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Volume 8, Number 1, May, 1989
Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1990
Volume 9, Number 2, March, 1990
Volume 9, Number 3, May, 1990
Volume 10, Number 1, August, 1990
Volume 10, Number 2, October, 1990
Volume 10, Number 3, December, 1990
Volume 11, Number 1, January, 1991
Volume 11, Number 2, March, 1991
Volume 11, Number 3, May, 1991
Volume 12, Number 1, August, 1991
Volume 12, Number 2, September, 1991
Volume 12, Number 3, November, 1991
Volume 13, Number 1, January, 1992
Volume 13, Number 2, March, 1992
Volume 13, Number 3, April, 1992
Volume 13, Number 4, May, 1992
Volume 14, Number 1, June, 1992
Volume 14, Number 2, August, 1992
Volume 14, Number 3, October, 1992
Volume 14, Number 4, November, 1992
Volume 15, Number 1, January, 1993
Volume 15, Number 2, February, 1993
Volume 15, Number 3, March, 1993
Volume 15, Number 4, May, 1993
Volume 16, Number 1, June, 1993
Volume 16, Number 2, August, 1993
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1993
Volume 16, Number 4, October, 1993
Volume 17, Number 1, January, 1994
Volume 17, Number 2, February, 1994
Volume 17, Number 3, March, 1994
Volume 17, Number 4, May, 1994
Volume 17, Number 5, June, 1994
Volume 18, Number 1, August, 1994
Volume 18, Number 2, September, 1994
Volume 18, Number 3, October, 1994
Volume 18, Number 4, November, 1994
Volume 18, Number 5, December, 1994
Volume 19, Number 1, January, 1995
Volume 19, Number 2, February, 1995
Volume 19, Number 3, March, 1995
Volume 19, Number 4, April, 1995
Volume 19, Number 5, May, 1995
Volume 19, Number 6, June, 1995
Volume 20, Number 1, July, 1995
Volume 20, Number 2, August, 1995
Volume 20, Number 3, September, 1995
Volume 20, Number 4, October, 1995
Volume 20, Number 5, November, 1995
Volume 20, Number 6, December, 1995
Volume 21, Number 1, January, 1996
Volume 21, Number 2, February, 1996
Volume 21, Number 3, March, 1996
Volume 21, Number 4, April, 1996
Volume 21, Number 5, May, 1996
Volume 21, Number 6, June 1, 1996
Volume 22, Number 1, June 14, 1996
Volume 22, Number 2, July 1, 1996
Volume 22, Number 3, July 15, 1996
Volume 22, Number 4, August 10, 1996
Volume 22, Number 5, September 30, 1996
Volume 22, Number 6, October 23, 1996
Volume 23, Number 1, November 15, 1996
Volume 23, Number 2, December 11, 1996
Volume 23, Number 3, January 9, 1997
Volume 23, Number 4, February 6, 1997
Volume 24, Number 1, March 6, 1997
Volume 24, Number 2, April 3, 1997
Volume 24, Number 3, May 12, 1997
Volume 24, Number 4, June 5, 1997
Volume 25, Number 1, July 3, 1997
Volume 25, Number 2, July 31, 1997
Volume 25, Number 3, August 21, 1997
Volume 25, Number 4, September 30, 1997
Volume 26, Number 1, November 6, 1997
Volume 26, Number 2, December 4, 1997
Volume 26, Number 3, January 2, 1998
Volume 26, Number 4, February 6, 1998
Volume 27, Number 1, March 6, 1998
Volume 27, Number 2, April 3, 1998
Volume 27, Number 3, May 1, 1998
Volume 27, Number 4, June 5, 1998
Volume 28, Number 1, July 17, 1998
Volume 28, Number 2, August 7, 1998
Volume 28, Number 3, September 4, 1998
Volume 28, Number 4, October 28, 1998
Volume 29, Number 1, November 28, 1998
Volume 29, Number 2, December 28, 1998
Volume 29, Number 3, January 28, 1999
Volume 29, Number 4, February 28, 1999
Volume 30, Number 1, March 28, 1999
Volume 30, Number 2, April 28, 1999
Volume 30, Number 3, May 28, 1999
Volume 30, Number 4, June 28, 1999
Volume 31, Number 1, July 28, 1999
Volume 31, Number 2, August 28, 1999
Volume 31, Number 3, September 28, 1999
Volume 31, Number 4, October 28, 1999
Volume 32, Number 1, November 28, 1999
Volume 32, Number 2, December 28, 1999
Volume 33, Number 2, April 28, 2000
Volume 34, Number 1, July 28, 2000


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 8, Number 1, May, 1989

      Alessandra Giovagnoli and   
               Paola Sebastiani   Experimental designs for mean and
                                  variance estimation in variance
                                  components models  . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1990

                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
          Alexandre B. Uspensky   Some new aspects of analysis and design
                                  of experiments in inverse problems of
                                  remote meteorological sounding . . . . . 1--10
            Ewaryst Rafaj\lwicz   Optimum input signals for parameter
                                  estimation in systems described by
                                  linear integral equations  . . . . . . . 11--19
            B. C. Sutradhar and   
                 R. F. Bartlett   An empirical study of the estimation of
                                  eigenvalues in connection with
                                  non-negative estimation of variance
                                  components of a one-way random effect
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--35
               Serge B. Provost   Estimators for the parameters of a
                                  multivariate normal random vector with
                                  incomplete data on two subvectors and
                                  test of independence . . . . . . . . . . 37--46
              Alessandra Salvan   Planning sequential clinical trials: a
                                  review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56
          Guy der Megreditchian   Meteorological networks optimization
                                  from a statistical point of view . . . . 57--75
                 Olli Varis and   
            Juhani Kettunen and   
              Hannu Sirviö   Bayesian influence diagram approach to
                                  complex environmental management
                                  including observational design . . . . . 77--91
                    Carla Rossi   Survival analysis and prognosis: a
                                  comparison of three approaches (for the
                                  analysis of nasopharix data) . . . . . . 93--111
                   R. J. Martin   Some results on the $ \Phi_p $-value
                                  when errors are correlated . . . . . . . 113--121
                Johann Joss and   
                  Alfio Marazzi   Probabilistic algorithms for least
                                  median of squares regression . . . . . . 123--133
           Danuta Kachlicka and   
               Stanis\law Mejza   Incomplete split-plot experiments ---
                                  whole-plot treatments in a row-column
                                  design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146
                 Giuseppe Arbia   On second-order non-stationarity in
                                  two-dimensional lattice processes  . . . 147--160
                      Anonymous   SPSS announces Macintosh package . . . . 161
                      Anonymous   SYSTAT, Inc. announces new Mac MYSTAT
                                  with brushing tools  . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
                      Anonymous   SYSTAT, Inc. announces new data transfer
                                  package for SYSTAT software on
                                  IBM-compatible computers . . . . . . . . 162--163
                      Anonymous   SYSTAT, Inc. announces EzPATH, a new
                                  casual modeling supplement to SYSTAT
                                  software on IBM-compatible computers . . 163
                      Anonymous   Installed base passes 50,000
                                  ``milestone''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
                      Anonymous   Minitab introduces advanced features for
                                  industrial statistics  . . . . . . . . . 165--166
                      Anonymous   MicrOsiris for the PC  . . . . . . . . . 166--167
                      Anonymous   SIR/Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 9, Number 2, March, 1990

                      B. Abdous   Adapting the classical kernel density
                                  estimator to data  . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
                Stephen Haslett   Degrees of freedom and parameter
                                  estimability in hierarchical models for
                                  sparse complete contingency tables . . . 179--195
                Miguel A. Herce   An example showing that a new technique
                                  for LAV estimation breaks down in
                                  certain cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202
          G. S. Christensen and   
              S. A. Soliman and   
                       A. Rouhi   Discussion of ``An example showing that
                                  a new technique for LAV estimation
                                  breaks down in certain cases'' . . . . . 203--213
                Miguel A. Herce   Some comments on Christensen, Soliman
                                  and Rouhi's ``Discussion \ldots''  . . . 215--216
            John B. Cologne and   
              Norman E. Breslow   A small sample simulation study of
                                  methods for log odds ratio regression
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--235
             Michael Conlon and   
               Ronald G. Thomas   A new confidence interval for the
                                  difference of two binomial proportions   237--241
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
                      Anonymous   Announcements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleMultiway data
                                  analysis: edited by R. Coppi, University
                                  of Rome, Italy and S. Bolasco,
                                  University of Salerno, Italy, 1989 xiv +
                                  552 pages, Price: US\$136.75/Dfl.
                                  260.00, ISBN 0-444-87410-0 (Elsevier
                                  Science Publishers, Amsterdam)}  . . . . 248
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical data
                                  analysis and inference: edited by Y.
                                  Dodge, University of Neuchatel,
                                  Switzerland, 1989 xii + 618 pages,
                                  Price: US\$131.50/Dfl. 250.00, ISBN
                                  0-444-88029-1 (Elsevier Science
                                  Publishers, Amsterdam)}  . . . . . . . . 248
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleData exchange: by
                                  Steven S. Ross; 411 pages; illustrated;
                                  6'' $ \times $ 9''; paperback; \$24.95
                                  (McGraw-Hill)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleUsing autoCAD
                                  with autoLISP: by John D. Hood; 239
                                  pages; illustrated; $ 6 ' \times 9 ' $;
                                  spiral-bound paperback: \$29.95
                                  (McGraw-Hill)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 9, Number 3, May, 1990

                     Tom Greene   The depiction of linear association by
                                  matroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--269
           Chris C. Frangos and   
            William R. Schucany   Jackknife estimation of the bootstrap
                                  acceleration constant  . . . . . . . . . 271--281
             Rudolph S. Parrish   Generating random deviates from
                                  multivariate Pearson distributions . . . 283--295
             James C. Spall and   
                 Daniel C. Chin   First-order data sensitivity measures
                                  with applications to a multivariate
                                  signal-plus-noise problem  . . . . . . . 297--307
                    A. H. Welsh   A note on the statistical properties of
                                  the secant algorithm for calculating
                                  rank estimators  . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--315
                      Anonymous   Software for statistical and social
                                  survey analysis 1989--1990 prepared for
                                  the Study Group on Computers in Survey
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--340
                      Anonymous   Call for papers on optimization
                                  techniques in statistics . . . . . . . . 341
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 9 (1990) . . . . . . 343--344
                      Anonymous   Package report/review index volume 9
                                  (1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 10, Number 1, August, 1990

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
                 Robert J. Boik   A likelihood ratio test for three-mode
                                  singular values: upper percentiles and
                                  an application to three-way ANOVA  . . . 1--9
               Hamid Namini and   
                    Subir Ghosh   On robustness of $ 2^m \times 3^n $
                                  fractional factorial resolution III
                                  designs against the unavailability of
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16
               Wai-Yin Poon and   
                Sik-Yum Lee and   
        Abdelmonem A. Afifi and   
               Peter M. Bentler   Analysis of multivariate polytomous
                                  variates in several groups via the
                                  partition maximum likelihood approach    17--27
                Fernando Tusell   Testing for interaction in two-way ANOVA
                                  tables with no replication . . . . . . . 29--45
                S. W. Cheng and   
                  F. A. Spiring   Some applications of $3$-D scatterplots
                                  in data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--61
                S. W. Cheng and   
                  F. A. Spiring   Extension of the $ W_u $ statistic with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69
                V. P. Singh and   
               J. F. Cruise and   
                        Ming Ma   A comparative evaluation of the
                                  estimators of the three-parameter
                                  lognormal distribution by Monte Carlo
                                  simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
          Sangit Chatterjee and   
             Samprit Chatterjee   A note on finding extreme points in
                                  multivariate space . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92
                      Anonymous   ``Experimental designs for mean and
                                  variance estimation in variance
                                  components models'': by Alessandra
                                  Giovagnoli and Paola Sebastiani,
                                  Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
                                  \bf 8, 21--28  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
                      Anonymous   BMDP introduces new add-ons for Solo
                                  statistics package . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 10, Number 2, October, 1990

                Stanley P. Azen   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
             Erkki P. Liski and   
                    Tapio Nummi   Prediction in growth curve models using
                                  the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108
               Mong-Na Lo Huang   Optimal extrapolation designs for a
                                  partly linear model  . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
                  M. Ahsanullah   Some characteristic properties of normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120
         Bronis\law Ceranka and   
              Krystyna Katulska   Constructions of optimum biased spring
                                  balance weighing designs with the
                                  diagonal covariance matrix of errors . . 121--131
               Wolfgang Polasek   Vector distributed lag models with
                                  smoothness priors  . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
              L. Kannaiah Naidu   An adjusted linear estimator . . . . . . 143--151
                 Colin R. Blyth   Temporality in probability and
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162
             G. B. Khosrovshahi   On trades and designs  . . . . . . . . . 163--167
           Ramses Abul Naga and   
          Gérard Antille   Stability of robust and non-robust
                                  principal components analysis  . . . . . 169--174
            M. Bhaskara Rao and   
                 K. Subramanyam   The structure of some classes of
                                  bivariate distributions and some
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--187
               Javad Behboodian   Some characterization theorems on
                                  symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--192

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 10, Number 3, December, 1990

                S. E. Ahmed and   
             A. K. Md. E. Saleh   Estimation strategies for the intercept
                                  vector in a simple linear multivariate
                                  normal regression model  . . . . . . . . 193--206
              Elvezio Ronchetti   Small sample asymptotics: a review with
                                  applications to robust statistics  . . . 207--223
              J. J. J. Roux and   
                      A. Bekker   Characterizing priors by posterior
                                  expectations in multivariate analysis    225--233
             Albert Satorra and   
               Peter M. Bentler   Model conditions for asymptotic
                                  robustness in the analysis of linear
                                  relations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249
                    Haruo Yanai   Some generalized forms a least squares
                                  $g$-inverse, minimum norm $g$-inverse,
                                  and Moore--Penrose inverse matrices  . . 251--260
              Ram C. Tiwari and   
              Jyoti N. Zalkikar   Empirical Bayes estimation of the scale
                                  parameter in a Pareto distribution . . . 261--270
        João Tiago Mexia   Best linear unbiased estimates, duality
                                  of $F$ tests and the Scheffé multiple
                                  comparison method in the presence of
                                  controlled heteroscedasticity  . . . . . 271--281
         Hans-Jürgen Witte   Characterizations of distributions of
                                  exponential or geometric type by the
                                  integrated lack of memory property and
                                  record values  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--288
                   F.-W. Scholz   Characterization of the Weibull
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--292
                  Alan E. Stark   An algorithm for computing standard
                                  errors from categorical data . . . . . . 293--296
              H. Toutenburg and   
                    G. Trenkler   Mean square error matrix comparisons of
                                  optimal and classical predictors and
                                  estimators in linear regression  . . . . 297--305
       M. A. Amaral Turkman and   
                  K. F. Turkman   Optimal alarm systems for autoregressive
                                  processes: a Bayesian approach . . . . . 307--314
               Derrick S. Tracy   Balanced partitioned matrices and their
                                  Kronecker products . . . . . . . . . . . 315--323
                 Rainer Schwabe   Local optimality and global superiority
                                  of adaptive designs in linear models . . 325--330
            Christina Schneider   Structural inference and a modification
                                  of Dempster's combination rule . . . . . 331--338
              M. M. Shoukri and   
                D. S. Tracy and   
                  I. U. H. Mian   The effect of kurtosis in the estimation
                                  of the parameters of the one-way random
                                  effects model from familial data . . . . 339--345
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 10 (1990)  . . . . . 347--348
                      Anonymous   Package report/review index volume 10
                                  (1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 11, Number 1, January, 1991

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
                Stanley P. Azen   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                    M. C. Jones   On correcting for variance inflation in
                                  kernel density estimation  . . . . . . . 3--15
             William Rayens and   
                     Tom Greene   Covariance pooling and stabilization for
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--42
           J. K. Cunningham and   
               R. L. Eubank and   
                       T. Hsing   $M$-type smoothing splines with
                                  auxiliary scale estimation . . . . . . . 43--51
        Lawrence H. Moulton and   
                 Scott L. Zeger   Bootstrapping generalized linear models  53--63
              John A. Bunge and   
                John C. Handley   Sampling to estimate the number of
                                  duplicates in a database . . . . . . . . 65--74
             Michael R. Harwell   Using randomization tests when errors
                                  are unequally correlated . . . . . . . . 75--85
                 A. Shapiro and   
                    J. D. Botha   Variogram fitting with a general class
                                  of conditionally nonnegative definite
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
              S. A. Soliman and   
          G. S. Christensen and   
                    A. H. Rouhi   A new algorithm for nonlinear $ L_1
                                  $-norm minimization with nonlinear
                                  equality constraints . . . . . . . . . . 97--109
                    F. G. Boese   Estimating and testing with the
                                  Bhattacharya plot  . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124
                      Anonymous   Statistical software newsletter  . . . . 125
             Peter J. Rousseeuw   A diagnostic plot for regression
                                  outliers and leverage points . . . . . . 127--129
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 133--139
                      Anonymous   Courses & workshops . . . . . . . . . . . 140
                      Anonymous   Acknowledgement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 11, Number 2, March, 1991

                Mario Romanazzi   Influence in canonical variates analysis 143--164
             Ehsan S. Soofi and   
                  D. V. Gokhale   Minimum discrimination information
                                  estimator of the mean with known
                                  coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 165--177
              Song-Gui Wang and   
                   Hans Nyquist   Effects on the eigenstructure of a data
                                  matrix when deleting an observation  . . 179--188
              Robert Schall and   
              René Gonin   Diagnostics for nonlinear $ L_p $-norm
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--198
             George H. Guirguis   A rational approximation of the inverse
                                  normal probability function  . . . . . . 199--201
      J. A. Menéndez and   
                    B. Salvador   An algorithm for isotonic median
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
             Ulf Strömberg   An algorithm for isotonic regression
                                  with arbitrary convex distance function  205--219
                Hanns Ackermann   BIAS. A program package for biometrical
                                  analysis of samples  . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
                     Armin Koch   Software presentations at statistical
                                  computing '90: Reisensburg, Germany,
                                  June 16--19, 1990  . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
                      Anonymous   Statistical software: BMDP introduces
                                  PC-90  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--230
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleDistribution-free
                                  statistics: an application-oriented
                                  approach: Krauth, J.: Elsevier Science
                                  Publishers B.V., Amsterdam (1988), ISBN
                                  0-444-80934-1 (hardback), 0-444-80988-0
                                  (paper-back, \pounds 21.-) . . . . . . . 230
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleRegression
                                  estimators a comparative study: Gruber,
                                  Marvin H. J.: Academic Press, Inc.,
                                  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers,
                                  Boston (1990), ISBN 0-12-304752-8, 347
                                  pp, \$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
                       G. Pabst   Disfree (Manual and 2 diskettes, DOS 2.0
                                  or later).: Krauth, J.: Blosoft,
                                  Cambridge (1989), \pounds 250.-  . . . . 230--231
                      Anonymous   Society for the advancement of economic
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 232--238
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 238

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 11, Number 3, May, 1991

               John Buonaccorsi   Measurement errors, linear calibration
                                  and inferences for means . . . . . . . . 239--257
              R. W. Farebrother   A general estimation procedure based on
                                  group means  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--264
     Roger C. Pfaffenberger and   
               Terry E. Dielman   Testing normality of regression
                                  disturbances: a Monte Carlo study of the
                                  Filleben test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--273
                   Gerhard Tutz   Sequential models in categorical
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--295
               Johan M. Van Zyl   Distributional aspects if a zero
                                  correlation is assumed in a paired
                                  comparison of means  . . . . . . . . . . 297--307
                   Hideo Hirose   Percentile point estimation in the three
                                  parameter Weibull distribution by the
                                  extended maximum likelihood estimate . . 309--331
             Giovanni B. Moneta   Implicit construction of McCulloch's $G$
                                  matrix for the numerical evaluation of
                                  Fisher information matrixes  . . . . . . 333--344
             Rahul Mukerjee and   
                   Sudhir Gupta   Q-designs for bioassays  . . . . . . . . 345--350
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
                    M. Bismarck   Book Review: \booktitleMultiway data
                                  analysis: Coppi, R., Bolasco, S. (eds.)
                                  (1989): Amsterdam, New York, Oxford,
                                  Tokyo: North-Holland. 552 pp. ISBN
                                  0-444-87410-0  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
                    M. Bismarck   Book Review: \booktitleMedical expert
                                  systems using personal computers:
                                  Chytil, M. K. Engelbrecht, R. (eds.)
                                  (1987): Wilmslow: Sigma Press. 206 pp,
                                  ISBN 1-85058-047-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 357
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 358--364


