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Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1990
Volume 9, Number 2, February, 1990
Volume 9, Number 3, March, 1990
Volume 9, Number 4, April, 1990
Volume 9, Number 5, May, 1990
Volume 10, Number 1, June, 1990
Volume 10, Number 2, July, 1990
Volume 10, Number 3, August, 1990
Volume 10, Number 4, September, 1990
Volume 10, Number 5, October, 1990
Volume 11, Number 1, January, 1991
Volume 11, Number 2, February, 1991
Volume 11, Number 3, March, 1991
Volume 11, Number 4, April, 1991
Volume 11, Number 5, May, 1991
Volume 12, Number 1, July, 1991
Volume 12, Number 2, August, 1991
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1991
Volume 12, Number 4, October, 1991
Volume 12, Number 5, November, 1991
Volume 13, Number 1, January 2, 1992
Volume 13, Number 2, January 27, 1992
Volume 13, Number 3, February 19, 1992
Volume 13, Number 4, March 13, 1992
Volume 13, Number 5, April 7, 1992
Volume 14, Number 1, May 4, 1992
Volume 14, Number 2, May 27, 1992
Volume 14, Number 3, June 24, 1992
Volume 14, Number 4, July 17, 1992
Volume 14, Number 5, July 11, 1992
Volume 15, Number 1, September 3, 1992
Volume 15, Number 2, September 28, 1992
Volume 15, Number 3, October 21, 1992
Volume 15, Number 4, November 13, 1992
Volume 15, Number 5, December 8, 1992
Volume 16, Number 1, January 4, 1993
Volume 16, Number 2, January 27, 1993
Volume 16, Number 3, February 19, 1993
Volume 16, Number 4, March 16, 1993
Volume 16, Number 5, April 8, 1993
Volume 17, Number 1, May 3, 1993
Volume 17, Number 2, May 26, 1993
Volume 17, Number 3, June 18, 1993
Volume 17, Number 4, July 13, 1993
Volume 17, Number 5, August 5, 1993
Volume 18, Number 1, August 30, 1993
Volume 18, Number 2, September 22, 1993
Volume 18, Number 3, October 15, 1993
Volume 18, Number 4, November 9, 1993
Volume 18, Number 5, December 2, 1993
Volume 19, Number 1, January 3, 1994
Volume 19, Number 2, January 27, 1994
Volume 19, Number 3, February 22, 1994
Volume 19, Number 4, March 15, 1994
Volume 19, Number 5, April 11, 1994
Volume 20, Number 1, May 4, 1994
Volume 20, Number 2, May 27, 1994
Volume 20, Number 3, June 22, 1994
Volume 20, Number 4, July 14, 1994
Volume 20, Number 5, August 9, 1994
Volume 21, Number 1, September 1, 1994
Volume 21, Number 2, September 23, 1994
Volume 21, Number 3, October 19, 1994
Volume 21, Number 4, November 11, 1994
Volume 21, Number 5, December 7, 1994
Volume 22, Number 1, January, 1995
Volume 22, Number 2, February, 1995
Volume 22, Number 3, February 15, 1995
Volume 22, Number 4, March, 1995
Volume 23, Number 1, April, 1995
Volume 23, Number 2, May 1, 1995
Volume 23, Number 3, May 15, 1995
Volume 23, Number 4, June, 1995
Volume 24, Number 1, July, 1995
Volume 24, Number 2, August 1, 1995
Volume 24, Number 3, August 15, 1995
Volume 24, Number 4, September, 1995
Volume 25, Number 1, October, 1995
Volume 25, Number 2, November 1, 1995
Volume 25, Number 3, November 15, 1995
Volume 25, Number 4, December, 1995
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 1996
Volume 26, Number 2, February 1, 1996
Volume 26, Number 3, February 15, 1996
Volume 26, Number 4, March 1, 1996
Volume 27, Number 1, March 15, 1996
Volume 27, Number 2, April 1, 1996
Volume 27, Number 3, April 15, 1996
Volume 27, Number 4, May 1, 1996
Volume 28, Number 1, June 1, 1996
Volume 28, Number 2, June 15, 1996
Volume 28, Number 3, July, 1996
Volume 28, Number 4, August, 1996
Volume 29, Number 1, August 15, 1996
Volume 29, Number 2, August 30, 1996
Volume 29, Number 3, September 2, 1996
Volume 29, Number 4, September 16, 1996
Volume 30, Number 1, September 30, 1996
Volume 30, Number 2, October 15, 1996
Volume 30, Number 3, October 30, 1996
Volume 30, Number 4, November 15, 1996
Volume 31, Number 1, December 1, 1996
Volume 31, Number 2, December 16, 1996
Volume 31, Number 3, January 16, 1997
Volume 31, Number 4, February 1, 1997
Volume 32, Number 1, February 14, 1997
Volume 32, Number 2, March 1, 1997
Volume 32, Number 3, March 15, 1997
Volume 32, Number 4, April 1, 1997
Volume 33, Number 1, April 15, 1997
Volume 33, Number 2, April 30, 1997
Volume 33, Number 3, May 5, 1997
Volume 33, Number 4, May 16, 1997
Volume 34, Number 1, May 30, 1997
Volume 34, Number 2, June 2, 1997
Volume 34, Number 3, June 16, 1997
Volume 34, Number 4, June 16, 1997
Volume 35, Number 1, August 15, 1997
Volume 35, Number 2, September 30, 1997
Volume 35, Number 3, October 15, 1997
Volume 35, Number 4, November 1, 1997
Volume 36, Number 1, November 15, 1997
Volume 36, Number 2, December 1, 1997
Volume 36, Number 3, December 15, 1997
Volume 36, Number 4, January 3, 1998
Volume 37, Number 1, January 15, 1998
Volume 37, Number 2, February 15, 1998
Volume 37, Number 3, March 16, 1998
Volume 37, Number 4, March 30, 1998
Volume 38, Number 1, May 15, 1998
Volume 38, Number 2, June 1, 1998
Volume 38, Number 3, June 15, 1998
Volume 38, Number 4, July 1, 1998
Volume 39, Number 1, July 15, 1998
Volume 39, Number 2, August 1, 1998
Volume 39, Number 3, August 15, 1998
Volume 39, Number 4, August 21, 1998
Volume 40, Number 1, September 1, 1998
Volume 40, Number 2, September 15, 1998
Volume 40, Number 3, October 15, 1998
Volume 40, Number 4, November 15, 1998
Volume 41, Number 1, January 1, 1999
Volume 41, Number 2, January 15, 1999
Volume 41, Number 3, February 1, 1999
Volume 41, Number 4, February 15, 1999
Volume 42, Number 1, March 15, 1999
Volume 42, Number 2, April 1, 1999
Volume 42, Number 3, April 15, 1999
Volume 42, Number 4, May 1, 1999
Volume 43, Number 1, May 15, 1999
Volume 43, Number 2, June 15, 1999
Volume 43, Number 3, July 1, 1999
Volume 43, Number 4, July 15, 1999
Volume 44, Number 1, August, 1999
Volume 44, Number 2, August 15, 1999
Volume 44, Number 3, September 15, 1999
Volume 44, Number 4, October 1, 1999
Volume 45, Number 1, October 15, 1999
Volume 45, Number 2, November 1, 1999
Volume 45, Number 3, November 15, 1999
Volume 45, Number 4, December 15, 1999
Volume 47, Number 2, April 1, 2000
Volume 50, Number 2, November 1, 2000
Volume 53, Number 1, May 15, 2001


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1990

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                Y. S. Sathe and   
                    U. J. Dixit   On a recurrence relation for order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
         M. Ebneshahrashoob and   
                   Milton Sobel   Sooner and later waiting time problems
                                  for Bernoulli trials: frequency and run
                                  quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--11
             K. G. Mehrotra and   
                  A. Schick and   
                     V. Susarla   Estimation in two sample type II
                                  censoring models . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--22
                    Enno Mammen   A short note on optimal bandwidth
                                  selection for kernel estimators  . . . . 23--25
                 Jan Mielniczuk   Remark concerning data-dependent
                                  bandwidth choice in density estimation   27--33
           George Marsaglia and   
                 Arif Zaman and   
                  Wai Wan Tsang   Toward a universal random number
                                  generator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--39
                 Carl M.-S. Lee   On the characterization of Pitman
                                  measure of nearness  . . . . . . . . . . 41--46
                   Michael Falk   Weak convergence of the remainder term
                                  in the Bahadur representation of extreme
                                  quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--50
                Shande Chen and   
               David Farnsworth   Median polish and a modified procedure   51--57
                   Ari Veijanen   On conditionally mixing processes  . . . 59--65
          Lisa A. Weissfeld and   
               Helmut Schneider   Influence diagnostics for the Weibull
                                  model fit to censored data . . . . . . . 67--73
                      Harry Joe   Families of min-stable multivariate
                                  exponential and multivariate extreme
                                  value distributions  . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
                H. K. Hsieh and   
               R. M. Korwar and   
                   A. L. Rukhin   inadmissibility of the maximum
                                  likelihood estimator of the inverse
                                  Gaussian mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--90
                Sik-Yum Lee and   
               Wai-Yin Poon and   
                  P. M. Bentler   Full maximum likelihood analysis of
                                  structural equation models with
                                  polytomous variables . . . . . . . . . . 91--97
                Sanpei Kageyama   Complete characterization of optimum
                                  weighing designs for estimating the
                                  total weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 9, Number 2, February, 1990

             James W. Neill and   
                Shie-Shien Yang   Testing regression function adequacy in
                                  nonlinear multiresponse models . . . . . 101--105
                 S. Chakraborti   A class of tests for homogeneity of
                                  quantiles under unequal right-censorship 107--109
                  Joachim Engel   Density estimation with Haar series  . . 111--117
                B. P. M. McCabe   An extension of Anderson's multiple
                                  decision procedure . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124
              Dragan Banjevi\'c   On order statistics in waiting time for
                                  runs in Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . 125--127
                    M. C. Jones   The performance of kernel density
                                  functions in kernel distribution
                                  function estimation  . . . . . . . . . . 129--132
           R. J. Karunamuni and   
                    K. L. Mehra   Improvements on strong uniform
                                  consistency of some known kernel
                                  estimates of a density and its
                                  derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--140
              Kasra Afsarinejad   Circular balanced uniform repeated
                                  measurements designs, II . . . . . . . . 141--143
               V. Papathanasiou   Some characterizations of distributions
                                  based on order statistics  . . . . . . . 145--147
                  D. L. Hawkins   A note on the asymptotic distribution of
                                  a statistic for testing stability of a
                                  correlation coefficient  . . . . . . . . 149--154
               Christian Robert   Modified Bessel functions and their
                                  applications in probability and
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--161
                     K. D. Ling   On geometric distributions of order $
                                  (k_1, \ldots {}, k_m) $  . . . . . . . . 163--171
                   Yi-Ching Yao   On the asymptotic behavior of a class of
                                  nonparametric tests for a change-point
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--177
                Ryszard Magiera   Minimax sequential estimation plans for
                                  exponential-type processes . . . . . . . 179--185
                 Douglas Nychka   Some properties of adding a smoothing
                                  step to the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . 187--193
              Bahadur Singh and   
                   F. T. Wright   Testing for and against an order
                                  restriction in mixed-effects models  . . 195--200

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 9, Number 3, March, 1990

           Michael T. Lacey and   
                 Walter Philipp   A note on the almost sure Central Limit
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--205
                   Mei Wang and   
              Michael Woodroofe   A local limit theorem for sums of
                                  dependent random variables . . . . . . . 207--213
             Kumar Joag-Dev and   
                 Frank Proschan   A covariance inequality for coherent
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
             Marco Scarsini and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Stochastic ordering for permutation
                                  symmetric distributions  . . . . . . . . 217--222
             Madan Lal Puri and   
           István Vincze   Measure of information and contiguity    223--228
           Leonard A. Stefanski   Rates of convergence of some estimators
                                  in a class of deconvolution problems . . 229--235
                     Peter Hall   On the law of the logarithm for density
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--240
               Jan Beirlant and   
                 Paul Deheuvels   On the approximation of $P$--$P$ and
                                  $Q$--$Q$ plot processes by Brownian
                                  bridges  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--251
           V. Genon-Catalot and   
               C. Larédo   An asymptotic sufficiency property of
                                  observations related to the first
                                  hitting times of a diffusion . . . . . . 253--258
        Clifford M. Hurvich and   
                 Chih-Ling Tsai   Model selection for least absolute
                                  deviations regression in small samples   259--265
          Tasos C. Christofides   Rate of convergence in the Strong Law of
                                  Large Numbers for $U$-statistics based
                                  on a multidimensionally indexed array of
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--272
       Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg   Inequalities for noncentral chi-square
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--278
               D. L. Hanson and   
                  Hari Mukerjee   Isotonic estimation in stochastic
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--287
                     A. I. Dale   Thomas Bayes: some clues to his
                                  education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 9, Number 4, April, 1990

                N. Balakrishnan   Improving the Hartley--David--Gumbel
                                  bound for the mean of extreme order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--294
                     Lars Holst   A circle covering problem and DNA
                                  breakage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--298
              L. Baringhaus and   
                       N. Henze   A test for uniformity with unknown
                                  limits based on d'Agostino's $D$ . . . . 299--304
                    Luc Devroye   A note on Linnik's distribution  . . . . 305--306
               S. T. Rachev and   
            L. Rüschendorf   A counterexample to A.S. constructions   307--309
               B. G. Hansen and   
                   E. Willekens   The generalized logarithmic series
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--316
           Andrew L. Rukhin and   
                   Lynn Kuo and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   A class of minimax estimators of the
                                  scale parameter of the uniform
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--321
           Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly   A simple test for dispersive ordering    323--325
               Pawe\l Hitczenko   Best constant in the decoupling
                                  inequality for non-negative random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
                      Allan Gut   Limit points of sample maxima  . . . . . 331--336
            Francesco Battaglia   Approximate power of portmanteau tests
                                  for time series  . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--341
                   J. S. Chawla   A note on ridge regression . . . . . . . 343--345
              Song-Gui Wang and   
              Siu-Keung Tse and   
               Shein-Chung Chow   On the measures of multicollinearity in
                                  least squares regression . . . . . . . . 347--355
                    Raul Fierro   Existence and uniqueness of a martingale
                                  problem in $ D_+ $, $ I' $ . . . . . . . 357--359
                   Tiee-Jian Wu   $ L_p $ nonuniform bounds for asymptotic
                                  normality of linear rank statistics  . . 361--365
                 Ruben H. Zamar   Robustness against unexpected dependence
                                  in the location model  . . . . . . . . . 367--374
      Jana Jurecková and   
        A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh   Robustified version of Stein's
                                  multivariate location estimation . . . . 375--380

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 9, Number 5, May, 1990

                James O. Berger   On the inadmissibility of unbiased
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384
        Siddhartha R. Dalal and   
                Jack C. Lee and   
             Darius J. Sabavala   Empirical Bayes prediction for a
                                  compound Poisson-multinomial process . . 385--389
             Stavros Kourouklis   A relation between the Chernoff index
                                  and the Pitman efficacy  . . . . . . . . 391--395
           Robert M. Burton and   
                 Herold Dehling   Large deviations for some weakly
                                  dependent random processes . . . . . . . 397--401
                     Peter Auer   The circle homogeneously covered by
                                  random walk on $ \mathbb {Z}^2 $ . . . . 403--407
         Richard A. Johnson and   
         Christopher H. Morrell   Two sample rank tests under a random
                                  truncation model . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--422
            J. C. W. Rayner and   
                 L. G. McAlevey   Smooth goodness of fit tests for
                                  categorised composite null hypotheses    423--429
               Milton Sobel and   
                   Martin Wells   Dirichlet integrals and moments of gamma
                                  distribution order statistics  . . . . . 431--437
               Paul Janssen and   
      Noël Veraverbeke and   
                Robert Serfling   $U$-statistics on Winsorized and trimmed
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--447
                 D. G. Kabe and   
                    A. K. Gupta   On a multiple correlation ratio  . . . . 449--451
       Andreas N. Philippou and   
        Demetris L. Antzoulakos   Multivariate distributions of order $k$
                                  on a generalized sequence  . . . . . . . 453--463
                  Yasuo Amemiya   A note on the limiting distribution of
                                  certain characteristic roots . . . . . . 465--470
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 9 (1990) . . . . . . 471--473


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 10, Number 1, June, 1990

        Richard D. De Veaux and   
                Abba M. Krieger   Robust estimation of a normal mixture    1--7
                  R. J. Tomkins   A generalized law of the iterated
                                  logarithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--15
              Song-Gui Wang and   
               Shein-Chung Chow   A note on adaptive generalized ridge
                                  regression estimator . . . . . . . . . . 17--21
                   M. Vasudaven   On Kolmogorov--Smirnov type aligned test
                                  in $k$-sample linear regression  . . . . 23--27
       Andreas N. Philippou and   
    Demetris L. Antzoulakos and   
         Gregory A. Tripsiannis   Multivariate distributions of order $k$,
                                  part II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
            Svetlozar T. Rachev   A note on the stability of the
                                  estimation of the exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--41
              Michael J. Phelan   Estimating the transition probabilities
                                  from censored Markov renewal processes   43--47
                    W. Qian and   
             D. M. Titterington   Parameter estimation for hidden Gibbs
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
               Daniel Zelterman   On tests for qualitative interactions    59--63
                 G. A. Whitmore   On the reliability of stochastic
                                  systems: a comment . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
                     Y. Yin and   
                  R. J. Carroll   A diagnostic for heteroscedasticity
                                  based on the Spearman rank correlation   69--76
                       Jun Shao   Asymptotic theory in heteroscedastic
                                  nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85
                Eddy Mayer-Wolf   An application to probability laws of
                                  the noncontinuity of the inverse Radon
                                  transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 10, Number 2, July, 1990

                A. O. Pittenger   Sharp mean-variance bounds for
                                  Jensen-type inequalities . . . . . . . . 91--94
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                     Peter Enis   On the construction of classes of
                                  variance stabilizing transformations . . 95--100
               Christian Robert   On some accurate bounds for the
                                  quantiles of a non-central chi squared
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106
                 George Casella   Estimators with nondecreasing risk:
                                  application of a chi-squared identity    107--109
             Rahul Mukerjee and   
                        S. Huda   Fourth-order rotatable designs:
                                  $A$-optimal measures . . . . . . . . . . 111--117
               Anant P. Godbole   Specific formulae for some success run
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124
          Ibrahim A. Salama and   
                     Dana Quade   On the asymptotic permutational
                                  normality of certain weighted measures
                                  of correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--133
                  P. Y. Liu and   
                 J. Voelkel and   
                     J. Crowley   On the ratio of hazard functions in the
                                  presence of a nuisance covariate . . . . 135--140
                 Julian Faraway   Implementing semiparametric density
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
           Jean-Pierre Lecoutre   Uniform consistency of a class of
                                  regression function estimators for
                                  Banach-space valued random variable  . . 145--149
                     K. Das and   
               Q. Meneghini and   
                     N. C. Giri   Inadmissibility of an estimator for the
                                  ratio of variance components . . . . . . 151--157
                Joseph Horowitz   A uniform Law of Large Numbers and
                                  empirical Central Limit Theorem for
                                  limits of finite populations . . . . . . 159--166
      Gennady Samorodnitsky and   
                 Murad S. Taqqu   Existence of joint moments of stable
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--172
           Shean-Tsong Chiu and   
                   J. S. Marron   The negative correlations between
                                  data-determined bandwidths and the
                                  optimal bandwidth  . . . . . . . . . . . 173--180

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 10, Number 3, August, 1990

                      R. Szekli   On the concavity of the infinitesimal
                                  renewal function . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--184
              Charles M. Newman   Convergence of the sum of reciprocal
                                  renewal times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--187
                  Hajime Yamato   Probabilistic proofs of relations with
                                  Stirling numbers of the first kind by
                                  Dirichlet process  . . . . . . . . . . . 189--192
                  Lanh Tat Tran   Kernel density estimation under
                                  dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--201
          Alexander A. Georgiev   Nonparametric multiple function fitting  203--211
              Jacek Weso\lowski   A martingale characterization of the
                                  Wiener process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
                     Ravi Chari   On a connection between the non-central
                                  $ \chi^2 $ distribution and Bessel
                                  diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--219
             Vesna Jevremovi\'c   Two examples of nonlinear processes with
                                  a mixed exponential marginal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--224
                Marek Rutkowski   Stochastic differential equations with
                                  singular drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--229
          Alexander Shapiro and   
                    Ayala Cohen   Testing and estimation of equal
                                  variances for correlated variables . . . 231--234
      J. Muñoz-Perez and   
               A. Sanchez-Gomez   A characterization of the distribution
                                  function: the dispersion function  . . . 235--239
           V. K. Srivastava and   
                    R. S. Singh   Uniformly minimum variance unbiased
                                  estimator of efficiency ratio in
                                  estimation of normal population mean . . 241--245
               Anant P. Godbole   Degenerate and Poisson convergence
                                  criteria for success runs  . . . . . . . 247--255
              Jonathan P. Cohen   A comparison of estimators of
                                  functionals of the distribution of a
                                  maximum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--261
       Enrique M. Cabaña   On a martingale characterization of
                                  two-parameter Wiener process . . . . . . 263--270
                      Anonymous   Call for papers on optimization
                                  techniques in statistics . . . . . . . . 271--271

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 10, Number 4, September, 1990

             John L. Maryak and   
                 James C. Spall   Weak convergence and the exponential
                                  rate of concentration for posterior
                                  density functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 273--278
              Kasra Afsarinejad   Rectangular lattice designs  . . . . . . 279--281
                M. C. Jones and   
                     Peter Hall   Mean squared error properties of kernel
                                  estimates or regression quantiles  . . . 283--289
            Ryszard Zieli\'nski   Robustness of the one-sided
                                  Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon test to
                                  dependency between samples . . . . . . . 291--295
             Michael J. Wichura   A note on Das's approximation to Mills's
                                  ratio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--299
                   Michael Falk   Weak convergence of the maximum error of
                                  the bootstrap quantile estimate  . . . . 301--305
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Remarks on univariate elliptical
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--315
                    Henryk Gzyl   Diffusions on some submanifolds of
                                  Euclidean spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--319
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
       S. Rao Jammalamadaka and   
                      Xian Zhou   On an interval splitting problem . . . . 321--324
                A. Niinimaa and   
                     H. Oja and   
                  Mara Tableman   The finite-sample breakdown point of the
                                  Oja bivariate median and of the
                                  corresponding half-samples version . . . 325--328
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Unbiased nonparametric estimation of the
                                  derivative of the mean . . . . . . . . . 329--333
         Lawrence M. Leemis and   
              Li-Hsing Shih and   
                Kurt Reynertson   Variate generation for accelerated life
                                  and proportional hazards models with
                                  time dependent covariates  . . . . . . . 335--339
                Kamal C. Chanda   Asymptotic expansions of the
                                  probabilities of misclassification for
                                  $k$-NN discriminant rules  . . . . . . . 341--349
       AndréI. Khuri and   
                    Malay Ghosh   Minimal sufficient statistics for the
                                  unbalanced two-fold nested model . . . . 351--353
     Jaros\law Bartoszewicz and   
              Tadeusz Bednarski   On a test for dispersive ordering  . . . 355--362

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 10, Number 5, October, 1990

           Douglas P. Wiens and   
                  K. H. Eden Wu   Asymptotic minimax properties of
                                  $M$-estimators of scale  . . . . . . . . 363--368
                 Y. P. Mack and   
              Norman S. Matloff   Estimating a mixing distribution in a
                                  multiple observation setting . . . . . . 369--376
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                  Daoud Bshouty   A class of infinitely divisible variance
                                  functions with an application to the
                                  polynomial case  . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379
                   H. Dette and   
                       N. Henze   Some peculiar boundary phenomena for
                                  extremes of $r$ th nearest neighbor
                                  links  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--390
            Xiang Chen Wang and   
                M. Bhaskara Rao   A note on convergence in Banach spaces
                                  of cotype $p$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--396
                     Galaye Dia   Non-parametric estimation of the density
                                  of a point process . . . . . . . . . . . 397--405
          J. Muñoz-Perez   Dispersive ordering by the spread
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--410
                L. A. Weissfeld   Influence diagnostics for the
                                  proportional hazards model . . . . . . . 411--417
                      Song Yang   Efficient robust estimation of parameter
                                  in the random censorship model . . . . . 419--426
               David Aldous and   
               William B. Krebs   The `birth-and-assassination' process    427--430
            Nimai Kumar Chandra   On the efficiency of a testimator for
                                  the mean of an inverse Gaussian
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--437
          Y. S. Rama Krishnaiah   On the Glivenko--Cantelli theorem for
                                  generalized empirical processes based on
                                  strong mixing sequences  . . . . . . . . 439--447
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 10 (1990)  . . . . . 449--451


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 11, Number 1, January, 1991

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
            Antoni Sintes Blanc   On the Poisson approximation for some
                                  multinomial distributions  . . . . . . . 1--6
                     Werner Ehm   Binomial approximation to the Poisson
                                  binomial distribution  . . . . . . . . . 7--16
                 F. Spizzichino   Bayesian analysis for two-components
                                  systems and a conjugate family of
                                  bivariate densities  . . . . . . . . . . 17--25
                       Jun Shao   Jackknife variance estimators for
                                  generalized $L$-statistics . . . . . . . 27--32
                   Tom Wansbeek   Singular value decomposition of design
                                  matrices in ANOVA with balanced data . . 33--36
               Christian Robert   Generalized inverse normal distributions 37--41
       Jean-Noël Bacro and   
                Margarida Brito   On Mason's extension of the
                                  Erd\Hos--Rényi Law of Large Numbers . . . 43--47
            Marvin H. J. Gruber   The efficiency of jack-knifed and usual
                                  ridge type estimators: a comparison  . . 49--51
            Sotirios Loukas and   
              Takis Papaioannou   Rank correlation inequalities with ties
                                  and missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
            Heinz Neudecker and   
                 Albert Satorra   Linear structural relations: Gradient
                                  and Hessian of the fitting function  . . 57--61
                Y. S. Sathe and   
                   S. M. Bendre   Log-concavity of probability of
                                  occurrence of at least $r$ independent
                                  events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
            Benjamin Reiser and   
               Mordechai Jaegar   A comment on Buehler optimal confidence
                                  bounds for series systems reliability    65--67
           Leonard A. Stefanski   A normal scale mixture representation of
                                  the logistic distribution  . . . . . . . 69--70
                   Gerardo Sanz   $ n^r $-Consistency of certain optimal
                                  estimators, $ 0 < r < 1 / 2 $  . . . . . . 71--76
                      Anonymous   Master index volumes 1--10 . . . . . . . 77--98

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 11, Number 2, February, 1991

                  Jan von Plato   Finite partial exchangeability . . . . . 99--102
                H. Vincent Poor   The maximum difference between the
                                  binomial and Poisson distributions . . . 103--106
               Kai-Tai Fang and   
                  P. M. Bentler   A largest characterization of spherical
                                  and related distributions  . . . . . . . 107--110
             Ehsan S. Soofi and   
                  D. V. Gokhale   An information criterion for normal
                                  regression estimation  . . . . . . . . . 111--117
               R. L. Eubank and   
                  Paul Speckman   Convergence rates for trigonometric and
                                  polynomial-trigonometric regression
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124
              Wen-Tao Huang and   
              Chiou-Shiang Tsai   On a modified binomial distribution of
                                  order $k$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--131
                 Chris J. Lloyd   Asymptotic expansions of the Fisher
                                  information in a sample mean . . . . . . 133--137
                    Bing Li and   
                 Ruben H. Zamar   Min-max asymptotic variance of
                                  $M$-estimates of location when scale is
                                  unknown  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145
               Gary L. Wise and   
                   Eric B. Hall   A note on the distribution of the
                                  determinant of a random matrix . . . . . 147--148
              Manzoor Ahmad and   
            Yogendra P. Chaubey   Locally most powerful test for testing
                                  the equality of variances of two linear
                                  models with common regression parameters 149--153
              R. L. Dykstra and   
             Chu-In Charles Lee   Multinomial estimation procedures for
                                  isotonic cones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--160
                 Nikos Yannaros   Poisson approximation for random sums of
                                  Bernoulli random variables . . . . . . . 161--165
                  S. Jeyaratnam   A robust affine-equivariant median . . . 167--168
                   G. M. Tallis   A note on balanced cluster sampling  . . 169--172
            Julio M. Singer and   
            Clovis A. Peres and   
                Carlos E. Harle   A note on the Hardy--Weinberg model in
                                  generalized ABO systems  . . . . . . . . 173--175
                V. K. Gupta and   
                     A. Das and   
                         A. Dey   Universal optimality of block designs
                                  with unequal block sizes . . . . . . . . 177--180
                    M. Donegani   Asymptotic and approximative
                                  distribution of a statistic by
                                  resampling with or without replacement   181--183
                  Teresa Neeman   U-estimability under sequential binomial
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--188

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 11, Number 3, March, 1991

               Dipak K. Dey and   
                  C. Srinivasan   On estimation of discriminant
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--193
                  W. Wefelmeyer   A generalization of asymptotically
                                  linear estimators  . . . . . . . . . . . 195--199
        Juan Antonio Cuesta and   
           Carlos Matrán   On the asymptotic behavior of sums of
                                  pairwise independent random variables    201--210
           Charles W. Champ and   
         William H. Woodall and   
               Hassan A. Mohsen   A generalized quality control procedure  211--218
                 B. Betr\`o and   
                     R. Rotondi   On Bayesian inference for the inverse
                                  Gaussian distribution  . . . . . . . . . 219--224
                     Lars Holst   On the `probl\`eme des ménages' from a
                                  probabilistic viewpoint  . . . . . . . . 225--231
                    S. E. Ahmed   To pool or not to pool: The discrete
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--237
                  G. F. Yeo and   
                    R. K. Milne   On characterizations of beta and gamma
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--242
                  Y. L. Lio and   
                  W. J. Padgett   A note on the asymptotically optimal
                                  bandwidth for Nadaraya's quantile
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--249
                   Lionel Weiss   Asymptotically minimax tests of some
                                  nonstandard composite hypotheses . . . . 251--254
                 Masaaki Sibuya   A simplified proof of a Bonferroni-type
                                  inequality by Tan and Xu and its
                                  extension  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
               Vesna Jevremovic   A note on mixed exponential distribution
                                  with negative weights  . . . . . . . . . 259--265
                Javier Rojo and   
         Francisco J. Samaniego   On nonparametric maximum likelihood
                                  estimation of a distribution uniformly
                                  stochastically smaller than a standard   267--271
               Maria Koz\lowska   Some properties of the row and column
                                  designs with adjusted orthogonality  . . 273--276
            Badi H. Baltagi and   
                          Qi Li   A joint test for serial correlation and
                                  random individual effects  . . . . . . . 277--280

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 11, Number 4, April, 1991

                    Luc Devroye   On the oscillation of the expected
                                  number of extreme points of a random set 281--286
            Mark M. Meerschaert   Regular variation in $ \mathbb {R}^k $
                                  and vector-normed domains of attraction  287--289
                    J. S. Huang   Estimating the variance of the sample
                                  median, discrete case  . . . . . . . . . 291--298
            Barbara Szyszkowicz   Changepoint problems and contiguous
                                  alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--308
              Jane M. Olson and   
              Lisa A. Weissfeld   Approximation of certain multivariate
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--317
                Sanpei Kageyama   An improved upper bound in a proper
                                  non-binary variance-balanced design  . . 319--320
            Philip Hans Franses   The detection of observations possibly
                                  influential for model selection  . . . . 321--325
         Henryk Brzeskwiniewicz   On the reduction of associate classes
                                  for the PBB designs  . . . . . . . . . . 327--330
                Georg Ch. Pflug   A note on the comparison of stationary
                                  laws of Markov processes . . . . . . . . 331--334
          Soumendra Nath Lahiri   Second order optimality of stationary
                                  bootstrap  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--341
                      Harry Joe   Rating systems based on paired
                                  comparison models  . . . . . . . . . . . 343--347
                 G. R. Mendieta   Stopped hyperfinite filtrations  . . . . 349--351
           Leonard A. Stefanski   A note on high-breakdown estimators  . . 353--358
                  H. N. Linssen   A table for solving the Behrens--Fisher
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--363
                Javier Rojo and   
                   Guo Zhong He   New properties and characterizations of
                                  the dispersive ordering  . . . . . . . . 365--372

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 11, Number 5, May, 1991

                 Tze Fen Li and   
                 Dinesh S. Bhoj   Bayes minimax estimators of a
                                  multivariate normal mean . . . . . . . . 373--377
             Eugene F. Schuster   Distribution theory of runs via
                                  exchangeable random variables  . . . . . 379--386
                   A. Gordaliza   On the breakdown point of multivariate
                                  location estimators based on trimming
                                  procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--394
            Yogendra P. Chaubey   A note on non-negative minimum bias
                                  MINQE in variance components model . . . 395--397
                R. B. Bapat and   
                         A. Dey   Optimal block designs with minimal
                                  number of observations . . . . . . . . . 399--402
          Mark. D. Rothmann and   
                 Ralph P. Russo   Strong limiting bounds for a sequence of
                                  moving maxima  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--410
             Bernard Harris and   
                 Andrew P. Soms   Theory and counterexamples for
                                  confidence limits on system reliability  411--417
               Norma Terrin and   
                 Murad S. Taqqu   Convergence to a Gaussian limit as the
                                  normalization exponent tends to 12 . . . 419--427
                   P. Sarda and   
                        P. Vieu   Smoothing parameter selection in hazard
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--434
              George G. Roussas   Recursive estimation of the transition
                                  distribution function of a Markov
                                  process: a symptotic normality . . . . . 435--447
Jérôme Allaire and   
                    Yves Lepage   On a likelihood ratio test for
                                  independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--452
                Eric M. Chi and   
             Gregory C. Reinsel   Asymptotic properties of the score test
                                  for autocorrelation in a random effects
                                  with AR(1) errors model  . . . . . . . . 453--457
                   Ed. McKenzie   Linear characterizations of the Poisson
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--461


