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S. E. Geweke Why do you want to know? . . . . . . . . 3--5
R. Kapadia A school poll . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
M. D. Till On bringing statistics to the
non-numerate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
S. E. Bedford Statistics at the British Glass Industry
Research Association . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
Alan C. Ainslie Thoughts on the teaching of statistics 19--20
TAG Whither should you wander? . . . . . . . 21--22
J. A. R. Stone Statistics for students of engineering 23--25
G. K. Kanji and
W. Lean A preliminary study of residential
prices in Sheffield . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Warren Gilchrist Polystats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
A. J. Langner Interlinking of disciplines when
teaching mathematics . . . . . . . . . . 34--39
Anonymous Report from the Manchester--Sheffield
School of Probability and Statistics . . 40--41
Anonymous Puzzle page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Anonymous Notes and news . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
A. Huitson Statistics degree with a difference . . 6
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
A. F. Bissell Statistics and technology I.C.I.
(Fibres) Pontypool . . . . . . . . . . . 3--5
W. A. Pridmore Weights & measures --- a story of
European statistics . . . . . . . . . . 6--16
H. L. Back and
A. Riley A note on the use of a computer in
generating examples for practical
classes in biometry teaching to
non-mathematicians . . . . . . . . . . . 17--18
J. M. Dixie The right tool for the job --- a
personal view of course design . . . . . 19--27
D. I. Holmes Graphical techniques in data analysis 27--31
Z. A. Lomnicki Some remarks on how to find problems
deserving statistical investigation . . 33--38
D. C. Barber and
P. J. Howlett and
R. C. Smart Principal component analysis in medical
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
P. T. Harris Some statistical aspects of opinion
polling and election forecasting . . . . 44--51
P. L. Goldsmith Thirty statistical quotations . . . . . 52--58
P. H. Jackson Remarks on`connectors' and `unifiers' 59--60
A. Huitson Industrial training for statistical
students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
D. I. Holmes A reply to tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Quiz No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
D. H. Ward and
R. Anthony and
J. B. Copas and
L. S. Goddard Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 67--69
A. S. C. Ehrenberg Mathematics and statistics . . . . . . . 1--6
M. W. Sasieni Entropy and brand switching . . . . . . 7--13
M. J. Maher The use of statistics and O.R. in
transport planning and engineering . . . 14--19
S. E. Bedford Something for nothing . . . . . . . . . 20--23
Greenman Some critical thoughts on weights and
measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
Monica A. Walker Choosing a sample for opinion polls and
election forecasting . . . . . . . . . . 33--38
J. D. Griffiths Simulating the value of $ \phi $ . . . . 39--45
O. D. Anderson Statisticians in the red corner, social
scientists in the blue . . . . . . . . . 46--51
A. A. Bligh On the mathematical content of courses
in applied statistics: calculating the
correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 52--64
D. I. Homles Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
D. Nicholson Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 67
Harvey Goldstein Whose values in educational research? 1--7
J. M. Cobby Statisticians in clover (and other
forage crops) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--14
J. N. R. Jeffers Can applied statistics be taught? . . . 17--29
E. Swires-Hennessy Some problems of collecting statistics
at the BSO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--38
A. F. Bissell My kind of statistics: raindrops on
roses and whiskers on kittens . . . . . 39--43
G. W. Smith The statistician in local government . . 44--51
O. D. Anderson Is seasonally adjusting justified? . . . 52--54
Henry R. Neave The teaching of hypothesis-testing . . . 55--63
R. Kapadia The politics of inflation . . . . . . . 64--74
W. A. Pridmore Some critical thoughts --- all squared? 75--83
P. T. Harris A reply to Mrs. M. Walker . . . . . . . 84--85
Anonymous Quiz No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
P. Sprent and
S. C. Pearce and
Denis H. Ward Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 88--90
Anonymous QSN newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
A. S. C. Ehrenberg Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
C. Chatfield A Statistical True Story . . . . . . . . 1--18
A. P. Haws and
A. Hedge Some developments in the analysis of
public attitude data . . . . . . . . . . 19--29
D. Smale The role of the industrial statistician 30--38
R. E. Bee The mode of composition of a text . . . 39--48
Henry R. Neave Nonparametric testing --- why and how 49--58
O. D. Anderson Naive discrimination in time-series
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66
M. R. Alderson and
L. Rushton Information systems in the health
service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77
T. F. Cox Optimal policies in the stock market . . 78--88
A. A. Le Roux The need for mathematics in estimating
bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--95
P. J. Harrison My kind of statistics . . . . . . . . . 96--98
O. D. Anderson Statistical jemmies . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
Kanji Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 103--104
D. V. Lindley A Survey of Statistical Thought . . . . 1--17
Harvey Goldstein and
Gopal Kanji Statistical ethics . . . . . . . . . . . 18--23
J. N. R. Jeffers Discriminant functions: a case study . . 24--38
D. J. Finney Statistics, schools and society . . . . 39--54
A. F. Bissell The Jacknife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64
Ms. Rosamund Weatherall Which? statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
M. Hills Two statistical problems of importance
in physical anthropology . . . . . . . . 75--82
Paul Newbold My kind of statistics . . . . . . . . . 83--87
D. J. Smith Teaching Basic Statistics by Mean of
Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--94
O. D. Anderson Tales From the Life of Bath: Dr
Chatfield's Cover . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102
R. Gilohrist Some comments on the teaching of the
likelihood ratio test . . . . . . . . . 103--107
A. Norcliffe and
H. Porteous Some comments on the need for
mathematics in estimating bias . . . . . 108--110
Anonymous 1975 Current index to Statistics . . . . 117
R. Cane What are Models for? . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
G. H. Freeman The analysis of variance --- has it had
its day? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--15
A. F. Bissell Inconsistency of inspection standards
--- a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--27
H. L. Porteous The saga of the megalithic yard . . . . 28--39
J. N. R. Jeffers Lake district soils . . . . . . . . . . 40--52
A. S. C. Ehrenberg Three Exercises in Data Presentation . . 53--69
R. A. Harvey The contribution of structural change to
manufacturing labour productivity . . . 70--76
J. A. Nelder My kind of statistics . . . . . . . . . 77--81
Suzette Gauvain The Importance of Statistics and
Epidemiology in Occupational Health . . 82--101
O. R. Anderson Generalised cost function regression
analysis when the errors are not
normally distributed . . . . . . . . . . 102--115
I. Cooper Seminar on `Mini Computers', Sheffield
8th December 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
Kanji Report of a business statistics seminar 120--121
D. O. Chanter Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 122--123
P. Sprent Fashions in applied statistics . . . . . 1--7
Gordon L. Smith and
Christine Michie and
James A. Pope Marine Robust estimators of location . . . . . 8--21
G. H. Freeman Consultation and research in a
statistics section . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32
A. F. Bissell Nomograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--48
D. O. Chanter Communication and the Statistician . . . 49--56
M. R. Sampford My kind of statistics . . . . . . . . . 57--62
W. A. Pridmore The Motion Picture . . . . . . . . . . . 63--81
B. Jones Some Examples of the Use of an Algorithm
for Constructing Optimal Block Designs 82--92
O. D. Anderson A Note on Analysing Time Series Data
which Accumulate Over Unequal
Observation Intervals . . . . . . . . . 91--94
R. A. Harvey Factors Affecting Productivity . . . . . 95--110
Anonymous Letters to the Editor: Mr. Kanji . . . . 111--112
A. F. Bissell An attempt to unify the theory of
quality control procedures . . . . . . . 113--128
Peter Cheek Problems with estimating the rate of
inflation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136
D. M. Thomson Statistics and the ratemeter . . . . . . 137--145
A. Springall A review of multidimensional scaling . . 146--192
M. Slater Significance tests or Bayesian analysis:
an elementary example . . . . . . . . . 193--217
I. G. Dimming 50 Years of biometry at East Malling Q 218--227
A. S. C. Ehrenberg A revised exercise in data processing 228--230
I. S. Wells Probabilistic approach to factual
questions: a real case . . . . . . . . . 231--233
Paul Jackson Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 234--237
Gopal Kanchi and
A. Huitson Bulletin in Applied Statistics (BIAS) 112
G. H. Freeman Experimental Design from the Time of
Fisher to the 1970's . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Norm A. Campbell Some Practical Aspects of Canonical
Variate Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--18
Harvey Goldstein Age, Period and Cohort Effects --- a
Confounded Confusion . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
B. Jones Cluster Analysis of Some Social Survey
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--56
Trevor F. Cox Probability and Special Relativity . . . 57--65
C. Chatfield A Report on the 1978 I.O.S. Conference
on Time-Series Analysis . . . . . . . . 66--72
B. Mitchell and
E. Swires-Hennessy The Census of Production and its Uses 73--88
C. I. Phillips Treatment of Myopia . . . . . . . . . . 89--100
C. Chatfield Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
S. C. Pearce The Fisherian Field Trial Today . . . . 103--111
A. F. Bissell Life Distribution of Expendable
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--136
M. J. R. Healy Does Medical Statistics Exist? . . . . . 137--182
J. N. R. Jeffers Exploratory Data Analysis of Tabulated
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--194
K. F. Jones and
N. Kay Pearl's Law and the Growth of the
Scottish National Party . . . . . . . . 195--214
R. A. Harvey and
S. Morris Output Measures for Productivity
Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--221
C. Chatfield Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 222
H. P. Wynn Should Statistics Be Professionalized? 1--9
G. V. Dyke Covariance and Field Experiments . . . . 10--21
K. Ryder But How Was the Experiment Done? . . . . 22--33
J. D. Avery and
J. S. Baron A Degree of Difficulty . . . . . . . . . 34--53
K. T. Boyd Multi-Nomial Distributions and
Ratio-Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--58
Richard Stone Sigmoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--119
K. T. Boyd Should Statistics Be Professionalized? A
Reply to Dr. Wynn . . . . . . . . . . . 120--123
C. I. Phillips Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 124
G. H. Freeman Practical Designs for Eliminating
Positional Effects . . . . . . . . . . . 125--140
P. Prescott A Review of Some Robust Data Analysis
and Multiple Outlier Detection
Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--158
S. M. Lewis and
A. M. Dean Factorial Experiments in Resolvable
Generalized Cyclic Designs . . . . . . . 159--167
Byron Jones The Computer As a Statistical Consultant 168--195
A. F. Bissell The Reference Test in the UK Average
Quantity System . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--202
P. C. Bravo Sampling Inspection By Variables With
Known Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--222
K. L. Q. Read and
A. A. Noura and
R. R. Harris Survival Analysis for a Sequenced
Clinical Trial With Covariates . . . . . 223--266
P. F. Chapman and
J. G. Fryer Birth Weight and the Linear Statistical
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--306
R. Thompson Some Recent Developments in the Analysis
and Design of Quantitative Genetic
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
M. J. R. Healy A Subroutine Library for Statisticians 12--25
J. M. Dickey Expert Uncertainty and the Use of
Subjective-Probability Models . . . . . 26--56
P. T. Represent Anagramatic Decomposition or I Go to Mop
Canadian Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 57--61
J. R. Ashford and
Alison Wearing The Assessment of Industrial Health
Hazards on the Basis of Observational
Data --- Some Statistical Pitfalls . . . 62--81
Eryl Shirley Problems Relating to Experimental Design
and Procedures in Laboratory Studies on
Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--90
G. Cockayne and
G. Kanji and
W. Tyson The Collection and Use of Sample Data on
Public Transport Demand . . . . . . . . 91--108
Andrew Bercai A Proposal to Resolve a Potential
Procedural Inconsistency Affecting Some
Parameters in Statistical Inference . . 109--114
P. C. Bravo Amendments and Corrections Sampling
Inspection by Variables with Known
Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Anonymous A new Open University statistics course 118--119
Brian English and
Peter Freeman Prehistoric Scottish Fish Bones . . . . 120--133
Frank Yates Rothamsted in the 1930s . . . . . . . . 134--156
G. K. Kanji History of the Development of Statistics
in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--167
T. Sharot A Problem in Survey Design --- Changing
the Sampling Frame . . . . . . . . . . . 168--178
Dougal Hutchison The Use of Statistics in Government
Decision-Making With Particular
Reference to the Reports of Royal
Commissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--223
R. P. Hope Computer Simulation of a Simple
Hypothesis Test a Useful Tool When
Teaching a First Statistics Course . . . 224--230
F. R. Oliver Process Time, Pearl's Law, and the
Scottish National Party . . . . . . . . 231--237
S. C. Darby The Assessment of Industrial Health
Hazards --- Some Comments on the Paper
by J. R. Ashford and Alison Wearing . . 238--244
A. Huitson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
A. F. Bissell Ordered Random Fractions for
Chronological Sampling . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Andrew Kirby Analysis of Variance in a Descriptive
Context: a Geographic Example . . . . . 5--15
D. M. Titterington Irreverent Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Jan Vegelius A Note On the Tie Problem for the
Siegel--Tukey Non-Parametric Dispersion
Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--23
R. J. Gadsden Statistical Analysis of Cometary Data 24--36
Henry R. Neave Teaching Hypothesis-Testing By
Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Colin Thunhurst Measuring the Health Consequence of
Social and Economic Policy . . . . . . . 41--59
E. Shoesmith A Note On Bercai's `Proposal to Resolve
A Potential Procedural Inconsistency' 60--66
N. Barker and
R. J. Hews and
A. Huitson and
J. Poloniecki The Two Period Cross Over Trial . . . . 67--115
J. S. Barron Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 117--118
B. Darekar Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121
Alan Reid Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Alan Huitson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
J. N. R. Jeffers Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
P. L. Goldsmith Using Statistics in Man-Made Fibres
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--145
Agnee M. Herzberg An Example of the Use of Andrews' Plots
to Detect Time Variations in Model
Parameters and to Detect Outlying
Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--154
A. F. Bissell Work-In-Progress Audit . . . . . . . . . 155--164
Henry R. Neave A New Look at an Old Test . . . . . . . 165--178
John S. Croucher Anglo--Australian Test Cricket
Dismissals 1946--1980 . . . . . . . . . 179--193
J. France and
A. P. Haws A Model for Developing a Recreation
Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--211
G. F. Raggett A Stochastic Model of the Eyam Plague 212--225
H. L. Back Multiple Choice Answers Generated By
Computer for Service Courses in
Statistics --- a Useful Compromise On
the Chore of `Calculation to Aid the
Understanding' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--230
M. C. James Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Alan Buitson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235
D. I. Holmes Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
R. C. Hoare Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
B. Darekar Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
T. Subba Rao Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--245
Paul A. Games Use of Contrasts in a Design of
Experiments --- Anova Course . . . . . . 1--17
Janet Riley and
I. Bekele and
Brenda Shrewsbury How an Analysis of Variance is Affected
by the Degree of Precision of the Data 18--43
F. R. Oliver Imports and the EEC --- Some Regression
Estimates Compared . . . . . . . . . . . 44--50
D. Holt Living With a Model . . . . . . . . . . 51--86
A. F. Bissell Grouping of Breaks on a Textile Machine 87--96
Roland E. Ubogu Forecasting Nigerian Governments
Expenditures: a Multiple Regression
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
G. F. Raggett Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
G. K. Kanji Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
Alan Huitson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--131
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
D. I. Holmes Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
Alan Reid Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
G. H. Freeman Consultancy and Research in Biometrics
--- Some Thoughts Inspired By Reading
the Biography of R. A. Fisher . . . . . 138--157
Byron J. T. Morgan Illustration of Three-Dimensional
Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--166
D. D. V. Morgan and
J. L. Zambrano R. Teaching Statistics to Agricultural
Engineering Students in Mexico . . . . . 167--174
M. J. Campbell Spectral Analysis Applied to
Physiological Signals in Human Subjects 175--193
Stephen T. Buckland Monte Carlo Methods for Confidence
Interval Estimation Using the Bootstrap
Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--212
Chyau Tuan Sample Survey Methods and Family Income
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--230
H. L. Back and
P. W. Murphy A Note on Derived Means of Scaled Data 231--239
Douglas Liddell On the Distributions of $ X^2 $ and $F$ 240--242
L. R. Matthews Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--247
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
Alan Reed Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--251
John Haigh Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
R. Ahmad Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
D. O. Chanter Curtailed sigmoid dose-response models
for fungicide experiments . . . . . . . 2--11
M. R. Clarke An Analytical Approach to Rounding . . . 12--20
T. H. Mangles The Use of Microcomputers in the
Teaching of Statistics . . . . . . . . . 21--28
Simon H. Bishop and
Byron Jones A Review of Higher Order Crossover
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--50
I. D. Hill Interpreting `Crazy' Estimates . . . . . 51--53
Tony Tricker Effects of Rounding Data Sampled from
the Exponential Distribution . . . . . . 54--87
K. A. Yeomans Is there an alternative to the European
farm typology? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--119
Anonymous Book Reviwes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Eamonn Mullins Statistics, Plato and the real world . . 136--141
M. Z. Khan and
M. Ilyas and
I. Saud Entropy and internal information of
printed Urdu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--154
Ben Kiregyera Statistics for small-scale industries in
East Africa: problems of collection and
utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--162
S. Loukas On the delay in publication of papers in
scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . 163--169
R. R. Harris and
E. F. Harding The fiducial argument and Hacking's
Principle of Irrelevance . . . . . . . . 170--181
G. R. Crocker and
D. E. Wright Teaching hypothesis tests by simulation:
a problem oriented approach . . . . . . 182--187
Michael J. Davidson and
Tony Bendell Some statistics of statistics . . . . . 188--224
M. S. Dhanoa and
J. France A BASIC program for the evaluation of
the gamma functions . . . . . . . . . . 225--228
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
G. H. Freeman The analysis and interpretation of
interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--10
Peter L. Goldsmith On opinion polls and multi-party
elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17
D. J. Hand Statistical expert systems: necessary
attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27
P. J. A. Howard and
D. M. Howard The application of ridit analysis to
phenological observations . . . . . . . 29--35
M. S. Silver Parameter stability and normative market
segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--47
G. K. Kanji A mixture model for wind shear data . . 49--58
Frank C. Duckworth and
Andrew C. Hill Brain of Britain: brain or chance? . . . 59--69
P. A. Osanaiye Multiple chain-deferred inspection plans
and their compatibility with the
multiple plans in MIL-STD-105D and
equivalent schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81
J. Aleong and
D. Howard Extensions of the Duncan's Multiple
Range Test for unbalanced data . . . . . 83--90
B. Kiregyera and
S. O. Akach and
Hani Afifi Application of recapture-sampling
technique to the study of Matatu
transport operations in Nairobi (Kenya) 91--100
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
John Bound Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 104
J. N. R. Jeffers Data logging in the biological sciences 107--112
Trevor F. Cox and
John P. Birchall and
Henry Wong Optimising the queuing system for an
ear, nose and throat outpatient clinic 113--126
Dennis C. Gilliland On the MacMahon cube law for election
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--135
Eddie Shoesmith Birth-date distribution and statistical
significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--145
T. F. Gordon Statistical simulations on the BBC
microcomputer: significance tests of the
pseudo-random number generator . . . . . 147--155
J. G. Rowell and
D. E. Walters A critical appraisal of the analysis of
variance for two-way classifications . . 157--169
Ruth Marcus A truncated sequential procedure for
estimating the means of insect
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--176
D. Wilkie Simple exponential fitting . . . . . . . 177--179
Jim Bryant Operational Research changes: tales from
a parallel universe . . . . . . . . . . 181--187
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
A. F. Bissell Not-so-linear regression (part 1) . . . 3--11
Anil K. Bera and
Colin R. Mckenzie Alternative forms and properties of the
score test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--25
J. L. Fresen and
J. W. Fresen Estimating the parameter in the Pauling
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--37
Wieslaw Madry and
Walerian Piotrowski Analysis of the combining ability of two
parental groups in incomplete diallel
crosses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--48
Laban A. J. Ogallo Stochastic modelling of regional annual
rainfall anomalies in East Africa . . . 49--56
D. Wilkie Orthogonal comparisons for Fourier
analysis within mixed level factorial
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--66
Leslie T. Oxley Box--Cox power transformations and the
demand for money functions in France,
Germany, Italy and The Netherlands . . . 67--75
K. Ryder Numerical tables: guidelines for
presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88
I. Heinrich and
B. Sweetman and
J. A. D. Anderson Application of an empirically derived
classification of `non-specific' low
back pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--96
David Eurof Walters A note on the economical application of
the `exact' test for a contingency table 97--104
D. Wilkie Polynomial and Fourier fits to diurnal
variations in ambient temperatures in
Bechuanaland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--110
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
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D. Harrison and
G. K. Kanji and
R. J. Gadsden Analysis of variance for circular data 123--138
S. C. Pearce Defective data in the analysis of
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
Thomas H. Wonnacott Bayesian and Classical hypothesis
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--157
Timothy J. Novotny and
Lyman L. Mcdonald Model selection using discriminant
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--165
Ruth Marcus and
B. Raccah Model for the spread of non-persistent
virus diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--175
Esben Hòg Estimation of a pure death process with
an application to withdrawals and
resumptions of automobile insurances . . 177--186
Jacqueline S. Galpin and
Douglas M. Hawkins Variable subset selection for optimal
regression prediction at a specified
point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--198
John H. Herbert Data analysis of sales of natural gas to
households in the United States . . . . 199--211
Brian Mcculloch and
Tony Van Zijl Direct test of Harville's multi-entry
competitions model on race-track betting
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220
F. R. Oliver Direct least squares estimation of
Phillips's function . . . . . . . . . . 221--225
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
A. F. Bissell Not-so-linear regression (part 2) . . . 3--13
Ruth Marcus and
R. Salomon and
M. Bar-Joseph The distribution of citrus tristeza
virus in citrus groves in Israel . . . . 15--21
R. O. Okafor Maximum likelihood estimation from
incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33
Gerald J. Hahn and
Michael B. Cockrum Adapting control charts to meet
practical needs: a chemical processing
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--52
S. C. Pearce Some simple algorithms for the analysis
of variance with non-orthogonal block
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59
Raymond T. Stefani Applications of statistical methods to
American football . . . . . . . . . . . 61--73
Z. Seyda Deligonul and
A. Erhan Mergen Dependence bias in conventional p-charts
and its correction with an approximate
lot quality distribution . . . . . . . . 75--81
D. Wilkie Analysis of factorial experiments and
least squares polynomial fitting by the
method of orthogonal polynomials for any
spacing of the levels of the independent
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--89
M. Singh A non-normal class of distribution
function for dose-binary response curve* 91--97
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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G. A. Barnard What influences influence? . . . . . . . 107--116
R. Dennis Cook Influence assessment . . . . . . . . . . 117--131
Seymour Geisser Influential observations, diagnostics
and discovery tests . . . . . . . . . . 133--142
T. M. F. Smith Influential observations in survey
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152
M. J. Greenacre Influential analysis and presentation of
survey data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--164
M. C. Shewry and
H. P. Wynn Maximum entropy sampling . . . . . . . . 165--170
J. Munoz-Garcia and
J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and
A. Pascual-Acosta Detecting outliers in s-multinomial
distributions through adjusted residuals 171--176
U. Balasooriya and
Y. K. Tse and
Y. S. Liew An empirical comparison of some
statistics for identifying outliers and
influential observations in linear
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
Michael Greenacre I.D.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
A. F. Bissell Not-so-linear regression (part 3) . . . 189--194
Thomas Wonnacott Confidence intervals or hypothesis
tests? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201
Bob Van Der Laan and
Johan Koerts A logit model for the probability of
having non-zero expenses for medical
services during a year . . . . . . . . . 203--217
Ron S. Kenett and
David M. Steinberg Some experiences teaching factorial
design in introductory statistics
courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--227
T. M. M. Farley and
I. T. Jolliffe Measures of association for two-way
contingency tables: two case studies . . 229--237
W. K. Li and
H. Wong and
Y. V. Hui Fractional modelling on emergency room
attendance data . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--249
O. Bouhaddou and
C. H. Obled and
Tuan Pham Dinh Principal component analysis and
interpolation of stochastic processes:
methods and simulation . . . . . . . . . 251--267
A. Kinsella and
A. Dunne Quantitative assessment of a lung tumour
treatment using a multiple regression
spline model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273
U. L. Gouranga Rao and
Alan Yuk-Pang Tam An empirical study of selection and
estimation of alternative models of the
Lorenz curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--280
Z. W. Kmietowicz and
H. M. K. Rwamasaka Some problems in the calculation of
indices of industrial production in
developing countries: the case of
Uganda, 1963--71 . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--295
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
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J. N. R. Jeffers Biometrics: achievement and potential 5--17
C. Chatfield What is the `best' method of
forecasting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--38
P. Pack and
I. T. Jolliffe and
B. J. T. Morgan Influential observations in principal
component analysis: a case study . . . . 39--52
M. Singh and
B. Gilliver Statistical analysis of intercropping
data using a correlated error structure 53--61
Douglas G. Bonett Estimating the number of defects under
imperfect inspection . . . . . . . . . . 63--67
Patricia M. Rudolph and
Marvin Karson The effect of unequal priors and unequal
misclassification costs on MDA . . . . . 69--83
William F. Roller Adjusted variables: an important tool
for teaching regression in the
applications curricula . . . . . . . . . 85--95
A. F. Bissell Control chart limits for attributes and
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--105
A. Huitson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Simon Kirby Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
A. Huitson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Anonymous Announcement of Special Issue:
`Statistical methods in digital image
processing' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Richard Castle Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
A. Watson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Andrzej Zielinski Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous Editorial: Fifteen years of being biased 3
K. V. Mardia Directional data analysis: an overview 115--122
G. S. Watson The Langevin distribution on high
dimensional spheres . . . . . . . . . . 123--130
H. Arsham Kuiper's $P$-value as a measuring tool
and decision procedure for the
goodness-of-fit test . . . . . . . . . . 131--135
P. E. Jupp Residuals for directional data . . . . . 137--147
Parthasarathy Bagchi and
Irwin Guttman Theoretical considerations of the
multivariate von Mises--Fisher
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--169
Michael J. Prentice Using sample principal axes to estimate
small circles and ellipses on the sphere 171--177
Nigel Smeeton and
Greg Wilkinson The detection of annual clusters in
individual patterns of parasuicide . . . 179--182
John C. Haskey The relative orientation of addresses of
spouses before their marriage: an
analysis of circular data . . . . . . . 183--195
D. Harrison and
G. K. Kanji The development of analysis of variance
for circular data . . . . . . . . . . . 197--223
Andrew Lawson On tests for spatial trend in a
non-homogeneous Poisson process . . . . 225--234
R. M. Clark An evaluation by simulation of
alternative estimators for the marginal
Fisher distribution . . . . . . . . . . 235--246
John T. Kent and
David E. Tyler Maximum likelihood estimation for the
wrapped Cauchy distribution . . . . . . 247--254
Andrew Lawson Fitting the von Mises distribution using
\tt glim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--260
G. Miller Software Review . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
C. Bishop Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
C. Bishop Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
A. Huitson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Sumit Patel Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Alan Hiutson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
M. Singh and
G. K. Kanji Fitting a non-linear model with errors
in both variables and its application 267--274
J. T. Barry An investigation of statistical matching 275--283
Christy Chuang-Stein and
Steven F. Francom Some simple log-linear models for the
analysis of ordinal response data . . . 285--294
P. A. Osanaiye and
S. A. Alebiosu Effects of industrial inspection errors
on some plans that utilise the
surrounding lot information . . . . . . 295--304
A. F. Bissell and
R. J. Williamson Successive difference tests-theory and
interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--323
M. K. Williams An intelligent system for experimental
design-some ideas . . . . . . . . . . . 325--333
Tommy Johnsson Bootstrap multiple test procedure . . . 335--339
John H. Herbert and
Phillip S. Kott Robust variance estimation in linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--345
Mike Baxter and
Richard Stevenson Discriminating between the Poisson and
negative binomial distributions: an
application to goal scoring in
Association football . . . . . . . . . . 347--354
A. Chowdhury and
U. Balasooriya Atypical observations in linear models 355--362
Y. K. Tse Assessing Lund's critical values for
testing for outliers in linear
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 363--366
A. F. Rashed and
M. Metwally Simulated and unbiased reliability
sampling plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--379
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
S. C. Pearce The size of a comparative experiment . . 3--6
A. F. Bissell Interpreting mean squares in saturated
fractional designs . . . . . . . . . . . 7--18
D. A. Preece Factorial experimentation in
second-order Latin cubes . . . . . . . . 19--24
A. Hossain and
D. N. Naik Detection of influential observations in
multivariate regression . . . . . . . . 25--37
Alan Huitson Problems with Procrustes analysis . . . 39--45
Tertius De Wet and
John Fresen and
Jill Fresen The test for logical order in English
language testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--54
L. M. Haines and
W. P. Munoz and
C. J. Van Gelderen ARIMA modelling of birth data . . . . . 55--67
J. J. Tai and
Keh-Min Chiou and
Chun-Jean Lee and
Lung-An Li and
Po-Chang Lee and
Shan-Yie Liu Index typing of HLA serological data . . 69--75
J. Subramani and
K. N. Ponnuswamy A non-iterative least squares estimation
of missing values in experimental
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--86
V. Soundararajan and
R. Vijayaraghavan On designing multiple deferred state
sampling (MDS-1 (0, 2)) plans involving
minimum risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--94
J. Berny New concepts in deterministic growth
curve forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . 95--120
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
K. V. Mardia Markov models and Bayesian methods in
image analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130
Richard C. Dubes and
Anil K. Jain Random field models in image analysis 131--164
David R. Brillinger and
Kenneth H. Downing and
Robert M. Glaeser and
Guy Perkins Combining noisy images of small
crystalline domains in high resolution
electron microscopy . . . . . . . . . . 165--175
