penka Mayster   Alternating Branching Processes  . . . . 1095--1108
               Nicolas Lanchier   A Multitype Contact Process with Frozen
                                  Sites: A Spatial Model of Allelopathy    1109--1119
                      Mei Zhang   A Large Deviation Principle for a
                                  Brownian Immigration Particle System . . 1120--1133
 Andreas Nordvall Lagerås   A Renewal-Process-Type Expression for
                                  the Moments of Inverse Subordinators . . 1134--1144
                Moez Draief and   
              Jean Mairesse and   
                 Neil O'Connell   Queues, Stores, and Tableaux . . . . . . 1145--1167
      Alexander D. Kolesnik and   
                 Enzo Orsingher   A Planar Random Motion with an Infinite
                                  Number of Directions Controlled by the
                                  Damped Wave Equation . . . . . . . . . . 1168--1182
            Olympia Hadjiliadis   Optimality of the $2$-CUSUM Drift
                                  Equalizer Rules for Detecting Two-Sided
                                  Alternatives in the Brownian Motion
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183--1193
                Yuebao Wang and   
               Dongya Cheng and   
                   Kaiyong Wang   The Closure of a Local Subexponential
                                  Distribution Class under Convolution
                                  Roots, with Applications to the Compound
                                  Poisson Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194--1203
               Chin-Yuan Hu and   
                   Gwo Dong Lin   Sharp Reliability Bounds for the L-Like
                                  Distributions, a Class in Which Ageing
                                  Is Based on Laplace Transform
                                  Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1204--1208
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 43, Number 1, March, 2006

       Sithparran Vanniasegaram   Le Her with $s$ Suits and $d$
                                  Denominations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
              Daniel Berend and   
                     Luba Sapir   Range of Asymptotic Behaviour of the
                                  Optimality Probability of the Expert and
                                  Majority Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--31
                 Oliver Johnson   A Central Limit Theorem for
                                  Non-Overlapping Return Times . . . . . . 32--47
               A. Colangelo and   
             A. Müller and   
                    M. Scarsini   Positive Dependence and Weak Convergence 48--59
                 Urs Gruber and   
               Martin Schweizer   A Diffusion Limit for Generalized
                                  Correlated Random Walks  . . . . . . . . 60--73
          Ludwig Baringhaus and   
             Rudolf Grübel   Monte Carlo Algorithms for Finding the
                                  Maximum of a Random Walk with Negative
                                  Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--86
        Vladimir V. Mazalov and   
                Mitsushi Tamaki   An Explicit Formula for the Optimal Gain
                                  in the Full-Information Problem of
                                  Owning a Relatively Best Object  . . . . 87--101
                  Albrecht Irle   A Forward Algorithm for Solving Optimal
                                  Stopping Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 102--113
                  K. F. Turkman   A Note on the Extremal Index for
                                  Space-Time Processes . . . . . . . . . . 114--126
                Joseph Glaz and   
           Martin Kulldorff and   
        Vladimir Pozdnyakov and   
              J. Michael Steele   Gambling Teams and Waiting Times for
                                  Patterns in Two-State Markov Chains  . . 127--140
               Yuanyuan Liu and   
                   Zhenting Hou   Several Types of Ergodicity for
                                  M/G/1-type Markov Chains and Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--158
         M. González and   
         R. Martínez and   
                        M. Mota   Rates of Growth in a Class of
                                  Homogeneous Multidimensional Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--174
                 Mario Lefebvre   First Passage Problems for Asymmetric
                                  Wiener Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
              J. C. Jimenez and   
                   F. Carbonell   Local Linear Approximations of Jump
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 185--194
                     Yuqiang Li   On a Continuous-State
                                  Population-Size-Dependent Branching
                                  Process and Its Extinction . . . . . . . 195--207
              Martijn Pistorius   On Maxima and Ladder Processes for a
                                  Dense Class of Lévy Process . . . . . . . 208--220
                Offer Kella and   
                 Onno Boxma and   
                 Michel Mandjes   A Lévy Process Reflected at a Poisson Age
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--230
             Lasse Leskelä   Stabilization of an Overloaded Queueing
                                  Network Using Measurement-Based
                                  Admission Control  . . . . . . . . . . . 231--244
                    Rafal Kulik   Limit Theorems for Moving Averages with
                                  Random Coefficients and Heavy-Tailed
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--256
    Hansjörg Albrecher and   
                 Jef L. Teugels   Exponential Behavior in the Presence of
                                  Dependence in Risk Theory  . . . . . . . 257--273
               Scott Spicer and   
                   Ilze Ziedins   User-Optimal State-Dependent Routeing in
                                  Parallel Tandem Queues with Loss . . . . 274--281
             Erol A. Peköz   A Compound Poisson Approximation
                                  Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--288
                      Zenghu Li   A Limit Theorem for Discrete
                                  Galton--Watson Branching Processes with
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--295
Maria Conceição Serra   On the Waiting Time to Escape  . . . . . 296--302
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 43, Number 2, June, 2006

       Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh and   
      Daniel E. Finkelstein and   
               Dusting G. Mixon   Availability of Periodically Inspected
                                  Systems with Markovian Wear and Shocks   303--317
               Xianping Guo and   
                    Quanxin Zhu   Average Optimality for Markov Decision
                                  Processes in Borel Spaces: A New
                                  Condition and Approach . . . . . . . . . 318--334
             Hsiao-Chi Chen and   
             Yunshyong Chow and   
                     June Hsieh   Boundedly Rational Quasi-Bayesian
                                  Learning in Coordination Games with
                                  Imperfect Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . 335--350
               Koffi Y. Sampson   Structured Coalescent with
                                  Nonconservative Migration  . . . . . . . 351--362
                 Sandjai Bhulai   On the Value Function of the M/Cox(r)/1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--376
               Rafik Aguech and   
               Nabil Lasmar and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   Limit Distribution of Distances in
                                  Biased Random Tries  . . . . . . . . . . 377--390
              Jorge Navarro and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Hazard Rate Ordering of Order Statistics
                                  and Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--408
                  Yung-Pin Chen   A Central Limit Property under a
                                  Modified Ehrenfest urn Design  . . . . . 409--420
           Remigijus Leipus and   
        Vygantas Paulauskas and   
              Donatas Surgailis   On a Random-Coefficient AR(1) Process
                                  with Heavy-Tailed Renewal Switching
                                  Coefficient and Heavy-Tailed Noise . . . 421--440
             Richard Finlay and   
                  Eugene Seneta   Stationary-Increment Student and
                                  Variance-Gamma Processes . . . . . . . . 441--453
                G. Sofronov and   
          Jonathan M. Keith and   
                 Dirk P. Kroese   An Optimal Sequential Procedure for a
                                  Buying-Selling Problem with Independent
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--462
                   Johan Segers   Rare Events, Temporal Dependence, and
                                  the Extremal Index . . . . . . . . . . . 463--485
                Robert Lund and   
                  Ying Zhao and   
              Peter C. Kiessler   A Monotonicity in Reversible Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--499
        Krzysztof Bartoszek and   
             Wojciech Bartoszek   On the Time Behaviour of Okazaki
                                  Fragments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--509
              Landy Rabehasaina   Moments of a Markov-Modulated,
                                  Irreducible Network of Fluid Queues  . . 510--522
                   S. Aalto and   
                      U. Ayesta   On the Nonoptimality of the
                                  Foreground-Background Discipline for
                                  IMRL Service Times . . . . . . . . . . . 523--534
          Zvetan G. Ignatov and   
            Vladimir K. Kaishev   On the Infinite-Horizon Probability of
                                  (Non)ruin for Integer-Valued Claims  . . 535--551
             Olivier Dousse and   
      Massimo Franceschetti and   
             Nicolas Macris and   
             Ronald Meester and   
                 Patrick Thiran   Percolation in the Signal to
                                  Interference Ratio Graph . . . . . . . . 552--562
         Arthur Charpentier and   
                Alessandro Juri   Limiting Dependence Structures for Tail
                                  Events, with Applications to Credit
                                  Derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--586
                 Jaap Geluk and   
                      Kai W. Ng   Tail Behaviour of Negatively Associated
                                  Heavy-Tailed Sums  . . . . . . . . . . . 587--593
        C. Klüppelberg and   
                A. E. Kyprianou   On Extreme Ruinous Behaviour of Levy
                                  Insurance Risk Processes . . . . . . . . 594--598
                Yat-Wah Wan and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   On the Time Spent below a Random
                                  Threshold by a System Driven by a
                                  General Counting Process . . . . . . . . 599--601
                      Anonymous   Correction: Infinite Divisibility of
                                  Infinite Sums of Lower Records: A Simple
                                  Proof  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--602
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 43, Number 3, September, 2006

               Huw W. James and   
                  E. J. Collins   An Analysis of Transient Markov Decision
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--621
              Stefan Ankirchner   Monotone Utility Convergence . . . . . . 622--633
              Marina Santacroce   Derivatives Pricing via $p$-Optimal
                                  Martingale Measures: Some Extreme Cases  634--651
             Toshinao Nakatsuka   The Untraceable Events Method for
                                  Absorbing Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 652--664
                   J. E. Yukich   Ultra-Small Scale-Free Geometric
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--677
                  M. Draief and   
                      A. Ganesh   Efficient Routeing in Poisson
                                  Small-World Networks . . . . . . . . . . 678--686
        Ludger Rüschendorf   On Stochastic Recursive Equations of Sum
                                  and Max Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--703
     Jesús De La Cal and   
          Javier Cárcamo   Stochastic Orders and Majorization of
                                  Mean Order Statistics  . . . . . . . . . 704--712
              Claudio Macci and   
               Gabriele Stabile   Large Deviations for Risk Processes with
                                  Reinsurance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--728
                     J. Preater   On-Line Selection of an Acceptable Pair  729--740
                   Birgit Niese   A Martingale Characterization of
                                  Pólya--Lundberg Processes . . . . . . . . 741--754
               Yvik C. Swan and   
                F. Thomas Bruss   A Matrix-Analytic Approach to the
                                  $N$-Player Ruin Problem  . . . . . . . . 755--766
             O. L. V. Costa and   
                      F. Dufour   Ergodic Properties and Ergodic
                                  Decompositions of Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--781
          George Kordzakhia and   
               Steven P. Lalley   Ergodicity and Mixing Properties of the
                                  Northeast Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 782--792
                Hans Daduna and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Dependence Ordering for Markov Processes
                                  on Partially Ordered Spaces  . . . . . . 793--814
               Chuancun Yin and   
                  Junsheng Zhao   Nonexponential Asymptotics for the
                                  Solutions of Renewal Equations, with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--824
              Laurent Doyen and   
                Olivier Gaudoin   Imperfect Maintenance in a Generalized
                                  Competing Risks Framework  . . . . . . . 825--839
             Alexis Gillett and   
             Ronald Meester and   
              Peter Van Der Wal   Maximal Avalanches in the Bak--Sneppen
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840--851
                Nobuaki Hoshino   A Discrete Multivariate Distribution
                                  Resulting from the Law of Small Numbers  852--866
              Erik Ekström   Bounds for Perpetual American Option
                                  Prices in a Jump Diffusion Model . . . . 867--873
                Yuebao Wang and   
                   Kaiyong Wang   Asymptotics of the Density of the
                                  Supremum of a Random Walk with
                                  Heavy-Tailed Increments  . . . . . . . . 874--879
            L. C. G. Rogers and   
                    Larry Shepp   The Correlation of the Maxima of
                                  Correlated Brownian Motions  . . . . . . 880--883
                 L. Pereira and   
                    H. Ferreira   Limiting Crossing Probabilities of
                                  Random Fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884--891
      R. G. Dolgoarshinnykh and   
               Steven P. Lalley   Critical Scaling for the SIS Stochastic
                                  Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892--898
           Colin L. Mallows and   
                   Jean Meloche   Searching for Searchers  . . . . . . . . 899--904
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 43, Number 4, December, 2006

                May-Ru Chen and   
                Shoou-Ren Hsiau   Two-Person Red-and-Black Games with
                                  Bet-Dependent Win Probability Functions  905--915
            Ayalvadi Ganesh and   
          Giovanni Luca Torrisi   A Class of Risk Processes with Delayed
                                  Claims: Ruin Probability Estimates under
                                  Heavy Tail Conditions  . . . . . . . . . 916--926
                    H. Ferreira   The Upcrossings Index and the Extremal
                                  Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--937
                I. Higueras and   
                   J. Moler and   
                     F. Plo and   
                  M. San Miguel   Central Limit Theorems for Generalized
                                  Pólya urn Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 938--951
               John A. Morrison   An urn Model Arising from All-Optical
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952--966
            M. E. Caballero and   
                    L. Chaumont   Conditioned Stable Lévy Processes and the
                                  Lamperti Representation  . . . . . . . . 967--983
       Anne Laure Bronstein and   
           Lane P. Hughston and   
       Martijn R. Pistorius and   
                  Mihail Zervos   Discretionary Stopping of
                                  One-Dimensional Itô Diffusions with a
                                  Staircase Reward Function  . . . . . . . 984--996
             Kiyoshi Kawazu and   
                    Yuki Suzuki   Limit Theorems for a Diffusion Process
                                  with a One-Sided Brownian Potential  . . 997--1012
    Predrag R. Jelenkovi\'c and   
          Ana Radovanovi\'c and   
             Mark S. Squillante   Critical Sizing of LRU Caches with
                                  Dependent Requests . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1027
                     Hao Ge and   
              Da-Quan Jiang and   
                       Min Qian   Reversibility and Entropy Production of
                                  Inhomogeneous Markov Chains  . . . . . . 1028--1043
           Nico M. Van Dijk and   
            Karel Sladký   On the Total Reward Variance for
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Reward Chains . . 1044--1052
             Valeri T. Stefanov   Exact Distributions for Reward Functions
                                  on Semi-Markov and Markov Additive
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053--1065
Andreas Nordvall Lagerås and   
         Anders Martin-Löf   Genealogy for Supercritical Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066--1076
                Yuichi Shiozawa   Extinction of Branching Symmetric $
                                  \alpha $-Stable Processes  . . . . . . . 1077--1090
                   A. Joffe and   
                       G. Letac   Multitype Linear Fractional Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1106
          Alexander D. Kolesnik   A Four-Dimensional Random Motion at
                                  Finite Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107--1118
               Gadi Barlevy and   
                 H. N. Nagaraja   Characterizations in a Random Record
                                  Model with a Nonidentically Distributed
                                  Initial Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1136
       Michael V. Boutsikas and   
              Markos V. Koutras   On the Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  Discrete Scan Statistic  . . . . . . . . 1137--1154
                   Yi Zhang and   
               Zhengyan Lin and   
                  Chengguo Weng   Some Limiting Properties of the Bounds
                                  of the Present Value Function of a Life
                                  Insurance Portfolio  . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1164
        Benjamin Avi-Itzhak and   
                Boaz Golany and   
              Uriel G. Rothblum   Strategic Equilibrium versus Global
                                  Optimum for a Pair of Competing Servers  1165--1172
      Massimo Franceschetti and   
                 Ronald Meester   Navigation in Small-World Networks: A
                                  Scale-free Continuum Model . . . . . . . 1173--1180
               Toshihide Mizuno   A Relation between Positive Dependence
                                  of Signal and the Variability of
                                  Conditional Expectation Given Signal . . 1181--1185
                Robert Lund and   
                  Ying Zhao and   
              Peter C. Kiessler   Shapes of Stationary Autocovariances . . 1186--1193
                Brian H. Fralix   Foster-Type Criteria for Markov Chains
                                  on General Spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . 1194--1200
                Serhan Ziya and   
              Hayriye Ayhan and   
            Robert D. Foley and   
                Erol Peköz   A Monotonicity Result for a G/GI/c Queue
                                  with Balking or Reneging . . . . . . . . 1201--1205
                      Anonymous   Correction: Joint Exceedances of the
                                  ARCH Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1206--1206
                      Anonymous   Correction: Stationary-Increment Student
                                  and Variance-Gamma Processes . . . . . . 1207--1207
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                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 44, Number 1, March, 2007

                   Steve Alpern   Rendezvous Search with Revealed
                                  Information: Applications to the Line    1--15
                   Stefan Weber   Distribution-Invariant Risk Measures,
                                  Entropy, and Large Deviations  . . . . . 16--40
                     Peter Neal   Coupling of Two SIR Epidemic Models with
                                  Variable Susceptibilities and
                                  Infectivities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--57
               Rustam Ibragimov   Thou Shalt Not Diversify: Why 'Two of
                                  Every Sort'? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--70
              Kiyoshi Inoue and   
                      Sigeo Aki   On Generating Functions of Waiting Times
                                  and Numbers of Occurrences of Compound
                                  Patterns in a Sequence of Multistate
                                  Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81
              Jorge Navarro and   
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Mean Residual Lifetimes of
                                  Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$ Systems . . . 82--98
                 F. Ballani and   
                  D. Stoyan and   
                        S. Wolf   On Two Damage Accumulation Models and
                                  Their Size Effects . . . . . . . . . . . 99--114
                Paul Dupuis and   
                Carl Nuzman and   
                   Phil Whiting   Large Deviations Principle for Occupancy
                                  Problems with Colored Balls  . . . . . . 115--141
                Franco Pellerey   Comparison Results for Branching
                                  Processes in Random Environments . . . . 142--150
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
                         Jie Mi   Study of a Stochastic Failure Model in a
                                  Random Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 151--163
         Raphaël Rossignol   Arbitrary Threshold Widths for Monotone,
                                  Symmetric Properties . . . . . . . . . . 164--180
     Stéphane Villeneuve   On Threshold Strategies and the
                                  Smooth-Fit Principle for Optimal
                                  Stopping Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 181--198
            Ilie Grigorescu and   
                Robert Chen and   
                    Larry Shepp   Optimal Strategy for the Vardi Casino
                                  with Interest Payments . . . . . . . . . 199--211
                   Yi-Ching Yao   On Optimality of Bold Play for
                                  Discounted Dubins-Savage Gambling
                                  Problems with Limited Playing Times  . . 212--225
                      Bo Wu and   
                   Yu-Hui Zhang   A Class of Multidimensional
                                  $Q$-Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--237
                   Stan Zachary   A Note on Insensitivity in Stochastic
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--248
          Vyacheslav M. Abramov   Optimal Control of a Large Dam . . . . . 249--258
    Agustín Bompadre and   
                 Moshe Dror and   
                 James B. Orlin   Probabilistic Analysis of Unit-Demand
                                  Vehicle Routeing Problems  . . . . . . . 259--278
                 Anyue Chen and   
               Phil Pollett and   
                 Junping Li and   
                   Hanjun Zhang   A Remark on the Uniqueness of Weighted
                                  Markov Branching Processes . . . . . . . 279--283
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 44, Number 2, June, 2007

                      Qihe Tang   Heavy Tails of Discounted Aggregate
                                  Claims in the Continuous-Time Renewal
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--294
               Anthony G. Pakes   Convolution Equivalence and Infinite
                                  Divisibility: Corrections and
                                  Corollaries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--305
                   Marc Lelarge   Tail Asymptotics for Monotone-Separable
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--320
                   Heng-Qing Ye   A Paradox for Admission Control of
                                  Multiclass Queueing Network with
                                  Differentiated Service . . . . . . . . . 321--331
       Fabrice M. Guillemin and   
           Ravi R. Mazumdar and   
     Catherine P. Rosenberg and   
                        Yu Ying   A Stochastic Ordering Property for Leaky
                                  Bucket Regulated Flows in Packet
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--348
         Zbigniew Palmowski and   
                     Bert Zwart   Tail Asymptotics of the Supremum of a
                                  Regenerative Process . . . . . . . . . . 349--365
            Steven P. Clark and   
              Peter C. Kiessler   A Diffusion Approximation for Markov
                                  Renewal Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 366--378
           Remigijus Leipus and   
              Donatas Surgailis   On Long-Range Dependence in Regenerative
                                  Processes Based on a General On/Off
                                  Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--392
                      Allan Sly   Integrated Fractional White Noise as an
                                  Alternative to Multifractional Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--408
                Roman V. Ivanov   On the Pricing of American Options in
                                  Exponential Lévy Markets  . . . . . . . . 409--419
Jean-François Renaud and   
                   Xiaowen Zhou   Distribution of the Present Value of
                                  Dividend Payments in a Lévy Risk Model    420--427
            A. E. Kyprianou and   
                   Z. Palmowski   Distributional Study of de Finetti's
                                  Dividend Problem for a General Lévy
                                  Insurance Risk Process . . . . . . . . . 428--443
                     M. Elshamy   A Stability Property of Stochastic
                                  Vibration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--457
          Gareth O. Roberts and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Coupling and Ergodicity of Adaptive
                                  Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms  . . 458--475
                 David Sirl and   
               Hanjun Zhang and   
                   Phil Pollett   Computable Bounds for the Decay
                                  Parameter of a Birth-Death Process . . . 476--491
                  M. Molina and   
                    M. Mota and   
                       A. Ramos   Some Contributions to the Theory of
                                  Near-Critical Bisexual Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--505
              Maxim Finkelstein   On Some Ageing Properties of General
                                  Repair Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--513
                 John L. Spouge   Markov Additive Processes and Repeats in
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--527
          Mohamed Ben Alaya and   
              Benjamin Jourdain   Probabilistic Approximation of a
                                  Nonlinear Parabolic Equation Occurring
                                  in Rheology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--546
                Laura Pontiggia   Nonconstant Sum Red-and-Black Games with
                                  Bet-Dependent Win Probability Function   547--553
             Roger Filliger and   
            Max-Olivier Hongler   Explicit Gittins Indices for a Class of
                                  Superdiffusive Processes . . . . . . . . 554--559
        Alexander V. Gnedin and   
             Denis I. Miretskiy   Winning Rate in the Full-Information
                                  Best-Choice Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 560--565
               Phil Pollett and   
               Hanjun Zhang and   
             Benjamin J. Cairns   A Note on Extinction Times for the
                                  General Birth, Death and Catastrophe
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--569
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 44, Number 3, September, 2007

                 Frank Ball and   
          Philip D. O'Neill and   
                     James Pike   Stochastic Epidemic Models in Structured
                                  Populations Featuring Dynamic
                                  Vaccination and Isolation  . . . . . . . 571--585
            Gerold Alsmeyer and   
               Matthias Meiners   A Stochastic Maximin Fixed-Point
                                  Equation Related to Game Tree Evaluation 586--606
                 Ka Chun Cheung   Characterizations of Conditional
                                  Comonotonicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--617
              Teunis J. Ott and   
                  Jason Swanson   Asymptotic Behavior of a Generalized TCP
                                  Congestion Avoidance Algorithm . . . . . 618--635
              Jennie Hansen and   
              Cian Reynolds and   
                   Stan Zachary   Stability of Processor Sharing Networks
                                  with Simultaneous Resource Requirements  636--651
                 R. Abraham and   
              J. S. Dhersin and   
                       B. Ycart   Strong Convergence for Urn Models with
                                  Reducible Replacement Policy . . . . . . 652--660
 Alessandro Baldi Antognini and   
              Simone Giannerini   Generalized Pólya Urn Designs with Null
                                  Balance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--669
                  Ph. Barbe and   
            W. P. McCormick and   
                       C. Zhang   Asymptotic Expansions for Distributions
                                  of Compound Sums of Random Variables
                                  with Rapidly Varying Subexponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670--684
                 Xiaoxia He and   
                       Yijun Hu   Ruin Probability for the Integrated
                                  Gaussian Process with Force of Interest  685--694
             Susan M. Pitts and   
            Konstadinos Politis   The Joint Density of the Surplus before
                                  and after Ruin in the Sparre Andersen
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--712
                Pavel V. Gapeev   Discounted Optimal Stopping for Maxima
                                  of Some Jump-Diffusion Processes . . . . 713--731
                   Brice Franke   A Lévy Process Whose Jumps Are Dragged by
                                  a Spherical Dynamical System . . . . . . 732--741
                Yaozhong Hu and   
          Bernt Òksendal   Optimal Smooth Portfolio Selection for
                                  an Insider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--752
               S. V. Nagaev and   
                     V. Wachtel   The Critical Galton--Watson Process
                                  without Further Power Moments  . . . . . 753--769
                N. Lanchier and   
                   C. Neuhauser   Voter Model and Biased Voter Model in
                                  Heterogeneous Environments . . . . . . . 770--787
          M. R. Kantorovitz and   
                H. S. Booth and   
               C. J. Burden and   
                   S. R. Wilson   Asymptotic Behavior of $k$-Word Matches
                                  between Two Uniformly Distributed
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788--805
           Nicolas Privault and   
                       Xiao Wei   Integration by Parts for Point Processes
                                  and Monte Carlo Estimation . . . . . . . 806--823
                     Lars Holst   Counts of Failure Strings in Certain
                                  Bernoulli Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . 824--830
                   Yi-Ching Yao   Explicit Optimal Strategy for the Vardi
                                  Casino with Limited Playing Time . . . . 831--837
          Alexander D. Kolesnik   A Note on Planar Random Motion at Finite
                                  Speed  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838--842
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 44, Number 4, December, 2007

          Steven A. Lippman and   
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
               Sridhar Seshadri   A Weakest Link Marked Stopping Problem   843--851
                  Josep Freixas   Bounds for Owen's Multilinear Extension  852--864
           Alexander Schied and   
                   Mitja Stadje   Robustness of Delta Hedging for
                                  Path-Dependent Options in Local
                                  Volatility Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 865--879
               Frank Oertel and   
                      Mark Owen   On Utility-Based Superreplication Prices
                                  of Contingent Claims with Unbounded
                                  Payoffs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880--888
                Shijie Wang and   
                  Wensheng Wang   Precise Large Deviations for Sums of
                                  Random Variables with Consistently
                                  Varying Tails in Multi-Risk Models . . . 889--900
                Vincent Bansaye   On a Model for the Storage of Files on a
                                  Hardware. II. Evolution of a Typical
                                  Data Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--927
      Félix Belzunce and   
Helena Martínez-Puertas and   
            José M. Ruiz   Reversed Preservation Properties for
                                  Series and Parallel Systems  . . . . . . 928--937
                  Shui Feng and   
                   Feng-Yu Wang   A Class of Infinite-Dimensional
                                  Diffusion Processes with Connection to
                                  Population Genetics  . . . . . . . . . . 938--949
             Richard Finlay and   
                  Eugene Seneta   A Gamma Activity Time Process with
                                  Noninteger Parameter and Self-Similar
                                  Limit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 950--959
               Stephan Haug and   
                  Claudia Czado   An Exponential Continuous-Time GARCH
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960--976
         Peter J. Brockwell and   
           Richard A. Davis and   
                        Yu Yang   Estimation for Nonnegative Lévy--Driven
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Processes  . . . . . 977--989
            G. S. Tsitsiashvili   Moments of Random Allocation Processes
                                  Reaching a Boundary  . . . . . . . . . . 990--995
            Alexander V. Gnedin   Optimal Stopping with Rank-Dependent
                                  Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996--1011
                   Xiaowen Zhou   Exit Problems for Spectrally Negative
                                  Lévy Processes Reflected at Either the
                                  Supremum or the Infimum  . . . . . . . . 1012--1030
              Denis Denisov and   
                     Bert Zwart   On a Theorem of Breiman and a Class of
                                  Random Difference Equations  . . . . . . 1031--1046
            K. J. E. Carpio and   
                    D. J. Daley   Long-Range Dependence of Markov Chains
                                  in Discrete Time on Countable State
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1055
            Andreas Lindell and   
                     Lars Holst   Distributions of the Longest Excursions
                                  in a Tied down Simple Random Walk and in
                                  a Brownian Bridge  . . . . . . . . . . . 1056--1067
              Antonio Pievatolo   The Downtime Distribution after a
                                  Failure of a System with Multistate
                                  Independent Components . . . . . . . . . 1068--1077
                   Urtzi Ayesta   A Unifying Conservation Law for
                                  Single-Server Queues . . . . . . . . . . 1078--1087
                Yingdong Lu and   
              Ana Radovanovi\'c   Asymptotic Blocking Probabilities in
                                  Loss Networks with Subexponential
                                  Demands  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088--1102
              Thomas Prince and   
                  Neville Weber   Fixation in Conditional Branching
                                  Process Models in Population Genetics    1103--1110
                  Jerim Kim and   
                   Bara Kim and   
                   Sung-Seok Ko   Tail Asymptotics for the Queue Size
                                  Distribution in an M/G/1 Retrial Queue   1111--1118
            Klas Markström   Negative Association Does Not Imply
                                  Log-Concavity of the Rank Sequence . . . 1119--1121
                      Anonymous   Correction: Markov Additive Processes
                                  and Repeats in Sequences . . . . . . . . 1122--1122
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 45, Number 1, March, 2008