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 12, Number 1, July, 1991

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
              Gutti Jogesh Babu   Edgeworth expansions for statistics
                                  which are functions of lattice and
                                  non-lattice variables  . . . . . . . . . 1--7
        Jeffrey S. Simonoff and   
                 Chih-Ling Tsai   Assessing the influence of individual
                                  observations on a goodness-of-fit test
                                  based on nonparametric regression  . . . 9--17
                Gerold Alsmeyer   Some relations between harmonic renewal
                                  measures and certain first passage times 19--27
      Sòren Bisgaard and   
               Laurel E. Travis   Existence and uniqueness of the solution
                                  of the likelihood equations for binary
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35
                Jye-Chyi Lu and   
         Gouri K. Bhattacharyya   Inference procedures for bivariate
                                  exponential model of Gumbel  . . . . . . 37--50
                    M. C. Jones   The roles of ISE and MISE in density
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56
                Joseph Glaz and   
             Nalini Ravishanker   Simultaneous prediction intervals for
                                  multiple forecasts based on Bonferroni
                                  and product-type inequalities  . . . . . 57--63
             Byeong U. Park and   
                     Sinsup Cho   Estimation of integrated squared
                                  spectral density derivatives . . . . . . 65--72
                  Georg R. Heer   Testing independence in high dimensions  73--81
                   Zhaoben Fang   Characterization of nonhomogeneous
                                  Poisson processes via moment conditions  83--90

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 12, Number 2, August, 1991

                    P. Auer and   
                  K. Hornik and   
        P. Révész   Some limit theorems for the homogeneous
                                  Poisson process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--96
          Claude Bélisle   Odd central moments of unimodal
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107
                   Keith Knight   On the empirical measure of the Fourier
                                  coefficients with infinite variance data 109--117
           M. Salomé and   
                      E. Cabral   A locally most powerful unbiased test
                                  for the proportion of mixture  . . . . . 119--124
             Terence J. O'Neill   The Inverse Proportional Hazards Model   125--129
                A. K. Gupta and   
                       T. Varga   Rank of a quadratic form in an
                                  elliptically contoured matrix random
                                  variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--134
                V. G. Gadag and   
                    R. P. Gupta   A study of the behaviour of certain
                                  known estimators on the non-extinction
                                  path of a branching process  . . . . . . 135--139
         K. Balasubramanian and   
                    R. B. Bapat   Identities for order statistics and a
                                  theorem of Rényi  . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
             Arturo Kohatsu-Hia   Weak convergence of infinite order
                                  $U$-processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--150
                   T. N. Sriram   On the uniform strong consistency of an
                                  estimator of the offspring mean in a
                                  branching process with immigration . . . 151--155
                P. J. Brown and   
               C. H. Spiegelman   Mean squared error and selection in
                                  multivariate calibration . . . . . . . . 157--159
                    James Weber   Generalized transformations of random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166
                    A. I. Kanjo   Improving estimates in B.I.B. designs    167--174
                    A. I. Kanjo   Improving estimates in P.B.I.B. designs  175--181
        Juan Antonio Cuesta and   
           Carlos Matrán   On the asymptotic behavior of sums of
                                  pairwise independent random variables    183--183

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1991

                   Albert Y. Lo   A characterization of the Dirichlet
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--187
                R. Vasudeva and   
                     G. Divanji   Law of iterated logarithm for random
                                  subsequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194
                      W. Stadje   The time until two renewal processes
                                  come together  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200
László Gerencsér   Strong approximation of vector-valued
                                  stochastic integrals . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
             Yannis G. Yatracos   On the species and related problems  . . 209--212
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Prophet inequalities for bounded
                                  negatively dependent random variables    213--216
               Douglas P. Wiens   Designs for approximately linear
                                  regression: two optimality properties of
                                  uniform designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--221
              George S. Fishman   Confidence intervals for the mean in the
                                  bounded case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227
                Samuel Kotz and   
              Norman L. Johnson   A note on renewal (partial sums)
                                  distributions for discrete variables . . 229--231
              Leszek Marzec and   
                  Pawe\l Marzec   Testing the dispersive equivalence of
                                  two populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--237
                Eileen King and   
            Jeffrey D. Hart and   
               Thomas E. Wehrly   Testing the equality of two regression
                                  curves using linear smoothers  . . . . . 239--247
         Thomas J. DiCiccio and   
          Michael A. Martin and   
              G. Alastair Young   An invariance property of marginal
                                  density and tail probability
                                  approximations for smooth functions  . . 249--255
          Tasos C. Christofides   Probability inequalities with
                                  exponential bounds for $U$-statistics    257--261
                   Tom J. Jiang   Distribution of random functional of a
                                  Dirichlet process on the unit disk . . . 263--265
                 Li Xiaojun and   
                 Joel M. Morris   On measuring asymmetry and the
                                  reliability of the skewness measure  . . 267--271

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 12, Number 4, October, 1991

     Servet Martínez and   
              Fernando Quintana   On a test for generalized upper
                                  truncated Weibull distributions  . . . . 273--279
                      Y. Takada   Median unbiasedness in an invariant
                                  prediction problem . . . . . . . . . . . 281--283
                Gerold Alsmeyer   Complete answer to an interval splitting
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
              Iain M. Johnstone   A moment inequality for $ L_q $
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
                James C. Fu and   
                      W. Y. Lou   On reliabilities of certain large
                                  linearly connected engineering systems   291--296
               Raymond Recoules   Gaussian reciprocal processes revisited  297--303
                   J. S. Maritz   Estimating the covariance matrix of
                                  bivariate medians  . . . . . . . . . . . 305--309
           David D. Hanagal and   
                     B. K. Kale   Large sample tests of $ \lambda_3 $ in
                                  the bivariate exponential distribution   311--313
                   Harold Exton   A note of the convolution of a
                                  generalised $F$-distribution . . . . . . 315--316
              A. R. Darwich and   
                   A. Le Breton   About the asymptotic behaviour of
                                  multidimensional Gaussian martingales
                                  and estimates in normal linear
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--321
        Sanjeev R. Kulkarni and   
                  Ofer Zeitouni   Can one decide the type of the mean from
                                  the empirical measure? . . . . . . . . . 323--327
          Marek M\keczarski and   
            Ryszard Zieli\'nski   Stability of the Bayesian estimator of
                                  the Poisson mean under the inexactly
                                  specified gamma prior  . . . . . . . . . 329--333
                 Gideon Schwarz   An optimality property of polynomial
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
             Arjun K. Gupta and   
           Edsel A. Peña   A simple motivation for James--Stein
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--340
                  Kan Cheng and   
                      Zongfu He   A note on the exponential approximations
                                  of IFR distributions . . . . . . . . . . 341--344
          Claude Bélisle   Windings of spherically symmetric random
                                  walks via Brownian embedding . . . . . . 345--349
               Arthur Cohen and   
               H. B. Sackrowitz   Constructing unbiased tests for
                                  homogeneity and goodness of fit  . . . . 351--355
               M. R. Leadbetter   On a basis for `Peaks over Threshold'
                                  modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--362

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 12, Number 5, November, 1991

          Robert J. Elliott and   
                Allanus H. Tsoi   Integration by parts for the single jump
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--370
                  Ian R. Harris   The estimated frequency of zero for a
                                  mixed Poisson distribution . . . . . . . 371--372
                    V. Seshadri   A family of distributions related to the
                                  McCullagh family . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--378
            Ryszard Magiera and   
            Maciej Wilczy\'nski   Conjugate priors for exponential-type
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--384
                 Isha Bagai and   
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Estimation of the survival function for
                                  stationary associated processes  . . . . 385--391
              George G. Roussas   Kernel estimates under association:
                                  strong uniform consistency . . . . . . . 393--403
         Richard A. Johnson and   
                  Steve Verrill   The large sample distribution of the
                                  Shapiro--Wilk statistic and its variants
                                  under Type I or Type II censoring  . . . 405--413
           Alvin I. Goldman and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Results on inquiry and truth possession  415--420
            Murray D. Burke and   
                    Edit Gombay   The bootstrapped maximum likelihood
                                  estimator with an application  . . . . . 421--427
                 Paul Deheuvels   On the limiting behavior of the Pickands
                                  estimator for bivariate extreme-value
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--439
                   Tom Wansbeek   Singular value decomposition of design
                                  matrices in ANOVA with balanced data . . 441--441


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 13, Number 1, January 2, 1992

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                  Thore Egeland   On the $S$-shaped theorem  . . . . . . . 1--4
     Guadalupe Gómez and   
                 John Van Ryzin   Estimation of the subsurvival function
                                  for time-to-tumor in survival/sacrifice
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--13
           G. Kerkyacharian and   
                      D. Picard   Density estimation in Besov spaces . . . 15--24
                   Ma Chunsheng   Variance bound of function of order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
          W\lodzimierz Bryc and   
                 Magda Peligrad   The Central Limit Theorem for Tukey's 3R
                                  smoother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--37
                Philip B. Stark   Affine minimax confidence intervals for
                                  a bounded normal mean  . . . . . . . . . 39--44
             Jiunn T. Hwang and   
                  Hung-kung Liu   Existence and nonexistence theorems of
                                  finite diameter sequential confidence
                                  regions for errors-in-variables models   45--55
              Ram C. Tiwari and   
                Martin T. Wells   On the power-divergence statistic in
                                  sparse multinomial models requiring
                                  parameter estimation . . . . . . . . . . 57--60
                    Suojin Wang   General saddlepoint approximations in
                                  the bootstrap  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--66
             R. Karan Singh and   
                 S. M. H. Zaidi   On estimating the mean of symmetrical
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--72
                 Jerzy Szroeter   Bounds for non-central chi-square
                                  distributions having unobservable random
                                  non-centrality parameters  . . . . . . . 73--81
           Robert M. Burton and   
              Herold G. Dehling   Large deviations for some weakly
                                  dependent random processes . . . . . . . 83--83

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 13, Number 2, January 27, 1992

             Bo Henry Lindqvist   Moment inequalities for the reliability
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88
             Taskin Atilgan and   
             Hamparsum Bozdogan   Convergence properties of MLE's and
                                  asymptotic simultaneous confidence
                                  intervals in fitting cardinal B-splines
                                  for density estimation . . . . . . . . . 89--98
                     Kalyan Das   Improved estimation of the ratio of
                                  variance components for a balanced
                                  one-way random effects model . . . . . . 99--108
                     M. P. Wand   Finite sample performance of density
                                  estimators under moving average
                                  dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
 Carlos Antonio León and   
       Jean-Claude Massé   A counterexample on the existence of the
                                  $ L_1 $-median . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120
         Annette Kopp-Schneider   Birth-death processes with piecewise
                                  constant rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127
            Boris Skovoroda and   
                 Thomas Mikosch   A Strong Law of Large Numbers for ruled
                                  sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--137
               R. J. Martin and   
                J. A. Eccleston   A new model for slowly-decaying
                                  correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
              Daoud Bshouty and   
            Gérard Letac   Natural exponential families and
                                  self-decomposability . . . . . . . . . . 147--152
                  Tai Shing Lau   The reliability of exchangeable binary
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--158
           Andrew L. Rukhin and   
           Malwane M. A. Ananda   Risk behavior of variance estimators in
                                  multivariate normal distribution . . . . 159--166
Jérôme Allaire and   
                    Yves Lepage   On a likelihood ratio test for
                                  independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 13, Number 3, February 19, 1992

                Alain Le Breton   Adaptive control in the scalar
                                  linear-quadratic model in continuous
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
             Paul Deheuvels and   
               Josef Steinebach   On the limiting behavior of the
                                  Bahadur--Kiefer statistic for partial
                                  sums and renewal processes when the
                                  fourth moment does not exist . . . . . . 179--188
                  Rasul A. Khan   A remark on Dubins--Savage inequality    189--192
                 Z. Rychlik and   
                        J. Zygo   Strassen's invariance principle for
                                  random subsequences  . . . . . . . . . . 193--197
              George Mathew and   
           William P. McCormick   A conditional limit law result on the
                                  location of the maximum of Brownian
                                  motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
          Subhash C. Kochar and   
               George Woodworth   Rank order probabilities for the
                                  dispersion problem . . . . . . . . . . . 203--208
             Michael G. Akritas   Rank transform statistics with censored
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--221
            Danny W. Turner and   
              Dean M. Young and   
            John W. Seaman, Jr.   Improved Kolmogorov inequalities for the
                                  binomial distribution  . . . . . . . . . 223--227
                   D. R. Jensen   The use of randomization in repeated
                                  measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233
               Jianqing Fan and   
                  Tien-Chung Hu   Bias correction and higher order kernel
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--243
                    W. Qian and   
             D. M. Titterington   Normal approximations for lattice
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--252

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 13, Number 4, March 13, 1992

            Stephen Portnoy and   
                    A. H. Welsh   Exactly what is being modelled by the
                                  systematic component in a
                                  heteroscedastic linear regression  . . . 253--258
                 Markos Koutras   Minimum distance discrimination rules
                                  and success rates for elliptical normal
                                  mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--268
              L. Baringhaus and   
                       N. Henze   A goodness of fit test for the Poisson
                                  distribution based on the empirical
                                  generating function  . . . . . . . . . . 269--274
       Abdulhamid A. Alzaid and   
                 Frank Proschan   Dispersivity and stochastic majorization 275--278
                  Wing-Kam Fung   Some diagnostic measures in discriminant
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--285
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Nonparametric estimation for
                                  Galton--Watson type process  . . . . . . 287--293
            Mendel Fygenson and   
                       Mai Zhou   Modifying the Koul, Susarla and Van
                                  Ryzin estimator for linear regression
                                  models with right censoring  . . . . . . 295--299
                        S. Ravi   A note on weak convergence to extremal
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--306
                  F. R. Lad and   
                W. F. C. Taylor   The moments of the Cantor distribution   307--310
       María Angeles Gil   A note on the connection between fuzzy
                                  numbers and random intervals . . . . . . 311--319
              Duncan J. Murdoch   Scalable relative effectiveness models   321--324
                Ziding Feng and   
           Charles E. McCulloch   Statistical inference using maximum
                                  likelihood estimation and the
                                  generalized likelihood ratio when the
                                  true parameter is on the boundary of the
                                  parameter space  . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--332
                  B. Abdous and   
                 R. Theodorescu   Note on the spatial quantile of a random
                                  vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--336

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 13, Number 5, April 7, 1992

                 Tomasz Rychlik   Stochastically extremal distributions of
                                  order statistics for dependent samples   337--341
                 Derek K. Chang   A note on the distribution of the
                                  Wilcoxon rank sum statistic  . . . . . . 343--349
                    M. C. Jones   Potential for automatic bandwidth choice
                                  in variations on kernel density
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--356
                 Piotr Bajorski   Exact Bahadur efficiency of max-type
                                  rank tests in the two-sample problem . . 357--363
            Martin T. Wells and   
Sreenivasa R. Jammalamadaka and   
                  Ram C. Tiwari   Tests of fit using spacings statistics
                                  with estimated parameters  . . . . . . . 365--372
                T. Pham-Gia and   
                 N. Turkkan and   
                    Q. P. Duong   Using the mean deviation in the
                                  elicitation of the prior distribution    373--381
               Jianqing Fan and   
                Ir\`ene Gijbels   Minimax estimation of a bounded squared
                                  mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--390
           David S. Stoffer and   
      Clélia M. C. Toloi   A note on the Ljung--Box--Pierce
                                  portmanteau statistic with missing data  391--396
                 Rahul Mukerjee   Parametric orthogonality and a
                                  Bartlett-type modification for Rao's
                                  statistic in the presence of a nuisance
                                  parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--400
               Youn J. Choi and   
               Norman C. Severo   Transition probabilities for a modified
                                  general stochastic epidemic model  . . . 401--404
                 Philippe Besse   PCA stability and choice of
                                  dimensionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--410
         John H. J. Einmahl and   
      Martien C. A. van Zuijlen   Glivenko--Cantelli-type theorems for
                                  weighted empirical distribution
                                  functions based on uniform spacings  . . 411--419
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 13 (1992)  . . . . . 421--422


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 14, Number 1, May 4, 1992

    Sándor Csörg\Ho   On the Law of Large Numbers for the
                                  bootstrap mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
       JoséLuis Palacios   A bound for the covering time of random
                                  walks on graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--11
               Michael Falk and   
                   Daniel Janas   Edgeworth expansions for Studentized and
                                  prepivoted sample quantiles  . . . . . . 13--24
               Wai-Yin Poon and   
                    Sik-Yum Lee   Maximum likelihood and generalized least
                                  squares analyses of two-level structural
                                  equation models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--30
   Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg and   
             Stavros Kourouklis   Hodges--Lehmann optimality of tests  . . 31--38
               Michael Falk and   
              Rolf-Dieter Reiss   Poisson approximation of empirical
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--48
                      Allan Gut   The Weak Law of Large Numbers for arrays 49--52
                 Philippe Barbe   Limiting distribution of the maximal
                                  spacing when the density function admits
                                  a positive minimum . . . . . . . . . . . 53--60
               V. Granville and   
                   J. P. Rasson   A new modelisation of noise in image
                                  remote sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--65
         K. Balasubramanian and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Indicator method for a recurrence
                                  relation for order statistics  . . . . . 67--69
                  Bernard Ycart   Integer valued Markov processes and
                                  exponential families . . . . . . . . . . 71--78
        C. Radhakrishna Rao and   
                     L. C. Zhao   On the consistency of $M$-estimate in a
                                  linear model obtained through an
                                  estimating equation  . . . . . . . . . . 79--84

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 14, Number 2, May 27, 1992

                 Gesine Reinert   A threshold theorem for the general
                                  stochastic epidemic via a discrete
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--90
              R. J. Tomkins and   
                      Hong Wang   Stability theorems for large order
                                  statistics with varying ranks  . . . . . 91--95
                   Hyune-Ju Kim   Boundary crossing probabilities by
                                  nondifferentiable processes and
                                  applications to two-phase regression . . 97--102
                  G. Caraux and   
                     O. Gascuel   Bounds on distribution functions of
                                  order statistics for dependent variates  103--105
                David Oakes and   
             Amita K. Manatunga   A new representation of Cox's score
                                  statistic and its variance . . . . . . . 107--110
                    Deli Li and   
            M. Bhaskara Rao and   
                 Xiangchen Wang   Complete convergence of moving average
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
             Joel E. Atkins and   
                Gary J. Sherman   Sets of typical subsamples . . . . . . . 115--117
              Lutz Dümbgen   Limit theorems for the simplicial depth  119--128
                   Jukka Nyblom   Note on interpolated order statistics    129--131
               Ibrahim A. Ahmad   Residuals density estimation in
                                  nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 133--139
               Nancy E. Heckman   Bump hunting in regression analysis  . . 141--152
                   Hira L. Koul   M-estimators in linear models with long
                                  range dependent errors . . . . . . . . . 153--164
        B. B. Bhattacharyya and   
               G. D. Richardson   Strong consistency of a sieve estimator
                                  for the variance in nonlinear regression 165--168

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 14, Number 3, June 24, 1992

                  T. Swartz and   
                    C. Villegas   Posterior probability and conditional
                                  coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--173
                Kamal C. Chanda   Bahadur--Kiefer representation
                                  properties of intermediate order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178
                    Yu Wang and   
                  Douglas Wiens   Optimal, robust $R$-estimators and test
                                  statistics in the linear model . . . . . 179--188
                    N. R. Mohan   A unified criterion for the local
                                  uniform convergence of the density of
                                  the maximum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194
            Lawrence J. Brunner   Bayesian nonparametric methods for data
                                  from a unimodal density  . . . . . . . . 195--199
               Gerhardt M. Pohl   D-optimality of the dual of BIB designs  201--203
             Terence J. O'Neill   The bias of Fisher's linear discriminant
                                  function when the variancies are not
                                  equal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--210
            A. M. Abouammoh and   
                    A. N. Ahmed   On renewal failure rate classes of life
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--217
              Bennett Eisenberg   A variation of a theorem of
                                  Sparre--Andersen . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
      J. A. Menéndez and   
                    B. Salvador   Equivalence of likelihood ratio tests
                                  and obliquity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--228
                     Karl Grill   A note on randomness . . . . . . . . . . 229--233
              A. D. Barbour and   
                  L. H. Y. Chen   On the binary expansion of a random
                                  integer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--241
               Hartmut Milbrodt   Comparing inclusion probabilities and
                                  drawing probabilities for rejective
                                  sampling and successive sampling . . . . 243--246
             Chih-Ling Tsai and   
                       Xizhi Wu   Assessing local influence in linear
                                  regression models with first-order
                                  autoregressive or heteroscedastic error
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--252

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 14, Number 4, July 17, 1992

              Bahadur Singh and   
              Michael J. Schell   On power functions of the likelihood
                                  ratio tests for the simple loop order in
                                  normal means: Unequal sample sizes . . . 253--267
                Roger B. Nelsen   On measures of association as measures
                                  of positive dependence . . . . . . . . . 269--274
Victor H. de la Peña and   
               Z. Govindarajulu   A note on second moment of a randomly
                                  stopped sum of independent variables . . 275--281
                   Chong Gu and   
              Nancy Heckman and   
                    Grace Wahba   A note on generalized cross-validation
                                  with replicates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--287
            Andrew A. Neath and   
         Francisco J. Samaniego   On the total time on test transform of
                                  an IFRA distribution . . . . . . . . . . 289--291
              Stefan S. Ralescu   A remainder estimate for the normal
                                  approximation of perturbed sample
                                  quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--298
              Harry L. Hurd and   
                   Jacek Leskow   Estimation of the Fourier coefficient
                                  functions and their spectral densities
                                  for $ \phi $-mixing almost periodically
                                  correlated processes . . . . . . . . . . 299--306
                   Ma Chunsheng   The order of a univariate elliptical
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--310
              Subhash C. Kochar   On the `triples test' for symmetry . . . 311--312
                 Winfried Stute   Strong consistency under the
                                  Koziol--Green model  . . . . . . . . . . 313--320
                  R. J. Tomkins   Refinements of Kolmogorov's law of the
                                  iterated logarithm . . . . . . . . . . . 321--325
                Gunter Lorenzen   A reformulation of Pearson's Chi-square
                                  statistic and some extentions  . . . . . 327--331
               Dale N. Anderson   A multivariate Linnik distribution . . . 333--336

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 14, Number 5, July 11, 1992

             Masamori Ihara and   
                    Yutaka Kano   Asymptotic equivalence of unique
                                  variance estimators in marginal and
                                  conditional factor analysis models . . . 337--341
        A. D. Dharmadhikari and   
                    M. M. Kuber   The association in time of a binary
                                  semi-Markov process  . . . . . . . . . . 343--348
     Ying (Ingrid) Yueh Guo and   
                    Nabendu Pal   A note on the trace of a normal
                                  dispersion matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 349--353
                  Thomas Birkel   Laws of large numbers under dependence
                                  assumptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--362
                       Paul Yip   An inference procedure for host-vector
                                  and venereal disease models  . . . . . . 363--371
                  Eden K. H. Wu   Distributions minimizing Fisher
                                  information for scale in $ \epsilon
                                  $-contamination neighbourhoods . . . . . 373--383
                    V. Seshadri   General exponential models on the unit
                                  simplex and related multivariate inverse
                                  Gaussian distributions . . . . . . . . . 385--391
               Tommaso Gastaldi   Optimal reconstruction of a generally
                                  censored sample  . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--399
                     K. D. Ling   A generalization of the sooner and later
                                  waiting time problems for Bernoulli
                                  trials: Frequency quota  . . . . . . . . 401--405
        B. B. Bhattacharyya and   
         T. M. Khoshgoftaar and   
               G. D. Richardson   Inconsistent $M$-estimators: nonlinear
                                  regression with multiplicative error . . 407--411
               Ola Hössjer   On the optimality of $S$-estimators  . . 413--419
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 14 (1992)  . . . . . 421--422


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 15, Number 1, September 3, 1992

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                 J. H. Sepanski   Score tests in a generalized linear
                                  model with surrogate covariates  . . . . 1--10
         Jaros\law Bartoszewicz   Asymptotic distributions of tests for
                                  dispersive ordering  . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
                    Yutaka Kano   Robust statistics for
                                  test-of-independence and related
                                  structural models  . . . . . . . . . . . 21--26
                 B. R. Bhat and   
                  Somnath Datta   On the completeness of a family of
                                  conditional distributions  . . . . . . . 27--30
                   Shixian Qian   Minimum lower sets algorithms for
                                  isotonic regression  . . . . . . . . . . 31--35
                 Dinesh S. Bhoj   On the distribution of the weighted
                                  combination of independent probabilities 37--40
          W\lodzimierz Bryc and   
         W\lodzimierz Smolenski   On the stability problem for conditional
                                  expectation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--46
                 Zongwu Cai and   
              George G. Roussas   Uniform strong estimation under $ \alpha
                                  $-mixing, with rates . . . . . . . . . . 47--55
                   Ma Chunsheng   Moments of functions of order statistics 57--62
                 Albert Satorra   The variance matrix of sample
                                  second-order moments in multivariate
                                  linear relations . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69
              Tiefeng Jiang and   
             Xiangchen Wang and   
                M. Bhaskara Rao   Moderate deviations for some weakly
                                  dependent random processes . . . . . . . 71--76
        Shyamal Das Peddada and   
              Girish Patwardhan   Qualms about BC$_a$ bootstrap confidence
                                  intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--83

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 15, Number 2, September 28, 1992

         Dimitrios A. Ioannides   Integrated square error of nonparametric
                                  estimators of regression function: the
                                  fixed design case  . . . . . . . . . . . 85--94
                       Jun Shao   Bootstrap variance estimators with
                                  truncation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--101
             Masahiko Sagae and   
                   Kunio Tanabe   Symbolic Cholesky decomposition of the
                                  variance-covariance matrix of the
                                  negative multinomial distribution  . . . 103--108
                       Mei Wang   A local limit theorem for perturbed
                                  random walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--116
           Ramalingam Shanmugam   Factions in Morris' natural exponential
                                  quadratic variance family and a lack of
                                  consensus in sample size determination   117--120
                   Lionel Weiss   Neyman's $ C (\alpha) $ test as a GLRT   121--124
              Pawe\l R. Pordzik   Adjusting of estimates in general linear
                                  model with respect to linear
                                  restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130
                   Michael Weba   A note on the estimation of $ L^p
                                  $-norms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
                      C. H. Sim   Point processes with correlated gamma
                                  interarrival times . . . . . . . . . . . 135--141
                 O. Gascuel and   
                      G. Caraux   Bounds on expectations of order
                                  statistics via extremal dependences  . . 143--148
                  S. Paramasamy   On the multivariate Kolmogorov--Smirnov
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--155
                 P. M. Kulkarni   Estimation of parameters of a
                                  two-dimensional spatial autoregressive
                                  model with regression  . . . . . . . . . 157--162
                   S. N. Lahiri   On the Bahadur--Ghosh--Kiefer
                                  representation of sample quantiles . . . 163--168

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 15, Number 3, October 21, 1992

              T. F. Móri   Essential correlatedness and almost
                                  independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--172
              Mohan M. Kale and   
                 S. R. Deshmukh   Estimation of extinction probability in
                                  Markov branching process . . . . . . . . 173--175
               Ronald C. Pruitt   An inconsistent Bayes estimator in
                                  bivariate survival curve analysis  . . . 177--180
                S. R. Dalal and   
                  S. Weerahandi   Some approximations for the moments of a
                                  process used in diffusion of new
                                  products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--189
                  M. S. Ermakov   On asymptotic minimaxity of rank tests   191--196
                    Zhiyi Zhang   Recovery tests in BIBDs with very small
                                  degrees of freedom for interblock errors 197--202
              Ruiguang Song and   
       Steven G. Buchberger and   
               James A. Deddens   Moments of variables summing to normal
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--208
             Przemys\law Matula   A note on the almost sure convergence of
                                  sums of negatively dependent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--213
                   Hilary Saner   Approximations to a conservative inverse
                                  chi-square procedure for combining
                                  $p$-values in integrative research . . . 215--222
            N. Balakrishnan and   
              M. Ahsanullah and   
                     P. S. Chan   Relations for single and product moments
                                  of record values from Gumbel
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227
            Robert K. Tsutakawa   Moments under conjugate distributions in
                                  bioassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233
                Edit Gombay and   
           Lajos Horváth   A goodness-of-fit test for exponential
                                  families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--239
               Xiaolong Luo and   
                     Haiyan Cai   Coexistence in a competition model . . . 241--243
          Murray Rosenblatt and   
                Bruce E. Wahlen   A nonparametric measure of independence
                                  under a hypothesis of independent
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--252

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 15, Number 4, November 13, 1992

                John I. Crowell   Nonparametric estimation of a process
                                  mean from censored data  . . . . . . . . 253--257
                J. M. Marco and   
                  C. Ruiz-Rivas   On the construction of multivariate
                                  distributions with given nonoverlapping
                                  multivariate marginals . . . . . . . . . 259--265
                John L. Eltinge   Conditions for approximation of the bias
                                  and mean squared error of a sample mean
                                  under nonresponse  . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276
                   G. Chaudhuri   Linear discriminant function for complex
                                  normal time series . . . . . . . . . . . 277--279
            Philip Hans Franses   A model selection test for an AR (1)
                                  versus an MA (1) model . . . . . . . . . 281--284
              Andrew T. A. Wood   On the bias of order statistics in
                                  non-i.i.d. samples . . . . . . . . . . . 285--291
                M. P. Quine and   
                    J. Robinson   Estimation for a linear growth model . . 293--297
               Jacek Leskow and   
               Aleksander Weron   Ergodic behavior and estimation for
                                  periodically correlated processes  . . . 299--304
               Jan Beirlant and   
                  Ann Vanmarcke   A note on Bahadur--Kiefer-type
                                  expansions for the inverse empirical
                                  Laplace transform  . . . . . . . . . . . 305--311
                    Zhiyi Zhang   A spectral form of the dispersion model
                                  in designs with arbitrarily unequal
                                  block sizes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--319
               Jacques Carriere   Limited expected value comparison tests  321--327
                        Jim Kay   Asymptotic comparison factors for
                                  smoothing parameter choices in
                                  regression problems  . . . . . . . . . . 329--335

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 15, Number 5, December 8, 1992

                   Gary L. Wise   A counterexample to a martingale
                                  characterization of a Wiener process . . 337--338
                     Bing Cheng   Existence, uniqueness and Fréchet
                                  differentiability of $ \psi $-estimates
                                  of parameters in stationary observation  339--343
            Tibor Pogány   Sharp truncation error bound in the
                                  sampling reconstruction of homogeneous
                                  random fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--348
                 S. R. Adke and   
                 N. Balakrishna   Markovian chi-square and gamma processes 349--356
       Edsel A. Peña and   
           Vijay K. Rohatgi and   
 Gábor J. Székely   On the non-existence of ancillary
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--360
      Samaradasa Weerahandi and   
                Robert G. White   Some survey techniques for sampling rare
                                  subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--368
               John Stufken and   
                  Kui-Jang Wang   Factorial designs and the theory of
                                  trade-off  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--372
              Miguel A. Arcones   On the arg max of a Gaussian process . . 373--374
        Jorge Aragón and   
               David Eberly and   
                  Shelly Eberly   Existence and uniqueness of the maximum
                                  likelihood estimator for the
                                  two-parameter negative binomial
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--379
              Ora E. Percus and   
                   J. K. Percus   Intrinsic relations in the structure of
                                  linear congruential generators modulo $
                                  2^\beta $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--383
                 Suman Majumdar   On topological support of Dirichlet
                                  prior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--388
                  S. Jeyaratnam   Confidence intervals for the correlation
                                  coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--393
                    Blaza Toman   Bayesian robust experimental designs for
                                  the one-way analysis of variance . . . . 395--400
          Thivvianesan Chelliah   Invariant distribution of Chow
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--402
                     Y. Ouknine   On the asymptotic behaviour of
                                  functionals of some semimartingales  . . 403--405
            Philip Hans Franses   Modeling seasonality in bimonthly time
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--415
                  Hari Mukerjee   Convergence rates of monotone
                                  conditional quantile estimators  . . . . 417--420
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 15 (1992)  . . . . . 421--422


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 16, Number 1, January 4, 1993

                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                   H. U. Burger   Dispersion orderings with applications
                                  to nonparametric tests . . . . . . . . . 1--9
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   General matrix formulae for computing
                                  Bartlett corrections . . . . . . . . . . 11--18
               Agnes Berger and   
             Sylvan Wallenstein   The effect of grouping on the power of
                                  the Mantel--Haenszel test for the
                                  comparison of survival rates . . . . . . 19--25
         S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi   A proof of the continuity theorem for
                                  characteristic functions . . . . . . . . 27--28
             Laurence A. Baxter   Towards a theory of confidence intervals
                                  for system reliability . . . . . . . . . 29--38
            N. Balakrishnan and   
             K. Balasubramanian   Equivalence of Hartley--David--Gumbel
                                  and Papathanasiou bounds and some
                                  further remarks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--41
             Marco Scarsini and   
             Lorenzo Verdicchio   On the extendibility of partially
                                  exchangeable random vectors  . . . . . . 43--46
                      M. Roters   On a ranking problem for symmetric and
                                  unimodal location parameter families . . 47--49
          William A. Massey and   
                     Ward Whitt   A probabilistic generalization of
                                  Taylor's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--54
         Charles W. Dunnett and   
                Ajit C. Tamhane   Power comparisons of some step-up
                                  multiple test procedures . . . . . . . . 55--58
          David E. A. Giles and   
         Virendra K. Srivastava   The exact distribution of a least
                                  squares regression coefficient estimator
                                  after a preliminary $t$-test . . . . . . 59--64
                Andrew Rosalsky   On the almost certain limiting behavior
                                  of normed sums of identically
                                  distributed positive random variables    65--70
           Derrick S. Tracy and   
             Shagufta A. Sultan   Third moment of matrix quadratic form    71--76
        Christian P. Robert and   
              Gilles Celeux and   
                   Jean Diebolt   Bayesian estimation of hidden Markov
                                  chains: a stochastic implementation  . . 77--83