M. C. Jones and
B. W. Silverman An orthogonal series density estimation
approach to reconstructing positron
emission tomography images . . . . . . . 177--191
R. Molina and
B. D. Ripley Using spatial models as priors in
astronomical image analysis . . . . . . 193--206
Ulf Grenander and
Daniel Macrae Keenan Towards automated image understanding 207--221
Glen Barnett and
Susan Crowe and
Malcolm Hudson and
Pui-Lam Leung and
Khairil Notodiputro and
Richard Proudfoot and
John Sims The use of small scale prototypes in
image reconstruction from projections 223--242
B. Roy Frieden Stochastic approaches to inversion
problems in optics . . . . . . . . . . . 243--266
W. Qian and
D. M. Titterington On the use of Gibbs Markov chain models
in the analysis of images based on
second-order pairwise interactive
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--281
Wojciech Pieczynski Estimation of context in random fields 283--290
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
Anonymous Abstracts News: rankings for research in
statistical theory . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
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P. Erto Reliability assessments by repair shops
via maintenance data . . . . . . . . . . 303--313
Ruth Marcus and
Hovav Talpaz and
Moshe Bar-Joseph A model for the spread and control of
citrus tristeza virus disease . . . . . 315--320
Christy Chuang-Stein and
R. John Weaver An evaluation of therapeutic synergism
using linear logit models . . . . . . . 321--329
C. Oludhe and
L. Ogallo Statistical characteristics of the
surface wind speeds over Kenya . . . . . 331--344
A. Veevers and
M. C. K. Tweedie Examples of the application of matrix
factors of a design matrix . . . . . . . 345--354
Shrikant I. Bangdiwala The teaching of the concepts of
statistical tests of hypotheses to
non-statisticians . . . . . . . . . . . 355--361
M. Singh Estimation of land equivalent ratios . . 363--371
M. R. Srinivasan An algorithm for inverting matrices
whose elements are polynomials . . . . . 373--375
M. O. Ojo Analysis of some prison data . . . . . . 377--383
A. J. Baczkowski and
K. V. Mardia A test of spatial independence . . . . . 385--389
J. S. Dagpunar A compact and portable Poisson random
variate generator . . . . . . . . . . . 391--393
Julian Besag Digital Image Processing: Towards
Bayesian image analysis . . . . . . . . 395--407
Peter Clifford and
R. D. Middleton Reconstruction of polygonal images . . . 409--422
K. V. Mardia and
T. J. Hainsworth Digital Image Processing: Statistical
aspects of moment invariants in image
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--435
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Andrew Lawson Fitting the von Mises distribution using
\tt GLIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
Andrew Lawson On tests for spatial trend in a
non-homogeneous Poisson process . . . . 441
G. J. S. Ross Incomplete variance functions . . . . . 3--8
Z. W. Kmietowicz The significance of the lead in opinion
polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--30
A. R. Tricker The effect of rounding on the
significance level of certain normal
test statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--38
Kazuhiro Ohtani On the use of the Box--Cox
transformation in a linear regression
with a lagged dependent variable . . . . 39--47
Edward F. McEntee An economic rectification plan for a
process subject to a random shift into a
persistent defective state . . . . . . . 49--54
N. Balakrishnan On the maximum likelihood estimation of
the location and scale parameters of
exponential distribution based on
multiply Type II censored samples . . . 55--61
Trevor F. Cox and
Khalifa H. Jaber The generalized likelihood ratio test
for the Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . 63--71
Raymond Okafor A biweight approach to estimate currency
exchange rate: the Nigerian example . . 73--82
V. Soundararajan and
S. Devaraj Arumainayagam Construction and selection of modified
quick switching systems . . . . . . . . 83--114
Jeffrey R. Wilson and
David L. Turner A multinomial model for cross classified
data with a measure of dependency . . . 115--124
S. C. Agarwal and
M. N. Das Use of $n$-ary block designs in dialled
crosses evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . 125--131
P. S. Gill and
M. L. Tiku and
David C. Vaughan Inference problems in life testing under
multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . 133--147
S. N. Al-Najjar Reparametrization and transformation of
a non-linear model relating plant
density and crop yield . . . . . . . . . 149--158
A. J. Baczkowski and
K. V. Mardia Prediction based upon maximizing squared
correlation for stationary processes and
simple kriging . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--164
J. S. Dagpunar Sampling from the von Mises distribution
via a comparison of random numbers . . . 165--168
D. J. Hand Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
S. F. Blinkhorn Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Alan Huitson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Alan Reid Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
D. J. Hand Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
A. Huitson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Anonymous Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
N. Logothetis Minute-Accumulating Analysis and life
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--185
H. Tong and
P. Dabas Cluster of time series models: an
example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--198
Ralp T. Clarke and
J. S. Welton and
M. Ladle Estimation of larval feeding rates using
normal linear models involving censored
and truncated observations . . . . . . . 199--209
A. F. Bissell The eccentrics of political twittering 211--217
A. R. Tricker The effect of rounding on the power
level of certain normal test statistics 219--228
M. J. Baxter and
H. E. M. Cool and
M. P. Heyworth Principal component and correspondence
analysis of compositional data: some
similarities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--235
K. P. Kalirajan On the estimation of a regression model
with fixed and random coefficients . . . 237--244
D. N. Naik Prediction intervals for growth curves 245--254
William F. Roller Partial-order analysis of fiscal
capacity of states . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262
S. Kapoor and
G. K. Kanji Application of the characterization
theory to the mixture model . . . . . . 263--270
P. N. Jones and
G. J. Mclachlan Laplace-normal mixtures fitted to wind
shear data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--276
Geoffrey S. Watson Permutation tests for the independence
of a scalar and a unit vector . . . . . 277--281
B. S. Everitt and
C. Merette The clustering of mixed-mode data: a
comparison of possible approaches . . . 283--297
G. J. S. Ross Estimation problems of non-linear
functional relationships . . . . . . . . 299--306
P. G. N. Digby and
K. L. Moore Multivariate analysis of within-group
variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--312
Ali S. Hadi Two graphical displays for the detection
of potentially influential subsets in
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--327
A. R. Tricker The effect of rounding on the
significance level and power of certain
test statistics for non-normal data . . 329--340
Parthasarathy Bagchi and
Irwin Guttman Spuriosity and outliers in directional
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--350
R. A. Ipinyomi Resolvable row-column designs . . . . . 351--355
Demissie Alemayehu and
Kjell Doksum Using the bootstrap in correlation
analysis, with application to a
longitudinal data set . . . . . . . . . 357--368
J. O. Gribbin and
S. I. McClean Modelling the duration of spells of
withdrawal from a female dominated
labour force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--381
Douglas G. Bonett and
J. Arthur Woodward Testing residual normality in the ANOVA
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--387
D. N. Hunt and
M. J. Bell Semi-iterative missing value estimation 389--396
V. Soundararajan and
R. Vijayaraghavan Construction and selection of multiple
dependent (deferred) state sampling plan 397--409
Vedula N. Murty Binomial and Poisson probabilities with
an HP-28S Scientific Advanced Calculator 411--415
H. Mansouri and
Z. Govindarajulu A class of rank tests for interaction in
two-way layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--426
K. Govindaraju and
K. Subramani Selection of multiple deferred state
MDS-1 sampling plans for given
acceptable quality level and limiting
quality level involving minimum risks 427--434
John H. Herbert and
Khoan Dinh An empirical note concerning systematic
measurement errors in regression
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--441
K. V. Mardia On longevity and life-line . . . . . . . 443--448
Gillian M. Arnold Problems with Procrustes analysis . . . 449--451
Alan Huitson Comments on: `Problems with Procrustes
analysis' by Gillian M. Arnold . . . . . 451--452
D. J. Hand Expert system and statistics . . . . . . 1--2
K. W. Lawson and
P. A. Golder The use of semantic knowledge to enhance
statistical software . . . . . . . . . . 3--21
Louis Anthony Cox, Jr. Knowledge-based resolution of
conflicting expert opinions . . . . . . 23--34
S. T. Young Tung and
J. H. Schuenemeyer An expert system for statistical
consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--47
David Biggs and
Barry De Ville and
Ed Suen A method of choosing multiway partitions
for classification and decision trees 49--62
Russell Almond Building blocks for graphical belief
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76
Gerda M. Van Den Berg Ideas of statistical experts on the
choice of an analysis method . . . . . . 77--86
Peter Hoschka and
Willi Klösgen EXPLORA: content interpretation of data 87--97
Ronald Visser and
Nelleke Slooff Knowledge acquisition for a supportive
user interface for correspondence
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106
Ivo W. Molenaar and
Paul Passchier The Agree Consultant: more agreeable
software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120
Radovan Krtolica and
Ivan Obradovic and
Radmilo Bozinovic SFILTEX: toward an expert system for
time-series filter design . . . . . . . 121--137
Lars Rude Andersen and
Jens Herman Krebs and
Jens Damgaard Andersen STENO: an expert system for medical
diagnosis based on graphical models and
model search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--153
Mary Deutsch-Mcleish and
Paulyn Yao and
Tatiana Stirtzinger A study on the use of belief functions
for medical expert systems . . . . . . . 155--174
Paul De Greef Analysis of co-operation for
consultation systems . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
Calvin L. Williams A clinical application of expert system
methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--201
Jeffrey R. Wilson and
Patrici M. Wilson A comparison of chi-squared statistics
for testing homogeneity of survey data:
High School and Beyond survey . . . . . 203--213
Shobha Rao and
Asawari Kanade and
Smita Joshi and
Sharayu Paranjape Application of time series models to
detect regulatory patterns in nitrogen
output of adult rats . . . . . . . . . . 215--232
A. Martín Andrés and
J. D. Luna Del Castillo and
I. Herranz Tejedor New critical region tables for Fisher's
exact test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--254
J. Arthur Woodward and
Douglas G. Bonett Simple main effects in factorial designs 255--264
Wing-Kam Fung A statistical-test-complemented
graphical method for detecting multiple
outliers in two-way tables . . . . . . . 265--274
Tilak Abeysinghe A seasonal analysis of Chinese births 275--286
A. F. O. Bissell Estimating variation from data with
varying element sizes . . . . . . . . . 287--295
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
K. P. Kalirajan and
S. K. W. Jayasuriya Simultaneous testing of regression
disturbances for heteroscedasticity and
non-normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--312
R. Srivastava and
V. K. Gupta and
A. Dey Robustness of some designs against
missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--318
S. Chakraborti Graphical comparison of means with a
standard in the one-way layout . . . . . 319--329
Joël Chadoeuf and
Jean Baptiste Denis Asymptotic variances for the
multiplicative interaction model . . . . 331--353
Ann-Lee Wang Tau Ngau: an analysis and some
applications of a Chinese dominoes game 355--360
C. Raju Procedures and tables for the
construction and selection of chain
sampling plans ChSP-4A(c1, c2)r --- Part
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--381
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
George Box and
Stephen Jones Split-plot designs for robust product
experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--26
Amode R. Sen and
John P. Thompson Lattice design in the Bow River
Recreation Survey . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
V. Barnett and
D. E. Wright Biomedical applications for a
generalized linear functional Poisson
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
A. J. Watkins and
K. V. Mardia Maximum likelihood estimation and
prediction mean square error in the
spatial linear model . . . . . . . . . . 49--59
A. R. Tricker How the one-way analysis of variance
model is affected by the degree of
precision of the data . . . . . . . . . 61--73
Giovanni Radaelli Using the Cuscore technique in the
surveillance of rare health events . . . 75--81
D. Posa The indicator formalism in spatial
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--101
Ashok K. Bansal and
Pankaj Sinha Sensitivity of Bayesian sampling
inspection schemes to a non-normal prior
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109
L. I. Pettit Probabilities that contaminated normal
observations are extreme . . . . . . . . 111--116
Wai-Sum Chan A note on time series model
specification in the presence of
outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--124
C. Raju Procedures and tables for the
construction and selection of chain
sampling plans ChSP-4A(c1,c2)r-Part 2 125--140
V. Soundararajan and
S. Devaraj Arumainayagam Some sampling plans with identical
operating characteristic curves . . . . 141--153
Sheng G. Shi and
Winson Taam Non-linear canonical correlation
analysis with a simulated annealing
solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
D. M. Howard Canonical analysis of soil data . . . . 171--181
Peter J. Danaher An application of canonical expansions
to media exposure distributions . . . . 183--192
A. F. Bissell Lines through the origin --- is NO INT
the answer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--210
J. R. Buxton Some comments on the application of
diagnostic techniques in empirical
modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--221
S. Hadzivukovic and
E. Nikolic-Djoric and
K. Cobanovic The choice of perturbation factor in
ridge regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--230
H. A. Howlader and
G. Weiss Log-logistic survival estimation based
on failure-censored data . . . . . . . . 231--240
K. Govindaraju and
K. Subramani Selection of a
tightened-normal-tightened system for
given values of the acceptable quality
level and limiting quality level . . . . 241--250
Raymond Stefani and
Stephen Clarke Predictions and home advantage for
Australian rules football . . . . . . . 251--261
V. Kuralmani and
K. Govindaraju Modified tables for the selection of
quick switching systems for values of
the given acceptable quality level and
limiting quality level . . . . . . . . . 263--272
E. Yamamoto and
T. Yanagimoto Moment estimators for the beta-binomial
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--283
P. D. L. Constable and
K. V. Mardia Size and shape analysis of palmar
interdigital areas . . . . . . . . . . . 285--292
K. V. Mardia Erratum: Markov models and Bayesian
methods in image analysis . . . . . . . 293
David L. Farnsworth $r$-Invariant curves for linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
Z. W. Kmietowicz The significance of the sample lead:
alternative proof . . . . . . . . . . . 305--308
A. Baines A simplified approach to determination
of optimum conditions experiments . . . 309--321
Derrick Joanes and
Christine Gill Interval estimation of a measure of
diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--327
V. Soundararajan and
R. Vijayaraghavan Procedures and tables for the
construction and selection of
conditional double sampling plans . . . 329--338
V. Soundararajan and
R. Vijayaraghavan Construction and selection of
tightened-normal-tightened sampling
inspection scheme of type TNT-(n1, n2;
c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--349
A. F. Bissell Mean squares in saturated fractional
designs revisited . . . . . . . . . . . 351--366
Subir Ghosh and
Yi-Jing Duh Determination of optimum experimental
conditions using dispersion main effects
and interactions of factors in
replicated factorial experiments . . . . 367--378
Biswanath Das Small sample properties of a sign test
carried out under a Curtailed Inverse
Sampling Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--390
Sung H. Park and
Hyuk J. Kim A measure of slope-rotatability for
second order response surface
experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . 391--404
Deo Kumar Srivastava and
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Anil Mudholkar Assessing the significance of difference
between two quick estimates of location 405--416
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Michael Mcaleer and
Y. K. Tse The robustness of tests of outliers and
functional form . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--436
Jun Bai and
Anthony J. Jakeman and
Michael McAleer Discrimination between nested two- and
three-parameter air pollutant frequency
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--453
S. S. Ganguly and
U. Naik Nimbalkar Polytomous logistic model for matched
pairs case-control design: studies with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--464
A. R. Tricker Estimation of parameters for rounded
data from non-normal distributions . . . 465--471
M. Singh and
G. K. Kanji and
K. S. El-Bizri A note on inverse estimation in
non-linear models . . . . . . . . . . . 473--477
Indrani Basak and
William R. Balch and
Prasanta Basak Skewness: asymptotic critical values for
a test related to Pearson's measure . . 479--487
A. Subbarayan On the application of a pure cyclic
triple system for plant breeding
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500
S. Huda and
M. Shafiq Minimax designs for estimating the slope
of a second-order response surface in a
cubic region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--507
Sadao Tomizawa A model of symmetry with exponents along
every subdiagonal and its application to
data on unaided vision of pupils at
Japanese elementary schools . . . . . . 509--512
Bo Segerstedt and
Hans Nyquist On the conditioning problem in
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 513--526
John M. Stonehouse Testing for not-at-home bias in social
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--531
Telba Z. Irony Bayesian estimation for discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--549
J. A. Nelder Models for curves through the origin . . 551--552
Seyda Deligonul Quick specification of acceptance
sampling plans for dependent attribute
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--11
H. W. Mui and
C. W. Chu Forecasting the spot price of gold:
combined forecast approaches versus a
composite forecast approach . . . . . . 13--23
Lyle D. Broemeling and
Peyton Cook Bayesian estimation of the mean of an
autoregressive process . . . . . . . . . 25--39
Robert J. Boik Testing additivity in two-way
classifications with no replications:
the locally best invariant test . . . . 41--55
J. C. Gibbings A generalized iteration method for
deriving multiple regression curves of
non-linear functions . . . . . . . . . . 57--67
Rune Höglund and
Ralf Östermark Multiple input transfer function noise
modelling in the time and frequency
domain: empirical evidence from Monte
Carlo simulations . . . . . . . . . . . 69--93
J. Gates Testing for circularity of spatially
located objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--103
P. Prescott and
N. R. Draper and
A. M. Dean and
S. M. Lewis Mixture designs for five components in
orthogonal blocks . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117
P. J. A. Howard An analysis of the effects of
atmospheric sulphate and ammonium on
soil solution chemistry using median
polishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126
Geir Storvik Data reduction by separation of signal
and noise components for multivariate
spatial images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136
J. García-Heras and
J. Muñoz-García and
A. Pascual-Acosta Criteria for the detection of outliers
in the multinomial model . . . . . . . . 137--142
Ian T. Jolliffe and
Stephen G. Lukudu The influence of a single observation on
some standard test statistics . . . . . 143--151
M. C. South and
G. B. Wetherill and
M. T. Tham Hitch-hiker's guide to genetic
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--175
J. Chadoeuf and
M. Goulard and
S. Pellerin A Gibbs point process on a finite series
of circles: the insertion of the primary
roots of maize around the stem . . . . . 177--185
A. P. White and
W. Z. Liu The jack-knife with a stepwise
discriminant algorithm --- a warning to
BMDP users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190
D. F. Deadman and
D. J. Pyle The effect of the abolition of capital
punishment upon homicides in Great
Britain: an application of intervention
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--206
J. M. Asher Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Wai-Yin Poon and
Sik-Yum Lee and
P. M. Bentler Maximum likelihood estimation in a model
with interval data . . . . . . . . . . . 219--227
Graham Upton Testing for outliers in circular data 229--235
Yu-Min Chen and
Evan E. Anderson Small sample properties of the logit
maximum likelihood estimator: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--250
Michael J. Greenacre Biplots in correspondence analysis . . . 251--269
C. Kandasamy and
K. Govindaraju Selection of tightened two-level
continuous sampling plans . . . . . . . 271--284
David F. Percy Prediction for generalized linear models 285--291
Z. W. Kmietowicz Reliability of indices of industrial
production in developing countries: the
case of Zambia, 1980--89 . . . . . . . . 293--309
Peter M. Burrows Grouping normal distributions with
unknown parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 311--318
V. Soundararajan and
S. Devaraj Arumainayagam Characterization of MIL-STD-105D double
sampling plans using normalized OC
curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--329
B. S. Everitt Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Stephen Buckland Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
Peter W. F. Smith Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--334
W. D. Ray Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
Michael Dewey Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
Paul Blackwell Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
D. Kilpatrick Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338
David J. Hand Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Winson Taam and
Perla Subbaiah and
James W. Liddy A note on multivariate capability
indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--351
Jon Barry and
Mike Nicholson Measuring the probability of patch
detection for four spatial sampling
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--362
Kathleen Kocherlakota and
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota A statistical problem arising in
ascertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--374
Douglas G. Bonett Sample size determination for p-charts 375--379
Michael J. Prentice Axial regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--391
James A. Koziol and
Milton Erman and
Boris Pasche and
Roza Hajdukovic and
Merrill M. Mitler Assessing a changepoint in a sequence of
repeated measurements with application
to a low-energy emission therapy sleep
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--400
H. J. Khamis A comparative study of the $ \delta
$-corrected Kolmogorov--Smirnov test . . 401--421
K. Govindaraju and
K. Subramani Selection of multiple deferred
(dependent) state sampling plans for
given acceptable quality level and
limiting quality level . . . . . . . . . 423--428
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
J. Jansen A simple method for fitting a linear
model involving variance components . . 435--444
F. F. Gan An optimal design of CUSUM control
charts for binomial counts . . . . . . . 445--460
A. P. Gore and
V. R. Prayag Index of marine degradation: log-linear
model approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--466
V. Kuralmani and
K. Govindaraju Selection of conditional sampling plans
for given AQL and LQL . . . . . . . . . 467--479
Mohammed Ohidul Haque Problems in estimating non-linear Engel
parameters in the absence of appropriate
grouped means and average elasticity of
variable elasticity Engel functions . . 481--494
C. Raju and
M. N. Narasimha Murthy Procedures and tables for the
construction and selection of chain
sampling plans ChSP-4A(c1, c2)r --- Part
3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--511
K. Subramani and
K. Govindaraju Selection of modified quick switching
systems for given acceptable and
limiting quality levels . . . . . . . . 513--524
Damon Berridge Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--526
Anthony G. Pakes Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--527
Yasuko Chikuse Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--528
Damon Berridge Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--529
K. V. Mardia Statistics and images 2: overview . . . 1--5
Bing Cheng and
D. M. Titterington A small selection of neural network
methods and their statistical
connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--37
B. D. Ripley Neural networks and flexible regression
and discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . 39--57
J. Kittler Statistical pattern recognition in image
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--75
C. C. Taylor and
R. J. Henery Comparative trials in classification of
image data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91
Pamela C. Cosman and
Robert M. Gray and
Richard A. Olshen Vector quantization: clustering and
classification trees . . . . . . . . . . 93--108
T. F. Cootes and
C. J. Taylor and
D. H. Cooper and
J. Graham Image search using trained flexible
shape models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--139
Michael I. Miller and
Sarang Joshi and
David R. Maffitt and
James G. Mcnally and
Ulf Grenander Membranes, mitochondria and amoebae:
shape models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--163
Jayashree Subrahmonia and
Daniel Keren and
David B. Cooper An algebraic and Bayesian technology for
object recognition . . . . . . . . . . . 165--205
Jim Kay Wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--224
Tony Lindeberg Scale-space theory: a basic tool for
analyzing structures at different scales 225--270
S. Z. Der and
R. Chellappa and
E. J. M. Rignot Statistical characterization of forward
looking infra-red, laser radar and
synthetic aperture radar imagery . . . . 273--312
Iain S. Weir and
Peter J. Green Modelling data from single-photon
emission computerized tomography . . . . 313--337
R. M. Haralick and
E. Dougherty and
J. Ha and
T. Kanungo and
S. Karasu and
C. K. Lee and
L. Rystrom and
V. Ramesh and
I. Phillips Statistical morphology . . . . . . . . . 341--354
D. Lee and
Y. Vardi Experiments with maximum likelihood
method for image motion deblurring . . . 355--383
S. Rabe and
K. V. Mardia and
J. F. Boyce Modelling micro-texture . . . . . . . . 385--406
D. J. Hand Assessing classification rules . . . . . 3
U. Balasooriya and
T. Abeysinghe Selecting between gamma and Weibull
distributions --- an approach based on
predictions of order statistics . . . . 17
H. K. Preisler Analysis of the joint action of two
biological compounds on the gypsy moth 29
K. Luijtens and
F. Symons and
M. Vuylsteke-Wauters Linear and non-linear canonical
correlation analysis: an exploratory
tool for the analysis of
group-structured data . . . . . . . . . 43
B. S. Everitt Exploring multivariate data graphically:
a brief review with examples . . . . . . 63
J. F. Reed and
D. B. Stark Robustness estimators of location: a
classification of linear and adaptive
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
G. Lovison Log-linear modelling of data from
matched case-control studies . . . . . . 125
M. S. Ridout A response curve that generalizes the
rectangular hypberbola . . . . . . . . . 143
C. Raju and
J. Jothikumar A design of chain sampling plan ChSP-1
based on Kullback--Leibler information 153
J. Berny New concepts and applications in growth
phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
N. C. Smeeton Marking scheme for the test for logical
order in English language testing: is it
fair? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
R. Lund Annual arrival cycle of Atlantic
tropical cyclones . . . . . . . . . . . 195
L. J. Edwards and
P. K. Sen Approximating Fisher's information for
the functional measurement error model 205
J. Cologne and
R. Sposto Smooth piecewise linear regression
splines with hyperbolic covariates . . . 221
C. Kandasamy and
K. Govindaraju Selection of CSP-V continuous sampling
plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
H. K. Koesmarno Heuristic fitting algorithm and
analytical approximation for estimating
linear phase of logistic data . . . . . 255
C. Raju and
M. N. Narasimha Murthy Designing ChSP-4(c1, c2) plans . . . . . 267
K. P. Kalirajan and
R. T. Shand Estimating technical efficiency with
non-neutral shift of the frontier . . . 279
O. A. Ramirez and
C. B. Moss and
W. G. Boggess Estimation and use of the inverse
hyperbolic sine transformation to model
non-normal correlated random variables 289
A. I. Khuri Effect of blocking on the estimation of
a response surface . . . . . . . . . . . 305
P. Bagchi Empirical Bayes estimation in
directional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
G. S. Watson Distribution of angles between unit
vectors and the multiple comparison
problem for unit vectors . . . . . . . . 327
M. Y. Wong Robustness of testing the equality of
two slopes in simple structural
relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ralph G. O'Brien and
Marc W. Heft Discrimination indexes and models for
studying sensory functioning in aging 9
Ian T. Jolliffe Rotation of principal components: Choice
of normalization constraints . . . . . . 29--35
M. Singh and
N. P. Saxena and
M. C. Saxena Estimation of pinnule area in chickpea
leaves: An errors-in-variables approach 37
J. Bunge and
M. Fitzpatrick and
J. Handley Comparison of three estimators of the
number of species . . . . . . . . . . . 45
I. T. Jolliffe and
B. Jones and
B. J. T. Morgan Identifying influential observations in
hierarchical cluster analysis . . . . . 61--80
A. J. Scallan Asymmetric tolerance distributions: An
application of two-piece distributions 81
J. F. Reed and
D. B. Stark Robust analysis of variance: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--104
S. Devaraj Arumainayagam and
V. Soundararajan Construction and selection of quick
switching double-sampling system: Sample
size tightening . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
H. Wong and
W. K. Li Portmanteau test for conditional
heteroscedasticity, using ranks of
squared residuals . . . . . . . . . . . 121
S. M. Watson and
E. Redfern and
S. Clark and
M. Tight and
N. Davies An influence method for outlier
detection applied to time series traffic
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Z. W. Kmietowicz Exact distribution of the sample lead 151--161
Ram Mudambi and
Larry W. Taylor Some non-parametric tests for duration
dependence: An application to UK
business cycle data . . . . . . . . . . 163
A. D. Gordon Local transformation of facial features 179
Jorge Cadima and
Ian T. Jolliffe Loadings and correlations in the
interpretation of principal components 203--214
Yuejen Zhao and
Andy H. Lee Assessment of influence in non-linear
measurement error models . . . . . . . . 215--225
J. N. R. Jeffers The statistician and the computer . . . 227
A. R. Tricker Effect on Bayesian inference of the
degree of precision of recorded data . . 235
S. D. Arumainayagam and
V. Soundararajan Construction and evaluation of matched
quick switching systems . . . . . . . . 245
Peter W. M. John Patterns in residuals for $ 2^n $
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--259
C. Raju and
M. N. Narasimha Murthy Procedures and tables for the
construction and selection of chain
sampling plans ChSP-4A(c1, c2)r --- Part
4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Geoffrey S. Watson $ U^2_n $ test for uniformity of
discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 273--276
Heleno Bolfarine and
Manuel Galea Rojas Structural comparative calibration using
the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
David J. Finney Statistical science and effective
scientific communication . . . . . . . . 293
D. N. Hunt and
E. Li Loss of efficiency in spoilt experiments 309
Lisa H. Ying and
Friedrich Pukelsheim and
Norman R. Draper Slope rotatability over all directions
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--341
Lisa H. Ying and
Friedrich Pukelsheim and
Norman R. Draper Slope rotatability over all directions
designs for $ k \geq 4 $ . . . . . . . . 343--354
S. C. Pearce Cubic lattices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
R. Chen and
O. Hawaleshka and
D. R. Strong Analytical approach for determining the
cost optimum raw material quality level 375
C. Raju and
M. N. Narasimha Murthy Minimum risks chain sampling plans
(ChSP-4(c1, c2)) indexed by acceptable
quality level and limiting quality level 389
V. S. Sampath Kumar and
P. Vasantha Continuous inspection of Markov
processes with a clearance interval . . 427
K. F. Jones and
N. W. Taylor and
E. B. Fosam Statistical approaches for the
reliability of structural designs . . . 443
K. F. Jones and
I. Marrs and
J. Young and
C. Townend Investigation and improvement of a
process for vacuum-formed ceramic fibre
composites, using a fractional 2''
experimental design . . . . . . . . . . 459
F.-J. Vázquez-Polo and
A. Hernández Bastida Behaviour of the posterior error rate
with partial prior information in
auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--476
K. P. Kalirajan and
M. B. Obwona Estimating individual response
coefficients in varying coefficients
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 477
B. H. Joshi and
U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar and
S. R. Deshmukh and
A. D. Dharmadhikari Prediction of failure --- a case study 485
Ravindra Khattree and
Dayanand N. Naik Statistical tests for random effects in
staggered nested designs . . . . . . . . 495
D. Wallach Empirical Bayes optimal fertilizer
decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Hirokazu Takada and
Aman Ullah and
Yu-Min Chen Estimation of the seemingly unrelated
regression model when the error
covariance matrix is singular . . . . . 517
Kenneth Carling Starting values for the iterative
maximum likelihood estimator in survival
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Rajaram Gana Ridge regression estimation of the
linear probability model . . . . . . . . 537
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Kenneth H. Pollock and
Michael J. Conroy and
William S. Hearn Separation of hunting and natural
mortality using ring-return models: An
overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--566
Charles M. Francis Estimating survival rates from
recoveries of birds ringed as young: a
case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--578
Annette Hoffmann and
John R. Skalski Inferential properties of an
individual-based survival model using
release-recapture data: Sample size,
validity and power . . . . . . . . . . . 579--596
E. A. Catchpole and
S. N. Freeman and
B. J. T. Morgan Modelling age variation in survival and
reporting rates for recovery models . . 597--610
K. P. Burnham and
D. R. Anderson and
G. C. White Selection among open population
capture-recapture models when capture
probabilities are heterogeneous . . . . 611--624
Bruce H. Pugesek and
Chris Nations and
Kenneth L. Diem and