            Sheldon M. Ross and   
                     Zegang Zhu   On the Structure of a Swing Contracts
                                  Optimal Value and Optimal Strategy . . . 1--15
              Shalom Benaim and   
                     Peter Friz   Smile Asymptotics II: Models with Known
                                  Moment Generating Functions  . . . . . . 16--32
             Pieter Allaart and   
              Michael Monticino   Optimal Buy/Sell Rules for Correlated
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44
        René Ferland and   
                  Gaston Giroux   Law of Large Numbers for Dynamic
                                  Bargaining Markets . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
             Ka Chun Cheung and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Ordering of Optimal Portfolio
                                  Allocations in a Model with a Mixture of
                                  Fundamental Risks  . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66
   Claudia Klüppelberg and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   The Pareto Copula, Aggregation of Risks,
                                  and the Emperor's Socks  . . . . . . . . 67--84
                 Bangwon Ko and   
                      Qihe Tang   Sums of Dependent Nonnegative Random
                                  Variables with Subexponential Tails  . . 85--94
                Eric Carlen and   
              Ester Gabetta and   
              Eugenio Regazzini   Probabilistic Investigations on the
                                  Explosion of Solutions of the Kac
                                  equation with infinite energy Initial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--106
               Ken R. Duffy and   
              Artem Sapozhnikov   The Large Deviation Principle for the
                                  on-off Weibull Sojourn Process . . . . . 107--117
              Alan L. Lewis and   
               Ernesto Mordecki   Wiener-Hope Factorization for Lévy
                                  Processes Having Positive Jumps with
                                  Rational Transforms  . . . . . . . . . . 118--134
                    B. A. Surya   Evaluating Scale Functions of Spectrally
                                  Negative Lévy Processes . . . . . . . . . 135--149
                    R. McVinish   On the Structure and Estimation of
                                  Reflection Positive Processes  . . . . . 150--162
     Andreas H. Löpker and   
   Johans S. H. Van Leeuwaarden   Trasient Moments of the TCP Window Size
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--175
                Yangrong Li and   
           Anthony G. Pakes and   
                     Jia Li and   
                       Anhui Gu   The Limit Behavior of Dual Markov
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 176--189
   Andreas N. Lagerås and   
                  Serik Sagitov   Reduced Branching Processes with Very
                                  Heavy Tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--200
               F. Carbonell and   
                  J. C. Jimenez   Weak Local Linear Discretizations for
                                  Stochastic Differential Equations with
                                  Jumps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--210
            Alexander Dudin and   
               Chesoong Kim and   
             Valentina Klimenok   Markov Chains with Hybrid Repeating
                                  Rows: Upper-Hessenberg, Quasi-Toeplitz
                                  Structure of the Block Transition
                                  Probability Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 211--225
            Grégory Nuel   Pattern Markov Chains: Optimal Markov
                                  Chain Embedding through Deterministic
                                  Finite Automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--243
            Abba M. Krieger and   
               Moshe Pollak and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Beat the Mean: Sequential Selection by
                                  Better than Average Rules  . . . . . . . 244--259
             Henry W. Block and   
                   Yulin Li and   
           Thomas H. Savits and   
                       Jie Wang   Continuous Mixtures with Bathtub-Shaped
                                  Failure Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--270
              Colin Mallows and   
                    Larry Shepp   The Necklace Process . . . . . . . . . . 271--278
        Ludger Rüschendorf   On a Comparison result for Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--286
Bernardo Nuñes Borges De Lima and   
         Artëm Sapozhnikov   On the Truncated Long-Range Percolation
                                  on $\mathbb{Z}^2$  . . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 45, Number 2, June, 2008

                D. J. Daley and   
                  D. Vere-Jones   David George Kendall and Applied
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--296
           Alexander L. Stolyar   Dynamic Distributed Scheduling in Random
                                  Access Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--313
                  R. Bekker and   
                O. J. Boxma and   
                       O. Kella   Queues with Delays in Two-State
                                  Strategies and Lévy Input . . . . . . . . 314--332
                Hans Daduna and   
          Christian Malchin and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Weak Convergence Limits for Sojourn
                                  Times in Cyclic Queues under Heavy
                                  Traffic Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 333--346
              Saul C. Leite and   
             Marcelo D. Fragoso   Diffusion Approximation of
                                  State-Dependent $G$-Networks under Heavy
                                  Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--362
    Hansjörg Albrecher and   
Jean-François Renaud and   
                   Xiaowen Zhou   A Lévy Insurance Risk Process with Tax    363--375
                  Matteo Ortisi   Polynomial-Rate Convergence to the
                                  Stationary State for the Continuum-Time
                                  Limit of the Minority Game . . . . . . . 376--387
             Hsiao-Chi Chen and   
                 Yunshyong Chow   Equilibrium Selection in Evolutionary
                                  Games with Imperfect Monitoring  . . . . 388--402
               Yi-Ching Yao and   
                    May-Ru Chen   Strong Optimality of Bold Play for
                                  Discounted Dubins-Savage Gambling
                                  Problems with Time-Dependent Parameters  403--416
                Quanxin Zhu and   
     Tomás Prieto-Rumeau   Bias and Overtaking Optimality for
                                  Continuous-Time Jump Markov Decision
                                  Processes in Polish Spaces . . . . . . . 417--429
                  Toshio Nakata   A Poisson Approximation for an Occupancy
                                  Problem with Collisions  . . . . . . . . 430--439
             Narjiss Touyar and   
             Sophie Schbath and   
          Dominique Cellier and   
        Hél\`ene Dauchel   Poisson Approximation for the Number of
                                  Repeats in a Stationary Markov Chain . . 440--455
               Xiaoxin Wang and   
                      Aihua Xia   On Negative Binomial Approximation to
                                  $k$-Runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--471
                 Daniel Tokarev   Growth of Integral Transforms and
                                  Extinction in Critical Galton--Watson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--480
          Daniela Bertacchi and   
                    Fabio Zucca   Critical Behaviors and Critical Values
                                  of Branching Random Walks on Multigraphs 481--497
                 Joel C. Miller   Bounding the Size and Probability of
                                  Epidemics on Networks  . . . . . . . . . 498--512
                     Peter Neal   The SIS Great Circle Epidemic Model  . . 513--530
                 A. G. Rossberg   Laplace Transforms of Probability
                                  Distributions and Their Inversions Are
                                  Easy on Logarithmic Scales . . . . . . . 531--541
                Valdo Durrleman   Convergence of At-the-Money Implied
                                  Volatilities to the Spot Volatility  . . 542--550
                       E. Rapoo   A Variable Step Size Riemannian Sum for
                                  an Itô Integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--567
         Erol A. Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Relating Time and Customer Averages for
                                  Queues Using 'Forward' Coupling from the
                                  Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--574
           Devdatt Dubhashi and   
       Olle Häggström   A Note on Conditioning and Stochastic
                                  Domination for Order Statistics  . . . . 575--579
                Ehud Lehrer and   
                    Eran Shmaya   Two Remarks on Blackwell's Theorem . . . 580--586
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 45, Number 3, September, 2008

                   Joe Gani and   
                  Eugene Seneta   Obituary: Christopher Charles Heyde, AM,
                                  DSc, FAA, FASSA  . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--592
                        L. Nash   Chris Heyde: An Appreciation . . . . . . 593--594
                 A. Gerardi and   
                    P. Tardelli   Controlled Heterogeneous Collection: The
                                  Role of Occupation Numbers . . . . . . . 595--609
                Offer Kella and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   A Collector's Problem with Renewal
                                  Arrival Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 610--620
                     Peter Neal   The Generalised Coupon Collector Problem 621--629
             Víctor Ruiz   A Compact Framework for Hidden Markov
                                  Chains with Applications to Fractal
                                  Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--639
   Victor De La Peña and   
                Henryk Gzyl and   
               Patrick McDonald   Hitting Time and Inverse Problems for
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640--649
               James Ledoux and   
          Langford B. White and   
                 Gary D. Brushe   On the Relationships between Lumpability
                                  and Filtering of Finite Stochastic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650--669
                 Saul Jacka and   
                 Marcus Sheehan   The Noisy Veto-Voter Model: A Recursive
                                  Distributional Equation on [0,1] . . . . 670--688
             Francis Comets and   
      François Simenhaus   Random Walk Delayed on Percolation
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--702
             Stephen Connor and   
                     Saul Jacka   Optimal Co-Adapted Coupling for the
                                  Symmetric Random Walk on the Hypercube   703--713
               Jean Bertoin and   
           Joaquin Fontbona and   
         Servet Martínez   On Prolific Individuals in a
                                  Supercritical Continuous-State Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--726
                    Didier Piau   Asymptotics of Posteriors for Binary
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 727--742
                Tom Britton and   
              Maria Deijfen and   
   Andreas N. Lagerås and   
               Mathias Lindholm   Epidemics on Random Graphs with Tunable
                                  Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--756
               David A. Kessler   Epidemic Size in the SIS Model of
                                  Endemic Infections . . . . . . . . . . . 757--778
                  Lothar Breuer   First Passage Times for Markov Additive
                                  Processes with Positive Jumps of Phase
                                  Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--799
                 Fuqing Gao and   
                        Jun Yan   Functional Large Deviations and Moderate
                                  Deviations for Markov-Modulated Risk
                                  Models with Reinsurance  . . . . . . . . 800--817
                 Jinxia Zhu and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Estimates for the Absolute Ruin
                                  Probability in the Compound Poisson Risk
                                  Model with Credit and Debit Interest . . 818--830
          Francesca Biagini and   
             Yuliya Bregman and   
            Thilo Meyer-Brandis   Pricing of Catastrophe Insurance Options
                                  under Immediate Loss Reestimation  . . . 831--845
                Hans Daduna and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Impact of Routeing on Correlation
                                  Strength in Stationary Queueing Network
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846--878
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Assessing a Linear Nanosystem's Limiting
                                  Reliability from Its Components  . . . . 879--887
           Hosam M. Mahmoud and   
               Mark Daniel Ward   Average-Case Analysis of Cousins in
                                  $m$-ary Tries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888--900
                     Lars Holst   The Number of Two Consecutive Successes
                                  in a Hoppe--Pólya Urn . . . . . . . . . . 901--906
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 45, Number 4, December, 2008

                Andrew W. Swift   Stochastic Models of Cascading Failures  907--921
              Devavrat Shah and   
             John N. Tsitsiklis   Bin Packing with Queues  . . . . . . . . 922--939
  Abdelghafour Es-Saghouani and   
                 Michel Mandjes   On the Correlation Structure of a
                                  Lévy--Driven Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . 940--952
                   Pascal Moyal   Stability of a Processor-Sharing Queue
                                  with Varying Throughput  . . . . . . . . 953--962
         Erol A. Peköz and   
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
               Sridhar Seshadri   How Nearly Do Arriving Customers See
                                  Time-Average Behavior? . . . . . . . . . 963--971
                     Jianxi Lin   Some Blackwell-Type Renewal Theorems for
                                  Weighted Renewal Functions . . . . . . . 972--993
              Daniel Berend and   
           Yuri Chernyavsky and   
                     Luba Sapir   Ranking of Weighted Majority Rules . . . 994--1006
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Run Statistics Defined on the Multicolor
                                  Urn Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1023
                May-Ru Chen and   
             Pei-Shou Chung and   
            Shoou-Ren Hsiau and   
                   Yi-Ching Yao   On Nonoptimality of Bold Play for
                                  Subfair Red-and-Black with a
                                  Rational-Valued House Limit  . . . . . . 1024--1038
           Marius Costeniuc and   
         Michaela Schnetzer and   
                  Luca Taschini   Entry and Exit Decision Problem with
                                  Implementation Delay . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1059
                 Mark Brown and   
         Erol A. Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   A Random Permutation Model Arising in
                                  Chemistry  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060--1070
            L. C. G. Rogers and   
               L. A. M. Veraart   A Stochastic Volatility Alternative to
                                  Sabr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071--1085
                  Oliver Durieu   A Fourth Moment Inequality for
                                  Functionals of Stationary Processes  . . 1086--1096
              Jorge Navarro and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
         Francisco J. Samaniego   Mixture Representations of Residual
                                  Lifetimes of Used Systems  . . . . . . . 1097--1112
                  Peng Zhao and   
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Conditional Ordering of $k$-out-of-$n$
                                  Systems with Independent but
                                  Nonidentical Components  . . . . . . . . 1113--1125
       N. Unnikrishnan Nair and   
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                B. Vinesh Kumar   Total Time on Test Transforms of Order
                                  $n$ and Their Implications in
                                  Reliability Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 1126--1139
            A. E. Kyprianou and   
                    J. C. Pardo   Continuous-State Branching Processes and
                                  Self-Similarity  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1140--1160
               Anthony G. Pakes   Tails of Stopped Random Products: The
                                  Factoid and Some Relatives . . . . . . . 1161--1180
                     Lars Holst   A Note on Embedding Certain Bernoulli
                                  Sequences in Marked Poisson Processes    1181--1185
           Alexander Gnedin and   
               Alex Iksanov and   
              Martin Möhle   On Asymptotics of Exchangeable
                                  Coalescents with Multiple Collisions . . 1186--1195
                    Carl Graham   Chaoticity for Multiclass Systems and
                                  Exchangeability within Classes . . . . . 1196--1203
                      Yang Zhou   Correction to Bingham and Doney (1988)   1204--1206
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 46, Number 1, March, 2009

            F. Thomas Bruss and   
                   Yvik C. Swan   A Continuous-Time Approach to Robbins'
                                  Problem of Minimizing the Expected Rank  1--18
               Neeraj Misra and   
        Ishwari D. Dhariyal and   
                    Nitin Gupta   Optimal Allocation of Active Spares in
                                  Series Systems and Comparison of
                                  Component and System Redundancies  . . . 19--34
               David Hartvigsen   The Action Gambler and Equal-Sized
                                  Wagering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--54
        Jaime A. Londoño   State-Dependent Utility  . . . . . . . . 55--70
               Yu-Ting Chen and   
              Cheng-Few Lee and   
                Yuan-Chung Sheu   An Integral-Equation Approach for
                                  Defaultable Bond Prices with Application
                                  to Credit Spreads  . . . . . . . . . . . 71--84
                  R. L. Loeffen   An Optimal Dividends Problem with a
                                  Terminal Value for Spectrally Negative
                                  Lévy Processes with a Completely Monotone
                                  Jump Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--98
        Maikol A. Diasparra and   
                 Rosario Romera   Bounds for the Ruin Probability of a
                                  Discrete-Time Risk Process . . . . . . . 99--112
          Andrei L. Badescu and   
          Eric C. K. Cheung and   
               David Landriault   Dependent Risk Models with Bivariate
                                  Phase-Type Distributions . . . . . . . . 113--131
   Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
José Manuel Corcuera and   
             Mark Podolskij and   
        Jeannette H. C. Woerner   Bipower Variation for Gaussian Processes
                                  with Stationary Increments . . . . . . . 132--150
              Bernard Bercu and   
         Peggy Cénac and   
                    Guy Fayolle   On the Almost Sure Central Limit Theorem
                                  for Vector Martingales: Convergence of
                                  Moments and Statistical Applications . . 151--169
          Erik Ekström and   
                Henrik Wanntorp   Optimal Stopping of a Brownian Bridge    170--180
                 T. R. Hurd and   
                   A. Kuznetsov   On the First Passage Time for Brownian
                                  Motion Subordinated by a Lévy Process . . 181--198
                  M. Draief and   
                  A. Ganesh and   
            L. Massoulié   Exponential Random Graphs As Models of
                                  Overlay Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--220
                   Fubao Xi and   
                         G. Yin   Asymptotic Properties of a Mean-Field
                                  Model with a Continuous-State-Dependent
                                  Switching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 221--243
                      Yaming Yu   Stochastic Ordering of Exponential
                                  Family Distributions and Their Mixtures  244--254
      Tasos C. Christofides and   
            Eutichia Vaggelatou   Bounds for the Distance Between the
                                  Distributions of Sums of Absolutely
                                  Continuous I.I.D. Convex-Ordered Random
                                  Variables with Applications  . . . . . . 255--271
              P. Vellaisamy and   
                  N. S. Upadhye   On the Sums of Compound Negative
                                  Binomial and Gamma Random Variables  . . 272--283
                  Toshio Nakata   Necklace Processes Via Pólya Urns . . . . 284--295
              Dominik Heinzmann   Extinction Times in Multitype Markov
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 296--307
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 46, Number 2, June, 2009

           Wojciech Niemiro and   
               Piotr Pokarowski   Fixed Precision MCMC Estimation by
                                  Median of Products of Averages . . . . . 309--329
                     Terje Aven   Optimal Test Interval for a Monotone
                                  Safety System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--341
             Subhash Kochar and   
                     Maochao Xu   Comparisons of Parallel Systems
                                  According to the Convex Transform Order  342--352
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   On a Terminating Shock Process with
                                  Independent Wear Increments  . . . . . . 353--362
                    Offer Kella   On Growth-Collapse Processes with
                                  Stationary Structure and Their
                                  Shot-Noise Counterparts  . . . . . . . . 363--371
Héctor Jasso-Fuentes and   
Onésimo Hernández-Lerma   Blackwell Optimality for Controlled
                                  Diffusion Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 372--391
                        Fang Xu   A Central Limit Theorem Associated with
                                  the Transformed Two-Parameter
                                  Poisson--Dirichlet Distribution  . . . . 392--401
             Aiko Kurushima and   
                  Katsunori Ano   Maximizing the Expected Duration of
                                  Owning a Relatively Best Object in a
                                  Poisson Process with Rankable
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--414
                 Anna Karpowicz   Double Optimal Stopping in the Fishing
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--428
       Agn\`es Lagnoux-Renaudie   A Two-Step Branching Splitting Model
                                  Under Cost Constraint for Rare Event
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--452
                     Yuqiang Li   A Weak Limit Theorem for Generalized
                                  Ji\vrina Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 453--462
          Daniela Bertacchi and   
                    Fabio Zucca   Approximating Critical Parameters of
                                  Branching Random Walks . . . . . . . . . 463--478
                Rong-Li Liu and   
                Yan-Xia Ren and   
                   Renming Song   $ L \log L $ criterion for a class of
                                  superdiffusions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--496
                      V. B. Yap   Similar States in Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--506
Johan S. H. Van Leeuwaarden and   
         Mark S. Squillante and   
             Erik M. M. Winands   Quasi-Birth-and-Death Processes, Lattice
                                  Path Counting, and Hypergeometric
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--520
          Eric C. K. Cheung and   
               David Landriault   Perturbed Map Risk Models with Dividend
                                  Barrier Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . 521--541
                 E. J. Baurdoux   Last Exit Before an Exponential Time for
                                  Spectrally Negative Lévy Processes  . . . 542--558
                Xuemiao Hao and   
                  Qihe Tang and   
                         Li Wei   On the Maximum Exceedance of a Sequence
                                  of Random Variables Over a Renewal
                                  Threshold  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--570
                  Arup Bose and   
            Amites Dasgupta and   
                Krishanu Maulik   Strong Laws for Balanced Triangular Urns 571--584
             Anna Pósfai   Poisson Approximation in a Poisson Limit
                                  Theorem Inspired by Coupon Collecting    585--592
              Svante Janson and   
               Niclas Petersson   The Integral of the Supremum Process of
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--600
          Thomas M. Liggett and   
            Rinaldo B. Schinazi   A Stochastic Model for Phylogenetic
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--607
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 46, Number 3, September, 2009

           Christian Bender and   
                 Tina Marquardt   Integrating Volatility Clustering into
                                  Exponential Lévy Models . . . . . . . . . 609--628
           Michael R. Tehranchi   Asymptotics of Implied Volatility Far
                                  from Maturity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--650
               S. C. P. Yam and   
                 S. P. Yung and   
                        W. Zhou   Two Rationales Behind the `Buy-and-Hold
                                  Or Sell-at-Once' Strategy  . . . . . . . 651--668
     Étienne Pardoux and   
                  Majid Salamat   On the Height and Length of the
                                  Ancestral Recombination Graph  . . . . . 669--689
            Sanda N. Socoli and   
                  A. D. Barbour   Local Limit Approximations for Markov
                                  Population Processes . . . . . . . . . . 690--708
                Xiaoyu Xing and   
                  Wei Zhang and   
                   Yongjin Wang   The Stationary Distributions of Two
                                  Classes of Reflected Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--720
               Shibin Zhang and   
                 Xinsheng Zhang   On the Transition Law of Tempered Stable
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Processes  . . . . . 721--731
                      Shai Covo   On Approximations of Small Jumps of
                                  Subordinators with Particular Emphasis
                                  on a Dickman-Type Limit  . . . . . . . . 732--755
                Sergey Foss and   
           Dmitry Korshunov and   
                   Stan Zachary   Convolutions of Long-Tailed and
                                  Subexponential Distributions . . . . . . 756--767
          Sòren Asmussen   Importance Sampling for Failure
                                  Probabilities in Computing and Data
                                  Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--790
                   Romuald Elie   Double Kernel Estimation of
                                  Sensitivities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--811
                     Saul Jacka   Markov Chains Conditioned Never to Wait
                                  Too Long at the Origin . . . . . . . . . 812--826
                   Rafik Aguech   Limit Theorems for Random Triangular Urn
                                  Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--843
          Charles Bordenave and   
               Serguei Foss and   
                Vsevolod Shneer   A Random Multiple-Access Protocol with
                                  Spatial Interactions . . . . . . . . . . 844--865
            Thierry Huillet and   
              Martin Möhle   Duality and Asymptotics for a Class of
                                  Nonneutral Discrete Moran Models . . . . 866--893
       Krzysztof Jasi\'nski and   
              Jorge Navarro and   
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Bounds on Variances of Lifetimes of
                                  Coherent and Mixed Systems . . . . . . . 894--908
               Gwo Dong Lin and   
                Jordan Stoyanov   The Logarithmic Skew-Normal
                                  Distributions Are Moment-Indeterminate   909--916
                    Didier Piau   Asymptotics of Iterated Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917--924
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 46, Number 4, December, 2009

                  Haijun Li and   
                     Yannan Sun   Tail Dependence for Heavy-Tailed Scale
                                  Mixtures of Multivariate Distributions   925--937
Jean-François Delmas and   
              Benjamin Jourdain   Does Waste Recycling Really Improve the
                                  Multi-Proposal Metropolis--Hastings
                                  Algorithm? An Analysis Based on Control
                                  Variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938--959
                F. Mendivil and   
              R. Shonkwiler and   
                  M. C. Spruill   Geometric Convergence of Genetic
                                  Algorithms Under Tempered Random Restart 960--974
                Tom Britton and   
               Mathias Lindholm   The Early Stage Behaviour of a
                                  Stochastic SIR Epidemic with Term-Time
                                  Forcing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--992
                      S. Ma and   
                      M. Molina   Two-Sex Branching Processes with
                                  Offspring and Mating in a Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993--1004
  Miklós Bóna and   
              Philippe Flajolet   Isomorphism and Symmetries in Random
                                  Phylogenetic Trees . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1019
              Sarah Behrens and   
             Matthias Löwe   Moderate Deviations for Word Counts in
                                  Biological Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 1020--1037
         Rudolf Grübel and   
               Pawe\l Hitczenko   Gaps in Discrete Random Samples  . . . . 1038--1051
                   M. Burkschat   Systems with Failure-Dependent Lifetimes
                                  of Components  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052--1072
         Erol A. Peköz and   
         Adrian Röllin and   
         Vydas Cekanavicius and   
                Michael Shwartz   A Three-Parameter Binomial Approximation 1073--1085
                Mitsushi Tamaki   Optimal Choice of the Best Available
                                  Applicant in Full-Information Models . . 1086--1099
              Boris Baeumer and   
        Mark M. Meerschaert and   
                     Erkan Nane   Space--Time Duality for Fractional
                                  Diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100--1115
            David Applebaum and   
            Michailina Siakalli   Asymptotic Stability of Stochastic
                                  Differential Equations Driven by Lévy
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116--1129
           G. Deligiannidis and   
                      H. Le and   
                        S. Utev   Optimal Stopping for Processes with
                                  Independent Increments, and Applications 1130--1145
       Andreas E. Kyprianou and   
                   Xiaowen Zhou   General Tax Structures and the Lévy
                                  Insurance Risk Model . . . . . . . . . . 1146--1156
             O. L. V. Costa and   
                      F. Dufour   The Vanishing Discount Approach for the
                                  Average Continuous Control of Piecewise
                                  Deterministic Markov Processes . . . . . 1157--1183
              C. F. Coletti and   
            L. R. G. Fontes and   
                     E. S. Dias   Scaling Limit for a Drainage Network
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1197
                  Kenshi Hosaka   An Alternative Condition for Stochastic
                                  Domination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198--1200
                     Lars Holst   On Consecutive Records in Certain
                                  Bernoulli Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . 1201--1208
         Eugene A. Feinberg and   
                        Jun Fei   An Inequality for Variances of the
                                  Discounted Rewards . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1212
               Xian-Yuan Wu and   
                  Zhao Dong and   
                     Ke Liu and   
                   Kai-Yuan Cai   On the Degree Sequence of an Evolving
                                  Random Graph Process and Its Critical
                                  Phenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1220
                       Qi Zheng   Remarks on the asymptotics of the
                                  Luria--Delbrück and related distributions 1221--1224
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 47, Number 1, March, 2010

