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P. C. Wickens The Australian Journal of Statistics . . 1--2
H. Campion A Congratulatory Message from the Royal
Statistical Society . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
F. G. Jarrett Estimation of Resource Productivities As
Illustrated by a Survey of the Lower
Murray Valley Dairying Area . . . . . . 3--11
M. A. Hanson A Problem in Economic Allocation of
Effort in Fault Detection . . . . . . . 12--18
H. O. Lancaster Generation Life Tables for Australia . . 19--33
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
G. M. Tallis Sampling Errors of Genetic Correlation
Coefficients Calculated from Analyses of
Variance and Covariance . . . . . . . . 35--43
H. Weiler Note on Harmonic and Geometric Means . . 44--46
P. A. P. Moran The Power of a Cross-Over Test for the
Artificial Stimulation of Rain . . . . . 47--52
H. O. Lancaster Zero Correlation and Independence . . . 53--56
H. S. Konijn Basing Decisions on an Analysis of
Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--68
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--72
H. Weiller Means and Standard Deviations of a
Truncated Normal Bivariate Distribution 73--81
H. S. Konijn Models Used in Statistical Studies of
Relations Between Uncontrolled Variables 82--93
D. P. Sharp The Role of Research in a Firm's
Decision to Enter a Market and in Its
Subsequent Operations . . . . . . . . . 94--99
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
E. J. Hannan The Estimation of Seasonal Variation . . 1--15
H. S. Konjin Multiple Comparison with Controls . . . 16--18
A. G. L. Elliott Calibration of a Flip Tester . . . . . . 19--31
E. A. Cornish Fiducial Limits for Parameters in
Compound Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . 32--40
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
M. A. Hanson Errors and Stochastic Variations in
Linear Programming . . . . . . . . . . . 41--46
H. S. Konijn Some Remarks on Regression Analysis with
Uncontrolled Regressors . . . . . . . . 47--52
G. N. Wilkinson Comparison of Missing Value Procedures 53--65
G. M. Tallis The Sampling Errors of Estimated Genetic
Regression Coefficients and the Errors
of Predicted Genetic Gains . . . . . . . 66--77
Milo\vs Jílek and
Otakar Líka\vr Tolerance Limits of the Normal
Distribution with Known Variance and
Unknown Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
J. C. H. Dewdney A Note on Seasonal Swings in Mortality
in Australia, 1861--1955 . . . . . . . . 84--90
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
H. O. Lancaster Mortality at Young Adult Ages --- a
Relative Maximum . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
F. H. W. Morley An Effect of Genotype X Environment
Interactions on Estimation of Genotypic
Covariances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101
C. E. V. Leser Demand Functions for Nine Commodity
Groups in Australia . . . . . . . . . . 102--113
P. C. Wickens Abridged Life Tables for the Australian
States, 1953--1955 . . . . . . . . . . . 114--121
A. M. W. Verhagen Growth Curves and Their Functional Form 122--127
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--130
Anonymous Short Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
D. J. Finney and
M. R. Sampford The Comparison of Linear Regressions for
Sets of Correlated Variates . . . . . . 1--19
H. O. Lancaster The Combination of Probabilities: an
Application of Orthonormal Functions . . 20--33
Anonymous Short Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous Editorial Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
Eve Bofinger and
V. J. Bofinger A Runs Test for Sequences of Random
Digits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--41
G. Gregory Contingency Tables with a Dependent
Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47
P. J. Claringbold The Use of Orthogonal Polynomials in the
Partition of Chi-Square . . . . . . . . 48--63
M. A. Hanson A Duality Theorem in Non-Linear
Programming with Non-Linear Constraints 64--72
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--75
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
H. S. Konijn Non-Parametric, Robust and Short-Cut
Methods in Regression and Structural
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--87
P. A. P. Moran Path Coefficients Reconsidered . . . . . 87--93
G. H. Jowett The Analysis of Continuously Generated
Time Series Date of the Type Produced by
Recording Instruments . . . . . . . . . 94--107
G. N. Wilkinson The Eighth Moment and Cumulant of the
Distribution for Normal Samples of the
Skewness Coefficient $ \gamma = k_3
k_2^{-3 / 2} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--114
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
A. W. Beattie Truncation in Two Variates to Maximize a
Function of the Means of a Normal
Multivariate Distribution . . . . . . . 1--3
J. S. Maritz Confidence Regions for Regression
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--10
L. R. Saunders The Prediction of a Random Time Series
Affected by a Prescribed Time Function 11--24
M. A. Hamdan The Powers of Certain Smooth Tests of
Goodness of Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--40
Sir Ronald A. Fisher Confidence Limits for a Cross-Product
Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
G. M. Tallis and
S. S. Y. Young Maximum Likelihood Estimation of
Parameters of the Normal, Log-Normal,
Truncated Normal and Bivariate Normal
Distributions from Grouped Data . . . . 49--54
J. Gani and
G. F. Yeo On the Age Distribution of $n$ Ranked
Elements After Several Replacements . . 55--60
L. N. Balaam and
R. D. Hunter The Analysis of a Series of Wheat
Varietal Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--70
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--76
L. R. Saunders The Dynamics of a Simple Non-Linear
Prediction System . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85
R. W. Bennett Sizes of the $ \chi^2 $ Test in the
Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . 86--88
K. R. W. Brewer and
G. C. Udny Samples of Two Units Drawn with Unequal
Probabilities Without Replacement . . . 89--100
S. K. Bhattacharya On a Probit Analogue Used in a Life-Test
Based on the Weibull Distribution . . . 101--105
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--110
W. J. Ewens Two Asymptotic Results in Sequential
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
K. R. W. Brewer A Model of Systematic Sampling with
Unequal Probabilities . . . . . . . . . 5--13
M. A. Hanson An Algorithm for Convex Programming . . 14--19
V. K. Sethi A Note on Optimum Stratification of
Populations for Estimating the
Population Means . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--33
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--35
P. A. P. Moran The Australian Statistical Society . . . 36--36
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--40
Anonymous Note on Editorial Policy: Note on
Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i
A. M. W. Verhagen The ``Caution-Level'' in Multiple Tests
of Significance . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
B. D. Craven Some Results for the Bulk Service Queue 49--56
D. N. Shanbhag On Queues with Poisson Service Time . . 57--61
L. N. Balaam Multiple Comparisons --- a Sampling
Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--84
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--91
K. R. W. Brewer Ratio Estimation and Finite Populations:
Some Results Deducible from the
Assumption of an Underlying Stochastic
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--105
J. N. K. Rao and
G. Tintner On the Variate Difference Method . . . . 106--116
Alan Powell Serial Dependence in Annual Demands for
Fodder Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--124
N. S. Stenhouse Errata and Addendum . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
B. S. Niven The Joint Distribution of the Sample
Mean and the Sample Range . . . . . . . 127--132
L. H. Day A Note on the Measurement of Divorce,
with Special Reference to Australian
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142
H. S. Konijn Note on the Non-Existence of a Maximum
Likelihood Estimate . . . . . . . . . . 143--146
Peter W. M. John Extended Complete Block Designs . . . . 147--152
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--159
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
T. W. Anderson Some Approaches to the Statistical
Analysis of Time Series . . . . . . . . 1--11
P. J. Staff The Displaced Poisson Distribution . . . 12--20
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
J. A. Lambert Estimation of Parameters in the
Three-Parameter Lognormal Distribution 29--32
H. O. Lancaster Bibliography of Vital Statistics in
Australia and New Zealand . . . . . . . 33--99
Anonymous Honorary Life Member . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--107
Anonymous Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Eve Bofinger Variance-Covariance Formulae and
Estimation for Markov Chains . . . . . . 109--116
Jean M. Williams and
H. Weiler Further Charts for the Means of
Truncated Normal Bivariate Distributions 117--129
M. A. Hamdan A Smooth Test of Goodness of Fit Based
on the Walsh Functions . . . . . . . . . 130--136
B. D. Haig Letter To The Editor: Letter to the
Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
Victor Chew Effects of Correlated Errors on
Variate-Difference Estimates of Error
Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
C. R. Heathcote Random Walks and a Price Support Scheme 7--14
U. N. Bhat Customer Overflow in Queues with Finite
Waiting Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
V. J. Bofinger The $k$-Sample Slippage Problem . . . . 20--31
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia:
The Statistical Society of Australia . . 33--36
D. Kerridge A Probabilistic Derivation of the
Non-Central $ \chi^2 $ Distribution . . 37--39
H. O. Lancaster and
T. A. I. Brown Sizes of the $ \chi^2 $ Test in the
Symmetrical Multinomials . . . . . . . . 40--44
D. Singh and
B. D. Singh Some Contributions to Two-Phase Sampling 45--47
D. N. Shanbhag On the Asymptotic Behaviour of a
Single-Server Queue . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Eve Bofinger and
V. J. Bofinger The Correlation of Maxima in Samples
Drawn from a Bivariate Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--61
C. A. Wilkins Some Remarks on a Certain Process . . . 62--66
Leon L. Wegge Identifiability Criteria for a System of
Equations As a Whole . . . . . . . . . . 67--77
M. L. Tiku Series Expansions for the Doubly
Non-Central $F$-Distribution . . . . . . 78--89
Kanti Swarup Some Aspects of Linear Fractional
Functionals Programming . . . . . . . . 90--104
P. R. Krishnaiah Simultaneous Tests for the Equality of
Variances Against Certain Alternatives 105--109
J. Robinson The Distribution of a General Quadratic
Form in Normal Variates . . . . . . . . 110--114
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
H. O. Lancaster Symmetry in Multivariate Distributions 115--126
G. P. B. Bhattacharjee Distribution of Range in Non-Normal
Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--141
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--150
P. A. P. Moran Estimation from Inequalities . . . . . . 1--8
D. R. McNeil Grouping Corrections for Sequential
Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--21
D. G. Kabe Some Results for the Normal Multivariate
Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 22--27
A. D. Joffe A Note on the Number of Dust Particles
in a Sample of Air-Borne Mine Dust . . . 28--31
M. S. Holla Notes: Bayesian Estimates of the
Reliability Function . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Anonymous News And Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia:
Annual Report of the Central Council for
1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
D. Vere-Jones Simple Stochastic Models for the Release
of Quanta of Transmitter from a Nerve
Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--63
N. T. Drane Fuel and Power Price Indexes, Australian
Manufacturing, 1908--9 to 1960--61 . . . 64--79
G. Rai Cumulative Sum Control Charts for
Truncated Normal Distributions . . . . . 80--86
D. G. Kabe Complex Analogues of Some Results in
Classical Normal Multivariate Regression
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--91
E. Seneta Quasi-Stationary Behaviour in the Random
Walk with Continuous Time . . . . . . . 92--98
D. G. Kabe Complex Analogues of Some Classical
Noncentral Multivariate Distributions 99--103
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--115
H. O. Lancaster Forerunners of the Pearson $ \chi^2 $ 117--126
J. W. James Incomplete Sampling for Selection of a
Fixed Proportion . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137
Charles Price Australian Migration Statistics,
1959--65 (with special reference to
Settler Gain and Loss) . . . . . . . . . 138--153
H. C. Jain An Inventory Problem Applied to a Rental
Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--162
E. Cinlar Decomposition of a Semi-Markov Process
Under a Markovian Rule . . . . . . . . . 163--170
Anonymous Honorary Life Member . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--179
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
E. Seneta On Imbedding Discrete Chains in
Continuous Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
M. S. Avadhani and
B. V. Sukhatme Controlled Sampling with Varying
Probabilities with and Without
Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--15
S. Subba Rao The Effect of Postponable Interruptions
on a M/G/1 System with Impatient
Customers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--34
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
Eliyahu Scheinberg The Sampling Variance of the Relative
Efficiency of Indirect to Direct
Selection When Using Variance-Covariance
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
Anonymous Honorary Life Member . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia:
Annual Report of the Central Council for
1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
M. L. Tiku A Note on Estimating the Location and
Scale Parameters of the Exponential
Distribution from a Censored Sample . . 49--54
S. John Estimators for the Comparison of
Sampling Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56
M. S. Chikkagoudar Sampling with Preliminary Random
Stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--70
W. Dent A Model for the Allocation of Sales
Dates to Australian Wool Selling Centres 71--81
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--88
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Yu. V. Linnik On Certain Connections Between Algebraic
Geometry and Statistics . . . . . . . . 89--92
E. Seneta On the Maxima of Absorbing Markov Chains 93--102
D. F. Nicholls Estimation of the Spectral Density
Function When Testing for a Jump in the
Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--108
M. S. Chikkagoudar On PPS Sampling with and Without
Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--118
G. K. Eagleson and
H. O. Lancaster The Regression System of Sums with
Random Elements in Common . . . . . . . 120--125
J. Robinson and
L. N. Balaam Variance Heterogeneity and Error
Correlation in Factorial Experiments . . 126--130
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous The Australian Journal of Statistics
Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--133
M. S. Avadhani and
B. V. Sukhatme Simplified Procedures for Designing
Controlled Simple Random Sampling . . . 1--7
Erhan Çinlar Some Joint Distributions for Markov
Renewal Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 8--20
D. G. Kabe On the Distribution of the Regression
Coefficient Matrix of a Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
B. N. Nagnur Asymptotically Optimal Sequential Tests
for Simple and Composite Hypotheses . . 24--30
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--40
D. W. Maitland Sir Stanley Carver 1897--1967 . . . . . 41--43
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia:
Annual Report of the Central Council for
1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--47
Anonymous The Australian Journal of Statistics
Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
M. A. Hamdan The Variance of the Components of
Chi-Square in Contingency Tables . . . . 49--55
S. G. Prabhu-Ajgaonkar The Theory of Univariate Sampling on
Successive Occasions Under the General
Correlation Pattern . . . . . . . . . . 56--63
M. L. Tiku Estimating the Parameters of Normal and
Logistic Distributions from Censored
Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--74
M. N. Das and
A. C. Kulshreshtha On Derivation of Initial Blocks of
B.I.B. Designs with More Than One
Initial Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82
H. O. Lancaster The Median of $ \chi $ . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--102
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous 37th Session of the International
Statistical Institute . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
S. R. Kulkarni On the Optimal Asymptotic Tests for the
Effects of Cloud Seeding on Rainfall
(1). The Case of Fixed Effects . . . . . 105--115
P. R. Krishnaiah and
P. K. Pathak A Note on Confidence Bounds for Certain
Ratios of Characteristic Roots of
Covariance Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 116--119
N. E. Day The Use of Taylor Series in Sequential
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
A. M. W. Verhagen A Perspective in Statistical Inference 125--137
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--143
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous The Australian Journal of Statistics
Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
S. L. Mehndiratta A Generalization of a Theorem of Sinha
on Supports of a Convex Function . . . . 1--6
D. F. Nicholls Testing for a Jump in Co-Spectra . . . . 7--13
Robert Bartoszynski and
Howard D'Abrera A Model of Age-Dependent Inheritance . . 14--28
G. K. Eagleson A Characterization Theorem for Positive
Definite Sequences on the Krawtchouk
Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--38
S. R. Kulkarni On the Optimal Asymptotic Tests for the
Effects of Cloud Seeding on Rainfall
(2). The Case of Variable Effects . . . 39--51
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
D. Singh and
O. P. Kathuria On Two-Stage Successive Sampling . . . . 59--66
D. Vere-Jones Some Limit Theorems for Evanescent
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78
C. G. Khatri and
M. C. Jaiswal Testing the Equality of Parameters in
the Distributions When the Range Depends
Upon the Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84
P. Mandl and
E. Seneta The Theory of Non-Negative Matrices in a
Dynamic Programming Problem . . . . . . 85--96
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--103
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia:
Annual Report of the Central Council for
1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--109
Anonymous The Australian Journal of Statistics
Editorial Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
C. A. McGilchrist Testing for Plant Competition . . . . . 111--119
John E. Walsh Sample Sizes for Approximate
Independence Between Sample Median and
Largest (Or Smallest) Order Statistic 120--122
P. D. Praetz Australian Share Prices and the Random
Walk Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--139
T. P. Tripathi A Regression-Type Estimator in Sampling
with PPS and with Replacement . . . . . 140--148
M. L. Tiku Doubly Non-Central $t$ Distribution . . 149--154
M. S. Chikkagoudar Inverse Sampling Without Replacement . . 155--165
M. P. Quine and
E. Seneta A Limit Theorem for the Galton--Watson
Process with Immigration . . . . . . . . 166--173
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--178
V. J. Bofinger The Correlation of Maxima in Several
Bivariate Non-Normal Distributions . . . 1--7
Gordon P. Wright Some Optimal Ordering Policies for
Inventory Systems with Stochastic Lead
Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--12
D. R. Jensen The Joint Distribution of Quadratic
Forms and Related Distributions . . . . 13--22
Surendra K. Srivastava A Two-Phase Sampling Estimator in Sample
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--27
P. M. Wu A Note on Storage with Deterministic
Outputs and Inputs Subject to Breakdown 28--32
J. A. Lambert Estimation of Parameters in the
Four-Parameter Lognormal Distribution 33--43
E. G. Enns A Stochastic Superposition Process and
an Integral Inequality for Distributions
with Monotone Hazard Rates . . . . . . . 44--49
N. E. Day A Numerical Study of Some Sequential
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--57
A. M. Kshirsagar and
Y. P. Gupta Distribution of the Number of Markovian
Renewals in an Arbitrary Interval . . . 58--63
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Peter W. M. John A Three-Quarter Fraction of the $ 4^3 $
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
A. H. Pollard Some Hypothetical Models in Systems of
Tertiary Education . . . . . . . . . . . 78--91
A. H. Pollard Minimum Rate of Progress Formulae at
Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--103
A. Grassia Optimum Allocation in Multi-Way
Classifications . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--111
Robert L. Heiny and
M. M. Siddiqui Estimation of the Parameters of a Normal
Distribution When the Mean Is Restricted
to an Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--117
Tran Van Hoa Notes on the Estimation of the CES
Production Function by Planar
Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
Anonymous Corrigenda: A Regression-type Estimator
in Sampling with PPS and with
Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous The Statistical Society of Australia:
Annual Report of the Central Council for
1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
C. A. McGilchrist and
A. G. L. Elliott Generalized Inverses in Linear
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
J. L. Roughan and
H. H. Evans Editing Time Series . . . . . . . . . . 141--149
A. M. Hasofer On the Derivative and the Upcrossings of
the Rayleigh Process . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Umesh D. Naik Bayesian Comparisons of the Origins of
Translated Exponential Distributions . . 152--159
W. D. Wallis A Constuction for Partially Balanced
Incomplete Block Designs . . . . . . . . 160--161
R. C. Griffiths Positive Definite Sequences and
Canonical Correlation Coefficients . . . 162--165
A. C. Kulshreshtha and
A. Dey A New Weighing Design . . . . . . . . . 166--168
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--176
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
N. L. Johnson Comparison of Some Tests of Sample
Censoring of Extreme Values . . . . . . 1--6
Anonymous The Effects of Variations in the
Components of Change on the Size and
Structure of the Australian Population:
1911--66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--18
K. C. Kakwani The Bias of the Three-Stage
Least-Squares Estimators in Simultaneous
Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--26
B. C. Griffiths Orthogonal Polynomials on the
Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . 27--35
H. O. Lancaster The Multiplicative Definition of
Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--44
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56
C. E. Salmond The Estimation of Parameters of a Model
Which are Implicitly Defined from their
Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63
P. P. Preston Estimating the Mixing Distribution by
Piece-Wise Polynomial Arcs . . . . . . . 64--76
Mary H. Begier and
M. A. Hamdan Correlation in a Bivariate Normal
Distribution with Truncation in Both
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--82
Jeffrey J. Hunter Further Studies on Two Queues in
Parallel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--93
Richard J. Cowan A Road with no Overtaking . . . . . . . 94--116
Anonymous Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
J. C. Ahuja Certain Properties of the Stirling
Distribution of the Second Kind . . . . 133--136
A. Dey On Some Chemical Balance Weighing
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--141
M. L. Tiku Student's Distribution Under Non-Normal
Situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--148
P. A. P. Moean Analysing an Experiment to Find the
Causes of Variability of a Treatment
Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--153
M. A. Hamdan and
E. O. Martinson Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the
Bivariate Binomial $ (0, 1) $
Distribution:Application to $ 2 \times 2
$ Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--158
A. G. Pakes On a Theorem of Quine and Seneta for the
Galton--Watson Process with Immigration 159--164
P. D. Finch A Storage Problem Along a Production
Line of Discrete Flow . . . . . . . . . 165--167
Phoebus J. Dhrymes A Simplified Structural Estimator for
Large-Scale Econometric Models . . . . . 168--175
Anonymous Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--187
C. C. Heyde Martingales: a Case for a Place in the
Statistician's Repertoire . . . . . . . 1--9
D. B. Jensen The Limiting Form of the Non-Central
Wishart Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 10--16
T. Sugiyama Approximation for the Distribution of
the Largest Latent Root of a Wishart
Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
B. L. Baktoe and
W. T. Federer Construction of Confounded Mixed
Factorial and Mixed Lattice Designs . . 25--36
M. L. Tiku A Note on the Distribution of the Doubly
Non-Central $F$ Distribution . . . . . . 37--40
Carl-Erik Särndal Properties of Some Simple Functions of
the Likelihood Ratio . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
J. C. Ahuja and
E. Enneking Certain Properties of the Distribution
of the Sum of Independent
Zero-One-Truncated Poisson Variables . . 50--53
P. V. Bao Robust Estimation for a Simple
Exponential Model . . . . . . . . . . . 54--62
J. D. Kerr Least Squares Analysis of Freight-Rate
Anomalies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--67
G. J. McLachlan An Asymptotic Expansion for the Variance
of the Errors of Misclassification of
the Linear Discriminant Function . . . . 68--72
Richard L. Francis and
Howard D. Meeks On Saddle Point Conditions and the
Generalized Neyman--Pearson Problem . . 73--78
E. G. Enns The Distributions of a Number of Random
Variables Associated with the Absorbing
Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
V. B. Waikar and
T. C. Chang and
P. R. Krishnaiah Exact Distributions of a Few Arbitrary
Roots of Some Complex Random Matrices 84--88
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--96
G. Baikunth Nath Moments of a Linearly Truncated
Bivariate Normal Distribution . . . . . 97--102
M. L. Tiku and
H. J. Malik On the Distributions of Order Statistics 103--108
M. S. Avadhani and
B. V. Sukhatme Sampling on Several Successive Occasions
with Equal and Unequal Probabilities and
Without Replacement . . . . . . . . . . 109--119
Ravindra Singh A Note on Sampling Over Two Occasions 120--122
P. C. Gupta On Some Product Type Estimators in
Varying Probability . . . . . . . . . . 123--128
George A. Milliken and
Franklin A. Graybill Interaction Models for the Latin Square 129--138
K. S. Banerjee In Justification of Wald's Criterion of
Efficiency of Experimental Designs in
Relation to the Weighing Problem . . . . 139--142
N. C. Kakwani and
R. H. Court Reduced Form Coefficient Estimation and
Forecasting from a Simultaneous Equation
Model* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--160
P. G. Gipps and
Susan M. Smart An Examination of the Power of Scheffé's
Solution to the Fisher--Behrens Problem 161--166
D. A. S. Fraser and
F. Streit On the Behrens--Fisher Problem . . . . . 167--171
C. E. Heathcote A Test of Goodness of Fit for Symmetric
Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--181
E. C. Griffiths Linear Dependence in Bivariate
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--187
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--195
H. Ware and
J. C. Caldwell Confidentiality, Privacy and Sensitivity
in Household Surveys . . . . . . . . . . 197--203
J. A. Lambert Likelihoods with Rounded Data . . . . . 204--210
Edward J. Dudewicz Confidence Intervals for Power, with
Special Reference to Medical Trials . . 211--216
Warren Dent A Note on Transition Probability
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--221
Abdul Samad Hirai Estimation of Scale and Location
Parameters, Using Quadratic Coefficients 222--226
T. J. Rao Horvitz--Thompson and Des Raj Estimators
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230
K. R. W. Brewer and
L. J. Early and
S. F. Joyce Selecting Several Samples from a Single
Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--239
N. Podder Household Consumption of Food in
Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--255
E. J. Hannan and
P. A. P. Moran The Effects of Serial Correlation on a
Randomized Rain-Making Experiment . . . 256--261
D. F. Nioholls On Hannan's Estimation of ARMA Models 262--269
R. C. Griffiths Corrigenda: Orthogonal Polynomials on
the Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . 270--270
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--276
H. O. Lancaster Bibliography of Vital Statistics in
Australia: a Second List . . . . . . . . 1--25
Anonymous Corrigenda To Original Bibliography . . 26--26
G. F. Yeo On a Model of Cell Colony Formation . . 27--34
John F. Reynolds On Estimating the Parameters of a
Birth-Death Process . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
C. G. Chakrabarti A Note on the Significance of
Sufficiency in Thermodynamics . . . . . 44--48
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
D. Vere-Jones Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--64
D. R. Jensen Monotone Bounds on the Chi-Squared
Approximation to the Distribution of
Pearson's $ \chi $ statistics . . . . . 65--70
S. John Critical Values for Inference About
Normal Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . 71--79
L. Billard A Procedure for Testing the Mean of a
Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 80--86
M. N. Das and
S. Mohanty On PPS Sampling Without Replacement
Ensuring Selection Probabilities Exactly
Proportional to Sizes . . . . . . . . . 87--94
J. N. K. Rao and
M. P. Singh On the Choice of Estimator in Survey
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--104
A. R. Sen Some Theory of Sampling on Successive
Occasions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--110
Alan Powell Estimation of Lluch's Extended Linear
Expenditure System from Cross-Sectional
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--117
P. D. Praetz Growth Rate Estimators for Economic Time
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--127
M. T. Boswell and
G. P. Patil Characterization of Certain Discrete
Distributions by Differential Equations
with Respect to Their Parameters . . . . 128--131
Harmindar B. Nath Waiting Time in the Coupon-Collector's
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Douglas Sherman Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--144
K. R. W. Brewer and
R. W. Mellor The Effect of Sample Structure on
Analytical Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
C. M. Young Editing a Large-Scale Demographic Survey
--- The Experience of the Melbourne
Family Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--166
Ross A. Williams Variable Weight Distributed Lags:
Housing Completions in Australia . . . . 167--179
Kenneth S. Miller Serial Correlation and Spectral Moment
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--184
Fred Calitz Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the
Parameters of the Three-Parameter
Lognormal Distribution --- a
Reconsideration . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--190
Nancy L. Ferguson Comparison of Three Non-Parametric Tests
for Bivariate Interchangeability . . . . 191--209
G. J. Mclachlan An Asymptotic Expansion of the
Expectation of the Estimated Error Rate
in Discriminant Analysis . . . . . . . . 210--214
A. M. Hasofer The Joint Distribution of the Envelope
of a Gaussian Process and Its Derivative 215--216
Tran Van Hoa Corrigenda: Notes on the Estimation of
the CES Production Function by Planar
Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217
S. R. Kulkarni Corrigenda: On the Optimal Asymptotic
Tests for the Effects of Cloud Seeding
on Rainfall. (2) The Case of Variable
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217
Anonymous Obituary: Edmund Alfred Cornish
(1909--1973) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--220
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--231
Anonymous Publications Received . . . . . . . . . 232--232
C. G. Khatri On Testing the Equality of Location
Parameters in $k$ Censored Exponential
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
David Thomas and
Nancy Ferguson Some Tests for Independence . . . . . . 11--19
G. C. L. Searle A Note on a Sequential Group $t$-Test 20--25
Grace J. Kelleher Exact Two-Sample Median Tests When One
``Sample'' Value Possibly from a
Different Population . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
G. S. Lingappaiah Prediction in Samples from the Gamma
Distribution As Applied to Life Testing 30--32
I. V. Basawa Maximum Likelihood Estimation of
Parameters in Renewal and Markov-Renewal
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43
Denise R. Osborn The Distribution of Price Changes on the
Sydney Stock Exchange . . . . . . . . . 44--49
A. K. Nigam A Note on Optimum Chemical Balance
Weighing Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
R. C. Griffiths A Characterization of the Multinomial
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
R. L. Sandland A Note on Some Applications of the
Truncated Geometric Distribution . . . . 57--58
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--70
H. O. Lancaster Charles Henry Wickens: 1872--1939 . . . 71--82
Shingo Shirahata On Tests of Symmetry for Discrete
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--90
E. R. Sowey A Priori Restrictions in Reduced Form
Estimation: a Monte Carlo Comparison of
Alternative Estimators . . . . . . . . . 91--105
M. L. Thornett Minimum Mean Square Error Unbiased
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
R. D. Gupta On a Certain Multivariate Beta
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
R. E. Miles The Fundamental Formula of Blaschke in
Integral Geometry and Geometrical
Probability, and Its Iteration, for
Domains with Fixed Orientations . . . . 111--118
D. N. Shanbhag and
G. Rajamannar Some Characterizations of the Bivariate
Distribution of Independent Poisson
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--125
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--132
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--134
J. S. Maritz Aligning of Estimates: an Alternative to
Empirical Bayes Methods . . . . . . . . 135--143
W. K. Chiu Selecting the $m$ Populations with
Largest Means from $k$ Normal
Populations with Unknown Variances . . . 144--147
E. G. Phadia Best Invariant Confidence Bands for a
Continuous Cumulative Distribution
Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--152
Dallas E. Johnson On the Moments of the Characteristic
Roots of a Noncentral ($ 2 \times 2$)
Wishart Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
Stanley R. Pliska A Dynamic Programming Model for Optimal
Observations of a Discrete Time Linear
Stochastic Process . . . . . . . . . . . 156--162
M. I. Beg and
S. N. U. A. Kirmani On a Characterization of Exponential and