Roger Pradel Mark-resighting analysis of a California
gull population . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--640
S. E. Piper A model of the ring-recovery reporting
process for the Cape Griffon Gyps
coprotheres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--660
Kenneth H. Pollock and
Christine M. Bunck and
Scott R. Winterstein and
Chiu-Lan Chen A capture-recapture survival analysis
model for radio-tagged animals . . . . . 661--672
Joel A. Schmutz and
David H. Ward and
James S. Sedinger and
Eric A. Rexstad Survival estimation and the effects of
dependency among animals . . . . . . . . 673--682
Arie J. van Noordwijk On bias due to observer distribution in
the analysis of data on natal dispersal
in birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--694
Roger Pradel and
Evan Cooch and
Fred Cooke Transient animals in a resident
population of snow geese: Local
emigration or heterogeneity? . . . . . . 695--710
Carl James Schwarz and
Barbara Ganter and
Branta Leucopsis Estimating the movement among staging
areas of the barnacle goose (Branta
leucopsis) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--724
Mark S. Lindberg and
James S. Sedinger and
Eric A. Rexstad Estimating nest site fidelity of adult
female black brant with multi-state
modeling and geographic information
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--736
Jay B. Hestbeck Bias in transition-specific survival and
movement probabilities estimated using
capture-recapture data . . . . . . . . . 737--750
William L. Kendall and
James D. Nichols On the use of secondary
capture-recapture samples to estimate
temporary emigration and breeding
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--762
Michael J. Conroy Comparison of programs MULT, ESTIMATE
and BROWNIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--774
R. Pradel and
A.-M. Reboulet and
A. Viallefont Testing hypotheses and estimating
survival from capture histories with CR 775--784
A. Neil Arnason and
Carl J. Schwarz POPAN-4: Enhancements to a system for
the analysis of mark-recapture data from
open populations . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--800
E. A. Catchpole MATLAB: An environment for analyzing
ring-recovery and recapture data . . . . 801--816
S. Legendre and
J. Clobert ULM, a software for conservation and
evolutionary biologists . . . . . . . . 817--834
James D. Nichols and
William L. Kendall The use of multi-state capture-recapture
models to address questions in
evolutionary ecology . . . . . . . . . . 835--846
Anne Viallefont and
Evan G. Cooch and
Fred Cooke Estimation of trade-offs with
capture-recapture models: a case study
on the lesser snow goose . . . . . . . . 847--862
Thomas E. Martin and
Jean Clobert and
David R. Anderson Return rates in studies of life history
evolution: Are biases large? . . . . . . 863--876
Jay B. Hestbeck Population study and management of
Atlantic Flyway Canada geese . . . . . . 877--890
Tibor Szep Survival rates of Hungarian sand martins
and their relationship with Sahel
rainfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--904
William J. Peach and
Humphrey Q. P. Crick and
John H. Marchant The demography of the decline in the
British willow warbler population . . . 905--922
N. J. Aebischer Investigating the effects of hunting on
the survival of British pigeons and
doves by analysis of ringing recoveries 923--934
David F. DeSante and
Kenneth M. Burton and
James F. Saracco and
Brett L. Walker Productivity indices and survival-rate
estimates from MAPS, a continent-wide
programme of constant-effort
mist-netting in North America . . . . . 935--948
David F. Desante Suggestions for future directions for
studies of marked migratory landbirds
from the perspective of a practitioner
in population management and
conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--966
Stephen R. Baillie Uses of ringing data for the
conservation and management of bird
populations: a ringing scheme
perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--988
J. Clobert Capture-recapture and evolutionary
ecology: a difficult wedding? . . . . . 989--1008
Jean-Dominique Lebreton The future of population dynamic studies
using marked individuals: a
statistician's perspective . . . . . . . 1009--1030
V. Bauchau and
A. J. Van Noordwijk Comparison of survival estimates
obtained from three different methods of
recapture in the same population of the
great tit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1038
Andreas Kaiser Estimating turnover, movements and
capture parameters of resting passerines
in standardized capture-recapture
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1048
Grey W. Pendleton and
John R. Sauer Delineating bird populations using ring
recoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1056
Kalev Rattiste and
Vilju Lilleleht Survival rates of breeding common gulls
in Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1062
Deanna K. Dawson and
John R. Sauer and
Paul A. Wood and
Mauro Berlanga and
Marcia H. Wilson and
Chandler S. Robbins Estimating bird species richness from
capture and count data . . . . . . . . . 1063--1068
J. C. Senar and
J. L. Copete Mediterranean house sparrows (\em Passer
domesticus) are not used to freezing
temperatures: an analysis of survival
rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1074
Charles M. Francis How useful are recoveries of North
American passerines for survival
analyses? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1081
Anonymous Title-page, Volume Contents and Author
Index, 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083
George E. P. Box Role of statistics in quality and
productivity improvement . . . . . . . . 3--20
S. G. Gilmour and
R. Mead Fixing a factor in the sequential design
of two-level fractional factorial
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
Todd L. Walton, Jr. Fill-in of missing data in univariate
coastal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--40
Philippe Castagliola Optimized algorithms for computing
Wilcoxon's $ T_n $, Wilcoxon's $ W_{m,
n} $ and Ansari-Bradley's $ A_{m, n} $
statistics when $m$ and $n$ are small 41--57
Jorge Alberto Achcar and
Vera Lucia Damasceno Extreme value regression models: a
useful reparameterization for the
survival function . . . . . . . . . . . 59--68
R. Vijayaraghavan and
V. Soundararajan Procedures and tables for the selection
of tightened-normal-tightened (TNT-$ (n;
c_1, c_2)$) sampling schemes . . . . . . 69--80
Kwok-Leung Tsui A critical look at Taguchi's modelling
approach for robust design . . . . . . . 81--96
Steven B. Caudill Maximum likelihood estimation in a model
with interval data: a comment and
extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104
Giovanni Radaelli Detection of an unknown increase in the
rate of a rare event . . . . . . . . . . 105--114
S. Devaraj Arumainayagam and
V. Soundararajan Sampling systems indexed by the
crossover point . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124
Ron S. Kenett and
Moshe Pollak Data-analytic aspects of the
Shiryayev-Roberts control chart:
Surveillance of a non-homogeneous
Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--137
K. V. Mardia and
A. J. Baczkowski and
X. Feng and
P. A. Millner A study of three-dimensional curves . . 139--148
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
J. N. R. Jeffers Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
Peter Young and
Stuart Parkinson and
Matthew Lees Simplicity out of complexity in
environmental modelling: Occam's razor
revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--210
R. Moss and
D. C. Catt and
N. G. Bayfield and
D. D. French The application of decision theory to
sustainable management of an upland
Scottish estate . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--230
Amarjot Kaur and
G. P. Patil and
Susan J. Shirk and
Charles Taillie Environmental sampling with a
concomitant variable: a comparison
between ranked set sampling and
stratified simple random sampling . . . 231--255
Timothy G. Gregoire and
Oliver Schabenberger A non-linear mixed-effects model to
predict cumulative bole volume of
standing trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--272
G. H. Freeman and
S. D. Jacka and
J. E. H. Shaw and
J. Q. Smith Modelling the management of underground
water assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284
Edwin J. Green and
William E. Strawderman A Bayesian growth and yield model for
slash pine plantations . . . . . . . . . 285--300
Andrew B. Lawson and
Natalie W. Harrington The analysis of putative environmental
pollution gradients in spatially
correlated epidemiological data . . . . 301--310
R. T. Clarke and
M. T. Furse and
J. F. Wright and
D. Moss Derivation of a biological quality index
for river sites: Comparison of the
observed with the expected fauna . . . . 311--332
Stuart G. Coles and
Francesca Pan The analysis of extreme pollution
levels: a case study . . . . . . . . . . 333--348
John F. Bell Application of classification trees to
the habitat preference of upland birds 349--360
Mike Nicholson and
Jon Barry Survey design for detecting patches . . 361--368
W. Liu Some group sequential procedures for
comparing several treatments with a
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--383
Gabriel Huerta and
Manuel Mendoza A Bayesian approach to sample size
selection in a multiple hypotheses test
for the Bernoulli model . . . . . . . . 385--394
S. Chinn Choosing a transformation . . . . . . . 395--404
Wing K. Fung The dependence of voter shares under a
two-vote system . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--412
R. A. Sugden and
T. M. F. Smith and
R. P. Brown Chao's list sequential scheme for
unequal probability sampling . . . . . . 413--421
H. K. Koesmarno Class-size percentile transformation for
reconstructing a distribution function 423--434
S. Cherry and
J. Banfield and
W. F. Quimby An evaluation of a non-parametric method
of estimating semi-variograms of
isotropic spatial processes . . . . . . 435--449
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
W. Liu Some group sequential procedures for
comparing several treatments with a
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000--1001
Mark Evans Aspects of maximum likelihood estimation
of asymmetric growth curves . . . . . . 467--492
Göran Arnoldsson Optimal allocation for linear
combinations of linear predictors in
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 493--505
Hammou El Barmi and
Ian R. Harris and
Ayanendranath Basu Statistical inference concerning
weighted Poisson rates under some
natural order restrictions . . . . . . . 507--514
S. K. Tse and
Geoffrey Tso Efficiencies of maximum likelihood
estimators under censoring in life
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--524
P. S. Hammond and
P. Rothery Application of computer sampling in the
estimation of seal diet . . . . . . . . 525--534
Myung Geun Kim Local influence in multivariate normal
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--542
Rose D. Baker Testing for space--time clusters of
unknown size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--554
David J. Finney A note on the history of regression . . 555--558
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
J. N. R. Jeffers Multivariate analysis of a reference
collection of elm leaves . . . . . . . . 571--588
Jong Hyup Lee Estimation for the autoregressive moving
average process observed with noise . . 589--599
Hyean-Seok Jeong and
Jong-In Park and
Bong-Jin Yum Development of $ (r, T) $ hybrid
sampling plans for exponential lifetime
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--608
S. R. Lindsay and
G. R. Wood and
R. C. Woollons Modelling the diameter distribution of
forest stands using the Burr
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--620
Philip A. Scarf and
Patrick J. Laycock Estimation of extremes in corrosion
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--644
K. K. Suresh and
T. B. Ramkumar Selection of a sampling plan indexed
with maximum allowable average outgoing
quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--654
K. V. Mardia and
A. Coombes and
J. Kirkbride and
A. Linney and
J. L. Bowie On statistical problems with face
identification from photographs . . . . 655--676
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
Anonymous Title-page, Volume Contents and Author
Index, 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
Sangit Chatterjee and
Matthew Laudato Gender and performance of world-class
athletes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--10
P. L. H. Yu and
K. Lam How to predict election winners from a
poll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--23
Philip Hans Franses and
Bart Hobijn Critical values for unit root tests in
seasonal time series . . . . . . . . . . 25--47
C. Raju and
J. Jothikumar Procedures and tables for the
construction and selection of chain
sampling plans $ {\rm ChSP}$-$ 4 A(c_1,
c_2)r$. V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--76
Ken Hung A comparison of two large sample
confidence intervals for a proportion: A
Monte Carlo simulation . . . . . . . . . 77--83
Dhaifalla K. Al-Mutairi and
Satish K. Agarwal Distributions of the lifetimes of system
components operating under an unknown
common environment . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96
M. C. Agrawal and
A. B. Sthapit Hierarchic predictive ratio-based and
product-based estimators and their
efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104
Sergio R. Munoz and
Shrikant I. Bangdiwala Interpretation of Kappa- and $B$
statistics measures of agreement . . . . 105--112
Warren Gilchrist Modelling with quantile distribution
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--122
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
L. I. Pettit and
J. L. Palmer Seasonal patterns of fertility measures:
a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . 139--146
P. Prescott and
N. R. Draper and
S. M. Lewis and
A. M. Dean Further properties of mixture designs
for five components in orthogonal blocks 147--156
Tapio Nummi Estimation in a random effects growth
curve model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--168
K. E. Basford and
G. J. Mclachlan and
M. G. York Modelling the distribution of stamp
paper thickness via finite normal
mixtures: The 1872 Hidalgo stamp issue
of Mexico revisited . . . . . . . . . . 169--180
Y. Eric Shao Multiple intervention analysis with
application to sales promotion data . . 181--192
Martin Schader and
Friedrich Schmid Power of tests for uniformity when
limits are unknown . . . . . . . . . . . 193--205
V. Soundararajan and
A. L. Christina Selection of single sampling variables
plans based on the minimum angle . . . . 207--218
M. Mahibbur Rahman and
Z. Govindarajulu A modification of the test of Shapiro
and Wilk for normality . . . . . . . . . 219--235
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
L. H. Kao and
S. Chakraborti One-sided sign-type non-parametric
procedures for comparing treatments with
a control in a randomized complete block
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--264
H. H. Chen and
S. W. Duffy and
L. Tabár A mover-stayer mixture of Markov chain
models for the assessment of
dedifferentiation and tumour progression
in breast cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--278
C. V. Rao and
S. Hari Krishna A graphical method for testing the
equality of several variances . . . . . 279--288
Anita Ghatak Unit roots and structural breaks: The
case of India 1900--1988 . . . . . . . . 289--300
H. J. Khamis The $ \delta $-corrected
Kolmogorov--Smirnov test for the
two-parameter Weibull distribution . . . 301--317
Herbert Büning Robust analysis of variance . . . . . . 319--332
J. Muñoz-García and
R. Pino-Mejías and
J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and
M. D. Cubiles-De-La-Vega Identification of outlier bootstrap
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342
Jill Johnes Inter-university variations in
undergraduate non-completion rates: a
statistical analysis by subject of study 343--362
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Charles R. Katholi and
Anthony Merriweather and
Thomas R. Unnasch An analysis of variance type test for
comparing clusters of DNA sequences
based on randomization test
methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--382
Shragga Irmay The relationship between Zipf's law and
the distribution of first digits . . . . 383--393
Ravindra Khattree and
Dayanand N. Naik and
Robert L. Mason Estimation of variance components in
staggered nested designs . . . . . . . . 395--408
Eric D. Schoen and
Kirsten Wolff Design and analysis of a fractional 41
31 25 split-plot experiment . . . . . . 409--420
Carmen O. Acuña and
Joseph Horowitz A statistical approach to the resolution
of point sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--435
M. L. Aggarwal and
A. Goel and
S. R. Chowdhury Catalogue of group structures for
two-level fractional factorial designs 437--452
Raviprakash R. Salagame and
Russell R. Barton Factorial hypercube designs for spatial
correlation regression . . . . . . . . . 453--474
Nien Fan Zhang Detection capability of residual control
chart for stationary process data . . . 475--492
Thaddeus Tarpey Estimating principal points of
univariate distributions . . . . . . . . 499--512
I. L. Dryden and
K. V. Mardia and
A. N. Walder Review of the use of context in
statistical image analysis . . . . . . . 513--538
Reay-Chen Wang and
Chung-Ho Chen Minimum average fraction inspected for
continuous sampling plan CSP-1 under
inspection error . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--548
Gilles R. Ducharme Consistent selection of the actual model
in regression analysis . . . . . . . . . 549--558
E. Ayuga Tellez and
C. Ayuga Tellez and
C. Gonzalez Garcia and
E. Martinez Falero Estimation of, non-parametric regression
in the analysis of the anti-inflammatory
activity of diverse extracts of
Sideritis foetens . . . . . . . . . . . 559--572
Wieslaw Madry A statistical approach to multivariate
evaluation of diversity with respect to
quantitative characteristics in cereal
germplasm collections . . . . . . . . . 573--588
Russell A. Boyles Using the chi-square statistic to
monitor compositional process data . . . 589--602
Hisashi Tanizaki Power comparison of non-parametric
tests: Small-sample properties from
Monte Carlo experiments . . . . . . . . 603--632
Raymond T. Stefani Survey of the major world sports rating
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--646
E. M. Qannari and
E. Vigneau and
M. Semenou New approach in biased regression . . . 647--658
Murari Singh and
Michael Jones Estimating time to detect time trends in
continuous cropping . . . . . . . . . . 659--670
M. A. Kaboudan Non-traditional analysis of stock
returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--688
S. Balamurali and
M. Kalyanasundaram Determination of an attribute single
sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--696
Vic Barnett and
Karen Moore Best linear unbiased estimates in
ranked-set sampling with particular
reference to imperfect ordering . . . . 697--710
A. I. Khuri Quantile dispersion graphs for analysis
of variance estimates of variance
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--722
Ram Mudambi Estimating turning points using
polynomial regression . . . . . . . . . 723--732
Eileen M. O'Donnell and
G. Geoffrey Vining Mean squared error of prediction
approach to the analysis of a combined
array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--746
Anonymous Contents and Author Index: Volume 24,
1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747
Anonymous Contents, Volume 24, 1997 . . . . . . . 748
Anonymous Index of authors, Volume 24, 1997 . . . 751
Anonymous Editorial: 25 years of Applied
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--22
Eric M. Hillson and
Jack H. Reeves and
Charlotte A. McMillan A statistical signalling model for use
in surveillance of adverse drug reaction
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--40
Sang-Jun Park and
Bong-Jin Yum Optimal design of accelerated life tests
under modified stress loading methods 41--62
John M. Stonehouse and
Guy J. Forrester Robustness of the $t$ and $U$ tests
under combined assumption violations . . 63--74
Siu-Keung Tse and
Hak-Keung Yuen Expected experiment times for the
Weibull distribution under progressive
censoring with random removals . . . . . 75--83
Wai-Yuan Tan and
Si Chin Tang and
Sho Rong Lee Estimation of HIV seroconversion and
effects of age in the San Francisco
homosexual population . . . . . . . . . 85--102
K. Govindaraju and
S. Balamurali Chain sampling plan for variables
inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109
Hongzhu Qiao and
Chris P. Tsokos Best efficient estimates of the
intensity function of the power law
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--120
M. Yahyah and
A. Baines and
D. N. Joanes Graphical approach to model adequacy
based on exact and near replicates . . . 121--129
J. E. Toler and
P. M. Burrows Genotypic performance over environmental
arrays: a non-linear grouping protocol 131--143
Myung Geun Kim Local influence on a test of linear
hypothesis in multiple regression model 145--152
C. A. Glasbey and
K. V. Mardia A review of image-warping methods . . . 155--171
Edvin Bredrup and
Li-Chun Zhang Imperfectly shuffled decks in bridge . . 173--179
James A. Koziol A non-parametric index of tracking . . . 181--191
James W. Taylor and
Derek W. Bunn Combining forecast quantiles using
quantile regression: Investigating the
derived weights, estimator bias and
imposing constraints . . . . . . . . . . 193--206
A. B. M. Zohrul Kabir Estimation of Weibull distribution
parameters for irregular interval group
failure data with unknown failure times 207--219
Mukhtar M. Ali Probability models on horse-race
outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--229
K. V. Mardia Fisher's repeated normal integral
function and shape distributions . . . . 231--235
Dalton F. Andrade and
Julio M. Singer Profile analysis for randomized complete
block experiments . . . . . . . . . . . 237--244
Jin Zhang Tests for multiple upper or lower
outliers in an exponential sample . . . 245--255
Jin Zhang and
Xueren Wang Unmasking test for multiple upper or
lower outliers in normal samples . . . . 257--261
D. R. Anderson and
K. P. Burnham and
G. C. White Comparison of Akaike information
criterion and consistent Akaike
information criterion for model
selection and statistical inference from
capture-recapture studies . . . . . . . 263--282
Victor M. Guerrero and
Edmundo Berumen Forecasting electricity consumption with
extra-model information provided by
consumers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--299
Hans-Joachim Mittag and
Dietmar Stemann Gauge imprecision effect on the
performance of the X-S control chart . . 307--317
Duolao Wang and
Mike Murphy Use of a mixture model for the analysis
of contraceptive-use duration among
long-term users . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--332
Michael Sherman and
F. Michael Speed, Jr. and
F. Michael Speed Analysis of tidal data via the blockwise
bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--340
R. Vijayaraghavan and
V. Soundararajan Design and evaluation of skip-lot
sampling inspection plans with
double-sampling plan as the reference
plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--348
D. K. Ghosh and
S. C. Bagui Identification of confounded design and
its interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--356
M. M. Shoukri and
M. Attanasio and
J. M. Sargeant Parametric versus semi-parametric models
for the analysis of correlated survival
data: a case study in veterinary
epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--374
Christopher Todd Edwards Non-parametric procedure for knockout
tournaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--385
Sadao Tomizawa and
Takashi Seo and
Hideharu Yamamoto Power-divergence-type measure of
departure from symmetry for square
contingency tables that have nominal
categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--398
K. Govindaraju and
S. Ganesalingam Zero acceptance number quick switching
system for compliance sampling . . . . . 399--407
F. Javier Trivez and
Javier Nievas Analyzing the effects of level shifts
and temporary changes on the
identification of ARIMA models . . . . . 409--424
Stan Z. Li Bayesian object matching . . . . . . . . 425--443
K. Govindaraju and
S. Balamurali Tightened single-level continuous
sampling plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--461
Fritz Efaw Test of alternative strike settlement
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--474
Anita Ghatak Aggregate consumption functions for
India: a cointegration analysis under
structural changes, 1919--86 . . . . . . 475--488
Gary Koop Carbon dioxide emissions and economic
growth: a structural approach . . . . . 489--515
Alexei Dmitrienko and
Z. Govindarajulu The `demon' problem of Youden:
Exponential case . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--523
Alan D. Hutson Direct estimation of the percentile
`$p$-value' for the one-sample median
test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--533
C. D. Lai and
K. Govindaraju and
M. Xie Effects of correlation on fraction
non-conforming statistical process
control procedures . . . . . . . . . . . 535--543
Alan Veevers Viability and capability indexes for
multi-response processes . . . . . . . . 545--558
Nien Fan Zhang Estimating process capability indexes
for autocorrelated data . . . . . . . . 559--574
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Anita Ghatak Vector autoregression modelling and
forecasting growth of South Korea . . . 579--592
Larisa Matejic Testing for brain anomalies: a
hippocampus study . . . . . . . . . . . 593--600
M. Hosseini and
R. G. Carpenter and
K. Mohammad Identification of outlying height and
weight data in the Iranian National
Health Survey 1990--92 . . . . . . . . . 601--612
Philip Prescott and
Norman R. Draper Mixture designs for constrained
components in orthogonal blocks . . . . 613--638
James Carpenter Assessing parameter uncertainty via
bootstrap likelihood ratio confidence
regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--649
James F. Reed III Contributions to adaptive estimation . . 651--669
M. J. Baxter and
N. H. Gale Testing for multivariate normality via
univariate tests: a case study using
lead isotope ratio data . . . . . . . . 671--683
Christine A. Ribic and
Thomas W. Miller Evaluation of alternative model
selection criteria in the analysis of
unimodal response curves using CART . . 685--698
Christine Gunter and
Colin Rallings and
Michael Thrasher Calculating the total vote where the
district magnitude is greater than one:
a test of some algorithms using British
local election data . . . . . . . . . . 699--706
Uditha Balasooriya and
Sutaip L. C. Saw Reliability sampling plans for the
two-parameter exponential distribution
under progressive censoring . . . . . . 707--714
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715
Vladimir Brajkovic Mechanics of microelectronics examined
by design of experiments techniques . . 723--731
Reay-Chen Wang and
Chung-Ho Chen Minimum average fraction inspected for
short-run CSP-1 plan . . . . . . . . . . 733--738
Ling Chen Improved penalized mean for estimating
the mean concentration of contaminants 739--750
Brenton R. Clarke and
Toby Lewis An outlier problem in the determination
of ore grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--762
Xavier De Luna Projected polynomial autoregression for
prediction of stationary time series . . 763--775
Reza Modarres and
Joseph L. Gastwirth Hybrid test for the hypothesis of
symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777--783
Yoshikazu Ojima General formulae for expectations,
variances and covariances of the mean
squares for staggered nested designs . . 785--799
W. L. Pearn and
K. S. Chen New generalization of process capability
index $ C_{pk} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--810
Graham Upton Rounding halves . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--816
Grace Montepiedra and
Danny Myers and
Arthur B. Yeh Application of genetic algorithms to the
construction of exact $D$-optimal
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--826
D. K. Ghosh and
Naimesh R. Desai Robustness of complete diallel crosses
plans to the unavailability of one block 827--837
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839
Anonymous Title-page, Volume Contents and Author
Index, 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843
Saling Huang and
Morton B. Brown A Markov chain model for longitudinal
categorical data when there may be
non-ignorable non-response . . . . . . . 5--18
L. Y. Chan and
M. K. Sandhu Optimal orthogonal block designs for a
quadratic mixture model for three
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--34
Wai-Sum Chan and
Siu Hung Cheung and
Ka Ho Wu Exact joint forecast regions for vector
autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 35--44
Guadalupe Gómez and
M. Luz Calle Non-parametric estimation with doubly
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--58
W. J. Krzanowski Antedependence models in the analysis of
multi-group high-dimensional data . . . 59--67
Donald E. K. Martin and
James F. Troendle Paired comparison models applied to the
design of the Major League baseball
play-offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80
Glen Meeden Interval estimators for the population
mean for skewed distributions with a
small sample size . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
Seymour Geisser and
Teddy Seidenfeld Remarks on the `Bayesian' method of
moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101
Peter Young and
Diego Pedregal Recursive and en-bloc approaches to
signal extraction . . . . . . . . . . . 103--128
M. F. Ramalhoto and
M. Morais Shewart control charts for the scale
parameter of a Weibull control variable
with fixed and variable sampling
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--160
Joseph Brian Adams Predicting pickle harvests using a
parametric feed-forward neural network 165--176
Nedret Billor and
R. M. Loynes An application of the local influence
approach to ridge regression . . . . . . 177--183
K. Kalirajan Stochastic varying coefficients gravity
model: an application in trade analysis 185--193
L. S. Kaushik Partial diallel crosses based on three
associate class association schemes . . 195--201
Scott J. Richter and
Mark E. Payton Nearly exact tests in factorial
experiments using the aligned rank
transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--217
James W. Hughes and
Elizabeth Savoca Accounting for censoring in duration
data: an application to estimating the
effect of legal reforms on the duration
of medical malpractice disputes . . . . 219--228
R. Vijayaraghavan Procedure for the selection of CSP-M
one-level skip-lot sampling inspection
plans that have a single sampling plan
with acceptance number zero as the
reference plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233
Sture Holm and
Kerstin Wiklander Simultaneous estimation of location and
dispersion in two-level fractional
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 235--242
Peter S. Wludyka and
Peter R. Nelson Two non-parametric,
analysis-of-means-type tests for
homogeneity of variances . . . . . . . . 243--256
K. K. W. Yau and
S. K. Ng and
M. T. Cheung and
M. C. Tung Estimation of surgeon effects in the
analysis of post-operative colorectal
cancer patients data . . . . . . . . . . 257--272
P. J. Harrison and
I. C. H. Lai Statistical process control and model
monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--292
Uttam Bandyopadhyay and
Atanu Biswas Sequential-type nonparametric test using
Mann--Whitney statistics . . . . . . . . 301--308
Reay-Chen Wang and
Chung-Ho Chen Designing a variable sampling plan based
on Taguchi's loss function . . . . . . . 309--313
G. Galliani and
F. Filippini and
F. Screpanti A queuing-theory-based approach to
evaluate the efficiency of a network of
automated stations and of a
communication system . . . . . . . . . . 315--326
U. S. Pasaribu and
A. G. Hawkes and
S. J. Wainwright Statistical assumptions underlying the
fitting of the Michaëlis-Menten equation 327--341
Alan D. Hutson Calculating nonparametric confidence
intervals for quantiles using fractional
order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--353
Takafumi Isogai Power transformation of the $F$
distribution and a power normal family 355--371
K. V. Mardia and
R. J. Morris and
A. N. Walder and
J. J. Koenderink Estimation of torsion . . . . . . . . . 373--381
Wai-Yin Poon and
Chi-Ming Lee Sources of heterogeneity in
distributions with ordered categorical
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--392
Luis A. Rodriguez-Carvajal and
Geoff H. Freeman Multivariate $ A B - B A $ crossover
trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--403
Pai-Lien Chen and
Estrada J. Bernard and
Pranab K. Sen A Markov chain model used in analyzing
disease history applied to a stroke
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--422
Kaushik Ghosh and
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Mangalam Vasudaven Change-point problems for the von Mises
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--434
Claes Cassel and
Peter Hackl and
Anders H. Westlund Robustness of partial least-squares
method for estimating latent variable
quality structures . . . . . . . . . . . 435--446
Magnar Lillegard and
Steinar Engen Exact confidence intervals generated by
conditional parametric bootstrapping . . 447--459
Jan R. Magnus and
Franc J. G. M. Klaassen The final set in a tennis match: four
years at Wimbledon . . . . . . . . . . . 461--468
Sueli A. Mingoti Bayesian estimator for the total number
of distinct species when quadrat
sampling is used . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--483
Francisco Fernando Ribeiro Ramos Underreporting of purchases of port wine 485--494
Eric D. Schoen Designing fractional two-level
experiments with nested error structures 495--508
Stephen Walker The uniform power distribution . . . . . 509--517
Paul Zhang Omnibus test of normality using the $Q$
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--528
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Herbert Büning Adaptive Jonckheere-type tests for
ordered alternatives . . . . . . . . . . 541--551
Jerry D. Dechert and
Kenneth E. Case An economic model for clinical quality
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--562
D. K. Ghosh and
Naimesh R. Desai Robustness of a complete diallel crosses
plan with an unequal number of crosses
to the unavailability of one block . . . 563--577
Paul C. Taylor and
David J. Hand Finding `superclassifications' with an
acceptable misclassification rate . . . 579--590
Habshah Midi Preliminary estimators for robust
non-linear regression estimation . . . . 591--600
M. Carme Ruiz de Villa and
M. Salomé E. Cabral and
Eduardo Escrich Escriche and
Montse Solanas A non-parametric regression approach to
repeated measures analysis in cancer
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--611
A. J. Scallan Regression modelling of
interval-censored failure time data
using the Weibull distribution . . . . . 613--618
Alexandra Mello Schmidt and
Dani Gamerman and
Ajax R. B. Moreira and
Pnpe-Rj and
Im-Ufrj and
Ipea-Rj An adaptive resampling scheme for cycle
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--641
Sharifah Sakinah Aidid and
Mick Silver Modelling market shares by segments
using volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--660
Jorge Alberto Achcar and
Gilberto de Arañjo Pereira Use of exponential power distributions
for mixture models in the presence of
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--679
Yssa Dewoody and
V. T. Gururaj and
Clyde Martin Assessing risk for rare events . . . . . 681--687
L. Duchateau and
D. L. Berkvens and
G. J. Rowlands Decision rules for small vaccine
experiments with binary outcomes based
on conditional and expected power and
size of the Fisher-exact test . . . . . 689--699
Yue Fang and
John Zhang Performance of control charts for
autoregressive conditional
heteroscedastic processes . . . . . . . 701--714
Peter Harris and
Mark Hann and
Simon P. J. Kirby and
John C. Dearden Interval estimation of the median
effective dose for a logistic
dose-response curve . . . . . . . . . . 715--722
Ulric Lund Least circular distance regression for
directional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--733
K. V. Mardia and
A. N. Walder and
E. Berry and
D. Sharples and
P. A. Millner and
