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Volume 24, Number 1, January, 1990Prem S. Puri and Harshinder Singh On recursive formulas for isotonic regression useful for statistical inference under order restrictions . . . 1--11 A. Schick and V. Susarla An infinite dimensional convolution theorem with applications to random censoring and missing data models . . . 13--23 Norman R. Draper and Dennis K. J. Lin Capacity considerations for two-level fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 25--35 John P. Morgan Some series constructions for two-dimensional neighbor designs . . . . 37--54 M. S. Montakhab Embedding of quasi-residual divisible semi-symmetric designs with parameters $ (r, \lambda, c) $ . . . . . . . . . . . 55--67 H. M. Barakat Limit theorems for lower-upper extreme values from two-dimensional distribution function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--79 B. Prasad and Radhey S. Singh Estimation of prior distribution and empirical Bayes estimation in a nonexponential family . . . . . . . . . 81--86 N. S. Kambo and B. R. Handa and Z. A. Al-Hemyari On shrunken estimators for exponential scale parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--94 A. Subramanyam and U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar Optimal unbiased statistical estimating functions for Hilbert space valued parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--105 H. Mansouri Rank tests for ordered alternatives in analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 107--117 Jagdish Saran and Sarita Rani Generalized random walk and distributions of some rank order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--133 Sanpei Kageyama On orthogonal arrays attaining rao's bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc Anonymous Pages 1-136 (January 1990) . . . . . . . ??
P. E. Cheng and K. F. Cheng Asymptotic normality for robust $R$-estimators of regression function 137--149 Marc Hallin and Annie Laforet and Guy Melard Distribution-free tests against serial dependence: signed or unsigned ranks? 151--165 Y. C. Yao and F. K. Hwang On optimal nested group testing algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--175 AndréI. Khuri Exact tests for random models with unequal cell frequencies in the last stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--193 Donald R. Hoover Subset complement addition upper bounds --- an improved inclusion-exclusion method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--202 Taka-aki Shiraishi $R$-estimators and confidence regions in one-way MANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--214 Lanh Tat Tran Rank statistics for serial dependence 215--232 Alan Julian Izenman and Lanh Tat Tran Kernel estimation of the survival function and hazard rate under weak dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--247 Barry C. Arnold A flexible family of multivariate Pareto distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--258 Tapan K. Nayak Estimation of location and scale parameters using generalized Pitman nearness criterion . . . . . . . . . . . 259--268 Shanti S. Gupta and Deng-Yuan Huang Selecting important independent variables in linear regression models 269--269 Anonymous Pages 137-270 (February 1990) . . . . . ??
Tasos C. Christofides and Robert J. Serfling Maximal inequalities and convergence results for generalized $U$-statistics 271--286 Phillip S. Kott Estimating the conditional variance of a design consistent regression estimator 287--296 Thomas A. Louis and Julia K. Bailey Controlling error rates using prior information and marginal totals to select tumor sites . . . . . . . . . . . 297--316 H. J. Khamis The $ \delta $-corrected Kolmogorov--Smirnov test for goodness of fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--335 Tatsuya Kubokawa Minimax estimation of common coefficients of several regression models under quadratic loss . . . . . . 337--345 B. Raja Rao and Sheela Talwalker ``Setting the clock back to zero'' property of a family of life distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--352 K. X. Karakostas Exact optimum sampling designs for autocorrelated finite populations . . . 353--361 S. H. Kim and H. A. David On the dependence structure of order statistics and concomitants of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--368 Y. S. Sathe and R. G. Shenoy Construction method for some $A$- and $D$-optimal weighing designs when $ N \equiv 3 \pmod 4 $ . . . . . . . . . . . 369--375 Wenceslao GonzÁlez Manteiga Asymptotic normality of generalized functional estimators dependent on covariables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--390 Ravindra Khattree Some prediction procedures with special reference to selection . . . . . . . . . 391--401 Kishore Sinha and Sanpei Kageyama A series of triangular PBIB designs with nested rows and columns . . . . . . . . 403--404 Anonymous Author index: Volume 24 (1990) . . . . . 405--406 Anonymous Pages 271-406 (March 1990) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii AndréI. Khuri Multiresponse rotatability . . . . . . . 1--6 Daniel M. Wardrop and Raymond H. Myers Some response surface designs for finding optimal conditions . . . . . . . 7--28 Ling-Yau Chan An example of construction of asymptotic $D$-optimal design which converges on an infinite set of points . . . . . . . . . 29--34 I. S. Chang and C. A. Hsiung Finite sample optimality of maximum partial likelihood estimation in Cox's model for counting processes . . . . . . 35--42 George Haiman and Madan L. Puri A strong invariance principle concerning the $J$-upper order statistics for stationary $m$-dependent sequences . . . 43--51 Gert Nieuwenhuis and Frits Ruymgaart Some stochastic inequalities and asymptotic normality of serial rank statistics in general linear processes 53--79 George G. Roussas Asymptotic normality of the kernel estimate under dependence conditions: application to hazard rate . . . . . . . 81--104 Lisa J. Suchower and Robert A. Hultquist A new property of the association matrices for EGD and hypercubic association schemes . . . . . . . . . . 105--108 J. N. Srivastava Announcement concerning book reviews . . 109--109 Anonymous Pages 1-110 (May 1990) . . . . . . . . . ??
David M. Mason and Galen R. Shorack Necessary and sufficient conditions for asymptotic normality of trimmed $L$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--139 Yong B. Lim $D$-optimal design for cubic polynomial regression on the $q$-simplex . . . . . 141--152 Chris A. J. Klaassen Random and fixed replacement sampling plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--161 Michel Harel and Madan L. Puri Weak convergence of the serial linear rank statistic with unbounded scores and regression constants under mixing conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--186 Takemi Yanagimoto Combining moment estimates of a parameter common through strata . . . . 187--194 V. P. Godambe Comments A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195 Kung-Yee Liang Comments $B$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196 Takemi Yanagimoto Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198 Zakhar Maymin For what subsets of parameters is the least squares estimator minimax? . . . . 199--204 Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205 Anonymous Pages 111-205 (June 1990) . . . . . . . ??
J. N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207 K. Hinkelmann Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210 D. V. Lindley Good's work in probability, statistics and the philosophy of science . . . . . 211--223 David G. Kendall Random Delaunay simplexes in $ R^m $ . . 225--234 David R. Brillinger and Kenneth H. Downing and Robert M. Glaeser Some statistical aspects of low-dose electron imaging of crystals . . . . . . 235--259 A. P. Dempster Causality and statistics . . . . . . . . 261--278 Donald B. Rubin Formal mode of statistical inference for causal effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--292 Patrick Suppes Probabilistic causality in quantum mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--302 James O. Berger Robust Bayesian analysis: sensitivity to the prior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--328 Joseph B. Kadane and Teddy Seidenfeld Randomization in a Bayesian perspective 329--345 Isaac Levi Compromising Bayesianism: a plea for indeterminacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--361 S. Zacks and C. A. de B. Pereira and J. G. Leite Bayes sequential estimation of the size of a finite population . . . . . . . . . 363--380 D. Michie Personal models of rationality . . . . . 381--399 M. Schervish and T. Seidenfeld An approach to consensus and certainty with increasing evidence . . . . . . . . 401--414 Jagdish Srivastava Some aspects of response surface theory, and the philosophy of statistical experimental design . . . . . . . . . . 415--435 George A. Barnard Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--439 I. J. Good A reply to the comment by G. A. Barnard 439--440 I. J. Good Speculations concerning the future of statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--466 Anonymous Volume 25 (1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--468 Anonymous Pages 207-468 (July 1990) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Hartmut Milbrodt and Helmut Strasser On the asymptotic power of the two-sided Kolmogorov--Smirnov test . . . . . . . . 1--23 TaChen Liang On the convergence rates of a monotone empirical Bayes test for uniform distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Anita Dobek and Stanis\law Gnot Characterizations of two-way layouts from the point of view of variance component estimation in the corresponding mixed linear models . . . 35--45 Sheela Talwalker and B. Raja Rao Modified quadratic analysis in prediction with mixed binary and continuous explanatory variables . . . . 47--57 R. V. Ramamoorthi Sufficiency, ancillarity and independence in invariant models . . . . 59--63 Mike Jacroux Some $E$-optimal row-column designs having unequally replicated treatments 65--81 G. B. Khosrovshahi and F. Vatan and S. Ajoodani-Namini On some support sizes for BIB designs with $ \upsilon = 9 $ and $ k = 4 $ . . 83--92 V. V. Menon and N. K. Indira A Poisson approximation in an urn model with indistinguishable balls . . . . . . 93--101 Munsup Seoh An elementary proof of CLT for signed rank statistics with regression constants under hypothesis of symmetry 103--108 I. J. Good Statistical discussion forum . . . . . . 109--125 Shanti S. Gupta Acknowledgement of referees' services 127--128 J. N. Srivastava Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129 Anonymous Pages 1-130 (September 1990) . . . . . . ??
M. E. Johnson and L. M. Moore and D. Ylvisaker Minimax and maximin distance designs . . 131--148 M. C. Spruill Good designs for polynomial extrapolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--159 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Augustyn Markiewicz Admissible linear estimators of an arbitrary vector of parametric functions in the general Gauss--Markov model . . . 161--171 Rahul Mukerjee and Arijit Chaudhuri Asymptotic optimality of double sampling plans employing generalized regression estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--183 Jens-Peter Kreiss Local asymptotic normality for autoregression with infinite order . . . 185--219 N. Balakrishnan Approximate maximum likelihood estimation for a generalized logistic distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--236 U. Gather and B. Rauhut The outlier behaviour of probability distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--252 Anonymous Pages 131-252 (October 1990) . . . . . . ??
Subir Ghosh and Eric S. Lagergren Dispersion models and estimation of dispersion effects in replicated factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . 253--262 R. A. Bailey An efficient semi-latin square for twelve treatments in blocks of size two 263--266 Klaus J. Miescke Optimum replacement policies for using the most reliable components . . . . . . 267--276 Philip J. Smith Survey design optimization for catch curve analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--290 Benzion Boukai The asymptotic power function of GLR tests for local change of parameter . . 291--303 T. N. Sriram Sequential estimation of ratio of normal parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--324 H. D. Brunk and P. W. Jones Fitting conditional distributions using orthogonal expansions . . . . . . . . . 325--337 Daniel Zelterman Smooth nonparametric estimation of the quantile function . . . . . . . . . . . 339--352 H. M. Barakat and M. A. El-Shandidy On the limit distribution of the extremes of a random number of independent random variables . . . . . . 353--361 Steven G. From An application of Cheng's lemma for minimizing the asymptotic variance of best asymptotically normal estimators based on sample quantiles . . . . . . . 363--370 Anonymous Author index: Volume 26 (1990) . . . . . 371--372 Anonymous Pages 253-372 (November 1990) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Michel Harel and Madan L. Puri Limiting behavior of one sample rank order statistics with unbounded scores for nonstationary absolutely regular processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23 Czes\law Stepniak Quadratic unbiased estimation without invariance and its application in the unbalanced one-way random model . . . . 25--35 Yoshihiko Maesono On the normal approximation of $U$-statistics of degree two . . . . . . 37--50 Blaza Toman and William I. Notz Bayesian optimal experimental design for treatment-control comparisons in the presence of two-way heterogeneity . . . 51--63 Teruhiro Shirakura Main effect + one or two plans for 2 $^m$ factorials . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74 John Stufken Some families of optimal and efficient repeated measurements designs . . . . . 75--83 S. Sivaganesan Sensitivity of some standard Bayesian estimates to prior uncertainty: a comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--103 Spiridon Penev Efficient estimation of the stationary distribution for exponentially ergodic Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--123 I. U. H. Mian and M. M. Shoukri and D. S. Tracy Maximum likelihood estimation of sibling correlations in the analysis of family data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--141 Anonymous Pages 1-142 (January 1991) . . . . . . . ??
Ram C. Tiwari and Pranab K. Sen Incorporating historical controls in testing for a trend in multinomial proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--156 Nicholas I. Fisher and Peter Hall Bootstrap algorithms for small samples 157--169 Michael G. Akritas An alternative derivation of aligned rank tests for regression . . . . . . . 171--186 Hung Chen and Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau A two-stage spline smoothing method for partially linear models . . . . . . . . 187--201 Edward W. Frees Trimmed slope estimates for simple linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 203--221 Shean-Tsong Chiu On the consistency of the global minimizer of Mallows' criterion for nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 223--230 C. K. Mustafi The median absolute deviation of residual life data and weak convergence of a related stochastic process . . . . 231--236 Prem Nath and Kanwar Kumar Gulati Cyclic symmetry on cyclic and noncyclic sets of probability distributions and the entropies of degree $ \alpha $ . . . 237--247 Nikos Farmakis Constructions of $A$-optimal weighing designs when $ n = 19$ . . . . . . . . . 249--261 Rajeshwar Singh and V. K. Gupta Resistance of block designs . . . . . . 263--269 Anonymous Pages 143-270 (February 1991) . . . . . ??
Anthony J. Hayter and Ajit C. Tamhane Sample size determination for step-down multiple test procedures: Orthogonal contrasts and comparisons with a control 271--290 V. K. Jandhyala and I. B. MacNeill Tests for parameter changes at unknown times in linear regression models . . . 291--316 Michael Hamada The costs of using incomplete exponential data . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--324 Hervé Monod Serially balanced factorial sequences 325--333 Charles J. Colbourn and C. C. Lindner and C. A. Rodger Neighbor designs and $m$-wheel systems 335--340 Patrick Tendick Optimal noise addition for preserving confidentiality in multivariate data . . 341--353 Betty Joseph and T. M. Durairajan Equivalence of various optimality criteria for estimating functions . . . 355--360 R. J. Karunamuni A new smoothness quantification in kernel density estimation . . . . . . . 361--373 Dean A. Follmann and Diane Lambert Identifiability of finite mixtures of logistic regression models . . . . . . . 375--381 Jye-Chyi Lu and Gouri K. Bhattacharyya Inference procedures for a bivariate exponential model of Gumbel based on life test of component and system . . . 383--396 Udo Kamps Inequalities for moments of order statistics and characterizations of distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--404 Anonymous Author index volume 27 (1991) . . . . . 405--406 Anonymous Pages 271-406 (March 1991) . . . . . . . ??
James O. Berger and Julia Mortera Bayesian analysis with limited communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24 J. Pfanzagl A supplement to the Convolution Theorem 25--31 Guido Giani and Helmut Finner Some general results on least favorable parameter configurations with special reference to equivalence testing and the range statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--47 David Birkes and Yadolah Dodge Optimal $ a \times b $ connected designs with $ a + b $ observations . . . . . . 49--59 S. Bagchi and E. E. M. van Berkum On the optimality of a new class of adjusted orthogonal designs . . . . . . 61--65 R. J. Martin and J. A. Eccleston Optimal incomplete block designs for general dependence structures . . . . . 67--81 Stathis Chadjiconstantinidis and Chronis Moyssiadis Some $D$-optimal odd-equireplicated designs for a covariate model . . . . . 83--93 Jiahua Chen and Dennis K. J. Lin On the identity relationships of $ 2 - p $ designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98 F. K. Hwang and Lin Zong-zhen and Y. C. Yao Knockout tournaments with diluted Bradley-Terry preference schemes . . . . 99--106 Berthold Heiligers Admissibility of experimental designs in linear regression with constant term . . 107--123 A. I. Khuri and G. G. Vining Conditions required for the mean response to fall within specified bounds 125--136 Shanti S. Gupta Acknowledgement of referees' services 137--137 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc Anonymous Pages 1-138 (May 1991) . . . . . . . . . ??
H. Bolfarine and S. Zacks Bayes and minimax prediction in finite populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--151 Herold Dehling and Murad S. Taqqu Bivariate symmetric statistics of long-range dependent observations . . . 153--165 Young K. Truong Nonparametric curve estimation with time series errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--183 Vasant P. Bhapkar Loss of information in the presence of nuisance parameters and partial sufficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--203 John Stufken On group divisible treatment designs for comparing test treatments with a standard treatment in blocks of size 3 205--221 Holger Dette A note on robust designs for polynomial regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--232 D. R. Jensen and R. V. Foutz Pitman estimation on $ R^k $ . . . . . . 233--240 Ashis SenGupta Generalized correlations in the singular case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--245 Sven Berg and Krzysztof Nowicki Statistical inference for a class of modified power series distributions with applications to random mapping theory 247--261 Derrick S. Tracy and Khushnood A. Khan Fourth exact moment result for improving MRBP based inferences . . . . . . . . . 263--270 Anonymous Pages 139-270 (June 1991) . . . . . . . ??
Robert E. Bechhofer and Anthony J. Hayter and Ajit C. Tamhane Designing experiments for selecting the largest normal mean when the variances are known and unequal: Optimal sample size allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--289 James Albert and Mohan Delampady and Wolfgang Polasek A class of distributions for robustness studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--304 Rimas Norvaisa and Ricardas Zitikis Asymptotic behaviour of linear combinations of functions of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--317 Rainer Schwabe Adaptive design in the one-way layout 319--338 Y. S. Sathe and R. G. Shenoy Further results on construction methods for some $A$- and $D$-optimal weighing designs when $ N \equiv 3 \bmod 4 $ . . 339--352 Lefteris Angelis and Chronis Moyssiadis A-optimal incomplete block designs with unequal block sizes for comparing test treatments with a control . . . . . . . 353--368 Steve D. Jost Relative efficiencies of model robust estimators in two-dimensional situations 369--381 Richard J. Pulskamp and Dan A. Ralescu A general class of nonlinear admissible estimators in the one-parameter exponential case . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--390 Ru-Rong Hsiao and Charles E. McCulloch and Ruey-Beei Wu The power of some nonparametric test statistics for the location and mean slippage problems . . . . . . . . . . . 391--403 Anonymous Author index volume 28 (1991) . . . . . 405--406 Anonymous Pages 271-406 (July 1991) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii J. N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 A. P. Basu Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Richard E. Barlow and R. W. Mensing and N. G. Smiriga Computing the optimal design for a calibration experiment . . . . . . . . . 5--19 A. P. Basu and Nader Ebrahimi Bayesian approach to life testing and reliability estimation using asymmetric loss function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31 Bo Bergman and Min Xie On Bayesian software reliability modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41 Gouri K. Bhattacharyya and Jayanta K. Ghosh Asymptotic properties of estimators in a binomial reliability growth model and its continuous-time analog . . . . . . . 43--53 Philip J. Boland and Emad El-Neweihi and Frank Proschan Redundancy importance and allocation of spares in coherent systems . . . . . . . 55--65 S. D. Durham and W. J. Padgett A probabilistic stress-strength model and its application to fatigue failure in gun barrels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--74 Frank M. Guess and John S. Usher and Thom J. Hodgson Estimating system and component reliabilities under partial information on cause of failure . . . . . . . . . . 75--85 Richard A. Johnson Confidence estimation with discrete reliability growth models . . . . . . . 87--97 Bengt Klefsjö TTT-plotting --- a tool for both theoretical and practical problems . . . 99--110 K. B. Kulasekera and K. M. Lal Saxena Estimation of change point in failure rate models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124 Parthasarthi Lahiri and Dong Ho Park Nonparametric Bayes and empirical Bayes estimators of mean residual life at age $t$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--136 Mei-Ling Ting Lee and Alan J. Gross Lifetime distributions under unknown environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--143 Ashis SenGupta and ChandraNath Pal Locally optimal tests for no contamination in standard symmetric multivariate normal mixtures . . . . . . 145--155 Moshe Shaked and J. George Shanthikumar Shock models with MIFRA time to failure distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--169 Nozer D. Singpurwalla Inference under planned maintenance, warranties, and other retrospective data 171--185 Fabio Spizzichino Sequential burn-in procedures . . . . . 187--197 G. A. Whitmore and M. Chown and G. G. Pullum Some exact algebraic expressions for the reliability of multipath switching networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--209 M. Xie and B. Bergman On a general measure of component importance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--220 Hassan Zahedi Proportional mean remaining life model 221--228 Anonymous Pages 1-228 (September-October 1991) . . ??
Gauri Sankar Datta and Malay Glosh Asymptotic optimality of hierarchical Bayes estimators and predictors . . . . 229--243 A. O'Hagan Bayes-Hermite quadrature . . . . . . . . 245--260 J. P. Vila Local optimality of replications from a minimal $D$-optimal design in regression: a sufficient and quasi-necessary condition . . . . . . . 261--277 Nizam Uddin and J. P. Morgan Optimal and near optimal sets of Latin squares for correlated errors . . . . . 279--290 Hira L. Koul A weak convergence result useful in robust autoregression . . . . . . . . . 291--308 Ya. Yu. Nikitin Hodges-Lehmann and Chernoff efficiencies of linear rank statistics . . . . . . . 309--323 Holger Drees and Hartmut Milbrodt Components of the two-sided Kolmogorov--Smirnov test in signal detection problems with Gaussian white noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--335 Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and Asit P. Basu A class of tests for bivariate exponentiality against bivariate increasing failure rate alternatives . . 337--349 A. Thavaneswaran and Bovas Abraham Estimation of multivariate non-linear time series models . . . . . . . . . . . 351--363 Charles J. Colbourn and C. C. Lindner and C. A. Rodger Neighbor designs and $m$-wheel systems 365--365 Anonymous Author Index Volume 29 (1991) . . . . . 367--368 Anonymous Pages 229-368 (November 1991) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Master index volumes 21-30 . . . . . . . 425--439 Anonymous Pages 425-439 (1992) . . . . . . . . . . 425--439
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Jagdish N. Srivastava Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v Robert W. Keener and Michael Woodroofe Fixed width interval estimation for the reciprocal drift of Brownian motion . . 1--12 Michael Falk Bootstrap optimal bandwidth selection for kernel density estimates . . . . . . 13--22 Gangaji Maguluri Estimation in a semiparametric model by the method of minimum distance . . . . . 23--32 A. I. Khuri Tests concerning a nested mixed model with heteroscedastic random effects . . 33--44 Jane Y. Chang and Jason C. Hsu Optimal designs for multiple comparisons with the best . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--62 Deng-Yuan Huang and Sheng-Tsaing Tseng A decision procedure for determining the number of components in principal component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 63--71 Subir Kumar Bhandari and Rahul Mukerjee Two- and multi-stage selection procedures for Weibull populations . . . 73--81 Barbu C. Kestenband New families of balanced incomplete block designs with block size $ q + 1 $ 83--91 Y. S. Sathe and Meena R. Satam Some more robust block designs against the unavailability of data . . . . . . . 93--98 Deborah J. Street A note on strongly equineighboured designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105 G. J. S. Ross Graphical methods for constructing data sets for which likelihood functions have multiple optima . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--132 Shanti S. Gupta Acknowledgement of referees' services 133--134 Anonymous Pages 1-134 (January 1992) . . . . . . . ??
J. N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135 Jacek Koronacki Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139 Jagdish Srivastava and Ranoo Hveberg Sequential factorial probing designs for identifying and estimating non-negligible factorial effects for the $ 2^m $ experiment under the tree structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--162 K. R. Shah Recovery of interblock information: an update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--172 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Jan Hauke Minimum number of experimental units in connected block designs with certain additional properties . . . . . . . . . 173--183 Bronislaw Ceranka and Krystyna Katulska Optimum biased spring balance weighing designs with non-homogeneity of the variances of errors . . . . . . . . . . 185--193 Lubomír Kubácek Estimation of the first and second order parameters in regression models with special structure . . . . . . . . . . . 195--211 Takeaki Kariya and Yasuyuki Toyooka Bounds for normal approximations to the distributions of generalized least squares predictors and estimators . . . 213--221 Stanislaw Gnot and Jolanta Srzednicka and Roman Zmy\'slony Bayes invariant quadratic estimation in general linear regression models . . . . 223--236 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Pawel R. Pordzik Implied linear restrictions in the general Gauss--Markov model . . . . . . 237--248 G. Trenkler and H. Toutenburg Pre-test procedures and forecasting in the regression model under restrictions 249--256 Burkhardt Seifert Exact tests in unbalanced mixed analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--266 N. Balakrishnan and R. S. Ambagaspitiya A robust method of estimation based on the MML estimators for a single linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--279 M. L. Tiku and R. P. Suresh A new method of estimation for location and scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . 281--292 Anonymous Pages 135-292 (February 1992) . . . . . ??