Related Distributions . . . . . . . . . 163--166
Norfleet W. Rives, Jr. A Note on the Demographic Impact of
Contraception in a Mathematical Model of
Human Reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . 167--173
F. E. Binet Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--186
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Eve Bofinger Estimation of a Density Function Using
Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
M. P. Quine and
J. Robinson Rates of Convergence for Some Statistics
from Empirical Distribution Functions 8--11
Ravindra Singh A Note on Optimum Stratification in
Sampling with Varying Probabilities . . 12--21
Arijit Chaudhubi Some Properties of Estimators Based on
Sampling Schemes with Varying
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28
D. J. Best The Difference Between Two Poisson
Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--33
H. O. Lancaster The Multiplicative Definition of
Interaction an Addendum . . . . . . . . 34--36
K. E. Aggaewal Analysis of EGD and Hypercubic Designs
As Factorial Experiments . . . . . . . . 36--42
Hardeo Sahai and
Alcedo A. Ramírez Martínez Some Formal Bayes Estimators of Variance
Components in a Crossed Classification
Random Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 43--48
Sanpei Kageyama and
Goeo Ishu A Note on Bib Designs . . . . . . . . . 49--50
D. A. Preece Bibliography of Designs for Experiments
in Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 51--55
B. J. Williams Obituary: Maurice H. Belz (1897--1975) 56--57
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--58
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
J. H. Pollard Modelling Human Populations for
Projection Purposes --- Some of the
Problems and Challenges . . . . . . . . 63--76
Raj S. Chhikara Optimum Tests for Comparison of Two
Inverse Gaussian Distribution Means . . 77--83
M. A. Hamdan and
R. S. Schulman On Point Multiserial Correlation . . . . 84--86
O. D. Anderson On a Paper by Davies, Pate and Frost
Concerning Maximum Autocorrelations for
Moving Average Processes . . . . . . . . 87--90
D. J. Daley Certain Bounds Concerning Characteristic
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
N. S. Barnett A Note on a Generating Function Relation 94--95
Richard L. Tweedie Relations Between Ergodicity and Mean
Drift for Markov Chains . . . . . . . . 96--102
A. C. Gleeson and
J. B. Douglas Quadrat Sampling and the Estimation of
Neyman Type A and Thomas Distributional
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--113
W. K. Chiu Corrigendum: Selecting the $m$
Populations with Largest Means from $k$
Normal Populations with Unknown
Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--120
P. A. P. Moran Statistical Society of Australia Special
Lecture (October 28th, 1975): What
Should a Professor of Statistics Do? . . 121--133
D. Veee-Jones Statistical Aspects of the Estimation of
Earthquake Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--147
John McDonald and
Peter Monk An Analysis of the Statistical
Discrepancy in the Australian Quarterly
National Accounts* . . . . . . . . . . . 148--160
G. J. McLachlan Some Expected Values for the Error Rates
of the Sample Quadratic Discriminant
Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--165
Kenneth E. W. Brewer A Simple Procedure for Sampling $ \pi $
pswor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--172
E. L. Chambers and
C. E. Heathcote A Linear Model with Errors Lacking a
Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--185
D. A. Preece and
W. B. Hall Balanced Designs for Row-And-Column
Experiments with Two Non-Interacting
Sets of Treatments, One Set Not Being
Applied to All the Rows . . . . . . . . 186--191
Eve Bofinger Non-Parametric Estimation of Density for
Regularly Varying Distributions . . . . 192--195
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--198
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
J. Gani Some Aspects in the Development of
Statistics in Australia . . . . . . . . 1--20
E. K. Foreman and
W. McLennan and
D. G. Leaver and
M. W. Dickinson Why General Survey Systems ---
Australian GSS Progress and Prospects 21--36
D. Holt and
T. M. F. Smith The Design of Surveys for Planning
Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
T. Yanagawa and
S. Shirahata Ranked Set Sampling Theory with
Selective Probability Matrix . . . . . . 45--52
G. M. Talus and
P. L. Chesson The Relationship Between a Class of
Asymptotically Normal Estimators and
Goodness of Fit Tests . . . . . . . . . 53--61
James E. Beinmuth Recursive Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 62--72
O. D. Anderson An Improved Approach to Inverting the
Autocovariance Matrix of a General Mixed
Autoregressive Moving Average Time
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
C. S. Wuhees On the Convergence of Empirical
Processes of Mixing Variables . . . . . 76--83
Warren Dent Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--100
H. A. David Statistical Society of Australia the
Knibbs Lecture for 1976 (July 27th,
1976): The Theory of Competing Risks . . 101--110
Anonymous Invited Discussion of the Paper . . . . 110--114
R. W. Cole The Census of Population and Housing, 30
June 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--130
Bishwa Nath Mukherjee Techniques of Covariance Structural
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--150
K. C. Tan and
A. P. Gore A Distribution-Free Test for Two-Way
Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--157
Teruhiro Shirakura A Note on the Norm of Alias Matrices in
Fractional Replication . . . . . . . . . 158--160
E. H. Court A Note on Theil's Use of Incomplete
Prior Information in Regression Analysis 161--162
M. A. Hamdan and
D. R. Jensen A Bivariate Binomial Distribution and
Some Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 163--169
Douglas M. Hawkins and
Samuel Kotz A Clocking Property of the Exponential
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--172
Babry C. Arnold and
Glen Meeden A Characterization of the Uniform
Distribution Based on Summation Modulo
One, with Application to Fractional
Backlogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--188
Peter D. Finch Rough Analysis and Spurious Accuracy . . 1--21
J. R. Davis Using the Sydney Area Transportation
Study Data for Social Research . . . . . 22--31
George A. Milliken and
Dale Rasmuson A Heuristic Technique for Testing for
the Presence of Interaction in
Nonreplicated Factorial Experiments . . 32--38
E. R. Williams Iterative Analysis of Generalized
Lattice Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
Hubert J. Chen Non-Existence of an Exact $ \beta
$-Confidence Interval for a Scale
Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--55
S. K. Perng and
John D. Groves Two Sequential Procedures for
Partitioning a Set of One-Parameter
Exponential Populations with Respect to
a Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--60
Kenneth S. Kaminsky Best Prediction of Exponential Failure
Times When Items May Be Replaced . . . . 61--62
M. Breth Growth Processes: a Study of Progressive
Payments on Building Contracts . . . . . 63--69
H. N. Nagaraja On a Characterization Based on Record
Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--73
Anonymous News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--80
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Christabel M. Young Family Building Differences Between Same
Sex and Mixed Sex Families in Australia 83--95
Ravindra Singh A Note on Optimum Stratification for
Equal Allocation with Ratio and
Regression Methods of Estimation . . . . 96--104
Randhir Singh A Note on the Use of Incomplete
Multi-Auxiliary Information in Sample
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
A. Grassia On a Family of Distributions with
Argument Between 0 and 1 Obtained by
Transformation of the Gamma and Derived
Compound Distributions . . . . . . . . . 108--114
Thomas E. O'Bryan and
V. Susarla Empirical Bayes Estimation with
Non-Identical Components. Continuous
Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--125
S. L. Singla An Extension of & Designs . . . . . . . . 126--131
Noel Cressie The Minimum of Higher Order Gaps . . . . 132--143
Shigeru Mase On the Attainment of the Supremum of the
Bhattacharyya Lower Bounds for Variances
of Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--151
Paul D. Feigin A Note on Maximum Likelihood Estimation
for Simple Branching Processes . . . . . 152--154
Wm. J. Flrey Addendum to R. E. Miles' Paper on the
Fundamental Formula of Blaschke in
Integral Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--162
Lee-Jen Wei Sequential Searching Schemes for an
Optimal Dosage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171
L. Billard Bounds for the Average Sample Number
Function for a Binomial Sequential Test 172--178
M. Samiuddin and
Muhammad Hanif Bayesian Test of Hypothesis in the
Multinomial Distribution . . . . . . . . 179--184
J. T. Wood 466 and All That . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--193
E. R. Williams and
H. D. Patterson Upper Bounds for Efficiency Factors in
Block Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--201
A. K. Gupta On the Distribution of Sphericity Test
Criterion in the Multivariate Gaussian
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--205
A. W. Davis Asymptotic Theory for Principal
Component Analysis: Non-Normal Case . . 206--212
A. W. Davis Statistical Study of a Stochastic
Logarithmic Model with Hereditary Binary
Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225
Ritei Shibata Convergence of Least Squares Estimates
of Autoregressive Parameters . . . . . . 226--235
P. M. Robinson Estimating Variances and Covariances of
Sample Autocorrelations and
Autocovariances . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--240
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241
H. O. Lancaster Statistical Society of Australia Special
Lecture: (July 12th, 1977): World
Mortality Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--42
D. R. Cox Statistical Society of Australia the
Knibbs Lecture for 1977: (September 5th,
1977): Foundations of Statistical
Inference: the Case for Eclecticism . . 43--59
E. J. G. Pitman The Cramér--Rao Inequality . . . . . . . 60--74
M. E. O'Neill Asymptotic Distributions of the
Canonical Correlations from Contingency
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82
Annie Chacko and
A. Dey On the Estimation of Total Weight in
Chemical Balance Weighing Designs . . . 83--86
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous Honorary Life Member . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--97
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--97
W. T. Federer and
O. O. Ladipo A Component of Variance Due to
Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--110
D. A. Preece and
R. A. Bailey and
H. D. Patterson A Randomization Problem in Forming
Designs with Superimposed Treatments . . 111--125
John McDonald On the Relationship Between the Optimal
Extrapolative and Other Expectations
Generating Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 126--135
Patrick Mcdonnell and
F. Lancaster Jones and
Paul Duncan-Jones Notes on the Australian Occupational
Classification As a Social Science
Research Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--142
Robert V. Horn From Social Statistics to Social
Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152
B. M. Brown and
D. G. Kildea Asymptotically Equivalent Forms of
Hodges--Lehmann-Type Estimates in
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--160
R. L. Chambers and
C. R. Heathcote A Linear Model with Errors Lacking a
Variance II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--175
H. N. Nagaraja On the Expected Values of Record Values 176--182
R. C. Griffiths On a Bivariate Triangular Distribution 183--185
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--190
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--193
Niels Becker Models and Designs for Experiments with
Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--208
B. L. Raktoe and
A. A. Rayner and
D. O. Chalton On Construction of Confounded Mixed
Factorial and Lattice Designs . . . . . 209--218
J. W. Freebairn Recursive Coefficient Estimates for the
Evaluation of Varying Parameters . . . . 219--228
Shibdas Bandyopadhyay Classification, Distributions and
Admissibility in Autoregressive Process 229--239
T. P. Speed A Factorisation Theorem for Adequate
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--249
Yogendra P. Chaubey and
Govind S. Mudholkar A New Approximation for Fisher's $Z$ . . 250--256
M. L. Tiku and
D. Y. N. Yip A Four-Moment Approximation Based on the
$F$ Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--261
P. G. Wong A Test of the Location Parameter of the
Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 262--269
N. Sundaraij A Method for Confidence Regions for
Nonlinear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--274
Prajneshu Two-Species Systems in Random
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--281
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--287
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
G. M. Tallis and
P. Leppard and
T. J. O'Neill and
G. Sarfaty The Relationship of Metastatic Activity
to Primary Tumor Size with Special
Reference to Breast Cancer . . . . . . . 1--17
S. R. Wilson Examination of Regression Residuals . . 18--29
J. S. Maritz On Theil's Method in Distribution-Free
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--35
G. K. Kanji Power Aspects of Analysis of Variance in
Fixed Effect Model One-Way
Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--44
Roger G. Jones The Efficiency of Time Series Estimators
for Repeated Surveys . . . . . . . . . . 45--56
Radha Madhab Panda A Non-Sequential Inventory Model with
Variable Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--65
Mayer Alvo and
Paul Cabilio On the Sequential Estimation of the
Probability of Success . . . . . . . . . 66--70
A. M. Hasofer and
R. B. Davis On the Identification of the Selection
Variable in Pearson's Selection Model 71--77
D. N. Shanbhag and
J. Panaretos Some Results Related to the Rao--Rubin
Characterization of the Poisson
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--92
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
D. F. Nicholls The Analysis of Time Series --- the Time
Domain Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--120
T. Pukkila The Bias in Periodogram Ordinates and
the Estimation of ARMA Models in the
Frequency Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Peter D. Praetz The Detection of Omitted Variables by
Durbin--Watson Statistics in Multiple
Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
P. J. Brockwell and
B. M. Brown Estimation for the Positive Stable Laws,
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148
Eve Bofinger Two Stage Selection Problem for Normal
Populations with Unequal Variances . . . 149--156
Kazuhiro Ohtani and
Toshihisa Toyoda Optimal Critical Values for a
Preliminary Test in Pooling Means . . . 157--161
A. Chaudhuri and
R. Arnab On Estimating the Mean of a Finite
Population Sampled on Two Occasions with
Varying Probabilities . . . . . . . . . 162--165
B. C. Arnold Some Characterizations of the Cauchy
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--169
D. A. Preece Supplementary Bibliography of Designs
for Experiments in Three Dimensions . . 170--172
Anonymous Pitman Medal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
P. A. P. Moran Professor H. O. Lancaster F.A.A. . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Bibliography of H. O. Lancaster . . . . 188--192
V. M. Zolotarev Ideal Metrics in the Problems of
Probability Theory and Mathematical
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--208
E. Seneta Round the Historical Work on Bienaymé . . 209--220
G. K. Eagleson Orthogonal Expansions and $U$-Statistics 221--237
R. C. Griffiths and
R. K. Milne and
R. Wood Aspects of Correlation in Bivariate
Poisson Distributions and Processes . . 238--255
C. D. Lai and
D. Vere-Jones Odd Man Out --- the Meixner
Hypergeometric Distribution . . . . . . 256--265
P. Armitage The Design of Clinical Trials . . . . . 266--281
C. C. Heyde On Assessing the Potential Severity of
an Outbreak of a Rare Infectious
Disease: a Bayesian Approach . . . . . . 282--292
P. A. P. Moran The Use of Correlation in Large Samples 293--300
J. Robinson Optimal Tests of Significance . . . . . 301--310
M. A. Hamdan On the Structure of Pearson's Biserial
Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--314
J. H. Pollard Matrix Analysis of the Cash Flows and
Reserves of a Life Office . . . . . . . 315--324
G. M. Tallis and
T. J. O'Neu and
P. Leppard and
G. Sarfaty Screening for Breast Cancer . . . . . . 1--23
A. J. Fischer Sampling Errors in the Electoral Process
for the Australian Senate . . . . . . . 24--39
Philip McDunnough and
David B. Wolfson Fixed Versus Random Sampling of Certain
Continuous Parameter Processes . . . . . 40--49
Galen R. Shorack Some Law of the Iterated Logarithm Type
Results for the Empirical Process . . . 50--59
E. G. Enns and
P. F. Ehlers Random Paths Originating Within a Convex
Region and Terminating on Its Surface 60--68
Teruhiro Shirakura Necessary and Sufficient Condition for a
Balanced Array of Strength $ 21 $ to Be
a Balanced Fractional $2$ Factorial
Design of Resolution $ 21$ . . . . . . . 69--74
N. I. Fisher and
H. M. Hudson A Note on the Multivariate Linear Model
with Constraints on the Dependent Vector 75--78
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--96
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
W. E. Norton Information Problems and Economic
Advising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--124
G. A. Watterson and
R. Anderson Detecting Natural Selection: the
Stepwise Mutation Model with Heterosis 125--142
Noel Cressie Relaxing Assumptions in the One Sample
$t$-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--153
B. M. Brown Median Estimates in Simple Linear
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--165
Barrie D. Spurr The Exact Distribution of the
Bell--Doksum Test of Independence . . . 166--171
B. M. DeSilva and
R. C. Griffiths A Test of Independence for Bivariate
Symmetric Stable Distributions . . . . . 172--177
H. K. Baruah and
G. P. Bhattacharjee A Modification of the Sequential
Probability Ratio Test for Testing a
Normal Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--187
K. Byth and
G. J. McLachlan Logistic Regression Compared to Normal
Discrimination for Non-Normal
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--196
A. C. Gleeson and
C. A. McGilchrist Bilateral Processes on a Rectangular
Lattice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--206
M. Breth Quantile Estimation and Probability
Coverages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--211
Ravindra M. Phatarfod The Bottomless Dam with Seasonal Inputs 212--217
E. W. H. Ho Model-Unbiasedness and the
Horvitz--Thompson Estimator in Finite
Population Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 218--225
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--233
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235
G. J. McLachlan and
J. N. Holt The Covariance Analysis of Some Censored
Survival Data from a Large Scale Study
of Melanoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--249
Ruth Marcus Two-Stage Procedures for Testing
Homogeneity of Means Against Ordered
Alternatives in One-Way ANOVA with
Common Unknown Variance . . . . . . . . 250--259
M. L. Tiku Goodness of Fit Statistics Based on the
Spacings of Complete or Censored Samples 260--275
D. R. Weer and
A. P. Basu Testing for Independence in Multivariate
Exponential Distributions . . . . . . . 276--288
P. A. P. Moran Testing the Largest of a Set of
Correlation Coefficients . . . . . . . . 289--297
Michio Hatanaka Note: a Note on the Application of the
Kalman Filter to Regression Models with
Some Parameters Varying Over Time and
Others Unvarying . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--306
I. W. Saunders An Approximate Maximum Likelihood
Estimator for Chain Binomial Models . . 307--316
Dan A. Watson and
Saul Blumenthal A Two Stage Procedure for Estimating the
Size of a Truncated Exponential Sample 317--327
Jagbir Singh Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation of
Probability Densities . . . . . . . . . 328--331
Masafumi Akahira and
Kei Takeuchi Note: a Note on Prediction Sufficiency
(Adequacy) and Sufficiency . . . . . . . 332--335
Marc Moore Random Sampling in Pattern
Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--340
C. E. Särndal Two Model-Based Inference Arguments in
Survey Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--348
Raghunath Arnab Two-Stage Sampling Over Two Occasions 349--357
Kesar Singh Note: a Note on Sample Quantile
Processes of Finite Populations . . . . 358--363
A. Dey and
M. Singh Some Series of Efficiency Balanced
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--367
Anonymous Obituary: Douglas William Maitland
(1925--1980) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--376
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--378
C. C. Heyde Presidential Address: Looking Forward
into the 1980's: a Personal View of the
Problems and Prospects for the
Statistical Profession . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Peter Brosnan On Estimating Internal Migration for
Open Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--20
N. A. Campbell Graphical Comparison of Covariance
Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--37
G. R. Dargahi-Noubary An Application of Discrimination When
Covariance Matrices are Proportional . . 38--44
S. B. Nandi The Exact Null Distribution of
Bartlett's Criterion . . . . . . . . . . 45--51
A. Maritz A Simple Test for the Independence of
Sets of Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
M. E. O'Neill A Note on the Canonical Correlations
from Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . 58--66
Masafumi Akahira On Asymptotic Deficiency of Estimators 67--72
D. Collett and
T. Lewis Discriminating Between the von Mises and
Wrapped Normal Distributions . . . . . . 73--79
P. Narayan On Bounds for Probability Generating
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--90
R. P. Littlejohn Length-Biassed Sampling from a Finite
Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94
T. Srivenkataramana and
D. S. Tracy Extending Product Method of Estimation
to Positive Correlation Case in Surveys 95--100
Y. P. Sabharwal and
B. R. Gupta Peak Points in a Symmetrically
Correlated Random Walk . . . . . . . . . 101--108
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to H. O. Lancaster 109--109
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--136
Anonymous Referees' Services 1980 . . . . . . . . 137--137
K. R. W. Brewer Estimating Marihuana Usage Using
Randomized Response --- Some Paradoxical
Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148
M. L. Tiku A Goodness of Fit Statistic Based on the
Sample Spacings for Testing a Symmetric
Distribution Against Symmetric
Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--158
Carlos M. Jarque A Test for Heteroscedasticity in a
Limited Dependent Variable Model . . . . 159--163
An Hong-Zhi Asymptotic Properties of an Estimate of
the Prediction Error Variance . . . . . 164--176
R. A. Maller A Theorem on Products of Random
Variables, with Application to
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--185
Kuang-Fu Cheng and
Pi-Erh Lin Nonparametric Estimation of a Regression
Function: Limiting Distribution . . . . 186--195
Radu Theodorescu and
Hans Wolff Sequential Estimation of Expectations in
the Presence of Trend . . . . . . . . . 196--203
R. Morton Optimal Estimating Equations with
Applications to Insect Development Times 204--213
Ruth Marcus Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for
Monotone Contrasts of Normal Means . . . 214--223
Alan E. Gelfand An Estimation Problem with Poisson
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--231
C. D. Lai On Conditional Correlation Coefficients
of a Wold Markov Process of Gamma
Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--237
Donald St. P. Richards A Characterization of a Matric-Variate
Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 238--239
David Griffiths and
Christine Schafer Closeness of Grassia's Transformed
Gammas and the Beta Distribution . . . . 240--246
H. L. MacGillivray The Mean, Median, Mode Inequality and
Skewness for a Class of Densities . . . 247--250
B. D. Sivazlian A Class of Multivariate Distributions 251--255
B. C. Gupta Checks on Yates's Algorithm for a 2\TM
Factorial Experiment . . . . . . . . . . 256--258
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--272
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--272
C. C. Heyde Trends in the Statistical Sciences . . . 273--286
R. H. Tuckwell Anomalies in the Gambling Market . . . . 287--295
Peter D. Finch A Descriptive Interpretation of Standard
Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--299
R. M. J. Heuts Asymptotic Robustness of Prediction
Intervals of ARIMA Models to Deviations
from Normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--308
Peter Praetz A Note on the Effect of Autocorrelation
on Multiple Regression Statistics . . . 309--313
M. Breth Simultaneous Tolerance Limits and a
Unified Approach to some Nonparametric
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--327
S. K. Perng and
David P. Hasza and
C. Paik Sequential Fixed-Width Confidence
Interval for a Function of the
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--336
J. G. Shanthikumar On Level Crossing Analysis of Queues . . 337--342
Shingo Shirahata A Simple Test Procedure When Data are
Given by $n$ Independent Blocks . . . . 343--351
N. I. Fisher One-Sample Probability Plots . . . . . . 352--359
R. Arnab Sampling on Two Occasions with Varying
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--364
V. K. Sharma A Class of Experimental Designs Balanced
for First Residuals . . . . . . . . . . 365--370
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--381
Anonymous Corrigendum: Douglas William Maitland 381--381
J. Gani An Adventure in Publishing: Eighteen
Years of the Applied Probability Trust 1--17
Roger Jones Variations in Household Telephone
Access: Implications for Telephone
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--32
Peter J. Brockwell and
Paul W. Mielke, Jr. and
John Robinson On Non-Normal Invariance Principles for
Multi-Response Permutation Procedures 33--41
K. S. Madhava Rao and
A. P. Gore Nonparametric Tests for Intercept in
Linear Regression Problems . . . . . . . 42--50
J. K. Ghorai and
H. Rubin and
H. Rubin Bayes Risk Consistency of Nonparametric
Bayes Density Estimates . . . . . . . . 51--66
William C. Parr and
H. Dennis Tolley Jackknifing in Categorical Data Analysis 67--79
David J. Scott Contiguity of Probability Measures . . . 80--88
Anthony G. Pakes Some Remarks on the Paper by Theodorescu
and Wolff: ``Sequential Estimation of
Expectations in the Presence of Trend'' 89--97
Irene L. Hudson Large Sample Inference for Markovian
Exponential Families with Application to
Branching Processes with Immigration . . 98--112
Sanpei Kageyama Remark on Construction of
Efficiency-Balanced Designs . . . . . . 113--115
P. D. Finch Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 116--118
Anonymous Honorary Life Members . . . . . . . . . 119--121
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--134
M. L. Thornett The Role of Randomization in Model-Based
Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--145
Peter D. Finch Comments on Paper by M. L. Thornett: The
role of randomization in model based
inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
M. L. Thornett Two Views of Randomization?: Response to
Peter Finch's comments . . . . . . . . . 148--150
Sòren Asmussen On the Role of a Certain Eigenvalue in
Estimating the Growth Rate of a
Branching Process . . . . . . . . . . . 151--159
Prakash Narayan On the Extinction Time of a Continuous
time Markov Branching Process . . . . . 160--164
G. K. Agrafiotis Stochastic Multigrade Population Models
in Continuous Time . . . . . . . . . . . 165--170
Roger G. Jones The Use of Multiplicity in a Household
Survey of Disabilities . . . . . . . . . 171--178
Miles G. Nicholls Short Term Prediction of Student Numbers
in the Victorian Secondary Education
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--190
H. L. Agrawal and
Jagdish Prasad Some Methods of Construction of GD--RC
and Rectangular-RC Designs . . . . . . . 191--200
Clive L. Morley A Simulation Study of the Powers of
Three Multiple Comparison Statistics . . 201--210
M. Samiuddin A Note on an Unbiased Test of
Homogeneity of Variances . . . . . . . . 211--215
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Donald St P. Richards Series Expansion for a Hypergeometric
Function of Matrix Argument with
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--220
C. D. Lai Meixner Classes and Meixner
Hyper-Geometric Distributions . . . . . 221--233
P. M. Robinson On the Convergence of the
Horvitz--Thompson Estimator . . . . . . 234--238
J. S. Shonkwiler The Joint Treatment of Exact and
Stochastic Restrictions . . . . . . . . 239--244
V. V. Anh Estimated Generalized Least Squares for
a Heteroscedastic Regression Model . . . 245--254
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--274
Alan J. Lee On Incomplete $U$-Statistics Having
Minimum Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--282
B. M. Brown Robustness Against Inequality of
Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--295
Sándor Csörgö Bolyai and
Peter Hall Estimable Versions of Griffiths' Measure
of Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--308
Shibdas Bandyopadhyay Covariate Classification Using Dependent
Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--317
B. M. Brown and
J. S. Maritz Distribution-Free Methods in Regression 318--331
A. D. Gordon An Investigation of two
Sequence-Comparison Statistics . . . . . 332--342
Peter D. Finch Difficulties of Interpretation with
Markov Chain Models . . . . . . . . . . 343--349
Robin R. Lamacraft and
W. B. Hall Tables of Cyclic Incomplete Block
Designs: $ r = k $ . . . . . . . . . . . 350--360
H. O. Lancaster Bibliography of Vital Statistics in
Australia: a Third List . . . . . . . . 361--380
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to P. A. P. Moran 383--383
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--400
P. D. Feigin and
R. L. Tweedie and
C. Belyea Weighted Area Techniques for Explicit
Parameter Estimation in Multi-Stage
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
Shirley A. Cassing and
Kenneth J. White An Examination of the Eigenvector
Condition in the Durbin--Watson Test . . 17--22
Maxwell L. King Testing for Moving Average Regression
Disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--34
I. V. Basawa and
Niels Becker Remarks on Optimal Inference for Markov
Branching Processes: a Sequential
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--46
Irene L. Hudson Asymptotic Tests for the Continuous Time
Markov Branching Process with
Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--57
G. S. Rogers and
D. G. Kabe On the Noncentral Distribution of a
Random Matrix Useful in Classification
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--63
Vic Barnett Reduced Distance Measures and
Transformations in Processing
Multivariate Outliers . . . . . . . . . 64--75
M. Beth Notes: Notes on Confidence Regions for a
Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--84
L. J. Wei Tests for Independence in the Presence
of Missing Values . . . . . . . . . . . 85--90
P. A. P. Moran Testing the Concordance of Events with
Their Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . 91--95
R. M. Clark and
B. J. Morrison A Normal Approximation to the Fisher
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--104
A. P. Clarke and
W. Marwood An Analytic Form for the Cumulative
Distribution Function of the
Bell--Doksum Statistic . . . . . . . . . 105--108
S. J. Sheather and
J. S. Maritz An Estimate of the Asymptotic Standard
Error of the Sample Median . . . . . . . 109--122
Masafumi Akahira Asymptotic Deficiency of the Jackknife
Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--129
Anonymous A Stochastic Logistic Model with Time
Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--135
H. Papageorgiou On Characterizing Some Bivariate
Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 136--144
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--162
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--164
Irene L. Hudson Corrigendum: Large Sample Inference for
Markovian Exponential Families with
Application to Branching Processes with
Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165
Anonymous Referees' Services 1982 . . . . . . . . 167--167
E. J. G. Pitman Professor E. J. Williams . . . . . . . . 169--170
E. J. Williams Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--173
M. S. Bartlett Examples of Minimum Variance Estimation 174--181
I. V. Basawa Recent Trends in Asymptotic Optimal
Inference for Dependent Observations . . 182--190
Niels G. Becker Analysis of Data from a Single Epidemic 191--197
Eve Bofinger Multiple Comparisons and Selection . . . 198--207
P. J. Brockwell and
J. M. Gani and
S. I. Resnick Catastrophe Processes with Continuous
State-Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--226
R. M. Clark Estimation of Parameters in the Marginal
Fisher Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 227--237
B. M. Brown Minimum Significance and Distribution
Free Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--248
Harry Cohn On the Convergence Result for the
Supercritical Bellman--Harris Process 249--255
G. K. Eagleson A Robust Test for Multiple Comparisons
of Correlation Coefficients . . . . . . 256--263
W. J. Ewens An Estimation Paradox Arising in
Population Genetics Theory . . . . . . . 264--272
Ian Gordon Ancillarity and Minimal Sufficiency . . 273--777
Peter Hall On the Reduction of Bias in Density
Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--286
E. J. Hannan and
L. Kavalieris The Convergence of Autocorrelations and
Autoregressions . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--297
H. O. Lancaster Special Joint Distributions of Meixner
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--309
M. I. Leedow and
R. L. Tweedie Weighted Area Techniques for the
Estimation of the Parameters of a Growth
Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--320
C. A. McGilchrist and
R. L. Sandland and
J. L. Hennessy Generalized Inverses Used in Recursive
Estimation of the General Linear Model 321--328
I. M. MacPhee and
H.-J. Schuh A Galton--Watson Branching Process in
Varying Environments with Essentially
Constant Offspring Means and Two Rates
of Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--338
P. A. P. Moran A New Expansion for the Multivariate
Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 339--344
Anthony G. Pakes Some Properties of a Random Linear
Difference Equation . . . . . . . . . . 345--357
J. Robinson Approximations to Some Test Statistics
for Permutation Tests in a Completely
Randomized Design . . . . . . . . . . . 358--369
E. Seneta The Weighted Median and Multiple
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--377
T. P. Speed Cumulants and Partition Lattices . . . . 378--388
G. S. Watson Distributions in $R$ with Rotational
Symmetries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--394
G. A. Watterson Some Statistical Distributions of Use in
Analysing Bird Count Data . . . . . . . 395--401