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 12, Number 1, August, 1991

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
                  Yadolah Dodge   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII--VIII
          Jerome P. Keating and   
            Robert L. Mason and   
                  P. K. Sen and   
            C. Radhakrishna Rao   Pitman nearness in statistical
                                  estimation: a panel discussion on recent
                                  developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
         Jagdish S. Rustagi and   
         Walfredo R. Javier and   
               Jose S. Victoria   Trimmed jackknife kernel estimate for
                                  the probability density function . . . . 19--26
               Nan M. Laird and   
                Thomas A. Louis   Smoothing the non-parametric estimate of
                                  a prior distribution by roughening: a
                                  computational study  . . . . . . . . . . 27--37
                  Victor Kipnis   Evaluating the impact of exploratory
                                  procedures in regression prediction: a
                                  pseudosample approach  . . . . . . . . . 39--55
                 Antonio Ciampi   Generalized regression trees . . . . . . 57--78
       Gabriela Stangenhaus and   
              Subhash C. Narula   Inference procedures for the $ L_1 $
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
              Yadolah Dodge and   
             Jaromir Antoch and   
        Jana Jure\vcková   Computational aspects of adaptive
                                  combination of least squares and least
                                  absolute deviations estimators . . . . . 87--99
                  Hilmar Drygas   Linear minimax-estimation in linear
                                  models with affine and ellipsoidal
                                  restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--113
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Extended versions of Deny's theorem via
                                  de Finetti's theorem . . . . . . . . . . 115--126
             Birgit Dohmann and   
               Michael Falk and   
                Karin Lessenich   The random number generators of the
                                  Turbo Pascal family  . . . . . . . . . . 129--132
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 136--141

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 12, Number 2, September, 1991

    O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
             M. Sòrensen   Information quantities in non-classical
                                  settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--158
                Herman Chernoff   Simple computer intensive methods for
                                  estimating parameters of complex models  159--178
            D. A. S. Fraser and   
                        N. Reid   Converting observed likelihood functions
                                  to tail probabilities  . . . . . . . . . 179--185
          Erik W. Grafarend and   
             Burkhard Schaffrin   The planar trisection problem and the
                                  impact of curvature on non-linear
                                  least-squares estimation . . . . . . . . 187--199
                  Laurie Davies   A stochastic model for interlaboratory
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--209
              Yadolah Dodge and   
        Jana Jure\vcková   Flexible $L$-estimation in the linear
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--220
         Jerzy K. Baksalary and   
             Götz Trenkler   Covariance adjustment in biased
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--230
                   D. V. Chopra   Further investigations on balanced
                                  arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--237
       Micha\l Abrahamowicz and   
                 Antonio Ciampi   Information theoretic criteria in
                                  non-parametric density estimation: Bias
                                  and variance in the infinite dimensional
                                  case.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--247
                   Marvin Zelen   Multinomial response models  . . . . . . 249--254
                      Anonymous   Statistical software newsletter  . . . . 255
                  JohnA. Nelder   Data matrices and multi-way tables . . . 257--259
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--262
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--265
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 266--269
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 270

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 12, Number 3, November, 1991

               Dipak K. Dey and   
                       Lynn Kuo   A new empirical Bayes estimator with
                                  type II censored data  . . . . . . . . . 271--279
                    Shu-Ing Liu   A robust and easy confidence procedure
                                  with moderately long-tailed symmetric
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294
                    Wei-Yin Loh   Survival modeling through recursive
                                  stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--313
                    W. Olbricht   On mergers of distributions and
                                  distributions with exponential tails . . 315--326
         Charles Kooperberg and   
               Charles J. Stone   A study of logspline density estimation  327--347
               Cathie Spino and   
                Marcello Pagano   Efficient calculation of the permutation
                                  distribution of robust two-sample
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--365
              Yadolah Dodge and   
                  David J. Hand   What should future statistical software
                                  look like? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--372
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--378
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 379--383
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 383--385
                      Anonymous   Acknowledgement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 12 (1991)  . . . . . 387--388


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 13, Number 1, January, 1992

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
               Harold J. Larson   Least squares estimation of linear
                                  splines with unknown knot locations  . . 1--8
                 David M. Rocke   Estimation of variation after outlier
                                  rejection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--20
                   Sheng G. Shi   Accurate and efficient double-bootstrap
                                  confidence limit method  . . . . . . . . 21--32
            Jeremy M. G. Taylor   Properties of modelling the error
                                  distribution with an extra shape
                                  parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46
                   M. Ferri and   
                    M. Piccioni   Optimal selection of statistical units:
                                  an approach via simulated annealing  . . 47--61
           Harvey Goldstein and   
                    Jon Rasbash   Efficient computational procedures for
                                  the estimation of parameters in
                                  multilevel models based on iterative
                                  generalised least squares  . . . . . . . 63--71
                A. Saltelli and   
                       T. Homma   Sensitivity analysis for model output:
                                  Performance of black box techniques on
                                  three international benchmark exercises  73--94
             Karan P. Singh and   
             Karan P. Singh and   
               George E. Relyea   Computation of noncentral Æ'
                                  probabilities: a computer program  . . . 95--102
                     Lutz Edler   IASC meeting activities during the 48th
                                  session of the ISI in Cairo  . . . . . . 105--106
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
                   Sung H. Park   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
                                  methods in engineering and quality
                                  assurance: John, Peter M. W. (1990):
                                  Wiley-Interscience Publication, John
                                  Wiley & Sons, Inc. 313 pp., ISBN
                                  0-471-82986-2, 39.80 \pounds . . . . . . 108
                      N. Victor   Book Review: \booktitleTheory and
                                  application in computational statistics:
                                  Asano, Ch., Niki, N. and Okazaki, T.
                                  (eds.): Scientist Inc., Tokyo (1991),
                                  ISBN 4-914903-03-2, 290 pp, Yen 5000 (to
                                  be sold only in Japan) . . . . . . . . . 108
                    G. Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleAngewandte
                                  lineare algebra (applied linear
                                  algebra): Huppert, B.: De Gruyter,
                                  Berlin (1990), ISBN 3-11-012107-7, 646
                                  pp, DM 198 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
                  H. Toutenburg   Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
                                  statistics with applications, 4th
                                  edition: Mendenhall, W., Wackerly, D.
                                  D., Schaeffer, R. L., PWS-KENT
                                  Publishing Company, Boston (1990),752
                                  pp,ISBN 0-534-92026-8  . . . . . . . . . 109
                    G. Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleRegression
                                  analysis, theory, methods and
                                  applications: Sen, A. and Srivastava, M.
                                  Springer, Berlin (1990), 347 pp, ISBN
                                  3-540-97211-0, DM 88 . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 113--118
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 118--119
                     F. Tussell   Corrigendum: Testing for interaction in
                                  two-way ANOVA tables with no replication 121
                      Anonymous   Second international conference on
                                  statistical data analysis based on the $
                                  L_1 $-norm and related methods: August
                                  17--20, 1992, Neuchâtel, Switzerland  . . 122

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 13, Number 2, March, 1992

            N. Balakrishnan and   
                     P. S. Chan   Estimation for the scaled half logistic
                                  distribution under Type II censoring . . 123--141
                  W. Feluch and   
                   J. Koronacki   A note on modified cross-validation in
                                  density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151
              Anthony J. Hayter   Multiple comparisons of three ordered
                                  normal means for unbalanced models . . . 153--162
                 Rand R. Wilcox   An improved method for comparing
                                  variances when distributions have
                                  non-identical shapes . . . . . . . . . . 163--172
                David Wypij and   
              Thomas J. Santner   Pseudotable methods for the analysis of
                                  $ 2 \times 2 $ tables  . . . . . . . . . 173--190
               A. Angelidou and   
            M. G. Strintzis and   
                       S. Panas   Correction of periodogram method for
                                  Power Spectrum estimation  . . . . . . . 191--195
                Morgan Wang and   
                  W. J. Kennedy   A numerical method for accurately
                                  approximating multivariate normal
                                  probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--210
               Douglas P. Wiens   A note on the computation of robust,
                                  bounded influence estimates and test
                                  statistics in regression . . . . . . . . 211--220
                      Anonymous   Statistical software newsletter  . . . . 221
                   Roel Popping   More agreeable software? . . . . . . . . 223--227
                 Norbert Victor   President's statement  . . . . . . . . . 228--229
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
                      Anonymous   Information: National activities in the
                                  area of statistical computing: Germany   231
                  Hilmar Drygas   Book Review: \booktitleTheory of random
                                  determinants: Girko, V. L. Kluwer
                                  Academic Publishers, Doordrecht / Boston
                                  / London (1990), ISBN 0-7923-0233-8, xiv
                                  + 677 pp., 147 \pounds S.  . . . . . . . 231--232
                      Anonymous   Graphics and visualization . . . . . . . 232
                      Anonymous   VI SSDBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
                      Anonymous   COMPSTAT 1992  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 234--240
                      Anonymous   Referees for CSDA-1991 . . . . . . . . . 241

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 13, Number 3, April, 1992

               Robert Gilchrist   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
                  Murray Aitkin   Model choice in contingency table
                                  analysis using the Posterior Bayes
                                  Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--251
                 Mark P. Becker   Exploratory analysis of association
                                  models using loglinear models and
                                  singular value decompositions  . . . . . 253--267
            Henri Caussinus and   
             Louis Ferré   Comparing the parameters of a model for
                                  several units by means of principal
                                  component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 269--280
                  David Edwards   Linkage analysis using loglinear models  281--290
              J. L. Foulley and   
           M. San Cristobal and   
                 D. Gianola and   
                          S. Im   Marginal likelihood and Bayesian
                                  approaches to the analysis of
                                  heterogeneous residual variances in
                                  mixed linear Gaussian models . . . . . . 291--305
                    Marc Ivaldi   Estimation of errors-in-latent-variable
                                  models on business survey data . . . . . 307--318
                      J. Jansen   Statistical analysis of threshold data
                                  from experiments with nested errors  . . 319--330
                   A. B. Lawson   GLIM and normalising constant models in
                                  spatial and directional data analysis    331--348
           Christian Holzer and   
                 Manfred Precht   Multiple comparison procedures for
                                  normally distributed ANOVA models in
                                  SAS, SPSS, BMDP, and MINITAB . . . . . . 351--358
                    Marleen Nys   An impression of the summer school on
                                  `Computational aspects of model choice'  359--361
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--363
                     H.-J. Lenz   Book Review: \booktitleExtreme value
                                  theory: J. Hüsler, R.-D. Reiss (eds.):
                                  Proceedings of a conference held in
                                  Oberwolfach Dec. 6--12, 1987. Springer,
                                  Berlin etc. (1989) . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364
                      Anonymous   Bulgarian computing statistics section
                                  founded  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 366--370
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 370--371

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 13, Number 4, May, 1992

              J. K. Lindsey and   
                      G. Mersch   Fitting and comparing probability
                                  distributions with log linear models . . 373--384
                  Brian D. Marx   A continuum of principal component
                                  generalized linear regressions . . . . . 385--393
            E. A. Molina C. and   
                  C. J. Skinner   Pseudo-likelihood and quasi-likelihood
                                  estimation for complex sampling schemes  395--405
              Herbert Nagel and   
             Reinhold Hatzinger   Diagnostics in some discrete choice
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--414
              K. L. Q. Read and   
             C. J. Lawrence and   
                   A. Jorio and   
                  J. C. Mariana   A case study in the modelling of growth  415--429
                Martin Rios and   
           Angel Villarroya and   
                 Josep M. Oller   Rao distance between multivariate linear
                                  normal models and their application to
                                  the classification of response curves    431--445
               Sylvia Schnatter   Integration-based Kalman-filtering for a
                                  dynamic generalized linear trend model   447--459
        D. M. Stasinopoulos and   
                    R. A. Rigby   Detecting break points in generalised
                                  linear models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--471
                  A. J. Watkins   On models of spatial covariance  . . . . 473--481
                      Anonymous   Statistical software newsletter  . . . . 483
       Thomas C. Cierzynski and   
                Stefan v. Weber   Simulation experiments with CWA, a new
                                  stable regression algorithm, and
                                  comparisons with two other stable
                                  regression algorithms  . . . . . . . . . 485--491
                      Anonymous   Announcing the statistical software
                                  guide 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494
                 Matthias Nagel   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
                                  modelling in GLIM: M. Aitkin, D.
                                  Anderson, B. Francis and J. Hinde (1989)
                                  Oxford Statistical Science Series 4.
                                  Oxford: Clarendon Press. 374 pp, ISBN
                                  0-19-852204-5, ca. DM 52,-(Paperback)    494
               Reinhold Kosfeld   Book Review: \booktitleSPSS/PC+ Basics
                                  and graphic: Brosius, G. (1988)
                                  Einführung und praktische Beispiele.
                                  Hamburg: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 582
                                  pp, ISBN 3-89028-132-X, ca. DM 68,-  . . 494--495
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
                      Anonymous   International symposium on ``Statistical
                                  Computing for Agriculture in Developing
                                  Countries''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 497--499
                      Anonymous   Courses workshops & summer schools  . . . 499--500


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 14, Number 1, June, 1992

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
                    Ali S. Hadi   A new measure of overall potential
                                  influence in linear regression . . . . . 1--27
            M. K. Kazempour and   
           Franklin A. Graybill   Confidence intervals on individual
                                  variances in two-way models  . . . . . . 29--37
           Daniel Zelterman and   
                 Ted I. K. Youn   Indicator models in social mobility
                                  tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--53
               Alan Agresti and   
             Stuart Lipsitz and   
                 Joseph B. Lang   Comparing marginal distributions of
                                  large, sparse contingency tables . . . . 55--73
      Gérard Antille and   
              Gilbert Ritschard   Robust versus classical detection of
                                  atypical data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88
              Murray Aitkin and   
                  Brian Francis   Fitting the multinomial logit model with
                                  continuous covariates in GLIM  . . . . . 89--97
             Thian S. Kheoh and   
                  A. Ian McLeod   Comparison of two modified portmanteau
                                  tests for model adequacy . . . . . . . . 99--106
         Peter J. Rousseeuw and   
            Bert C. van Zomeren   A comparison of some quick algorithms
                                  for robust regression  . . . . . . . . . 107--116
             Knut M. Wittkowski   Statistical analysis of unbalanced and
                                  incomplete designs --- experiences with
                                  BMDP and SAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--124
               Volker W. Rahlfs   A statistical package with special
                                  reference to nonparametric methods . . . 125--126
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleSoftstat '89 ---
                                  Fortschritte in der Statistik-Software
                                  2: F. Faulbaum, R. Haux and K.-H.
                                  Joeckel (1990): Stuttgart: Gustav
                                  Fischer Verlag. 595 pp, ISBN
                                  3-437-50320-0, DM 76.- . . . . . . . . . 128
                      Anonymous   Call for candidates for the board of
                                  directors (BoD) of the European regional
                                  section (ERS)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
                      Anonymous   Call for attendance  . . . . . . . . . . 129
                      Anonymous   IASC representatives in ISI  . . . . . . 129
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 130--133
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 133

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 14, Number 2, August, 1992

                    Wei-Yin Loh   Identification of active contrasts in
                                  unreplicated factorial experiments . . . 135--148
               Wai-sum Chan and   
              William W. S. Wei   A comparison of some estimators of time
                                  series autocorrelations  . . . . . . . . 149--163
            Siu Hung Cheung and   
                   Burt Holland   Extension of Dunnett's multiple
                                  comparison procedure with differing
                                  sample sizes to the case of several
                                  groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--182
             Byeong U. Park and   
              Sung S. Chung and   
                  Kyung H. Seog   An empirical investigation of the
                                  shifted power transformation method in
                                  density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 183--191
                James H. Albert   Using a probability plot to summarize a
                                  unimodal posterior density . . . . . . . 193--205
         Gilbert W. Bassett and   
               Roger W. Koenker   A note on recent proposals for computing
                                  $ l_1 $ estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . 207--211
                    Joseph Glaz   Approximations for tail probabilities
                                  and moments of the scan statistic  . . . 213--227
                    D. M. Smith   A comparison of algorithms for forming
                                  the QR decomposition for use in
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--248
                Yuh-Wen Soo and   
               Douglas M. Bates   Loosely coupled nonlinear least squares  249--259
      Robert L. Strawderman and   
                    Cyrus Mehta   On the validation of exact tests for
                                  nonparametric inference  . . . . . . . . 263--266
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--269
           Ramalingam Shanmugam   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical image
                                  processing and graphics: Edward J.
                                  Wegman and Douglas J. DePriest (eds.)
                                  (1986): New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
                                  Press, 321 pp, ISBN 0-8247-7600-3, \$75} 269
           Ramalingam Shanmugam   Book Review: \booktitle11th advances in
                                  reliability technology symposium: Peter
                                  Comer (ed.) (1990): New York: Elsevier
                                  Applied Science Press, xvii + 346 pp,
                                  ISBN 1-85166-484-X, \$348} . . . . . . . 269--270
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleMaximum entropy
                                  and Bayesian methods: Paul F.
                                  Fougere(ed.) (1990): Boston: Kluwer
                                  Academic Publishers, xiii + 480 pp, ISBN
                                  0-7923-0928-6, \$129}  . . . . . . . . . 270--271
                      Anonymous   Fourth international workshop on
                                  artificial intellegence and statistics:
                                  January 3--6, 1993 Ft. Lauderdale,
                                  Florida, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--273
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 274--277
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 277--278

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 14, Number 3, October, 1992

                  Yadolah Dodge   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
          \.Ismail Kuban Altmel   The design of optimum component test
                                  plans in the demonstration of a series
                                  system reliability . . . . . . . . . . . 281--292
  Carmen D. S. André and   
            Clovis A. Peres and   
              Subhash C. Narula   An algorithm for the MSAE estimation of
                                  the multistage dose-response model . . . 293--299
               Jacob Burbea and   
              Joan del Castillo   Geodesic submanifolds of statistical
                                  models with location parameters  . . . . 301--313
              Gilles Celeux and   
          Gérard Govaert   A classification EM algorithm for
                                  clustering and two stochastic versions   315--332
                  D. Collombier   Generally optimal main-effect fractions
                                  of $ U \times V $ designs with $ U + V $
                                  units  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342
                 Ashish Das and   
                Sanpei Kageyama   Robustness of BIB and extended BIB
                                  designs against the unavailability of
                                  any number of observations in a block    343--358
                   Holger Dette   Experimental designs for a class of
                                  weighted polynomial regression models    359--373
           Terry E. Dielman and   
         Roger C. Pfaffenberger   A further comparison of tests of
                                  hypotheses in LAV regression . . . . . . 375--384
              Yadolah Dodge and   
                 Nikolai Roenko   Stability of $ L_1 $-norm regression
                                  under additional observations  . . . . . 385--390
             C. C. Y. Dorea and   
                  E. S. Miazaki   Parameter free limiting distribution for
                                  a random optimization algorithm  . . . . 391--399
                      Anonymous   Statistical software newsletter  . . . . 401
                 John A. Nelder   Statistical packages and unbalanced data 403--406
                      Anonymous   P-STAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
                      Anonymous   2nd Announcement of the statistical
                                  software guide 1992  . . . . . . . . . . 408--410
                      Anonymous   Election of officers of ISAC Executive
                                  Committee and election of IASC Council   410--411
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 412--415
                      Anonymous   Courses workshops & summer schools  . . . 415--416

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 14, Number 4, November, 1992

