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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
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
Edward J. Wegman On the eve of the 21st century:
statistical science at a crossroads . . 239--243
D. J. Downing and
V. V. Fedorov and
W. F. Lawkins and
M. D. Morris and
G. Ostrouchov Large data series: modeling the usual to
identify the unusual . . . . . . . . . . 245--258
Marco Bonetti A new geometric approach to data
analysis using the Minkowski polytope 259--271
V. Berry and
O. Gascuel and
G. Caraux Choosing the tree which actually best
explains the data: another look at the
bootstrap in phylogenetic reconstruction 273--283
Roberta Siciliano and
Francesco Mola Multivariate data analysis and modeling
through classification and regression
trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--301
Antony Unwin Using your eyes --- making statistics
more visible with computers . . . . . . 303--312
John F. Shortle and
Max B. Mendel A new method of drawing probability
densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--321
H. Malcolm Hudson and
Craig Walsh Model fitting for sequences of images 323--335
Douglas B. Clarkson A random effects individual difference
multidimensional scaling model . . . . . 337--347
Ellen M. Wijsman Monte Carlo Markov chain methods and
model selection in genetic epidemiology 349--360
T. A. Mazzuchi and
E. S. Soofi and
R. Soyer Computation of maximum entropy Dirichlet
for modeling lifetime data . . . . . . . 361--378
Mika Sato-Ilic and
Yoshiharu Sato Asymmetric aggregation operator and its
application to fuzzy clustering model 379--394
S. Balbi and
V. Esposito Rotated canonical analysis onto a
reference subspace . . . . . . . . . . . 395--410
George Michailidis and
Jan de Leeuw Multilevel homogeneity analysis with
differential weighting . . . . . . . . . 411--442
Enrico Capobianco Neural networks and statistical
inference: seeking robust and efficient
learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--454
Joan F. Hilton A new asymptotic distribution for
Hollander's bivariate symmetry statistic 455--463
Jim Bentley and
Tammi J. Schneider Statistics and archaeology in Israel . . 465--483
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--512
A. Adatia Estimation of parameters of the
half-logistic distribution using
generalized ranked set sampling . . . . 1--13
Seung-Ho Kang and
Soo Min Park Exact likelihood ratio test of
independence of binary responses within
clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--23
Luzia A. Trinca and
Steven G. Gilmour An algorithm for arranging response
surface designs in small blocks . . . . 25--43
Christine M. Anderson-Cook An industrial example using one-way
analysis of circular-linear data . . . . 45--57
Felix Famoye Goodness-of-fit tests for generalized
logarithmic series distribution . . . . 59--67
Dejian Lai and
Guanrong Chen Distribution of controlled Lyapunov
exponents: a statistical simulation
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--77
P. J. Lindsey and
J. K. Lindsey Diagnostic tools for random effects in
the repeated measures growth curve model 79--100
Júlia M. P. Soler and
Julio M. Singer Optimal covariance adjustment in growth
curve models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110
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
Ray-Bing Chen and
Mong-Na Lo Huang Exact $D$-optimal designs for weighted
polynomial regression model . . . . . . 137--149
Shun-Yi Chen and
Hubert J. Chen and
Cherng G. Ding An ANOVA test for the equivalency of
means under unequal variances . . . . . 151--175
John C. Gower Rank-one and rank-two departures from
symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188
Markus Neuhäuser and
Ludwig A. Hothorn Parametric location-scale and scale
trend tests based on Levene's
transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--200
Shu-Fei Wu and
Hubert J. Chen Two-stage multiple comparisons with the
average for normal distributions under
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 201--213
Sune Karlsson and
Mickael Löthgren Computationally efficient double
bootstrap variance estimation . . . . . 237--247
Kenneth Carling Resistant outlier rules and the
non-Gaussian case . . . . . . . . . . . 249--258
Jan G. De Gooijer and
Ali Gannoun Nonparametric conditional predictive
regions for time series . . . . . . . . 259--275
Ivan K\vrivý and
Josef Tvrdík and
Radek Krpec Stochastic algorithms in nonlinear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--290
C. T. Liao Identification of dispersion effects
from unreplicated $ 2^{n - k} $
fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 291--298
Julio Sánchez-Meca and
Fulgencio Marín-Martínez Testing the significance of a common
risk difference in meta-analysis . . . . 299--313
Eva Ferreira and
Vicente Núñez-Antón and
Juan Rodríguez-Póo Semiparametric approaches to signal
extraction problems in economic time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--333
Z. Y. Chen and
Y. C. Chou Computing the noncentral beta
distribution with S-system . . . . . . . 343--360
A. C. Atkinson and
Tsung-Chi Cheng On robust linear regression with
incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--380
Tsai-Hung Fan and
James O. Berger Robust Bayesian displays for standard
inferences concerning a normal mean . . 381--399
Sung-Ho Kim Hyper-EM for large recursive models of
categorical variables . . . . . . . . . 401--424
Sandro Nicole Feedforward neural networks for
principal components extraction . . . . 425--437
Martin Spiess and
Alfred Hamerle A comparison of different methods for
the estimation of regression models with
correlated binary responses . . . . . . 439--455
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
John H. Drew and
Andrew G. Glen and
Lawrence M. Leemis Computing the cumulative distribution
function of the Kolmogorov--Smirnov
statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Tetsuhisa Miwa and
A. J. Hayter and
Wei Liu Calculations of level probabilities for
normal random variables with unequal
variances with applications to
Bartholomew's test in unbalanced one-way
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--32
Ranjini Natarajan and
Charles E. McCulloch and
Nicholas M. Kiefer A Monte Carlo EM method for estimating
multinomial probit models . . . . . . . 33--50
Traci E. Clemons and
Edwin L. Bradley, Jr. A nonparametric measure of the
overlapping coefficient . . . . . . . . 51--61
John R. Gleason A note on a proposed Student $t$
approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--66
Jan Ámos Ví\vsek On the diversity of estimates . . . . . 67--89
Paulo Teles and
William W. S. Wei The effects of temporal aggregation on
tests of linearity of a time series . . 91--103
Madhuri S. Mulekar and
Satya N. Mishra Confidence interval estimation of
overlap: equal means case . . . . . . . 121--137
Alan Hartford and
Marie Davidian Consequences of misspecifying
assumptions in nonlinear mixed effects
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--164
Sauchi Stephen Lee Noisy replication in skewed binary
classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--191
Walter W. Piegorsch and
R. Webster West and
Obaid M. Al-Saidy and
Kelly D. Bradley Asymmetric confidence bands for simple
linear regression over bounded intervals 193--217
Craig B. Borkowf A new nonparametric method for variance
estimation and confidence interval
construction for Spearman's rank
correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--241
Anny Xiang and
Pablo Lapuerta and
Alex Ryutov and
Jonathan Buckley and
Stanley Azen Comparison of the performance of neural
network methods and Cox regression for
censored survival data . . . . . . . . . 243--257
Nedret Billor and
Ali S. Hadi and
Paul F. Velleman BACON: blocked adaptive computationally
efficient outlier nominators . . . . . . 279--298
Victor De Oliveira Bayesian prediction of clipped Gaussian
random fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--314
Venkata K. Jandhyala and
Stergios B. Fotopoulos and
Nicholas E. Evaggelopoulos A comparison of unconditional and
conditional solutions to the maximum
likelihood estimation of a change-point 315--334
Kung-Jong Lui Asymptotic conditional test procedures
for relative difference under inverse
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--343
Robert M. Price and
Douglas G. Bonett Estimating the ratio of two Poisson
rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--356
Larry Z. Shen and
John O'Quigley Using a one-parameter model to
sequentially estimate the root of a
regression function . . . . . . . . . . 357--369
Petra M. Kuhnert and
Kim-Anh Do and
Rod McClure Combining non-parametric models with
logistic regression: an application to
motor vehicle injury data . . . . . . . 371--386
Antonio Salmerón and
Andrés Cano and
Serafín Moral Importance sampling in Bayesian networks
using probability trees . . . . . . . . 387--413
Anja Struyf and
Peter J. Rousseeuw High-dimensional computation of the
deepest location . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--426
Pierpaolo D'Urso and
Tommaso Gastaldi A least-squares approach to fuzzy linear
regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 427--440
Ekkehart Dietz and
Dankmar Böhning On estimation of the Poisson parameter
in zero-modified Poisson models . . . . 441--459
M. Mittlböck and
T. Waldhör Adjustments for $ R^2 $-measures for
Poisson regression models . . . . . . . 461--472
R. Orre and
A. Lansner and
A. Bate and
M. Lindquist Bayesian neural networks with confidence
estimations applied to data mining . . . 473--493
Hisashi Tanizaki Bias correction of OLSE in the
regression model with lagged dependent
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--511
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--548
Yury P. Shimansky Continuous measure of significant linear
dimensionality of a waveform set . . . . 1--10
Flávia Landim and
Dani Gamerman Dynamic hierarchical models: an
extension to matrix-variate observations 11--42
Carey E. Priebe and
David J. Marchette Alternating kernel and mixture density
estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--65
Kjell Doksum and
Ja-Yong Koo On spline estimators and prediction
intervals in nonparametric regression 67--82
Myoungshic Jhun and
Hyeong-Chul Jeong Applications of bootstrap methods for
categorical data analysis . . . . . . . 83--91
Aurelio R. L. Oliveira and
Mário A. Nascimento and
Christiano Lyra Efficient implementation and benchmark
of interior point methods for the
polynomial $ L_1 $ fitting problem . . . 119--135
Aaron Childs and
N. Balakrishnan Some approximations to the multivariate
hypergeometric distribution with
applications to hypothesis testing . . . 137--154
Andrew A. Neath and
Joseph E. Cavanaugh A regression model selection criterion
based on bootstrap bumping for use with
resistant fitting . . . . . . . . . . . 155--169
David P. Thorpe and
Burt Holland Some multiple comparison procedures for
variances from non-normal populations 171--199
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Wanzhu Tu Interval estimation for the ratio in
means of log-normally distributed
medical costs with zero values . . . . . 201--210
J. M. Vilar Fernández and
W. González Manteiga Resampling for checking linear
regression models via non-parametric
regression estimation . . . . . . . . . 211--231
V. Choulakian and
J. Almhana An algorithm for nonmetric discriminant
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264
Andrzej T. Galecki and
Thomas R. Ten Have and
Geert Molenberghs A simple and fast alternative to the EM
algorithm for incomplete categorical
data and latent class models . . . . . . 265--281
Roger Higdon and
Daniel W. Schafer Maximum likelihood computations for
regression with measurement error . . . 283--299
Oleg Smirnov and
Luc Anselin Fast maximum likelihood estimation of
very large spatial autoregressive
models: a characteristic polynomial
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--319
D. J. Dupuis Fitting log- $F$ models robustly, with
an application to the analysis of
extreme values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--333
Thomas W. O'Gorman An adaptive permutation test procedure
for several common tests of significance 335--350
Gunter Ritter and
Christoph Pesch Polarity-free automatic classification
of chromosomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--372
W. James Gauderman and
William Navidi A Monte Carlo Newton--Raphson procedure
for maximizing complex likelihoods on
pedigree data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--415
Ph. Casin A generalization of principal component
analysis to $K$ sets of variables . . . 417--428
Jonathan Hartzel and
I-Ming Liu and
Alan Agresti Describing heterogeneous effects in
stratified ordinal contingency tables,
with application to multi-center
clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--449
Harald Heinzl and
Clemens Tempfer A cautionary note on segmenting a
cyclical covariate by minimum $P$-value
search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--461
Angela Montanari and
Laura Lizzani A projection pursuit approach to
variable selection . . . . . . . . . . . 463--473
Carey E. Priebe and
Daniel Q. Naiman and
Leslie M. Cope Importance sampling for spatial scan
analysis: computing scan statistic
$p$-values for marked point processes 475--485
Ingrid Van Keilegom and
Michael G. Akritas and
Noël Veraverbeke Estimation of the conditional
distribution in regression with censored
data: a comparative study . . . . . . . 487--500
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--512
Anonymous Author index volume 35 (2001) . . . . . 513--514
Kenny Y. F. Chan and
Stephen M. S. Lee An exact iterated bootstrap algorithm
for small-sample bias reduction . . . . 1--13
Gintautas Dzemyda Visualization of a set of parameters
characterized by their correlation
matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--30
M. A. F. Aboukalam and
A. A. Al-Shiha A robust analysis for unreplicated
factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . 31--46
Moonseong Heo and
K. Ruben Gabriel The fit of graphical displays to
patterns of expectations . . . . . . . . 47--67
Ana Justel and
Daniel Peña Bayesian unmasking in linear models . . 69--84
Eric Renshaw and
Aila Särkkä Gibbs point processes for studying the
development of spatial-temporal
stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 85--105
F. Bartolucci Developments of the Markov chain
approach within the distribution theory
of runs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--118
Claudia Becker and
Ursula Gather The largest nonidentifiable outlier: a
comparison of multivariate simultaneous
outlier identification rules . . . . . . 119--127
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--143
Roger Fandom Noubiap and
Wilfried Seidel An efficient algorithm for constructing
$ \Gamma $-minimax tests for finite
parameter spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--161
Luca Scrucca A review and computer code for assessing
the structural dimension of a regression
model: uncorrelated $2$D views . . . . . 163--177
Richard H. Glendinning Selecting sub-set autoregressions from
outlier contaminated data . . . . . . . 179--207
David J. Hand and
Hua Gui Li and
Niall M. Adams Supervised classification with
structured class definitions . . . . . . 209--225
Santiago Velilla On the bootstrap in misspecified
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 227--242
T. E. Clemons Erratum to ``A nonparametric measure of
the overlapping coefficient'' [Comput.