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 16, Number 2, January 27, 1993

                Sung K. Ahn and   
                     Sinsup Cho   Some tests for unit roots in seasonal
                                  time series with deterministic trends    85--95
            H. J. A. Degenhardt   Chung--Smirnov property for perturbed
                                  empirical distribution functions . . . . 97--101
                    Glen Meeden   Noninformative nonparametric Bayesian
                                  estimation of quantiles  . . . . . . . . 103--109
                   Tran Van Hoa   The mixture properties of the 2SHI
                                  estimators in linear regression models   111--115
                      D. Vandev   A note on the breakdown point of the
                                  least median of squares and least
                                  trimmed squares estimators . . . . . . . 117--119
           Lev M. Abolnikov and   
       Jewgeni H. Dshalalow and   
          Alexander M. Dukhovny   Stochastic analysis of a controlled bulk
                                  queueing system with continuously
                                  operating server: continuous time
                                  parameter queueing process . . . . . . . 121--128
                   Paul Yip and   
              Daniel Y. T. Fong   Estimating population size from a
                                  removal experiment . . . . . . . . . . . 129--135
               Santiago Velilla   Quantile-based estimation for the
                                  Box--Cox transformation in random
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--145
      J. A. Cuesta-Albertos and   
           A. Tuero-Díaz   A characterization for the solution of
                                  the Monge--Kantorovich mass transference
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--152
              Thomas Mathew and   
         Kenneth Nordström   Least squares and least absolute
                                  deviation procedures in approximately
                                  linear models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--158
                   Gwo Dong Lin   On convergence rates of averages of
                                  weakly dependent random variables  . . . 159--162
                   Tae Yoon Kim   A note on moment bounds for strong
                                  mixing sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 16, Number 3, February 19, 1993

              R. J. Carroll and   
              J. L. Eltinge and   
                     D. Ruppert   Robust linear regression in replicated
                                  measurement error models . . . . . . . . 169--175
               David D. Hanagal   Some inference results in an absolutely
                                  continuous multivariate exponential
                                  model of Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
                      Harry Joe   Tests of uniformity for sets of lotto
                                  numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--188
         P. K. Bhattacharya and   
                Peng-liang Zhao   Almost sure uniform convergence rates
                                  for $M$-smoothers with non-monotone
                                  score functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--196
                       Chun Jin   A note on simultaneous estimation of
                                  eigenvalues of a multivariate normal
                                  covariance matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 197--203
             T. W. Anderson and   
                     R. P. Metz   A note on maximum likelihood estimation
                                  in the first-order Gaussian moving
                                  average model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--211
                 R. D. Cook and   
              D. M. Hawkins and   
                    S. Weisberg   Exact iterative computation of the
                                  robust multivariate minimum volume
                                  ellipsoid estimator  . . . . . . . . . . 213--218
                 J. M. P. Albin   Extremes of totally skewed stable motion 219--224
       Marie Husková and   
                    Paul Jansen   Generalized bootstrap for Studentized
                                  $U$-statistics: a rank statistic
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--233
             Henning Knautz and   
             Götz Trenkler   On the correlation between $ \bar {X} $
                                  and $ S^2 $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237
                     Gemai Chen   Some specific contiguous alternatives to
                                  the normal error assumption in linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--247
         K. Balasubramanian and   
                N. Balakrishnan   A log-concavity property of probability
                                  of occurrence of exactly $r$ arbitrary
                                  events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--251

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 16, Number 4, March 16, 1993

            Philip Hans Franses   A model selection procedure for time
                                  series with seasonality  . . . . . . . . 253--258
           Dennis K. J. Lin and   
                  Irwin Guttman   Handling spuriosity in the Kalman filter 259--268
      Alessandra Giovagnoli and   
                Giuliana Regoli   Some results on the representation of
                                  measures of location and spread as
                                  $L$-functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--278
                    Qi-Man Shao   Complete convergence for $ \alpha
                                  $-mixing sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 279--287
                   Xizhi Wu and   
                       Zhen Luo   Residual sum of squares and multiple
                                  potential, diagnostics by a second order
                                  local approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--296
                Daniel R. Jeske   Predicting the value of an
                                  integer-valued random variable . . . . . 297--300
                 James Davidson   An $ L_1 $--convergence theorem for
                                  heterogeneous mixingale arrays with
                                  trending moments . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
                H. Hendriks and   
           J. H. M. Janssen and   
                F. H. Ruymgaart   Strong uniform convergence of density
                                  estimators on compact Euclidean
                                  manifolds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--311
       Dietrich W. Kuhlmann and   
                   F. T. Wright   A property of projection residuals with
                                  applications to concave regression . . . 313--319
J. Santos Domínguez-Menchero   On the local behaviour of the Yang
                                  regression estimate  . . . . . . . . . . 321--329
                    Blaza Toman   Optimal scaling of two-level factorial
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--336

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 16, Number 5, April 8, 1993

                F. P. A. Coolen   Imprecise conjugate prior densities for
                                  the one-parameter exponential family of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--342
             Paul N. Somerville   On the conservatism of the Tukey--Kramer
                                  multiple comparison procedure  . . . . . 343--345
            Thomas M. Lewis and   
                    Wenbo V. Li   How long does it take to see a flat
                                  Brownian path on the average?  . . . . . 347--354
              Mohsen Pourahmadi   On relations between prediction error
                                  covariance of univariate and
                                  multivariate processes . . . . . . . . . 355--359
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Optimal stopping in urn models with
                                  payoff depending on maximal observed
                                  element  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--368
          Y. S. Rama Krishnaiah   On tail probabilities of
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistic based on
                                  strong mixing processes  . . . . . . . . 369--377
                   O. de Cambry   Asymptotic law in sequential estimation
                                  of a change point  . . . . . . . . . . . 379--390
               Ely Merzbach and   
                    Moshe Zakai   Worthy martingales and integrators . . . 391--395
                 Jan \'Cwik and   
                 Jan Mielniczuk   Data-dependent bandwidth choice for a
                                  grade density kernel estimate  . . . . . 397--405
                     J. Preater   A note on monotonicity in optimal
                                  multiple stopping problems . . . . . . . 407--410
                 Jian-Qing Shih   Regression transformation diagnostics in
                                  transform-both-sides model . . . . . . . 411--420
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 16(1993) . . . . . . 421--422


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 17, Number 1, May 3, 1993

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
 Antónia Földes and   
Pál Révész   Quadratic variation of the local time of
                                  a random walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
              Michael Klass and   
                     Jim Pitman   Limit laws for Brownian motion
                                  conditioned to reach a high level  . . . 13--17
           Stefanka Chukova and   
             Boyan Dimitrov and   
            José Garrido   Renewal and nonhomogeneous Poisson
                                  processes generated by distributions
                                  with periodic failure rate . . . . . . . 19--25
               Charles El-Nouty   A Hanson--Russo-type law of the iterated
                                  logarithm for fractional Brownian motion 27--34
              S. H. Kunchur and   
              Surekha B. Munoli   Estimation of reliability in a shock
                                  model for a two component system . . . . 35--38
                 M. V. Muddapur   UMPU test for state dependence of a
                                  parameter in a linear birth process  . . 39--41
                Ricardo Cao and   
JoséManuel Prada-Sánchez   Bootstrapping the mean of a symmetric
                                  population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--48
               Anna Clara Monti   A new look at the relationship between
                                  Edgeworth expansion and saddlepoint
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--52
          Daniel Y. T. Fong and   
                       Paul Yip   An EM algorithm for a mixture model of
                                  count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--60
           Augustine C. M. Wong   A note on inference for the mean
                                  parameter of the gamma distribution  . . 61--66
             Geoffrey S. Watson   Invariant tests for uniformity on the
                                  vertices of a regular polygon  . . . . . 67--71
László Gerencsér   Multiple integrals with respect to
                                  $L$-mixing processes . . . . . . . . . . 73--83

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 17, Number 2, May 26, 1993

              Claudi Alsina and   
            Roger B. Nelsen and   
             Berthold Schweizer   On the characterization of a class of
                                  binary operations on distribution
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--89
         Issa Fakhre-Zakeri and   
               Jamshid Farshidi   A Central Limit Theorem with random
                                  indices for stationary linear processes  91--95
                Connie Page and   
              David Kreling and   
             Ella Mae Matsumura   Comparison of the mean per unit and
                                  ratio estimators under a simple
                                  applications-motivated model . . . . . . 97--104
               M. Bloznelis and   
                  V. Paulauskas   On the Central Limit Theorem in $ D [0,
                                  1] $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--111
                Leon Jay Gleser   Estimators of slopes in linear
                                  errors-invariables regression models
                                  when the predictors have known
                                  reliability matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121
               Gh. Mashouri and   
               M. N. Vartak and   
                 M. L. Aggarwal   A combinatorial theorem for a class of
                                  residual treatment effects designs . . . 123--125
               Wai-Yin Poon and   
                 Yin-Ping Leung   Analysis of structural equation models
                                  with interval and polytomous data  . . . 127--137
 Ülkü Gürler and   
             Winfried Stute and   
                 Jane-Ling Wang   Weak and strong quantile representations
                                  for randomly truncated data with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148
             Michael G. Akritas   Limitations of the rank transform
                                  procedure: a study of repeated measures
                                  designs, Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--156
               V. Mandrekar and   
                R. F. Patterson   Limit theorems for symmetric statistics
                                  of exchangeable random variables . . . . 157--161
                      E. Seneta   Sensitivity of finite Markov chains
                                  under perturbation . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 17, Number 3, June 18, 1993

               Andrew Nobel and   
                     Amir Dembo   A note on uniform laws of averages for
                                  dependent processes  . . . . . . . . . . 169--172
                    Malay Ghosh   Cramér-Rao bounds for posterior variances 173--178
                 C. S. Chen and   
                   T. H. Savits   Some remarks on compound nonhomogeneous
                                  Poisson processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 179--187
                    Javier Rojo   On the preservation of some pure-tail
                                  orderings by reliability operations  . . 189--198
              Miguel A. Delgado   Testing the equality of nonparametric
                                  regression curves  . . . . . . . . . . . 199--204
               Michael J. Klass   Ratio prophet inequalities for convex
                                  functions of partial sums  . . . . . . . 205--209
                     N. Limnios   A transient solution method for
                                  semi-Markov systems  . . . . . . . . . . 211--220
           S. B. Fotopoulos and   
                  D. Y. Downham   A note on the simple random walk in the
                                  plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--224
                R. B. Bapat and   
              Subhash C. Kochar   Characterizations of identically
                                  distributed independent random variables
                                  using order statistics . . . . . . . . . 225--230
                 Peter Matthews   A slowly mixing Markov chain with
                                  implications for Gibbs sampling  . . . . 231--236
              Sellem Remadi and   
                  Yasuo Amemiya   Limiting distribution of roots with
                                  differential rates of convergence  . . . 237--244
                 Sudip Bose and   
         Gauri Sankar Datta and   
                    Malay Ghosh   Pitman's measure of closeness for
                                  symmetric stable distributions . . . . . 245--251

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 17, Number 4, July 13, 1993

              Ilya S. Molchanov   On distributions of random closed sets
                                  and expected convex hulls  . . . . . . . 253--257
               Santiago Velilla   A note on the multivariate Box--Cox
                                  transformation to normality  . . . . . . 259--263
           Clint W. Coakley and   
                    Lamine Mili   Exact fit points under simple regression
                                  with replication . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--271
                      Run-Ze Li   The characteristic functions of
                                  spherical matrix distributions . . . . . 273--279
          W\lodzimierz Bryc and   
         W\lodzimierz Smolenski   On the large deviation principle for a
                                  quadratic functional of the
                                  autoregressive process . . . . . . . . . 281--285
               Sudhir Gupta and   
                  Kishore Sinha   An EDG/3 scheme having 5 associate
                                  classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
              Yuichiro Kanazawa   Hellinger distance and Akaike's
                                  information criterion for the histogram  293--298
                E. B. Fosam and   
                  C. R. Rao and   
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Comments on some papers involving the
                                  integrated Cauchy functional equation    299--302
             Thomas A. Severini   A note on sufficiency and conditional
                                  inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--305
             Larry Zaiqian Shen   On Chiang's explicit solutions for the
                                  Kolmogorov differential equations  . . . 307--313
                M. H. Alamatsaz   On characterizations of exponential and
                                  gamma distributions  . . . . . . . . . . 315--319
                Mohamed T. Madi   Alternative estimators for the variance
                                  of several normal populations  . . . . . 321--328
          Werner Hürlimann   Bivariate distributions with diatomic
                                  conditionals and stop-loss transforms of
                                  random sums  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--335

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 17, Number 5, August 5, 1993

              Ruiguang Song and   
               James A. Deddens   A note on moments of variables summing
                                  to normal order statistics . . . . . . . 337--341
                N. Balakrishnan   Multivariate normal distribution and
                                  multivariate order statistics induced by
                                  ordering linear combinations . . . . . . 343--350
                 Tapan K. Nayak   On estimating the total rate of the
                                  unobserved processes . . . . . . . . . . 351--354
           L. Mark Berliner and   
           Steven N. MacEachern   Examples of inconsistent Bayes
                                  procedures based on observations on
                                  dynamical systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 355--360
            Barry C. Arnold and   
           Enrique Castillo and   
      Jose María Sarabia   Multivariate distributions with
                                  generalized Pareto conditionals  . . . . 361--368
        L. Rüschendorf and   
                     W. Thomsen   Note on the Schrödinger equation and
                                  $I$-projections  . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--375
                Marek Rutkowski   A simple proof for the Kalman--Bucy
                                  smoothed estimate formula  . . . . . . . 377--385
              Dariusz G\katarek   A note on nonlinear stochastic equations
                                  in Hilbert spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . 387--394
               Gary L. Wise and   
                   Eric B. Hall   On mutual independence . . . . . . . . . 395--398
               Michael L. Stein   A simple condition for asymptotic
                                  optimality of linear predictions of
                                  random fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--404
                  Weng Kee Wong   Minimal number of support points for
                                  mini-max optimal designs . . . . . . . . 405--409
              Josemar Rodrigues   Asymptotically design-unbiased
                                  predictors for two-stage sampling  . . . 411--414
       Michael D. deB. Edwardes   Kendall's $ \tau $ is equal to the
                                  correlation coefficient for the BVE
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--419
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 17 (1993)  . . . . . 421--422


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 18, Number 1, August 30, 1993

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                 Y. H. Wang and   
                     Shuixin Ji   Derivations of the compound Poisson
                                  distribution and process . . . . . . . . 1--7
                     Ralf Runde   A note on the asymptotic distribution of
                                  the $F$-statistic for random variables
                                  with infinite variance . . . . . . . . . 9--12
                  Debasis Kundu   Asymptotic theory of least squares
                                  estimator of a particular nonlinear
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--17
             Hina M. Malani and   
        William J. Redfearn and   
             Jens Perch Nielsen   A note on the asymptotic variance of
                                  survival function in the semi-Markov
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--25
               V. Papathanasiou   An extension of the information
                                  inequality and related characterizations 27--32
                Bernard Heinkel   Some confidence intervals arising from
                                  weak $ l_p $ spaces  . . . . . . . . . . 33--40
              Xiaoping Duan and   
                Sanpei Kageyama   Constructions of nested group divisible
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
          Luis G. Gorostiza and   
              Rolando Rebolledo   A random field approach to weak
                                  convergence of processes . . . . . . . . 49--55
                   Eric Rieders   The size of the averages of strongly
                                  mixing random variables  . . . . . . . . 57--64
            Larry Goldstein and   
                 Brendan McCabe   On the moments of certain stochastic
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--72
                  Liang Hua and   
                     Cheng Ping   Second order asymptotic efficiency in a
                                  partial linear model . . . . . . . . . . 73--84

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 18, Number 2, September 22, 1993

           A. K. Srivastava and   
               V. K. Srivastava   Pitman closeness for Stein-rule
                                  estimators of regression coefficients    85--89
                  A. Sarkar and   
                  B. Kartikeyan   Intervention analysis with nonlinear
                                  dependent noise variation  . . . . . . . 91--103
                  Attila Csenki   On a counting variable in the theory of
                                  discrete-parameter Markov chains . . . . 105--112
                    Tze-San Lee   Estimating coefficients of two-phase
                                  linear regression model with
                                  autocorrelated errors  . . . . . . . . . 113--120
                  Markus Roters   Convergence of random power series with
                                  pairwise independent Banach-space-valued
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123
             Peter J. Rousseeuw   A resampling design for computing
                                  high-breakdown regression  . . . . . . . 125--128
    Josefa Linares Pérez   On a stochastic differentiation formula
                                  for Hilbert--Schmidt valued stochastic
                                  integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--135
           Andrew B. Forbes and   
              Thomas J. Santner   A note on conditions for the asymptotic
                                  normality of the conditional maximum
                                  likelihood estimator in log odds ratio
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--146
              Xiao-Wen Zhou and   
                  Jian-Wei Zhou   When will the sample paths be step
                                  function for two-parameter stochastic
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--151
         K. Balasubramanian and   
                 R. Viveros and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Sooner and later waiting time problems
                                  for Markovian Bernoulli trials . . . . . 153--161
                Seymour Geisser   Bayesian interim analysis of censored
                                  exponential observations . . . . . . . . 163--168

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 18, Number 3, October 15, 1993

                 Ping Zhang and   
                Abba M. Krieger   Appropriate penalties in the final
                                  prediction error criterion: a decision
                                  theoretic approach . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
            Felix P. Abramovich   The asymptotic mean squared error of
                                  $L$-smoothing splines  . . . . . . . . . 179--182
               Dongwan Shin and   
              Sastry G. Pantula   Testing for a unit root in
                                  autoregressive processes with systematic
                                  but incomplete sampling  . . . . . . . . 183--190
                Mei-Hui Guo and   
                 Ching-Zong Wei   A lower bound for expectation of a
                                  convex functional  . . . . . . . . . . . 191--194
               Dongwan Shin and   
                 Sahadeb Sarkar   A note on testing for a unit root in an
                                  ARIMA(p, 1, 0) signal observed with
                                  MA(q) noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--203
                  P. Y. Liu and   
          Joseph O. Voelkel and   
               John Crowley and   
                   Michael Wolf   Sufficient conditions for treatment
                                  responders to have longer survival than
                                  non-responders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--208
                   D. R. Jensen   Efficiency and concentration
                                  inequalities on $ \mathbb {R}^k $  . . . 209--211
            Naomi Simone Altman   Estimating error correlation in
                                  nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 213--218
                 Paavo Salminen   On the distribution of supremum of
                                  diffusion local time . . . . . . . . . . 219--225
        JoséA. Adell and   
         Jesús de la Cal   On the uniform convergence of normalized
                                  Poisson mixtures to their mixing
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--232
            Mark M. Meerschaert   Regular variation and generalized
                                  domains of attraction in $ \mathbb {R}^k
                                  $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--239
           Probal Chaudhuri and   
             Debapriya SenGupta   A note on robust estimation of location  241--244
              Mohan M. Kale and   
                 S. R. Deshmukh   Maximum likelihood estimation in
                                  branching process with continuous state
                                  space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--251

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 18, Number 4, November 9, 1993

              W\lodzimierz Bryc   A remark on the connection between the
                                  large deviation principle and the
                                  Central Limit Theorem  . . . . . . . . . 253--256
                     S. R. Adke   Records generated by Markov sequences    257--263
                Loon Ching Tang   Limit theorems for Markov random walks   265--270
               Campbell B. Read   Freeman--Tukey chi-squared
                                  goodness-of-fit statistics . . . . . . . 271--278
                      W. Y. Tan   On the incubation distributions of the
                                  HIV epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--287
               Kevin J. Leonard   Empirical Bayes analysis of the
                                  commercial loan evaluation process . . . 289--296
                   Dmitry Ioffe   Two examples in the theory of large
                                  deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
                N. Balakrishnan   A simple application of
                                  binomial-negative binomial relationship
                                  in the derivation of sharp bounds for
                                  moments of order statistics based on
                                  greatest convex minorants  . . . . . . . 301--305
                 Roger M. Cooke   The total time on test statistic and
                                  age-dependent censoring  . . . . . . . . 307--312
               Paola Scozzafava   Uniform distribution and sum modulo $m$
                                  of independent random variables  . . . . 313--314
              Yuichiro Kanazawa   Hellinger distance and Kullback--Leibler
                                  loss for the kernel density estimator    315--321
         Lakdere Benkherouf and   
           Abdulhamid A. Alzaid   On the generalized Euler distribution    323--326
Gérard Kerkyacharian and   
               Dominique Picard   Density estimation by kernel and
                                  wavelets methods: Optimality of Besov
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--336

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 18, Number 5, December 2, 1993

                      Qiqing Yu   Admissibility of the Empirical
                                  Distribution Function in discrete
                                  nonparametric invariant problems . . . . 337--343
                   Xiao-Li Meng   On the absolute bias ratio of ratio
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--348
                    Luc Devroye   A triptych of discrete distributions
                                  related to the stable law  . . . . . . . 349--351
              Clifford B. Cordy   An extension of the Horvitz--Thompson
                                  theorem to point sampling from a
                                  continuous universe  . . . . . . . . . . 353--362
            R. A. L. Carter and   
           V. K. Srivastava and   
                  A. Chaturvedi   Selecting a double $k$-class estimator
                                  for regression coefficients  . . . . . . 363--371
                W. D. Kaigh and   
          Maria Alejandra Sorto   Subsampling quantile estimator
                                  majorization inequalities  . . . . . . . 373--379
                M. A. Steel and   
                     G. R. Wood   On a problem of Andersson and Perlman    381--382
           Siva Sivaganesan and   
           L. Mark Berliner and   
                   James Berger   Optimal robust credible sets for
                                  contaminated priors  . . . . . . . . . . 383--388
                    Kurt Hornik   On the distribution of functionals of
                                  stationary Gaussian processes  . . . . . 389--395
           J. T. Gene Hwang and   
             Shyamal D. Peddada   Confidence interval estimation under
                                  some restrictions on the parameters with
                                  non-linear boundaries  . . . . . . . . . 397--403
                   S. N. Lahiri   On the moving block bootstrap under long
                                  range dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--413
              Neeraj Tiwari and   
                    A. K. Nigam   A note on constructive procedure for
                                  unbiased controlled rounding . . . . . . 415--420
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 18 (1993)  . . . . . 421--422


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 19, Number 1, January 3, 1994

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                 Dennis DeRiggi   Sufficient conditions for unimodality of
                                  the positive binomial likelihood
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
               Tommaso Gastaldi   Improved maximum likelihood estimation
                                  for component reliabilities with
                                  Miyakawa--Usher--Hodgson--Guess'
                                  estimators under censored search for the
                                  cause of failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--18
                Rinya Takahashi   Asymptotic independence and perfect
                                  dependence of vector components of
                                  multivariate extreme statistics  . . . . 19--26
                 Dietmar Ferger   On the rate of almost sure convergence
                                  of Dümbgen's change-point estimators  . . 27--31
          K. Krishnamoorthy and   
                    Nabendu Pal   Unbiased equivariant estimation of a
                                  common normal mean vector with one
                                  observation from each population . . . . 33--38
           Raymond Moché   Criteria for the regularity of the
                                  sample functions of weakly harmonizable
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--44
       Lajos Horváth and   
                    Qi-Man Shao   A note on dichotomy theorems for
                                  integrals of stable processes  . . . . . 45--49
               R. N. Pillai and   
                   K. Jayakumar   Specialised class $L$ property and
                                  stationary autoregressive process  . . . 51--56
                 Sam Efromovich   On adaptive estimation of nonlinear
                                  functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63
                 Juei-Chao Chen   Testing goodness of fit of polynomial
                                  models via spline smoothing techniques   65--76
                   P. Anilkumar   On estimating the mean function of a
                                  Gaussian process . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--84

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 19, Number 2, January 27, 1994

    Tamás F. Móri   On long runs of heads and tails  . . . . 85--89
               W. J. Krzanowski   Quadratic location discriminant
                                  functions for mixed categorical and
                                  continuous data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--95
                  Iosif Pinelis   On a majorization inequality for sums of
                                  independent random vectors . . . . . . . 97--99
                 R. Karan Singh   Estimation of restricted regression
                                  model when disturbances are not
                                  necessarily normal . . . . . . . . . . . 101--109
                  Yong-cheng Qi   Some results on covariance of function
                                  of order statistics  . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
                Heinz Neudecker   A compact expression for the variance of
                                  sample second-order moments in
                                  multivariate linear relations an
                                  alternative proof of Satorra's result    115--117
                  W. C. Kim and   
                 B. U. Park and   
                   J. S. Marron   Asymptotically best bandwidth selectors
                                  in kernel density estimation . . . . . . 119--127
                      Luning Li   A counterexample to a conjecture on
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
         Robert L. Fountain and   
              Jerome P. Keating   The Pitman comparison of unbiased linear
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--136
                 Y. M. Chan and   
                      Xuming He   A simple and competitive estimator of
                                  location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--142
                  Sixiang Zhang   Singularity of two diffusion on $
                                  \mathcal {C}_\infty $  . . . . . . . . . 143--145
               Song Xi Chen and   
                     Peter Hall   On the calculation of standard error for
                                  quotation in confidence statements . . . 147--151
            Barbara Szyszkowicz   The Chibisov--O'Reilly theorem for
                                  empirical processes under contiguous
                                  measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159
               J. R. M. Hosking   Moments of order statistics of the
                                  Cantor distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 161--165
              Jacek Weso\lowski   A martingale characterization of the
                                  Wiener process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 19, Number 3, February 22, 1994

          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
                    Ruben Klein   Bias correction in ARMA models . . . . . 169--176
                   Li Zezhi and   
                   Zhang Buchen   A convergence theorem for sums of
                                  dependent Hilbert space valued
                                  triangular arrays  . . . . . . . . . . . 177--179
              Oliver Linton and   
             Jens Perch Nielsen   A multiplicative bias reduction method
                                  for nonparametric regression . . . . . . 181--187
              Dong Wan Shin and   
                 Sahadeb Sarkar   Unit root tests for ARIMA(0, 1, q)
                                  models with irregularly observed samples 189--194
             Tea-Yuan Hwang and   
                   Chin-Yuan Hu   The best lower bound of sample
                                  correlation coefficient with ordered
                                  restriction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--198
               I. D. Shetty and   
                Sharada V. Bhat   A note on the generalization of
                                  Mathisen's median test . . . . . . . . . 199--204
             Steven J. Sepanski   Necessary and sufficient conditions for
                                  the multivariate bootstrap of the mean   205--216
                  Z. D. Bai and   
              Lawrence A. Shepp   A note on the conditional distribution
                                  of $X$ when $ | X - y |$ is given  . . . 217--219
         Rolando Cavazos-Cadena   A simple form of Bartlett's formula for
                                  autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . 221--231
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   Possible sample paths of self-similar $
                                  \alpha $-stable processes  . . . . . . . 233--237
                   Gwo Dong Lin   On a probabilistic generalization of
                                  Taylor's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--243
                A. K. Gupta and   
          T. F. Móri and   
           G. J. Székely   Testing for Poissonity-normality vs.
                                  other infinite divisibility  . . . . . . 245--248
           Weichung J. Shih and   
                   Hui Quan and   
                 Myron N. Chang   Estimation of the mean when data contain
                                  non-ignorable missing values from a
                                  random effects model . . . . . . . . . . 249--257

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 19, Number 4, March 15, 1994

           George Marsaglia and   
                 Arif Zaman and   
           John C. W. Marsaglia   Rapid evaluation of the inverse of the
                                  normal distribution function . . . . . . 259--266
                     Kai Fun Yu   Truncating sample weights reduces
                                  variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--269
               U. R. Subramanya   On max domains of attraction of
                                  univariate $p$-max stable laws . . . . . 271--279
               Jean Averous and   
                   Michel Meste   Multivariate kurtosis in $ L_1 $-sense   281--284
Miklós Csörg\Ho and   
                    Qi-Man Shao   A new proof on the distribution of the
                                  local time of a Wiener process . . . . . 285--290
                     Markus Abt   On the product and the sum of random
                                  variables with arithmetic and
                                  non-arithmetic distributions . . . . . . 291--297
                  Z. J. Liu and   
                      Y. Q. Yin   Asymptotic representations for qualites
                                  of pooled samples  . . . . . . . . . . . 299--305
         Ayenendranath Basu and   
                 Sahadeb Sarkar   On disparity based goodness-of-fit tests
                                  for multinomial models . . . . . . . . . 307--312
            Barry C. Arnold and   
           Enrique Castillo and   
      Jose María Sarabia   A conditional characterization of the
                                  multivariate normal distribution . . . . 313--315
           V. K. Srivastava and   
               A. K. Srivastava   A feasible minimum risk estimator
                                  interpretation to Stein-rule estimators
                                  in linear regression model . . . . . . . 317--319
                Adam Jakubowski   On multidimensional domains of
                                  attraction for stationary sequences  . . 321--326
                Min-Te Chao and   
                   Wen-Qi Liang   Moments do not determine tail  . . . . . 327--328
                  Mara Tableman   The influence functions for the least
                                  trimmed squares and the least trimmed
                                  absolute deviations estimators . . . . . 329--337
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
       Mônica C. Sandoval   On predicting the finite population
                                  distribution function  . . . . . . . . . 339--347
                 J. Cabrera and   
                G. Maguluri and   
                       K. Singh   An odd property of the sample median . . 349--354

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 19, Number 5, April 11, 1994

             Richard A. Johnson   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--355
                      Xuming He   Breakdown versus efficiency --- Your
                                  perspective matters  . . . . . . . . . . 357--360
                  Laurie Davies   Desirable properties, breakdown and
                                  efficiency in the linear regression
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--370
               Christophe Croux   Efficient high-breakdown $M$-estimators
                                  of scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--379
           Stephan Morgenthaler   Small sample efficiency and exact fit
                                  for Cauchy regression models . . . . . . 381--385
                  Mara Tableman   The asymptotics of the least trimmed
                                  absolute deviations (LTAD) estimator . . 387--398
           Clint W. Coakley and   
                Lamine Mili and   
             Michael G. Cheniae   Effect of leverage on the finite sample
                                  efficiencies of high breakdown
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--408
           Jorge G. Adrover and   
              Ana M. Bianco and   
         Víctor J. Yohai   Efficiency of MM- and $ \tau $-estimates
                                  for finite sample size . . . . . . . . . 409--415
             Peter J. Rousseeuw   Unconventional features of
                                  positive-breakdown estimators  . . . . . 417--431
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 19 (1994)  . . . . . 433--434


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 20, Number 1, May 4, 1994

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
               Yu. A. Kutoyants   Nonconsistent estimation by diffusion
                                  type observations  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
                   Michael Falk   Extreme quantile estimation in $ \delta
                                  $-neighborhoods of generalized Pareto
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--21
               Gaoxiong Gan and   
                 James W. Neill   Convergence criteria for maxima with
                                  regularly varying normalizing constants  23--26
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
                    Linxiong Li   Lifelength in a random environment . . . 27--35
             Bernard Harris and   
                     C. J. Park   A generalization of the Eulerian numbers
                                  with a probabilistic application . . . . 37--47
                    Edit Gombay   Testing for change-points with rank and
                                  sign statistics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
              Miguel A. Arcones   The Central Limit Theorem for
                                  $U$-processes indexed by Hölder's
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62
              Subhash C. Kochar   Monotonicity properties of the ordered
                                  ranks in the two-sample problem  . . . . 63--67
         Ayanendranath Basu and   
                 Sahadeb Sarkar   Minimum disparity estimation in the
                                  errors-in-variables model  . . . . . . . 69--73
                 Grace S. Shieh   Infinite order $V$-statistics  . . . . . 75--80
                    Yazhen Wang   The limit distribution of the concave
                                  majorant of an empirical distribution
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 20, Number 2, May 27, 1994

                   D. J. Buckle   The study of a function relating to
                                  stable distributions . . . . . . . . . . 85--90
                Han-Fu Chen and   
                  Claude Deniau   Parameter estimation for ARMA processes
                                  with errors in models  . . . . . . . . . 91--99
                Masashi Okamoto   Correspondence analysis of an artificial
                                  cylinder data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--112
              Gene T. Hwang and   
           Leonard A. Stefanski   Monotonicity of regression functions in
                                  structural measurement error models  . . 113--116
               Y. Kutoyants and   
                 P. Pilibossian   On minimum $ L_1 $-norm estimate of the
                                  parameter of the Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--123
           Björn Johansson   On the Central Limit Theorem for point
                                  process martingales  . . . . . . . . . . 125--130
               Arthur Cohen and   
               Debashis Kushary   Adaptive and unbiased predictors in a
                                  change point regression model  . . . . . 131--138
             Terence J. O'Neill   Mixture or logistic regression
                                  estimation for discrimination  . . . . . 139--142
            Siddhartha Chib and   
                  Ram C. Tiwari   Outlier detection in the state space
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--148
                    M. C. Jones   Expectiles and $M$-quantiles are
                                  quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--153
               Milton Sobel and   
           Krzysztof Frankowski   A duality theorem for solving
                                  multiple-player multivariate
                                  hypergeometric problems  . . . . . . . . 155--162
             André Klein   Hypothesis testing of common roots . . . 163--167