                Henrik Hult and   
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   Large Deviations for Point Processes
                                  Based on Stationary Sequences with Heavy
                                  Tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--40
                  Edward Pollak   Coalescent Theory for a Monoecious
                                  Random Mating Population with a Varying
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--57
         M. González and   
         R. Martínez and   
          M. Slavtchova-Bojkova   Stochastic Monotonicity and Continuity
                                  Properties of the Extinction Time of
                                  Bellman--Harris Branching Processes: an
                                  Application to Epidemic Modelling  . . . 58--71
              Maria Vlasiou and   
             Zbigniew Palmowski   Tail Asymptotics for a Random Sign
                                  Lindley Recursion  . . . . . . . . . . . 72--83
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
             Barbara Martinucci   A Damped Telegraph Random Process with
                                  Logistic Stationary Distribution . . . . 84--96
                May-Ru Chen and   
                Shoou-Ren Hsiau   Two New Models for the Two-Person
                                  Red-and-Black Game . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108
        Krzysztof D\kebicki and   
  Abdelghafour Es-Saghouani and   
                 Michel Mandjes   Transient Asymptotics of Lévy--Driven
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--129
                 Onno Boxma and   
                David Perry and   
            Wolfgang Stadje and   
                  Shelley Zacks   The Busy Period of an M/G/1 Queue with
                                  Customer Impatience  . . . . . . . . . . 130--145
                    Fraser Daly   Stein's Method for Compound Geometric
                                  Approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--156
                Frosso S. Makri   On Occurrences of F-S Strings in
                                  Linearly and Circularly Ordered Binary
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--178
               M. T. Alodat and   
              M. Al-Rawwash and   
                  M. A. Jebrini   Duration Distribution of the Conjunction
                                  of Two Independent $F$ Processes . . . . 179--190
              Qunqiang Feng and   
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   On the Variety of Shapes on the Fringe
                                  of a Random Recursive Tree . . . . . . . 191--200
        Mustafa Khandwawala and   
              Rajesh Sundaresan   Optimal Multicommodity Flow Through the
                                  Complete Graph with Random Edge
                                  Capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--215
                Filia Vonta and   
             Alex Karagrigoriou   Generalized Measures of Divergence in
                                  Survival Analysis and Reliability  . . . 216--234
              Jorge Navarro and   
     Francisco J. Samaniego and   
                N. Balakrishnan   The Joint Signature of Coherent Systems
                                  with Shared Components . . . . . . . . . 235--253
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                   Weiyong Ding   Optimal Allocation of Active
                                  Redundancies to $k$-Out-Of-$n$ Systems
                                  with Heterogeneous Components  . . . . . 254--263
           Michel M. Denuit and   
                Mhamed Mesfioui   Generalized Increasing Convex and
                                  Directionally Convex Orders  . . . . . . 264--276
     Jesús De La Cal and   
          Javier Cárcamo   Inverse Stochastic Dominance,
                                  Majorization, and Mean Order Statistics  277--292
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                 Onno Boxma and   
            Gérard Letac   A Characterization Related to the
                                  Equilibrium Distribution Associated with
                                  a Polynomial Structure . . . . . . . . . 293--299
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                        J. Gani   Forty-Six years of the Applied
                                  Probability Trust  . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 47, Number 2, June, 2010

              Jose Blanchet and   
                   Jingchen Liu   Efficient Importance Sampling in Ruin
                                  Problems for Multidimensional Regularly
                                  Varying Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . 301--322
Dimitrios G. Konstantinides and   
                  Kai W. Ng and   
                      Qihe Tang   The Probabilities of Absolute Ruin in
                                  the Renewal Risk Model with Constant
                                  Force of Interest  . . . . . . . . . . . 323--334
                    Xudong Zeng   A Stochastic Differential Reinsurance
                                  Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--349
              Muneya Matsui and   
                 Thomas Mikosch   Prediction in a Poisson Cluster Model    350--366
         Djilali Ait Aoudia and   
           Éric Marchand   On the Number of Runs for Bernoulli
                                  Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--377
             Gesine Reinert and   
             Adrian Röllin   Random Subgraph Counts and
                                  $U$-Statistics: Multivariate Normal
                                  Approximation Via Exchangeable Pairs and
                                  Embedding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--393
             Michael Tortorella   On Reliability Prediction and
                                  Semi-Renewal Processes . . . . . . . . . 394--406
               Moshe Shaked and   
            Miguel A. Sordo and   
  Alfonso Suárez-Llorens   A Class of Location-Independent
                                  Variability Orders, with Applications    407--425
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
             Rameshwar D. Gupta   Random Effect Bivariate Survival Models
                                  and Stochastic Comparisons . . . . . . . 426--440
                  Lothar Breuer   A Quintuple Law for Markov Additive
                                  Processes with Phase-Type Jumps  . . . . 441--458
            Brian H. Fralix and   
     Germán Riaño   A New Look at Transient Versions of
                                  Little's Law, and M/G/1 Preemptive
                                  Last-Come--First-Served Queues . . . . . 459--473
                A. J. Field and   
                 P. G. Harrison   Busy Periods in Fluid Queues with
                                  Multiple Emptying Input States . . . . . 474--497
                   Pascal Moyal   The Queue with Impatience: Construction
                                  of the Stationary Workload Under Fifo    498--512
          Alexander Iksanov and   
               Matthias Meiners   Exponential Rate of Almost-Sure
                                  Convergence of Intrinsic Martingales in
                                  Supercritical Branching Random Walks . . 513--525
                 Chunhua Ma and   
                   Longmin Wang   On Estimation of the Variances for
                                  Critical Branching Processes with
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--542
    Joaquín Fontbona and   
             Nathalie Krell and   
         Servet Martínez   Energy Efficiency of Consecutive
                                  Fragmentation Processes  . . . . . . . . 543--561
          Elcio Lebensztayn and   
Fábio Prates Machado and   
      Mauricio Zuluaga Martinez   Nonhomogeneous Random Walks Systems on $
                                  \mathbb {Z} $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--571
                Netta Cohen and   
            Jonathan Jordan and   
            Margaritis Voliotis   Preferential Duplication Graphs  . . . . 572--585
          Erik Ekström and   
              Carl Lindberg and   
                 Johan Tysk and   
                Henrik Wanntorp   Optimal Liquidation of a Call Spread . . 586--593
              Pavel S. Ruzankin   Approximation for Expectations of
                                  Unbounded Functions of Dependent
                                  Integer-Valued Random Variables  . . . . 594--600
              Maxim Finkelstein   A Note on Converging Geometric-Type
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--607
                      Anonymous   Correction: Negative Association Does
                                  Not Imply Log-Concavity of the Rank
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--609
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 47, Number 3, September, 2010

              Mark Fackrell and   
                 Qi-Ming He and   
               Peter Taylor and   
                   Hanqin Zhang   The Algebraic Degree of Phase-Type
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--629
   Pepa Ramírez-Cobo and   
              Rosa E. Lillo and   
               Michael P. Wiper   Nonidentifiability of the Two-State
                                  Markovian Arrival Process  . . . . . . . 630--649
              Mikko S. Pakkanen   Stochastic Integrals and Conditional
                                  Full Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650--667
              Peng Zuoxiang and   
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                     Lin Fuming   Convergence Rate of Extremes for the
                                  General Error Distribution . . . . . . . 668--679
                        Bing Lu   Recovering a Piecewise Constant
                                  Volatility from Perpetual Put Option
                                  Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680--692
                      A. Kaplun   The Continuous-Time Ehrenfest Process in
                                  Term Structure Modelling . . . . . . . . 693--712
                  M. Möhle   Looking Forwards and Backwards in the
                                  Multi-Allelic Neutral Cannings
                                  Population Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--731
                  Sabin Lessard   Recurrence Equations for the Probability
                                  Distribution of Sample Configurations in
                                  Exact Population Genetics Models . . . . 732--751
                      Allan Gut   Limit Theorems for a Generalized St.
                                  Petersburg Game  . . . . . . . . . . . . 752--760
                Mitsushi Tamaki   Sum the Multiplicative Odds to One and
                                  Stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--777
Armando F. Mendoza-Pérez and   
Onésimo Hernández-Lerma   Asymptotic Normality of Discrete-Time
                                  Markov Control Processes . . . . . . . . 778--795
            Elchanan Mossel and   
                      Arnab Sen   Branching Process Approach for $2$-SAT
                                  Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796--810
               Matthias Meiners   An Almost-Sure Renewal Theorem for
                                  Branching Random Walks on the Line . . . 811--825
        Katarzyna Rybarczyk and   
                   Dudley Stark   Poisson Approximation of the Number of
                                  Cliques in Random Intersection Graphs    826--840
          Srinivasan Balaji and   
              Hosam Mahmoud and   
                     Zhang Tong   Phases in the Diffusion of Gases Via the
                                  Ehrenfest Urn Model  . . . . . . . . . . 841--855
            Yuri Kondratiev and   
              Yuri Kozitsky and   
                  Tanja Pasurek   Gibbs Random Fields with Unbounded Spins
                                  on Unbounded Degree Graphs . . . . . . . 856--875
               Zhengcheng Zhang   Mixture Representations of Inactivity
                                  Times of Conditional Coherent Systems
                                  and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . 876--885
        Radha Krishna Ganti and   
                 Martin Haenggi   Limit of the Transport Capacity of a
                                  Dense Wireless Network . . . . . . . . . 886--892
                  Michel Denuit   Positive Dependence of Signals . . . . . 893--897
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 47, Number 4, December, 2010

             Henry W. Block and   
        Naftali A. Langberg and   
           Thomas H. Savits and   
                       Jie Wang   Continuous Mixtures of Exponentials and
                                  IFR Gammas Having Bathtub-Shaped Failure
                                  Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--907
                Yiqing Chen and   
                 Anyue Chen and   
                      Kai W. Ng   The Strong Law of Large Numbers for
                                  Extended Negatively Dependent Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908--922
              Shuhong Zhang and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Some New Results on the Moment
                                  Generating Function Order and Related
                                  Life Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 923--933
              A. D. Barbour and   
                  P. K. Pollett   Total Variation Approximation for
                                  Quasi-Stationary Distributions . . . . . 934--946
                  F. Dufour and   
               A. B. Piunovskiy   Multiobjective Stopping Problem for
                                  Discrete-Time Markov Processes: Convex
                                  Analytic Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 947--966
                     Joe Suzuki   A Markov Chain Analysis of Genetic
                                  Algorithms: Large Deviation Principle
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--975
                  L. Coutin and   
            L. Decreusefond and   
                  J. S. Dhersin   A Markov Model for the Spread of Viruses
                                  in an Open Population  . . . . . . . . . 976--996
                   Yan Dolinsky   Shortfall Risk Approximations for
                                  American Options in the Multidimensional
                                  Black--Scholes Model . . . . . . . . . . 997--1012
           Michael R. Tehranchi   Characterizing Attainable Claims: a New
                                  Proof  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1022
                   A. Kuznetsov   Wiener--Hopf Factorization for a Family
                                  of Lévy Processes Related to Theta
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1033
              Jevgenijs Ivanovs   Markov-Modulated Brownian Motion with
                                  Two Reflecting Barriers  . . . . . . . . 1034--1047
           Bernardo D'Auria and   
          Jevgenijs Ivanovs and   
                Offer Kella and   
                 Michel Mandjes   First Passage of a Markov Additive
                                  Process and Generalized Jordan Chains    1048--1057
                James C. Fu and   
                   Tung-Lung Wu   Linear and Nonlinear Boundary Crossing
                                  Probabilities for Brownian Motion and
                                  Related Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 1058--1071
                 Pieter Allaart   A General 'Bang--Bang' Principle for
                                  Predicting the Maximum of a Random Walk  1072--1083
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Discrete Scan Statistics Generated by
                                  Exchangeable Binary Trials . . . . . . . 1084--1092
              Katsunori Ano and   
             Hideo Kakinuma and   
                  Naoto Miyoshi   Odds Theorem with Multiple Selection
                                  Chances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093--1104
                        G. Nuel   On the First $k$ Moments of the Random
                                  Count of a Pattern in a Multistate
                                  Sequence Generated by a Markov Source    1105--1123
              Svante Janson and   
              Tomasz Luczak and   
                   Ilkka Norros   Large Cliques in a Power-Law Random
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124--1135
                   Bojan Basrak   Limit Theorems for the Inductive Mean on
                                  Metric Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136--1149
                  Maria Deijfen   Random Networks with Preferential Growth
                                  and Vertex Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150--1163
                  F. Papangelou   A Simple Model for Random Oscillations   1164--1173
               Simeon M. Berman   Probabilistic Analysis of the Efficacy
                                  of Periodic Testing of Employees . . . . 1174--1190
               Pawe\l Hitczenko   On Tails of Perpetuities . . . . . . . . 1191--1194
                    Ou Zhao and   
          Michael Woodroofe and   
           Dalibor Volný   A Central Limit Theorem for Reversible
                                  Processes with Nonlinear Growth of
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195--1202
         Zbigniew Palmowski and   
                     Bert Zwart   On perturbed random walks  . . . . . . . 1203--1204
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 48, Number 1, March, 2011

            Angelos Dassios and   
                      Shanle Wu   Double-Barrier Parisian Options  . . . . 1--20
          Katsumasa Nishide and   
                L. C. G. Rogers   Optimal Time to Exchange Two Baskets . . 21--30
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Assessing the Reliability Function of
                                  Nanocomponents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
               Neeraj Misra and   
           Amit Kumar Misra and   
          Ishwari Dutt Dhariyal   Standby Redundancy Allocations in Series
                                  and Parallel Systems . . . . . . . . . . 43--55
                    F. G. Badia   Hazard Rate Properties of a General
                                  Counting Process Stopped at an
                                  Independent Random Time  . . . . . . . . 56--67
                   N. S. Walton   Utility Optimization in Congested
                                  Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 68--89
     Konstantin Avrachenkov and   
          Alexey Piunovskiy and   
                       Yi Zhang   Asymptotic Fluid Optimality and
                                  Efficiency of the Tracking Policy for
                                  Bandwidth-Sharing Networks . . . . . . . 90--113
             Peter W. Glynn and   
                 Michel Mandjes   Simulation-Based Computation of the
                                  Workload Correlation Function in a
                                  Lévy--Driven Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . 114--130
         Rudolf Grübel and   
                Hendrik Wegener   Matchmaking and Testing for
                                  Exponentiality in the M/G/$ \infty $
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--144
                    Chihoon Lee   On the Return Time for a Reflected
                                  Fractional Brownian Motion Process on
                                  the Positive Orthant . . . . . . . . . . 145--153
             Chang-Long Yao and   
                    Ge Chen and   
                    Tian-De Guo   Large Deviations for the Graph Distance
                                  in Supercritical Continuum Percolation   154--172
        Simon E. F. Spencer and   
              Philip D. O'Neill   The Probability of Containment for
                                  Multitype Branching Process Models for
                                  Emerging Epidemics . . . . . . . . . . . 173--188
                   R. T. Smythe   Generalized Coupon Collection: the
                                  Superlinear Case . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--199
             E. J. Baurdoux and   
                  K. Van Schaik   Further Calculations for the McKean
                                  Stochastic Game for a Spectrally
                                  Negative Lévy Process: from a Point to an
                                  Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--216
          Mark S. Veillette and   
                 Murad S. Taqqu   A Technique for Computing the Pdfs and
                                  Cdfs of Nonnegative Infinitely Divisible
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--237
               Ken R. Duffy and   
              Claudio Macci and   
          Giovanni Luca Torrisi   Sample Path Large Deviations for Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--257
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   On New Classes of Extreme Shock Models
                                  and Some Generalizations . . . . . . . . 258--270
             Subhash Kochar and   
                     Maochao Xu   On the Skewness of Order Statistics in
                                  Multiple-Outlier Models  . . . . . . . . 271--284
             Patrick Fayard and   
               Timothy R. Field   Discrete Models for Scattering
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--292
                 Rhonda Righter   Stochastic Comparison of Discounted
                                  Rewards  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 48, Number 2, June, 2011

        Andreas Löpker and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Hitting Times and the Running Maximum of
                                  Markovian Growth-Collapse Processes  . . 295--312
            Wolfgang P. Angerer   New Limiting Distributions for
                                  Bellman--Harris Processes  . . . . . . . 313--321
              Amine Asselah and   
           Pablo A. Ferrari and   
                 Pablo Groisman   Quasistationary Distributions and
                                  Fleming--Viot Processes in Finite Spaces 322--332
          Tertuliano Franco and   
            Adriana Neumann and   
                   Glauco Valle   Hydrodynamic Limit for a Type of
                                  Exclusion Process with Slow Bonds in
                                  Dimension $ d \geq 2 $ . . . . . . . . . 333--351
                    N. Lanchier   Contact Process with Destruction of
                                  Cubes and Hyperplanes: Forest Fires
                                  Versus Tornadoes . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--365
                Eckhard Schlemm   On the Markov Transition Kernels for
                                  First Passage Percolation on the Ladder  366--388
                   Peter Tankov   Improved Fréchet Bounds and Model-Free
                                  Pricing of Multi-Asset Options . . . . . 389--403
               Yinghui Dong and   
               Guojing Wang and   
                        Rong Wu   Pricing the Zero-Coupon Bond and Its
                                  Fair Premium Under a Structural Credit
                                  Risk Model with Jumps  . . . . . . . . . 404--419
                Peter J. Thomas   A Lower Bound for the First Passage Time
                                  Density of the Suprathreshold
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process  . . . . . . 420--434
              Jung Hyun Kim and   
               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
                 Rhonda Righter   Managing Queues with Heterogeneous
                                  Servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--452
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
                   Eui Yong Lee   A Stochastic Breakdown Model for an
                                  Unreliable Web Server System and an
                                  Optimal Admission Control Policy . . . . 453--466
              Jose Blanchet and   
                     Chenxin Li   Efficient Simulation for the Maximum of
                                  Infinite Horizon Discrete-Time Gaussian
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--489
Ricardo Vélez Ibarrola and   
     Tomás Prieto-Rumeau   Conditionally Independent Increment
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--513
            Adam Jakubowski and   
           Joanna Karlowska-Pik   Processes with Block-Associated
                                  Increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--526
             Patrizia Berti and   
             Irene Crimaldi and   
              Luca Pratelli and   
                    Pietro Rigo   A Central Limit Theorem and Its
                                  Applications to Multicolor Randomly
                                  Reinforced Urns  . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--546
                  Iosif Pinelis   Exact Lower Bounds on the Exponential
                                  Moments of Truncated Random Variables    547--560
             Dario Gasbarra and   
             Tommi Sottinen and   
               Harry Van Zanten   Conditional Full Support of Gaussian
                                  Processes with Stationary Increments . . 561--568
              Ravi Kalpathy and   
           Hosam M. Mahmoud and   
               Mark Daniel Ward   Asymptotic Properties of a Leader
                                  Election Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 569--575
                   Jean Bertoin   On the Maximal Offspring in a Critical
                                  Branching Process with Infinite Variance 576--582
                      Yaming Yu   Concave Renewal Functions Do Not Imply
                                  DFR Interrenewal Times . . . . . . . . . 583--588
               Moshe Pollak and   
       Alexander G. Tartakovsky   On the First Exit Time of a Nonnegative
                                  Markov Process Started at a
                                  Quasistationary Distribution . . . . . . 589--595

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 48, Number 3, September, 2011

             Jianping Jiang and   
               Sanguo Zhang and   
                     Tiande Guo   Russo's Formula, Uniqueness of the
                                  Infinite Cluster, and Continuous
                                  Differentiability of Free Energy for
                                  Continuum Percolation  . . . . . . . . . 597--610
                    A. Tzioufas   On the Growth of the One-Dimensional
                                  Reverse Immunization Contact Processes   611--623
        Valdivino V. Junior and   
    Fábio P. Machado and   
               Mauricio Zuluaga   Rumor Processes on $ \mathbb {N} $ . . . 624--636
                       Ning Cai   Pricing and Hedging of Quantile Options
                                  in a Flexible Jump Diffusion Model . . . 637--656
                Karl Sigman and   
                     Ward Whitt   Heavy-Traffic Limits for Nearly
                                  Deterministic Queues . . . . . . . . . . 657--678
              Tsuyoshi Katayama   Some Results for Vacation Systems with
                                  Sojourn Time Limits  . . . . . . . . . . 679--687
               Ken R. Duffy and   
          Giovanni Luca Torrisi   Sample Path Large Deviations of Poisson
                                  Shot Noise with Heavy-Tailed
                                  Semiexponential Distributions  . . . . . 688--698
            Tomoyuki Ichiba and   
          Constantinos Kardaras   Efficient Estimation of One-Dimensional
                                  Diffusion First Passage Time Densities
                                  Via Monte Carlo Simulation . . . . . . . 699--712
                      P. Zipkin   On Durbin's Series for the Density of
                                  First Passage Times  . . . . . . . . . . 713--722
                   Lijun Bo and   
               Yongjin Wang and   
                    Xuewei Yang   First Passage Times of (Reflected)
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Processes Over
                                  Random Jump Boundaries . . . . . . . . . 723--732
            Julia Eisenberg and   
             Hanspeter Schmidli   Optimal Control of Capital Injections by
                                  Reinsurance with a Constant Rate of
                                  Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--748
          Andrei L. Badescu and   
          Eric C. K. Cheung and   
              Landy Rabehasaina   A Two-Dimensional Risk Model with
                                  Proportional Reinsurance . . . . . . . . 749--765
                 Kouji Yano and   
                 Kenji Yasutomi   Realization of an Ergodic Markov Chain
                                  As a Random Walk Subject to a
                                  Synchronizing Road Coloring  . . . . . . 766--777
                    Harry Crane   A Consistent Markov Partition Process
                                  Generated from the Paintbox Process  . . 778--791
               Matthieu Marouby   Micropulses and Different Types of
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--810
     Aleksandar Mijatovi\'c and   
                 Mikhail Urusov   A Note on a Paper by Wong and Heyde  . . 811--819
                    Chihoon Lee   A Geometric Drift Inequality for a
                                  Reflected Fractional Brownian Motion
                                  Process on the Positive Orthant  . . . . 820--831
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
                    Yarong Yang   An Integrated Probabilistic Model for
                                  Assessing a Nanocomponent's Reliability  832--842
             Ilya Gertsbakh and   
            Yoseph Shpungin and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Signatures of Coherent Systems Built
                                  with Separate Modules  . . . . . . . . . 843--855
              Jorge Navarro and   
     Francisco J. Samaniego and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Signature-Based Representations for the
                                  Reliability of Systems with
                                  Heterogeneous Components . . . . . . . . 856--867
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   Stochastic Intensity for Minimal Repairs
                                  in Heterogeneous Populations . . . . . . 868--876
                 Maochao Xu and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On the Convolution of Heterogeneous
                                  Bernoulli Random Variables . . . . . . . 877--884
             Torrey Johnson and   
              Edward C. Waymire   Tree Polymers in the Infinite Volume
                                  Limit at Critical Strong Disorder  . . . 885--891
                 Stefan Gerhold   The Hartman--Watson Distribution
                                  Revisited: Asymptotics for Pricing Asian
                                  Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892--899

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 48, Number 4, December, 2011

              Vladimir Ejov and   
               Nelly Litvak and   
            Giang T. Nguyen and   
                Peter G. Taylor   Proof of the Hamiltonicity-Trace
                                  Conjecture for Singularly Perturbed
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--910
              Asger Hobolth and   
              Jens Ledet Jensen   Summary Statistics for
                                  Endpoint-Conditioned Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--924
                   Yuanyuan Liu   Additive Functionals for Discrete-Time
                                  Markov Chains with Applications to
                                  Birth-Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . 925--937
             Michel Dekking and   
                    Derong Kong   Multimodality of the Markov Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938--953
               Chin Hon Tan and   
              Joseph C. Hartman   Sensitivity Analysis in Markov Decision
                                  Processes with Uncertain Reward
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954--967
             Matthias Degen and   
                 Paul Embrechts   Scaling of High-Quantile Estimators  . . 968--983
              Irmina Czarna and   
             Zbigniew Palmowski   Ruin Probability with Parisian Delay for
                                  a Spectrally Negative Lévy Risk Process   984--1002
       Johannes Muhle-Karbe and   
                    Marcel Nutz   Small-Time Asymptotics of Option Prices
                                  and First Absolute Moments . . . . . . . 1003--1020
                    Ao Chen and   
                Liming Feng and   
                   Renming Song   On the Monitoring Error of the Supremum
                                  of a Normal Jump Diffusion Process . . . 1021--1034
                    Yiqing Chen   The Finite-Time Ruin Probability with
                                  Dependent Insurance and Financial Risks  1035--1048
        Donald E. K. Martin and   
              Deidra A. Coleman   Distribution of Clump Statistics for a
                                  Collection of Words  . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1059
   Götz Olaf Munsonius and   
        Ludger Rüschendorf   Limit Theorems for Depths and Distances
                                  in Weighted Random $b$-Ary Recursive
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060--1080
                   Weiyu Xu and   
                  A. Kevin Tang   A Generalized Coupon Collector Problem   1081--1094
     Estáte V. Khmaladze   Convergence Properties in Certain
                                  Occupancy Problems Including the
                                  Karlin--Rouault Law  . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1113
         Alessandro Arlotto and   
             Robert W. Chen and   
          Lawrence A. Shepp and   
              J. Michael Steele   Online Selection of Alternating
                                  Subsequences from a Random Sample  . . . 1114--1132
           Alexander Gnedin and   
          Alexander Iksanov and   
             Alexander Marynych   On $ \Lambda $-Coalescents with Dust
                                  Component  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1151
           B. N. B. De Lima and   
                 R. Sanchis and   
                 R. W. C. Silva   Percolation of Words on $ \mathbb {Z}^d
                                  $ with Long-Range Connections  . . . . . 1152--1162
                Tom Britton and   
           Mathias Lindholm and   
                 Tatyana Turova   A Dynamic Network in a Dynamic
                                  Population: Asymptotic Properties  . . . 1163--1178
                 Maochao Xu and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Some Inequalities of Linear Combinations
                                  of Independent Random Variables. I . . . 1179--1188
              Qunqiang Feng and   
                     Zhishui Hu   On the Zagreb Index of Random Recursive
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189--1196
           Alexander Gnedin and   
              Alexander Iksanov   Moments of Random Sums and Robbins'
                                  Problem of Optimal Stopping  . . . . . . 1197--1199
                   Bernard Wong   On Wong and Heyde (2004) . . . . . . . . 1200--1200


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 49, Number 1, March, 2012

           Denis Belomestny and   
         Volker Krätschmer   Central Limit Theorems for Law-Invariant
                                  Coherent Risk Measures . . . . . . . . . 1--21
         Sören Christensen   Phase-Type Distributions and Optimal
                                  Stopping for Autoregressive Processes    22--39
             Peter Buchholz and   
            Miklós Telek   Rational Processes Related to
                                  Communicating Markov Processes . . . . . 40--59
                Ole Stenzel and   
                    Hans Daduna   Weak Convergence Limits for Closed
                                  Cyclic Networks of Queues with Multiple
                                  Bottleneck Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--83
        Alexandre Brandwajn and   
                   Thomas Begin   A Recurrent Solution of Ph/M/c/N-Like
                                  and Ph/M/c-Like Queues . . . . . . . . . 84--99
      Hermine Biermé and   
              Agn\`es Desolneux   A Fourier Approach for the Level
                                  Crossings of Shot Noise Processes with
                                  Jumps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--113
              Bruno Jedynak and   
           Peter I. Frazier and   
               Raphael Sznitman   Twenty Questions with Noise: Bayes
                                  Optimal Policies for Entropy Loss  . . . 114--136
           Damien Lamberton and   
                 Mohammed Mikou   The Smooth-Fit Property in an
                                  Exponential Lévy Model  . . . . . . . . . 137--149
       Andreas E. Kyprianou and   
             Ronnie Loeffen and   
  José-Luis Pérez   Optimal Control with Absolutely
                                  Continuous Strategies for Spectrally
                                  Negative Lévy Processes . . . . . . . . . 150--166
              Boris Baeumer and   
    Mihály Kovács   Approximating Multivariate Tempered
                                  Stable Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--183
               Patrik Andersson   Card Counting in Continuous Time . . . . 184--198
                James C. Fu and   
               Tung-Lung Wu and   
                W. Y. Wendy Lou   Continuous, Discrete, and Conditional
                                  Scan Statistics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--209
                 Mamadou Ba and   
     Étienne Pardoux and   
              Ahmadou Bamba Sow   Binary Trees, Exploration Processes, and
                                  an Extended Ray--Knight Theorem  . . . . 210--225
               Zakhar Kabluchko   Persistence and Equilibria of Branching
                                  Populations with Exponential Intensity   226--244
              Achim Wübker   Spectral Theory for Weakly Reversible
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--265
         Lasse Leskelä and   
                 Harri Varpanen   Juggler's Exclusion Process  . . . . . . 266--279
                     Yuqiang Li   Moderate Deviations for Stable Random
                                  Walks in Random Scenery  . . . . . . . . 280--294
   Pepa Ramírez-Cobo and   
               Emilio Carrizosa   A Note on the Dependence Structure of
                                  the Two-State Markovian Arrival Process  295--302