Statist. Data Anal. \bf 34 (2000)
51--61] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Debasis Kundu and
Amit Mitra Estimating the number of signals of the
damped exponential models . . . . . . . 245--256
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--278
David M. Bashtannyk and
Rob J. Hyndman Bandwidth selection for kernel
conditional density estimation . . . . . 279--298
K. O. Bowman and
L. R. Shenton Weibull distributions when the shape
parameter is defined . . . . . . . . . . 299--310
Meenakshi Devidas and
E. Olus\cegun George Low-dose extrapolation using the power
family of response functions . . . . . . 311--317
Paulo J. Ogliari and
Dalton F. Andrade Analysing longitudinal data via
nonlinear models in randomized block
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--332
Alan M. Polansky Bandwidth selection for the smoothed
bootstrap percentile method . . . . . . 333--349
James W. Wisnowski and
Douglas C. Montgomery and
James R. Simpson A Comparative analysis of multiple
outlier detection procedures in the
linear regression model . . . . . . . . 351--382
Marc Aerts and
Gerda Claeskens Bootstrap tests for misspecified models,
with application to clustered binary
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--401
Ibrahim Ahmad and
Xiaohong Chen and
Qi Li Model check by kernel methods under weak
moment conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 403--409
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--423
José Agulló New algorithms for computing the least
trimmed squares regression estimator . . 425--439
Antonio Cuevas and
Manuel Febrero and
Ricardo Fraiman Cluster analysis: a further approach
based on density estimation . . . . . . 441--459
Shu-Ing Liu Bayesian model determination for
binary-time-series data with
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--473
José Cardoso Neto and
Gilberto A. Paula Wald one-sided test using generalized
estimating equations approach . . . . . 475--495
Ricardo Cao and
Paul Janssen and
Noël Veraverbeke Relative density estimation and local
bandwidth selection for censored data 497--510
Marilena Furno LAD estimation with random coefficient
autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . . . 511--523
Yangxin Huang Interval estimation of the ED$_{50}$
when a logistic dose--response curve is
incorrectly assumed . . . . . . . . . . 525--537
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--560
Anonymous Author index volume 36 (2001) . . . . . 561--562
Roberto Baragona and
Francesco Battaglia and
Claudio Calzini Genetic algorithms for the
identification of additive and
innovation outliers in time series . . . 1--12
Henrik Aa. Nielsen and
Henrik Madsen A generalization of some classical time
series tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--31
W. C. Soong Exact simultaneous confidence intervals
for multiple comparisons with the mean 33--47
Maurizio Vichi and
Henk A. L. Kiers Factorial $k$-means analysis for two-way
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--64
Andreas Christmann and
Peter J. Rousseeuw Measuring overlap in binary regression 65--75
Dennis D. Cox and
Jeong-Soo Park and
Clifford E. Singer A statistical method for tuning a
computer code to a data base . . . . . . 77--92
Geert Molenberghs and
Geert Verbeke and
Herbert Thijs and
Emmanuel Lesaffre and
Michael G. Kenward Influence analysis to assess sensitivity
of the dropout process . . . . . . . . . 93--113
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--134
V. Choulakian Robust $Q$-mode principal component
analysis in $ L_1 $ . . . . . . . . . . 135--150
John Geweke and
Hisashi Tanizaki Bayesian estimation of state-space
models using the Metropolis--Hastings
algorithm within Gibbs sampling . . . . 151--170
Amanda Hummer and
Song Yang On the extended log-rank estimating
function for the censored regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--180
T. Kowalczyk and
M. Niewiadomska-Bugaj An algorithm for maximizing Kendall's $
\tau $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--193
Dan Nettleton and
T. Banerjee Testing the equality of distributions of
random vectors with categorical
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--208
Quinton J. Nottingham and
Deborah F. Cook Local linear regression for estimating
time series data . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--217
T. Friede and
F. Miller and
W. Bischoff and
M. Kieser A note on change point estimation in
dose--response trials . . . . . . . . . 219--232
Dong Wan Shin and
Chul Gyu Park and
Taesung Park Testing for one-sided group effects in
repeated measures study . . . . . . . . 233--247
S. J. Steel and
N. Louw Variable selection in discriminant
analysis: measuring the influence of
individual cases . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--260
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274
L. Angelis and
E. Bora-Senta and
C. Moyssiadis Optimal exact experimental designs with
correlated errors through a simulated
annealing algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 275--296
J. H. Badsberg and
F. M. Malvestuto An implementation of the iterative
proportional fitting procedure by
propagation trees . . . . . . . . . . . 297--322
Douglas M. Hawkins Fitting multiple change-point models to
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--341
F. W. Kellison and
D. R. Halverson Applications of curvature toward the
measurement of robustness for data
processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--362
T. Eakin and
K. Francis and
W. Spirduso Decoupling tremor and volitional force
control factors in analyses of motor
task performance . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--372
Orna Intrator and
Nathan Intrator Interpreting neural-network results: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--393
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--404
Donald E. K. Martin Applications of an algorithm for the
distribution of the number of successes
in fourth-order Markovian sequences . . 405--418
David R. Bickel and
Dejian Lai Asymptotic distribution of time-series
intermittency estimates: applications to
economic and clinical data . . . . . . . 419--431
Peter Goos and
Martina Vandebroek $D$-optimal response surface designs in
the presence of random block effects . . 433--453
Lon-Mu Liu and
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya and
Stanley L. Sclove and
Rong Chen and
William J. Lattyak Data mining on time series: an
illustration using fast-food restaurant
franchise data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--476
Mei Ling Huang On a distribution-free quantile
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--486
Darfiana Nur and
Rodney C. Wolff and
Kerrie L. Mengersen Phase randomisation: numerical study of
higher cumulants behaviour . . . . . . . 487--513
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--542
Anonymous Author index volume 37 (2001) . . . . . 543--544
Josmar Mazucheli and
Francisco Louzada-Neto and
Jorge A. Achcar Bayesian inference for polyhazard models
in the presence of covariates . . . . . 1--14
Dollena S. Hawkins and
David M. Allen and
Arnold J. Stromberg Determining the number of components in
mixtures of linear models . . . . . . . 15--48
Jinook Jeong and
Seoung Chung Bootstrap tests for autocorrelation . . 49--69
Ralf Östermark Genetic modelling of multivariate
EGARCHX-processes: evidence on the
international asset return signal
response mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . 71--93
P. C. Wang and
D. F. Lin Dispersion effects in signal-response
data from fractional factorial
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--111
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--123
Majid Mojirsheibani An iterated classification rule based on
auxiliary pseudo-predictors . . . . . . 125--138
Ognian K. Asparoukhov and
Wojtek J. Krzanowski A comparison of discriminant procedures
for binary variables . . . . . . . . . . 139--160
Melody Y. Kiang Extending the Kohonen self-organizing
map networks for clustering analysis . . 161--180
Jianrong Wu and
Guoyong Jiang Small sample likelihood inference for
the ratio of means . . . . . . . . . . . 181--190
M. Xie and
B. He and
T. N. Goh Zero-inflated Poisson model in
statistical process control . . . . . . 191--201
Todd C. Headrick and
Ourania Rotou An investigation of the rank
transformation in multiple regression 203--215
Michel Meulders and
Paul De Boeck and
Iven Van Mechelen Probability matrix decomposition models
and main-effects generalized linear
models for the analysis of replicated
binary associations . . . . . . . . . . 217--233
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--248
Alberto Luceño and
Jaime Puig-Pey An accurate algorithm to compute the run
length probability distribution, and its
convolutions, for a Cusum chart to
control normal mean . . . . . . . . . . 249--261
Hongshik Ahn and
Hojin Moon and
Sunyoung Kim and
Ralph L. Kodell A Newton-based approach for attributing
tumor lethality in animal
carcinogenicity studies . . . . . . . . 263--283
Carmela Cappelli and
Francesco Mola and
Roberta Siciliano A statistical approach to growing a
reliable honest tree . . . . . . . . . . 285--299
Hatem A. Howlader and
Anwar M. Hossain Bayesian survival estimation of Pareto
distribution of the second kind based on
failure-censored data . . . . . . . . . 301--314
Berlin Wu and
Chih-Li Chang Using genetic algorithms to parameters $
(d, r) $ estimation for threshold
autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 315--330
Aaron Childs and
N. Balakrishnan Series approximations for moments of
order statistics using MAPLE . . . . . . 331--347
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--364
Simone Barra and
Agostino Di Ciaccio Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Jerome H. Friedman Stochastic gradient boosting . . . . . . 367--378
Greg Ridgeway Looking for lumps: boosting and bagging
for density estimation . . . . . . . . . 379--392
Harris Drucker Effect of pruning and early stopping on
performance of a boosting ensemble . . . 393--406
Simone Borra and
Agostino Di Ciaccio Improving nonparametric regression