R. A. Dickson Assessing spinal shape . . . . . . . . . 735--745
A. J. Scallan Fitting a mixture distribution to
complex censored survival data using
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 747--753
Yuehjen E. Shao and
Yue-Fa Lin and
Soe-Tsyr Yuan Integrated application of time series
multiple-interventions analysis and
knowledge-based reasoning . . . . . . . 755--766
I. H. Tajuddin A comparison between two simple measures
of skewness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--774
Anonymous Vol. 26 No. 7 September 1999 Contents 1
José Nilo G. Binongo and
M. W. A. Smith A bridge between statistics and
literature: the graphs of Oscar Wilde's
literary genres . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--787
Zhenmin Chen A simple exact method for testing
hypotheses about the shape parameter of
a log-normal distribution . . . . . . . 789--805
Paul De Bruin and
Philip Hans Franses Forecasting power-transformed time
series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--815
Yadolah Dodge and
Ali S. Hadi Simple graphs and bounds for the
elements of the hat matrix . . . . . . . 817--823
T. Lehtonen and
J.-O. Malmberg Do two competing frequencies differ
significantly? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--830
Ralf Òstermark and
Rune Höglund Simulating competing cointegration tests
in a bivariate system . . . . . . . . . 831--846
Joseph G. Pigeon and
Joseph F. Heyse A cautionary note about assessing the
fit of logistic regression models . . . 847--853
Peiming Wang and
Martin L. Puterman Markov Poisson regression models for
discrete time series. Part 1:
Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--869
Peiming Wang and
Martin L. Puterman Markov Poisson regression models for
discrete time series. Part 2:
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--882
S. Balamurali and
M. Kalyanasundaram Determination of conditional double
sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--902
Chung-Ho Chen Specification limit under a quality loss
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--908
John C. B. Cooper Artificial neural networks versus
multivariate statistics: an application
from economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--921
Graham W. Horgan Using wavelets for data smoothing: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--932
Juneyoung Lee and
Andre I. Khuri Graphical technique for comparing
designs for random models . . . . . . . 933--947
K. V. Mardia Directional statistics and shape
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--957
Antonietta Mira Distribution-free test for symmetry
based on Bonferroni's measure . . . . . 959--972
Ray Okafor Using an empirical Bayes model to
estimate currency exchange rate . . . . 973--983
Paulo M. M. Rodrigues and
Denise R. Osborn Performance of seasonal unit root tests
for monthly data . . . . . . . . . . . . 985--1004
Rosa Bernardini Papalia Local generalized method of moments
estimation based on kernel weights: an
application to panel data . . . . . . . 1005--1015
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017
R. D. Baker Application of a new discrete
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--21
S. Balamurali and
M. Kalyanasundaram Generalized tightened two-level
continuous sampling plans . . . . . . . 23--38
Olcay Arslan and
Nedret Billor Robust Liu estimator for regression
based on an M-estimator . . . . . . . . 39--47
Jyoti Divecha Search for suitable incomplete block
designs for complete diallel cross
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--62
Yangxin Huang Simon and
P. J. Kirby Peter and
Harris John and
C. Dearden Interval estimation of the 90% effective
dose: a comparison of bootstrap
resampling methods with some
large-sample approaches . . . . . . . . 63--73
Takafumi Isogai Analysis of factorial experiments for
survival data with long-tailed
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--101
Dejian Lai and
Barry R. Davis and
Robert J. Hardy Fractional Brownian motion and clinical
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--108
J. A. Nelder Functional marginality and
response-surface fitting . . . . . . . . 109--112
Erhard Reschenhofer Modification of autoregressive
fractionally integrated moving average
models for the estimation of persistence 113--118
Jon Vilasuso David and
Katz Estimates of the likelihood of extreme
returns in international stock markets 119--130
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
David M. Aadland Distribution and interpolation using
transformed data . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--156
H. Öztay Ayhan Estimators of vital events in
dual-record systems . . . . . . . . . . 157--169
M. Kalyanasundaram and
S. Balamurali Determination of variable-lot-size
attribute sampling plan indexed by the
acceptable quality level and average
outgoing quality level for continuous
production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
Alberto Luceno George and
E. P. Box Influence of the sampling interval,
decision limit and autocorrelation on
the average run length in Cusum charts 177--183
Victor M. Guerrero Selecting a linearizing power
transformation for time series . . . . . 185--195
Jiin-Huarng Guo Wei-Ming and
Luh Normalized Johnson's transformation
one-sample trimmed $t$ for non-normality 197--203
R. Southworth and
K. V. Mardia and
C. C. Taylor Transformation- and label-invariant
neural network for the classification of
landmark data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--215
Leann Myers and
Stephanie T. Broyles Regression coefficient analysis for
correlated binomial outcomes . . . . . . 217--234
Tapio Nummi Analysis of growth curves under
measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 235--243
J. Tyrcha R. and
Sundberg P. and
Lindskog B. and
Sundstrom Statistical modelling and saddle-point
approximation of tail probabilities for
accumulated splice loss in fibre-optic
networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--256
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
J. A. Amaral and
M. B. Rosario and
M. T. Paixao Data and projections of HIV and AIDS in
Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--279
Ying Wang Wong and
Siu Hung Cheung Simultaneous pairwise multiple
comparisons in a two-way analysis of
covariance model . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--291
Kang-Mo Jung Local influence assessment in canonical
correlation analysis . . . . . . . . . . 293--301
Trine Kvist and
Henrik Gislason and
Poul Thyregod Using continuation-ratio logits to
analyze the variation of the age
composition of fish catches . . . . . . 303--319
Jack C. Lee and
Kuo-Ching Liu Bayesian analysis of a general growth
curve model with predictions using power
transformations and AR(1) autoregressive
dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--336
Yeong-Tzay Su and
Chyi-Lyi Kathleen Liang Using multivariate rank sum tests to
evaluate effectiveness of computer
applications in teaching business
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--345
Sifa Mvoi and
Yan-Xia Lin Criteria for estimating the variance
function used in the asymptotic
quasi-likelihood approach . . . . . . . 347--362
Milad Sawiris Optimum grouping and the boundary
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--371
A. M. C. Vieira and
J. P. Hinde and
C. G. B. Demetrio Zero-inflated proportion data models
applied to a biological control assay 373--389
S. Balamurali and
K. Govindaraju Modified tightened two-level continuous
sampling plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--409
Bei-Hung Chang and
Stuart Lipsitz and
Christine Waternaux Logistic regression in meta-analysis
using aggregate data . . . . . . . . . . 411--424
Jan-Olof Johansson Modelling the surface structure of
newsprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--438
H. J. Khamis The two-stage $ \delta $-corrected
Kolmogorov--Smirnov test . . . . . . . . 439--450
Myung Geun Kim Outliers and influential observations in
the structural errors-in-variables model 451--460
C. D. Lai and
M. Xie and
K. Govindaraju Study of a Markov model for a
high-quality dependent process . . . . . 461--473
Shalabh Prediction of values of variables in
linear measurement error model . . . . . 475--482
M. M. Shoukri and
O. Demirkaya Sample size requirements to test the
equality of raters' precision . . . . . 483--494
Zheng Wang An algorithm for generalized monotonic
smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--507
Jon Woodroof Bootstrapping: as easy as 1--2--3 . . . 509--517
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
David J. Hand and
Niall M. Adams Defining attributes for scorecard
construction in credit scoring . . . . . 527--540
Yoshikazu Ojima Generalized staggered nested designs for
variance components estimation . . . . . 541--553
Mustafa R. Yilmaz and
Sangit Chatterjee Patterns of NBA team performance from
1950 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--566
Alan D. Hutson A composite quantile function estimator
with applications in bootstrapping . . . 567--577
Hui Li and
Robert A. Malkin An approximate Bayesian up-down method
for estimating a percentage point on a
dose-response curve . . . . . . . . . . 579--587
Murari Singh and
Michael J. Jones Statistical estimation of time-trends in
two-course crop rotations . . . . . . . 589--597
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Deo Kumar Srivastava A class of robust stepwise alternatives
to Hotelling's $ T^2 $ tests . . . . . . 599--619
Kelly H. Zou and
W. J. Hall Two transformation models for estimating
an ROC curve derived from continuous
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--631
Fred W. Huffer and
Cheolyong Park A test for multivariate structure . . . 633--650
Sueli A. Mingoti A stepwise Bayesian estimator for the
total number of distinct species in
finite populations: sampling by elements 651--670
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
Jason Abrevaya Testing for a treatment effect in a
heterogeneous population: a modified
sign-test statistic and a leapfrog
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--687
J. M. Tapia García and
A. Martín Andrés Optimal unconditional critical regions
for $ 2 \times 2 $ multinomial trials 689--695
Chung-Ho Chen and
Chao-Yu Chou Design of a CSP-1 plan based on
regret-balanced criterion . . . . . . . 697--701
Wilfried De Corte Using order statistics to assess the
sampling variability of personnel
selection utility estimates . . . . . . 703--713
D. K. Ghosh and
P. C. Biswas Robust designs for diallel crosses
against the missing of one block . . . . 715--723
K. Govindaraju and
M. Bebbington Combined continuous lot by lot
acceptance sampling plan . . . . . . . . 725--730
Jiin-Huarng Guo and
Wei-Ming Luh Testing methods for the one-way fixed
effects ANOVA models of log-normal
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--738
Dov Ingman and
Boris Lipnik Loss-based optimal control statistics
for control charts . . . . . . . . . . . 739--756
G. K. Kanji and
Osama Hasan Arif Median rankit control chart by the
quantile approach . . . . . . . . . . . 757--770
V. Soundararajan and
M. Palanivel Quick switching variables single
sampling (QSVSS) system indexed by AQL
and AOQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--778
Léopold Simar and
Paul W. Wilson A general methodology for bootstrapping
in non-parametric frontier models . . . 779--802
A. Martín Andrés and
I. Herranz Tejedor On the minimum expected quantity for the
validity of the chi-squared test in $ 2
\times 2 $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . 807--820
Jesús Gonzalo and
Tae-Hwy Lee On the robustness of cointegration tests
when series are fractionally integrated 821--827
K. Govindaraju and
C. Kandasamy Design of generalized CSP-C continuous
sampling plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--841
Wei-Ming Luh and
Jiin-Huarng Guo Approximate transformation trimmed mean
methods to the test of simple linear
regression slope equality . . . . . . . 843--857
Arthur Pewsey Problems of inference for Azzalini's
skewnormal distribution . . . . . . . . 859--870
Man-Lai Tang On tests of linearity for dose response
data: asymptotic, exact conditional and
exact unconditional tests . . . . . . . 871--880
Stephen Salter and
Neville Topham Side betting and playing the National
Lottery: an exercise in policy design 881--899
R. Vijayaraghavan Design and evaluation of skip-lot
sampling plans of type SkSP-3 . . . . . 901--908
George O. Wesolowsky Detecting excessive similarity in
answers on multiple choice exams . . . . 909--921
Beatrice Giglio and
Eva Riccomagno and
Henry P. Wynn Gröbner basis strategies in regression 923--938
Chao-Yu Chou and
Chung-Ho Chen and
Hui-Rong Liu Economic-statistical design of X\yen
charts for non-normal data by
considering quality loss . . . . . . . . 939--951
Peter S. Fader and
Bruce G. S. Hardie A note on modelling underreported
Poisson counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--964
Wei-Ming Luh and
Jiin-Huarng Guo Johnson's transformation two-sample
trimmed $t$ and its bootstrap method for
heterogeneity and non-normality . . . . 965--973
Steen Magnussen Unequal probability sampling in fixed
area plots of stem volume with and
without prior inclusion probabilities 975--990
Carlos Maté and
Rafael Calderón Exploring the characteristics of
rotating electric machines with factor
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991--1006
J. A. Nelder Quasi-likelihood and pseudo-likelihood
are not the same thing . . . . . . . . . 1007--1011
M. K. Sharma Application of PBIB designs in CDC
Method IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1019
Ghazi Shukur and
Panagiotis Mantalos A simple investigation of the
Granger-causality test in
integrated-cointegrated VAR systems . . 1021--1031
Siu Keung Tse and
Chunyan Yang and
Hak-Keung Yuen Statistical analysis of Weibull
distributed lifetime data under Type II
progressive censoring with binomial
removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1043
Peter A. Wright Choosing a lower specification limit for
an exponential process with `the larger
the better' tolerance: a simple, exact
solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1049
Zhenlin Yang and
Min Xie Process monitoring of exponentially
distributed characteristics through an
optimal normalizing transformation . . . 1051--1063
S. A. Al-Awadhi and
P. H. Garthwaite Prior distribution assessment for a
multivariate normal distribution: an
experimental study . . . . . . . . . . . 5--23
P. K. Tsay and
A. Chao Population size estimation for
capture-recapture models with
applications to epidemiological data . . 25--36
Camil Fuchs and
Morton B. Brown Summary measurements and screening in
clinical trials with replicate
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--51
D. Gregori and
C. Rocco and
S. Miocic and
L. Mestroni Estimating the frequency of familial
dilated cardiomyopathy in the presence
of misclassification errors . . . . . . 53--62
Krishan Lal and
V. K. Gupta and
Lalmohan Bhar Robustness of designed experiments
against missing data . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
P. J. Lindsey Adapting sample size calculations to
repeated measurements in clinical trials 81--89
Dayanand N. Naik and
Shantha S. Rao Analysis of multivariate repeated
measures data with a Kronecker product
structured covariance matrix . . . . . . 91--105
Raffaella Piccarreta A new measure of nominal---ordinal
association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120
R. R. L. Kantam and
K. Rosaiah and
G. Srinivasa Rao Acceptance sampling based on life tests:
log-logistic model . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Ashis Sengupta and
Chandranath Pal On optimal tests for isotropy against
the symmetric wrapped stable---circular
uniform mixture family . . . . . . . . . 129--143
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--148
Mehmetcik Bayazit and
Hafzullah Aksoy Using wavelets for data generation . . . 157--166
Teresa Aparicio and
Inmaculada Villanua The asymptotically efficient version of
the information matrix test in binary
choice models. A study of size and power 167--182
Peter Congdon Predicting adverse infant health
outcomes using routine screening
variables: modelling the impact of
interdependent risk factors . . . . . . 183--197
Abhijit Gupta Optimization of product performance of a
paint formulation using a mixture
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--213
Dogan Argaç and
Kepher H. Makambi and
Joachim Hartung A note on testing the nullity of the
between group variance in the one-way
random effects model under variance
heterogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--222
Jack C. Lee and
W. H. Lien Bayesian analysis of a growth curve
model with power transformation, random
effects and AR(1) dependence . . . . . . 223--238
Youngjo Lee Can we recover information from
concordant pairs in binary matched
pairs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--246
Donald E. K. Martin Influence functions applied to the
estimation of mean rain rate . . . . . . 247--258
Man-Suk Oh and
Yong Bin Lim Bayesian analysis of time series Poisson
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--271
Andrew W. Roddam An approximate maximum likelihood
procedure for parameter estimation in
multivariate discrete data regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--279
M. Arvidsson and
P. Kammerlind and
A. Hynen and
B. Bergman Identification of factors influencing
dispersion in split-plot experiments . . 269--283
George Box Statistics for discovery . . . . . . . . 285--299
Roland Caulcutt Why is Six Sigma so successful? . . . . 301--306
P. R. G. Chambers and
J. L. Piggott and
S. Y. Coleman SPC --- a team effort for process
improvement across four Area Control
Centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--324
S. Y. Coleman and
G. Arunakumar and
F. Foldvary and
R. Feltham SPC as a tool for creating a successful
business measurement framework . . . . . 325--334
David Bruce and
Shirley Y. Coleman Improving communication via quantitative
management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--341
S. Y. Coleman and
A. Gordon and
P. R. Chambers SPC--making it work for the gas
transportation business . . . . . . . . 343--351
M. A. A. Cox Towards the implementation of a
universal control chart and estimation
of its average run length using a
spreadsheet: an artificial neural
network is employed to model the
parameters in a special case . . . . . . 353--364
Trevor F. Cox Multidimensional scaling used in
multivariate statistical process control 365--378
E. J. Godolphin Observable trend-projecting state-space
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--389
T. N. Goh A pragmatic approach to experimental
design in industry . . . . . . . . . . . 391--398
G. Robin Henderson EWMA and industrial applications to
feedback adjustment and control . . . . 399--407
M. Weighell and
E. B. Martin and
A. J. Morris The statistical monitoring of a complex
manufacturing process . . . . . . . . . 409--425
Douglas C. Montgomery Opportunities and challenges for
industrial statisticians . . . . . . . . 427--439
P. Pongcharoen and
D. J. Stewardson and
C. Hicks and
P. M. Braiden Applying designed experiments to
optimize the performance of genetic
algorithms used for scheduling complex
products in the capital goods industry 441--455
Elsayed A. H. Elamir and
Allan H. Seheult Control charts based on linear
combinations of order statistics . . . . 457--468
Dave Stewardson and
Shirley Coleman Using the Summed Rank Cusum for
monitoring environmental data from
industrial processes . . . . . . . . . . 469--484
Dave Stewardson and
David Porter and
Tony Kelly The dangers posed by saddle points, and
other problems, when using central
composite designs . . . . . . . . . . . 485--495
Carl Scarrott and
Granville Tunnicliffe Wilson Building a statistical model to predict
reactor temperatures . . . . . . . . . . 497--511
Seung-Ho Kang and
Chul Ahn Regression coefficient analysis for
correlated binomial outcomes . . . . . . 513--514
Leann Myers and
Stephanie T. Broyles Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
I. Bairamov and
S. Kotz and
M. Bekçi New generalized
Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern distributions
and concomitants of order statistics . . 521--536
Ling-Yau Chan and
Ying-Nan Guan $A$- and $D$-optimal designs for a log
contrast model for experiments with
mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--546
Francesco Pauli and
Stuart Coles Penalized likelihood inference in
extreme value analyses . . . . . . . . . 547--560
Steven T. Garren and
Richard L. Smith and
Walter W. Piegorsch Bootstrap goodness-of-fit test for the
beta-binomial model . . . . . . . . . . 561--571
Subrata Ghatak and
Jalal U. Siddiki The use of the ARDL approach in
estimating virtual exchange rates in
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--583
W. J. Krzanowski Data-based interval estimation of
classification error rates . . . . . . . 585--595
Yong B. Lim and
B. S. So A note on the optimal number of centre
runs in a second phase design of
response surface methods . . . . . . . . 597--602
Alvaro Montenegro On sample size and precision in ordinary
least squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--605
G. Nuel and
S. Robin and
C. P. Baril Predicting distances using a linear
model: the case of varietal distinctness 607--621
Peiming Wang Markov zero-inflated Poisson regression
models for a time series of counts with
excess zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--632
Seung-Ho Kang and
Chul Ahn Regression coefficient analysis for
correlated binomial outcomes . . . . . . 633--634
Leann Myers and
Stephanie T. Broyles Authors' reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rainer Winkelmann `Under-reporting of purchases of port
wine': a correction . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. C. Bagui and
D. K. Ghosh Efficiency balanced designs through
reinforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--658
Vicente G. Cancho and
Heleno Bolfarine Modeling the presence of immunes by
using the exponentiated-Weibull model 659--671
Mark E. Glickman Dynamic paired comparison models with
stochastic variances . . . . . . . . . . 673--689
Andy H. Lee and
John S. Yick and
Yer Van Hui Sensitivity of the portmanteau statistic
in time series modeling . . . . . . . . 691--702
Francisco Louzada-Neto and
Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández The effect of reparametrization on
accelerated lifetime tests . . . . . . . 703--711
Terence C. Mills Business cycle asymmetry and duration
dependence: an international perspective 713--724
Reik Oberrath and
Katrin Böhning-Gaese The Signed Mantel test to cope with
autocorrelation in comparative analyses 725--736
Wai-Yin Poon and
Man-Lai Tang Influence measure in maximum likelihood
estimate for models of lifetime data . . 737--742
Ralph A. Mansson and
Philip Prescott Missing values in replicated Latin
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--757
Thomas Wenzel Hits-and-misses for the evaluation and
combination of forecasts . . . . . . . . 759--773
Arnold Zellner Remarks on a `critique' of the Bayesian
Method of Moments . . . . . . . . . . . 775--778
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--785
Chung-Ho Chen and
Te-Shiang Cheng and
Chao-Yu Chou Minimum average fraction inspected for
TCSP-1 plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--799
Jeongwen Chiang and
Ching-Fan Chung and
Emily T. Cremers Promotions and the pattern of grocery
shopping time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--819
D. K. Ghosh and
S. B. Shrivastava A class of BIB designs with repeated
blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--833
Tsung-Wu Ho Finite-sample properties of the
bootstrap estimator in a
Markov-switching model . . . . . . . . . 835--842
F. Huettmann and
A. W. Diamond Using PCA scores to classify species
communities: an example for pelagic
seabird distribution . . . . . . . . . . 843--853
Miguel A. García-Pérez and
Vicente Núñez-Antón Small-sample comparisons for
powerdivergence goodness-of-fit
statistics for symmetric and skewed
simple null hypotheses . . . . . . . . . 855--874
Antonio F. B. Costa and
M. A. Rahim Economic design of $X$ charts with
variable parameters: the Markov chain
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--885
John M. Roberts and
Devon D. Brewer Measures and tests of heaping in
discrete quantitative distributions . . 887--896
Peter Rothery and
David B. Roy Application of generalized additive
models to butterfly transect count data 897--909
Stephen G. Walker and
Christopher J. Page Generalized ridge regression and a
generalization of the C P statistic . . 911--922
Vic Barnett and
Maria Cecilia Mendes Barreto Estimators for a Poisson parameter using
ranked set sampling . . . . . . . . . . 929--941
Sòren Bisgaard and
Murat Kulahci Switching-one-column follow-up
experiments for Plackett-Burman designs 943--949
Patrick D. Bourke The geometric CUSUM chart with sampling
inspection for monitoring fraction
defective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951--972
George Box and
Ian Hau Experimental designs when there are one
or more factor constraints . . . . . . . 973--989
V. R. Prayag and
S. A. Chiplonkar A multiple test for comparing two
treatments with control: interval
hypotheses approach . . . . . . . . . . 991--1001
Hassen A. Muttlak Regression estimators in extreme and
median ranked set samples . . . . . . . 1003--1017
Key-Il Shin and
Hee-Jeong Kang A study on the effect of power
transformation in the ARMA$ (p, q) $
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1028
X. M. Tu and
J. Kowalski and
A. Begley and
P. Houck and
S. Mazumdar and
J. Miewald and
D. J. Buysse and
D. J. Kupfer Data recycling: a response to the
changing technology from the statistical
perspective with application to
psychiatric sleep research . . . . . . . 1029--1049
Samia A. Adham and
Stephen G. Walker A multivariate Gompertz-type
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1065
Man-Yu Wong and
Shuanglin Zhang Degrees of freedom and the likelihood
ratio test for the generalized
Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 1067--1074
George A. F. Seber and
Carl J. Schwarz Capture-recapture: before and after
EURING 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--18
Evan G. Cooch and
Emmanuelle Cam and
William Link Occam's shadow: levels of analysis in
evolutionary ecology--where to next? . . 19--48
James D. Nichols Discussion comments on: ``Occam's
shadow: levels of analysis in
evolutionary ecology --- where to
next?'' by Cooch, Cam and Link . . . . . 49--52
Jean Clobert Capture-recapture and evolutionary
ecology: further comments . . . . . . . 53--56
Nigel G. Yoccoz and
Kjell E. Erikstad and
Jan O. Bustnes and
others Costs of reproduction in common eiders
(Somateria mollissima): an assessment
of relationships between reproductive
effort and future survival and
reproduction based on observational and
experimental studies . . . . . . . . . . 57--64
Ian C. T. Nisbet and
Emmanuelle Cam Test for age-specificity in survival of
the common tern . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--83
Kenneth H. Pollock The use of auxiliary variables in
capture-recapture modelling: an overview 85--102
Gary C. White Discussion comments on: the use of
auxiliary variables in capture-recapture
modelling. An overview . . . . . . . . . 103--106
S. E. Piper Survival of adult, territorial
Longtailed Wagtails \em Motacilla clara:
the effects of environmental factors and
individual covariates . . . . . . . . . 107--124
Michael J. Conroy and
Juan Carlos Senar and
Jordi Dom\`enech Analysis of individual- and
time-specific covariate effects on
survival of \em Serinus serinus in
north-eastern Spain . . . . . . . . . . 125--142
Evan G. Cooch Fledging size and survival in snow
geese: timing is everything (or is it?) 143--162
Emmanuelle Cam and
Bernard Cadiou and
James E. Hines and
others Influence of behavioural tactics on
recruitment and reproductive trajectory
in the kittiwake . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--185
S. P. Brooks and
E. A. Catchpole and
B. J. T. Morgan and
others Bayesian methods for analysing ringing
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--206
William A. Link and
Evan G. Cooch and
Emmanuelle Cam Model-based estimation of individual
fitness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--224
J. A. Dupuis Prior distributions for stratified
capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . 225--237
C. J. Schwarz Discussion comments on 'Prior
distributions for stratified
capture-recapture models' . . . . . . . 239--240
J. A. Dupuis Response to Carl Schwarz . . . . . . . . 241--244
Kenneth P. Burnham and
Gary C. White Evaluation of some random effects
methodology applicable to bird ringing
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--264
Douglas H. Johnson Discussion comments on `Evaluation of
some random effects methodology
applicable to bird ringing data' by
Burnham & White . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
Alan B. Franklin and
David R. Anderson and
Kenneth P. Burnham Estimation of long-term trends and
variation in avian survival
probabilities using random effects
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--287
Anne Loison and
Bernt-Erik Sæther and
Kurt Jerstad and
others Disentangling the sources of variation
in the survival of the European dipper 289--304
Richard Barker and
David Fletcher and
Paul Scofield Measuring density dependence in survival
from mark-recapture data . . . . . . . . 305--313
Shirley Pledger and
Carl J. Schwarz Modelling heterogeneity of survival in
band-recovery data using mixtures . . . 315--327
J. Andrew Royle and
William A. Link Random effects and shrinkage estimation
in capture-recapture models . . . . . . 329--351
J. D. Lebreton and
R. Pradel Cefe Multistate recapture models: modelling
incomplete individual histories . . . . 353--369
Andréa. Dhondt Discussion comments 'Multistate
recapture models: modelling incomplete
individual histories'--why are we doing
all this? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
Mijeom Joe and
Kenneth H. Pollock Biomathematics Separation of survival and movement
rates in multi-state tag-return and
capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . 373--384
Jeffrey A. Spendelow and
James D. Nichols and
James E. Hines and
others Modelling postfledging survival and
age-specific breeding probabilities in
species with delayed maturity: a case
study of Roseate Terns at Falkner
Island, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . 385--405
Blandine Doligez and
Jean Clobert and
Richard A. Pettifor and
others Costs of reproduction: assessing
responses to brood size manipulation on
life-history and behavioural traits
using multi-state capture-recapture
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--423
Juan Carlos Senar and
Michael J. Conroy and
Antoni Borras Asymmetric exchange between populations
differing in habitat quality: a
metapopulation study on the citril finch 425--441
Marlina D. Nasution and
Cavell Brownie and
Kenneth H. Pollock Optimal allocation of sample sizes
between regular banding and
radio-tagging for estimating annual
survival and emigration rates . . . . . 443--457
Carl James Schwarz Real and quasi-experiments in
capture-recapture studies . . . . . . . 459--473
Michael J. Conroy Real and quasi-experiments in
capture-recapture studies: suggestions
for advancing the state of the art . . . 475--477
David L. Otis and
Gary C. White Re-analysis of a banding study to test
the effects of an experimental increase
in bag limits of mourning doves . . . . 479--495
S. M. Slattery and
R. T. Alisauskas Use of the Barker model in an experiment
examining covariate effects on
first-year survival in Ross's Geese (\em
Chen rossii): a case study . . . . . . . 497--508
Thierry Boulinier and
Nigel G. Yoccoz and
Karen D. McCoy and
others Testing the effect of conspecific
reproductive success on dispersal and
recruitment decisions in a colonial
bird: design issues . . . . . . . . . . 509--520
R. T. Alisauskas and
M. S. Lindberg Effects of neckbands on survival and
fidelity of white-fronted and Canada
geese captured as non-breeding adults 521--537
James D. Nichols and
James E. Hines Approaches for the direct estimation of
$u$ and demographic contributions to $u$
using capture-recapture data . . . . . . 539--568
Richard Barker and
Evan Cooch and
Carl Schwarz Discussion comments on: `Approaches for
the direct estimation of $u$ and
demographic contributions to $u$ using
capture-recapture data' . . . . . . . . 569--572
James E. Hines and
James D. Nichols Investigations of potential bias in the
estimation of $u$ using Pradel's (1996)
model for capture-recapture data . . . . 573--587
Brett K. Sandercock and
Steven R. Beissinger Estimating rates of population change
for a neotropical parrot with ratio,
mark-recapture and matrix methods . . . 589--607
Victoria J. Dreitz and
James D. Nichols and
James E. Hines and
others The use of resighting data to estimate
the rate of population growth of the
snail kite in Florida . . . . . . . . . 609--623
E. A. Catchpole and
B. J. T. Morgan and
A. Viallefont Solving problems in parameter redundancy
using computer algebra . . . . . . . . . 625--636
Charles M. Francis and
Pertti Saurola Estimating age-specific survival rates
of tawny owls--recaptures versus
recoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--647
A. Neil Arnason and
Carl J. Schwarz POPAN-6: exploring convergence and
estimate properties with SIMULATE . . . 649--668
M. Dolores Ugarte Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David I. Harvey and
Terence C. Mills Unit roots and double smooth transitions 675--683
M. P. Díaz and
A. H. Barchuk and
S. Luque and
others Generalized linear models to study
spatial distribution of tree species in
Argentinean arid Chaco . . . . . . . . . 685--694
M. Dharmalingam Construction of Partial Triallel Crosses
based on Trojan Square Design . . . . . 695--702
Chul Ahn and
Sin-Ho Jung and
Seung-Ho Kang Modified regression coefficient analysis
for repeated binary measurements . . . . 703--710
Jorge Belaire-Franch and
Dulce Contreras-Bayarri Improving cross-correlation tests
through re-sampling techniques . . . . . 711--720
Moon Yul Huh and
Kiyeol Kim Visualization of multidimensional data
using modifications of the Grand Tour 721--728
Zbigniew Kominek Minimum chi-squared estimation of stable
distributions parameters: an application
to the Warsaw Stock Exchange . . . . . . 729--744
Kelly H. Zou and
W. J. Hall On estimating a transformation
correlation coefficient . . . . . . . . 745--760
James Kepner and
Dennis Wackerly Observations on the effect of the prior
distribution on the predictive
distribution in Bayesian inferences . . 761--769
Man-Suk Oh and
Dong Wan Shin Bayesian model selection and parameter
estimation for possibly asymmetric and
non-stationary time series using a
reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--789
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--794
Kelly H. Zou and
W. J. Hall Semiparametric and parametric
transformation models for comparing
diagnostic markers with paired design 803--816
Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and
Ghazi Shukur Multivariate-based causality tests of
twin deficits in the US . . . . . . . . 817--824
C. Agostinelli Robust stepwise regression . . . . . . . 825--840
M. D. Jiménez Gamero and
J. M. Muñoz Pichardo and
J. Muñoz García and
A. Pascual Acosta Rao distance as a measure of influence
in the multivariate linear model . . . . 841--854
E. Andres Houseman and
Louise Ryan and
Jonathan I. Levy and
John D. Spengler Autocorrelation in real-time continuous
monitoring of microenvironments . . . . 855--872
Jixian Wang and
Peter T. Donnan Adjusting for missing record linkage in
outcome studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--884
Sung H. Park and
Kiho Kim Construction of central composite
designs for balanced orthogonal blocks 885--893
K. Hafeez and
H. Rowlands and
G. Kanji and
S. Iqbal Design optimization using ANOVA . . . . 895--906
Herbert Büning Robustness and power of modified Lepage,
Kolmogorov--Smirnov and Cramér--von Mises
two-sample tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--924
Beverley D. Causey Parametric estimation of the number of
classes in a population . . . . . . . . 925--934
Vic Patrangenaru and
Kanti V. Mardia A bootstrap approach to Pluto's origin 935--943
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--946
M. E. Ghitany and
S. Al-Awadhi Maximum likelihood estimation of Burr
XII distribution parameters under random