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 20, Number 3, June 22, 1994

                     Y. Ouknine   On polynomial filtration of some
                                  continuous semimartingales . . . . . . . 169--172
              Song-Gui Wang and   
           Shein-Chung Chow and   
                  Siu-Keung Tse   On ordinary least-squares methods for
                                  sample surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--182
                    Luc Devroye   On the non-consistency of an estimate of
                                  Chiu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--188
              Dale L. Zimmerman   On the limiting distribution of and
                                  critical values for an origin-invariant
                                  bivariate Cramér-von Mises-type statistic 189--195
                   Xizhi Wu and   
                   Fanghuan Wan   A perturbation scheme for nonlinear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202
             Petr Veselý   Arbitrarily reliable systems with two
                                  dual modes of failure  . . . . . . . . . 203--207
         J. J. A. M. Brands and   
              F. W. Steutel and   
                 R. J. G. Wilms   On the number of maxima in a discrete
                                  sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--217
                 Winfried Stute   Convergence of the Kaplan--Meier
                                  estimator in weighted sup-norms  . . . . 219--223
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
            Kurt Pflughoeft and   
                 Ehsan S. Soofi   Two measures of sample entropy . . . . . 225--234
              M. Ahsanullah and   
              Jacek Weso\lowski   Multivariate normality via conditional
                                  normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
               E. G. Kyriakidis   Stationary probabilities for a simple
                                  immigration-birth-death process under
                                  the influence of total catastrophes  . . 239--240
                J. Calvin Berry   Improving the James--Stein estimator
                                  using the Stein variance estimator . . . 241--245
                 M. V. Muddapur   UMPU test for state dependence of a
                                  parameter in a linear birth process  . . 247--247
                      Run-Ze Li   The characteristic functions of
                                  spherical matrix distributions . . . . . 249--249
                M. H. Alamatsaz   On characterizations of exponential and
                                  gamma distributions  . . . . . . . . . . 251--251

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 20, Number 4, July 14, 1994

                Thaddeus Tarpey   Two principal points of symmetric,
                                  strongly unimodal distributions  . . . . 253--257
                 Guoqiang Zhang   Higher-order asymptotic theory for
                                  discriminant analysis of Gaussian ARMA
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--268
             Rudolf Grübel   The rank of the current lifetime . . . . 269--271
            Ajit Chaturvedi and   
                    Rahul Gupta   Linking the estimation and ranking and
                                  selection problems through sequential
                                  procedures: The normal case  . . . . . . 273--285
               Dipak K. Dey and   
                Lea R. Birmiwal   Robust Bayesian analysis using
                                  divergence measures  . . . . . . . . . . 287--294
                Lee D. Witt and   
           Joseph W. McKean and   
              Joshua D. Naranjo   Robust measures of association in the
                                  correlation model  . . . . . . . . . . . 295--306
                   D. R. Jensen   Closure of multivariate $t$ and related
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--312
                   G. A. Ghazal   Moments of the ratio of two dependent
                                  quadratic forms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--319
        Jens Michael Carstensen   Morphological Markov random fields . . . 321--326
                        Gang Li   Multidimensional Lévy inequalities and
                                  their applications . . . . . . . . . . . 327--335

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 20, Number 5, August 9, 1994

                E. Fagiuoli and   
                    F. Pellerey   Mean residual life and increasing convex
                                  comparison of shock models . . . . . . . 337--345
                    Yazhen Wang   A Bartlett-type adjustment for the
                                  likelihood ratio statistic with an
                                  ordered alternative  . . . . . . . . . . 347--352
            Barry C. Arnold and   
           Enrique Castillo and   
JoséMaría Sarabia   Multivariate normality via conditional
                                  specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
                 Arnold Janssen   On local odds and hazard rate models in
                                  survival analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 355--365
           Mark D. Rothmann and   
                 Ralph P. Russo   Persistent convergence on randomly
                                  deleted sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--373
                    T. Pham-Gia   The hazard rate of the power-quadratic
                                  exponential family of distributions  . . 375--382
                  Haijun Li and   
                    Haolong Zhu   Stochastic equivalence of ordered random
                                  variables with applications in
                                  reliability theory . . . . . . . . . . . 383--393
          Gilberto A. Paula and   
                  Pranab K. Sen   Tests of ordered hypotheses in linkage
                                  in heredity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--400
                  J. Oosterhoff   Trimmed mean or sample median? . . . . . 401--409
         Peter J. Rousseeuw and   
               Christophe Croux   The bias of $k$-step $M$-estimators  . . 411--420
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 20 (1994)  . . . 421--422


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 21, Number 1, September 1, 1994

                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
       Patrick D. Burghardt and   
           Anant P. Godbole and   
               Amy B. Prengaman   A Poisson approximation for the number
                                  of $k$-matches . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
             Tonya Etchison and   
          Sastry G. Pantula and   
                 Cavell Brownie   Partial autocorrelation function for
                                  spatial processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 9--19
                Rocco Ballerini   A dependent $ F^\alpha $-scheme  . . . . 21--25
        Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr.   A note on min-maxbias estimators in
                                  approximately linear models  . . . . . . 27--28
                Michael Sherman   Kernel estimation of the density of a
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
             Satish Iyengar and   
                Peng-Liang Zhao   Maximum likelihood estimation for
                                  weighted distributions . . . . . . . . . 37--47
                      W. Y. Tan   On the HIV incubation distribution under
                                  non-Markovian models . . . . . . . . . . 49--57
            L. G. Gorostiza and   
            J. A. Lopez-Mimbela   An occupation time approach for
                                  convergence of measure-valued processes,
                                  and the death process of a branching
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--67
                  Eric Marchand   On the estimation of the mean of a $
                                  N_p(\mu, \Sigma) $ population with $ \mu
                                  ' \Sigma^{-1} \mu $ known  . . . . . . . 69--75
                        Liu Wen   Some strong limit theorems relative to
                                  the geometric average of random
                                  transition probabilities of arbitrary
                                  finite nonhomogeneous Markov chains  . . 77--83

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 21, Number 2, September 23, 1994

          Thomas W. Dobbins and   
                Sanat K. Sarkar   Probability inequalities for certain
                                  dependence structures  . . . . . . . . . 85--94
                Idzi Siatkowski   Some bounds for balanced two-way
                                  elimination of heterogeneity designs . . 95--99
             Yosef Hochberg and   
                   Uri Liberman   An extended Simes' test  . . . . . . . . 101--105
                Javier Rojo and   
                   Jinping Wang   Tests based on $L$-statistics to test
                                  the equality in dispersion of two
                                  probability distributions  . . . . . . . 107--113
           R. V. Ramanathan and   
                 M. B. Rajarshi   Rank tests for testing the randomness of
                                  autoregressive coefficients  . . . . . . 115--120
            Hammou El Barmi and   
             Richard L. Dykstra   Restricted multinomial maximum
                                  likelihood estimation based upon Fenchel
                                  duality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
                        Yi Zhao   Covariance matrices of quadratic forms
                                  in elliptical distributions  . . . . . . 131--140
                 X. R. Chen and   
                          Y. Wu   Nonexistence of consistent estimates in
                                  a density estimation problem . . . . . . 141--145
                    K. Zografos   Asymptotic distributions of estimated
                                  $f$-dissimilarity between populations in
                                  stratified random sampling . . . . . . . 147--151
               Yosef Rinott and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Covariance between variables and their
                                  order statistics for multivariate normal
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
                        Wen Liu   A strong limit theorem under no
                                  assumption of independence, stationarity
                                  or various dependences . . . . . . . . . 157--161
                   Martin Moser   Completeness of time-ordered indicators
                                  in censored data models  . . . . . . . . 163--166
                  Stephen Blyth   Symmetrized kernel estimators of the
                                  regression slope . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--172

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 21, Number 3, October 19, 1994

               Thomas H. Savits   On integration, substitution and the
                                  probability integral transform . . . . . 173--179
                    Elias Masry   Probability density estimation from
                                  dependent observations using wavelets
                                  orthonormal bases  . . . . . . . . . . . 181--194
        Walid A. Abu-Dayyeh and   
         Abed El-Qader El-Masri   Combining independent tests of
                                  triangular distribution  . . . . . . . . 195--202
                 R. Fraiman and   
                     J. Meloche   Smoothing dependent observations . . . . 203--214
               Zhiming Wang and   
             J. C. Gardiner and   
              R. V. Ramamoorthi   Identifiability in interval censorship
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--221
              Daehyun Chung and   
                 Myron N. Chang   An isotonic estimator of the baseline
                                  hazard function in Cox's regression
                                  model under order restriction  . . . . . 223--228
                 S. Chakraborti   Asymptotically distribution-free joint
                                  confidence intervals for generalized
                                  Lorenz curves based on complete data . . 229--235
              Leszek Marzec and   
                  Pawe\l Marzec   Dispersive comparison of distributions:
                                  a multisample testing problem  . . . . . 237--245
                     Jun S. Liu   Siegel's formula via Stein's identities  247--251
                      Xuming He   Breakdown versus efficiency --- your
                                  perspective matters  . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
             Tea-Yuan Hwang and   
                   Chin-Yuan Hu   The best lower bound of sample
                                  correlation with ordered restriction . . 254--254

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 21, Number 4, November 11, 1994

                   D. R. Jensen   Efficiencies of some small second-order
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--261
 Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee and   
      Gaurangadeb Chattopadhyay   On the nonexistence of certain optimal
                                  confidence sets for the rectangular
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--269
              Miguel A. Arcones   Distributional convergence of
                                  $M$-estimators under unusual rates . . . 271--280
            A. M. Abouammoh and   
                 A. F. Mashhour   Variance upper bounds and convolutions
                                  of $ \alpha $-unimodal distributions . . 281--289
                 Alka Indurkhya   A parametric bootstrap procedure to
                                  estimate the selected mean using
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--298
             Dinh Tuan Pham and   
        Dominique Guégan   Asymptotic normality of the discrete
                                  Fourier transform of long memory time
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--309
            Barry C. Arnold and   
                  D. V. Gokhale   On uniform marginal representation of
                                  contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 311--316
             Manfred Denker and   
                  Madan L. Puri   On some limit laws for perturbed
                                  empirical distribution functions . . . . 317--321
                M. C. Viano and   
                  C. Deniau and   
                   G. Oppenheim   Continuous-time fractional ARMA
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--336

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 21, Number 5, December 7, 1994

                      Song Yang   A Central Limit Theorem for functionals
                                  of the Kaplan--Meier estimator . . . . . 337--345
              Kanchan Mukherjee   Minimum distance estimation in linear
                                  models with long-range dependent errors  347--355
          Tasos C. Christofides   A Kolmogorov inequality for
                                  $U$-statistics based on Bernoulli
                                  kernels  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--362
                 J. Bertoin and   
                    R. A. Doney   Cramér's estimate for Lévy processes . . . 363--365
          Robert L. Strawderman   A note on necessary and sufficient
                                  conditions for proving that a random
                                  symmetric matrix converges to a given
                                  limit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--370
                   Anton Schick   Estimation of the autocorrelation
                                  coefficient in the presence of a
                                  regression trend . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--380
                    C. C. Heyde   A quasi-likelihood approach to the REML
                                  estimating equations . . . . . . . . . . 381--384
                 J. Hüsler   Maxima of bivariate random vectors:
                                  Between independence and complete
                                  dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--394
              Dean M. Young and   
        John W. Seaman, Jr. and   
                Laurie M. Meaux   Independence-distribution-preserving
                                  dependency structures for the modified
                                  likelihood ratio test for detecting
                                  unequal covariance matrices  . . . . . . 395--403
         K. Balasubramanian and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Equivalence of relations for order
                                  statistics for exchangeable and
                                  arbitrary cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--407
                  C. R. Rao and   
                     L. C. Zhao   Berry--Esseen bounds for
                                  finite-population $t$-statistics . . . . 409--416
             S. A. Paranjpe and   
                     A. P. Gore   Selecting variables for discrimination
                                  when covariance matrices are unequal . . 417--419
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 21 (1994)  . . . 421--422


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 22, Number 1, January, 1995

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
        Mark M. Meerschaert and   
                Jeery Alan Veeh   Symmetry groups in $d$-space . . . . . . 1--6
           Probal Chaudhuri and   
                   Anup Dewanji   On a likelihood-based approach in
                                  nonparametric smoothing and
                                  cross-validation . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--15
        Jayant V. Deshpande and   
          T. P. Muhammad Fareed   A note on conditionally unbiased
                                  estimation after selection . . . . . . . 17--23
               Carme Florit and   
                  David Nualart   A local criterion for smoothness of
                                  densities and application to the
                                  supremum of the Brownian sheet . . . . . 25--31
               David B. Holiday   Near optimal weights in nonparametric
                                  regression under some common
                                  restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42
                Rocco Ballerini   Nonconstant levels for $t$-year return
                                  periods for two-dimensional Poisson
                                  processes with periodic intensity  . . . 43--47
         Rafe M. J. Donahue and   
         Peter J. Brockwell and   
               Richard A. Davis   On permissible correlations for locally
                                  correlated stationary processes  . . . . 49--53
               Dug Hun Hong and   
                   Kwang Sik Oh   On the Weak Law of Large Numbers for
                                  arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57
               Stephen M. Krone   Conditioned superprocesses and their
                                  weighted occupation times  . . . . . . . 59--69
                  Attila Csenki   The number of visits to a subset of the
                                  state space by a discrete-parameter
                                  semi-Markov process  . . . . . . . . . . 71--77
  Philippe Capéra\`a and   
              Louis-Paul Rivest   On the variance of the trimmed mean  . . 79--85

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 22, Number 2, February, 1995

                    Wen Liu and   
                     Guoxin Liu   A class of strong laws for functionals
                                  of countable nonhomogeneous Markov
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
            B. Gail Ivanoff and   
               Ely Merzbach and   
          Ioana Schiopu-Kratina   Lattices of random sets and
                                  progressivity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
         Jaros\law Bartoszewicz   Stochastic order relations and the total
                                  time on test transform . . . . . . . . . 103--110
             Kumar Joag-dev and   
             Subhash Kochar and   
                 Frank Proschan   A general composition theorem and its
                                  applications to certain partial
                                  orderings of distributions . . . . . . . 111--119
               Ibrahim A. Ahmad   On multivariate kernel estimation for
                                  samples from weighted distributions  . . 121--129
             Magda Peligrad and   
                    Qi-Man Shao   A note on the almost sure Central Limit
                                  Theorem for weakly dependent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--136
                   J. C. Fu and   
                  M. V. Koutras   Reliability bounds for coherent
                                  structures with independent components   137--148
                  Hwai-Chung Ho   On the strong uniform consistency of
                                  density estimation for strongly
                                  dependent sequences  . . . . . . . . . . 149--156
                  Fushing Hsieh   A regression approach for estimating the
                                  center of symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160
                      S. H. Ong   Some stochastic models leading to the
                                  convolution of two binomial variables    161--166
            Hammou El Barmi and   
              Subhash C. Kochar   Likelihood ratio tests for bivariate
                                  symmetry against ordered alternatives in
                                  a square contingency table . . . . . . . 167--173

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 22, Number 3, February 15, 1995

                Marek Rutkowski   Left and right linear innovations for a
                                  multivariate $ S \alpha S $ random
                                  variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
               Pentti Saikkonen   Dependent versions of a Central Limit
                                  Theorem for the squared length of a
                                  sample mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--194
         Terence J. O'Neill and   
                 Simon C. Barry   Group truncated ordinal regression . . . 195--203
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Consistent estimation of
                                  density-weighted average derivative by
                                  orthogonal series method . . . . . . . . 205--212
            M. Mushfiqur Rashid   Analysis of repeated measures incomplete
                                  block designs using $R$-estimators . . . 213--221
M. V. Sánchez de Naranjo   A Central Limit Theorem for non-linear
                                  functionals of stationary Gaussian
                                  vector processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--230
                   N. Papadatos   Intermediate order statistics with
                                  applications to nonparametric estimation 231--238
              Miguel A. Arcones   A Bernstein-type inequality for
                                  $U$-statistics and $U$-processes . . . . 239--247
                    Liu Wen and   
                     Liu Zikuan   Likelihood ratio and a class of strong
                                  laws for the sequence of integer-valued
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--256
                F. Teuscher and   
                      V. Guiard   Sharp inequalities between skewness and
                                  kurtosis for unimodal distributions  . . 257--260

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 22, Number 4, March, 1995

            E. Csáki and   
                 A. Földes   On the logarithmic average of additive
                                  functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--268
                 C. Y. Wang and   
                    Suojin Wang   On information matrices in case-control
                                  studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--274
                 S. Northshield   On the spectrum and Martin boundary of
                                  homogeneous spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 275--279
            Anna Moli\'nska and   
           Krzysztof Moli\'nski   Improvement of ANOVA estimators of
                                  variance components in block designs
                                  with random treatments . . . . . . . . . 281--285
              Eiichi Isogai and   
                    Chikara Uno   On the sequential point estimation of
                                  the mean of a gamma distribution . . . . 287--293
                    Liu Wen and   
                    Yang Weiguo   A limit theorem for the entropy density
                                  of nonhomogeneous Markov information
                                  source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--301
             Fabio H. Nieto and   
             Victor M. Guerrero   Kalman filter for singular and
                                  conditional state-space models when the
                                  system state and the observational error
                                  are correlated . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--310
          Rabi Bhattacharya and   
                     Chanho Lee   On geometric ergodicity of nonlinear
                                  autoregressive models  . . . . . . . . . 311--315
                 Marc Aerts and   
                   Paul Janssen   Weighted bootstrapping for $U$-quantiles 317--323
      Alessandra Giovagnoli and   
                     H. P. Wynn   Multivariate dispersion orderings  . . . 325--332
               J. R. Baxter and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Rates of convergence for
                                  everywhere-positive Markov chains  . . . 333--338
                     Denis Bosq   Optimal asymptotic quadratic error of
                                  density estimators for strong mixing or
                                  chaotic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--347
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 22 (1995)  . . . 349--350


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 23, Number 1, April, 1995

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Hazard rate ordering of $k$-out-of-$n$
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
                      B. Lacaze   Stationarity of independent sequences    9--11
                Jordan Stoyanov   Dependency measure for sets of random
                                  events or random variables . . . . . . . 13--20
                     Kais Hamza   The smallest uniform upper bound on the
                                  distance between the mean and the median
                                  of the binomial and Poisson
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--25
                   Jiti Gao and   
                      Hua Liang   Asymptotic normality of pseudo-LS
                                  estimator for partly linear
                                  autoregression models  . . . . . . . . . 27--34
      Dominique Fourdrinier and   
            Christian P. Robert   Intrinsic losses for empirical Bayes
                                  estimation: a note on normal and Poisson
                                  cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--44
             Colin R. Blyth and   
              Robert G. Staudte   Estimating statistical hypotheses  . . . 45--52
             James G. Booth and   
              Andrew T. A. Wood   An example in which the Lugannani--Rice
                                  saddlepoint formula fails  . . . . . . . 53--61
                    Luc Devroye   Another proof of a slow convergence
                                  result of Birgé . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--67
                   G. S. Watson   Detecting a change in the intercept in
                                  multiple regression  . . . . . . . . . . 69--72
              Yadolah Dodge and   
          Jana Jurecková   Estimation of quantile density function
                                  based on regression quantiles  . . . . . 73--78
              Irwin Guttman and   
               Dennis K. J. Lin   Robust recursive estimation for
                                  correlated observations  . . . . . . . . 79--92
            H. Papageorgiou and   
              Katerina M. David   On a class of bivariate compounded
                                  Poisson distributions  . . . . . . . . . 93--104

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 23, Number 2, May 1, 1995

               Bruno Bassan and   
                 Marco Scarsini   Finite exchangeability and linear
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--110
                 Derek K. Chang   A game with four players . . . . . . . . 111--115
            Scott M. Jordan and   
              K. Krishnamoorthy   On combining independent tests in linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--122
                 Xiaojing Xiang   A note on the bias of $L$-estimators and
                                  a bias reduction procedure . . . . . . . 123--127
           Xiang Qian Chang and   
               Charles N. Moore   The equivalence of two conditions for
                                  weight functions for martingales . . . . 129--133
                     Minggao Gu   Convergence of increments for cumulative
                                  hazard function in a mixed
                                  censorship-truncation model with
                                  application to hazard estimators . . . . 135--139
                    Chikara Uno   A note on sequential estimation of the
                                  mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--149
                    Wang Qiying   The strong law of $U$-statistics with $
                                  \phi^o*$-mixing samples  . . . . . . . . 151--155
             Boyan Dimitrov and   
              Elart von Collani   Contorted uniform and Pareto
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--164
                    Malay Ghosh   Inconsistent maximum likelihood
                                  estimators for the Rasch model . . . . . 165--170
             R. Karan Singh and   
               Sheela Misra and   
                   S. K. Pandey   A generalized class of estimators in
                                  linear regression models with
                                  multivariate-$t$ distributed error . . . 171--178
           Wies\law Dziubdziela   On the limit distributions of sums of
                                  mixing Bernoulli random variables  . . . 179--182
             Dennis D. Boos and   
                 Cavell Brownie   ANOVA and rank tests when the number of
                                  treatments is large  . . . . . . . . . . 183--191
                 P. M. Robinson   The approximate distribution of
                                  nonparametric regression estimates . . . 193--201

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 23, Number 3, May 15, 1995

          Yuliy Baryshnikov and   
          Bennett Eisenberg and   
                Gilbert Stengle   A necessary and sufficient condition for
                                  the existence of the limiting
                                  probability of a tie for first place . . 203--209
         Jaros\law Bartoszewicz   Bahadur and Hodges--Lehmann approximate
                                  efficiencies of tests based on spacings  211--220
            Alfredas Rackauskas   On the rate of convergence in the
                                  martingale CLT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--226
                      W. Stadje   A note on the maximum of a random walk   227--231
               K. B. Kulasekera   A bound on the $ \mathcal {L}_1 $--error
                                  of a nonparametric density estimator
                                  with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 233--238
         K. Balasubramanian and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On a class of multivariate distributions
                                  closed under concomitance of order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--242
            Danny W. Turner and   
              Dean M. Young and   
            John W. Seaman, Jr.   A Kolmogorov inequality for the sum of
                                  independent Bernoulli random variables
                                  with unequal means . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
             Xaingchen Wang and   
            M. Bhaskara Rao and   
                        Deli Li   Some results on strong limit theorems
                                  for (LB)-space-valued random variables   247--251
              Shuangzhe Liu and   
                Heinz Neudecker   A $V$-optimal design for Scheffé's
                                  polynomial model . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--258
                         Z. Shi   Lower limits of iterated Wiener
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--270
               R. N. Pillai and   
                   K. Jayakumar   Discrete Mittag--Leffler distributions   271--274
                 Amir Dembo and   
            Eddy Mayer-Wolf and   
                  Ofer Zeitouni   Exact behavior of Gaussian seminorms . . 275--280
                  N. H. Bingham   The sample mid-range and symmetrized
                                  extremal laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--288
                Madjid Amir and   
                Frank B. Knight   Law of the iterated logarithm and local
                                  variations at zero of the sticky
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--295

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 23, Number 4, June, 1995

                   I. Gertsbakh   On the Fisher information in Type-I
                                  censored and quantal response data . . . 297--306
                    Kai Sun and   
                   Asit P. Basu   A characterization of a bivariate
                                  geometric distribution . . . . . . . . . 307--311
          Gianfranco Ciardo and   
         Lawrence M. Leemis and   
                    David Nicol   On the minimum of independent
                                  geometrically distributed random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--326
           Timothy C. Brown and   
                      Aihua Xia   On Stein--Chen factors for Poisson
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--332
               Vibeke Horstmann   On confidence regions induced by the
                                  Wilcoxon rank sum test . . . . . . . . . 333--338
                    M. Sreehari   Maximum stability and a generalization   339--342
             Masamori Ihara and   
                    Yutaka Kano   Identifiability of full, marginal, and
                                  conditional factor analysis models . . . 343--350
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Bounds for order statistics based on
                                  dependent variables with given
                                  nonidentical distributions . . . . . . . 351--358
                      W. Stadje   A stochastic process arising in
                                  sequential experimentation . . . . . . . 359--365
             Arjun K. Gupta and   
                    Yining Wang   A condition for the nonexistence of
                                  ancillary statistics . . . . . . . . . . 367--369
                  M. N. Das and   
                    N. Giri and   
                       M. Ahmed   Designs through recoding of varietal and
                                  level codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--380
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 23 (1995)  . . . 381--382


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 24, Number 1, July, 1995

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
    Christian Houdré and   
                 Benjamin Kedem   A note on autocovariance estimation in
                                  the presence of discrete spectra . . . . 1--8
             Richard C. Bradley   On a theorem of K. Schmidt . . . . . . . 9--12
         Mohammad H. Rahbar and   
             Joseph C. Gardiner   Nonparametric estimation of regression
                                  parameters from censored data with a
                                  discrete covariate . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20
               Annie Millet and   
         Wlodzmierz Smole\'nski   Small perturbations of Gaussian
                                  regressors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31
                Hammou El Barmi   A linear-quadratic distributional
                                  identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--37
                 S. J. Wang and   
                    Sik-Yum Lee   A geometric approach of the generalized
                                  least-squares estimation in analysis of
                                  covariance structures  . . . . . . . . . 39--47
           Rogelio Q. Ramos and   
              Sastry G. Pantula   Estimation of nonlinear random
                                  coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56
           Regis J. Serinko and   
              Gutti Jogesh Babu   Asymptotics of $k$-mean clustering under
                                  non-i.i.d. sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 57--66
                 Ming-Tien Tsai   A generalization of the Wishart
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70
          Marcello De Giosa and   
              Rosamaria Mininni   On the Doléans function of set-indexed
                                  submartingales . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--75
              George G. Roussas   Asymptotic normality of a smooth
                                  estimate of a random field distribution
                                  function under association . . . . . . . 77--90

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 24, Number 2, August 1, 1995

                  Somnath Datta   On a modified bootstrap for certain
                                  asymptotically nonnormal statistics  . . 91--98
                 Tuhao Chen and   
                      E. Seneta   A note on bivariate Dawson--Sankoff-type
                                  bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
                 Peter Hall and   
             Rodney C. L. Wolff   Estimators of integrals of powers of
                                  density derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . 105--110
          Norman L. Johnson and   
                    Samuel Kotz   Use of moments in studies of limit
                                  distributions arising from iterated
                                  random subdivisions of an interval . . . 111--119
              Yongzhao Shao and   
               Marjorie G. Hahn   Limit theorems for the logarithm of
                                  sample spacings  . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132
                    H. A. David   On recurrence relations for order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--138
                Hyo-Il Park and   
                  Sang-Gue Park   Quantile estimation of treatment effect
                                  for the two-sample problem with right
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145
                Yoshiko Isogawa   A note on a unified test for
                                  multivariate linear relationships  . . . 147--151
               Arthur Cohen and   
               H. B. Sackrowitz   Inadmissibility of some tests for
                                  order-restricted alternatives  . . . . . 153--156
              Andrew T. A. Wood   When is a truncated covariance function
                                  on the line a covariance function on the
                                  circle?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--164
                   Andrew Nobel   A counterexample concerning uniform
                                  ergodic theorems for a class of
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--168
                John E. Kolassa   Edgeworth approximations for rank sum
                                  test statistics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--171
                  Hari Mukerjee   A simple combinatorial proof of a result
                                  by Robertson and Pillers . . . . . . . . 173--175
               Longcheen Huwang   A note on the accuracy of an approximate
                                  interval for the binomial parameter  . . 177--180
              Fushing Hsieh and   
              Bruce W. Turnbull   A note on the local asymptotically
                                  minimax rate for estimating a crossing
                                  point in a diagnostic marker problem . . 181--185

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 24, Number 3, August 15, 1995

           Hans-Peter Scheffler   Moments of measures attracted to
                                  operator semi-stable laws  . . . . . . . 187--192
              Michael J. Phelan   Asymptotic information for parametric
                                  estimation from an equilibrium particle
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--198
                 Allen Roginsky   Average error in the Central Limit
                                  Theorem for the cumulative processes . . 199--204
                Nabendu Pal and   
                   Chiahua Ling   Improved minimax estimation of powers of
                                  the variance of a multivariate normal
                                  distribution under the entropy loss
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--211
               Narn-Rueih Shieh   Some self-similar processes related to
                                  local times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--218
         Thomas M. Margavio and   
         Michael D. Conerly and   
         William H. Woodall and   
                Laurel G. Drake   Alarm rates for quality control charts   219--224
                      S. J. Lin   On $ L^P $ stochastic representations    225--227
             Valentin V. Petrov   On the almost sure behaviour of sums of
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--231
                    A. Dermoune   Differential calculus relative to some
                                  point processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--242
                   K. Fazli and   
                  J. Behboodian   Skorohod's theorem and convergence of
                                  types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
              Miguel A. Arcones   On the Central Limit Theorem for
                                  $U$-statistics under absolute regularity 245--249
        Jorge Aragón and   
        Adolfo J. Quiróz   Rank regression for current status data  251--256
                     Peter Hall   On the biases of error estimators in
                                  prediction problems  . . . . . . . . . . 257--262
          Werner Hürlimann   A uniform approximation to the sampling
                                  distribution of the coefficient of
                                  variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--268
                    M. C. Jones   On two recent papers of Y. Kanazawa  . . 269--271
                      Hua Liang   Second-order asymptotic efficiency of
                                  PMLE in generalized linear models  . . . 273--279

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 24, Number 4, September, 1995

                Xinnian Yue and   
                   Chunsheng Ma   Multivariate $ \mathcal {L}_p$-norm
                                  symmetric distributions  . . . . . . . . 281--288
                  Run-Ze Li and   
                   Kai-Tai Fang   Estimation of scale matrix of
                                  elliptically contoured matrix
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--297
             Ken-ichi Yoshihara   The Bahadur representation of sample
                                  quantiles for sequences of strongly
                                  mixing random variables  . . . . . . . . 299--304
                      Bero Roos   A semigroup approach to Poisson
                                  approximation with respect to the point
                                  metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--314
                   Bing-Yi Jing   Two-sample empirical likelihood method   315--319
                    Cheng Cheng   The Bernstein polynomial estimator of a
                                  smooth quantile function . . . . . . . . 321--330
          Takis Konstantopoulos   Ballot theorems revisited  . . . . . . . 331--338
            Theofanis Sapatinas   Characterizations of probability
                                  distributions based on discrete
                                  $p$-monotonicity . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--344
                 P. M. Robinson   An invariance property of optimal
                                  spectral bandwidths  . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
                    Jiayang Sun   Iterative estimates for a smoothing
                                  parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--356
                Philip E. Cheng   A note on strong convergence rates in
                                  nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 357--364
               Steven E. Rigdon   A double-integral equation for the
                                  average run length of a multivariate
                                  exponentially weighted moving average
                                  control chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--373
       Friedrich Pukelsheim and   
              Bikas Kumar Sinha   Optimal block designs revisited: An
                                  approximate theory detour  . . . . . . . 375--380
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 24 (1995)  . . . 381--382


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 25, Number 1, October, 1995

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                    R. Norvaisa   The Strassen law of the iterated
                                  logarithm in Banach function spaces  . . 1--8
         Henryk Brzeskwiniewicz   On the $E$-optimality of some two-way
                                  elimination of heterogeneity designs . . 9--13
                      Xiaomi Hu   A note on the symmetry of normal mean
                                  hypotheses and its implications  . . . . 15--20
          Alexander Martikainen   On the Strong Law of Large Numbers for
                                  sums of pairwise independent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--26
                 Sinsup Cho and   
              Young J. Park and   
                    Sung K. Ahn   Unit root tests for seasonal models with
                                  deterministic trends . . . . . . . . . . 27--35
           Christos Koukouvinos   Optimal weighing designs and some new
                                  weighing matrices  . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
              Miguel A. Arcones   Asymptotic normality of multivariate
                                  trimmed means  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--53
                 Geof H. Givens   Consistency of the local kernel density
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--61
                 Edgar Kaufmann   Von Mises conditions, $ \delta
                                  $-neighborhoods and rates of convergence
                                  for maxima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
            Gábor Lugosi   Improved upper bounds for probabilities
                                  of uniform deviations  . . . . . . . . . 71--77
 Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   On some characterizations of the
                                  $t$-distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
               Kok Hooi Tan and   
             Petros Hadjicostas   Some properties of a limiting
                                  distribution in Quicksort  . . . . . . . 87--94

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 25, Number 2, November 1, 1995

                        Gang Li   On nonparametric likelihood ratio
                                  estimation of survival probabilities for
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--104
                Grace Wahba and   
                   Yuedong Wang   Behavior near zero of the distribution
                                  of GCV smoothing parameter estimates . . 105--111
              Lutz Dümbgen   A simple proof and refinement of
                                  Wielandt's eigenvalue inequality . . . . 113--115
                 Sujuan Gao and   
                 T. M. F. Smith   On the nonexistence of a global
                                  nonnegative minimum bias invariant
                                  quadratic estimator of variance
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120
   Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg and   
                 Alex J. Koning   On Wieand's theorem  . . . . . . . . . . 121--132
                Li-Xing Zhu and   
                      Kai W. Ng   M-type estimators of regression function
                                  with applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 133--144
                V. Cekanavicius   On asymptotic expansions in the first
                                  uniform Kolmogorov theorem . . . . . . . 145--151
                       Jiti Gao   The laws of the iterated logarithm of
                                  some estimates in partly linear models   153--162
          Ashis K. Gangopadhyay   A note on the asymptotic behavior of
                                  conditional extremes . . . . . . . . . . 163--170
              Elies Kouider and   
                   Hanfeng Chen   Concavity of Box--Cox log-likelihood
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
             Masaaki Sibuya and   
                  Hajime Yamato   Ordered and unordered random partitions
                                  of an integer and the GEM distribution   177--183
         Marianthi Markatou and   
           Joel L. Horowitz and   
               Russell V. Lenth   Robust scale estimation based on the
                                  empirical characteristic function  . . . 185--192