methods by bagging and boosting . . . . 407--420
Theodoros Evgeniou and
Tomaso Poggio and
Massimiliano Pontil and
Alessandro Verri Regularization and statistical learning
theory for data analysis . . . . . . . . 421--432
Franco Peracchi On estimating conditional quantiles and
distribution functions . . . . . . . . . 433--447
Christian Borgelt and
Rudolf Kruse Learning from imprecise data:
possibilistic graphical models . . . . . 449--463
Gilbert Saporta Data fusion and data grafting . . . . . 465--473
D. G. T. Denison and
N. M. Adams and
C. C. Holmes and
D. J. Hand Bayesian partition modelling . . . . . . 475--485
Claudio Conversano and
Roberta Siciliano and
Francesco Mola Generalized additive multi-mixture model
for data mining . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--500
Renato Coppi A theoretical framework for Data Mining:
the ``Informational Paradigm'' . . . . . 501--515
Jan Larsen and
Lars Kai Hansen and
Anna Szymkowiak Have and
Torben Christiansen and
Thomas Kolenda Webmining: learning from the world wide
web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--532
Paolo Giudici and
Gianluca Passerone Data mining of association structures to
model consumer behaviour . . . . . . . . 533--541
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--557
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--560
David B. Allison and
Gary L. Gadbury and
Moonseong Heo and
José R. Fernández and
Cheol-Koo Lee and
Tomas A. Prolla and
Richard Weindruch A mixture model approach for the
analysis of microarray gene expression
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Chanseok Park and
Ayanendranath Basu and
Bruce G. Lindsay The residual adjustment function and
weighted likelihood: a graphical
interpretation of robustness of minimum
disparity estimators . . . . . . . . . . 21--33
Mingren Shi and
Mark A. Lukas An $ L_1 $ estimation algorithm with
degeneracy and linear constraints . . . 35--55
Shelley B. Bull and
Carmen Mak and
Celia M. T. Greenwood A modified score function estimator for
multinomial logistic regression in small
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--74
Reza Modarres Efficient nonparametric estimation of a
distribution function . . . . . . . . . 75--95
Mohammad Z. Raqab and
Elies Kouider and
Qasim M. Al-Shboul Best linear invariant estimators using
ranked set sampling procedure:
comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 97--105
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--126
Alan Agresti and
Brian Caffo Measures of relative model fit . . . . . 127--136
Anas Altaleb and
Didier Chauveau Bayesian analysis of the Logit model and
comparison of two Metropolis--Hastings
strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--152
David R. Bickel Robust estimators of the mode and
skewness of continuous data . . . . . . 153--163
Stephan R. Sain Multivariate locally adaptive density
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--186
Didier Concordet and
Olivier G. Nunez A simulated pseudo-maximum likelihood
estimator for nonlinear mixed models . . 187--201
William J. Browne and
David Draper and
Harvey Goldstein and
Jon Rasbash Bayesian and likelihood methods for
fitting multilevel models with complex
level-1 variation . . . . . . . . . . . 203--225
John Lawson Regression analysis of experiments with
complex confounding patterns guided by
the alias matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--241
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--260
James G. Booth and
Brian S. Caffo Unequal sampling for Monte Carlo EM
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--270
Craig B. Borkowf Computing the nonnull asymptotic
variance and the asymptotic relative
efficiency of Spearman's rank
correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--286
A. M. Dean and
S. M. Lewis Comparison of group screening strategies
for factorial experiments . . . . . . . 287--297
Yue Fang The compass rose and random walk tests 299--310
Tim Futing Liao Bayesian model comparison in generalized
linear models across multiple groups . . 311--327
A. J. Lee and
S. O. Nyangoma and
G. A. F. Seber Confidence regions for multinomial
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--342
Dae-Heung Jang A graphical method for evaluating
slope-rotatability in axial directions
for second order response surface
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--349
V. Karioti and
C. Caroni Detecting outlying series in sets of
short time series . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--370
H. K. T. Ng and
P. S. Chan and
N. Balakrishnan Estimation of parameters from
progressively censored data using EM
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--386
Man-Suk Oh and
Dong Wan Shin and
Han Joon Kim Bayesian analysis of regression models
with spatially correlated errors and
missing observations . . . . . . . . . . 387--400
G. D. Rayner and
H. L. MacGillivray Weighted quantile-based estimation for a
class of transformation distributions 401--433
Felix Abramovich and
Panagiotis Besbeas and
Theofanis Sapatinas Empirical Bayes approach to block
wavelet function estimation . . . . . . 435--451
Mhamed-Ali El-Aroui and
Jean Diebolt On the use of the peaks over thresholds
method for estimating out-of-sample
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--475
R. H. Loschi and
F. R. B. Cruz An analysis of the influence of some
prior specifications in the
identification of change points via
product partition model . . . . . . . . 477--501
A. Marazzi Bootstrap tests for robust means of
asymmetric distributions with unequal
shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--528
Reza Modarres and
Tapan K. Nayak and
Joseph L. Gastwirth Estimation of upper quantiles under
model and parameter uncertainty . . . . 529--554
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--573
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--576
Venkata K. Jandhyala and
Stergios B. Fotopoulos and
Douglas M. Hawkins Detection and estimation of abrupt
changes in the variability of a process 1--19
Baibing Li and
Elaine B. Martin An approximation to the $F$ distribution
using the chi-square distribution . . . 21--26
Samuel E. Buttrey and
Ciril Karo Using $k$-nearest-neighbor
classification in the leaves of a tree 27--37
R. Dittrich and
R. Hatzinger and
W. Katzenbeisser Modelling dependencies in paired
comparison data: a log-linear approach 39--57
Yangxin Huang and
Peter Harris and
Simon P. J. Kirby and
John C. Dearden A modified Fieller interval for the
interval estimation of effective doses
for a logistic dose--response curve . . 59--74
N. Jansakul and
J. P. Hinde Score Tests for Zero-Inflated Poisson
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--96
Sung-Ho Kim Calibrated initials for an EM applied to
recursive models of categorical
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--110
Ju Li and
Daniel Zelterman Rank tests of association for
exchangeable paired data . . . . . . . . 111--129
Elizabeth Ann Maharaj Comparison of non-stationary time series
in the frequency domain . . . . . . . . 131--141
Wei Pan Approximate confidence intervals for one
proportion and difference of two
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--157
H. Viljoen and
J. H. Venter Identifying multivariate discordant
observations: a computer-intensive
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--172
Hien T. V. Vu and
Matthew W. Knuiman A hybrid ML-EM algorithm for calculation
of maximum likelihood estimates in
semiparametric shared frailty models . . 173--187
Chris Noble and
Steve Sugden Stochastic recurrences of Jackpot Keno 189--205
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--222
Greg Aloupis and
Carmen Cortés and
Francisco Gómez and
Michael Soss and
Godfried Toussaint Lower bounds for computing statistical
depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--229
Barry C. Arnold and
Enrique Castillo and
José María Sarabia Exact and near compatibility of discrete
conditional distributions . . . . . . . 231--252
Douglas M. Hawkins and
Xiangrong Yin A faster algorithm for ridge regression
of reduced rank data . . . . . . . . . . 253--262
Ping-Hung Hsieh An exploratory first step in teletraffic
data modeling: evaluation of long-run
performance of parameter estimators . . 263--283
T. Pupko and
D. Graur Fast computation of maximum likelihood
trees by numerical approximation of
amino acid replacement probabilities . . 285--291
Jeff Racine Parallel distributed kernel estimation 293--302
Keming Yu Quantile regression using RJMCMC
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--315
Woojin Chang and
Brani Vidakovic Wavelet estimation of a base-line signal
from repeated noisy measurements by
vertical block shrinkage . . . . . . . . 317--328
Ralph Mansson and
Philip Prescott Missing observations in Youden square
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--338
A. Martín Andrés and
M. J. Sánchez Quevedo and
A. Silva Mato Asymptotical tests in $ 2 \times 2 $
comparative trials: (unconditional
approach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--354
Subhash C. Narula and
John F. Wellington Sensitivity analysis for predictor
variables in the MSAE regression . . . . 355--373
Shu-Fei Wu and
Mao-Yi Cheng A two-sided sequential screening
procedure based on individual
misclassification error . . . . . . . . 375--391
Jan Beran and
Yuanhua Feng SEMIFAR models --- a semiparametric
approach to modelling trends, long-range
dependence and nonstationarity . . . . . 393--419
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--433
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v
Douglas G. Bonett and
Edith Seier A test of normality with high uniform
power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--445
Marieke E. Timmerman and
Henk A. L. Kiers Three-way component analysis with
smoothness constraints . . . . . . . . . 447--470
Baibing Li and
Elaine B. Martin and
A. Julian Morris On principal component analysis in $ L_1
$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--474
L. A. Trinca and
S. G. Gilmour Erratum to ``An algorithm for arranging
response surface designs in small
blocks'' [Comput. Statist. Data Anal.
