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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 60, Number 4, December, 2023
Volume 61, Number 1, March, 2024
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
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                      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
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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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