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 25, Number 3, November 15, 1995

                 Steven G. From   A weighted least-squares procedure for
                                  estimating the parameters of Altham's
                                  multiplicative generalization of the
                                  binomial distribution  . . . . . . . . . 193--199
                    D. Bosq and   
               D. Guégan   Nonparametric estimation of the chaotic
                                  function and the invariant measure of a
                                  dynamical system . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--212
      Pandurang M. Kulkarni and   
                 Arvind K. Shah   Testing the equality of several binomial
                                  proportions to a prespecified standard   213--219
              N. G. Ushakov and   
                 A. P. Ushakova   Estimations of the decomposition
                                  stability into identical components  . . 221--229
                    Hideki Endo   Correspondence analysis of an artificial
                                  binary cylinder data . . . . . . . . . . 231--240
                  Chung-Bow Lee   Estimating the number of change points
                                  in a sequence of independent normal
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--248
               A. K. Srivastava   Improved predictors in survey sampling
                                  under a super population model . . . . . 249--252
                Li-Xing Zhu and   
                     Ping Cheng   The asymptotic tail behaviours of
                                  projection pursuit-type Kolmogorov
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--263
                      C. D. Lai   Construction of bivariate distributions
                                  by a generalised trivariate reduction
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--270
                     J. Meloche   Tactical aspects of search and rescue
                                  operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--279
               Emile Bertin and   
               Radu Theodorescu   Preserving unimodality by mixing . . . . 281--288

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 25, Number 4, December, 1995

                     Wai Y. Tan   A stochastic model for drug resistance
                                  in AIDS chemotherapy and the HIV
                                  incubation distribution  . . . . . . . . 289--299
                Gunter Lorenzen   A new family of goodness-of-fit
                                  statistics for discrete multivariate
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--307
           Bhaskar Bhattacharya   Restricted tests for and against the
                                  increasing failure rate ordering on
                                  multinomial parameters . . . . . . . . . 309--316
                  Weng Kee Wong   On the equivalence of $D$ and
                                  $G$-optimal designs in heteroscedastic
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--321
                  Luning Li and   
                  Bernard Flury   Uniqueness of principal points for
                                  univariate distributions . . . . . . . . 323--327
                   James Ledoux   On weak lumpability of denumerable
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--339
      Mansour M. Abughalous and   
               Naveen K. Bansal   On selecting the best natural
                                  exponential families with quadratic
                                  variance function  . . . . . . . . . . . 341--349
            Alexander V. Gnedin   On a class of exchangeable sequences . . 351--355
                 Alain Berlinet   A note on variance reduction . . . . . . 357--360
              M. C. Agrawal and   
                  A. B. Sthapit   Unbiased ratio-type variance estimation  361--364
         Bruno Massé and   
             Marie-Claude Viano   Explicit and exponential bounds for a
                                  test on the coefficient of an AR(1)
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--371
                 B. K. Kale and   
                   G. Sebastian   Approximate estimation of
                                  non-identifiable parameters in a
                                  convolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--378
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 25 (1995)  . . . 379--380


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                    Tom Leonard   On exchangeable sampling distributions
                                  for uncontrolled data  . . . . . . . . . 1--6
       Silvia L. P. Ferrari and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Corrected score tests for exponential
                                  family nonlinear models  . . . . . . . . 7--12
           Marie Husková   Estimation of a change in linear models  13--24
          Patrick D. Gerard and   
            William R. Schucany   On combining independent nonparametric
                                  regression estimators  . . . . . . . . . 25--34
            Han-Yeong Chung and   
                Kee-Won Lee and   
                    Ja-Yong Koo   A note on bootstrap model selection
                                  criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--41
            Philip L. H. Yu and   
                         K. Lam   Likelihood ratio test for the spacing
                                  between two adjacent location parameters 43--49
           J. N. Srivastava and   
                       S. Ghosh   On nonorthogonality and nonoptimality of
                                  Addelman's main-effect plans satisfying
                                  the condition of proportional
                                  frequencies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60
                Samuel Kotz and   
               I. V. Ostrovskii   A mixture representation of the Linnik
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
Sándor Csörg\Ho and   
                  Gordon Simons   A Strong Law of Large Numbers for
                                  trimmed sums, with applications to
                                  generalized St. Petersburg games . . . . 65--73
                Gerold Alsmeyer   Nonnegativity of odd functional moments
                                  of positive random variables with
                                  decreasing density . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82
              Ke-Ning Sheng and   
                 Joseph I. Naus   Matching fixed rectangles in
                                  $2$-dimension  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--90
           Friedrich Schmid and   
                     Mark Trede   An $ L_1 $-variant of the Cramer--von
                                  Mises test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--96

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 26, Number 2, February 1, 1996

                    S. V. Malov   On characterizations of independent
                                  identically distributed random variables
                                  via order structures . . . . . . . . . . 97--104
              Wolfgang Bischoff   Characterizing multivariate normal
                                  distributions by some of its
                                  conditionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--111
                    Yining Wang   Estimation problems for the
                                  two-parameter negative binomial
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
               Somesh Kumar and   
                 Divakar Sharma   A note on estimating quantiles of
                                  exponential populations  . . . . . . . . 115--118
                    I-Li Lu and   
                Donald Richards   Total positivity properties of the
                                  bivariate diagonal natural exponential
                                  families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124
              Madhuri Kuber and   
          Avinash Dharmadhikari   Association in time of a finite
                                  semi-Markov process  . . . . . . . . . . 125--133
                      Tim Zajic   Large deviations for a class of
                                  recursive algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 135--140
             Magda Peligrad and   
                    Qi-Man Shao   A note on estimation of variance for $
                                  \rho $-mixing sequences  . . . . . . . . 141--145
                  Claudio Macci   On the Lebesgue decomposition of the
                                  posterior distribution with respect to
                                  the prior in regular Bayesian
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--152
            Barry C. Arnold and   
           Enrique Castillo and   
José María Sarabia   Specification of distributions by
                                  combinations of marginal and conditional
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--157
           A. Pázman and   
                    L. Pronzato   A Dirac-function method for densities of
                                  nonlinear statistics and for marginal
                                  densities in nonlinear regression  . . . 159--167
            Harrie Hendriks and   
               Zinoviy Landsman   Asymptotic behavior of sample mean
                                  location for manifolds . . . . . . . . . 169--178
               Tae Yoon Kim and   
                  Dennis D. Cox   Uniform strong consistency of kernel
                                  density estimators under dependence  . . 179--185
                 Janis Hardwick   Asymptotic expansions for randomly
                                  censored survival data . . . . . . . . . 187--197

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 26, Number 3, February 15, 1996

Rafael Pérez-Ocón and   
M. Luz Gámiz-Pérez   On first-passage times in increasing
                                  Markov processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--203
             Thomas S. Ferguson   A problem of minimax estimation with
                                  directional information  . . . . . . . . 205--211
                     Karl Grill   The range of simple branching random
                                  walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--218
             Matthias Löwe   Iterated large deviations  . . . . . . . 219--223
                      Song Yang   One-step robust parametric estimation
                                  with application to random censoring
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--232
                Hans Daduna and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   A queueing theoretical proof of
                                  increasing property of Pólya frequency
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--242
              P. J. Grabner and   
                   H. Prodinger   Asymptotic analysis of the moments of
                                  the Cantor distribution  . . . . . . . . 243--248
                   I. Gertsbakh   Optimal allocation of test positions and
                                  testing time in a factorial life testing
                                  experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--258
              Michael Braverman   A remark on stochastic monotonicity  . . 259--262
                     Ro Jin Pak   Minimum Hellinger distance estimation in
                                  simple linear regression models;
                                  distribution and efficiency  . . . . . . 263--269
                Ja-Yong Koo and   
                   Woo-Chul Kim   Wavelet density estimation by
                                  approximation of log-densities . . . . . 271--278
            Peter Eichelsbacher   Rate functions in the theory of large
                                  deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--283
              M. V. Koutras and   
        S. G. Papastavridis and   
                  K. I. Petakos   Bounds for coherent reliability
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--292

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 26, Number 4, March 1, 1996

                 Choon Peng Tan   On the weak ergodicity of nonhomogeneous
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
                  Philippe Vieu   A note on density mode estimation  . . . 297--307
               Tommaso Gastaldi   Note on closed-form MLEs of failure
                                  rates in a fully parametric random
                                  censorship model with incomplete data    309--314
                Brani Vidakovic   A note on random densities via wavelets  315--321
             Agata Boraty\'nska   On Bayesian robustness with the $
                                  \epsilon $-contamination class of priors 323--328
           Christos Koukouvinos   Linear models and $D$-optimal designs
                                  for $ n \equiv 2 \bmod 4$  . . . . . . . 329--332
           Christos Koukouvinos   Orthogonal designs in linear models and
                                  sequences with zero autocorrelation  . . 333--338
                Jack C. Lee and   
                        Ling Hu   On the distribution of linear functions
                                  of independent F and U variates  . . . . 339--346
        Joseph E. Cavanaugh and   
              Robert H. Shumway   On computing the expected Fisher
                                  information matrix for state-space model
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--355
              Wolfgang Bischoff   On maximin designs for correlated
                                  observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--363
Eusebio Arenal-Gutiérrez and   
       Carlos Matrán and   
        Juan A. Cuesta-Albertos   Unconditional Glivenko--Cantelli-type
                                  theorems and weak laws of large numbers
                                  for bootstrap  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--375
             Valentin V. Petrov   On the Strong Law of Large Numbers . . . 377--380
                      Yong Zhou   A note on the TJW product-limit
                                  estimator for truncated and censored
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--387
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 26 (1996)  . . . 389--390


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 27, Number 1, March 15, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
              Robert M. de Jong   A Strong Law of Large Numbers for
                                  triangular mixingale arrays  . . . . . . 1--9
                   P. Jacob and   
                     Ch. Suquet   Regression and edge estimation . . . . . 11--15
                Richard Huggins   On the identifiability of measurement
                                  error in the bifurcating autoregressive
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--23
               L. De Cesare and   
                        D. Posa   The variogram of the uniform transform
                                  of a random field  . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29
                 A. F. Mashhour   Some results on discrete $ \alpha
                                  $-unimodality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--36
               Fanghuan Wan and   
                       Xizhi Wu   A direct approach to a Bayesian
                                  sequential test for a normal mean  . . . 37--41
                 Sudip Bose and   
                 Benjamin Kedem   Non-dependence of the predictive
                                  distribution on the population size  . . 43--47
Eusebio Arenal-Gutiérrez and   
       Carlos Matrán and   
        Juan A. Cuesta-Albertos   On the unconditional Strong Law of Large
                                  Numbers for the bootstrap mean . . . . . 49--60
Miklós Csörg\Ho and   
           Lajos Horváth   A note on the change-point problem for
                                  angular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--65
                  R. J. Tomkins   Refinement of a zero-one law for maxima  67--69
Frédérique Leblanc   Wavelet linear density estimator for a
                                  discrete-time stochastic process: $ L_p
                                  $-losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--84
                James R. Schott   Testing for the equality of several
                                  correlation matrices . . . . . . . . . . 85--89
                  Kenneth Lange   Illustration of some moment identities
                                  for order statistics . . . . . . . . . . 91--98
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 27, Number 2, April 1, 1996

                   G. A. Ghazal   Recurrence formula for expectations of
                                  products of quadratic forms  . . . . . . 101--109
                   Jean Bertoin   Iterated Brownian motion and stable( 14
                                  ) subordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
        Clifford M. Hurvich and   
                 Chih-Ling Tsai   The impact of unsuspected serial
                                  correlations on model selection in
                                  linear regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126
                 E. Sandhya and   
                    S. Satheesh   On distribution functions with
                                  completely monotone derivative . . . . . 127--129
                  N. H. Bingham   The sample mid-range and interquartiles  131--136
              Leszek Marzec and   
                  Pawe\l Marzec   Tests for semiparametric model based on
                                  non-homogeneous Markov process . . . . . 137--143
            Augustyn Markiewicz   Characterization of general ridge
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--148
                   K. Sinha and   
                   B. Jones and   
                Sanpei Kageyama   Some new non-proper variance-balanced
                                  designs with unequal replications  . . . 149--153
            Madhusudan Bhandary   Test for generalized variance in signal
                                  processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--162
                    Q. Meng and   
                 S. Sivaganesan   Local sensitivity of density bounded
                                  priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--169
            Erhard Reschenhofer   On the asymptotic behavior of Akaike's
                                  BIC  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
        Arnab Bhattacharjee and   
               Debasis Sengupta   On the coefficient of variation of the $
                                  \mathcal {L} $- and $ \bar {\mathcal
                                  {L}} $-classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                       Yimin Ma   Empirical Bayes rules for selecting the
                                  most and least probable multivariate
                                  hypergeometric event . . . . . . . . . . 181--188
         Arnold Knopfmacher and   
               Helmut Prodinger   Explicit and asymptotic formulae for the
                                  expected values of the order statistics
                                  of the Cantor distribution . . . . . . . 189--194

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 27, Number 3, April 15, 1996

                   Shixian Qian   An algorithm for tree-ordered isotonic
                                  median regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 195--199
                 Amir Dembo and   
                  Ofer Zeitouni   Large deviations for subsampling from
                                  individual sequences . . . . . . . . . . 201--205
         A. G. Kyriakoussis and   
                M. G. Vamvakari   Asymptotic normality of a class of
                                  bivariate-multivariate discrete power
                                  series distributions . . . . . . . . . . 207--216
                     U. Krengel   On pairs of sums of random variables
                                  with pairwise equal distributions  . . . 217--219
               Peter W. M. John   Nesting Plackett--Burman designs . . . . 221--223
                 Peter Hall and   
           J. Steven Marron and   
             D. M. Titterington   A curious property of the derivatives of
                                  the Cauchy density . . . . . . . . . . . 225--229
               Shiva Gautam and   
           George Kimeldorf and   
               Allan R. Sampson   Optimized scorings for ordinal data for
                                  the general linear model . . . . . . . . 231--239
             Frits H. Ruymgaart   A note on the inverse estimation of
                                  band-limited signals . . . . . . . . . . 241--246
                    Deli Li and   
                  R. J. Tomkins   Laws of the iterated logarithm for
                                  weighted sums of independent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
                      Ian McKay   A note on density estimation for Poisson
                                  mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--258
                Pil S. Park and   
            Anant M. Kshirsagar   Correlation between successive values of
                                  Anderson's classification statistic in
                                  the hold-out method  . . . . . . . . . . 259--265
        Ludger Rüschendorf   On $c$-optimal random variables  . . . . 267--270
              Subhash C. Kochar   Dispersive ordering of order statistics  271--274
             M. L. Aggarwal and   
                       V. Sarin   Use of asymmetrical factorials for
                                  generating designs for quadratic mixture
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--279
                   Anton Schick   Weighted least squares estimates in
                                  partly linear regression models  . . . . 281--287

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 27, Number 4, May 1, 1996

                         Jie Mi   Crossing properties of F distributions   289--294
                  Chung-Bow Lee   Nonparametric multiple change-point
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--304
                Anna Karczewska   Statistical solutions for a stochastic
                                  Burger's equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 305--311
                    Nan-Fu Peng   On weak lumpability of a finite Markov
                                  chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--318
               Andrew L. Rukhin   The rates of convergence of Bayes
                                  estimators in change-point analysis  . . 319--329
           Christian Genest and   
              Kilani Ghoudi and   
         Bruno Rémillard   A note on tightness  . . . . . . . . . . 331--339
              Chul Gyu Park and   
                  Dong Wan Shin   On the asymptotics of residuals in
                                  autoregressive moving average processes
                                  with one autoregressive unit root  . . . 341--346
                   K. Farahmand   Random polynomials with complex
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--355
       M. Séménou   Quantile estimation under possibly
                                  misspecified generalised linear model    357--365
         Ayanendranath Basu and   
              Ian R. Harris and   
                  Srabashi Basu   Tests of hypotheses in discrete models
                                  based on the penalized Hellinger
                                  distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--373
                        Ao Yuan   Some properties of the Lynden--Bell
                                  estimator with truncated data  . . . . . 375--384
         Efstathios Paparoditis   Bootstrapping periodogram and cross
                                  periodogram statistics of vector
                                  autoregressive moving average models . . 385--391
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 27 (1996)  . . . 393--394


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 28, Number 1, June 1, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                J. S. Buzas and   
                L. A. Stefanski   A note on corrected-score estimation . . 1--8
                Weiwen Miao and   
               Marjorie G. Hahn   Existence and strong consistency of
                                  maximum likelihood estimates for
                                  $1$-dimensional exponential families . . 9--21
             Michael G. Akritas   Nonparametric estimation in
                                  heteroskedastic regression . . . . . . . 23--31
                V. Cekanavicius   On multivariate Le Cam theorem and
                                  compound Poisson measures  . . . . . . . 33--39
              Miguel A. Arcones   Some remarks on the uniform weak
                                  convergence of stochastic processes  . . 41--49
                    Liu Wen and   
                  Wang Zhongzhi   An extension of a theorem on gambling
                                  systems to arbitrary binary random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--58
           Christos Koukouvinos   Orthogonal $ 2^k $ and $ 3^k $ factorial
                                  designs constructed using sequences with
                                  zero autocorrelation . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
             Dragan Radulovi\'c   The bootstrap of the mean for strong
                                  mixing sequences under minimal
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--72
         Richard H. Glendinning   Assessing a Bartlett plot  . . . . . . . 73--79
               Chin-Shan Chuang   Joint distribution of Brownian motion
                                  and its maximum, with a generalization
                                  to correlated BM and applications to
                                  barrier options  . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--90
            A. L. Koldobsky and   
         S. J. Montgomery-Smith   Inequalities of correlation type for
                                  symmetric stable random vectors  . . . . 91--97

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 28, Number 2, June 15, 1996

        Lilian Shiao-Yen Wu and   
             Jeffrey S. Pai and   
               J. R. M. Hosking   An algorithm for estimating parameters
                                  of state-space models  . . . . . . . . . 99--106
                   L. Gajek and   
                M. Kaluszka and   
                       A. Lenic   The law of the iterated logarithm for $
                                  L_p $-norms of empirical processes . . . 107--110
                B. Gail Ivanoff   Stopping times and tightness for
                                  multiparameter martingales . . . . . . . 111--114
                    Sanjib Basu   Existence of a normal scale mixture with
                                  a given variance and a percentile  . . . 115--120
                     J. C. Wang   Mixed difference matrices and the
                                  construction of orthogonal arrays  . . . 121--126
                   Dug Hun Hong   On the Weak Law of Large Numbers for
                                  randomly indexed partial sums for arrays 127--130
                    J. M. Swart   A conditional product measure theorem    131--135
           Mervyn J. Silvapulle   On an $F$-type statistic for testing
                                  one-sided hypotheses and computation of
                                  chi-bar-squared weights  . . . . . . . . 137--141
             Sam Efromovich and   
                   Alex Samarov   Asymptotic equivalence of nonparametric
                                  regression and white noise model has its
                                  limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
             Janos Galambos and   
                Italo Simonelli   An extension of the method of
                                  polynomials and a new reduction formula
                                  for Bonferroni-type inequalities . . . . 147--151
                 Myron N. Chang   Exact distribution of the Kaplan--Meier
                                  estimator under the proportional hazards
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--157
            Alexander V. Gnedin   A class of exchangeable sequences  . . . 159--164
                    Rafal Weron   On the Chambers--Mallows--Stuck method
                                  for simulating skewed stable random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--171
        B. B. Bhattacharyya and   
               T. M. Khalil and   
               G. D. Richardson   Gauss--Newton estimation of parameters
                                  for a spatial autoregression model . . . 173--179
             Michael G. Akritas   On the grouped LSE under an
                                  errors-in-variables model  . . . . . . . 181--189
               N. Papadatos and   
               V. Papathanasiou   A generalization of variance bounds  . . 191--194

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 28, Number 3, July, 1996

            James M. Guffey and   
                   F. T. Wright   Testing for monotonicity in the
                                  intensity of a nonhomogeneous Poisson
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--202
              Lih-Yuan Deng and   
           Dennis K. J. Lin and   
                  Jiannong Wang   A measurement of multi-factor
                                  orthogonality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--209
                  Aloke Dey and   
                 Chand K. Midha   Construction of some asymmetrical
                                  orthogonal arrays  . . . . . . . . . . . 211--217
                   Bing-Yi Jing   Global tilting method  . . . . . . . . . 219--226
           A. Thavaneswaran and   
                 Shelton Peiris   Nonparametric estimation for some
                                  nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--233
                  M. S. Sgibnev   On the distribution of the maxima of
                                  partial sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
    Juan Carlos Ruiz-Molina and   
          Mariano J. Valderrama   On the derivation of a suboptimal filter
                                  for signal estimation  . . . . . . . . . 239--243
                 N. Etemadi and   
                    M. Kaminski   Strong Law of Large Numbers for
                                  $2$-exchangeable random variables  . . . 245--250
              Hironori Fujisawa   Estimation on random coefficient model
                                  with unbalanced data . . . . . . . . . . 251--257
                     Ta-Hsin Li   Bartlett-type formulas for complex
                                  multivariate time series of mixed
                                  spectra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--268
                B. Ramachandran   Characteristic functions taking constant
                                  values on intervals of the real line . . 269--270
          Lennart Bondesson and   
    Gundorph K. Kristiansen and   
                Fred W. Steutel   Infinite divisibility of random
                                  variables and their integer parts  . . . 271--278
             Gerd Christoph and   
                   Michael Falk   A note on domains of attraction of
                                  $p$-max stable laws  . . . . . . . . . . 279--284
                 Robin Pemantle   Maximum variation of total risk  . . . . 285--289

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 28, Number 4, August, 1996

                  Chul Kang and   
                 Byung-Chun Kim   The $N$-th moment of matrix quadratic
                                  form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--297
                Janice Lent and   
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Average-case analysis of multiple
                                  Quickselect: An algorithm for finding
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--310
            Ian W. McKeague and   
                    Yanqing Sun   Transformations of Gaussian random
                                  fields to Brownian sheet and
                                  nonparametric change-point tests . . . . 311--319
                F. Belzunce and   
                  J. Candel and   
                     J. M. Ruiz   Dispersive orderings and
                                  characterization of ageing classes . . . 321--327
                 T. Brezmes and   
                       G. Naval   Axiomatic information measures depending
                                  only on a probability measure  . . . . . 329--335
                Allanus H. Tsoi   A characterization of $k$-parameter
                                  quasimartingales . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--343
                      Allan Gut   Stopped Lévy processes with applications
                                  to first passage times . . . . . . . . . 345--352
                   Anton Schick   Root-n consistent estimation in partly
                                  linear regression models . . . . . . . . 353--358
Onésimo Hernández-Lerma and   
               Jean B. Lasserre   Existence of bounded invariant
                                  probability densities for Markov chains  359--366
                 J. Averous and   
           A.-L. Foug\`eres and   
                       M. Meste   Tailweight with respect to the mode for
                                  unimodal distributions . . . . . . . . . 367--373
          Alberto Luceño   A generalized Erlang distribution
                                  showing overdispersion . . . . . . . . . 375--386
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 28 (1996)  . . . 387--388


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 29, Number 1, August 15, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
               S. G. Sajjan and   
                   I. V. Basawa   Empirical Bayes prediction for a mixed
                                  linear model with autoregressive errors  1--7
                    J. Szroeter   Characterization of the exact
                                  finite-sample distribution of a routine
                                  test statistic for non-nested
                                  regressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--14
                 Khelifa Tobbal   A functional law of the iterated
                                  logarithm for the Dekkers--Einmahl--de
                                  Haan tail index estimator  . . . . . . . 15--22
             Frans A. Boshuizen   Prophet compared to gambler: additive
                                  inequalities for transforms of sequences
                                  of random variables  . . . . . . . . . . 23--32
            Witold Klonecki and   
                  Stefan Zontek   Improved estimators for simultaneous
                                  estimation of variance components  . . . 33--43
                David Gilat and   
                     T. P. Hill   Strongly-consistent, distribution-free
                                  confidence intervals for quantiles . . . 45--53
           Mateusz Wi\'sniewski   On extreme-order statistics and point
                                  processes of exceedances in multivariate
                                  stationary Gaussian sequences  . . . . . 55--59
               Tzy-Jyun Yao and   
             Gregory C. Reinsel   Covariance structure models for
                                  clustered proportions  . . . . . . . . . 61--70
      Julián De la Horra   Comparing Bayesian and frequentist
                                  estimators in the exchangeable case  . . 71--78
                  Prakash Patil   A note on deconvolution density
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84
                H. A. David and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Product moments of order statistics and
                                  the variance of a lightly trimmed mean   85--87
                  E. Stoimenova   On statistical properties of Chebyshev's
                                  norm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--93

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 29, Number 2, August 30, 1996

             H. N. Nagaraja and   
                 V. B. Nevzorov   Correlations between functions of
                                  records can be negative  . . . . . . . . 95--100
                    Sangun Park   An asymptotic relation arising in the
                                  decomposition of the likelihood of order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106
                     Zehua Chen   Conditional $ L_p $-quantiles and their
                                  application to the testing of symmetry
                                  in non-parametric regression . . . . . . 107--115
            Hammou El Barmi and   
             Richard L. Dykstra   Restricted product multinomial and
                                  product Poisson maximum likelihood
                                  estimation based upon Fenchel duality    117--123
           Christos Koukouvinos   Some new orthogonal designs in linear
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
                 Feng-Shun Chai   A note on balanced generalized two-way
                                  elimination of heterogeneity designs . . 131--141
             Yannis G. Yatracos   Linear least squares regression: a
                                  different view . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--148
               Dongsheng Tu and   
                  Alan J. Gross   A Bartlett-type correction for the
                                  subject-years method in comparing
                                  survival data to a standard population   149--157
            S. N. U. A. Kirmani   On sample spacings from IMRL
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--166
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
            S. N. U. A. Kirmani   Some results on ordering of survival
                                  functions through uncertainty  . . . . . 167--176
                    M. Alvo and   
                     P. Cabilio   Analysis of incomplete blocks for
                                  rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
                 Mario Lefebvre   Similarity solutions of first-passage
                                  problems for two-dimensional Wiener
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--189

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 29, Number 3, September 2, 1996

                Kazuhiro Ohtani   Further improving the Stein-rule
                                  estimator using the Stein variance
                                  estimator in a misspecified linear
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--199
           Dominique Guegan and   
         Joseph Ngatchou Wandji   Power of the Lagrange multiplier test
                                  for certain subdiagonal bilinear models  201--212
                Yiliang Zhu and   
                     Nancy Reid   Efficient likelihood ratio tests under
                                  $P$-ancillarity and $P$-sufficiency  . . 213--221
            Ljiljana Petrovi\'c   Causality and Markovian representations  223--227
                Abram Kagan and   
              Jacek Weso\lowski   Normality via conditional normality of
                                  linear forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--232
 Ömer Öztürk and   
       Thomas P. Hettmansperger   Almost fully efficient and robust
                                  simultaneous estimation of location and
                                  scale parameters: a minimum distance
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--244
           P. Yageen Thomas and   
                  Philip Samuel   A note on recurrence relations for the
                                  product moments of order statistics  . . 245--249
                   Lianfen Qian   Minimum distance estimators for random
                                  coefficient autoregressive models  . . . 251--262
                   D. R. Jensen   Deletion, augmentation and principal
                                  predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--270
                B. Asselain and   
                A. Fourquet and   
                   T. Hoang and   
             A. D. Tsodikov and   
                A. Yu. Yakovlev   A parametric regression model of tumor
                                  recurrence: An application to the
                                  analysis of clinical data on breast
                                  cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--278
                  Henrik Stryhn   The location of the maximum of
                                  asymmetric two-sided Brownian motion
                                  with triangular drift  . . . . . . . . . 279--284

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 29, Number 4, September 16, 1996

                   Sangyeol Lee   The asymptotic maximin property of
                                  chi-squared type tests based on the
                                  empirical process  . . . . . . . . . . . 285--292
                A. C. Trajstman   A note on the characterisation of the
                                  most probable number . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
                F. P. A. Coolen   Comparing two populations based on low
                                  stochastic structure assumptions . . . . 297--305
       Tomasz J. Kozubowski and   
               Anna K. Panorska   On moments and tail behavior of
                                  $v$-stable random variables  . . . . . . 307--315
            Liudas Giraitis and   
               Hira L. Koul and   
              Donatas Surgailis   Asymptotic normality of regression
                                  estimators with long memory errors . . . 317--335
             Monika Serbinowska   Consistency of an estimator of the
                                  number of changes in binomial
                                  observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--344
          Abdulaziz Elfessi and   
                       Chun Jin   On robust estimation of the common scale
                                  parameter of several Pareto
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--352
    Jean-François Angers   Fourier transform and Bayes estimator of
                                  a location parameter . . . . . . . . . . 353--359
                  I. Berkes and   
                E. Csáki   On the pointwise Central Limit Theorem
                                  and mixtures of stable distributions . . 361--368
                       Aiyi Liu   Estimation of the parameters in two
                                  linear models with only some of the
                                  parameter vectors identical  . . . . . . 369--375
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 29 (1996)  . . . 377--378


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 30, Number 1, September 30, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                         Hao Yu   A note on strong approximation for
                                  quantile processes of strong mixing
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
                        A. Irle   Asymptotically optimal stopping rules in
                                  the presence of unknown parameters . . . 9--16
                      Song Yang   Weighted empiricals and the
                                  product-limit estimator in the
                                  multiplicative hazard and time transfer
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
              João Gomes   Extreme value theory for a thermal
                                  energy storage model . . . . . . . . . . 25--31
          Daniel Neuenschwander   Commutative infinitesimal triangular
                                  systems on Euclidean motion groups . . . 33--36
          Miguel A. Delgado and   
              Peter M. Robinson   Optimal spectral kernel for long-range
                                  dependent time series  . . . . . . . . . 37--43
                   Anton Schick   Root-n-consistent and efficient
                                  estimation in semiparametric additive
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 45--51
             L. Sakalauskas and   
               D. Sukauskait\.e   Distribution of MLE of the multiple
                                  correlation coefficient for data with
                                  missing values in a dependent variable   53--59
       Silvia L. P. Ferrari and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
      Miguel A. Uribe-Opazo and   
         Francisco Cribari-Neto   Improved score tests for one-parameter
                                  exponential family models  . . . . . . . 61--71
                 T. S. Wirjanto   The limiting distributions of unit-root
                                  tests for data with cross-sectional and
                                  time-series dimensions . . . . . . . . . 73--77
                    Sanjib Basu   Bayesian hypotheses testing using
                                  posterior density ratios . . . . . . . . 79--86
        Günter Heimann and   
              Jens-Peter Kreiss   Bootstrapping general first order
                                  autoregression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--98

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 30, Number 2, October 15, 1996

            Heinz Neudecker and   
                 Albert Satorra   The algebraic equality of two asymptotic
                                  tests for the hypothesis that a normal
                                  distribution has a specified correlation
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--103
         Berthold Heiligers and   
            Augustyn Markiewicz   Linear sufficiency and admissibility in
                                  restricted linear models . . . . . . . . 105--111
               Charles El-Nouty   Rates of clustering in FLIL for weighted
                                  partial sum processes  . . . . . . . . . 113--118
   JoséLuis Palacios and   
                  Prasad Tetali   A note on expected hitting times for
                                  birth and death chains . . . . . . . . . 119--125
              Angela De Sanctis   Geodesic submanifolds of a family of
                                  statistical models . . . . . . . . . . . 127--132
              Nityananda Sarkar   Mean square error matrix comparison of
                                  some estimators in linear regressions
                                  with multicollinearity . . . . . . . . . 133--138
JoséM. González-Barrios   The volume of the smallest
                                  parallelepiped including $m$ random
                                  points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145
                 Xiong Chen and   
                      Shui Feng   Critical phenomenon of a two component
                                  nonlinear stochastic system  . . . . . . 147--155
                    Takashi Uno   On the lower bound of the number of real
                                  roots of a random algebraic equation . . 157--163
                   Li-Xin Zhang   Complete convergence of moving average
                                  processes under dependence assumptions   165--170
            J. C. W. Rayner and   
                     D. J. Best   Smooth extensions of Pearsons's product
                                  moment correlation and Spearman's rho    171--177
             Steven J. Sepanski   Asymptotics for multivariate
                                  $t$-statistic for random vectors in the
                                  generalized domain of attraction of the
                                  multivariate normal law  . . . . . . . . 179--188

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 30, Number 3, October 30, 1996