\bf 33 (2000) 25--43] . . . . . . . . . 475
Dennis Fok and
Philip Hans Franses Ordered logit analysis for selectively
sampled data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--497
Günther Gediga and
Ivo Düntsch Approximation quality for sorting rules 499--526
Yangxin Huang On large-sample parametric approaches
for interval estimation of the ED$_{90}$ 527--537
Xin-Yuan Song and
Sik-Yum Lee A Bayesian model selection method with
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--557
Lieven Tack and
Martina Vandebroek An adjustment algorithm for optimal run
orders in design of experiments . . . . 559--577
J. Dippon and
P. Fritz and
M. Kohler A statistical approach to case based
reasoning, with application to breast
cancer data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--602
Luc Duchateau and
Paul Janssen and
Patrick Lindsey and
Catherine Legrand and
Rosemary Nguti and
Richard Sylvester The shared frailty model and the power
for heterogeneity tests in multicenter
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--620
Philip Hans Franses and
Paul de Bruin On data transformations and evidence of
nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--632
R. Rotondi On the influence of the proposal
distributions on a reversible jump MCMC
algorithm applied to the detection of
multiple change-points . . . . . . . . . 633--653
Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover
proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--664
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v
Peter Bühlmann and
Alexander J. McNeil An algorithm for nonparametric GARCH
modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--683
Todd C. Headrick Fast fifth-order polynomial transforms
for generating univariate and
multivariate nonnormal distributions . . 685--711
B. D. McCullough and
Berry Wilson On the accuracy of statistical
procedures in Microsoft Excel 2000 and
Excel XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--721
Christian Hennig and
Norbert Christlieb Validating visual clusters in large
datasets: fixed point clusters of
spectral features . . . . . . . . . . . 723--739
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Sabine Verboven Robust estimation in very small samples 741--758
Liming Xiang and
Siu-Keung Tse and
Andy H. Lee Influence diagnostics for generalized
linear mixed models: applications to
clustered data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759--774
Grace Y. Yi and
Jianrong Wu and
Ying Liu Implementation of higher-order
asymptotics to S-plus . . . . . . . . . 775--800
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Alejandro C. Frery and
Michel F. Silva Improved estimation of clutter
properties in speckled imagery . . . . . 801--824
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--844
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--846
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Jesse L. Barlow and
Michael W. Berry and
Axel Ruhe and
Hongyuan Zha Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
A. Kukush and
I. Markovsky and
S. Van Huffel Consistent fundamental matrix estimation
in a quadratic measurement error model
arising in motion analysis . . . . . . . 3--18
Xiaofeng He and
Hongyuan Zha and
Chris H. Q. Ding and
Horst D. Simon Web document clustering using hyperlink
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--45
Marc G. Genton and
David J. Gorsich Nonparametric variogram and covariogram
estimation with Fourier--Bessel matrices 47--57
Inderjit S. Dhillon and
Dharmendra S. Modha and
W. Scott Spangler Class visualization of high-dimensional
data with applications . . . . . . . . . 59--90
Imola K. Fodor and
Chandrika Kamath Dimension reduction techniques and the
classification of bent double galaxies 91--122
Xiao-Wen Chang and
Christopher C. Paige Numerical linear algebra in the
integrity theory of the Global
Positioning System . . . . . . . . . . . 123--142
Samuel W. Malone and
Pablo Tarazaga and
Michael W. Trosset Better initial configurations for metric
multidimensional scaling . . . . . . . . 143--156
Henk A. L. Kiers Setting up alternating least squares and
iterative majorization algorithms for
solving various matrix optimization
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170
S. Georgiou and
C. Koukouvinos and
S. Stylianou On good matrices, skew Hadamard matrices
and optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . 171--184
Jurgen A. Doornik and
R. J. O'Brien Numerically stable cointegration
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--193
Hasan Erbay and
Jesse L. Barlow and
Zhenyue Zhang A modified Gram--Schmidt-based
downdating technique for ULV
decompositions with applications to
recursive TLS problems . . . . . . . . . 195--209
Paolo Foschi and
Erricos J. Kontoghiorghes Seemingly unrelated regression model
with unequal size observations:
computational aspects . . . . . . . . . 211--229
Evelyne Vigneau and
El Mostafa Qannari A new algorithm for latent root
regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 231--242
Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover
proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--254
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v
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Mary J. Lindstrom Bayesian estimation of free-knot splines
using reversible jumps . . . . . . . . . 255--269
Chih-Ping Chou and
P. M. Bentler Model modification in structural
equation modeling by imposing
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--287
Lasse Holmström and
Panu Erästö Making inferences about past
environmental change using smoothing in
multiple time scales . . . . . . . . . . 289--309
S. De Iaco and
D. E. Myers and
D. Posa Space--time variograms and a functional
form for total air pollution
measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--328
Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows with cover
proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v
Dankmar Böhning and
Wilfried Seidel Editorial: recent developments in
mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--357
Kelvin K. W. Yau and
Andy H. Lee and
Angus S. K. Ng Finite mixture regression model with
random effects: application to neonatal
hospital length of stay . . . . . . . . 359--366
Edward Susko Weighted tests of homogeneity for
testing the number of components in a
mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--378
G. J. McLachlan and
D. Peel and
R. W. Bean Modelling high-dimensional data by
mixtures of factor analyzers . . . . . . 379--388
Chang Xuan Mao and
Bruce G. Lindsay Tests and diagnostics for heterogeneity
in the species problem . . . . . . . . . 389--398
André Berchtold Mixture transition distribution (MTD)
modeling of heteroscedastic time series 399--411
Maja Miloslavsky and
Mark J. van der Laan Fitting of mixtures with unspecified
number of components using cross
validation distance estimate . . . . . . 413--428
Lynette Hunt and
Murray Jorgensen Mixture model clustering for mixed data
with missing information . . . . . . . . 429--440
Peter Schlattmann Estimating the number of components in a
finite mixture model: the special case
of homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--451
Sara van de Geer Asymptotic theory for maximum likelihood
in nonparametric mixture models . . . . 453--464
O. Pons and
M. Lemdani Estimation and test in long-term
survival mixture models . . . . . . . . 465--479
Yingwei Peng Fitting semiparametric cure models . . . 481--490
M. L. Dalrymple and
I. L. Hudson and
R. P. K. Ford Finite Mixture, Zero-inflated Poisson
and Hurdle models with application to
SIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--504
Jennifer A. Mooney and
Peter J. Helms and
Ian T. Jolliffe Fitting mixtures of von Mises
distributions: a case study involving
sudden infant death syndrome . . . . . . 505--513
Marta Morbiducci and
Alessandra Nardi and
Carla Rossi Classification of ``cured'' individuals
in survival analysis: the mixture
approach to the diagnostic--prognostic
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--529
Jeroen K. Vermunt and
Jay Magidson Latent class models for classification 531--537
J. Croft and
J. Q. Smith Discrete mixtures in Bayesian networks
with hidden variables: a latent time
budget example . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--547
Anton K. Formann Latent class model diagnostics --- a
review and some proposals . . . . . . . 549--559
Christophe Biernacki and
Gilles Celeux and
Gérard Govaert Choosing starting values for the EM
algorithm for getting the highest
likelihood in multivariate Gaussian
mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--575
Dimitris Karlis and
Evdokia Xekalaki Choosing initial values for the EM
algorithm for finite mixtures . . . . . 577--590
Dechavudh Nityasuddhi and
Dankmar Böhning Asymptotic properties of the EM
algorithm estimate for normal mixture
models with component specific variances 591--601
J. Grim and
M. Haindl Texture modelling by discrete
distribution mixtures . . . . . . . . . 603--615
A. Biggeri and
E. Dreassi and
C. Lagazio and
D. Böhning A transitional non-parametric maximum
pseudo-likelihood estimator for disease
mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--629
Chukiat Viwatwongkasem and
Walailuck Böhning A comparison of risk difference
estimators in multi-center studies under
baseline-risk heterogeneity . . . . . . 631--644
Thomas Brendan Murphy and
Donal Martin Mixtures of distance-based models for
ranking data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--655
Anonymous SSN-section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--676
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--678
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Jean-Claude Massé and
Jean-François Plante A Monte Carlo study of the accuracy and
robustness of ten bivariate location
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
C. J. Albers and
W. Schaafsma Estimating a density by adapting an
initial guess . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--36
Jean-François Angers and
Atanu Biswas A Bayesian analysis of zero-inflated
generalized Poisson model . . . . . . . 37--46
Pierpaolo D'Urso Linear regression analysis for
fuzzy/crisp input and fuzzy/crisp output
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--72
Jan G. De Gooijer and
Bonnie K. Ray Modeling vector nonlinear time series
using POLYMARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--90
Charles B. Hall and
Jun Ying and
Lynn Kuo and
Richard B. Lipton Bayesian and profile likelihood change
point methods for modeling cognitive
function over time . . . . . . . . . . . 91--109
Alon Hazan and
Zinoviy Landsman and
Udi E. Makov Robustness via a mixture of exponential
power distributions . . . . . . . . . . 111--121
Ching-Yung Lee and
Shen-Ming Lee and
Mei-Jih Gee Estimating survival rates using an
extended Ricker's two-release method . . 123--137
Thomas C. M. Lee Smoothing parameter selection for
smoothing splines: a simulation study 139--148
M. A. W. Mahmoud and
K. S. Sultan and
S. M. Amer Order statistics from inverse Weibull
distribution and associated inference 149--163
Edwin M. M. Ortega and
Heleno Bolfarine and
Gilberto A. Paula Influence diagnostics in generalized
log-gamma regression models . . . . . . 165--186
Yingwei Peng Estimating baseline distribution in
proportional hazards cure models . . . . 187--201
Hsien-Chung Wu Fuzzy estimates of regression parameters
in linear regression models for
imprecise input and output data . . . . 203--217
Shan Zhao and
G. W. Wei Jump process for the trend estimation of
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--241
Patrizia Boracchi and
Elia Biganzoli and
Ettore Marubini Joint modelling of cause-specific hazard
functions with cubic splines: an
application to a large series of breast
cancer patients . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--262
Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows . . . . . . 263--276
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David A. Belsley and
Erricos John Kontoghiorghes Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
D. S. G. Pollock Improved frequency selective filters . . 279--297
M. Gilli and
P. Winker A global optimization heuristic for
estimating agent based models . . . . . 299--312
Marc S. Paolella Computing moments of ratios of quadratic
forms in normal variables . . . . . . . 313--331
Jurgen A. Doornik and
Marius Ooms Computational aspects of maximum
likelihood estimation of autoregressive
fractionally integrated moving average
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--348