        Jitka Dupa\vcová   Epi-consistency in restricted regression
                                  models: the case of a general convex
                                  fitting function . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--425
                 K. Felsenstein   Optimal Bayesian design for
                                  discrimination among rival models  . . . 427--436
László Györfi and   
            Gábor Lugosi   Kernel density estimation from ergodic
                                  sample is not universally consistent . . 437--442
           Alfredo N. Iusem and   
                  Marc Teboulle   A primal-dual iterative algorithm for a
                                  maximum likelihood estimation problem    443--456
             Michel Lejeune and   
                   Pascal Sarda   Smooth estimators of distribution and
                                  density functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 457--471
    Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian and   
       Mohammad B. Rostam Abadi   A computer algorithm for generating
                                  $3$-designs by the method of trade off   473--476
             Hiroshi Morita and   
                  Hiroaki Ishii   A stochastic improvement method for
                                  stochastic programming . . . . . . . . . 477--487
              Nam-Ky Nguyen and   
                 Alan J. Miller   A review of some exchange algorithms for
                                  constructing discrete $D$-optimal
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--498
                   Hans Nyquist   Restricted $M$-estimation  . . . . . . . 499--507
         Dimitri A. Stolyarenko   Two-dimensional spline approximation on
                                  local integral measurements: Analysis
                                  and design of acoustic fish surveys  . . 509--514
               Valentin Todorov   Computing the minimum covariance
                                  determinant estimator (MCD) by simulated
                                  annealing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--525
              H. Toutenburg and   
                G. Trenkler and   
                       E. Liski   Optimal estimation methods under
                                  weakened linear restrictions in
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--536
              Heiner Ritter and   
             Cornella Züll   Data exchange between statistical
                                  packages using the PC program DBMS/COPY
                                  version 3.0  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--544
                Brian P. Murphy   COMPSTAT'92 review: `far sight'  . . . . 545--546
                  Clemens Tilke   Statistics for spatial data  . . . . . . 547
                  Andreas Handl   Nonlinear multivariate analysis  . . . . 548
                 Matthias Nagel   LISP-Stat: an object-oriented
                                  environment for statistical computing
                                  and dynamic graphics . . . . . . . . . . 548--549
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--551
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 552--554
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 554--555


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 15, Number 1, January, 1993

                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
        Lawrence H. Moulton and   
          Lisa A. Weissfeld and   
             Roy T. St. Laurent   Bartlett correction factors in logistic
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                    Leo Breiman   Fitting additive models to regression
                                  data: Diagnostics and alternative views  13--46
         Bernard Van Cutsem and   
                      Isak Gath   Detection of outliers and robust
                                  estimation using fuzzy clustering  . . . 47--61
               P. C. Saxena and   
                 K. Navaneetham   Comparison of Chernoff-type face and
                                  non-graphical methods for clustering
                                  multivariate observations  . . . . . . . 63--79
                    G. Mann and   
                        R. Haux   Database scheme design for clinical
                                  studies based on a semantic data model   81--108
                Michael Wiseman   An efficient method for computing factor
                                  similarity coefficients: a computational
                                  note and an algorithm  . . . . . . . . . 111--114
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 119--122
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 122
                      Anonymous   Referees for CSDA-1992 . . . . . . . . . 123

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 15, Number 2, February, 1993

                     Aiala Barr   A simultaneous test procedure for
                                  comparing several treatments in the
                                  analysis of reciprocals  . . . . . . . . 125--131
         Mortaza Jamshidian and   
               Peter M. Bentler   A modified Newton method for constrained
                                  estimation in covariance structure
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--146
           Dennis K. J. Lin and   
               Norman R. Draper   Generating alias relationships for
                                  two-level Plackett and Burman designs    147--157
            Linda H.-Y. Yau and   
                Sik-Yum Lee and   
                   Wai-Yin Poon   Covariance structure analysis with
                                  three-level data . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178
                Mario Romanazzi   Jackknife estimation of the eigenvalues
                                  of the covariance matrix . . . . . . . . 179--198
          Vincent Granville and   
    Mirko K\vrivánek and   
               Jean-Paul Rasson   Clustering, classification and image
                                  segmentation on the grid . . . . . . . . 199--209
                A. Saltelli and   
               T. H. Andres and   
                       T. Homma   Sensitivity analysis of model output: an
                                  investigation of new techniques  . . . . 211--238
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--264
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--267
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 268--271
                      Anonymous   Courses, Workshops $>$ Summer Schools . . 271

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 15, Number 3, March, 1993

                   A. Bener and   
                        S. Huda   Estimation of intraclass correlation
                                  when family sizes are unequal  . . . . . 273--284
          George Ostrouchov and   
                Edward L. Frome   A model search procedure for hierarchial
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296
               V. Granville and   
                   J. P. Rasson   A Bayesian filter for a mixture model of
                                  noise in image remote sensing  . . . . . 297--308
                 Prem P. Talwar   A simulation study of some
                                  non-parametric regression estimators . . 309--327
              Douglas Bates and   
                Fred Reames and   
                    Grace Wahba   Getting better contour plots with $S$
                                  and GCVPACK  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--342
                Suojin Wang and   
                     H. L. Gray   Approximating tail probabilities of
                                  noncentral distributions . . . . . . . . 343--352
                     John Hinde   Participant's reflections on meetings:
                                  SGCSA conference on survey and
                                  statistical computing 24--26 September
                                  1992, Bristol, UK  . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
                 Götz Uebe   Book Review: \booktitleStatistics tutor,
                                  tutorial and computational software for
                                  the Behavioural Sciences: J. D. Allen,
                                  D. J. Pittenger (1991): New York: John
                                  Wiley & Sons, student edition, 215 pp.,
                                  ISBN 0-471-50280-4, US\$21.95} . . . . . 358--359
                      Anonymous   IASC meetings in Neuchâtel, August 1992   359--360

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 15, Number 4, May, 1993

           Jorge Alberto Achcar   Inferences for the Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  fatigue life model using Bayesian
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--380
          Edward J. Bedrick and   
                 Chih-Ling Tsai   Diagnostics for binomial response models
                                  using power divergence statistics  . . . 381--392
Jacques Bénasséni   Perturbational aspects in correspondence
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--410
                 Robert J. Boik   A comparison of three invariant tests of
                                  additivity in two-way classifications
                                  with no replications . . . . . . . . . . 411--424
                        D. Posa   A simple description of spatial-temporal
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--437
                  Xin M. Tu and   
          Donald S. Burdick and   
             Robert E. Albright   Regression analysis of data with
                                  repeated measurements using the method
                                  of successive differences  . . . . . . . 439--449
                 David M. Rocke   Almost-exact parametric bootstrap
                                  calculation via the saddlepoint
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--460
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
                      Anonymous   Statistical software newsletter  . . . . 463
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--467
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleExperimental
                                  design in biotechnology: P. D. Haaland
                                  (1989): New York: Marcel Dekker Inc.,
                                  ISBN 0-631-15943-6, pp. 248, US\$99.75}  468
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleUncertainty and
                                  vagueness in knowledge based systems: R.
                                  Kruse, E. Schwecke, J. Heinsohn (1991):
                                  numerical methods (Artificial
                                  Intelligence). Berlin, Heidelberg:
                                  Springer, ISBN 3-540-54169-1 pp. 491, DM
                                  98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleSAS system ---
                                  eine praxisbezogene einführung: Frank
                                  Multrus and Michael Bleicher (1992):
                                  Hidelberg: Hüthig Buch Verlag, ISBN
                                  3-7785-2157-8, pp. 241, DM 68  . . . . . 469
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleUnivariate
                                  varianzanalysen: P. Zöfel (1992):
                                  \booktitleAchtzehn komplette designs.
                                  Stuttgart and Jena: Gustav Fischer
                                  Verlag (UTB für Wissenschaft:
                                  Uni--Taschenbücher 1663), ISBN
                                  3-437-40278-1, x + 299 S., 4 Abb., 7
                                  Tafeln, DM 29.80 . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--471
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 472--476
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 15 (1993)  . . . . . 479--480


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 16, Number 1, June, 1993

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
           William P. Alexander   Testing the means of independent normal
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
                 Peter Hall and   
       Wolfgang Härdle and   
           Léopold Simar   On the inconsistency of bootstrap
                                  distribution estimators  . . . . . . . . 11--18
               B. Kalantari and   
                    I. Lari and   
                   A. Rizzi and   
                     B. Simeone   Sharp bounds for the maximum of the
                                  chi-square index in a class of
                                  contingency tables with given marginals  19--34
                   TaChen Liang   Convergence rates for empirical Bayes
                                  estimation of the scale parameter in a
                                  Pareto distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 35--45
       Mervyn G. Marasinghe and   
                 Robert J. Boik   A three-degree of freedom test of
                                  additivity in three-way classifications  47--61
              Gilberto A. Paula   Assessing local influence in restricted
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
             Douglas M. Hawkins   The feasible set algorithm for least
                                  median of squares regression . . . . . . 81--101
               Henk A. L. Kiers   An alternating least squares algorithm
                                  for PARAFAC2 and three-way DEDICOM . . . 103--118
                 John D. Vedder   An invertible approximation to the
                                  normal distribution function . . . . . . 119--123
              Olaf Gefeller and   
                Franz Woltering   A general method of estimating measures
                                  of association and their asymptotic
                                  variances under the multinomial model
                                  using standard statistical software  . . 127--130
                      Anonymous   Participant's reflections on meetings    131--132
                      Anonymous   Announcing the \booktitleStatistical
                                  Software Guide '93/94  . . . . . . . . . 133
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
          Jaromír Antoch   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshop & summer schools  . . . 141--142

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 16, Number 2, August, 1993

              Richard B. Davies   Nonparametric control for residual
                                  heterogeneity in modelling recurrent
                                  behaviour  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--160
                James R. Schott   Dimensionality reduction in quadratic
                                  discriminant analysis  . . . . . . . . . 161--174
              Jenny Baglivo and   
             Donald Olivier and   
                Marcello Pagano   Analysis of discrete data:
                                  Rerandomization methods and complexity   175--184
                 D. Contini and   
                     G. Lovison   The effect of marginal disuniformity on
                                  the $ \chi^2 $ approximation to the
                                  distribution of Pearson's $ X^2 $ in
                                  sparse contingency tables  . . . . . . . 185--199
        Jos M. F. ten Berge and   
                 Paul A. Bekker   The isotropic scaling problem in
                                  Generalized Procrustes Analysis  . . . . 201--204
               Charles S. Davis   The computer generation of multinomial
                                  random variates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--217
                 Yasar Yesilcay   The BOYS algorithm for determining
                                  optimum matching rules . . . . . . . . . 219--234
                      Anonymous   Statistical Software Newsletter  . . . . 235
                   Uwe Haag and   
                 Armin Koch and   
                    Werner Vach   Why and How to Build a Simple
                                  Statistical Computing System . . . . . . 237--244
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
                      Anonymous   Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
                                  Analysis of Bioavailability and
                                  Bioequivalence Studies: Chow,
                                  Shein-Chung and Liu, Jen-Pei (1992): New
                                  York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 432 pp., ISBN
                                  0-8247-8682-3, \$125.00} . . . . . . . . 246
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleData Quality
                                  Control: Theory and Pragmatics: Liepins,
                                  Gunar E. and Uppuluri, V. R. R. (eds.)
                                  (1990) New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.,
                                  384 pp, ISBN 0-8247-8354-9, \$89.75
                                  (U.S. and Canada), \$107.50 (all other
                                  countries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleDatenanalyse mit
                                  SPSS: Wittenberg, Reinhard and Cramer,
                                  Hans (1992) Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer
                                  Verlag, pp. 200, ISBN 3-8252-1602-0, DM
                                  24.80  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleSAS kompakt für
                                  die Version 6: Göttsche, T. (1992)
                                  Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, pp.
                                  192, ISBN 3-437-40281-1, DM 49.- . . . . 248
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--250
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 251--255
                      Anonymous   Courses, Workshops & Summer Schools . . . 255--256

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1993

                  Dan Bradu and   
             Douglas M. Hawkins   Sample size requirements for multiple
                                  outlier location techniques based on
                                  elemental sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--270
              Wing-Kam Fung and   
                 J. Bacon-Shone   Quasi-Bayesian modelling of multivariate
                                  outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--278
                      Harry Joe   Multivariate dependence measures and
                                  data analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--297
               Santiago Velilla   On eigenvalues, case deletion and
                                  extremes in regression . . . . . . . . . 299--309
                 M. P. Wand and   
                    Luc Devroye   How easy is a given density to estimate? 311--323
               Daniel C. Coster   Tables of minimum cost, linear
                                  trend-free run sequences for two- and
                                  three-level fractional factorial designs 325--336
           Augustine C. M. Wong   Numerical conversion of likelihood to
                                  significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--348
               Chong-wei Xu and   
                  Wei-Kei Shiue   Parallel algorithms for least median of
                                  squares regression . . . . . . . . . . . 349--362
                    Ralf Bender   Using common statistical program
                                  packages for the Friedman test when
                                  there are ties among treatments and a
                                  multiple comparison procedure is needed  365--369
                      Anonymous   Mihalsin Associates & StatSci new range
                                  of multivariate data analysis techniques
                                  to be offered  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
                      Anonymous   ESRI & StatSci statistical software
                                  integrated with ARC/INFO GIS . . . . . . 370--371
                      Anonymous   Poly software international PSI-Plot
                                  Version 2.0  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
                      Anonymous   UNISTAT for windows spreadsheet,
                                  statistics, graphics . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
                      Anonymous   PASE '93 4th international workshop on
                                  parallel applications in statistics and
                                  economics: November 22--26, 1993,
                                  Ascona, Switzerland Centro Stefano
                                  Franscini, Monte Verita  . . . . . . . . 372
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 373--377

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 16, Number 4, October, 1993

               Magne Aldrin and   
       Erik Bòlviken and   
                  Tore Schweder   Projection pursuit regression for
                                  moderate non-linearities . . . . . . . . 379--403
             Oliver D. Anderson   Approximate moments to $ O(n^{-2}) $ for
                                  the sampled partial autocorrelations
                                  from a white noise process . . . . . . . 405--421
    Jean-François Durand   Generalized principal component analysis
                                  with respect to instrumental variables
                                  via univariate spline transformations    423--440
                Sik-Yum Lee and   
                    Wai-Tung Ho   Analysis of multisample identified and
                                  non-identified structural equation
                                  models with stochastic constraints . . . 441--453
                Karsten Schmidt   On the performance of minimax estimators
                                  in linear regression . . . . . . . . . . 455--468
                      Anonymous   Statistical software newsletter  . . . . 469
            Brian P. Murphy and   
                 C. M. Randolph   Simulation packages today: new user
                                  classes and order-of-magnitude
                                  breakthroughs in development costs . . . 471--479
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 482--485
                      Anonymous   Courses, Workshops & Summer Schools . . . 485--486
                      Anonymous   Author index of SSNinCSDA: volume 11
                                  (1991) --- volume 16 (1993)  . . . . . . 487
                      Anonymous   Book reviews of SSNinCSDA: volume 11
                                  (1991) --- volume 16 (1993)  . . . . . . 488
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 16 (1993)  . . . . . 489--490


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 17, Number 1, January, 1994

                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
                 N. T. Longford   Logistic regression with random
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
             Ruth M. Mickey and   
             Sarah J. Shema and   
            Pamela M. Vacek and   
                 Dianne Y. Bell   Analysis of multiple outcome variables
                                  measured longitudinally  . . . . . . . . 17--33
         Michael R. Harwell and   
               Ronald C. Serlin   A Monte Carlo study of the Friedman test
                                  and some competitors in the single
                                  factor, repeated measures design with
                                  unequal covariances  . . . . . . . . . . 35--49
          Alberto Luceño   Fast optimization of the exact
                                  likelihood of AR and ARMA processes  . . 51--63
         Peter J. Rousseeuw and   
                 Joachim Wagner   Robust regression with a distributed
                                  intercept using least median of squares  65--76
                 Benzion Boukai   Graphically based interval estimation
                                  for the change-point . . . . . . . . . . 77--86
               Robert K. Rayner   The small-sample power of Durbin's $h$
                                  test revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--94
            W. Kössler and   
                    B. Lenz and   
                     H.-J. Lenz   ExVar --- exact variable inspection
                                  plans in statistical quality control . . 97--99
              E. E. Bassett and   
               S. P. Brooks and   
              ByronJ. T. Morgan   Minitab macros for multivariate analysis 100--103
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleStatistische
                                  Graphik: Jürgen R. Geßler (1993): Basel:
                                  Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN 3-7643-2874-6,
                                  pp. 285, DM 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleZur Methodik der
                                  räumlichen Interpolation mit
                                  geostatistischen Verfahren: U. Heinrich
                                  (1992); Wiesbaden: Deutscher
                                  Universitäts--Verlag, ISBN 3-8244-2027-9,
                                  pp. 124, DM 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleStatistik in der
                                  Praxis (3. überarbeitete und ergänzte
                                  Auflage): Peter Zöfel (1992): Stuttgard
                                  Jena: G. Fischer, ISBN 3-8252-1293-9,
                                  pp. 422, DM 34.80  . . . . . . . . . . . 104
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleMathematica als
                                  Werkzeug: Stephan Kaufmann (1992):
                                  Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN
                                  3-7643-2832-0, pp. 396, DM 54  . . . . . 104--105
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--108
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 109--118

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 17, Number 2, February, 1994

   Monica E. Bad Dumitrescu and   
       Denis N. En\uachescu and   
         Florentina Th. Hristea   On the performances of an outlier test
                                  in the case of the exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127
                 Amy Fisher and   
                   Paul S. Horn   Robust prediction intervals in a
                                  regression setting . . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
                Jutta Arrenberg   Natural ranks in the conditional
                                  Wilcoxon rank sum test . . . . . . . . . 141--152
                Ricardo Cao and   
             Antonio Cuevas and   
Wensceslao González Manteiga   A comparative study of several smoothing
                                  methods in density estimation  . . . . . 153--176
                  Ove Frank and   
                John Örvik   Entropy of sums of random digits . . . . 177--184
             Douglas M. Hawkins   The feasible solution algorithm for
                                  least trimmed squares regression . . . . 185--196
             Douglas M. Hawkins   The feasible solution algorithm for the
                                  minimum covariance determinant estimator
                                  in multivariate data . . . . . . . . . . 197--210
                 Armin Koch and   
                       Uwe Haag   The \booktitleStatistical Software Guide
                                  '93/94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--238
                Wenzel Matiaske   Correspondence Analysis with P-STAT: the
                                  Macro COR.ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . . 239
             Günther Pabst   Book Review: \booktitleSoftstat' 91 ---
                                  Advances in Statistical Software 3:
                                  Frank Faulbaum, ed. (1992): 552 pp.
                                  Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, ISBN
                                  3-437-40280-3 (94.00 DM) and New York:
                                  VCH Publishers, ISBN 1-56081-348-2 . . . 240
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleUnivariate
                                  Discrete Distributions: N. L. Johnson,
                                  S. Kotz and A. W. Kemp (1992): 2nd
                                  Edition. New York: John Wiley, ISBN
                                  0-471-54897-9, pp. xx + 564, US\$68.95}  240--241
              Johannes Haerting   Book Review: \booktitleStatistische
                                  Methoden, Planung und Auswertung. 7.
                                  überarbeitete Auflage: Lothar Sachs
                                  (1993): Berlin: Springer, ISBN
                                  3-540-55821-7, pp. 312, DM 42.00 . . . . 241
                      Anonymous   IASC News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--244
                      Anonymous   Participant's reflections on meetings    245--246
                      Anonymous   In Memoriam  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 17, Number 3, March, 1994

         Mortaza Jamshidian and   
             Robert I. Jennrich   Conjugate gradient methods in
                                  confirmatory factor analysis . . . . . . 247--263
               Wai-Yin Poon and   
                    Sik-Yum Lee   A distribution free approach for
                                  analysis of two-level structural
                                  equation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--275
                Ayala Cohen and   
                       Meir Rom   A method for hypothesis tests in
                                  polychotomous logistic regression  . . . 277--288
           Valentin Todorov and   
               Neyko Neykov and   
                Plamen Neytchev   Robust two-group discrimination by
                                  bounded influence regression. A Monte
                                  Carlo simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--302
             R. Dennis Cook and   
               Sanford Weisberg   ARES plots for generalized linear models 303--315
            Steven P. Ellis and   
                Maria McDermott   Measuring the local dimension of point
                                  clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--326
              Robert W. Mee and   
               Debashis Kushary   Prediction limits for the Weibull
                                  distribution utilizing simulation  . . . 327--336
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--340
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--344
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 345--349
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 349--350

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 17, Number 4, May, 1994

             Joan F. Hilton and   
             Cyrus R. Mehta and   
                 Nitin R. Patel   An algorithm for conducting exact
                                  Smirnov tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--361
          Emmanuel Lesaffre and   
              Geert Verbeke and   
              Geert Molenberghs   A sensitivity analysis of two
                                  multivariate response models . . . . . . 363--391
                Ruth Marcus and   
                 Abraham Genizi   Simultaneous confidence intervals for
                                  umbrella contrasts of normal means . . . 393--407
            Stephen Olejnik and   
                   Wei-Ming Luh   Type $I$ error rates, power, and sample
                                  sizes for two-stage solutions to the
                                  Behrens--Fisher problem when population
                                  distributions are non-normal . . . . . . 409--420
        Jayachandran N. Variyam   A common framework for estimating
                                  multivariate autoregressive index models 421--432
             Albert K. Tsui and   
                 Mukhtar M. Ali   Exact distributions, density functions
                                  and moments of the last squares
                                  estimator in a first-order
                                  autoregressive model . . . . . . . . . . 433--454
                      Anonymous   Statistical software newsletter  . . . . 455
         Michael G. Schimek and   
             Klaus G. Schmaranz   Dependent error regression smoothing: a
                                  new method and PC program  . . . . . . . 457--464
                     Lutz Edler   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--470
            Allmut Hörmann   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 471
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 471--472