              Dong Wan Shin and   
             Sahadeb Sarkar and   
                  Jong Hyup Lee   Unit root tests for time series with
                                  outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--197
               Maria Koz\lowska   A note on the bounds of efficiency
                                  factor and $ E_R $ optimality of block
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--203
         Henryk Brzeskwiniewicz   On the $A$-, $D$-, $E$- and
                                  $L$-efficiency of block designs  . . . . 205--209
           M. R. Srinivasan and   
                       G. Gopal   Structural efficiency of incomplete
                                  block designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--214
           Christos Koukouvinos   Further orthogonal designs in linear
                                  models and sequences with zero
                                  autocorrelation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--219
           Christos Koukouvinos   Some results for almost $D$-optimal
                                  experimental designs . . . . . . . . . . 221--226
     Ermakov Mikhail Sergeevich   On asymptotic minimaxity of Kolmogorov
                                  and omega-square tests . . . . . . . . . 227--233
        Philip Hans Franses and   
               H. Peter Boswijk   Temporal aggregation in a periodically
                                  integrated autoregressive process  . . . 235--240
            Erhard Reschenhofer   Approximating the Bayes factor . . . . . 241--245
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
             Luigi M. Ricciardi   Comparing first-passage times for
                                  semi-Markov skip-free processes  . . . . 247--256
          Adam T. Martinsek and   
                          Yi Xu   Fixed width confidence bands for
                                  densities under censoring  . . . . . . . 257--264
                    Wenyaw Chan   Maximizing the probability of pest
                                  extinction on a stochastic pest-predator
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--270
               Douglas P. Wiens   Asymptotics of generalized
                                  $m$-estimation of regression and scale
                                  with fixed carriers, in an approximately
                                  linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--285

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 30, Number 4, November 15, 1996

             Richard C. Bradley   A covariance inequality under a two-part
                                  dependence assumption  . . . . . . . . . 287--293
        P. Révész   On the shape of the domain occupied by a
                                  supercritical branching random walk  . . 295--303
                        Zudi Lu   A note on geometric ergodicity of
                                  autoregressive conditional
                                  heteroscedasticity (ARCH) model  . . . . 305--311
                 Bernd Wilfling   Lorenz ordering of power-function order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--319
                   Chen Guijing   Optimal convergence rates and asymptotic
                                  efficiency of point estimators under
                                  truncated distribution families  . . . . 321--331
              Gilberto A. Paula   On approximation of the level
                                  probabilities for testing ordered
                                  parallel regression lines  . . . . . . . 333--338
       Silvia L. P. Ferrari and   
           Denise A. Botter and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
         Francisco Cribari-Neto   Second- and third-order bias reduction
                                  for one-parameter family models  . . . . 339--345
              Zhen-Hai Yang and   
               Kai-Tai Fang and   
                 Jia-Juan Liang   A characterization of multivariate
                                  normal distribution and its application  347--352
              R. L. Dykstra and   
         Chu-In Charles Lee and   
                   Xiaosong Yan   Multinomial estimation procedures for
                                  two stochastically ordered distributions 353--361
              Richard A. Vitale   Covariance identities for normal
                                  variables via convex polytopes . . . . . 363--368
       István Berkes and   
           Lajos Horváth   Between local and global logarithmic
                                  averages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--378
                 Dennis DeRiggi   Sufficient conditions for unimodality of
                                  the positive binomial likelihood
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 30 (1996)  . . . 381--382


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 31, Number 1, December 1, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
            G. Hooghiemstra and   
                 J. Hüsler   A note on maxima of bivariate random
                                  vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
       J. L. Moreno Rebollo and   
       I. Barranco Chamorro and   
F. López Blázquez and   
   T. Gómez Gómez   On the estimation of the unknown sample
                                  size from the number of records  . . . . 7--12
         Zbigniew Palmowski and   
                  Tomasz Rolski   A note on martingale inequalities for
                                  fluid models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--21
                 Chi-Ying Leung   The location linear discriminant for
                                  classifying observations with unequal
                                  variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--29
               Aaron Childs and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Conditional inference procedures for the
                                  Laplace distribution based on Type-II
                                  right censored samples . . . . . . . . . 31--39
                Martin Bilodeau   Some remarks on $ U (p; m, n) $
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--43
           Mervyn J. Silvapulle   Robust bounded influence tests against
                                  one-sided hypotheses in general
                                  parametric models  . . . . . . . . . . . 45--50
                  W. Albers and   
                 M. F. Teulings   A simple estimator for correlation in
                                  incomplete data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57
                   Jie Chen and   
                    Joseph Glaz   Two-dimensional discrete scan statistics 59--68
            Andrew A. Neath and   
         Francisco J. Samaniego   On the distinguished role of the
                                  multivariate exponential distribution in
                                  Bayesian estimation in competing risks
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 31, Number 2, December 16, 1996

            Andrew A. Neath and   
         Francisco J. Samaniego   On Bayesian estimation of the multiple
                                  decrement function in the competing
                                  risks problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--83
                    Wang Qiying   On the maximal inequality  . . . . . . . 85--89
                    J. L. Geluk   On the domain of attraction of
                                  exp(-exp(-x))  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--95
               M. Vasudaven and   
                 M. G. Nair and   
                  M. M. Sithole   On estimation for censored
                                  autoregressive data  . . . . . . . . . . 97--105
              Reza Modarres and   
            Joseph L. Gastwirth   A modified runs test for symmetry  . . . 107--112
                  Harry Joe and   
                       Ying Liu   A model for a multivariate binary
                                  response with covariates based on
                                  compatible conditionally specified
                                  logistic regressions . . . . . . . . . . 113--120
                  Marco Muselli   Simple expressions for success run
                                  distributions in Bernoulli trials  . . . 121--128
                    M. J. Faddy   Modelling and analysis of count data
                                  using a renewal process  . . . . . . . . 129--132
                  Pr. B. Lacaze   A note about stationary process random
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--137
                  Choongrak Kim   Cook's distance in spline smoothing  . . 139--144

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 31, Number 3, January 16, 1997

               J. M. Angulo and   
              M. D. Ruiz-Medina   On the orthogonal representation of
                                  generalized random fields  . . . . . . . 145--153
                W. Y. Wendy Lou   An application of the method of finite
                                  Markov chain imbedding to runs tests . . 155--161
             Stephen Walker and   
                 Pietro Muliere   A characterisation of Pólya tree
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
                Wolfgang Stadje   A new approach to the Lindley recursion  169--175
László Györfi and   
                     Harro Walk   On the strong universal consistency of a
                                  recursive regression estimate by Pál Révész 177--183
                  M. Pawlak and   
            U. Stadtmüller   Kernel regression estimators for signal
                                  recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--198
                         Z. Shi   Locating the maximum of an empirical
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--211
                 Hongzhi An and   
                   Min Chen and   
                   Fuchun Huang   The geometric ergodicity and existence
                                  of moments for a class of non-linear
                                  time series model  . . . . . . . . . . . 213--224
          Tasos C. Christofides   Rate of convergence in the Strong Law of
                                  Large Numbers for a class of
                                  $U$-statistics and von Mises statistics  225--231
               Wolfgang Stummer   On exponential moments of two Brownian
                                  functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--237
                        Wei Liu   Control of directional errors with
                                  step-up multiple tests . . . . . . . . . 239--242
         Efstathios Paparoditis   Bootstrapping periodogram and cross
                                  periodogram statistics of vector
                                  autoregressive moving average models . . 243--243
                   D. Gilat and   
                     T. P. Hill   Strongly-consistent, distribution-free
                                  confidence intervals for quantiles . . . 245--246

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 31, Number 4, February 1, 1997

              Chang C. Y. Dorea   On the efficiency of a continuous
                                  version of the simulated annealing
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
            Shyamal Das Peddada   Confidence interval estimation of
                                  population means subject to order
                                  restrictions using resampling procedures 255--265
                 Peter Thompson   Bayes $p$-values . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--274
                    Luc Devroye   Simulating theta random variates . . . . 275--279
      Vladimír Balek and   
                    Ivan Mizera   On the logical independence of the
                                  identities defining the stochastic
                                  independence of random events  . . . . . 281--284
              S. Sethuraman and   
                   I. V. Basawa   The asymptotic distribution of the
                                  maximum likelihood estimator for a
                                  vector time series model with long
                                  memory dependence  . . . . . . . . . . . 285--293
                Jian-Lun Xu and   
                  Grace L. Yang   An exponential characterization based on
                                  a type II censored sample  . . . . . . . 295--298
Kerkyacharian Gérard and   
               Picard Dominique   Limit of the quadratic risk in density
                                  estimation using linear methods  . . . . 299--312
                 Kanwar Sen and   
                      Ritu Jain   A class of quasi-Pólya distributions  . . 313--322
      J. M. Fernandez-Ponce and   
          J. Muñoz-Perez   Characterization of lifetime
                                  distributions in the $ L_s $-sense by a
                                  generalized spread . . . . . . . . . . . 323--331
  Jérôme A. Dupuis   Bayesian test of homogeneity for Markov
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--338
                   Wei-Liem Loh   Estimating the integral of a squared
                                  regression function with Latin hypercube
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--349
                Andy H. Lee and   
                    Yuejen Zhao   Assessing influence on the
                                  goodness-of-link in generalized linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--358
                  Min-Young Lee   Improved bivariate Bonferroni-type
                                  inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--364
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 31 (1997)  . . . 365--366


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 32, Number 1, February 14, 1997

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
             Carmen Arteaga and   
              Johannes Ledolter   Control charts based on order-restricted
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
                  Marc Hoffmann   Minimax estimation of the diffusion
                                  coefficient through irregular samplings  11--24
                    Dixin Zhang   Asymptotic properties for Dirichlet
                                  processes indexed by a class of
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--33
            D. A. Ioannides and   
                 P. D. Alevizos   Nonparametric regression with errors in
                                  variables and applications . . . . . . . 35--43
              M. Husková   Limit theorems for rank statistics . . . 45--55
           Sergio Albeverio and   
                Yaozhong Hu and   
                  Xian Yin Zhou   A remark on non-smoothness of the
                                  self-intersection local time of planar
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--65
        Govind S. Mudholkar and   
                 Alan D. Hutson   Some refinements of the quasi-quantiles  67--74
               Peter G. Moffatt   Exploiting a matrix identity in the
                                  computation of the efficient score test
                                  for overdispersion in the Poisson
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--79
            B. Gail Ivanoff and   
                   Ely Merzbach   Poisson convergence for set-indexed
                                  empirical processes  . . . . . . . . . . 81--86
                     Biao Zhang   Empirical likelihood confidence
                                  intervals for $M$-functionals in the
                                  presence of auxiliary information  . . . 87--97
               Manabu Iwasa and   
               Yoshiya Moritani   A note on admissibility of the maximum
                                  likelihood estimator for a bounded
                                  normal mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105
                James P. Hughes   Computing the observed information in
                                  the hidden Markov model using the EM
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--114

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 32, Number 2, March 1, 1997

             Makoto Maejima and   
            Svetlozar T. Rachev   Rate-of-convergence in the multivariate
                                  max-stable limit theorem . . . . . . . . 115--123
            Michael Maxwell and   
              Michael Woodroofe   A local limit theorem for hidden Markov
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--131
                    Yazhen Wang   Small ball problem via wavelets for
                                  Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . 133--139
                   Su-Yun Huang   Wavelet based empirical Bayes estimation
                                  for the uniform distribution . . . . . . 141--146
               Ju-Sung Kang and   
                     In-Suk Wee   A note on the weak invariance principle
                                  for local times  . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--159
             Stavros Kourouklis   A new property of the inverse Gaussian
                                  distribution with applications . . . . . 161--166
         André Adler and   
            Andrew Rosalsky and   
              Andrej I. Volodin   A mean convergence theorem and weak law
                                  for arrays of random elements in
                                  martingale type $p$ Banach spaces  . . . 167--174
                Abram Kagan and   
               Zinoviy Landsman   Statistical meaning of Carlen's
                                  superadditivity of the Fisher
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--179
                Zhidong Bai and   
            Sanat K. Sarkar and   
                    Wenjin Wang   Positivity of the best unbiased
                                  $L$-estimator of the scale parameter
                                  with complete or selected order
                                  statistics from location-scale
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--188
             Chungyeol Shin and   
                  Yasuo Amemiya   Algorithms for the likelihood-based
                                  estimation of the random coefficient
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--199
          Ibrahim A. Salama and   
                     Dana Quade   The asymptotic normality of a rank
                                  correlation statistic based on rises . . 201--205
           Brenda MacGibbon and   
                 Glenn Shorrock   Shrinkage estimators for the dispersion
                                  parameter of the inverse Gaussian
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--214
                     Oesook Lee   Limit theorems for some doubly
                                  stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 215--221

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 32, Number 3, March 15, 1997

          Ilya L. Kruglikov and   
       Nikolaj I. Pilipenko and   
      Alexander D. Tsodikov and   
            Andrej Yu. Yakovlev   Assessing risk with doubly censored
                                  data: an application to the analysis of
                                  radiation-induced thyropathy . . . . . . 223--230
         Anil K. Srivastava and   
                        Shalabh   A new property of Stein procedure in
                                  measurement error model  . . . . . . . . 231--234
                   Cui Hengjian   The laws of the iterated logarithm for
                                  two kinds of PP statistics . . . . . . . 235--243
                     Gan Shixin   The Hájek--R\`enyi inequality for Banach
                                  space valued martingales and the $p$
                                  smoothness of Banach spaces  . . . . . . 245--248
               A. Nikabadze and   
                       W. Stute   Model checks under random censorship . . 249--259
        Govind S. Mudholkar and   
                 Alan D. Hutson   Asymmetric quasimedians: Remarks on an
                                  anomaly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--268
              J. E. Janosky and   
           T. R. Pellitieri and   
                Q. M. Al-Shboul   The need for a revised lower limit for
                                  the 4253H, Twice nonparametric smoother  269--272
                  D. L. Hawkins   Can the finiteness of a mean be tested?  273--277
                 B. U. Park and   
                  W. C. Kim and   
                    M. C. Jones   On identity reproducing nonparametric
                                  regression estimators  . . . . . . . . . 279--290
                    Yi Zhao and   
               Sadanori Konishi   Limit distributions of multivariate
                                  kurtosis and moments under Watson
                                  rotational symmetric distributions . . . 291--299
                 Guohua Zou and   
                      Hua Liang   Admissibility of the usual estimators
                                  under error-in-variables superpopulation
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--309
               Yu. A. Kutoyants   Some problems of nonparametric
                                  estimation by observations of ergodic
                                  diffusion process  . . . . . . . . . . . 311--320
                   Jiming Jiang   A derivation of BLUP --- Best Linear
                                  Unbiased Predictor . . . . . . . . . . . 321--324
         Subramanyam Kasala and   
                  Thomas Mathew   Exact confidence regions and tests in
                                  some linear functional relationships . . 325--328

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 32, Number 4, April 1, 1997

              Jacek Weso\lowski   On some distributional and limit
                                  properties of factorizable distributions 329--337
              J. D. Biggins and   
                     D. R. Grey   A note on the growth of random trees . . 339--342
                        Liu Wen   A kind of strong deviation theorem for
                                  the sequences of nonnegative
                                  integer-valued random variables  . . . . 343--349
                 Kurt S. Riedel   Improved asymptotics for zeros of kernel
                                  estimates via a reformulation of the
                                  Leadbetter--Cryer integral . . . . . . . 351--356
               Yongcheng Qi and   
                 R. J. G. Wilms   The limit behavior of maxima modulo one
                                  and the number of maxima . . . . . . . . 357--366
                   Yong Lin and   
               Bruce G. Lindsay   Projections on cones, chi-bar squared
                                  distributions, and Weyl's formula  . . . 367--376
                  M. S. Sgibnev   Submultiplicative moments of the
                                  supremum of a random walk with negative
                                  drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--383
             Patrizia Berti and   
                    Pietro Rigo   A Glivenko--Cantelli theorem for
                                  exchangeable random variables  . . . . . 385--391
              M. V. Koutras and   
               V. A. Alexandrou   Non-parametric randomness tests based on
                                  success runs of fixed length . . . . . . 393--404
                   Sangyeol Lee   A note on the residual empirical process
                                  in autoregressive models . . . . . . . . 405--411
                A. K. Gupta and   
                     D. G. Kabe   Linear restrictions and two step
                                  multivariate least squares with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--416
                    Ping Sa and   
                    Don Edwards   Frequentist properties of a Bayesian
                                  analog to Fabian's bound . . . . . . . . 417--424
            J. P. Lepeltier and   
                  J. San Martin   Backward stochastic differential
                                  equations with continuous coefficient    425--430
                  R. J. Tomkins   Refinement of a zero-one law for maxima  431--431
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 32 (1997)  . . . 433--435


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 33, Number 1, April 15, 1997

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
              Michel Carbon and   
              Bernard Garel and   
                  Lanh Tat Tran   Frequency polygons for weakly dependent
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
            Mohamed Lemdani and   
                     Odile Pons   Likelihood ratio tests for genetic
                                  linkage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--22
               Shunpu Zhang and   
           Rohana J. Karunamuni   Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation
                                  with errors in variables . . . . . . . . 23--34
            Barry C. Arnold and   
             Jose A. Villasenor   Variance estimation with diffuse prior
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--39
                 Marc Aerts and   
             Ilse Augustyns and   
                   Paul Janssen   Sparse consistency and smoothing for
                                  multinomial data . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
                 J. Cabrera and   
                G. Maguluri and   
                       K. Singh   Indices of empirical robustness  . . . . 49--62
                Badi H. Baltagi   Testing linear and loglinear error
                                  components regressions against Box--Cox
                                  alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--68
  Victor Pérez-Abreu and   
          Alfonso Rocha-Arteaga   On stable processes of bounded variation 69--77
                    H. Wang and   
                        X. Chen   On the interval recurrence property of $
                                  (N, d) $--Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes  79--84
          Daniel Neuenschwander   A new proof of the multidimensional
                                  convergence of types theorem . . . . . . 85--88
                      R. S. Deo   Nonparametric regression with
                                  long-memory errors . . . . . . . . . . . 89--94
             Angela Diblasi and   
                  Adrian Bowman   Testing for constant variance in a
                                  linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--103
                    J. S. Huang   Sharp bounds for the expected value of
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 33, Number 2, April 30, 1997

                     Martin Fox   Adaptive estimation of a function of a
                                  mean vector  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
          Marek M\keczarski and   
            Ryszard Zieli\'nski   Stability of the posterior mean in
                                  linear models: An admissibility property
                                  of $D$-optimum and $E$-optimum designs   117--123
               S. T. Jensen and   
                     B. Nielsen   On convergence of multivariate Laplace
                                  transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
                  Carlo Ferreri   On the ML-estimator of the positive and
                                  negative two-parameter binomial
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--134
                  Yong Song Qin   Semi-parametric likelihood ratio
                                  confidence intervals for various
                                  differences of two populations . . . . . 135--143
             Chao-Ping Ting and   
           Bing-Ying L. Lin and   
                 Feng-Shun Chai   A note on universally optimal row-column
                                  designs with empty nodes . . . . . . . . 145--149
                     N. Etemadi   Criteria for the Strong Law of Large
                                  Numbers for sequences of arbitrary
                                  random vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--157
           M. J. Valderrama and   
                 A. M. Aguilera   A normality criterion for random vectors
                                  based on independence  . . . . . . . . . 159--165
              Yadolah Dodge and   
          Jana Jurecková   Adaptive choice of trimming proportion
                                  in trimmed least-squares estimation  . . 167--176
              Dong Wan Shin and   
                   Beong-Soo So   Semiparametric unit root tests based on
                                  symmetric estimators . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
                  D. Blanke and   
                        D. Bosq   Accurate rates of density estimators for
                                  continuous-time processes  . . . . . . . 185--191
                        S. Huda   Minimax second-order designs over
                                  hypercubes for the difference between
                                  estimated responses at a point and at
                                  the centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--199
            Joseph E. Cavanaugh   Unifying the derivations for the Akaike
                                  and corrected Akaike information
                                  criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--208
          Joshua D. Naranjo and   
               Joseph W. McKean   Rank regression with estimated scores    209--216
                  B. Truong-Van   Iterated logarithm law for sample
                                  generalized partial autocorrelations . . 217--223

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 33, Number 3, May 5, 1997

             Yoshihide Kakizawa   Parameter estimation and hypothesis
                                  testing in stationary vector time series 225--234
               J. P. Hobert and   
               C. P. Robert and   
                      C. Goutis   Connectedness conditions for the
                                  convergence of the Gibbs sampler . . . . 235--240
                ByoungSeon Choi   A recursive algorithm for solving the
                                  spatial Yule--Walker equations of causal
                                  spatial AR models  . . . . . . . . . . . 241--251
               Nadia Bensa\"\id   Nonparametric inference for thinned
                                  point process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--258
             Laurence A. Baxter   Stochastic ordering of flows on
                                  manifolds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--261
                F. Belzunce and   
            Franco Pellerey and   
                 J. M. Ruiz and   
                   Moshe Shaked   The dilation order, the dispersion
                                  order, and orderings of residual lives   263--275
         Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz   On certain characterization of normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--280
                  C. St\kepniak   Sandwich theorem in comparison of
                                  multivariate normal experiments  . . . . 281--284
                       J. Sahoo   A note on using location shift in the
                                  Midzuno--Sen scheme of sampling with a
                                  transformed variable . . . . . . . . . . 285--290
             R. Kelley Pace and   
                   Ronald Barry   Sparse spatial autoregressions . . . . . 291--297
                  Norbert Henze   Limit laws for multivariate skewness in
                                  the sense of Móri, Rohatgi and Székely . . 299--307
            Florence Forbes and   
        Olivier François   Stochastic comparison for Markov
                                  processes on a product of partially
                                  ordered sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--320
                   Min Chen and   
                    Hong Zhi An   A Kolmogorov--Smirnov type test for
                                  conditional heteroskedasticity in time
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--331

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 33, Number 4, May 16, 1997

         Brajendra C. Sutradhar   A multivariate approach for estimating
                                  the random effects variance component in
                                  one-way random effects model . . . . . . 333--339
                   R. Cheng and   
                  M. Pourahmadi   Prediction with incomplete past and
                                  interpolation of missing values  . . . . 341--346
         Endre Csáki and   
     Antónia Földes   On the logarithmic average of iterated
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--358
        Dhaifalla K. Al-Mutairi   Properties of an inverse Gaussian
                                  mixture of bivariate exponential
                                  distribution and its generalization  . . 359--365
        Mark M. Meerschaert and   
           Hans-Peter Scheffler   The structure of generalized domains of
                                  semistable attraction  . . . . . . . . . 367--372
                   Yongcheng Qi   A note on the number of maxima in a
                                  discrete sample  . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--377
                     Yimin Xiao   Packing dimension of the image of
                                  fractional Brownian motion . . . . . . . 379--387
            Franco Pellerey and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Characterizations of the IFR and DFR
                                  aging notions by means of the dispersive
                                  order  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--393
                    Jun Cai and   
                     Yanhong Wu   Some improvements on the Lundberg bound
                                  for the ruin probability . . . . . . . . 395--403
              C. M. Cuadras and   
             R. A. Atkinson and   
                    J. Fortiana   Probability densities from distances and
                                  discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--411
         Henryk Brzeskwiniewicz   Kronecker product of mutually associable
                                  PBB designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--418
                     Mia Hubert   The breakdown value of the $ L_1
                                  $-estimator in contingency tables  . . . 419--425
                Hong-Tu Zhu and   
                   Bo-Cheng Wei   Some notes on preferred point $ \alpha
                                  $-geometry and $ \alpha $-divergence
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--437
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 33 (1997)  . . . 439--440


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 34, Number 1, May 30, 1997

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                   Anda Gadidov   An inequality for order statistics . . . 1--4
                 Peter Hall and   
                   Guy P. Nason   On choosing a non-integer resolution
                                  level when using wavelet methods . . . . 5--11
               H. V. Hebbar and   
                    N. Vadiraja   Limit points of sequences of moving
                                  maxima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--18
                    Jye-Chyi Lu   A new plan for life-testing
                                  two-component parallel systems . . . . . 19--32
                B. Ramachandran   Characteristic functions with some
                                  powers real --- III  . . . . . . . . . . 33--36
               S. G. Bobkov and   
               C. Houdré   Converse Poincaré-type inequalities for
                                  convex functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42
              Wojciech Kordecki   Reliability bounds for multistage
                                  structures with independent components   43--51
                 Jan Mielniczuk   On the asymptotic mean integrated
                                  squared error of a kernel density
                                  estimator for dependent data . . . . . . 53--58
            Eugene Kozarovitsky   Connection between asymptotics and
                                  stability of the positive measure  . . . 59--65
         Anil K. Srivastava and   
                        Shalabh   Consistent estimation for the non-normal
                                  ultrastructural model  . . . . . . . . . 67--73
                      Y. Qi and   
                 R. J. G. Wilms   The limit behavior of maxima modulo one
                                  and the number of maxima . . . . . . . . 75--84
         M. Menéndez and   
                 D. Morales and   
                       L. Pardo   Maximum entropy principle and
                                  statistical inference on condensed
                                  ordered data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--93
                  Z. D. Bai and   
                 Baiqi Miao and   
                   Jhishen Tsay   A note on the convergence rate of the
                                  spectral distributions of large random
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--101

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 34, Number 2, June 2, 1997

               Leszek Gawarecki   Extension of a stochastic integral with
                                  respect to cylindrical martingales . . . 103--111
Miklós Csörgö and   
               Ricardas Zitikis   On the rate of strong consistency of
                                  Lorenz curves  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121
              C. Douglas Howard   Distinguishing certain random sceneries
                                  on $ \mathbb {Z} $ via random walks  . . 123--132
               Yu. A. Kutoyants   On unbiased density estimation for
                                  ergodic diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . 133--140
              Willem Albers and   
           Gerda R. J. Arts and   
       Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg   Accurate test limits under prescribed
                                  consumer risk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--149
           Abdallah Mkhadri and   
           Abdelaziz Nasroallah   Note on classification and proportion
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--158
                    Jiaming Sun   Exponential convergence for sequences of
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--164
                S. Y. Hwang and   
                   I. V. Basawa   The local asymptotic normality of a
                                  class of generalized random coefficient
                                  autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . 165--170
                     Chufang Wu   New characterization of
                                  Marshall--Olkin-type distributions via
                                  bivariate random summation scheme  . . . 171--178
           Naveen K. Bansal and   
               Neeraj Misra and   
       Edward C. van der Meulen   On the minimax decision rules in ranking
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--186
     Henryk Brzeskwiniewicz and   
         Bronis\law Ceranka and   
           Jolanta Krzyszkowska   Reinforced block designs with standards  187--192
                  Z. D. Bai and   
                          Y. Wu   On necessary conditions for the weak
                                  consistency of minimum $ L_1 $-norm
                                  estimates in linear models . . . . . . . 193--199
           Ibrahim A. Ahmad and   
                          Qi Li   Testing independence by nonparametric
                                  kernel method  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--210

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 34, Number 3, June 16, 1997

               Stephen M. Krone   Representations for continuous additive
                                  functionals of super-Brownian and
                                  super-stable processes . . . . . . . . . 211--223
                 Yasuhiro Omori   Comparing two means in count models
                                  having random effects --- a UMPU test    225--235
               S. G. Sajjan and   
                   I. V. Basawa   Estimation of unobserved counts from
                                  partially observed multinomial
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--243
            N. Rao Chaganty and   
             Jayaram Sethuraman   Bahadur slope of the $t$-statistic for a
                                  contaminated normal  . . . . . . . . . . 245--250
                   Erich Berger   Comparing sums of independent bounded
                                  random variables and sums of Bernoulli
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--258
               Jean B. Lasserre   Invariant probabilities for Markov
                                  chains on a metric space . . . . . . . . 259--265
       U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar and   
                 M. B. Rajarshi   Empirical likelihood ratio test for
                                  equality of $k$ medians in censored data 267--273
                   Anton Schick   On $U$-statistics with random kernels    275--283
            Allan McQuarrie and   
             Robert Shumway and   
                 Chih-Ling Tsai   The model selection criterion AICu . . . 285--292
               R. A. Sugden and   
                 T. M. F. Smith   Edgeworth approximations to the
                                  distribution of the sample mean under
                                  simple random sampling . . . . . . . . . 293--299
              Yongzhao Shao and   
                 Xiaojing Xiang   Some extensions of the asymptotics of a
                                  kernel estimator of a distribution
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--308
                 Mario Lefebvre   First hitting place distributions for
                                  the Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process  . . . . 309--312

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 34, Number 4, June 16, 1997

             V. Swaminathan and   
           U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar   Minimum distance estimation for random
                                  coefficient autoregressive models  . . . 313--322
     Hans-Georg Müller and   
                 Kai-Sheng Song   Two-stage change-point estimators in
                                  smooth regression models . . . . . . . . 323--335
               D. L. Hanson and   
                        Gang Li   A note on the empirical distribution of
                                  dependent random variables . . . . . . . 337--340
                   Michael Falk   Asymptotic independence of median and
                                  MAD  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--345
                  Anis Matoussi   Reflected solutions of backward
                                  stochastic differential equations with
                                  continuous coefficient . . . . . . . . . 347--354
                   Jong-Il Baek   A weakly dependence structure of
                                  multivariate processes . . . . . . . . . 355--363
                   H. Z. An and   
                     S. G. Chen   A note on the ergodicity of non-linear
                                  autoregressive model . . . . . . . . . . 365--372
                    Colin O. Wu   The effects of kernel choices in density
                                  estimation with biased data  . . . . . . 373--383
                       Bin Chen   Large deviations and Strassen's limit
                                  points of Brownian local time processes  385--395
                 Travis Lee and   
                Max Minzner and   
                    Evan Fisher   The length of an excursion above a
                                  linear boundary by a random walk . . . . 397--402
                   Marek Kanter   Unimodal spectral windows  . . . . . . . 403--411
               Eva Ferreira and   
Vicente Núñez-Antón and   
Juan Rodríguez-Póo   Kernel regression estimates of growth
                                  curves using nonstationary correlated
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--423
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 34 (1997)  . . . 425--426


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 35, Number 1, August 15, 1997

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
           AndréI. Khuri   Minimal sufficient statistics for a
                                  general class of mixed models  . . . . . 1--7
                    Yuan Li and   
                   Zhongjie Xie   The wavelet detection of hidden
                                  periodicities in time series . . . . . . 9--23
          João Gomes and   
               Orlando Oliveira   Limit laws for a sequence between the
                                  maximum and the sum of independent
                                  exponentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32
                M. R. Brito and   
        E. L. Chávez and   
               A. J. Quiroz and   
                   J. E. Yukich   Connectivity of the mutual
                                  $k$-nearest-neighbor graph in clustering
                                  and outlier detection  . . . . . . . . . 33--42
                Sergiu Hart and   
                 Benjamin Weiss   Significance levels for multiple tests   43--48
               E. Khmaladze and   
           M. Nadareishvili and   
                   A. Nikabadze   Asymptotic behaviour of a number of
                                  repeated records . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
               Stanislav Keprta   A note on supremum of a Kiefer process   59--63
          Alexei Dmitrienko and   
               Z. Govindarajulu   On the ``Demon'' problem of Youden . . . 65--72
                  Toshio Mikami   Large deviations and Central Limit
                                  Theorems for
                                  Eyraud--Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--78
              N. G. Gamkrelidze   On a local limit theorem in strong sense 79--83
                   Gwo Dong Lin   On the moment problems . . . . . . . . . 85--90
               Mini N. Balu and   
                   S. V. Sabnis   Preservation of certain dependent
                                  structures under bivariate homogeneous
                                  Poisson shock models . . . . . . . . . . 91--100

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 35, Number 2, September 30, 1997

                R. J. Kulperger   On a property of the finite Fourier
                                  partial sums process . . . . . . . . . . 101--107
                 Rainer Schwabe   Maximin efficient designs another view
                                  at $D$-optimality  . . . . . . . . . . . 109--114
                Judith Rousseau   Asymptotic Bayes risks for a general
                                  class of losses  . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--121
                       Xia Chen   Moderate deviations for $m$-dependent
                                  random variables with Banach space
                                  values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--134
                        A. Irle   A bound for higher moments of expected
                                  sample size in sequential testing  . . . 135--140
           Friedrich Pukelsheim   Efficient rounding of sampling
                                  allocations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
             Ronald Meester and   
          Mathew D. Penrose and   
                   Anish Sarkar   The random connection model in high
                                  dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--153
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
       Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos   Bias correction for a class of
                                  multivariate nonlinear regression models 155--164
                      Xiaomi Hu   Maximum-likelihood estimation under
                                  bound restriction and order and uniform
                                  bound restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . 165--171
                   P. Jacob and   
                     Ch. Suquet   Regression and asymptotical location of
                                  a multivariate sample  . . . . . . . . . 173--179
               J. L. Jensen and   
              Andrew T. A. Wood   On the non-existence of a Bartlett
                                  correction for unit root tests . . . . . 181--187
                   Sangyeol Lee   Random Central Limit Theorem for the
                                  linear process generated by a strong
                                  mixing process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--196
        Christian Houdré   The iterated jackknife estimate of
                                  variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--201

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 35, Number 3, October 15, 1997

                  Norbert Henze   Extreme smoothing and testing for
                                  multivariate normality . . . . . . . . . 203--213
            C. M. Anderson-Cook   An extension to modeling cylindrical
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--223
              A. Antoniadis and   
         G. Grégoire and   
                        P. Vial   Random design wavelet curve smoothing    225--232
          Peter C. Matthews and   
         William F. Rosenberger   Variance in randomized play-the-winner
                                  clinical trials  . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--240
                    Bert van Es   A note on the integrated squared error
                                  of a kernel density estimator in
                                  non-smooth cases . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250
                 Ana Justel and   
         Daniel Peña and   
             Rubén Zamar   A multivariate Kolmogorov--Smirnov test
                                  of goodness of fit . . . . . . . . . . . 251--259
               Ibrahim A. Ahmad   Goodness-of-fit statistics based on
                                  weighted $ L_p $-functionals . . . . . . 261--268
   Vilijandas Bagdonavicius and   
                Mikhail Nikulin   Accelerated life testing when a process
                                  of production is unstable  . . . . . . . 269--275
                   D. R. Jensen   Peakedness of linear forms in ensembles
                                  and mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--282
          Stephen J. Herschkorn   Bandit bounds from stochastic
                                  variability extrema  . . . . . . . . . . 283--288
             Kyo Shin Huang and   
              Yong Kab Choi and   
                  Jong Soo Jung   On superior limits for the increments of
                                  Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . 289--296
                    Linxiong Li   Superposition of renewal processes in a
                                  random environment . . . . . . . . . . . 297--305