W. Stute Modified cross-validation in density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305 Hannelore Liero Asymptotic normality of a weighted integrated squared error of kernel regression estimates with data-dependent bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--325 Sándor Csörg\Ho and László Viharos Confidence bands for percentile residual lifetimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--337 Marek M\keczarski Fixed-width interval estimation of the minimum point of a regression function based on the Kiefer--Wolfowitz procedure 339--349 H. W. Block and D. Chhetry and Z. Fang and A. R. Sampson Some new partial orderings on $ S_n $ and $ S_n \times S_n $ . . . . . . . . . 351--357 Juan A. Cuesta and Carlos Matrán A review on strong convergence of weighted sums of random elements based on Wasserstein metrics . . . . . . . . . 359--370 Anna Kuczmaszewska and Dominik Szynal On the complete convergence for randomly indexed partial sums and the limit behaviour of a sequence of quantiles . . 371--383 Barbara Bartma\'nska and Dominik Szynal On Berry--Esseen theorem for some functions of $U$-statistics . . . . . . 385--393 Marius Iosifescu On $U$-statistics and von Mises statistics for a special class of Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--400 Roman Róza\'nski Random stopping sets in a sequential analysis of random measures and fields 401--412 K. Szajowski Optimal on-line detection of outside observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--422 Anonymous Author index volume 30 (1992) . . . . . 423--424 Anonymous Master index volumes 21-30 . . . . . . . 425--439 Anonymous Pages 293-439 (March 1992) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Andrew L. Rukhin Linear estimators of a location parameter and canonical parameter estimators for a Poisson distribution 1--13 M. C. Jones and M. P. Wand Asymptotic effectiveness of some higher order kernels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--21 A. R. Padmanabhan and Madan L. Puri Rank-based estimation of the ratio of scale parameters and applications . . . 23--49 Marianthi Markatou and Thomas P. Hettmansperger Applications of the asymmetric eigenvalue problem techniques to robust testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--65 Angela G. Shirley Is the minimum of several location parameters positive? . . . . . . . . . . 67--79 Chen-Chi Shing and Klaus Hinkelmann Repeated measurement designs for factorial treatments when high order interactions are negligible . . . . . . 81--91 María Angeles Gil and Pedro Gil Fuzziness in the experimental outcomes: comparing experiments and removing the loss of information . . . . . . . . . . 93--111 Berthold Heiligers and Klaus Schneider Invariant admissible and optimal designs in cubic regression on the $v$-ball . . 113--125 Kishore Sinha and Sanpei Kageyama Constructions of some $E$-optimal $3$-concurrence most balanced designs 127--132 Anonymous Pages 1-132 (April 1992) . . . . . . . . ??
Tasos C. Christofides A strong law of large numbers for $U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--145 Thomas J. Santner and Maika Behaxeteguy Heffernan A two-stage procedure for selecting the largest normal mean whose first stage selects a bounded random number of populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--168 T. Kubokawa and A. K. Md. E. Saleh and K. Morita Improving on MLE of coefficient matrix in a growth curve model . . . . . . . . 169--177 Charles Hagwood The calibration problem as an ill-posed inverse problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--185 Tapan K. Nayak On statistical analysis of a sample from a population of unknown species . . . . 187--198 Jagdish Srivastava and Zhao Ouyang Studies on a general estimator in sampling, utilizing extraneous information through a sample weight function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--218 Berthold Heiligers Admissible experimental designs in multiple polynomial regression . . . . . 219--233 Nripes Kumar Mandal and Berthold Heiligers Minimax designs for estimating the optimum point in a quadratic response surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--244 Yoshifumi Hyodo Characteristic polynomials of information matrices of some balanced fractional $ 2^m $ factorial designs of resolution $ 2 l + 1 $ . . . . . . . . . 245--252 Nizam Uddin Constructions for some balanced incomplete block designs with nested rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--261 Ashish Das and A. Dey Universal optimality and non-optimality of some row-column designs . . . . . . . 263--271 Anonymous Pages 133-271 (May 1992) . . . . . . . . ??
Patrick Tendick Assessing the effectiveness of the noise addition method of preserving confidentiality in the multivariate normal case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--282 Eric V. Slud Best precedence tests for censored data 283--293 Taoufik Zoubeidi Bounded deficiency in the comparison of the means of two normal populations . . 295--310 Jean-Marie Dufour and Marc Hallin Simple exact bounds for distributions of linear signed rank statistics . . . . . 311--333 Jerzy K. Baksalary and C. Radhakrishna Rao and Augustyn Markiewicz A study of the influence of the `natural restrictions' on estimation problems in the singular Gauss--Markov model . . . . 335--351 Douglas P. Wiens Minimax designs for approximately linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--371 Zhiyi Zhang and Arthur Cohen Recovery of information in BIBDs with interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--386 Damaraju V. Lakshmi and Damaraju Raghavarao A test for detecting untruthful answering in randomized response procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--390 Anonymous Author index volume 31 (1992) . . . . . 391--392 Anonymous Pages 273-392 (June 1992) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Madan L. Puri and Jadgish N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Marc Hallin and Jean-Pierre Raoult Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 Willem Albers Deficiencies of combined rank tests . . 5--24 Jan Beirlant and An Carbonez and Edward van der Meulen Long run proportional hazards models of random censorship . . . . . . . . . . . 25--44 Youssef Benghabrit and Marc Hallin Optimal rank-based tests against first-order superdiagonal bilinear dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--61 Paul Deheuvels A functional law of the iterated logarithm for tail quantile processes 63--74 Paul Deheuvels Large deviations by Poisson approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88 Manfred Denker and Madan L. Puri Asymptotic normality of two sample linear rank statistics under $U$-statistic structure . . . . . . . . 89--110 Jean-Marie Dufour and Marcel G. Dagenais Nonlinear models, rescaling and test invariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--135 John H. J. Einmahl Limit theorems for tail processes with application to intermediate quantile estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--145 Anonymous Pages 1-145 (July 1992) . . . . . . . . ??
George Haiman A strong invariance principle for the extremes of multivariate stationary $m$-dependent sequences . . . . . . . . 147--163 Marc Hallin and Madan L. Puri Some asymptotic results for a broad class of nonparametric statistics . . . 165--196 Michel Harel Weak invariance of the multidimensional rank statistic with unbounded scores for nonstationary absolutely regular processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--227 Gert Nieuwenhuis Central limit theorems for sequences with $ m(n)$-dependent main part . . . . 229--241 Stefan S. Ralescu Asymptotic deviations between perturbed empirical and quantile processes . . . . 243--258 F. H. Ruymgaart and M. C. A. van Zuijlen Empirical $U$-statistics processes . . . 259--269 W. Wertz On quasi-invariant density estimation 271--280 Anonymous Pages 147-280 (August 1992) . . . . . . ??
T. P. Tripathi and Ravindra Khattree Estimation of a parameter using Pitman nearness criterion . . . . . . . . . . . 281--289 C. D. Fuh Bootstrapping the autocorrelation coefficient of finite Markov chains . . 291--302 Mervyn J. Silvapulle On $M$-methods in growth curve analysis with asymmetric errors . . . . . . . . . 303--309 Martha Bilotti-Aliaga Use of a side effect as a covariate in a problem of sequential analysis . . . . . 311--323 Douglas E. Critchlow On rank statistics: an approach via metrics on the permutation group . . . . 325--346 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and Tumulesh K. S. Solanky Accelerated sequential procedure for selecting the best exponential population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--361 Anirban Dasgupta and Saurabh Mukhopadhyay and William J. Studden Compromise designs in heteroscedastic linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--384 K. A. Lawry and D. R. Bellhouse Relative efficiency of certain randomization procedures in an $ n \times n $ array when spatial correlation is present . . . . . . . . . 385--399 Mike Jacroux On the $A$-optimality of block designs 401--415 Richard H. Jones Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of repeated measures: M. J. Crowder and D. J. Hand Chapman and Hall, London, 1990 256 pp., \$55.50} . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418 Hari K. Iyer Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction to generalized linear models: Annette J. Dobson Chapman and Hall, London, 1990 250 pp., \$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . 418--420 Shean Chiu Book Review: \booktitleSubset selection in regression: A. J. Miller Chapman and Hall, London, 1990 229 pp., \$47.50} . . 420--422 Habib Salehi Book Review: \booktitleDetection and estimation: Dimitri Kazakos and P. Papantoni-Kazakos, Computer Science Press, New York, 1990, xxi + 428 pp., \$51.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--423 Anonymous Author index volume 32 (1992) . . . . . 425--426 Anonymous Pages 281-426 (September 1992) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Jagdish N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Muhammad K. Habib and Edward J. Wegman and Joel L. Davis Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 Edward J. Wegman and Muhammad K. Habib Stochastic methods for neural systems 5--25 Gregory A. Clark and Robert D. Hawkins and William N. Frost How neural are neural networks? a comparison of information processing and storage in artificial and real neural systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--65 Thomas M. McKenna Physiological constraints on the formal representation of neurons . . . . . . . 67--98 C. F. Starmer Frequency-dependent processes: a model for short-term memory . . . . . . . . . 99--106 Grace L. Yang and Charles E. Swenberg Estimation of open dwell time and problems of identifiability in channel experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--119 C. C. Heyde New developments in inference for temporal stochastic processes . . . . . 121--129 M. E. Thompson and A. Thavaneswaran On Bayesian nonparametric estimation for stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 131--141 M. K. Habib and A. Thavaneswaran Optimal estimation for semimartingale neuronal models . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--156 Anonymous Pages 1-156 (October 1992) . . . . . . . ??
Milton Sobel and M. Ebneshahrashoob Quota sampling for multinomial via Dirichlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--164 Roman Róza\'nski Recursive estimation of intensity function of a Poisson random field . . . 165--174 Peter J. Brockwell and Jian Liu Estimating the noise parameters from observations of a linear process with stable innovations . . . . . . . . . . . 175--186 Wen-Tao Huang and Huann-Sheng Chen Estimation of the exponential mean under type I censored sampling . . . . . . . . 187--196 Jason C. Hsu Stepwise multiple comparisons with the best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204 Dror Rom and Sanat K. Sarkar A generalized model for the analysis of association in ordinal contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--212 Claudia Czado and Thomas J. Santner The effect of link misspecification on binary regression inference . . . . . . 213--231 D. L. Hawkins Detecting shifts in functions of multivariate location and covariance parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--244 Kathryn Chaloner and Kinley Larntz Bayesian design for accelerated life testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--259 B. Jones and J. Kunert and H. P. Wynn Information matrices for mixed effects models with applications to the optimality of repeated measurements designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274 Nikos Farmakis On constructibility of $A$-optimal weighing designs $ (n, k, 5) $, when $ n \equiv 3 \pmod 4 $ and $ k = n - 1, n $ 275--283 S. Sengupta and Rahul Mukerjee Optimal spatial sampling plans in the presence of linear trend . . . . . . . . 285--293 Anonymous Pages 157-293 (November 1992) . . . . . ??
S. Yakowitz and M. Kollier Machine learning for optimal blackjack counting strategies . . . . . . . . . . 295--309 K. B. Athreya and C. D. Fuh Bootstrapping Markov chains: countable case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--331 Ronald Christensen and Jessica Utts Testing for nonadditivity in log-linear and logit models . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--343 X. H. Zhou and S. Blumenthal Two stage reliability tests for new series systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--366 S. R. Paul and K. Thiagarajah Hypothesis tests for the one-way layout of type II censored data from Weibull populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--380 T. M. Durairajan Optimal estimating function for non-orthogonal model . . . . . . . . . . 381--384 Andrej Pázman and Luc Pronzato Nonlinear experimental design based on the distribution of estimators . . . . . 385--402 S. Huda and Rahul Mukerjee Further results on optimal designs with circular string property . . . . . . . . 403--411 Ronald Paul Barry Near-minimal resolution IV designs with three factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--425 Anonymous Author index volume 33 (1992) . . . . . 427--428 Anonymous Pages 295-428 (December 1992) . . . . . ??
Jagdish N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 S. G. Mohanty Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 Shreeram S. Abhyankar and Sanjeevani B. Joshi Generalized coinsertion and standard multitableaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--18 George E. Andrews On the difference of successive Gaussian polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22 W. Böhm and S. G. Mohanty The transient solution of M/M/1 queues under $ (M, N) $-policy. A combinatorial approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33 Joseph Bonin and Louis Shapiro and Rodica Simion Some $q$-analogues of the Schröder numbers arising from combinatorial statistics on lattice paths . . . . . . 35--55 I. Z. Chorneyko and S. G. Mohanty and Kanwar Sen Enumeration of restricted three-dimensional lattice paths with fixed numbers of turns and an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62 E. Cs\`aki A discrete Feynman--Kac formula . . . . 63--73 M. R. T. Dale and J. W. Moon The permuted analogues of three Catalan sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--87 Anne de Médicis and Pierre Leroux A unified combinatorial approach for $q$- (and $ p, q$-) Stirling numbers . . 89--105 J. M. Fedou Enumeration of skew Ferrers diagrams and basic Bessel functions . . . . . . . . . 107--123 Ira M. Gessel Counting paths in Young's lattice . . . 125--134 Z. Govindarajulu A brief review of the role of lattices in rank order statistics . . . . . . . . 135--149 Kenneth I. Gross and Donald St. P. Richards Constant term identities and hypergeometric functions on spaces of Hermitian matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 151--158 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc Anonymous Pages 1-158 (January 1993) . . . . . . . ??
K. G. Janardan Some properties of the generalized Eulerian distribution . . . . . . . . . 159--169 Walter Katzenbeisser and Wolfgang Panny Some further results on the height of lattice paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--181 Peter T. Kim and G. Robert Chapman Group action on a lattice and an application to time series analysis . . 183--195 C. Krattenthaler Generating functions for shifted plane partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--208 Jacques Labelle On pairs of non-crossing generalized Dyck paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--217 K. L. Mehra and Y. S. Rama Krishnaiah and M. Sudhakara Rao A dominance result for self-dual lattice paths and applications . . . . . . . . . 219--224 Heinrich Niederhausen The enumeration of integer sequences with a given number of colored records 225--237 Robert A. Proctor A bideterminant proof of a product identity for plane partitions with symmetries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--250 Masako Sato Generating functions for the number of lattice paths restricted by two parallel hyperplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--257 Kanwar Sen and J. L. Jain and J. M. Gupta Lattice path approach to transient solution of M/M/1 with $ (0, k) $ control policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--267 Kanwar Sen and J. L. Jain Combinatorial approach to Markovian queueing models . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--279 George Steiner On estimating the number of order ideals in partial orders, with some applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--290 Robert A. Sulanke A symmetric variation of a distribution of Kreweras and Poupard . . . . . . . . 291--303 Toshihiro Watanabe On the product of a Schur function and a skew Schur function . . . . . . . . . . 305--315 Anonymous Pages 159-315 (February 1993) . . . . . ??
Sharon L. Lohr Three-stage accurate estimation in the general linear model . . . . . . . . . . 317--331 TaChen Liang and Wen-Tao Huang On monotone empirical Bayes estimators of a binomial parameter . . . . . . . . 333--348 S. B. Fotopoulos and M. C. Wang Asymptotic normality for random sums of linear processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360 Elja Arjas and Mervi Eerola On predictive causality in longitudinal studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--386 Noboru Hamada and Tor Helleseth A characterization of some $ \{ v_2 + 2 v_3, v_1 + 2 v_2; k - 1, 3 \} $-minihypers and some $ (v_{k - 30}, k, 3^{k - 1} - 21; 3)$-codes meeting the Griesmer bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--402 F. G. Ball and A. F. M. Smith and I. Verdinelli Biased coin designs with a Bayesian bias 403--421 Dinesh G. Sarvate and Jennifer Seberry Constructions of balanced ternary designs based on generalized Bhaskar Rao designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--432 R. J. Martin and J. A. Eccleston and A. C. Gleeson Robust linear block designs for a suspected LV model . . . . . . . . . . . 433--450 Anonymous Author index volume 34 (1993) . . . . . 451--452 Anonymous Pages 317-452 (March 1993) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Laurens de Haan and Holger Rootzén On the estimation of high quantiles . . 1--13 P. N. Patil Bandwidth choice for nonparametric hazard rate estimation . . . . . . . . . 15--30 Ram C. Tiwari and Jyoti N. Zalkikar Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of survival function under random left truncation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--45 G. Vijayasree and Harshinder Singh Mixed estimators of two ordered exponential means . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53 Stefan S. Ralescu and Shan Sun Necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic normality of perturbed sample quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 P. Sarda Smoothing parameter selection for smooth distribution functions . . . . . . . . . 65--75 R. J. Martin and J. A. Eccleston Incomplete block designs with spatial layouts when observations are dependent 77--91 Susanne Gutmair Polars and subgradients of mixtures of information functions . . . . . . . . . 93--112 Daniel T. Voss Comparing the classes of single replicate generalized cyclic factorial designs with and without pseudofactors 113--120 Fattah Mikaeili $D$-optimum design for full cubic on $q$-simplex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130 Kashinath Chatterjee and Rahul Mukerjee Search designs for estimating main effects and searching several two-factor interactions in general factorials . . . 131--138 Anonymous Pages 1-138 (April 1993) . . . . . . . . ??
Stefan S. Ralescu The asymptotic law of the local oscillation modulus of the empirical process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--156 Jingyu Liu and H. A. David Comparing two groups of ranked objects by pairwise matching . . . . . . . . . . 157--169 Siva Sivaganesan Robust Bayesian diagnostics . . . . . . 171--188 Tommaso Gastaldi Interpolating missing values in a censored sample . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--199 Andrew L. Rukhin Estimation of the noncentrality parameter of an $F$-distribution . . . . 201--211 Hans-Georg Müller and Ulrich Stadtmüller On variance function estimation with quadratic forms . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--231 Holger Dette On a mixture of the $D$--- and $D$ $_1$-optimality criterion in polynomial regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--249 Mong-Na Lo Huang and Ming-Chun Hsu Marginally restricted linear-optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--266 Anne de Médicis and Pierre Leroux A unified combinatorial approach for $q$- (and $ p, q$-) Stirling numbers, J. Statist. Plann. Inference 34 (1993) 89--105 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267 Anonymous Pages 139-268 (May 1993) . . . . . . . . ??
Sanghamitra Das The asymptotic distribution of the fixed effects estimator for nonlinear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--277 Shaul K. Bar-Lev and Nitza Barkan and Naftali A. Langberg Moment generating function based estimators with some optimal properties 279--291 Stefan S. Ralescu A note on the Chernoff-Savage theorem 293--299 J. Pfanzagl A case of asymptotic equivalence between conditional and marginal maximum likelihood estimators . . . . . . . . . 301--307 C. B. Dean A robust property of pseudo-likelihood estimation for count data . . . . . . . 309--317 T. Kubokawa and K. Morita and S. Makita and K. Nagakura Estimation of the variance and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--333 Wen-Tao Huang and Yi-Ping Chang Nonparametric estimation in change-point models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--347 Michel Broniatowski On the estimation of the Weibull tail coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--365 Shanti S. Gupta and Sayaji N. Hande Single-sample Bayes and empirical Bayes rules for ranking and estimating multinomial probabilities . . . . . . . 367--382 Blaza Toman and Joseph L. Gastwirth Robust Bayesian experimental design and estimation for analysis of variance models using a class of normal mixtures 383--398 Anonymous Author index volume 35 (1993) . . . . . 399--400 Anonymous Pages 269-400 (June 1993) . . . . . . . ??
R. L. Eubank and V. N. LaRiccia Testing for no effect in nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 H. J. Chen and M. Xiong and K. Lam Range tests for the dispersion of several location parameters . . . . . . 15--25 Telba Zalkind Irony Information in sampling rules . . . . . 27--38 Paul H. Kvam and Francisco J. Samaniego On the inadmissibility of empirical averages as estimators in ranked set sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--55 Sun Young Hwang and I. V. Basawa Parameter estimation in a regression model with random coefficient autoregressive errors . . . . . . . . . 57--67 John H. J. Einmahl Confidence bands for the quantile function under random censoring . . . . 69--75 Z. D. Bai and C. Radhakrishna Rao and L. C. Zhao MANOVA type tests under a convex discrepancy function for the standard multivariate linear model . . . . . . . 77--90 Sadao Tomizawa Orthogonal decomposition of point-symmetry model for two-way contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100 Jie Mi and Allan R. Sampson A comparison of the Bonferroni and Scheffé bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--105 D. Richard Cutler Efficient block designs for comparing test treatments to a control when the errors are correlated . . . . . . . . . 107--125 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc Anonymous Pages 1-126 (July 1993) . . . . . . . . ??
Jerzy K. Baksalary and George P. H. Styan Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127 Shanti S. Gupta and Klaus J. Miescke On combining selection and estimation in the search for the largest binomial parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140 R. Dennis Cook and Sanford Weisberg Residual plots in up to four dimensions 141--149 J. Kleffe and J. N. K. Rao Inadmissibility but near optimality of an estimator of correlated response variance under additive models . . . . . 151--163 Yasunori Fujikoshi Asymptotic expansions for the standardized and Studentized estimates in the growth curve model . . . . . . . 165--173 Berthold Heiligers Linear Bayes and minimax estimation in linear models with partially restricted parameter space . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183 Peter Stahlecker and Götz Trenkler Minimax estimation in linear regression with singular covariance structure and convex polyhedral constraints . . . . . 185--196 Bernhard Schipp Approximate minimax estimators in the simultaneous equations model . . . . . . 197--213 Song-Gui Wang and Erkki P. Liski Effects of observations on the eigensystem of a sample covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--226 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Pawel R. Pordzik Preliminary test estimation of a vector of parametric functions in the general Gauss--Markov model . . . . . . . . . . 227--239 W. Klonecki and A. Wiggins and S. Zontek Strictly positive estimators for variance components . . . . . . . . . . 241--252 Burkhardt Seifert Testing hypotheses in mixed linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--268 Dietrich von Rosen Uniqueness conditions for maximum likelihood estimators in a multivariate linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--275 Tue Tjur An algorithm for optimization of block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--282 Tadeusz Cali\'nski Balance, efficiency and orthogonality concepts in block designs . . . . . . . 283--300 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Idzi Siatkowski Decomposability of the $C$-matrix of a two-way elimination of heterogeneity design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--309 Julie Bérubé and George P. H. Styan Decomposable three-way layouts . . . . . 311--322 J. A. Eccleston and J. A. John and D. Whitaker Some row-column designs with adjusted orthogonality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--330 K. R. Shah and Bikas K. Sinha Optimality aspects of row-column designs with non-orthogonal structure . . . . . 331--346 Norman R. Draper and Norbert Gaffke and Friedrich Pukelsheim Rotatability of variance surfaces and moment matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--355 J. A. John and D. Whitaker and C. M. Triggs Construction of cyclic designs using integer programming . . . . . . . . . . 357--366 Subir Ghosh and Hooshang Talebi Main effect plans with an additional search property for $ 2^m $ factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--383 Jukka Nyblom and Tarmo M. Pukkila Information criterion as a multiple testing procedure . . . . . . . . . . . 385--397 Sergio G. Koreisha and Tarmo M. Pukkila New approaches for determining the degree of differencing necessary to induce stationarity in ARIMA models . . 399--412 D. S. G. Pollock On the criterion function for ARMA estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--430 Anonymous Author index volume 36 (1993) . . . . . 431--432 Anonymous Pages 127-432 (August-September 1993) ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii M. T. Chao and G. D. Lin The asymptotic distributions of the remedians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 J. M. Ruiz and J. Marín and P. Zoroa A characterization of continuous multivariate distributions by conditional expectations . . . . . . . . 13--21 Michael G. Akritas and Willem Albers Aligned rank tests for the linear model with heteroscedastic errors . . . . . . 23--41 Kun He The estimation of stratum means vector with random sample sizes . . . . . . . . 43--49 D. R. Jansen and D. E. Ramirez Efficiency comparisons in linear inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--68 Wolfgang Bischoff On $D$-optimal designs for linear models under correlated observations with an application to a linear model with multiple response . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80 John P. Morgan and Nizam Uddin Optimality and construction of nested row and column designs . . . . . . . . . 81--93 Elizabeth J. Billington and A. Khodkar and E. S. Mahmoodian Balanced ternary designs with block size four . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--126 Anonymous Pages 1-126 (October 1993) . . . . . . . ??