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 17, Number 5, June, 1994

            W. David Furman and   
               Bruce G. Lindsay   Testing for the number of components in
                                  a mixture of normal distributions using
                                  moment estimators  . . . . . . . . . . . 473--492
            W. David Furman and   
               Bruce G. Lindsay   Measuring the relative effectiveness of
                                  moment estimators as starting values in
                                  maximizing likelihoods . . . . . . . . . 493--507
                Ken Sejling and   
              Henrik Madsen and   
                  Jan Holst and   
                 Ulla Holst and   
               Jan-Eric Englund   Methods for recursive robust estimation
                                  of AR parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--536
                  S. Ejaz Ahmed   Improved estimation in a multivariate
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--554
A. Martín Andrés and   
                  A. Silva Mato   Choosing the optimal unconditioned test
                                  for comparing two independent
                                  proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--574
                  Philippe Vieu   Choice of regressors in nonparametric
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--594
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software and
                                  related systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--599
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
                                  statistics --- computational statistics:
                                  C. R. Rao, ed. (1993): Amsterdam,
                                  London, New York, Tokyo: North Holland,
                                  920 p. ISBN 0-444-88096-8, US\$190.00}   600--602
           Siegfried Schmerling   Book Review: \booktitleComputer
                                  intensive methods in statistics. Series
                                  statistics and computing: W. Härdle and
                                  L. Simar, eds. (1993): Heidelberg:
                                  Physica-Verlag and New York: Springer
                                  Verlag, viii + 176 p., 34 Fig., 16 Tab.,
                                  ISBN 3-7908-0677-3 and 0-387-91443-9,
                                  75,00 DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--603
           Siegfried Schmerling   Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
                                  Fibonacci numbers --- volume 5: G. E.
                                  Bergum, A. N. Philippou, A. F. Horadam,
                                  eds. (1993): Dordrecht, Boston, London:
                                  Kluwer Academic Publishers, xxxiv + 625
                                  p., 35 Fig., 30 Tab., ISBN 0-7923-2491-9 603
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--606
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 607--609
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 609--610
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 17 (1994)  . . . . . 611--612


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 18, Number 1, August, 1994

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                   Renato Coppi   An introduction to multiway data and
                                  their analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--13
              Giuseppe Bove and   
            Agostino Di Ciaccio   A user-oriented overview of multiway
                                  methods and software . . . . . . . . . . 15--37
        Richard A. Harshman and   
              Margaret E. Lundy   PARAFAC: Parallel factor analysis  . . . 39--72
          Pieter M. Kroonenberg   The TUCKALS line: a suite of programs
                                  for three-way data analysis  . . . . . . 73--96
            Christine Lavit and   
             Yves Escoufier and   
            Robert Sabatier and   
                Pierre Traissac   The ACT (STATIS method)  . . . . . . . . 97--119
                B. Escofier and   
                     J. Pag\`es   Multiple factor analysis (AFMULT
                                  package) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--140
          Eeke van der Burg and   
               Jan de Leeuw and   
             Garmt Dijksterhuis   OVERALS: Nonlinear canonical correlation
                                  with $k$ sets of variables . . . . . . . 141--163
           Wayne S. DeSarbo and   
               Robert Libby and   
                   Kamel Jedidi   CATSCALE: a stochastic multidimensional
                                  scaling methodology for the spatial
                                  analysis of sorting data and the study
                                  of stimulus categorization . . . . . . . 165--184
              Annie Bouvier and   
                    Sylvie Huet   nls2: Non-linear regression by S-PLUS
                                  --- functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--190
                      Anonymous   News about statistical software related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--195
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--197
                      Anonymous   Letter to the editor --- correction  . . 197
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 198--200
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 200

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 18, Number 2, September, 1994

                   Stanley Azen   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
                N. Balakrishnan   Order statistics from non-identical
                                  exponential random variables and some
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--238
         K. Balasubramanian and   
                  U. Gather and   
                     N. Sugiura   Discussions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--243
                Barry C. Arnold   Where's the lack of memory?  . . . . . . 243--253
               Maia Berkane and   
                Yutaka Kano and   
               Peter M. Bentler   Pseudo maximum likelihood estimation in
                                  elliptical theory: Effects of
                                  misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--267
          Günther Sawitzki   Testing numerical reliability of data
                                  analysis systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--286
          Günther Sawitzki   Report on the Numerical Reliability of
                                  Data Analysis Systems  . . . . . . . . . 289--301
        Diethelm Würtz and   
                     Myra Woolf   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
                  Clemens Tilke   Book Review: \booktitleGeostatistics
                                  Troia '92: Kluwer Academic, ISBN
                                  0-7923-2157-X (set), ISBN 0-7923-2155-3
                                  (Vol. 1) ISBN 0-7923-2156-1 (Vol. 2),
                                  \$332.50/\pounds 222.50 (set)} . . . . . 303
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleAlternative
                                  Methods of Regression: New York: John
                                  Wiley & Sons, Inc., 223 pages, ISBN
                                  0-471-56881-3, US\$57.50}  . . . . . . . 303
                  Malte Bismark   Book Review: \booktitleSoftware: Recht,
                                  Band 1. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York:
                                  Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-450-52493-3, DM
                                  98.00  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
                      Anonymous   IASC News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 18, Number 3, October, 1994

             Pedro Delicado and   
          Manuel del Río   Bootstrapping the general linear
                                  hypothesis test  . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--316
               J. Koronacki and   
                 U. Luboi\'nska   Estimating the density of a functional
                                  of several random variables  . . . . . . 317--330
           Henk A. L. Kiers and   
      Robert Cléroux and   
            Jos M. F. Ten Berge   Generalized canonical analysis based on
                                  optimizing matrix correlations and a
                                  relation with IDIOSCAL . . . . . . . . . 331--340
            Abraham Silvers and   
              Nira Herrmann and   
              Kathy Godfrey and   
              Bruce Roberts and   
                      Dan Cerys   A prototype statistical advisory system
                                  for biomedical researchers I: Overview   341--355
              Nira Herrmann and   
            Abraham Silvers and   
          Katherine Godfrey and   
              Bruce Roberts and   
                   Daniel Cerys   A prototype statistical advisory system
                                  for biomedical researchers II:
                                  Development of a statistical strategy    357--369
                      Anonymous   Statistical software newsletter  . . . . 371
                       Uwe Haag   Knowledge-based systems in statistics:
                                  critical review of a decade of research  373--375
            Allmut Hörmann   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems: Software news editor  . . . . . 376--378
            Allmut Hörmann   Information: Information editor  . . . . 378--380
                     Lutz Edler   IASC news: IASC news editor  . . . . . . 380--382
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 383--387
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 387--388

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 18, Number 4, November, 1994

                   Shixian Qian   The structure of isotonic regression
                                  class for LAD problems with quasi-order
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--401
               Joel K. Jolayemi   Convolution of independent binomial
                                  variables: an approximation method and a
                                  comparative study  . . . . . . . . . . . 403--417
                  Karen Kafadar   Choosing among two-dimensional smoothers
                                  in practice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--439
                  Weng Kee Wong   Comparing robust properties of $A$, $D$,
                                  $E$ and $G$-optimal designs  . . . . . . 441--448
                 Cherng G. Ding   On the computation of the noncentral
                                  beta distribution  . . . . . . . . . . . 449--455
              Peter Verboon and   
               Willem J. Heiser   Resistant lower rank approximation of
                                  matrices by iterative majorization . . . 457--467
                   Toine de Wit   Interuniversity expertise center
                                  ProGAMMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--472
        Jürgen Kübler   Book Review: \booktitleParameter
                                  estimation in reliability and life span
                                  models: A. Clifford Cohen and Betty
                                  Jones Whitten (1988): New York, Marcel
                                  Dekker, 312 pages, ISBN 0-8247-7980-0,
                                  US\$99.75} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
             Günther Pabst   Book Review: \booktitleDeskriptive
                                  statistik: P.v.d. Lippe (1993): 468 pp.
                                  Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, ISBN
                                  3-437-40268-4, Uni--Taschenbücher für
                                  Wissenschaft No. 1632, ISBN
                                  3-8252-1632-2, 46.80 DM  . . . . . . . . 474
           Siegfried Schmerling   Book Review: \booktitleNumerical methods
                                  for stochastic processes: N. Bouleau and
                                  D. Lépingle: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,
                                  New York 1994, 359 p. ISBN
                                  0-471-54641-0, \$63.50.} . . . . . . . . 474
                  Rudolf Dutter   Report on COMPSTAT '94 in Vienna . . . . 475--479
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 480--483
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 483--484

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 18, Number 5, December, 1994

                 Paul A. Bekker   Counting rules for identification in
                                  linear structural models . . . . . . . . 485--498
              N. I. Fischer and   
                  E. Mammen and   
                   J. S. Marron   Testing for multimodality  . . . . . . . 499--512
          Wolfgang Kössler   Restrictive adaptive tests for the
                                  treatment of the two-sample scale
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--524
                  Debasis Kundu   Estimating the parameters of
                                  complex-valued exponential signals . . . 525--534
                Kwok-Leung Tsui   Avoiding unnecessary bias in robust
                                  design analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--546
      Pascale Tubert-Bitter and   
              Andrew Kramar and   
  Jean-Jacques Chalé and   
                 Thierry Moreau   Linear rank tests for comparing survival
                                  in two groups with crossing hazards  . . 547--559
                   A. D. Gordon   Identifying genuine clusters in a
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--581
                 Allmut Hö   News about statistical software & related
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
                     Lutz Edler   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586--590
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 591--594
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 594
                      Anonymous   Author index of SSNinCSDA: volume 17 & 18
                                  (1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
                      Anonymous   Book reviews of SSNinCSDA: volume 17 & 18
                                  (1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
                      Anonymous   Software news of SSNinCSDA: volume 17 &
                                  18 (1994)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 18 (1994)  . . . . . 599--600


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 19, Number 1, January, 1995

                   Stanley Azen   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--ii
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . V--VI
            Myung-Sang Moon and   
               Richard F. Gunst   Polynomial measurement error modeling    1--21
                 Lon-Mu Liu and   
                Ki-Kan Chan and   
         Alan L. Montgomery and   
               Mervin E. Muller   A system-independent graphical user
                                  interface for statistical software . . . 23--44
                   Ziqiang Yang   An algorithm for nonlinear $ L_1 $
                                  curve-fitting based on the smooth
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--52
    Richard William Farebrother   On hyperplanes of closest fit  . . . . . 53--58
                 Jan \vCwik and   
                 Jan Mielniczuk   Nonparametric rank discrimination method 59--74
                    S. Huda and   
                 I. H. Khan and   
                 Rahul Mukerjee   On optimal designs with restricted
                                  circular string property . . . . . . . . 75--83
                H. Mansouri and   
                    G.-H. Chang   A comparative study of some rank tests
                                  for interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
                      Anonymous   Tips & Tricks for using today's
                                  statistical software systems efficiently 99--101
              Dietrich Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of
                                  small data sets: Hand, D. J., Daly, F.,
                                  Lunn, A. D., McConway, K. J. & Ostrowski,
                                  E. (1994): Chapman & Hall, London. xvi +
                                  458 pages, including one diskette with
                                  data files (MS-DOS), 40 British Pounds,
                                  ISBN 0-412-39920-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 101
                     Rolf Holle   Book Review: \booktitleDesign of
                                  experiments. A no-name approach:
                                  Lorenzen, T. J. & Anderson, V. L. (1993):
                                  Marcel Dekker, New York. 414 pages,
                                  US\$59.75, ISBN 0-8247-9077-4} . . . . . 101--102
                      Anonymous   From the bookstore for your library  . . 102
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 103--110

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 19, Number 2, February, 1995

      Jaromír Antoch and   
          Petr Hájek and   
               Radim Jirou\vsek   Tomá\vs Havránek . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
      Jaromír Antoch and   
                   Hakan Ekblom   Recursive robust regression
                                  computational aspects and comparison . . 115--128
                 P. Bo\vcek and   
                     P. Lachout   Linear programming approach to
                                  LMS-estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--134
                William A. Gale   Cognition, computation, and formal
                                  systems: Some of Tomás Havránek's
                                  interests and disambiguating word senses 135--148
            P. Hájek and   
        A. Sochorová and   
       J. Zvárová   GUHA for personal computers  . . . . . . 149--153
Sòren Hòjsgaard and   
                    Bo Thiesson   BIFROST --- Block recursive models
                                  induced from relevant knowledge,
                                  observations, and statistical techniques 155--175
           Radim Jirou\vsek and   
          Stanislav P\vreu\vcil   On the effective implementation of the
                                  iterative proportional fitting procedure 177--189
           Steffen L. Lauritzen   The EM algorithm for graphical
                                  association models with missing data . . 191--201
              Alfredo Rizzi and   
                 Maurizio Vichi   Representation, synthesis, variability
                                  and data preprocessing of a three-way
                                  data set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--222
              Nanny Wermuth and   
                      D. R. Cox   Derived variables calculated from
                                  similar joint responses: some
                                  characteristics and examples . . . . . . 223--234
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
                                  Software Guide '94/95: edited by Armin
                                  Koch and Uwe Haag  . . . . . . . . . . . 237--261
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
                      Anonymous   Calendar: topical deadlines only . . . . 263--264

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 19, Number 3, March, 1995

               Ola Hössjer   Exact computation of the least trimmed
                                  squares estimate in simple linear
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--282
                    Zvi Drezner   Multirelation --- a correlation among
                                  more than two variables  . . . . . . . . 283--292
         M. Ebneshahrashoob and   
                   Milton Sobel   Dirichlet analysis for inverse
                                  multinomial with both quota and
                                  quota-free cells . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--307
                     Gemai Chen   Generalized log-normal distributions
                                  with reliability application . . . . . . 309--319
                   Wing K. Fung   A cautionary note on the use of
                                  generalized Cook-type measures . . . . . 321--326
                    D. M. Smith   Iterative refinement of parameter
                                  estimates and residuals from a
                                  regression model fitted using QR
                                  decomposition methods  . . . . . . . . . 327--349
                 Ernst Schuster   Preference of equivalence tests with
                                  standardized mean difference
                                  demonstrated by an application . . . . . 353--356
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
                      Anonymous   Tips & Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
                 Götz Uebe   Book Review: \booktitleComputational
                                  techniques for Econometrics and Economic
                                  Analysis: D. A. Belsley (ed.) (1994)
                                  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
                                  ISBN 0-7923-2356-4, pp. 248, US\$92} . . 359--360
              Dietrich Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleÖkonometrie: Hans
                                  Schneeweiß (1990) (4th ed.), Heidelberg:
                                  Physica-Verlag. ISBN 3-7908-0486-X, pp.
                                  392, -DM45.- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
               Volker Weiberger   Book Review: \booktitleUNIX: Einstieg für
                                  DOS-Anwender: Taudes, Alfred, Reepmeyer,
                                  Jan-Armin, & Bensberg, Frank (1993)
                                  Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag. ISBN
                                  3-7908-0700-1, pp 232, DM40.-  . . . . . 360--361
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--364
                      Anonymous   Urgent: Questionnaire for IASC members   365
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 367--368

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 19, Number 4, April, 1995

       E. J. Kontoghiorghes and   
                M. R. B. Clarke   An alternative approach for the
                                  numerical solution of seemingly
                                  unrelated regression equations models    369--377
                   Haruo Onishi   A user-knowledge-based variable
                                  selection method for limited information
                                  maximum likelihood using principal
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--399
                  S. S. Kim and   
                     S. H. Park   Dynamic plots for displaying the roles
                                  of variables and observations in
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--418
               W. J. Krzanowski   Selection of variables, and assessment
                                  of their performance, in mixed-variable
                                  discriminant analysis  . . . . . . . . . 419--431
                      Berlin Wu   Model-free forecasting for nonlinear
                                  time series (with application to
                                  exchange rates)  . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--459
          Peter Zörnig and   
                Gabriel Altmann   Unified representation of Zipf
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--473
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
                      Anonymous   Tips & Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478
                     H.-J. Lenz   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical and
                                  scientific databases: Zbigniew
                                  Michalewicz (ed.) (1991): New York,
                                  London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo,
                                  Singapore: Ellis Horwood. 544 pages,
                                  ISBN 0-13-850652-3, \$57.20} . . . . . . 479--481
                     H.-J. Lenz   Book Review: \booktitlePanel data
                                  analysis: Baldev Raj and Badi H. Baltagi
                                  (eds.) (1992): Heidelberg:
                                  Physica-Verlag. ISBN 3-7908-0593-9, 220
                                  pages, DM 128.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--483
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
                                  distributions: M. Evans, N. Hastings & B.
                                  Peacock (1993): (2nd Edition). New: John
                                  Wiley. 170 pages, ISBN 0-471-55951-2,
                                  \pounds 24.95  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484
                      Anonymous   From the bookstore for your library  . . 484
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 485--490
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 490--492

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 19, Number 5, May, 1995

            Karl Anton Froeschl   A formal model evaluation approach to
                                  the analysis of treatment effects in
                                  paired sample data . . . . . . . . . . . 493--517
             Douglas M. Hawkins   Convergence of the feasible solution
                                  algorithm for least median of squares
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--538
           J. L. du Plessis and   
            A. J. van der Merwe   A Bayesian approach to multivariate and
                                  conditional calibration  . . . . . . . . 539--552
                S. K. Panda and   
               A. Nagabhushanam   Fuzzy data distortion  . . . . . . . . . 553--562
                     Haim Shore   Fitting a distribution by the first two
                                  moments (partial and complete) . . . . . 563--577
A. Martín Andrés and   
             I. Herranz Tejedor   Is Fisher's exact test very
                                  conservative?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--591
                 Andreas Krause   Electronic services in statistics  . . . 595--604
                     H.-J. Lenz   Book Review: \booktitleReliability
                                  improvement with design of experiments:
                                  Lloyd W. Condra (1993) New York: Marcel
                                  Dekker. 400 pages, ISBN 0-8247-8888-5,
                                  \$65.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
                Brian P. Murphy   Reflections on meetings: Whither
                                  COMPSTAT? Issues & Challenges on Occasion
                                  of the Panel Discussion of COMPSTAT '94,
                                  Vienna, August, 25, 1994 . . . . . . . . 606--609
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--612
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 612

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 19, Number 6, June, 1995

            Ronald J. Bosch and   
                   Yinyu Ye and   
            George G. Woodworth   A convergent algorithm for quantile
                                  regression with smoothing splines  . . . 613--630
         Jordi Ocaña and   
                  Esteban Vegas   Variance reduction for Bernoulli
                                  response variables in simulation . . . . 631--640
             W. Härdle and   
                     B. U. Park   Testing increasing dispersion  . . . . . 641--653
                    Paul Jordan   Estimation of tolerance limits from
                                  reference data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--668
             Louis Ferré   Selection of components in principal
                                  component analysis: a comparison of
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--682
            Philip Hans Franses   The effects of seasonally adjusting a
                                  periodic autoregressive process  . . . . 683--704
                Hermann Kulmann   Notes on the computation of the exact
                                  distribution function of the $ \chi^2$-
                                  and Related test statistics in the
                                  equiprobable case  . . . . . . . . . . . 707--710
                     H.-J. Lenz   Book Review: \booktitleNew directions in
                                  statistical data analysis and
                                  Robustness: S. Morgenthaler, E.
                                  Ronchetti, W. A. Stahel (eds.) (1993)
                                  Basel, Boston, London: Birkhäuser Verlag.
                                  293 pages, ISBN 3-7643-2923-8, \pounds
                                  39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--712
                     H.-J. Lenz   Book Review: \booktitleNeXTSTEP
                                  programming, step one: object-oriented
                                  applications: Simson L. Garfinkel &
                                  Michael K. Mahoney (1993): New York:
                                  Springer Verlag. 631 pp. + disk, DM 89.-
                                  ISBN 3-540-97884-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 712--713
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--714
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--716
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 716
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 19 (1995)  . . . . . 717--719