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955--965
S. Balamurali and
M. Kalyanasundaram Construction of a generalized robust
Taguchi capability index . . . . . . . . 967--971
E. Andersson Monitoring cyclical processes. A
non-parametric approach . . . . . . . . 973--990
Steven B. Caudill and
Norman H. Godwin Heterogeneous skewness in binary choice
models: predicting outcomes in the men's
NCAA basketball tournament . . . . . . . 991--1001
Chung-Ho Chen and
Chao-Yu Chou Economic design of continuous sampling
plan under linear inspection cost . . . 1003--1009
Claudio J. Verzilli and
James R. Carpenter A Monte Carlo EM algorithm for
random-coefficient-based dropout models 1011--1021
James E. Mays and
Jeffrey B. Birch Smoothing for small samples with model
misspecification: nonparametric and
semiparametric concerns . . . . . . . . 1023--1045
Daniela Climov and
Michel Delecroix and
Léopold Simar Semiparametric estimation in single
index Poisson regression: a practical
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1070
Yangxin Huang Robustness of interval estimation of the
90% effective dose: bootstrap resampling
and some large-sample parametric methods 1071--1081
T. Antoniadou and
D. Wallach Evaluating optimal fertilizer rates
using plant measurements . . . . . . . . 1083--1099
André I. Khuri Graphical evaluation of the adequacy of
the method of unweighted means . . . . . 1107--1119
Patrick D. Bourke A continuous sampling plan using CUSUMs 1121--1133
N. David Yanez III and
Richard A. Kronmal and
Jennifer C. Nelson and
Todd A. Alonzo Analysing change in clinical trials
using quasi-likelihoods . . . . . . . . 1135--1145
S. P. Singh and
A. K. Srivastava and
B. V. S. Sisodia Evaluation of a synthetic method of
estimation for small areas . . . . . . . 1147--1151
Loki Natarajan and
John O'Quigley Predictive capability of stratified
proportional hazards models . . . . . . 1153--1163
Samuel Kotz and
J. Renévan Dorp A versatile bivariate distribution on a
bounded domain: another look at the
product moment correlation . . . . . . . 1165--1179
Alan D. Hutson and
Lauren Fishbein and
Patricia O'Brien and
Peter W. Stacpoole Accounting for plasma levels below
detection limits in a one-compartment
zero-order absorption pharmacokinetics
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1190
Manuel Galea and
Heleno Bolfarine and
Filidor Vilcalabra Influence diagnostics for the structural
errors-in-variables model under the
Student-t distribution . . . . . . . . . 1191--1204
Herwig Friedl and
Erwin Stampfer Estimating general variable acceptance
sampling plans by bootstrap methods . . 1205--1217
Sangit Chatterjee and
Frederick Wiseman and
Robert Perez Studying improved performance in golf 1219--1227
Avner Bar-Hen Influence of missing data on compact
designs for spacing experiments . . . . 1229--1240
George E. P. Box and
Alberto Luceño Feedforward as a supplement to feedback
adjustment in allowing for feedstock
changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1254
Reiko Aoki and
Jorge A. Achcar and
Heleno Bolfarine and
Julio M. Singer Bayesian analysis of null intercept
errors-in-variables regression for
pretest/post-test data . . . . . . . . . 3--12
Maria Carapeto and
William A. Holt Testing for heteroscedasticity in
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20
D. K. Panda and
Rajender Parsad and
V. K. Sharma Robustness of complete diallel crossing
plans against exchange of one cross . . 21--35
José Eduardo Corrente and
Liciana V. A. S. Chalita and
Jeanete Alves Moreira Choosing between Cox proportional
hazards and logistic models for
interval- censored data via bootstrap 37--47
Penelope Vounatsou and
Tom Smith and
Alan E. Gelfand Spatial modelling of gene frequencies in
the presence of undetectable alleles . . 49--62
Dimitris Karlis An EM algorithm for multivariate Poisson
distribution and related models . . . . 63--77
James F. Reed III Adjusting for bias in randomized cluster
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
Håkon Tjelmeland and
Kjetill Vassmo Lund Bayesian modelling of spatial
compositional data . . . . . . . . . . . 87--100
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--105
Christopher R. Illert Lexigenesis in ancestral south-east
Australian Aboriginal language . . . . . 113--143
Kaushik Ghosh and
Rao Jammalamadaka and
Ram C. Tiwari Semiparametric Bayesian Techniques for
Problems in Circular Data . . . . . . . 145--161
Shuo-Jye Wu and
Chun-Tao Chang Inference in the Pareto distribution
based on progressive Type II censoring
with random removals . . . . . . . . . . 163--172
Alan T. K. Wan and
Anoop Chaturvedi and
Guohuazou Zou Unbiased estimation of the MSE matrices
of improved estimators in linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--189
Man-Suk Oh and
Jung Whan Choi and
Dai-Gyoung Kim Bayesian inference and model selection
in latent class logit models with
parameter constraints: an application to
market segmentation . . . . . . . . . . 191--204
Yuzhi Cai and
Neville Davies A simple diagnostic method of outlier
detection for stationary Gaussian time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--223
Kepher H. Makambi Weighted inverse chi-square method for
correlated significance tests . . . . . 225--234
Didier Renard and
Helena Geys and
Geert Molenberghs and
Tomasz Burzykowski and
Marc Buyse and
Tony Vangeneugden and
Luc Bijnens Validation of a longitudinally measured
surrogate marker for a time-to-event
endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--247
Gang Zheng and
Mohammad F. Al-Saleh Improving the best linear unbiased
estimator for the scale parameter of
symmetric distributions by using the
absolute value of ranked set samples . . 253--265
Steven Cook The stylized approach to unit root
testing: neglected contributions and the
cost of simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . 267--272
Tirthankar Dasgupta An economic inspection interval for
control of defective items in a hot
rolling mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--282
Jacobo De Uña-Álvarez and
M. Soledad Otero-GiráLdez and
Gema álvarez-Llorente Estimation under length-bias and
right-censoring: an application to
unemployment duration analysis for
married women . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--291
Paul Gustafson and
Lawrence J. Walker An extension of the Dirichlet prior for
the analysis of longitudinal multinomial
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--310
Saralees Nadarajah and
Samuel Kotz Moments of some J-shaped distributions 311--317
Camino González and
Gabriel Palomo Bayesian acceptance sampling plans
following economic criteria: an
application to paper pulp manufacturing 319--333
Sueli A. Mingoti and
Otaviano F. Neves A note on the Zhang omnibus test for
normality based on the Q statistic . . . 335--341
Liming Xiang and
Andy H. Lee and
Siu-Keung Tse Assessing local cluster influence in
generalized linear mixed models . . . . 349--359
Patrick J. Barrie A new sports ratings system: the
tiddlywinks world ratings . . . . . . . 361--372
Yoshinori Kawasaki and
Philip Hans Franses Detecting seasonal unit roots in a
structural time series model . . . . . . 373--387
Thaddeus Tarpey Estimating the average slope . . . . . . 389--395
Hajaj A. Al-Oraini and
M. A. Rahim Economic statistical design of $x$-$y$
control charts for systems with gamma$
(5, 2)$ in-control times . . . . . . . . 397--409
Getachew Asfaw Dagne The use of power transformations in
small area estimation . . . . . . . . . 411--423
José Eduardo Corrente and
Maria Del Pilar Díaz Ordinal models and generalized
estimating equations to evaluate disease
severity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--439
Shakir Hussain and
Ghazi Shukur Testing for autocorrelation in
non-stationary dynamic systems of
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--454
Steen Magnussen Stepwise estimators for three-phase
sampling of categorical variables . . . 461--475
Youngjo Lee and
John A. Nelder False parsimony and its detection with
GLMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--483
Sifa Mvoi and
Yan-Xia Lin Analysis of experiments using the
asymptotic quasi-likelihood approach . . 485--505
Arthur B. Yeh and
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Honghong Zhou and
Chandramouliswaran Venkataramani A multivariate exponentially weighted
moving average control chart for
monitoring process variability . . . . . 507--536
H. Wong and
Wai-Cheung Ip and
Zhongjie Xie and
Xueli Lui Modelling and forecasting by wavelets,
and the application to exchange rates 537--553
Christopher Weigand Economically optimal inspection policy
with geometric adaptation . . . . . . . 555--569
Abdullah Almasri and
Ghazi Shukur An illustration of the causality
relation between government spending and
revenue using wavelet analysis on
Finnish data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--584
Stephen Leary and
Atul Bhaskar and
Andy Keane Optimal orthogonal-array-based latin
hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--598
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--602
R. G. Aykroyd and
K. V. Mardia A wavelet approach to shape analysis for
spinal curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--623
Ren-Fen Lee and
Deng-Yuan Huang On some data oriented robust estimation
procedures for means . . . . . . . . . . 625--634
K. D. Patterson and
S. M. Heravi The impact of fat-tailed distributions
on some leading unit roots tests . . . . 635--667
S. Robin and
M. Lecomte and
H. Höfte and
G. Mouille A procedure for the clustering of cell
wall mutants in the model plant
Arabidopsis based on Fourier-transform
infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy . . . . . 669--681
Daniel X. Wang and
Michael D. Conerly Evaluation of three lack of fit tests in
linear regression models . . . . . . . . 683--696
D. K. Ghosh and
P. C. Biswas Complete diallel crosses plans through
balanced incomplete block designs . . . 697--708
Siu-Keung Tse and
Chunyan Yang Reliability sampling plans for the
Weibull distribution under Type II
progressive censoring with binomial
removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--718
Dimitrios V. Vougas Reconsidering LM unit root testing . . . 727--741
W. J. Krzanowski Non-parametric estimation of distance
between groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--750
J. Kowalski and
X. M. Tu Trend analysis with response
incompatible formats and measurement
error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--770
Jian-Xin Pan and
Peng Bai Local influence analysis in the growth
curve model with Rao's simple covariance
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--781
Chien-Tai Lin and
N. Balakrishnan Exact prediction intervals for
exponential distributions based on
doubly Type-II censored samples . . . . 783--801
Nicolaus Tideman and
Reza Kheirandish Structurally consistent probabilities of
selecting answers . . . . . . . . . . . 803--811
Duolao Wang and
Panuwat Lertsithichai and
Kiran Nanchahal and
Mohammed Yousufuddin Risk factors of coronary heart disease:
a Bayesian model averaging approach . . 813--826
A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon Residuals from deletion in added
variable plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--841
Youngjo Lee and
John A. Nelder Extended-REML estimators . . . . . . . . 845--856
Kelvin K. W. Yau and
Karen C. H. Yip and
H. K. Yuen Modelling repeated insurance claim
frequency data using the generalized
linear mixed model . . . . . . . . . . . 857--865
V. K. Sharma and
Seema Jaggi and
Cini Varghese Minimal balanced repeated measurements
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--872
Sueli A. Mingoti A note on the sample size required in
sequential tests for the generalized
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 873--879
Hyun Sook Oh and
Seoung-gon Ko and
Man-Suk Oh A Bayesian approach to assessing
population bioequivalence in a $ 2
\times 2 $ crossover design . . . . . . 881--891
R. Bellio and
E. Gori Impact evaluation of job training
programmes: selection bias in multilevel
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--907
Peter C. Austin and
Michael D. Escobar The use of finite mixture models to
estimate the distribution of the health
utilities index in the presence of a
ceiling effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--923
Rhonda C. Magel and
Li Qin A non-parametric test for umbrella
alternatives based on ranked-set
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--937
Göran Arnoldsson Optimal designs for beta-binomial
logistic regression models . . . . . . . 939--951
Vernon T. Farewell and
Agnes M. Herzberg Plaid designs for the evaluation of
training for medical practitioners . . . 957--965
Richard J. Stevens Evaluation of methods for interval
estimation of model outputs, with
application to survival models . . . . . 967--981
Yuzhi Cai and
Neville Davies Monitoring the parameter changes in
general ARIMA time series models . . . . 983--1001
David L. Thomson and
Arie van Noordwijk and
Ward Hagemeijer Estimating avian dispersal distances
from data on ringed birds . . . . . . . 1003--1008
Seppo Laaksonen Alternative imputation techniques for
complex metric variables . . . . . . . . 1009--1020
Luis A. Gil-Alana Estimation of the degree of dependence
in the temperatures in the northern
hemisphere using semi-parametric
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1031
J. F. Walhin Bivariate Hofmann distributions . . . . 1033--1046
H. Öztay Ayhan Models of response error components in
supervised interview-reinterview surveys 1047--1054
Hassen A. Muttlak and
Walid S. Al-Sabah Statistical quality control based on
ranked set sampling . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1078
Saralees Nadarajah and
Kosto Mitov and
Samuel Kotz Local dependence functions for extreme
value distributions . . . . . . . . . . 1081--1100
Michael Greenacre Singular value decomposition of matched
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1113
Christian Sonesson Evaluations of some Exponentially
Weighted Moving Average methods . . . . 1115--1133
Yangxin Huang Selection of number of dose levels and
its robustness for binary response data 1135--1146
L. A. Gil-Alana A fractional integration analysis of the
population in some OECD countries . . . 1147--1159
Manuel Salvador and
Pilar Gargallo Automatic selective intervention in
dynamic linear models . . . . . . . . . 1161--1184
Hervé Cardot and
Robert Faivre and
Michel Goulard Functional approaches for predicting
land use with the temporal evolution of
coarse resolution remote sensing data 1185--1199
Robert J. Till and
David J. Hand Behavioural models of credit card usage 1201--1220
Dejian Lai and
Rakesh Sharma and
Jerry S. Wolinsky and
Ponnada A. Narayana A comparative study of correlation
coefficients in spatially MRSI-observed
neurochemicals from multiple sclerosis
patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221--1229
Rand R. Wilcox Multiple comparisons based on a modified
one-step M-estimator . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1241
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1247
Sanaa Isma\"\il A Simple Estimator for the Shape
Parameter of the Pareto Distribution
with Economics and Medical Applications 3--13
L. Di Scala and
L. L. La Rocca and
G. Consonni A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for the
Evaluation of a Website . . . . . . . . 15--27
L. Pace and
A. Salvan and
L. Ventura The Effects of Rounding on Likelihood
Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--48
Aiyi Liu and
Enrique F. Schisterman and
Eric Teoh Sample Size and Power Calculation in
Comparing Diagnostic Accuracy of
Biomarkers with Pooled Assessments . . . 49--59
A. Martín Andrés and
I. Herranz Tejedor The Equivalence of Two Proportions
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--72
C. Illert and
A. Allison Phono-genesis and the Origin of
Accusative Syntax in Proto-Australian
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--104
T. Nummi and
J. Möttönen Prediction of Stem Measurements of Scots
Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--114
Pedro M. D. C. B. Gouveia and
Paulo M. M. Rodrigues Threshold Cointegration and the PPP
Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--127
Rand R. Wilcox Inferences Based on a Skipped
Correlation Coefficient . . . . . . . . 131--143
Ralph Mansson and
Philip Prescott Robustness of a Class of Partial Dialled
Cross Designs to the Unavailability of a
Complete Block of Observations . . . . . 145--160
Miguel A. García-Pérez and
Vicente Núñez-Antón Small-Sample Comparisons for
Goodness-of-Fit Statistics in One-Way
Multinomials with Composite Hypotheses 161--181
Chung-Ho Chen and
Chao-Yu Chou Minimum Average Total Inspection of
Variable Lot-size Sampling Plan for
Continuous Production . . . . . . . . . 183--189
Claude Lesty and
Jocelyne Pleau-Varet and
Mich\`ele Kujas Geometric Method and Generalized Linear
Models. Two Opposite Multiparametric
Approaches Illustrated on a Sample of
Pituitary Adenomas . . . . . . . . . . . 191--213
Markus Neuhäuser and
Herbert Büning and
Ludwig A. Hothorn Maximum Test versus Adaptive Tests for
the Two-Sample Location Problem . . . . 215--227
Theodore G. Karrison and
Peter C. O'Brien A Rank-Sum-Type Test for Paired Data
with Multiple Endpoints . . . . . . . . 229--238
Tom Benton and
David Hand and
Martin Crowder Two z's are Better than One . . . . . . 239--247
Guillermo Miró-Quesada and
Enrique Del Castillo and
John J. Peterson A Bayesian Approach for Multiple
Response Surface Optimization in the
Presence of Noise Variables . . . . . . 251--270
Sadao Tomizawa and
Nobuko Miyamoto and
Ryo Funato Conditional Difference Asymmetry Model
for Square Contingency Tables with
Nominal Categories . . . . . . . . . . . 271--277
H. Bayo Lawal Using a GLM to Decompose the Symmetry
Model in Square Contingency Tables with
Ordered Categories . . . . . . . . . . . 279--303
Yves G. Berger A Simple Variance Estimator for Unequal
Probability Sampling without Replacement 305--315
A. A. Kalgonda and
S. R. Kulkarni Multivariate Quality Control Chart for
Autocorrelated Processes . . . . . . . . 317--327
R. Deardon and
S. G. Gilmour and
N. A. Butler and
K. Phelps and
R. Kennedy A Method for Ascertaining and
Controlling Representation Bias in Field
Trials for Airborne Plant Pathogens . . 329--343
Willem Albers and
Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg Empirical Non-Parametric Control Charts:
Estimation Effects and Corrections . . . 345--360
Thaddeus Tarpey and
Richard D. Sanders Linear Conditional Expectation for
Discretized Distributions . . . . . . . 361--372
H. E. T. Holgersson Testing for Multivariate Autocorrelation 379--395
Xia Pan and
Jeffrey Jarrett Applying State Space to SPC: Monitoring
Multivariate Time Series . . . . . . . . 397--418
Ping Sa and
Luminita Razaila One-sided Continuous Tolerance Limits
and their Accompanying Sample Size
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--434
Sanjoy Roy Chowdhury Catalogue of Group Structures for
Three-level Fractional Factorial Designs 435--444
Petros E. Maravelakis and
John Panaretos and
Stelios Psarakis EWMA Chart and Measurement Error . . . . 445--455
Rose D. Baker A Modified Knox Test of Space--time
Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--463
K. V. Mardia and
J. Kirkbride and
F. L. Bookstein Statistics of Shape, Direction and
Cylindrical Variables . . . . . . . . . 465--479
S. Balamurali and
K. Subramani Modified CSP-C Continuous Sampling Plan
for Consumer Protection . . . . . . . . 481--494
B. M. Colosimo and
R. Pan and
E. del Castillo A Sequential Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Approach to Set-up Adjustment of a
Process over a Set of Lots . . . . . . . 499--520
Darryl Holden Testing the Normality Assumption in the
Tobit Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--532
Kui-Yin Cheung and
Elspeth Thomson The Demand for Gasoline in China: a
Cointegration Analysis . . . . . . . . . 533--544
K. G. Russell and
S. M. Lewis and
A. Dean Fractional Factorial Designs for the
Detection of Interactions between Design
and Noise Factors . . . . . . . . . . . 545--552
P. H. Chau and
Paul S. F. Yip Non-parametric Back-projection of HIV
Positive Tests using Multinomial and
Poisson Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--564
Horng-Jinh Chang and
Chih-Li Wang and
Kuo-Chung Huang Using Randomized Response to Estimate
the Proportion and Truthful Reporting
Probability in a Dichotomous Finite
Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--573
Arthur Pewsey Testing for Circular Reflective Symmetry
about a Known Median Axis . . . . . . . 575--585
Key-Il Shin A Multivariate Unit Root Test Based on
the Modified Weighted Symmetric
Estimator for $ \mbox {VAR}(p) $ . . . . 587--596
Peter Congdon Modelling Trends and Inequality in Small
Area Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--622
Wei-Ming Luh and
Jiin-Huarng Guo Improved Robust Test Statistic Based on
Trimmed Means and Hall's Transformation
for Two-way ANOVA Models Under
Non-normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--643
D. K. Al-Mutairi Bayesian Computations for Random
Environment Models . . . . . . . . . . . 645--659
Gang Zheng Maximizing a Family of Optimal
Statistics over a Nuisance Parameter
with Applications to Genetic Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--671
Alan D. Hutson Utilizing the Flexibility of the
Epsilon-Skew-Normal Distribution for
Common Regression Problems . . . . . . . 673--683
Cynthia A. V. Tojeiro and
Francisco Louzada-Neto and
Heleno Bolfarine A Bayesian Analysis for Accelerated
Lifetime Tests Under an Exponential
Power Law Model with Threshold Stress 685--691
Chung-Ho Chen Determining the Optimum Process Mean of
a One-sided Specification Limit with the
Linear Quality Loss Function of Product 693--703
Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay Establishing Optimum Bleaching
Conditions for Whitening Canary Wool . . 705--738
Seung-Hoon Yoo A Note on an Approximation of the Mobile
Communications Expenditures Distribution
Function Using a Mixture Model . . . . . 747--752
M. A. Bakir and
B. Altunkaynak The Optimization with the Genetic
Algorithm Approach of the
Multi-Objective, Joint Economical Design
of the $x$ and $R$ Control Charts . . . 753--772
Haobo Ren and
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Hua Liang A Flexible Method for Estimating the ROC
Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--784
Philip A. Shively Testing for a Unit Root in ARIMA
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--798
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Beta Regression for Modelling Rates and
Proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--815
Rosalba Miceli and
Lara Lusa and
Luigi Mariani Revising a Prognostic Index Developed
for Classification Purposes: an
Application to Gastric Cancer Data . . . 817--830
James F. Reed III and
David B. Stark Robust Two-Sample Statistics for Testing
Equality of Means: a Simulation Study 831--854
G. J. M. Rosa and
D. Gianola and
C. R. Padovani Bayesian Longitudinal Data Analysis with
Mixed Models and Thick-tailed
Distributions using MCMC . . . . . . . . 855--873
David J. Hand Pattern Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . 883--884
David J. Hand and
Richard J. Bolton Pattern Discovery and Detection: a
Unified Statistical Methodology . . . . 885--924
Gonzalo Navarro Pattern Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--949
Andrew Lawson and
Allan Clark and
Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro Developments in General and Syndromic
Surveillance for Small Area Health Data 951--966
Joseph Glaz and
Zhenkui Zhang Multiple Window Discrete Scan Statistics 967--980
Alexander Von Eye and
Eduardo Gutiérrez Peña Configural Frequency Analysis: the
Search for Extreme Cells . . . . . . . . 981--997
Cheolwoo Park and
J. S. Marron and
Vitaliana Rondonotti Dependent SiZer: Goodness-of-Fit Tests
for Time Series Models . . . . . . . . . 999--1017
Balaji Padmanabhan The Interestingness Paradox in Pattern
Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1035
Steven G. Gilmour Irregular Four-level Response Surface
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1048
Manuel Galea and
Víctor Leiva-Sánchez and
Gilberto A. Paula Influence Diagnostics in
log-Birnbaum--Saunders Regression Models 1049--1064
M. L. Aggarwal and
Lih-Yuan Deng and
Mithilesh Kumar Jha Some New Residual Treatment Effects
Designs for Comparing Test Treatments
with a Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1081
Hafzullah Aksoy Using Markov Chains for Non-perennial
Daily Streamflow Data Generation . . . . 1083--1094
M. L. Menéndez and
J. A. Pardo and
L. Pardo Tests of Symmetry in Three-dimensional
Contingency Tables Based on
Phi-divergence Statistics . . . . . . . 1095--1114
W. L. Pearn and
Y. C. Chang and
Chien-Wei Wu Distributional and Inferential
Properties of the Process Loss Indices 1115--1135
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1139
Genming Shi and
N. Rao Chaganty Application of Quasi-Least Squares to
Analyse Replicated Autoregressive Time
Series Regression Models . . . . . . . . 1147--1156
Jin-Guan Lin and
Bo-Cheng Wei and
Nan-Song Zhang Varying Dispersion Diagnostics for
Inverse Gaussian Regression Models . . . 1157--1170
A. F. B. Costa and
M. A. Rahim Monitoring Process Mean and Variability
with One Non-central Chi-square Chart 1171--1183
Mu'azu R. Abujiya and
Hassen A. Muttlak Quality Control Chart for the Mean using
Double Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . . . 1185--1201
Seung-Hoon Yoo A Note on a Bayesian Approach to a
Dichotomous Choice Environmental
Valuation Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1209
David M. Reineke and
John S. Crown Estimation of Hazard, Density and
Survivor Functions for Randomly Censored
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211--1225
Clive W. J. Granger and
Yongil Jeon Forecasting Performance of Information
Criteria with Many Macro Series . . . . 1227--1240
Gordana Derado and
Kanti V. Mardia and
Vic Patrangenaru and
Hilary W. Thompson A Shape-based Glaucoma Index for
Tomographic Images . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1248
Don Amos and
T. Randolph Beard and
Steven B. Caudill A statistical analysis of the handling
characteristics of certain sporting
arms: frontier regression, the moment of
inertia, and the radius of gyration . . 3--16
Neil B. Marks Estimation of Weibull parameters from
common percentiles . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
Chao-Yu Chou and
Chung-Ho Chen and
Hui-Rong Liu Acceptance control charts for non-normal
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--36
James F. Reed III Contributions to two-sample statistics 37--44
George E. Halkos and
Ilias S. Kevork A comparison of alternative unit root
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--60
Alex Riba and
Josep Ginebra Change-point estimation in a multinomial
sequence and homogeneity of literary
style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74
Jens Nielsen and
Henrik Jensen and
Per K. Andersen Creating a reference to a complex
emergency situation using time series
methods: war in Guinea--Bissau
1998--1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--86
Jitendra Singh Tomar and
Seema Jaggi and
Cini Varghese On totally balanced block designs for
competition effects . . . . . . . . . . 87--97
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
Athanasios C. Micheas and
Dipak K. Dey Assessing shape differences in
populations of shapes using the complex
Watson shape distribution . . . . . . . 105--116
Matthew A. Hall and
Matthew S. Mayo The impact of correlated readings on the
estimation of the average area under
readers' ROC curves . . . . . . . . . . 117--125
J. A. Amaral and
E. P. Pereira and
M. T. Paixão Data and projections of HIV/AIDS cases
in Portugal: an unstoppable epidemic? 127--140
Paul Zhang Multiple imputation of missing data with
ante-dependence covariance structure . . 141--155
Victor M. Guerrero Restricted estimation of an adjusted
time series: application to Mexico's
industrial production index . . . . . . 157--172
Jan Graffelman Enriched biplots for canonical
correlation analysis . . . . . . . . . . 173--188
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
S. Hussain and
R. Harrison and
J. Ayres and
S. Walter and
J. Hawker and
R. Wilson and
G. Shukur Estimation and forecasting hospital
admissions due to Influenza: Planning
for winter pressure. The case of the
West Midlands, UK . . . . . . . . . . . 191--205
Sung H. Park and
Bum S. Lee and
Hyang S. Jung Joint impact of multiple observations on
a subset of variables in multiple linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--219
Zhang Wu and
Yu Tian and
Sheng Zhang Adjusted-loss-function charts with
variable sample sizes and sampling
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--242
Duolao Wang and
Michael Murphy Identifying Nonlinear Relationships in
Regression using the ACE Algorithm . . . 243--258
Ulysses J. Brown III and
Dharam S. Rana Generalized exchange and propensity for
military service: The moderating effect
of prior military exposure . . . . . . . 259--270
Ronald L. Tracy and
David P. Doane Using the studentized range to assess
kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280
Andrés M. Alonso and
Juan J. Romo Forecast of the expected non-epidemic
morbidity of acute diseases using
resampling methods . . . . . . . . . . . 281--295
Guillermo De León Adams and
Pere Grima Cintas and
Xavier Tort-Martorell Llabrés Experimentation order in factorial
designs with 8 or 16 runs . . . . . . . 297--313
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--320
Belén Zalba and
Belén Sánchez-valverde and
José M. Marín An experimental study of thermal energy
storage with phase change materials by
design of experiments . . . . . . . . . 321--332
Rolf Aaberge and
Li-chun Zhang A class of exact UMP unbiased tests for
conditional symmetry in small-sample
square contingency tables . . . . . . . 333--340
François Husson and
Jérôme Pag\`es Scatter Plot and Additional Variables 341--350
Natasha Yakovchuk and
Thomas R. Willemain Monte Carlo comparison of estimation
methods for additive two-way tables . . 351--374
Michael I. Zeifman and
Dov Ingman Modelling of unexpected shift in SPC . . 375--386
Jadran Dobri\'c and
Friedrich Schmid Nonparametric estimation of the lower
tail dependence $ \lambda_L $ in
bivariate copulas . . . . . . . . . . . 387--407
Dogan Argaç Testing hypotheses on coefficients of
variation from a series of two-armed
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--419
Takafumi Isogai Applications of a new power normal
family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--436
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--441
Diego Kuonen Studentized bootstrap confidence
intervals based on $M$-estimates . . . . 443--460
Thomas P. Ryan and
William H. Woodall The most-cited statistical papers . . . 461--474
Mike Nicholson and
Jon Barry Target detection from a classical and a
Bayesian viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . 475--482
Diane Dancer and
Andrew Tremayne R-squared and prediction in regression
with ordered quantitative response . . . 483--493
Rand R. Wilcox Estimating the conditional variance of
$Y$, given $X$, in a simple regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--502
Gabriel Huerta Multivariate Bayes Wavelet shrinkage and
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--542
Jason Dietrich The effects of sampling strategies on
the small sample properties of the logit
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--554
Paulo M. M. Rodrigues and
Philip Hans Franses A sequential approach to testing
seasonal unit roots in high frequency
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--569
John Zhang and
Mahmud Ibrahim A simulation study on SPSS ridge
regression and ordinary least squares
regression procedures for
multicollinearity data . . . . . . . . . 571--588
E. Schrevens and
H. Coppenolle and
K. M. Portier A comparative study between latent class
binomial segmentation and mixed-effects
logistic regression to explore
between-respondent variability in visual
preference for horticultural products 589--605
Mark R. Greer Combination forecasting for directional
accuracy: an application to survey
interest rate forecasts . . . . . . . . 607--615
Man Lai Tang and
Ka Ho Wu A unified sequential test procedure for
simultaneous testing the equality of
several binomial proportions to a
specified standard . . . . . . . . . . . 617--624
Christopher R. Illert Origins of linguistic zonation in the
Australian Alps. Part 1 --- Huygens'
Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--659
Mariam Mahfouz and
Pascale Giraudet and
Michel Chaput Strategy for a statistical analysis of
odour influence on the mammalian
olfactory bulb responsiveness . . . . . 661--679
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--682
Saralees Nadarajah A generalized normal distribution . . . 685--694
Xia Pan An alternative approach to multivariate
EWMA control chart . . . . . . . . . . . 695--705
Norah R. Al-Ballaa Test for cointegration based on
two-stage least squares . . . . . . . . 707--713
M. E. Ghitany and
S. Kotz and
M. Xie On some reliability measures and their
stochastic orderings for the Topp--Leone
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--722
Filidor V. Labra and
Reiko Aoki and
Heleno Bolfarine Local influence in null intercept
measurement error regression under a
Student $t$ model . . . . . . . . . . . 723--740
M. A. Alkhamisi and
Ghazi Shukur Bayesian analysis of a linear mixed
model with AR($p$) errors via MCMC . . . 741--755
Donna L. Mohr Confidence limits for estimates of
totals from stratified samples, with
application to Medicare Part B
overpayment audits . . . . . . . . . . . 757--769
Emilio Gómez-déniz and
Francisco J. Vázquez-polo Modelling uncertainty in insurance
Bonus--Malus premium principles by using
a Bayesian robustness approach . . . . . 771--784
Tsung-Shan Tsou Inferences of variance function --- a
parametric robust way . . . . . . . . . 785--796
Juan Miguel Marín and
Lluis M. Pl\`a and
David Ríos-Insua Forecasting for some stochastic process
models related to sow farm management 797--812
Yuehjen E. Shao and
John W. Fowler and
George C. Runger A note on determining an optimal target
by considering the dependence of holding
costs and the quality characteristics 813--822
Arturo J. Fernández Progressively censored variables
sampling plans for two-parameter
exponential distributions . . . . . . . 823--829
C. MantéJ. P. Durbec and
J. C. Dauvin A functional data-analytic approach to
the classification of species according
to their spatial dispersion. Application
to a marine macrobenthic community from
the Bay of Morlaix (Western English
Channel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--840
Yoon Young Jung and
Dong Wan Shin and
Man-Suk Oh Bayesian analysis of panel data using an
MTAR model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--854
Dejian Lai and
Shyang-Yun Pamela K. Shiao Comparing two clinical measurements: a
linear mixed model approach . . . . . . 855--860
Joseph Brian Adams and
Yijin Wert Logistic and neural network models for
predicting a hospital admission . . . . 861--869
Duolao Wang and
Pengjun Lu Modelling and forecasting mortality
distributions in England and Wales using
the Lee--Carter model . . . . . . . . . 873--885
André I. Khuri Slack-variable models versus Scheffé's
mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--908
Yoeng-Kuan Chang and
Deng-Yuan Huang On some robust estimation procedures for
quantiles based on data . . . . . . . . 909--927
A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon Identifying multiple influential
observations in linear regression . . . 929--946
Jacques Bénasséni A concentration study of principal
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--957
Edward J. Bedrick Graphical modelling and the Mahalanobis
distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959--967
Hugh A. Chipman and
Hong Gu Interpretable dimension reduction . . . 969--987
Gabriel Nuñez-Antonio and
Eduardo Gutiérrez-Peña A Bayesian analysis of directional data
using the projected normal distribution 995--1001
W. L. Pearn and
M. H. Shu and
B. M. Hsu Testing process capability based on $
C_{pm} $ in the presence of random
measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1024
M. E. Ghitany and
E. K. Al-Hussaini and
R. A. Al-Jarallah Marshall--Olkin extended Weibull
distribution and its application to
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1034
Marc Callens and
Christophe Croux The impact of education on third births.