Song Yang A central limit theorem for the integrated square error of the kernel density estimators with randomly censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--143 G. L. Thompson Rates of convergence for linear rank statistics with dependent data . . . . . 145--157 Elías Moreno and Luís Raúl Pericchi Bayesian robustness for hierarchical $ \epsilon $-contamination models . . . . 159--167 Edward I. George and Robert McCulloch On obtaining invariant prior distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--179 Antonio Cuevas and Juan Romo On robustness properties of bootstrap approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--191 Edsel A. Peña and Vijay K. Rohatgi Small sample and efficiency results for the Nelson-Aalen estimator . . . . . . . 193--202 Erkki P. Liski and Helge Toutenburg and Götz Trenkler Minimum mean square error estimation in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 203--214 Leping Zhou and Thomas Mathew Hypotheses tests for variance components in some multivariate mixed models . . . 215--227 Kathryn Chaloner A note on optimal Bayesian design for nonlinear problems . . . . . . . . . . . 229--235 Marianne Müller Supersaturated designs for one or two effective factors . . . . . . . . . . . 237--244 Sunanda Bagchi and Ching-Shui Cheng Some optimal designs of block size two 245--253 Joseph A. Scazzero and J. K. Ord $D$-optimum designs for the linear logistic model when restrictions exist on $p$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--264 J. Kunert A note on optimal designs with a non-orthogonal row-column-structure . . 265--270 Anonymous Pages 127-270 (November 1993) . . . . . ??
V. K. Jandhyala and C. D. Minogue Distributions of Bayes-type change-point statistics under polynomial regression 271--290 Rudolf Mathar and Renate Meyer Preorderings, monotone functions, and best rank $r$ approximations with applications to classical MDS . . . . . 291--305 Larry Wasserman and Michael Lavine and Robert L. Wolpert Linearization of Bayesian robustness problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--316 Venkata K. Jandhyala A property of partial sums of regression least squares residuals and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--326 Khursheed Alam and K. B. Kulasekera Estimation of the quantile function of residual life time distribution . . . . 327--337 R. H. Hardin and N. J. A. Sloane A new approach to the construction of optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--369 Miklós Ruszinkó On a $2$-dimensional search problem . . 371--383 Kashinath Chatterjee and Rahul Mukerjee Search designs for estimating main effects and searching several two-factor interactions in general factorials . . . 385--392 D. Richard Cutler Efficient block designs for comparing test treatments to a control when the errors are correlated . . . . . . . . . 393--412 Anonymous Author index volume 37 (1993) . . . . . 413--414 Anonymous Pages 271-414 (December 1993) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Mohamed Tahir Sequential estimation of the mean of an exponential family in three stages . . . 1--12 Julian de la Horra and Carmen Fernandez Bayesian analysis under $ \epsilon $-contaminated priors: a trade-off between robustness and precision . . . . 13--30 Paul Janssen Weighted bootstrapping of $U$-statistics 31--41 Shanti S. Gupta and TaChen Liang On empirical Bayes selection rules for sampling inspection . . . . . . . . . . 43--64 S. K. Bhandari and M. Masoom Ali An asymptotically minimax procedure for selecting the $t$-best multinomial cells 65--74 Chim Tantiyaswasdikul and Michael B. Woodroofe Isotonic smoothing splines under sequential designs . . . . . . . . . . . 75--87 Rahul Mukerjee and A. M. Dean Construction of regular, single-replicate, two-factor designs . . 89--104 Holger Dette Robust designs for multivariate polynomial regression on the $d$-cube 105--124 Christine Müller Optimal designs for robust estimation in conditionally contaminated linear models 125--139 Anonymous Pages 1-140 (January 1994) . . . . . . . ??
Sun Young Hwang and I. V. Basawa Large sample inference for conditional exponential families with applications to nonlinear time series . . . . . . . . 141--157 Peter H. Westfall and Ronald H. Bremer Efficiency properties of cell means variance component estimates . . . . . . 159--178 H. Finner and G. Giani Closed subset selection procedures for selecting good populations . . . . . . . 179--199 D. Morales and L. Pardo and M. Salicrú and M. L. Menéndez Asymptotic properties of divergence statistics in a stratified random sampling and its applications to test statistical hypotheses . . . . . . . . . 201--221 Anthony J. Hayter On the selection probabilities of two-stage decision procedures . . . . . 223--236 Myra L. Samuels and George Casella and George P. McCabe Evaluating the efficiency of blocking without assuming compound symmetry . . . 237--247 Jeffrey R. Eisele The doubly adaptive biased coin design for sequential clinical trials . . . . . 249--261 Yoshifumi Hyodo and Masahide Kuwada Analysis of variance of balanced fractional $ s^m $ factorial designs of resolution $ V_{p, q} $ . . . . . . . . 263--277 Anonymous Pages 141-278 (February 1994) . . . . . ??
Paul Deheuvels and Valery B. Nevzorov Limit laws for $K$-record times . . . . 279--307 J. Pfanzagl On the identifiability of structural parameters in mixtures: applications to psychological tests . . . . . . . . . . 309--326 Joël Boularan and Louis Ferré and Philippe Vieu Growth curves: a two-stage nonparametric approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--350 Takesi Hayakawa Test of homogeneity of multiple parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--357 Udi E. Makov Some aspects of Bayesian loss-robustness 359--370 Arup Bose and Ratan Dasgupta Speed of convergence of the least-squares estimator in autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 371--380 Dayanand N. Naik and Ravindra Khattree Testing for random effects in analysis of covariance model . . . . . . . . . . 381--387 Shixian Qian Generalization of least-square isotonic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--397 Deborah J. Street and Anne Penfold Street An investigation of Williams designs with circular structure . . . . . . . . 399--409 Anonymous Author index volume 38 (1994) . . . . . 411--412 Anonymous Pages 279-412 (March 1994) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Dean Follmann and Michael Proschan The effect of estimation and biasing strategies on selection bias in clinical trials with permuted blocks . . . . . . 1--17 Bruce D. Spencer Sensitivity of benefit-cost analysis of data programs to monotone misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--31 O. David Balanced block designs under interactive linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41 Sanat K. Sarkar Shrinkage domination of some usual estimators of the common mean of several multivariate normal populations . . . . 43--55 Farok Vakil and Milton Parnes On the structure of a class of sets useful in nonadaptive group testing . . 57--69 Subir Kumar Bhandari and Debasis Sengupta Least favorable configuration and asymptotic efficiency of multinomial selection procedures . . . . . . . . . . 71--83 P. Mukhopadhyay and S. Bhattacharyya Predicting a population total under balanced samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--93 Jeong-Soo Park Optimal Latin-hypercube designs for computer experiments . . . . . . . . . . 95--111 Munsup Seoh On the relative error in normal approximation for signed rank statistics with a broad range of scores . . . . . . 113--128 Christos Koukouvinos Construction of some SBIBD$ (4 k^2, 2 k^2 + k, k^2 + k) $ and Hadamard matrices with maximal excess . . . . . . 129--134 Anonymous Pages 1-134 (1 April 1994) . . . . . . . ??
I. V. Basawa and N. U. Prabhu Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135 S. Sethuraman and I. V. Basawa Parameter estimation in a stationary autoregressive process with correlated multiple observations . . . . . . . . . 137--154 Harald Luschgy Asymptotic inference for semimartingale models with singular parameter points 155--186 M. M. Rao Harmonizable processes and inference: unbiased prediction for stochastic flows 187--209 Uwe Küchler and Michael Sòrensen Exponential families of stochastic processes and Lévy processes . . . . . . 211--237 Paul D. Feigin Inference and martingale estimating equations for stochastic processes on a semigroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--254 S. R. Adke Optimum statistical inference from randomly stopped random processes . . . 255--271 B. R. Bhat and Indira A. Devi Randomised sequential probability ratio tests for stochastic processes . . . . . 273--289 P. J. Brockwell On continuous-time threshold ARMA processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--303 Noel Cressie and Jonathan Biele and Peter B. Morgan Sample-size-optimal sequential testing 305--327 J. P. Dion and N. M. Yanev Statistical inference for branching processes with an increasing random number of ancestors . . . . . . . . . . 329--351 Anonymous Pages 135-352 (15 April 1994) . . . . . ??
Marcelo J. Weinberger and Meir Feder Predictive stochastic complexity and model estimation for finite-state processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--372 W. Liu A note on the conditional probability of correct selection under the two-element partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--383 Murari Mitra and Sujit K. Basu On a nonparametric family of life distributions and its dual . . . . . . . 385--397 Arnold Janssen Two-sample goodness-of-fit tests when ties are present . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--424 Anonymous Author index volume 39 (1994) . . . . . 425--426 Anonymous Pages 353-426 (May 1994) . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Eiichi Isogai A Berry--Esseen-type bound for recursive estimators of a density and its derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Frits H. Ruymgaart Conditional empirical, quantile and difference processes for a large class of time series with applications . . . . 15--31 Dietmar Ferger Change-point estimators in case of small disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--49 T. Edwin Prabakaran and B. Chandrasekar Simultaneous equivariant estimation for location-scale models . . . . . . . . . 51--59 Lanh Tat Tran Density estimation for time series by histograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--79 V. R. Padmawar Strategies admitting nonnegative unbiased variance estimators . . . . . . 81--95 Duncan K. H. Fong and Mosuk Chow and James H. Albert Selecting the normal population with the best regression value --- a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111 Jagdish N. Srivastava A new mathematical space with applications to statistical experimental design --- I. Preliminary results . . . 113--125 Weng Kee Wong G-optimal designs for multi-factor experiments with heteroscedastic errors 127--133 Douglas P. Wiens Robust designs for approximately linear regression: $M$-estimated parameters . . 135--160 Anonymous Pages 1-160 (June 1994) . . . . . . . . ??
James Berger and Elías Moreno Bayesian robustness in bidimensional models: Prior independence . . . . . . . 161--176 Sudip Bose Bayesian robustness with more than one class of contaminations . . . . . . . . 177--187 Anirban DasGupta and Saurabh Mukhopadhyay Uniform and subuniform posterior robustness: the sample size problem . . 189--204 Sandra Fortini and Fabrizio Ruggeri Concentration functions and Bayesian robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--220 J. B. Kadane An application of robust Bayesian analysis to a medical experiment . . . . 221--232 Michael Lavine An approach to evaluating sensitivity in Bayesian regression analyses . . . . . . 233--244 A. O'Hagan Robust modelling for asset management 245--259 Michael Goldstein and David A. Wooff Robustness measures for Bayes linear analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--277 Luis Raúl Pericchi and María Eglée Pérez Posterior robustness with more than one sampling model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--294 Wolfgang Polasek and Klaus Pötzelberger Robust Bayesian methods in simple ANOVA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--311 Gabriella Salinetti Stability of Bayesian decisions . . . . 313--329 Siva Sivaganesan Bounds on posterior expectations for density bounded class with constant bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--343 Larry Wasserman and Teddy Seidenfeld The dilation phenomenon in robust Bayesian inference . . . . . . . . . . . 345--356 James Berger and Julia Mortera Robust Bayesian hypothesis testing in the presence of nuisance parameters . . 357--373 Mohan Delampady and Dipak K. Dey Bayesian robustness for multiparameter problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--382 David Ríos Insua and Jacinto Martín Robustness issues under imprecise beliefs and preferences . . . . . . . . 383--389 Anonymous Author index volume 40 (1994) . . . . . 391--392 Anonymous Pages 161-392 (July 1994) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii T. Mikosch Almost sure convergence of bootstrapped means and $U$-statistics . . . . . . . . 1--19 W. O. Johnson and G. E. Kokolakis Bayesian classification based on multivariate binary data . . . . . . . . 21--35 Bertrand S. Clarke and Andrew R. Barron Jeffreys' prior is asymptotically least favorable under entropy risk . . . . . . 37--60 Norman L. Johnson and Samuel Kotz Further comments on Matveychuk and Petunin's generalized Bernoulli model, and nonparametric tests of homogeneity 61--72 Anirban DasGupta Bounds on asymptotic relative efficiencies of robust estimates of locations for contaminations by scale mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--93 Youngjo Lee and David Birkes Shrinking toward submodels in regression 95--111 Norman R. Draper and Lisa H. Ying A note on slope rotatability over all directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--119 Anonymous Pages 1-120 (August 1994) . . . . . . . ??
Claudia Czado Bayesian inference of binary regression models with parametric link . . . . . . 121--140 Ibrahim A. Ahmad A class of statistics useful in testing increasing failure rate average and new better than used life distributions . . 141--149 P. Mukhopadhyay Prediction in finite population under error-in-variables superpopulation models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--161 Vijay K. Singh and Hari P. Singh and Housila P. Singh Estimation of ratio and product of two finite population means in two-phase sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171 N. Christopeit Estimating parameters of an extreme value distribution by the method of moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--186 S. Sethuraman and I. V. Basawa Large sample inference for a multivariate linear model with autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . . . 187--204 Deng-Yuan Huang and Kuo-Chuan Liu Some variable selection procedures in multivariate linear regression models 205--214 Sheng-Tsaing Tseng Planning accelerated life tests for selecting the most reliable product . . 215--230 Ravindra Khattree and Dayanand N. Naik Optimal tests for nested designs with circular stationary dependence . . . . . 231--240 J. A. Cooper and T. P. McDonough and V. C. Mavron Critical sets in nets and latin squares 241--256 Anonymous Pages 121-256 (September 1994) . . . . . ??
Bruno Betr\`o and Fabrizio Ruggeri and Marek M\keczarski Robust Bayesian analysis under generalized moments conditions . . . . . 257--266 Keying Ye Bayesian reference prior analysis on the ratio of variances for the balanced one-way random effect model . . . . . . 267--280 Iza Peszek and Andrew L. Rukhin Estimating lognormal hazard function . . 281--290 T. P. Hettmansperger and I. Hueter and J. Hüsler Minimum distance estimators . . . . . . 291--302 László Gerencsér On Rissanen's predictive stochastic complexity for stationary ARMA processes 303--325 Jürgen Dippon and Václav Fabian Stochastic approximation of global minimum points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--347 Ibrahim A. Ahmad and Patricia B. Cerrito Nonparametric estimation of joint discrete-continuous probability densities with applications . . . . . . 349--364 Monga and S. Tardif A class of conditionally distribution-free rank tests for replicated latin square designs . . . . 365--376 Toby Mitchell and Max Morris and Donald Ylvisaker Asymptotically optimum experimental designs for prediction of deterministic functions given derivative information 377--389 Anonymous Author index volume 41 (1994) . . . . . 391--392 Anonymous Pages 257-392 (October 1994) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Christopher H. Schmid and Mark R. Segal and Bernard Rosner Incorporating measurement error in the estimation of autoregressive models for longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Sandro Pampallona and Anastasios A. Tsiatis Group sequential designs for one-sided and two-sided hypothesis testing with provision for early stopping in favor of the null hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . 19--35 Allan Donner and Neil Klar Cluster randomization trials in epidemiology: theory and application . . 37--56 William R. Myers and Raymond H. Myers and Walter H. Carter Some alphabetic optimal designs for the logistic regression model . . . . . . . 57--77 I. Iqbal and B. Jones Efficient repeated measurements designs with equal and unequal period sizes . . 79--88 J. N. S. Matthews Modelling and optimality in the design of crossover studies for medical applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108 Margaret C. Wu Design aspects for clinical trials with repeated measures in the presence of informative censoring . . . . . . . . . 109--122 Susan S. Ellenberg and Dennis O. Dixon Statistical issues in designing clinical trials of AIDS treatments and vaccines 123--135 Margaret Sullivan Pepe and Marie Reilly and Thomas R. Fleming Auxiliary outcome data and the mean score method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--160 Pranab K. Sen Incomplete multiresponse designs and surrogate endpoints in clinical trials 161--186 Donna Spiegelman Cost-efficient study designs for relative risk modeling with covariate measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . 187--208 Richard Simon Problems of multiplicity in clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--221 Benjamin Freedman and Stanley H. Shapiro Ethics and statistics in clinical research: towards a more comprehensive examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--240 K. K. Gordon Lan and Janet Wittes Data monitoring in complex clinical trials: which treatment is `better'? . . 241--255 H. I. Patel A repeated measures design with repeated randomization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--270 Hegang Chen and A. S. Hedayat Optimum experimental designs for comparative bioavailability studies . . 271--289 Anonymous Pages 1-290 (November 1994) . . . . . . ??
Yoshihiko Maesono On the normal approximations of $V$--- and $L$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 291--314 Winfried Stute Strong and weak representations of cumulative hazard function and Kaplan--Meier estimators on increasing sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--329 Sneh Gulati and W. J. Padgett Smooth nonparametric estimation of the hazard and hazard rate functions from record-breaking data . . . . . . . . . . 331--341 D. S. Coad Sequential estimation for two-stage and three-stage clinical trials . . . . . . 343--351 Edgar Brunner and Manfred Denker Rank statistics under dependent observations and applications to factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 353--378 Stathis Chadjiconstantinidis and Stratis Kounias Exact $A$-optimal first-order saturated designs with $ n \equiv 3 \bmod 4 $ observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--391 Anonymous Author index volume 42 (1994) . . . . . 393--394 Anonymous Pages 291-394 (December 1994) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii T. D. Dwivedi Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii Z. J. Liu and C. Radhakrishna Rao Asymptotic distribution of statistics based on quadratic entropy and bootstrapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Herman Chernoff and Eric Lander Asymptotic distribution of the likelihood ratio test that a mixture of two binomials is a single binomial . . . 19--40 Pranab Kumar Sen Statistical analysis of some reliability models: Parametrics, semi-parametrics and nonparametrics . . . . . . . . . . . 41--66 Regina Y. Liu and Kesar Singh Using i.i.d. bootstrap inference for general non-i.i.d. models . . . . . . . 67--75 R. J. Tomkins Rates of convergence for tail series . . 77--85 Fassil Nebebe and Andy C. C. Kwan Detecting `potential' outliers in time series: Some Monte Carlo evidence on dummy variable plot approaches . . . . . 87--95 Michael D. Escobar Nonparametric Bayesian methods in hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . 97--106 R. S. Singh Empirical Bayes linear loss hypothesis testing in a non-regular exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--120 Shizuhiko Nishisato Graphical representation of quantified categorical data: its inherent problems 121--132 M. S. Srivastava and Y. Wu An improved version of Taguchi's on-line control procedure . . . . . . . . . . . 133--145 H. D. Vinod and B. D. McCullough Estimating cointegration parameters: an application of the double bootstrap . . 147--156 B. C. Sutradhar and I. B. MacNeil and E. B. Dagum A simple test for stable seasonality . . 157--167 W. C. Navidi Bootstrapping a method of phylogenetic inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--184 Govind S. Mudholkar and Michael P. McDermott and Anil Mudholkar Robust finite-intersection tests for homogeneity of ordered variances . . . . 185--195 Gutti Jogesh Babu Bootstrap for nonstandard cases . . . . 197--203 Rudolf Beran Prediction in random coefficient regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--213 Daniel Krewski and Robert T. Smythe and Anup Dewanji and Mieczyslaw Szyszkowicz Bootstrapping an empirical Bayes estimator of the distribution of historical controls in carcinogen bioassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--228 Joseph N. Ladalla On fitting a modified limiting normal to the posterior distribution . . . . . . . 229--234 Jean-Pierre Dion and René Ferland Absolute continuity, singular measures and asymptotics for estimators . . . . . 235--242 Christian Belzil Estimating models of labor market transitions based on alternative specifications of job search theory . . 243--255 Wang Tonghui and Wong Chi Song Cochran theorems for a multivariate elliptically contoured model . . . . . . 257--270 B. Dimitrov and S. Chukova and Z. Khalil Definitions, characterizations and structural properties of probability distributions similar to the exponential 271--287 Gordon Fisher and Ah Boon Sim Some finite sample theory for bootstrap regression estimates . . . . . . . . . . 289--300 Simon Power Monte Carlo response surface: a comparative approach . . . . . . . . . . 301--310
Teng Li and Bimal K. Sinha Tests of ordered hypotheses for gamma scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--321 Robert Edwin Lee and John D. Spurrier Successive comparisons between ordered treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--330 C. Y. Wang and R. J. Carroll On robust logistic case-control studies with response-dependent weights . . . . 331--340 Meir Rom and Ayala Cohen Estimation in the polytomous logistic regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--353 Xiaodong Zheng and Wei-Yin Loh Bootstrapping binomial confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--380 Max D. Morris and Toby J. Mitchell Exploratory designs for computational experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--402 Anonymous Author index volume 43 (1995) . . . . . 403--404 Anonymous Pages 311-404 (February 1995) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv Jean Diebolt A nonparametric test for the regression function: Asymptotic theory . . . . . . 1--17 Wei Liu On the existence of tests uniformly more powerful than the likelihood ratio test 19--35 Gaoxiong Gan and Lee J. Bain Distribution of order statistics for discrete parents with applications to censored sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46 D. Y. Lin and Zhiliang Ying Semiparametric inference for the accelerated life model with time-dependent covariates . . . . . . . 47--63 J. K. Baksalary and S. Gnot and S. Kageyama Best estimation of variance components with arbitrary kurtosis in two-way layouts mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 65--75 Biao Zhang $M$-estimation and quantile estimation in the presence of auxiliary information 77--94 Saul Blumenthal and Ram C. Dahiya Estimation of sample size with grouped data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--115 Christine H. Müller Maximin efficient designs for estimating nonlinear aspects in linear models . . . 117--132 Anonymous Pages 1-132 (March 1995) . . . . . . . . ??
Lajos Horváth and Qi-Man Shao Limit theorems for the union-intersection test . . . . . . . . 133--148 Sanjib Basu Ranges of posterior probability over a distribution band . . . . . . . . . . . 149--166 B. Nandram Bayesian cuboid prediction intervals: an application to tensile-strength prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--180 Bikas K. Sinha and Bimal K. Sinha An application of bivariate exponential models and related inference . . . . . . 181--191 Cicilia Yuko Wada and Pranab Kumar Sen Restricted alternative test in a parametric model with competing risk data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--203 Debasis Kundu and Rameswar Kundu Consistent estimates of super imposed exponential signals when some observations are missing . . . . . . . . 205--218 S. Sethuraman and I. V. Basawa Maximum likelihood estimation for a fractionally differenced autoregressive model on a two-dimensional lattice . . . 219--235 A. S. Hedayat and Dibyen Majumdar Generating desirable sampling plans by the technique of trade-off in experimental design . . . . . . . . . . 237--247 P. W. M. John and M. E. Johnson and L. M. Moore and D. Ylvisaker Minimax distance designs in two-level factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . 249--263 Anonymous Pages 133-263 (1 April 1995) . . . . . . ??