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 20, Number 1, July, 1995

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
             W. Härdle and   
                   J. S. Marron   Fast and simple scatterplot smoothing    1--17
                  Ya'acov Ritov   PM algorithms for calculating minimum $
                                  \chi^2 $ estimators with partially
                                  observed sub-tables  . . . . . . . . . . 19--33
                         W. Liu   Fixed-width simultaneous confidence
                                  intervals for all-pairwise comparisons   35--44
                    A. L. Bello   Imputation techniques in regression
                                  analysis: Looking closely at their
                                  implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--57
         Borko D. Jovanovic and   
            David W. Hosmer and   
            John P. Buonaccorsi   Equivalence of several methods for
                                  efficient best subsets selection in
                                  generalized linear models  . . . . . . . 59--64
                    Suojin Wang   One-step saddlepoint approximations for
                                  quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
                    M. Zaki and   
               F. El Tohamy and   
                      A. Hassan   Landsat image interpretation . . . . . . 75--97
           Volker W. Rahlfs and   
             Helmuth Zimmermann   Nonparametric methods in standard
                                  statistics packages: the case of the
                                  Friedman analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110
                      Anonymous   Tips & Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--114
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 114--118

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 20, Number 2, August, 1995

           Terry E. Dielman and   
              Elizabeth L. Rose   A bootstrap approach to hypothesis
                                  testing in least absolute value
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
           Lloyd J. Edwards and   
              Scott A. Hamilton   Errors-in-variables and the Box--Cox
                                  transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--140
              Jörg Polzehl   Projection pursuit discriminant analysis 141--157
                 Danny Dyer and   
              Rebecca L. Pierce   Bayesian HPM intervals for the number of
                                  nonconforming items in a lot . . . . . . 159--172
                 Xingye Lei and   
                 Y. B. Peng and   
                   F. T. Wright   Testing homogeneity of normal means with
                                  a simply ordered alternative and
                                  dependent observations . . . . . . . . . 173--183
         Gunar Schröer and   
              Dietrich Trenkler   Exact and randomization distributions of
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov tests two or three
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--202
               V. Granville and   
                   J. P. Rasson   Bayesian filtering and supervised
                                  classification in image remote sensing   203--225
        Ivan K\vrivý and   
            Josef Tvrdík   The controlled random search algorithm
                                  in optimizing regression models  . . . . 229--234
         Stephan Köhne and   
                    Iris Pigeot   Book Review: \booktitleResampling-Based
                                  Multiple Testing. Examples and Methods
                                  for $p$-Value Adjustment: Peter H.
                                  Westfall and S. Stanley Young (1993):
                                  New York: Wiley, ISBN 0-471-55761-7, pp.
                                  340, \$59.95}  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 238

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 20, Number 3, September, 1995

        Eugene Grechanovsky and   
                   Ilia Pinsker   Conditional $p$-values for the
                                  $F$-statistic in a forward selection
                                  procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--263
              Stephen Black and   
                    H. Mansouri   On exact distributions of rank tests for
                                  ordered alternatives in block designs    265--274
                Lee Sik-Yum and   
                   Poon Wai-Yin   Estimation of factor scores in a
                                  two-level confirmatory factor analysis
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--284
                V. K. Madan and   
                    R. K. Sinha   Digital smoothing of census data
                                  employing Fourier transforms . . . . . . 285--294
                   Peter Winker   Identification of multivariate AR-models
                                  by threshold accepting . . . . . . . . . 295--307
                 Samuel D. Oman   Checking the assumptions in mixed-model
                                  analysis of variance: a residual
                                  analysis approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 309--330
                Jeffrey Jarrett   Review of a quality control and
                                  improvement statistical software system  333--339
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--342

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 20, Number 4, October, 1995

                   Hideo Hirose   Maximum likelihood parameter estimation
                                  in the three-parameter gamma
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--354
                  Dan Bradu and   
             Douglas M. Hawkins   An Anscombe type robust regression
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--386
                A. Saltelli and   
               T. H. Andres and   
                       T. Homma   Sensitivity analysis of model output.
                                  Performance of the iterated fractional
                                  factorial design method  . . . . . . . . 387--407
           Friedrich Schmid and   
                     Mark Trede   A distribution free test for the two
                                  sample problem for general alternatives  409--419
           Enrique Castillo and   
                    Ali S. Hadi   A method for estimating parameters and
                                  quantiles of distributions of continuous
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--439
                   Dieter Rasch   The robustness against parameter
                                  variation of exact locally optimum
                                  designs in nonlinear regression --- a
                                  case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--453
         Arndt von Haeseler and   
         Michael Schöniger   Modelling evolution of autocorrelated
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460
                      Anonymous   Anzstat  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--462
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 462--464
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 464--465

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 20, Number 5, November, 1995

           Emilio Carrizosa and   
                 Frank Plastria   The determination of a ``least quantile
                                  of squares regression line'' for all
                                  quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--479
                R. Chattamvelli   On the doubly noncentral $F$
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--489
                  Paul J. Elson   Use of the Fast Fourier Transform
                                  algorithm in the calculation of the
                                  operating characteristics of group
                                  sequential clinical trials . . . . . . . 491--498
                  Thomas Lumley   Efficient execution of Stone's
                                  likelihood ratio tests for disease
                                  clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--510
          Alberto Luceño   A family of partially correlated Poisson
                                  models for overdispersion  . . . . . . . 511--520
       W. Gonzalez Manteiga and   
          J. M. Vilar Fernandez   Testing linear regression models using
                                  non-parametric regression estimators
                                  when errors are non-independent  . . . . 521--541
               L. De Cesare and   
                        D. Posa   A simulation technique of a non-Gaussian
                                  spatial process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--555
                   Wing K. Fung   Detecting influential observations for
                                  estimated probabilities in multiple
                                  discriminant analysis  . . . . . . . . . 557--568
          Michael A. Hauser and   
            Erhard Reschenhofer   Estimation of the fractionally
                                  differencing parameter with the $ R / S
                                  $ method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--579
            Ekkehard Krause and   
            Christoph Bandt and   
                Anne Schulz and   
                  Holger Schulz   Fractal exponents for the upper airways
                                  of mammalian lungs . . . . . . . . . . . 583--590
                   Gerhard Held   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--592
             Rainer. Schlittgen   Book Review: \booktitleSurvival
                                  analysis: State of the art: John P.
                                  Klein and Prem. K. Goel (1992)
                                  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, x
                                  + 451 pages, ISBN 0-7923-1634-7,
                                  \$138.00}  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592--593
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--598

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 20, Number 6, December, 1995

        Plamen Nikolov Neytchev   SWEEP operator for least-squares subject
                                  to linear constraints  . . . . . . . . . 599--609
                Ricardo Cao and   
             Antonio Cuevas and   
                Ricardo Fraiman   Minimum distance density-based
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--631
               Joel K. Jolayemi   A power function model for determining
                                  sample sizes for the operations of
                                  multivariate control charts  . . . . . . 633--641
Frédérique Kazi-Aoual and   
               Simon Hitier and   
            Robert Sabatier and   
        Jean-Dominique Lebreton   Refined approximations to permutation
                                  tests for multivariate inference . . . . 643--656
           Jukka Öfversten   Estimation in mixed models via layer
                                  triangular transformation  . . . . . . . 657--667
                Christian Posse   Projection pursuit exploratory data
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--687
                 P. C. Wang and   
                 M. H. Chen and   
                      S. C. Wei   To analyze binary data from mixed-level
                                  orthogonal arrays  . . . . . . . . . . . 689--695
                Leo Knüsel   On the accuracy of the statistical
                                  distributions in GAUSS . . . . . . . . . 699--702
                      Anonymous   Software news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
             Walter Krämer   Book Review: \booktitleProbability &
                                  Measure: Patrick Billingsley (1995):
                                  (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley, ISBN
                                  0-471-00710-2, pp. 593, \pounds 49.95    703
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--711
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712
                      Anonymous   Author index of SSNinCSDA: Volume 19
                                  (1995) -- volume 20 (1995) . . . . . . . 713--716
                      Anonymous   Acknowledgement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 716
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 20 (1995)  . . . . . 717--719


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 21, Number 1, January, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
               Anna Clara Monti   A new preliminary estimator for MA(1)
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
                   A. D. Gordon   A survey of constrained classification   17--29
                    Ja-Yong Koo   Bivariate B-splines for tensor logspline
                                  density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
       Moira A. Mugglestone and   
                   Eric Renshaw   A practical guide to the spectral
                                  analysis of spatial point processes  . . 43--65
         Peter J. Rousseeuw and   
                     Mia Hubert   Regression-free and robust estimation of
                                  scale for bivariate data . . . . . . . . 67--85
            Trygve Almòy   A simulation study on comparison of
                                  prediction methods when only a few
                                  components are relevant  . . . . . . . . 87--107
      Thomas Scheuchenpflug and   
                 Maria Blettner   Coding Confusion using PROC LOGISTIC in
                                  SAS$^\reg $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--115
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
                      Anonymous   Letter to the editor: Knut M. Wittkowski
                                  (Tübingen, Germany) wrote on August 22,
                                  1995: Rahlfs, V. W. & Zimmermann, H.:
                                  ``Nonparametric methods in standard
                                  statistics packages: the case of the
                                  Friedman analysis'', SSNinCSDA \bf 20/1,
                                  101--110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
                      Anonymous   Reply by Volker W. Rahlfs and Helmuth
                                  Zimmermann (Munich, Germany): Comment on
                                  Knut M. Wittkowski, Letter to the
                                  Editor, August 22, 1995  . . . . . . . . 117--118
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced Linear
                                  Models: Song-Gui Wang & Shein-Chung Chow:
                                  Marcel Dekker, New York, 1994, pp. x +
                                  537, \$165.00, ISBN 0-8247-9169-X} . . . 118--119
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleContinuous
                                  univariate distributions: N. L. Johnson,
                                  S. Kotz and N. Balakrishnan Vol. 1, 2nd
                                  Edition. John Wiley, New York, 1994, pp.
                                  xix + 756, Price: \pounds 66.00, ISBN
                                  0-471-58495-9  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--123
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 123--130
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 130--131

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 21, Number 2, February, 1996

                 Wim P. Krijnen   Algorithms for unweighted least-squares
                                  factor analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--147
                Anne Ruiz-Gazen   A very simple robust estimator of a
                                  dispersion matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 149--162
            Alexander Steinwolf   Approximation and simulation of
                                  probability distributions with a
                                  variable kurtosis value  . . . . . . . . 163--180
              Joo Sung Jung and   
                   Bong Jin Yum   Construction of exact $D$-optimal
                                  designs by tabu search . . . . . . . . . 181--191
              Robert Kalaba and   
               Leigh Tesfatsion   A multicriteria approach to model
                                  specification and estimation . . . . . . 193--214
                         W. Liu   On some single-stage, step-down and
                                  step-up procedures for comparing three
                                  normal means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227
                    A. Koch and   
                        U. Haag   The \booktitleStatistical Software Guide
                                  '95/96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--256
                      Anonymous   IASC-news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--260

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 21, Number 3, March, 1996

              Robert A. Wijsman   New algorithms for the function $ T(h,
                                  a) $ of Owen, with application to
                                  bivariate normal and noncentral
                                  $t$-probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271
               Holger Dette and   
                Stefan Sperlich   Some applications of Stieltjes
                                  transforms in the construction of
                                  optimal designs for nonlinear regression
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--292
           Danuta Kachlicka and   
                Stanislaw Mejza   Repeated row-column designs with split
                                  units  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305
            Berthold Lausen and   
              Martin Schumacher   Evaluating the effect of optimized
                                  cutoff values in the assessment of
                                  prognostic factors . . . . . . . . . . . 307--326
                     Biao Zhang   Confidence intervals for a distribution
                                  function in the presence of auxiliary
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--342
               M. J. Brewer and   
            C. G. G. Aitken and   
                      M. Talbot   A comparison of hybrid strategies for
                                  Gibbs sampling in mixed graphical models 343--365
            Jean Thioulouse and   
       François Chevenet   NetMul, a World-Wide Web user interface
                                  for multivariate analysis software . . . 369--372
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
                  J. Fassbinder   Book Review: \booktitleCorrespondence
                                  Analysis Handbook: J.-P. Benzécri (1992)
                                  New York: Marcel Dekker, ISBN
                                  0-8247-8437-5, pp. 688, \$150.00}  . . . 375
                     Lutz Edler   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 21, Number 4, April, 1996

                   Hongshik Ahn   Log-normal regression modeling through
                                  recursive partitioning . . . . . . . . . 381--398
                    Lin-An Chen   Bivariate regression splines . . . . . . 399--418
             Karim F. Hirji and   
             Timothy D. Johnson   A comparison of algorithms for exact
                                  analysis of unordered $ 2 \times K $
                                  contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
            Tobias Rydén   An EM algorithm for estimation in
                                  Markov-modulated Poisson processes . . . 431--447
                Christopher Cox   Nonlinear quasi-likelihood models:
                                  applications to continuous proportions   449--461
           Terry E. Dielman and   
              Elizabeth L. Rose   A note on hypothesis testing in LAV
                                  multiple regression: a small sample
                                  comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--470
               T. P. Hutchinson   On the generalised Friedman test . . . . 473--476
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--480
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 481--485
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 485--486

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 21, Number 5, May, 1996

              Ibrahim Akman and   
              Jan G. De Gooijer   Component extraction analysis of
                                  multivariate time series . . . . . . . . 487--499
                   Magne Aldrin   Moderate projection pursuit regression
                                  for multivariate response data . . . . . 501--531
                    Alicja Ciok   An estimator of Gini Separation Index
                                  which is nearly median-unbiased  . . . . 533--546
J. M. Fernández-Ponce and   
   R. Infante-Macías and   
   J. Muñoz-Pérez   Characterization of lifetime
                                  distributions based on a quantile
                                  dispersion measure . . . . . . . . . . . 547--561
Alejandro Quintela del Río   Comparison of bandwidth selectors in
                                  nonparametric regression under
                                  dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--580
        Rien van der Leeden and   
             Karen Vrijburg and   
                   Jan de Leeuw   A review of two different approaches for
                                  the analysis of growth data using
                                  longitudinal mixed linear models:
                                  Comparing hierarchical linear regression
                                  (ML3, HLM) and repeated measures designs
                                  with structured covariance matrices
                                  (BMDP5V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--605
                  Clemens Tilke   Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of
                                  statistical analyses using S-Plus: Brian
                                  S. Everitt (1994): Chapman & Hall, 143
                                  p., \pounds 14.99, ISBN 0-412-56310-X    606
                  Clemens Tilke   Book Review: \booktitleSAS programming
                                  for researchers and social scientists:
                                  Paul E. Spector: Sage Publications
                                  (1993), 167 p. ISBN 0-8039-4984-7
                                  (cloth), ISBN 0-8039-4985-5 (paperback)  606
                  Plamen Mateev   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--607
                    Randy Banks   Meetings: Association for Survey
                                  Computing: Second International
                                  Conference On Survey and Statistical
                                  Computing London, UK, September 11--13,
                                  1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--608
                    Iris Burger   Workshop on statistical modelling of
                                  discrete data and structures: Munich,
                                  Germany, October 24--26, 1996  . . . . . 608

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 21, Number 6, June 1, 1996

A. Martín Andrés and   
                  A. Silva Mato   Optimal correction for continuity and
                                  conditions for validity in the
                                  unconditional chi-squared test . . . . . 609--626
                 Chi-Ying Leung   Error rates for classifying observations
                                  based on binary and continuous variables
                                  with covariates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--645
              Anders Rosenqvist   Asymptotic theory for a two-step
                                  pseudo-linear Doppler-bearing tracker    647--660
          Martin Schumacher and   
      Reinhard Roßner and   
                    Werner Vach   Neural networks and logistic regression:
                                  Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--682
                Werner Vach and   
      Reinhard Roßner and   
              Martin Schumacher   Neural networks and logistic regression:
                                  Part II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--701
          Christoph Berding and   
            Wilhelm Kleider and   
        Rüdiger Gössl   DoPE: $D$-optimal planning &
                                  experimentation the tool for
                                  experimental design in research and
                                  development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--710
                      Anonymous   Conference on computational statistics
                                  and statistical education, Tartu,
                                  Estonia, June 2--8, 1996 . . . . . . . . 711
                      Anonymous   Short courses in applied statistics in
                                  Barcelona, summer 1996 . . . . . . . . . 711--712
                      Anonymous   Second World Conference of the
                                  International Association for
                                  Statistical Computing February 19 to 22,
                                  1997, Pasadena, CA, USA second
                                  announcement and call for contributed
                                  papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712--715
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings new entries only    715--716
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 21 (1996)  . . . . . 717--718


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 22, Number 1, June 14, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
W. González-Manteiga and   
  C. Sánchez-Sellero and   
                     M. P. Wand   Accuracy of binned kernel functional
                                  approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
               A. J. Hayter and   
                         W. Liu   Exact calculations for the one-sided
                                  Studentized range test for testing
                                  against a simple ordered alternative . . 17--25
              Vincent Granville   Discriminant analysis and density
                                  estimation on the finite $d$-dimensional
                                  grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--51
                 Todd Ogden and   
                 Emanuel Parzen   Data dependent wavelet thresholding in
                                  nonparametric regression with
                                  change-point applications  . . . . . . . 53--70
               Jian-Xin Pan and   
                   Kai-Tai Fang   Influential observation in the growth
                                  curve model with unstructured covariance
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--87
                 Rand R. Wilcox   Confidence intervals for the slope of a
                                  regression line when the error term has
                                  nonconstant variance . . . . . . . . . . 89--98

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 22, Number 2, July 1, 1996

                      T. Ng Pin   An algorithm for quantile smoothing
                                  splines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--118
            Bradley M. Bell and   
             James V. Burke and   
                Alan Schumitzky   A relative weighting method for
                                  estimating parameters and variances in
                                  multiple data sets . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135
                 H. L. Gray and   
                    J. Baek and   
             W. A. Woodward and   
                  J. Miller and   
                        M. Fisk   A bootstrap generalized likelihood ratio
                                  test in discriminant analysis  . . . . . 137--158
           Hsin-Cheng Huang and   
                   Noel Cressie   Spatio-temporal prediction of snow water
                                  equivalent using the Kalman filter . . . 159--175
                 Yi-Hwei Li and   
              John P. Klein and   
             M. L. Moeschberger   Effects of model misspecification in
                                  estimating covariate effects in survival
                                  analysis for small sample sizes  . . . . 177--192
                  Uwe Beyer and   
                 Frank \vSmieja   Data exploration with reflective
                                  adaptive models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--211

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 22, Number 3, July 15, 1996

            Salim U. Rehman and   
                     A. Shapiro   An integral transform approach to
                                  cross-variograms modeling  . . . . . . . 213--233
               Yuh-Ing Chen and   
            Sheng-Shu Cheng and   
                 Hong-Long Wang   Rank-based comparisons of treatments
                                  with a control for repeated measures
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249
           Jennifer Hoeting and   
          Adrian E. Raftery and   
                  David Madigan   A method for simultaneous variable
                                  selection and outlier identification in
                                  linear regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 251--270
           Koon-Shing Kwong and   
                 Boris Iglewicz   On singular multivariate normal
                                  distribution and its applications  . . . 271--285
              Tjen-Sien Lim and   
                    Wei-Yin Loh   A comparison of tests of equality of
                                  variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--301
               Wai-Yin Poon and   
                   Hin-Yan Hung   Analysis of square tables with ordered
                                  categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--322
                Oliver Kuss and   
                     Armin Koch   Meta-analysis macros for SAS . . . . . . 325--333
             Walter Krämer   Book Review: \booktitleSignal processing
                                  with alpha-stable distributions and
                                  applications: C. L. Nikias and Min Shoa
                                  (1995): Wiley, ISBN 0-471-10647-X,
                                  \pounds 50.00, pp. 168 . . . . . . . . . 334
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleMethods of
                                  multivariate analysis. Wiley series in
                                  probability and mathematical statistics:
                                  Probability and mathematical statistics
                                  section: Alvin C. Rencher (1995): ISBN
                                  0-471-57152-0, \pounds 58.00, xvi + 627
                                  pp.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
             Walter Krämer   Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
                                  to computational statistics ---
                                  Regression analysis: Robert I. Jennrich
                                  (1995): Prentice Hall, ISBN
                                  0-13-454810-8, \pounds 22.95, pp. 364    335
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 337--342

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 22, Number 4, August 10, 1996