Spyros Skouras An algorithm for computing estimators
that optimize step functions . . . . . . 349--361
Susan Orbe and
Eva Ferreira and
Juan Rodriguez-Poo An algorithm to estimate time-varying
parameter SURE models under different
types of restriction . . . . . . . . . . 363--383
Enrico Capobianco Independent Multiresolution Component
Analysis and Matching Pursuit . . . . . 385--402
Murat K. Munkin The MCMC and SML estimation of a
self-selection model with two outcomes 403--424
Chiara Monfardini An illustration of Cox's non-nested
testing procedure for logit and probit
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--444
F. Bartolucci and
G. De Luca Likelihood-based inference for
asymmetric stochastic volatility models 445--449
Tommaso Proietti Forecasting the US unemployment rate . . 451--476
Daniel Miles and
Juan Mora On the performance of nonparametric
specification tests in regression models 477--490
Derrick P. Reagle and
H. D. Vinod Inference for negativist theory using
numerically computed rejection regions 491--512
Dani Gamerman and
Ajax R. B. Moreira and
Håvard Rue Space-varying regression models:
specifications and simulation . . . . . 513--533
Anonymous SSN-section, PS-file follows . . . . . . 535--544
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--v
A. W. Bowman and
A. Azzalini Computational aspects of nonparametric
smoothing with illustrations from the SM
library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--560
Markus Neuhäuser A note on the exact test based on the
Baumgartner--Weiß--Schindler statistic in
the presence of ties . . . . . . . . . . 561--568
T. Mark Beasley and
Bruno D. Zumbo Comparison of aligned Friedman rank and
parametric methods for testing
interactions in split-plot designs . . . 569--593
Jan Beirlant and
Yuri Goegebeur Regression with response distributions
of Pareto-type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--619
Sòren Hòjsgaard Split models for contingency tables . . 621--645
Yufen Huang and
Norman R. Draper Transformations, regression geometry and
$ R^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--664
Martin Kulldorff and
Toshiro Tango and
Peter J. Park Power comparisons for disease clustering
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--684
Smarajit Bose Multilayer statistical classifiers . . . 685--701
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Friedrich Schmid and
Mark Trede Simple tests for peakedness, fat tails
and leptokurtosis based on quantiles . . 1--12
Gerhard Tutz and
Göran Kauermann Generalized linear random effects models
with varying coefficients . . . . . . . 13--28
Chia-Ding Hou and
Jengtung Chiang and
John Jen Tai A family of simultaneous confidence
intervals for multinomial proportions 29--45
Kevin S. Robinson and
André I. Khuri Quantile dispersion graphs for
evaluating and comparing designs for
logistic regression models . . . . . . . 47--62
Santiago Rodríguez Feijoó and
Alejandro Rodríguez Caro and
Delia Dávila Quintana Methods for quarterly disaggregation
without indicators; a comparative study
using simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--78
Panos M. Pardalos and
J. Chris Sackellares and
Leonidas D. Iasemidis and
Vitality Yatsenko and
Mark C. K. Yang and
Deng-Shan Shiau and
Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse Statistical information approaches for
the modelling of the epileptic brain . . 79--108
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Torsten Hothorn and
Berthold Lausen On the exact distribution of maximally
selected rank statistics . . . . . . . . 121--137
C. Charles and
J. P. Rasson Wavelet denoising of Poisson-distributed
data and applications . . . . . . . . . 139--148
Renato Coppi and
Pierpaolo D'Urso Three-way fuzzy clustering models for LR
fuzzy time trajectories . . . . . . . . 149--177
Rameshwar D. Gupta and
Debasis Kundu Discriminating between Weibull and
generalized exponential distributions 179--196
Ie-Bin Lian Reducing over-dispersion by generalized
degree of freedom and propensity score 197--214
M. L. Menéndez and
J. A. Pardo and
L. Pardo and
K. Zografos On tests of homogeneity based on minimum
$ \phi $-divergence estimator with
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234
Joaquín Pacheco and
Olga Valencia Design of hybrids for the minimum
sum-of-squares clustering problem . . . 235--248
Denise Benton and
K. Krishnamoorthy Computing discrete mixtures of
continuous distributions: noncentral
chisquare, noncentral $t$ and the
distribution of the square of the sample
multiple correlation coefficient . . . . 249--267
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H. K. T. Ng and
D. Kundu and
N. Balakrishnan Modified moment estimation for the
two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--298
Elsayed A. H. Elamir and
Allan H. Seheult Trimmed $L$-moments . . . . . . . . . . 299--314
Peter J. Rousseeuw and
Andreas Christmann Robustness against separation and
outliers in logistic regression . . . . 315--332
C. J. Swanepoel and
W. O. Doku New goodness-of-fit tests for the error
distribution of autoregressive
time-series models . . . . . . . . . . . 333--340
James W. Wisnowski and
James R. Simpson and
Douglas C. Montgomery and
George C. Runger Resampling methods for variable
selection in robust regression . . . . . 341--355
Zhenlin Yang and
Stanley P. See and
M. Xie Transformation approaches for the
construction of Weibull prediction
interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--368
Pak Wing Fong and
Wai Keung Li On time series with randomized unit root
and randomized seasonal unit root . . . 369--395
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Edward J. Wegman and
Wendy L. Martinez and
Jeffrey L. Solka Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422
Deborah F. Swayne and
Duncan Temple Lang and
Andreas Buja and
Dianne Cook GGobi: evolving from XGobi into an
extensible framework for interactive
data visualization . . . . . . . . . . . 423--444
Michael Böhlen and
Linas Bukauskas and
Poul Svante Eriksen and
Steffen Lilholt Lauritzen and
Art\=uras Ma\vzeika and
Peter Musaeus and
Peer Mylov $3$D visual data mining --- goals and
experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--469
Adalbert Wilhelm User interaction at various levels of
data displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--494
Pedro M. Valero-Mora and
Forrest W. Young and
Michael Friendly Visualizing categorical data in ViSta 495--508
Michael Friendly and
Ernest Kwan Effect ordering for data displays . . . 509--539
David J. Marchette and
Jeffrey L. Solka Using data images for outlier detection 541--552
Antony Unwin and
Chris Volinsky and
Sylvia Winkler Parallel coordinates for exploratory
modelling analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 553--564
Heike Hofmann Constructing and reading mosaicplots . . 565--580
J. A. Dykes and
D. M. Mountain Seeking structure in records of
spatio-temporal behaviour: visualization
issues, efforts and applications . . . . 581--603
Robert M. Edsall The parallel coordinate plot in action:
design and use for geographic
visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--619
Carey E. Priebe and
Jeffrey L. Solka and
David J. Marchette and
B. Ted Clark Class cover catch digraphs for latent
class discovery in gene expression
monitoring by DNA microarrays . . . . . 621--632
Edward J. Wegman and
Alan Dorfman Visualizing cereal world . . . . . . . . 633--649
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Joyce C. Niland and
Abdelmonem A. Afifi and
Erricos John Kontoghiorghes Special Issue in Honour of Stan Azen: a
Birthday Celebration . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Paolo Foschi and
David A. Belsley and
Erricos J. Kontoghiorghes A comparative study of algorithms for
solving seemingly unrelated regressions
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--35
D. S. G. Pollock Recursive estimation in econometrics . . 37--75
Myoungshic Jhun and
Seuck Heun Song and
Byoung Cheol Jung BLUP in the nested panel regression
model with serially correlated errors 77--88
Ke-Hai Yuan and
Peter M. Bentler Eight test statistics for multilevel
structural equation models . . . . . . . 89--107
Achim Zeileis and
Christian Kleiber and
Walter Krämer and
Kurt Hornik Testing and dating of structural changes
in practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--123
Sik-Yum Lee and
Xin-Yuan Song Maximum likelihood estimation and model
comparison of nonlinear structural
equation models with continuous and
polytomous variables . . . . . . . . . . 125--142
Yutaka Tanaka and
Fanghong Zhang and
Yuichi Mori Local influence in principal component
analysis: relationship between the local
influence and influence function
approaches revisited . . . . . . . . . . 143--160
F. Ferraty and
P. Vieu Curves discrimination: a nonparametric
functional approach . . . . . . . . . . 161--173
Zhi Geng and
Yang-Bo He and
Xue-Li Wang and
Qiang Zhao Bayesian method for learning graphical
models with incompletely categorical
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--192
Wayne A. Woodward and
Stephan R. Sain Testing for outliers from a mixture
distribution when some data are missing 193--210
Seung-Chun Lee and
Moon Yul Huh A measure of association for complex
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--222
Rand R. Wilcox Inferences based on multiple skipped
correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--236
H. Caussinus and
M. Fekri and
S. Hakam and
A. Ruiz-Gazen A monitoring display of multivariate
outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--252
Harald Heinzl and
Martina Mittlböck Pseudo $R$-squared measures for Poisson
regression models with over- or
underdispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--271
Christophe Croux and
Gentiane Haesbroeck Implementing the Bianco and Yohai
estimator for logistic regression . . . 273--295
Roger W. Payne General balance, large data sets and
extensions to unbalanced treatment
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--304
Verena M. Trenkel Density estimator for strip transects
when animals show directional movement
and observation speed is slow . . . . . 305--312
Karen Kafadar and
Tzulip Phang Transformations, background estimation,
and process effects in the statistical
analysis of microarrays . . . . . . . . 313--338
Johannes Hüsing and
Irina Gana Dresen and
Karl-Heinz Jöckel Quest for a sensible null distribution
in longitudinal microarray experiments 339--347
Indrani Basak and
N. Balakrishnan Robust estimation under progressive
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--376
S. \vZakovi\'c and
B. Rustem and
S. P. Asprey A parallel algorithm for semi-infinite
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--390
Panos M. Pardalos and
Vitaliy Yatsenko and
J. Chris Sackellares and
Deng-Shan Shiau and
Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse and
Leonidas D. Iasemidis Analysis of EEG data using optimization,
statistics, and dynamical system
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--408
Chooichiro Asano and
Akinobu Takeuchi Web-based statistical system by using
the DLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--418
N. Victor and
M. Kieser Configural frequency analysis and
association analyses in contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
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Craig B. Borkowf An efficient algorithm for generating
two-way contingency tables with fixed
marginal totals and arbitrary mean
proportions, with applications to
permutation tests . . . . . . . . . . . 431--449
Andrew G. Glen and
Lawrence M. Leemis and
John H. Drew Computing the distribution of the
product of two continuous random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--464
Jesús López-Fidalgo and
Chiara Tommasi Construction of MV- and SMV-optimum
designs for binary response models . . . 465--475
José Mira and
María Jesús Sánchez Prediction of deterministic functions:
an application of a Gaussian kriging
model to a time series outlier problem 477--491
Darren J. Wilkinson and
Stephen KH Yeung A sparse matrix approach to Bayesian
computation in large linear models . . . 493--516
Panagiotis Besbeas and
Byron J. T. Morgan Integrated squared error estimation of
normal mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--526
Lynne Stokes and
John Plummer Using spreadsheet solvers in sample
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--546
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Jean Gaudart and
Bernard Giusiano and
Laetitia Huiart Comparison of the performance of
multi-layer perceptron and linear
regression for epidemiological data . . 547--570