C. K. Chu Bandwidth selection in nonparametric regression with general errors . . . . . 265--275 Yoshikazu Takada and Yasushi Nagata Fixed-width sequential confidence interval for the mean of a gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--289 Daniel A. Coleman A fixed-width interval for $ 1 \beta $ in simple linear regression . . . . . . 291--312 Yuan-chin Ivan Chang Estimation in some binary regression models with prescribed accuracy . . . . 313--325 Constantinos Goutis and George Casella Improved invariant set estimation for general-scale families . . . . . . . . . 327--340 Jerzy K. Baksalary and Augustyn Markiewicz and C. Radhakrishna Rao Admissible linear estimation in the general Gauss--Markov model with respect to an arbitrary quadratic risk function 341--347 Mohamed T. Madi On the invariant estimation of a normal variance ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--357 Jean-Pierre Lecoutre and Elias Ould-Said Convergence of the conditional Kaplan--Meier estimate under strong mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--369 Rainer Schwabe and Werner Wierich $D$-optimal designs of experiments with non-interacting factors . . . . . . . . 371--384 Saurabh Mukhopadhyay and Linda M. Haines Bayesian $D$-optimal designs for the exponential growth model . . . . . . . . 385--397 Anonymous Author index volume 44 (1995) . . . . . 399--400 Anonymous Pages 265-400 (1995) . . . . . . . . . . ??
Madan L. Puri and Jagdish N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 G. Haiman Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6 J. N. Bacro and M. Brito Weak limiting behaviour of a simple tail Pareto-index estimator . . . . . . . . . 7--19 Jan Beirlant and Michel Broniatowski and Jozef L. Teugels and Petra Vynckier The mean residual life function at great age: Applications to tail estimation . . 21--48 Mohamed Berred $K$-record values and the extreme-value index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--63 Konstantin Borovkov and Dietmar Pfeifer On record indices and record times . . . 65--79 Sándor Csörgö and David M. Mason Intermediate sums and stochastic compactness of maxima . . . . . . . . . 81--90 Paul Deheuvels and David M. Mason Nonstandard local empirical processes indexed by sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--112 Gratiane Ennadifi Strong approximation of the number of renewal paced record times . . . . . . . 113--132 Helena Ferreira Extremes of a random number of variables from periodic sequences . . . . . . . . 133--141 M. I. Fraga Alves Estimation of the tail parameter in the domain of attraction of an extremal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--173 Ursula Gather and Jim Tomkins On stability of intermediate order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183 Goerge Haiman and Maxime Kiki and Madan L. Puri Extremes of Markov sequences . . . . . . 185--201 J. Hüsler A note on extreme values of locally stationary Gaussian processes . . . . . 203--213 A. Imlahi Functional laws of the iterated logarithm for records . . . . . . . . . 215--224 Udo Kamps Recurrence relations for moments of record values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--234 E. Kaufmann and R.-D. Reiss Approximation rates for multivariate exceedances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--245 M. R. Leadbetter On high level exceedance modeling and tail inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--260 Valery Nevzorov Asymptotic distributions of records in nonstationary schemes . . . . . . . . . 261--273 E. Omey On a subclass of regularly varying functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--290 P. Révész Strong theorems on the extreme values of stationary Poisson processes . . . . . . 291--300 Josef Steinebach and Vera R. Eastwood On extreme value asymptotics for increments of renewal processes . . . . 301--312 Anonymous Pages 3-312 (1995) . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Andrew L. Rukhin and Igor Vajda Adaptive decision making for stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--329 K. J. Miescke and Dylan Shi Optimum Markov replacement policies for using the most reliable components . . . 331--346 E. E. M. van Berkum and H. N. Linssen and D. A. Overdijk The reduction and ancillary classification of observations . . . . . 347--372 Li-Xing Zhu and Hoi Lam Wong and Kai-Tai Fang A test for multivariate normality based on sample entropy and projection pursuit 373--385 Teng Li and Bimal K. Sinha Tests of ordered hypotheses for gamma scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--397 Gauri Sankar Datta and Malay Ghosh Hierarchical Bayes estimators of the error variance in one-way ANOVA models 399--411 Christine H. Müller Breakdown points for designed experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--427 Anonymous Author index volume 45 (1995) . . . . . 429--430 Anonymous Pages 313-430 (June 1995) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv Didier Chauveau A stochastic EM algorithm for mixtures with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 1--25 Lajos Horváth Kac's representation from an asymptotic viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--45 Subhash C. Kochar and S. N. U. A. Kirmani Some results on normalized spacings from restricted families of distributions . . 47--57 Ananda Sen and Gouri K. Bhattacharyya Inference procedures for the linear failure rate model . . . . . . . . . . . 59--76 Sumitra Purkayastha An almost sure representation of sample circular median . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91 David Faraggi and Richard Simon The maximum likelihood neural network as a statistical classification model . . . 93--104 Sudip Bose and Eric Slud Maximin efficiency-robust tests and some extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--121 Ali S. Hadi and Wendell D. Jones and Robert F. Ling A unifying representation of some case-deletion influence measures in univariate and multivariate linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--135 Anonymous Pages 1-135 (July 1995) . . . . . . . . ??
C. Radhakrishna Rao and Rahul Mukerjee Comparison of Bartlett-type adjustments for the efficient score statistic . . . 137--146 John T. Kent and Timothy J. Hainsworth Confidence intervals for the noncentral chi-squared distribution . . . . . . . . 147--159 Paolo Giudici Bayes factors for zero partial covariances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--174 Zhiqiang Chen Robustness of the half-space median . . 175--181 Somnath Datta A minimax optimal estimator for continuous monotone densities . . . . . 183--193 Naomi Altman and Christian Léger Bandwidth selection for kernel distribution function estimation . . . . 195--214 Pierre Jacob and Charles Suquet Estimating the edge of a Poisson process by orthogonal series . . . . . . . . . . 215--234 M. Lavine and A. Mockus A nonparametric Bayes method for isotonic regression . . . . . . . . . . 235--248 M. Mushfiqur Rashid and Balgobin Nandram A rank-based analysis of one-way repeated measures designs with a changing covariate . . . . . . . . . . . 249--263 Anonymous Pages 137-263 (1 August 1995) . . . . . ??
Dror M. Rom and Burt Holland A new closed multiple testing procedure for hierarchical families of hypotheses 265--275 Steven N. MacEachern and L. Mark Berliner Asymptotic inference for dynamical systems observed with error . . . . . . 277--292 Su-Yun Huang Empirical Bayes testing procedures in some nonexponential families using asymmetric Linex loss function . . . . . 293--309 Fabrizio Ruggeri and Larry Wasserman Density based classes of priors: Infinitesimal properties and approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--324 Elías Moreno and Juan A. Cano Classes of bidimensional priors specified on a collection of set: Bayesian robustness . . . . . . . . . . 325--334 Deng-Yuan Huang and Ren Fen Lee Selecting the largest capability index from several quality control processes 335--346 N. N. Chan On a downdating formula for regression 347--350 Song Yang Koul-DeWet-type estimation in censored regression using the conditional empirical process . . . . . . . . . . . 351--363 Yuanzhang Li and K. M. Lal Saxena Optimal robust Bayes estimation . . . . 365--380 Yousceek Jeong Optimal designs for experiments with a large number of factors . . . . . . . . 381--393 Anonymous Author index volume 46 (1995) . . . . . 395--396 Anonymous Pages 265-396 (15 August 1995) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Madan L. Puri and Jagdish N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Paul Janssen and Emmanuel Lesaffre Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Dankmar Böhning A review of reliable maximum likelihood algorithms for semiparametric mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--28 Bruce G. Lindsay and Mary L. Lesperance A review of semiparametric mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--39 Jeffrey S. Simonoff Smoothing categorical data . . . . . . . 41--69 Damon M. Berridge Modelling ordinal recurrent events . . . 71--78 Ayala Cohen and Udi Makov and Ruth Boneh Computer intensive methods for inference on parameters of complex models --- a Bayesian alternative . . . . . . . . . . 79--94 Robert Crouchley and Andrew R. Pickles Multivariate survival models for repeated and correlated events . . . . . 95--110 Dirley M. dos Santos and Richard B. Davies and Brian Francis Nonparametric hazard versus nonparametric frailty distribution in modelling recurrence of breast cancer 111--127 J. K. Lindsey and P. Lambert Dynamic generalized linear models and repeated measurements . . . . . . . . . 129--139 Erkki P. Liski and Tapio Nummi Prediction and inverse estimation in repeated-measures models . . . . . . . . 141--151 Michael O'Connell and Douglas Nychka A generalized linear classification model with a smooth link function and predictors obtained from quantile spline fits to high-dimensional data . . . . . 153--164 G. Reza Oskrochi Analysis of censored correlated observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--180 Clive Payne and Joan Payne and Colm O'Muircheartaigh Testing the tightening bond hypothesis: an application of new models for analysing trends in multiway tables . . 181--201
Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Richard Dykstra A general duality approach to $I$-projections . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--216 Itsuro Kakiuchi and Miyoshi Kimura Majorization methods on hyperplanes and their applications . . . . . . . . . . . 217--235 Murray D. Burke and Kam C. Yuen Goodness-of-fit tests for the Cox model via bootstrap method . . . . . . . . . . 237--256 Jagdish Saran Joint distributions based on the number of runs and some other two-sample rank order statistics for arbitrary sample sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--275 Lam Yeh and S. T. B. Choy Bayesian variable sampling plans for the exponential distribution with uniformly distributed random censoring . . . . . . 277--293 J. A. Cuesta-Albertos and J. S. Domínguez-Menchero and C. Matrán Consistency of $ L_p $-best monotone approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--318 Ying-Hsing Liu and Ming-Chung Yang Bounded risk conditions in simultaneous estimation of independent Poisson means 319--331 Sana BuHamra and Donald A. Anderson The spectrum of the information matrix for $ s^n $ parallel flats fractions when $s$ is prime . . . . . . . . . . . 333--345 Norbert Gaffke and Berthold Heiligers Computing optimal approximate invariant designs for cubic regression on multidimensional balls and cubes . . . . 347--376 John P. Mandeli Construction of asymmetrical orthogonal arrays having factors with a large non-prime power number of levels . . . . 377--391 Ishwar V. Basawa Book Review: \booktitleStatistical inference for branching processes: By Peter Guttorp, Wiley, New York, 1991 . . 393--394 Robert H. Shumway Book Review: \booktitleLongitudinal data with serial correlation: a state-space approach: By R. H. Jones, Chapman and Hall, London, 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . 395--397 Anonymous Author index volume 47 (1995) . . . . . 399--400 Anonymous Pages 203-400 (15 October 1995) . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Udo Kamps A concept of generalized order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23 Steen A. Andersson and David Madigan and Michael D. Perlman and Christopher M. Triggs On the relation between conditional independence models determined by finite distributive lattices and by directed acyclic graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--46 Antonis Koutsoukos and Eric Slud Inaccuracy rates and Hodges--Lehmann large deviation rates for parametric inferences with nuisance parameters . . 47--68 Ramesh C. Gupta and H. Olcay Akman On the reliability studies of a weighted inverse Gaussian model . . . . . . . . . 69--83 C. K. Chu and P. E. Cheng Nonparametric regression estimation with missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--99 K. Chen and C. C. Heyde On asymptotic optimality of estimating functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--112 Feng-Shun Chai Construction and optimality of nearly linear trend-free designs . . . . . . . 113--129 Anonymous Pages 1-129 (1 November 1995) . . . . . ??
Sangyeol Lee A trimmed mean of location of an AR($ \infty $) stationary process . . . . . . 131--140 Yosef Hochberg and Dror Rom Extensions of multiple testing procedures based on Simes' test . . . . 141--152 W. Liu A random-size subset approach to the selection problem . . . . . . . . . . . 153--164 Y. H. Lee and S. Cho and W. C. Kim and B. U. Park On estimating integrated squared spectral density derivatives . . . . . . 165--184 Stavros Kourouklis Estimating powers of the scale parameter of an exponential distribution with unknown location under Pitman's measure of closeness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--195 C. B. Dean and D. M. Eaves and C. J. Martinez A comment on the use of empirical covariance matrices in the analysis of count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--205 S. N. MacEachern and W. I. Notz and D. C. Whittinghill and Y. Zhu Robustness to the unavailability of data in the linear model, with applications 207--213 Rongde Gui and Franklin A. Graybill and Richard K. Burdick and Naitee Ting Confidence intervals on ratios of linear combinations for non-disjoint sets of expected mean squares . . . . . . . . . 215--227 Donald Malec Selecting multiple-objective fixed-cost sample designs using an admissibility criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--240 Ralf-Dieter Hilgers and Peter Bauer Optimal designs for mixture amount experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--246 Rahul Mukerjee and Sudhir Gupta A-efficient designs for bioassays . . . 247--259 Anonymous Pages 131-259 (15 November 1995) . . . . ??
Nils Lid Hjort and Grete Fenstad Second-order asymptotics for the number of times an estimator is more than $ \epsilon $ from its target value . . . . 261--275 Ramalingam Shanmugam Goodness-of-fit test for length-biased data with discussion on prevalence, sensitivity and specificity of the length bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--290 Shashikala Sukhatme and C. H. Lin Exact powers of the Wilcoxon test and the logrank test under random censoring 291--301 Wayne A. Woodward and Paul Whitney and Paul W. Eslinger Minimum Hellinger distance estimation of mixture proportions . . . . . . . . . . 303--319 Yannis G. Yatracos On the rare species of a population . . 321--329 Mohamed Tahir On the asymptotic regret of a sequential procedure for estimating the mean of a normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . 331--338 Rahul Mukerjee and S. Sengupta Optimal estimation of a finite multidimensional population total . . . 339--346 D. Morales and L. Pardo and I. Vajda Asymptotic divergence of estimates of discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 347--369 Kurt Hoffmann All admissible linear estimators of the regression parameter vector in the case of an arbitrary parameter subset . . . . 371--377 Robert Ahlbrandt and Hari K. Iyer and Dominic F. Vecchia Optimum design of serial measurement trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--390 Anonymous Author index volume 48 (1995) . . . . . 391--392 Anonymous Pages 261-392 (December 1995) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii V. K. Srivastava Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Arnold Zellner Past, present and future of econometrics 3--8 Dhammika Dharmapala and Michael McAleer Econometric methodology and the philosophy of science . . . . . . . . . 9--37 Takeshi Amemiya Structural duration models . . . . . . . 39--52 T. Krishna Kumar and Anil P. Gore and V. Sitaramam Some conceptual and statistical issues on measurement of poverty . . . . . . . 53--71 G. S. Maddala and In-Moo Kim Structural change and unit roots . . . . 73--103 Wojciech W. Charemaz Unit root econometrics and economic nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--126 Amos Golan and George Judge Recovering information in the case of underdetermined problems and incomplete economic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136 Aman Ullah Entropy, divergence and distance measures with econometric applications 137--162
R. W. Farebrother The role of chaotic processes in econometric models . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176 David F. Hendry Typologies of linear dynamic systems and models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--201 H. D. Vinod Empirically feasible solutions and explicit dynamics for rational expectation models . . . . . . . . . . . 203--222 D. S. G. Pollock and Evangelia Pitta The misspecification of dynamic regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 223--239 L. G. Godfrey Misspecification tests and their uses in econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--260 Denis Conniffe Applying estimated score tests in econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--278 K. Maekawa and T. Yamamoto and Y. Takeuchi and M. Hatanaka Estimation in dynamic regression with an integrated process . . . . . . . . . . . 279--303
E. E. M. van Berkum and H. N. Linssen and D. A. Overdijk Inference rules and inferential distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--317 M. Y. El-Bassiouni and J. F. Seely A modified harmonic mean test procedure for variance components . . . . . . . . 319--326 Felix Abramovich and David M. Steinberg Improved inference in nonparametric regression using $ L_k $-smoothing splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--341 Gordon M. Kaufman Successive sampling and software reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--369 Thomas Müller-Gronbach Optimal designs for approximating the path of a stochastic process . . . . . . 371--385 Dibyen Majumdar and Ajit C. Tamhane Row-column designs for comparing treatments with a control . . . . . . . 387--400 Stathis Chadjiconstantinidis and Nicolas Farmakis The $A$-optimal non-saturated weighing designs for $ n = 15$ observations . . . 401--413 Anonymous Author index volume 49 (1996) . . . . . 415--416 Anonymous Pages 305-416 (1 February 1996) . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Helmut Lütkepohl Testing for nonzero impulse responses in vector autoregressive processes . . . . 1--20 Judith A. Giles and David E. A. Giles Risk of a homoscedasticity pre-test estimator of the regression scale under LINEX loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--35 Christian Gouriéroux and Alain Monfort and Eric Renault Two-stage generalized moment method with applications to regressions with heteroscedasticity of unknown form . . . 37--63 G. Trenkler and P. Stahlecker Dropping variables versus use of proxy variables in linear regression . . . . . 65--75 Anil K. Srivastava and Praveen Shukla Minimax estimation in linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89 John L. Knight and Stephen E. Satchell The exact distribution of the maximum likelihood estimators for the linear regression negative exponential model 91--102 Maxwell L. King Hypothesis testing in the presence of nuisance parameters . . . . . . . . . . 103--120 P. A. V. B. Swamy and J. S. Mehta and Rao N. Singamsetti Circumstances in which different criteria of estimation can be applied to estimate policy effects . . . . . . . . 121--153
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i David K. C. Lee and Peter M. Robinson Semiparametric exploration of long memory in stock prices . . . . . . . . . 155--174 Anoop Chaturvedi Robust Bayesian analysis of the linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--186 Jacek Osiewalski and Mark F. J. Steel A Bayesian analysis of exogeneity in models pooling time-series and cross-sectional data . . . . . . . . . . 187--206 R. A. L. Carter Some small-sample properties of instrumental-variables estimators of block triangular models . . . . . . . . 207--221 Kimio Morimune and Kosuke Oya Limited information estimation and testing subject to linear constraints 223--240 Bernhard Schipp and Helge Toutenburg Feasible minimax estimators in the simultaneous equations model under partial restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 241--250 Christopher L. Skeels and Murray D. Smith Some consequences of model misspecification for $t$ testing in a structural equation . . . . . . . . . . 251--271 George S. Donatos and George C. Michailidis A Monte Carlo study of some limited and full information simultaneous equation estimators with normal and nonnormal autocorrelated disturbances . . . . . . 273--282 Anil K. Bera and Xiao-Lei Zuo Specification test for a linear regression model with ARCH process . . . 283--308
Ishwar Basawa Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309 Gutti Jogesh Babu and Eric D. Feigelson Spatial point processes in astronomy . . 311--326 Noel Cressie and Soumendra Nath Lahiri Asymptotics for REML estimation of spatial covariance parameters . . . . . 327--341 Robert J. Elliott and Lakhdar Aggoun Estimation for hidden Markov random fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--351 Ernesto M. Floresroux and Michael L. Stein A new method of edge correction for estimating the nearest neighbor distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--371 C. C. Heyde On the use of quasi-likelihood for estimation in hidden-Markov random fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--378 John T. Kent and Kanti V. Mardia Spectral and circulant approximations to the likelihood for stationary Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394 R. J. Martin Some results on unilateral ARMA lattice processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--411 Anonymous Author index volume 50 (1996) . . . . . 413--414
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Yosihiko Ogata Evaluation of spatial Bayesian models --- Two computational methods . . . . . 1--18 Michael J. Phelan Transient tracers and birth and death on flows: Parametric estimation of rates of drift, injection, and decay . . . . . . 19--40 Dimitris N. Politis and Joseph P. Romano On flat-top kernel spectral density estimators for homogeneous random fields 41--53 Stephen L. Rathbun Asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator for spatio-temporal point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--74 Lynne Seymour and Chuanshu Ji Approximate Bayes model selection procedures for Gibbs-Markov random fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--97 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99 Anonymous Pages 1-99 (1 April 1996) . . . . . . . ??
R. J. R. Abel and Xiafu Zhang and Hangfu Zhang Three mutually orthogonal idempotent Latin squares of orders 22 and 26 . . . 101--106 Etsuko Bannai Modular invariance property and spin models attached to cyclic group association schemes . . . . . . . . . . 107--124 Luigia Berardi and Bal Kishan Dass A bound for codes correcting random and low-density closed-loop burst errors . . 125--128 Cao Zhenfu Finite set theory and its application to cryptology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136 Chang Yanxun On large sets of directed triple systems 137--142 Wensong Chu Homogeneous embeddings of disjoint Mendelsohn triple systems . . . . . . . 143--155 Changmin Ding Supports of indecomposable $ B(4, 2; \nu) $ designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--161 B. Du Orthogonal diagonal Latin squares with small subsquares . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--170 Anthony B. Evans Magic rectangles and modular magic rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--180 Qing-de Kang and Jian-guo Lei On large sets of hybrid triple systems 181--188 Jian-guo Lei Further results on transitive Kirkman triple systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194 Guizhen Liu and Guiying Yan Orthogonal $ [k - 1, k + 1]$-factorizations in graphs . . . . . . 195--200 Lu Qinglin On the existence of pure $ (\nu, 4, 3)$-PMD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--213 S. L. Ma Regular automorphism groups on partial geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--222 Ying Miao and Songlin Yang Concerning the vector $ \nu (m, t) $ . . 223--227 Ruud Pellikaan On the existence of error-correcting pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--242 Weisheng Qiu New progress on the multiplier conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--259
Tung-Shan Fu and Tayuan Huang Quasi semisymmetric designs with extremal conditions . . . . . . . . . . 261--271 W. D. Wallis Regular graph designs . . . . . . . . . 273--281 Ming-yuan Xia and Gang Liu A new family of supplementary difference sets and Hadamard matrices . . . . . . . 283--291 Xu Yunqing and Ge Gennian and Zhu Lie Existence of SOLS with holes of type $ 2^n u^1 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--307 Mieko Yamada Hadamard matrices and spin models . . . 309--321 J. Yin Optimal packing of even circuits into a DK$_v$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--330 Zhu Jiacheng and Sun Rongguo and Cheng Murong A construction of addition-multiplication magic square of order 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--337 Chen Kejun On the existence of super-simple $ (\nu, 4, 4) $-BIBDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--350 Yangxian Wang and Ma Jianmin Association schemes of symmetric matrices over a finite field of characteristic two . . . . . . . . . . . 351--371 Hongzeng Wei and Chong Li Some enumeration theorems in pseudo-symplectic geometry over a finite field of characteristic two and the construction of association schemes . . 373--386 R. Wei and L. Zhu Generalized $H$-codes and doubly even self-dual binary codes . . . . . . . . . 387--393 L. Zhu Duadic group algebra codes . . . . . . . 395--401 Anonymous Author index Shanghai conference issue, parts 1 and 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404 Anonymous Author index volume 51 (1996) . . . . . 405--406 Anonymous Pages 261-406 (1 May 1996) . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Larry Wasserman The conflict between improper priors and robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Holger Dette and H.-M. Neugebauer Bayesian optimal one point designs for one parameter nonlinear models . . . . . 17--31 T. M. Durairajan and K. J. Raman Robustness of locally most powerful invariant test for normal mixture model in control and treatment populations . . 33--41 Edit Gombay and Lajos Horváth Approximations for the time of change and the power function in change-point models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--66 Hu Yang On the stability of biased estimates and the regularization method . . . . . . . 67--75 Ahmad Parsian and Nader Nematollahi Estimation of scale parameter under entropy loss function . . . . . . . . . 77--91 Zinoviy Landsman Sample quantiles and additive statistics: Information, sufficiency, estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--108 Fanhui Kong and Bruce Levin Edgeworth expansions for the conditional distributions in logistic regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--129 Anonymous Pages 1-129 (1 June 1996) . . . . . . . ??