                 Cherng G. Ding   On the computation of the distribution
                                  of the square of the sample multiple
                                  correlation coefficient  . . . . . . . . 345--350
           Felix Abramovich and   
                 Yoav Benjamini   Adaptive thresholding of wavelet
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--361
       Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and   
                Sana S. BuHamra   Rank tests for two change points . . . . 363--372
            Shanti S. Gupta and   
               Tommaso Gastaldi   Life testing for multi-component systems
                                  with incomplete information on the cause
                                  of failure: a study on some inspection
                                  strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--393
       AndréI. Khuri and   
               Hyuk Joo Kim and   
                    Yonghwan Um   Quantile plots of the prediction
                                  variance for response surface designs    395--407
                     Dejian Lai   Comparison study of AR models of the
                                  Canadian lynx data: a close look at BDS
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--423
         Nathaniel Schenker and   
            Jeremy M. G. Taylor   Partially parametric techniques for
                                  multiple imputation  . . . . . . . . . . 425--446
               Wolfgang Reh and   
              Bernard Scheffler   Significance tests and confidence
                                  intervals for coefficients of variation  449--452
                Julian L. Simon   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--456
                      Anonymous   IAS-News COMPSTAT 1998 . . . . . . . . . 456
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 457--460

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 22, Number 5, September 30, 1996

              Debasis Kundu and   
                      G. Murali   Model selection in linear regression . . 461--469
              Hans-Peter Piepho   Weighted estimates of interlaboratory
                                  consensus values . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--479
               J. H. Venter and   
                    S. J. Steel   Finding multiple abrupt change points    481--504
                  Smarajit Bose   Classification using splines . . . . . . 505--525
                Kenneth Carling   Testing for independence in a competing
                                  risks model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--535
               Gerhard Tutz and   
             Wolfgang Hennevogl   Random effects in ordinal regression
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--557
                   Roel Popping   More agreeable software  . . . . . . . . 561--567
                   Manfred Horn   Book Review: \booktitleDesign and
                                  analysis of experiments for statistical
                                  selection, screening and multiple
                                  comparisons: Robert E. Bechhofer, Thomas
                                  J. Santner, David M. Goldsman (1995):
                                  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN
                                  0-471-57427-9, \pounds 45.00, pp. 325    568
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleContinuous
                                  univariate distributions: N. L. Johnson,
                                  S. Kotz & N. Balakrishnan (1995): Vol. 2,
                                  2nd Edition. John Wiley, New York, ISBN
                                  0-471-58494-0, \pounds 70.00, pp. xix +
                                  719  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--569
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleLinear
                                  statistical models: J. H. Stapleton
                                  (1995): John Wiley, New York, ISBN
                                  0-471-57150-4 \pounds 50.00, pp. xiii +
                                  449  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
                      Anonymous   IASC-News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--572

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 22, Number 6, October 23, 1996

             J. M. Henshall and   
                    D. M. Smith   Iterative refinement of the
                                  singular-value decomposition solution to
                                  the regression equations . . . . . . . . 573--582
                M. M. Ojeda and   
   S. F. Juárez-Cerrillo   Biplot display for diagnostic in a
                                  two-level regression model for growth
                                  curve analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--597
                 Sam Efromovich   Adaptive orthogonal series density
                                  estimation for small samples . . . . . . 599--617
                Yuh-Wen Soo and   
               Douglas M. Bates   Multiresponse spline regression  . . . . 619--631
          Sangit Chatterjee and   
            Matthew Laudato and   
                  Lucy A. Lynch   Genetic algorithms and their statistical
                                  applications: an introduction  . . . . . 633--651
                  Andreas Handl   Book Review: \booktitleBiplots: J. C.
                                  Gower and D. J. Hand (1996) London:
                                  Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0-412-71630-5,
                                  \pounds 32.00, pp. 277 . . . . . . . . . 655
             Götz Trenkler   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
                      Anonymous   IASC-News Results of the BoD ERS IASC
                                  Elections for the period of 1996--2000   656
                      Anonymous   Compstat '98 24--28 August 1998,
                                  Bristol, UK First Call for Papers  . . . 656--657
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 658--663
                      Anonymous   Author index of SSNinCSDA: Volume 21 &
                                  volume 22 (1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--667
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 22 (1996)  . . . . . 669--671


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 23, Number 1, November 15, 1996

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
               J.-P. Rasson and   
                P. J. Rousseeuw   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                 J. A. Hartigan   Introduction: Classification,
                                  probability and statistics . . . . . . . 3--4
                   Hans H. Bock   Probabilistic models in cluster analysis 5--28
            William F. Eddy and   
              Audris Mockus and   
                     Shingo Oue   Approximate single linkage cluster
                                  analysis of large data sets in
                                  high-dimensional spaces  . . . . . . . . 29--43
           Sana El Khattabi and   
                   Franz Streit   Identification analysis in directional
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--63
                 G. Govaert and   
                       M. Nadif   Comparison of the mixture and the
                                  classification maximum likelihood in
                                  cluster analysis with binary data  . . . 65--81
             André Hardy   On the number of clusters  . . . . . . . 83--96
                 J. A. Hartigan   Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--103
               J. P. Rasson and   
                   V. Granville   Geometrical tools in classification  . . 105--123
                M. Rémon   A discriminant analysis algorithm for
                                  the inside/outside problem . . . . . . . 125--133
            P. J. Rousseeuw and   
                 L. Kaufman and   
                   E. Trauwaert   Fuzzy clustering using scatter matrices  135--151
                   Ida Ruts and   
             Peter J. Rousseeuw   Computing depth contours of bivariate
                                  point clouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--168
             Bernard Van Cutsem   Combinatorial structures and structures
                                  for classification . . . . . . . . . . . 169--188
                    Carlo Lauro   Computational statistics or statistical
                                  computing, is that the question? . . . . 191--193
                    Albert Prat   Welcome to COMPSTAT'96 . . . . . . . . . 194--195
        Antoine de Falguerolles   Statement of the Incoming President of
                                  the ERS of the IASC  . . . . . . . . . . 196
                 Jaromir Antoch   Where is the future of computational
                                  statistics?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
                 Murray Cameron   More exchange of ideas needed  . . . . . 198
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
             Walter Krämer   Book Review: \booktitleThe analysis of
                                  time-series: C. Chattfield (1996): an
                                  introduction, 5th ed. Chapman & Hall,
                                  ISBN 0-412-71640-2, pp. 283, \pounds
                                  18.99  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
             Walter Krämer   Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
                                  statistical time series: Wayne A. Fuller
                                  (1996): (2nd edition). Wiley, ISBN
                                  0-471-55239-9, pp. 736, \pounds 55.00    201
                    Uwe Hassler   Book Review: \booktitleA Casebook for a
                                  first course in statistics and data
                                  analysis.: S. Chatterjee, M. S. Handcock
                                  and J. S. Simon-off (1995): Wiley & Sons,
                                  ISBN 0-471-11030-2, \pounds 19.95, pp.
                                  314  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools ---
                                  new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--206

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 23, Number 2, December 11, 1996

            Pushpa L. Gupta and   
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
                Ram C. Tripathi   Analysis of zero-adjusted count data . . 207--218
          Stuart R. Lipsitz and   
     Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and   
               Lynn Sleeper and   
                     L. P. Zhao   Estimating the joint distribution of
                                  repeated binary responses: Some small
                                  sample results . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--227
                James R. Schott   Eigenprojections and the equality of
                                  latent roots of a correlation matrix . . 229--238
               Shu-Jia Wang and   
                    Sik-Yum Lee   Sensitivity analysis of structural
                                  equation models with equality functional
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--256
        Victoria C. P. Chen and   
              Anthony J. Hayter   Sensitivity analysis of upper confidence
                                  bounds on the range of treatment effects 257--262
              Karen Kafadar and   
               Philip C. Prorok   Computer simulation of randomized cancer
                                  screening trials to compare methods of
                                  estimating lead time and benefit time    263--291
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296
                      Anonymous   ICM98-CL8: Financial support for
                                  mathematicians from Eastern Europe' and
                                  the independent states of the former
                                  Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--304
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools ---
                                  new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--306

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 23, Number 3, January 9, 1997

        J. Huston McCulloch and   
                  Don B. Panton   Precise tabulation of the
                                  maximally-skewed stable distributions
                                  and densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--320
                 Seppo Mustonen   A measure for total variability in
                                  multivariate normal distribution . . . . 321--334
        Jeffrey S. Simonoff and   
                 Frederic Udina   Measuring the stability of histogram
                                  appearance when the anchor position is
                                  changed  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--353
           Norman R. Draper and   
           Yonghong (Fred) Yang   Generalization of the geometric mean
                                  functional relationship  . . . . . . . . 355--372
            B. D. Jovanovic and   
                   D. W. Hosmer   A simulation of the performance of $ C_p
                                  $ in model selection for logistic and
                                  Poisson regression . . . . . . . . . . . 373--379
           Terry E. Dielman and   
              Elizabeth L. Rose   A note on hypothesis testing in LAV
                                  multiple regression: a small sample
                                  comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--388
           Vatsala V. Karwe and   
                 Joseph I. Naus   New recursive methods for scan statistic
                                  probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--402
                 A. Mkhadri and   
                  G. Celeux and   
                  A. Nasroallah   Regularization in discriminant analysis:
                                  an overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--423
                      Anonymous   List of referees . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
                      Anonymous   The leading edge of statistical
                                  computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--434
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 434--441
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 441--442

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 23, Number 4, February 6, 1997

             Frank K. Hwang and   
                 Paul E. Wright   An $ O(n \log n) $ algorithm for the
                                  generalized birthday problem . . . . . . 443--451
               Tor Jacobson and   
                   Rolf Larsson   Numerical aspects of a likelihood ratio
                                  test statistic for cointegrating rank    453--465
           Michael Schemper and   
               Alexandra Kaider   A new approach to estimate correlation
                                  coefficients in the presence of
                                  censoring and proportional hazards . . . 467--476
                     Paul Chiou   Interval estimation of scale parameters
                                  following a pre-test for two exponential
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--489
           Nathalie Caouder and   
                    Sylvie Huet   Testing goodness-of-fit for nonlinear
                                  regression models with heterogeneous
                                  variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--507
                  Anna Lindgren   Quantile regression with censored data
                                  using generalized $ L_1 $ minimization   509--524
            S. G. Meintanis and   
                  G. S. Donatos   A comparative study of some robust
                                  methods for coefficient-estimation in
                                  linear regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 525--540
              Geert Verbeke and   
              Emmanuel Lesaffre   The effect of misspecifying the
                                  random-effects distribution in linear
                                  mixed models for longitudinal data . . . 541--556
                    Peter Naeve   The referee system: get involved . . . . 559--561
            Allmut Hörmann   The SSN and the referee system . . . . . 562--563
                Ene-Margit Tiit   COMPSTAT '96 in Barcelona: the triangle:
                                  Computers --- Statistics --- Education   564
                  Gerald Musiol   Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
                                  to Categorical Data Analysis: Agresti,
                                  A. (1996) New York: Wiley & Sons, ISBN
                                  0-471-11338-7, xi + 290 pages, \$90.00}  565
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleThe Elements of
                                  Integration and Lebesgue Measure: Robert
                                  G. Bartle (1995) Wiley Classics Library
                                  Edition. New York: Wiley, pp. 179,
                                  \pounds 20.50, ISBN 0-471-04222-6  . . . 565
                      J. Antoch   Book Review: \booktitleA Guide to
                                  Chi-Squared Testing: Greenwood, P. E.
                                  and Nikulin, M. S. New York: John Wiley &
                                  Sons, Inc.,.pp. 280 + xii, ISBN
                                  0-471-55779-X. AMS 1991 Classification:
                                  62-02, 62F03, 62H15  . . . . . . . . . . 565--566
                      Anonymous   IASC News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--569
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 569--573
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools ---
                                  new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 23 (1997)  . . . . . 575--576


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 24, Number 1, March 6, 1997

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
   Pieter H. F. M. van Casteren   The frequency polygon reconsidered . . . 1--8
          A. G. Constantine and   
                 N. I. Robinson   The Weibull renewal function for
                                  moderate to large arguments  . . . . . . 9--27
               Kai-Tai Fang and   
                      Run-Ze Li   Some methods for generating both an
                                  NT-net and the uniform distribution on a
                                  Stiefel manifold and their applications  29--46
                       Chul Ahn   An evaluation of simple methods for the
                                  estimation of a common odds ratio in
                                  clusters with variable size  . . . . . . 47--61
              Huseyin Gunes and   
            Dennis C. Dietz and   
            Paul F. Auclair and   
                Albert H. Moore   Modified goodness-of-fit tests for the
                                  inverse Gaussian distribution  . . . . . 63--77
                 Mark S. Kaiser   Maximum likelihood estimation of link
                                  function parameters  . . . . . . . . . . 79--87
                 Donguk Kim and   
                   Alan Agresti   Nearly exact tests of conditional
                                  independence and marginal homogeneity
                                  for sparse contingency tables  . . . . . 89--104
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \booktitleThe Statistical
                                  Software Guide '96/97: edited by Armin
                                  Koch and Uwe Haag  . . . . . . . . . . . 107--131
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools ---
                                  new entries only . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
                      Anonymous   Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 24, Number 2, April 3, 1997

                   Hideo Hirose   Maximum likelihood parameter estimation
                                  in the three-parameter log-normal
                                  distribution using the continuation
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--152
                Michael LeBlanc   Restricted polynomial regression . . . . 153--167
                  T. K. Mak and   
                    H. Wong and   
                       W. K. Li   Estimation of nonlinear time series with
                                  conditional heteroscedastic variances by
                                  iteratively weighted least squares . . . 169--178
                      A. Adatia   Approximate BLUEs of the parameters of
                                  the half logistic distribution based on
                                  fairly large doubly censored samples . . 179--191
             Hartmut Hecker and   
             Peter Wübbelt   Clustering by response: CBR  . . . . . . 193--215
         Maurizio Maravalle and   
              Bruno Simeone and   
                Rosella Naldini   Clustering on trees  . . . . . . . . . . 217--234
          Christian Kastner and   
             Andreas Fieger and   
              Christian Heumann   MAREG and WinMAREG A tool for marginal
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 237--241
         Massimiliano Giacalone   Participant's views of meeting: COMPSTAT
                                  '96 in Barcelona: Comments and
                                  Impressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 253--254

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 24, Number 3, May 12, 1997

          Philippe C. Besse and   
        Hervé Cardot and   
 Frédéric Ferraty   Simultaneous non-parametric regressions
                                  of unbalanced longitudinal data  . . . . 255--270
                      Dan Bradu   Identification of outliers by means of $
                                  L_1 $ regression: Safe and unsafe
                                  configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--281
               Cathy W. S. Chen   Detection of additive outliers in
                                  bilinear time series . . . . . . . . . . 283--294
            Ludwig Fahrmeir and   
              Stefan Wagenpfeil   Penalized likelihood estimation and
                                  iterative Kalman smoothing for
                                  non-Gaussian dynamic regression models   295--320
               Ryuei Nishii and   
          Takemi Yanagimoto and   
                 Saeko Kusanobu   The use of univariate Bayes regression
                                  models for spatial smoothing . . . . . . 321--336
          Roberta Siciliano and   
                   Ab Mooijaart   Three-factor association models for
                                  three-way contingency tables . . . . . . 337--356
            Jos M. F. ten Berge   Reduction of asymmetry by rank-one
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--366
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
                      Anonymous   Net news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleMultivariate
                                  statistical analysis: Narayan C. Giri
                                  (1996): New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.,
                                  xii + 378 pages, ISBN 0-8247-9338-2,
                                  US\$135.00}  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
             Thomas Bousonville   Book Review: \booktitleGenetic
                                  algorithms + data structures = evolution
                                  programs: Zbigniew Michalewicz (1996):
                                  3rd ed.. New York: Springer, pp. 387,
                                  ISBN 3-540-60676-9, 58,00 DM . . . . . . 372--373
  Ana Fernández Militino   Book Review: \booktitleRobust
                                  statistics, data analysis, and computer
                                  intensive methods: Rieder, H. (Editor)
                                  (1996): New York: Springer, pp. 427,
                                  ISBN 0-387-94660-8, \pounds 33.50  . . . 373--374
                      Anonymous   Conference proceedings in teaching
                                  computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
                      Anonymous   Neural nets versus logistic regression   374
                      Anonymous   Sample copy of \booktitleComputational
                                  Statistics and Data Analysis . . . . . . 374
                      Anonymous   IV international summer school on
                                  computational statistics organized by
                                  the IASC and the Department of
                                  Statistical Science Padua, Italy,
                                  June--July 4, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
                      Anonymous   IASC Executive and Council following
                                  51st ISI, Istanbul . . . . . . . . . . . 376
                      Anonymous   IASC program for ISI'99 in Helsinki,
                                  Finland  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--377
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 24, Number 4, June 5, 1997

                R. D. Routledge   $P$-values from permutation and
                                  $F$-tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--386
       Jorge Alberto Achcar and   
         JoséCarlos Fogo   A useful reparameterization for the
                                  reliability in the Weibull case  . . . . 387--400
             Helio S. Migon and   
             Vilma M. Tachibana   Bayesian approximations in randomized
                                  response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--409
                J. A. Pardo and   
                M. C. Pardo and   
              M. L. Vicente and   
                  M. D. Esteban   A statistical information theory
                                  approach to compare the homogeneity of
                                  several variances  . . . . . . . . . . . 411--416
               Taesung Park and   
                Morton B. Brown   Log-linear models for a binary response
                                  with nonignorable nonresponse  . . . . . 417--432
            Erhard Reschenhofer   Generalization of the
                                  Kolmogorov--Smirnov test . . . . . . . . 433--441
         David R. Bellhouse and   
             Robert Philips and   
              James E. Stafford   Symbolic operators for multiple sums . . 443--454
    Richard William Farebrother   The historical development of the linear
                                  minimax absolute residual estimation
                                  procedure 1786--1960 . . . . . . . . . . 455--466
Jind\vri\vska He\vrmanská and   
   Miroslav Kárný   Bayesian estimation of effective
                                  half-life in dosimetric applications . . 467--482
               Kang-Mo Jung and   
             Myung Geun Kim and   
                 Byung Chun Kim   Local influence in maximum likelihood
                                  factor analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--491
                   Roel Popping   The utility of a consultation facility
                                  in a program for statistical computing   495--503
                   Hans J. Lenz   Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of
                                  statistical analyses using SAS: B. S.
                                  Everitt and G. Der (1996) London:
                                  Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0-412-71050-1, pp.
                                  158, \pounds 19.99 . . . . . . . . . . . 504
  Ana Fernández Militino   Book Review: \booktitleRobust
                                  statistical procedures, asymptotics and
                                  interrelations: Jana Jurecková and Pranab
                                  Kumar Sen (1996) New York: Wiley, pp.
                                  466, ISBN 0-471-82221-3, \pounds 50.00   504--505
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--507
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--510
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 510
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 24 (1997)  . . . . . 511--512


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 25, Number 1, July 3, 1997

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
           Jeroen Hinloopen and   
                Rien Wagenvoort   On the computation and efficiency of a
                                  HBP-GM estimator some simulation results 1--15
                 Jilei Tian and   
              Martti Juhola and   
            Tapio Grönfors   AR parameter estimation by a feedback
                                  neural network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
           Martin Bachmaier and   
                 Manfred Precht   Robust multiple confidence intervals for
                                  contrasts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--42
            Jan Christoffersson   A resampling method for regression
                                  models with serially correlated errors   43--53
                Andy H. Lee and   
                   Wing K. Fung   Confirmation of multiple outliers in
                                  generalized linear and nonlinear
                                  regressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65
          Emmanuel Lesaffre and   
          Geert Molenberghs and   
                    Ilse Scheys   Prediction and classification when the
                                  diagnostic classes are related . . . . . 67--90
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   Modified maximum likelihood predictors
                                  of future order statistics from normal
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--106
                 Armin Koch and   
           Allmut. Hörmann   Rapid communications section . . . . . . 109
           Rachel Tanya Fouladi   Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in
                                  Computational Statistics and Data
                                  Analysis: IASC 2$^{nd}$ world
                                  conference, Pasadena, USA, February
                                  16--21, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112
                Janet Grassmann   The $ 2^{\rm nd} $ world conference of
                                  the IASC from the point of view of a
                                  student (February 19 to 22, 1997,
                                  Pasadena, CA, Doubletree Hotel)  . . . . 112
                 Malcolm Hudson   IASC $ 2^{\rm nd} $ world congress,
                                  Pasadena, USA, February 19--22, 1997 . . 113--114
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--118
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 123--124

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 25, Number 2, July 31, 1997