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 49, Number 2, June, 2012

             L. B. Klebanov and   
             A. V. Kakosyan and   
               S. T. Rachev and   
                      G. Temnov   On a Class of Distributions Stable Under
                                  Random Summation . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--318
           Emilio De Santis and   
                 Mauro Piccioni   Backward Coalescence Times for Perfect
                                  Simulation of Chains with Infinite
                                  Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--337
          Jean-Marc Derrien and   
Frédérique Plantevin   A Symmetry Property for a Class of
                                  Random Walks in Stationary Random
                                  Environments on $ \mathbb {Z} $  . . . . 338--350
                K. Borovkov and   
                        G. Last   On Rice's Formula for Stationary
                                  Multivariate Piecewise Smooth Processes  351--363
        Anne-Laure Fougeres and   
               Cecile Mercadier   Risk Measures and Multivariate
                                  Extensions of Breiman's Theorem  . . . . 364--384
           S. Goliforushani and   
                   M. Asadi and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On the Residual and Inactivity Times of
                                  the Components of Used Coherent Systems  385--404
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
           Massimiliano Giorgio   A Note on the Failure Rates in Finite
                                  Mixed Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415
             Ilya Gertsbakh and   
            Yoseph Shpungin and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Two-Dimensional Signatures . . . . . . . 416--429
          Giovanni Puccetti and   
                   Bin Wang and   
                     Ruodu Wang   Advances in Complete Mixability  . . . . 430--440
             Richard Finlay and   
              Eugene Seneta and   
                 Dingcheng Wang   An Inverse Gamma Activity Time Process
                                  with Noninteger Parameters and a
                                  Self-Similar Limit . . . . . . . . . . . 441--450
                Barlas Oguz and   
              Venkat Anantharam   Hurst Index of Functions of
                                  Long-Range-Dependent Markov Chains . . . 451--471
                   Thomas House   Lie Algebra Solution of Population
                                  Models Based on Time-Inhomogeneous
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--481
             Emmanuel Bacry and   
           Laurent Duvernet and   
      Jean-François Muzy   Continuous-Time Skewed Multifractal
                                  Processes As a Model for Financial
                                  Returns  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--502
            David K. George and   
               Cathy H. Xia and   
             Mark S. Squillante   Exact-Order Asymptotic Analysis for
                                  Closed Queueing Networks . . . . . . . . 503--520
                R. McVinish and   
                  P. K. Pollett   A Central Limit Theorem for a
                                  Discrete-Time SIS Model with Individual
                                  Variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--530
            Yuan-Chung Sheu and   
                  Ming-Yao Tsai   On Optimal Stopping Problems for
                                  Matrix-Exponential Jump-Diffusion
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--548
                  Lothar Breuer   Occupation Times for Markov-Modulated
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--565
       Götz Olaf Munsonius   On Tail Bounds for Random Recursive
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--581
      Dimitrios G. Pandelis and   
               Mark P. Van Oyen   Sample Path Optimal Policies for Serial
                                  Lines with Flexible Workers  . . . . . . 582--589
                  Aidan Sudbury   Means and Variances in Stochastic
                                  Multistage Cancer Models . . . . . . . . 590--594
               John Darroch and   
                  Eugene Seneta   OBITUARY: Miloslav Ji\vrina  . . . . . . 595--599

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 49, Number 3, September, 2012

        Mindaugas Bloznelis and   
       Friedrich Götze and   
                 Jerzy Jaworski   Birth of a Strongly Connected Giant in
                                  an Inhomogeneous Random Digraph  . . . . 601--611
         Boris L. Granovsky and   
        Alexander V. Kryvoshaev   Coagulation Processes with Gibbsian Time
                                  Evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--626
                  K. B. Athreya   Coalescence in Critical and Subcritical
                                  Galton--Watson Branching Processes . . . 627--638
              Sophie Hautphenne   Extinction Probabilities of
                                  Supercritical Decomposable Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--651
                      Ming Fang   Tightness for Maxima of Generalized
                                  Branching Random Walks . . . . . . . . . 652--670
            A. E. Kyprianou and   
           A. Murillo-Salas and   
             J. L. Pérez   An Application of the Backbone
                                  Decomposition to Supercritical
                                  Super-Brownian Motion with a Barrier . . 671--684
     Thilanka Appuhamillage and   
                 Daniel Sheldon   First Passage Time of Skew Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--696
                  Lothar Breuer   Exit Problems for Reflected
                                  Markov-Modulated Brownian Motion . . . . 697--709
           Victor F. Araman and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   Fractional Brownian motion with $ h < 1 /
                                  2 $ as a limit of scheduled traffic  . . 710--718
                Jorge Littin C.   Uniqueness of Quasistationary
                                  Distributions and Discrete Spectra When
                                  $ \infty $ Is an Entrance Boundary and
                                  $0$ Is Singular  . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--730
                Wenbo V. Li and   
          Vladislav V. Vysotsky   Probabilities of Competing Binomial
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--744
                    Max Skipper   A Pólya Approximation to the
                                  Poisson-Binomial Law . . . . . . . . . . 745--757
             Fred W. Huffer and   
             Jayaram Sethuraman   Joint Distributions of Counts of Strings
                                  in Finite Bernoulli Sequences  . . . . . 758--772
              Svante Janson and   
                Svante Linusson   The Probability of the Alabama Paradox   773--794
                Ryan Martin and   
                    Omkar Tilak   On $ \epsilon $-Optimality of the
                                  Pursuit Learning Algorithm . . . . . . . 795--805
              Pieter C. Allaart   Predicting the Supremum: Optimality of
                                  'Stop at Once Or Not at All' . . . . . . 806--820
            Abba M. Krieger and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   The Noisy Secretary Problem and Some
                                  Results on Extreme Concomitant Variables 821--837
         Oscar López and   
                 Nikita Ratanov   Option Pricing Driven by a Telegraph
                                  Process with Random Jumps  . . . . . . . 838--849
              Daoud Bshouty and   
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
         Barbara Martinucci and   
               Shelemyahu Zacks   Generalized Telegraph Process with
                                  Random Delays  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850--865
             Carole Bernard and   
                 Xiao Jiang and   
               Steven Vanduffel   A Note on \booktitle`Improved Fréchet
                                  Bounds and Model-Free Pricing of
                                  Multi-Asset Options' by Tankov (2011)    866--875
               Brian Fralix and   
                Colin Gallagher   A New Proof of the Wiener--Hopf
                                  Factorization Via Basu's Theorem . . . . 876--882
                    Offer Kella   The Class of Distributions Associated
                                  with the Generalized
                                  Pollaczek--Khinchine Formula . . . . . . 883--887
            J. Theodore Cox and   
            Rinaldo B. Schinazi   A Branching Process for Virus Survival   888--894
                Sheldon M. Ross   Distribution of Minimal Path Lengths
                                  When Edge Lengths Are Independent
                                  Heterogeneous Exponential Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--900

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 49, Number 4, December, 2012

                 Jean Jacod and   
   Claudia Klüppelberg and   
             Gernot Müller   Functional Relationships Between Price
                                  and Volatility Jumps and Their
                                  Consequences for Discretely Observed
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--914
                Martin Jacobsen   The Time to Ruin in Some Additive Risk
                                  Models with Random Premium Rates . . . . 915--938
                Xuemiao Hao and   
                      Qihe Tang   Asymptotic Ruin Probabilities for a
                                  Bivariate Lévy--Driven Risk Model with
                                  Heavy-Tailed Claims and Risky
                                  Investments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--953
                  R. Romera and   
                 W. Runggaldier   Ruin Probabilities in a Finite-Horizon
                                  Risk Model with Investment and
                                  Reinsurance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954--966
                   Leo Shen and   
                 Robert Elliott   Optimal Design of Dynamic Default Risk
                                  Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--977
                      Hui Jiang   Berry--Esseen Bounds and the Law of the
                                  Iterated Logarithm for Estimators of
                                  Parameters in an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  Process with Linear Drift  . . . . . . . 978--989
                      Jian Wang   On the Exponential Ergodicity of
                                  Lévy--Driven Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 990--1004
       Andreas E. Kyprianou and   
                     Curdin Ott   Spectrally Negative Lévy Processes
                                  Perturbed by Functionals of Their
                                  Running Supremum . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1014
               Michael Grabchak   On a New Class of Tempered Stable
                                  Distributions: Moments and Regular
                                  Variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1035
                  Damian Clancy   Approximating Quasistationary
                                  Distributions of Birth--Death Processes  1036--1051
            Esa Hyytiä and   
               Samuli Aalto and   
           Aleksi Penttinen and   
                  Jorma Virtamo   On the Value Function of the M/G/1 FCFS
                                  and LCFS Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052--1071
 Tomás Prieto-Rumeau and   
Onésimo Hernández-Lerma   Discounted Continuous-Time Controlled
                                  Markov Chains: Convergence of Control
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072--1090
             Martial Longla and   
            Costel Peligrad and   
                 Magda Peligrad   On the Functional Central Limit Theorem
                                  for Reversible Markov Chains with
                                  Nonlinear Growth of the Variance . . . . 1091--1105
              Zhongquan Tan and   
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                  Zuoxiang Peng   Asymptotics of Maxima of Strongly
                                  Dependent Gaussian Processes . . . . . . 1106--1118
                   Lijun Bo and   
                       Chen Hao   First Passage Times of
                                  Constant-Elasticity-Of-Variance
                                  Processes with Two-Sided Reflecting
                                  Barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1133
                Hamed Amini and   
                   Marc Lelarge   Upper Deviations for Split Times of
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 1134--1143
             Henry W. Block and   
        Naftali A. Langberg and   
               Thomas H. Savits   A Glaser Twist: Focus on the Mixture
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1144--1155
                Tom Britton and   
                 Pieter Trapman   Maximizing the Size of the Giant . . . . 1156--1165
               Tugrul Dayar and   
                   M. Can Orhan   Kronecker-Based Infinite Level-Dependent
                                  QBD Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166--1187
              Samim Ghamami and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Improving the Asmussen--Kroese-Type
                                  Simulation Estimators  . . . . . . . . . 1188--1193
              Tsuyoshi Katayama   A Note on M/G/1 Vacation Systems with
                                  Sojourn Time Limits  . . . . . . . . . . 1194--1199


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 50, Number 1, March, 2013

                 Chris Sherlock   Optimal scaling of the random walk
                                  Metropolis: general criteria for the
                                  $0.234$ acceptance rule  . . . . . . . . 1--15
                  Josh Reed and   
                   Amy Ward and   
                  Dongyuan Zhan   On the generalized drift Skorokhod
                                  problem in one dimension . . . . . . . . 16--28
     Alexandra Chronopoulou and   
             Georgios Fellouris   Optimal sequential change detection for
                                  fractional diffusion-type processes  . . 29--41
          Giovanni Puccetti and   
        Ludger Rüschendorf   Sharp bounds for sums of dependent risks 42--53
          Keisuke Matsumoto and   
                  Toshio Nakata   Limit theorems for a generalized Feller
                                  game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
              Denis Denisov and   
                Vsevolod Shneer   Asymptotics for the first passage times
                                  of Lévy processes and random walks  . . . 64--84
Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden and   
                 Kilian Raschel   Random walks reaching against all odds
                                  the other side of the quarter plane  . . 85--102
       Krzysztof D\keabicki and   
         Iwona Sierpi\'nska and   
                     Bert Zwart   Asymptotics of hybrid fluid queues with
                                  Lévy input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--113
               Hanjun Zhang and   
                      Yixia Zhu   Domain of attraction of the
                                  quasistationary distribution for
                                  birth-and-death processes  . . . . . . . 114--126
                   Bo Jiang and   
                   Jian Tan and   
                    Wei Wei and   
                Ness Shroff and   
                    Don Towsley   Heavy tails in queueing systems: impact
                                  of parallelism on tail performance . . . 127--150
            Hendrik Baumann and   
                Werner Sandmann   Computing stationary expectations in
                                  level-dependent QBD processes  . . . . . 151--165
                Holger Fink and   
   Claudia Klüppelberg and   
             Martina Zähle   Conditional distributions of processes
                                  related to fractional Brownian motion    166--183
Déborah Ferré and   
       Lo\"\ic Hervé and   
                   James Ledoux   Regular perturbation of
                                  $V$-geometrically ergodic Markov chains  184--194
                     Bin Li and   
                  Qihe Tang and   
                   Xiaowen Zhou   A time-homogeneous diffusion model with
                                  tax  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--207
             Amaury Lambert and   
                 Pieter Trapman   Splitting trees stopped when the first
                                  clock rings and Vervaat's transformation 208--227
               Kevin Leckey and   
                Ralph Neininger   Asymptotic analysis of Hoppe trees . . . 228--238
                    Shuhei Mano   Ancestral graph with bias in gene
                                  conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--255
                    Shuhei Mano   Duality between the two-locus
                                  Wright--Fisher diffusion model and the
                                  ancestral process with recombination . . 256--271
                Offer Kella and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Asymptotic expected number of passages
                                  of a random walk through an interval . . 288--294
                   Adam Metzler   The Laplace transform of hitting times
                                  of integrated geometric Brownian motion  295--299
                   Yi-Ching Yao   A duality relation between the workload
                                  and attained waiting time in FCFS G/G/s
                                  queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--307
               M. Burkschat and   
                     J. Navarro   Dynamic signatures of coherent systems
                                  based on sequential order statistics . . ??

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 50, Number 2, June, 2013

                  Zechun Hu and   
                      Bin Jiang   On joint ruin probabilities of a
                                  two-dimensional risk model with constant
                                  interest rate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--322
                   Renaud Marty   From Hermite polynomials to
                                  multifractional processes  . . . . . . . 323--343
                  Young Lee and   
      Thorsten Rheinländer   The minimal entropy martingale measure
                                  for exponential Markov chains  . . . . . 344--358
                       P. Patie   Asian options under one-sided Lévy models 359--373
          Erik Ekström and   
                  Carl Lindberg   Optimal closing of a momentum trade  . . 374--387
                  Xianyi Wu and   
                      Xian Zhou   Open bandit processes with uncountable
                                  states and time-backward effects . . . . 388--402
            Abba M. Krieger and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Generalized bomber and fighter problems:
                                  offline optimal allocation of a discrete
                                  asset  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--418
                Xiaonan Che and   
                Angelos Dassios   Stochastic boundary crossing
                                  probabilities for the Brownian motion    419--429
                  Lothar Breuer   The resolvent and expected local times
                                  for Markov-modulated Brownian motion
                                  with phase-dependent termination rates   430--438
                Offer Kella and   
                     Onno Boxma   Useful martingales for stochastic
                                  storage processes with Lévy-type input    439--449
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
          Antonella Iuliano and   
         Barbara Martinucci and   
               Shelemyahu Zacks   Generalized telegraph process with
                                  random jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--463
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
             Esther Frostig and   
                Franco Pellerey   Stochastic comparisons of symmetric
                                  supermodular functions of heterogeneous
                                  random vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--474
               Xiuying Feng and   
              Shuhong Zhang and   
                      Xiaohu Li   A note on the mixture representation of
                                  the conditional residual lifetime of a
                                  coherent system  . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--485
             Giacomo Aletti and   
          Andrea Ghiglietti and   
            Anna Maria Paganoni   Randomly reinforced urn designs with
                                  prespecified allocations . . . . . . . . 486--498
             Yunjiang Jiang and   
                      Weijun Xu   On the number of turns in reduced random
                                  lattice paths  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--515
              Qunqiang Feng and   
                     Zhishui Hu   Phase changes in the topological indices
                                  of scale-free trees  . . . . . . . . . . 516--532
              Alexander Shapiro   Consistency of sample estimates of risk
                                  averse stochastic programs . . . . . . . 533--541
         Rudolf Grübel and   
               Pawe\l Hitczenko   Pruned discrete random samples . . . . . 542--556
           Michael R. Tehranchi   On the uniqueness of martingales with
                                  certain prescribed marginals . . . . . . 557--575
                     Jyy-I Hong   Coalescence in subcritical
                                  Bellman-Harris age-dependent branching
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576--591
                Yaozhong Hu and   
                    Chihoon Lee   Drift parameter estimation for a
                                  reflected fractional Brownian motion
                                  based on its local time  . . . . . . . . 592--597
       Lo\"\ic Hervé and   
                   James Ledoux   Geometric $rho$-mixing property of the
                                  interarrival times of a stationary
                                  Markovian arrival process  . . . . . . . 598--601

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 50, Number 3, September, 2013

                   Jean Bertoin   Almost giant clusters for percolation on
                                  large trees with logarithmic heights . . 603--611
                   D. Perry and   
                  W. Stadje and   
                       S. Zacks   A duality approach to queues with
                                  service restrictions and storage systems
                                  with state-dependent rates . . . . . . . 612--631
            Brian H. Fralix and   
Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden and   
                  Onno J. Boxma   Factorization identities for reflected
                                  processes, with applications . . . . . . 632--653
                     James Hook   Critical path statistics of max-plus
                                  linear systems with Gaussian noise . . . 654--670
       Mats Pihlsgård and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   On the dynamics of semimartingales with
                                  two reflecting barriers  . . . . . . . . 671--685
            Angelos Dassios and   
                  Hongbiao Zhao   A risk model with delayed claims . . . . 686--702
             Ankush Agarwal and   
                Santanu Dey and   
                 Sandeep Juneja   Efficient simulation of large deviation
                                  events for sums of random vectors using
                                  saddle-point representations . . . . . . 703--720
           Jennie C. Hansen and   
                 Jerzy Jaworski   Predecessors and successors in random
                                  mappings with exchangeable in-degrees    721--740
               Jochen Blath and   
Adrián González Casanova and   
                 Noemi Kurt and   
                  Dario Span\`o   The ancestral process of long-range seed
                                  bank models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--759
                  Lingjiong Zhu   Central limit theorem for nonlinear
                                  Hawkes processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--771
             Romain Abraham and   
    Jean-François Delmas   A construction of a $\beta$-coalescent
                                  via the pruning of binary trees  . . . . 772--790
                   Jean Bertoin   On largest offspring in a critical
                                  branching process with finite variance   791--800
                     Kai Du and   
            Ariel David Neufeld   A note on asymptotic exponential
                                  arbitrage with exponentially decaying
                                  failure probability  . . . . . . . . . . 801--809
                    Ji Hwan Cha   On stochastic predictions of failure
                                  processes under population heterogeneity 810--826
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
         Stéphane Loisel   On multiply monotone distributions,
                                  continuous or discrete, with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--847
                    Nitin Gupta   Stochastic comparisons of residual
                                  lifetimes and inactivity times of
                                  coherent systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 848--860
                   Justin Salez   Joint distribution of distances in large
                                  random regular networks  . . . . . . . . 861--870
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
        Ernst Schulte-Geers and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Conditional limit theorems for the terms
                                  of a random walk revisited . . . . . . . 871--882
             David Aristoff and   
                  Charles Radin   Emergent structures in large networks    883--888
             William Garner and   
            Dimitris N. Politis   The correct asymptotic variance for the
                                  sample mean of a homogeneous Poisson
                                  marked point process . . . . . . . . . . 889--892
              K. B. Athreya and   
                     Jyy-I Hong   An application of the coalescence theory
                                  to branching random walks  . . . . . . . 893--899
                   Xin Liao and   
              Zuoxiang Peng and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Tail properties and asymptotic
                                  expansions for the maximum of the
                                  logarithmic skew-normal distribution . . 900--907

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 50, Number 4, December, 2013

                   M. Bondareva   Nondecreasing lower bound on the Poisson
                                  cumulative distribution function for z
                                  standard deviations above the mean . . . 909--917
              Marie-Anne Guerry   On the embedding problem for
                                  discrete-time Markov chains  . . . . . . 918--930
                 Takayuki Fujii   Nonparametric estimation for a class of
                                  piecewise-deterministic Markov processes 931--942
               Guan-Yu Chen and   
           Laurent Saloff-Coste   Comparison of cutoffs between lazy walks
                                  and Markovian semigroups . . . . . . . . 943--959
     Konstantin Avrachenkov and   
          Alexey Piunovskiy and   
                       Yi Zhang   Markov processes with restart  . . . . . 960--968
             Thomas Mikosch and   
      Gennady Samorodnitsky and   
                 Laleh Tafakori   Fractional moments of solutions to
                                  stochastic recurrence equations  . . . . 969--982
                    Holger Fink   Conditional characteristic functions of
                                  Molchan--Golosov fractional Lévy
                                  processes with application to credit
                                  risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--1005
                  Feng Chen and   
                     Peter Hall   Inference for a nonstationary
                                  self-exciting point process with an
                                  application in ultra-high frequency
                                  financial data modeling  . . . . . . . . 1006--1024
        Nicole Bäuerle and   
                      Zejing Li   Optimal portfolios for financial markets
                                  with Wishart volatility  . . . . . . . . 1025--1043
            Nafna Blanghaps and   
                  Yuval Nov and   
                   Gideon Weiss   Sojourn time estimation in an
                                  M/G/$\infty$ queue with partial
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1056
             Sophie Mercier and   
                   I. T. Castro   On the modelling of imperfect repairs
                                  for a continuously monitored gamma wear
                                  process through age reduction  . . . . . 1057--1076
    Predrag R. Jelenkovi\'c and   
        Mariana Olvera-Cravioto   Convergence rates in the implicit
                                  renewal theorem on trees . . . . . . . . 1077--1088
               Tung-Lung Wu and   
                Joseph Glaz and   
                    James C. Fu   Discrete, continuous and conditional
                                  multiple window scan statistics  . . . . 1089--1101
          Daniel Wei-Chung Miao   Analysis of the discrete
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process caused by
                                  the tick size effect . . . . . . . . . . 1102--1116
                 Stephen Connor   Optimal coadapted coupling for a random
                                  walk on the hyper-complete graph . . . . 1117--1130
            Johannes Kugler and   
                 Vitali Wachtel   Upper bounds for the maximum of a random
                                  walk with negative drift . . . . . . . . 1131--1146
                 Frank Ball and   
                     David Sirl   Acquaintance vaccination in an epidemic
                                  on a random graph with specified degree
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1168
                May-Ru Chen and   
                    Markus Kuba   On generalized Pólya urn models . . . . . 1169--1186
            Larry Goldstein and   
                 Gesine Reinert   Stein's method for the Beta distribution
                                  and the Pólya--Eggenberger urn  . . . . . 1187--1205
                     Lars Holst   Probabilistic proofs of Euler identities 1206--1212
                      Anonymous   \booktitleJournal of Applied Probability
                                  Volume 50 (2013): Index  . . . . . . . . 1213--1216


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 51, Number 1, March, 2014

                 Dawei Hong and   
              Shushuang Man and   
        Jean-Camille Birget and   
                 Desmond S. Lun   A wavelet-based almost-sure uniform
                                  approximation of fractional Brownian
                                  motion with a parallel algorithm . . . . 1--18
               Luisa Beghin and   
                  Claudio Macci   Fractional discrete processes: compound
                                  and mixed Poisson representations  . . . 19--36
                    Lei Hua and   
                  Harry Joe and   
                      Haijun Li   Relations between hidden regular
                                  variation and the tail order of copulas  37--57
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
           Ghobad Barmalzan and   
                 Abedin Haidari   Stochastic orderings and ageing
                                  properties of residual life lengths of
                                  live components in $ (n - k +
                                  1)$-out-of-$n$ systems . . . . . . . . . 58--68
                    Bent Natvig   On the deterioration of nonrepairable
                                  multistate strongly coherent systems . . 69--81
            N. Balakrishnan and   
              William Volterman   On the signatures of ordered system
                                  lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--91
                 Mark Huber and   
                   Sarah Schott   Random construction of interpolating
                                  sets for high-dimensional integration    92--105
        Antar Bandyopadhyay and   
              Farkhondeh Sajadi   On the nearest-neighbor algorithm for
                                  the mean-field traveling salesman
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--117
               Phil Howlett and   
             Charles Pearce and   
               Julia Piantadosi   A new look at urban water storage in a
                                  series of connected dams . . . . . . . . 118--135
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                    Sergey Foss   On exceedance times for some processes
                                  with dependent increments  . . . . . . . 136--151
         Leandro P. R. Pimentel   On the location of the maximum of a
                                  continuous stochastic process  . . . . . 152--161
              Ora E. Percus and   
               Jerome K. Percus   The maximum of a symmetric next neighbor
                                  walk on the nonnegative integers . . . . 162--173
                Matteo Ruggiero   Species dynamics in the two-parameter
                                  Poisson--Dirichlet diffusion model . . . 174--190
    Jakob E. Björnberg and   
                 Erik I. Broman   Coexistence and noncoexistence of
                                  Markovian viruses and their hosts  . . . 191--208
                          V. Le   Coalescence times for the
                                  Bienaymé-Galton--Watson process . . . . . 209--218
                 Anyue Chen and   
                 Junping Li and   
                Yiqing Chen and   
                  Dingxuan Zhou   Asymptotic behaviour of extinction
                                  probability of interacting branching
                                  collision processes  . . . . . . . . . . 219--234
                    D. Aristoff   Percolation of hard disks  . . . . . . . 235--246
                   Joseph Lehec   Cover times and generic chaining . . . . 247--261
                Samuel N. Cohen   Undiscounted Markov chain BSDEs to
                                  stopping times . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--281
                  Carl Lindberg   Pairs trading with opportunity cost  . . 282--286
          Renato Jacob Gava and   
                 Danilo Salotti   Stopping probabilities for patterns in
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--292
    Hansjörg Albrecher and   
              Onno J. Boxma and   
              Jevgenijs Ivanovs   On simple ruin expressions in dependent
                                  Sparre Andersen risk models  . . . . . . 293--296