A multilevel discrete-time hazard
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1050
Bìrdal \cSeno\uglu Robust $ 2^k $ factorial design with
Weibull error distributions . . . . . . 1051--1066
D. T. Shirke and
R. R. Kumbhar and
D. Kundu Tolerance intervals for exponentiated
scale family of distributions . . . . . 1067--1074
J. López-Fidalgo and
J. M. Rodríguez-Díaz and
G. Sánchez and
M. T. Santos-Martín Optimal designs for compartmental models
with correlated observations . . . . . . 1075--1088
Douglas G. Bonett Robust confidence interval for a
residual standard deviation . . . . . . 1089--1094
Patrick D. Bourke The \rm RL$_2$ chart versus the $ n p $
chart for detecting upward shifts in
fraction defective . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Yoshio Komori Properties of the Weibull cumulative
exposure model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--34
Daniel Hunt and
Dale Bowman Modeling developmental data using
U-shaped threshold dose-response curves 35--47
Lee-Ing Tong and
Chien-Hui Yang Analyzing type II censored data obtained
from repetitious experiments . . . . . . 49--63
Li-Ping Zhu and
Li-Xing Zhu and
Shi-Song Mao A non-iterative approach to estimating
parameters in a linear structural
equation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--78
Markus Neuhäuser An exact test for trend among binomial
proportions based on a modified
Baumgartner--Weiß--Schindler statistic 79--88
Enrique De Alba and
Juan J. Fernández-Durán and
M. Mercedes Gregorio-Domínguez Bayesian inference for the mean and
standard deviation of a normal
population when only the sample size,
mean and range are observed . . . . . . 89--99
D. Muthuraj and
D. Senthilkumar Designing and construction of
tightened-normal-tightened variables
sampling scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
Teo Ja\vsi\'c and
Douglas Wood Testing for efficiency and non-linearity
in market and natural time series . . . 113--138
S. Balamurali and
Chi-Hyuck Jun Average outgoing quality of CSP-C
continuous sampling plan under short run
production processes . . . . . . . . . . 139--154
Yangxin Huang and
Hulin Wu A Bayesian approach for estimating
antiviral efficacy in HIV dynamic models 155--174
Ashis Sengupta and
Fidelis I. Ugwuowo Modelling multi-stage processes through
multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 175--188
Alberto Luceño and
Jaime Puig-Pey The random intrinsic fast initial
response of one-sided CUSUM charts . . . 189--201
Nobuko Miyamoto and
Kouji Tahata and
Hirokazu Ebie and
Sadao Tomizawa Marginal inhomogeneity models for square
contingency tables with nominal
categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--215
D. J. Spiegelhalter and
E. C. Marshall Strategies for inference robustness in
focused modelling . . . . . . . . . . . 217--232
Steven Cook A finite-sample sensitivity analysis of
the Dickey--Fuller test under
local-to-unity detrending . . . . . . . 233--240
Richard Woodhouse Graphical solutions for structural
regression assist errors-in-variables
modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--255
E. Andersson and
D. Bock and
M. Frisén Some statistical aspects of methods for
detection of turning points in business
cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--278
Fong-jung Yu and
Jiang-liang Hou Optimization of design parameters for
control charts with multiple assignable
causes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--290
R. R. L. Kantam and
G. Srinivasa Rao and
B. Sriram An economic reliability test plan:
Log-logistic distribution . . . . . . . 291--296
A. M. Wade and
K. Lawrence and
W. Mandy and
D. Skuse Charting the development of emotion
recognition from 6 years of age . . . . 297--315
Rand R. Wilcox Confidence intervals for prediction
intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--326
S. Balamurali and
Chi-hyuck Jun Repetitive group sampling procedure for
variables inspection . . . . . . . . . . 327--338
Kanti V. Mardia and
Paul McDonnell and
Alf D. Linney Penalized image averaging and
discrimination with facial and fishery
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--371
Stefano Barone and
Alberto Lombardo Balanced Asymmetrical Nearly Orthogonal
Designs for first and second order
effect estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 373--386
Murat Kulahci and
Sòren Bisgaard A generalization of the alias matrix . . 387--395
Greg F. Piepel A note comparing component-slope,
Scheffé; and Cox parameterizations of the
linear mixture experiment model . . . . 397--403
Ron S. Kenett On the planning and design of sample
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415
Sungcheol Yun and
So Young Sohn and
Youngjo Lee Modelling and estimating heavy-tailed
non-homogeneous correlated queues:
Pareto-inverse gamma HGLM with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--425
Issam K. Samarah and
Gamal S. Weheba and
Thomas E. Lacy Response surface characterization of the
mechanical behavior of impact-damaged
sandwich composites . . . . . . . . . . 427--437
Subha Chakraborti Parameter estimation and design
considerations in prospective
applications of the $ X^- $ chart . . . 439--459
Christopher M. Pomory A note on calculating $P$ values from $
0.15$--$ 0.005$ for the
Anderson--Darling normality test using
the $F$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--466
L. A. McSweeney Monitoring paper production using a
spectral control chart designed to
detect in the presence of multiple
cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--480
Roberta Zizza A measure of output gap for Italy
through structural time series models 481--496
Chang C. Y. Dorea and
Sueli A. Mingoti Estimating the total number of distinct
species using quadrat sampling and
under-dependence structure . . . . . . . 497--512
S. S. Ganguly Cumulative logit models for matched
pairs case-control design: Studies with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--522
Kaliappa Kalirajan and
Shashanka Bhide Bias free measurement of technical
efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--533
Jennifer A. Mooney and
Ian T. Jolliffe and
Peter J. Helms Modelling seasonally varying data: a
case study for Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--547
J. Peng and
C. I. C. Lee and
L. Liu Max-min multiple comparison procedure
for comparing several dose levels with a
zero dose control . . . . . . . . . . . 549--555
M. Khazaee and
K. Shafie Regression models for Boolean random
sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--567
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--574
Adelaide Figueiredo Two-way analysis of variance for data
from a concentrated bipolar Watson
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--581
James D. Stamey and
Dean M. Young and
Tom L. Bratcher Bayesian sample-size determination for
one and two Poisson rate parameters with
applications to quality control . . . . 583--594
Tzong-Ru Tsai and
Shuo-Jye Wu Acceptance sampling based on truncated
life tests for generalized Rayleigh
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--600
Ashish Das and
Sudhir Gupta and
Sanpei Kageyama $A$-optimal diallel crosses for test
versus control comparisons . . . . . . . 601--608
Ian L. Dryden and
Rahman Farnoosh and
Charles C. Taylor Image segmentation using Voronoi
polygons and MCMC, with application to
muscle fibre images . . . . . . . . . . 609--622
Martin Arvidsson and
Ida Gremyr and
Bo Bergman Interpretation of dispersion effects in
a robust design context . . . . . . . . 623--627
Petros Hadjicostas Maximizing proportions of correct
classifications in binary logistic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--640
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--644
G. Yi and
S. Coleman and
Q. Ren CUSUM method in predicting regime shifts
and its performance in different stock
markets allowing for transaction fees 647--661
Rob Deardon and
Steven G. Gilmour and
Neil A. Butler and
Kath Phelps and
Roy Kennedy Designing field experiments which are
subject to representation bias . . . . . 663--678
Alan D. Hutson Modifying the exact test for a binomial
proportion and comparisons with other
approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--690
Shih-Chou Kao and
Chuan-Ching Ho and
Ying-Chin Ho Transforming the exponential by
minimizing the sum of the absolute
differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--702
Michael A. Martin and
Steven Roberts An evaluation of bootstrap methods for
outlier detection in least squares
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--720
Markus Neuhäuser and
Ludwig A. Hothorn A robust modification of the
ordered-heterogeneity test . . . . . . . 721--727
Alex Riba and
Josep Ginebra Diversity of vocabulary and homogeneity
of literary style . . . . . . . . . . . 729--741
Farid Zayeri and
Anoshirvan Kazemnejad A latent variable regression model for
asymmetric bivariate ordered categorical
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--753
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--758
Wen-Den Chen Testing for spurious regression in a
panel data model with the individual
number and time length growing . . . . . 759--772
Tony Cooper and
Mary G. Leitnaker Further exploratory analysis of
split-plot experiments to study certain
stratified effects . . . . . . . . . . . 773--786
Sanaa A. Ismail and
Hesham A. Auda Bayesian and fiducial inference for the
inverse Gaussian distribution via Gibbs
sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--805
Yuang-Chin Chiang and
Lin-An Chen and
Hsien-Chueh Peter Yang Symmetric quantiles and their
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--817
E. Ayuga Téllez and
A. J. Martín Fernández and
C. González García and
E. Martínez Falero Estimation of non-parametric regression
for dasometric measures . . . . . . . . 819--836
Jixian Wang Optimal parametric design with
applications to pharmacokinetic and
pharmacodynamic trials . . . . . . . . . 837--852
Seong-Keon Lee and
Seohoon Jin Decision tree approaches for
zero-inflated count data . . . . . . . . 853--865
Drgabriel Escarela and
Jacques F. Carriére A bivariate model of claim frequencies
and severities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--883
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--890
Ayoe Hoff Bootstrapping Malmquist Indices for
Danish Seiners in the North Sea and
Skagerrak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--907
Masakazu Iwasaki and
Hiroe Tsubaki Bivariate Negative Binomial Generalized
Linear Models for Environmental Count
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--923
Mak Kaboudan Computational Forecasting of
Wavelet-converted Monthly Sunspot
Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--941
Murat Küçük and
Necati A\ugiralio\uglu Wavelet Regression Technique for
Streamflow Prediction . . . . . . . . . 943--960
Kuo-Yuan Liang and
Jack C. Lee and
Kurt S. H. Shao On the Distribution of the Inverted
Linear Compound of Dependent
$F$-Variates and its Application to the
Combination of Forecasts . . . . . . . . 961--973
Ho-Seog Kang and
Kee-Hoon Kang and
Sung H. Park Minimax Designs for the Stability of
Slope Estimation on Second-order
Response Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 975--988
Christopher R. Illert Origins of Linguistic Zonation in the
Australian Alps. Part 2 --- Snell's Law 989--1030
Saralees Nadarajah Acknowledgement of Priority: the
Generalized Normal Distribution . . . . 1031--1032
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1035
Pradeep George and
Madara M. Ogot A Compromise Experimental Design Method
for Parametric Polynomial Response
Surface Approximations . . . . . . . . . 1037--1050
Steven Cook and
Alan Speight International Business Cycle Asymmetry
and Time Irreversible Nonlinearities . . 1051--1065
Kamziah Abd Kudus and
A. C. Kimber and
J. Lapongan A Parametric Model for the Interval
Censored Survival Times of \em Acacia
Mangium Plantation in a Spacing Trial 1067--1074
Ian G. McHale and
Patrick J. Laycock Applications of a General Stable Law
Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1084
Eiji Minemura An Interest-rate Model Analysis Based on
Data Augmentation Bayesian Forecasting 1085--1104
W. L. Pearn and
Y. C. Chang and
Chien-Wei Wu Measuring Process Performance Based on
Expected Loss with Asymmetric Tolerances 1105--1120
Bradley T. Ewing and
Teresa Kerr and
Mark A. Thompson Do Flow Rates Respond Asymmetrically to
Water Level? Evidence from the Edwards
Aquifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121--1129
Kenneth Rice and
David Spiegelhalter A Simple Diagnostic Plot Connecting
Robust Estimation, Outlier Detection,
and False Discovery Rates . . . . . . . 1131--1147
M. C. Jones Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1151
Alice S. Whittemore A Bayesian False Discovery Rate for
Multiple Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Amy Ming-Fang Yen and
Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen Mixture Multi-state Markov Regression
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--21
K. D. Patterson Bias Reduction through First-order Mean
Correction, Bootstrapping and Recursive
Mean Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--45
Noriah M. Al-Kandari and
Sana S. BuHamra and
S. E. Ahmed Testing and Merging Information for
Effect Size Estimation . . . . . . . . . 47--60
Agnes M. Herzberg and
Richard G. Jarrett $A$-Optimal Block Designs with
Additional Singly Replicated Treatments 61--70
Housila P. Singh and
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Double Sampling Ratio-product Estimator
of a Finite Population Mean in Sample
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
Thorsten Thadewald and
Herbert Büning Jarque--Bera Test and its Competitors
for Testing Normality --- a Power
Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--105
Zhiguo Wang and
Jinde Wang and
Xue Liang Non-parametric Estimation for NHPP
Software Reliability Models . . . . . . 107--119
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127
Howard D. Bondell and
Aiyi Liu and
Enrique F. Schisterman Statistical Inference Based on Pooled
Data: a Moment-Based Estimating Equation
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
Bìrdal \cSeno\uglu Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
of Linear Contrasts in Analysis of
Covariance with Stochastic Covariates 141--151
A. F. Militino and
M. D. Ugarte and
T. Goicoa A BLUP Synthetic Versus an EBLUP
Estimator: An Empirical Study of a Small
Area Estimation Problem . . . . . . . . 153--165
E. Kolaiti and
C. Koukouvinos A Comparison of Three-level Orthogonal
Arrays in the Presence of a Possible
Correlation in Observations . . . . . . 167--175
Yi-Ting Hwang and
Peir-Feng Wei A Remark on the Zhang Omnibus Test for
Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
Saralees Nadarajah and
Samuel Kotz On the Linear Combination of Laplace and
Logistic Random Variables . . . . . . . 185--194
Zeinab H. Amin Tests for the Validity of the Assumption
that the Underlying Distribution of Life
is Pareto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201
L. Corain and
L. Salmaso A Non-parametric Method for Defining a
Global Preference Ranking of Industrial
Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--216
C. A. Glasbey and
G. W. A. M. Van Der Heijden Alignment and Sub-pixel Interpolation of
Images using Fourier Methods . . . . . . 217--230
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--238
Arup Kumar Das Application of Multivariate Analysis to
Increase the Yield of Dry Cell Batteries 239--248
Indranil Mukhopadhyay and
Sudipta Chatterjee and
Aditya Chatterjee Towards Enhancement of the Economy of a
Thermal Power Generating System through
Prediction of Plant Efficiency . . . . . 249--259
Mohamed Boutahar and
Vêlayoudom Marimoutou and
Leíla Nouira Estimation Methods of the Long Memory
Parameter: Monte Carlo Analysis and
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--301
Lilian M. De Menezes and
Ana Lasaosa Comparing Fits of Latent Trait and
Latent Class Models Applied to Sparse
Binary Data: An Illustration with Human
Resource Management Data . . . . . . . . 303--319
Andreas Diekmann Not the First Digit! Using Benford's Law
to Detect Fraudulent Scientific Data . . 321--329
Kang-Mo Jung Least Trimmed Squares Estimator in the
Errors-in-Variables Model . . . . . . . 331--338
Jabu S. Sithole and
Peter W. Jones Bivariate Longitudinal Model for
Detecting Prescribing Change in Two
Drugs Simultaneously with Correlated
Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--352
Rand R. Wilcox Robust ANCOVA: Some Small-sample Results
when there are Multiple Groups and
Multiple Covariates . . . . . . . . . . 353--364
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--369
Jan G. De Gooijer Power of the Neyman Smooth Test for
Evaluating Multivariate Forecast
Densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--381
Mark Evans and
Richard E. Johnston Stochastic Modelling of Times to
Temperature for Furnaces Supplying
Titanium Blooms to a Rolling Mill at
TIMET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--397
Haritini Tsangari An Alternative Methodology for Combining
Different Forecasting Models . . . . . . 403--421
Larry W. Taylor Nonparametric Estimation of Duration
Dependence in Militarized Interstate
Disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--441
Shashibhushan B. Mahadik and
Digambar T. Shirke On the Superiority of a Variable
Sampling Interval Control Chart . . . . 443--458
Jeffrey E. Jarrett and
Xia Pan Monitoring Variability and Analyzing
Multivariate Autocorrelated Processes 459--469
Perla Subbaiah and
George Xia Robustness of Inference for One-sample
Problem with Correlated Observations . . 471--486
Andriy Andreev and
Antti Kanto and
Pekka Malo Computational Examples of a New Method
for Distribution Selection in the
Pearson System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--506
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--509
Prasun Das and
Sasadhar Bera Standardization of Process Norms in
Baker's Yeast Fermentation through
Statistical Models in Comparison with
Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--527
Daniel Gembris and
John G. Taylor and
Dieter Suter Evolution of Athletic Records:
Statistical Effects versus Real
Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--545
S. Magnussen and
R. Reeves Sample-based Maximum Likelihood
Estimation of the Autologistic Model . . 547--561
Li-Chu Chien and
Tsung-Shan Tsou Regression Diagnostic under Model
Misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--575
Seema Jaggi and
Cini Varghese and
V. K. Gupta Optimal Circular Block Designs for
Neighbouring Competition Effects . . . . 577--584
Paul Gustafson and
S. Siddarth Describing the Dynamics of Attention to
TV Commercials: a Hierarchical Bayes
Analysis of the Time to Zap an Ad . . . 585--609
A. Felipe and
M. L. Menéndez and
L. Pardo Order-restricted Dose-related Trend
Phi-divergence Tests for Generalized
Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--623
Shannon E. Allen and
Burt Holland Expected Mean Squares for Hierarchical
Factorial Layouts with Population
Imbalance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--637
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--643
Patrick Roger and
Marie-Helene Broihanne Efficiency of Betting Markets and
Rationality of Players: Evidence from
the French 6/49 Lotto . . . . . . . . . 645--662
R. B. Arellano-Valle and
H. Bolfarine and
V. H. Lachos Bayesian Inference for Skew-normal
Linear Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . 663--682
Lourdes Pozueta and
Xavier Tort-Martorell and
Lluis Marco Identifying Dispersion Effects in Robust
Design Experiments --- Issues and
Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--699
Manoj Chacko and
P. Yageen Thomas Estimation of a Parameter of Bivariate
Pareto Distribution by Ranked Set
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--714
Chien-Tai Lin and
Cheng-Chieh Chou Empirical-distribution-function Tests
for the Beta-Binomial Model . . . . . . 715--724
Hongmei Zhang Inferences on the Number of Unseen
Species and the Number of Abundant/Rare
Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725--740
Juan Sun and
Lifu Bi and
Yaojun Chi and
Guowei Huang and
Chun Fan and
Kazuo Aoki and
Akihiro Kono and
Tian Hui and
Junichi Misumi The Impact of Ovarian Cancer on Life
Expectancy in Japan . . . . . . . . . . 741--747
Juan Antonio Cuesta-Albertos and
Ricardo Fraiman and
Antonio Galves and
Jesús Garcia and
Marcela Svarc Classifying Speech Sonority Functional
Data using a Projected
Kolmogorov--Smirnov Approach . . . . . . 749--761
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--769
Trevor Park Alternative Penalty Functions for
Penalized Likelihood Principal
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--777
Man Yu Wong and
D. R. Cox On the Screening of Large Numbers of
Significance Tests . . . . . . . . . . . 779--783
Mohamed El Ghourabi and
Mohamed Limam Residual Responses to Change Patterns of
Autocorrelated Processes . . . . . . . . 785--798
R. Vijayaraghavan Minimum Size Double Sampling Plans for
Large Isolated Lots . . . . . . . . . . 799--806
Carlos Díaz Avalos Spatial Modeling of Habitat Preferences
of Biological Species using Markov
Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--821
J\=uraté \vsaltyté Benth and
Fred Espen Benth and
Paulius Jalinskas A Spatial-temporal Model for Temperature
with Seasonal Variance . . . . . . . . . 823--841
Zhang Wu and
Qinan Wang An NP Control Chart Using Double
Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--855
Tee Chin Chang and
Fah Fatt Gan Modified Shewhart Charts for High Yield
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--877
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--885
J. A. Roldán Nofuentes and
J. D. Luna Del Castillo Risk of Error and the Kappa Coefficient
of a Binary Diagnostic Test in the
Presence of Partial Verification . . . . 887--898
Neil B. Marks Kolmogorov--Smirnov Test Statistic and
Critical Values for the Erlang-3 and
Erlang-4 Distributions . . . . . . . . . 899--906
Feng-Chang Xie and
Bo-Cheng Wei and
Jin-Guan Lin Case-deletion Influence Measures for the
Data from Multivariate $t$ Distributions 907--921
Harriet Namata and
Ziv Shkedy and
Christel Faes and
Marc Aerts and
Geert Molenberghs and
Heide Theeten and
Pierre Van Damme and
Philippe Beutels Estimation of the Force of Infection
from Current Status Data Using
Generalized Linear Mixed Models . . . . 923--939
W. L. Pearn and
F. K. Wang and
C. H. Yen Multivariate Capability Indices:
Distributional and Inferential
Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--962
Terence C. Mills A Note on Trend Decomposition: The
``Classical'' Approach Revisited with an
Application to Surface Temperature
Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963--972
Edgardo J. Escalante-Vázquez SPC Study of a Brewing Process . . . . . 973--984
Olena Babak and
Birgir Hrafnkelsson and
Olafur P. Palsson Estimation of the Length Distribution of
Marine Populations in the
Gaussian-multinomial Setting using the
Method of Moments . . . . . . . . . . . 985--991
Wai-Yin Poon and
Yat Sun Poon Local Conditional Influence . . . . . . 997--1009
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1017
Dianxu Ren and
Roslyn A. Stone A Bayesian Adjustment for Covariate
Misclassification with Correlated Binary
Outcome Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1034
Pasquale Sarnacchiaro and
Antonello D'ambra Explorative Data Analysis and CATANOVA
for Ordinal Variables: An Integrated
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1050
Jonggun Lim and
Sangun Park Censored Kullback--Leibler Information
and Goodness-of-Fit Test with Type II
Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1064
Seunggeun Hyun and
Yanqing Sun Hypotheses Tests of Strain-specific
Vaccine Efficacy Adjusted for Covariate
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1073
J. D. Bermúdez and
J. V. Segura and
E. Vercher Holt--Winters Forecasting: An
Alternative Formulation Applied to UK
Air Passenger Data . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1090
Edoardo Otrano and
Umberto Triacca Testing for Equal Predictability of
Stationary ARMA Processes . . . . . . . 1091--1108
Chien-Wei Wu and
M. H. Shu A Bayesian Procedure for Assessing
Process Performance Based on Expected
Relative Loss with Asymmetric Tolerances 1109--1123
C. Xu and
P. A. Dowd and
K. V. Mardia and
R. J. Fowell and
C. C. Taylor Simulating Correlated Marked-point
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125--1134
Gopal K. Kanji and
Parvesh K. Chopra Poverty as a System: Human
Contestability Approach to Poverty
Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1158
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159--1164
Ignacio Vidal and
Pilar Iglesias and
Manuel Galea Influential Observations in the
Functional Measurement Error Model . . . 1165--1183
Pilar Olave and
Manuel Salvador Semi-parametric Bayesian Analysis of the
Proportional Hazard Rate Model An
Application to the Effect of Training
Programs on Graduate Unemployment . . . 1185--1205
Alberto Luceño A Universal $ Q Q $-Plot for Continuous
Non-homogeneous Populations . . . . . . 1207--1223
David E. Clark and
Louise M. Ryan and
F. L. Lucas A Multi-state Piecewise Exponential
Model of Hospital Outcomes after Injury 1225--1239
Chrys Caroni and
Nedret Billor Robust Detection of Multiple Outliers in
Grouped Multivariate Data . . . . . . . 1241--1250
Paramjit S. Gill and
Tim B. Swartz and
Michael Treschow A Stylometric Analysis of King Alfred's
Literary Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1258
Daniel Yasumasa Takahashi and
Luiz Antonio Baccal and
Koichi Sameshima Connectivity Inference between Neural
Structures via Partial Directed
Coherence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259--1273
Òyvind Langsrud and
Kjetil Jòrgensen and
Ragni Ofstad and
Tormod Næs Analyzing Designed Experiments with
Multiple Responses . . . . . . . . . . . 1275--1296
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297--1301
Anonymous Professor Gopal Kanji's retirement as
editor of \em Journal of Applied
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Rand R. Wilcox \em Post-hoc analyses in multiple
regression based on prediction error . . 9--17
Erik Mònness and
Kim Pearce and
Shirley Coleman Comparing a survey and a conjoint study:
the future vision of water
intermediaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
Hongying Dai and
Richard Charnigo Omnibus testing and gene filtration in
microarray data analysis . . . . . . . . 31--47
Xiaomo Jiang and
Sankaran Mahadevan Bayesian validation assessment of
multivariate computational models . . . 49--65
Gülser Köksal and
Burcu Kantar and
Taylan Ali Ula and
Murat Caner Testik The effect of Phase I sample size on the
run length performance of control charts
for autocorrelated data . . . . . . . . 67--87
S. Chakraborti and
S. W. Human Properties and performance of the
$c$-chart for attributes data . . . . . 89--100
Mahdi A. Alkhamisi and
Ghadban Khalaf and
Ghazi Shukur The effect of fat-tailed error terms on
the properties of systemwise RESET test 101--113
Daniel X. Wang and
Michael D. Conerly Evaluating the power of Minitab's data
subsetting lack of fit test in multiple
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
R. L. J. Coetzer and
D. H. Morgan and
H. Maumela Optimization of a catalyst system
through the sequential application of
experimental design techniques . . . . . 131--147
R. Vijayaraghavan and
K. Rajagopal and
A. Loganathan A procedure for selection of a
gamma-Poisson single sampling plan by
attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--160
Kim F. Pearce and
Shirley Y. Coleman Modern-day perception of historic
footwear and its links to preference . . 161--178
Manuel Galea and
JoséA. Díaz-García and
Filidor Vilca Influence diagnostics in the capital
asset pricing model under elliptical
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192
Emil B. Berendt Contracts, livestock, and the Bernoulli
process: an application of statistics to
B. Traven's ``Cattle Drive'' . . . . . . 193--202
Pankaj Sinha and
Ashok K. Bansal Bayesian optimization analysis with
ML-II $ \epsilon $-contaminated prior 203--211
David Bock Aspects on the control of false alarms
in statistical surveillance and the
impact on the return of financial
decision systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--227
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--232
Rafael Pino-Mejías and
Mercedes Carrasco-Mairena and
Antonio Pascual-Acosta and
María-Dolores Cubiles-De-La-Vega and
Joaquín Muñoz-García A comparison of classification models to
identify the Fragile X Syndrome . . . . 233--244
Raghu Nandan Sengupta Use of asymmetric loss functions in
sequential estimation problems for
multiple linear regression . . . . . . . 245--261
Francesco Pauli and
Laura Rizzi Summer temperature effects on deaths and
hospital admissions among the elderly
population in two Italian cities . . . . 263--276
P. Angelopoulos and
C. Koukouvinos Detecting active effects in unreplicated
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--281
Sung-Soo Kim and
Sung H. Park and
W. J. Krzanowski Simultaneous variable selection and
outlier identification in linear
regression using the mean-shift outlier
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--291
Tonglin Zhang and
Ge Lin Identification of local clusters for
count data: a model-based Moran's $I$
test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--306
Anuradha Roy Computation aspects of the parameter
estimates of linear mixed effects model
in multivariate repeated measures set-up 307--320
Murari Singh and
Michael J. Jones Modelling spatial--temporal covariance
structures in monocropping barley trials 321--333
Man-Lai Tang and
Maozai Tian and
Ping-Shing Chan On the bootstrap
quantile-treatment-effect test . . . . . 335--350
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--356
Enrique González-Dávila and
Josep Ginebra and
Roberto Dorta-Guerra Sample size determination for $ 2^{k -
r} $ experiments with a binomial
response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--367
M. Ruiz and
F. J. Girón and
C. J. Pérez and
J. Martín and
C. Rojano A Bayesian model for multinomial
sampling with misclassified data . . . . 369--382
Jose Manuel Pavía-Miralles and
Beatriz Larraz-Iribas Quick counts from non-selected polling
stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--405
Patrícia L. Espinheira and
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Francisco Cribari-Neto On beta regression residuals . . . . . . 407--419
Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay Multivariate attribute control chart
using Mahalanobis $ D^2 $ statistic . . 421--429
Abdullah Almasri and
Håkan Locking and
Ghazi Shukur Testing for climate warming in Sweden
during 1850--1999, using wavelets
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--443
Viswanathan Shankar and
Shrikant I. Bangdiwala Behavior of agreement measures in the
presence of zero cells and biased
marginal distributions . . . . . . . . . 445--464
Hsiuying Wang Ranking responses in multiple-choice
questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--474
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--479
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner and
O. Thas $ X^2 $ and its components as tests of
normality for grouped data . . . . . . . 481--492
Dilip Nachane and
Jose G. Clavel Forecasting interest rates: a
comparative assessment of some
second-generation nonlinear models . . . 493--514
Takafumi Isogai and
Hiroaki Uchida and
Susumu Miyama and
Sadao Nishiyama Statistical modeling of enamel rater
value data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--535
Stephen W. Duffy and
Anne-Helene Olsen and
Rhian Gabe and
László Tabár and
Jane Warwick and
Hilary Fielder and
Laufey Tryggvadóttir and
Olorunsola F. Agbaje Screening opportunity bias in
case-control studies of cancer screening 537--546
Steven Cook The sensitivity of robust unit root
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--557
Sat Gupta and
Javid Shabbir On improvement in estimating the
population mean in simple random
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--566
Adam J. Branscum and
Timothy E. Hanson and
Ian A. Gardner Bayesian non-parametric models for
regional prevalence estimation . . . . . 567--582
Bahadur Singh and
Susan Halabi and
Michael J. Schell Sample size selection in clinical trials
when population means are subject to a
partial order: one-sided ordered
alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--600
R. Scott Hacker and
Abdulnasser Hatemi-J Optimal lag-length choice in stable and
unstable VAR models under situations of
homoscedasticity and ARCH . . . . . . . 601--615
J. López-Fidalgo and
R. Martín-Martín and
M. Stehlík Marginally restricted $D$-optimal
designs for correlated observations . . 617--632
Rahul Mazumder Fluid flow pattern analysis in a trough
region: a nonparametric approach . . . . 633--645
H. Jiang and
M. Xie and
L. C. Tang Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for
parameter estimation of the modified
Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 647--658
Valentin Rousson Monotone fitting for developmental
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--670
C. D. Lai and
K. Govindaraju Reduction of control-chart signal
variability for high-quality processes 671--679
Tapio Nummi and
Laura Koskela Analysis of growth curve data by using
cubic smoothing splines . . . . . . . . 681--691
Ashis Sengupta and
Arnab Kumar Laha A Bayesian analysis of the change-point
problem for directional data . . . . . . 693--700
Byoung Cheol Jung and
AndréI. Khuri and
Juneyoung Lee Comparison of designs for the three-fold
nested random model . . . . . . . . . . 701--715
Teresa Alpuim and
Abdel El-Shaarawi On the efficiency of regression analysis
with AR($p$) errors . . . . . . . . . . 717--737
Philip Prescott and
Norman R. Draper $D$-optimal mixture component-amount
designs for quadratic and cubic models 739--749
Simos G. Meintanis New inference procedures for generalized
Poisson distributions . . . . . . . . . 751--762
Sueli A. Mingoti and
Júlia P. De Carvalho and
Joab De Oliveira Lima On the estimation of serial correlation
in Markov-dependent production processes 763--771
Sigyn Mark and
Sture Holm Test and prediction in factorial models
with independent variance estimates . . 773--782
Mahmoud A. Mahmoud and
William H. Woodall and
Robert E. Davis Performance comparison of some
likelihood ratio-based statistical
surveillance methods . . . . . . . . . . 783--798
Edward L. Boone and
Susan J. Simmons and
Haikun Bao and
Ann E. Stapleton Bayesian hierarchical regression models
for detecting QTLs in plant experiments 799--808
A. F. B. Costa and
M. A. G. Machado Bivariate control charts with double
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--822
Andrew Robinson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--824
HervéCardot and
Philippe Maisongrande and
Robert Faivre Varying-time random effects models for
longitudinal data: unmixing and temporal
interpolation of remote-sensing data . . 827--846
Cody Hamilton and
Tom L. Bratcher and
James D. Stamey Bayesian subset selection approach to
ranking normal means . . . . . . . . . . 847--851
Herbert Büning and
Michael Rietz Adaptive bootstrap tests and its
competitors in the $c$-sample scale
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--866
P. S. Chan and
H. K. T. Ng and
N. Balakrishnan Statistical inference for start-up
demonstration tests with rejection of
units upon observing $d$ failures . . . 867--878
Wen-Den Chen Detecting and identifying interventions
with the Whittle spectral approach in a
long memory panel data model . . . . . . 879--892
Gemechis D. Djira and
Volker Guiard and
Frank Bretz Efficient and easy-to-use sample size
formulas in ratio-based non-inferiority
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--900
Sermin Elevli and
Nevin Uzgören and
Birol Elevli Correspondence analysis of repair data:
a case study for electric cable shovels 901--908
George E. Halkos and
Ilias S. Kevork A sequential procedure for testing the
existence of a random walk model in
finite samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--925
Donghoh Kim and
Youngjo Lee and
Hee-Seok Oh A fast wavelet approach for recovering
damaged images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--938
Kepher H. Makambi Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--940
Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941--942
David Wooff Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--944
Robert G. Aykroyd Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--946
Sugnet Gardner-Lubbe and
Ni\=el J. Le Roux and
John C. Gowers Measures of fit in principal component
and canonical variate analyses . . . . . 947--965
Edward L. Boone and
Bronson P. Bullock Spatial correlation matrix selection
using Bayesian model averaging to
characterize inter-tree competition in
loblolly pine trees . . . . . . . . . . 967--977
David Almorza and
M. Hortensia García Results of exploratory data analysis in
the broken stick model . . . . . . . . . 979--983
Claudia Lautensack Fitting three-dimensional Laguerre
tessellations to foam structures . . . . 985--995
Carmen Armero and
Antonio López-Quílez and
Rut López-Sánchez Bayesian assessment of times to
diagnosis in breast cancer screening . . 997--1009
Nicolas Bousquet Diagnostics of prior-data agreement in
applied Bayesian analysis . . . . . . . 1011--1029
A. Georgievska and
L. Georgievska and
A. Stojanovic and
N. Todorovic Sovereign rescheduling probabilities in
emerging markets: a comparison with
credit rating agencies' ratings . . . . 1031--1051
Cristina Rueda-Sabater and
Pedro C. Alvarez-Esteban The analysis of age-specific fertility
patterns via logistic models . . . . . . 1053--1070
Klara Goethals and
Paul Janssen and
Luc Duchateau Frailty models and copulas: similarities
and differences . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071--1079
Honghu Liu and
Yan Zheng and
Jie Shen Goodness-of-fit measures of $ R^2 $ for
repeated measures mixed effect models 1081--1092
Lawrence E. Raffalovich and
Glenn D. Deane and
David Armstrong and
Hui-Shien Tsao Model selection procedures in social
research: Monte-Carlo simulation results 1093--1114
Donatella Vicari and
Johan Rene Van Dorp and
Samuel Kotz Two-sided generalized Topp and Leone
(TS-GTL) distributions . . . . . . . . . 1115--1129