Arthur Gilmour and
Brian Cullis and
Sue Welham and
Beverley Gogel and
Robin Thompson An efficient computing strategy for
prediction in mixed linear models . . . 571--586
Jinsoo Hwang and
Hongsuk Jorn and
Jeankyung Kim On the performance of bivariate robust
location estimators under contamination 587--601
Do\ugan Argaç Testing for homogeneity in a general
one-way classification with fixed
effects: power simulations and
comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 603--612
Jianhua Guo and
Yanping Ma and
Ning-Zhong Shi and
Tai Shing Lau Testing for homogeneity of relative
differences under inverse sampling . . . 613--624
Johanna Hardin and
David M. Rocke Outlier detection in the multiple
cluster setting using the minimum
covariance determinant estimator . . . . 625--638
Marco Marozzi A bi-aspect nonparametric test for the
two-sample location problem . . . . . . 639--648
Didier Renard and
Geert Molenberghs and
Helena Geys A pairwise likelihood approach to
estimation in multilevel probit models 649--667
Wen-Tao Huang and
Yu-Pin Lin Bayesian sampling plans for exponential
distribution based on uniform random
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--691
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Jeffrey L. Solka and
Edward J. Wegman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
John C. Wierman and
David J. Marchette Modeling computer virus prevalence with
a susceptible-infected-susceptible model
with reintroduction . . . . . . . . . . 3--23
Stephan Bohacek and
Boris Rozovskii A diffusion model of roundtrip time . . 25--50
Daniel Q. Naiman Statistical anomaly detection via httpd
data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--67
Steven L. Scott A Bayesian paradigm for designing
intrusion detection systems . . . . . . 69--83
Zoi Tsourti and
John Panaretos Extreme-value analysis of teletraffic
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--103
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Ayanendranath Basu and
Bruce G. Lindsay The iteratively reweighted estimating
equation in minimum distance problems 105--124
John C. Handley Computationally efficient approximate
likelihood procedures for the Boolean
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--136
Mortaza Jamshidian On algorithms for restricted maximum
likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . 137--157
Nicolas Molinari and
Jean-François Durand and
Robert Sabatier Bounded optimal knots for regression
splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178
R. Kelley Pace and
James P. LeSage Chebyshev approximation of
log-determinants of spatial weight
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--196
Xavier Paoletti and
John O'Quigley and
Jean Maccario Design efficiency in dose finding
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--214
Francisco Cribari-Neto Asymptotic inference under
heteroskedasticity of unknown form . . . 215--233
C. B. Dean and
M. D. Ugarte and
A. F. Militino Penalized quasi-likelihood with
spatially correlated data . . . . . . . 235--248
A. Delaigle and
I. Gijbels Practical bandwidth selection in
deconvolution kernel density estimation 249--267
Luiz Duczmal and
Renato Assunção A simulated annealing strategy for the
detection of arbitrarily shaped spatial
clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--286
Ramesh C. Gupta and
S. H. Ong A new generalization of the negative
binomial distribution . . . . . . . . . 287--300
Mia Hubert and
Katrien Van Driessen Fast and robust discriminant analysis 301--320
Sik-Yum Lee and
Liang Xu Influence analyses of nonlinear
mixed-effects models . . . . . . . . . . 321--341
Li-Chun Zhang Nonparametric Markov chain bootstrap for
multiple imputation . . . . . . . . . . 343--353
Werner Hürlimann Fitting bivariate cumulative returns
with copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--372
A. Martín Andrés and
I. Herranz Tejedor Exact unconditional non-classical tests
on the difference of two proportions . . 373--388
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M. L. A\"\it-Sidi-Allal and
A. Baccini and
A. M. Mondot A new algorithm for estimating the
parameters and their asymptotic
covariance in correlation and
association models . . . . . . . . . . . 389--421
S. Georgiou and
C. Koukouvinos and
S. Stylianou Construction of new skew Hadamard
matrices and their use in screening
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--429
A. S. Kozek and
J. Yin On Gauss quadrature and partial cross
validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--448
Robert M. Price and
Douglas G. Bonett An improved confidence interval for a
linear function of binomial proportions 449--456
Y.-S. Shih A note on split selection bias in
classification trees . . . . . . . . . . 457--466
James D. Stamey and
Tom L. Bratcher and
Dean M. Young Parameter subset selection and multiple
comparisons of Poisson rate parameters
with misclassification . . . . . . . . . 467--479
Mónica Bécue-Bertaut and
Jérôme Pag\`es A principal axes method for comparing
contingency tables: MFACT . . . . . . . 481--503
Ignacio García Lautre and
Elena Abascal Fernández A methodology for measuring latent
variables based on multiple factor
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--517
Paolo Giordani and
Henk A. L. Kiers Principal Component Analysis of
symmetric fuzzy data . . . . . . . . . . 519--548
Dejian Lai Estimating the Hurst effect and its
application in monitoring clinical
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--562
A. Merbouha and
A. Mkhadri Regularization of the location model in
discrimination with mixed discrete and
continuous variables . . . . . . . . . . 563--576
Rossella Miglio and
Gabriele Soffritti The comparison between classification
trees through proximity measures . . . . 577--593
Yu-Shan Shih and
Hsin-Wen Tsai Variable selection bias in regression
trees with constant fits . . . . . . . . 595--607
W. D. Tan and
F. F. Gan and
T. C. Chang Using normal quantile plot to select an
appropriate transformation to achieve
normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--619
Hien T. V. Vu Estimation in semiparametric conditional
shared frailty models with events before
study entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--637
Sungcheol Yun and
Youngjo Lee Comparison of hierarchical and marginal
likelihood estimators for binary
outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--650
U. Halekoh and
W. Vach A Bayesian approach to seriation
problems in archaeology . . . . . . . . 651--673
Quanxi Shao Notes on maximum likelihood estimation
for the three-parameter Burr XII
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--687
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S. E. Ahmed and
W. J. Krzanowski Biased estimation in a simple
multivariate regression model . . . . . 689--696
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Jessica Thomson and
Yong Cai An exact method of testing equality of
several binomial proportions to a
specified standard . . . . . . . . . . . 697--707
Anne-Catherine Favre and
Alina Matei and
Yves Tillé A variant of the Cox algorithm for the
imputation of non-response of
qualitative data . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--719
H. Sulieman and
P. J. McLellan and
D. W. Bacon A profile-based approach to parametric
sensitivity in multiresponse regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--740
Ayanendranath Basu and
Chanseok Park and
Bruce G. Lindsay and
Haihong Li Some variants of minimum disparity
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--763
Eric Renshaw Metropolis--Hastings from a stochastic
population dynamics perspective . . . . 765--786
Ali Chaouche and
Jean-Noël Bacro A statistical test procedure for the
shape parameter of a generalized Pareto
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--803
Hua Liang Comparison of curves based on a
Cramér--von Mises statistic . . . . . . . 805--812
Feng Gao and
Amita K. Manatunga and
Shande Chen Identification of prognostic factors
with multivariate survival data . . . . 813--824
M. M. Rueda and
A. Arcos and
M. D. Martínez-Miranda and
Y. Román Some improved estimators of finite
population quantile using auxiliary
information in sample surveys . . . . . 825--848
James X. Song and
James T. Wassell and
Asha Kapadia Relative mortality for correlated
lifetime data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--864
Chong Yau Fu Combining loglinear model with
classification and regression tree
(CART): an application to birth data . . 865--874
Christian Hennig and
Bernhard Hausdorf Distance-based parametric bootstrap
tests for clustering of species ranges 875--895
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Chin-Shang Li and
Daniel Hunt Regression splines for threshold
selection with application to a
random-effects logistic dose-response
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Lars Eldén Partial least-squares vs. Lanczos
bidiagonalization --- I: analysis of a
projection method for multiple
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--31
Xiaoming Huo and
Jye-Chyi Lu A network flow approach in finding
maximum likelihood estimate of high
concentration regions . . . . . . . . . 33--56
Richard J. Bolton and
David J. Hand and
Martin Crowder Significance tests for unsupervised
pattern discovery in large continuous
multivariate data sets . . . . . . . . . 57--79
Marco Marozzi A bi-aspect nonparametric test for the
multi-sample location problem . . . . . 81--92
David J. Olive A resistant estimator of multivariate
location and dispersion . . . . . . . . 93--102
Ali Gannoun and
Stéphane Girard and
Christiane Guinot and
Jérôme Saracco Sliced inverse regression in reference
curves estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 103--122
Michael Sherman and
Edward Carlstein Confidence intervals based on estimators
with unknown rates of convergence . . . 123--139
C. C. Taylor and
A. Zempléni Chain plot: a tool for exploiting
bivariate temporal structures . . . . . 141--153
Myrtille Vivien and
Robert Sabatier A generalization of STATIS-ACT strategy:
DO-ACT for two multiblocks tables . . . 155--171
J. F. Walde and
G. Tappeiner and
U. Tappeiner and
E. Tasser and
H. W. Holub Statistical aspects of multilayer
perceptrons under data limitations . . . 173--188
W. Liu and
P. N. Somerville Stepwise multiple tests for successive
comparisons of treatment effects . . . . 189--199
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Shinichi Kawai Approximation of some moments in
eigenvalue problem including some random
variables and its application . . . . . 201--212
Chih-Ping Chou and
Dongyun Yang and
Mary Ann Pentz and
Yih-Ing Hser Piecewise growth curve modeling approach
for longitudinal prevention study . . . 213--225
Pierre Duchesne On robust testing for conditional
heteroscedasticity in time series models 227--256
Raymond N. Greenwell and
Stephen J. Finch Randomized rejection procedure for the
two-sample Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistic 257--267
Ivan Kojadinovic Agglomerative hierarchical clustering of
continuous variables based on mutual
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--294
Iain Pardoe Model assessment plots for multilevel
logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . 295--307
Walter W. Piegorsch Sample sizes for improved binomial
confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 309--316
Quanxi Shao and
Wai-Cheung Ip and
Heung Wong Determination of embedded distributions 317--334
Wen Hsiang Wei Derivatives diagnostics and robustness
for smoothing splines . . . . . . . . . 335--356
Paul S. Horn and
Douglas A. Wolfe A rank-based goodness-of-fit approach to
testing for non-additivity in the
two-way layout with no replications . . 357--376
Josef Högel and
Martina Kron Comparison of conditional power criteria
for early termination of clinical trials 377--395
Steen Magnussen An algorithm for generating positively
correlated Beta-distributed random
variables with known marginal
distributions and a specified
correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--406
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Danh V. Nguyen and
David M. Rocke On partial least squares dimension
reduction for microarray-based
classification: a simulation study . . . 407--425
Cora J. M. Maas and
Joop J. Hox The influence of violations of
assumptions on multilevel parameter
estimates and their standard errors . . 427--440
Hideo Kozumi Posterior analysis of latent competing
risk models by parallel tempering . . . 441--458
Tak K. Mak Estimating variances for all sample