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 51, Number 2, June, 2014

                R. McVinish and   
                  P. K. Pollett   The limiting behaviour of Hanski's
                                  incidence function metapopulation model  297--316
                     Hui He and   
                      Rugang Ma   Limit theorems for continuous-time
                                  branching flows  . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--332
            Philip A. Ernst and   
             Dean P. Foster and   
                 Larry A. Shepp   On optimal retirement  . . . . . . . . . 333--345
                  Hongsheng Dai   Exact simulation for diffusion bridges:
                                  an adaptive approach . . . . . . . . . . 346--358
 Thorbjörn Gudmundsson and   
                    Henrik Hult   Markov chain Monte Carlo for computing
                                  rare-event probabilities for a
                                  heavy-tailed random walk . . . . . . . . 359--376
                Sheldon M. Ross   Simulation analysis of system life when
                                  component lives are determined by a
                                  marked point process . . . . . . . . . . 377--386
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   Stochastic modeling for environmental
                                  stress screening . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--399
           Pawe\l Hitczenko and   
            Gérard Letac   Dirichlet and quasi-Bernoulli laws for
                                  perpetuities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--416
                  Ming Zhou and   
                        Jun Cai   Optimal dynamic risk control for
                                  insurers with state-dependent income . . 417--435
                  Shangzhen Luo   Stochastic Brownian game of absolute
                                  dominance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--452
             Peter Olofsson and   
               Suzanne S. Sindi   A Crump--Mode--Jagers branching process
                                  model of prion loss in yeast . . . . . . 453--465
     Marcus C. Christiansen and   
               Nicola Loperfido   Improved approximation of the sum of
                                  random vectors by the skew normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--482
            M. V. Boutsikas and   
          D. L. Antzoulakos and   
                 A. C. Rakitzis   On the joint distribution of stopping
                                  times and stopped sums in multistate
                                  exchangeable trials  . . . . . . . . . . 483--491
                 Martin Klimmek   Parameter dependent optimal thresholds,
                                  indifference levels and inverse optimal
                                  stopping problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 492--511
             Richard C. Bradley   On a `replicating character string'
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--527
                R. Vasudeva and   
         J. Vasantha Kumari and   
                        S. Ravi   On the asymptotic behaviour of extremes
                                  and near maxima of random observations
                                  from the general error distributions . . 528--541
                    S. McKinlay   A characterisation of transient random
                                  walks on stochastic matrices with
                                  Dirichlet distributed limits . . . . . . 542--555
              Paolo Dai Pra and   
          Pierre-Yves Louis and   
                 Ida G. Minelli   Synchronization via interacting
                                  reinforcement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--568
         Oscar López and   
                 Nikita Ratanov   On the asymmetric telegraph processes    569--589
                May-Ru Chen and   
            Shoou-Ren Hsiau and   
                 Ting-Hsin Yang   A new two-urn model  . . . . . . . . . . 590--597

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 51, Number 3, September, 2014

       J. E. Björnberg and   
                 T. Britton and   
               E. I. Broman and   
                       E. Natan   A stochastic model for virus growth in a
                                  cell population  . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--612
                 Anyue Chen and   
                Kai Wang Ng and   
                   Hanjun Zhang   Uniqueness and decay properties of
                                  Markov branching processes with
                                  disasters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--624
                Florian Simatos   Coupling limit order books and branching
                                  random walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--639
         Alessandro Gnoatto and   
              Martino Grasselli   The explicit Laplace transform for the
                                  Wishart process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 640--656
              Fabian Freund and   
      Arno Siri-Jégousse   Minimal clade size in the
                                  Bolthausen--Sznitman coalescent  . . . . 657--668
                  Yang Yang and   
               Kaiyong Wang and   
    Dimitrios G. Konstantinides   Uniform asymptotics for discounted
                                  aggregate claims in dependent risk
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--684
              Fabio Bellini and   
            Franco Pellerey and   
               Carlo Sgarra and   
           Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh   Comparison results for GARCH processes   685--698
                  Lingjiong Zhu   Limit theorems for a
                                  Cox--Ingersoll--Ross process with Hawkes
                                  jumps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--712
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                     Lanpeng Ji   Approximation of passage times of $
                                  \gamma $-reflected processes with FBM
                                  input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--726
               Romain Biard and   
               Bruno Saussereau   Fractional Poisson process: long-range
                                  dependence and applications in ruin
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--740
              Adam W. Grace and   
             Dirk P. Kroese and   
                Werner Sandmann   Automated state-dependent importance
                                  sampling for Markov jump processes via
                                  sampling from the zero-variance
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--755
     Servet Martínez and   
    Jaime San Martín and   
              Denis Villemonais   Existence and uniqueness of a
                                  quasistationary distribution for Markov
                                  processes with fast return from infinity 756--768
                    Fabio Lopes   Invariant bipartite random graphs on $
                                  R^d $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--779
                     Ruodu Wang   Asymptotic bounds for the distribution
                                  of the sum of dependent random variables 780--798
            Pavel V. Gapeev and   
          Neofytos Rodosthenous   Optimal stopping problems in
                                  diffusion-type models with running
                                  maxima and drawdowns . . . . . . . . . . 799--817
         Luis H. R. Alvarez and   
            Pekka Matomäki   Optimal stopping of the maximum process  818--836
                K. Borovkov and   
                G. Decrouez and   
                      M. Gilson   On stationary distributions of
                                  stochastic neural networks . . . . . . . 837--857
                Jianhai Bao and   
                  Chenggui Yuan   Numerical approximation of stationary
                                  distributions for stochastic partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 858--873
                   C. Y. Robert   On the De Vylder and Goovaerts
                                  conjecture about ruin for equalized
                                  claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--879
                Sheldon M. Ross   Optimal server selection in a queueing
                                  loss model with heterogeneous
                                  exponential servers, discriminating
                                  arrivals, and arbitrary arrival times    880--884
              Tomomi Matsui and   
                  Katsunori Ano   A note on a lower bound for the
                                  multiplicative odds theorem of optimal
                                  stopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--889
                Vicente Vergara   Asymptotic behaviour of the
                                  time-fractional telegraph equation . . . 890--893

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 51, Number 4, December, 2014

            Moritz Duembgen and   
                L. C. G. Rogers   Investing and stopping . . . . . . . . . 898--909
                 Rahul Vaze and   
                  Srikanth Iyer   Percolation on the
                                  information-theoretically secure signal
                                  to interference ratio graph  . . . . . . 910--920
           Arindam RoyChoudhury   Identifiability of a coalescent-based
                                  population tree model  . . . . . . . . . 921--929
               Michael B. Gordy   Finite-dimensional distributions of a
                                  square-root diffusion  . . . . . . . . . 930--942
           Golshid Baharian and   
            Sheldon H. Jacobson   Limiting behavior of the
                                  target-dependent stochastic sequential
                                  assignment problem . . . . . . . . . . . 943--953
                       Yi Zhang   Average optimality for continuous-time
                                  Markov decision processes under weak
                                  continuity conditions  . . . . . . . . . 954--970
              Michael Fuchs and   
           Hsien-Kuei Hwang and   
              Yoshiaki Itoh and   
               Hosam H. Mahmoud   A binomial splitting process in
                                  connection with corner parking problems  971--989
               A. Parvardeh and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On the conditional residual life and
                                  inactivity time of coherent systems  . . 990--998
                 S. Ashrafi and   
                       M. Asadi   Dynamic reliability modeling of
                                  three-state networks . . . . . . . . . . 999--1020
               Jingchen Liu and   
                     Xiang Zhou   Extreme analysis of a random ordinary
                                  differential equation  . . . . . . . . . 1021--1036
             Richard Finlay and   
                  Eugene Seneta   Random fields with Pólya correlation
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1050
               Hoang-Chuong Lam   A quenched central limit theorem for
                                  reversible random walks in a random
                                  environment on $Z$ . . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1064
          Massimo Campanino and   
               Dimitri Petritis   Type transition of simple random walks
                                  on randomly directed regular lattices    1065--1080
        Gérard Letac and   
                 Mauro Piccioni   Dirichlet random walks . . . . . . . . . 1081--1099
          Aryeh Kontorovich and   
                      Roi Weiss   Uniform Chernoff and
                                  Dvoretzky--Kiefer-Wolfowitz-type
                                  inequalities for Markov chains and
                                  related processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 1100--1113
         Bernhard C. Geiger and   
               Christoph Temmel   Lumpings of Markov chains, entropy rate
                                  preservation, and higher-order
                                  lumpability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1114--1132
                 A. Janssen and   
                      J. Segers   Markov tail chains . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1153
              Jevgenijs Ivanovs   Potential measures of one-sided Markov
                                  additive processes with reflecting and
                                  terminating barriers . . . . . . . . . . 1154--1170
    Jean-François Renaud   On the time spent in the red by a
                                  refracted Lévy risk process . . . . . . . 1171--1188
    Krzysztof Latuszy\'nski and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   The containment condition and AdapFail
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189--1195
                      Anonymous   \booktitleJournal of Applied Probability
                                  Volume 51 (2014): Index  . . . . . . . . 1195--1198


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 52, Number 1, March, 2015

     François Roueff and   
               Philippe Soulier   Convergence to stable laws in the space
                                  $D$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
                   R. Garra and   
               E. Orsingher and   
                      F. Polito   State-dependent fractional point
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--36
         Raúl Fierro and   
        Víctor Leiva and   
           Jesper Mòller   The Hawkes process with different
                                  exciting functions and its asymptotic
                                  behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--54
          Krzysztof Debicki and   
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
           Natalia Soja-Kukiela   Extremes of homogeneous Gaussian random
                                  fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--67
           K. M. Kosi\'nski and   
                     M. Mandjes   Logarithmic asymptotics for
                                  multidimensional extremes under
                                  nonlinear scalings . . . . . . . . . . . 68--81
         Vassili N. Kolokoltsov   Stochastic monotonicity and duality of
                                  $k$-th order with application to
                                  put--call symmetry of powered options    82--101
              Nuria Torrado and   
              Subhash C. Kochar   Stochastic order relations among
                                  parallel systems from Weibull
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--116
             Patryk Miziula and   
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Extreme dispersions of semicoherent and
                                  mixed system lifetimes . . . . . . . . . 117--128
   Albert Ferreiro-Castilla and   
                Kees van Schaik   Applying the Wiener--Hopf Monte Carlo
                                  simulation technique for Lévy processes
                                  to path functionals  . . . . . . . . . . 129--148
                   Hanchao Wang   The Euler scheme for a stochastic
                                  differential equation driven by pure
                                  jump semimartingales . . . . . . . . . . 149--166
           Bruno Buonaguidi and   
                 Pietro Muliere   On the disorder problem for a negative
                                  binomial process . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--179
        Ernst Schulte-Geers and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Maximal percentages in Pólya's urn  . . . 180--190
           David Landriault and   
                     Bin Li and   
                Hongzhong Zhang   On the frequency of drawdowns for
                                  Brownian motion processes  . . . . . . . 191--208
                 Zhengjun Jiang   Optimal dividend policy when cash
                                  reserves follow a jump-diffusion process
                                  under Markov-regime switching  . . . . . 209--223
              Li-Juan Cheng and   
                   Yong-Hua Mao   Eigentime identity for one-dimensional
                                  diffusion processes  . . . . . . . . . . 224--237
                   Youzhou Zhou   Ergodic inequality of a two-parameter
                                  infinitely-many-alleles diffusion model  238--246
             A. V. Kalinkin and   
                A. V. Mastikhin   A limit theorem for a Weiss epidemic
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--257
                    Eric Foxall   New results for the two-stage contact
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--268
                 Babak Haji and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   A queueing loss model with heterogeneous
                                  skill based servers under idle time
                                  ordering policies  . . . . . . . . . . . 269--277
              Erik A. van Doorn   Representations for the decay parameter
                                  of a birth-death process based on the
                                  Courant--Fischer theorem . . . . . . . . 278--289
           Hosam M. Mahmoud and   
                   Mark D. Ward   Asymptotic properties of protected nodes
                                  in random recursive trees  . . . . . . . 290--297
             Martin Egozcue and   
     Luis Fuentes García   An optimal threshold strategy in the
                                  two-envelope problem with partial
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--304
                 S. Ashrafi and   
                       M. Asadi   On Ashrafi and Asadi (2014)  . . . . . . 305

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 52, Number 2, June, 2015

         Kristian Debrabant and   
           Andreas Rössler   On the acceleration of the multi-level
                                  Monte Carlo method . . . . . . . . . . . 307--322
Mihály Kovács and   
               Stig Larsson and   
               Fredrik Lindgren   On the backward Euler approximation of
                                  the stochastic Allen--Cahn equation  . . 323--338
                     Ajay Jasra   On the behaviour of the backward
                                  interpretation of Feynman--Kac formulae
                                  under verifiable conditions  . . . . . . 339--359
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
         Barbara Martinucci and   
               Shelemyahu Zacks   Compound Poisson process with a Poisson
                                  subordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--374
     Ágnes Backhausz and   
    Tamás F. Móri   Asymptotic properties of a random graph
                                  with duplications  . . . . . . . . . . . 375--390
         Christophe Andrieu and   
              Gersende Fort and   
                   Matti Vihola   Quantitative convergence rates for
                                  subgeometric Markov chains . . . . . . . 391--404
        Emmanuelle Anceaume and   
                Yann Busnel and   
                 Bruno Sericola   New results on a generalized coupon
                                  collector problem using Markov chains    405--418
     Rolando Cavazos-Cadena and   
  Raúl Montes-de-Oca and   
            Karel Sladký   Sample-path optimal stationary policies
                                  in stable Markov decision chains with
                                  the average reward criterion . . . . . . 419--440
                    Xiao Wu and   
                   Xianping Guo   First passage optimality and variance
                                  minimisation of Markov decision
                                  processes with varying discount factors  441--456
                 N. G. Bean and   
                 R. Elliott and   
                 A. Eshragh and   
                     J. V. Ross   On binomial observations of
                                  continuous-time Markovian population
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--472
                   Yonit Barron   A fluid EOQ model with Markovian
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--489
              Jean-Luc Marichal   Algorithms and formulae for conversion
                                  between system signatures and
                                  reliability functions  . . . . . . . . . 490--507
        Alessandro D'Andrea and   
                Luca De Sanctis   The Kruskal--Katona theorem and a
                                  characterization of system signatures    508--518
               Jere Koskela and   
               Paul Jenkins and   
                  Dario Span\`o   Computational inference beyond Kingman's
                                  coalescent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--537
             Amaury Lambert and   
                     Chunhua Ma   The coalescent in peripatric
                                  metapopulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--557
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
                 Inma T. Castro   A stochastic failure model with
                                  dependent competing risks and its
                                  applications to condition-based
                                  maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558--573
         F. G. Badía and   
               C. Sangüesa   The DFR property for counting processes
                                  stopped at an independent random time    574--585
           Christian Bender and   
          Mikko S. Pakkanen and   
                 Hasanjan Sayit   Sticky continuous processes have
                                  consistent price systems . . . . . . . . 586--594
               Dirk Veestraeten   A recursion formula for the moments of
                                  the first passage time of the
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process  . . . . . . 595--601
                 Mark Huber and   
                 Nevena Mari\'c   Multivariate distributions with fixed
                                  marginals and correlations . . . . . . . 602--608

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 52, Number 3, September, 2015

            Hendrik Baumann and   
                Werner Sandmann   Bounded truncation error for long-run
                                  averages in infinite Markov chains . . . 609--621
                Harry Crane and   
                Peter McCullagh   Reversible Markov structures on
                                  divisible set partitions . . . . . . . . 622--635
            David Applebaum and   
               Stefan Blackwood   The Kalman--Bucy filter for integrable
                                  Lévy processes with infinite second
                                  moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--648
                  Yoora Kim and   
               Irem Koprulu and   
                 Ness B. Shroff   First exit time of a Lévy flight from a
                                  bounded region in $ R^N $  . . . . . . . 649--664
                 Esther Frostig   The moments of the discounted loss and
                                  the discounted dividends for a
                                  spectrally negative Lévy risk process . . 665--687
          Krzysztof Debicki and   
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                     Lanpeng Ji   Parisian ruin of self-similar Gaussian
                                  risk processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--702
                Amogh Deshpande   On the role of Föllmer--Schweizer minimal
                                  martingale measure in risk-sensitive
                                  control asset management . . . . . . . . 703--717
                    P. Tardelli   Partially informed investors: hedging in
                                  an incomplete market with default  . . . 718--735
               Michael Falk and   
             Martin Hofmann and   
                Maximilian Zott   On generalized max-linear models and
                                  their statistical interpolation  . . . . 736--751
                 Lars Holst and   
          Takis Konstantopoulos   Runs in coin tossing: a general approach
                                  for deriving distributions for
                                  functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752--770
          Robert J. Elliott and   
               Tak Kuen Siu and   
                Samuel N. Cohen   Backward stochastic difference equations
                                  for dynamic convex risk measures on a
                                  binomial tree  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--785
               Parisa Fatheddin   Central limit theorem for a class of
                                  SPDEs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786--796
      Konstantinos Spiliopoulos   Nonasymptotic performance analysis of
                                  importance sampling schemes for small
                                  noise diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--810
        Yves Atchadé and   
                     Yizao Wang   On the convergence rates of some
                                  adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--825
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
                 Bruno Sericola   Volume and duration of losses in finite
                                  buffer fluid queues  . . . . . . . . . . 826--840
                     Mark Brown   Sharp bounds for exponential
                                  approximations under a hazard rate upper
                                  bound  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--850
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Component importance in coherent systems
                                  with exchangeable components . . . . . . 851--863
         Thomas O. McDonald and   
                   Marek Kimmel   A multitype infinite-allele branching
                                  process with applications to cancer
                                  evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864--876
           Vladimir Vatutin and   
                  Quansheng Liu   Limit theorems for decomposable
                                  branching processes in a random
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877--893
             Henry W. Block and   
        Naftali A. Langberg and   
               Thomas H. Savits   The limiting failure rate for a
                                  convolution of life distributions  . . . 894--898
         Ken'ichi Kawanishi and   
                 Tetsuya Takine   A note on the virtual waiting time in
                                  the stationary PH/M/c+D queue  . . . . . 899--903
          Hüseyin Acan and   
                Pawel Hitczenko   On the covariances of outdegrees in
                                  random plane recursive trees . . . . . . 904--907
                    F. Ball and   
                        D. Sirl   Correction: Acquaintance vaccination in
                                  an epidemic on a random graph with
                                  specified degree distribution  . . . . . 908

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 52, Number 4, December, 2015

                Dacheng Yao and   
                 Xiuli Chao and   
                    Jingchen Wu   Optimal control policy for a Brownian
                                  inventory system with concave ordering
                                  cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--925
                Mitsushi Tamaki   On the optimal stopping problems with
                                  monotone thresholds  . . . . . . . . . . 926--940
                 Xiuli Chao and   
                 Qi-Ming He and   
                   Sheldon Ross   Tollbooth tandem queues with infinite
                                  homogeneous servers  . . . . . . . . . . 941--961
       Fabrice M. Guillemin and   
               Ravi R. Mazumdar   Conditional sojourn times and the
                                  volatility of payment schemes for
                                  bandwidth sharing in packet networks . . 962--980
           B. S. El-Desouky and   
                F. A. Shiha and   
                    A. M. Magar   On a generalization of a waiting time
                                  problem and some combinatorial
                                  identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981--989
                 Lina Zhang and   
                     Junping Li   The M/M/c queue with mass exodus and
                                  mass arrivals when empty . . . . . . . . 990--1002
       Laurent Decreusefond and   
                  Ian Flint and   
                   Anais Vergne   A note on the simulation of the Ginibre
                                  point process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1012
                Harry Crane and   
                Peter McCullagh   Poisson superposition processes  . . . . 1013--1027
             Enzo Orsingher and   
                   Bruno Toaldo   Counting processes with Bernstein
                                  intertimes and random jumps  . . . . . . 1028--1044
               Luisa Beghin and   
              Roberto Garra and   
                  Claudio Macci   Correlated fractional counting processes
                                  on a finite-time interval  . . . . . . . 1045--1061
           Mats Pihlsgård   Local martingales with two reflecting
                                  barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062--1075
     Aleksandar Mijatovi\'c and   
       Martijn R. Pistorius and   
                Johannes Stolte   Randomisation and recursion methods for
                                  mixed-exponential Lévy models, with
                                  financial applications . . . . . . . . . 1076--1096
          Amarjit Budhiraja and   
                 Pierre Nyquist   Large deviations for multidimensional
                                  state-dependent shot-noise processes . . 1097--1114
        Krzysztof Bartoszek and   
                  Serik Sagitov   Phylogenetic confidence intervals for
                                  the optimal trait value  . . . . . . . . 1115--1132
         Krishna B. Athreya and   
                Vivekananda Roy   Estimation of integrals with respect to
                                  infinite measures using regenerative
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1145
                  Svante Janson   On degenerate sums of $m$-dependent
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146--1155
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
              Abdolsaeed Toomaj   Extension of the past lifetime and its
                                  connection to the cumulative entropy . . 1156--1174
           Fabrizio Durante and   
Juan Fernández-Sánchez and   
            Wolfgang Trutschnig   On the singular components of a copula   1175--1182
Maria Kami\'nska-Zabierowska and   
                  Jorge Navarro   Erratum to: Mixture representations of
                                  residual lifetimes of used systems . . . 1183--1186
               Bruno Buonaguidi   A remark on optimal variance stopping
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187--1194
                Peter Windridge   The extinction time of a subcritical
                                  branching process related to the SIR
                                  epidemic on a random graph . . . . . . . 1195--1201
                 T. Britton and   
                    M. Lindholm   Correction: The early stage behaviour of
                                  a stochastic SIR epidemic with term-time
                                  forcing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1202--1203
                      Anonymous   Journal of Applied Probability Volume 52
                                  (2015): Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1204--1208


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 53, Number 1, March, 2016

                  Chunmao Huang   Moments for multidimensional Mandelbrot
                                  cascades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
              Qing-Pei Zang and   
                   Li-Xin Zhang   A general lower bound of parameter
                                  estimation for reflected
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes  . . . . . 22--32
      Félix Belzunce and   
Carolina Martínez-Riquelme and   
        José M. Ruiz and   
                Miguel A. Sordo   On sufficient conditions for the
                                  comparison in the excess wealth order
                                  and spacings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46
                Yinping You and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Ordering scalar products with
                                  applications in financial engineering
                                  and actuarial science  . . . . . . . . . 47--56
              Mathew D. Penrose   The strong giant in a random digraph . . 57--70
                 N. Packham and   
              M. Kalkbrener and   
                    L. Overbeck   Asymptotic behaviour of multivariate
                                  default probabilities and default
                                  correlations under stress  . . . . . . . 71--81
               Eva Ferreira and   
                 Winfried Stute   Dynamic binomials with an application to
                                  gender bias analysis . . . . . . . . . . 82--90
       Fabián Crocce and   
               Ernesto Mordecki   A finite exact algorithm to solve a dice
                                  game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--105
       Michael N. Katehakis and   
            Laurens C. Smit and   
             Floske M. Spieksma   A comparative analysis of the successive
                                  lumping and the lattice path counting
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--120
         Christian Schluter and   
                     Mark Trede   Weak convergence to the Student and
                                  Laplace distributions  . . . . . . . . . 121--129
          Miriam Isabel Seifert   Weakening the independence assumption on
                                  polar components: limit theorems for
                                  generalized elliptical distributions . . 130--145
      Gennady Samorodnitsky and   
             Sidney Resnick and   
                Don Towsley and   
              Richard Davis and   
                 Amy Willis and   
                    Phyllis Wan   Nonstandard regular variation of
                                  in-degree and out-degree in the
                                  preferential attachment model  . . . . . 146--161
       Krzysztof Jasi\'nski and   
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Inequalities for variances of order
                                  statistics originating from urn models   162--173
                 Hyunju Lee and   
                    Ji Hwan Cha   Point process approach to modeling and
                                  analysis of general cascading failure
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--186
              Nguyen Huu Du and   
            Dang Hai Nguyen and   
                  G. George Yin   Conditions for permanence and ergodicity
                                  of certain stochastic predator-prey
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--202
                 Frank Ball and   
                Tom Britton and   
                     Peter Neal   On expected durations of birth--death
                                  processes, with applications to
                                  branching processes and SIS epidemics    203--215
   Walter A. F. de Carvalho and   
               Sandro Gallo and   
                Nancy L. Garcia   Continuity properties of a factor of
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--230
                S. McKinlay and   
                    K. Borovkov   On explicit form of the stationary
                                  distributions for a class of bounded
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--243
 Anders Rònn-Nielsen and   
            Eva B. Vedel Jensen   Tail asymptotics for the supremum of an
                                  infinitely divisible field with
                                  convolution equivalent Lévy measure . . . 244--261
       A. Ferreiro-Castilla and   
            A. E. Kyprianou and   
                    R. Scheichl   An Euler--Poisson scheme for Lévy driven
                                  stochastic differential equations  . . . 262--278
           Parisa Fatheddin and   
                      Jie Xiong   Moderate deviation principle for a class
                                  of stochastic partial differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--292
         Patrick Buckingham and   
               Brian Fralix and   
                    Offer Kella   A note on integral representations of
                                  the Skorokhod map  . . . . . . . . . . . 293--298
                  Y. H. Mao and   
                   C. Zhang and   
                    Y. H. Zhang   Separation cutoff for upward skip-free
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306
               Zhenlong Gao and   
                   Yanhua Zhang   Limit theorems for a supercritical
                                  Poisson random indexed branching process 307--314

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 53, Number 2, June, 2016

         Servet Martínez   A stationary distribution associated to
                                  a set of laws whose initial states are
                                  grouped into classes. An application in
                                  genomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--326
                     Yanqing Hu   Generalized Efron's biased coin design
                                  and its theoretical properties . . . . . 327--340
          Erik Ekström and   
         Martin Vannestål   Momentum liquidation under partial
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--359
Nayereh Bagheri Khoolenjani and   
     Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz   Extension of de Bruijn's identity to
                                  dependent non-Gaussian noise channels    360--368
               E. D. Andjel and   
                     L. F. Gray   Extreme paths in oriented
                                  two-dimensional percolation  . . . . . . 369--380
           Gabriel Berzunza and   
              Juan Carlos Pardo   Asymptotic behaviour near extinction of
                                  continuous-state branching processes . . 381--391
              J. Jakubowski and   
                       A. Pytel   The Markov consistency of Archimedean
                                  survival processes . . . . . . . . . . . 392--409
          Gareth O. Roberts and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Complexity bounds for Markov chain Monte
                                  Carlo algorithms via diffusion limits    410--420
           Ramtin Pedarsani and   
                   Jean Walrand   Stability of multiclass queueing
                                  networks under longest-queue and
                                  longest-dominating-queue scheduling  . . 421--433
                  Chen Chen and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   Degrees in random self-similar bipolar
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--447
                  M. Gannon and   
               E. Pechersky and   
                   Y. Suhov and   
                  A. Yambartsev   Random walks in a queueing network
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--462
                 Katja Gabrysch   Convergence of directed random graphs to
                                  the Poisson-weighted infinite tree . . . 463--474
              Maria Deijfen and   
                   Nina Gantert   Routeing on trees  . . . . . . . . . . . 475--488
                     Peter Neal   A household SIR epidemic model
                                  incorporating time of day effects  . . . 489--501
             Ryouta Kozakai and   
            Akinobu Shimizu and   
              Morihiro Notohara   Convergence to the structured coalescent
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--517
                 J. Malmros and   
                F. Liljeros and   
                     T. Britton   Respondent-driven sampling and an
                                  unusual epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--530
                     Je Guk Kim   Optimal importance sampling for the
                                  Laplace transform of exponential
                                  Brownian functionals . . . . . . . . . . 531--542
                James C. Fu and   
                   Tung-Lung Wu   Boundary crossing probabilities for
                                  high-dimensional Brownian motion . . . . 543--553
                    Mi Chen and   
                 Kam Chuen Yuen   Optimal dividend and reinsurance in the
                                  presence of two reinsurers . . . . . . . 554--571
           Erik J. Baurdoux and   
          Juan Carlos Pardo and   
José Luis Pérez and   
    Jean-François Renaud   Gerber--Shiu distribution at Parisian
                                  ruin for Lévy insurance risk processes    572--584
         Sergio I. López   Convergence of tandem Brownian queues    585--592
             Magda Peligrad and   
                    Sergey Utev   On the invariance principle for
                                  reversible Markov chains . . . . . . . . 593--599
              Jevgenijs Ivanovs   Sparre Andersen identity and the last
                                  passage time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--605
                  Joseba Dalmau   Distribution of the quasispecies for a
                                  Galton--Watson process on the sharp peak
                                  landscape  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--613
              K. B. Athreya and   
                    H.-J. Schuh   A Galton--Watson process with a
                                  threshold  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--621
        Emmanuelle Anceaume and   
                Yann Busnel and   
        Ernst Schulte-Geers and   
                 Bruno Sericola   Optimization results for a generalized
                                  coupon collector problem . . . . . . . . 622--629
             Eve D. Lathrop and   
         Isaac H. Goldstein and   
                  Yung-Pin Chen   A note on a generalized Ehrenfest urn
                                  model: another look at the mean
                                  transition times . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--632