Holger Dette and Axel Munk Sign regularity of a generalized Cauchy kernel with applications . . . . . . . . 131--142 Jiayang Sun and Michael Woodroofe Adaptive smoothing for a penalized NPMLE of a non-increasing density . . . . . . 143--159 Jian Zhang The sample breakdown points of tests . . 161--181 Pierre Jacob and Bruno Massé Asymptotic behavior of samples from general multivariate distributions . . . 183--196 Alan T. K. Wan Estimating the error variance after a pre-test for an inequality restriction on the coefficients . . . . . . . . . . 197--213 K. Dutta Estimation of quadratic functions of the Bernoulli parameter in inverse sampling method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--224 Norbert Benda Pre-test estimation and design in the linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--240 K. T. Arasu and Susan Harris New constructions of group divisible designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--253 K. Balasubramanian and Aloke Dey $D$-optimal designs with minimal and nearly minimal number of units . . . . . 255--262 Anonymous Pages 131-262 (15 June 1996) . . . . . . ??
Jacek Wesolowski Stability for the Arnold-Ghosh characterization of the geometric distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--269 Kai Fun Yu A simple comparison of two sequences of probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--287 Dongchu Sun and Robert K. Tsutakawa and Wang-Shu Lu Bayesian design of experiment for quantal responses: What is promised versus what is delivered . . . . . . . . 289--306 Bani K. Mallick and Alan E. Gelfand Semiparametric errors-in-variables models: a Bayesian approach . . . . . . 307--321 Krzysztof Moli\'nski The modification of confidence intervals for variance components in one-way random model using Stein's approach . . 323--329 Naisyin Wang and David Ruppert Estimation of regression parameters in a semiparametric transformation model . . 331--351 Sunanda Bagchi Two infinite series of $E$-optimal nested row-column designs . . . . . . . 353--357 Tadeusz Cali\'nski and Sanpei Kageyama The randomization model for experiments in block designs and the recovery of inter-block information . . . . . . . . 359--374 P. Mukhopadhyay and K. Vijayan On controlled sampling designs . . . . . 375--378 Noboru Hamada and Yoko Watamori The nonexistence of [71,5,46;3]-codes 379--394 Anonymous Author index volume 52 (1996) . . . . . 395--396 Anonymous Pages 263-396 (1 July 1996) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Jan Beirlant and John H. J. Einmahl Maximal type test statistics based on conditional processes . . . . . . . . . 1--19 S. Kalpana Bai and T. M. Durairajan Estimating functions for branching processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--32 X. Luo The asymptotic distribution of MLE of treatment lag threshold . . . . . . . . 33--61 Terry A. McKee and Harry J. Khamis Multigraph representations of hierarchical loglinear models . . . . . 63--74 W. Stute and W. González Manteiga NN goodness-of-fit tests for linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--92 Stathis Chadjiconstantinidis and Theodore Chadjipadelis $D$-optimal cyclic complex linear designs and supplementary difference sets with association vector . . . . . . 93--115 Subir Ghosh and Walid S. Al-Sabah Efficient composite designs with small number of runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--132 Anonymous Pages 1-132 (1 August 1996) . . . . . . ??
Guoqi Qian and R. P. Gupta and George Gabor Test for homogeneity of several populations by stochastic complexity . . 133--151 Y. Cheng Multistage bandit problems . . . . . . . 153--170 Guoxing Soon and Michael Woodroofe Nonparametric estimation and consistency for renewal processes . . . . . . . . . 171--195 Christophe Croux and Peter J. Rousseeuw and Annemie Van Bael Positive-breakdown regression by minimizing nested scale estimators . . . 197--235 Chao-Ping Ting and Yu-Yun Yang Bayes $A$-optimal designs for comparing test treatments with a control . . . . . 237--251 S. Kounias and C. Koukouvinos and N. Nikolaou and A. Kakos The non-equivalent circulant $D$-optimal designs for $ n = 90$ . . . . . . . . . 253--259 Jagdish N. Srivastava and Junfang Li Orthogonal designs of parallel flats type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--283 Anonymous Pages 133-283 (15 August 1996) . . . . . ??
H. J. A. Degenhardt and Madan L. Puri and Shan Sun and Martien C. A. van Zuijlen Characterization of weak convergence for smoothed empirical and quantile processes under $ \varphi $-mixing . . . 285--295 Liudas Giraitis and Remigijus Leipus and Donatas Surgailis The change-point problem for dependent observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--310 Serge B. Provost On Craig's theorem and its generalizations . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--321 Samuel Y. Dennis A Bayesian analysis of tree-structured statistical decision problems . . . . . 323--344 V. T. Makhuvha and P. C. N. Groenewald and D. J. de Waal Bayesian tests for the balanced two-way analysis of variance model . . . . . . . 345--359 Somnath Datta On asymptotic properties of bootstrap for AR(1) processes . . . . . . . . . . 361--374 D. S. Tracy and H. P. Singh and R. Singh An alternative to the ratio-cum-product estimator in sample surveys . . . . . . 375--387 Arnoud C. M. van Rooij and Frits H. Ruymgaart Asymptotic minimax rates for abstract linear estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 389--402 Michel Carbon and Lanh Tat Tran On histograms for linear processes . . . 403--419 Shanti S. Gupta and Deng-Yuan Huang On detecting influential data and selecting regression variables . . . . . 421--435 Anonymous Author index volume 53 (1996) . . . . . 437--438 Anonymous Pages 285-438 (30 August 1996) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii S. G. Mohanty Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 W. Böhm A note on the asymptotics of lattice paths with general boundaries . . . . . 3--13 Walter Böhm and Peter Hackl The effect of serial correlation on the in-control average run length of cumulative score charts . . . . . . . . 15--30 Ch. A. Charalambides On the $q$-differences of the generalized $q$-factorials . . . . . . . 31--43 Endre Csáki On some results for Bernoulli excursions 45--54 Sudhir R. Ghorpade Young bitableaux, lattice paths and Hilbert functions . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66 Peter Kirschenhofer and Helmut Prodinger Return statistics of simple random walks 67--74 C. Krattenthaler Oscillating tableaux and nonintersecting lattice paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--85 Heinrich Niederhausen Symmetric Sheffer sequences and their applications to lattice path counting 87--100 Mizan Rahman and Sergei K. Suslov A unified approach to the summation and integration formulas for $q$-hypergeometric functions I . . . . . 101--118 Kanwar Sen and Ritu Jain Generalized Markov-Polya urn models with predetermined strategies . . . . . . . . 119--133 Doron Zeilberger Self-avoiding walks, the language of science, and Fibonacci numbers . . . . . 135--138 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
K. J. Miescke and D. Rasch Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143 Shanthi S. Gupta and Lii-Yuh Leu and TaChen Liang Simultaneous selection for homogeneous multinomial populations based on entropy function: an empirical Bayes approach 145--157 Paul van der Laan Distributional and efficiency results for subset selection . . . . . . . . . . 159--174 V. Guiard Different definitions of $ \Delta $-correct selection for the indifference zone formulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--199 H. Finner and G. Giani Duality between multiple testing and selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--227 Shanti S. Gupta and Klaus J. Miescke Bayesian look ahead one-stage sampling allocations for selection of the best population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--244
F. Liese Adaptive selection of the best population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--269 Deng-Yuan Huang Selection procedures in linear models 271--277 S. Panchapakesan A review of robustness of selection procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--290 Joachim Listing and Dieter Rasch Robustness of subset selection procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--305 G. Herrendörfer and A. Tuchscherer Selection and breeding . . . . . . . . . 307--321 Johan Dourleijn A case study of subset selection in sugar beet breeding . . . . . . . . . . 323--344 Dieter Rasch Software for selection procedures . . . 345--358 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359 Anonymous Author index volume 54 (1996) . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Antonio Cuevas and Julián de la Horra Asymptotic behaviour of the predictive density in the exchangeable case . . . . 1--12 K. Balasubramanian and M. I. Beg and R. B. Bapat An identity for the joint distribution of order statistics and its applications 13--21 Essam K. Al-Hussaini and Zeinhum F. Jaheen Bayesian prediction bounds for the Burr type XII distribution in the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--37 P. Vellaisamy A note on the estimation of the selected scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--46 J. S. Buzas and L. A. Stefanski Instrumental variable estimation in a probit measurement error model . . . . . 47--62 Heleno Bolfarine and Shelemyahu Zacks and Mônica C. Sandoval On predicting the population total under regression models with measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76 Timothy E. O'Brien and John O. Rawlings A nonsequential design procedure for parameter estimation and model discrimination in nonlinear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--93 Douglas P. Wiens and Julie Zhou Minimax regression designs for approximately linear models with autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . . . 95--106 Derrick S. Tracy and Naurang S. Mangat On respondent's jeopardy in two alternate questions randomized response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--114 AndréI. Khuri A method for determining the effect of imbalance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--129 Anonymous Pages 1-129 (15 October 1996) . . . . . ??
Murari Mitra and Sujit K. Basu Shock models leading to non-monotonic ageing classes of life distributions . . 131--138 Abdulghani A. Alharbi and D. N. Shanbhag General characterization theorems based on versions of the Chernoff inequality and the Cox representation . . . . . . . 139--150 A. Zhigljavsky and L. Zabalkanskaya Existence theorems for some group testing strategies . . . . . . . . . . . 151--173 Barry Kurt Moser and Douglas Faries A new sequential approximation method 175--189 Hammou El Barmi Empirical likelihood ratio test for or against a set of inequality constraints 191--204 Marianthi Markatou and George Manos Robust tests in nonlinear regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--217 Berthold Heiligers Computing $E$-optimal polynomial regression designs . . . . . . . . . . . 219--233 Nizam Uddin $E$-optimal incomplete block designs with two distinct block sizes . . . . . 235--248 Dhaifalla K. Al-Mutairi Multivariate failure models generated by random environments: a unified approach 249--253 V. M. Joshi F42. Minimal sufficiency of a complete sufficient statistic . . . . . . . . . . 255--256 V. M. Joshi F43. Irrelevance of labels in estimation 256--257 V. M. Joshi F44. Fallacy in the proof of Birnbaum's theorem: the reply by Berger (F28) . . . 257--258 I. J. Good F44A. A question about F44 . . . . . . . 258--258 V. M. Joshi F44B. A reply to F44A . . . . . . . . . 258--259 V. M. Joshi F45. A comment on `the insufficiency of some definitions of sufficiency', F25 259--260 I. J. Good F46. Varieties of the regression fallacy 260--260 V. M. Joshi F47. Conditionality in structural inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261 V. M. Joshi F48. A lacuna in the definition of Pitman-closerness . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262 T. P. Hutchinson F49. Nonunique estimates of ability . . 262--264 I. J. Good F49A. A comment on F49 . . . . . . . . . 264--264 Anonymous Pages 131-264 (30 October 1996) . . . . ??
Narasinga R. Chaganty and Jayaram Sethuraman Multidimensional strong large deviation theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--280 Dirk Nasri-Roudsari Extreme value theory of generalized order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--297 Peter Hall and Andrew T. A. Wood Approximations to distributions of statistics used for testing hypotheses about the number of modes of a population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--317 Jiahua Chen On the conditional and mixture model approaches for matched pairs . . . . . . 319--329 Richard A. Levine and George Casella Convergence of posterior odds . . . . . 331--344 Mohamed T. Madi and Tom Leonard Bayesian estimation for shifted exponential distributions . . . . . . . 345--351 Denis Conniffe A comment on the use of auxiliary or surrogate outcome data . . . . . . . . . 353--359 Mauro Gasparini Nonparametric Bayes estimation of a distribution function with truncated data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--369 Fu-Chuen Chang and Berthold Heiligers E-optimal designs for polynomial regression without intercept . . . . . . 371--387 Werner G. Müller Optimal design for local fitting . . . . 389--397 Anonymous Author index volume 55 (1996) . . . . . 399--400 Anonymous Pages 265-400 (8 November 1996) . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii N. M. Singhi Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 4--15 E. F. Assmus On Berman's characterization of the Reed--Muller codes . . . . . . . . . . . 17--21 Shakti Banerjee and Sanpei Kageyama Non-isomorphic solutions of group divisible designs with $ k = 3 $ and $ \lambda_1 = 0 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--32 R. D. Baker and G. L. Ebert and J. Hemmeter and A. Woldar Maximal cliques in the Paley graph of square order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--38 Jürgen Bierbrauer Construction of orthogonal arrays . . . 39--47 I. Bloemen and J. A. Thas and H. Van Maldeghem Elation generalized quadrangles of order $ (p, t) $, $p$ prime, are classical . . 49--55 Darryn E. Bryant and C. C. Lindner $2$-perfect directed $m$-cycle systems can be equationally defined for $ m = 3, 4$, and $5$ only . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63 Alan R. Camina and Alice Ann Miller Line-closed subsets of Steiner triple systems and classical linear spaces . . 65--77 Pascale Charpin Self-dual codes which are principal ideals of the group algebra $ F_2 [\{ F_{2^m}, + \}] $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--92 Charles J. Colbourn Some direct constructions for incomplete transversal designs . . . . . . . . . . 93--104 Noboru Hamada and Tor Helleseth The uniqueness of [87,5,57; 3]-codes and the nonexistence of [258,6,171; 3]-codes 105--127 Noboru Hamada and Tor Helleseth A characterization of some $ 3 v_2 + v_3 $, $ 3 v_1 + v_2 $; $ 3, 3$-minihypers and some $ [15, 4, 9; 3]$-codes with $ B_2 = 0 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--146 Noboru Hamada and Tomoko Maekawa A characterization of some $ 3 v_1 + v_3 $, $ 3 v_0 + v_2 $; $ 3, 3$-minihypers and its applications to error-correcting codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--169
Ryoh Fuji-Hara and Shinji Kuriki and Maki Miyake Cyclic orthogonal and balanced arrays 171--180 J. D. Key Extendable Steiner designs from finite geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--186 Clement Lam and Vladimir D. Tonchev Classification of affine resolvable $ 2 - (27, 9, 4) $ designs . . . . . . . . . 187--202 Rudolf Mathon and Cheryl E. Praeger On block-transitive designs with affine automorphism group . . . . . . . . . . . 203--221 R. Mandrell and J. Yucas A geometric construction of the Steiner system $S$ (5, 8, 24) . . . . . . . . . 223--228 G. Eric Moorhouse Some $p$-ranks related to Hermitian varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--241 Teruhiro Shirakura and Wei-Ping Tong Weighted $A$-optimality for fractional $ 2^m $ factorial designs of resolution $V$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--256 Tran van Trung and Qiu-rong Wu and Dale M. Mesner High order intersection numbers of $t$-designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--268 Sumiyasu Yamamoto and Yoshio Fujii and Yoshifumi Hyodo and Hiromu Yumiba New light on fractional $ 2^m $ factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 269--287 Victor A. Zinoviev On the equivalence of certain constant weight codes and combinatorial designs 289--294 N. J. A. Sloane and J. Stufken A linear programming bound for orthogonal arrays with mixed levels . . 295--305 A. S. Hedayat and John Stufken and Guoqin Su On difference schemes and orthogonal arrays of strength $t$ . . . . . . . . . 307--324 Anonymous Author index volume 56 (1996) . . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Anonymous Robust statistics and data analysis . . 1--1 Raymond Carroll and Luisa Fernholz and David Tyler Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 Anonymous List of participants . . . . . . . . . . 5--6 Frank Hampel What can the foundations discussion contribute to data analysis? And what may be some of the future directions in robust methods and data analysis? . . . 7--19 John Tukey More honest foundations for data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28 Luisa Turrin Fernholz Reducing the variance by smoothing . . . 29--38 C. A. Field Robust regression and small sample confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 39--48 Stephan Morgenthaler and Anna Nicolaou Composite transformation models: a fiducial perspective . . . . . . . . . . 49--57 Elvezio Ronchetti Robust inference by influence functions 59--72 Victor J. Yohai Local and global robustness of regression estimators . . . . . . . . . 73--92 Kaye E. Basford and John W. Tukey Graphical profiles as an aid to understanding plant breeding experiments 93--107 Graciela Boente and Ricardo Fraiman and Jean Meloche Robust plug-in bandwidth estimators in nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 109--142 J. Cabrera and G. S. Watson Simulation methods for mean and median bias reduction in parametric estimation 143--152 Mia Hubert and Peter J. Rousseeuw Robust regression with both continuous and binary regressors . . . . . . . . . 153--163
Karen Kafadar and Philip C. Prorok Estimating the difference in location parameters of two survival curves, with applications to cancer screening . . . . 165--179 John T. Kent Data analysis for shapes and images . . 181--193 A. J. McDougall and D. S. Stoffer and D. E. Tyler Optimal transformations and the spectral envelope for real-valued time series . . 195--214 Marianthi Markatou and Ayanendranath Basu and Bruce Lindsay Weighted likelihood estimating equations: the discrete case with applications to logistic regression . . 215--232 Ricardo A. Maronna and Víctor J. Yohai Robust estimation in simultaneous equations models . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--244 David M. Rocke and David L. Woodruff Robust estimation of multivariate location and shape . . . . . . . . . . . 245--255 Andreas F. Ruckstuhl Partial breakdown in two-factor models 257--271 Douglas G. Simpson and Yuan-Chin Ivan Chang Reweighting approximate GM estimators: Asymptotics and residual-based graphics 273--293 Werner A. Stahel and Alan Welsh Approaches to robust estimation in the simplest variance components model . . . 295--319 Arnold J. Stromberg Robust covariance estimates based on resampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--334 Anonymous Author index volume 57 (1997) . . . . . 335--336
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Luc Teirlinck Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Gyula Katona A brief biographical sketch of Paul Erd\Hos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 Elizabeth J. Billington and M. Gionfriddo and C. C. Lindner The intersection problem for $ K_4 - e $ designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--27 Charles J. Colbourn and Gillian Nonay A golf design of order 11 . . . . . . . 29--31 David G. Glynn On cone representations of translation planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41 A. Hedayat and Esther Seiden and John Stufken On the maximal number of factors and the enumeration of $3$-symbol orthogonal arrays of strength 3 and index 2 . . . . 43--63 R. G. Jarrett and F. C. Piper and P. R. Wild Efficient two-replicate resolvable row-column designs . . . . . . . . . . . 65--77 J. D. Key and F. D. Shobe Some transitive Steiner triple systems of Bagchi and Bagchi . . . . . . . . . . 79--86 G. B. Khosrovshahi and N. M. Singhi Further characterization of basic trades 87--92 G. Korchmáros and L. Storme and T. Sz\Honyi Space-filling subsets of a normal rational curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--110 D. L. Kreher and D. R. Stinson Small group-divisible designs with block size four . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--118 Robert A. Liebler and Spyros S. Magliveras and Sergei V. Tsaranov Block transitive resolutions of $t$-designs and room rectangles . . . . 119--133 Rudolf Mathon and Anne Penfold Street Partitions of sets of designs on seven, eight and nine points . . . . . . . . . 135--150 Qing-de Kang Large sets of three types of oriented triple systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--176 D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri and Tianbao Zhu Orthogonal arrays and ordered designs 177--183 R. G. Stanton A retrospective look at the Erd\Hos--DeBruijn theorem . . . . . . . 185--191 Shinsei Tazawa and Teruhiro Shirakura Enumeration of unlabelled bicolored graphs by degree parities . . . . . . . 193--206 Vladimir D. Tonchev and Robert S. Weishaar Steiner triple systems of order 15 and their codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216 Anonymous Pages 1-216 (1 March 1997) . . . . . . . ??
Alaattin Erkanli Boundary-mode approximations for posterior expectations . . . . . . . . . 217--239 C. Armero and M. J. Bayarri A Bayesian analysis of a queueing system with unlimited service . . . . . . . . . 241--261 Michael Baron and Andrew L. Rukhin Asymptotic behavior of confidence regions in the change-point problem . . 263--282 Tonghui Wang Versions of Cochran's theorem for general quadratic expressions in normal matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--297 Krishna B. Athreya and Jun-ichiro Fukuchi Confidence intervals for endpoints of a c.d.f. via bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . 299--320 Michael L. Stein Efficiency of linear predictors for periodic processes using an incorrect covariance function . . . . . . . . . . 321--331 Enno Mammen and Byeong U. Park Optimal smoothing in adaptive location estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--348 Ayanendranath Basu and Sahadeb Sarkar and A. N. Vidyashankar Minimum negative exponential disparity estimation in parametric models . . . . 349--370 Anton Schick Efficient estimates in linear and nonlinear regression with heteroscedastic errors . . . . . . . . . 371--387 Wolfgang Wefelmeyer Adaptive estimators for parameters of the autoregression function of a Markov chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--398 Yoshihiro Usami and Yasuyuki Toyooka Errata of Kariya and Toyooka (1992), ``Bounds for normal approximations to the distributions of generalized least squares predictors and estimators'' . . 399--405 Anonymous Author index volume 58 (1997) . . . . . 407--408 Anonymous Pages 217-408 (15 March 1997) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii R. J. Martin A three-dimensional unilateral autoregressive lattice process . . . . . 1--18 Somnath Datta and T. N. Sriram A modified bootstrap for autoregression without stationarity . . . . . . . . . . 19--30 Sudha G. Purohit Recurring event data: a general model and related inference procedures . . . . 31--44 Carey E. Priebe and David J. Marchette and George W. Rogers Semiparametric nonhomogeneity analysis 45--60 Govind S. Mudholkar and Alan D. Hutson Continuity corrected approximations for and `exact' inference with Pearson's $ \chi^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--78 Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay and Asit P. Basu Bayesian analysis of incomplete time and cause of failure data . . . . . . . . . 79--100 Miklós Ruszinkó and Gábor Tardos On a search problem in multidimensional grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--109 Théophile Niyonsenga Response probability estimation . . . . 111--126 Augustyn Markiewicz Properties of information matrices for linear models and universal optimality of experimental designs . . . . . . . . 127--137 P. Vounatsou and A. F. M. Smith Simulation-based Bayesian inferences for two-variance components linear models 139--161 B. L. Raktoe and H. Pesotan Note on Draper and Lin's article ``Capacity considerations for two-level fractional factorial designs'' . . . . . 163--165 J. K. Lindsey Stopping rules and the likelihood function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--177 D. R. Jensen Book Review: \booktitleMixture models: Theory, geometry and applications: Bruce G. Lindsay, NSF-CBMS Regional conference series in probability and statics, volume 5 (Institute of Mathematical Statistics and American Statistical Association, 1995 ISBN: 0-940600-32-3, pp. 163) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--181 Eric P. Smith Book Review: \booktitleMethods of multivariate analysis: Alvin Rencher, (John, New York, 1995, \$74.95 ISBN 0471571520, xvi + 627 pp.)} . . . . . . 183--184 N. R. Draper Book Review: \booktitleResponse surface methodology: Process and product optimization using designed experiments: R. H. Myers and D. C. Montgomery, (Wiley, New York, 1995, \$59.95, ISBN: 0-471-58100-3, pp. 714)} . . . . . . . . 185--186 C. M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \booktitleExperimental design and model choice: H. Toutenburg, (Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, 1995, pp. 463) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--189 Anonymous Pages 1-189 (30 March 1997) . . . . . . ??