sizes by the bootstrap . . . . . . . . . 459--467
J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and
A. Enguix-González and
J. Muñoz-García and
A. Pascual-Acosta The Fréchet's metric as a measure of
influence in multivariate linear models
with random errors elliptically
distributed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--491
Andrea Mercatanti Analyzing a randomized experiment with
imperfect compliance and ignorable
conditions for missing data: theoretical
and computational issues . . . . . . . . 493--509
Viviana Giampaoli and
Julio da Motta Singer Comparison of two normal populations
with restricted means . . . . . . . . . 511--529
Grace Montepiedra and
Arthur B. Yeh Two-stage designs for identification and
estimation of polynomial models . . . . 531--546
Felix Famoye and
Weiren Wang Censored generalized Poisson regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--560
C. Caroni and
V. Karioti Detecting an innovative outlier in a set
of time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--570
Usha Govindarajulu and
Lisa Sullivan and
Ralph B. D'Agostino SAS macros for confidence interval
estimation for CHD risk prediction by
different survival models . . . . . . . 571--592
Hossein Mansouri and
Carrie Shaw Nonparametric multiple comparison
procedures for ordered parameters in
balanced incomplete blocks . . . . . . . 593--604
Paul J. Maiste and
Bruce S. Weir Optimal testing strategies for large,
sparse multinomial models . . . . . . . 605--620
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Chul Gyu Park Construction of random vectors of
heterogeneous component variables under
specified correlation structures . . . . 621--630
Inyoung Kim and
Noah Cohen Semiparametric and nonparametric
modeling for effect modification in
matched studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--643
Egmar Rödel and
Wolfgang Kössler Linear rank tests for independence in
bivariate distributions --- power
comparisons by simulation . . . . . . . 645--660
Jian Tao and
Ning-Zhong Shi and
Sik-Yum Lee Drug risk assessment with determining
the number of sub-populations under
finite mixture normal models . . . . . . 661--676
John A. Randal and
Peter J. Thomson Maximum likelihood estimation for
Tukey's three corners . . . . . . . . . 677--687
Bjòrn-Helge Mevik Assessing the performance of classifiers
when classes arise from a continuum . . 689--705
M. Y. El-Bassiouni and
H. A. Charif Testing a null variance ratio in mixed
models with zero degrees of freedom for
error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--719
Lieven Tack and
Martina Vandebroek Trend-resistant and cost-efficient
cross-over designs for mixed models . . 721--746
Zhiyu Ge and
Peter J. Bickel and
John A. Rice An approximate likelihood approach to
nonlinear mixed effects models via
spline approximation . . . . . . . . . . 747--776
Gerhard Tutz Generalized semiparametrically
structured mixed models . . . . . . . . 777--800
Orly Manor and
David M. Zucker Small sample inference for the fixed
effects in the mixed linear model . . . 801--817
Sana S. BuHamra and
Noriah M. Al-Kandari and
S. E. Ahmed Inference concerning quantile for left
truncated and right censored data . . . 819--831
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--835
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Anonymous Call for papers . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Yuichi Nagahara A method of simulating multivariate
nonnormal distributions by the Pearson
distribution system and estimation . . . 1--29
Xiao-Wen Chang and
Leming Qu Wavelet estimation of partially linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--48
A. R. Mugdadi and
Ibrahim A. Ahmad A bandwidth selection for kernel density
estimation of functions of random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--62
Allan B. Clark and
Andrew B. Lawson An evaluation of non-parametric relative
risk estimators for disease maps . . . . 63--78
Daya K. Nagar and
Jie Chen and
Arjun K. Gupta Distribution and percentage points of
the likelihood ratio statistic for
testing circular symmetry . . . . . . . 79--89
Philip Prescott and
Ralph Mansson Robustness of diallel cross designs to
the loss of one or more observations . . 91--109
Antonio Cuevas and
Manuel Febrero and
Ricardo Fraiman An ANOVA test for functional data . . . 111--122
Alexander Kukush and
Ivan Markovsky and
Sabine Van Huffel Consistent estimation in an implicit
quadratic measurement error model . . . 123--147
Hyun Gon Noh and
Moon Sup Song and
Sung Hyun Park An unbiased method for constructing
multilabel classification trees . . . . 149--164
Neil C. Schwertman and
Margaret Ann Owens and
Robiah Adnan A simple more general boxplot method for
identifying outliers . . . . . . . . . . 165--174
Lexin Li and
R. Dennis Cook and
Christopher J. Nachtsheim Cluster-based estimation for sufficient
dimension reduction . . . . . . . . . . 175--193
F. Bartolucci and
L. Scaccia Testing for positive association in
contingency tables with fixed margins 195--210
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Peter Winker and
Manfred Gilli Applications of optimization heuristics
to estimation and modelling problems . . 211--223
Jorge Cadima and
J. Orestes Cerdeira and
Manuel Minhoto Computational aspects of algorithms for
variable selection in the context of
principal components . . . . . . . . . . 225--236
David L. Woodruff and
Torsten Reiners Experiments with, and on, algorithms for
maximum likelihood clustering . . . . . 237--253
Jamie Alcock and
Kevin Burrage A genetic estimation algorithm for
parameters of stochastic ordinary
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 255--275
R. Baragona and
F. Battaglia and
D. Cucina Fitting piecewise linear threshold
autoregressive models by means of
genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 277--295
Karsten Luebke and
Claus Weihs Generation of prediction optimal
projection on latent factors by a
stochastic search algorithm . . . . . . 297--310
Carlotta Orsenigo and
Carlo Vercellis Discrete support vector decision trees
via tabu search . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--322
Alberto Roverato and
Sandra Paterlini Technological modelling for graphical
models: an approach based on genetic
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--337
Dietmar G. Maringer Finding the relevant risk factors for
asset pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--352
Francesco Pattarin and
Sandra Paterlini and
Tommaso Minerva Clustering financial time series: an
application to mutual funds style
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--372
Frank Schlottmann and
Detlef Seese A hybrid heuristic approach to discrete
multi-objective optimization of credit
portfolios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--399
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Manuel Salvador and
Pilar Gargallo Automatic monitoring and intervention in
multivariate dynamic linear models . . . 401--431
Günter Tirler and
Peter Dalgaard and
Wolfgang Hörmann and
Josef Leydold An error in the Kinderman--Ramage method
and how to fix it . . . . . . . . . . . 433--440
Jaeyong Lee and
Yongdai Kim A new algorithm to generate beta
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--453
Arie Yeredor and
Bart De Moor On homogeneous least-squares problems
and the inconsistency introduced by
mis-constraining . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--465
Thomas M. Loughin A systematic comparison of methods for
combining $p$-values from independent
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--485
W. González Manteiga and
M. D. Martínez Miranda and
A. Pérez González The choice of smoothing parameter in
nonparametric regression through Wild
Bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--515
Arnab Bhattacharjee Estimation in hazard regression models
under ordered departures from
proportionality . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--536
José Cortiñas Abrahantes and
Geert Molenberghs and
Tomasz Burzykowski and
Ziv Shkedy and
Ariel Alonso Abad and
Didier Renard Choice of units of analysis and modeling
strategies in multilevel hierarchical
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--563
Jennifer S. K. Chan and
Yeh Lam and
Doris Y. P. Leung Statistical inference for geometric
processes with gamma distributions . . . 565--581
Beatriz Vaz de Melo Mendes and
Hedibert Freitas Lopes Data driven estimates for mixtures . . . 583--598
Chin-Shang Li and
Cheng Cheng Stable classification with applications
to microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . 599--609
Danh V. Nguyen On estimating the proportion of true
null hypotheses for false discovery rate
controlling procedures in exploratory
DNA microarray studies . . . . . . . . . 611--637
Alan Agresti and
Brian Caffo and
Pamela Ohman-Strickland Examples in which misspecification of a
random effects distribution reduces
efficiency, and possible remedies . . . 639--653
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Arvind Ruggoo and
Martina Vandebroek Bayesian sequential $D$- $D$ optimal
model-robust designs . . . . . . . . . . 655--673
Jörg Polzehl and
Silvelyn Zwanzig On a symmetrized simulation
extrapolation estimator in linear
errors-in-variables models . . . . . . . 675--688
Cláudia Neves and
M. I. Fraga Alves Reiss and Thomas' automatic selection of
the number of extremes . . . . . . . . . 689--704
Sofiane Brahim-Belhouari and
Amine Bermak Gaussian process for nonstationary time
series prediction . . . . . . . . . . . 705--712
N. Chernov and
C. Lesort Statistical efficiency of curve fitting
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--728
E. N. Zwane and
P. G. M. van der Heijden Semiparametric models for
capture--recapture studies with
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729--743
A. Martín Andrés and
A. Silva Mato and
J. M. Tapia García and
M. J. Sánchez Quevedo Comparing the asymptotic power of exact
tests in $ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . . 745--756
G. Skipka and
A. Munk and
G. Freitag Unconditional exact tests for the
difference of binomial probabilities ---
contrasted and compared . . . . . . . . 757--773
Prasad A. Naik and
Chih-Ling Tsai Isotonic single-index model for
high-dimensional database marketing . . 775--790
Jan Adem and
Willy Gochet Aggregating classifiers with
mathematical programming . . . . . . . . 791--807
Jianrong Wu and
A. C. M. Wong Improved interval estimation for the
two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--821
Rachid Boumaza Discriminant analysis with independently
repeated multivariate measurements: an $
L^2 $ approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--843
Hubert J. Chen and
Shun-Yi Chen Optimal confidence interval for the
largest normal mean with unknown
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--866
Chris M. Theobald and
Mike Talbot Bayesian selection of fertilizer level
when crop price depends on quality . . . 867--880
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881--883
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii
Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi and
Carlo Lauro Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Bovas Abraham and
Giovanni Merola Dimensionality reduction approach to
multivariate prediction . . . . . . . . 5--16
Philippe Bastien and
Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi and
Michel Tenenhaus PLS generalised linear regression . . . 17--46
Garmt Dijksterhuis and
Harald Martens and
Magni Martens Combined Procrustes analysis and PLSR
for internal and external mapping of
data from multiple sources . . . . . . . 47--62
M. Hanafi and
E. M. Qannari An alternative algorithm to the PLS $B$
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--67
Nouna Kettaneh and
Anders Berglund and
Svante Wold PCA and PLS with very large data sets 69--85
Baibing Li and
Per A. Hassel and
A. Julian Morris and
Elaine B. Martin A non-linear nested partial
least-squares algorithm . . . . . . . . 87--101
Harald Martens and
Endre Anderssen and
Arnar Flatberg and
Lars Halvor Gidskehaug and
Martin Hòy and
Frank Westad and
Anette Thybo and
Magni Martens Regression of a data matrix on
descriptors of both its rows and of its
columns via latent variables: L-PLSR . . 103--123
Ruy L. Milidiú and
Raúl P. Rentería DPLS and PPLS: two PLS algorithms for
large data sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--138
Hicham Nocairi and
El Mostafa Qannari and
Evelyne Vigneau and
Dominique Bertrand Discrimination on latent components with
respect to patterns. Application to
multicollinear data . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