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 35, Number 4, November 1, 1997

             Vladimir Katkovnik   Nonparametric estimation of the
                                  time-varying frequency and amplitude . . 307--315
                      Allan Gut   Stopped two-dimensional perturbed random
                                  walks and Lévy processes  . . . . . . . . 317--325
          Subhash C. Kochar and   
               K. C. Carri\`ere   Connections among various variability
                                  orderings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--333
         Jürgen Groß   A note on equality of MINQUE and simple
                                  estimator in the general Gauss--Markov
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--339
                   Lorens Imhof   A counterexample in experimental design
                                  showing that the $G$-criterion function
                                  is not necessarily strictly decreasing   341--344
            Andrew A. Neath and   
         Francisco J. Samaniego   On Bayesian estimation of the multiple
                                  decrement function in the competing
                                  risks problem, II: The discrete case . . 345--354
J. S. Domínguez-Menchero and   
      M. J. López-Palomo   On the estimation of monotone uniform
                                  approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--362
             P. Maín and   
                     H. Navarro   On tail behavior in Bayesian location
                                  inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--370
                Jack J. Dai and   
           Martin V. Hildebrand   Random random walks on the integers $
                                  \bmod n $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--379
                  Allan Gut and   
                Oleg Klesov and   
               Josef Steinebach   Equivalences in strong limit theorems
                                  for renewal counting processes . . . . . 381--394
                   Jiming Jiang   Sharp upper and lower bounds for
                                  asymptotic levels of some statistical
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--400
               D. M. Stukel and   
                   J. N. K. Rao   Estimation of regression models with
                                  nested error structure and unequal error
                                  variances under two and three stage
                                  cluster sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--407
            Konstantin Borovkov   On random walks with jumps scaled by
                                  cumulative sums of random variables  . . 409--416
         Issa Fakhre-Zakeri and   
                   Sangyeol Lee   A random functional Central Limit
                                  Theorem for stationary linear processes
                                  generated by martingales . . . . . . . . 417--422
             Mark S. Kaiser and   
                   Noel Cressie   Modeling Poisson variables with positive
                                  spatial dependence . . . . . . . . . . . 423--432
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 35 (1997)  . . . 433--434


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 36, Number 1, November 15, 1997

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                      Eric Bach   Moments in the duration of play  . . . . 1--7
                 Arnold Janssen   Studentized permutation tests for
                                  non-i.i.d. hypotheses and the
                                  generalized Behrens--Fisher problem  . . 9--21
           Mervyn J. Silvapulle   On order restricted inference in some
                                  mixed linear models  . . . . . . . . . . 23--27
          Bernhard Gittenberger   On the number of predecessors in
                                  constrained random mappings  . . . . . . 29--34
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   Bounds based on greatest convex
                                  minorants for moments of record values   35--41
               M. Mojirsheibani   A consistent combined classification
                                  rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47
                 H. Arizono and   
                    V. C. Bueno   Bounds on system reliability of used
                                  components under MIFR / $ \mathcal {T}_t
                                  $ assumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--57
                   Tommy Wright   A simple algorithm for tighter exact
                                  upper confidence bounds with rare
                                  attributes in finite universes . . . . . 59--67
              Sonia Petrone and   
              Adrian E. Raftery   A note on the Dirichlet process prior in
                                  Bayesian nonparametric inference with
                                  partial exchangeability  . . . . . . . . 69--83
                   Zhenmin Chen   Statistical inference about the shape
                                  parameter of the Weibull distribution    85--90
                   Tryfon Daras   Large and moderate deviations for the
                                  empirical measures of an exchangeable
                                  sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 36, Number 2, December 1, 1997

                    Liuquan Sun   Bandwidth choice for hazard rate
                                  estimators from left truncated and right
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--114
              Michel Carbon and   
              Lanh Tat Tran and   
                      Berlin Wu   Kernel density estimation for random
                                  fields (density estimation for random
                                  fields)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--125
            H. Papageorgiou and   
              Jacek Weso\lowski   Posterior mean identifies the prior
                                  distribution in nb and related models    127--134
   Miguel López-Diaz and   
              Maria Angeles Gil   Constructive definitions of fuzzy random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--143
               Mark D. Rothmann   Stability of maxima over randomly
                                  deleted sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
                     Isao Shoji   A note on asymptotic properties of the
                                  estimator derived from the Euler method
                                  for diffusion processes at discrete
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159
              H.-G. Müller   Density adjusted kernel smoothers for
                                  random design nonparametric regression   161--172
             Agata Boraty\'nska   Stability of Bayesian inference in
                                  exponential families . . . . . . . . . . 173--178
               Z. Govindarajulu   A note on two-stage and sequential
                                  fixed-width intervals for the parameter
                                  in the uniform density . . . . . . . . . 179--188
             Matthias Löwe   On the invariant measure of
                                  non-reversible simulated annealing . . . 189--193
       Michael D. deB. Edwardes   Where variance is largest for Mann and
                                  Whitney's $U$ under a sum of powers
                                  marginal distribution  . . . . . . . . . 195--198
                    H. A. David   Augmented order statistics and the
                                  biasing effect of outliers . . . . . . . 199--204
         Daniel Peña and   
                    Ruben Zamar   A simple diagnostic tool for local prior
                                  sensitivity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--212

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 36, Number 3, December 15, 1997

             Eugene A. Dorofeev   The law of iterated logarithm for one
                                  winding functional . . . . . . . . . . . 213--218
                Hong-Tu Zhu and   
                   Bo-Cheng Wei   Preferred point $ \alpha $-manifold and
                                  Amari's $ \alpha $-connections . . . . . 219--229
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Some results on normalized total time on
                                  test and spacings  . . . . . . . . . . . 231--243
                  C. M. Martins   A note on the autocorrelations related
                                  to a bilinear model with non-independent
                                  shocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--250
              Abdulaziz Elfessi   Estimation of a linear function of the
                                  parameters of an exponential
                                  distribution from doubly censored
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--259
               Neeraj Misra and   
       Edward C. van der Meulen   On estimation of the common mean of $ k
                                  (\geq 2) $ normal populations with order
                                  restricted variances . . . . . . . . . . 261--267
                  Yuzo Maruyama   A new positive estimator of loss
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--274
                 Zongwu Cai and   
              George G. Roussas   Smooth estimate of quantiles under
                                  association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287
                 J. M. P. Albin   Extremes for non-anticipating moving
                                  averages of totally skewed $ \alpha
                                  $-stable motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--297
    Bartlomiej Blaszczyszyn and   
               Ely Merzbach and   
                 Volker Schmidt   A note on expansion for functionals of
                                  spatial marked point processes . . . . . 299--306
     Beat E. Neuenschwander and   
               Bernard D. Flury   A note on Silvey's (1959) Theorem  . . . 307--317
                James R. Schott   Testing for the equality of several
                                  correlation matrices . . . . . . . . . . 319--319

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 36, Number 4, January 3, 1998

        Santanu Chakraborty and   
                      B. V. Rao   Completeness of Bhattacharya metric on
                                  the space of probabilities . . . . . . . 321--326
               Wolfgang Stummer   On bounded entropy of solutions of
                                  multi-dimensional stochastic
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 327--336
              Mark Freidlin and   
                  Ruth Pfeiffer   A threshold estimation problem for
                                  processes with hysteresis  . . . . . . . 337--347
                F. P. A. Coolen   Low structure imprecise predictive
                                  inference for Bayes' problem . . . . . . 349--357
                       Chong Gu   Penalized likelihood estimation:
                                  Convergence under incorrect model  . . . 359--364
                  Hsiuying Wang   Admissibility of the constant-coverage
                                  probability estimator for estimating the
                                  coverage function of certain confidence
                                  interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--372
                 Tapan K. Nayak   On equivariant estimation of the
                                  location of elliptical distributions
                                  under Pitman closeness criterion . . . . 373--378
                    Di Chen and   
                    Jye-Chyi Lu   The asymptotics of maximum-likelihood
                                  estimates of parameters based on a data
                                  type where the failure and the censoring
                                  time are dependent . . . . . . . . . . . 379--391
                  D. Hamadouche   Weak convergence of smoothed empirical
                                  process in Hölder spaces  . . . . . . . . 393--400
      J. A. Cuesta-Albertos and   
               A. Gordaliza and   
               C. Matrán   Trimmed best $k$-nets: a robustified
                                  version of an $ L_\infty $-based
                                  clustering method  . . . . . . . . . . . 401--413
                     G. Lovison   An alternative representation of
                                  Altham's multiplicative-binomial
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--420
                 Fu-Chuen Chang   On asymptotic distribution of optimal
                                  design for polynomial-type regression    421--425
                 Ashish Das and   
                  Aloke Dey and   
                 Angela M. Dean   Optimal designs for diallel cross
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--436
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 36 (1998)  . . . 437--438


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 37, Number 1, January 15, 1998

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                Taizhong Hu and   
                      Jinjin Hu   Comparison of order statistics between
                                  dependent and independent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
          Jan G. De Gooijer and   
               Paul T. De Bruin   On forecasting SETAR processes . . . . . 7--14
                    Jack J. Dai   Some results concerning the rates of
                                  convergence of random walks on finite
                                  group  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
              Subrata Kundu and   
              Adam T. Martinsek   Using a stopping rule to determine the
                                  size of the training sample in a
                                  classification problem . . . . . . . . . 19--27
   JoséLuis Palacios and   
        JoséMiguel Renom   Random walks on edge transitive graphs   29--34
                M. Courbage and   
                      D. Hamdan   An ergodic Markov chain is not
                                  determined by its two-dimensional
                                  marginal laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
       Göran Kauermann and   
        Marlene Müller and   
             Raymond J. Carroll   The efficiency of bias-corrected
                                  estimators for nonparametric kernel
                                  estimation based on local estimating
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
                Ping Shing Chan   Interval estimation of location and
                                  scale parameters based on record values  49--58
           Robert W. Keener and   
              John Robinson and   
               Neville C. Weber   Tail probability approximations for
                                  $U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--65
       István Berkes and   
         Endre Csáki and   
           Lajos Horváth   Almost sure Central Limit Theorems under
                                  minimal conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76
                Abram Kagan and   
              Lawrence A. Shepp   Some linear models are necessarily
                                  parametric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80
               Abdallah Mkhadri   On the rate of convergence of the ECME
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--87
                  P. Samuel and   
                   P. Y. Thomas   Modified expression for a recurrence
                                  relation on the product moments of order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--95
                  Chul Gyu Park   Least squares estimation of two
                                  functions under order restriction in
                                  isotonicity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--100
                 Ingrid K. Glad   A note on unconditional properties of a
                                  parametrically guided Nadaraya--Watson
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--108
         Efstathios Paparoditis   Addendum to ``Bootstrapping periodogram
                                  and cross periodogram statistics of
                                  vector autoregressive moving average
                                  models'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 37, Number 2, February 15, 1998

                   Paul Kabaila   A note on sufficiency and information
                                  loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
            Ryszard Zieli\'nski   Uniform strong consistency of sample
                                  quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--119
                  Chul Gyu Park   Testing for unimodal dependence in an
                                  ordered contingency table with
                                  restricted marginal probabilities  . . . 121--129
                     M. P. Wand   Finite sample performance of
                                  deconvolving density estimators  . . . . 131--139
         Michael J. Monsour and   
              Piotr W. Mikulski   On limiting distributions in explosive
                                  autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . 141--147
                   J. Conde and   
              M. Salicrú   Uniform association in contingency
                                  tables associated to Csiszár divergence   149--154
               Andrei N. Frolov   On one-sided strong laws for large
                                  increments of sums . . . . . . . . . . . 155--165
               Philip J. Boland   An arrangement increasing property of
                                  the Marshall--Olkin bivariate
                                  exponential  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--170
              Miguel A. Arcones   Weak convergence of convex stochastic
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--182
           Friedrich Schmid and   
                     Mark Trede   A Kolmogorov-type test for second-order
                                  stochastic dominance . . . . . . . . . . 183--193
         Sergio Alvarez-Andrade   Small deviations for the Poisson process 195--201
                Yaozhong Hu and   
                  David Nualart   Continuity of some anticipating integral
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--211

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 37, Number 3, March 16, 1998

               Anthony G. Pakes   Mixture representations for symmetric
                                  generalized Linnik laws  . . . . . . . . 213--221
                  Qiqing Yu and   
               Anton Schick and   
                Linxiong Li and   
              George Y. C. Wong   Asymptotic properties of the GMLE with
                                  case 2 interval-censored data  . . . . . 223--228
                 I. Fahrner and   
            U. Stadtmüller   On almost sure max-limit theorems  . . . 229--236
                  Toshio Mikami   Equivalent conditions on the Central
                                  Limit Theorem for a sequence of
                                  probability measures on $R$  . . . . . . 237--242
             Gerd Christoph and   
               Karina Schreiber   Discrete stable random variables . . . . 243--247
                    M. Kaluszka   On the Devroye--Györfi methods of
                                  correcting density estimators  . . . . . 249--257
                   Keith Knight   Bootstrapping sample quantiles in
                                  non-regular cases  . . . . . . . . . . . 259--267
               Santiago Velilla   A note on the behaviour of residual
                                  plots in regression  . . . . . . . . . . 269--278
         Sergio Alvarez-Andrade   Small deviations for the Poisson process 279--285
           K. B. Kulasekera and   
                        J. Wang   Bandwidth selection for power optimality
                                  in a test of equality of regression
                                  curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--293
          Soumendra Nath Lahiri   Bootstrapping weighted empirical
                                  processes that do not converge weakly    295--302
              Leszek Marzec and   
                  Pawe\l Marzec   Testing based on sampled data for
                                  proportional hazards model . . . . . . . 303--313
            S. N. U. A. Kirmani   On sample spacings from IMRL
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--315
               R. A. Sugden and   
                 T. M. F. Smith   Correction to ``Edgeworth approximations
                                  to the distribution of the sample mean
                                  under simple random sampling'' . . . . . 317--317
                  B. H. Baltagi   Testing linear and loglinear error
                                  components regressions against Box--Cox
                                  alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 37, Number 4, March 30, 1998

                James C. Fu and   
                     Lung-An Li   Generalized method of Pao--Zhuan Yin--Yu 321--329
               Christophe Croux   Limit behavior of the empirical
                                  influence function of the median . . . . 331--340
        Claudio Agostinelli and   
             Marianthi Markatou   A one-step robust estimator for
                                  regression based on the weighted
                                  likelihood reweighting scheme  . . . . . 341--350
                 Stephen Walker   A characterisation of Hjort's discrete
                                  time beta process  . . . . . . . . . . . 351--355
                 Gemai Chen and   
                Smiley W. Cheng   The exact $u$ chart can be obtained
                                  using simple adjustments . . . . . . . . 357--365
                Wan-Yi Chiu and   
               Peter W. M. John   $D$-optimal fractional factorial designs 367--373
              Andrew Khrennikov   $p$-Adic behaviour of Bernoulli
                                  probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--379
                     Zongwu Cai   Asymptotic properties of Kaplan--Meier
                                  estimator for censored dependent data    381--389
                     P. Schatte   On Benford's law to variable base  . . . 391--397
                 Todd Smith and   
             Shyamal D. Peddada   Analysis of fixed effects linear models
                                  under heteroscedastic errors . . . . . . 399--408
                  Aloke Dey and   
                 Chand K. Midha   Addition or deletion?  . . . . . . . . . 409--414
                 G. R. Wood and   
                J. M. Robertson   Buffon got it straight . . . . . . . . . 415--421
           Mark Finkelstein and   
           Howard G. Tucker and   
                Jerry Alan Veeh   Confidence intervals for the number of
                                  unseen types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--430
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 37 (1998)  . . . 431--432


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 38, Number 1, May 15, 1998

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
         Jaros\law Bartoszewicz   Applications of a general composition
                                  theorem to the star order of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
                 R. Philips and   
                     I. Guttman   A new criterion for variable selection   11--19
              Lee-Chae Jang and   
                Joong-Sung Kwon   A uniform Strong Law of Large Numbers
                                  for partial sum processes of Banach
                                  space-valued random sets . . . . . . . . 21--25
                   T.-C. Hu and   
                  D. Szynal and   
                  A. I. Volodin   A note on complete convergence for
                                  arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
               Jian-Xin Pan and   
               Kai-Tai Fang and   
             Dietrich von Rosen   On the posterior distribution of the
                                  covariance matrix of the growth curve
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39
           Jozef L. Teugels and   
             Johan Van Horebeek   Generalized graphical models for
                                  discrete data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
                    Wei Pan and   
              Rick Chappell and   
             Michael R. Kosorok   On consistency of the monotone MLE of
                                  survival for left truncated and
                                  interval-censored data . . . . . . . . . 49--57
               Debashis Kushary   A note on universal admissibility of
                                  scale parameter estimators . . . . . . . 59--67
                A. K. Gupta and   
                     D. G. Kabe   Moments of ratios of quadratic forms . . 69--71
                    Deli Li and   
                 Mei Ling Huang   A note on moments of the maximum of
                                  Ces\`aro summation . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81
                       Zhang Bo   Marcinkiewicz--Zygmund law for sequences
                                  of blockwise $m$-dependent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--88
                David Assaf and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Optimal cooperative stopping rules for
                                  maximization of the product of the
                                  expected stopped values  . . . . . . . . 89--99

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 38, Number 2, June 1, 1998

                   Soo Hak Sung   Weak Law of Large Numbers for arrays . . 101--105
                        L. Peng   Asymptotically unbiased estimators for
                                  the extreme-value index  . . . . . . . . 107--115
                    J. S. Huang   Sequence of expectations of
                                  maximum-order statistics . . . . . . . . 117--123
                George Tzavelas   A note on the uniqueness of the
                                  quasi-likelihood estimator . . . . . . . 125--130
                   Ingram Olkin   The density of the inverse and
                                  pseudo-inverse of a random matrix  . . . 131--135
               Gie-Whan Kim and   
                Donald R. Truax   Conditional large deviations for density
                                  case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--144
            Jean-Yves Pitarakis   On the bias of the OLS estimator in a
                                  nonstationary dynamic panel data model   145--150
           A. Thavaneswaran and   
                 Shelton Peiris   Hypothesis testing for some time-series
                                  models: a power comparison . . . . . . . 151--156
           Tomasz J. Kozubowski   Mixture representation of Linnik
                                  distribution revisited . . . . . . . . . 157--160
                   Yuedong Wang   Sample size calculations for smoothing
                                  splines based on Bayesian confidence
                                  intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166
            Jonathan Herzog and   
        Christopher McLaren and   
               Anant P. Godbole   Generalized $k$-matches  . . . . . . . . 167--175
                   Rafal Latala   On the almost sure boundedness of norms
                                  of some empirical operators  . . . . . . 177--182
                   Peter Spreij   A representation result for finite
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--186
                  John P. Nolan   Parameterizations and modes of stable
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--195
                   Eva Ferreira   Using $M$-type smoothing splines to
                                  estimate the spectral density of a
                                  stationary time series . . . . . . . . . 197--205

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 38, Number 3, June 15, 1998

            Peter Eichelsbacher   Large deviations in partial sums of
                                  $U$-processes in stronger topologies . . 207--214
                   S. Zacks and   
                 A. Rogatko and   
                        J. Babb   Optimal Bayesian-feasible dose
                                  escalation for cancer phase I trials . . 215--220
              Willem Albers and   
              Pieta C. Boon and   
       Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg   Testing equality of two normal means
                                  using a variance pre-test  . . . . . . . 221--227
                Richard Perline   Mixed Poisson distributions tail
                                  equivalent to their mixing distributions 229--233
               S. Poghosyan and   
                      S. Roelly   Invariance principle for
                                  martingale-difference random fields  . . 235--245
        Gérard Letac and   
         Hél\`ene Massam   A formula on multivariate Dirichlet
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
                 Marc G. Genton   Asymptotic variance of $M$-estimators
                                  for dependent Gaussian random variables  255--261
                Alain Le Breton   Filtering and parameter estimation in a
                                  simple linear system driven by a
                                  fractional Brownian motion . . . . . . . 263--274
            Song-Show Cheng and   
                  Yu-Chun Cheng   An ordered relation between the ANOVA
                                  estimator of the intraclass correlation
                                  and a kappa-type statistic in binary
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--280
               Steven T. Garren   Maximum likelihood estimation of the
                                  correlation coefficient in a bivariate
                                  normal model with missing data . . . . . 281--288

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 38, Number 4, July 1, 1998

                 Guo-Liang Tian   The comparison between polynomial
                                  regression and orthogonal polynomial
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--294
               A. Polymenis and   
             D. M. Titterington   On the determination of the number of
                                  components in a mixture  . . . . . . . . 295--298
           Alessandra Guglielmi   A simple procedure calculating the
                                  generalized Stieltjes transform of the
                                  mean of a Dirichlet process  . . . . . . 299--303
             Martin L. Hazelton   Bias annihilating bandwidths for kernel
                                  density estimation at a point  . . . . . 305--309
              Miguel A. Arcones   A remark on approximate $M$-estimators   311--321
                    Pei-de Chen   Hastings--Metropolis algorithms and
                                  reference measures . . . . . . . . . . . 323--328
                Abram Kagan and   
              Lawrence A. Shepp   Why the variance?  . . . . . . . . . . . 329--333
                  M. Hallin and   
        J. Jurecková and   
                     X. Milhaud   Characterization of error distributions
                                  in time-series regression models . . . . 335--345
            Augustyn Markiewicz   Comparison of linear restricted models
                                  with respect to the validity of
                                  admissible and linearly sufficient
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--354
             Yoshihide Kakizawa   On exponential rates of estimators of
                                  the parameter in the first-order
                                  autoregressive process . . . . . . . . . 355--362
                  Zhiqiang Chen   A note on bias robustness of the median  363--368
            Siu Hung Cheung and   
                      Yaohua Wu   The power function of the maximum
                                  Studentized range test in a two-way
                                  design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--376
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 38 (1998)  . . . 377--378


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 39, Number 1, July 15, 1998

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
               Tiee-Jian Wu and   
               Alfred Sepulveda   The weighted average information
                                  criterion for order selection in time
                                  series and regression models . . . . . . 1--10
            Alexander V. Gnedin   Records from a multivariate normal
                                  sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
                 Grace S. Shieh   A weighted Kendall's tau statistic . . . 17--24
              D. L. Hawkins and   
                  Chien-Pai Han   A Central Limit Theorem for certain
                                  nonlinear statistics in repeated
                                  sampling of a finite population  . . . . 25--34
                K. Adamidis and   
                      S. Loukas   A lifetime distribution with decreasing
                                  failure rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--42
                 Rand R. Wilcox   Simulations on the Theil--Sen regression
                                  estimator with right-censored data . . . 43--47
            N. Balakrishnan and   
          Norman L. Johnson and   
                    Samuel Kotz   A note on relationships between moments,
                                  central moments and cumulants from
                                  multivariate distributions . . . . . . . 49--54
               Alexander Schied   Cramer's condition and Sanov's theorem   55--60
               GeungHee Lee and   
                Jeffrey D. Hart   An $ L_2 $ error test with order
                                  selection and thresholding . . . . . . . 61--72
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                     P. S. Chan   On the normal record values and
                                  associated inference . . . . . . . . . . 73--80

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 39, Number 2, August 1, 1998

               Songyong Sim and   
             Richard A. Johnson   Comparisons of spatially correlated
                                  binary data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--87
              Hartmut Lanzinger   A Baum--Katz theorem for random
                                  variables under exponential moment
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--95
            Sumitra Purkayastha   Simple proofs of two results on
                                  convolutions of unimodal distributions   97--100
                V. Cekanavicius   Poisson approximations for sequences of
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--107
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Further results based on Chernoff-type
                                  inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--117
               Tilmann Gneiting   Simple tests for the validity of
                                  correlation function models on the
                                  circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--122
              Asok K. Nanda and   
               Kanchan Jain and   
               Harshinder Singh   Preservation of some partial orderings
                                  under the formation of coherent systems  123--131
               Masayuki Doi and   
                  Eiji Yamamoto   On the joint distribution of runs in a
                                  sequence of multi-state trials . . . . . 133--141
           Christian D. Galindo   On nonparametric estimation of mean
                                  functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--149
               A. J. van Es and   
                      A. R. Kok   Simple kernel estimators for certain
                                  nonparametric deconvolution problems . . 151--160
                    L. Pronzato   On a property of the expected value of a
                                  determinant  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--165
            Sudesh K. Srivastav   On the class of $t$-designs  . . . . . . 167--172
                 Feng-Shun Chai   A note on generalization of distinct
                                  representatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--177
     Arnoud C. M. van Rooij and   
             Frits H. Ruymgaart   Convergence in the Hausdorff metric of
                                  estimators of irregular densities, using
                                  Fourier--Ces\`aro approximation  . . . . 179--184

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 39, Number 3, August 15, 1998

                  Claudio Macci   The maximal dominated subsets of a
                                  statistical experiment . . . . . . . . . 185--193
                   G. Nappo and   
                 F. Spizzichino   Ordering properties of the TTT-plot of
                                  lifetimes with Schur joint densities . . 195--203
            Ronald J. Bosch and   
                 Louise M. Ryan   Generalized Poisson models arising from
                                  Markov processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--212
                      A. Krajka   On the class of $g$-monotone dependence
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--227
M. D. Jiménez Gamero and   
J. Muñoz García and   
          A. Muñoz Reyes   Bootstrapping statistical functionals    229--236
             Alexander Tsodikov   Asymptotic efficiency of a proportional
                                  hazards model with cure  . . . . . . . . 237--244
             Ming-Yen Cheng and   
                     Peter Hall   On mode testing and empirical
                                  approximations to distributions  . . . . 245--254
                    Cheng Cheng   A Berry--Esseen-type theorem of quantile
                                  density estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262
               Grzegorz Rempala   Strong Law of Large Numbers for
                                  $U$-statistics of varying order  . . . . 263--270
                   Mikel Aickin   A logical foundation for the minimal
                                  sufficient cause model . . . . . . . . . 271--281
                   S. N. Ethier   An optional stopping theorem for
                                  nonadapted martingales . . . . . . . . . 283--288

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 39, Number 4, August 21, 1998

                   Tryfon Daras   Trajectories of exchangeable sequences:
                                  Large and moderate deviations results    289--304
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez and   
Wenceslao González-Manteiga   Distributional convergence under
                                  proportional censorship when covariables
                                  are present  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--315
                     Ashish Das   Optimality of a class of
                                  efficiency-balanced designs  . . . . . . 317--326
              Frank Krummenauer   Representation of multivariate discrete
                                  distributions by probability generating
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--331
                  Norbert Henze   A Poisson limit law for a generalized
                                  birthday problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--336
             Albert Benassi and   
                Serge Cohen and   
                  Jacques Istas   Identifying the multifractional function
                                  of a Gaussian process  . . . . . . . . . 337--345
                E. Kaufmann and   
                    R.-D. Reiss   Approximation of the Hill estimator
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--354
                  Lutz Duembgen   Symmetrization and decoupling of
                                  combinatorial random elements  . . . . . 355--361
             P. E. Oliveira and   
                     Ch. Suquet   Weak convergence in $ L^p(0, 1) $ of the
                                  uniform empirical process under
                                  dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--370
                    Lars Holden   Geometric convergence of the
                                  Metropolis--Hastings simulation
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--377
         Jürgen Groß   Statistical estimation by a linear
                                  combination of two given statistics  . . 379--384
                  D. Hamadouche   Erratum: ``Hölder convergence of smoothed
                                  empirical process: [Statist. Probab.
                                  Lett. \bf 36 (1998) 393--400]  . . . . . 385--386
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 39 (1998)  . . . 387--388


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 40, Number 1, September 1, 1998

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                 Ornella Arcudi   Convergence of conditional expectations
                                  given the random variables of a Skorohod
                                  representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
                    M. J. Faddy   Markov death process modelling and
                                  analysis of binary data  . . . . . . . . 9--13
               Cathy W. S. Chen   A Bayesian analysis of generalized
                                  threshold autoregressive models  . . . . 15--22
         Jaros\law Bartoszewicz   Characterizations of the dispersive
                                  order of distributions by the Laplace
                                  transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--29
                Liuquan Sun and   
                      Yong Zhou   Sequential confidence bands for
                                  densities under truncated and censored
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--41
           Yu. A. Kutoyants and   
                       F. Liese   Estimation of linear functionals of
                                  Poisson processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 43--55
                Ja-Yong Koo and   
                    Kee-Won Lee   B-spline estimation of regression
                                  functions with errors in variable  . . . 57--66
               A. P. Dunmur and   
             D. M. Titterington   The influence of initial conditions on
                                  maximum likelihood estimation of the
                                  parameters of a binary hidden Markov
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--73
              Miguel A. Arcones   The law of the large numbers for
                                  $U$-statistics for $ 2 m$-wise
                                  independent random variables . . . . . . 75--81
                 J. M. P. Albin   A note on Rosenblatt distributions . . . 83--91
     F. Javier López and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Stochastic comparisons and couplings for
                                  interacting particle systems . . . . . . 93--102

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 40, Number 2, September 15, 1998

                       C. Tudor   Large deviations for stable Itô equations 103--111
                Seymour Geisser   Comparing two tests used for diagnostic
                                  or screening purposes  . . . . . . . . . 113--119
                    Chinsan Lee   An integral characterization problem in
                                  an age-dependent cancer model  . . . . . 121--126
                  M. S. Sgibnev   Equivalence of two conditions on
                                  singular components  . . . . . . . . . . 127--131
                      N. Le and   
                     L. Sun and   
                    J. V. Zidek   A note on the existence of maximum
                                  likelihood estimates for
                                  Gaussian-inverted Wishart models . . . . 133--137
          Daren B. H. Cline and   
                 Huay-min H. Pu   Verifying irreducibility and continuity
                                  of a nonlinear time series . . . . . . . 139--148
             Thomas A. Severini   Some properties of inferences in
                                  misspecified linear models . . . . . . . 149--153
             Jia-Juan Liang and   
               Peter M. Bentler   Characterizations of some subclasses of
                                  spherical distributions  . . . . . . . . 155--164
             Chen-Hai Andy Tsao   Conditional coverage probability of
                                  confidence intervals in
                                  errors-in-variables and related models   165--170
                     Chanho Lee   Asymptotics of a class of $p$ th-order
                                  nonlinear autoregressive processes . . . 171--177
                ByoungSeon Choi   On the symmetric bilateral AR processes  179--183
                    Hegang Chen   Some projective properties of fractional
                                  factorial designs  . . . . . . . . . . . 185--188
    Nathalie Ch\`eze-Payaud and   
          Jean-Michel Poggi and   
                  Bruno Portier   Estimation and test of linearity for a
                                  class of additive nonlinear models . . . 189--201

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 40, Number 3, October 15, 1998

                   Qing Han and   
                      Sigeo Aki   Formulae and recursions for the joint
                                  distributions of success runs of several
                                  lengths in a two-state Markov chain  . . 203--214
            Attila Frigyesi and   
               Ola Hössjer   A test for singularity . . . . . . . . . 215--226
              Heungsun Park and   
                L. A. Stefanski   Relative-error prediction  . . . . . . . 227--236
                   P. Barbe and   
                   M. Doisy and   
                       B. Garel   Last passage time for the empirical mean
                                  of some mixing processes . . . . . . . . 237--245
       S. Rao Jammalamadaka and   
                 Ashis SenGupta   Predictive inference for directional
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--257
                   Lin Gwo Dong   Characterizations of the $L$-class of
                                  life distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 259--266
Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver and   
   Graciela Gonzalez-Farias and   
                Jye-Chyi Lu and   
                        Di Chen   Parametric nonstationary correlation
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--278
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
     Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle   Weak nondifferential measurement error
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--287
                   Gaoxiong Gan   MLE are stochastically increasing if
                                  likelihoods are unimodal . . . . . . . . 289--292
      Tasos C. Christofides and   
                Robert Serfling   $U$-statistics on a lattice of I.I.D.
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--303

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 40, Number 4, November 15, 1998

                Richard Johnson   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
          Snigdhansu Chatterjee   Another look at the jackknife: further
                                  examples of generalized bootstrap  . . . 307--319
                  Norbert Henze   ``Drawings since hit tables in
                                  lotteries'' and a new multivariate
                                  geometric distribution . . . . . . . . . 321--327
                  M. S. Sgibnev   On an explicit formula for the
                                  distribution of the supremum . . . . . . 329--331
             Antonio Cuevas and   
                Ricardo Fraiman   On visual distances in density
                                  estimation: the Hausdorff choice . . . . 333--341
            Ildar Ibragimov and   
               Mikhail Lifshits   On the convergence of generalized
                                  moments in almost sure Central Limit
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--351
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Problems arising from jackknifing the
                                  estimate of a Kaplan--Meier integral . . 353--361
                     B. Lindoff   First inverse moment of a generalized
                                  quadratic form . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--370
          Daniel Neuenschwander   Law of the iterated logarithm for Lévy's
                                  area process composed with Brownian
                                  motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--377
           Nunzio Cappuccio and   
             Marco Ferrante and   
               Giovanni Fonseca   A note on the stationarity of a
                                  threshold first-order bilinear process   379--384
             Piotr Kokoszka and   
               Remigijus Leipus   Change-point in the mean of dependent
                                  observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--393
           Anthony G. Pakes and   
                         Yun Li   Limit laws for the number of near maxima
                                  via the Poisson approximation  . . . . . 395--401
            Andrew Rosalsky and   
                    M. Sreehari   On the limiting behavior of randomly
                                  weighted partial sums  . . . . . . . . . 403--410
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 40 (1998)  . . . 411--412