Shan Sun A class of adaptive distribution-free procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--211 Frans A. Boshuizen A replacement model with general age-dependent failure rates . . . . . . 213--228 Eitan Greenshtein and Erik Torgersen Statistical information and expected number of observations for sequential experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--240 Benzion Boukai and Jyotirmoy Sarkar Sequential confidence intervals with fixed-proportional accuracy for the mean of NEF-PVF distributions . . . . . . . . 241--256 Khursheed Alam and Zhuojen Feng Estimating probability of occurrence of the most likely multinomial event . . . 257--277 K. Thiagarajah and Sudhir R. Paul Interval estimation for the scale parameter of the two-parameter exponential distribution based on time-censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 279--289 Cheng Cheng and Emanuel Parzen Unified estimators of smooth quantile and quantile density functions . . . . . 291--307 William F. Rosenberger and T. N. Sriram Estimation for an adaptive allocation design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--319 Tae Yoon Kim Asymptotically optimal bandwidth selection rules for the kernel density estimator with dependent observations 321--336 Faouzi Lyazrhi Bayesian criteria for discriminating among regression models with one possible change point . . . . . . . . . 337--353 Samuel D. Oman A remark on testing covariance structure in a mixed model . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--357 Paola Sebastiani and Raffaella Settimi A note on $D$-optimal designs for a logistic regression model . . . . . . . 359--368 John P. Morgan and Nizam Uddin Orthogonal sets of balanced incomplete block designs with nested rows and column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--378 Nam-Ky Nguyen and Alan J. Miller $ 2^m $ fractional factorial designs of resolution $V$ with high $A$-efficiency, $ 7 \leq m \leq 10 $ . . . . . . . . . . 379--384 Anonymous Author index volume 59 (1997) . . . . . 385--386 Anonymous Pages 191-386 (15 April 1997) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Galen R. Shorack Uniform CLT, WLLN, LIL and bootstrapping in a data analytic approach to trimmed $L$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--44 Arnold Janssen and Georg Neuhaus Two-sample rank tests for censored data with non-predictable weights . . . . . . 45--59 Arijit Chaudhuri and Debesh Roy Model assisted survey sampling strategies with randomized response . . 61--68 William F. Rosenberger and Nancy Flournoy and Stephen D. Durham Asymptotic normality of maximum likelihood estimators from multiparameter response-driven designs 69--76 A. F. Desmond Optimal estimating functions, quasi-likelihood and statistical modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--104 R. J. Carroll Comment on the paper by Desmond . . . . 104--106 Mary L. Lesperance Discussion on A. Desmond's paper: Optimal estimating functions, quasi-likelihood and statistical modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108 John Nelder Contribution to discussion on A. F. Desmond's paper: Optimal estimating functions, quasi-likelihood and statistical modelling . . . . . . . . . 108--108 T. S. Wirjanto Comment on A. F. Desmond's paper: Optimal estimating functions, quasi-likelihood and statistical modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113 Kung-Yee Liang and Paul J. Rathouz Discussion on A. F. Desmond's paper: Optimal estimating functions, quasi-likelihood and statistical modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--116 A. F. Desmond Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--121 Yu Shen and Thomas R. Fleming Large sample properties of some survival estimators in heterogeneous samples . . 123--138 Arijit Chaudhuri and Debesh Roy Optimal variance estimation for generalized regression predictor . . . . 139--151 Prakash Patil Nonparametric hazard rate estimation by orthogonal wavelet methods . . . . . . . 153--168 Reinhard Höpfner On tail parameter estimation in certain point process models . . . . . . . . . . 169--187 D. R. Jensen T. W. Anderson, K. T. Fang, I. Olkin (eds.): Review of \booktitleMultivariate analysis and its applications, lecture notes, monograph series vol. 24 (Institute of Mathematical Statistics Hayward, CA, USA, 1995) . . . . . . . . 189--191 Robert V. Foutz and Patricia B. Foutz Richard A. Epstein: \booktitleThe theory of gambling and statistical logic, revised edition, (Academic Press, San Diego: 1995) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194 Eric P. Smith Book Review: Anant M. Kshirsagar and William Boyce Smith: \booktitleGrowth curves (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1995, Price \$135.00, ISBN: 0-8247-9341-2, 392 pp.)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196 Eric P. Smith Book Review: W. J. Krzanowski and F. H. C. Marriott: \booktitleMultivariate analysis, part 2, classification, covariance structures and repeated measurements (Arnold, London, 1996, Price \$54.95, ISBN Number 0-4702-3413-X, 280 pp.)} . . . . . . . . 196--197 Anonymous Pages 1-197 (30 April 1997) . . . . . . ??
Philippe Barbe Bootstrapping the renewal spacings processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--214 Nathan R. Wetzel Improper priors for translation families 215--227 Elvira Haupt and Hendrik Schäbe The TTT transformation and a new bathtub distribution model . . . . . . . . . . . 229--240 A. K. Gupta and D. Song $ L_p $-norm spherical distribution . . 241--260 S. K. Agarwal and U. K. Sharma and Sharmishtha Kashyap A new approach to use multivariate auxiliary information in sample surveys 261--267 Anthony J. Macula A non-adaptive search algorithm that identifies up to three defects . . . . . 269--272 Ching-Ho Leu and Kam-Wah Tsui Discriminant analysis of survey data . . 273--290 J. Antoch and M. Huskova and Z. Prásková Effect of dependence on statistics for determination of change . . . . . . . . 291--310 Gang Chen Berry--Esseen-type bounds for the kernel estimator of conditional distribution and conditional quantiles . . . . . . . 311--330 Holger Dette and H.-M. Neugebauer Bayesian $D$-optimal designs for exponential regression models . . . . . 331--349 Nizam Uddin Optimal partially balanced nested row-column designs . . . . . . . . . . . 351--366 John P. Morgan On pairs of Youden designs . . . . . . . 367--387 Anonymous Author index volume 60 (1997) . . . . . 389--390 Anonymous Pages 199-390 (15 May 1997) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Bouameur Ragbi Weak convergence of weighted multivariate empirical $U$-statistics processes under mixing condition . . . . 1--16 Peide Shi $M$-type regression splines involving time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--37 Ishay Weissman Fitting a Mejzler distribution to extreme value data . . . . . . . . . . . 39--47 Kun He and Glen Meeden Selecting the number of bins in a histogram: a decision theoretic approach 49--59 Yoshihiko Maesono Edgeworth expansions of a studentized $U$-statistic and a jackknife estimator of variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--84 Toshiya Iwashita Asymptotic null and nonnull distribution of Hotelling's $T$ $^2$-statistic under the elliptical distribution . . . . . . 85--104 S. N. Lahiri Variance stabilizing transformations, studentization and the bootstrap . . . . 105--123 Claudia Czado On selecting parametric link transformation families in generalized linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139 Berlin Wu Kernel density estimation under weak dependence with sampled data . . . . . . 141--154 Alejandro Quintela del Ríoz Nonparametric estimation of density derivatives of dependent data . . . . . 155--174 Anthony J. Macula A nonadaptive version of Ulam's problem with one lie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--180 Dennis V. Lindley Some comments on Bayes factors . . . . . 181--189 Robert V. Foutz Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to statistical time series: Wayne A. Fuller, (2nd edition published by Wiley, New York, 1996, 698 pp. ISBN 0-471-55239-9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192 Anonymous Pages 1-192 (30 May 1997) . . . . . . . ??
K. G. Janardan and N. R. Mohan and R. Vasudeva and H. V. Hebbar A stochastic model with random change point for the study of oviposition tactics of weevils on beans . . . . . . 193--201 H. M. Barakat Asymptotic properties of bivariate random extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--217 Mayer Alvo and Jianhong Pan A general theory of hypothesis testing based on rankings . . . . . . . . . . . 219--248 Michael G. Akritas and Edgar Brunner A unified approach to rank tests for mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--277 Ulrich Meier On the asymptotic normality of rank tests for independence . . . . . . . . . 279--296 TaChen Liang Simultaneously selecting normal populations close to a control . . . . . 297--316 M. L. Tiku A note on a paper by N. Balakrishnan . . 317--318 Dongchu Sun A note on noninformative priors for Weibull distributions . . . . . . . . . 319--338 Pietro Muliere and Stephen Walker A Bayesian nonparametric approach to determining a maximum tolerated dose . . 339--353 Gregory K. Miller and U. Narayan Bhat Estimation for renewal processes with unobservable gamma or Erlang interarrival times . . . . . . . . . . . 355--372 Guohua Zou Admissible estimation for finite population under the Linex loss function 373--384 Anonymous Author index volume 61 (1997) . . . . . 385--385 Anonymous Pages 193-385 (16 June 1997) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii K. T. Arasu and N. M. Singhi Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Aiden Bruen and Lucien Haddad and David Wehlau Intersection-sets in PG(n,2) . . . . . . 3--11 James A. Davis and Jonathan Jedwab Nested Hadamard difference sets . . . . 13--20 Shalom Eliahou and Michel Kervaire A note on the equation $ \theta \backslash - g q = n + \lambda \Sigma $ 21--34 Alain Eckmann and Shalom Eliahou and Michel Kervaire Compressible difference lists an appendix to `A note on the equation $ \theta \backslash - \nu g q = n + \lambda \Sigma $' . . . . . . . . . . . 35--38 Solomon W. Golomb and Hong-Yeop Song A conjecture on the existence of cyclic Hadamard difference sets . . . . . . . . 39--41 Dieter Jungnickel and Scott A. Vanstone An application of difference sets to a problem concerning graphical codes . . . 43--46 S. L. Ma Some necessary conditions on the parameters of partial difference sets 47--56 D. B. Meisner and F. C. Piper and P. R. Wild A class of non-abelian $2$-groups containing Menon difference sets . . . . 57--62 Alexander Pott and Dirk Reuschling and Bernhard Schmidt A multiplier theorem for projections of affine difference sets . . . . . . . . . 63--67 D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri and Qing Xiang New necessary conditions for abelian Hadamard difference sets . . . . . . . . 69--79 C. Koukouvinos and Jennifer Seberry and A. L. Whiteman and Ming-yuan Xia Optimal designs, supplementary difference sets and multipliers . . . . 81--90 Christos Koukouvinos and Jennifer Seberry Weighing matrices and their applications 91--101 Man Keung Siu The combinatorics of binary arrays . . . 103--113 D. Tiessen and G. H. J. van Rees Many (22, 44, 14, 7, 4) --- and (15, 42, 14, 5, 4)-balanced incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124 Troy D. VanAken A search for affine difference sets of even order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--133
Bengt Rosén Asymptotic theory for order sampling . . 135--158 Bengt Rosén On sampling with probability proportional to size . . . . . . . . . . 159--191 Rainer Dyckerhoff and Karl Mosler Orthant orderings of discrete random vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--205 J. René van Dorp and Thomas A. Mazzuchi and Refik Soyer Sequential inference and decision making for single mission systems development 207--218 H. W. Block and D. Chhetry and Z. Fang and Allan R. Sampson Metrics on permutations useful for positive dependence . . . . . . . . . . 219--234 Nashat B. Saweris and M. Masoon Ali Moments and distributions of certain multivariate test criteria in the canonical correlation case under violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--246 Rasul A. Khan Monotonic expectations, Neyman--Pearson lemma, and some properties of the SPRT 247--254 W. Liu On sample size determination of Dunnett's procedure for comparing several treatments with a control . . . 255--261 Jian-Xin Pan and Kai-Tai Fang and Dietrich von Rosen Local influence assessment in the growth curve model with unstructured covariance 263--278 J. Liu and W. K. Li and C. W. Li On a threshold autoregression with conditional heteroscedastic variances 279--300 Kazuhiro Ohtani Minimum mean squared error estimation of each individual coefficient in a linear regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--316 Fu-Chuen Chang and Ge-Chen Lin $D$-optimal designs for weighted polynomial regression . . . . . . . . . 317--331 Chin-Mei Fu and Hung-Lin Fu and C. A. Rodger The minimum size of critical sets in latin squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--337 Thomas J. Santner and Guohua Pan Subset selection in two-factor experiments using randomization restricted designs . . . . . . . . . . . 339--363 Anonymous Author index volume 62 (1997) . . . . . 365--366 Anonymous Pages 135-366 (15 August 1997) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii S. R. Adke and T. V. Ramanathan On optimal prediction for stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 Siva Sivaganesan Optimal robust credible sets for density-bounded priors . . . . . . . . . 9--17 Munsup Seoh and Marc Hallin When does Edgeworth beat Berry and Esséen? Numerical evaluations of Edgeworth expansions . . . . . . . . . . 19--38 N. Rao Chaganty An alternative approach to the analysis of longitudinal data via generalized estimating equations . . . . . . . . . . 39--54 Arup Bose and Benzion Boukai Sequential estimation of the mean of NEF-PVF distributions . . . . . . . . . 55--70 Nabendu Pal and Wooi K. Lim A note on second-order admissibility of the Graybill--Deal estimator of a common mean of several normal populations . . . 71--78 D. S. Coad and M. B. Woodroofe Approximate confidence intervals after a sequential clinical trial comparing two exponential survival curves with censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--96 Grace Montepiedra and Valery V. Fedorov Minimum bias designs with constraints 97--111 Anonymous Pages 1-111 (30 September 1997) . . . . ??
J. N. Srivastava Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114 D. N. Shanbhag Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116 Barry C. Arnold Characterizations involving conditional specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--131 O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and P. E. Jupp Yokes and symplectic structures . . . . 133--146 Lennart Bondesson A generalization of Poincaré's characterization of exponential families 147--155 T. Cacoullos and V. Papathanasiou Characterizations of distributions by generalizations of variance bounds and simple proofs of the CLT . . . . . . . . 157--171 E. B. Fosam and D. N. Shanbhag An extended Laha--Lukacs characterization result based on a regression property . . . . . . . . . . 173--186 Arjun K. Gupta and Truc T. Nguyen and Wei-Bin Zeng Characterization of multivariate distributions through a functional equation of their characteristic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--201 Rameshwar D. Gupta and Donald St. P. Richards Invariance properties of some classical tests for exponentiality . . . . . . . . 203--213 Abram Kagan and Vijay Rohatgi A class of random polynomials with an invariance property . . . . . . . . . . 215--222 Adrienne W. Kemp Characterizations of a discrete normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--229 Ka-Sing Lau and Alan Ho On the discount sum of Bernoulli random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--246 Gérard Letac The retrieval of a rotation invariant distribution of $ (X, Y) $ from $ E(X^2 | Y) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253 Y.-X. Lin and C. C. Heyde On spaces of estimating functions . . . 255--264 Eddie McKenzie Simulation of a stationary autoregression: a characterization of the normal distribution . . . . . . . . 265--270 H. N. Nagaraja and V. B. Nevzorov On characterizations based on record values and order statistics . . . . . . 271--284 Anthony G. Pakes Characterization by invariance under length-biasing and random scaling . . . 285--310 G. P. Patil and A. K. Sinha and C. Taillie Ranked set sampling, coherent rankings and size-biased permutations . . . . . . 311--324 B. L. S. Prakasa Rao and M. Sreehari Chernoff-type inequality and variance bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--335 B. Ramachandran Complex-valued characteristic functions with (some) real powers --- II . . . . . 337--349 V. Seshadri A property of natural exponential families in $ R^n $ with simple quadratic variance functions . . . . . . 351--361 M. Sreehari and V. A. Kalamkar Modelling some stationary Markov processes and related characterizations 363--375 Pawel J. Szablowski and Jacek Wesolowski and Mohammad Ahsanullah Identification of probability measures via distribution of quotients . . . . . 377--385 Anonymous Author index volume 63 (1997) . . . . . 387--388
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii A. D. Dharmadhikari and J. K. Ghosh and M. M. Kuber On NBUE property of one component system supported by an inactive standby and a repair facility . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8 Nader Ebrahimi Testing whether lifetime distribution is decreasing uncertainty . . . . . . . . . 9--19 Yongcheng Qi A problem on stability of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--25 Jian-Jian Ren On self-consistent estimators and kernel density estimators with doubly censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--43 Yazhen Wang Minimax estimation via wavelets for indirect long-memory data . . . . . . . 45--55 Lajos Horváth and Piotr Kokoszka The effect of long-range dependence on change-point estimators . . . . . . . . 57--81 S. R. Paul and S. Thedchanamoorthy Likelihood-based confidence limits for the common odds ratio . . . . . . . . . 83--92 Dipak K. Dey and Alan E. Gelfand and Fengchun Peng Overdispersed generalized linear models 93--107 A. S. Hedayat and H. Pesotan Designs for two-level factorial experiments with linear models containing main effects and selected two-factor interactions . . . . . . . . 109--124 Sanpei Kageyama and Ying Miao Nested designs with block size five and subblock size two . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139 Markus Abt and Erkki P. Liski and Nripes K. Mandal and Bikas K. Sinha Optimal designs in growth curve models: Part I: Correlated model for linear growth: Optimal designs for slope parameter estimation and growth prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--150 Norman L. Johnson and Samuel Kotz Remarks on tests of homogeneity . . . . 151--152 C. M. Anderson-Cook Book Review: \booktitleLinear models: a mean model approach: Barry Kurt Moser, (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1996, \$49.95, 0-12-50846-X, 228 pp.)} . . . . 153--155 John Lawrence Book Review: \booktitleA guide to Chi-squared testing: Priscilla E. Greenwood and Mikhail S. Nikulin, (Wiley, New York, 1996, Price: \$39.95, ISBN No. 0-471-55779-X, 280 pp.)} . . . 157--158 Clint W. Coakley Book Review: \booktitleRobust statistical procedures: Asymptotics and interrelations: Jana Jurecková and Pranab Kumar Sen, (Wiley, New York, 1996, Price: \$59.95, ISBN No.: 0-471-82221-3, xiv + 466 pp.)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--161 Hanspeter Thoeni Rezension: Verfahrensbibliothek: Versuchsplanung und -auswertung, band 1: D. Rasch, G. Herrendörfer, J. Bock, N. Victor, V. Guiard (eds), Lehr- und Handbücher der Statistik. (R. Oldenbourg Verlag München, Wien, 1996. x + 940 pp. ISBN 3-486-23146-4) . . . . . . . . . . 163--165 George R. Terrell Book Review: \booktitleStatistical theory and computational aspects of smoothing: W. Härdle and M. G. Schimek (eds.), (Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1996, 265 pp., ISBN No. 3-7908-0930-6) 167--169 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA probabilistic analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti evidence: Joseph B. Kadane and David A. Schum, (Wiley, New York, 1996) . . . . . 171--191 Anonymous Pages 1-191 (30 October 1997) . . . . . ??
Tae Yoon Kim Central limit theorems for quadratic errors of nonparametric estimators . . . 193--204 Jack C. Lee and Y. L. Hsu Bayesian analysis of growth curves with AR(1) dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--229 Morris L. Eaton Admissibility in quadratically regular problems and recurrence of symmetric Markov chains: Why the connection? . . . 231--247 Gopal Chaudhuri Testing exponentiality against $L$-distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 249--255 C. Radhakrishna Rao and P. K. Pathak and V. I. Koltchinskii Bootstrap by sequential resampling . . . 257--281 S. Kalpana Bai and T. M. Durairajan Optimal equivariant estimator with respect to convex loss function . . . . 283--295 K. E. Ahmad and M. E. Fakhry and Z. F. Jaheen Empirical Bayes estimation of $ P(Y < X) $ and characterizations of Burr-type X model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--308 Víctor J. Yohai and Ruben H. Zamar Optimal locally robust $M$-estimates of regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--323 Dong Wan Shin and Sahadeb Sarkar Regression with integrated regressors 325--340 Poduri S. R. S. Rao and Charles E. Heckler The three-fold nested random effects model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--352 Jean-Marc Aza\"\is and Pierre Druilhet Optimality of neighbour balanced designs when neighbour effects are neglected . . 353--367 Shawn X. Liu and Douglas P. Wiens Robust designs for approximately polynomial regression . . . . . . . . . 369--381 Anonymous Author index volume 64 (1997) . . . . . 383--384 Anonymous Pages 193-384 (15 November 1997) . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii N. Etemadi and T. N. Sriram and A. N. Vidyashankar $ L_p $ convergence of reciprocals of sample means with applications to sequential estimation in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Lingyun Ma The asymptotic distributions of maximum likelihood ratio test and maximally selected $ \chi^2 $-test in binomial observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--43 Michele A. Haynes and H. L. MacGillivray and K. L. Mengersen Robustness of ranking and selection rules using generalised $g$-and-$k$ distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--66 Zudi Lu and Ping Cheng Distribution-free strong consistency for nonparametric kernel regression involving nonlinear time series . . . . 67--86 Tze-Man Ng and Wai-Keung Li F-tests for seasonal differencing with a break-point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--107 Wei Liu A $k$-stage sequential sampling procedure for estimation of normal mean 109--127 Ying-Hsing Liu and Ming-Chung Yang Posterior robustness in simultaneous estimation problem with exchangeable contaminated priors . . . . . . . . . . 129--143 Guido E. del Pino Interactions for general factors . . . . 145--158 Telba Z. Irony and Nozer D. Singpurwalla Non-informative priors do not exist: a dialogue with José M. Bernardo . . . . . 159--177 D. R. Cox Comments on paper by J. M. Bernardo . . 177--178 A. P. Dawid Comments on ``non-informative priors do not exist'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--180 J. K. Ghosh Non-informative priors do not exist --- discussion of a discussion . . . . . . . 180--182 Dennis Lindley Some comments on ``non-informative priors do not exist'' . . . . . . . . . 182--184 JoséM. Bernardo Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--189 Anonymous Pages 1-189 (1 December 1997) . . . . . ??
Josep Ginebra and Murray K. Clayton On a theorem of Kelley . . . . . . . . . 191--201 Richard Dykstra and Subhash Kochar and Javier Rojo Stochastic comparisons of parallel systems of heterogeneous exponential components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--211 Pilar H. García-Soidán and Wenceslao González-Manteiga and JoséM. Prada-Sánchez Edgeworth expansions for nonparametric distribution estimation with applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--231 A. Chan and J. Meloche Image restoration . . . . . . . . . . . 233--254 Pushpa L. Gupta and Ramesh C. Gupta and Ram C. Tripathi On the monotonic properties of discrete failure rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--268 Yoshihide Kakizawa Higher-order Bartlett-type adjustment 269--280 Takahisa Yokoyama Tests for a family of random-effects covariance structures in a multivariate growth curve model . . . . . . . . . . . 281--292 Hira L. Koul and Anton Schick Testing for the equality of two nonparametric regression curves . . . . 293--314 M. S. Finkelstein The concealed age of distribution functions and the problem of general repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--321 Subhash C. Bagui and K. L. Mehra and Brandon K. Vaughn An $M$-stage version of the $k$-RNN rule in statistical discrimination . . . . . 323--333 Anirban DasGupta and Brani Vidakovic Sample size problems in ANOVA Bayesian point of view . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--347 Christina A. Holcroft and Andrea Rotnitzky and James M. Robins Efficient estimation of regression parameters from multistage studies with validation of outcome and covariates . . 349--374 Olaf Krafft and Martin Schaefer A-optimal connected block designs with nearly minimal number of observations 375--386 Anonymous Author index volume 65 (1997) . . . . . 387--388 Anonymous Pages 191-388 (15 December 1997) . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii J. N. Srivastava Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Uwe Küchler and Michael Sòrensen On exponential families of Markov processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--19 J. M. Robertson and G. R. Wood Information in Buffon experiments . . . 21--37 Vance W. Berger Admissibility of exact conditional tests of stochastic order . . . . . . . . . . 39--50 A. Di Bucchianico and D. E. Loeb Dominance refinements of the Smirnov two-sample test . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60 K. B. Athreya and S. N. Lahiri and Wei Wu Inference for heavy tailed distributions 61--75 Anthony J. Macula and George R. Reuter Simplified searching for two defects . . 77--82 Elham Rahme and Lawrence Joseph Exact sample size determination for binomial experiments . . . . . . . . . . 83--93 Holger Drees A general class of estimators of the extreme value index . . . . . . . . . . 95--112 Zhenmin Chen Joint estimation for the parameters of Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 113--120 Yongman Kim and Kesar Singh Sharpening estimators using resampling 121--146 Elías Moreno and Javier Girón Estimating with incomplete count data: a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . . 147--159 F. Githinji and M. Jacroux On the determination and construction of optimal designs for comparing a set of test treatments with a set of controls in the presence of a linear trend . . . 161--174 Alaattin Erkanli and Refik Soyer and Adrian Angold Optimal Bayesian two-phase designs . . . 175--191 Anonymous Pages 1-191 (5 January 1998) . . . . . . ??