Ben Zehnwirth Credibility Theory: a Concise Partial
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--411
Irene L. Hudson Asymptotic Tests for Growth Curve Models
with Autoregressive Errors . . . . . . . 413--424
N. C. Weber and
A. H. Welsh Jackknifing the General Linear Model . . 425--436
Sándor Csörgö Gil--Pelaez--Rosén Transformation of Data 437--441
M. H. Pesaran Note: a Note on the Maximum Likelihood
Estimation of Regression Models with
First Order Moving Average Errors with
Roots on the Unit Circle . . . . . . . . 442--448
Stephen Beveridge On a Test of Fit in Time Series Models 449--452
Madan L. Puri and
Dan A. Ralescu Improving Upon the Best Invariant
Estimator in Multivariate Location
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--462
Pi-Erh Lin and
Amany Mousa Minimax Estimation of a Multivariate
Normal Mean Under a Convex Loss Function 463--466
Anant M. Kshirsagar and
Thomas M. Davis Direction and Collinearity Factors of
Wilk's $A$ Associated with the Growth
Curve Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--481
Shibdas Bandyopadhyay Admissibility of Likelihood Ratio Rules
in Covariate Classification Using
Dependent Samples . . . . . . . . . . . 482--486
A. N. Pettitt Inference for Censored Matched Pairs
Using Signed Ranks . . . . . . . . . . . 487--495
G. H. Pollard An Analysis of Classical and Tie-Breaker
Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--505
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--516
Niels G. Becker Estimating Population Size from
Capture-Recapture Experiments in
Continuous Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
A. D. Barbour and
Peter Hall Stein's Method and the Berry--Esséen
Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--15
Jayant V. Deshpandé and
Kalpana Kusum A Test for the Nonparametric Two Sample
Scale Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
H. Papageorgiou Characterizations of Multinomial and
Negative Multinomial Mixtures by
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29
Peter J. Brockwell and
Paul W. Mielke Asymptotic Distributions of
Matched-Paris Permutation Statistics
Based on Distance Measures . . . . . . . 30--38
P. A. P. Moran The Monte Carlo Evaluation of Orthant
Probabilities for Multivariate Normal
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--44
Pamela Williams Regional Economic-Demographic Modelling
and Projection: Review of an
International Conference . . . . . . . . 45--57
B. M. Brown and
S. I. Resnick Rank Tests for Multivariate Trend . . . 58--67
Ravindra M. Phatarfod The Infinitely Deep Dam with Seasonal
Markov Inflows --- a Simplifying
Modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
H. Bayo Lawal and
Graham J. G. Upton On the Use of $X$ As a Test of
Independence in Contingency Tables with
Small Cell Expectations . . . . . . . . 75--85
N. A. Campbell Canonical Variate Analysis --- a General
Model Formulation . . . . . . . . . . . 86--96
Tzen-Ping Liu Existence of a Sen--Yates--Grundy Form
for a Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109
K. S. Kaminsky and
E. M. Luks and
P. I. Nelson Strategy, Nontransitive Dominance and
the Exponential Distribution . . . . . . 111--118
G. M. Saha and
Sanpei Kageyama Balanced Arrays and Weighing Designs . . 119--124
Stephen L. Koffler and
Douglas A. Penfield A $K$-Sample Extension to Fligner's
Class of Tests for Scale . . . . . . . . 125--132
K. C. Bhuyan A Group of Split-Plot Designs with a
Heteroscedastic Model . . . . . . . . . 133--141
N. I. Fisher and
D. J. Best Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Fisher's
Distribution on the Sphere . . . . . . . 142--150
K. J. A. Revfeim Generating Mechanisms Of, and Parameter
Estimators For, the Extreme Value
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--159
Mark Berman Combining Information from Linear Models
on Possibly Different Scales . . . . . . 160--168
Jun S. Huang The Autoregressive Moving Average Model
for Spatial Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
A. C. Bora Change-Over Designs with Errors
Following a First Order Autoregressive
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--188
Sándor Csörgö and
Peter Hall The Komlós--Major--Tusnády Approximations
and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . 189--218
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--225
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--225
A. Houtman and
T. P. Speed and
A. C. Nielsen The Analysis of Multistrata Designed
Experiments with Incomplete Data . . . . 227--246
A. M. Hasofer and
D. Veneziano and
H. Banon Risk Analysis in More Than One Dimension 247--254
M. Samanta Efficient Estimation of Parameters in
the $K$ Sample Problem with Equal But
Unknown Population Coefficients of
Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262
Dean Isaacson and
Glen Meeden Better Priors for Bayesian Bettors . . . 263--271
G. S. Watson The Calculation of Confidence Regions
for Eigenvectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--276
Madan L. Puri and
Dan A. Ralescu and
Stefan S. Ralescu Linear Minimax Estimators for Estimating
a Function of the Parameter . . . . . . 277--283
Niels Becker and
Caroline Finch On a Stochastic Model for an
Irreversible System of Compartments . . 284--289
Clifford H. Spiegelman A New Statistic for Detecting
Influential Observations in a Scheffé
Type Calibration Curve . . . . . . . . . 290--297
H. C. Agrawal and
C. R. Nair Reduced Residue Classes Cyclic PBIB
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--309
Gordon Fisher and
Michael McAleer The Geometry of Specification Error . . 310--322
V. K. Srivastava and
D. E. A. Giles Exact Finite-Sample Properties of a
Pre-Test Estimator in Ridge Regression 323--336
D. Ratcliff and
E. R. Williams and
T. P. Speed A Note on the Analysis of Covariance in
Balanced Incomplete Block Designs . . . 337--341
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--347
E. K. Foreman Survey Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
A. J. Fischer and
R. D. Lewis Deliberately Biasing Survey Questions 20--35
R. G. Jarrett and
S. Liow and
B. J. T. Morgan Density Function Approximation with
Particular Reference to the Distribution
of Overlap of Circles . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Jeffrey D. Hart Data-Based Choice of the Smoothing
Parameter for a Kernel Density Estimator 44--52
P. J. Diggle and
N. I. Fisher and
A. J. Lee A Comparison of Tests of Uniformity for
Spherical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59
P. A. P. Moran Calculation of Multivariate Normal
Probabilities --- Another Special Case 60--67
Merran A. Evans and
Maxwell L. King Critical Value Approximations for Tests
of Linear Regression Disturbances . . . 68--83
M. A. Cameron and
G. K. Eagleson A New Procedure for Assessing Large Sets
of Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--95
Ian R. James On the Invariance of Isometry Under
Unequal Scale Changes . . . . . . . . . 96--101
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--110
Leslie Kish Sample Surveys Versus Experiments,
Controlled Observations, Censuses,
Registers, and Local Studies . . . . . . 111--122
B. M. Brown Grouping Problems in Distribution-Free
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--134
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Bahul Mukerjee Domain Estimation in Finite Populations 135--137
Subhash C. Sharma The Effects of Correlation Among
Observations on the Accuracy of
Approximating the Distribution of Sample
Mean by Its Asymptotic Distribution . . 138--150
Vic Barnett Detection and Testing of Different Types
of Outlier in Linear Structural
Relationaships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--162
S. Shirahata and
K. Wakimoto and
T. Tarumi A Goodness of Fit Test Based on the
Linked Line Chart . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171
W. N. Venable The Multiple Correlation Coefficient and
Fisher's $A$ Statistic . . . . . . . . . 172--182
Stephen Haslett Recursive Estimation of the General
Linear Model with Dependent Errors and
Multiple Additional Observations . . . . 183--188
M. Samanta Minimum MSE Estimation by Linear
Combinations of Order Statistics . . . . 189--194
Pranesh Kumar and
V. K. Gupta and
S. K. Agarwal On Variance Estimation in Unequal
Probability Sampling . . . . . . . . . . 195--201
C. J. Lloyd On External Ancillarity . . . . . . . . 202--220
A. P. Verbyla A Note on the Inverse Covariance Matrix
of the Autoregressive Process . . . . . 221--224
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--229
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
M. Breth On Estimating the Spread of a
Distribution About Its Regression Slopes 231--235
G. A. Feeney and
P. K. Sen Extreme Value Theory for Certain
Non-Stationary Sequences . . . . . . . . 236--245
Ian Gordon Error Rates for Orthogonal Contrasts
After a Significant $F$-Test . . . . . . 246--251
A. P. Gore and
Ashok Shanubhogue A Test of Homogeneity Against Scale
Alternatives Using Subsample Extrema . . 252--258
Tsushung A. Hua On the Performance of
Kolmogorov--Smirnov Tests on Stable
Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--263
C. J. Lloyd Ancillaries Sufficient for the Sample
Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--272
S. M. Manjunath Characterization of Efficient Sequential
Schemes for Population Growth Models . . 273--282
Terence J. O'Neill and
G. M. Tallis and
P. Leppard The Epidemiology of a Disease Using
Hazard Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--297
V. K. Sharma and
M. N. Das On Resolvable Incomplete Block Designs 298--302
Yoshihiro Yajima On Estimation of Long-Memory Time Series
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--320
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--324
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--325
Leslie Kish Timing of Surveys for Public Policy . . 1--12
D. J. Best and
N. I. Fisher Goodness-of-Fit and Discordancy Tests
for Samples from the Watson Distribution
on the Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--31
G. H. Brown Multistage Sampling for Raw Wool
Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--45
Stephen M. Scariano Estimating the Maximum (Minimum) of a
Quadratic Function Under Certain
Correlation Patterns . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
R. A. Maller Some Asymptotic Properties of the Simple
Loglinear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--71
P. V. Rao and
J. D. Lees Weighted Median Estimates for Response
Surface Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--78
R. A. Ipinyomi Equineighboured Experimental Designs . . 79--88
Timothy C. Brown and
Donald I. Cartwright and
G. K. Eagleson Correlations and Characterizations of
the Uniform Distribution . . . . . . . . 89--96
M. Aerts and
H. Callaert The Convergence Rate of Sequential
Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals for
Regular Functionals . . . . . . . . . . 97--106
J. Tang and
A. K. Gupta Exact Distribution of Certain General
Test Statistics in Multivariate Analysis 107--114
M. Breth Independent Component Nonparamentric
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--123
John L. Hopper The Contribution of W. H. Archer to
Vital Statistics in the Colony of
Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--137
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--141
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
D. J. Daley and
E. Seneta Modelling Examination Marks . . . . . . 143--153
E. R. Williams Row and Column Designs with Contiguous
Replicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--163
M. Samanta On Asymptotic Optimality of Some Tests
for Exponential Distributions . . . . . 164--172
A. H. Welsh On the Use of the Empirical Distribution
and Characteristic Function to Estimate
Parameters of Regular Variation . . . . 173--181
E. R. Williams Neighbour Analysis of Uniformity Data 182--191
Ray Watson and
Ian Gordon On Quantiles of Sums . . . . . . . . . . 192--199
B. Ceranka and
K. Katulska Optimum Singular Spring Balance Weighing
Designs with Non-Homogeneity of the
Variances of Errors for Estimating the
Total Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--205
M. C. Jones A Moment Identity . . . . . . . . . . . 206--212
N. I. Fisher Robust Comparison of Dispersions for
Samples of Directional Data . . . . . . 213--219
Simon Fitzpatrick and
Richard G. Jarrett Upper Bounds for the Harmonic Mean, with
an Application to Experimental Design 220--229
S. Yitnosumarto and
M. E. O'Neill On Levene's Tests of Variance
Homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--241
M. C. Jones Expressions for Inverse Moments of
Positive Quadratic Forms in Normal
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--250
G. G. Agarwal and
Sanjay Kumar Construction of Balanced Ternary Designs 251--255
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--264
R. L. Tweedie Working with Official Statistics: Some
SIROMATH Experiences . . . . . . . . . . 265--286
Dennis Trewin and
David Leaver Working with Official Statistics: Some
SIROMATH Experience --- a Rejoinder . . 287--293
D. F. Nicholls and
C. R. Heathcote and
R. B. Cunningham The Evaluation of Long Term Trend I . . 294--313
Stefan Ralescu Asymptotic Representations of the
Multivariate Empirical Distribution
Function and Applications . . . . . . . 314--334
Rouh-jane Chou Small Sample Theory of the Langevin
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--344
S. M. Tam Optimal Prediction in Stochastic
Regression Models with Application to
the Analysis of Repeated Surveys . . . . 345--353
Peter Hall and
Ben Selinger Statistical Significance: Balancing
Evidence Against Doubt . . . . . . . . . 354--370
J. N. Darroch and
P. I. McCloud Category Distinguishability and Observer
Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--388
A. P. Verbyla A Note on a Partition of the Likelihood
Ratio Test for Autoregressive Covariance
Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--399
Wolfgang Schmid The Multiple Outlier Problem in Time
Series Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--413
Stavros Kourouklis On a Simultaneous Characterization of
the Poisson and Bernoulli Distributions 414--417
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--423
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--424
Thomas P. Hettmansperger Why Not Try a Robust Regression? . . . . 1--18
Peter Hall and
D. M. Titterington On Smoothing Sparse Multinomial Data . . 19--37
B. L. S. Prakasa Rao and
M. Sreehari On a Characterization of Poisson
Distribution Through Inequalities of
Chernoff-Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
M. Shelton Peiris A Note on the Predictors of Differenced
Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--48
Ashis SenGupta On Tests for Equicorrelation Coefficient
of a Standard Symmetric Multivariate
Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 49--59
Alan J. Rogers On the Derivation of Efficiency Results
in Linear Estimation . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Simon J. Sheather A New Method of Estimating the
Asymptotic Standard Error of the
Hodges--Lehmann Estimator Based on
Generalized Least Squares . . . . . . . 66--83
K. G. Russell and
J. A. Eccleston The Construction of Optimal Balanced
Incomplete Block Designs When Adjacent
Observations are Correlated . . . . . . 84--90
Hannu Oja On Permutation Tests in Multiple
Regression and Analysis of Covariance
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100
H. O. Lancaster Finiteness of the Variances in
Characterizations of the Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Alexa F. Laurence and
Byron J. T. Morgan Selection of the Transformation Variable
in the Laplace Transform Method of
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--127
Fabian C. Okafor and
Raghunath Arnab Some Strategies of Two-Stage Sampling
for Estimating Population Ratios Over
two Occasions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--142
Niels Becker and
Paul Yip Nonparametric Inference for a Partially
Observed Compartmental Process . . . . . 143--150
C. Hirotsu and
Agnes M. Herzberg Optimal Allocation of Observations for
Inference on $k$ Ordered Normal
Population Means . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--165
Miklós Csörgö and
Lnos Horváth and
Pál Révész On the Optimality of Estimating the Tail
Index and a Naive Estimator . . . . . . 166--178
P. N. Kokic On Tests of Uniformity for Randomly
Distributed Arcs on a Circle . . . . . . 179--187
M. N. Deshpande and
S. G. Prabhu-Ajgaonkar A Generalisation of Midzuno's Sampling
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--192
Masaaki Kijima Some Results for Uniformizable
Semi-Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . 193--207
O. S. Adegboye A Classification Rule Whose Probability
of Misclassification is Independent of
the Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--213
L. J. Wei and
M. W. Knuiman A One-Sided Rank Test for Multivariate
Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--219
G. K. Robinson Letter to the Editor: Instructions to
Referees --- Do we need some? . . . . . 220--221
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--230
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
Andy H. Lee Diagnostic Displays for Assessing
Leverage and Influence in Generalized
Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--243
Rahul Mukerjee and
T. J. Rao and
K. Vijayan Regression Type Estimators Using
Multiple Auxiliary Information . . . . . 244--254
Paul T. Jackway and
Rosalie A. Boyce Response Inducing Techniques for Mail
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--263
J. B. Copas and
M. C. Jones Regression Shrinkage Methods and
Autoregressive Time Series Prediction 264--277
Stephan Morgenthaler Confidence Intervals for Scale . . . . . 278--292
K. G. Russell and
J. A. Eccleston The Construction of Optimal Imcomplete
Block Designs When Observations Within a
Block are Correlated . . . . . . . . . . 293--302
Mark F. Collins A Permutation Test for Planar Regression 303--308
E. R. Williams A Note on Change-Over Designs . . . . . 309--316
M. W. Knuiman and
T. P. Speed Incorporating Previous Results into the
Analysis of General Balanced Designed
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--333
D. S. Poskitt Bayes ARMA Model Determination: Some
Empirical Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 334--347
Eve Bofinger Step Down Procedures for Comparison with
a Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--364
Sanpei Kageyama Letter to the Editor: Recommendation of
Binary Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Anonymous Books Reviews: Books Reviews . . . . . . 367--370
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
John C. Duffy and
Jennifer J. Waterton Randomised Response Vs. Direct
Questioning: Estimating the Prevalence
of Alcohol Related Problems in a Field
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
T. P. Speed The Role of Statisticians in CSIRO:
Past, Present and Future . . . . . . . . 15--34
C. J. Lloyd Some Issues Arising from the Analysis of
$ 2 \times 2 $ Contingency Tables . . . 35--46
D. K. Ghosh and
P. K. Karmakar Some Series of Efficiency Balanced
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--51
Peter James Smith Asymptotic Properties of Linear
Regression Estimators Under a Fixed
Censorship Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--66
H. Arsham Nonparametric Reliability Estimation
Based on a Few Ordered Observations . . 67--77
J. A. Eccleston and
J. A. John Adjusted Orthogonal Nested Row-Column
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--84
C. A. McGilchrist and
B. R. Cullis Properties of the Patterned Vech
Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--92
R. M. Phatarfod and
Aidan Sudbury A Simple Sequential Wilcoxon Test . . . 93--106
R. Arnab Variance Estimation in Multi-Stage
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110
Stavros Kourouklis Asymptotic Optimality of Likelihood
Ratio Tests for Exponential
Distributions Under Type II Censoring 111--114
Oliver D. Anderson Letter to the Editor: Referees Are Also
Human . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--121
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123
Dorothy A. Anderson Some Models for Overdispersed Binomial
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--148
R. L. Chambers and
L. Woyzbun and
R. Pillig Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Gross
Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--162
Christopher J. Lloyd Applications and Extensions of Basu's
Results on Maximal Ancillarity . . . . . 163--173
H. Meister and
O. Moeschlin The Reduction of Risks for Set-Valued
Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--182
Fima C. Klebaner The Unemployment Rate When the Labour
Market Is Modelled by a Markov Chain . . 183--188
V. V. Anh On the Hildreth-Houck Estimator for
Random Coefficient Regression Models . . 189--195
S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi A Note on the Efficiency of Proportional
Stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--199
Carmelo Giaccotto and
Subhash C. Sharma Jackknife Tests for Heteroscedasticity
in the General Linear Model . . . . . . 200--216
Junji Nakano and
Shigemi Tagami Delay Estimation by a Hilbert Transform
Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--227
S. Lianto and
C. A. McGilchrist Cholesky Decomposition of a Variance
Matrix in Repeated Measures Analysis . . 228--234
Murray D. Smith Convergent Series Expressions for
Inverse Moments of Quadratic Forms in
Normal Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--246
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--259
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--261
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
P. J. Danaher Parameter Estimation and Applications
for a Generalisation of the
Beta-Binomial Distribution . . . . . . . 263--275
B. M. Brown Kendall's Tau and Contingency Tables . . 276--291
Anant M. Kshirsagar A Note on Multivariate Linear Models
with Non-Additivity . . . . . . . . . . 292--298
Paul Yip Inference About the Mean of a Poisson
Distribution in the Presence of a
Nuisance Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306
A. K. Gupta and
D. K. Nagar Nonnull Distribution of Likelihood Ratio
Criterion for Testing Multisample
Sphericity in the Complex Case . . . . . 307--318
H. L. MacGillivray and
K. P. Balanda The Relationships Between Skewness and
Kurtosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--337
Heleno Bolfarine and
Josemar Rodrigues On the Simple Projection Predictor in
Finite Populations . . . . . . . . . . . 338--341
Brian S. Yandell and
Lajos Horváth Bootstrapped Multi-Dimensional Product
Limit Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--358
A. K. Gupta and
J. Tang On a General Distribution Theory for a
Class of Likelihood Ratio Criteria . . . 359--366
Fabian C. Okafor Ratio-To-Size Estimators of Mean Per
Subunit in Two-Stage Sampling Over Two
Occasions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--378
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--387
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--389
Anonymous Publications of J. Gani . . . . . . . . 1--13
P. A. P. Moran Combinations of Events: Some Notes on
Permanents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Lennart Råde Combinations of Events: On Games with
$D$- and $T$-Events . . . . . . . . . . 21--26
E. Seneta Combinations of Events: Degree,
Iteration and Permutation in Improving
Bonferroni-Type Bounds . . . . . . . . . 27--38
Norman T. J. Bailey Epidemics: Statistical Problems in the
Modelling and Prediction of HIV/AIDS . . 41--55
K. Dietz Epidemics: The First Epidemic Model: a
Historical Note on P. D. En'ko . . . . . 56--65
J. R. Blake Fitting and Modelling: Mathematical
Theory of Cavitation Bubble Dynamics . . 69--89
F. R. de Hoog and
R. S. Anderssen Fitting and Modelling: Convergence of
Kernel Functions for Cubic Smoothing
Splines on Non-Equispaced Grids . . . . 90--99
W. J. Ewens Fitting and Modelling: Problems of
Statistical Modelling in Human Genetics 100--106
David Gates and
Mark Westcott Fitting and Modelling: Point Processes
with a Clustering Transition . . . . . . 107--122
D. Vere-Jones Fitting and Modelling: On the Variance
Properties of Stress Release Models . . 123--135
Mary Ellen Bock and
Herbert Solomon Quadratic Forms and Chi-Squared:
Distributions of Quadratic Forms . . . . 139--149
M. J. Buckley and
G. K. Eagleson Quadratic Forms and Chi-Squared: an
Approximation to the Distribution of
Quadratic Forms in Normal Random
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--159
Toby Lewis Quadratic Forms and Chi-Squared: a
Simple Improved-Accuracy Normal
Approximation for $ \chi^2 $ . . . . . . 160--167
Niels Becker Statistical Inference: The Role of
Conditional Inference . . . . . . . . . 171--178
Peter Hall and
Michael Martin Statistical Inference: On the Bootstrap
and Two-Sample Problems . . . . . . . . 179--192
C. R. Heathcote Statistical Inference: The Problem of
Misclassification of Mortality
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--204
Norman L. Johnson and
Samuel Kotz Statistical Inference: Effects of Errors
in Inspection on a Binary Method for
Isolating Nonconforming Items . . . . . 205--214
Richard Morton Statistical Inference: Analysis of
Generalized Linear Models with Nested
Strata of Variation . . . . . . . . . . 215--224
J. T. Wood and
E. R. Williams and
T. P. Speed Statistical Inrefence: Non-Orthogonal
Block Structure in Two-Phase Designs . . 225--237
Takewki Hida Stochastic Functionals: White Noise
Analysis and Stochastic Functional
Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 241--246
Yoshifusa Ito Stochastic Functionals: Differential
Operators Arising from Translation of
Poisson Functionals . . . . . . . . . . 247--258
Sidney I. Resnick Structure of Distributions: Association
and Multivariate Extreme Value
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271
D. N. Shanbhag Structure of Distributions: The
Davidson--Kendall Problem and Related
Results on the Structure of the Wishart
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--280
E. J. Hannan and
C. H. Hesse Time Series: Rates of Convergence for
the Quantile Function of a Linear
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--295
D. F. Nicholls and
A. L. Pope Time Series: Bias in the Estimation of
Multivariate Autoregressions . . . . . . 296--309
C. C. Heyde and
E. Seneta Preface: The Bicentennial History Issue
of the \booktitleAustralian Journal of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
E. Seneta Silhouettes in Early Australian
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--22
C. C. Heyde Official Statistics in the Late Colonial
Period Leading on to the Work of the
First Commonwealth Statistician, G. H.
Knibbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--43
John D. Kerr Introduction of Statistical Design and
Analysis by the Queensland Bureau of
Sugar Experiment Stations . . . . . . . 44--53
J. B. F. Field and
F. E. Speed and
T. P. Speed and
J. M. Williams Biometrics in the CSIR: 1930--1940 . . . 54--76
D. B. Duncan Australian Biometry and Multiple
Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--98
H. O. Lancaster Statistical Society of New South Wales 99--109
E. J. Williams A Survey of Experimental Design in
Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--130
R. Dunstan and
R. L. Chambers Estimating Distribution Functions from
Survey Data with Limited Benchmark
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
R. B. Cunningham and
C. R. Heathcote Estimating a Non-Gaussian Regression
Model with Multicollinearity . . . . . . 12--17
P. J. Solomon On Components of Variance and Modelling
Exceedances Over a Threshold . . . . . . 18--24
Keith Wise and
Paul Kabaila The Estimation of Plutonium
Concentrations in Soil . . . . . . . . . 25--41
Niels Becker and
Paul Yip Analysis of Variations in an Infection
Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--52
Alan J. Rogers Minimum Distance and Induced Statistics
for Testing Inequalities . . . . . . . . 53--61
H. T. Kiivefu and
N. A. Campbell Covariance Models for Lattice Data . . . 62--77
Rick L. Edgeman Inverse Gaussian Control Charts . . . . 78--84
R. A. Ipinyomi Partially Equineighboured Designs . . . 85--94
Z. Govindarajulu and
H. C. Howard Uniform Asymptotic Expansions Applied to
Sequential $t$- and $ t^2$-Tests . . . . 95--104
Shande Chen and
Govind S. Mudholkar A Remark on Testing Significance of an
Observed Correlation Matrix . . . . . . 105--110
Nam-Ky Nguyen and
Aloke Dey Computer Aided-Construction of
$D$-Optimal $ 2^m$ Fractional Designs of
Resolution $V$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--117
Richard Jarrett A Review of Bounds for the Efficiency
Factor of Block Designs . . . . . . . . 118--129
Charles Hagwood A Renewal Theorem in Multidimensional
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--137
Evan J. Williams and
Paul Yip Conditional Inference About an
Equicorrelation Coefficient . . . . . . 138--142
M. H. Rossiter The Sojourn Time Distribution of an
Alternating Renewal Process . . . . . . 143--152
R. M. Huggins The Sign Test for Stochastic Processes 153--165
Peter J. Diggle and
Michael F. Hutchinson On Spline Smoothing with Autocorrelated
Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--182
Peter J. Diggle and
John B. Donnelly A Selected Bibliography on the Analysis
of Repeated Measurements and Related
Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--193
R. Morton On the Efficiency of the
Quasi-Likelihood Estimators for
Exponential Families with Extra
Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--199
J. Robinson Limit Theorems for Standardized Partial
Sums of Weakly Exchangeable Arrays . . . 200--214
A. H. Welsh Concomitant Scale Estimation in
Regression Problems with Increasing
Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--247
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--250
Murray Hannah and
Niels Becker and
Jacob Rich and
Charles Castle Estimation of the Conditional
Probability of Tuberculosis Given the
Response of a Mantoux Test . . . . . . . 253--267
Randhir Singh Method of Estimation for Sampling from
Incomplete Frames . . . . . . . . . . . 269--276
Krystyna Katulska On the Estimation of Total Weight in
Singular Spring Balance Weighing Designs
Under the Covariance Matrix of Errors $
s^2 G $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--286
Sadao Tomizawa Decompositions for Conditional Symmetry
Model into Palindromic Symmetry and
Modified Marginal Homogeneity Models . . 287--296
Kerrie Mengersen and
Eve Bofinger Selecting the $t$ Best Populations ---
Scale Parameter Case . . . . . . . . . . 297--307
Masaaki Kijima On Transition Probabilities of Skip-Free
Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--314
Rohan Karunamuni On Empirical Bayes Stopping Times . . . 315--326
Vijay K. Rohatgi Unbiased Estimation of Parametric
Functions in Sampling from Two
One-Truncation Parameter Families . . . 327--332
Getachew Zergaw A Sequential Method of Constructing
Optimal Block Designs . . . . . . . . . 333--342
P. N. Kokic A Berry--Esseen Bound for the Ratio
Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--348
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--362
Geoff Adams and
Ray Watson A Discrete Time Parametric Model for the
Analysis of Failure Time Data . . . . . 365--384
Asraul Hoque The Efficiency of the Cochrane--Orcutt
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--392
P. C. N. Groenewald and
D. J. de Waal Bayesian Tests for Some Precise
Hypotheses on Multi-Normal Means . . . . 393--408
O. Sola Adegboye and
A. K. Gupta On Testing Against Restricted
Alternatives for the Variances of
Gaussian Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--415
William R. Schucany and
Daniel M. Bankson Small Sample Variance Estimators for
$U$-Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--426
Tibor Pogány An Approach to the Sampling Theorem for
Continuous Time Processes . . . . . . . 427--432
S. Ganeshanandam and
W. J. Krzanowski On Selecting Variables and Assessing
Their Performance in Linear Discriminant
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--447
Niels Becker and
Barry McDonald and
Celestine Khoo Optimal Designs for Fitting a
Proportional Hazards Regression Model to
Data Subject to Censoring . . . . . . . 449--468
Jingyu Liu and
H. A. David Quantiles of Sums and Expected Values of
Ordered Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--474
Yoshihiko Maesono Lower Bounds for the Normal
Approximation of a Sum of Independent
Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--485
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--496
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--496
Anonymous Introduction: Introduction . . . . . . . 1--7
D. J. Smith and
A. J. Callaghan Definitional Aspects of Measurement of
Unemployment --- a Comparative Study of
the Australian Longitudinal Survey and
Other Sources of Youth Unemployment Data 9--24
Dennis Trewin and
Garth Bode and
Peter Boal and
Debbie Newton An Automatic Interaction Detection
Analysis on Unemployed Youth . . . . . . 25--45
Paul Miller and
Paul Volker Socioeconomic Influences on Educational
Attainment: Evidence and Implications
for the Tertiary Education Finance
Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--70
Bruce Bradbury and
Ian McRae and
Lyn Woyzbun Families and Early Labour Market
Experience: an Analysis of Siblings . . 71--97
Heather Prior and
John J. Beggs Influence of Family Background on the
Educational and Labour-Force Outcomes of
Year 12 School-Leavers . . . . . . . . . 99--124
John Larum and
John J. Beggs What Drives Australian Teenage Labour
Force Participation? . . . . . . . . . . 125--142
K. R. Sawyer Non-Parametric Estimation and Testing of
Econometric Models of Duration: an
Application to the Australian
Longitudinal Survey . . . . . . . . . . 143--164
William Dunsmuir and
Richard Tweedie and
Lloyd Flack and
Kerrie Mengersen Modelling of Transitions Between
Employment States for Young Australians 165--196
Ian R. James Unemployment Duration: Modelling and
Estimation with Particular Reference to
the Australian Longitudinal Survey . . . 197--212
E. Ann Eyland and
Lester W. Johnson The Transition from Full-Time Study to
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--225
Masaaki Kijima On the Unimodality of Transition
Probabilities in Markov Chains . . . . . 1--10
L. A. Weissfeld and
H. Schneider Influence Diagnostics for the Normal
Linear Model with Censored Data . . . . 11--20
Maxwell L. King The Power of Student's $t$ Test: Can a
Non-Similar Test Do Better? . . . . . . 21--27
J. B. Carlin An Algorithmic Approach to Bayesian
Linear Model Calculations . . . . . . . 29--43
Subhash C. Kochar and
R. P. Gupta Distribution-Free Tests Based on
Sub-Sample Extrema for Testing Against
Positive Dependence . . . . . . . . . . 45--51
Jun Shao and
Shein-Chung Chow Test for Treatment Effect Based on
Binary Data with Random Sample Sizes . . 53--70
Muhammad Khalid Pervaiz and
C. J. Skinner A Monte Carlo Comparison of
Elliptical-Theory and Other Tests for
Equality of Covariance Matrices . . . . 71--86
Muhammad I. Bhatti and
Maxwell L. King A Beta-Optimal Test of the
Equicorrelation Coefficient . . . . . . 87--97
Michael B. Dollinger and
Robert G. Staudte The Construction of Equileverage Designs
for Multiple Linear Regression . . . . . 99--118
Ken Sharpe Book Review: \booktitleThe Teaching of
Practical Statistics, by C. W. Anderson
and R. M. Loynes . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121
Ian W. Saunders Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Infectious Disease Data. by Niels G.