Terence C. Mills Predicting body fat using weight--height
indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131--1138
Shuo-Jye Wu Estimation of the two-parameter
bathtub-shaped lifetime distribution
with progressive censoring . . . . . . . 1139--1150
Subburaj Ramasamy and
Gopal Govindasamy A software reliability growth model
addressing learning . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1168
Stavros Degiannakis ARFIMAX and ARFIMAX-TARCH realized
volatility modeling . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1180
Lin-An Chen and
Hsien-Chueh Peter Yang and
Chau-Shyun Tang Mode type quasi-range and its
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1192
Abbas Moghimbeigi and
Mohammed Reza Eshraghian and
Kazem Mohammad and
Brian Mcardle Multilevel zero-inflated negative
binomial regression modeling for
over-dispersed count data with extra
zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1202
Zeinab H. Amin Bayesian inference for the Pareto
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Mukesh Srivastava Analysis of variance and covariance: how
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Shih-Chou Kao Normalization of the origin-shifted
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David P. M. Scollnik Bayesian statistical inference for
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Kosei Fukuda Parameter changes in GARCH model . . . . 1123--1135
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A. Bhattacharya Estimating crop yield via Gaussian
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Ming-Hung Shu and
Hsien-Chung Wu Monitoring imprecise fraction of
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Marko Sarstedt and
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Fabio Principato and
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Helio S. Migon Bayesian outlier analysis in binary
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Christos Koukouvinos and
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Filia Vonta A real survival analysis application via
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John Shade Software for data analysis . . . . . . . 1421--1422
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Stephan Popp A new unit root test with two structural
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Marc Aerts and
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Mikhail Nikulin On the linear degradation model with
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Claudio Agostinelli and
Luisa Bisaglia ARFIMA processes and outliers: a
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R. C. Tripathi The generalized exponential cure rate
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and Covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1781--1782
Jennifer Klapper Book Review: \em Discrete Fourier
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Stan Lipovetsky Double logistic curve in regression
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Ian T. Jolliffe Independent exploratory factor analysis
with application to atmospheric science
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Man-Suk Oh and
Dong Wan Shin Bayesian tests for unit root and
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Maria Rosaria De Rosa and
Pascal Sarda Electricity consumption prediction with
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Chin Wen Cheong Optimal choice of sample fraction in
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Marianne Frisén and
Eva Andersson and
Linus Schiöler Evaluation of multivariate surveillance 2089--2100
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Penelope Vounatsou Non-stationary partition modeling of
geostatistical data for malaria risk
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Gerald van Belle and
Kejun Zhu and
J. Philip Miller and
John C. Morris A unified approach of meta-analysis:
application to an antecedent biomarker
study in Alzheimer's disease . . . . . . 15--27
Fahimah Al-Awadhi and
Merrilee Hurn and
Christopher Jennison Three-dimensional Bayesian image
analysis and confocal microscopy . . . . 29--46
Hakan Demirtas and
Donald Hedeker Generating multivariate continuous data
via the notion of nearest neighbors . . 47--55
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Josemar Rodrigues and
Mário de Castro A flexible model for survival data with
a cure rate: a Bayesian approach . . . . 57--70
Guglielmo Maria Caporale and
Luis A. Gil-Alana Fractional integration and impulse
responses: a bivariate application to
real output in the USA and four
Scandinavian countries . . . . . . . . . 71--85
Aurélia Aparecida De Araújo Rodrigues and
Eugenio Kahn Epprecht and
Maysa Sacramento De Magalhães Double-sampling control charts for
attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--112
Li-Chu Chien A robust diagnostic plot for explanatory
variables under model mis-specification 113--126
Jeremy Balka and
Anthony F. Desmond and
Paul D. McNicholas Bayesian and likelihood inference for
cure rates based on defective inverse
Gaussian regression models . . . . . . . 127--144
E. J. Allen and
V. T. Farewell The use of variance components for the
assessment of outcome measures in
rheumatology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--159
Guillermo de León and
Pere Grima and
Xavier Tort-Martorell Comparison of normal probability plots
and dot plots in judging the
significance of effects in two level
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 161--174
Bin Li and
R. S. Sanderlin and
Rebecca A. Melanson and
Qingzhao Yu Spatio-temporal analysis of a plant
disease in a non-uniform crop: a Monte
Carlo approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--182
J. A. A. Andrade and
J. P. Gosling Predicting rainy seasons: quantifying
the beliefs of prophets . . . . . . . . 183--193
Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah and
Nor Aishah Hamzah and
Shamsul Rijal Muhammad Sabri Inflation uncertainty and economic
growth: evidence from the LAD ARCH model 195--206
Paul W. Mielke, Jr. and
Kenneth J. Berry and
Janis E. Johnston Robustness without rank order statistics 207--214
Tony Vangeneugden and
Geert Molenberghs and
Geert Verbeke and
Clarice G. B. Demétrio Marginal correlation from an extended
random-effects model for repeated and
overdispersed counts . . . . . . . . . . 215--232
A. F. B. Costa and
M. A. G. Machado A control chart based on sample ranges
for monitoring the covariance matrix of
the multivariate processes . . . . . . . 233--245
Kuo-Chin Lin Assessing cumulative logit models via a
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N. Crato and
R. R. Linhares and
S. R. C. Lopes $ \alpha $-stable laws for noncoding
regions in DNA sequences . . . . . . . . 261--271
T. Banerjee and
G. Grover and
T. Pensi and
D. Banerjee Estimation of hazard of death in
vertically transmitted HIV-1-infected
children for doubly censored failure
times and fixed covariates . . . . . . . 273--285
Aquiles E. G. Kalatzis and
Camila F. Bassetto and
Carlos R. Azzoni Multicollinearity and financial
constraint in investment decisions: a
Bayesian generalized ridge regression 287--299
Xu Xiaosi and
Chen Ying and
Zheng Haitao The comparison of enterprise bankruptcy
forecasting method . . . . . . . . . . . 301--308
Heonsang Lim and
Bong-Jin Yum Optimal design of accelerated
degradation tests based on Wiener
process models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--325
P. P. Balestrassi and
A. P. Paiva and
A. C. Zambroni de Souza and
J. B. Turrioni and
Elmira Popova A multivariate descriptor method for
change-point detection in nonlinear time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--342
C. B. Zeller and
V. H. Lachos and
F. E. Vilca-Labra Local influence analysis for regression
models with scale mixtures of
skew-normal distributions . . . . . . . 343--368
K. Triantafyllopoulos Time-varying vector autoregressive
models with stochastic volatility . . . 369--382
Christian H. Weiß Detecting mean increases in Poisson
INAR(1) processes with EWMA control
charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--398
Amitava Mukherjee and
Barendra Purkait Simultaneous semi-sequential testing of
dual alternatives for pattern
recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--419
Jun Yang and
Min Xie and
Thong Ngee Goh Outlier identification and robust
parameter estimation in a zero-inflated
Poisson model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--430
Andrew Robinson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
A. C. Brooms Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
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Wojtek J. Krzanowski and
David J. Hand Testing the difference between two
Kolmogorov--Smirnov values in the
context of receiver operating
characteristic curves . . . . . . . . . 437--450
Qingzhao Yu Weighted bagging: a modification of
AdaBoost from the perspective of
importance sampling . . . . . . . . . . 451--463
Vasyl Golosnoy and
Roman Liesenfeld Interval shrinkage estimators . . . . . 465--477
Shande Chen A class of confidence intervals for
sequential phase II clinical trials with
binary outcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--489
Himadri Ghosh and
M. A. Iquebal and
Prajneshu Bootstrap study of parameter estimates
for nonlinear Richards growth model
through genetic algorithm . . . . . . . 491--500
J. López Fidalgo and
I. M. Ortiz Rodríguez and
Weng Kee Wong Design issues for population growth
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--512
Marco Riquelme and
Víctor Leiva and
Manuel Galea and
Antonio Sanhueza Influence diagnostics on the coefficient
of variation of elliptically contoured
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--532
Altaf Hossain and
Mohammed Nasser Comparison of the finite mixture of
ARMA-GARCH, back propagation neural
networks and support-vector machines in
forecasting financial returns . . . . . 533--551
Yu-Chang Lin and
Chao-Yu Chou Robustness of the EWMA and the combined
$X$-EWMA control charts with variable
sampling intervals to non-normality . . 553--570
Nasir Abbas and
Muhammad Aslam Extending the Bradley--Terry model for
paired comparisons to accommodate
weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--580
Reza Pakyari Nonparametric mixture analysis of rock
crab of the genus \em Leptograpsus . . . 581--589
Jiajia Zhang and
Andrew B. Lawson Bayesian parametric accelerated failure
time spatial model and its application
to prostate cancer . . . . . . . . . . . 591--603
Jianwen Xu and
Hu Yang On the restricted almost unbiased
estimators in linear regression . . . . 605--617
Suely Ruiz Giolo and
Clarice Garcia Borges Demétrio A frailty modeling approach for parental
effects in animal breeding . . . . . . . 619--629
R. K. Mishra and
Zillur Rahman Nonparametric approach to rank global
petroleum business opportunities . . . . 631--646
George Saridakis Violent crime and incentives in the
long-run: evidence from England and
Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--660
Antonio F. B. Costa and
Philippe Castagliola Effect of measurement error and
autocorrelation on the $ X^- $ chart . . 661--673
Pao-Sheng Shen Semiparametric analysis of
transformation models with doubly
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--682
Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah and
Ronald W. Butler Tests for symmetry with right censoring 683--693
Liliane Bel and
Avner Bar-Hen and
Rémy Petit and
Rachid Cheddadi Spatio-temporal functional regression on
paleoecological data . . . . . . . . . . 695--704
G. Muniz Terrera and
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F. E. Matthews Random change point models:
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Bi-Min Hsu and
Ming-Hung Shu A two-phase method for controlling
Erlang-failure processes with high
reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--734
Darryl Holden Testing for heteroskedasticity in the
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Peter Congdon Structural equation models for area
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Albert Vexler and
Shuling Liu and
Enrique F. Schisterman Nonparametric-likelihood inference based
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Jimin Lee and
Seunggeun Hyun Confidence bands for the difference of
two survival functions under the
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E. Silva and
V. M. Guerrero and
D. Peña Temporal disaggregation and restricted
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Z. Rezaei Ghahroodi and
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D. Berridge Bivariate transition model for analysing
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A. Schörgendorfer and
L. V. Madden and
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Miroslav M. Risti\'c Book Review: \em Statistics: A Very
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Andrés Farall and
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Tomás Tetzlaff A mixture model for the detection of \em
Neosporosis without a gold standard . . 913--926
Baisuo Jin and
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Baiqi Miao Testing for variance changes in
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Suzy Van Sanden and
Tomasz Burzykowski Evaluation of Laplace distribution-based
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Eren Demir and
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S. McKay Curtis and
Sujit K. Ghosh A variable selection approach to
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Gunnar Taraldsen Analysis of rounded exponential data . . 977--986
Ao Yuan and
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Charles Rotimi Bayesian-frequentist hybrid model with
application to the analysis of gene copy
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Guoqing Wu and
Chao Chen and
Xuefeng Yan Modified minimum covariance determinant
estimator and its application to outlier
detection of chemical process data . . . 1007--1020
A. R. de Leon and
A. Soo and
T. Williamson Classification with discrete and
continuous variables via general
mixed-data models . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1032
Camillo Cammarota The difference-sign runs length
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M. M. Nassar and
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Bidemi Yusuf and
Olayinka Omigbodun and
Babatunde Adedokun and
Odunayo Akinyemi Identifying predictors of violent
behaviour among students using the
conventional logistic and multilevel
logistic models . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1061
Juvêncio S. Nobre and
Julio M. Singer Leverage analysis for linear mixed
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1072
Arthur Pewsey and
Kunio Shimizu and
Rolando de la Cruz On an extension of the von Mises
distribution due to Batschelet . . . . . 1073--1085
Leakemariam Berhe and
Göran Arnoldsson $ D_s $-optimal designs for Kozak's tree
taper model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1102
E. Bahrami Samani and
M. Ganjali Bayesian latent variable model for mixed
continuous and ordinal responses with
possibility of missing responses . . . . 1103--1116
Pablo Martínez-Camblor Testing the equality among distribution
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Chi Tim Ng and
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contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1149
Jurate Saltyte Benth and
Laura Saltyte Spatial-temporal model for wind speed in
Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1168
Malin Albing and
Kerstin Vännman Elliptical safety region plots for $
C_{pk} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1187
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Isabel Molina and
Roland Fried Modeling attendance at Spanish
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Frederico Z. Poleto and
Julio M. Singer and
Carlos Daniel Paulino Comparing diagnostic tests with missing
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Ron McRoberts A modified bootstrap procedure for
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John J. Hanfelt Testing for qualitative interaction of
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Zhensheng Huang Empirical likelihood for generalized
partially linear varying-coefficient
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Arzu Altin Yavuz and
Bìrdal \cSeno\uglu Comparison of estimation methods for the
finite population mean in simple random
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Hamid Shahriari and
Orod Ahmadi and
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Edson Zangiacomi Martinez and
Davi Casale Aragon and
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John Pemberton Book Review: \em Time Series Analysis
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Keith H. Coble Normality testing: two new tests using
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Isao Shoji An empirical analysis of the volatility
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Cheolwoo Park and
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Tommaso Proietti Multivariate temporal disaggregation
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José Dias Curto and
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An Creemers and
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Ming-Yuan Leon Li and
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N. T. Longford and
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correlated binary data using
autologistic model and Bayesian method
with an application to dental caries of
3--5-year-old children . . . . . . . . . 2763--2774
Silvia Bacci and
Valeria Caviezel Multilevel IRT models for the university
teaching evaluation . . . . . . . . . . 2775--2791
Manuel G. Scotto and
Susana M. Barbosa and
Andrés M. Alonso Extreme value and cluster analysis of
European daily temperature series . . . 2793--2804
Peng Bai and
Wen Gan and
Lei Shi Bayesian confidence interval for the
risk ratio in a correlated 2 $ \times $
2 table with structural zero . . . . . . 2805--2817
Víctor Leiva and
Emilia Athayde and
Cecilia Azevedo and
Carolina Marchant Modeling wind energy flux by a
Birnbaum--Saunders distribution with an
unknown shift parameter . . . . . . . . 2819--2838
Athanasios C. Rakitzis and
Demetrios L. Antzoulakos On the improvement of one-sided $S$
control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2839--2858
P. G. Sankaran and
P. Anisha Shared frailty model for recurrent event
data with multiple causes . . . . . . . 2859--2868
Jin Zhang Adaptive normal reference bandwidth
based on quantile for kernel density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2869--2880
Martin Huber Testing for covariate balance using
quantile regression and resampling
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2881--2899
Chien-Hung Chen and
Tsung-Shan Tsou Robust likelihood inferences for
multivariate correlated data . . . . . . 2901--2910
Nan Jia and
Thomas M. Braun The adaptive accelerated biased coin
design for phase I clinical trials . . . 2911--2924
Xinyu Tang and
Abdus S. Wahed Comparison of treatment regimes with
adjustment for auxiliary variables . . . 2925--2938
Harry Haupt and
Kathrin Kagerer and
Joachim Schnurbus Cross-validating fit and predictive
accuracy of nonlinear quantile
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2939--2954
Roland Langrock Some applications of nonlinear and
non-Gaussian state-space modelling by
means of hidden Markov models . . . . . 2955--2970
Filippo Domma and
Sabrina Giordano and
Mariangela Zenga Maximum likelihood estimation in Dagum
distribution with censored samples . . . 2971--2985
Alex Karagrigoriou Frailty Models in Survival Analysis . . 2988--2989
Pieter Bastiaan Ober Random Phenomena: Fundamentals of
Probability and Statistics for Engineers 2989--2990
Philippe Castagliola Introduction to Time-Series Modelling 2993--2994
Kassim S. Mwitondi Interpreting Economic and Social Data 2994--2995
Yves Laberge Advising on Research Methods: a
Consultant's Companion . . . . . . . . . 2991
Han Lin Shang Bayesian Nonparametrics . . . . . . . . 2990
Kassim S. Mwitondi Data Analysis Using SAS ENTERPRISE GUIDE 2993
Isaac Dialsingh Multiple testing problems in
pharmaceutical statistics . . . . . . . 2987
Han Lin Shang Non-Parametric Econometrics . . . . . . 2992
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Paula Brito and
A. Pedro Duarte Silva Modelling interval data with Normal and
Skew-Normal distributions . . . . . . . 3--20
Wanbo Lu and
Daimin Shi A new compounding life distribution: the
Weibull--Poisson distribution . . . . . 21--38
Sammy Zahran and
Michael A. Long and
Kenneth J. Berry Measures of predictor sensitivity for
order-insensitive partitioning of
multiple correlation . . . . . . . . . . 39--51
Giancarlo Diana and
Pier Francesco Perri A calibration-based approach to
sensitive data: a simulation study . . . 53--65
Eugene Demidenko Confidence intervals and bands for the
binormal ROC curve revisited . . . . . . 67--79
Giovanni Masala Earthquakes occurrences estimation
through a parametric semi-Markov
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
Rabindra Nath Das and
Jeong-Soo Park Discrepancy in regression estimates
between log-normal and gamma: some case
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111
Charles G. Minard and
Wenyaw Chan and
David W. Wetter and
Carol J. Etzel Trends in smoking cessation: a Markov
model approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--127
Claudia Angelini and
Daniela De Canditiis and
Marianna Pensky Clustering time-course microarray data
using functional Bayesian infinite
mixture model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--149
Guoyi Zhang and
Yan Lu Bias-corrected random forests in
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--160
Faisal M. Zahid and
Shahla Ramzan Ordinal ridge regression with
categorical predictors . . . . . . . . . 161--171
Miao-Yu Tsai Assessing inter- and intra-agreement for
dependent binary data: a Bayesian
hierarchical correlation approach . . . 173--187
R. M. Jacques and
N. R. J. Fieller and
E. K. Ainscow A classification updating procedure
motivated by high-content screening data 189--198
P. Congdon and
C. D. Lloyd A spatial random-effects model for
interzone flows: commuting in Northern
Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--213
Jan C. Schuller The malicious host: a minimax solution
of the Monty Hall problem . . . . . . . 215--221
Robert G. Aykroyd Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Linus Schiöler and
Marianne Frisén Multivariate outbreak detection . . . . 223--242
Jörg Drechsler New data dissemination approaches in old
Europe --- synthetic datasets for a
German establishment survey . . . . . . 243--265
Yu-Mei Chang and
Chun-Shu Chen and
Pao-Sheng Shen A jackknife-based versatile test for
two-sample problems with right-censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--277
Kiyotaka Iki and
Kouji Tahata and
Sadao Tomizawa Measure of departure from marginal
homogeneity using marginal odds for
multi-way tables with ordered categories 279--295
Julie McIntyre and
Ronald P. Barry Bivariate deconvolution with SIMEX: an
application to mapping Alaska earthquake
density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--308
Y. L. Lio and
Tzong-Ru Tsai Estimation of $ \delta = P(X < Y) $ for
Burr XII distribution based on the
progressively first failure-censored
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--322
Petros E. Maravelakis Measurement error effect on the CUSUM
control chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--336
Helle Sòrensen and
Anders Tolver and
Maj Halling Thomsen and
Pia Haubro Andersen Quantification of symmetry for
functional data with application to
equine lameness classification . . . . . 337--360
Terence C. Mills Semi-parametric modelling of temperature
records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--383
Caiya Zhang and
Yanbiao Xiang and
Xinmei Shen Some multivariate goodness-of-fit tests
based on data depth . . . . . . . . . . 385--397
Michael R. Crager Generalizing the standardized hazard
ratio to multivariate proportional
hazards regression, with an application
to clinical~genomic studies . . . . . . 399--417
Marcus B. Perry and
Joseph J. Pignatiello, Jr. Identifying the time of change in the
mean of a two-stage nested process . . . 419--433
Stephanie N. Dixon and
Gerarda A. Darlington and
Victoria Edge Applying a marginalized frailty model to
competing risks . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--443
Inna Chervoneva and
Tingting Zhan and
Boris Iglewicz and
Walter W. Hauck and
David E. Birk Two-stage hierarchical modeling for
analysis of subpopulations in
conditional distributions . . . . . . . 445--460
Anonymous Acknowledgement of referees, 2010--2011 461--465
M. Tariqul Hasan and
Gary Sneddon and
Renjun Ma Regression analysis of zero-inflated
time-series counts: application to air
pollution related emergency room visit
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--476
Steven B. Caudill and
James E. Long and
Franklin G. Mixon Jr. Female athletic participation and
income: evidence from a latent class
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Jie Song and
Herman W. Raadsma and
Peter C. Thomson Evaluation of false discovery rate and
power via sample size in microarray
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500
Alessandro Barbiero Interval estimators for reliability: the
bivariate normal case . . . . . . . . . 501--512
Joseph Kang and
Xiaogang Su and
Brian Hitsman and
Kiang Liu and
Donald Lloyd-Jones Tree-structured analysis of treatment
effects with large observational data 513--529
Victor H. Lachos and
Celso R. B. Cabral and
Carlos A. Abanto-Valle A non-iterative sampling Bayesian method
for linear mixed models with normal
independent distributions . . . . . . . 531--549
Célia Nunes and
Dário Ferreira and
Sandra S. Ferreira and
João T. Mexia $F$-tests with a rare pathology . . . . 551--561
Reza Drikvandi and
Ahmad Khodadadi and
Geert Verbeke Testing variance components in balanced
linear growth curve models . . . . . . . 563--572
Richard W. Miller Quad folding: a simple idea for the
subjective property characterization of
large sample sets . . . . . . . . . . . 573--580
Christian H. Weiß Fully observed INAR(1) processes . . . . 581--598
Hsiu-Wen Chen and
Weng Kee Wong and
Hongquan Xu An augmented approach to the
desirability function . . . . . . . . . 599--613
Miguel Angel Uribe-Opazo and
Joelmir André Borssoi and
Manuel Galea Influence diagnostics in Gaussian
spatial linear models . . . . . . . . . 615--630
Miran A. Jaffa and
Ayad A. Jaffa and
Stuart R. Lipsitz Slope estimation of covariates that
influence renal outcome following renal
transplant adjusting for informative
right censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--642
Hsiuying Wang and
Shan-Lin Hung Phylogenetic tree selection by the
adjusted $k$-means approach . . . . . . 643--655
H. E. T. Holgersson and
Peter S. Karlsson and
Rashid Mansoor Estimating mean-standard deviation
ratios of financial data . . . . . . . . 657--671
Manabu Kuroki Optimizing a control plan using a
structural equation model with an
application to statistical process
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--694
J. C. F. de Winter and
D. Dodou Factor recovery by principal axis
factoring and maximum likelihood factor
analysis as a function of factor pattern
and sample size . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--710
Irene Rocchetti and
Domenica Taruscio and
Marco Alf\`o Modeling delay in diagnosis of NF: under
reporting, incidence and prevalence
estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--721
Kouji Tahata Quasi-asymmetry model for square tables
with nominal categories . . . . . . . . 723--729
Rosaria Lombardo and
Pietro Amenta and
Myrtille Vivien and
Robert Sabatier Sensory analysis via multi-block
multivariate additive PLS splines . . . 731--743
Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari and
Abdul Haq Improved quality control charts for
monitoring the process mean, using
double-ranked set sampling methods . . . 745--763
Krishna K. Saha and
Debaraj Sen and
Chun Jin Profile likelihood-based confidence
interval for the dispersion parameter in
count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--783
Yao Yu and
Jun Wang Lattice-oriented percolation system
applied to volatility behavior of stock
market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--797
Rahim Alhamzawi and
Keming Yu Variable selection in quantile
regression via Gibbs sampling . . . . . 799--813
Darold T. Barnum and
John M. Gleason and
Matthew G. Karlaftis and
Glen T. Schumock and
Karen L. Shields and
Sonali Tandon and
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statistical panel data analysis . . . . 815--828
Chun-Xia Zhang and
Guan-Wei Wang and
Jiang-She Zhang An empirical bias-variance analysis of
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training sample sizes . . . . . . . . . 829--850
F. Lombard and
C. J. Potgieter A multivariate rank test for comparing
mass size distributions . . . . . . . . 851--865
P. Berchialla and
S. Snidero and
A. Stancu and
C. Scarinzi and
R. Corradetti and
D. Gregori Understanding the epidemiology of
foreign body injuries in children using
a data-driven Bayesian network . . . . . 867--874
Sifat Sharmin and
Md. Israt Rayhan Spatio-temporal modeling of infectious
disease dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--882
Benjamin Neustifter and
Stephen L. Rathbun and
Saul Shiffman Mixed-Poisson point process with
partially observed covariates:
ecological momentary assessment of
smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883--899
Megan Othus and
Yi Li and
Ram Tiwari Change-point cure models with
application to estimating the
change-point effect of age of diagnosis
among prostate cancer patients . . . . . 901--911
Yun-Huan Lee and
Chun-Shu Chen Autoregressive model selection based on
a prediction perspective . . . . . . . . 913--922
Sòren Feodor Nielsen Introduction to general and generalized
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--924
Long Kang Book Review: \booktitleThe Oxford
Handbook of Credit Derivatives . . . . . 924--925
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleExercises and
solutions in biostatistical theory . . . 925--926
Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review: \booktitleTime series:
Modeling, Computation, and Inference . . 923
Francesco Lagona and
Marco Picone Model-based clustering of multivariate
skew data with circular components and
missing values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--945
Wei Ning Empirical likelihood ratio test for a
mean change point model with a linear
trend followed by an abrupt change . . . 947--961
Wei Liu and
Lang Wu Two-step and likelihood methods for HIV
viral dynamic models with covariate
measurement errors and missing data . . 963--978
Susana Mendes and
M. José Fernández-Gómez and
Mário Jorge Pereira and
Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro and
M. Purificación Galindo-Villardón An empirical comparison of Canonical
Correspondence Analysis and STATICO in
the identification of spatio-temporal
ecological relationships . . . . . . . . 979--994
Göran Kauermann and
Nina Westerheide To move or not to move to find a new
job: spatial duration time model with
dynamic covariate effects . . . . . . . 995--1009
Adrián Quintero-Sarmiento and
Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and
Vicente Núñez-Antón Estimating infant mortality in Colombia:
some overdispersion modelling approaches 1011--1036
Ali Reza Soltanian and
Soghrat Faghihzadeh A generalization of the Grizzle model to
the estimation of treatment effects in
crossover trials with non-compliance . . 1037--1048
Cibele M. Russo and
Gilberto A. Paula and
Francisco José A. Cysneiros and
Reiko Aoki Influence diagnostics in heteroscedastic
and/or autoregressive nonlinear
elliptical models for correlated data 1049--1067
Vinicius P. Israel and
Hélio S. Migon Stochastic models for greenhouse gas
emission rate estimation from
hydroelectric reservoirs: a Bayesian
hierarchical approach . . . . . . . . . 1069--1086
Marjan Mansourian and
Anoshirvan Kazemnejad and
Iraj Kazemi and
Farid Zayeri and
Masoud Soheilian Bayesian analysis of longitudinal
ordered data with flexible random
effects using McMC: application to
diabetic macular Edema data . . . . . . 1087--1100
Sa\"\id Hanchane and
Tarek Mostafa Solving endogeneity problems in
multilevel estimation: an example using
education production functions . . . . . 1101--1114
K. Hron and
P. Filzmoser and
K. Thompson Linear regression with compositional
explanatory variables . . . . . . . . . 1115--1128
C. Kiruthika and
R. Chandrasekaran Classification of textile fabrics using
statistical multivariate techniques . . 1129--1138
Rob Deardon and
Babak Habibzadeh and
Hau Yi Chung Spatial measurement error in infectious
disease models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139--1150
Christopher H. Morrell and
Larry J. Brant and
Shan Sheng and
E. Jeffrey Metter Screening for prostate cancer using
multivariate mixed-effects models . . . 1151--1175
Liuxia Wang Bayesian principal component regression
with data-driven component selection . . 1177--1189
Edwin M. M. Ortega and
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Michael W. Kattan The negative binomial-beta Weibull
regression model to predict the cure of
prostate cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191--1210
Piotr Kulczycki and
Ma\lgorzata Charytanowicz and
Piotr A. Kowalski and
Szymon Lukasik The Complete Gradient Clustering
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applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211--1224
Florence George and
B. M. Golam Kibria Confidence intervals for estimating the
population signal-to-noise ratio: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1240
Zhiyong Zhang and
John J. McArdle and
John R. Nesselroade Growth rate models: emphasizing growth
rate analysis through growth curve
modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1262
Andrea Cutillo and
Claudio Ceccarelli The internal relocation premium: are
migrants positively or negatively
selected? Evidence from Italy . . . . . 1263--1278
Vlasios Voudouris and
Robert Gilchrist and
Robert Rigby and
John Sedgwick and
Dimitrios Stasinopoulos Modelling skewness and kurtosis with the
BCPE density in GAMLSS . . . . . . . . . 1279--1293
Ioannis Vrontos Evidence for hedge fund predictability
from a multivariate Student's $t$
full-factor GARCH model . . . . . . . . 1295--1321
S. Lalitha and
Nirpeksh Kumar Multiple outlier test for upper outliers
in an exponential sample . . . . . . . . 1323--1330
Jean-Marc Bardet and
Imen Kammoun and
Veronique Billat A new process for modeling heartbeat
signals during exhaustive run with an
adaptive estimator of its fractal
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1331--1351
Xu-Qing Liu and
Bo Li General linear estimators under the
prediction error sum of squares
criterion in a linear regression model 1353--1361
Christian M. Hafner Cross-correlating wavelet coefficients
with applications to high-frequency
financial time series . . . . . . . . . 1363--1379
Eric J. Beh Exploratory multivariate analysis by
example using R . . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1382
Georgi N. Boshnakov Using R for data management, statistical
analysis, and graphics . . . . . . . . . 1382--1383
Eugenia Stoimenova Robust nonparametric statistical methods 1383--1384
Eugenia Stoimenova Nonparametric statistical inference . . 1384--1385
Shu-Fu Kuo and
Yu-Shan Shih Variable selection for functional
density trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1395
Jin-Hong Park Nonparametric approach to intervention
time series modeling . . . . . . . . . . 1397--1408
I. Ardoino and
E. M. Biganzoli and
C. Bajdik and
P. J. Lisboa and
P. Boracchi and
F. Ambrogi Flexible parametric modelling of the
hazard function in breast cancer studies 1409--1421
A. Martín Andrés and
M. Álvarez Hernández and
I. Herranz Tejedor Asymptotic two-tailed confidence
intervals for the difference of
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1435
Carol Y. Lin and
Lance A. Waller and
Robert H. Lyles The likelihood approach for the
comparison of medical diagnostic system
with multiple binary tests . . . . . . . 1437--1454
Margaret R. Donald and
Chris Strickland and
Clair L. Alston and
Rick Young and
Kerrie L. Mengersen Comparison of three-dimensional profiles
over time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1474
Jianbo Li and
Minggao Gu and
Tao Hu General partially linear
varying-coefficient transformation
models for ranking data . . . . . . . . 1475--1488
Sébastien Li-Thiao-Té and
Daudin Jean-Jacques and
Robin Stéphane Bayesian model averaging for estimating
the number of classes: applications to
the total number of species in
metagenomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1489--1504
Shuyi Jiang Survival in the U.S. petroleum refining
industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1505--1530
Jinook Jeong and
Byunguk Kang Wild-bootstrapped variance-ratio test
for autocorrelation in the presence of
heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1531--1542
Federico Palacios-González and
Rosa María García-Fernández Interpretation of the coefficient of
determination of an ANOVA model as a
measure of polarization . . . . . . . . 1543--1555
Nicholas T. Longford and
Maria Grazia Pittau and
Roberto Zelli and
Riccardo Massari Poverty and inequality in European
regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1557--1576
Alexander A. Correa and
Pere Grima and
Xavier Tort-Martorell Experimentation order in factorial
designs: new findings . . . . . . . . . 1577--1591
Alan D. Hutson and
Gregory E. Wilding Maintaining the exchangeability
assumption for a two-group permutation
test in the non-randomized setting . . . 1593--1603
Young Joo Yoon and
Cheolwoo Park and
Erik Hofmeister and
Sangwook Kang Group variable selection in
cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation
data for veterinary patients . . . . . . 1605--1621
Thaung Lwin Modelling of connected processes . . . . 1623--1641
Tatjana Pavlenko and
Anders Björkström and
Annika Tillander Covariance structure approximation via
gLasso in high-dimensional supervised
classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643--1666
Yueqin Zhao and
Dayanand N. Naik Hypothesis testing with Rao's quadratic
entropy and its application to Dinosaur
biodiversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1667--1680
Anna Klimova and
Tamás Rudas Coordinate-free analysis of trends in
British social mobility . . . . . . . . 1681--1691
Valentina Mameli and
Monica Musio and
Erik Sauleau and
Annibale Biggeri Large sample confidence intervals for
the skewness parameter of the
skew-normal distribution based on
Fisher's transformation . . . . . . . . 1693--1702
Wafaa Benyelles and
Tahar Mourid On a minimum distance estimate of the
period in functional autoregressive
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703--1718
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linear models with explanatory biomarker
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lung injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1733--1747
Júlia Teles Concordance coefficients to measure the
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Ghazi Shukur and
Zangin Zeebari Median regression for SUR models with
the same explanatory variables in each
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1779
Nairanjana Dasgupta and
Monte J. Shaffer Many-to-one comparison of nonlinear
growth curves for Washington's Red
Delicious apple . . . . . . . . . . . . 1781--1795
Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga and
Guillermo Henry and
Daniela Rodriguez Partly linear models on Riemannian
manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1797--1809
Yu-Jau Lin and
Y. L. Lio Bayesian inference under progressive
type-I interval censoring . . . . . . . 1811--1824
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R. K. Maxwell A cusum procedure to detect deviations
from uniformity in angular data . . . . 1871--1880
Pao-Sheng Shen Semiparametric mixed-effects models for
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multicollinearity . . . . . . . . . . . 1893--1909
Chung-I Li and
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Ainhoa Oguiza Tovar and
Inmaculada Gallastegui Zulaica and
Vicente Núñez-Antón Analysis of pseudo-panel data with
dependent samples . . . . . . . . . . . 1921--1937
R. L. J. Coetzer and
R. F. Rossouw and
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experiments in mixtures . . . . . . . . 1939--1951
Jorge Alberto Achcar and
Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and
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Luigi D'Ambra and
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Isabella Sulis and
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Marco Marozzi Adaptive choice of scale tests in
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A. J. Hayter Inferences on the difference between
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Anouar Ben Mabrouk Time series modelling of neuroscience
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Yves Laberge Simulating nature: a philosophical study
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Mariano Ruiz Espejo Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920--921
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definition of weight restrictions for
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David M. Zimmer Intertemporal persistence in healthcare
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Farzana Noor and
Muhammad Aslam Bayesian inference of the inverse
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Anuj Srivastava Segmentation, alignment and statistical
analysis of biosignals with application
to disease classification . . . . . . . 1270--1288
Debasis Kundu Bayesian analysis for partially complete
time and type of failure data . . . . . 1289--1300
Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and
Paravaneh Jahani The economic design of multivariate
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Miler Jerkovic Vera and
Bojanic Dubravka and
Jorgovanovic Nikola and
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electromyographic gait-related patterns 1319--1332
Sophie Bercu and
Frédéric Pro\"\ia A SARIMAX coupled modelling applied to
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Erhard Reschenhofer Robust testing for stationarity of
global surface temperature . . . . . . . 1349--1361
K. Suresh Chandra and
G. Gopal and
M. Ramadurai A stochastic frontier approach to
survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 1362--1371
Jiaqi Yang and
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Jing Xu Book Review: \booktitleExpect the
unexpected: a first course in
biostatistics, by Raluca Balan and
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Jing Xu Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
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by Frederic Paik Schoenberg, ISBN-13
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Abhay Kumar Tiwari Book Review: \booktitleEconomic time
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H. Holan, and Tucker S. McElroy, ISBN-13
978-1-4398-4657-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 1384--1385
Ying Chen A powerful test method for analyzing
unreplicated factorials . . . . . . . . 1387--1401
Saheli Datta and
Raquel Prado and
Abel Rodríguez Bayesian factor models in characterizing
molecular adaptation . . . . . . . . . . 1402--1424
Z. Rezaei Ghahroodi and
M. Ganjali A Bayesian approach for analysing
longitudinal nominal outcomes using
random coefficients transitional
generalized logit model: an application
to the labour force survey data . . . . 1425--1445
Kouji Yamamoto and
Shota Murakami and
Sadao Tomizawa Point-symmetry models and decomposition
for collapsed square contingency tables 1446--1452
Anouar BenMabrouk and
Olfa Zaafrane Wavelet fuzzy hybrid model for
physico-financial signals . . . . . . . 1453--1463
Conghua Cheng and
Jinyuan Chen and
Jianming Bai Exact inferences of the two-parameter
exponential distribution and Pareto
distribution with censored data . . . . 1464--1479
Mohammad Z. Raqab Discriminating between the generalized
Rayleigh and Weibull distributions . . . 1480--1493
K. H. Makambi Extended tests for non-zero
between-study variance . . . . . . . . . 1494--1505
Y. Sertdemir and
H. R. Burgut and
Z. N. Alparslan and
I. Unal and
S. Gunasti Comparing the methods of measuring
multi-rater agreement on an ordinal
rating scale: a simulation study with an
application to real data . . . . . . . . 1506--1519
Pao-Sheng Shen Additive hazards model with truncated
and doubly censored data . . . . . . . . 1520--1532
Leonardo Soares Bastos and
Joel Mauricio Correa da Rosa Predicting Probabilities for the 2010
FIFA World Cup games using a
Poisson--Gamma model . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1544
Sukru Acitas and
Pelin Kasap and
Birdal Seno\uglu and
Olcay Arslan One-step $M$-estimators: Jones and
Faddy's skewed $t$-distribution . . . . 1545--1560
L. I. Pettit and
N. Sothinathan Effect of individual observations on the
Box--Cox transformation . . . . . . . . 1561--1571
Jorge González Chapela Things that make us different: analysis
of deviance with time-use data . . . . . 1572--1585
Mariana Rodrigues-Motta and
Hildete P. Pinheiro and
Eduardo G. Martins and
Márcio S. Araújo and
Sérgio F. dos Reis Multivariate models for correlated count
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1586--1596
Sanjay Kumar Singh and
Umesh Singh and
Dinesh Kumar Bayesian estimation of parameters of
inverse Weibull distribution . . . . . . 1597--1607
Saad T. Bakir A subset selection procedure for
multinomial distributions . . . . . . . 1608--1618
Claude Manté and
Guillaume Bernard and
Patrick Bonhomme and
David Nerini Application of ordinal correspondence
analysis for submerged aquatic
vegetation monitoring . . . . . . . . . 1619--1638
Syed Mohsin Ali Kazmi and
Muhammad Aslam and
Sajid Ali and
Nasir Abbas Selection of suitable prior for the
Bayesian mixture of a class of lifetime
distributions under type-I censored
datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1639--1658
Akiko Kada and
Zhihong Cai and
Manabu Kuroki Medical diagnostic test based on the
potential test result approach: bounds
and identification . . . . . . . . . . . 1659--1672
Ting-Ting Gang and
Jun Yang and
Yu Zhao Multivariate control chart based on the
highest possibility region . . . . . . . 1673--1681
Luca De Angelis and
Leonard J. Paas A dynamic analysis of stock markets
using a hidden Markov model . . . . . . 1682--1700
Laura Barbieri Causality and interdependence analysis
in linear econometric models with an
application to fertility . . . . . . . . 1701--1716
A. Asgharzadeh and
Hassan S. Bakouch and
L. Esmaeili Pareto Poisson--Lindley distribution
with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 1717--1734
Hasan Erta\cs and
Murat Eriso\uglu and
Selahattin Kaçìranlar Detecting influential observations in
Liu and modified Liu estimators . . . . 1735--1745
Z. I. Kalaylio\uglu and
O. Ozturk Bayesian semiparametric models for
nonignorable missing mechanisms in
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 1746--1763
Mark Trede and
Cornelia Savu Do stock returns have an Archimedean
copula? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1764--1778
Zhiyong Zhang Bayesian growth curve models with the
generalized error distribution . . . . . 1779--1795
Guillermo Ferreira and
Luis M. Castro and
Victor H. Lachos and
Ronaldo Dias Bayesian modeling of autoregressive
partial linear models with scale mixture
of normal errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 1796--1816
Vishal Maurya and
Amar Nath Gill and
Parminder Singh Multiple comparisons with a control for
exponential location parameters under
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1817--1830
Paola Annoni and
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska and
Hania Farhan Measuring the impact of the Web: Rasch
modelling for survey evaluation . . . . 1831--1851
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
David Canning and
Declan French and
Michael Moore Non-parametric estimation of data
dimensionality prior to data
compression: the case of the human
development index . . . . . . . . . . . 1853--1863
Jorge Alberto Achcar and
Emílio Augusto Coelho-Barros and
Josmar Mazucheli Block and Basu bivariate lifetime
distribution in the presence of cure
fraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864--1874
Wen-Liang Hung and
De-Hua Chen Clustering algorithm for
proximity-relation matrix and its
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1875--1892
Rui Fragoso and
Maria Leonor da Silva Carvalho Estimation of cost allocation
coefficients at the farm level using an
entropy approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 1893--1906
R. M. Green and
M. S. Bebbington A longitudinal analysis of infant and
senescent mortality using mixture models 1907--1920
Arindam Gupta and
Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti A new behavioural model for fertility
schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1921--1930
Christian H. Weiß Integer-valued autoregressive models for
counts showing underdispersion . . . . . 1931--1948
Tiejun Tong and
Zeny Feng and
Julia S. Hilton and
Hongyu Zhao Estimating the proportion of true null
hypotheses using the pattern of observed
$p$-values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1949--1964
Donatella Vicari and
Johan René van Dorp On a bounded bimodal two-sided
distribution fitted to the Old-Faithful
geyser data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965--1978
Edgard M. Maboudou-Tchao and
Douglas M. Hawkins Detection of multiple change-points in
multivariate data . . . . . . . . . . . 1979--1995
Yanqing Yi and
Yuan Yuan An optimal allocation for
response-adaptive designs . . . . . . . 1996--2008
Laura Barbieri and
Mario Faliva and
Maria Grazia Zoia Band-limited component estimation in
time-limited economic series . . . . . . 2009--2023
Weihua Zhao and
Riquan Zhang and
Jicai Liu Robust variable selection for the
varying coefficient model based on
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Nicholas T. Longford Searching for contaminants . . . . . . . 2041--2055
Hossein Zamani and
Noriszura Ismail Score test for testing zero-inflated
Poisson regression against zero-inflated
generalized Poisson alternatives . . . . 2056--2068
Riccardo Borgoni and
Valeria Tritto and
Daniela de Bartolo Identifying radon-prone building
typologies by marginal modelling . . . . 2069--2086
Marcelo Justus dos Santos and
Ana Lúcia Kassouf A cointegration analysis of crime,
economic activity, and police
performance in São Paulo city . . . . . . 2087--2109
Wantanee Surapaitoolkorn Variable dimension via stochastic
volatility model using FX rates . . . . 2110--2128
Jose R. S. Santos and
Caio L. N. Azevedo and
Heleno Bolfarine A multiple group item response theory
model with centered skew-normal latent
trait distributions under a Bayesian
framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2129--2149
S. Faria and
F. Gonçalves Financial data modeling by Poisson
mixture regression . . . . . . . . . . . 2150--2162
Jacques Bénasséni A concentration approach to sensitivity
studies in statistical estimation
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2163--2180
Vesna \'Cojbasi\'c Raji\'c and
J. Stanojevi\'c Confidence intervals for the ratio of
two variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2181--2187
Hongli Niu and
Jun Wang Power-law scaling behavior analysis of
financial time series model by voter
interacting dynamic system . . . . . . . 2188--2203
Saima Altaf and
Muhammad Aslam and
Muhammad Aslam Analysis of the amended Davidson model
with order effect for paired comparison
in the Bayesian paradigm . . . . . . . . 2204--2218
M. Revan Özkale Influence measures in affine combination
type regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 2219--2243
Yangxin Huang and
Getachew A. Dagne and
Jeong-Gun Park Segmental modeling of changing
immunologic response for CD4 data with
skewness, missingness and dropout . . . 2244--2258
Min Wang and
Jing Zhao and
Xiaoqian Sun and
Chanseok Park Robust explicit estimation of the
two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2259--2274
Mauro Costantini Forecasting the industrial production
using alternative factor models and
business survey data . . . . . . . . . . 2275--2289
Hossein Hassani and
Saeed Heravi and
Gary Brown and
Daniel Ayoubkhani Forecasting before, during, and after
recession with singular spectrum
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2290--2302
Haydar Demirhan Bayesian estimation of log odds ratios
over two-way contingency tables with
intraclass correlated cells . . . . . . 2303--2316
Ludovic Seifert and
Jean-François Coeurjolly and
Romain Hérault and
Léo Wattebled and
Keith Davids Temporal dynamics of inter-limb
coordination in ice climbing revealed
through change-point analysis of the
geodesic mean of circular data . . . . . 2317--2331
Chor Foon Tang A revisitation of the export-led growth
hypothesis in Malaysia using the
leveraged bootstrap simulation and
rolling causality techniques . . . . . . 2332--2340
Jing-Er Chiu and
Chih-Hsin Tsai Properties and performance of one-sided
cumulative count of conforming chart
with parameter estimation in
high-quality processes . . . . . . . . . 2341--2353
Filidor Vilca and
Mariana Rodrigues-Motta and
Víctor Leiva On a variance stabilizing model and its
application to genomic data . . . . . . 2354--2371
Lei Wang and
Yukun Liu and
Wei Wu and
Xiaolong Pu Sequential LND sensitivity test for
binary response data . . . . . . . . . . 2372--2384
Lee Fawcett and
Neil Thorpe Mobile safety cameras: estimating
casualty reductions and the demand for
secondary healthcare . . . . . . . . . . 2385--2406
M. H. Lee and
H. J. Sadaei and
Suhartono Improving TAIEX forecasting using fuzzy
time series with Box--Cox power
transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2407--2422
Therese Graversen and
Steffen Lauritzen Estimation of parameters in DNA mixture
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2423--2436
Coskun Kus and
Yunus Akdogan and
Shuo-Jye Wu Optimal progressive group censoring
scheme under cost considerations for
Pareto distribution . . . . . . . . . . 2437--2450
Ülkü Eriso\uglu and
Murat Eriso\uglu and
Nazif Çalis Heterogeneous data modeling with
two-component Weibull--Poisson
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2451--2461
Robert Schall and
Dianne Weatherall Accuracy and fairness of rain rules for
interrupted one-day cricket matches . . 2462--2479
Alexandros E. Milionis and
Evangelia Papanagiotou Decomposing the predictive performance
of the moving average trading rule of
technical analysis: the contribution of
linear and non-linear dependencies in
stock returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2480--2494
David A. Wooff and
Amin Jamalzadeh Robust and scale-free effect sizes for
non-Normal two-sample comparisons, with
applications in e-commerce . . . . . . . 2495--2515
Gang Han and
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Qizhai Li and
Lili Chen and
Xi Zhang Hybrid Bayesian inference on HIV viral
dynamic models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2516--2532
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Eric T. Bradlow and
Dylan S. Small New measures of clumpiness for incidence
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2533--2548
Jiin-Huarng Guo and
Wei-Ming Luh Efficient sample size allocation with
cost constraints for
heterogeneous-variance group comparison 2549--2563
E. Androulakis and
C. Koukouvinos A new variable selection method for
uniform designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 2564--2578
Ivo Alberink and
Annabel Bolck and
Sonja Menges Posterior likelihood ratios for
evaluation of forensic trace evidence
given a two-level model on the data . . 2579--2600
A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon and
Ali S. Hadi Identification of multiple high leverage
points in logistic regression . . . . . 2601--2616
B. M. Golam Kibria and
Shipra Banik Parametric and nonparametric confidence
intervals for estimating the difference
of means of two skewed populations . . . 2617--2636
Sanying Feng and
Liugen Xue Variable selection for partially varying
coefficient single-index model . . . . . 2637--2652
Akanksha S. Kashikar and
Neelabh Rohan and
T. V. Ramanathan Integer autoregressive models with
structural breaks . . . . . . . . . . . 2653--2669
Sharif Mahmood and
Begum Zainab and
A. H. M. Mahbub Latif Frailty modeling for clustered survival
data: an application to birth interval
in Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2670--2680
Johannes Forkman The use of a reference variety for
comparisons in incomplete series of crop
variety trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2681--2698
Le Kang and
Randy Carter and
Kathleen Darcy and
James Kauderer and
Shu-Yuan Liao A fast Monte Carlo
expectation-maximization algorithm for
estimation in latent class model
analysis with an application to assess
diagnostic accuracy for cervical
neoplasia in women with atypical
glandular cells . . . . . . . . . . . . 2699--2719
Saieed F. Ateya Estimation under modified Weibull
distribution based on right censored
generalized order statistics . . . . . . 2720--2734
Abdul Aziz Karia and
Imbarine Bujang and
Ismail Ahmad Fractionally integrated ARMA for crude
palm oil prices prediction: case of
potentially overdifference . . . . . . . 2735--2748
Gang Wang and
Jun Wang and
Mingyu Wang Modular-transform based clustering . . . 2749--2759
Emilio Gómez Déniz A new discrete distribution: properties
and applications in medical care . . . . 2760--2770
Mikhail Moklyachuk Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in time
series forecasting, by Cagdas Hakan
Aladag and Erol E\ugrio\uglu, ISBN-13
978-1-60805-373-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 2771--2772
Yves Laberge Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
statistics in clinical oncology . . . . 2772--2773
Eugenia Stoimenova Book Review: \booktitleMethodology in
robust and nonparametric statistics, by
Jana Jare\vcová, Pranab K. Sen, and Jan
Picek, ISBN-13 978-1-4398-4068-9 . . . . 2773--2773
Mark Webster Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
statistics, by Peter M. Lee, ISBN
978-1-1183-3257-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 2773--2774
Han Lin Shang The BUGS book: a practical introduction
to Bayesian analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2774--2775
Pieter Bastiaan Ober Introduction to linear regression
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2775--2776
Giovanni C. Porzio Regression analysis by example . . . . . 2776--2777
Claire Keeble Maximum-likelihood estimation for sample
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2777--2777
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Confidence intervals for proportions and
related measures of effect size . . . . 2778--2778
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Design and analysis of experiments in
the health sciences . . . . . . . . . . 2778--2779
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Robert G. Aykroyd Editor Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Nalan Gülpinar and
Kabir Katata Modelling oil and gas supply disruption
risks using extreme-value theory and
copula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--25
Sung Wan Han and
Rickson C. Mesquita and
Theresa M. Busch and
Mary E. Putt A method for choosing the smoothing
parameter in a semi-parametric model for
detecting change-points in blood flow 26--45
Xiaowei Yang and
Bin Peng and
Rongqi Chen and
Qian Zhang and
Dianwen Zhu and
Qing J. Zhang and
Fuzhong Xue and
Lihong Qi Statistical profiling methods with
hierarchical logistic regression for
healthcare providers with binary
outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--59
Abidemi K. Adeniji and
Steven H. Belle and
Abdus S. Wahed Incorporating diagnostic accuracy into
the estimation of discrete survival
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--72
Xavier Puig and
Josep Ginebra A Bayesian cluster analysis of election
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--94
Weihua Zhao and
Riquan Zhang and
Yazhao Lv and
Jicai Liu Variable selection for varying
dispersion beta regression model . . . . 95--108
Hani M. Samawi and
Robert Vogel Notes on two sample tests for partially
correlated (paired) data . . . . . . . . 109--117
E. D. Lozano-Aguilera and
María Dolores Estudillo-Martínez and
Sonia Castillo-Gutiérrez A proposal for plotting positions in
probability plots . . . . . . . . . . . 118--126
Stacia M. DeSantis and
Christos Lazaridis and
Shuang Ji and
Francis G. Spinale Analyzing propensity matched
zero-inflated count outcomes in
observational studies . . . . . . . . . 127--141
Márcio Poletti Laurini Dynamic functional data analysis with
non-parametric state space models . . . 142--163
Boudewijn F. Roukema A first-digit anomaly in the 2009
Iranian Presidential election . . . . . 164--199
Aamir Saghir and
Zhengyan Lin Control chart for monitoring
multivariate COM--Poisson attributes . . 200--214
Hanieh Panahi and
Abdolreza Sayyareh Parameter estimation and prediction of
order statistics for the Burr Type XII
distribution with Type II censoring . . 215--232
H. E. T. Holgersson and
L. Nordström and
Ö. Öner Dummy variables vs. category-wise models 233--241
Ting-Li Chen and
Stuart Geman Image warping using radial basis
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--258
S. H. Lin Comparing the mean vectors of two
independent multivariate log-normal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274
Arash Nademi and
Rahman Farnoosh Mixtures of
autoregressive-autoregressive
conditionally heteroscedastic models:
semi-parametric approach . . . . . . . . 275--293
Tsukasa Hokimoto and
Kunio Shimizu A non-homogeneous hidden Markov model
for predicting the distribution of sea
surface elevation . . . . . . . . . . . 294--319
José A. Fioruci and
Ricardo S. Ehlers and
Marinho G. Andrade Filho Bayesian multivariate GARCH models with
dynamic correlations and asymmetric
error distributions . . . . . . . . . . 320--331
Michael McCullough and
Thomas L. Marsh and
Ron C. Mittelhammer Reconstructing nonlinear structure in
regression residuals . . . . . . . . . . 332--350
Ming Zhou and
Yongzhao Shao A powerful test for multivariate
normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--363
A. Asrat Atsedeweyn and
K. Srinivasa Rao Linear regression model with new
symmetric distributed errors . . . . . . 364--381
Ji-Liang Shiu and
Chia-Hung D. Sun The determinants of price in online
auctions: more evidence from unbalanced
panel data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--392
Xiaoguang Wang and
Junhui Fan Variable selection for multivariate
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 393--406
Saeid Amiri The resampling of entropies with the
application of biodiversity . . . . . . 407--422
Paul J. Plummer and
Jie Chen A Bayesian approach for locating change
points in a compound Poisson process
with application to detecting DNA copy
number variations . . . . . . . . . . . 423--438
Krishna K. Saha and
Roger Bilisoly and
Darius M. Dziuda Hybrid-based confidence intervals for
the ratio of two treatment means in the
over-dispersed Poisson data . . . . . . 439--453
Bulent Tutmez Analyzing non-stationarity in cement
stone pit by median polish
interpolation: a case study . . . . . . 454--466
Guo-Liang Tian and
Mingqiu Wang and
Lixin Song Variable selection in the
high-dimensional continuous generalized
linear model with current status data 467--483
Alok Kumar Dwivedi and
Indika Mallawaarachchi and
Soyoung Lee and
Patrick Tarwater Methods for estimating relative risk in
studies of common binary outcomes . . . 484--500
P. Niloofar and
M. Ganjali A new multivariate imputation method
based on Bayesian networks . . . . . . . 501--518
Çigdem Aricigil Çilan Latent class analysis for measuring
Turkish People's future expectations for
Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--529
Wenlin Dai and
Tiejun Tong Variance estimation in nonparametric
regression with jump discontinuities . . 530--545
Wali Ullah and
Yasumasa Matsuda and
Yoshihiko Tsukuda Dynamics of the term structure of
interest rates and monetary policy: is
monetary policy effective during zero
interest rate policy? . . . . . . . . . 546--572
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Jooyong Shim and
Changha Hwang and
Sujong Kim and
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identification and gene classification
via fusion of the supervised-weighted
discrete kernel clustering and support
vector machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--581
A. B. Schmiedt and
H. H. Dickert and
W. Bleck and
U. Kamps Multivariate extreme value analysis and
its relevance in a metallographical
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--595
Giancarlo Diana and
Saba Riaz and
Javid Shabbir Hansen and Hurwitz estimator with
scrambled response on the second call 596--611
Mahmoud Torabi Hierarchical Bayesian bivariate disease
mapping: analysis of children and adults
asthma visits to hospital . . . . . . . 612--621
Francisco Louzada and
Mário de Castro and
Vera Tomazella and
Jhon F. B. Gonzales Modeling categorical covariates for
lifetime data in the presence of cure
fraction by Bayesian partition
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--634
Najeh Chaâbane A novel auto-regressive fractionally
integrated moving average-least-squares
support vector machine model for
electricity spot prices prediction . . . 635--651
Edgard Nyssen and
Wolfgang Jacquet A statistical testing framework for
evaluating the quality of measurement
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--659
Yuzhu Tian and
Qianqian Zhu and
Maozai Tian Inference for mixed generalized
exponential distribution under
progressively type-II censored samples 660--676
Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and
Jorge Alberto Achcar and
Liliana Garrido Lopera Bivariate beta regression models: joint
modeling of the mean, dispersion and
association parameters . . . . . . . . . 677--687
Yi Zhang and
Haitao Chu and
Donglin Zeng Evaluation of incomplete multiple
diagnostic tests, with an application in
the colon cancer family registry study 688--700
Andrew Cron and
Liang Zhang and
Deepak Agarwal Collaborative filtering for massive
multinomial data . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--715
Jean-Paul Lucas and
Véronique Sébille and
Alain Le Tertre and
Yann Le Strat and
Lise Bellanger Multilevel modelling of survey data:
impact of the two-level weights used in
the pseudolikelihood . . . . . . . . . . 716--732
Ahmed N. Albatineh and
B. M. Golam Kibria and
Meredith L. Wilcox and
Bashar Zogheib Confidence interval estimation for the
population coefficient of variation
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study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--751
Essam A. Ahmed Bayesian estimation based on progressive
Type-II censoring from two-parameter
bathtub-shaped lifetime model: an Markov
chain Monte Carlo approach . . . . . . . 752--768
Lingsong Zhang and
Zhengyuan Zhu and
J. S. Marron Multiresolution anomaly detection method
for fractional Gaussian noise . . . . . 769--784
Show-Lin Chen and
Nen-Jing Chen and
Rwei-Ju Chuang An empirical study on technical
analysis: GARCH $ (1, 1) $ model . . . . 785--801
Hisham Hilow Minimum cost linear trend-free $ 12
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Keya Rani Das and
A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon Geometric median and its application in
the identification of multiple outliers 817--831
Sajid Ali and
Muhammad Riaz On the generalized process capability
under simple and mixture models . . . . 832--852
Sharmishtha Mitra and
Amit Mitra $M$-estimator-based robust estimation of
the number of components of a
superimposed sinusoidal signal model . . 853--878
Ping Zeng and
Yongyue Wei and
Yang Zhao and
Jin Liu and
Liya Liu and
Ruyang Zhang and
Jianwei Gou and
Shuiping Huang and
Feng Chen Variable selection approach for
zero-inflated count data via adaptive
lasso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--894
Ellinor Fackle-Fornius and
Linda Anna Wänström Minimax $D$-optimal designs of
contingent valuation experiments:
willingness to pay for environmentally
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Jonathan Gillard Book Review: \booktitleThe R book,
second edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--909
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleRisk assessment
and decision analysis with Bayesian
networks, by N. Fenton and M. Neil,
ISBN-13 978-1-4398-0910-5 . . . . . . . 910--910
Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleComputational
statistics, second edition, by Geof H.
Givens and Jennifer A. Hoeting, ISBN-13
978-0-470-53331-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 910--911
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleMedical
biostatistics, third edition, by Adhaya
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Anshuman Sahu Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
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Hassan S. Bakouch Book Review: \booktitleUsing the Weibull
distribution: Reliability, modeling and
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978-1-118-21798-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 913--914
Bozidar V. Popovi\'c Book Review: \booktitleA course on
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Isaac Dialsingh Book Review: \booktitleApplied
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Cláudia Neves Book Review: \booktitleCategorical data
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Mikhail Moklyachuk Book Review: \booktitleExercises in
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K. Facevicová and
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M. Templ Logratio approach to statistical
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Lee Fawcett and
David Walshaw Estimating the probability of
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M. Revan Özkale The relative efficiency of the
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Yuanshu Zou A joint model of binary and longitudinal
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M. Templ and
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Wolfgang Tillmann On- and offline detection of structural
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Tanujit Dey On progressively censored generalized
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Athanasios Christou Micheas Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of marked
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Walmes Marques Zeviani and
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Shin-Fu Tsai A generalized test variable approach for
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Yangyi Xu and
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of two nonparametric functions . . . . . 2639--2657
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X. M. Tu Extending the Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon
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Michael R. Crager and
Gong Tang Patient-specific meta-analysis for risk
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Delphine Maucort-Boulch and
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Janez Stare On a measure of information gain for
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Jonathan Jaeger and
Philippe Lambert Bayesian penalized smoothing approaches
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Chris P. Tsokos Bayesian age-stratified joinpoint
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Huaiye Zhang and
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Chun Gun Park Semiparametric Bayesian hierarchical
models for heterogeneous population in
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Bozidar V. Popovi\'c Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
advanced statistical methods . . . . . . 2777--2777
Sòren Feodor Nielsen Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to analysis of financial data with R . . 2777--2778
Yves Laberge Book Review: \booktitleSelf-organised
criticality: theory, models and
characterisation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2778--2779
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
methods for handling incomplete data . . 2779--2780
Michail Tsagris Book Review: \booktitleStatistics
through resampling methods and R, second
edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2780--2781
Yves Laberge Book Review: \booktitleRisk modelling in
general insurance from principles to
practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2781--2782
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Phuong Hanh Tran and
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Necla Gündüz and
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Hatice Tul Kubra Akdur Unit-Lindley mixed-effect model for
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Atila Göktas and
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Pallab Kumar Ghosh Box--Cox power transformation
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María Dolores Esteban and
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four-parameter kappa distribution . . . 1559--1573
Milda Maria Burzala The process of transferring negative
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Marcela de Marillac Carvalho and
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multivariate copula approach . . . . . . 2739--2759
M. Martel and
M. A. Negrín and
F. J. Vázquez-Polo Bayesian heterogeneity in a
meta-analysis with two studies and
binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2760--2776
Daniel Ries and
Alicia Carriquiry Assessing adult physical activity and
compliance with 2008 CDC guidelines
using a Bayesian two-part measurement
error model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2777--2795
Jeyadurga Periyasamypandian and
Saminathan Balamurali Determination of new multiple deferred
state sampling plan with economic
perspective under Weibull distribution 2796--2816
Siti Zahariah and
Habshah Midi Minimum regularized covariance
determinant and principal component
analysis-based method for the
identification of high leverage points
in high dimensional sparse data . . . . 2817--2835
Jasper Velthoen and
Juan-Juan Cai and
Geurt Jongbloed Forward variable selection for random
forest models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2836--2856
Yajun Mei (Principal Guest Editor) and
Jay Bartroff (Co-Editor) and
Jie Chen (Co-Editor) and
Georgios Fellouris (Co-Editor) and
Ruizhi Zhang (Co-Editor) Editorial to the special issue: modern
streaming data analytics . . . . . . . . 2857--2861
Michael Baron and
Sergey V. Malov Detection and estimation of multiple
transient changes . . . . . . . . . . . 2862--2888
Jiuyun Hu and
Yajun Mei and
Sarah Holte and
Hao Yan Adaptive resources allocation CUSUM for
binomial count data monitoring with
application to COVID-19 hotspot
detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2889--2913
Heng-Hui Lue and
ShengLi Tzeng Interpretable, predictive
spatio-temporal models via enhanced
pairwise directions estimation . . . . . 2914--2933
David Lun and
Svenja Fischer and
Alberto Viglione and
Günter Blöschl Significance testing of rank
cross-correlations between
autocorrelated time series with
short-range dependence . . . . . . . . . 2934--2950
Hongzhen Tian and
Reuven Zev Cohen and
Chuck Zhang and
Yajun Mei Active learning-based multistage
sequential decision-making model with
application on common bile duct stone
evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2951--2969
Ka Wai Tsang and
Fugee Tsung and
Zhihao Xu Knockoff procedure for false discovery
rate control in high-dimensional data
streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2970--2983
Yinglun Zhan and
Ruizhi Zhang and
Yuzhen Zhou and
Vincent Stoerger and
Jeremy Hiller and
Tala Awada and
Yufeng Ge Rapid online plant leaf area change
detection with high-throughput plant
image data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2984--2998
Yujie Zhao and
Xiaoming Huo and
Yajun Mei Hot-spots detection in count data by
Poisson assisted smooth sparse tensor
decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2999--3029