           Christophe Croux and   
            Gentiane Haesbroeck   An easy way to increase the
                                  finite-sample efficiency of the
                                  resampled minimum volume ellipsoid
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--141
          Gilberto A. Paula and   
                 Oscar V. Rojas   On restricted hypotheses in extreme
                                  value regression models  . . . . . . . . 143--157
                  Keming Yu and   
                    M. C. Jones   A comparison of local constant and local
                                  linear regression quantile estimators    159--166
           Thomas E. Bradstreet   A Monte Carlo study of Type $I$ error
                                  rates for the two-sample Behrens--Fisher
                                  problem with and without rank
                                  transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--179
             Mortaza Jamshidian   $T$-distribution modeling using the
                                  available statistical software . . . . . 181--206
                Wilfried Seidel   A possible way out of the pitfall of
                                  acceptance sampling by variables:
                                  Treating variances as unknown  . . . . . 207--216
             Paul N. Somerville   Multiple testing and simultaneous
                                  confidence intervals: calculation of
                                  constants  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--233
                 Frank B. Baker   A note on the proper use of the
                                  \booktitleNumerical Recipes \tt RAN1
                                  random number generator  . . . . . . . . 237--239
                      Anonymous   Software prize for students and young
                                  researchers by ASK . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                  Clemens Tilke   Book Review: \booktitlePractical
                                  handbook of spatial statistics:
                                  Arlinghaus, Sandra Lach (1996): CRC
                                  Press, ISBN 0-8493-0132-7, pp. 336,
                                  \$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
        Iris Pigeot-Kübler   Book Review: \booktitleMultiple
                                  Comparisons Theory and Methods: Hsu,
                                  Jason C. (1996): London: Chapman & Hall,
                                  pp. 277, ISBN 0-412-98281-1, \pounds
                                  35.00  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--243
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
                                  Matrices: Lütkepohl, H. (1996): New York:
                                  John Wiley & Sons, xvi + 304 pp., ISBN
                                  0-471-96688-6; \pounds 50.00 . . . . . . 243
                  Clemens Tilke   Book Review: \booktitleVARIOWIN ---
                                  Software for Spatial Data Analysis in
                                  $2$D: Pannatier, Yvan (1996): Springer
                                  Verlag, 91 p., ISBN 0-387-94679-9,
                                  Hardcover DM 78.00 . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
                  Clemens Tilke   Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
                                  Disjunctive Kriging and Non-Linear
                                  Geostatistics: Rivoirard, Jacques
                                  (1994): Clarendon Press, 182 p., ISBN
                                  0-19-874180-4, Hardcover \pounds 27,50   244
                      Anonymous   Net News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
                      Anonymous   EUROSTAT: New information technologies
                                  applied to statistics --- Information
                                  highways, multimedia, visualization
                                  techniques, computer graphics and signal
                                  processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
                      Anonymous   Society for the Internet in Medicine . . 247
                      Anonymous   IASC News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
                      Anonymous   Workshop on data mining &
                                  multidimentional data analysis ---
                                  methodologies, software and applications
                                  Naples, Italy: November 19, 1997 . . . . 249--250
                      Anonymous   COMPSTAT '98 24 to 28 August 1998,
                                  Bristol, UK  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 25, Number 3, August 21, 1997

                Ali S. Hadi and   
          Alberto Luceño   Maximum trimmed likelihood estimators: a
                                  unified approach, examples, and
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--272
                  Xuesi M. Shao   An efficient algorithm for the exact
                                  test on unordered $ 2 \times J $
                                  contingency tables with equal column
                                  sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--285
          Patrick D. Gerard and   
            William R. Schucany   Methodology for nonparametric regression
                                  from independent sources . . . . . . . . 287--304
               T. R. Turner and   
                   P. C. Wollan   Locating a maximum using isotonic
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--320
                 Karim F. Hirji   A review and a synthesis of the fast
                                  Fourier transform algorithms for exact
                                  analysis of discrete data  . . . . . . . 321--336
           Richard Valliant and   
                James E. Gentle   An application of mathematical
                                  programming to sample allocation . . . . 337--360
             Sigbert Klinke and   
                    Dianne Cook   Binning of kernel-based projection
                                  pursuit indices in XGobi . . . . . . . . 363--369
                      Anonymous   Guide to Medical Informatics, the
                                  Internet and Telemedicine  . . . . . . . 370
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
                      Anonymous   Telemedicine forum . . . . . . . . . . . 370
                      Anonymous   Health informatics journal: Year 2000
                                  and healthcare computing --- Call for
                                  papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
                      Anonymous   IASC News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 25, Number 4, September 30, 1997

                   Magne Aldrin   Length modified ridge regression . . . . 377--398
           Aluisio Pinheiro and   
                Brani Vidakovic   Estimating the square root of a density
                                  via compactly supported wavelets . . . . 399--415
               Hisashi Tanizaki   Nonlinear and nonnormal filters using
                                  Monte Carlo methods  . . . . . . . . . . 417--439
                   F. Beier and   
                 H. Büning   An adaptive test against ordered
                                  alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--452
             G. R. Oskrochi and   
                   R. B. Davies   Stayers in mixed Markov renewal models   453--464
       Russell D. Wolfinger and   
                     Xihong Lin   Two Taylor-series approximation methods
                                  for nonlinear mixed models . . . . . . . 465--490
              Hans-Joachim Lenz   Book Review: \booktitleMethodological
                                  Knowledge: Notation and Implementation
                                  in Expert Systems: H. J. Ad\`er (1995):
                                  Universiteit van Amsterdam, ISBN
                                  90-90-09022-3, pp. 227 . . . . . . . . . 493--494
              Hans-Joachim Lenz   Book Review: \booktitleProgrammer's
                                  Guide to Fortran 90, 3rd ed.: Walter S.
                                  Brainerd, Jeanne C. Adams, Charles H.
                                  Goldberg (1995): Springer, ISBN
                                  0-387-94570-9, pp. 460, DM 58.00 . . . . 494
        Antonie de Falguerolles   ERS of IASC call for nominations . . . . 494--495
                 Jaromir Antoch   Report on ERC Activities for the use of
                                  money  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 496--500
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 500--501
                      Anonymous   Author Index of SSNinCSDA: Volume 23--25
                                  (November 1996--September 1997)  . . . . 502
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews of SSNinCSDA: Volume 23--25
                                  (November 1996--September 1997)  . . . . 503
                      Anonymous   IASC News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--505
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
                      Anonymous   Information, Literature, Net News  . . . 506
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 25 (1997)  . . . . . 507--508


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 26, Number 1, November 6, 1997

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
                    S. P. Smith   Sparse matrix tools for Gaussian models
                                  on lattices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
                Anja Struyf and   
                 Mia Hubert and   
             Peter J. Rousseeuw   Integrating robust clustering techniques
                                  in S-PLUS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--37
           Bruce E. Barrett and   
                  J. Brian Gray   Leverage, residual, and interaction
                                  diagnostics for subsets of cases in
                                  least squares regression . . . . . . . . 39--52
             Joan F. Hilton and   
                     Lauren Gee   The size and power of the exact
                                  bivariate symmetry test  . . . . . . . . 53--69
                    Lin-An Chen   Multivariate regression splines  . . . . 71--82
            Joachim Röhmel   The permutation distribution of the
                                  Friedman test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--99
        J. Huston McCulloch and   
                  Don B. Panton   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
          Jaromír Antoch   Satellite meeting on industrial
                                  statistics: Aims and computational
                                  aspects August 16--17, 1997, Athens,
                                  Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
                  Luigi Salmaso   ISI satellite conference on industrial
                                  statistics: Aims and computational
                                  aspects, Athens, Greece, 16--17 August
                                  1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
                      Anonymous   Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
              M. Dolores Ugarte   Book Review: \booktitleProbability --- A
                                  survey of the mathematical theory: John
                                  W. Lamperti (1996): 2nd ed. New York:
                                  Wiley, ISBN 0-471-15407-5, pp. 189,
                                  \pounds 32.50  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
              M. Dolores Ugarte   Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
                                  statistical inference: Robert
                                  Bartoszynski and Magdalena
                                  Niewiadomska-Bugaj (1996): Wiley, New
                                  York, pp. 826, ISBN 0-471-31073-5,
                                  \pounds 50.00  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
              Hans-Joachim Lenz   Book Review: \booktitleOrdinal and
                                  symbolic data analysis: E. Diday, Y.
                                  Lechevallier, O. Opitz (eds.) (1996):
                                  Springer, ISBN 3-540-61081-2; pp. 372,
                                  DM 135.00  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 26, Number 2, December 4, 1997

             Fred W. Huffer and   
                  Chien-Tai Lin   Computing the exact distribution of the
                                  extremes of sums of consecutive spacings 117--132
                      A. J. Lee   Some simple methods for generating
                                  correlated categorical variates  . . . . 133--148
             Rick Routledge and   
                       Min Tsao   Quadrature methods for computing
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--161
                Rudy Guerra and   
           Alan M. Polansky and   
            William R. Schucany   Smoothed bootstrap confidence intervals
                                  with discrete data . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176
                Ke-Hai Yuan and   
               Peter M. Bentler   Improving parameter tests in covariance
                                  structure analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 177--198
                  J. \vCwik and   
                   J. Koronacki   A combined adaptive-mixtures/plug-in
                                  estimator of multivariate probability
                                  densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--218
              Darcy P. Mays and   
               Raymond H. Myers   Design and analysis for a two-level
                                  factorial experiment in the presence of
                                  variance heterogeneity . . . . . . . . . 219--233
A. Martín Andrés and   
                  A. Silva Mato   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
              Warren L. May and   
             William D. Johnson   A SAS$^R$ macro for the multivariate
                                  extension of the Kruskal--Wallis test
                                  including multiple comparisons:
                                  Randomization and $ \kappa^2$ criteria   239--250
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 26, Number 3, January 2, 1998

                  Jef Caers and   
               Jan Beirlant and   
                 Petra Vynckier   Bootstrap confidence intervals for tail
                                  indices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--277
           Daniel T. Larose and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   Modeling publication bias using weighted
                                  distributions in a Bayesian framework    279--302
                Jae Won Lee and   
              Harland N. Sather   A supremum version of logrank test for
                                  detecting late occurring survival
                                  differences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311
          Alberto Luceño   Multiple outliers detection through
                                  reweighted least deviances . . . . . . . 313--326
          Geert Molenberghs and   
            Lieven Declerck and   
                     Marc Aerts   Misspecifying the likelihood for
                                  clustered binary data  . . . . . . . . . 327--349
                   M. Bauer and   
                   P. Bauer and   
                       M. Budde   A simulation program for adaptive two
                                  stage designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--371
                Leo Knüsel   On the accuracy of statistical
                                  distributions in Microsoft Excel 97  . . 375--377
             Walter Krämer   Book Review: \booktitleTime Series
                                  Analysis --- Nonstationary and
                                  noninvertible distribution theory:
                                  Katsuo Tanaka (1996): New York: Wiley,
                                  ISBN 0-471-14191-7, x + 623 pages,
                                  \$70.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
             Götz Trenkler   Book Review: \booktitleMethods and
                                  Applications of Linear Models ---
                                  Regression and the Analysis of Variance:
                                  Ronald R. Hocking (1996): Wiley Series
                                  in Probability and Statistics, ISBN
                                  0-471-59282-X, pp. 731, \pounds 55.00    378--379
                  Lionel Galway   Information: Call for Papers 10$^{th}$
                                  International Conference on Scienctific
                                  and Statistical Database Management
                                  (SSDBM) Capri, Italy --- July 1--3, 1998 379
                      Anonymous   IASC News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 385--390
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 391--392

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 26, Number 4, February 6, 1998

          H. Malcolm Hudson and   
               Thomas C. M. Lee   Maximum likelihood restoration and
                                  choice of smoothing parameter in
                                  deconvolution of image data subject to
                                  Poisson noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--410
             Pekka Korhonen and   
            Aapo Siljamäki   Ordinal principal component analysis
                                  theory and an application  . . . . . . . 411--424
                John Lawson and   
             Scott Grimshaw and   
                     Jason Burt   A quantitative method for identifying
                                  active contrasts in unreplicated
                                  factorial designs based on the
                                  half-normal plot . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--436
                  A. Ian McLeod   Diagnostic check for monotone spread . . 437--443
            Andrea Saltelli and   
                 Ricardo Bolado   An alternative way to compute Fourier
                                  amplitude sensitivity test (FAST)  . . . 445--460
                 Shu-Fei Wu and   
                 Hubert J. Chen   Multiple comparison procedures with the
                                  average for exponential location
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--484
                      Anonymous   Net news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--488
                      Anonymous   ContentsDirect, a free service for all
                                  Elsevier Science Journals  . . . . . . . 488--489
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--490
                     Peter Lane   COMPSTAT'98 registration form (please
                                  print in a fixed-width font) . . . . . . 491--492
                      Anonymous   Prof. Ed Wegman --- Profile of the New
                                  President (1997--1999) . . . . . . . . . 493--494
                 Malcolm Hudson   Current IASC officers IASC executives
                                  1997--1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--495
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--498
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 26 (1998)  . . . . . 499--500


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 27, Number 1, March 6, 1998

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
                 Karim F. Hirji   Assessing fast Fourier transform
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
                 Marilena Furno   Estimating the variance of the LAD
                                  regression coefficients  . . . . . . . . 11--26
           Christos Koukouvinos   Weighing experiments with $ n \equiv 2
                                  \pmod 4 $ observations . . . . . . . . . 27--31
               Man-Lai Tang and   
                    Sik-Yum Lee   Analysis of structural equation models
                                  with censored or truncated data via EM
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46
                  W. Albers and   
        W. C. M. Kallenberg and   
                    G. D. Otten   A comparison between Rosenblatt's
                                  estimator and parametric density
                                  estimators for determining test limits   47--60
             Luisa Bisaglia and   
        Dominique Guégan   A comparison of techniques of estimation
                                  in long-memory processes . . . . . . . . 61--81
            Kenneth Carling and   
            Hans Söderberg   An experimental comparison of gradient
                                  methods in econometric duration analysis 83--97
                    Lam Yeh and   
                   So Kuen Chan   Statistical inference for geometric
                                  processes with lognormal distribution    99--112
                      H. Hirose   Erratum to ``Maximum likelihood
                                  parameter estimation in the
                                  three-parameter gamma distribution'':
                                  [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
                                  \bf 20, 343--354 (1995)] . . . . . . . . 113
                      Anonymous   Referees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
                      Anonymous   Call for papers: Computational
                                  Statistics & Data Analysis: Special Issue
                                  on parallel processing and statistics    117
                      Anonymous   Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 27, Number 2, April 3, 1998

            Barry C. Arnold and   
           Enrique Castillo and   
JoséMaría Sarabia   The use of conditionally conjugate
                                  priors in the study of ratios of gamma
                                  scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139
                   Michael Cain   Asymmetric quadratic loss adjustments
                                  for a predictive $t$ variable  . . . . . 141--150
                 John Hinde and   
  Clarice G. B. Demétrio   Overdispersion: Models and estimation    151--170
                   Chung-ki Min   A Gibbs sampling approach to estimation
                                  and prediction of time-varying-parameter
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--194
                  Chung-Bow Lee   Bayesian analysis of a change-point in
                                  exponential families with applications   195--208
             William Navidi and   
     William S. Murphy, Jr. and   
                  Willy Hereman   Statistical methods in surveying by
                                  trilateration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--227
              Chongsun Park and   
               Sanford Weisberg   Fisher consistency of GEE models under
                                  link misspecification  . . . . . . . . . 229--235
                Jos Dessens and   
                 Wim Jansen and   
    Peter G. M. van der Heijden   Using covariates in loglinear models
                                  with sampling zeros; A cautionary note   239--245
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
                      Anonymous   Net News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
                      Anonymous   Special technical session on high
                                  performance computing for pattern
                                  recognition at the 1998 international
                                  conference on parallel and distributed
                                  processing techniques and applications
                                  (PDPTA'98), July 13--16, 1998, Las
                                  Vegas, Nevada, USA Call for Papers . . . 249
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 250--256

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 27, Number 3, May 1, 1998

               Man-Lai Tang and   
               Peter M. Bentler   Theory and method for constrained
                                  estimation in structural equation models
                                  with incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . 257--270
         P. A. G. van der Geest   An algorithm to generate samples of
                                  multi-variate distributions with
                                  correlated marginals . . . . . . . . . . 271--289
               Svein Nordbotten   Estimating population proportions from
                                  imputed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--309
                 Maurizio Vichi   Principal classifications analysis: a
                                  method for generating consensus
                                  dendrograms and its application to
                                  three-way data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--331
       Augustine C. M. Wong and   
                    Jianrong Wu   Comparisons of approximate tail
                                  probabilities for the shape parameter of
                                  the gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . 333--344
                Huiwen Wang and   
                      Qiang Liu   Forecast modelling for rotations of
                                  principal axes of multidimensional data
                                  sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--354
                     Hans Frick   Nonparametric comparisons of medians of
                                  survival functions . . . . . . . . . . . 357--361
                      Anonymous   Net news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
                      Anonymous   Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings-new entries only    368--370

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 27, Number 4, June 5, 1998

               A. P. Dunmur and   
             D. M. Titterington   Parameter estimation in latent profile
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--388
                       Qin Wang   Exact calculations for the repeated
                                  many-one test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--399
              I. S. F. Chan and   
                 D. Hillman and   
                    T. A. Louis   Treatment comparisons with screenable
                                  endpoints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--419
               Felix Famoye and   
               Z. Govindarajulu   On the Lagrange gamma distribution . . . 421--431
       AndréI. Khuri and   
                  Juneyoung Lee   A graphical approach for evaluating and
                                  comparing designs for nonlinear models   433--443
                James R. Schott   Estimating correlation matrices that
                                  have common eigenvectors . . . . . . . . 445--459
            David M. Sebert and   
      Douglas C. Montgomery and   
              Dwayne A. Rollier   A clustering algorithm for identifying
                                  multiple outliers in linear regression   461--484
      Jaromír Antoch and   
Jean-Marc Deshouillérs and   
             Gusti Putu Purnaba   Revisiting the pseudorandom number
                                  generator ran1 from the
                                  \booktitleNumerical Recipes  . . . . . . 487--495
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
                      Anonymous   Net news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--497
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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 28, Number 1, July 17, 1998

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
              Ravindra Khattree   Some practical estimation procedures for
                                  variance components  . . . . . . . . . . 1--32
                    Wei Pan and   
                  Rick Chappell   Computation of the NPMLE of distribution
                                  functions for interval censored and
                                  truncated data with applications to the
                                  Cox model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--50
         Hamparsum Bozdogan and   
       Dominique M. A. Haughton   Informational complexity criteria for
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 51--76
                Paul Damien and   
              Peter Müller   A Bayesian bivariate failure time
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85
        Jennifer A. Hoeting and   
              Joseph G. Ibrahim   Bayesian predictive simultaneous
                                  variable and transformation selection in
                                  the linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--103
                       Aiyi Liu   Detecting influential covariates in a
                                  growth curve model . . . . . . . . . . . 105--113
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
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                 Ehsan S. Soofi   IASC News  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 124--128
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 128--130

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 28, Number 2, August 7, 1998

      Garrison W. Greenwood and   
             Xiaobo (Sharon) Hu   On the use of random walks to estimate
                                  correlation in fitness landscapes  . . . 131--137
               Alan Agresti and   
                 Brent A. Coull   Order-restricted inference for monotone
                                  trend alternatives in contingency tables 139--155
              Samuel E. Buttrey   Nearest-neighbor classification with
                                  categorical variables  . . . . . . . . . 157--169
           Gary K. Grunwald and   
                 Rob J. Hyndman   Smoothing non-Gaussian time series with
                                  autoregressive structure . . . . . . . . 171--191
              Brian D. Marx and   
              Paul H. C. Eilers   Direct generalized additive modeling
                                  with penalized likelihood  . . . . . . . 193--209
                   G. L. Silver   Operational equations for data in
                                  rectangular array  . . . . . . . . . . . 211--215
                 D. J. Best and   
            J. C. W. Rayner and   
                 L. G. Stephens   Small-sample comparison of McCullagh and
                                  Nair analyses for nominal-ordinal
                                  categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--223
                 J. H. Zhao and   
                     P. C. Sham   A method for calculating probability
                                  convolution using ``ternary'' numbers
                                  with application in the determination of
                                  twin zygosity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--232
                      Anonymous   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
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                      Anonymous   American Statistical Association
                                  Statistical Computing Section Student
                                  Paper Competition Deadline: January 8,
                                  1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
                      Anonymous   Comprehensive handbook of statistical
                                  procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
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                                  --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . 240--242