Becker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--123
H. Cohn Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced
Probability Theory. by Janos Galambos 124--125
Kerrie Mengersen and
Eve Bofinger Corrigendum: Selecting the $t$ Best
Populations --- Scale Parameter Case . . 127--127
Govind S. Mudholkar and
Philip A. Smethurst Empirically Accelerated Convergence of
the Spacings Statistics to Normality . . 129--138
Peter Hall and
A. H. Welsh The Rate of Convergence in the Normal
Approximation for the Wilcoxon
$R$-Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--150
Oliver D. Anderson Teaching Statistics: a Talk About Time
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--161
Peter J. Danaher A Markov Chain Model for Magazine
Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176
Nicholas I. Fisher and
Peter Hall On Bootstrap Hypothesis Testing . . . . 177--190
Graham Pollard A Method for Determining the Asymptotic
Efficiency of Some Sequential
Probability Ratio Tests . . . . . . . . 191--204
Stephen Haslett Covariances for Fixed Interval Smoothed
Kalman Filter Parameter Estimates . . . 205--216
Xuming He Estimating the Root of a Nonparametric
Regression Function in a Robust Fashion 217--225
A. P. Verbyla A Conditional Derivation of Residual
Maximum Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230
Tue Tjur A New Upper Bound for the Efficiency
Factor of a Block Design . . . . . . . . 231--237
Ravindra Khattree and
Rameshwar D. Gupta Estimation of Realized Signal to Noise
Ratio for a Pair of Multivariate Signals 239--246
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to C. C. Heyde . . 259--260
Les M. Irwig and
Hennie T. Groeneveld and
Judy M. Simpson Correcting for Measurement Error in an
Exposure-Response Relationship Based on
Dichotomising a Continuous Dependent
Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--269
Ioannis I. Gerontidis On the Variance-Covariance Matrix in
Markovian Manpower Systems in Continuous
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280
Masafumi Akahira and
Kei Takeuchi Loss of Information Associated with the
Order Statistics and Related Estimators
in the Double Exponential Distribution
Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--291
Paul Michels and
Götz Trenkler Testing the Stability of Regression
Coefficients Using Generalized Recursive
Residuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--312
H. S. Konijn Note on Point and Interval Estimation
and Prediction for Normal Equicorrelated
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
David J. Scott and
Wang Dong Qian An Iterative Method for Estimation of
Parameters in a Clustered Sampling Model 317--325
G. K. Robinson A Role for Variograms . . . . . . . . . 327--335
Sudhir Gupta and
Rahul Mukerjee On Incomplete Block Designs for
Symmetric Parallel Line Assays . . . . . 337--344
Deborah J. Street and
J. A. Eccleston and
William H. Wilson Tables of Small Optimal Repeated
Measurements Designs . . . . . . . . . . 345--359
M. C. Jones Variable Kernel Density Estimates and
Variable Kernel Density Estimates . . . 361--371
K. L. Mehra and
N. G. N. Prasad and
K. S. Madhava Rao A Class of Nonparametric Tests for the
One-Sample Location Problem . . . . . . 373--392
S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi Estimation of the Parameter of a Poisson
Distribution Using a LINEX Loss Function 393--398
Nam-Ky Nguyen and
Aloke Dey Computer-Aided Construction of Small $
(M, S) $-Optimal Incomplete Block
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--410
K. R. W. Brewer and
S. M. Tam Is the Assumption of Uniform Intra-Class
Correlation Ever Needed? . . . . . . . . 411--423
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--442
R. L. Tweedie Pitman Medal Awarded to E. J. Hannan . . 1--4
C. A. Mcgilchrist and
L. J. Hills A Semi-Markov Model for Ear Infection 5--16
O. A. Adekola A Note on Asymptotic Posterior Normality
for Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . 17--21
Clifford M. Hurvich and
Jeffrey S. Simonoff and
Scott L. Zeger Variance Estimation for Sample
Autocovariances: Direct and Resampling
Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--42
Nuwan Nanayakkara and
Noel Cressie Combining Two Unbiased Estimators of a
Common Mean of Two Normal Populations 43--56
Gordon K. Smyth Exponential Dispersion Models and the
Gauss--Newton Algorithm . . . . . . . . 57--64
Subir Ghosh and
Yi-Jing Duh Adjusting Residuals in Estimation of
Dispersion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
Bo-Cheng Wei Some Second Order Asymptotics in
Nonlinear Regression . . . . . . . . . . 75--84
V. V. Anh and
K. E. Lunney Spectral Representation and Ergodicity
of Asymptotically Stationary Processes 85--94
V. T. Prabhakaran and
V. K. Mahajan On an Identity for Finding Moments of
Sample Moments of Bivariate Normal
Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--117
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
R. G. Jarrett Pitman Medal Awarded to P. G. Hall . . . 122--124
Niels G. Becker and
Mads Melbye Use of a Log-Linear Model to Compute the
Empirical Survival Curve from
Interval-Censored Data, with Application
to Data on Tests for HIV Positivity . . 125--133
O. A. Adekola Asymptotic Posterior Normality for
Stochastic Processes: a Non-Ergodic
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--144
Radhey S. Singh James--Stein Rule Estimators in Linear
Regression Models with Multivariate-$t$
Distributed Error . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
Neil T. Diamond The Use of a Class of Foldover Designs
As Search Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 159--166
Shailaja R. Deshmukh Bernoulli Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176
Sukalyan Sengupta Some Simple Approximations for the
Doubly Noncentral $z$ Distribution . . . 177--181
Eve Bofinger Selecting ``Demonstrably Best'' or
``Demonstrably Worst'' Exponential
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--190
Ian C. Marschner Heterogeneity Among Susceptibles in
Epidemic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--207
Richard M. Huggins and
Ian C. Marschner Robust Analysis of the Bifurcating
Autoregressive Model in Cell Lineage
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--220
Ian C. Marschner Robust Estimation for Epidemic Models 221--240
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--248
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
Sing Kai Lo On the Analysis and Application of
Measures of Linkage Disequilibrium . . . 249--259
R. M. Clark and
A. G. Harcourt Randomisation and the 1975 Senate Ballot
Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--278
W. R. Catchpole and
E. A. Catchpole Estimating Biomass in a Vegetation
Mosaic Using Double Sampling with
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--289
Stavros Kourouklis Bahadur Efficiency of Likelihood Ratio
and Related Tests in Nonregular Models 291--298
R. J. Martin and
J. A. Eccleston Efficient Block Designs for Correlated
Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--311
A. C. Davison and
P. W. F. Smith and
J. Whittaker An Exact Conditional Test for Covariance
Selection Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--318
Mervyn J. Silvapulle Robust Ridge Regression Based on an
$M$-Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--333
Anthony J. Hayter and
Glenn Stone Distribution Free Multiple Comparisons
for Monotonically Ordered Treatment
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--346
A. N. Gill and
G. P. Mehta Selection Procedures for Scale
Parameters Using Two-Sample
$U$-Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--362
B. M. Brown and
M. J. Pella The Grouping Problem in
Distribution-Free Planar Regression . . 363--372
O. D. Anderson All the Gaussian White Noise Serial
Covariance Moments to Order Four . . . . 373--396
Jun Bai and
Anthony J. Jakeman and
Michael McAleer A New Approach to Maximum Likelihood
Estimation of the Three-Parameter Gamma
and Weibull Distributions . . . . . . . 397--410
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--426
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
M. Pithuncharurnlap and
K. E. Basford and
B. R. Cullis Nearest Neighbour Analysis of Unequally
Replicated Trials . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Flavio Lewgoy and
Alan E. Stark Experimental Search for Sexual Isolation
in Flies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17
D. Ruppert and
M. P. Wand Correcting for Kurtosis in Density
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--29
Prem S. Puri and
Harshinder Singh Estimation of a Distribution Function
Dominating Stochastically a Known
Distribution Function . . . . . . . . . 31--38
Somesh Kumar and
Divakar Sharma Estimating the Common Mean of a
Bivariate Normal Population . . . . . . 39--46
S. R. Patel and
M. B. Bhatt Unbiased Estimation of Parametre
Functions in Sampling from One- and
Two-Truncation Parameter Families . . . 47--54
M. N. Goria On the Fourth Root Transformation of
Chi-Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64
Eve Bofinger Comparisons and Selection of
Two-Parameter Exponential Populations 65--75
Ian W. Saunders and
John A. Eccleston Experimental Design for Continuous
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89
Alan C. Gleeson and
John A. Eccleston On the Design of Field Experiments Under
a One-Dimensional Neighbour Model . . . 91--97
P. M. Kulkarni Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Tests
for First-Order Threshold Autoregressive
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
Young-Won Kim and
I. V. Basawa Empirical Bayes Estimation for
First-Order Autoregressive Processes . . 105--114
S. R. Adke and
N. Balakrishna Renewal Counting Process Induced by a
Discrete Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . 115--121
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Anonymous Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Niels G. Becker Statistical Challenges of AIDS: (The
1990 Knibbs Lecture, Canberra, 27
November 1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--144
B. R. Cullis and
A. P. Verbyla Nonlinear Regression Modelling and Time
Dependent Covariates in Repeated
Measures Experiments . . . . . . . . . . 145--160
L. A. Weissfeld and
Anant M. Kshirsagar A Modified Growth Curve Model and Its
Application to Clinical Studies . . . . 161--168
Anthony Y. C. Kuk A Semiparametric Mixture Model for the
Analysis of Competing Risks Data . . . . 169--180
Lan C. Marschner Robust Methods for Dependent Cell
Pedigree Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--198
C. C. Heyde and
Y.-X. Lin On Quasi-Likelihood Methods and
Estimation for Bunching Processes and
Heteroscedastic Regression Models . . . 199--206
Ravindra Khattree Estimation of Guarantee Time and Mean
Life After Warranty for Two-Parameter
Exponential Failure Model . . . . . . . 207--215
H. Tobing and
C. A. McGilchrist Recursive Residuals for Multivariate
Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 217--232
P. N. Jones and
G. J. McLachlan Fitting Finite Mixture Models in a
Regression Context . . . . . . . . . . . 233--240
Christopher Lloyd Effective Conditioning . . . . . . . . . 241--260
L. R. Saunders An Exact Formula for the Symmetrical
Incomplete Beta Function Where the
Parameter Is an Integer or Half-Integer 261--264
Paul Yip Goodness of Fit Tests for Heterogeneity
in a Capture-Recapture Experiment . . . 265--271
Graham H. Pollard The Optimal Test for Selecting the
Greater of Two Binomial Probabilities 273--284
Govinda J. Weerakkody Testing Hypotheses About the Common Mean
of Two Normal Populations . . . . . . . 285--293
Muhammad Khalid Pezvaiz and
C. J. Skinner Multivariate Analysis of Clustered
Survey Data: Testing Equality of
Covariance Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 295--306
Anthony G. Pakes and
Ravindra Khattree Length-Biasing, Characterizations of
Laws and the Moment Problem . . . . . . 307--322
Anthony G. Pakes On Characterizations Through Mixed Sums 323--340
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--344
Bruce M. Brown and
Evan J. Williams Conversations with Edwin J. G. Pitman 345--360
H. T. Kiiveri and
N. A. Campbell Allocation of Remotely Sensed Data Using
Markov Models for Image Data and Pixel
Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--374
Ross S. Sparks Quality Control with Multivariate Data 375--390
Sangit Chatterjee and
A. Narayanan A New Approach to Discrimination and
Classification Using a Hausdorff Type
Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--406
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Harshinder Singh Pitman Nearness Comparisons of Estimates
of Two Ordered Normal Means . . . . . . 407--414
P. S. Gill Balanced Change-Over Designs for
Autocorrelated Observations . . . . . . 415--420
Eden K. H. Wu and
Denis H. Y. Leung Asymptotic Minimax Properties of
$L$-Estimators of Scale . . . . . . . . 421--432
Merran A. Evans Burr Critical Value Approximations for
Tests of Autocorrelation and
Heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 433--442
Yoong-Sin Lee and
Moy Chee Lee On the Derivation and Computation of the
Cornish--Fisher Expansion . . . . . . . 443--450
Alphonse K. A. Amey and
A. K. Gupta Testing Sphericity Under a Mixture Model 451--460
Joseph G. Brahim and
Sanford Weisberg Incomplete Data in Generalized Linear
Models with Continuous Covariates . . . 461--470
R. J. Carroll and
Peter Hall Semiparametric Comparison of Regression
Curves Via Normal Likelihoods . . . . . 471--487
K. Balasubramanian and
N. Balakrishnan and
H. J. Malik Operator Methods in Order Statistics . . 489--496
H. T. Kiiveri Fitting Spatial Correlation Models:
Approximating a Likelihood Approximation 497--512
D. Huang and
V. V. Anh Estimation of Spatial ARMA Models . . . 513--530
P. K. Pollett and
D. Vere Jones A Note on Evanescent Processes . . . . . 531--536
M. A. M. Ali Mousa The Bootstrap Risk of Linear Empirical
Bayes Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--544
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--558
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to A. T. James . . 1--4
R. A. Maller Factorial Analysis of Recidivist Data 5--18
J. Bélanger and
D. Gagnon Classification and Proportion Estimation 19--28
Alan H. Dorfman A Comparison of Design-Based and
Model-Based Estimators of the Finite
Population Distribution Function . . . . 29--41
R. M. Huggins On the Robust Analysis of Variance
Components Models for Pedigree Data . . 43--57
Andrew Luong and
José Garrido Minimum Quadratic Distance Estimation
for a Parametric Family of Discrete
Distributions Defined Recursively . . . 59--67
Andrew T. A. Wood Estimation of the Concentration
Parameters of the Fisher Matrix
Distribution on $ 50 (3) $ and the
Bingham Distribution on $ S_q $, $ q
\geq 2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--79
R. M. Huggins Asymptotic Inference for a Class of
Chain Binomial Models . . . . . . . . . 81--87
M. C. Jones Do Not Weight for Heteroscedasticity in
Nonparametric Regression . . . . . . . . 89--92
Suojin Wang Saddlepoint Methods for Bootstrap
Confidence Bands in Nonparametric
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--101
Mark R. Segal and
Bernard Rosner and
Albert G. S. Liou and
Jan P. Schouten Parameter Estimation for Low-Order
Auto-Regressive Models with Missing
Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--118
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127
Anonymous Acknowledgement of Referees' Services 128--128
A. W. F. Edwards Mendel, Galton, Fisher . . . . . . . . . 129--140
T. Bednarski and
B. R. Clarke Trimmed Likelihood Estimation of
Location and Scale of the Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--153
Roger Koenker and
José A. F. Machado and
Christopher L. Skeels and
A. H. Welsh Amemiya's Form of the Weighted Least
Squares Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 155--174
S. Froda and
A. Luong Nonparametric Estimation for Competing
Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183
O. Sola Adegboye The Optimal Classification Rule for
Exponential Populations . . . . . . . . 185--194
Heleno Bolfarine and
Mönica C. Sandoval Prediction of the Finite Population
Distribution Function Under Gaussian
Superpopulation Models . . . . . . . . . 195--204
Paul Kabaila Some Properties of Profile Bootstrap
Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . 205--214
A. C. Davison and
Peter Hall On Studentizing and Blocking Methods for
Implementing the Bootstrap with
Dependent Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--224
TaChen Liang and
N. Balakrishnan A Characterization of Geometric
Distributions Through Conditional
Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--228
E. R. Williams and
J. A. John Upper Bounds for Latinized Designs . . . 229--236
J. A. John and
D. Whitaker Construction of Resolvable Row-Column
Designs Using Simulated Annealing . . . 237--245
Anonymous Obituaries: S. Lipton, E. J. G. Pitman 246--246
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--256
D. J. Best Extended Analysis for Ranked Data . . . 257--262
M. Pithuncharurnlap and
K. E. Basford and
W. T. Federer Neighbour Analysis with Adjustment for
Interplot Competition . . . . . . . . . 263--270
Murray D. Smith Expectations of Ratios of Quadratic
Forms in Normal Variables: Evaluating
Some Top-Order Invariant Polynomials . . 271--282
G. W. Horgan and
J. Haslett Nonparametric Estimation of Angular
Distributions from Cartesian
Observations with Error . . . . . . . . 283--292
Rahul Mukerjee and
Sujit K. Basu Inverse Sampling for Domain Estimation
in a Stratified Population . . . . . . . 293--302
Michael G. Akritas and
Indrani Basak and
Myung Hwi Lee Robust Estimation Under Type II
Censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--318
M. C. Jones Kernel Density Estimation When the
Bandwidth Is Large . . . . . . . . . . . 319--326
Yu Hayakawa Interrelationships Between $ l_P
$-Isotropic Densities and $ l_P
$-Isotropic Survival Functions, and De
Finetti Representations of Schur-Concave
Survival Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 327--332
N. A. Campbell and
H. T. Kiiveri Canonical Variate Analysis with
Spatially-Correlated Data . . . . . . . 333--344
Jeffrey M. Albert and
Anant M. Kshirsagar The Reduced-Rank Growth Curve Model for
Discriminant Analysis of Longitudinal
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--357
E. R. Williams and
J. T. Wood Testing the Significance of
Genotype--Environment Interaction . . . 359--362
Nam-Ky Nguyen and
E. R. Williams An Algorithm for Constructing Optimal
Resolvable Row-Column Designs . . . . . 363--370
W. N. Venables and
J. A. Eccleston Randomized Search Strategies for Finding
Optimal or Near Optimal Block and
Row-Column Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 371--382
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--389
O. D. Anderson Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--390
Joe Gani Obituary: Edward James Hannan . . . . . 1--8
Joe Kerkvliet Estimating a Logit Model with Randomized
Data: the Case of Cocaine Use . . . . . 9--20
C. D. Mathers and
R. S. Harris and
P. A. L. Lancaster A Cusum Scheme Based on the Exponential
Distribution for Surveillance of Rare
Congenital Malformations . . . . . . . . 21--30
A. M. Richardson and
A. H. Welsh Asymptotic Properties of Restricted
Maximum Likelihood (REML) Estimates for
Hierarchical Mixed Linear Models . . . . 31--43
Brenton R. Clarke Empirical Evidence for Adaptive
Confidence Intervals and Identification
of Outliers Using Methods of Trimming 45--58
Eve Bofinger Should We Estimate the Probability of
Correct Selection? . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66
Angelika van der Linde On Cross-Validation for Smoothing
Splines in the Case of Dependent
Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--73
R. A. Moyeed and
P. J. Diggle Rates of Convergence in Semi-Parametric
Modelling of Longitudinal Data . . . . . 75--93
Dean M. Young and
Patrick L. Odell and
John W. Seaman, Jr. On the Independence of the Sample Mean
and Translation-Invariant Statistics for
Matrix Normal Distributions . . . . . . 95--100
Z. Govindarajulu and
H. C. Howard Asymptotic Expansions Applied to
$F$-Test Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 101--113
Anonymous Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Rahul Mukerjee and
S. Sengupta $A$-Optimal Run Orders with a Linear
Trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--122
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--128
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to E. J. Williams 129--132
G. M. Laslett and
C. J. Lloyd and
G. K. Robinson Encounters with Statistical Inference
--- an Interview with Evan Williams . . 133--152
John L. Hopper and
John D. Mathews A Multivariate Normal Model for Pedigree
and Longitudinal Data and the Software
`Fisher' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--176
N. A. Campbell and
S. L. Furby Variable Selection Along Canonical
Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183
A. J. Yeo and
G. F. Yeo Selecting Satisfactory Secretaries . . . 185--198
Ian Gordon Sample Size for Two Independent
Proportions: a Review . . . . . . . . . 199--209
Sneh Gulati and
W. J. Padgett Nonparametric Quantile Estimation from
Record-Breaking Data . . . . . . . . . . 211--223
Clint W. Coakley and
Thomas P. Hettmansperger The Maximum Resistance of Tests . . . . 225--233
Ian W. Saunders An Algorithm for Choosing the Sampling
Times for an Experiment on a Continuous
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--244
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--251
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to J. M. Gani . . . 253--255
G. M. Tallis A Stochastic Model for Team Golf
Competitions with Applications to
Handicapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
Richard M. Huggins and
Danuta Z. Loesch Applications of Robust Estimation for
Variance Components Models:The Detection
of Major Gene Effects in Finger Ridge
Counts in Normal and Fragile X Families 271--286
Naveen K. Bansal and
M. Bhandary Robust $M$-Estimation of the Intraclass
Correlation Coefficient . . . . . . . . 287--301
Yan-Xia Lin The Relationship Between Quasi-Score and
Locally $E$-Sufficient Estimating
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311
Alan T. K. Wan The Sampling Performance of Inequality
Restricted and Pre-Test Estimators in a
Mis-Specified Linear Model . . . . . . . 313--325
Bo-Cheng Wei On Confidence Regions of Embedded Models
in Regular Parametric Families (A
Geometric Approach) . . . . . . . . . . 327--338
M. P. Quine Probability Approximations for Divisible
Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 339--349
Roel J. G. Wilms and
Jan G. F. Thiemann Characterizations of Shift-Invariant
Distributions Based on Summation Modulo
One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--354
Bing-Yi Jing Bahadur Slopes for Comparisons of Tests
Based on Resampling . . . . . . . . . . 355--362
Hans-Peter Piepho On Tests for Interaction in a
Nonreplicated Two-Way Layout . . . . . . 363--369
John A. Eccleston and
Deborah J. Street An Algorithm for the Construction of
Optimal or Near-Optimal Change-Over
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--378
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--385
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Philip L. H. Yu and
Richard Cowan A Statistical Model for Duplicate
Tournaments in Games of Luck and Skill 1--17
K. L. Mengersen and
R. L. Tweedie and
B. Biggerstaff The Impact of Method Choice on
Meta-Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--44
R. V. Lenth and
M. Markatou and
J. Tsimikas Robust Tests Based on the Sample
Characteristic Function . . . . . . . . 45--60
S. Zhou and
R. A. Maller and
T. P. Speed On a Shared Allele Test of Random Mating 61--72
Alan T. K. Wan The Optimal Critical Value of a Pre-Test
for an Inequality Restriction in a
Mis-Specified Regression Model . . . . . 73--81
J. Pusz A Regression Characterisation of the
Meixner Hypergeometric Distribution . . 83--87
E. B. Fosam and
T. Sapatinas Characterisations of Some Income
Distributions Based on Multiplicative
Damage Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--93
A. L. Bello Missing Values, Imputation and Error
Rate Estimators in Discriminant Analysis 95--104
E. J. Hannan and
L. Kavalieris A Note on ARMA Parameterisation* . . . . 105--110
Nizam Uddin and
Dexter C. Whittinghill The Robustness of Binary and Non-Binary
Balanced Nested Row-Column Designs Under
the Unavailability of Blocks: a
Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Philip N. Kokic and
Lynelle Moon and
Jane Gooday and
Ray L. Chambers Estimating Temporal Farm Income
Distributions Using Spatial Smoothing
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--143
Neil S. Barnett and
Ian S. Gomm and
Len Armour Location of the Optimal Sampling Point
for the Quality Assessment of Continuous
Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
J. S. Maritz A Permutation Paired Test Allowing for
Missing Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159
Joel Boularan and
Louis Ferre and
Philippe Vieu Location of Particular Points in
Non-Parametric Regression Analysis . . . 161--168
K. Vijayan and
P. Mukhopadhyay and
S. Bhattacharyya On Non-Negative Unbiased Estimation of
Quadratic Forms in Finite Population
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
Toby Lewis and
Nicholas I. Fisher Estimating the Angle Between the Mean
Directions of Two Spherical
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191
R. A. Moyeed Spline Smoother As a Dynamic Linear
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--204
R. Van de Ven and
N. C. Weber Log-Linear Models for Mean and
Dispersion in Mixed Poisson Regression
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--216
N. David Yanez III and
Jeffrey R. Wilson Comparison of Quasi-Likelihood Models
for Overdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . 217--231
J. C. W. Rayner and
D. J. Best Smooth Tests for the Bivariate Poisson
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--245
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--252
D. J. Daley Two-Moment Scaling Formulae for
Aggregating Examination Marks . . . . . 253--272
J. D. Biggins and
K. K. Yue A Likelihood Approach to Scaling
Examination Marks . . . . . . . . . . . 273--282
Ross Sparks and
Roy Ballantyne Quality Control Methods in Large-Scale
Assessment Procedures Using
`Double-Marking' or `Partial
Double-Marking' . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--298
Ian R. James and
Stephen J. Hogan and
Simon A. Mallal Analysis of Doubly Censored Data and the
HIV Incubation Period Distribution in
Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . 299--312
Ling Chen A One-Sided Trimmed Mean Estimator for
the Mean of Positively Skewed
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--322
Suzanne Sommer and
Robert G. Staudte Robust Variable Selection in Regression
in the Presence of Outliers and Leverage
Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--336
Bing-Yi Jing Some Resampling Procedures Under
Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--344
Neil T. Diamond Some Properties of a Foldover Design . . 345--352
I. W. Saunders and
J. A. Eccleston and
R. J. Martin An Algorithm for the Design of $2$
Factorial Experiments on Continuous
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--365
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--374
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 375--375
W. McLennan The Product of the Australian Bureau of
Statistics: the 1995 Knibbs Lecture,
Canberra, 28 November 1995 . . . . . . . 1--14
David Steel and
Joe Vella and
Peter Harrington Quality Issues in Telephone Surveys:
Coverage, Non-Response and Quota
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--34
Arijit Chaudhuri and
Tapabrata Maiti and
Debesh Roy A Note on Competing Variance Estimators
in Randomised Response Surveys . . . . . 35--42
Horng JinhChang and
Der HsinLiang A Two-Stage Unrelated Randomised
Response Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . 43--51
C. A. McGilchrist and
K. K. W. Yau Survival Analysis with Time Dependent
Frailty Using a Longitudinal Model . . . 53--60
Norbert Henze and
Bernhard Klar Properly Rescaled Components of Smooth
Tests of Fit Are Diagnostic . . . . . . 61--74
Pil S. Paek and
Anant M. Kshirsagar Chance of Misclassification in the Case
of Several Normal Populations . . . . . 75--82
Anant M. Kshirsagar and
Joanna Chung-in Cheng A New Measure of Rotatability of
Response Surface Designs . . . . . . . . 83--89
H. Monod and
J-M. Aza\"\is and
R. A. Bailey Valid Randomisation for the
First-Difference Analysis . . . . . . . 91--106
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111
Asraul Hoque Multiperiod Forecasting Analysis of a
Dynamic Model for a Small Sample . . . . 113--129
T. M. Ng and
W. K. Li Tests for Seasonal Differencing with an
Unknown Break-Point . . . . . . . . . . 131--153
Anton Schick $ \sqrt n$-Consistent Estimation in a
Random Coefficient Autoregressive Model 155--160
Guohua Pan Distribution-Free Confidence Procedure
for Umbrella Orderings . . . . . . . . . 161--172
J. Z. Wang and
P. Cooke and
S. Li Determination of Domains of Attraction
Based on a Sequence of Maxima . . . . . 173--181
Jeremy M. G. Taylor and
William G. Cumberland and
Xiangyi Meng Components of Variance Models with
Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--191
Dean M. Young and
Leah M. Lehman and
Laurie M. Meaux Independence Distribution-Preserving
Nonnegative-Definite Covariance
Structures for the Sample Variance . . . 193--200
Sarjinder Singh and
A. H. Joarder and
Maxwell L. King Regression Analysis Using Scrambled
Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211
Mario Lefebvre and
Richard Labib Hitting Lines and Circles with Diffusion
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--222
D. A. Preece Multi-Factor Balanced Block Designs with
Complete Adjusted Orthogonality for All
Pairs of Treatment Factors . . . . . . . 223--230
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234
Pak F. Tang and
Neil S. Barnett Dispersion Control for Multivariate
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--251
Pak F. Tang and
Neil S. Barnett Dispersion Control for Multivariate
Processes --- Some Comparisons . . . . . 253--273
Lise Manchester Empirical Influence for Robust Smoothing 275--290
A. M. Hasofer and
J. Z. Wang Estimation of Quantiles for a
Fréchet-Type Distribution . . . . . . . . 291--298
Theofanis Sapatinas On the Generalized Rao--Rubin Condition
and Some Variants . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306
Gilberto A. Paula Influence Diagnostics in Proper
Dispersion Models . . . . . . . . . . . 307--316
Y. Chaiyapong and
C. J. Lloyd Improved Inference from Recapture
Experiments with Behavioural Response
Through Modelling and Auxiliary
Experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--331
N. T. Longford Model-Based Variance Estimation in
Surveys with Stratified Clustered Design 333--352
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--358
Anonymous Pitman Medal Awarded to W. J. Ewens . . 1--3
Ayoub Saei and
C. A. McGilchrist Random Threshold Models Applied to
Inflated Zero Class Data . . . . . . . . 5--16
You-Gan Wang and
Ming Yin Estimation for the General Sample
Selection Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
Bing-Yi Jing and
John Robinson Two-Sample Nonparametric Tilting Method 25--34
W. J. Krzanowski and
D. J. Hand Assessing Error Rate Estimators: the
Leave-One-Out Method Reconsidered . . . 35--46
Song Xi Chen Empirical Likelihood-Based Kernel
Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56
M. C. Jones and
R. J. Karunamuni Fourier Series Estimation for Length
Biased Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--68
Jacek Wesolowski and
Mohammad Ahsanullah On Characterizing Distributions Via
Linearity of Regression for Order
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--78
W. Liu On a Multiple Three-Decision Procedure
for Comparing Several Treatments with a
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--92
D. R. Jensen Conditioning and Concentration of
Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . 93--104
Peter G. Moffatt Global Log-Concavity of the Likelihood
in Models with Grouped Discrete Data . . 105--112
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--118
Anonymous Acknowledgement of Referees' Services 119--120
David Vere-Jones Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, 1912--1995
a Personal Tribute . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Bo-Cheng Wei and
Hong-Tu Zhu Some Second Order Asymptotics in
Exponential Family Non-Linear Regression
Models (A Geometric Approach) . . . . . 129--148
Richard Morton and
Mike Patefield and
Phil Bowtell Estimating Equations and Non-Linear
Functional Relationships . . . . . . . . 149--167
Wei Liu Stepwise Tests When the Test Statistics
Are Independent . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
Anthony G. Pakes and
Fred W. Steutel On the Number of Records Near the
Maximum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192
Paul Kabaila and
Chris J. Lloyd Tight Upper Confidence Limits from
Discrete Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--204
Chihiro Hirotsu Two-Way Change-Point Model and Its
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--218
Michikazu Sato Some Remarks on the Mean, Median, Mode
and Skewness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--224
You-Gan Wang Error Bounds for Calculation of the
Gittins Indices . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--233
Guohua Zou Letters to the Editor: Two-stage
Randomized Response Procedures as Single
Stage Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Norman R. Draper and
Friedrich Pukelsheim Letters to the Editor: Kshirsagar &
Cheng's Rotatability Measure . . . . . . 236--238
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--244
Simon J. Sheather Editorial Announcement: New Journal
Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
G. D. Lin and
J. S. Huang Orginal Article: The Cube of a Logistic
Distribution Is Indeterminate . . . . . 247--252
Ramakrishna Kakarala and
Geoffrey S. Watson Orginal Article: Lower Bounds for the
Divergence of Directional and Axial
Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--260
Goran Kauermann Orginal Article: a Note on Multivariate
Logistic Models for Contingency Tables 261--276
Anoop Chaturvedi and
Hikaru Hasegawa and
Sheel Asthana Orginal Article: Bayesian Analysis of
the Linear Regression Model with
Non-Normal Disturbances . . . . . . . . 277--293
Nalini Ravishanker and
Bonnie K. Ray Orginal Article: Bayesian Analysis of
Vector ARFIMA Processes . . . . . . . . 295--311
R. J. Hyndman and
M. P. Wand Orginal Article: Nonparametric
Autocovariance Function Estimation . . . 313--324
Patricia Gimenez and
Heleno Bolfarine Orginal Article: Corrected Score
Functions in Classical
Error-In-Variables and Incidental
Parameter Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--344
M. K. Tang and
Wing K. Fung Orginal Article: Case-Deletion
Diagnostics for Test Statistics in
Multivariate Regression . . . . . . . . 345--353
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner Orginal Article: Goodness of Fit for the
Binomial Distribution . . . . . . . . . 355--364
Geoff Robinson Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--370
Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 371--371
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
Jennifer S. K. Chan and
Anthony Y. C. Kuk and
James Bell and
Charles Mc Gilchrist The Analysis of Methadone Clinic Data
Using Marginal and Conditional Logistic
Models with Mixture or Random Effects 1--10
A. G. Chetwynd and
P. J. Diggle On Estimating the Reduced Second Moment
Measure of a Stationary Spatial Point
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
Toshiyuki Sato and
Yoshihide Kakizawa and
Masanobu Taniguchi Large Deviation Results for Statistics
of Short- and Long-memory Gaussian
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--29
J. L. Hay and
A. N. Pettitt The Added Variable Plot for a Time
Series of Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
Denis Heng-Yan Leung and
You-Gan Wang Bias Reduction using Stochastic
Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--52
Christopher A. Field and
A. H. Welsh Robust Confidence Intervals for
Regression Parameters . . . . . . . . . 53--64
Soon-Kwi Kim and
Richard Huggins Diagnostics for Autocorrelated
Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 65--71
Hongsheng Gao and
Peter Smith Some Bounds on the Distribution of
Certain Quadratic Forms in Normal Random
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81
H. M. Barakat Weak Limit of the Sample Extremal
Quotient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--93
M. Gharib Some Estimates for the Rate of
Convergence in the Multidimensional
Central Limit Theorem for Homogeneous
Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102
Kentaro Nomakuchi A Generalization of the Childs--Moran
Result for Orthoscheme Probabilities . . 103--109
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
J. A. John and
E. R. Williams $t$-Latinized Designs . . . . . . . . . 111--118
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--128
R. M. Huggins and
D. Z. Loesch and
N. H. Hoang A Comparison of Methods of Fitting
Models to Twin Data . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
Srikanta Chatterjee and
Claudio Michelini Household Consumption Equivalence
Scales: Some Estimates from New Zealand
Household Expenditure and Income Survey
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--150
Quang M. Bui and
Richard M. Huggins Robust Inference for the Bivariate
Bifurcating Autoregressive Model . . . . 151--163
Xiaomi Hu An Exact Algorithm for Projection onto a
Polyhedral Cone . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--170
Hikaru Hasegawa Risk Comparison of Inequality
Constrained Estimators in the
Heteroscedastic Linear Model . . . . . . 171--180
Kazuhiro Ohtani and
Alan T. K. Wan On the Sampling Performance of an
Improved Stein Inequality Restricted
Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--187
Paul Kabaila The Choice of Statistic on Which to Base
Tight Upper Confidence Limits . . . . . 189--196
H. S. Konijn Certain Inverse Multivariate
Hypergeometric and Multinomial
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204
Ioan Cuculescu and
Radu Theodorescu Multiplicative Strong Unimodality . . . 205--214
Geoffrey F. Yeo Interview Costs in the Secretary Problem 215--219
T. Pham-Gia Distribution of the Stopping Time in
Bayesian Sequential Sampling . . . . . . 221--227
Somnath Datta and
William P. McCormick and
George Mathew Nonlinear Autoregression with Positive
Innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--239
Mausumi Bose Designs with Repeated Measurements on
Any Number of Units over Varying Periods 241--248
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--255
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Nicholas I. Fisher and
Peter Hall Tributes and Obituary: Tribute: Geoffrey
Stuart Watson (3 December 1921--3
January 1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--268
J. Wells Applications: Oversampling Through
Households or Other Clusters:
Comparisons of Methods for Weighting the
Oversampled Elements . . . . . . . . . . 269--278
Rodney Strachan and
Maxwell King and
Sarjinder Singh Theory and Methods: Likelihood-based
Estimation of the Regression Model with
Scrambled Responses . . . . . . . . . . 279--290
Sarjinder Singh and
Stephen Horn and
Sadeq Chowdhury Theory and Methods: Estimation of
Stigmatized Characteristics of a Hidden
Gang in a Finite Population . . . . . . 291--298
You-Gan Wang Theory and Methods: Growth Curves with
Explanatory Variables and Estimation of
the Effect of Tagging . . . . . . . . . 299--304
Patrick E. B. FitzGerald and
Matthew W. Knuiman Theory and Methods: Estimation in
Regressive Logistic Regression Analyses
of Familial Data with Missing Outcomes 305--316
Andrzej S. Kozek Theory and Methods: on Minimum Distance
Estimation Using Kolmogorov--Lévy Type
Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--334
Sumalee Givaruangsawat and
Govinda J. Weerakkody and
Patrick D. Gerard Theory and Methods: Hypothesis Testing
in Two-Stage Cluster Sampling . . . . . 335--344
Yuejen Zhao and
Andy H. Lee Theory and Methods: Influence
Diagnostics for Simultaneous Equations
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--358
L. Y. Chan and
J. H. Meng and
Y. C. Jiang and
Y. N. Guan Theory and Methods: $D$-Optimal Axial
Designs for Quadratic and Cubic Additive
Mixture Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--372
M. S. Ahmed Theory and Methods: a Note on
Regression-Type Estimators Using
Multiple Auxiliary Information . . . . . 373--376
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--383
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Anonymous Announcement Notice: Pitman Medal
Awarded to E. Seneta . . . . . . . . . . 385--387
E. A. Catchpole and
B. R. Anderson Applications: Comparing the Performances
of NSW and Victorian Students in a
First-Year Mathematics Course (with
Discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--406
Carol J. Feltz Theory & Methods: Generalizations of the
$ \delta $-Corrected Kolmogorov--Smirnov
Goodness-of-Fit Test . . . . . . . . . . 407--413
Ömer Öztürk Theory & Methods: a Robust and Almost
Fully Efficient $M$-Estimator . . . . . 415--424
Damaraju Raghavarao and
James B. Wiley Theory & Methods: Estimating Main Effects
with Pareto Optimal Subsets . . . . . . 425--432
I. Pigeot and
H. Strugholtz Theory & Methods: Jackknifing the
Mantel--Haenszel Estimator in Sparse
Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 433--441
Andreas Futschik and
Georg Ch. Pflug Theory & Methods: Distance Testing for
Selecting the Best Population . . . . . 443--464
Eric J. Beh and
Pamela J. Davy Theory & Methods: Partitioning Pearson's
Chi-Squared Statistic for a Completely
Ordered Three-Way Contingency Table . . 465--477
Chunsheng Ma and
John Robinson Theory & Methods: Saddlepoint
Approximation for Sample and Bootstrap
Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--486
N. R. Draper and
J. A. John Theory & Methods: Response Surface
Designs Where Levels of Some Factors are
Difficult to Change . . . . . . . . . . 487--495
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--505
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506
Anonymous Index: Index to Articles and Book
Reviews in Volume 40 . . . . . . . . . . 507--512
Simon Sheather Editorial: Retirement of Daryl Daley as
Technical Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Denny Meyer and
Tim Napier-Munn Applications: Optimal Experiments for
Time-Dependent Mineral Processes . . . . 3--17
Graham B. McBride Applications: Equivalence Tests Can
Enhance Environmental Science and
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--29
Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 30--30
V. A. Vignaux and
J. L. Scott Theory & Methods: Simplifying Regression
Models Using Dimensional Analysis . . . 31--41
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Andrew Balemi and
Alan Lee Theory & Methods: Some Properties of the
Liang--Zeger Method Applied to Clustered
Binary Regression . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58
Jiin-Huarng Guo Theory & Methods: a Nonparametric Test
for the Parallelism of Two First-Order
Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 59--65
Herbert Büning and
Wolfgang Kössler Theory & Methods: The Asymptotic Power of
Jonckheere-Type Tests for Ordered
Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77
V. T. Stefanov and
A. G. Pakes Theory & Methods: Explicit Distributional
Results in Pattern Formation II . . . . 79--90
M. B. Dollinger and
E. Kulinskaya and
R. G. Staudte Theory & Methods: Guarded Weights of
Evidence and Acceptability Profiles
Based on Signs: I. Permutation Arguments
(With Discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . 91--110
J. A. John and
K. G. Russell and
E. R. Williams and
D. Whitaker Theory & Methods: Resolvable Designs with
Unequal Block Sizes . . . . . . . . . . 111--116
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--126
Des Nicholls Oration Lecture: Presidential Address:
Statistics into the 21st century (with
discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139
Alan Lee Applications: Modelling rugby league
data via bivariate negative binomial
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--152
Lynette Hunt and
Murray Jorgensen Theory & Methods: Mixture model
clustering using the Multimix program 154--171
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Debasis Kundu Theory & Methods: Generalized exponential
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--188
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos Theory & Methods: Second-order biases of
the maximum likelihood estimates in von
Mises regression models . . . . . . . . 189--198
Sarjinder Singh and
Stephen Horn and
Sadeq Chowdhury and
Frank Yu Theory & Methods: Calibration of the
estimators of variance . . . . . . . . . 199--212
Konstantinos Adamidis Theory & Methods: an EM algorithm for
estimating negative binomial parameters 213--221
A. M. Hasofer and
S. Li Theory & Methods: Estimation for Type II
domain of attraction based on the $W$
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--232
Eric J. Beh and
Pamela J. Davy Theory & Methods: Partitioning Pearson's
chi-squared statistic for a partially
ordered three-way contingency table . . 233--246
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 253--253
V. T. Stefanov and
A. G. Pakes Corrigenda: Explicit Distributional
Results in Pattern Formation II . . . . 254--254
Murray J. Mackinnon and
Ned Glick Applications: Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery in Databases --- an Overview 255--275
E. R. Williams and
J. A. John and
D. Whitaker Applications: Example of Block Designs
for Plant and Tree Breeding Trials . . . 277--284
Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: an Analysis of
Two-Dimensional Agricultural Field
Trials in the Presence of Outliers and
Fertility Jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--297
Christopher J. Lloyd and
Yongyuth Chaiyapong Theory & Methods: Choosing Sampling
Effort for Recapture Experiments with
Behavioural Response . . . . . . . . . . 299--304
Andy H. Lee and
John S. Yick Theory & Methods: a Perturbation Approach
to Outlier Detection in Two-Way
Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 305--315
Murray D. Smith and
Peter G. Moffatt Theory & Methods: Fisher's Information on
the Correlation Coefficient in Bivariate
Logistic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--330
Paul Kabaila Theory & Methods: an Efficient Simulation
Method for the Computation of a Class of
Conditional Expectations . . . . . . . . 331--336
Bernhard Klar Theory & Methods: Model Selection for a
Family of Discrete Failure Time
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--352
Robert A. R. King and
H. L. MacGillivray Theory & Methods: a Starship Estimation
Method for the Generalized $ \lambda $
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--374
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--382
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Indexes for Volumes 40 and 41 . . . . .