J. Rissanen and G. Shedler Failure-time prediction . . . . . . . . 193--210 S. Cakmak and D. A. S. Fraser and P. McDunnough and N. Reid and X. Yuan Likelihood centered asymptotic model exponential and location model versions 211--222 Manabu Iwasa Directional monotonicity properties of the power functions of likelihood ratio tests for cone-restricted hypotheses of normal means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--233 Ulrich Meier Asymptotic normality of two-sample linear rank statistics under association 235--252 Gerhard Dikta On semiparametric random censorship models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--279 I. Weissman and S. Yu. Novak On blocks and runs estimators of the extremal index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--288 Cha Kyung-Joon and William R. Schucany Nonparametric kernel regression estimation near endpoints . . . . . . . 289--304 George Iliopoulos and Stavros Kourouklis On improved interval estimation for the generalized variance . . . . . . . . . . 305--320 Thomas Müller-Gronbach Hyperbolic cross designs for approximation of random fields . . . . . 321--344 G. Constantine and L. Xue Aliasing in 2$^{n - k}$ fractions in the absence of within group interactions . . 345--361 R. J. Martin and G. Jones and J. A. Eccleston Some results on two-level factorial designs with dependent observations . . 363--384 Anonymous Author index volume 66 (1998) . . . . . 385--386 Anonymous Pages 193-386 (1 March 1998) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Sangyeol Lee The asymptotic behavior of the empirical process based on a linear process under some contiguous alternatives . . . . . . 1--15 Sangyeol Lee On the quantile process based on the autoregressive residuals . . . . . . . . 17--28 Chris J. Lloyd Improved efficiency for recapture studies from auxiliary experimentation 29--44 Joseph E. Cavanaugh and Robert H. Shumway An Akaike information criterion for model selection in the presence of incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--65 John W. Van Ness and Jim J. Yang Robust discriminant analysis: Training data breakdown point . . . . . . . . . . 67--83 Gaoxiong Gan and Lee J. Bain Some results for type I censored sampling from geometric distributions 85--97 M. Celia Rodríguez-Campos and Wenceslao González-Manteiga and Ricardo Cao Testing the hypothesis of a generalized linear regression model using nonparametric regression estimation . . 99--122 Hsiuying Wang Estimated confidence under ancillary statistic everywhere-valid constraint 123--135 Edit Gombay and Marie Husková Rank based estimators of the change-point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--154 Inchi Hu Strong consistency of Bayes estimates in nonlinear stochastic regression models 155--163 Anonymous Erratum to ``Optimal smoothing in adaptive location estimation'' [J. Statist. Plann. Inference \bf 58 (1997) 333--348] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165 Anonymous Pages 1-165 (16 March 1998) . . . . . . ??
E. E. M. van Berkum and H. N. Linssen and D. A. Overdijk `Sampling the reference set' revisited 167--186 Henrik Cobbers and Udo Kamps A note on characterizations of the geometric distribution . . . . . . . . . 187--190 J. A. Cuesta-Albertos and A. Gordaliza and C. Matrán On the geometric behaviour of multidimensional location measures . . . 191--208 Yves G. Berger Rate of convergence to normal distribution for the Horvitz--Thompson estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--226 Schultz Chan and Malay Ghosh Orthogonal projections and the geometry of estimating functions . . . . . . . . 227--245 Jeffrey S. Buzas Unbiased scores in proportional hazards regression with covariate measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--257 Anton Schick Estimating a shift in nonparametric regression via $U$-statistics . . . . . 259--271 E. Gutierrez-Peña and A. F. M. Smith Aspects of smoothing and model inadequacy in generalized regression . . 273--286 Markus Abt and Norbert Gaffke and Erkki P. Liski and Bikas K. Sinha Optimal designs in growth curve models --- II Correlated model for quadratic growth: optimal designs for parameter estimation and growth prediction . . . . 287--296 Daniel T. Voss and Jason C. Hsu Multiple comparisons for an unbalanced $ a \times b $ design under mixed models with interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--309 Guohua Pan and Thomas J. Santner Selection and screening procedures to determine optimal product designs . . . 311--330 Mike Jacroux On the determination and construction of $E$-optimal block designs in the presence of linear trends . . . . . . . 331--339, 342 Anonymous Author index volume 67 (1998) . . . . . 343--344 Anonymous Pages 167-344 (1 April 1998) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Marc Hallin Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 P. Ango Nze and P. Doukhan Functional estimation for time series: Uniform convergence properties . . . . . 5--29 Rajae Azrak and Guy Mélard The exact quasi-likelihood of time-dependent ARMA models . . . . . . . 31--45 Youssef Benghabrit and Marc Hallin Locally asymptotically optimal tests for AR($p$) against diagonal bilinear dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--63 Monica Billio and Alain Monfort Switching state-space models: Likelihood function, filtering and smoothing . . . 65--103 Denis Bosq and Jia Shen Estimation of an autoregressive semiparametric model with exogenous variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--127 Bing Cheng and Howell Tong K-stationarity and wavelets . . . . . . 129--144 Christian Francq and Jean-Michel Zako\"\ian Estimating linear representations of nonlinear processes . . . . . . . . . . 145--165 Eric Ghysels and Christian Gouriéroux and Joanna Jasiak Kernel autocorrelogram for time-deformed processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--191 Esmeralda Gonçalves and NazaréMendes Lopes Some statistical results on autoregressive conditionally heteroscedastic models . . . . . . . . . 193--202
E. Guerre and F. Jouneau Geometric versus arithmetic random walk the case of trended variables . . . . . 203--220 W. Härdle and A. Tsybakov and L. Yang Nonparametric vector autoregression . . 221--245 Christian M. Hafner Estimating high-frequency foreign exchange rate volatility with nonparametric ARCH models . . . . . . . 247--269 Michel Harel and Madan L. Puri Autoregression quantiles and related rank score processes for generalized random coefficient autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--294 Vidar Hjellvik and Qiwei Yao and Dag Tjòstheim Linearity testing using local polynomial approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--321 S. Y. Hwang and I. V. Basawa Parameter estimation for generalized random coefficient autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--337 Ricardo Rios Towards a nonparametric test of linearity for times series . . . . . . . 339--358 Peter M. Robinson and Paolo Zaffaroni Nonlinear time series with long memory: a model for stochastic volatility . . . 359--371 T. Subba Rao and W. K. Wong Tests for Gaussianity and linearity of multivariate stationary time series . . 373--386 Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong Cross-validatory bandwidth selections for regression estimation based on dependent data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--415 Anonymous Author index volume 68 (1998) . . . . . 417--418
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Brenton D. Gray and Colin Ramsay On the spectrum of [ v, k, t ] trades 1--19 Waldemar W. Koczkodaj Testing the accuracy enhancement of pairwise comparisons by a Monte Carlo experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31 A. Martín Andrés and J. M. Tapia García On determining the $P$-value in 2 $x$ 2 multinomial trials . . . . . . . . . . . 33--49 M. Perone Pacifico and G. Salinetti and L. Tardella A note on the geometry of Bayesian global and local robustness . . . . . . 51--64 M. P. Wiper Bayesian analysis of Er/M/1 and Er/M/c queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79 Viktor Witkovský On estimation of variance components with constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--87 Neeraj Tiwari and A. K. Nigam On two-dimensional optimal controlled selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--100 Qi-Guang Wu Existence conditions of the uniformly minimum risk unbiased estimators in extended growth curve models . . . . . . 101--114 Ingrid Van Keilegom and Noël Veraverbeke Bootstrapping quantiles in a fixed design regression model with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--131 Carlos Tenreiro Asymptotic distribution for a discrete version of integrated square error of multivariate density kernel estimators 133--151 Daniel A. Griffith and Francesco Lagona On the quality of likelihood-based estimators in spatial autoregressive models when the data dependence structure is misspecified . . . . . . . 153--174 C. T. Liao and H. K. Iyer Orthogonal parallel-flats designs for $ s^{n1}_1 \times s^{n2}_2 $ mixed factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . 175--191 Anonymous Pages 1-191 (1 June 1998) . . . . . . . ??
Jorge Navarro and JoséM. Ruiz and Noemi Zoroa A unified approach to characterization problems using conditional expectations 193--207 Kuang-Chao Chang and Jeng-Fu Liu and Chien-Pai Han Multiple inverse sampling in post-stratification . . . . . . . . . . 209--227 Lajos Horváth Tests for changes under random censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--243 Kaushik Ghosh and S. Rao Jammalamadaka Small sample approximations for spacing statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--261 Sudip Bose On the transitivity of the posterior Pitman closeness criterion . . . . . . . 263--274 Jay M. Ver Hoef and Ronald Paul Barry Constructing and fitting models for cokriging and multivariable spatial prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--294 Hisataka Kuboki Reference priors for prediction . . . . 295--317 Kanchan Mukherjee On preliminary test and shrinkage estimation in linear models with long-memory errors . . . . . . . . . . . 319--328 Yoshiji Takagi A new criterion of confidence set estimation: Improvement of the Neyman shortness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--338 Tapabrata Maiti Hierarchical Bayes estimation of mortality rates for disease mapping . . 339--348 P. C. Wang and M. H. Chen Level changes and trend resistance on replacement in asymmetric orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--358 J. Kunert On the analysis of circular balanced crossover designs . . . . . . . . . . . 359--370 Joy King and Weng Kee Wong Optimal minimax designs for prediction in heteroscedastic models . . . . . . . 371--383 Anonymous Author index volume 69 (1998) . . . . . 385--386 Anonymous Pages 193-386 (15 June 1998) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Niall H. Anderson and Peter Hall and D. M. Titterington Edgeworth expansions in very-high-dimensional problems . . . . . 1--18 Robert Lund and W. J. Padgett and Lynne Seymour A control chart for a general Gaussian process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--34 Rita Aggarwala and N. Balakrishnan Some properties of progressive censored order statistics from arbitrary and uniform distributions with applications to inference and simulation . . . . . . 35--49 Chunsheng Ma On peakedness of distributions of convex combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56 Andreas Futschik and Georg Ch. Pflug The likelihood ratio test for simple tree order: a useful asymptotic expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--68 Jürgen Groß A note on the concepts of linear and quadratic sufficiency . . . . . . . . . 69--76 Yongdai Kim Optimal estimation for continuous state branching processes with discrete sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89 Bani. K. Mallick Bayesian curve estimation by polynomial of random order . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--109 M. A. Fernández and C. Rueda and B. Salvador Simultaneous estimation by isotonic regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--119 Naomi Altman and Brenda MacGibbon Consistent bandwidth selection for kernel binary regression . . . . . . . . 121--137 Mark G. Vangel ANOVA estimates of variance components for quasi-balanced mixed models . . . . 139--148 JoséR. Berrendero and Juan Romo Stability under contamination of robust regression estimators based on differences of residuals . . . . . . . . 149--165 Chwen-Ming Chang Minimal orthogonal main-effect plans and partial replication . . . . . . . . . . 167--179 Rainer Schwabe Optimal designs for hierarchical interaction structures . . . . . . . . . 181--190 Anonymous Pages 1-190 (1 July 1998) . . . . . . . ??
Li Zehui and Li Xiaohu IFRA*t $_0$ and NBU*t $_0$ classes of life distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 191--200 F. López-Blázquez Discrete distributions with maximum expected value of the maximum . . . . . 201--207 Magnus Ekström On the consistency of the maximum spacing method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--224 Yu Hayakawa A Bayesian positive dependence of survival times based on the multivariate arrangement increasing property . . . . 225--240 Stephen E. Fienberg and Sung-Ho Kim Calibration and refinement for classification trees . . . . . . . . . . 241--254 Chunsheng Ma Likelihood ratio ordering of order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--261 Daniela Jarusková Testing appearance of linear trend . . . 263--276 Hirohisa Kishino and Avner Bar-Hen Maximum likelihood procedure adapted to sampling schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--286 G. Mathew and W. P. McCormick A bootstrap approximation to the joint distribution of sum and maximum of a stationary sequence . . . . . . . . . . 287--299 Shunpu Zhang and Rohana J. Karunamuni On kernel density estimation near endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--316 Debasis Kundu and Amit Mitra Estimating the parameters of the linear compartment model . . . . . . . . . . . 317--334 C. A. McGilchrist and K. M. Matawie Recursive residuals in generalised linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--344 Junjiro Ogawa Optimal spacing of the selected sample quantiles for the joint estimation of the location and scale parameters of a symmetric distribution . . . . . . . . . 345--360 M. Mushfiqur Rashid Multiple comparisons with a control in repeated measures incomplete block designs using $R$-estimators . . . . . . 361--380 Anonymous Pages 191-382 (15 July 1998) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Other contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v Elena Kulinskaya and Robert G. Staudte Tests and optimal guarded weights of evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Mark M. Meerschaert and Hans-Peter Scheffler A simple robust estimation method for the thickness of heavy tails . . . . . . 19--34 Hira L. Koul and Winfried Stute Regression model fitting with long memory errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--56 Joseph Ngatchou Wandji A nonparametric goodness-of-fit test for a class of parametric autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--74 Mizan R. Laskar and Maxwell L. King Estimation and testing of regression disturbances based on modified likelihood functions . . . . . . . . . . 75--92 Jan Beirlant and László Györfi On the asymptotic normality of the $L$ $_2$-error in partitioning regression estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--107 Jürgen Groß and Götz Trenkler and Erkki P. Liski Necessary and sufficient conditions for superiority of misspecified restricted least squares regression estimator . . . 109--116 Nandini Raghavan and Dennis D. Cox Analysis of the posterior for spline estimators in logistic regression . . . 117--136 Bertrand Clarke and Paul Gustafson On the overall sensitivity of the posterior distribution to its inputs . . 137--150 Sanjib Basu and Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka and Wei Liu Stability and infinitesimal robustness of posterior distributions and posterior quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--162 Robert E. Weiss and Meehyung Cho Bayesian marginal influence assessment 163--177 E. M. Chi and S. Weerahandi Comparing treatments under growth curve models: Exact tests using generalized $p$-values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--189 Govind S. Mudholkar and Alan D. Hutson $ L Q $-moments: Analogs of $L$-moments 191--208 Sheldon H. Jacobson and Douglas J. Morrice A mathematical model for assessing the temporal association between health disorders and medical treatments . . . . 209--228 Paul S. F. Yip and Qizhi Chen Statistical inference for a multitype epidemic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--244 J. N. Bacro and M. Brito A tail bootstrap procedure for estimating the tail Pareto-index . . . . 245--260 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Silvia L. P. Ferrari A note on Bartlett-type correction for the first few moments of test statistics 261--269 A. Maul A discrete time sequential process for analyzing censored survival data using the likelihood ratio . . . . . . . . . . 271--285 Rajesh Singh and Housila P. Singh and M. Ruiz Espejo The efficiency of an alternative to ratio estimator under a super population model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--301 Norman R. Draper and Friedrich Pukelsheim Mixture models based on homogeneous polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311 Sudesh K. Srivastav and John P. Morgan Optimality of designs with generalized group divisible structure . . . . . . . 313--330 C. F. J. Wu and Yuan Ding Construction of response surface designs for qualitative and quantitative factors 331--348 Werner G. Müller and Andrej Pázman Design measures and approximate information matrices for experiments without replications . . . . . . . . . . 349--362 Christopher J. Lloyd and Paul S. F. Yip and K. S. Chan A comparison of recapture, removal and resighting designs for population size estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--375 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380 Anonymous Pages 1-380 (1 August 1998) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Other contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--V Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--ix A. Barlotti Giuseppe Tallini and his work in combinatorial geometries . . . . . . . . 1--6 Jay H. Beder Conjectures about Hadamard matrices . . 7--14 Frank E. Bennett and Charles J. Colbourn and Ronald C. Mullin Quintessential pairwise balanced designs 15--66 Walter Benz Automorphisms of finite Einstein geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77 Dulal K. Bhaumik and Arvind K. Shah Exact tests in crossover designs . . . . 79--88 Rey Casse and Catherine T. Quinn The Bruck--Bose map and Beukenhout--Metz unitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98 Jiahua Chen and Dennis K. J. Lin On the identifiability of a supersaturated design . . . . . . . . . 99--107 Ching-Shui Cheng $N$-way balanced incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--119 Gregory Constantine and Lianyong Xue Aliasing in $ 2^{n - k} $ fractions in the case of a separation of factors . . 121--132 A. Das and A. M. Dean and W. I. Notz Designs with nearly minimal number of observations and flexible blocking . . . 133--147 János Demetrovics and Gyula O. H. Katona and Attila Sali Design type problems motivated by database theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--164 Michel Deza and Viatcheslav Grishukhin Once more about 80 Steiner triple systems on 15 points . . . . . . . . . . 165--184 Habib El-Moalem and Pranab K. Sen Nonparametric recovery of interblock information in clinical trials with a surrogate endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . 185--205 Paul Erd\Hos The probability method: Successes and limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--213 Valery V. Fedorov and Grace Montepiedra and Christopher J. Nachtsheim Optimal design and the model validity range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227 Norbert Gaffke and Berthold Heiligers Minimum support invariant designs for multiple cubic regression . . . . . . . 229--245 A. Gerami and S. M. Lewis and D. Majumdar and W. I. Notz Efficient block designs for comparing dual with single treatments . . . . . . 247--263 David G. Glynn A survey of cone representations . . . . 265--277 Shanti S. Gupta and Ta Chen Liang Simultaneous lower confidence bounds for probabilities of correct selections . . 279--290 Sudhir Gupta A class of multi-factor designs for test versus control comparisons . . . . . . . 291--302 Noboru Hamada On the nonexistence of some quaternary linear codes meeting the Griesmer bound 303--322 Noboru Hamada and Yoko Watamori The nonexistence of ternary [79,6,51] codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--332 A. S. Hedayat and John Stufken Sampling designs to control selection probabilities of contiguous units . . . 333--345 Klaus Hinkelmann and Jinnam Jo Linear trend-free Box--Behnken designs 347--354 J. W. P. Hirschfeld and L. Storme The packing problem in statistics, coding theory and finite projective spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--380 W. H. Holzmann and H. Kharaghani and M. T. Lavassani The excess problem and some excess inequivalent matrices of order 32 . . . 381--391 Yury J. Ionin and Mohan S. Shrikhande Resolvable pairwise balanced designs . . 393--405 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407 Anonymous Pages 1-408 (1 September 1998) . . . . . ??
Sanpei Kageyama and Ying Miao Nested designs of superblock size four 1--5 André I. Khuri and Elsie Valeroso Multiresponse surface models with block effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--20 Christos Koukouvinos Some new three and four variable orthogonal designs in order 36 . . . . . 21--27 Masahide Kuwada and Keiko Ikeda Balanced fractional $ 3^m $ factorial designs of resolution IV . . . . . . . . 29--45 E. A. Lamprecht and S. Zacks Two armed bandits with change point in one arm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60 Junfang Li Orthogonal factorial design of parallel flats type and its application in biomedical research . . . . . . . . . . 61--75 Kirsten Mackenzie-Fleming and Ken W. Smith An infinite family of non-embeddable quasi-residual designs . . . . . . . . . 77--83 E. S. Mahmoodian Defining sets and uniqueness in graph colorings: a survey . . . . . . . . . . 85--89 R. J. Martin and J. A. Eccleston and G. Jones Some results on multi-level factorial designs with dependent observations . . 91--111 Michael Monticino Constructing prior distributions with trees of exchangeable processes . . . . 113--133 J. P. Morgan Properties of superimposed BIBDs . . . . 135--148 Rahul Mukerjee On balanced orthogonal multi-arrays: Existence, construction and application to design of experiments . . . . . . . . 149--162 Nitis Mukhopadhyay and Tumulesh K. S. Solanky Multistage methodologies for fixed-width simultaneous confidence intervals for all pairwise comparisons . . . . . . . . 163--176 Gary L. Mullen Orthogonal hypercubes and related designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188 Theophilus O. Ogunyemi and M. Bhaskara Rao On $s$- and $ (m, s)$-optimality of minimal incomplete block designs . . . . 189--195 Stanley E. Payne A problem on generalized quadrangles . . 197--204 Wendy L. Poston and Edward J. Wegman and Jeffrey L. Solka $D$-optimal design methods for robust estimation of multivariate location and scatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--213 Jennifer Seberry Bose's method of differences applied to construct Bhaskar Rao designs . . . . . 215--224 Kyoungah See and Sung Y. Song Association schemes of small order . . . 225--271 S. S. Shrikhande R. C. Bose memorial conference Fort Collins, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . 273--276 J. N. Srivastava and Y. C. Wang Row-column designs: non-additivity makes them hazardous to use . . . . . . . . . 277--315 Yoseph Strassler New circulant weighing matrices of prime order in CW (31,16), CW (71,25), CW (127,64) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--330 Giuseppe Tallini Composed designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--351 J. A. Thas and H. Van Maldeghem Generalized quadrangles weakly embedded in finite projective space . . . . . . . 353--361 Rarai Tungsarote Some investigations on the Bose-Srivastava algebra related to the multidimensional partially balanced association scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 363--372 Dawn M. VanLeeuwen and Justus F. Seely and David S. Birkes Sufficient conditions for orthogonal designs in mixed linear models . . . . . 373--389 Yong-Cheng Wang Probability of correct identification of non-additive cells in row-column designs 391--408 Qing Xiang On reversible abelian Hadamard difference sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--416 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--419 Anonymous Pages 1-420 (1 September 1998) . . . . . ??
Gwo Dong Lin On the Mittag-Leffler distributions . . 1--9 Miguel López-Díaz and María Angeles Gil Reversing the order of integration in iterated expectations of fuzzy random variables, and statistical applications 11--29 Inmaculada B. Aban and Edsel A. Peña Ancillarity properties of generalized residuals with applications in failure time models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--49 Alessandra Giovagnoli and Nicol\`o Pintacuda Properties of frequency distributions induced by general `up-and-down' methods for estimating quantiles . . . . . . . . 51--63 Miklós Csörg\Ho and Joseph L. Gastwirth and Ricardas Zitikis Asymptotic confidence bands for the Lorenz and Bonferroni curves based on the empirical Lorenz curve . . . . . . . 65--91 Sangyeol Lee Coefficient constancy test in a random coefficient autoregressive model . . . . 93--101 Jushan Bai Estimation of multiple-regime regressions with least absolutes deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--134 André I. Khuri On unweighted sums of squares in unbalanced analysis of variance . . . . 135--147 Yves G. Berger Rate of convergence for asymptotic variance of the Horvitz--Thompson estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--168 Yue Fang and Bin Zhou Block-crossed arrays with applications to robust design . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--175 Paola Sebastiani and Raffaella Settimi First-order optimal designs for non-linear models . . . . . . . . . . . 177--192 G. B. Khosrovshahi and Reza Naserasr On compressing complete designs . . . . 193--201 Lih-Yuan Deng and Dennis K. J. Lin A note on Morris' bound for search designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204 Anonymous Pages 1-204 (1 October 1998) . . . . . . ??