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 28, Number 3, September 4, 1998

               Taesung Park and   
           Charles S. Davis and   
                        Ning Li   Alternative Gee estimation procedures
                                  for discrete longitudinal data . . . . . 243--256
                Sergio Zani and   
                Marco Riani and   
                Aldo Corbellini   Robust bivariate boxplots and multiple
                                  outlier detection  . . . . . . . . . . . 257--270
              S. K. Agarwal and   
                       P. Kumar   On the relative efficiency of estimators
                                  of population total in unequal
                                  probability sampling when study variable
                                  has weak relationship with size variable 271--281
                R. A. Bates and   
              E. Riccomagno and   
                 R. Schwabe and   
                     H. P. Wynn   Lattices and dual lattices in optimal
                                  experimental design for Fourier models   283--296
            Siu Hung Cheung and   
                   Ka Ho Wu and   
                   Wai Sum Chan   Simultaneous prediction intervals for
                                  autoregressive-integrated moving-average
                                  models: a comparative study  . . . . . . 297--306
               Henk A. L. Kiers   Three-way SIMPLIMAX for oblique rotation
                                  of the three-mode factor analysis core
                                  to simple structure  . . . . . . . . . . 307--324
          Fortunato Pesarin and   
                  Luigi Salmaso   Telegram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
               Chooichiro Asano   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--330
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                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--335
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                                  --- new entries only . . . . . . . . . . 335--338

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 28, Number 4, October 28, 1998

                      Anonymous   Referees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
                    M. C. Pardo   Improving the accuracy of
                                  goodness-of-fit tests based on Rao's
                                  divergence with small sample size  . . . 339--351
         Anestis Antoniadis and   
                 Dinh Tuan Pham   Wavelet regression for random or
                                  irregular design . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--369
               Kai-Tai Fang and   
                  Run-Ze Li and   
                 Jia-Juan Liang   A multivariate version of Ghosh's $ T_3
                                  $-plot to detect non-multinormality  . . 371--386
                Krista Lapp and   
          Geert Molenberghs and   
              Emmanuel Lesaffre   Models for the association between
                                  ordinal variables  . . . . . . . . . . . 387--411
     Òyvind Langsrud and   
               Tormod Næs   A unified framework for significance
                                  testing in fractional factorials . . . . 413--431
                     Lutz Edler   IASC Elections 1999 Call for CANDIDATES  435
         Christos P. Kitsos and   
          Jaromír Antoch   5th Summer School of ERS IASC 3rd
                                  Millennium Challenge for Industrial
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
                      Anonymous   XIV COMPSTAT Conference of the
                                  International Association for
                                  Statistical Computing 21 to 25 August
                                  2000, University of Utrecht, The
                                  Netherlands  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--436
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings . . . . . . . . . . 436--443
                      Anonymous   Courses, workshops & summer schools . . . 444--446
                      Anonymous   Author Index of SSNinCSDA: Volumes
                                  26--28 (October 1997--October 1998)  . . 447
                      Anonymous   Participants' Reflextions on Meetings of
                                  SSNinCSDA: Volumes 26--28 (October
                                  1997--October 1998)  . . . . . . . . . . 447
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews of SSNinCSDA: Volumes
                                  26--28 (October 1997--October 1998)  . . 447--448
                      Anonymous   Telegram, Software: Volumes 26--28
                                  (October 1997--October 1998) . . . . . . 449
                      Anonymous   Editorials, Information, Net News:
                                  Volumes 26--28 (October 1997--October
                                  1998)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 28 (1998)  . . . . . 451--452


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 29, Number 1, November 28, 1998

                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
               Noel Cressie and   
           Jennifer L. Davidson   Image analysis with partially ordered
                                  Markov models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
               R. L. Eubank and   
              E. L. Kambour and   
                  J. T. Kim and   
                 K. Klipple and   
                C. S. Reese and   
                     M. Schimek   Estimation in partially linear models    27--34
          George S. Fishman and   
                 David S. Rubin   Best- and worst-case variances when
                                  bounds are available for the
                                  distribution function  . . . . . . . . . 35--53
                   D. J. Dupuis   Parameter and quantile estimation for a
                                  fatigue model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--68
               John S. Yick and   
                    Andy H. Lee   Unmasking outliers in two-way
                                  contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 69--79
            Dimitris Karlis and   
               Evdokia Xekalaki   Minimum Hellinger distance estimation
                                  for Poisson mixtures . . . . . . . . . . 81--103
A. Martín Andrés and   
M. J. Sánchez Quevedo and   
                  A. Silva Mato   Fisher's Mid-$P$-value arrangement in $
                                  2 \times 2 $ Comparative trials  . . . . 107--115
            Tom\`as Aluja-Banet   Feelings from last COMPSTAT  . . . . . . 116
           Ene Käärik   Compstat'98 --- a bridge between
                                  statistical theory and computational
                                  applied statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 117
                   John C. Nash   Participants' views of meetings:
                                  Compstat 98 --- one person's view  . . . 118--119
                      Anonymous   Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
                      Anonymous   IASC news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
                      Anonymous   Latest news  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 29, Number 2, December 28, 1998

                 Yi-Ju Chen and   
                John Hewett and   
                Yazhen Wang and   
                   Jane Johnson   A rank test for equality of two
                                  multivariate populations vs a particular
                                  ordered alternative  . . . . . . . . . . 129--144
            Andrzej S. Kosinski   A procedure for the detection of
                                  multivariate outliers  . . . . . . . . . 145--161
                Michael LeBlanc   Resampled quantile functions for error
                                  estimation and a relationship to density
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176
                    H. Mansouri   Multifactor analysis of variance based
                                  on the aligned rank transform technique  177--189
                  Jef Caers and   
                 Jozef Van Dyck   Nonparametric tail estimation using a
                                  double bootstrap method  . . . . . . . . 191--211
                 Baibing Li and   
                   Bart De Moor   A corrected normal approximation for the
                                  Student's $t$ distribution . . . . . . . 213--216
                 Roger W. Payne   Design keys, pseudo-factors and general
                                  balance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--229
                 Ross H. Taplin   Alternative equations for combining the
                                  results of Kalman filters  . . . . . . . 231--238

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 29, Number 3, January 28, 1999

                 Cherng G. Ding   An efficient algorithm for computing
                                  quantiles of the noncentral chi-squared
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--259
               J. H. Venter and   
                     H. Viljoen   Identifying multiple discordant
                                  observations: a computer intensive
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--273
                 Rand R. Wilcox   Rank-based tests for interactions in a
                                  two-way design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--284
       J. M. Caridad Ocerin and   
         R. Espejo Mohedano and   
             A. Gallego Segador   Automatic aggregation of categories in
                                  multivariate contingency tables using
                                  information theory . . . . . . . . . . . 285--294
            Gudmund Hòst   Kriging by local polynomials . . . . . . 295--312
            Fabrizia Mealli and   
               Carla Rampichini   Estimating binary multilevel models
                                  through indirect inference . . . . . . . 313--324
        Christian P. Robert and   
            Kerrie L. Mengersen   Reparameterisation Issues in Mixture
                                  Modelling and their bearing on MCMC
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--343
             Roger B. Sidje and   
             William J. Stewart   A numerical study of large sparse matrix
                                  exponentials arising in Markov chains    345--368

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 29, Number 4, February 28, 1999

     Hedibert Freitas Lopes and   
      Ajax R. Bello Moreira and   
        Alexandra Mello Schmidt   Hyperparameter estimation in forecast
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--410
                     Man-Suk Oh   Estimation of posterior density
                                  functions from a posterior sample  . . . 411--427
       Fernando A. Quintana and   
                 Jun S. Liu and   
              Guido E. del Pino   Monte Carlo EM with importance
                                  reweighting and its applications in
                                  random effects models  . . . . . . . . . 429--444
                 Zongwu Cai and   
                 Chih-Ling Tsai   Diagnostics for nonlinearity in
                                  generalized linear models  . . . . . . . 445--469
               Xiangyi Meng and   
             Nathaniel Schenker   Maximum likelihood estimation for linear
                                  regression models with right censored
                                  outcomes and missing predictors  . . . . 471--483
                R. P. Mentz and   
             P. A. Morettin and   
                 C. M. C. Toloi   On least-squares estimation of the
                                  residual variance in the first-order
                                  moving average model . . . . . . . . . . 485--499


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 30, Number 1, March 28, 1999

         Douglas M. Hawkins and   
                 David J. Olive   Improved feasible solution algorithms
                                  for high breakdown estimation  . . . . . 1--11
           Dankmar Böhning   The lower bound method in probit
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--17
                R. de Bruin and   
           D. Salomé and   
                   W. Schaafsma   A semi-Bayesian method for nonparametric
                                  density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30
             Jia-Juan Liang and   
               Peter M. Bentler   A $t$-distribution plot to detect
                                  non-multinormality . . . . . . . . . . . 31--44
                  J. Timmer and   
                    M. Lauk and   
                    W. Vach and   
             C. H. Lücking   A test for a difference between spectral
                                  peak frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55
           Kelvin K. W. Yau and   
              C. A. McGilchrist   Power family of transformation for Cox's
                                  regression with random effects . . . . . 57--66
                 Peter Hall and   
              Berwin A. Turlach   Reducing bias in curve estimation by use
                                  of weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--86
             Francesco Lisi and   
                Rosa A. Schiavo   A comparison between neural networks and
                                  chaotic models for exchange rate
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--102

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 30, Number 2, April 28, 1999

                J. Beirlant and   
                D. M. Mason and   
                    C. Vynckier   Goodness-of-fit analysis for
                                  multivariate normality based on
                                  generalized quantiles  . . . . . . . . . 119--142
                Mark Farmen and   
                   J. S. Marron   An assessment of finite sample
                                  performance of adaptive methods in
                                  density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 143--168
                 Honghu Liu and   
            Robert E. Weiss and   
         Robert I. Jennrich and   
                 Neil S. Wenger   PRESS model selection in repeated
                                  measures data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--184
                    Wei Pan and   
                Thomas A. Louis   Two semi-parametric empirical Bayes
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--196
   Carlos Daniel M. Paulino and   
           Giovani Loiola Silva   On the maximum-likelihood analysis of
                                  the general linear model in categorical
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204
                   Jiazhong You   A Monte Carlo comparison of several high
                                  breakdown and efficient estimators . . . 205--219
                    Han Son Seo   A dynamic plot for the specification of
                                  curvature in linear regression . . . . . 221--228

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 30, Number 3, May 28, 1999

       Cécile Contal and   
                 John O'Quigley   An application of changepoint methods in
                                  studying the effect of age on survival
                                  in breast cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--270
C. N. Hernández-Flores and   
          J. Artiles-Romero and   
            P. Saavedra-Santana   Estimation of the population spectrum
                                  with replicated time series  . . . . . . 271--280
               Tomoyuki Higuchi   Applications of quasi-periodic
                                  oscillation models to seasonal small
                                  count time series  . . . . . . . . . . . 281--301
               Ethan Reiner and   
            Xavier Paoletti and   
                 John O'Quigley   Operating characteristics of the
                                  standard phase $I$ clinical trial design 303--315
            Victoria C. P. Chen   Application of orthogonal arrays and
                                  MARS to inventory forecasting stochastic
                                  dynamic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--341

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 30, Number 4, June 28, 1999

               Ab Mooijaart and   
Peter G. M. van der Heijden and   
         L. Andries van der Ark   A least squares algorithm for a mixture
                                  model for compositional data . . . . . . 359--379
                Greet Pison and   
                Anja Struyf and   
             Peter J. Rousseeuw   Displaying a clustering with CLUSPLOT    381--392
               A. J. Hayter and   
                         W. Liu   A new test against an umbrella
                                  alternative and the associated
                                  simultaneous confidence intervals  . . . 393--401
      Markus Neuhäuser and   
              Ludwig A. Hothorn   An exact Cochran--Armitage test for
                                  trend when dose--response shapes are a
                                  priori unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--412
              Gilberto A. Paula   One-sided tests in generalized linear
                                  dose--response models  . . . . . . . . . 413--427
             Wen Hsiang Wei and   
                  Wing Kam Fung   The mean-shift outlier model in general
                                  weighted regression and its applications 429--441
             Giuseppe Arbia and   
          Roberto Benedetti and   
                  Giuseppe Espa   Contextual classification in image
                                  analysis: an assessment of accuracy of
                                  ICM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--455
                     T. Oke and   
                     J. Lyhagen   Small-sample properties of some tests
                                  for unit root with data-based choice of
                                  the degree of augmentation . . . . . . . 457--469
                      Anonymous   $ G^\star $ Power a general power
                                  analysis program for Macintosh OS and
                                  MS-DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
                      Anonymous   ESBPDF analysis v1.3, probability
                                  analysis package for Win32 . . . . . . . 473--474
                      Anonymous   Reference data sets for improving the
                                  accuracy of statistical software . . . . 474
                      Anonymous   SMART --- Explorapedia of Statistical
                                  and Mathematical Techniques for use in
                                  research and technology  . . . . . . . . 474--475
                      Anonymous   New Zealand Statistical Association
                                  website  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--476
                      Anonymous   New Internet discussion list ---
                                  Inputing missing data  . . . . . . . . . 476
                      Anonymous   Recursive-partitioning.com mailing list  476
                      Anonymous   Section IV: New resampling book, Missing
                                  data listserv  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
                      Anonymous   New book on multivariate permutation
                                  testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--477
                      Anonymous   Computational intelligence website . . . 477
            Sabine Warschburger   Book Review: \booktitleNonresponse in
                                  household interview surveys: Robert M.
                                  Groves and Mick P. Couper (1998): John
                                  Wiley, New York, 344 pp., US\$51.00,
                                  ISBN 0-471-18245-1}  . . . . . . . . . . 477--478
              Rainer Schlittgen   Book Review: \booktitleAnalysis of
                                  incomplete multivariate data: J. L.
                                  Shafer (1997): Chapman & Hall, London,
                                  430 pp., GB \pounds 39.00, ISBN
                                  0-412-04061-1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--479
                      Anonymous   PLS'99 International symposium on PLS
                                  methods, 5--6 Oct. 1999  . . . . . . . . 479--481
                      Anonymous   Calendar of meetings --- new entries
                                  only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--490
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 30 (1999)  . . . . . 491--492


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 31, Number 1, July 28, 1999

                Dan Coleman and   
              Xioapeng Dong and   
             Johanna Hardin and   
             David M. Rocke and   
              David L. Woodruff   Some computational issues in cluster
                                  analysis with no a priori metric . . . . 1--11
                   Chris Fraley   On computing the largest fraction of
                                  missing information for the EM algorithm
                                  and the worst linear function for data
                                  augmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--26
           B. D. McCullough and   
                   Berry Wilson   On the accuracy of statistical
                                  procedures in Microsoft Excel 97 . . . . 27--37
             Friedrich Gebhardt   Cluster tests for geographical areas
                                  with binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--58
                 Joseph B. Lang   Bayesian ordinal and binary regression
                                  models with a parametric family of
                                  mixture links  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--87
                      Shili Lin   Monte Carlo Bayesian methods for
                                  quantitative traits  . . . . . . . . . . 89--108

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 31, Number 2, August 28, 1999

                   Song Xi Chen   Beta kernel estimators for density
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--145
                John R. Gleason   An accurate, non-iterative approximation
                                  for Studentized range quantiles  . . . . 147--158
             Karim F. Hirji and   
             Timothy D. Johnson   Exact inference on stratified two-stage
                                  Markov chain models  . . . . . . . . . . 159--186
                 Daesu Park and   
            Thomas R. Willemain   The threshold bootstrap and threshold
                                  jackknife  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--202
               Tor Jacobson and   
                   Rolf Larsson   Bartlett corrections in cointegration
                                  testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--225
                 Hojin Moon and   
               Hongshik Ahn and   
            Ralph L. Kodell and   
                Bruce A. Pearce   A comparison of a mixture likelihood
                                  method and the EM algorithm for an
                                  estimation problem in animal
                                  carcinogenicity studies  . . . . . . . . 227--238

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 31, Number 3, September 28, 1999

         Claus A. Andersson and   
                   Rene Henrion   A general algorithm for obtaining simple
                                  structure of core arrays in $N$-way PCA
                                  with application to fluorometric data    255--278
            M. J. del Moral and   
               M. J. Valderrama   An entropic approach to dimensionality
                                  reduction on discrete processes  . . . . 279--293
        Peter Bühlmann and   
            Hans R. Künsch   Block length selection in the bootstrap
                                  for time series  . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--310
Martín Andrés and   
            Tapia García   Optimal unconditional test in $ 2 \times
                                  2 $ multinomial trials . . . . . . . . . 311--321
            S. G. Meintanis and   
                  G. S. Donatos   Finite-sample performance of alternative
                                  estimators for autoregressive models in
                                  the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . 323--339
                    Lei Shi and   
                    Xueren Wang   Local influence in ridge regression  . . 341--353

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 31, Number 4, October 28, 1999

                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375
             Markus Hegland and   
               Ian McIntosh and   
              Berwin A. Turlach   A parallel solver for generalised
                                  additive models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--396
             Janis Hardwick and   
              Robert Oehmke and   
               Quentin F. Stout   A program for sequential allocation of
                                  three Bernoulli populations  . . . . . . 397--416
                   H. Jones and   
                   G. Mitra and   
               D. Parkinson and   
                      T. Spinks   A parallel implementation of the maximum
                                  likelihood method in positron emission
                                  tomography image reconstruction  . . . . 417--439
                  K. Murphy and   
                   M. Clint and   
                  R. H. Perrott   Re-engineering statistical software for
                                  efficient parallel execution . . . . . . 441--456
                 J. M. Bull and   
                G. D. Riley and   
                 J. Rasbash and   
                   H. Goldstein   Parallel implementation of a multilevel
                                  modelling package  . . . . . . . . . . . 457--474
            A. Christofides and   
                   B. Tanyi and   
            S. Christofides and   
                 D. Whobrey and   
                N. Christofides   The optimal discretization of
                                  probability density functions  . . . . . 475--486
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--516


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 32, Number 1, November 28, 1999

           Georges A. Darbellay   An estimator of the mutual information
                                  based on a criterion for conditional
                                  independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
                Alan J. Watkins   An algorithm for maximum likelihood
                                  estimation in the three parameter Burr
                                  XII distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27
           Cathy W. S. Chen and   
              Shen-Ming Lee and   
             Ying-Hen Hsieh and   
              Kumnuan Ungchusak   A unified approach to estimating
                                  population size for a births only model  29--46
              Hye-Seung Lee and   
                    Jae Won Lee   Statistical methods in criminal
                                  inference using DNA fingerprints . . . . 47--67
                Jae Won Lee and   
                David L. DeMets   Estimation following group sequential
                                  tests with repeated measurements data    69--77
                 A. Marazzi and   
                    C. Ruffieux   The truncated mean of an asymmetric
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--100

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 32, Number 2, December 28, 1999

         Douglas M. Hawkins and   
                    David Olive   Applications and algorithms for least
                                  trimmed sum of absolute deviations
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--134
                James R. Schott   A test for proportional covariance
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146
Juan Esteban Ramírez Cid and   
           Jorge Alberto Achcar   Bayesian inference for nonhomogeneous
                                  Poisson processes in software
                                  reliability models assuming nonmonotonic
                                  intensity functions  . . . . . . . . . . 147--159
               J. J. Daudin and   
                     A. Bar-Hen   Selection in discriminant analysis with
                                  continuous and discrete variables  . . . 161--175
          Alberto Luceño   Average run lengths and run length
                                  probability distributions for cuscore
                                  charts to control normal mean  . . . . . 177--195
              Yutaka Tanaka and   
                 Fanghong Zhang   $R$-mode and $Q$-mode influence analyses
                                  in statistical modelling: relationship
                                  between influence function approach and
                                  local influence approach . . . . . . . . 197--218


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 33, Number 2, April 28, 2000

                      C. Fraley   Comments on: D. Coleman, X. Dong, J.
                                  Hardin, D. M. Rocke, D. L. Woodruff,
                                  ``Some computational issues in cluster
                                  analysis with no a priori metric'',
                                  Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
                                  \bf 31:1--12 (July 1999) . . . . . . . . 131--133
             David M. Rocke and   
              David L. Woodruff   Author's Response: Comments on ``Some
                                  computational issues in cluster analysis
                                  with no a priori metric''  . . . . . . . 135--136


Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume 34, Number 1, July 28, 2000

                John R. Gleason   A note on a proposed Student $t$
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--66