Russell B. Millar and
Trevor J. Willis Applications: Estimating the Relative
Density of Snapper in and around a
Marine Reserve Using a Log-Linear
Mixed-Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 383--394
J. A. Brown Theory & Methods: a Comparison of Two
Adaptive Sampling Designs . . . . . . . 395--403
L. N. Sahoo and
Pournamasi Panda Theory & Methods: a Class of Estimators
Using Auxiliary Information in Two-Stage
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--410
Bryan F. J. Manly and
R. I. C. Chris Francis Theory & Methods: Analysis of Variance by
Randomization when Variances are Unequal 411--429
George Tzavelas Theory & Methods: a Characterization of
the Normal Family of Distributions Based
on the Bias of the Maximum Likelihood
Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--438
Zhihui Liu Theory & Methods: Set Compound Estimation
Under Entropy Loss . . . . . . . . . . . 439--450
M. B. Dollinger and
E. Kulinskaya and
R. G. Staudte Theory & Methods: Guarded Weights of
Evidence and Acceptability Profiles
Based on Signs: II. Asymptotic Results 451--461
Vo Anh and
Rodney Wolff and
Jiti Gao and
Quang Tieng Theory & Methods: Local Linear Kernel
Regression with Long-Range Dependent
Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--479
Eve Bofinger Theory & Methods: Homogeneity of Two
Straight Lines: Equivalence Approach
Using Fitted Regressions . . . . . . . . 481--491
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--501
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 502--502
J. Durbin The Foreman Lecture: The State Space
Approach to Time Series Analysis and its
Potential for Official Statistics (with
Discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Ross S. Sparks Applications: Cusum Charts for Ar1 Data:
are they worth the Effort? . . . . . . . 25--42
Lesley Hunt Theory & Methods: Why do we do it?
Statisticians and the Practice of
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58
A. E. Koudou and
D. Pommeret Theory & Methods: a Construction of
Lancaster Probabilities with Margins in
the Multidimensional Meixner Class . . . 59--66
Paul Kabaila and
Chris J. Lloyd Theory & Methods: Profile upper
Confidence Limits from Discrete Data . . 67--79
Michael E. O'Neill and
Ky Mathews Theory & Methods: a Weighted Least
Squares Approach to Levene's Test of
Homogeneity of Variance . . . . . . . . 81--100
David C. Blest Theory & Methods: Rank Correlation --- an
Alternative Measure . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
Brenton R. Clarke and
David K. Gamble and
Tadeusz Bednarski Theory & Methods: a Note on Robustness of
the $ \beta $-Trimmed Mean . . . . . . . 113--117
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . .
Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . .
Claudio Michelini Applications: New Zealand Consumption
Equivalence Scales from Quasi-unit
Record Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--144
Rob J. Hyndman and
Gary K. Grunwald Applications: Generalized Additive
Modelling of Mixed Distribution Markov
Models with Application to Melbourne's
Rainfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
Janet Bishop and
David Die and
You-Gan Wang Applications: a Generalized Estimating
Equations Approach for Analysis of the
Impact of New Technology on a Trawl
Fishery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--177
Ludwig Baringhaus and
Nora Gürtler and
Norbert Henze Theory & Methods: Weighted Integral Test
Statistics and Components of Smooth
Tests of Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192
Chris J. Lloyd Theory & Methods: Fitting ROC Curves
Using Non-linear Binomial Regression . . 193--204
David Ruppert and
Raymond J. Carroll Theory & Methods: Spatially-adaptive
Penalties for Spline Fitting . . . . . . 205--223
A. G. Constantine and
J. B. F. Field and
N. I. Robinson Theory & Methods: Probabilities of
Failure in Mixed Acceptance Sampling
Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--233
Mausumi Bose and
Bhramar Mukherjee Theory & Methods: Cross-over Designs in
the Presence of Higher Order Carry-overs 235--244
Rahul Mukerjee and
T. J. Rao and
K. Vijayan Letters: Rejoinder to Ahmed, M. S.
(1998). ``A note on regression-type
estimators using multiple auxiliary
information'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 0--0
Don J. Bennett and
David Steel An Evaluation of a Large-scale CATI
Household Survey Using Random Digit
Dialling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--270
Francis Parisi and
Robert Lund Seasonality and Return Periods of
Landfalling Atlantic Basin Hurricanes 271--282
Adrian Baddeley and
Rolf Turner Practical Maximum Pseudolikelihood for
Spatial Point Patterns: (with
Discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--322
Di Chen and
Jye-Chyi Lu and
Chin-Shang Li and
Jinho Park Parameter Estimation for Bivariate Shock
Models with Singular Distribution for
Censored Data with Concomitant Order
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--336
S. R. Deshmukh Markov Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--345
Rinaldo Artes and
Gilberto A. Paula and
Ronald Ranvaud Analysis of Circular Longitudinal Data
Based on Generalized Estimating
Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--358
Xiaomi Hu Tests for Monotonic Intensity in a
Poisson Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--365
Paul S. F. Yip and
Qizhi Chen A Partial Likelihood Estimator of
Vaccine Efficacy . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--374
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--382
Duangkamon Chotikapanich and
William E. Griffiths Applications: Posterior Distributions
for the Gini Coefficient Using Grouped
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--392
S. J. Lee Theory & Methods: On Estimators of Scale
and Dispersion in Neighbourhoods of
Parametric Families . . . . . . . . . . 393--405
Giorgio E. Montanari Theory & Methods: Conditioning on
Auxiliary Variable Means in Finite
Population Inference . . . . . . . . . . 407--421
R. M. Huggins and
I. V. Basawa Theory & Methods: Inference for the
Extended Bifurcating Autoregressive
Model for Cell Lineage Studies . . . . . 423--432
Josemar Rodrigues and
José Galvão Leite and
Luis A. Milan Theory & Methods: an Empirical Bayes
Inference for the von Mises Distribution 433--440
Naomi Altman Theory & Methods: Krige, Smooth, Both or
Neither?: (with Discussion) . . . . . . 441--461
Richard Fraccaro and
Rob J. Hyndman and
Alan Veevers Theory & Methods: Residual Diagnostic
Plots for Checking for Model
Mis-specification in Time Series
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--477
Gary K. Grunwald and
Rob J. Hyndman and
Leanna Tedesco and
Richard L. Tweedie Theory & Methods: Non-Gaussian
Conditional Linear $ {\rm Ar}(1) $
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--495
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--506
Anonymous Index: Index to Volume 42, 2000 . . . . 507--509
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 510--510
Anonymous Announcement Notice: Pitman Medal for
2000 Awarded to Graham Wilkinson . . . . 1--3
Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 4--4
Simon Sheather Editorial Announcement . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Samuel O. M. Manda A Comparison of Methods for Analysing a
Nested Frailty Model to Child Survival
in Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16
Gwo Dong Lin A Note on the Characterization of
Positive Linnik Laws . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Charles F. Dunkl and
Donald E. Ramirez Computation of the Generalized $F$
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31
Sarjinder Singh and
Anwar H. Joarder and
D. S. Tracy Median Estimation Using Double Sampling 33--46
Fuchun Huang and
Yosihiko Ogata Comparison of Two Methods for
Calculating the Partition Functions of
Various Spatial Statistical Models . . . 47--65
Ömer Öztürk A Generalization of Ahmad's Class of
Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon Statistics . . . 67--74
Marti J. Anderson and
John Robinson Permutation Tests for Linear Models . . 75--88
K. B. Kulasekera and
J. Wang A Test of Equality of Regression Curves
Using Gâteaux Scores . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
Anthony G. Pakes and
Wen-Liang Hung and
Jong-Wuu Wu Criteria for the Unique Determination of
Probability Distributions by Moments . . 101--111
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
F. S. Chai and
C. T. Liao Three Parallel Flats Designs for
Two-level Factorial Experiments . . . . 113--119
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Alison Smith and
Brian Cullis and
Arthur Gilmour Applications: The Analysis of Crop
Variety Evaluation Data in Australia . . 129--145
R. Dennis Cook and
Xiangrong Yin Theory & Methods: Special Invited Paper:
Dimension Reduction and Visualization in
Discriminant Analysis (with discussion) 147--199
M. P. Ng and
E. R. Williams Theory & Methods: Joint-regression
Analysis for Incomplete Two-way Tables 201--206
Carol J. Feltz and
Gerald A. Goldin Theory & Methods: Partition-based
Goodness-of-fit Tests on the Line and
the Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--220
Simeon M. Berman Theory & Methods: Approximate
Identifiability, Moments and Censored
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--230
Karl Mosler and
Wilfried Seidel Theory & Methods: Testing for Homogeneity
in an Exponential Mixture Model . . . . 231--247
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--255
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
Chris Lloyd Announcement Notice: Simon Sheather
Completes Term as Managing Editor and
Theory & Methods Editor . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Basil M. De Silva and
Greg R. Pond and
Tim B. Swartz Applications: Estimation of the
Magnitude of Victory in One-day Cricket
RMIT University, Mayo Clinic Rochester
and Simon Fraser University . . . . . . 259--268
Xichuan (Mark) Zhang and
Craig H. McLaren and
Caleb C. S. Leung Applications: an Easter Proximity
Effect: Modelling and Adjustment . . . . 269--280
Mohammad M. Salehi and
George A. F. Seber Theory & Methods: a New Proof of Murthy's
Estimator which Applies to Sequential
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--286
Thomas W. O'Gorman Theory & Methods: Adaptive Estimation
Using Weighted Least Squares . . . . . . 287--297
Paul Kabaila Theory & Methods: On the Order of Data
Reductions by Ancillarity and by
Sufficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
Paul Kabaila and
John Byrne Theory & Methods: Exact Short Confidence
Intervals from Discrete Data . . . . . . 303--309
S. S. Hossain and
H. A. Muttlak Theory & Methods: Selected Ranked Set
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--325
Eric J. Beh Theory & Methods: Partitioning Pearson's
Chi-squared Statistic for Singly Ordered
Two-way Contingency Tables . . . . . . . 327--333
Sadao Tomizawa and
Nobuko Miyamoto and
Yusuke Hatanaka Theory & Methods: Measure of Asymmetry
for Square Contingency Tables Having
Ordered Categories . . . . . . . . . . . 335--349
Sadeq R. Chowdhury and
C. A. McGilchrist Theory & Methods: Analysis of Contingency
Tables with Clustered Observations . . . 351--358
Eka Shinjikashvili Theory & Methods: $ \epsilon
$-Repetitions of the Maximum Residuals
in an $ {\rm Ar}(1)$ Model . . . . . . . 359--365
Nam-Ky Nguyen Theory & Methods: Cutting Experimental
Designs into Blocks . . . . . . . . . . 367--374
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--381
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Anonymous Announcement: Editorial Announcement:
Inaugural Editor's Award . . . . . . . . 383--383
Mike Doherty Applications: The Surrogate Henderson
Filters in X-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--392
David Vere-Jones and
Murray J. MacKinnon and
Brian Silverstone Applications: Harold Silverstone: a
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--398
Jeffrey T. Terpstra and
Joseph W. McKean and
Joshua D. Naranjo Theory & Methods: Weighted Wilcoxon
Estimates for Autoregression . . . . . . 399--419
Eve Bofinger and
Wei Liu Theory & Methods: Selecting Closest to
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--430
Melissa J. Dobbie and
A. H. Welsh Theory & Methods: Modelling Correlated
Zero-inflated Count Data . . . . . . . . 431--444
Gemai Chen and
Min Chen Theory & Methods: On a Class of Nonlinear
$ {\rm Ar}(P) $ Models with Nonlinear
Arch Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--454
D. R. Jensen Theory & Methods: Recovering Information
from Incremental Responses . . . . . . . 455--459
Ashis SenGupta and
Arnab Kumar Laha Theory & Methods: The Slippage Problem
for the Circular Normal Distribution . . 461--471
John M. Marriott and
Nancy M. Spencer Theory & Methods: a Note on Bayesian
Prediction from the Regression Model
with Informative Priors . . . . . . . . 473--480
Lin-An Chen and
Kuo-Yuan Liang and
Chwen-Chi Liu Theory & Methods: Two-Stage Welsh's
Trimmed Mean for the Simultaneous
Equations Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--492
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Debasis Kundu Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 493--493
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--499
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 500--500
Anonymous Index: Index to Volume 43, 2001 . . . . 501--503
Anonymous Index: Keyword Index for Volumes 42 and
43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--510
Chris J. Lloyd Editorial announcements . . . . . . . . 1--2
Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 2--2
Garry J. Tee Oration Lecture: Applications:
Nineteenth and early twentieth century
statistics: Some New Zealand connections 3--12
A. H. Welsh Theory & Methods: Incomplete detection in
enumeration surveys: Whither distance
sampling? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--22
Thomas C. M. Lee Theory & Methods: Tree-based wavelet
regression for correlated data using the
minimum description length principle . . 23--39
Wen-Han Hwang and
Anne Chao and
Paul S. F. Yip Theory & Methods: Continuous-time
capture-recapture models with time
variation and behavioural response . . . 41--54
Richard M. Huggins Theory & Methods: a parametric empirical
Bayes approach to the analysis of
capture-recapture experiments . . . . . 55--62
Mohammad M. Salehi and
George A. F. Seber Theory & Methods: Unbiased estimators for
restricted adaptive cluster sampling . . 63--74
Chris J. Lloyd Theory & Methods: Semi-parametric
estimation of ROC curves based on
binomial regression modelling . . . . . 75--86
Peihua Qiu Theory & Methods: Fitting a
semi-parametric model based on two
sources of information . . . . . . . . . 87--97
Guorui Bian Theory & Methods: Bayesian estimates in a
one-way ANOVA random effects model . . . 99--108
Wei Liu and
Nan Wang and
Suojin Wang Theory & Methods: Approximations of
distributions for some standardized
partial sums in sequential analysis . . 109--119
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
Quanxi Shao and
N. A. Campbell Applications: Modelling trends in
groundwater levels by segmented
regression with constraints . . . . . . 129--141
B. M. Brown Theory & Methods: On the importance of
being smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--154
Richard Gerlach and
Ron Bird and
Anthony Hall Theory & Methods: Bayesian variable
selection in logistic regression:
predicting company earnings direction 155--168
Alexandra P. Bremner and
Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: Modified classification
and regression tree splitting criteria
for data with interactions . . . . . . . 169--176
Kelvin K. W. Yau and
Andy H. Lee and
Angus S. K. Ng Theory & Methods: a zero-augmented gamma
mixed model for longitudinal data with
many zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183
Nian-Sheng Tang and
Bo-Cheng Wei and
Xue-Ren Wang Theory & Methods: Detection of
influential observations in nonlinear
reproductive dispersion models . . . . . 185--192
Jye-Chyi Lu and
Di Chen and
Nianci Gan Theory & Methods: Semi-parametric
modelling and likelihood estimation with
estimating equations . . . . . . . . . . 193--212
R. Willink Theory & Methods: Effect on probabilities
and quantiles of adding a quantity with
small variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220
Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and
Gang Zheng Theory & Methods: Estimation of bivariate
characteristics using ranked set
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--232
Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis and
Simos Meintanis Theory & Methods: Estimating the
parameters of Poisson-exponential models 233--245
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--255
Ian Westbrooke and
Lisa Jones Applications: Imputation of Maori
Descent for Electoral Calculations in
New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--265
Ian Westbrooke and
Michael Ryan Applications: The Mathematics of
Electoral District Allocation in New
Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276
Gerda Claeskens and
Peter Hall Theory & Methods: Data Sharpening for
Hazard Rate Estimation . . . . . . . . . 277--283
John M. Neuhaus Theory & Methods: Bias due to Ignoring
the Sample Design in Case-Control
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--293
Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: Pseudo--Modelling of
Outliers for Estimation of Regression
and Time Series Models . . . . . . . . . 295--310
Kang--Mo Jung Theory & Methods: a Diagnostic Method for
Principal Components Tests . . . . . . . 311--318
John L. Knight and
Stephen E. Satchell and
Jun Yu Theory & Methods: Estimation of the
Stochastic Volatility Model by the
Empirical Characteristic Function Method 319--335
Etsuo Kumagai and
Nobuo Inagaki and
Kiyoshi Inoue Theory & Methods: On Efron's
Parameterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--343
Francisco A. M. De Souza and
Gilberto A. Paula Theory & Methods: Deviance Residuals for
an Angular Response . . . . . . . . . . 345--356
Subir Ghosh and
Colleen Burns Theory & Methods: Comparison of Four New
General Classes of Search Designs . . . 357--366
Yunchan Chi Theory & Methods: Ordered Tests for
Right-Censored Survival Data . . . . . . 367--380
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Eugene Seneta In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor Henry
Oliver Lancaster, AO FAA, 1 February
1913--2 December 2001 . . . . . . . . . 385--400
Ning Li and
Guoqi Qian and
Richard Huggins Analysis of Between-Household
Heterogeneity in Disease Transmission
from Data on Outbreak Sizes . . . . . . 401--411
Paul S. Clarke and
P. F. Tate An Application of Non-Ignorable
Non-Response Models for Gross Flows
Estimation in the British Labour Force
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--425
B. M. Brown and
T. P. Hettmansperger Kruskal--Wallis, Multiple Comparisons
and Efron Dice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--438
Ri\vcardas Zitikis and
Joseph L. Gastwirth The Asymptotic Distribution of the
$S$--Gini Index . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--446
Roger P. Littlejohn and
James R. Webster Periodogram Analysis of Censored Time
Series from a Designed Experiment . . . 447--455
J. A. John and
K. Ruggiero and
E. R. Williams $ \alpha_n$-Designs . . . . . . . . . . 457--465
Meei Pyng Ng and
Ray Watson Dealing with Ties in Failure Time Data 467--478
Axel Munk and
Frits Ruymgaart Minimax Rates for Estimating the
Variance and its Derivatives in
Non-Parametric Regression . . . . . . . 479--488
Hien T. V. Vu and
Matthew W. Knuiman Estimation in Semiparametric Marginal
Shared Gamma Frailty Models . . . . . . 489--501
Adrian Baddeley and
Rolf Turner Addendum to A. Baddeley & R. Turner
(2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 504--504
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506
Anonymous Indexes, Volume 44 . . . . . . . . . . . 507--509
Anonymous Pitman Medal for 2002 awarded to Terry
Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Chris Lloyd Inaugural Editor's Award . . . . . . . . 5--5
G. M. Tallis and
P. Leppard and
T. J. O'Neill Applications: a Note on the
Sensitivities of Self-reporting and
Screen Detection of Primary Breast
Tumours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--18
R. J. Martin and
L. M. Platts and
A. B. Seddon and
E. C. Stillman Applications: The Design and Analysis of
a Mixture Experiment on Glass Durability 19--27
Stephan R. Sain Theory & Methods: a New Characterization
and Estimation of the Zero-bias
Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--42
A. James O'Malley and
John J. Deely Theory & Methods: Bayesian Measures of
the Minimum Detectable Concentration of
an Immunoassay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--65
Stephen O. Nyangoma Theory & Methods: Bias in Multinomial
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--82
Katarzyna Danielak and
Tomasz Rychlik Theory & Methods: Exact Bounds for the
Bias of Trimmed Means . . . . . . . . . 83--96
Barbara S. P. Chan and
J. A. Eccleston Theory & Methods: On the Construction of
Nearest--Neighbour Balanced Row--Column
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--106
M. G. M. Khan and
E. A. Khan and
M. J. Ahsan Theory & Methods: an Optimal Multivariate
Stratified Sampling Design Using Dynamic
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--113
M. L. Menéndez and
J. A. Pardo and
L. Pardo Theory & Methods: Tests for Bivariate
Symmetry Against Ordered Alternatives in
Square Contingency Tables . . . . . . . 115--123
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Anonymous Acknowledgment of Referees' Services . . 127--127
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
David Griffiths and
Chandra Gulati and
Jim Ollis Applications: Statistical Control for
Road Pavements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
Ross H. Taplin Applications: Teaching Statistical
Consulting Before Statistical
Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--152
Denis Larocque and
Serge Tardif and
Constance van Eeden Theory & Methods: an Affine-Invariant
Generalization of the Wilcoxon
Signed-Rank Test for the Bivariate
Location Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--165
Chris J. Lloyd and
Paul Kabaila Theory & Methods: On the Optimality and
Limitations of Buehler Bounds . . . . . 167--174
David C. Blest Theory & Methods: a New Measure of
Kurtosis Adjusted for Skewness . . . . . 175--179
Narelle F. Smith and
Deborah J. Street Theory & Methods: The Use of Balanced
Incomplete Block Designs in Designing
Randomized Response Surveys . . . . . . 181--194
Wiktor Oktaba Theory & Methods: The General
Multivariate Gauss--Markov Model of the
Incomplete Block Design . . . . . . . . 195--205
Paul S. F. Yip and
Xiangzhong Fang and
Yong Zhou and
Yan Wang Theory & Methods: Sequential Procedure
for Fixed Accuracy Estimation of the
Population Size in Recapture Sampling 207--216
Fuchun Huang Theory & Methods: Prediction Error
Property of the Lasso Estimator and its
Generalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--228
Satoshi Aoki and
Akimichi Takemura Theory & Methods: Minimal Basis for a
Connected Markov Chain over $ 3 \times 3
\times K $ Contingency Tables with Fixed
Two-Dimensional Marginals . . . . . . . 229--249
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
Tsung I. Lin and
Jack C. Lee Applications: On modelling data from
degradation sample paths over time . . . 257--270
Martin L. Hazelton Theory & Methods: Variable kernel density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--284
Arthur Cohen and
David Madigan and
Harold B. Sackrowitz Theory & Methods: Effective directed
tests for models with ordered
categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--300
Marti J. Anderson and
John Robinson Theory & Methods: Generalized
discriminant analysis based on distances 301--318
Yves G. Berger and
Mohammed E. H. Tirari and
Yves Tillé Theory & Methods: Towards optimal
regression estimation in sample surveys 319--329
Jong-Il Baek and
Tae-Sung Kim and
Han-Ying Liang Theory & Methods: On the convergence of
moving average processes under dependent
conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--342
Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau and
Lin-An Chen Theory & Methods: a multivariate
parallelogram and its application to
multivariate trimmed means . . . . . . . 343--352
Victor De Oliveira Theory & Methods: a note on the
correlation structure of transformed
Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . 353--366
Uttam Bandyopadhyay and
Atanu Biswas Theory & Methods: Non-parametric group
sequential designs in randomized
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--376
David Whitaker Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--381
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Ross Sparks Applications: Monitoring for Increases
in Process Variance . . . . . . . . . . 383--394
Matthew Stephens and
Peter Donnelly Theory and Methods: Ancestral Inference
in Population Genetics Models with
Selection (with Discussion) . . . . . . 395--430
Brent Henderson and
Richard Jarrett Theory and Methods: Models with Errors
due to Misreported Measurements . . . . 431--444
Robin Thompson and
Brian Cullis and
Alison Smith and
Arthur Gilmour Theory and Methods: a Sparse
Implementation of the Average
Information Algorithm for Factor
Analytic and Reduced Rank Variance
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--459
Naâmane La\"\ib Theory and Methods: Non-Parametric
Testing of Conditional Variance
Functions in Time Series . . . . . . . . 461--475
Chin-Shang Li Theory and Methods: a Lack-of-Fit Test
for Heteroscedastic Regression Models
via Cosine-Series Smoothers . . . . . . 477--489
Yu Hayakawa and
Philip D. O'Neill and
Darren Upton and
Paul S. F. Yip Theory and Methods: Bayesian Inference
for a Stochastic Epidemic Model with
Uncertain Numbers of Susceptibles of
Several Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502
M. G. M. Khan Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 503--504
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506
Anonymous Indexes for Volume 45 . . . . . . . . . 507--510
Chris Lloyd Inaugural Editor's Award . . . . . . . . 1--2
Phil Pollett and
Peter Taylor Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Joe Gani On the Occasion of the Presentation of
the SSAI Festschrift to Daryl John Daley 5--11
J. Gani A Versatile Birth--Death Model
Applicable to Four Distinct Problems . . 13--21
Peter Whittle The Distribution of Species Numbers in a
Controlled Environment . . . . . . . . . 23--27
Anthony G. Pakes Convergence and Divergence of Random
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--40
Stephan Böhm and
Lothar Heinrich and
Volker Schmidt Kernel Estimation of the Spectral
Density of Stationary Random Closed Sets 41--51
C. C. Heyde Asymptotics and Criticality for a
Correlated Bernoulli Process . . . . . . 53--57
Geoff M. Laslett and
J. Paige Eveson and
Tom Polacheck Estimating the Age at Capture in
Capture-Recapture Studies of Fish Growth 59--66
Dietrich Stoyan and
Helga Stoyan and
Gunter Döge Statistical Analyses and Modelling of
the Mixing Process of Euro Coins in
Germany and Europe . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77
J. F. C. Kingman Powers and Products of Regenerative
Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86
Stephen J. Cornell and
Valerie S. Isham Ultimate Extinction of the Promiscuous
Bisexual Galton--Watson Metapopulation 87--98
Peter Hall and
Nader Tajvidi Prediction Regions for Bivariate Extreme
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--112
Phil Pollett and
Hanjun Zhang Existence and Uniqueness of
$Q$-Processes with a Given Finite $ \mu
$-Invariant Measure . . . . . . . . . . 113--120
Naoto Miyoshi and
Tomasz Rolski Ross-Type Conjectures on Monotonicity of
Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--131
David Vere-Jones and
Frederic Paik Schoenberg Rescaling Marked Point Processes . . . . 133--143
Aleksandras Baltr\=unas and
Claudia Klüppelberg Subexponential Distributions --- Large
Deviations with Applications to
Insurance and Queueing Models . . . . . 145--154
R. A. Vesilo Long-Range Dependence of Markov Renewal
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--171
M. R. Leadbetter and
G. V. Spaniolo Reflections on Rice's Formulae for Level
Crossings --- History, Extensions and
Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--180
Frank G. Ball and
Robin K. Milne Applications of Simple Point Process
Methods to Superpositions of Aggregated
Stationary Processes . . . . . . . . . . 181--196
P. B. Brockhoff and
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner Applications: an Application of Extended
Analysis for Ranked Data with Ties . . . 197--204
Murray Jorgensen Applications: Using Multinomial Mixture
Models to Cluster Internet Traffic . . . 205--218
Robin Insley and
Lucia Mok and
Tim Swartz Theory & Methods: Issues Related to
Sports Gambling . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--232
Noel Cressie and
Sylvia Richardson and
Isabelle Jaussent Theory & Methods: Ecological Bias: Use of
Maximum-Entropy Approximations . . . . . 233--255
Joseph E. Cavanaugh Theory & Methods: Criteria for Linear
Model Selection Based on Kullback's
Symmetric Divergence . . . . . . . . . . 257--274
V. V. Anh and
V. P. Knopova and
N. N. Leonenko Theory & Methods: Continuous-Time
Stochastic Processes with Cyclical
Long-Range Dependence . . . . . . . . . 275--296
Jacek Weso\lowski and
Mohammad Ahsanullah Theory & Methods: Switching Order
Statistics through Random Power
Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--303
Liang Peng and
Yongcheng Qi Theory & Methods: Estimating the First-
and Second-Order Parameters of a
Heavy-Tailed Distribution . . . . . . . 305--312
Aleksander M. Iksanov and
Che Soong Kim Theory & Methods: New Explicit Examples
of Fixed Points of Poisson Shot Noise
Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--321
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
Sue Welham and
Brian Cullis and
Beverley Gogel and
Arthur Gilmour and
Robin Thompson Applications: Prediction in linear mixed
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--347
Michael E. O'Neill and
Peter C. Thomson and
Brent C. Jacobs and
Phil Brain and
Ruth C. Butler and
Heather Turner and
Bernadetha Mitakda Applications: Fitting and comparing seed
germination models with a focus on the
inverse normal distribution . . . . . . 349--366
Alexandra P. Bremner and
Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: Performance of
localized regression tree splitting
criteria on data with discontinuities 367--381
Nyongesa L. Kennedy Theory & Methods: Testing for the
presence of disease by pooling samples 383--390
Graham Hepworth Theory & Methods: Mid-$P$ confidence
intervals based on the likelihood ratio
for proportions estimated by group
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--405
Biao Zhang Theory & Methods: Assessing
goodness-of-fit of categorical
regression models based on case-control
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--423
J. Huh and
B. U. Park Theory & Methods: Detection of a change
point with local polynomial fits for the
random design case . . . . . . . . . . . 425--441
Omer Ozturk and
Douglas A. Wolfe and
Roxana Alexandridis Theory & Methods: Multi-sample inference
for simple-tree alternatives with
ranked-set samples . . . . . . . . . . . 443--455
J. S. Huang and
G. D. Lin Theory & Methods: Estimating the
population median using only a central
subset of observations . . . . . . . . . 457--462
Paul Kabaila and
Chris J. Lloyd Theory & Methods: Buehler confidence
limits and nesting . . . . . . . . . . . 463--469
Ibrahim A. Ahmad and
Ibrahim A. Alwasel Theory & Methods: Goodness-of-fit testing
of a weak memoryless property of life
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--481
Mohammad Salehi M. and
George A. F. Seber Theory & Methods: a general inverse
sampling scheme and its application to
adaptive cluster sampling . . . . . . . 483--494
R. Willink Theory & Methods: Approximating the
difference of two $t$-variables for all
degrees of freedom using truncated
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--504
Saharon Rosset and
Ji Zhu Theory & Methods: Corrected proof of the
result of `A prediction error property
of the Lasso estimator and its
generalization' by Huang (2003) . . . . 505--510
Michael A. Martin Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--512
Gael M. Martin Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--514
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 515--515
Oliver Mayo Knibbs Lecture for 2002: To What Extent
Has Fisher's Research Program Been
Fulfilled in Australia? . . . . . . . . 517--529
Chris J. Lloyd and
Donald Frommer Applications: Estimating the False
Negative Fraction for a Multiple
Screening Test for Bowel Cancer When
Negatives Are Not Verified . . . . . . . 531--542
Russell B. Millar Applications: Simulated Maximum
Likelihood Applied to Non-Gaussian and
Nonlinear Mixed Effects and State--Space
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--554
P. C. N. Groenewald and
A. C. Schoeman Theory & Methods: Bayesian Detection and
Analysis of Changing Transition Matrices
of Stationary Markov Chains . . . . . . 555--567
M. P. Salganik and
M. P. Wand and
N. Lange Theory & Methods: Comparison of Feature
Significance Quantile Approximations . . 569--581
Alexandra P. Bremner and
Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: Performance of a
Localized Tree Splitting Criterion in
Tree Averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--599
Richard M. Huggins and
Danuta Z. Loesch Theory & Methods: Robust Non-Parametric
Estimation of Genotype--Phenotype
Relationships in Human Pedigrees . . . . 601--613
Pierre Legendre and
François-Joseph Lapointe Theory & Methods: Assessing Congruence