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and D. N. Shanbhag General characterization theorems via the mean absolute deviation . . . . . . 205--214 A. Kyriakoussis and Gang Li and Alex Papadopoulos On characterization and goodness-of-fit test of some discrete distribution families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--228 Muriel Casalis and Hél\`ene Massam A test for the equality of the direction parameters in a sample from the $N$-dimensional hyperboloid distribution 229--251 Ananda Sen and Ravindra Khattree On estimating the current intensity of failure for the power-law process . . . 253--272 Evelyn M. Crowley Estimation of clustered parameters . . . 273--291 Samuel Y. Dennis III A Bayesian analysis of ratios of proportions in tree-structured experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--322 Fulvio De Santis and Fulvio Spezzaferri Bayes factors and hierarchical models 323--342 Jürgen Gross On contractions in linear regression . . 343--351 Hossein Mansouri Limiting distribution of the aligned rank transform tests in balanced incomplete blocks . . . . . . . . . . . 353--364 Darryn E. Bryant and A. Khodkar and Hung-Lin Fu $ (m, n)$-cycle systems . . . . . . . . 365--370 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--376 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378 Anonymous Pages 205-378 (1 November 1998) . . . . ??
Kostas Skouras Absolute continuity of Markov chains . . 1--8 J. Pfanzagl The nonexistence of confidence sets for discontinuous functionals . . . . . . . 9--20 Lianfen Qian On maximum likelihood estimators for a threshold autoregression . . . . . . . . 21--46 D. Morales and L. Pardo and K. Zografos Informational distances and related statistics in mixed continuous and categorical variables . . . . . . . . . 47--63 Meekyong G. Park and Jiayang Sun Tests in projection pursuit regression 65--90 Guoqi Qian and Hans R. Künsch On model selection via stochastic complexity in robust linear regression 91--116 C. Costantini and D. Pasqualucci Monotonicity of Bayes sequential tests for multidimensional and censored observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--131 Michael Sherman Efficiency and robustness in subsampling for dependent data . . . . . . . . . . . 133--146 Hegang Chen and A. S. Hedayat $ 2^{n - m} $ designs with resolution III or IV containing clear two-factor interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158 Berthold Heiligers E-optimal designs for polynomial spline regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--172 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180 Anonymous Pages 1-180 (15 November 1998) . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii Inmaculada B. Aban and Edsel A. Peña Properties of test statistics applied to residuals in failure time models . . . . 181--209 Jianwen Cai Some asymptotic results for hypothesis testing in multivariate failure time data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--221 Yogendra P. Chaubey and Pranab K. Sen On smooth estimation of mean residual life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--236 Shubhabrata Das and Alok Krishen Some bootstrap methods in nonlinear mixed-effect models . . . . . . . . . . 237--245 Anirban DasGupta and Bimal K. Sinha A new general interpretation of the Stein estimate and how it adapts: Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--268 Gauri Sankar Datta and Bannmo Day and Ishwar Basawa Empirical best linear unbiased and empirical Bayes prediction in multivariate small area estimation . . . 269--279 A. K. Gangopadhyay and B. K. Mallick and D. G. T. Denison Estimation of spectral density of a stationary time series via an asymptotic representation of the periodogram . . . 281--290 Joseph Gardiner and Margaret Holmes-Rovner and John Goddeeris and David Rovner and Joel Kupersmith Covariate-adjusted cost-effectiveness ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--304 Malay Ghosh and Kannan Natarajan and Lance A. Waller and Dalho Kim Hierarchical Bayes GLMs for the analysis of spatial data: an application to disease mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--318 Marc Hallin and Jana Jurecková and Jan Picek and Toufik Zahaf Nonparametric tests of independence of two autoregressive time series based on autoregression rank scores . . . . . . . 319--330 Jane L. Harvill Testing time series linearity via goodness-of-fit methods . . . . . . . . 331--341 Xuming He and Pin Ng Quantile splines with several covariates 343--352 Jana Jurecková and Xavier Milhaud Characterization of distributions in invariant models . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--362 S. R. Karia and J. V. Deshpande Bounds for the hazard gradients in the competing risks set up . . . . . . . . . 363--377 Xiao-Rong Pan and Mai Zhou Using one-parameter sub-family of distributions in empirical likelihood ratio with censored data . . . . . . . . 379--392 Antonio C. Pedroso de Lima and Pranab K. Sen Time-dependent coefficients in a multi-event model for survival analysis 393--414 Bahjat F. Qaqish and John S. Preisser Resistant fits for regression with correlated outcomes an estimating equations approach . . . . . . . . . . . 415--431 Pranab Kumar Sen Robust nonparametrics in mixed-MANOCOVA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--451 Haibo Zhou and Clarice R. Weinberg A semi-parametric mixture model in fertility studies . . . . . . . . . . . 453--462 Anonymous Pages 181-464 (1 January 1999) . . . . . ??
Krishna B. Athreya and Jun-ichiro Fukuchi and Soumendra N. Lahiri On the bootstrap and the moving block bootstrap for the maximum of a stationary process . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 R. J. Kulperger Countable state Markov process bootstrap 19--29 K. V. Mardia and H. R. Southworth and C. C. Taylor On bias in maximum likelihood estimators 31--39 Jack C. Lee and Wei-Fang Niu On an unbalanced growth curve model with random effects and AR(1) errors from a Bayesian and the ML points of view . . . 41--55 Georg Neuhaus On testing tumor onset times . . . . . . 57--78 Eugene Grechanovsky and Yosef Hochberg Closed procedures are better and often admit a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--91 Hyun Sook Oh and Anirban DasGupta Comparison of the $P$-value and posterior probability . . . . . . . . . 93--107 M. Husková Gradual changes versus abrupt changes 109--125 Anton Schick Improving weighted least-squares estimates in heteroscedastic linear regression when the variance is a function of the mean response . . . . . 127--144 N. Rao Chaganty and Justine Shults On eliminating the asymptotic bias in the quasi-least squares estimate of the correlation parameter . . . . . . . . . 145--161 S. C. Bagui and K. L. Mehra Classification of multiple observations using multi-stage rank nearest neighbor rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--183 Dayong Li and Bimal K. Sinha and François Perron Random selection in ranked set sampling and its applications . . . . . . . . . . 185--201 P. K. Bedi and S. K. Agarwal Modified Midzuno scheme of sampling . . 203--214 Kuang-Chao Chang and Chien-Pai Han and Doyle L. Hawkins Truncated multiple inverse sampling in post-stratification . . . . . . . . . . 215--234 H. B. Kushner $H$-symmetric optimal repeated measurements designs . . . . . . . . . . 235--261 K. Benchekroun and I. M. Chakravarti Correlation uniform incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--272 M. C. Bueso and G. Qian and J. M. Angulo Stochastic complexity and model selection from incomplete data . . . . . 273--284 Renu Laskar and Charles Wallis Chessboard graphs, related designs, and domination parameters . . . . . . . . . 285--294 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298 Anonymous Pages 1-298 (1 February 1999) . . . . . ??
Abram Kagan and Gérard Letac Characterization of the normal distribution through the power of a one-way ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 A. Guillou Efficient weighted bootstraps for the mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--35 Martin L. Hazelton An optimal local bandwidth selector for kernel density estimation . . . . . . . 37--50 Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver and Graciela González-Farías Parametric covariance models for shock-induced stochastic processes . . . 51--72 Shanti S. Gupta and TaChen Liang On empirical Bayes simultaneous selection procedures for comparing normal populations with a standard . . . 73--88 A. Thavaneswaran and C. C. Heyde Prediction via estimating functions . . 89--101 Z. D. Bai and C. R. Rao and Y. Wu Model selection with data-oriented penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--117 Peide Shi and Chih-Ling Tsai Semiparametric regression model selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--139 Thierry Foucart Stability of the inverse correlation matrix. Partial ridge regression . . . . 141--154 John Stufken and Sung Y. Song and Kyoungah See and Kenneth R. Driessel Polygonal designs: some existence and non-existence results . . . . . . . . . 155--166 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168 Anonymous Pages 1-168 (15 February 1999) . . . . . ??
Asok K. Nanda and Kanchan Jain Some weighted distribution results on univariate and bivariate cases . . . . . 169--180 Subhashis Ghosal and Jayanta K. Ghosh and R. V. Ramamoorthi Consistent semiparametric Bayesian inference about a location parameter . . 181--193 Rama T. Lingham and S. Sivaganesan Intrinsic Bayes factor approach to a test for the power law process . . . . . 195--220 K. C. Carriere Methods for repeated measures data analysis with missing values . . . . . . 221--236 Malwane M. A. Ananda Estimation and testing of availability of a parallel system with exponential failure and repair times . . . . . . . . 237--246 L. A. García-Escudero and A. Gordaliza and C. Matrán Asymptotics for trimmed $k$-means and associated tolerance zones . . . . . . . 247--262 Kiên Kiêu and Sandie Souchet and Jacques Istas Precision of systematic sampling and transitive methods . . . . . . . . . . . 263--279 Guohua Pan and Ravindra Khattree On estimation and testing arising from order restricted balanced mixed model 281--292 J. A. John and Katya Ruggiero Resolvable block designs for factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--299 V. K. Gupta and D. V. V. Ramana and Rajender Parsad Weighted $A$-efficiency of block designs for making treatment-control and treatment-treatment comparisons . . . . 301--319 Joel E. Atkins and Ching-Shui Cheng Optimal regression designs in the presence of random block effects . . . . 321--335 Angela M. Dean and Susan M. Lewis and Jane Y. Chang Nested changeover designs . . . . . . . 337--351 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356 Anonymous Pages 169-356 (1 March 1999) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v Naveen K. Bansal and Neeraj Misra On ranking treatment effects in a general linear model . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 J. D. Lynch On the joint distribution of component failures for monotone load-sharing systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--21 Mohamed Elnaggar and Arunava Mukherjea Identification of the parameters of a trivariate normal vector by the distribution of the minimum . . . . . . 23--37 Marco Scarsini and Moshe Shaked Distributions with known initial hazard rate functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--55 Win-Chin Lin and John Stufken On finding trend-free block designs . . 57--70 Wai-Yuan Tan and Zhihua Xiang The state-space model of the HIV epidemic with variable infection in the homosexual populations . . . . . . . . . 71--87 Y. S. Hsu and M. H. Metry and Y. L. Tong Hypotheses testing for means of dependent and heterogeneous normal random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99 Neil A. Weiss Strategies for using technologies in introductory statistics courses . . . . 101--110 Daniel T. Voss Analysis of orthogonal saturated designs 111--130 D. M. Stukel and J. N. K. Rao On small-area estimation under two-fold nested error regression models . . . . . 131--147 J. N. Srivastava and J. Y. Chu Multistage design procedures for identifying two-factor interactions, when higher effects are negligible . . . 149--189 A. Maul and A. A. Bartolucci and K. P. Singh A stochastic process applied to sequential parametric analysis of censored survival data . . . . . . . . . 191--204 D. L. McLeish Designing the future: a simple algorithm for sequential design of a generalized linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--218 Subir Ghosh and Thomas Liu Optimal mixture designs for four components in two orthogonal blocks . . 219--228 Cynthia Wilson Garvan and Malay Ghosh On the property of posteriors for dispersion models fn1 . . . . . . . . . 229--241 John P. Klein and Mei-Jie Zhang Determining when the survival rates of two treatments are the same based on a censored data regression model . . . . . 243--254 Sanjib Basu and Asit and P. Basu and Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay Bayesian analysis for masked system failure data using non-identical Weibull models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--275 M. J. Bayarri and B. Font A Bayesian comparison of cluster, strata, and random samples . . . . . . . 277--294 R. J. Bhansali Autoregressive model selection for multistep prediction . . . . . . . . . . 295--305 B. Jones and J. Wang and P. Jarvis and W. Byrom Design of cross-over trials for pharmacokinetic studies . . . . . . . . 307--316 James A. Koziol and Henry C. Tuckwell A Bayesian method for combining statistical tests fn1 . . . . . . . . . 317--323 Gary A. Cline and Richard J. Kryscio Contagion distributions for defining disease clustering in time . . . . . . . 325--347 Young Jack Lee Biostatistics and clinical trials: a view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--367 Aloke Dey and K. Balasubramanian and Sudhir Gupta Incomplete block designs for slope ratio assays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--383 Pai-Lien Chen and Pranab Kumar Sen A piecewise transition model for analyzing multistate life history data 385--400 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--402 Anonymous Pages 1-402 (May 1999) . . . . . . . . . ??
Peter Bühlmann Efficient and adaptive post-model-selection estimators . . . . 1--9 H. Finner and M. Roters Asymptotic comparison of the critical values of step-down and step-up multiple comparison procedures . . . . . . . . . 11--30 Fan Hui Kong Adjusting regression attenuation in the Cox proportional hazards model . . . . . 31--44 Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Atanu Biswas Sequential nonparametric tests based on randomized play-the-winner rule for restricted bivariate alternatives . . . 45--57 Eiichi Isogai Sequential estimation of a density and its derivatives with bounded MISE . . . 59--78 Essam K. Al-Hussaini Predicting observables from a general class of distributions . . . . . . . . . 79--91 Bruno Lecoutre Two useful distributions for Bayesian predictive procedures under normal models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--105 Josep Ginebra and Murray K. Clayton Small-sample performance of Bernoulli two-armed bandit Bayesian strategies . . 107--122 Hyo-Il Park and M. M. Desu A multivariate control median test . . . 123--139 H. Mansouri Aligned rank transform tests in linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--155 Elsie S. Valeroso and André I. Khuri Multiresponse surface models with random block effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--173 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177 Anonymous Pages 1-178 (June 1999) . . . . . . . . ??
Dimitris Politis and Joseph P. Romano and Michael Wolf Weak convergence of dependent empirical measures with application to subsampling in function spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 179--190 Rakesh Srivastava and Zoola Kapasi Sometimes pool $t$ estimation --- via shrinkage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--204 G. Kamberova and M. Mintz Minimax rules under zero-one loss for a restricted location parameter . . . . . 205--221 Brani Vidakovic and Fabrizio Ruggeri Expansion estimation by Bayes rules . . 223--235 Martin L. William and T. M. Durairajan A generalised quasi-likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246 Yi-Hau Chen and Hung Chen Incomplete covariates data in generalized linear models . . . . . . . 247--258 Michael D. Perlman and Lang Wu Lattice conditional independence models for contingency tables with non-monotone missing data patterns . . . . . . . . . 259--287 Alexander Schöne and Wolfgang Schmid and Sven Knoth On the run length of the EWMA scheme: a monotonicity result for normal variables 289--297 Chi Song Wong and Hua Cheng Cochran theorems for a multivariate vector-elliptically contoured model. Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--324 Norman R. Draper and Friedrich Pukelsheim Kiefer ordering of simplex designs for first- and second-degree mixture models 325--348 A. Di Bucchianico Combinatorics, computer algebra and the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test . . . . . . . 349--364 A. Martín Andrés and J. M. Tapia García On determining the $p$-value in $ 2 \times 2$ multinomial trials: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference \bf 69 (1998) 33--49 . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--365 Anonymous Pages 179-368 (1 July 1999) . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi Nikolai N. Leonenko and Wojbor A. Woyczynski Parameter identification for singular random fields arising in Burgers' turbulence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 Liudas Giraitis and Murad S. Taqqu Convergence of normalized quadratic forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--35 J. T. Gao and V. V. Anh Semiparametric regression under long-range dependent errors . . . . . . 37--57 Gabriel Lang and Jean-Marc Azai\"\is Non-parametric estimation of the long-range dependence exponent for Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . 59--80 Liudas Giraitis and Donatas Surgailis Central limit theorem for the empirical process of a linear sequence with long memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--93 V. V. Anh and J. M. Angulo and M. D. Ruiz-Medina Possible long-range dependence in fractional random fields . . . . . . . . 95--110 D. Marinucci and P. M. Robinson Alternative forms of fractional Brownian motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--122 V. V. Anh and C. C. Heyde and Q. Tieng Stochastic models for fractal processes 123--135 Jan Beran and Dirk Ocker SEMIFAR forecasts, with applications to foreign exchange rates . . . . . . . . . 137--153 R. G. Addie On weak convergence of long-range-dependent traffic processes 155--171 Bruce D. Malamud and Donald L. Turcotte Self-affine time series: measures of weak and strong persistence . . . . . . 173--196 Yan-Xia Lin and Michellel McCabe An example of applying the asymptotic quasi-likelihood to dimension estimation for random spatial patterns . . . . . . 197--209 Vadim Teverovsky and Murad S. Taqqu and Walter Willinger A critical look at Lo's modified $ R / S $ statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--227 Michael A. Hauser Maximum likelihood estimators for ARMA and ARFIMA models: a Monte Carlo study 229--255 Y. K. Tse and V. V. Anh and Q. Tieng No-cointegration test based on fractional differencing: Some Monte Carlo results . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--267 Valdério Anselmo Reisen and Silvia Lopes Some simulations and applications of forecasting long-memory time-series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--287 Anonymous Pages 1-292 (1 August 1999) . . . . . . ??
Hammou El Barmi and Mark D. Rothmann Estimation of weighted multinomial probabilities under log-convex constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 Mary C. Meyer An extension of the mixed primal-dual bases algorithm to the case of more constraints than dimensions . . . . . . 13--31 Miguel A. Arcones Rates of convergence of $ L_p $-estimators for a density with an infinity cusp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--50 Richard C. Bradley and Lanh T. Tran Density estimation for nonisotropic random fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--70 Arnold Janssen Testing nonparametric statistical functionals with applications to rank tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--93 Guoyong Jiang and Sanat K. Sarkar and Francis Hsuan A likelihood ratio test and its modifications for the homogeneity of the covariance matrices of dependent multivariate normals . . . . . . . . . . 95--111 A. Guillou Weighted bootstraps for the variance . . 113--120 Boxin Tang Balanced bootstrap in sample surveys and its relationship with balanced repeated replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127 Jitendra Ganju and James M. Lucas Detecting randomization restrictions caused by factors . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140 Pierre Druilhet Optimality of neighbour balanced designs 141--152 Christos Koukouvinos and Jennifer Seberry New weighing matrices and orthogonal designs constructed using two sequences with zero autocorrelation function --- a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--182 Shu Yamada and Yoshiko T. Ikebe and Hiroki Hashiguchi and Naoto Niki Construction of three-level supersaturated design . . . . . . . . . 183--193 K. G. Russell and J. A. John A note on the optimality of resolvable block designs with unequal block sizes 195--199 Anonymous Pages 1-200 (1 October 1999) . . . . . . ??
M. Asadi A note on characterizations based on truncated expectations . . . . . . . . . 201--207 H. M. Barakat and E. M. Nigm Convergence of random extremal quotient and product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--221 Ibrahim A. Ahmad Nonparametric estimation of the expected duration of old age . . . . . . . . . . 223--227 R. L. Eubank A simple smoothing spline, II . . . . . 229--235 J. V. Deshpande and M. Mukhopadhyay and U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar Testing of two sample proportional intensity assumption for non-homogeneous Poisson processes . . . . . . . . . . . 237--251 Q. M. Bui and R. M. Huggins Inference for the random coefficients bifurcating autoregressive model for cell lineage studies . . . . . . . . . . 253--262 Philip L. H. Yu and Yijun Sun and Bimal K. Sinha On exact confidence intervals for the common mean of several normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--277 Weizhen Wang On equivalence of two variances of a bivariate normal vector . . . . . . . . 279--292 Henning Knautz Nonlinear unbiased estimation in the linear regression model with nonnormal disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--309 Gregory C. Reinsel On multivariate linear regression shrinkage and reduced-rank procedures 311--321 Elías Moreno and Francesco Bertolino and Walter Racugno Default Bayesian analysis of the Behrens--Fisher problem . . . . . . . . 323--333 B. R. Bhat and M. N. Badade Bayesian analysis for finite Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--348 Athanassios Katsis and Blaza Toman Bayesian sample size calculations for binomial experiments . . . . . . . . . . 349--362 Valerii V. Fedorov and Grace Montepiedra and Christopher J. Nachtsheim Design of experiments for locally weighted regression . . . . . . . . . . 363--382 Daniel T. Voss and Weizhen Wang Simultaneous confidence intervals in the analysis of orthogonal saturated designs 383--392 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--393 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396 Anonymous Pages 201-396 (1 November 1999) . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Pranab K. Sen Multiple comparisons in interim analysis 5--23 Allan Gut and Rainer Schwabe Some remarks on repeated significance tests for linear contrasts . . . . . . . 25--34 Eugene Grechanovsky and Ilia Pinsker A general approach to stepup multiple test procedures for free-combinations families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--54 Ajit C. Tamhane and Charles W. Dunnett Stepwise multiple test procedures with biometric applications . . . . . . . . . 55--68 Gernot Wassmer and Peter Reitmeir and Meinhard Kieser and Walter Lehmacher Procedures for testing multiple endpoints in clinical trials: an overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--81 Hans-Friedrich Koch and Ludwig A. Hothorn Exact unconditional distributions for dichotomous data in many-to-one comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--99 Arthur J. Roth Multiple comparison procedures for discrete test statistics . . . . . . . . 101--117 G. Hommel and G. Bernhard Bonferroni procedures for logically related hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . 119--128 Paul N. Somerville Critical values for multiple testing and comparisons: one step and step down procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138 Pranab K. Sen Some remarks on Simes-type multiple tests of significance . . . . . . . . . 139--145 Ester Samuel-Cahn A note about a curious generalization of Simes' theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--149 Frank Krummenauer and Gerhard Hommel The size of Simes' global test for discrete test statistics . . . . . . . . 151--162 Yoav Benjamini and Wei Liu A step-down multiple hypotheses testing procedure that controls the false discovery rate under independence . . . 163--170 Daniel Yekutieli and Yoav Benjamini Resampling-based false discovery rate controlling multiple test procedures for correlated test statistics . . . . . . . 171--196 Juliet Popper Shaffer A semi-Bayesian study of Duncan's Bayesian multiple comparison procedure 197--213 Donald A. Berry and Yosef Hochberg Bayesian perspectives on multiple comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227 Sture Holm Confidence sets of fixed size for multinormal means . . . . . . . . . . . 229--236 A. Futschik Confidence regions for the set of global maximizers of nonparametrically estimated curves . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--250 Joseph Glaz and Cristina P. Sison Simultaneous confidence intervals for multinomial proportions . . . . . . . . 251--262 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264 Anonymous Pages 1-264 (1 December 1999) . . . . . ??
Jay H. Beder Erratum to ``Conjectures About Hadamard Matrices'' [J Statist. Plann. Inference \bf 72 (1998) 7--14] . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Clement Lam and Vladimir D. Tonchev Corrigendum to ``Classification of affine resolvable $ 2 - (27, 9, 4) $ designs'' [Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 56 (1996) 187--202] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
P. H. Kvam and F. J. Samaniego Erratum to ``On the inadmissibility of standard estimators based on ranked set sampling'' [Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference \bf 36 (1993) 39--55] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001--2001