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 53, Number 3, September, 2016

                Z. I. Botev and   
                  A. Ridder and   
             L. Rojas-Nandayapa   Semiparametric cross entropy for
                                  rare-event simulation  . . . . . . . . . 633--649
              Anton Muratov and   
                   Sergei Zuyev   Bit flipping and time to recover . . . . 650--666
         Evangelos Kranakis and   
               Gennady Shaikhet   Sensor allocation problems on the real
                                  line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--687
             Fredrik Olsson and   
              Tatyana S. Turova   Ergodicity of age-dependent inventory
                                  control systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--699
                    Fraser Daly   Compound geometric approximation under a
                                  failure rate constraint  . . . . . . . . 700--714
             Guangxin Jiang and   
                  Michael C. Fu   Quantile sensitivity estimation for
                                  dependent sequences  . . . . . . . . . . 715--732
                Adrien Hitz and   
                    Robin Evans   One-component regular variation and
                                  graphical modeling of extremes . . . . . 733--746
      Takis Konstantopoulos and   
                Zhenxia Liu and   
                 Xiangfeng Yang   Laplace transform asymptotics and large
                                  deviation principles for longest success
                                  runs in Bernoulli trials . . . . . . . . 747--764
            Gerold Alsmeyer and   
             Alexander Marynych   Renewal approximation for the absorption
                                  time of a decreasing Markov chain  . . . 765--782
                    Eric Foxall   The SEIS model, or, the contact process
                                  with a latent stage  . . . . . . . . . . 783--801
                     Jyy-I Hong   Coalescence on critical and subcritical
                                  multitype branching processes  . . . . . 802--817
                 Onno Boxma and   
             Michel Mandjes and   
                      Josh Reed   On a class of reflected $ {\rm AR}(1) $
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818--832
               Christian Hirsch   Bounded-hop percolation and wireless
                                  communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--845
        Andrea Collevecchio and   
            Abbas Mehrabian and   
                   Nick Wormald   Longest paths in random Apollonian
                                  networks and largest $r$-ary subtrees of
                                  random $d$-ary recursive trees . . . . . 846--856
      Vytaute Pilipauskaite and   
              Donatas Surgailis   Anisotropic scaling of the random grain
                                  model with application to network
                                  traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--879
                 Katja Gabrysch   Distribution of the smallest visited
                                  point in a greedy walk on the line . . . 880--887
               Bojan Basrak and   
              Drago Spoljari\'c   On randomly spaced observations and
                                  continuous-time random walks . . . . . . 888--898
                 Irene Crimaldi   Central limit theorems for a
                                  hypergeometric randomly reinforced urn   899--913
            Erik Thörnblad   The dominating colour of an infinite
                                  Pólya urn model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914--924
             Achillefs Tzioufas   The entirely coupled region of
                                  supercritical contact processes  . . . . 925--929
                 Mark Brown and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Optimality results for coupon collection 930--937
              K. Bruce Erickson   Uniqueness of the null solution to a
                                  nonlinear partial differential equation
                                  satisfied by the explosion probability
                                  of a branching diffusion . . . . . . . . 938--945
       Lo\"\ic Hervé and   
                   James Ledoux   Computable bounds of an $ l^2$-spectral
                                  gap for discrete Markov chains with band
                                  transition matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 946--952
          Martin Möhle and   
              Morihiro Notohara   An extension of a convergence theorem
                                  for Markov chains arising in population
                                  genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--956

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 53, Number 4, December, 2016

                 Randall Martyr   Solving finite time horizon Dynkin games
                                  by optimal switching . . . . . . . . . . 957--973
           Alexander Katzur and   
                      Udo Kamps   Order statistics with memory: a model
                                  with reliability applications  . . . . . 974--988
              A. Maheshwari and   
                  P. Vellaisamy   On the long-range dependence of
                                  fractional Poisson and negative binomial
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989--1000
          Venkat Anantharam and   
       François Baccelli   The Boolean model in the Shannon regime:
                                  three thresholds and related asymptotics 1001--1018
        Cristian F. Coletti and   
   Karina B. E. de Oliveira and   
             Pablo M. Rodriguez   A stochastic two-stage innovation
                                  diffusion model on a lattice . . . . . . 1019--1030
        Robert R. Wilkinson and   
              Frank G. Ball and   
              Kieran J. Sharkey   The deterministic Kermack--McKendrick
                                  model bounds the general stochastic
                                  epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1040
          Pieter C. Allaart and   
           José A. Islas   A sharp lower bound for choosing the
                                  maximum of an independent sequence . . . 1041--1051
           Golshid Baharian and   
              Arash Khatibi and   
            Sheldon H. Jacobson   Sequential stochastic assignment problem
                                  with time-dependent random success rates 1052--1063
              Jean Mairesse and   
                   Pascal Moyal   Stability of the stochastic matching
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064--1077
            Gagandeep Singh and   
                U. C. Gupta and   
                 M. L. Chaudhry   Detailed computational analysis of
                                  queueing-time distributions of the
                                  BMAP/G/1 queue using roots . . . . . . . 1078--1097
             Tu\ugrul Dayar and   
                   M. Can Orhan   Steady-state analysis of a multiclass
                                  MAP/PH/c queue with acyclic PH retrials  1098--1110
         Debankur Mukherjee and   
               Sem C. Borst and   
Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden and   
              Philip A. Whiting   Universality of load balancing schemes
                                  on the diffusion scale . . . . . . . . . 1111--1124
            Jennifer Sommer and   
                Hans Daduna and   
               Bernd Heidergott   Nonergodic Jackson networks with
                                  infinite supply-local stabilization and
                                  local equilibrium analysis . . . . . . . 1125--1142
          Giacomo Plazzotta and   
                Caroline Colijn   Asymptotic frequency of shapes in
                                  supercritical branching trees  . . . . . 1143--1155
           Nicolas Grosjean and   
                Thierry Huillet   On a coalescence process and its
                                  branching genealogy  . . . . . . . . . . 1156--1165
                     Xin He and   
                      Zenghu Li   Distributions of jumps in a
                                  continuous-state branching process with
                                  immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166--1177
          Alexander Iksanov and   
               Zakhar Kabluchko   A central limit theorem and a law of the
                                  iterated logarithm for the Biggins
                                  martingale of the supercritical
                                  branching random walk  . . . . . . . . . 1178--1192
              A. D. Barbour and   
               P. Chigansky and   
                 F. C. Klebaner   On the emergence of random initial
                                  conditions in fluid limits . . . . . . . 1193--1205
             Patrizia Berti and   
             Irene Crimaldi and   
              Luca Pratelli and   
                    Pietro Rigo   Asymptotics for randomly reinforced urns
                                  with random barriers . . . . . . . . . . 1206--1220
           Neeraja Sahasrabudhe   Synchronization and fluctuation theorems
                                  for interacting Friedman urns  . . . . . 1221--1239
                    Yi-Shen Lin   A generalization of the Mabinogion sheep
                                  problem of D. Williams . . . . . . . . . 1240--1256
          Stefan Kassberger and   
                Thomas Liebmann   An alternative axiomatic
                                  characterisation of pricing operators    1257--1264
                Sheldon M. Ross   Improved Chen--Stein bounds on the
                                  probability of a union . . . . . . . . . 1265--1270
                   R. Biard and   
                  B. Saussereau   Correction: Fractional Poisson process:
                                  long-range dependence and applications
                                  in ruin theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1272


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 54, Number 1, March, 2017

                  Eugene Seneta   Obituary: Joseph Mark Gani AM, DSc, FAA,
                                  FASSA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
              Tomomi Matsui and   
                  Katsunori Ano   Compare the ratio of symmetric
                                  polynomials of odds to one and stop  . . 12--22
                 Gregory Gagnon   Stochastic impulse control of exchange
                                  rates with Freidlin--Wentzell
                                  perturbations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--41
                   Koji Tsukuda   Estimating the large mutation parameter
                                  of the Ewens sampling formula  . . . . . 42--54
             Romain Abraham and   
              Aymen Bouaziz and   
    Jean-François Delmas   Local limits of Galton--Watson trees
                                  conditioned on the number of protected
                                  nodes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65
                Jaakko Lehtomaa   Large deviations of means of
                                  heavy-tailed random variables with
                                  finite moments of all orders . . . . . . 66--81
                Ibrahim Rahimov   Statistical inference for partially
                                  observed branching processes with
                                  immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--95
                Markus Kuba and   
               Henning Sulzbach   On martingale tail sums in affine
                                  two-color urn models with multiple
                                  drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--117
             Mathieu Gerber and   
                  Nick Whiteley   Stability with respect to initial
                                  conditions in $V$-norm for nonlinear
                                  filters with ergodic observations  . . . 118--133
            Miguel A. Sordo and   
             Georgios Psarrakos   Stochastic comparisons of interfailure
                                  times under a relevation replacement
                                  policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--145
              Enrico Baroni and   
      Remco van der Hofstad and   
   Júlia Komjáthy   Nonuniversality of weighted random
                                  graphs with infinite variance degree . . 146--164
             Richard Kenyon and   
                        Mei Yin   On the asymptotics of constrained
                                  exponential random graphs  . . . . . . . 165--180
            John Haslegrave and   
                    Mate Puljiz   Reaching consensus on a connected graph  181--198
        Ernst Schulte-Geers and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Small drift limit theorems for random
                                  walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--212
              Michael Fuchs and   
           Hsien-Kuei Hwang and   
                  Yoshiaki Itoh   From coin tossing to rock-paper-scissors
                                  and beyond: a log-exp gap theorem for
                                  selecting a leader . . . . . . . . . . . 213--235
          Erik Ekström and   
          Kristoffer Glover and   
                   Marta Leniec   Dynkin games with heterogeneous beliefs  236--251
                Offer Kella and   
                       Marc Yor   Unifying the Dynkin and
                                  Lebesgue--Stieltjes formulae . . . . . . 252--266
              Onno J. Boxma and   
             Esther Frostig and   
                    David Perry   A reinsurance risk model with a
                                  threshold coverage policy: the
                                  Gerber--Shiu penalty function  . . . . . 267--285
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
            Philippe Picard and   
                 Matthieu Simon   Epidemic risk and insurance coverage . . 286--303
               Yi-Ching Yao and   
      Daniel Wei-Chung Miao and   
           Xenos Chang-Shuo Lin   Corrected discrete approximations for
                                  the conditional and unconditional
                                  distributions of the continuous scan
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--319

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 54, Number 2, June, 2017

Fabricio Siqueira Benevides and   
           Malgorzata Sulkowska   Percolation and best-choice problem for
                                  powers of paths  . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--362
          Markos V. Koutras and   
      Demetrios P. Lyberopoulos   New maximal inequalities for
                                  $N$-demimartingales with scan statistic
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--378
                  A. Toomaj and   
                S. M. Sunoj and   
                     J. Navarro   Some properties of the cumulative
                                  residual entropy of coherent and mixed
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--393
                Luc Devroye and   
László Györfi and   
        Gábor Lugosi and   
                     Harro Walk   On the measure of Voronoi cells  . . . . 394--408
                   Yun Zeng and   
              Cathy Honghui Xia   Optimal bulking threshold of batch
                                  service queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--423
                     Je Guk Kim   On the convergence of the
                                  quasi-regression method: polynomial
                                  chaos and regularity . . . . . . . . . . 424--443
                     Fangjun Xu   Second-order limit laws for occupation
                                  times of fractional Brownian motion  . . 444--461
                  R. Laraki and   
                    W. Sudderth   A continuity question of Dubins and
                                  Savage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--473
                 Yingqiu Li and   
               Chuancun Yin and   
                   Xiaowen Zhou   On the last exit times for spectrally
                                  negative Lévy processes . . . . . . . . . 474--489
                 Pierre Nyquist   Moderate deviation principles for
                                  importance sampling estimators of risk
                                  measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--506
               M. Suvinthra and   
                K. Balachandran   Large deviations for the stochastic
                                  predator-prey model with nonlinear
                                  functional response  . . . . . . . . . . 507--521
              Peter Czuppon and   
             Peter Pfaffelhuber   A spatial model for selection and
                                  cooperation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--539
            Ksenia Chernysh and   
               Sanjay Ramassamy   Coupling any number of balls in the
                                  infinite-bin model . . . . . . . . . . . 540--549
         Thomas O. McDonald and   
                   Marek Kimmel   Multitype infinite-allele branching
                                  processes in continuous time . . . . . . 550--568
            Ollivier Hyrien and   
             Kosto V. Mitov and   
               Nikolay M. Yanev   Subcritical Sevastyanov branching
                                  processes with nonhomogeneous Poisson
                                  immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--587
           Vladimir Vatutin and   
                Elena Dyakonova   Path to survival for the critical
                                  branching processes in a random
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--602
           David Landriault and   
                     Bin Li and   
                Hongzhong Zhang   A unified approach for drawdown (drawup)
                                  of time-homogeneous Markov processes . . 603--626
              Lu-Jing Huang and   
                   Yong-Hua Mao   On some mixing times for nonreversible
                                  finite Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . 627--637
                    K. Kamatani   Ergodicity of Markov chain Monte Carlo
                                  with reversible proposal . . . . . . . . 638--654
                      Yaming Yu   Minimum variance in the coupon
                                  collector's problem  . . . . . . . . . . 655--656

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 54, Number 3, September, 2017

                 Mark Brown and   
              Joel E. Cohen and   
    Victor H. de la Peña   Taylor's law, via ratios, for some
                                  distributions with infinite mean . . . . 657--669
               Yinghua Dong and   
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   Contact distribution in a thinned
                                  Boolean model with power-law radii . . . 670--684
               Xiaoqing Pan and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Increasing convex order on generalized
                                  aggregation of SAI random variables with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--700
          Hrishikesh Balaji and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   The Gini index of random trees with an
                                  application to caterpillars  . . . . . . 701--709
                Huy N. Chau and   
               Andrea Cosso and   
            Claudio Fontana and   
               Oleksii Mostovyi   Optimal investment with intermediate
                                  consumption under no unbounded profit
                                  with bounded risk  . . . . . . . . . . . 710--719
              Serik Sagitov and   
                 Thibaut France   Limit theorems for pure death processes
                                  coming down from infinity  . . . . . . . 720--731
             Péter Kevei   Implicit renewal theory in the
                                  arithmetic case  . . . . . . . . . . . . 732--749
Jòrund Gåsemyr and   
                    Bent Natvig   Improved availability bounds for binary
                                  and multistate monotone systems with
                                  independent component processes  . . . . 750--762
               Chunling Luo and   
                    Zhou He and   
                   Chin Hon Tan   Almost stochastic dominance under
                                  inconsistent utility and loss functions  763--772
              Anne Sabourin and   
                   Johan Segers   Marginal standardization of upper
                                  semicontinuous processes. With
                                  application to max-stable processes  . . 773--796
               Michael Falk and   
                Maximilian Zott   On generalized max-linear models in
                                  max-stable random fields . . . . . . . . 797--810
                  Zhongquan Tan   Limit laws on extremes of nonhomogeneous
                                  Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . 811--832
 Anders Rònn-Nielsen and   
            Eva B. Vedel Jensen   Excursion sets of infinitely divisible
                                  random fields with convolution
                                  equivalent Lévy measure . . . . . . . . . 833--851
                 Tongkeun Chang   Absolute continuity of distributions of
                                  one-dimensional Lévy processes  . . . . . 852--872
             Boris Buchmann and   
           Yuguang F. Ipsen and   
                    Ross Maller   Functional laws for trimmed Lévy
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--889
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                Philippe Picard   On the outcome of epidemics with
                                  detections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890--904
            Etienne Pardoux and   
          Brice Samegni-Kepgnou   Large deviation principle for epidemic
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905--920
              Gianmarco Bet and   
      Remco van der Hofstad and   
    Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden   Finite-pool queueing with heavy-tailed
                                  services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--942
                Harsha Honnappa   Rare events of transitory queues . . . . 943--962
                Vadim Arkin and   
           Alexander Slastnikov   On the threshold strategies in optimal
                                  stopping problems for diffusion
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963--969

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 54, Number 4, December, 2017

            Samuel N. Cohen and   
               Victor Fedyashov   Nash equilibria for nonzero-sum ergodic
                                  stochastic differential games  . . . . . 977--994
                    S. Foss and   
                  A. L. Stolyar   Large-scale join-idle-queue system with
                                  general service times  . . . . . . . . . 995--1007
            Adrian Baddeley and   
                   Gopalan Nair   Poisson-saddlepoint approximation for
                                  Gibbs point processes with
                                  infinite-order interaction: in memory of
                                  Peter Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008--1026
                Majid Asadi and   
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
                 Ehsan S. Soofi   Connections of Gini, Fisher, and Shannon
                                  by Bayes risk under proportional hazards 1027--1050
                 S. Ashrafi and   
                       M. Asadi   The failure probability of components in
                                  three-state networks with applications
                                  to age replacement policy  . . . . . . . 1051--1070
                    Xin Guo and   
          Alexey Piunovskiy and   
                       Yi Zhang   Note on discounted continuous-time
                                  Markov decision processes with a lower
                                  bounding function  . . . . . . . . . . . 1071--1088
            Gerold Alsmeyer and   
        Dariusz Buraczewski and   
              Alexander Iksanov   Null recurrence and transience of random
                                  difference equations in the contractive
                                  case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089--1110
                   Ken Yamamoto   Central limit theorem for the
                                  Horton--Strahler bifurcation ratio of
                                  general branch order . . . . . . . . . . 1111--1124
              Michael Fuchs and   
               Hsien-Kuei Hwang   Dependence between path-length and size
                                  in random digital trees  . . . . . . . . 1125--1143
               Nickos Papadatos   On sequences of expected maxima and
                                  expected ranges  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1144--1166
                 Jiang Zhou and   
                         Lan Wu   The distribution of refracted Lévy
                                  processes with jumps having rational
                                  Laplace transforms . . . . . . . . . . . 1167--1192
                  Chen Yang and   
        Kristian P. Sendova and   
                       Zhong Li   On the Parisian ruin of the dual Lévy
                                  risk model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1212
               A. B. Dieker and   
                 Guido R. Lagos   A dichotomy for sampling
                                  barrier-crossing events of random walks
                                  with regularly varying tails . . . . . . 1213--1232
               Alain Durmus and   
           Sylvain Le Corff and   
              Eric Moulines and   
              Gareth O. Roberts   Optimal scaling of the random walk
                                  Metropolis algorithm under $ L^p $ mean
                                  differentiability  . . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1260
Béla Bollobás and   
              Oliver Cooley and   
                Mihyun Kang and   
                 Christoph Koch   Jigsaw percolation on random hypergraphs 1261--1277
             Fioralba Ajazi and   
       George M. Napolitano and   
                 Tatyana Turova   Phase transition in random distance
                                  graphs on the torus  . . . . . . . . . . 1278--1294
      Takis Konstantopoulos and   
                  Linglong Yuan   A probabilistic interpretation of the
                                  Gaussian binomial coefficients . . . . . 1295--1298
                      Anonymous   JPR volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   JPR volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b6


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 55, Number 1, March, 2018

                   David Criens   Structure-preserving equivalent
                                  martingale measures for H-SII models . . 1--14
          Alexander Iksanov and   
              Wissem Jedidi and   
               Fethi Bouzeffour   Functional limit theorems for the number
                                  of busy servers in a G/G/$ \infty $
                                  queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--29
               Michael Grabchak   Domains of attraction for positive and
                                  discrete tempered stable distributions   30--42
                    M. Falk and   
        A. Khorrami Chokami and   
                   S. A. Padoan   On multivariate records from random
                                  vectors with independent components  . . 43--53
                  Marco Oesting   Equivalent representations of max-stable
                                  processes via $ \ell_p$-norms  . . . . . 54--68
             Christophe Profeta   A remark on positive sojourn times of
                                  symmetric processes  . . . . . . . . . . 69--81
           Fabian Kück and   
            Dominic Schuhmacher   On the age of a randomly picked
                                  individual in a linear birth-and-death
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--93
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
               Alessandra Meoli   On a jump-telegraph process driven by an
                                  alternating fractional Poisson process   94--111
              Mathew D. Penrose   Inhomogeneous random graphs, isolated
                                  vertices, and Poisson approximation  . . 112--136
              Jose Blanchet and   
                Karthyek Murthy   Exact simulation of multidimensional
                                  reflected Brownian motion  . . . . . . . 137--156
                  Xiaoou Li and   
                     Gongjun Xu   Uniformly efficient simulation for
                                  extremes of Gaussian random fields . . . 157--178
          Ayan Bhattacharya and   
                  Parthanil Roy   A large sample test for the length of
                                  memory of stationary symmetric stable
                                  random fields via nonsingular $ \mathbb
                                  {Z}^d $-actions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--195
            Nathakhun Wiroonsri   Stein's method for negatively associated
                                  random variables with applications to
                                  second-order stationary random fields    196--215
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
           Ghobad Barmalzan and   
                 Abedin Haidari   On stochastic comparisons of
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ systems with Weibull
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--232
         F. G. Badía and   
           C. Sangüesa and   
                    Ji Hwan Cha   Univariate and multivariate stochastic
                                  comparisons and ageing properties of the
                                  generalized Pólya process . . . . . . . . 233--253
               Nabil Lasmar and   
      Cécile Mailler and   
                     Olfa Selmi   Multiple drawing multi-colour urns by
                                  stochastic approximation . . . . . . . . 254--281
            Angelos Dassios and   
                    Jia Wei Lim   Recursive formula for the double-barrier
                                  Parisian stopping time . . . . . . . . . 282--301
                     Bin Li and   
          Gordon E. Willmot and   
                Jeff T. Y. Wong   A temporal approach to the Parisian risk
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--317
             Maher Nouiehed and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   A conjecture on the Feldman bandit
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--324
                      Anonymous   JPR volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f4

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 55, Number 2, June, 2018

                Bruce Hajek and   
                  Yihong Wu and   
                     Jiaming Xu   Recovering a hidden community beyond the
                                  Kesten--Stigum threshold in $ O(|E|
                                  \log^* |V|) $ time . . . . . . . . . . . 325--352
                Arno Berger and   
                  Isaac Twelves   On the significands of uniform random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--367
        Dariusz Buraczewski and   
            Piotr Dyszewski and   
          Alexander Iksanov and   
             Alexander Marynych   On perpetuities with gamma-like tails    368--389
                 B. Goodman and   
                   P. F. Tupper   Effects of limiting memory capacity on
                                  the behaviour of exemplar dynamics . . . 390--401
              Shyamal Ghosh and   
                   Murari Mitra   On an ageing class based on the moment
                                  generating function order  . . . . . . . 402--415
                  H. L. Gan and   
               Eric D. Kolaczyk   Approximation of the difference of two
                                  Poisson-like counts by Skellam . . . . . 416--430
                Hailin Sang and   
                     Yimin Xiao   Exact moderate and large deviations for
                                  linear random fields . . . . . . . . . . 431--449
                    Weijuan Chu   Self-normalized large deviation for
                                  supercritical branching processes  . . . 450--458
      Ebrahim Amini-Seresht and   
               Yiying Zhang and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Stochastic comparisons of coherent
                                  systems under different random
                                  environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--472
                 M. Bieniek and   
                   M. Burkschat   On unimodality of the lifetime
                                  distribution of coherent systems with
                                  failure-dependent component lifetimes    473--487
               Laure Coutin and   
            Monique Pontier and   
                      Waly Ngom   Joint distribution of a Lévy process and
                                  its running supremum . . . . . . . . . . 488--512
               Wenyuan Wang and   
                   Xiaowen Zhou   General drawdown-based de Finetti
                                  optimization for spectrally negative Lévy
                                  risk processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--542
         M. du Roy de Chaumaray   Weighted least-squares estimation for
                                  the subcritical Heston process . . . . . 543--558
                    Yu Miao and   
                     Manru Dong   Asymptotic behavior for the
                                  Robbins--Monro process . . . . . . . . . 559--570
            Jonatha Anselmi and   
     François Dufour and   
     Tomás Prieto-Rumeau   Computable approximations for average
                                  Markov decision processes in continuous
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--592
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                Philippe Picard   A general approach to the integral
                                  functionals of epidemic processes  . . . 593--609
                  Adam Bowditch   A quenched central limit theorem for
                                  biased random walks on supercritical
                                  Galton--Watson trees . . . . . . . . . . 610--626
            Fiona Sloothaak and   
             Vitali Wachtel and   
                     Bert Zwart   First-passage time asymptotics over
                                  moving boundaries for random walk
                                  bridges  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--651
                   Bara Kim and   
                   Jeongsim Kim   Hazard rate ordering of the largest
                                  order statistics from geometric random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--658
                  Norbert Henze   On the consistency of the spacings test
                                  for multivariate uniformity, including
                                  on manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--665

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 55, Number 3, September, 2018

         Vít Perzina and   
                   Jan M. Swart   How much market making does a market
                                  need?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--681
          Marina Santacroce and   
                 Paola Siri and   
             Barbara Trivellato   Exponential models by Orlicz spaces and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682--700
               D. Dolgopyat and   
                  P. Hebbar and   
                 L. Koralov and   
                     M. Perlman   Multi-type branching processes with
                                  time-dependent branching rates . . . . . 701--727
        János Flesch and   
      Arkadi Predtetchinski and   
               William Sudderth   Characterization and simplification of
                                  optimal strategies in positive
                                  stochastic games . . . . . . . . . . . . 728--741
                Fraser Daly and   
                 Oliver Johnson   Relaxation of monotone coupling
                                  conditions: Poisson approximation and
                                  beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--759
   François Baccelli and   
                 Eliza O'Reilly   Reach of repulsion for determinantal
                                  point processes in high dimensions . . . 760--788
       Jesper Mòller and   
      Andreas D. Christoffersen   Pair correlation functions and limiting
                                  distributions of iterated cluster point
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789--809
               Oleksii Mostovyi   Optimal consumption of multiple goods in
                                  incomplete markets . . . . . . . . . . . 810--822
                 Jean Jacod and   
                 Mark Podolskij   On the minimal number of driving Lévy
                                  motions in a multivariate price model    823--833
           Ghobad Barmalzan and   
             Abedin Haidari and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Univariate and multivariate stochastic
                                  orderings of residual lifetimes of live
                                  components in sequential $ (n - r +
                                  1)$-out-of-$n$ systems . . . . . . . . . 834--844
                 S. Ashrafi and   
               S. Zarezadeh and   
                       M. Asadi   Reliability modeling of coherent systems
                                  with shared components based on
                                  sequential order statistics  . . . . . . 845--861
   F. Alberto Grünbaum and   
        Manuel D. de la Iglesia   Stochastic $ L U $ factorizations,
                                  Darboux transformations and urn models   862--886
               Sandro Gallo and   
             Pablo M. Rodriguez   Frog models on trees through renewal
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--899
              A. Garavaglia and   
             R. van der Hofstad   From trees to graphs: collapsing
                                  continuous-time branching processes  . . 900--919
                D. T. Koops and   
                  M. Saxena and   
                O. J. Boxma and   
                     M. Mandjes   Infinite-server queues with Hawkes input 920--943
           I. J. B. F. Adan and   
             V. G. Kulkarni and   
                     N. Lee and   
                     E. Lefeber   Optimal routeing in two-queue polling
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944--967
                Ali Devin Sezer   Approximation of excessive backlog
                                  probabilities of two tandem queues . . . 968--997
                     K. Tsukuda   Estimating the large mutation parameter
                                  of the Ewens sampling formula ---
                                  Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998--999
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 55, Number 4, December, 2018