among Distance Matrices: Single-Malt
Scotch Whiskies Revisited . . . . . . . 615--629
H. K. T. Ng and
N. Balakrishnan Theory & Methods: Wilcoxon-Type Rank-Sum
Precedence Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--648
Brenton R. Clarke and
Christopher J. Milne Theory & Methods: Small Sample Bias
Correction for Huber's Proposal-$2$
Scale $M$-Estimator . . . . . . . . . . 649--656
Kunihiro Baba and
Ritei Shibata and
Masaaki Sibuya Theory & Methods: Partial Correlation and
Conditional Correlation As Measures of
Conditional Independence . . . . . . . . 657--664
Katarzyna Danielak and
Mohammad Z. Raqab Theory & Methods: Sharp Bounds for
Expectations of $k$ th Record Increments 665--673
Atanu Biswas and
Anup Dewanji Theory & Methods: a Randomized
Longitudinal Play-The-Winner Design for
Repeated Binary Data . . . . . . . . . . 675--684
Malay Naskar and
Kalyan Das Theory & Methods: Inference in Dirichlet
Process Mixed Generalized Linear Models
by Using Monte Carlo EM . . . . . . . . 685--701
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 702--702
Anonymous Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--708
Anonymous Pitman Medal for 2004 Awarded to Adrian
Baddeley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Edward Cripps and
David Nott and
William T. M. Dunsmuir and
Christopher Wikle Applications: Space--Time Modelling of
Sydney Harbour Winds . . . . . . . . . . 3--17
Len Thomas and
Stephen T. Buckland and
Ken B. Newman and
John Harwood Theory & Methods: a Unified Framework for
Modelling Wildlife Population Dynamics 19--34
P. Besbeas and
S. N. Freeman and
B. J. T. Morgan Theory & Methods: The Potential of
Integrated Population Modelling . . . . 35--48
Jean-Dominique Lebreton Theory & Methods: Dynamical and
Statistical Models for Exploited
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--63
Darryl I. Mackenzie Theory & Methods: Was It There? Dealing
with Imperfect Detection for Species
Presence/Absence Data . . . . . . . . . 65--74
Hal Caswell Theory & Methods: Sensitivity Analysis of
the Stochastic Growth Rate: Three
Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--85
Rob J. Hyndman and
Maxwell L. King and
Ivet Pitrun and
Baki Billah Theory & Methods: Local Linear Forecasts
Using Cubic Smoothing Splines . . . . . 87--99
David B. Flynn and
Simone D. Grose and
Gael M. Martin and
Vance L. Martin Theory & Methods: Pricing Australian
S&P200 Options: a Bayesian Approach Based
on Generalized Distributional Forms . . 101--117
C. L. Wright and
J. A. John and
D. Whitaker and
E. R. Williams Theory & Methods: Construction of
Resolvable Row-Column Designs Based on
Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
P. G. Ridall and
A. N. Pettitt Applications: Bayesian Hidden Markov
Models for Longitudinal Counts . . . . . 129--145
Xiangrong Yin Theory & Methods: Non-Parametric
Estimation of Direction in Single-Index
Models with Categorical Predictors . . . 147--161
James D. Stamey and
Dean M. Young Theory & Methods: Maximum Likelihood
Estimation for a Poisson Rate Parameter
with Misclassified Counts . . . . . . . 163--172
Di Chen and
Jye-Chyi Lu and
Shu Chuan Lin Theory & Methods: Asymptotic
Distributions of Semiparametric Maximum
Likelihood Estimators with Estimating
Equations for Group-Censored Data . . . 173--192
Bhaswati Ganguli and
John Staudenmayer and
M. P. Wand Theory & Methods: Additive Models with
Predictors Subject to Measurement Error 193--202
Ayman Baklizi Theory & Methods: a Continuously Adaptive
Rank Test for Shift in Location . . . . 203--209
J. C. W. Rayner and
O. Thas Theory & Methods: More Informative
Testing for Bivariate Symmetry . . . . . 211--217
Todd C. Headrick and
Bruno D. Zumbo Theory & Methods: On Optimizing
Multi-Level Designs: Power Under Budget
Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--229
Raghunath Arnab and
Sarjinder Singh Theory & Methods: a Note on Variance
Estimation for the Generalized
Regression Predictor . . . . . . . . . . 231--234
Sorana Froda and
Gino Colavita Theory & Methods: Estimating
Predator-Prey Systems Via Ordinary
Differential Equations with Closed
Orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--254
Anonymous Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
G. Jasso and
S. Kotz In Memoriam: Norman Lloyd Johnson: 9
January 1917--18 November 2004 . . . . . 257--258
K. G. Russell and
David Griffiths Theory & Methods: a Lotto Systems Problem 259--267
D. S. Poskitt and
Jing Zhang Theory & Methods: Estimating Components
in Finite Mixtures and Hidden Markov
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--286
Yan Wang Theory & Methods: a Semiparametric
Regression Model with Missing Covariates
in Continuous-Time Capture-Recapture
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--297
Paul S. F. Yip and
Liqun Xi and
Richard Arnold and
Yu Hayakawa Theory & Methods: a Beta-Binomial Model
for Estimating the Size of a
Heterogeneous Population . . . . . . . . 299--308
Darfiana Nur and
Kerrie L. Mengersen and
Rodney C. Wolff Theory & Methods: Phase Randomization: a
Convergence Diagnostic Test for MCMC . . 309--323
Stephen Walker Theory & Methods: a Note on Bayes Factors 325--328
Jae-Hak Lim and
Dae-Kyung Kim and
Dong Ho Park Theory & Methods: Tests for Detecting
More Nbu-Ness at a Specific Age . . . . 329--337
Ayoub Saei and
Ray Chambers Theory & Methods: Modelling Truncated and
Clustered Count Data . . . . . . . . . . 339--349
M. Luz Calle and
Guadalupe Gómez Theory & Methods: a Semiparametric
Hierarchical Method for a Regression
Model with an Interval-Censored
Covariate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364
Yves G. Berger Theory & Methods: Variance Estimation
with Highly Stratified Sampling Designs
with Unequal Probabilities . . . . . . . 365--373
Patrick J. Farrell and
Sarjinder Singh Theory & Methods: Model-Assisted
Higher-Order Calibration of Estimators
of Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--383
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
Ken Brewer Historical & General Interest: Anomalies,
Probings, Insights: Ken Foreman's Role
in the Sampling Inference Controversy of
the Late 20th Century . . . . . . . . . 385--399
Patrick Graham Applications: Hierarchical Bayesian
Modelling of Social Variation in the Age
Dependence of Disability Prevalence . . 401--424
Christopher R. Heathcote and
Borek D. Puza Theory & Methods: Estimating Processes of
Counts from Cross-Sectional Aggregate
Data, with an Application to Multistate
Life Tables and Health Expectancies . . 425--439
G. R. Wood and
C. D. Lai and
C. G. Qiao Theory & Methods: Estimation of a
Proportion Using Several Independent
Samples of Binomial Mixtures . . . . . . 441--448
Ross H. Taplin Theory & Methods: a Robust Bayes Factor
for Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . 449--462
Samuel Müller Theory & Methods: Two-Stage Support
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--472
Cathy W. S. Chen and
Mike K. P. So and
Richard H. Gerlach Theory & Methods: Assessing and Testing
for Threshold Nonlinearity in Stock
Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--488
Abdelkader Mokkadem and
Mariane Pelletier and
Julien Worms Theory & Methods: Large and Moderate
Deviations Principles for Kernel
Estimation of a Multivariate Density and
Its Partial Derivatives . . . . . . . . 489--502
Filia Vonta Theory & Methods: Efficient Estimation in
Regression Frailty or Transformation
Models Based on an Algorithm . . . . . . 503--514
Joaquim Pinto da Costa and
Carlos Soares Theory & Methods: a Weighted Rank Measure
of Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--529
Tim R. L. Fry and
Mark N. Harris Theory & Methods: The Dogit Ordered
Generalized Extreme Value Model . . . . 531--542
I. Bairamov and
M. Ahsanullah and
Anthony G. Pakes Theory & Methods: a Characterization of
Continuous Distributions Via Regression
on Pairs of Record Values . . . . . . . 543--547
Paul Kabaila Theory & Methods: On the Coverage
Probability of Confidence Intervals in
Regression After Variable Selection . . 549--562
John Byrne Theory & Methods: a New Short Exact
Geometric Confidence Interval . . . . . 563--569
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 570--570
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--576
Chin-Yuan Hu and
Aleksander M. Iksanov and
Gwo Dong Lin and
Oleg K. Zakusylo The Hurwitz Zeta Distribution . . . . . 1--6
Antonio Cuevas and
Wenceslao González-Manteiga and
Alberto Rodríguez-Casal Plug-In Estimation of General Level Sets 7--19
Han-Ying Liang and
Jong-Il Baek Weighted Sums of Negatively Associated
Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31
Robert Lund and
Qin Shao and
Ishwar Basawa Parsimonious Periodic Time Series
Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--47
David Woods and
Susan Lewis All-Bias Designs for Polynomial Spline
Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
Liang Peng and
Yongcheng Qi A New Calibration Method of Constructing
Empirical Likelihood-Based Confidence
Intervals for the Tail Index . . . . . . 59--66
Robin K. S. Hankin and
Alan Lee A New Family of Non-Negative
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78
Haimeng Zhang and
M. Bhaskara Rao Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Linear
Models with Equi-Correlated Random
Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--93
Subir K. Bhandari and
Ayanendranath Basu and
Sahadeb Sarkar Robust Inference in Parametric Models
Using the Family of Generalized Negative
Exponential Disparities . . . . . . . . 95--114
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
Anne Chao and
Tsung-Jen Shen and
Wen-Han Hwang Application of Laplace's Boundary-Mode
Approximations to Estimate Species and
Shared Species Richness . . . . . . . . 117--128
Natalie Neumeyer and
Holger Dette and
Eva-Renate Nagel Bootstrap Tests for the Error
Distribution in Linear and Nonparametric
Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 129--156
Shen-Ming Lee and
Cathy W. S. Chen and
Richard H. Gerlach and
Li-Hui Huang Estimation in Ricker's Two-Release
Method: a Bayesian Approach . . . . . . 157--169
Patrick Corr and
Rebecca Kippen The Case for Parity and Birth-Order
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--200
James D. Stamey and
Dean M. Young and
Doyle Boese A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for
Poisson Rate and Reporting-Probability
Inference Using Double Sampling . . . . 201--212
Andreas Berzel and
Gillian Z. Heller and
Walter Zucchini Estimating the Number of Visits to the
Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--224
Jenting Wang and
John S. J. Hsu Bayesian Analysis of the Additive Mixed
Model for Randomized Block Designs . . . 225--236
Edward Cripps and
Robert Kohn and
David Nott Bayesian Subset Selection and Model
Averaging Using a Centred and Dispersed
Prior for the Error Variance . . . . . . 237--252
Yoshiji Takagi Second Order Asymptotic Comparison of
Estimators Under Universal Domination
Criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--267
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Tomasz \.Z\kad\lo On Prediction of Total Value in
Incompletely Specified Domains . . . . . 269--283
Luke A. Prendergast Detecting Influential Observations in
Sliced Inverse Regression Analysis . . . 285--304
Bhramar Mukherjee A Note on Sampling Designs for Random
Processes with No Quadratic Mean
Derivative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--319
Zeng-Hua Lu and
Bruce M. Brown An Exclusive Regressors Binary Mixture
Model with an Application to Labour
Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--333
William E. Griffiths and
Ma. Rebecca Valenzuela Gibbs Samplers for a Set of Seemingly
Unrelated Regressions . . . . . . . . . 335--351
Brenton R. Clarke and
Daniel D. Schubert An Adaptive Trimmed Likelihood Algorithm
for Identification of Multivariate
Outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--371
Katarina Domijan and
Murray Jorgensen and
Jeff Reid Semi-Mechanistic Modelling in Nonlinear
Regression: a Case Study . . . . . . . . 373--392
Stephen Haslett and
R. B. Millar and
K. B. Newman and
Martyn Plummer and
A. H. Welsh Invited Discussion of the Paper by
Domijan, Jorgensen & Reid . . . . . . . . 393--413
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
K. Byth and
D. R. Cox and
P. Forder Applications: Assessing the Relationship
Between Symptoms of Allergic
Rhinoconjunctivitis and Pollen Counts 417--428
Amitava Saha Theory & Methods: a Generalized Two-Stage
Randomized Response Procedure in Complex
Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--443
Simon N. Wood Theory & Methods: On Confidence Intervals
for Generalized Additive Models Based on
Penalized Regression Splines . . . . . . 445--464
Julian D. Taylor and
Ar\=unas P. Verbyla Theory & Methods: Asymptotic Likelihood
Approximations Using a Partial Laplace
Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--476
R. T. Elmore and
T. P. Hettmansperger and
F. Xuan Theory & Methods: a Fully Nonparametric
Test for One-Way Layouts . . . . . . . . 477--490
H. Choi and
Y. K. Lee and
B. U. Park and
K. S. Yu Theory & Methods: Local Polynomial
Quasi-Likelihood Regression on Random
Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--506
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Anonymous Indexes for Volume 48 . . . . . . . . . i--iii
Sue J. Welham and
Brian R. Cullis and
Michael G. Kenward and
Robin Thompson A Comparison of Mixed Model Splines for
Curve Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Lyle C. Gurrin and
Paul R. Burton A Comparison of the Imprecise Beta
Class, the Randomized Play-The-Winner
Rule and the Triangular Test for
Clinical Trials with Binary Responses 25--35
Miguel González and
Manuel Mota and
Alfonso Ramos Moment Estimation in the Class of
Bisexual Branching Processes with
Population-Size Dependent Mating . . . . 37--50
Mohammad Z. Raqab Bounds on the Bias of Winsorized Means 51--60
E. R. Williams and
J. A. John Construction of Crossover Designs with
Correlated Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 61--68
Jin Zhang Likelihood Moment Estimation for the
Generalized Pareto Distribution . . . . 69--77
Arthur Pewsey and
Toby Lewis and
M. C. Jones The Wrapped $t$ Family of Circular
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--91
Dominique Dehay and
Jian-Feng Yao On Likelihood Estimation for Discretely
Observed Markov Jump Processes . . . . . 93--107
Mariano Ruiz Espejo Book Reviews: \booktitleApplied Optimal
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Dr Melissa Dobbie Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anthony G. Pakes and
Jorge Navarro Distributional Characterizations Through
Scaling Relations . . . . . . . . . . . 115--135
Carlo Grillenzoni Pattern Recognition Via Robust Smoothing
with Application to Laser Data . . . . . 137--153
Chenlei Leng and
Shuangge Ma Accelerated Failure Time Models with
Nonlinear Covariates Effects . . . . . . 155--172
Carrie Wager and
Florin Vaida and
Göran Kauermann Model Selection for Penalized Spline
Smoothing Using Akaike Information
Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--190
Wen-Han Hwang and
Richard Huggins Application of Semiparametric Regression
Models in the Analysis of
Capture-Recapture Experiments . . . . . 191--202
Christian Genest and
Jean-François Plante Letter to the Editor: Re: Pinto da
Costa, J. & Soares, C. (2005). A weighted
rank measure of correlation . . . . . . 203--204
Joaquim Pinto da Costa and
Carlos Soares Letter to the Editor: Rejoinder to
letter to the Editor from C. Genest and
J-F. Plante concerning `Pinto da Costa,
J. & Soares, C. (2005). A weighted rank
measure of correlation.' . . . . . . . . 205--207
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
Antonio Lijoi and
Igor Prünster and
Stephen G. Walker On Convergence Rates for Nonparametric
Posterior Distributions . . . . . . . . 209--219
Catriona M. Queen and
Ben J. Wright and
Casper J. Albers Eliciting a Directed Acyclic Graph for a
Multivariate Time Series of Vehicle
Counts in a Traffic Network . . . . . . 221--239
Iain Pardoe and
R. Dennis Cook A Graphical Diagnostic for Variance
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250
Mark Bebbington and
Chin-Diew Lai and
Ri\vcardas Zitikis Bathtub-Type Curves in Reliability and
Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--265
Frédéric Ferraty and
André Mas and
Philippe Vieu Nonparametric Regression on Functional
Data: Inference and Practical Aspects 267--286
Adam J. Branscum and
Wesley O. Johnson and
Mark C. Thurmond Bayesian Beta Regression: Applications
to Household Expenditure Data and
Genetic Distance Between Foot-And-Mouth
Disease Viruses . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--301
Danping Liu and
Paul S. F. Yip and
Richard M. Huggins Nonparametric Method for Estimating the
Size of an Open Population Using
Marginal Data from Repeated Multiple
Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--320
Gunky Kim and
Mervyn J. Silvapulle and
Paramsothy Silvapulle Semiparametric Estimation of the Error
Distribution in Multivariate Regression
Using Copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--336
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337
Ayman Baklizi Testing Symmetry Using a Trimmed Longest
Run Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--347
Nguyen Van Quang and
Le Van Thanh On the Strong Law of Large Numbers Under
Rearrangements for Sequences of
Blockwise Orthogonal Random Elements in
Banach Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--357
Gerda Claeskens and
Christophe Croux and
Johan Van Kerckhoven Prediction-Focused Model Selection for
Autoregressive Models . . . . . . . . . 359--379
Partha Sarathi Dey and
Ayanendranath Basu On the Power Breakdown of the Negative
Exponential Disparity Tests . . . . . . 381--384
Syed Shakir Ali Ghazali and
Chris J. Skinner and
M. H. Tahir Three-Way Stratification Sampling Design
When One of the Stratifying Variables Is
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--395
M. C. Wheldon and
M. J. Anderson and
B. W. Johnson Identifying Treatment Effects in
Multi-Channel Measurements in
Electroencephalographic Studies:
Multivariate Permutation Tests and
Multiple Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . 397--413
M. Concepcion Ausin and
Hedibert F. Lopes Bayesian Estimation of Ruin
Probabilities with a Heterogeneous and
Heavy-Tailed Insurance Claim-Size
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--434
S. Ejaz Ahmed and
Kjell A. Doksum and
S. Hossain and
Jinhong You Shrinkage, Pretest and Absolute Penalty
Estimators in Partially Linear Models 435--454
Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
Additive Models: an Introduction in R,
by Simon N. Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--456
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 457--457
Anonymous Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--461
Tucker Mcelroy and
Dimitris N. Politis A Fine-Tuned Estimator of a General
Convergence Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
J. M. McGree and
J. A. Eccleston Probability-Based Optimal Design . . . . 13--28
Cathy W. S. Chen and
F. C. Liu and
Mike K. P. So Heavy-Tailed-Distributed Threshold
Stochastic Volatility Models in
Financial Time Series . . . . . . . . . 29--51
Glenis J. Crane and
John van der Hoek Conditional Expectation Formulae for
Copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--67
Khageswor Giri and
Paul Kabaila The Coverage Probability of Confidence
Intervals in $ 2^r $ Factorial
Experiments After Preliminary Hypothesis
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--79
Paul W. Vos and
Suzanne Hudson Problems with Binomial Two-Sided Tests
and the Associated Confidence Intervals 81--89
Anonymous Pitman Medal for 2005 and 2006 . . . . . 91--94
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Germán Aneiros-Pérez Semi-Parametric Analysis of Covariance
Under Dependence Conditions Within Each
Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--123
Chang Xuan Mao Lower Bounds to the Population Size When
Capture Probabilities Vary Over
Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--134
S. T. Boris Choy and
Jennifer S. K. Chan Scale Mixtures Distributions in
Statistical Modelling . . . . . . . . . 135--146
J. Gani and
R. J. Swift Approximating Carrier-Borne Epidemics 147--159
A. James O'Malley and
Murray H. Smith and
William A. Sadler A Restricted Maximum Likelihood
Procedure for Estimating the Variance
Function of an Immunoassay . . . . . . . 161--177
M. P. Wand and
J. T. Ormerod On Semiparametric Regression with
O'Sullivan Penalized Splines . . . . . . 179--198
R. Willink A Closed-Form Expression for the Pearson
Type IV Distribution Function . . . . . 199--205
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Ismihan Bairamov and
Serkan Eryilmaz Joint Behaviour of Precedences and
Exceedances in Random Threshold Models 209--216
Natalia Stepanova and
Shu Wang Asymptotic Efficiency of the Blest-Type
Tests for Independence . . . . . . . . . 217--233
J. C. W. Rayner and
O. Thas and
B. De Boeck A Generalized Emerson Recurrence
Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240
Lihong Wang Change-Point Detection with Rank
Statistics in Long-Memory Time-Series
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256
Kasper K. Berthelsen and
Jesper Mòller Non-Parametric Bayesian Inference for
Inhomogeneous Markov Point Processes . . 257--272
Gaowen Wang and
Wei-Lin Mao Unit Root Testing in the Presence of
Heavy-Tailed GARCH Errors . . . . . . . 273--292
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
David G. Butler and
John A. Eccleston and
Brian R. Cullis On an Approximate Optimality Criterion
for the Design of Field Experiments
Under Spatial Dependence . . . . . . . . 295--307
Paul Kabaila and
Jarrod Tuck Confidence Intervals Utilizing Prior
Information in the Behrens--Fisher
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--328
Chris J. Lloyd Exact $P$-Values for Discrete Models
Obtained by Estimation and Maximization 329--345
Hua Liang and
Yongsong Qin Empirical Likelihood-Based Inferences
for Partially Linear Models with Missing
Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--359
R. Gay and
D. S. Poskitt Optimal Semiparametric Inference for the
Tail Index Based on Ratios of the
Largest Extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--380
Deyuan Li On the Probability of Being Maximal . . 381--394
Housila P. Singh and
Sunil Kumar A Regression Approach to the Estimation
of the Finite Population Mean in the
Presence of Non-Response . . . . . . . . 395--408
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Pitman Medal for 2008 . . . . . . . . . 1--7
M. P. Wand Invited Paper: Semiparametric Regression
and Graphical Models . . . . . . . . . . 9--41
Scott D. Foster and
Ar\=unas P. Verbyla and
Wayne S. Pitchford Contributed Papers: Estimation,
Prediction and Inference for the Lasso
Random Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 43--61
Rob Salmond Contributed Papers: Weekday-Only Polling
and Partisan Support Levels: Evidence
from New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76
Alec G. Stephenson Contributed Papers: High-Dimensional
Parametric Modelling of Multivariate
Extreme Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88
Mariusz Bieniek Contributed Papers: a Note on
Characterizations of Distributions by
Regressions of Non-Adjacent Generalized
Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
Yan Wang and
Joanne Thandrayen Contributed Papers: Multiple-Record
Systems Estimation Using Latent Class
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
G. Alastair Young Invited Paper: Routes to Higher-Order
Accuracy in Parametric Inference . . . . 115--126
M. A. Hidiroglou and
J. N. K. Rao and
David Haziza Contributed Papers: Variance Estimation
in Two-Phase Sampling . . . . . . . . . 127--141
Kais Hamza Contributed Papers: an Exact Test for
Hazard Similarity . . . . . . . . . . . 143--159
Jiti Gao and
Degui Li and
Zhengyan Lin Contributed Papers: Robust Estimation in
Parametric Time Series Models Under
Long- and Short-Range-Dependent
Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--181
Samuel Müller and
Céline Vial Contributed Papers: Partially Linear
Model Selection by the Bootstrap . . . . 183--200
Jeremy Penzer and
Mingjin Wang and
Qiwei Yao Contributed Papers: Approximating
Volatilities by Asymmetric Power GARCH
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--225
C. A. McGrory and
D. M. Titterington Contributed Papers: Variational Bayesian
Analysis for Hidden Markov Models . . . 227--244
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Suzanne R. Dubnicka Kernel Density Estimation with Missing
Data and Auxiliary Variables . . . . . . 247--270
Paul Kabaila and
Khageswor Giri Upper Bounds on the Minimum Coverage
Probability of Confidence Intervals in
Regression After Model Selection . . . . 271--287
Hiep Duc and
Bin Jalaludin and
Geoff Morgan Associations Between Air Pollution and
Hospital Visits for Cardiovascular
Diseases in the Elderly in Sydney Using
Bayesian Statistical Methods . . . . . . 289--303
Xingzhong Xu and
Xiaobo Ding and
Shuran Zhao A New Confidence Band for Continuous
Cumulative Distribution Functions . . . 305--318
Danh V. Nguyen and
Damla \cSentürk Covariate-Adjusted Regression for
Longitudinal Data Incorporating
Correlation Between Repeated
Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--333
Eric J. Beh and
Thomas B. Farver An Evaluation of Non-Iterative Methods
for Estimating the Linear-By-Linear
Parameter of Ordinal Log-Linear Models 335--352
Ardo Van Den Hout and
Irene Klugkist Accounting for Non-Compliance in the
Analysis of Randomized Response Data . . 353--372
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 373--373
Anthony G. Pakes Numbers of Observations Near Order
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--395
M. Weatherall and
R. M. Pickering and
Scott Harris Graphical Sensitivity Analysis with
Different Methods of Imputation for a
Trial with Probable Non-Ignorable
Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--413
Muhammad Akram and
Rob J. Hyndman and
J. Keith Ord Exponential Smoothing and Non-Negative
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--432
Gordon K. Smyth and
Ar\=unas P. Verbyla Leverage Adjustments for Dispersion
Modelling in Generalized Nonlinear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--448
Ian R. Gordon and
Peter Hall Estimating a Parameter When It Is Known
That the Parameter Exceeds a Given Value 449--460
Heidi Wouters and
Olivier Thas and
Jean-Pierre Ottoy Data-Driven Smooth Tests and a
Diagnostic Tool for Lack-of-Fit for
Circular Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--480
Christopher R. Heathcote and
Borek D. Puza and
Steven P. Roberts The Use of Aggregate Data to Estimate
Gompertz-Type Old-Age Mortality in
Heterogeneous Populations . . . . . . . 481--497
S. J. Haslett and
K. Govindaraju Cloning Data: Generating Datasets with
Exactly the Same Multiple Linear
Regression Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--503
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 505--505
Miguel López-Díaz A Stochastic Ordering for Random
Variables with Applications . . . . . . 1--16
Paul S. F. Yip and
Ray Watson and
K. S. Chan and
Eric H. Y. Lau and
Feng Chen and
Ying Xu and
Liqun Xi and
Derek Y. T. Cheung and
Brian Y. T. Ip and
Danping Liu Estimation of the Number of People in a
Demonstration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26
Eric J. Beh and
Luigi D'Ambra Non-Symmetrical Correspondence Analysis
with Concatenation and Linear
Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--44
Michael A. Martin and
Steven Roberts and
Letian Zheng Delete-$2$ and Delete-$3$ Jackknife
Procedures for Unmasking in Regression 45--60
Pu Chen and
Chih-Ying Hsiao Subsampling the Johansen Test with
Stable Innovations . . . . . . . . . . . 61--73
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and
Amalia Jácome Pumar Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional
Cumulative Hazards for Missing
Population Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--91
Jian Tao and
Man-Lai Tang and
Ning-Zhong Shi A Stepwise Confidence Interval Procedure
Based on an Asymmetric Loss Function
with Applications to Toxicological
Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--107
Yan Shen and
Min Xie and
Loon Ching Tang On the Change Point of the Mean Residual
Life of Series and Parallel Systems . . 109--121
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Sue J. Welham and
Beverley J. Gogel and
Alison B. Smith and
Robin Thompson and
Brian R. Cullis Applications Paper: a Comparison of
Analysis Methods for Late-Stage Variety
Evaluation Trials . . . . . . . . . . . 125--149
R. Paroli and
L. Spezia Theory and Methods Papers: Reversible
Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
and Segmentation Algorithms in Hidden
Markov Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--166
Nikos Tzavidis and
Stefano Marchetti and
Ray Chambers Theory and Methods Papers: Robust
Estimation of Small-Area Means and
Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--186
K. Mattheou and
A. Karagrigoriou Theory and Methods Papers: a New Family
of Divergence Measures for Tests of Fit 187--200
K. B. Kulasekera and
Wei Lin Theory and Methods Papers: Error
Variance Estimation for the Single-Index
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--219
John M. Maheu and
Jonathan J. Reeves and
Xuan Xie Theory and Methods Papers: Forecasting
Volatility in the Presence of Model
Instability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--237
M. P. Wand and
J. T. Ormerod Corrigendum: On Semiparametric
Regression with O'Sullivan Penalised
Splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
Eric J. Beh and
Thomas B. Farver Corrigendum: An Evaluation of
Non-Iterative Methods for Estimating the
Linear-By-Linear Parameter of Ordinal
Log-Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
Ross Sparks Applications Papers: Two-Pass Cusum to
Identify Age-Cluster Outbreaks . . . . . 245--260
Vassilly Voinov and
Evgeniy Voinov and
Roza Rakhimova Applications Papers: Poisson Versus
Binomial: Appointment of Judges to the
U.S. Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274
Pulak Ghosh and
Timothy Hanson Theory and Methods Papers: a
Semiparametric Bayesian Approach to
Multivariate Longitudinal Data . . . . . 275--288
Pulak Ghosh and
Paramjit Gill and
Saman Muthukumarana and
Tim Swartz Theory and Methods Papers: a
Semiparametric Bayesian Approach to
Network Modelling Using Dirichlet
Process Prior Distributions . . . . . . 289--302
David Haziza and
Guillaume Chauvet and
Jean-Claude Deville Theory and Methods Papers: Sampling and
Estimation in the Presence of Cut-Off
Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--319
J. Gani Theory and Methods Papers: Modelling
Epidemic Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . 321--329
D. J. Daley Theory and Methods Papers: Comment on
the Paper by Gani . . . . . . . . . . . 330--334
A. H. Welsh Theory and Methods Papers: Comment on
the Paper by Gani . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
Anonymous Theory and Methods Papers: Gani's
Response to Daley and Welsh . . . . . . 337--337
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
S. J. Haslett and
G. Jones Application Papers: Small-Area
Estimation of Poverty: the Aid Industry
Standard and Its Alternatives . . . . . 341--362
Paul H. Garthwaite and
Emmanuel Mubwandarikwa Application Papers: Selection of Weights
for Weighted Model Averaging . . . . . . 363--382
E. Beutner and
E. Cramer Application Papers: Nonparametric
Meta-Analysis for Minimal-Repair Systems 383--401
Peter Hall and
Hugh Miller Theory and Methods Papers: Sequential,
Bottom-Up Variable Selection for
High-Dimensional Classification . . . . 403--421
Zhidong Bai and
Jiaqi Chen and
Jianfeng Yao Theory and Methods Papers: On Estimation
of the Population Spectral Distribution
from a High-Dimensional Sample
Covariance Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 423--437
Edward J. Bedrick and
Winston K. Crandall Theory and Methods Papers: Model
Selection Criteria for Loglinear Models 439--449
Hiroaki Ogata and
Masanobu Taniguchi Theory and Methods Papers: an Empirical
Likelihood Approach for Non-Gaussian
Vector Stationary Processes and Its
Application to Minimum Contrast
Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--468
Bill Venables Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Data Technologies. by Paul Murrell . . . 469--470
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
Fiona Steele Invited Paper with Discussion:
Multilevel Discrete-Time Event History
Models with Applications to the Analysis
of Recurrent Employment Transitions . . 1--20
Michele Haynes Invited Paper with Discussion:
Discussion on the Paper by Steele . . . 20--23
James Brown Invited Paper with Discussion:
Discussion on the Paper by Steele . . . 23--24
Fiona Steele Invited Paper with Discussion: Steele's
Response to Haynes and Brown . . . . . . 24--26
Chris J. Lloyd and
Max V. Moldovan Theory and Methods Papers: Constructing
More Powerful Exact Tests of Equivalence
from Binary Matched Pairs . . . . . . . 27--42
Brendan P. M. McCabe and
Gael M. Martin and
Keith Freeland Theory and Methods Papers: a
Quasi-Locally Most Powerful Test for
Correlation in the Conditional Variance
of Positive Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--62
Yanyu Zhang and
Jialiang Li Theory and Methods Papers: Combining
Multiple Markers for Multi-Category
Classification: an ROC Surface Approach 63--78
David A. Rolls and
Owen D. Jones Theory and Methods Papers: Testing for
Continuous Local Martingales Using the
Crossing Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--107
Megan J. Pledger and
R. Hugh Morton Applications Paper: Modelling the 2004
Super 12 Rugby Union Competition . . . . 109--121
Mike Kenward Book Review: \booktitleAntedependence
Models for Longitudinal Data, by Dale L.