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 41, Number 1, January 1, 1999

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                    Dale Bowman   A parametric independence test for
                                  clustered binary data  . . . . . . . . . 1--7
      M. L. Menéndez and   
                 D. Morales and   
                   L. Pardo and   
                    K. Zografos   Statistical inference for finite Markov
                                  chains based on divergences  . . . . . . 9--17
                   Jiming Jiang   On unbiasedness of the empirical BLUE
                                  and BLUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
              N. G. Cadigan and   
                  P. J. Farrell   Expected local influence in the normal
                                  linear regression model  . . . . . . . . 25--30
                   Agnes Berger   On using index cases in the study of
                                  late-onset diseases  . . . . . . . . . . 31--37
                 L. de Haan and   
             T. Themido Pereira   Estimating the index of a stable
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--55
                  P. Y. Liu and   
                  Wei Yann Tsai   A modified logrank test for censored
                                  survival data under order restrictions   57--63
                Kazuhiro Ohtani   MSE performance of a heterogeneous
                                  pre-test estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 65--71
                 Neil A. Butler   The efficiency of ordinary least squares
                                  in designed experiments subject to
                                  spatial or temporal variation  . . . . . 73--81
        Peter Eichelsbacher and   
                 Malte Grunwald   Exponential tightness can fail in the
                                  strong topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--86
              Hongguang Sun and   
              Sastry G. Pantula   Testing for trends in correlated data    87--95
             Richard C. Bradley   Equivalent mixing conditions for Markov
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 41, Number 2, January 15, 1999

                Yongdai Kim and   
             Joseph S. Verducci   Too much sampling kills the UMP test . . 101--105
                Paolo Baldi and   
                 Mauro Piccioni   A representation formula for the large
                                  deviation rate function for the
                                  empirical law of a continuous time
                                  Markov chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--115
       Lajos Horváth and   
               Josef Steinebach   On the best approximation for
                                  bootstrapped empirical processes . . . . 117--122
                    Qiying Wang   On Berry--Esseen rates for $m$-dependent
                                  $U$-statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--130
                 Marc G. Genton   The correlation structure of the sample
                                  autocovariance function for a particular
                                  class of time series with elliptically
                                  contoured distribution . . . . . . . . . 131--137
             Nacereddine Belili   A theorem of stochastic representation
                                  related to Monge--Kantorovich problem    139--143
                  R. J. Tomkins   Regular stability of large order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--151
           Andrei N. Frolov and   
       Alexander I. Martikainen   On the length of the longest increasing
                                  run in $ \mathbb {R}^d $ . . . . . . . . 153--161
                Zhezhen Jin and   
                  Yongzhao Shao   On kernel estimation of a multivariate
                                  distribution function  . . . . . . . . . 163--168
               Charles El-Nouty   On the large increments of fractional
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
              P. Vellaisamy and   
                   B. Chaudhuri   On compound Poisson approximation for
                                  sums of random variables . . . . . . . . 179--189
                G. F. V. Glonek   On identifiability in models for
                                  incomplete binary data . . . . . . . . . 191--197
                 WanSoo T. Rhee   A note on packing random intervals with
                                  varying density  . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--208

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 41, Number 3, February 1, 1999

             Suman Majumdar and   
           Dennis Gilliland and   
                   James Hannan   Bounds for robust maximum likelihood and
                                  posterior consistency in compound
                                  mixture state experiments  . . . . . . . 215--227
                       Mai Zhou   Regression analysis with censored data:
                                  Extensions of Koul--Susarla--Van Ryzin
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--236
              Gilbert G. Walter   Density estimation in the presence of
                                  noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246
         Richard A. Johnson and   
             James W. Evans and   
                 David W. Green   Nonparametric Bayesian predictive
                                  distributions for future order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
                J. K. Ghosh and   
          R. V. Ramamoorthi and   
                 K. R. Srikanth   Bayesian analysis of censored data . . . 255--265
            Joseph Gardiner and   
             Dorothy Pathak and   
                 Alka Indurkhya   Power calculations for detecting
                                  interaction in stratified 2$ \times $2
                                  tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--275
            Eswar G. Phadia and   
              Peter Yi-Shi Shao   Exact moments of the product limit
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--286
                   Anton Schick   Efficient estimation of a shift in
                                  nonparametric regression . . . . . . . . 287--301
               J. K. Ghorai and   
                   J. Schmitter   The asymptotic distribution of the
                                  suprema of the standardized empirical
                                  processes under the Koziol--Green model  303--313
           Michael R. Allen and   
                  Somnath Datta   Estimation of the index parameter for
                                  autoregressive data using the estimated
                                  innovations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--324
           Shelemyahu Zacks and   
                  Xiaodong Wang   Estimation of variance components in
                                  dynamic linear models  . . . . . . . . . 325--330

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 41, Number 4, February 15, 1999

                     Yanqin Fan   A data-driven test for dispersive
                                  ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--336
                W. Grecksch and   
                      V. V. Anh   A parabolic stochastic differential
                                  equation with fractional Brownian motion
                                  input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--346
              Frank Krummenauer   A note on Rüger's test for discrete data  347--351
            Merrilee A. Hum and   
           Håvard Rue and   
               Nuala A. Sheehan   Block updating in constrained Markov
                                  chain Monte Carlo sampling . . . . . . . 353--361
          Lucia Caramellino and   
   Adriana Climescu-Haulica and   
           Barbara Pacchiarotti   Diffusion approximations for random
                                  walks on nilpotent Lie groups  . . . . . 363--377
                Sin-Ho Jung and   
                     Sam Wieand   Analysis of goodness-of-fit for Cox
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--382
           Danielle Florens and   
               Huyên Pham   Large deviation principle in
                                  nonparametric estimation of marked point
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--388
                 Ullrich Munzel   Linear rank score statistics when ties
                                  are present  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--395
               Ehrhard Behrends   On the conditional expectation $ E (X |
                                  X + W) $ in the case of independent
                                  random variables $X$, $W$  . . . . . . . 397--400
                      Axel Munk   A note on unbiased testing for the
                                  equivalence problem --- another
                                  Christmas tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--406
              Frank Krummenauer   Conservativeness of global tests for
                                  bivariate binomial and Poisson data  . . 407--412
                   Frank Marohn   Estimating the index of a stable law via
                                  the pot-method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--423
                Qi-Hua Wang and   
                   Bing-Yi Jing   Empirical likelihood for partial linear
                                  models with fixed designs  . . . . . . . 425--433
                        Wei Liu   A one-sided confidence set hidden under
                                  a two-sided sequential test of a normal
                                  mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--438
          Rabi Bhattacharya and   
                     Chanho Lee   Erratum: ``On geometric ergodicity of
                                  nonlinear autoregressive models''
                                  [Statist. Probab. Lett. \bf 22 (1995)
                                  311--315]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--440
                      Anonymous   Author index for volume 41 (1999)  . . . 441--442


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 42, Number 1, March 15, 1999

                  Richard Isaac   On equitable ratios of Dubins--Freedman
                                  type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
                Abram Kagan and   
               Zinoviy Landsman   Relation between the covariance and
                                  Fisher information matrices  . . . . . . 7--13
                   S. Nadarajah   A polynomial model for bivariate extreme
                                  value distributions  . . . . . . . . . . 15--25
               Martin Schweizer   A minimality property of the minimal
                                  martingale measure . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
                   Chunsheng Ma   On the posterior distribution of a
                                  location parameter from a strongly
                                  unimodal distribution  . . . . . . . . . 33--37
        J. T. Alcalá and   
     J. A. Cristóbal and   
    W. González-Manteiga   Goodness-of-fit test for linear models
                                  based on local polynomials . . . . . . . 39--46
    Jana Jure\'cková and   
                Lev B. Klebanov   Trimmed, Bayesian and admissible
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--51
               Jean Diebolt and   
                  Jacques Zuber   Goodness-of-fit tests for nonlinear
                                  heteroscedastic regression models  . . . 53--60
                    Guy Jumarie   Complex-valued Wiener measure: An
                                  approach via random walk in the complex
                                  plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67
                   Wai-Sum Chan   A comparison of some of pattern
                                  identification methods for order
                                  determination of mixed ARMA models . . . 69--79
Antonio Montañés and   
                  Marcelo Reyes   The asymptotic behaviour of the
                                  Dickey--Fuller tests under the crash
                                  hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--89
    Juan Carlos Ruiz-Molina and   
       Jesús Navarro and   
          J. Mariano Valderrama   Differentiation of the modified
                                  approximative Karhunen--Lo\`eve
                                  expansion of a stochastic process  . . . 91--98
             Ilya Gertsbakh and   
                    Abram Kagan   Characterization of the Weibull
                                  distribution by properties of the Fisher
                                  information under Type-I censoring . . . 99--105

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 42, Number 2, April 1, 1999

                Ke-Hai Yuan and   
               Peter M. Bentler   On asymptotic distributions of normal
                                  theory MLE in covariance structure
                                  analysis under some nonnormal
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--113
                James C. Fu and   
            W. Y. Wendy Lou and   
                  Yueh-Jir Wang   On the exact distributions of Eulerian
                                  and Simon Newcomb numbers associated
                                  with random permutations . . . . . . . . 115--125
                   Chuanhai Liu   Compatibility conditions for a set of
                                  conditional Gaussian distributions . . . 127--130
          W\lodzimierz Krysicki   On some new properties of the beta
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--137
                  Sana Louhichi   Rosenthal's inequality for LPQD
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--144
      Félix Belzunce and   
                 Eva Ortega and   
            José M. Ruiz   The Laplace order and ordering of
                                  residual lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--156
          Norman L. Johnson and   
                    Samuel Kotz   Square tray distributions  . . . . . . . 157--165
                  Z. D. Bai and   
                     Meihui Guo   A paradox in least-squares estimation of
                                  linear regression models . . . . . . . . 167--174
                     T. W. Epps   Limiting behavior of the ICF test for
                                  normality under Gram--Charlier
                                  alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
                    J. S. Huang   Third-order expansion of mean squared
                                  error of medians . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--192
                Wolfgang Stadje   The maximum occupancy number in a simple
                                  urn model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--200
            Ayalvadi Ganesh and   
                 Neil O'Connell   An inverse of Sanov's theorem  . . . . . 201--206
         Jaros\law Bartoszewicz   Characterizations of stochastic orders
                                  based on ratios of Laplace transforms    207--212
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--215
                      Anonymous   Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 42, Number 3, April 15, 1999

                      Dan Romik   Sharp entropy bounds for discrete
                                  statistical simulation . . . . . . . . . 219--227
                John P. Mandeli   Construction of systematic row-column
                                  designs with treatments unconfounded
                                  with the linear row $ \times $ columns
                                  and quadratic row $ \times $ columns
                                  interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--237
                 Suman Majumdar   A metric for convergence in distribution 239--247
                     O. Stramer   The local linearization scheme for
                                  nonlinear diffusion models with
                                  discontinuous coefficients . . . . . . . 249--256
                 O. Yoshida and   
                J. G. Leite and   
                   H. Bolfarine   Stochastic monotonicity properties of
                                  Bayes estimation of the population size
                                  for capture-recapture data . . . . . . . 257--266
                  Mary C. Meyer   A comparison of nonparametric shape
                                  constrained bioassay estimators  . . . . 267--274
                  Kani Chen and   
                  Zhiliang Ying   A note on uniform consistency of the
                                  product-limit estimator with staggered
                                  entry  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--281
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez and   
Wenceslao González-Manteiga   Strong consistency under proportional
                                  censorship when covariables are present  283--292
                   Soo Hak Sung   Weak Law of Large Numbers for arrays of
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--298
             Glen A. Satten and   
                  Somnath Datta   Kaplan--Meier representation of
                                  competing risk estimates . . . . . . . . 299--304
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Covariance identities for exponential
                                  and related distributions  . . . . . . . 305--311
                T. Tony Cai and   
              Lawrence D. Brown   Wavelet estimation for samples with
                                  random uniform design  . . . . . . . . . 313--321
                    Qiying Wang   Kolmogorov and Erd\Hos test for
                                  self-normalized sums . . . . . . . . . . 323--326

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 42, Number 4, May 1, 1999

    Harú V. Martinez and   
       María M. Olivares   Estimation of quadratic functionals of a
                                  density  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--332
            Joseph E. Cavanaugh   A large-sample model selection criterion
                                  based on Kullback's symmetric divergence 333--343
              Subhash C. Kochar   On stochastic orderings between
                                  distributions and their sample spacings  345--352
                YongHee Kim and   
                Barry C. Arnold   Parameter estimation under generalized
                                  ranked set sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 353--360
                 Ronald Meester   Extremal points of infinite clusters in
                                  stationary percolation . . . . . . . . . 361--365
                   Chuancun Yin   The joint distribution of the hitting
                                  time and place to a sphere or spherical
                                  shell for Brownian motion with drift . . 367--373
              Wai-Cheung Ip and   
                 Heung Wong and   
                    Yuan Li and   
                   Zhongjie Xie   Threshold variable selection by wavelets
                                  in open-loop threshold autoregressive
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--392
                  N. Bansal and   
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                Eric S. Key and   
               Hans Volkmer and   
                  Hao Zhang and   
                  J. Behboodian   Some characterizations of the normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--400
                Kamal C. Chanda   Bahadur--Kiefer representations for
                                  GM-estimators in linear Markov models
                                  with errors in variables . . . . . . . . 401--408
        D. Leão, Jr. and   
              M. D. Fragoso and   
               P. R. C. Ruffino   Characterizations of Radon spaces  . . . 409--413
                       B. Bercu   Weighted estimation and tracking for
                                  Bienaymé Galton Watson processes with
                                  adaptive control . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--421
            D. A. Ioannides and   
                  G. G. Roussas   Exponential inequality for associated
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--431
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 43, Number 1, May 15, 1999

            Mario Antonio Gneri   Parametric models as thin subsets of the
                                  space of distributions . . . . . . . . . 1--3
               Siva Sivaganesan   A likelihood based robust Bayesian
                                  summary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--12
              Gabrielle Viennet   Least-square estimation for regression
                                  on random designs for absolutely regular
                                  observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--23
  José Luis Palacios and   
   José Miguel Renom and   
             Pedro Berrizbeitia   Random walks on edge-transitive graphs
                                  (II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32
Bárbara González-Arévalo and   
      José Luis Palacios   Expected hitting times for random walks
                                  on weak products of graphs . . . . . . . 33--39
              Michael Braverman   Remarks on suprema of Lévy processes with
                                  light tailes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
                 Michael Kohler   Nonparametric estimation of piecewise
                                  smooth regression functions  . . . . . . 49--55
               Jan Beirlant and   
                    Luc Devroye   On the impossibility of estimating
                                  densities in the extreme tail  . . . . . 57--64
               Beong Soo So and   
                  Dong Wan Shin   Recursive mean adjustment in time-series
                                  inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73
                S. Y. Hwang and   
                   I. V. Basawa   Inference for a binary lattice Markov
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--85
             M. L. Aggarwal and   
                      Renu Kaul   Hidden projection properties of some
                                  optimal designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92
          Werner G. Müller   Least-squares fitting from the variogram
                                  cloud  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--98
                Jingjun Liu and   
                 Shixin Gan and   
                   Pingyan Chen   The Hájeck--R\`enyi inequality for the NA
                                  random variables and its application . . 99--105

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 43, Number 2, June 15, 1999

             Erol A. Peköz   Ignatov's theorem and correlated record
                                  values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111
              Les\law Gajek and   
                 Jan Mielniczuk   Long- and short-range dependent
                                  sequences under exponential
                                  subordination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121
                 Ruzong Fan and   
              Kenneth Lange and   
              Edsel Peña   Applications of a formula for the
                                  variance function of a stochastic
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--130
                Seuck Heun Song   A note on $ S^2 $ in a linear regression
                                  model based on two-stage sampling data   131--135
                    M. P. Quine   A Central Limit Theorem for
                                  self-normalized products of random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--143
                    A. Futschik   A new estimate of the mode based on the
                                  quantile density . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
                         Yun Li   A note on the number of records near the
                                  maximum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--158
                   Takeshi Kato   Density estimation by truncated wavelet
                                  expansion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--168
               Sergei L. Leonov   Remarks on extremal problems in
                                  nonparametric curve estimation . . . . . 169--178
               Nicolas Privault   Multiple stochastic integral expansions
                                  of arbitrary Poisson jump times
                                  functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--188
           Jyotirmoy Sarkar and   
                Gopal Chaudhuri   Availability of a system with gamma life
                                  and exponential repair time under a
                                  perfect repair policy  . . . . . . . . . 189--196
                  Dilip Roy and   
                    R. P. Gupta   Characterizations and model selections
                                  through reliability measures in the
                                  discrete case  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--206
               J. P. N. Bishwal   Large deviations inequalities for the
                                  maximum likelihood estimator and the
                                  Bayes estimators in nonlinear stochastic
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 207--215

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 43, Number 3, July 1, 1999

                   Tae Yoon Kim   On tail probabilities of
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistics based on
                                  uniform mixing processes . . . . . . . . 217--223
                         Jie Mi   Age-smooth properties of mixture models  225--236
            Gerard J. Chang and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                 Frank K. Hwang   Reliabilities for $ (n, f, k) $ systems  237--242
              Eckhard Liebscher   Asymptotic normality of nonparametric
                                  estimators under $ \alpha $-mixing
                                  condition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--250
                Yuichi Nagahara   The PDF and CF of Pearson type IV
                                  distributions and the ML estimation of
                                  the parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--264
            Beniamin Goldys and   
                  Szymon Peszat   Law equivalence of stochastic linear
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--274
                 Jason Abrevaya   Rank regression for current-status data:
                                  asymptotic normality . . . . . . . . . . 275--287
                  G. Eslava and   
              F. H. C. Marriott   Projection indices and multimodality for
                                  mixtures of normal distributions . . . . 289--297
                  F. Gamboa and   
                 A. Rouault and   
                        M. Zani   A functional large deviations principle
                                  for quadratic forms of Gaussian
                                  stationary processes . . . . . . . . . . 299--308
               Jianqing Fan and   
                  Li-Shan Huang   Rates of convergence for the
                                  pre-asymptotic substitution bandwidth
                                  selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--316
                Abram Kagan and   
              Lawrence A. Shepp   Tail hypotheses in the signal plus noise
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--319
             Subhash Kochar and   
                   Chunsheng Ma   Dispersive ordering of convolutions of
                                  exponential random variables . . . . . . 321--324

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 43, Number 4, July 15, 1999

                       D. Nolan   On min-max majority and deepest points   325--333
              Gregory K. Miller   Maximum likelihood estimation for the
                                  Erlang integer parameter . . . . . . . . 335--341
                  G. Aletti and   
                     V. Capasso   Characterization of spatial Poisson
                                  along optional increasing paths: a
                                  problem of dimension's reduction . . . . 343--347
                 John I. Marden   Some robust estimates of principal
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--359
                Yasumasa Saisho   Limit theorems and random spacings
                                  related to cutting of DNAs by radiation  361--367
           Alexander Korostelev   On minimax rates of convergence in image
                                  models under sequential design . . . . . 369--375
    Carmen Fernández and   
               Mark F. J. Steel   Reference priors for the general
                                  location-scale model . . . . . . . . . . 377--384
           Hans-Peter Scheffler   On estimation of the spectral measure of
                                  certain nonnormal operator stable laws   385--392
             Olivier Perrin and   
                Rachid Senoussi   Reducing non-stationary stochastic
                                  processes to stationarity by a time
                                  deformation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--397
                        L. Peng   Estimation of the coefficient of tail
                                  dependence in bivariate extremes . . . . 399--409
              Hak-Myung Lee and   
                   Marlos Viana   The joint covariance structure of
                                  ordered symmetrically dependent
                                  observations and their concomitants of
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--414
                 Peter Hall and   
Gérard Kerkyacharian and   
               Dominique Picard   A note on the wavelet oracle . . . . . . 415--420
                 Ananda Sen and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Convolution of geometrics and a
                                  reliability problem  . . . . . . . . . . 421--426
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Bounds for $r$ th order joint cumulant
                                  under $r$ th order strong mixing . . . . 427--431
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 44, Number 1, August, 1999

                        Zhen Wu   The comparison theorem of FBSDE  . . . . 1--6
              Bahadur Singh and   
                   F. T. Wright   Approximating the powers of
                                  order-restricted log rank tests at local
                                  alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--17
                    Wei Biao Wu   On the strong convergence of a weighted
                                  sum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
                 Peter Olofsson   A Poisson approximation with
                                  applications to the number of maxima in
                                  a discrete sample  . . . . . . . . . . . 23--27
                  Marc Hoffmann   On nonparametric estimation in nonlinear
                                  AR(1)-models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--45
          Alexander Novikov and   
                  Esko Valkeila   On some maximal inequalities for
                                  fractional Brownian motions  . . . . . . 47--54
             Peter Bartlett and   
            Gábor Lugosi   An inequality for uniform deviations of
                                  sample averages from their means . . . . 55--62
  José R. Berrendero and   
                 Ruben H. Zamar   Global robustness of location and
                                  dispersion estimates . . . . . . . . . . 63--72
             Fred J. Hickernell   Goodness-of-fit statistics,
                                  discrepancies and robust designs . . . . 73--78
             Allan D. McQuarrie   A small-sample correction for the
                                  Schwarz SIC model selection criterion    79--86
               Amy L. Rocha and   
                Frederick Stern   The gambler's ruin problem with $n$
                                  players and asymmetric play  . . . . . . 87--95
          Martin Sköld and   
               Ola Hössjer   On the asymptotic variance of the
                                  continuous-time kernel density estimator 97--106
            Tomasz Bojdecki and   
              Luis G. Gorostiza   Fractional Brownian motion via
                                  fractional Laplacian . . . . . . . . . . 107--108

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 44, Number 2, August 15, 1999

          Ghislaine Gayraud and   
               Karine Tribouley   Wavelet methods to estimate an
                                  integrated quadratic functional:
                                  Adaptivity and asymptotic law  . . . . . 109--122
             Bruno Massé   On the variance of the number of extreme
                                  points of a random convex hull . . . . . 123--130
                 Fu-Chuen Chang   Exact $D$-optimal designs for polynomial
                                  regression without intercept . . . . . . 131--136
                Shijie Chen and   
              Kanchan Mukherjee   Asymptotic uniform linearity of some
                                  robust statistics under exponentially
                                  subordinated strongly dependent models   137--146
                     H. Navarro   On smoothness measurement for weakly
                                  stationary processes . . . . . . . . . . 147--154
           Philip J. Boland and   
          Stavros Papastavridis   Consecutive $k$ out of $ n \colon F$
                                  systems with Cycle $k$ . . . . . . . . . 155--160
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
                 Subhash Kochar   Stochastic orderings between
                                  distributions and their sample spacings
                                  --- II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166
                   Jie Chen and   
                    Joseph Glaz   Approximations for discrete scan
                                  statistics on the circle . . . . . . . . 167--176
     William F. Rosenberger and   
    Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver   Inference from a sequential design:
                                  proof of a conjecture by Ford and Silvey 177--180
                     A. Ramponi   A note on the complex roots of complex
                                  random polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . 181--187
             Linda J. Moore and   
                        Ping Sa   Comparisons with the best in response
                                  surface methodology  . . . . . . . . . . 189--194
                     N. Etemadi   Maximal inequalities for averages of
                                  i.i.d. and $2$-exchangeable random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200
                  Seung-ho Kang   An optimal property of the exact
                                  multinomial test and the extended
                                  Fisher's exact test  . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
             Dragan Radulovi\'c   Erratum: ``The bootstrap of the mean for
                                  strong mixing sequences under minimal
                                  conditions'' [Statist. Probab. Lett. \bf
                                  28 (1996) 65--72]  . . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
                Jingjun Liu and   
                 Shixin Gan and   
                   Pingyan Chen   Erratum: ``The Hájek--Rényi inequality for
                                  the NA random variables and its
                                  application'' [Statist. Probab. Lett.
                                  \bf 43 (1999) 99--105] . . . . . . . . . 210--210

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 44, Number 3, September 15, 1999

            Krzysztof D\kebicki   A note on LDP for supremum of Gaussian
                                  processes over infinite horizon  . . . . 211--219
             Chris J. Lloyd and   
                      Zhou Yong   Kernel estimators of the ROC curve are
                                  better than empirical  . . . . . . . . . 221--228
                K. F. Cheng and   
                    H. M. Hsueh   Correcting bias due to misclassification
                                  in the estimation of logistic regression
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--240
                   TaChen Liang   Monotone empirical Bayes tests for a
                                  discrete normal distribution . . . . . . 241--249
                 J. Hüsler   Extremes of Gaussian processes, on
                                  results of Piterbarg and Seleznjev . . . 251--258
                 D. J. Best and   
                J. C. W. Rayner   Goodness of fit for the Poisson
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--265
              Rong-Xian Yue and   
                   Shi-Song Mao   On the variance of quadrature over
                                  scrambled nets and sequences . . . . . . 267--280
               S. G. Bobkov and   
               C. Houdré   A converse Gaussian Poincaré-type
                                  inequality for convex functions  . . . . 281--290
          Yury A. Kutoyants and   
              Vladimir Spokoiny   Optimal choice of observation window for
                                  Poisson observations . . . . . . . . . . 291--298
                Luc Devroye and   
                   Adam Krzyzak   On the Hilbert kernel density estimate   299--308
     Francisco J. Samaniego and   
                   Eric Vestrup   On improving standard estimators via
                                  linear empirical Bayes methods . . . . . 309--318

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 44, Number 4, October 1, 1999

                    Qi-Hua Wang   Some bounds for the error of an
                                  estimator of the hazard function with
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--326
                Cheng Cheng and   
                     Y. L. Tong   Concentration order on a metric space,
                                  with some statistical applications . . . 327--335
                    W. D. Kaigh   Total time on test function principal
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--341
             Marc G. Genton and   
                     Yanyuan Ma   Robustness properties of dispersion
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--350
                    Bernd Droge   Asymptotic optimality of full
                                  cross-validation for selecting linear
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 351--357
                    Sangun Park   A goodness-of-fit test for normality
                                  based on the sample entropy of order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--363
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
             Enrico A. Colosimo   Corrected score tests for exponential
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--373
         Yuri V. Borovskikh and   
               Neville C. Weber   On Wald's equation for $U$-statistical
                                  sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--382
                    Ji-Hyun Kim   Spurious correlation between ratios with
                                  a common divisor . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--386
              Dong Wan Shin and   
                   Beong Soo So   New tests for unit roots in
                                  autoregressive processes with possibly
                                  infinite variance errors . . . . . . . . 387--397
                   Holger Drees   On fixed-length confidence intervals for
                                  a bounded normal mean  . . . . . . . . . 399--404
               Holger Dette and   
                  Weng Kee Wong   E-optimal designs for the
                                  Michaelis--Menten model  . . . . . . . . 405--408
        Mikhail B. Malyutov and   
         Rostislav S. Protassov   Functional approach to the asymptotic
                                  normality of the non-linear least
                                  squares estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . 409--416
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 45, Number 1, October 15, 1999

            Hammou El Barmi and   
                 Dale Zimmerman   Likelihood ratio tests for and against
                                  decreasing in transposition in $ K
                                  \times K \times K $ contingency tables   1--10
        Hervé Cardot and   
Frédéric Ferraty and   
                   Pascal Sarda   Functional linear model  . . . . . . . . 11--22
       István Berkes and   
         Endre Csáki and   
    Sándor Csörg\Ho   Almost sure limit theorems for the St.
                                  Petersburg game  . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
                 Shu Yamada and   
               Dennis K. J. Lin   Three-level supersaturated designs . . . 31--39
          Michael Woodroofe and   
                     Rong Zhang   Isotonic estimation for grouped data . . 41--47
            Theofanis Sapatinas   A characterization of the negative
                                  binomial distribution via $ \alpha
                                  $-monotonicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--53
                    M. Zarepour   Bootstrapping convex hulls . . . . . . . 55--63
                 J. Bertoin and   
                K. van Harn and   
                  F. W. Steutel   Renewal theory and level passage by
                                  subordinators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--69
                 Dietmar Ferger   On the uniqueness of maximizers of
                                  Markov--Gaussian processes . . . . . . . 71--77
            Ryszard Zieli\'nski   Best equivariant nonparametric estimator
                                  of a quantile  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84
             Han-Ying Liang and   
                        Chun Su   Complete convergence for weighted sums
                                  of NA sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 45, Number 2, November 1, 1999

               Dipak K. Dey and   
                Malay Ghosh and   
         William E. Strawderman   On estimation with balanced loss
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101
                    F. Belzunce   On a characterization of right spread
                                  order by the increasing convex order . . 103--110
             Mei Ling Huang and   
                    Percy Brill   A level crossing quantile estimation
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--119
               Bruno Bassan and   
              Michel Denuit and   
                 Marco Scarsini   Variability orders and mean differences  121--130
                    Chinsan Lee   An urn model in the simulation of
                                  interval censored failure time data  . . 131--139
                   Paul Kabaila   Confidence intervals from simulations
                                  based on $4$-independent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--147
           Grzegorz Rempala and   
              Jacek Weso\lowski   Limiting behavior of random permanents   149--158
                A. M. Nikouline   On approximation of Gaussian integrals   159--165
                Taizhong Hu and   
                      Jinjin Hu   Sufficient conditions for negative
                                  association of random variables  . . . . 167--173
           Naveen K. Bansal and   
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                      Hao Zhang   Non-linear regression with
                                  multidimensional indices . . . . . . . . 175--186
                Damien G. White   On fractal percolation in $ \mathbb
                                  {R}^2 $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 45, Number 3, November 15, 1999

                   G. Gopal and   
                 S. Rajalakshmi   L-superadditive function and its
                                  integral transform that preserves Schur
                                  property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--194
                   Yoon Tae Kim   Parameter estimation in
                                  infinite-dimensional stochastic
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 195--204
                 A. K. Basu and   
          Indranil Mukhopadhyay   On Darling--Robbins type confidence
                                  sequences and sequential tests with
                                  power one for parameters of an
                                  autoregressive process . . . . . . . . . 205--214
        Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau and   
              Hui-Nien Hung and   
                 Chun-Ta Chiang   A note on Bayesian estimation of process
                                  capability indices . . . . . . . . . . . 215--224
              Kaushik Patra and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   A multivariate mixture of Weibull
                                  distributions in reliability modeling    225--235
           Yuan-chin Ivan Chang   Strong consistency of maximum
                                  quasi-likelihood estimate in generalized
                                  linear models via a last time  . . . . . 237--246
              Richard A. Vitale   Majorization and Gaussian correlation    247--251
             Alan T. K. Wan and   
                 Hiroko Kurumai   An iterative feasible minimum mean
                                  squared error estimator of the
                                  disturbance variance in linear
                                  regression under asymmetric loss . . . . 253--259
           Vera R. Eastwood and   
           Lajos Horváth   Limit theorems for short distances in $
                                  \mathbb {R}^m $  . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--268
          Biman Chakraborty and   
               Probal Chaudhuri   A note on the robustness of multivariate
                                  medians  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--276
               Leng-Cheng Hwang   Two-stage approach to Bayes sequential
                                  estimation in the exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--282
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283

Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 45, Number 4, December 15, 1999

                  Ouagnina Hili   On the estimation of $ \beta $-ARCH
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--293
                 Rungao Jin and   
                  John Robinson   Saddlepoint approximation near the
                                  endpoints of the support . . . . . . . . 295--303
           Faouzi El Bantli and   
                    Marc Hallin   $ L_1 $-estimation in linear models with
                                  heterogeneous white noise  . . . . . . . 305--315
            Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau   A new algorithm for $5$-band Toeplitz
                                  matrix inversion with application to GCV
                                  smoothing spline computation . . . . . . 317--324
              Anthony Y. C. Kuk   The use of approximating models in Monte
                                  Carlo maximum likelihood estimation  . . 325--333
         Nalini Ravishanker and   
                   Zuqiang Qiou   Monte Carlo EM estimation for
                                  multivariate stable distributions  . . . 335--340
            Allan McQuarrie and   
                 Chih-Ling Tsai   Model selection in orthogonal regression 341--349
            Kathryn Prewitt and   
          Ulkü Gürler   Variance of the bivariate density
                                  estimator for left truncated right
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--358
               Hira L. Koul and   
                   Anton Schick   Inference about the ratio of scale
                                  parameters in a two-sample setting with
                                  current status data  . . . . . . . . . . 359--369
                     C. Y. Wang   Robust sandwich covariance estimation
                                  for regression calibration estimator in
                                  Cox regression with measurement error    371--378
               Peter Howard and   
                  Kevin Zumbrun   Shift invariance of the occupation time
                                  of the Brownian bridge process . . . . . 379--382
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--384


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 47, Number 2, April 1, 2000

              Tien-Chung Hu and   
                 Andrei Volodin   Addendum to ``A note on complete
                                  convergence for arrays'', Statist.
                                  Probab. Lett. \bf 38 (1) (1998) 27--31   209--211


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 50, Number 2, November 1, 2000

                   Gwo Dong Lin   Erratum: ``On the moment problems''
                                  [Statist. Probab. Lett. \bf 35 (1997)
                                  85--90]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205


Statistics & Probability Letters
Volume 53, Number 1, May 15, 2001

      José Luis Palacios   Correction on ``Random walks on
                                  edge-transitive graphs (II)'' [Statist.
                                  Probab. Lett. \bf 43 (1999) 25--32]  . . 111--112