            Catherine Aaron and   
                 Olivier Bodart   Convergence rates for estimators of
                                  geodesic distances and Fr\`echet
                                  expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001--1013
          Maxim Finkelstein and   
            Nil Kamal Hazra and   
                    Ji Hwan Cha   On optimal operational sequence of
                                  components in a warm standby system  . . 1014--1024
                 Dario Bini and   
          Jeffrey J. Hunter and   
               Guy Latouche and   
             Beatrice Meini and   
                   Peter Taylor   Why is Kemeny's constant a constant? . . 1025--1036
              Julien Chevallier   Uniform decomposition of probability
                                  measures: quantization, clustering and
                                  rate of convergence  . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1045
              Boris Alexeev and   
                Dustin G. Mixon   Partisan gerrymandering with
                                  geographically compact districts . . . . 1046--1059
              Steven S. Kim and   
                 Kavita Ramanan   A conditional limit theorem for
                                  high-dimensional $ \ell^p$-spheres . . . 1060--1077
           Antoine Jacquier and   
          Mikko S. Pakkanen and   
                    Henry Stone   Pathwise large deviations for the rough
                                  Bergomi model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078--1092
                 Josh Rosenberg   The nonhomogeneous frog model on $
                                  \mathbb {Z} $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093--1112
                   Boris Pittel   On random quadratic forms: supports of
                                  potential local maxima . . . . . . . . . 1113--1130
          Alexander Iksanov and   
               Zakhar Kabluchko   Weak convergence of the number of
                                  vertices at intermediate levels of
                                  random recursive trees . . . . . . . . . 1131--1142
               Ferenc Fodor and   
             Viktor Vígh   Variance estimates for random
                                  disc-polygons in smooth convex discs . . 1143--1157
               James Lukins and   
                Roger Tribe and   
                Oleg Zaboronski   Multi-point correlations for
                                  two-dimensional coalescing or
                                  annihilating random walks  . . . . . . . 1158--1185
              Daniel Rudolf and   
                  Mario Ullrich   Comparison of hit-and-run, slice sampler
                                  and random walk Metropolis . . . . . . . 1186--1202
       Kenneth S. Berenhaut and   
               Hongyi Jiang and   
           Katelyn M. McNab and   
            Elizabeth J. Krizay   The degree-wise effect of a second step
                                  for a random walk on a graph . . . . . . 1203--1210
                Jonathan Jordan   Preferential attachment graphs with
                                  co-existing types of different fitnesses 1211--1227
             David Dereudre and   
                 Mathew Penrose   On the critical threshold for continuum
                                  AB percolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1228--1237
            Muhyiddin Izadi and   
             Maryam Sharafi and   
             Baha-Eldin Khaledi   New nonparametric classes of
                                  distributions in terms of mean time to
                                  failure in age replacement . . . . . . . 1238--1248
                  Ming Gong and   
                    Min Xie and   
                    Yaning Yang   Reliability assessment of system under a
                                  generalized run shock model  . . . . . . 1249--1260
             Tomasz Rychlik and   
              Jorge Navarro and   
                   Rafael Rubio   Effective procedure of verifying
                                  stochastic ordering of system lifetimes  1261--1271
                   Kei Noba and   
José-Luis Pérez and   
         Kazutoshi Yamazaki and   
                     Kouji Yano   On optimal periodic dividend and capital
                                  injection strategies for spectrally
                                  negative Lévy models  . . . . . . . . . . 1272--1286


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 56, Number 1, March, 2019

        Takashi Kamihigashi and   
                John Stachurski   A unified stability theory for classical
                                  and monotone Markov chains . . . . . . . 1--22
               Ola Hössjer   A spatio-temporal point process model
                                  for particle growth  . . . . . . . . . . 23--38
       Friedrich Götze and   
              Anna Gusakova and   
             Dmitry Zaporozhets   Random affine simplexes  . . . . . . . . 39--51
            Gérard Letac   Is the Sibuya distribution a progeny?    52--56
            Angelos Dassios and   
                     Yan Qu and   
                    Jia Wei Lim   Exact simulation of generalised Vervaat
                                  perpetuities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--75
              Thierry Klein and   
       Agnés Lagnoux and   
                   Pierre Petit   A conditional Berry--Esseen inequality   76--90
               Paul Doukhan and   
             Michael H. Neumann   Absolute regularity of semi-contractive
                                  GARCH-type processes . . . . . . . . . . 91--115
              Jose Blanchet and   
                  Jing Dong and   
                    Zhipeng Liu   Exact sampling of the infinite horizon
                                  maximum of a random walk over a
                                  nonlinear boundary . . . . . . . . . . . 116--138
           Günter Last and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   On negative association of some finite
                                  point processes on general state spaces  139--152
            Bo H. Lindqvist and   
     Francisco J. Samaniego and   
                      Nana Wang   Preservation of the mean residual life
                                  order for coherent and mixed systems . . 153--173
              Hongsheng Dai and   
             Murray Pollock and   
                 Gareth Roberts   Monte Carlo fusion . . . . . . . . . . . 174--191
                Harry Crane and   
                 Walter Dempsey   Relational exchangeability . . . . . . . 192--208
 Anders Rònn-Nielsen and   
            Eva B. Vedel Jensen   Central limit theorem for mean and
                                  variogram estimators in Lévy-based models 209--222
      Aleksandr Beknazaryan and   
                Hailin Sang and   
                     Yimin Xiao   Cramér type moderate deviations for
                                  random fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--245
           Nikolai Leonenko and   
              Enrico Scalas and   
                   Mailan Trinh   Limit theorems for the fractional
                                  nonhomogeneous Poisson process . . . . . 246--264
               Najmeddine Attia   On the multifractal analysis of the
                                  covering number on the Galton--Watson
                                  tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--281
            Franco Flandoli and   
                  Marta Leocata   A particle system approach to
                                  aggregation phenomena  . . . . . . . . . 282--306
               Ronald W. Butler   Asymptotic expansions and saddlepoint
                                  approximations using the analytic
                                  continuation of moment generating
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--338
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 56, Number 2, June, 2019

   François Baccelli and   
                  Antonio Sodre   Renewal processes, population dynamics,
                                  and unimodular trees . . . . . . . . . . 339--357
           Magdalena Szymkowiak   Measures of ageing tendency  . . . . . . 358--383
            Claudio Fontana and   
              Markus Pelger and   
                 Eckhard Platen   On the existence of sure profits via
                                  flash strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--397
               Yiming Jiang and   
                 Shiyu Song and   
                   Yongjin Wang   Some explicit results on one kind of
                                  sticky diffusion . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--415
      István Fazekas and   
       Csaba Noszály and   
       Attila Perecsényi   The $N$-star network evolution model . . 416--440
                      Bo Li and   
               Nhat Linh Vu and   
                   Xiaowen Zhou   Exit problems for general draw-down
                                  times of spectrally negative Lévy
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--457
         Lasse Leskelä and   
                        Hoa Ngo   First passage percolation on sparse
                                  random graphs with boundary weights  . . 458--471
                  Matija Vidmar   First passage upwards for
                                  state-dependent-killed spectrally
                                  negative Lévy processes . . . . . . . . . 472--495
             Blanka Horvath and   
           Antoine Jacquier and   
           Chloé Lacombe   Asymptotic behaviour of randomised
                                  fractional volatility models . . . . . . 496--523
                 Yoshiaki Inoue   Comparison results for M/G/1 queues with
                                  waiting and sojourn time deadlines . . . 524--532
                 Zhishui Hu and   
                   Zheng Li and   
                  Qunqiang Feng   Accessibility percolation on random
                                  rooted labeled trees . . . . . . . . . . 533--545
          Stefan Ankirchner and   
Christophette Blanchet-Scalliet and   
                Nabil Kazi-Tani   The De Vylder--Goovaerts conjecture
                                  holds within the diffusion limit . . . . 546--557
           C. Houdré and   
                     G. Kerchev   On the rate of convergence for the
                                  length of the longest common
                                  subsequences in hidden Markov models . . 558--573
László Györfi and   
              Norbert Henze and   
                     Harro Walk   The limit distribution of the maximum
                                  probability nearest-neighbour ball . . . 574--589
     Ágnes Backhausz and   
Dávid Kunszenti-Kovács   On the dense preferential attachment
                                  graph models and their graphon induced
                                  counterpart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590--601
             Daryl J. Daley and   
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   A martingale view of Blackwell's renewal
                                  theorem and its extensions to a general
                                  counting process . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--623
                       Eddie Tu   On association and other forms of
                                  positive dependence for Feller processes 624--646
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 56, Number 3, September, 2019

      Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh and   
                Arnab Auddy and   
                Yann Disser and   
                   Heinz Koeppl   Approximate lumpability for Markovian
                                  agent-based models using local
                                  symmetries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--671
                Clara Stegehuis   Degree correlations in scale-free random
                                  graph models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672--700
             Christel Geiss and   
                Antti Luoto and   
                 Paavo Salminen   On first exit times and their means for
                                  Brownian bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--722
               Tak Kuen Siu and   
                 Jinxia Zhu and   
                  Hailiang Yang   A martingale approach for asset
                                  allocation with derivative security and
                                  hidden economic risk . . . . . . . . . . 723--749
          Vadim Shcherbakov and   
               Stanislav Volkov   Boundary effect in competition processes 750--768
           Giulio Iacobelli and   
       Daniel R. Figueiredo and   
                Giovanni Neglia   Transient and slim versus recurrent and
                                  fat: Random walks and the trees they
                                  grow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--786
             Paolo Di Tella and   
             Martin Haubold and   
           Martin Keller-Ressel   Semi-static variance-optimal hedging in
                                  stochastic volatility models with
                                  Fourier representation . . . . . . . . . 787--809
        János Flesch and   
            Dries Vermeulen and   
                   Anna Zseleva   On the equivalence of mixed and behavior
                                  strategies in finitely additive decision
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810--829
              Jose Blanchet and   
                  Yang Kang and   
                Karthyek Murthy   Robust Wasserstein profile inference and
                                  applications to machine learning . . . . 830--857
               Michael Falk and   
           Simone A. Padoan and   
              Florian Wisheckel   Conditional tail independence in
                                  Archimedean copula models  . . . . . . . 858--869
                Van Hao Can and   
            Manh Hong Duong and   
            Viet Viet Hung Pham   Persistence probability of a random
                                  polynomial arising from evolutionary
                                  game theory  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870--890
            Sergey Bocharov and   
                        Li Wang   Branching Brownian motion with spatially
                                  homogeneous and point-catalytic
                                  branching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--917
               Tiantian Mao and   
                   Bin Wang and   
                     Ruodu Wang   Sums of standard uniform random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918--936
            Nil Kamal Hazra and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   Comparing lifetimes of coherent systems
                                  with dependent components operating in
                                  random environments  . . . . . . . . . . 937--957
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 56, Number 4, December, 2019

                  Weinan Qi and   
               Mahmoud Zarepour   On resampling schemes for polytopes  . . 959--980
        Dorival Leão and   
             Alberto Ohashi and   
                Francesco Russo   Discrete-type approximations for
                                  non-Markovian optimal stopping problems:
                                  Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981--1005
             Nikita Ratanov and   
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
             Barbara Martinucci   Piecewise deterministic processes
                                  following two alternating patterns . . . 1006--1019
                 Rolf Schneider   Interaction of Poisson hyperplane
                                  processes and convex bodies  . . . . . . 1020--1032
      Félix Belzunce and   
Carolina Martínez-Riquelme   Bounds for the hazard rate and the
                                  reversed hazard rate of the convolution
                                  of dependent random lifetimes  . . . . . 1033--1043
    Hansjörg Albrecher and   
                   Mogens Bladt   Inhomogeneous phase-type distributions
                                  and heavy tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1064
              Owen Dafydd Jones   Runoff on rooted trees . . . . . . . . . 1065--1085
     Ekaterina T. Kolkovska and   
Ehyter M. Martín-González   The distribution and asympotic behaviour
                                  of the negative Wiener--Hopf factor for
                                  Lévy processes with rational positive
                                  jumps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1086--1105
               Nicolas Privault   Moments of $k$-hop counts in the
                                  random-connection model  . . . . . . . . 1106--1121
                  D. Fekete and   
                J. Fontbona and   
                A. E. Kyprianou   Skeletal stochastic differential
                                  equations for continuous-state branching
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122--1150
                Majid Asadi and   
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
                 Ehsan S. Soofi   The alpha-mixture of survival functions  1151--1167
    FranÇois Portier and   
                   Johan Segers   Monte Carlo integration with a growing
                                  number of control variates . . . . . . . 1168--1186
              Pierre Lenthe and   
               Philip Weissmann   Completely asymmetric stable processes
                                  conditioned to avoid an interval . . . . 1187--1197
               S. N. Ethier and   
                     Jiyeon Lee   How strong can the Parrondo effect be?   1198--1216
               N. Soja-Kukie\la   On maxima of stationary fields . . . . . 1217--1230
                Clarence Simard   Martingale decomposition of an $ L^2 $
                                  space with nonlinear stochastic
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1243
     Pierre-Olivier Goffard and   
               Andrey Sarantsev   Exponential convergence rate of ruin
                                  probabilities for level-dependent
                                  Lévy-driven risk processes  . . . . . . . 1244--1268
                 Omer Angel and   
                    Mark Holmes   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 1269--1270
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 57, Number 1, March, 2020

          Erik Ekström and   
            Marcus Olofsson and   
         Martin Vannestål   A renewal theory approach to two-state
                                  switching problems with infinite values  1--18
           Antoine Jacquier and   
                    Fangwei Shi   Small-time moderate deviations for the
                                  randomised Heston model  . . . . . . . . 19--28
                  S. Grusea and   
                     S. Mercier   Improvements on the distribution of
                                  maximal segmental scores in a Markovian
                                  sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--52
           Michael Grabchak and   
               Mark Kelbert and   
                  Quentin Paris   On the occupancy problem for a
                                  regime-switching model . . . . . . . . . 53--77
               Michael Falk and   
      Amir Khorrami Chokami and   
               Simone A. Padoan   Records for time-dependent stationary
                                  Gaussian sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 78--96
                Eric Foxall and   
               Nicolas Lanchier   Generalized stacked contact process with
                                  variable host fitness  . . . . . . . . . 97--121
                    Tom Britton   Directed preferential attachment models:
                                  Limiting degree distributions and their
                                  tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--136
          Maciej Wi\'sniewolski   Integral functionals under the excursion
                                  measure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--155
      Ebrahim Amini-Seresht and   
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
                 Subhash Kochar   Some new results on stochastic
                                  comparisons of coherent systems using
                                  signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--173
             Rimas Norvaisa and   
            Alfredas Rackauskas   Uniform asymptotic normality of weighted
                                  sums of short-memory linear processes    174--195
             Götz Kersting   A unifying approach to branching
                                  processes in a varying environment . . . 196--220
                 Shiyu Song and   
                   Yongjin Wang   On first passage times of sticky
                                  reflecting diffusion processes with
                                  double exponential jumps . . . . . . . . 221--236
            Elena Dyakonova and   
                  Doudou Li and   
           Vladimir Vatutin and   
                      Mei Zhang   Branching processes in a random
                                  environment with immigration stopped at
                                  zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--249
               Congzao Dong and   
              Alexander Iksanov   Weak convergence of random processes
                                  with immigration at random times . . . . 250--265
              Zhongwei Liao and   
                   Jinghai Shao   Long-time behavior of Lévy-driven
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes with
                                  regime switching . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--279
          Alexander Iksanov and   
                Bohdan Rashytov   A functional limit theorem for general
                                  shot noise processes . . . . . . . . . . 280--294
                 Yuelin Liu and   
        Vladas Sidoravicius and   
               Longmin Wang and   
                   Kainan Xiang   An invariance principle and a large
                                  deviation principle for the biased
                                  random walk on $ \mathbb {Z}^d $ . . . . 295--313
               Michael Falk and   
           Simone A. Padoan and   
               Stefano Rizzelli   Strong convergence of multivariate
                                  maxima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--331
                  Hosam Mahmoud   A model for the spreading of fake news   332--342
                 G. Reinert and   
                        C. Yang   A bound on the rate of convergence in
                                  the central limit theorem for renewal
                                  processes under second moment conditions 343--360

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 57, Number 2, June, 2020

                  S. Pitzen and   
                   M. Burkschat   Representations of component importance
                                  for coherent systems with exchangeable
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--406
                 Daniel Ahlberg   Tertiles and the time constant . . . . . 407--408
           Tuan-Minh Nguyen and   
               Stanislav Volkov   On a class of random walks in simplexes  409--428
              Jorge Navarro and   
Juan Fernández-Sánchez   On the extension of signature-based
                                  representations for coherent systems
                                  with dependent non-exchangeable
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--440
              Ella Hiesmayr and   
                Ümit Islak   Asymptotic results on Hoppe trees and
                                  their variations . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--457
                Ariel Jaffe and   
               Yuval Kluger and   
        George C. Linderman and   
                 Gal Mishne and   
           Stefan Steinerberger   Randomized near-neighbor graphs, giant
                                  components and applications in data
                                  science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--476
               Yuri Bakhtin and   
             Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai   Tails of exit times from unstable
                                  equilibria on the line . . . . . . . . . 477--496
             Bertrand Cloez and   
      Beno\^\ite de Saporta and   
                   Maud Joubaud   Optimal stopping for measure-valued
                                  piecewise deterministic Markov processes 497--512
    Hansjörg Albrecher and   
                 Bohan Chen and   
            Eleni Vatamidou and   
                     Bert Zwart   Finite-time ruin probabilities under
                                  large-claim reinsurance treaties for
                                  heavy-tailed claim sizes . . . . . . . . 513--530
                   Mitja Stadje   Two results on dynamic extensions of
                                  deviation measures . . . . . . . . . . . 531--540
Christophette Blanchet-Scalliet and   
            Diana Dorobantu and   
                      Laura Gay   Joint law of an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  process and its supremum . . . . . . . . 541--558
Alexisz Tamás Gaál   Long-range orientational order of random
                                  near-lattice hard sphere and hard disk
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--577
                    Xin Liu and   
                       Lei Ying   Steady-state analysis of load-balancing
                                  algorithms in the sub-Halfin--Whitt
                                  regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578--596
        Krzysztof D\kebicki and   
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                Zbigniew Michna   Simultaneous ruin probability for
                                  two-dimensional Brownian risk model  . . 597--612
             Dang H. Nguyen and   
              Nhu N. Nguyen and   
                     George Yin   Analysis of a spatially inhomogeneous
                                  stochastic partial differential equation
                                  epidemic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--636
             Martin Wendler and   
                    Wei Biao Wu   Central limit theorems for nearly long
                                  range dependent subordinated linear
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--656
                 Onno Boxma and   
        Andreas Löpker and   
                 Michel Mandjes   On two classes of reflected
                                  autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . 657--678
            Daniela Flimmel and   
              Zbynek Pawlas and   
                   J. E. Yukich   Limit theory for unbiased and consistent
                                  estimators of statistics of random
                                  tessellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--702
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 57, Number 3, September, 2020

                Andrea Ottolini   Oscillations for order statistics of
                                  some discrete processes  . . . . . . . . 703--719
                  Serik Sagitov   Perron--Frobenius theory for kernels and
                                  Crump--Mode--Jagers processes with
                                  macro-individuals  . . . . . . . . . . . 720--733
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
            Philippe Picard and   
                    Sergey Utev   On branching models with alarm
                                  triggerings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734--759
   Claudia Klüppelberg and   
          Miriam Isabel Seifert   Explicit results on conditional
                                  distributions of generalized exponential
                                  mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--774
             David Dereudre and   
                Thibaut Vasseur   Existence of Gibbs point processes with
                                  stable infinite range interaction  . . . 775--791
          David F. Anderson and   
        Daniele Cappelletti and   
                      Jinsu Kim   Stochastically modeled weakly reversible
                                  reaction networks with a single linkage
                                  class  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--810
          Peter Braunsteins and   
              Sophie Hautphenne   The probabilities of extinction in a
                                  branching random walk on a strip . . . . 811--831
                      Lu Li and   
                   Qinyu Wu and   
                   Tiantian Mao   Stochastic comparisons of largest-order
                                  statistics for proportional reversed
                                  hazard rate model and applications . . . 832--852
        Antar Bandyopadhyay and   
              Svante Janson and   
               Debleena Thacker   Strong convergence of infinite color
                                  balanced urns under uniform ergodicity   853--865
                   Y. X. Mu and   
                       Y. Zhang   On some threshold-one attractive
                                  interacting particle systems on
                                  homogeneous trees  . . . . . . . . . . . 866--898
                 Mahdi Tavangar   On the behavior of the failure rate and
                                  reversed failure rate in engineering
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--910
            Merritt R. Lyon and   
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Trees grown under young-age preferential
                                  attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--927
               Viktor Benes and   
     Christoph Hofer-Temmel and   
           Günter Last and   
                   Jakub Vecera   Decorrelation of a class of Gibbs
                                  particle processes and asymptotic
                                  properties of $U$-statistics . . . . . . 928--955
           Thomas Mountford and   
                 Jacques Saliba   Flooding and diameter in general
                                  weighted random graphs . . . . . . . . . 956--980
               David Hobson and   
                   Matthew Zeng   Randomised rules for stopping problems   981--1004
                Qingwei Liu and   
                      Aihua Xia   On moderate deviations in Poisson
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1027
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 57, Number 4, December, 2020

                  Svante Janson   Rate of convergence for traditional Pólya
                                  urns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029--1044
                  Matija Vidmar   A temporal factorization at the maximum
                                  for certain positive self-similar Markov
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1069
                 Dohyun Ahn and   
             Kyoung-Kuk Kim and   
                  Younghoon Kim   Small-Time smile for the multifactor
                                  volatility Heston model  . . . . . . . . 1070--1087
               Edward Hoyle and   
           Levent Ali Menguturk   Generalised Liouville processes and
                                  their properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088--1110
            Dorottya Fekete and   
           Joaquin Fontbona and   
           Andreas E. Kyprianou   Skeletal stochastic differential
                                  equations for superprocesses . . . . . . 1111--1134
             Maher Boudabra and   
                 Greg Markowsky   Maximizing the $p$-th moment of the exit
                                  time of planar Brownian motion from a
                                  given domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1149
                     Hyunju Lee   On a new stochastic model for cascading
                                  failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150--1161
   Adrian Gonzalez Casanova and   
                 Charline Smadi   On $ \Lambda $--Fleming--Viot processes
                                  with general frequency-dependent
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1162--1197
              Claire Launay and   
              Bruno Galerne and   
              Agn\`es Desolneux   Exact sampling of determinantal point
                                  processes without eigendecomposition . . 1198--1221
                Offer Kella and   
                     Onno Boxma   Synchronized Lévy queues  . . . . . . . . 1222--1233
                    Shuyang Bai   Representations of Hermite processes
                                  using local time of intersecting
                                  stationary stable regenerative sets  . . 1234--1251
                David Cheek and   
                    Seva Shneer   The empirical mean position of a
                                  branching Lévy process  . . . . . . . . . 1252--1259
        Celeste R. Pavithra and   
                   T. G. Deepak   Multivariate finite-support phase-type
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260--1275
        Ricardo T. Fernholz and   
                Robert Fernholz   Zipf's law for atlas models  . . . . . . 1276--1297
             Martin Dirrler and   
      Christopher Dörr and   
               Martin Schlather   A generalization of Matérn hard-core
                                  processes with applications to
                                  max-stable processes . . . . . . . . . . 1298--1312
               Yuanyuan Liu and   
                   Wendi Li and   
                      Xiuqin Li   On geometric and algebraic transience
                                  for block-structured Markov chains . . . 1313--1338
                  Idir Arab and   
        Milto Hadjikyriakou and   
         Paulo Eduardo Oliveira   Non-Comparability with respect to the
                                  convex transform order with applications 1339--1348
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 58, Number 1, March, 2021

             Harto Saarinen and   
                    Jukka Lempa   Ergodic control of diffusions with
                                  random intervention times  . . . . . . . 1--21
           Fabian A. Harang and   
        Marc Lagunas-Merino and   
         Salvador Ortiz-Latorre   Self-exciting multifractional processes  22--41
                 Mads Stehr and   
     Anders Rònn-Nielsen   Tail asymptotics of an infinitely
                                  divisible space-time model with
                                  convolution equivalent Lévy measure . . . 42--67
              Jean-Renaud Pycke   On a generalization of the
                                  Rényi--Srivastava characterization of the
                                  Poisson law  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--82
              Oren Mangoubi and   
              Natesh Pillai and   
                    Aaron Smith   Simple conditions for metastability of
                                  continuous Markov chains . . . . . . . . 83--105
              Joseba Dalmau and   
                  Michele Salvi   Scale-free percolation in continuous
                                  space: quenched degree and clustering
                                  coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--127
                   H. Leman and   
                    J. C. Pardo   Extinction and coming down from infinity
                                  of continuous-state branching processes
                                  with competition in a Lévy environment    128--139
             Zeina Al Masry and   
             Sophie Mercier and   
               Ghislain Verdier   Stochastic comparisons and ageing
                                  properties of an extended gamma process  140--163
       Benedikt Köpfer and   
        Ludger Rüschendorf   The martingale comparison method for
                                  Markov processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--176
         Servet Martínez   Entropy of killed-resurrected stationary
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--196
             Jörn Sass and   
          Dorothee Westphal and   
                Ralf Wunderlich   Diffusion approximations for randomly
                                  arriving expert opinions in a financial
                                  market with Gaussian drift . . . . . . . 197--216
              Denis Denisov and   
             Elena Perfilev and   
                 Vitali Wachtel   Tail asymptotics for the area under the
                                  excursion of a random walk with
                                  heavy-tailed increments  . . . . . . . . 217--237
               Yong-Hua Mao and   
                       Tao Wang   Lyapunov-type conditions for non-strong
                                  ergodicity of Markov processes . . . . . 238--253
       Andreas E. Kyprianou and   
          Juan Carlos Pardo and   
                  Matija Vidmar   Double hypergeometric Lévy processes and
                                  self-similarity  . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--273
            Konstantin Borovkov   Gaussian process approximations for
                                  multicolor Pólya urn models . . . . . . . 274--286
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 58, Number 2, June, 2021