Zimmerman and Vicente A. Núñez--Antón . . . 123--124
Ivy Liu Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Ordinal Categorical Data, 2nd edn by
Alan Agresti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126
Wei Liu Book Review: \booktitleTesting
Statistical Hypotheses of Equivalence
and Noninferiority, 2nd edn, by Stefan
Wellek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
J. T. Wood Book Review: \booktitleEnvironmental and
Ecological Statistics with R, by Song S.
Qian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
Liang Peng Theory and Methods Papers: Empirical
Likelihood Methods for the Gini Index 131--139
Mahmoud Torabi Theory and Methods Papers: Small Area
Estimation Using Survey Weights with
Functional Measurement Error in the
Covariate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--155
Christian Genest and
Johanna Ne\vslehová and
Noomen Ben Ghorbal Theory and Methods Papers: Estimators
Based on Kendall's Tau in Multivariate
Copula Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--177
Chew Lian Chua and
G. C. Lim and
Penelope Smith Theory and Methods Papers: a Bayesian
Simulation Approach to Inference on a
Multi-State Latent Factor Intensity
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--195
Franti\vsek Rublík and
Ján Somor\vcík Theory and Methods Papers:
Affine-Equivariant Spatial Median and
Its Use in the Multivariate Multi-Sample
Location Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--215
Neelabh Rohan and
T. V. Ramanathan Theory and Methods Papers: Order
Selection in ARMA Models Using the
Focused Information Criterion . . . . . 217--231
Paul J. Hewson Applications Papers: Analysis of Head
Injuries Using a Bayesian Vector
Generalized Additive Model . . . . . . . 233--246
Tetsuji Tonda and
Kenichi Satoh and
Teruyuki Nakayama and
Kota Katanoda and
Tomotaka Sobue and
Megu Ohtaki Applications Papers: a Nonparametric
Mixed-Effects Model for Cancer Mortality 247--256
Jim Young Letter to Editor: Re: Duc, H.,
Jalaludin, B. & Morgan, G. (2009).
Associations between air pollution and
hospital visits for cardiovascular
diseases in the elderly in Sydney using
Bayesian statistical methods . . . . . . 257--259
Hiep Duc and
Bin Jalaludin and
Geoff Morgan Letter to Editor: Reply to comment on
`Associations between air pollution and
hospital visits for cardiovascular
diseases in the elderly in Sydney using
Bayesian statistical methods' . . . . . 259--261
A. H. Welsh Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Inference: an Integrated
Bayesian/Likelihood Approach, by Murray
Aitkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
David Scott Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
Scientific Programming and Simulation
Using R, by O. Jones, R. Maillardet and
A. Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--265
Pierre Alliot Book Review: \booktitleHidden Markov
Models for Time Series: an Introduction
Using R, by W. Zucchini and I. L.
Macdonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
Val Gebski Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Clinical Trials with
Time-to-Event Endpoints edited, by Karl
E. Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
Robert M. Mnatsakanov and
Shengqiao Li and
E. James Harner Theory and Methods Papers: Estimation of
Multivariate Shannon Entropy Using
Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--288
Oskar Maria Baksalary and
Götz Trenkler Theory and Methods Papers: Between Olse
and Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--303
Sarah E. Neville and
M. J. Palmer and
M. P. Wand Theory and Methods Papers: Generalized
Extreme Value Additive Model Analysis
Via Mean Field Variational Bayes . . . . 305--330
José E. Chacón and
Tarn Duong Theory and Methods Papers: Unconstrained
Pilot Selectors for Smoothed
Cross-Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--351
N. I. Fisher and
A. J. Lee Applications Papers: Getting the
`Correct' Answer from Survey Responses:
a Simple Application of the EM Algorithm 353--364
Joanne L. C. Chia and
Adrian Baddeley Applications Papers: Estimating a Ratio
of Means from Bivariate Counts with
Applications in Stereology . . . . . . . 365--387
Eric J. Beh Book Review: \booktitleBiplots in
Practice, by Michael Greenacre . . . . . 389--391
Malcolm Hudson Book Review: \booktitleAnalysing
Seasonal Health Data, by Adrian G.
Barnett and Annette J. Dobson . . . . . 391--393
Spiridon Penev Book Review: \booktitleLinear Causal
Modeling with Structural Equations, by
Stanley Mulaik . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--395
Daniel Walsh Book Review: \booktitleStatistical Image
Processing and Multidimensional
Modeling, by Paul Fieguth . . . . . . . 395--396
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous Campbell Award 2010 . . . . . . . . . . 399--401
Wen-Han Hwang and
Richard Huggins Theory and Methods Papers: a
Semiparametric Model for a Functional
Behavioural Response to Capture in
Capture--Recapture Experiments . . . . . 403--421
Jim E. Griffin and
Philip J. Brown Theory and Methods Papers: Bayesian
Hyper-Lassos with Non-Convex
Penalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--442
Stefania Gubbiotti and
Fulvio De Santis Theory and Methods Papers: a Bayesian
Method for the Choice of the Sample Size
in Equivalence Trials . . . . . . . . . 443--460
G. Peter Y. Clarke and
Katia T. Stefanova Applications Papers: Optimal Design for
Early-Generation Plant-Breeding Trials
with Unreplicated or Partially
Replicated Test Lines . . . . . . . . . 461--480
B. R. Clarke and
D. K. Gamble and
T. Bednarski Corrigendum: On a Note on Robustness of
the $ \beta $-Trimmed Mean . . . . . . . 481--481
Robert Staudte and
Luke Prendergast Book Review: \booktitleRobust Methods in
Biostatistics, by Stephane Heritier, Eva
Cantoni, Samuel Copt and Maria-Pia
Victoria-Feser . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--486
Emlyn Williams Book Review: \booktitleComputer-Assisted
Statistics Textbooks --- Experiments in
Agriculture and Biology, by W. Douglas
Stirling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--487
Ian C. Marschner Book Review: \booktitleMonte Carlo
Simulation for the Pharmaceutical
Industry: Concepts, Algorithms and Case
Studies by Mark Chang . . . . . . . . . 487--489
Scott A. Sisson Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Spatial Statistics, by A. E. Gelfand, P.
Diggle, P. Guttorp and M. Fuentes . . . 489--491
David Fletcher Book Review: \booktitleR Through Excel:
a Spreadsheet Interface for Statistics,
Data Analysis, and Graphics, by Richard
M. Heiberger and Erich Neuwirth . . . . 491--492
G. Wood Book Review: \booktitleThe Fundamentals
of Modern Statistical Genetics. by Nan
M. Laird and Christoph Lange . . . . . . 492--493
Eric J. Beh Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Biplots, by John Gower, Sugnet
Gardner-Lubbe and Niël Le Roux . . . . . 493--494
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495
Lyle C. Gurrin and
Lidija Turkovic Applications Papers: Combining
Individual Participant Data and Summary
Statistics from Both Continuously Valued
and Binary Variables to Estimate
Regression Parameters . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Stuart H. Hurlbert and
Celia M. Lombardi Applications Papers: Lopsided Reasoning
on Lopsided Tests and Multiple
Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--42
Fatemeh Hosseini and
Mohsen Mohammadzadeh Applications Papers: Bayesian Prediction
for Spatial Generalised Linear Mixed
Models with Closed Skew Normal Latent
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--62
Xin Huang and
Gengsheng Qin and
Yan Yuan and
Xiao-hua Zhou Theory and Methods Papers: Confidence
Intervals for the Difference Between Two
Partial AUCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
Persi Diaconis and
Robert Griffiths Theory and Methods Papers: Exchangeable
Pairs of Bernoulli Random Variables,
Krawtchouk Polynomials, and Ehrenfest
Urns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--101
Nicola Salvati and
Hukum Chandra and
Ray Chambers Theory and Methods Papers: Model-Based
Direct Estimation of Small-Area
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--123
Chris Lloyd Book Review: \booktitleLogistic
Regression Models, by J. M. Hilbe . . . 125--126
Bruce Brown Book Review: \booktitlePermutation Tests
for Complex Data: Theory, Applications
and Software, by F. Pesarin and L.
Salmaso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Erica Brittain Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Non-inferiority Trials, by
Mark D. Rothmann, Brian L. Wiens and
Ivan S. F. Chan . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Anonymous Campbell Award 2011 . . . . . . . . . . 133--136
Eric J. Beh and
Rosaria Lombardo Theory and Methods Papers: a Genealogy
of Correspondence Analysis . . . . . . . 137--168
Jessica Kasza and
Gary Glonek and
Patty Solomon Theory and Methods Papers: Estimating
Bayesian Networks for High-Dimensional
Data with Complex Mean Structure and
Random Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--187
Ahmed N. Albatineh and
Hafiz M. R. Khan and
Magdalena Niewiadomska-Bugaj Theory and Methods Papers: On the
Equivalence of Some Indices of
Similarity: Implication for Binary
Presence/Absence Data . . . . . . . . . 189--198
Anna Dembi\'nska Theory and Methods Papers: Limit
Theorems for Proportions of Observations
Falling into Random Regions Determined
by Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 199--210
Chongqi Zhang and
Wengkee Wong and
Heng Peng Theory and Methods Papers:
Dual-Objective Optimal Mixture Designs 211--222
James Chipperfield and
Julia Chessman and
Russell Lim Theory and Methods Papers: Combining
Household Surveys Using Mass Imputation
to Estimate Population Totals . . . . . 223--238
Ji Young Kim Theory and Methods Papers: Parametric
Fractional Imputation for Non-Ignorable
Categorical Missing Data with Follow-Up 239--250
Sally Galbraith Book Review: \booktitleApplied Missing
Data Analysis, by Craig K. Enders . . . 251--251
Geoff Cumming Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Meta-Analysis for Social Science
Research, by Noel A. Card . . . . . . . 252--253
Michael A. Martin Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Bootstrap Methods with Applications
to R, by M. R. Chernick and R. A.
LaBudde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Zudi Lu Book Review: \booktitleShort-Memory
Linear Processes and Econometric
Applications, by Kairat T. Mynbaev . . . 255--257
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Roland Langrock Applications Papers: Flexible
Latent-State Modelling of Old Faithful's
Eruption Inter-Arrival Times in 2009 . . 261--279
Geoffrey Decrouez and
Andrew P. Robinson Applications Papers: Confidence
Intervals for the Weighted Sum of Two
Independent Binomial Proportions . . . . 281--299
Ricardo Cao and
José A. Vilar and
Juan M. Vilar Applications Papers: Generalised
Variance Function Estimation for Binary
Variables in Large-Scale Sample Surveys 301--324
Carlo Grillenzoni Applications Papers: Evaluation of
Recursive Detection Methods for Turning
Points in Financial Time Series . . . . 325--342
Andreas Kiermeier and
Ar\=unas P. Verbyla and
Richard G. Jarrett Applications Papers: Estimating a Single
Shelf-Life for Multiple Batches . . . . 343--358
Shakhawat Hossain and
Ejaz Ahmed Applications Papers: Shrinkage and
Penalty Estimators of a Poisson
Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--373
Philip Kokic and
Kenton Lawson and
Lisa Elliston and
Chun Liang and
Walter Shafron Applications Papers: a Comparison of Two
Methods of Linking Spatial and Economic
Data from Farm Surveys . . . . . . . . . 375--390
Ian James Book Review: \booktitleDynamic Mixed
Models for Familial Longitudinal Data 391--392
\'Saunak Sen Book Review: Bayesian Modeling in
Bioinformatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--393
Kris M. Jamsen and
Lyle C. Gurrin Book Review: \booktitleApplied Bayesian
Hierarchical Methods . . . . . . . . . . 393--393
Andrew Martin Book Review: \booktitleControversial
Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials 393--394
Paul Kabaila Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
the Theory of Statistical Inference . . 394--395
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
Anonymous 2012 Pitman Medal: Professor Alan Welsh,
FAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
Rosalba Radice Applications Paper: a Bayesian Approach
to Modelling Reticulation Events with
Application to the Ribosomal Protein
Gene rps11 of Flowering Plants . . . . . 401--426
Julian D. Taylor and
Ar\=unas P. Verbyla and
Colin Cavanagh and
Marcus Newberry Theory and Methods Papers: Variable
Selection in Linear Mixed Models Using
an Extended Class of Penalties . . . . . 427--449
Jakob Bergman and
Björn Holmquist Theory and Methods Papers: a Measure of
Dependence Between Two Compositions . . 451--461
Zhouping Li and
Xiping Wang and
Wang Zhou Theory and Methods Papers: Empirical
Likelihood for Compound Poisson
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--474
Eric J. Beh and
Thomas B. Farver Theory and Methods Papers: The Box--Cox
Transformation and Non-Iterative
Estimation Methods for Ordinal
Log-Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . 475--484
Jean-François Plante and
Gitte Bjòrg Windfeldt Theory and Methods Papers: Using
Predictive Risk for Process Control . . 485--504
A. H. Welsh Book Review: \booktitleThe Epistemology
of Statistical Science . . . . . . . . . 505--507
M. P. Wand Book Review: \booktitleSmoothing
Splines: Methods and Applications . . . 507--508
Steven Roberts Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Thinking in Epidemiology . . . . . . . . 508--509
Lyle Broemeling Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Evaluation of Diagnostic Performance:
Topics in ROC Analysis . . . . . . . . . 509--510
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 511--511
Tristan Senga Kiessé and
Dominique Miz\`ere Application Paper: Weighted Poisson and
Semiparametric Kernel Models Applied to
Parasite Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
John C. W. Rayner and
Olivier Thas and
Peter Pipelers and
Eric J. Beh Theory and Methods Papers: Calculating
Bivariate Orthonormal Polynomials By
Recurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
Robert L. Paige and
A. Alexandre Trindade Theory and Methods Papers: Fast and
Accurate Inference for the Smoothing
Parameter in Semiparametric Models . . . 25--41
Shesheng Gao and
Yongmin Zhong and
Chengfan Gu Theory and Methods Papers: Random
Weighting Estimation of Confidence
Intervals for Quantiles . . . . . . . . 43--53
Petra Kuhnert Book Review: \booktitleRecursive
Partitioning and Applications . . . . . 55--56
Stephane Heritier Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Quality of Life Studies in
Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--57
Ross Maller Book Review: \booktitleCompeting Risks
and Multistate Models with R . . . . . . 57--60
Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleMaximum
Likelihood Estimation for Sample Surveys 60--61
You-Gan Wang Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
Estimating Equations . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Anonymous Campbell Award 2012 . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
Osvaldo Anacleto and
Catriona Queen and
Casper J. Albers Application Paper: Forecasting
Multivariate Road Traffic Flows Using
Bayesian Dynamic Graphical Models,
Splines and Other Traffic Variables . . 69--86
M. Atikur Rahman Khan and
D. S. Poskitt Theory and Methods Papers: a Note on
Window Length Selection in Singular
Spectrum Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 87--108
Yongsong Qin and
Qingzhu Lei and
Lijun Luo Theory and Methods Papers: Empirical
Likelihood for Nonparametric Models
Under Linear Process Errors . . . . . . 109--128
Andrea Mercatanti Theory and Methods Papers: a
Likelihood-Based Analysis for Relaxing
the Exclusion Restriction in Randomized
Experiments with Noncompliance . . . . . 129--153
Yuzhi Cai Theory and Methods Papers: a Quantile
Survival Model for Censored Data . . . . 155--172
Xiangmei Ma and
Liming Xiang Theory and Methods Papers: Testing for
the Presence of a Cure Fraction in
Clustered Interval-Censored Survival
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--190
Anthony G. Pakes Book Review: \booktitleAbraham De
Moivre: Setting the Stage for Classical
Probability and its Applications . . . . 191--197
Gillian Z. Heller Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
Linear Mixed Models: Modern Concepts,
Methods and Applications . . . . . . . . 197--198
Geoff Jones Book Review: \booktitleJoint Models for
Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data:
with Applications in R . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Gentry White Book Review: \booktitleCriminal Justice
Forecasts of Risk: a Machine Learning
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--201
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Barbara R. Holland Invited Paper: The Rise of Statistical
Phylogenetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--220
Waruni Abeysekera and
Paul Kabaila and
Oguzhan Yilmaz Application Papers: The Coverage
Probability of Confidence Intervals in
One-Way Analysis of Covariance after Two
$F$ Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234
Natalie Karavarsamis and
Andrew P. Robinson and
Graham Hepworth and
Andrew J. Hamilton and
Geoffrey W. Heard Application Papers: Comparison of Four
Bootstrap-Based Interval Estimators of
Species Occupancy and Detection
Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252
E. R. Williams and
H. P. Piepho Theory and Methods Papers: a Comparison
of Spatial Designs for Field Variety
Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--258
Paul Kabaila and
Khageswor Giri Theory and Methods Papers: Further
Properties of Frequentist Confidence
Intervals in Regression that Utilize
Uncertain Prior Information . . . . . . 259--270
Sangah Jung and
Sangun Park Theory and Methods Papers: Simplified
Maximum Likelihood Inference Based on
the Likelihood Decomposition for Missing
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--283
Graham R. Wood and
David J. Saville Theory and Methods Papers: a Geometric
Examination of Linear Model Assumptions 285--303
J. C. W. Rayner and
D. J. Best Theory and Methods Papers: Extended
ANOVA and Rank Transform Procedures . . 305--319
Giampiero Marra and
Georgios Papageorgiou and
Rosalba Radice Theory and Methods Papers: Estimation of
a Semiparametric Recursive Bivariate
Probit Model with Nonparametric Mixing 321--342
Peter Baade Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Statistics in Clinical Oncology . . . . 343--343
William Browne Book Review: Bayesian Item Response
Modeling: Theory and Applications . . . 344--344
Mark Bebbington Book Review: \booktitleEvent History
Analysis with R . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--346
Carl Scarrott Book Review: \booktitleExtreme Value
Methods with Applications to Finance . . 346--348
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
Jeff Ching-Fu Hsieh and
Susanna M. Cramb and
James M. McGree and
Peter D. Baade and
Nathan A. M. Dunn and
Kerrie L. Mengersen Application Papers: Bayesian Spatial
Analysis for the Evaluation of Breast
Cancer Detection Methods . . . . . . . . 351--367
Shahedul A. Khan and
Grace S. Chiu and
Joel A. Dubin Application Papers: Therapeutic
Hypothermia: Quantification of the
Transition of Core Body Temperature
Using the Flexible Mixture Bent-Cable
Model for Longitudinal Data . . . . . . 369--385
Tae Yoon Kim and
Jeongcheol Ha and
Sun Young Hwang and
Cheolyong Park and
Zhi-Ming Luo Theory and Methods Papers: Central Limit
Theorems for Reduced $U$-Statistics
Under Dependence and Their Usefulness 387--399
Asheber Abebe and
Joseph W. McKean Theory and Methods Papers: Weighted
Wilcoxon Estimators in Nonlinear
Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--420
Wei Liu and
Sanyu Zhou and
Frank Bretz Theory and Methods Papers: Exact
Simultaneous Confidence Bands for
Quadratic and Cubic Polynomial
Regression with Applications in Dose
Response Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--434
Guoqi Qian and
Xiaoping Shi and
Yuehua Wu Theory and Methods Papers: a Statistical
Test of Change-Point in Mean that Almost
Surely Has Zero Error Probabilities . . 435--454
Gülesen Üstünda\ug \cSiray and
Selma Toker Theory and Methods Papers: Restricted
Two Parameter Ridge Estimator . . . . . 455--469
A. H. Welsh and
Dan Hedlin and
Markus G. \vSova Theory and Methods Papers: The
Stabilisation of Model Parameter
Estimates from Repeated Surveys with
Rare Observations . . . . . . . . . . . 471--491
Glenn Stone Book Review: \booktitleStatistics for
High-Dimensional Data: Methods, Theory
and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--493
William M. Bolstad Book Review: \booktitleThe BUGS Book: a
Practical Introduction to Bayesian
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--495
Murray Jorgensen Book Review: \booktitleA Statistical
Guide for the Ethically Perplexed . . . 495--497
Brenton R. Clarke Book Review: \booktitleMethodology in
Robust and Nonparametric Statistics . . 497--499
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 501--501
Thomas Lumley and
Alastair Scott Invited Paper: Tests for Regression
Models Fitted to Survey Data . . . . . . 1--14
Abdulkadir A. Hussein and
Sévérien Nkurunziza and
Katrina Tomanelli Applications Paper: Nonparametric
Shrinkage Estimation for Aalen's
Additive Hazards Model . . . . . . . . . 15--26
Klairung Samart and
Ray Chambers Applications Paper: Linear Regression
With Nested Errors Using
Probability-Linked Data . . . . . . . . 27--46
Christopher S. Withers and
Saralees Nadarajah Theory and Methods Papers: Confidence
Intervals for Linear Combinations of
Poisson Means . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58
Keunbaik Lee and
Jae Keun Yoo Theory and Methods Papers: Canonical
Correlation Analysis Through Linear
Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--72
Chong You and
John T. Ormerod and
Samuel Müller Theory and Methods Papers: On
Variational Bayes Estimation and
Variational Information Criteria for
Linear Regression Models . . . . . . . . 73--87
E. R. Williams and
J. A. John and
D. Whitaker Theory and Methods Papers: Construction
of more Flexible and Efficient $P$--rep
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--96
Bruce Brown Book Review: \booktitleConfidence
Intervals for Proportions and Related
Measures of Effect Size . . . . . . . . 97--98
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous NZSA Awards 2013: Campbell Award 2013 101--102
Anonymous NZSA Awards 2013: NZSA Research Awards
2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Aurore Delaigle Invited Paper: Nonparametric Kernel
Methods with Errors-in-Variables:
Constructing Estimators, Computing them,
and Avoiding Common Mistakes . . . . . . 105--124
R. Gambacorta and
M. Iannario and
R. Valliant Applications Paper: Design-Based
Inference in a Mixture Model for Ordinal
Variables for a Two Stage Stratified
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--143
J. L. Scealy and
A. H. Welsh Theory and Methods Papers: Colours and
Cocktails: Compositional Data Analysis
2013 Lancaster Lecture . . . . . . . . . 145--169
Karl Gerald van den Boogaart and
Juan José Egozcue and
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn Theory and Methods Papers: Bayes Hilbert
Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--194
Scott D. Patterson Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
Analysis of Bridging Studies . . . . . . 195--196
Geoff Jones Book Review: \booktitleLatent Markov
Models for Longitudinal Data . . . . . . 196--197
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Takaki Iwata Applications Papers: Decomposition of
Seasonality and Long-term Trend in
Seismological Data: a Bayesian Modelling
of Earthquake Detection Capability . . . 201--215
Haifen Li and
Jiajia Zhang and
Yincai Tang Applications Papers: Smooth
Semi-nonparametric Analysis for Mixture
Cure Models and Its Application to
Breast Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--235
Chunpeng Fan and
Donghui Zhang Applications Papers: Robust Small Sample
Inference for Generalised Estimating
Equations: an Application of the
ANOVA-type Test . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--255
Gavin J. Melville and
Alan H. Welsh Applications Papers: Model-based
Prediction In Ecological Surveys
Including Those with Incomplete
Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--281
Taewook Lee and
Cheolwoo Park and
Young Joo Yoon Theory and Methods Papers: Bridge
Estimation for Linear Regression Models
with Mixing Properties . . . . . . . . . 283--302
Andrew Robinson Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
Advanced Statistical Methods . . . . . . 303--303
Paul Murrell Book Review: \booktitleThe R Student
Companion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
Barry Milne Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Disclosure Control . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
D. Prangle and
M. G. B. Blum and
G. Popovic and
S. A. Sisson Invited Papers: Diagnostic tools for
approximate Bayesian computation using
the coverage property . . . . . . . . . 309--329
John M. Neuhaus and
Charles E. McCulloch Invited Papers: Covariate Decomposition
Methods for Longitudinal
Missing-at-Random Data and Predictors
Associated with Subject-Specific Effects 331--345
Mohammad Moradi and
Jennifer A. Brown and
Weilong Guo Applications Paper: Adaptive Cluster
Sampling in Two-stage Sampling . . . . . 347--357
Chris J. Lloyd Theory and Methods Papers: On the Exact
Size of Tests of Treatment Effects in
Multi-Arm Clinical Trials . . . . . . . 359--369
Paul Kabaila and
Dilshani Tissera Theory and Methods Papers: Confidence
Intervals in Regression That Utilize
Uncertain Prior Information About a
Vector Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--383
Ismihan Bairamov and
Mahdi Tavangar Theory and Methods Papers: More on
progressively Type-II censored order
statistics for multivariate observations 385--394
Hooshang Talebi and
Elham Jalali Theory and Methods Papers: a series of
single array $ 2^m $ factorial search
designs for even $m$ . . . . . . . . . . 395--405
Margaret R. Donald and
Kerrie L. Mengersen Theory and Methods Papers: Methods for
Constructing Uncertainty Intervals for
Queries of Bayesian Nets . . . . . . . . 407--427
Marianne H. Gillam Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
Survival Analysis and Competing Risks 429--430
Murray Jorgensen Book Review: \booktitleAlgorithmic
Probability and Friends. Bayesian
Prediction and Artificial Intelligence 430--431
Jakob Bergman Book Review: \booktitlePractical
Multivariate Analysis, Fifth Edition . . 431--432
Olivier Salvado Book Review: \booktitleStatistical and
Computational Methods in brain Image
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--433
Ian C. Marschner Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding the
New Statistics: Effect Sizes, Confidence
Intervals, and Meta-Analysis . . . . . . 433--435
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 437--437
Jeffrey J. Hunter History Paper: Shayle R. Searle: Pioneer
in Linear Modelling . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Aaron T. Porter and
Christopher K. Wikle and
Scott H. Holan Applications Papers: Small Area
Estimation via Multivariate Fay--Herriot
Models with Latent Spatial Dependence 15--29
Gerd Gaiselmann and
Rafal Kulik and
Volker Schmidt Applications Papers: Statistical
Inference for Curved Fibrous Objects in
$3$D --- Based on Multiple Short
Observations of Multivariate
Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 31--54
Jack Davis and
Harsha Perera and
Tim B. Swartz Applications Papers: a Simulator for
Twenty20 Cricket . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--71
Lei Cao and
Jian Tao and
Ning-Zhong Shi and
Wei Liu Theory and Methods Papers: a Stepwise
Confidence Interval Procedure Under
Unknown Variances Based on an Asymmetric
Loss Function for Toxicological
Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--98
Paul Kabaila and
Gayan Dharmarathne Theory and Methods Papers: a Comparison
of Bayesian and Frequentist Interval
Estimators in Regression that Utilize
Uncertain Prior Information . . . . . . 99--118
Marianne Menictas and
Matt P. Wand Theory and Methods Papers: Variational
Inference for Heteroscedastic
Semiparametric Regression . . . . . . . 119--138
Yuzhi Cai and
Tao Jiang Theory and Methods Papers: Estimation of
Non-Crossing Quantile Regression Curves 139--162
Jun Ma Book Review: \booktitleInterval-Censored
Time-to-Event Data: Methods and
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
Eric J. Beh Book Review: \booktitleApplied
Categorical and Count Data Analysis . . 164--165
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
Luise Patricia Lago and
Robert Graham Clark Applications Papers: Imputation of
Household Survey Data Using Linear Mixed
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--187
Mohammad Salehi and
Mohammad Moradi and
Jassim A. Al Khayat and
Jennifer Brown and
Adil Eltayeb Mohamed Yousif Applications Papers: Inverse Adaptive
Cluster Sampling with Unequal Selection
Probabilities: Case Studies on Crab
Holes and Arsenic Pollution . . . . . . 189--201
Emlyn Williams and
Hans-Peter Piepho Applications Papers: Optimality and
Contrasts in Block Designs with Unequal
Treatment Replication . . . . . . . . . 203--209
J. C. W. Rayner and
D. J. Best and
O. Thas Theory and Methods Papers: Extended
Analysis of At Least Partially Ordered
Multi-factor ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . 211--224
J. D. Godolphin and
E. J. Godolphin Theory and Methods Papers: The Use of
Treatment Concurrences to Assess
Robustness of Binary Block Designs
Against the Loss of Whole Blocks . . . . 225--239
Daniel B. Hall and
Jing Shen Theory and Methods Papers: Marginal
Projected Multivariate Linear Models for
Clustered Angular Data . . . . . . . . . 241--257
Xinghui Wang and
Shuhe Hu Theory and Methods Papers: On the Strong
Consistency of $M$-Estimates in Linear
Models for Negatively Superadditive
Dependent Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--274
Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad and
David Steel Theory and Methods Papers: What Level of
Statistical Model Should We Use in Small
Area Estimation? . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--298
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Shih-Feng Huang and
Chan-Yi Tsai Applications Papers: Hedging Barrier
Options in GARCH Models with Transaction
Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--324
Su Yun Kang and
James McGree and
Peter Baade and
Kerrie Mengersen Applications Papers: a Case Study for
Modelling Cancer Incidence Using
Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Models . . . . 325--345
Luigi Pace and
Alessandra Salvan and
Nicola Sartori Theory and Methods Papers: Inference
from Pseudolikelihoods with Plug-In
Estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--361
Pasquale Sarnacchiaro and
Luigi D'Ambra and
Ida Camminatiello Theory and Methods Papers: Measures of
Association and Visualization of Log
Odds Ratio Structure for a Two Way
Contingency Table . . . . . . . . . . . 363--376
Insha Ullah and
Beatrix Jones Theory and Methods Papers: Regularised
Manova for High-Dimensional Data . . . . 377--389
Giovanni Maria Merola Theory and Methods Papers: Least Squares
Sparse Principal Component Analysis: a
Backward Elimination Approach to Attain
Large Loadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--429
Patrick Graham Book Review: Bayesian Methods in Health
Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--433
Barry Quinn Book Review: \booktitleStationary
Stochastic Processes Theory and
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 435--435
Ian C. Marschner Invited Paper: Relative Risk Regression
for Binary Outcomes: Methods and
Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--462
T. S. T. Wong Applications: Statistical Analysis of
Heat Waves in the State of Victoria in
Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--480
O. Thas and
J. C. W. Rayner and
J. De Neve Theory and Methods: Generalised Smooth
Tests of Goodness of Fit Utilising
$L$-moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--499
Konstantine A. Dres and
Graham Hepworth and
Ray Watson Theory and Methods: Exact Confidence
Intervals for Proportions Estimated by
Group Testing with Different Group Sizes 501--516
Andrea Bludowsky and
Joachim Kunert and
John Stufken Theory and Methods: Optimal Designs for
the Carryover Model with Random
Interactions Between Subjects and
Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--533
Filiz Karaman and
Erhan Cene Theory and Methods: Generalisation of
Mood's Test to Factorial Designs to
Detect Heterogeneity of Variances . . . 535--544
Rui Li and
Xiaoli Li and
Xian Zhou Theory and Methods: Efficient Inference
for Longitudinal Data
Varying-coefficient Regression Models 545--570
Matthieu Vignes Book Review: \booktitleInference
Principles for Biostatisticians . . . . 571--572
Jakub Stoklosa Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Capture--Recapture Data . . . . . . . . 572--574
Tania Prvan Book Review: \booktitleEssentials of
Multivariate Data Analysis . . . . . . . 574--575
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 577--577
Richard M. Huggins and
Paul S. F. Yip and
Jakub Stoklosa Applications: Nonparametric Estimation
of the Number of Drug Users in Hong Kong
Using Repeated Multiple Lists . . . . . 1--13
Aritra Sengupta and
Noel Cressie and
Brian H. Kahn and
Richard Frey Applications: Predictive Inference for
Big, Spatial, Non-Gaussian Data: MODIS
Cloud Data and its Change-of-Support . . 15--45
Zifei Han and
Victor De Oliveira Theory and Methods: On the Correlation
Structure of Gaussian Copula Models for
Geostatistical Count Data . . . . . . . 47--69
Atikur R. Khan and
D. S. Poskitt Theory and Methods: Signal
Identification in Singular Spectrum
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--98
Paul H. Garthwaite and
Inge Koch Theory and Methods: Evaluating the
Contributions of Individual Variables to
a Quadratic Form . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--119
A. S. Turkmen and
O. Ozturk Theory and Methods: Generalised Rank
Regression Estimator with Standard Error
Adjusted Lasso . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--135
Renate Meyer Book Review: \booktitleDependence
Modelling with Copulas . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Kevin Wang Book Review: \booktitleUsing R for
Introductory Statistics . . . . . . . . 138--139
Hisao Miyano Book Review: \booktitleCorrespondence
Analysis: Theory, Practice and New
Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--141
Ivy Liu Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
Categorical Data with R . . . . . . . . 141--142
Anonymous Forthcoming papers . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Anonymous Awards: Campbell Award . . . . . . . . . 145--148
Anonymous Awards: Pitman Medal . . . . . . . . . . 149--152
Kemmawadee Preedalikit and
Ivy Liu and
Yuichi Hirose and
Nokuthaba Sibanda and
Daniel Fernández Applications: Joint Modeling of Survival
and Longitudinal Ordered Data Using a
Semiparametric Approach . . . . . . . . 153--172
Fred B. Bryant and
Karl G. Jöreskog Applications: Confirmatory Factor
Analysis of Ordinal Data Using
Full-Information Adaptive Quadrature . . 173--196
Hong Zhu and
Yingchao Xie and
Maochao Xu Applications: Discrete Truncated
Power-Law Distributions . . . . . . . . 197--209
You-Gan Wang and
Yudong Zhao and
Liya Fu Theory and Methods: The Buckley--James
Estimator and Induced Smoothing . . . . 211--225
Weixuan Zhu and
J. Miguel Marin and
Fabrizio Leisen Theory and Methods: a Bootstrap
Likelihood Approach to Bayesian
Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--244
Florian Rohart Theory and Methods: Multiple Hypothesis
Testing for Variable Selection . . . . . 245--267
Ricardo Ramírez-Aldana and
Guillermina Eslava-Gómez Theory and Methods: Label- and
Level-Invariant Graphical Log-Linear
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--291
Paul Kabaila and
Yining Kong Theory and Methods: Lower Bounds on
Integrated Risk, Subject to Inequality
Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--315
Anonymous Forthcoming Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
R. T. Sabo Applications: Providing Consulting
Experiences Through Role Playing in a
Graduate Statistics Course . . . . . . . 319--333
Zhen Pang and
Bingqing Lin and
Jiming Jiang Theory and Methods: Regularisation
Parameter Selection Via Bootstrapping 335--356
Hoa Pham and
Alan Branford Theory and Methods: Exploring Parameter
Relations for Multi-Stage Models in
Stage-Wise Constant and Time Dependent
Hazard Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--376
Haocheng Li and
Grace Y. Yi Theory and Methods: Missing Data
Mechanisms for Analysing Longitudinal
Data with Incomplete Observations in
Both Responses and Covariates . . . . . 377--396
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
K. V. Vineetha Warriyar and
Nan Zheng Theory and Methods: Inference in
Semi-Parametric Dynamic Models for
Repeated Count Data . . . . . . . . . . 397--434
Anonymous Forthcoming Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 435--435
D. Fernández and
R. Arnold Applications: Model selection for
mixture-based clustering for ordinal
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--472
Tieming Ji and
Jie Chen Applications: Statistical models for DNA
copy number variation detection using
read-depth data from next generation
sequencing experiments . . . . . . . . . 473--491
T. Thomson and
S. Hossain and
M. Ghahramani Theory and Methods: Efficient estimation
for time series following generalized
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--513
L. A. Prendergast and
A. L. Garnham Theory and Methods: Response and
predictor folding to counter symmetric
dependency in dimension reduction . . . 515--532
Joshua V. Ross Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--534
Anonymous Forthcoming Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 535--535
James Chipperfield and
James J. Brown and
Nicole Watson Applications: The Australian Census
Longitudinal Dataset: using record
linkage to create a longitudinal sample
from a series of cross-sections . . . . 1--16
A. M. Elsawah Applications: a powerful and efficient
algorithm for breaking the links between
aliased effects in asymmetric designs 17--41
Jin Zhang Theory and Methods: Bayesian (mean) most
powerful tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56
Marti J. Anderson and
Daniel C. I. Walsh and
K. Robert Clarke and
Ray N. Gorley and
Edlin Guerra-Castro Theory and Methods: Some solutions to
the multivariate Behrens--Fisher problem
for dissimilarity-based analyses . . . . 57--79
Po Yang and
Chang-Yun Lin Theory and Methods: Optimal split-plot
orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94
Matthias Killiches and
Daniel Kraus and
Claudia Czado Theory and Methods: Examination and
visualisation of the simplifying
assumption for vine copulas in three
dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--117
Pavlina Rumcheva and
Brett Presnell Theory and Methods: an improved test of
equality of mean directions for the
Langevin--von Mises--Fisher distribution 119--135
Patrick Borges and
Marcelo Bourguignon and
Fabio Fajardo Molinares Theory and Methods: a generalised
NGINAR(1) process with
inflated-parameter geometric counting
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--150
Jakub Stoklosa Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
Anonymous Forthcoming Papers: Forthcoming Papers 153--153
S. Bersimis and
P. Economou Applications: The use of length-biased
distributions in statistical monitoring 155--167
A. D'Ambra and
A. Crisci and
L. D'Ambra Theory and Methods: Association models
in the weighted log ratio analysis for
rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--185
Thomas Lumley Theory and Methods: Pseudo-$ R^2 $
statistics under complex sampling . . . 187--194
A. Huang Theory and Methods: On generalised
estimating equations for vector
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--213
Hongxia Wang and
Yuehua Wu and
Elton Chan Theory and Methods: Efficient estimation
of nonparametric spatial models with
general correlation structures . . . . . 215--233
Matthieu Vignes Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
Ken J. Beath Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238
Maria Kateri and
Anna Gottard and
Claudia Tarantola Theory and Methods: Generalised
quasi-symmetry models for ordinal
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 239--253
S. Mandal and
B. Torsney and
M. Chowdhury Theory and Methods: Optimal designs for
minimising covariances among parameter
estimators in a linear model . . . . . . 255--273
Chris J. Lloyd Theory and Methods: The size accuracy of
combination tests . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287
Yong He and
Xinsheng Zhang and
Jiadong Ji and
Bin Liu Theory and Methods: Joint estimation of
multiple high-dimensional Gaussian
copula graphical models . . . . . . . . 289--310
Vito M. R. Muggeo Theory and Methods: Interval estimation
for the breakpoint in segmented
regression: a smoothed score-based
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--322
Peter M. Visscher Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
Michael E. Schuckers Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--325
C. J. Brien Invited Review: Multiphase experiments
in practice: A look back . . . . . . . . 327--352
A. A. Manderson and
E. Cripps and
K. Murray and
B. A. Turlach Statistical Computing: Monotone
polynomials using BUGS and Stan . . . . 353--370
Elena Moltchanova and
Daniel Gerhard and
Fathimath Mohamed and
Sally Gaw and
Chris N. Glover Applications: On correlation analysis of
many-to-many observations: an
alternative to Pearson's correlation
coefficient and its application to an
ecotoxicological study . . . . . . . . . 371--387
Pietro Coretto and
Francesco Giordano Applications: Nonparametric estimation
of the dynamic range of music signals 389--412
Ross S. Bowden and
Brenton R. Clarke Applications: Using multivariate time
series methods to estimate location and
climate change effects on temperature
readings employed in electricity demand
simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--431
S. M. Diffey and
A. B. Smith and
A. H. Welsh and
B. R. Cullis Theory and Methods: a new REML
(parameter expanded) EM algorithm for
linear mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 433--448
Insha Ullah and
Matthew D. M. Pawley and
Adam N. H. Smith and
Beatrix Jones Theory and Methods: Improving the
detection of unusual observations in
high-dimensional settings . . . . . . . 449--462
Thomas Suesse and
John C. W. Rayner and
Olivier Thas Theory and Methods: Assessing the fit of
finite mixture distributions . . . . . . 463--483
J. C. W. Rayner and
D. J. Best Theory and Methods: Unconditional
analogues of Cochran--Mantel--Haenszel
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--494
Martin L. Hazelton and
Timothy P. Bilton Theory and Methods: Polytope samplers
for network tomography . . . . . . . . . 495--511
Brenton R. Clarke and
Alexandra Höller and
Christine H. Müller and
Karuru Wamahiu Theory and Methods: Investigation of the
performance of trimmed estimators of
life time distributions with censoring 513--525
Yaeji Lim and
Hee-Seok Oh Theory and Methods: Confidence intervals
for nonparametric quantile regression:
an emphasis on smoothing splines
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--543
Matthieu Vignes and
Mélodie Sammarro and
Anthime Schrefheere and
Alex White and
Stephen Marsland Book Review: \booktitleBayesian
Networks: With Examples in R . . . . . . 545--546
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Michael A. Martin Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Makoto Aoshima and
Dan Shen and
Haipeng Shen and
Kazuyoshi Yata and
Yi-Hui Zhou and
J. S. Marron A survey of high dimension low sample
size asymptotics . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--19
Ming-Yen Cheng and
Sanying Feng and
Gaorong Li and
Heng Lian Greedy forward regression for variable
screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--42
Hairui Hua and
Dimitrios Bagkavos and
Prakash N. Patil An $ L_1 $ analysis of a kernel-based
hazard rate estimator . . . . . . . . . 43--64
Iain M. Johnstone Tail sums of Wishart and Gaussian
eigenvalues beyond the bulk edge . . . . 65--74
Andy S. I. Kim and
Matt P. Wand On expectation propagation for
generalised, linear and mixed models . . 75--102
Todd A. Kuffner and
Stephen M. S. Lee and
G. A. Young Consistency of a hybrid block bootstrap
for distribution and variance estimation
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B. A. Turlach A general approach to generate random
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Richard J. Boys and
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A. A. Manderson and
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Fernanda L. Schumacher and
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regression models with autoregressive
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Mohammad W. Hattab and
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Tung H. Pham and
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K. Orfanogiannaki and
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Farhad Shokoohi and
Mahmoud Torabi Semi-parametric small-area estimation by
combining time-series and
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Nan Zheng and
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in a semi-parametric binary dynamic
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Xiaodong Gong and
Jiti Gao Nonparametric kernel estimation of the
impact of tax policy on the demand for
private health insurance in Australia 374--393
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Jingli Wang and
Jialiang Li Semiparametric model averaging
prediction: a Bayesian approach . . . . 407--422
Safaa. K. Kadhem and
Paul Hewson and
Irene Kaimi Using hidden Markov models to model
spatial dependence in a network . . . . 423--446
Mingjuan Zhang and
Cheng Zhou and
Yong He and
Bin Liu Data-adaptive test for high-dimensional
multivariate analysis of variance
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--470
Ruwan C. Karunanayaka and
Boxin Tang On the existence and constructions of
orthogonal designs . . . . . . . . . . . 471--480
Subir Ghosh and
Li Guo and
Luyao Peng Variance component estimators OPE, NOPE
and AOPE in linear mixed effects models 481--505
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Thomas W. O'Gorman Constructing narrower confidence
intervals by inverting adaptive tests 1--17
Paul Kabaila and
Christeen Wijethunga Confidence intervals centred on
bootstrap smoothed estimators . . . . . 19--38
Arunas Petras Verbyla A note on model selection using
information criteria for general linear
models estimated using REML . . . . . . 39--50
Graham Hepworth Bias correction of estimated proportions
using inverse binomial group testing . . 51--60
F. K. C. Hui and
Samuel Müller and
A. H. Welsh Testing random effects in linear mixed
models: another look at the $F$-test
(with discussion) . . . . . . . . . . . 61--84
Ross Doppelt and
Keith O'Hara Posterior sampling in two classes of
multivariate fractionally integrated
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M.-J. Cros and
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A. Franc and
S. Robin and
R. Sabbadin and
T. Schiex and
M. Vignes Exact or approximate inference in
graphical models: why the choice is
dictated by the treewidth, and how
variable elimination can be exploited 89--133
Guo-Liang Tian and
Yin Liu and
Man-Lai Tang Logistic regression analysis of
non-randomized response data collected
by the parallel model in sensitive
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--151
Tucker McElroy and
Richard Penny Maximum entropy extreme-value seasonal
adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--174
Clare A. McGrory and
Daniel C. Ahfock and
Ricardo T. Lemos Climate regime shift detection with a
trans-dimensional, sequential Monte
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Nicholas Gelling and
Matthew R. Schofield and
Richard J. Barker R package \pkgrjmcmc: reversible jump
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Lauren J. Beesley and
Jeremy M. G. Taylor and
Roderick J. A. Little Sequential imputation for models with
latent variables assuming latent
ignorability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233
C. J. Brien Multiphase experiments with at least one
later laboratory phase. II.
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Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Michelle L. Trevenen and
Berwin A. Turlach and
Peter R. Eastwood and
Leon M. Straker and
Kevin Murray Using hidden Markov models with raw,
triaxial wrist accelerometry data to
determine sleep stages . . . . . . . . . 273--298
Chaohua Dong and
Jiti Gao and
Bin Peng Series estimation for single-index
models under constraints . . . . . . . . 299--335
Georgios Papageorgiou Bayesian density regression for discrete
outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--359
Andrés Ramírez-Hassan and
Manuel Correa-Giraldo Focused estimation for noisy and small
data sets: a Bayesian minimum expected
loss estimator approach . . . . . . . . 360--379
D. C. Wickramarachchi and
B. L. Robertson and
M. Reale and
C. J. Price and
J. A. Brown A reflected feature space for CART . . . 380--391
A. H. Welsh Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--395
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Russell Millar Rachel Fewster: Recipient of NZSA
Campbell Award 2018 . . . . . . . . . . 397--400
Inge Koch and
Kanta Naito and
Hiroaki Tanaka Kernel naive Bayes discrimination for
high-dimensional pattern recognition . . 401--428
Paul Kabaila and
Rheanna Mainzer An alternative to confidence intervals
constructed after a Hausman pretest in
panel data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--444
Kevin Yx Wang and
Garth Tarr and
Jean Yh Yang and
Samuel Mueller Fast and approximate exhaustive variable
selection for generalised linear models
with APES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--465
E. R. Williams and
H. P. Piepho Error variance bias in neighbour balance
and evenness of distribution designs . . 466--473
John Maindonald Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--476
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Anonymous Pitman Medal 2016 and 2018 . . . . . . . 1--4
James G. Booth and
Alan H. Welsh Generalised regression estimation via
the bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--24
Hassan S. Bakouch and
Y. Sunecher and
N. Mamode Khan and
V. Jowaheer A non-stationary bivariate INAR(1)
process with a simple cross-dependence:
Estimation with some properties . . . . 25--48
Robert Graham Clark Maximum likelihood estimation for
outcome-dependent samples . . . . . . . 49--70
David Gunawan and
Anastasios Panagiotelis and
William Griffiths and
Duangkamon Chotikapanich Bayesian weighted inference from surveys 71--94
N. Karavarsamis and
G. Guillera-Arroita and
R. M. Huggins and
B. J. T. Morgan The score test for the two-sample
occupancy model . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--115
Thomas W. Yee The VGAM package for negative binomial
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--131
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Scott R. Walter and
Bruce M. Brown and
William T. M. Dunsmuir Detecting changes in task length due to
task-switching in the presence of
repeated length-biased sampling . . . . 133--152
Tom Elliott and
Thomas Lumley Modelling the travel time of transit
vehicles in real-time through a
GTFS-based road network using GPS
vehicle locations . . . . . . . . . . . 153--167
Jeremy Forbes and
Dianne Cook and
Rob J. Hyndman Spatial modelling of the two-party
preferred vote in Australian federal
elections: 2001--2016 . . . . . . . . . 168--185
Raluca Vernic On a class of bivariate mixed Sarmanov
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--211
John M. Neuhaus and
Charles E. McCulloch Robust estimation for longitudinal data
under outcome-dependent visit processes 212--231
Jianhong Shi and
Jie Zhang and
Xiaorui Wang and
Weixing Song Modal non-linear regression in the
presence of Laplace measurement error 232--248
Michail Tsagris and
Connie Stewart A folded model for compositional data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--277
Xinyang Wang Variable selection for first-order
Poisson integer-valued autoregressive
model with covariables . . . . . . . . . 278--295
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Renjie Lu and
Philip L. H. Yu and
Xiaohang Wang Sparse vector error correction models
with application to cointegration-based
trading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--321
Ramadha D. Piyadi Gamage and
Wei Ning Inference for short-memory time series
models based on modified empirical
likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--339
Takeshi Kurosawa and
Francis K. C. Hui and
A. H. Welsh and
Kousuke Shinmura and
Nobuoki Eshima On goodness-of-fit measures for Poisson
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 340--366
Shin-Fu Tsai Approximate two-sided tolerance
intervals for normal mixture
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--382
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M. G. M. Khan \pkgstratifyR: an R Package for optimal
stratification and sample allocation for
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Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
Mohammed A. Alomair and
Stelios D. Georgiou and
Manohar Aggarwal Projection properties of three-level
screening designs . . . . . . . . . . . 407--425
Penelope Bilton and
Geoff Jones and
Siva Ganesh and
Stephen Haslett Regression trees for poverty mapping . . 426--443
Laurentiu Catalin Hinoveanu and
Fabrizio Leisen and
Cristiano Villa A loss-based prior for Gaussian
graphical models . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--466
Zhijian Li and
Wei Lin Efficient error variance estimation in
non-parametric regression . . . . . . . 467--484
S. C. Pandhare and
T. V. Ramanathan The focussed information criterion for
generalised linear regression models for
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--507
Debjit Sengupta and
Tathagata Banerjee and
Surupa Roy Estimation of Poisson mean with
under-reported counts: a double sampling
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--535
Christian Aßmann and
Marcel Preising Bayesian estimation and model comparison
for linear dynamic panel models with
missing values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--557
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Martin L. Hazelton and
R. Turner A Festschrift for Adrian Baddeley . . . 1--5
Eva B. Vedel Jensen Stereological inference on mean particle
shape from vertical sections . . . . . . 6--18
Dietrich Stoyan and
Viktor Benes and
Filip Seitl Dependent radius marks of Laguerre
tessellations: a case study . . . . . . 19--32
Andreas Dyreborg Christoffersen and
Jesper Mòller and
Heidi Sògaard Christensen Modelling columnarity of pyramidal cells
in the human cerebral cortex . . . . . . 33--54
Ignacio Cascos and
Qiyu Li and
Ilya Molchanov Depth and outliers for samples of sets
and random sets distributions . . . . . 55--82
Peter J. Diggle Conditional intensity: a powerful tool
for modelling and analysing point
process data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--92
Thomas Shaw and
Jesper Mòller and
Rasmus Plenge Waagepetersen Globally intensity-reweighted estimators
for $K$ --- and pair correlation
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--118
Achmad Choiruddin and
Jean-François Coeurjolly and
Rasmus Waagepetersen Information criteria for inhomogeneous
spatial point processes . . . . . . . . 119--143
Ian W. Renner and
David I. Warton and
Francis K. C. Hui What is the effective sample size of a
spatial point process? . . . . . . . . . 144--158
M. N. M. van Lieshout Infill asymptotics for adaptive kernel
estimators of spatial intensity . . . . 159--181
Noel Cressie A few statistical principles for data
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--200
R. D. Gill Anna Karenina and the two envelopes
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--218
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Francis K. C. Hui and
Howard D. Bondell A shared parameter mixture model for
longitudinal income data with missing
responses and zero rounding . . . . . . 221--240
Rob J. Hyndman and
Yijun Zeng and
Han Lin Shang Forecasting the old-age dependency ratio
to determine a sustainable pension age 241--256
Yanlin Shi New moderation methods of higher school
certificate assessments: a case study of
the New South Wales practice . . . . . . 257--283
A. P. Verbyla and
J. De Faveri and
D. M. Deery and
G. J. Rebetzke Modelling temporal genetic and
spatio-temporal residual effects for
high-throughput phenotyping data . . . . 284--308
Sakineh Dehghan and
Mohammad Reza Faridrohani Non-parametric depth-based tests for the
multivariate location problem . . . . . 309--330
Subhra Sankar Dhar and
Ujjwal Das On distance based goodness of fit tests
for missing data when missing occurs at
random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--356
Muhammad Ejaz and
Chaitanya Joshi and
Stephen Joe Adversarial risk analysis for
first-price sealed-bid auctions . . . . 357--376
Omer Ozturk and
Konul Bayramoglu Kavlak Model-based inference using judgement
post-stratified samples in finite
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--393
Yuqi Long and
Xingzhong Xu Bayesian decision rules to
classification problems . . . . . . . . 394--415
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Suman Rakshit and
Greg McSwiggan and
Gopalan Nair and
Adrian Baddeley Variable selection using penalised
likelihoods for point patterns on a
linear network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--454
E. R. Williams and
C. G. Forde and
J. Imaki and
K. Oelkers Experimental design in practice: The
importance of blocking and treatment
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--467
Simon E. F. Spencer Accelerating adaptation in the adaptive
Metropolis--Hastings random walk
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--484
Thanakorn Nitithumbundit and
Jennifer S. K. Chan ECM algorithm for estimating vector ARMA
model with variance gamma distribution
and possible unbounded density . . . . . 485--516
Luca Maestrini and
Matt P. Wand The Inverse $G$-Wishart distribution and
variational message passing . . . . . . 517--541
J. Arbel and
G. Kon Kam King and
A. Lijoi and
L. Nieto-Barajas and
I. Prünster \pkgBNPdensity: Bayesian nonparametric
mixture modelling in R . . . . . . . . . 542--564
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Pranjal Chandrakar and
Shubhabrata Das Measuring the values of cricket players 565--578
Pengyi Liu and
Guo-Liang Tian and
Kam Chuen Yuen and
Chi Zhang and
Man-Lai Tang Proportional inverse Gaussian
distribution: a new tool for analysing
continuous proportional data . . . . . . 579--605
Silvia Novo and
Philippe Vieu and
Germán Aneiros Fast and efficient algorithms for sparse
semiparametric bifunctional regression 606--638
Sarah Pirikahu and
Geoffrey Jones and
Martin L. Hazelton Bayesian credible intervals for
population attributable risk from
case-control, cohort and cross-sectional
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--657
Rong Jiang and
Yexun Peng and
Yufei Deng Variable selection and debiased
estimation for single-index expectile
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658--673
Shuji Ando Odds-symmetry model for cumulative
probabilities and decomposition of a
conditional symmetry model in square
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 674--684
Wagner Barreto-Souza and
Vinícius D. Mayrink and
Alexandre B. Simas Bessel regression and bbreg package to
analyse bounded data . . . . . . . . . . 685--706
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
David Huijser and
Jesse Goodman and
Brendon J. Brewer Properties of the affine-invariant
ensemble sampler's `stretch move' in
high dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
Yaolan Ma and
Bo Wei Efficient estimation of partially linear
tail index models using B-splines . . . 27--44
Beiting Liang and
Taoxuan Gao and
Defa Bai and
Guochang Wang Functional dimension reduction based on
fuzzy partition and transformation . . . 45--66
J. C. W. Rayner and
Paul Rippon and
Thomas Suesse and
Olivier Thas Smooth tests of goodness of fit for the
distributional assumption of regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--85
Mahdi Teimouri and
Saralees Nadarajah \pkgMPS: an R package for modelling
shifted families of distributions . . . 86--108
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Hien Nguyen and
Sharon Lee and
Florence Forbes A Festschrift for Geoff McLachlan . . . 111--116
Salvatore D. Tomarchio and
Salvatore Ingrassia and
Volodymyr Melnykov Modelling students' career indicators
via mixtures of parsimonious
matrix-normal distributions . . . . . . 117--132
F. K. C. Hui and
L. H. Nghiem Sufficient dimension reduction for
clustered data via finite mixture
modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--157
Luca Scrucca Modal clustering on PPGMMGA projection
subspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--170
J.-B. Durand and
F. Forbes and
C. D. Phan and
L. Truong and
H. D. Nguyen and
F. Dama Bayesian non-parametric spatial prior
for traffic crash risk mapping: a case
study of Victoria, Australia . . . . . . 171--204
Jan Greve and
Bettina Grün and
Gertraud Malsiner-Walli and
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter Spying on the prior of the number of
data clusters and the partition
distribution in Bayesian cluster
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--229
Christian Hennig and
Pietro Coretto An adequacy approach for deciding the
number of clusters for OTRIMLE robust
Gaussian mixture-based clustering . . . 230--254
Hien Duy Nguyen and
Florence Forbes Global implicit function theorems and
the online expectation-maximisation
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--281
Michael I. Stewart Detection boundary for a sparse gamma
scale mixture model . . . . . . . . . . 282--296
Vivi N. Arief and
Ian H. DeLacy and
Thomas Payne and
Kaye E. Basford Visualising the pattern of long-term
genotype performance by leveraging a
genomic prediction model . . . . . . . . 297--312
Huizi Zhang and
Ben Swallow and
Mayetri Gupta Bayesian hierarchical mixture models for
detecting non-normal clusters applied to
noisy genomic and environmental datasets 313--337
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Connor Smith and
Boris Guennewig and
Samuel Muller Robust subtractive stability measures
for fast and exhaustive feature
importance ranking and selection in
generalised linear models . . . . . . . 339--355
Amitava Mukherjee and
Hidetoshi Murakami Multivariate Kruskal--Wallis tests based
on principal component score and latent
source of independent component analysis 356--380
Janjira Piladaeng and
S. Ejaz Ahmed and
Supranee Lisawadi Penalised, post-pretest, and
post-shrinkage strategies in nonlinear
growth models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--405
Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos and
Raydonal Ospina and
Freddy Hernández-Barajas The place of probability distributions
in statistical learning. A commented
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Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Daniel Gerhard and
Elena Moltchanova A Richards growth model to predict fruit
weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--421
Bhargab Chattopadhyay and
Swarnali Banerjee Minimum cost-compression risk in
principal component analysis . . . . . . 422--441
Xin Huang and
Han Lin Shang and
David Pitt Permutation entropy and its variants for
measuring temporal dependence . . . . . 442--477
Lianyong Qian and
Fukang Zhu A new minification integer-valued
autoregressive process driven by
explanatory variables . . . . . . . . . 478--494
Reyhane Sefidkar and
Mahmoud Torabi and
Amir Kavousi Small area estimation under a
semi-parametric covariate measured with
error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--515
Anonymous Issue Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv
Stefano Giaimo On two conjectures about perturbations
of the stochastic growth rate . . . . . 1--13
Xiaoling Mei and
Bin Peng and
Huanjun Zhu Variable selection in heterogeneous
panel data models with cross-sectional
dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--34
T. W. O'Gorman A method to reduce the width of
confidence intervals by using a normal
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Xiangjie Xue and
Yong Wang A nonparametric mixture approach to
density and null proportion estimation
in large-scale multiple comparison
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--75