             Ruhul Ali Khan and   
   Dhrubasish Bhattacharyya and   
                   Murari Mitra   On classes of life distributions based
                                  on the mean time to failure function . . 289--313
                 Man-Wai Ho and   
          Lancelot F. James and   
                    John W. Lau   Gibbs partitions, Riemann--Liouville
                                  fractional operators, Mittag-Leffler
                                  functions, and fragmentations derived
                                  from stable subordinators  . . . . . . . 314--334
               Mackenzie Simper   Random additions in urns of integers . . 335--346
                     Yan Qu and   
            Angelos Dassios and   
                  Hongbiao Zhao   Exact simulation of Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  tempered stable processes  . . . . . . . 347--371
                   H. M. Jansen   Weak convergence of stochastic integrals
                                  with respect to the state occupation
                                  measure of a Markov chain  . . . . . . . 372--393
              Yves Mocquard and   
Frédérique Robin and   
      Bruno Séricola and   
            Emmanuelle Anceaume   Stochastic analysis of average-based
                                  distributed algorithms . . . . . . . . . 394--410
         Krzysztof Bisewski and   
          Krzysztof Debicki and   
                 Michel Mandjes   Bounds for expected supremum of
                                  fractional Brownian motion with drift    411--427
     Thirupathaiah Vasantam and   
               Ravi R. Mazumdar   Sensitivity of mean-field fluctuations
                                  in Erlang loss models with randomized
                                  routing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--448
               Pascal Moyal and   
                Ana Busi\'c and   
                  Jean Mairesse   A product form for the general
                                  stochastic matching model  . . . . . . . 449--468
       Jesper Mòller and   
                 Eliza O'Reilly   Couplings for determinantal point
                                  processes and their reduced Palm
                                  distributions with a view to quantifying
                                  repulsiveness  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--483
              Kerry Fendick and   
                     Ward Whitt   Queues with path-dependent arrival
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--504
            Zhenzhong Zhang and   
               Jinying Tong and   
              Qingting Meng and   
                      You Liang   Population dynamics driven by truncated
                                  stable processes with Markovian
                                  switching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--522
                    Xin Guo and   
                  Yonghui Huang   Risk-sensitive average continuous-time
                                  Markov decision processes with unbounded
                                  transition and cost rates  . . . . . . . 523--550
                   Chuancun Yin   Stochastic orderings of multivariate
                                  elliptical distributions . . . . . . . . 551--568
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 58, Number 3, September, 2021

                Rafal Kulik and   
                Evgeny Spodarev   Long range dependence of heavy-tailed
                                  random functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--593
                 Mika Meitz and   
               Pentti Saikkonen   Subgeometric ergodicity and $ \beta
                                  $-mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--608
          Marcello Galeotti and   
               Giovanni Rabitti   On the comparison of Shapley values for
                                  variance and standard deviation games    609--620
            Serkan Eryilmaz and   
                     Fatih Tank   Computing minimal signature of coherent
                                  systems through matrix-geometric
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--636
                    Eric Foxall   Extinction time of the logistic process  637--676
                  Gaoran Yu and   
                John C. Wierman   An upper bound for the bond percolation
                                  threshold of the cubic lattice by a
                                  growth process approach  . . . . . . . . 677--692
                  Hui Jiang and   
                  Qingshan Yang   Asymptotic behavior of the weak
                                  approximation to a class of Gaussian
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--707
            Shoou-Ren Hsiau and   
                May-Ru Chen and   
                   Yi-Ching Yao   Stochastic ordering for birth--death
                                  processes with killing . . . . . . . . . 708--720
             Guusje Delsing and   
                 Michel Mandjes   A transient Cramér--Lundberg model with
                                  applications to credit risk  . . . . . . 721--745
   François Baccelli and   
          Sriram Vishwanath and   
                     Jae Oh Woo   On the steady state of continuous-time
                                  stochastic opinion dynamics with
                                  power-law confidence . . . . . . . . . . 746--772
                Jaakko Lehtomaa   Estimating tails of independently
                                  stopped random walks using concave
                                  approximations of hazard functions . . . 773--793
      Ebrahim Amini-Seresht and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Stochastic properties of generalized
                                  finite mixture models with dependent
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794--804
                  Allan Gut and   
        Ulrich Stadtmüller   Variations of the elephant random walk   805--829
     Miguel González and   
              Manuel Molina and   
            Ines del Puerto and   
           Nikolay M. Yanev and   
                George P. Yanev   Controlled branching processes with
                                  continuous time  . . . . . . . . . . . . 830--848
             Stefan Gerhold and   
           Antoine Jacquier and   
             Mikko Pakkanen and   
                Henry Stone and   
              Thomas Wagenhofer   Pathwise large deviations for the rough
                                  Bergomi model: Corrigendum . . . . . . . 849--850
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 58, Number 4, December, 2021

                  Xiao Fang and   
                 Han L. Gan and   
               Susan Holmes and   
               Haiyan Huang and   
            Erol Peköz and   
         Adrian Röllin and   
                    Wenpin Tang   Arcsine laws for random walks generated
                                  from random permutations with
                                  applications to genomics . . . . . . . . 851--867
             Boris Buchmann and   
                    Kevin W. Lu   Necessity of weak subordination for some
                                  strongly subordinated Lévy processes  . . 868--879
                     Qi-Ming He   Bounds on the mean and squared
                                  coefficient of variation of phase-type
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880--889
                 Caio Alves and   
            Rodrigo Ribeiro and   
            Rémy Sanchis   Clustering in preferential attachment
                                  random graphs with edge-step . . . . . . 890--908
        Gergely Ódor and   
                 Patrick Thiran   Sequential metric dimension for random
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--951
   François Baccelli and   
             Sanket S. Kalamkar   On point processes defined by angular
                                  conditions on Delaunay neighbors in the
                                  Poisson--Voronoi Tessellation  . . . . . 952--965
           Judith Schilling and   
                  Norbert Henze   Two Poisson limit theorems for the
                                  coupon collector's problem with group
                                  drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966--977
              Martin Möhle   A restaurant process with cocktail bar
                                  and relations to the three-parameter
                                  Mittag-Leffler distribution  . . . . . . 978--1006
          Landy Rabehasaina and   
                  Jae-Kyung Woo   Multitype branching process with
                                  non-homogeneous Poisson and contagious
                                  Poisson immigration  . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1042
              Laurent Miclo and   
     Stéphane Villeneuve   On the forward algorithm for stopping
                                  problems on continuous-time Markov
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1063
                   Yiying Zhang   On transform orders for largest claim
                                  amounts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064--1085
                Larbi Alili and   
                 David Woodford   On the finiteness and tails of
                                  perpetuities under a Lamperti--Kiu MAP   1086--1113
             Martin Singull and   
           Denise Uwamariya and   
                 Xiangfeng Yang   Large-deviation asymptotics of condition
                                  numbers of random matrices . . . . . . . 1114--1130
               Florin Avram and   
                     Bin Li and   
                         Shu Li   General drawdown of general tax model in
                                  a time-homogeneous Markov framework  . . 1131--1151
               Rongfang Yan and   
             Jiandong Zhang and   
                   Yiying Zhang   Optimal allocation of relevations in
                                  coherent systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152--1169
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 59, Number 1, March, 2022

            Giang T. Nguyen and   
                  Oscar Peralta   Rate of strong convergence to
                                  Markov-modulated Brownian motion . . . . 1--16
             Xiaoqing Liang and   
              Virginia R. Young   Discounted probability of exponential
                                  Parisian ruin: Diffusion approximation   17--37
   François Baccelli and   
             Michel Davydov and   
           Thibaud Taillefumier   Replica-mean-field limits of
                                  fragmentation-interaction-aggregation
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--59
         Benjamin Hollering and   
                 Seth Sullivant   Exchangeable and sampling-consistent
                                  distributions on rooted binary trees . . 60--80
                 Lanpeng Ji and   
                   Xiaofan Peng   Extrema of multi-dimensional Gaussian
                                  processes over random intervals  . . . . 81--104
                  Young Lee and   
            Patrick J. Laub and   
              Thomas Taimre and   
              Hongbiao Zhao and   
                Jiancang Zhuang   Exact simulation of extrinsic
                                  stress-release processes . . . . . . . . 105--117
            Simon Tavaré   A note on the Screaming Toes game  . . . 118--130
               Jacob Richey and   
                  Amites Sarkar   Intersections of random sets . . . . . . 131--151
                 David Aristoff   An ergodic theorem for the weighted
                                  ensemble method  . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--166
               Khwanchai Kunwai   On Foster--Lyapunov criteria for
                                  exponential ergodicity of
                                  regime-switching jump diffusion
                                  processes with countable regimes . . . . 167--186
          Krzysztof Debicki and   
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                Zbigniew Michna   On the continuity of Pickands constants  187--201
               Tiantian Mao and   
                   Qinyu Wu and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Further properties of fractional
                                  stochastic dominance . . . . . . . . . . 202--223
              Hua-Ming Wang and   
                      Huizi Yao   Two-type linear-fractional branching
                                  processes in varying environments with
                                  asymptotically constant mean matrices    224--255
             Matthew I. Roberts   Cover time for branching random walks on
                                  regular trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--277
              Joshua Sparks and   
          Srinivasan Balaji and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   The containment profile of
                                  hyper-recursive trees  . . . . . . . . . 278--296
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 59, Number 2, June, 2022

          Hüseyin Acan and   
                Alan Frieze and   
                   Boris Pittel   Giant descendant trees, matchings, and
                                  independent sets in age-biased
                                  attachment graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 299--324
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
            S. N. U. A. Kirmani   Log-concavity and other concepts of
                                  bivariate increasing failure rate
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--337
            Erhan Bayraktar and   
          Erik Ekström and   
                        Jia Guo   Disorder detection with costly
                                  observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--349
             Georgios Psarrakos   How a probabilistic analogue of the mean
                                  value theorem yields stein-type
                                  covariance identities  . . . . . . . . . 350--365
           Quang Huy Nguyen and   
            Christian Y. Robert   Efficient conditional Monte Carlo
                                  simulations for the exponential
                                  integrals of Gaussian random fields  . . 366--383
          David F. Anderson and   
                 Tung D. Nguyen   Prevalence of deficiency-zero reaction
                                  networks in an Erd\Hos--Rényi framework   384--398
              Thierry Klein and   
            Agn\`es Lagnoux and   
                   Pierre Petit   Large-deviation results for triangular
                                  arrays of semiexponential random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--420
            Vladyslav Bohun and   
          Alexander Iksanov and   
         Alexander Marynych and   
                Bohdan Rashytov   Renewal theory for iterated perturbed
                                  random walks on a general branching
                                  process tree: intermediate generations   421--446
                Jianhai Bao and   
                 Xing Huang and   
                 Shao-Qin Zhang   Convergence rate of the EM algorithm for
                                  SDEs with low regular drifts . . . . . . 447--470
                 Shuxiong Zhang   On large-deviation probabilities for the
                                  empirical distribution of branching
                                  random walks with heavy tails  . . . . . 471--494
                      Sam Spiro   An averaging process on hypergraphs  . . 495--504
         Marc Peigné and   
                   Tat Dat Tran   On the asymptotic behavior of the
                                  Diaconis-Freedman chain in a
                                  multi-dimensional simplex  . . . . . . . 505--526
    Leonie Violetta Brinker and   
             Hanspeter Schmidli   Optimal discounted drawdowns in a
                                  diffusion approximation under
                                  proportional reinsurance . . . . . . . . 527--540
           Pierre Houdebert and   
                 Alexander Zass   An explicit Dobrushin uniqueness region
                                  for Gibbs point processes with repulsive
                                  interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--555
               Yuri Kabanov and   
              Nikita Pukhlyakov   Ruin probabilities with investments:
                                  smoothness, inegro-differential and
                                  ordinary differential equations,
                                  asymptotic behavior  . . . . . . . . . . 556--570
     Sören Christensen and   
                  Simon Fischer   On the $ S_n / n $ problem . . . . . . . 571--583
          Victor De La Pena and   
               Paul Doukhan and   
                    Yahia Salhi   A Dynamic Taylor's law . . . . . . . . . 584--607
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 59, Number 3, September, 2022

        Alessandra Cipriani and   
               Andrea Fontanari   Dynamical fitness models: evidence of
                                  universality classes for preferential
                                  attachment graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 609--630
Adrián González Casanova and   
    Lizbeth Peñaloza and   
      Arno Siri-Jégousse   The shape of a seed bank tree  . . . . . 631--651
      Daniela Hurtado-Lange and   
       Sushil Mahavir Varma and   
            Siva Theja Maguluri   Logarithmic heavy traffic error bounds
                                  in generalized switch and load balancing
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--669
                    Lina Ji and   
                      Zenghu Li   Construction of age-structured branching
                                  processes by stochastic equations  . . . 670--684
               Anastas Baci and   
           Zakhar Kabluchko and   
             Joscha Prochno and   
        Mathias Sonnleitner and   
           Christoph Thäle   Limit theorems for random points in a
                                  simplex  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--701
                Mark Holmes and   
                   Daniel Kious   Coexistence of lazy frogs on $ \mathbb
                                  {Z} $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702--713
            Pavel V. Gapeev and   
              Hessah Al Motairi   Discounted optimal stopping problems in
                                  first-passage time models with random
                                  thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--733
                    Georg Braun   On supercritical branching processes
                                  with emigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . 734--754
             Valentas Kurauskas   On local weak limit and subgraph counts
                                  for sparse random graphs . . . . . . . . 755--776
          Gareth O. Roberts and   
       Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and   
               Nicholas G. Tawn   Skew Brownian motion and complexity of
                                  the ALPS algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 777--796
                 Raul Gouet and   
           Pawe\l Hitczenko and   
              Jacek Weso\lowski   Asymptotics of the overflow in urn
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--824
              Yakov Nikitin and   
             Ekaterina Simarova   Generalized limit theorems for $U$-max
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--848
             Masashi Tomita and   
           Koichiro Takaoka and   
              Motokazu Ishizaka   On the ruin probability of a generalized
                                  Cramér--Lundberg model driven by mixed
                                  Poisson processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 849--859
            Samuel Boardman and   
              Daniel Rudolf and   
           Laurent Saloff-Coste   The hit-and-run version of top-to-random 860--879
          Nicolas Chenavier and   
              Norbert Henze and   
                    Moritz Otto   Limit laws for large $k$-th-nearest
                                  neighbor balls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880--894
           Giorgos Vasdekis and   
              Gareth O. Roberts   A note on the polynomial ergodicity of
                                  the one-dimensional Zig-Zag process  . . 895--903
                    Lina Ji and   
                  Huili Liu and   
                      Jie Xiong   Mutually interacting superprocesses with
                                  migration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904--929
                      Anonymous   JPR volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   JPR volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 59, Number 4, December, 2022

           Horia D. Cornean and   
              Ira W. Herbst and   
       Jesper Mòller and   
  Kasper S. Sòrensen and   
    Benjamin B. Stòttrup   Characterization of random variables
                                  with stationary digits . . . . . . . . . 931--947
      Michael Andreas Klatt and   
               Günter Last   On strongly rigid hyperfluctuating
                                  random measures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 948--961
           Patrick Cattiaux and   
               Jens Fischer and   
              Sylvie Roelly and   
             Samuel Sindayigaya   Random population dynamics under
                                  catastrophic events  . . . . . . . . . . 962--982
                  Guoman He and   
                   Hanjun Zhang   Exponential convergence to a
                                  quasi-stationary distribution for
                                  birth-death processes with an entrance
                                  boundary at infinity . . . . . . . . . . 983--991
         Maximilien Germain and   
           Huyên Pham and   
                   Xavier Warin   Rate of convergence for particle
                                  approximation of PDEs in Wasserstein
                                  space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 992--1008
               Jean Bertoin and   
                    Hairuo Yang   Scaling limits of branching random walks
                                  and branching-stable processes . . . . . 1009--1025
               Tarik Faouzi and   
               Emilio Porcu and   
            Igor Kondrashuk and   
            Anatoliy Malyarenko   A deep look into the Dagum family of
                                  isotropic covariance functions . . . . . 1026--1041
                   Alice Contat   Surprising identities for the greedy
                                  independent set on Cayley trees  . . . . 1042--1058
                Robert E. Gaunt   Bounds for the chi-square approximation
                                  of the power divergence family of
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1080
           Pierluigi Cesana and   
                  Ben M. Hambly   A probabilistic model for interfaces in
                                  a martensitic phase transition . . . . . 1081--1105
                  Kosuke Yamato   A unifying approach to non-minimal
                                  quasi-stationary distributions for
                                  one-dimensional diffusions . . . . . . . 1106--1128
                Benny Van Houdt   Simple analytical solutions for the $
                                  M^b / E_k / 1 / m $, $ E_k / M^b / 1 / m
                                  $, and related queues  . . . . . . . . . 1129--1143
          Maryam Kelkinnama and   
                    Majid Asadi   Optimal redundancy allocation in
                                  coherent systems with heterogeneous
                                  dependent components . . . . . . . . . . 1144--1177
                Julie Delon and   
            Agnes Desolneux and   
                Antoine Salmona   Gromov--Wasserstein distances between
                                  Gaussian distributions . . . . . . . . . 1178--1198
           Jorge Littin Curinao   Asymptotic behavior and quasi-limiting
                                  distributions on time-fractional birth
                                  and death processes  . . . . . . . . . . 1199--1227
           Umberto De Ambroggio   An elementary approach to component
                                  sizes in critical random graphs  . . . . 1228--1242
           Mackenzie Simper and   
              Julia A. Palacios   An adjacent-swap Markov chain on
                                  coalescent trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1260
        Mariana Olvera-Cravioto   Strong couplings for static locally
                                  tree-like random graphs  . . . . . . . . 1261--1285
                      Anonymous   JPR volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   JPR volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2


Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 60, Number 1, March, 2023

                  Oscar Peralta   A Markov jump process associated with
                                  the matrix-exponential distribution  . . 1--13
               Kayla Javier and   
                   Brian Fralix   On the study of the running maximum and
                                  minimum level of level-dependent
                                  quasi-birth-death processes and related
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--29
          Berenice Anne Neumann   Nonlinear Markov chains with finite
                                  state space: invariant distributions and
                                  long-term behaviour  . . . . . . . . . . 30--44
          Alexander Iksanov and   
            Bohdan Rashytov and   
                Igor Samoilenko   Renewal theory for iterated perturbed
                                  random walks on a general branching
                                  process tree: Early generations  . . . . 45--67
                Offer Kella and   
                 Michel Mandjes   From reflected Lévy processes to
                                  stochastically monotone Markov processes
                                  via generalized inverses and
                                  supermodularity  . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--84
      Remco van der Hofstad and   
         Stella Kapodistria and   
         Zbigniew Palmowski and   
                    Seva Shneer   Unified approach for solving exit
                                  problems for additive-increase and
                                  multiplicative-decrease processes  . . . 85--105
                 Onno Boxma and   
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Stationary analysis of an $ (R, Q) $
                                  inventory model with normal and
                                  emergency orders . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--126
Diego Hernández-Bustos and   
Daniel Hernández-Hernández   Portfolio management under drawdown
                                  constraint in discrete-time financial
                                  markets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--147
             N. N. Leonenko and   
              M. D. Ruiz-Medina   Sojourn functionals for spatiotemporal
                                  Gaussian random fields with long memory  148--165
              Gursharn Kaur and   
           Neeraja Sahasrabudhe   Interacting urns on a finite directed
                                  graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--188
           André Goldman   A note related to the CS decomposition
                                  and the BK inequality for discrete
                                  determinantal processes  . . . . . . . . 189--203
             John Armstrong and   
                       Tim King   Anomalous recurrence of Markov chains on
                                  negatively curved manifolds  . . . . . . 204--222
        Federico Pianoforte and   
                 Riccardo Turin   Multivariate Poisson and Poisson process
                                  approximations with applications to
                                  Bernoulli sums an $U$-statistics . . . . 223--240
               Mun-Chol Kim and   
                      Hun O and   
                   Ho-Jin Hwang   Optimal stopping under $g$-Expectation
                                  with $ L \exp (\mu \sqrt {2 \log (1 +
                                  L)}) $-integrable reward process . . . . 241--252
             David A. Levin and   
                Chandan Tankala   Fast mixing of a randomized
                                  shift-register Markov chain  . . . . . . 253--266
           Mikhail Lifshits and   
                 Sergei Nikitin   Large deviations of Poisson Telecom
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--283
                    Yilun Shang   On connectivity and robustness of random
                                  graphs with inhomogeneity  . . . . . . . 284--294
                 Nannan Hao and   
             Markus Heydenreich   Graph distances in scale-free
                                  percolation: the logarithmic case  . . . 295--313
                  Takashi Owada   Limit theory for $U$-statistics under
                                  geometric and topological constraints
                                  with rare events . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--340
                Leonardo Videla   A transport process on graphs and its
                                  limiting distributions . . . . . . . . . 341--357

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 60, Number 2, June, 2023

               Bojan Basrak and   
      Nikolina Milincevi\'c and   
                    Petra Zugec   On extremes of random clusters and
                                  marked renewal cluster processes . . . . 367--381
             Joachim Kerner and   
            Maximilian Pechmann   Bose--Einstein condensation for
                                  particles with repulsive short-range
                                  pair interactions in a Poisson random
                                  external potential in $ \mathbb {R}^d $  382--393
 Levent Ali Mengütürk   Time-convergent random matrices from
                                  mean-field pinned interacting
                                  eigenvalues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--417
             Francis Comets and   
          Mikhail Menshikov and   
               Stanislav Volkov   Generalizations of forest fires with
                                  ignition at the origin . . . . . . . . . 418--434
        Dirk-Philip Brandes and   
      Imma Valentina Curato and   
                 Robert Stelzer   Inheritance of strong mixing and weak
                                  dependence under renewal sampling  . . . 435--451
                Anita Behme and   
        Philipp Lukas Strietzel   On moments of downward passage times for
                                  spectrally negative Lévy processes  . . . 452--464
                Jianhai Bao and   
                      Jian Wang   Exponential ergodicity for a class of
                                  Markov processes with interactions . . . 465--478
                Fabrizio Cinque   Reflection principle for finite-velocity
                                  random motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--492
            Alexander R. Watson   A growth-fragmentation model connected
                                  to the ricocheted stable process . . . . 493--503
          Davit Martirosyan and   
                 Victor Ohanyan   On intersection probabilities of four
                                  lines inside a planar convex domain  . . 504--527
                  Young Lee and   
      Thorsten Rheinländer   On the cumulant transforms for Hawkes
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--541
                Simon Pojer and   
              Stefan Thonhauser   Ruin probabilities in a Markovian
                                  shot-noise environment . . . . . . . . . 542--556
                 Onno Boxma and   
                 Michel Mandjes   A decomposition for Lévy processes
                                  inspected at Poisson moments . . . . . . 557--569
               Basile de Loynes   Local limit theorem for a Markov
                                  additive process on $ \mathbb {Z}^d $
                                  with a null recurrent internal Markov
                                  chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--588
              Ercan Sönmez   On mixed fractional stochastic
                                  differential equations with
                                  discontinuous drift coefficient  . . . . 589--606
                  Serik Sagitov   Critical branching as a pure death
                                  process coming down from infinity  . . . 607--628
       Tatiana Brailovskaya and   
   Miklós Z. Rácz   Tree trace reconstruction using
                                  subtraces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--641
 Balázs Gerencsér   Analysis of a non-reversible Markov
                                  chain speedup by a single edge . . . . . 642--660
              Kristoffer Glover   With or without replacement? Sampling
                                  uncertainty in Shepp's urn scheme  . . . 661--675
                      Bo Li and   
                   Guodong Pang   On the splitting and aggregating of
                                  Hawkes processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 676--692

Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 60, Number 3, September, 2023

               John C. Saunders   The number of $K$-tons in the coupon
                                  collector problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 723--736
                 Anyue Chen and   
                  Yong Chen and   
                 Wu-Jun Gao and   
                     Xiaohan Wu   Sturm--Liouville theory and decay
                                  parameter for quadratic Markov branching
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--764
                     Jana Reker   Short-time behavior of solutions to
                                  Lévy-driven stochastic differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--780
              Torkel Erhardsson   Reciprocal properties of random fields
                                  on undirected graphs . . . . . . . . . . 781--796
                   Youzhou Zhou   Transition density of an
                                  infinite-dimensional diffusion with the
                                  jack parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--811
                Shukai Chen and   
                      Zenghu Li   Strong Feller and ergodic properties of
                                  the $ (1 + 1)$-affine process  . . . . . 812--834
                  Kiyoshi Inoue   Exactly solvable urn models under random
                                  replacement schemes and their
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--854
            Ian W. McKeague and   
                      Yvik Swan   Stein's method and approximating the
                                  multidimensional quantum harmonic
                                  oscillator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--873
             Xiaoqing Liang and   
              Virginia R. Young   Optimal proportional reinsurance to
                                  maximize an insurer's exponential
                                  utility under unobservable drift . . . . 874--894
               Frank G Ball and   
                  Damian Clancy   Asymptotic persistence time formulae for
                                  multitype birth-death processes  . . . . 895--920
       Lo\"\ic Hervé and   
                   James Ledoux   Robustness of iterated function systems
                                  of Lipschitz maps  . . . . . . . . . . . 921--944
          Yaakov Malinovsky and   
                   Yosef Rinott   On tournaments and negative dependence   945--954
             Kengo Kamatani and   
                   Xiaolin Song   Non-reversible guided Metropolis kernel  955--981
                      He Yi and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
                       Xiang Li   On ordered system signature and its
                                  dynamic version for coherent systems
                                  with applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 982--1002
         Stella Kapodistria and   
              Mayank Saxena and   
              Onno J. Boxma and   
                    Offer Kella   Workload analysis of a two-queue fluid
                                  polling model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1030
            Sylvain Rubenthaler   A central limit theorem for conservative
                                  fragmentation chains . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1068
                     Xiaoyu Lei   An efficient method for generating a
                                  discrete uniform distribution using a
                                  biased random source . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1078
                   Jean Bertoin   A model for an epidemic with contact
                                  tracing and cluster isolation, and a
                                  detection paradox  . . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1095
              Neda Esmaeeli and   
      Farkhondeh Alsadat Sajadi   On the probability of rumour survival
                                  among sceptics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1096--1111
                L. C. G. Rogers   The Bruss--Robertson--Steele inequality  1112--1114


Annals of Mathematical Statistics
Volume 24, Number 2, June, 1953

                David Blackwell   Equivalent Comparisons of Experiments    265--272


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1976

                  Jean-Guy Dion   Sur une caractérisation des vidanges
                                  fortes. (French) [On a characterization
                                  of strong drains]  . . . . . . . . . . . 105--126


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 1977

                  Anatole Joffe   Remark on a Paper by S. Litvin . . . . . 219--220


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1979

                    D. Siegmund   Corrected Diffusion Approximations in
                                  Certain Random Walk Problems . . . . . . 701--719


American Naturalist
Volume 110, Number 973, May / June, 1976

                Roy Mendelssohn   Optimization problems associated with a
                                  Leslie matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--349


Journal of Financial Economics
Volume 7, Number ??, 1979

                       R. Geske   The valuation of compound options  . . . 63--81