C. Preda and
G. Saporta PLS regression on a stochastic process 149--158
Michel Tenenhaus and
Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi and
Yves-Marie Chatelin and
Carlo Lauro PLS path modeling . . . . . . . . . . . 159--205
Huiwen Wang and
Qiang Liu and
Yongping Tu Interpretation of partial least-squares
regression models with VARIMAX rotation 207--219
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Edward L. Boone and
Keying Ye and
Eric P. Smith Assessment of two approximation methods
for computing posterior model
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234
Heather Turner and
Trevor Bailey and
Wojtek Krzanowski Improved biclustering of microarray data
demonstrated through systematic
performance tests . . . . . . . . . . . 235--254
R. H. Loschi and
F. R. B. Cruz Extension to the product partition
model: computing the probability of a
change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--268
Hea-Jung Kim A Bayesian approach to paired comparison
rankings based on a graphical model . . 269--290
Kane Nashimoto and
F. T. Wright Multiple comparison procedures for
detecting differences in simply ordered
means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--306
Kang-Mo Jung Multivariate least-trimmed squares
regression estimator . . . . . . . . . . 307--316
Fred Godtliebsen and
Tor Arne Òigård A visual display device for significant
features in complicated signals . . . . 317--343
Brajendra C. Sutradhar and
Rahul Mukerjee On likelihood inference in binary mixed
model with an application to COPD data 345--361
Richard A. Levine and
Zhaoxia Yu and
William G. Hanley and
John J. Nitao Implementing componentwise Hastings
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--389
Andy C. C. Kwan and
Ah-Boon Sim and
Yangru Wu A comparative study of the finite-sample
performance of some portmanteau tests
for randomness of a time series . . . . 391--413
Michele La Rocca and
Cira Perna Variable selection in neural network
regression models with dependent data: a
subsampling approach . . . . . . . . . . 415--429
Vladimir Boginski and
Sergiy Butenko and
Panos M. Pardalos Statistical analysis of financial
networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--443
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Leo Knüsel On the accuracy of statistical
distributions in Microsoft Excel 2003 445--449
Xiuqing Zhou and
Jinde Wang A genetic method of LAD estimation for
models with censored data . . . . . . . 451--466
Niel Hens and
Marc Aerts and
Geert Molenberghs and
Herbert Thijs and
Geert Verbeke Kernel weighted influence measures . . . 467--487
Paul Chiou and
Weiwen Miao Shrinkage estimation for the difference
between exponential guarantee time
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--507
Umesh Singh and
Pramod K. Gupta and
S. K. Upadhyay Estimation of parameters for
exponentiated-Weibull family under
type-II censoring scheme . . . . . . . . 509--523
S. De Iaco and
M. Palma and
D. Posa Modeling and prediction of multivariate
space--time random fields . . . . . . . 525--547
Nansong Zhang and
Bo-cheng Wei and
Jin-guan Lin Generalized nonlinear models and
variance function estimation . . . . . . 549--570
J. Warwick A data-based method for selecting tuning
parameters in minimum distance
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--585
George Michailidis and
Jan De Leeuw Homogeneity analysis using absolute
deviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--603
Yong Cai and
K. Krishnamoorthy A simple improved inferential method for
some discrete distributions . . . . . . 605--621
Hyeong Chul Jeong and
Myoungshic Jhun and
Daehak Kim Bootstrap tests for independence in
two-way ordinal contingency tables . . . 623--631
Marcus Hutter and
Marco Zaffalon Distribution of mutual information from
complete and incomplete data . . . . . . 633--657
Irini Moustaki and
Ioulia Papageorgiou Latent class models for mixed variables
with applications in Archaeometry . . . 659--675
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Xiao-Wen Chang and
Leming Qu Erratum to ``Wavelet estimation of
partially linear models'' [Computational
Statistics and Data Analysis \bf 47/1
(2004) 31--48] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
Al Ozonoff and
Marco Bonetti and
Laura Forsberg and
Marcello Pagano Power comparisons for an improved
disease clustering test . . . . . . . . 679--684
Wolfgang Jank Quasi-Monte Carlo sampling to improve
the efficiency of Monte Carlo EM . . . . 685--701
Gert Willems and
Stefan Van Aelst Fast and robust bootstrap for LTS . . . 703--715
Lei M. Li An algorithm for computing exact
least-trimmed squares estimate of simple
linear regression with constraints . . . 717--734
P. Congdon Bayesian predictive model comparison via
parallel sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 735--753
John S. Preisser and
Daniel I. Garcia Alternative computational formulae for
generalized linear model diagnostics:
identifying influential observations
with SAS software . . . . . . . . . . . 755--764
M. Moerbeek Robustness properties of $A$-, $D$-, and
$E$-optimal designs for polynomial
growth models with autocorrelated errors 765--778
Mingren Shi and
Mark A. Lukas Sensitivity analysis of constrained
linear $ L_1 $ regression: perturbations
to response and predictor variables . . 779--802
Luisa Canal A normal approximation for the
chi-square distribution . . . . . . . . 803--808
Hee-Seok Oh and
Thomas C. M. Lee Hybrid local polynomial wavelet
shrinkage: wavelet regression with
automatic boundary adjustment . . . . . 809--819
F. Bartolucci and
L. Scaccia The use of mixtures for dealing with
non-normal regression errors . . . . . . 821--834
Kirsten Wüst and
Meinhard Kieser Including long- and short-term data in
blinded sample size recalculation for
binary endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . 835--855
Pieter C. N. Groenewald and
Lucky Mokgatlhe Bayesian computation for logistic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--868
Jae Won Lee and
Jung Bok Lee and
Mira Park and
Seuck Heun Song An extensive comparison of recent
classification tools applied to
microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--885
Arto Voutilainen and
Jari P. Kaipio Sequential Monte Carlo estimation of
aerosol size distributions . . . . . . . 887--908
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--911
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Matthew A. Bognar Bayesian inference for spatially
inhomogeneous pairwise interacting point
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Ove Edlund and
Håkan Ekblom Computing the constrained $M$-estimates
for regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--32
Nagaraj K. Neerchal and
Jorge G. Morel An improved method for the computation
of maximum likeliood estimates for
multinomial overdispersion models . . . 33--43
Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro and
Andrew B. Lawson An evaluation of the edge effects in
disease map modelling . . . . . . . . . 45--62
David Tritchler and
Shafagh Fallah and
Joseph Beyene A spectral clustering method for
microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76
Wei Gao and
Ning-Zhong Shi Estimating cell probabilities under
order-restricted odds ratios . . . . . . 77--84
Chong Yau Fu and
Jeng-Hsiu Hung and
Shih-Hua Liu and
Yung-Lin Chien A new algorithm for solving binary
discrimination in conditional logistic
regression, with two choices of strata 85--97
C. Preda and
G. Saporta Clusterwise PLS regression on a
stochastic process . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108
Saralees Nadarajah Sums, products, and ratios for the
bivariate Lomax distribution . . . . . . 109--129
Yangxin Huang On a family of interval estimators of
effective doses . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--146
Murray Jorgensen Minimum message length estimation using
EM methods: a case study . . . . . . . . 147--167
Göran Kauermann Penalized spline smoothing in
multivariable survival models with
varying coefficients . . . . . . . . . . 169--186
Debasis Kundu and
Mohammad Z. Raqab Generalized Rayleigh distribution:
different methods of estimations . . . . 187--200
Peter Goos and
André Kobilinsky and
Timothy E. O'Brien and
Martina Vandebroek Model-robust and model-sensitive designs 201--216
Jun-mo Nam and
Jinheum Kim and
Seungyeoun Lee Equivalence of two treatments and sample
size determination under exponential
survival model with censoring . . . . . 217--226
Bernhard Klar and
Simos G. Meintanis Tests for normal mixtures based on the
empirical characteristic function . . . 227--242
G. J. Karavasilis and
V. K. Kotti and
D. S. Tsitsis and
V. G. Vassiliadis and
A. G. Rigas Statistical methods and software for
risk assessment: applications to a
neurophysiological data set . . . . . . 243--263
Gintautas Dzemyda Multidimensional data visualization in
the statistical analysis of curricula 265--281
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii
David A. Belsley and
Erricos John Kontoghiorghes Second Special issue on Computational
Econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--285
Giovanni Barone-Adesi and
Henrik Rasmussen and
Claudia Ravanelli An option pricing formula for the GARCH
diffusion model . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--310
J. Chipman and
P. Winker Optimal aggregation of linear time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--331
Gianluca Cubadda and
Pieter Omtzigt Small-sample improvements in the
statistical analysis of seasonally
cointegrated systems . . . . . . . . . . 333--348
Bruno Eklund Estimating confidence regions over
bounded domains . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360
Emmanuel Flachaire Bootstrapping heteroskedastic regression
models: wild bootstrap vs. pairs
bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--376
L. G. Godfrey and
A. R. Tremayne The wild bootstrap and
heteroskedasticity-robust tests for
serial correlation in dynamic regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--395
Giles Jewitt and
J. Roderick McCrorie Computing estimates of continuous time
macroeconometric models on the basis of
discrete data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--416
Agnes S. Joseph and
Jan F. Kiviet Viewing the relative efficiency of IV
estimators in models with lagged and
instantaneous feedbacks . . . . . . . . 417--444
Lynda Khalaf and
Maral Kichian Exact tests of the stability of the
Phillips curve: the Canadian case . . . 445--460
John C. Nankervis Computational algorithms for double
bootstrap confidence intervals . . . . . 461--475
Tommaso Proietti New algorithms for dating the business
cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--498
M. Rekkas and
A. Wong Third-order inference for the Weibull
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--525
Andrew D. Sanford and
Gael M. Martin Simulation-based Bayesian estimation of
an affine term structure model . . . . . 527--554
Mark B. Stewart A comparison of semiparametric
estimators for the ordered response
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--573
P. A. V. B. Swamy and
George S. Tavlas and
I-Lok Chang How stable are monetary policy rules:
estimating the time-varying coefficients
in monetary policy reaction function for
the US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--590
E. Vassiliou and
I. C. Demetriou An adaptive algorithm for least squares
piecewise monotonic data fitting . . . . 591--609
Evdokia Xekalaki and
Stavros Degiannakis Evaluating volatility forecasts in
option pricing in the context of a
simulated options market . . . . . . . . 611--629
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x
Yanli Zhao and
Patricia M. Grambsch and
James D. Neaton Comparison of numerical algorithms for
bivariate sequential tests based on
marginal criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 631--641
Y. Marhuenda and
D. Morales and
J. A. Pardo and
M. C. Pardo Choosing the best Rukhin goodness-of-fit
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--662
Yann Guédon Hidden hybrid Markov/semi-Markov chains 663--688
Francisco José A. Cysneiros and
Gilberto A. Paula Restricted methods in symmetrical linear
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 689--708
Jin Zhang and
Yuehua Wu Likelihood-ratio tests for normality . . 709--721
A. Munk and
G. Skipka and
B. Stratmann Testing general hypotheses under
binomial sampling: the two sample case
--- asymptotic theory and exact
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--739
J. Sigut and
J. Piñeiro and
L. Moreno and
J. Estevez and
R. Aguilar and
R. Marichal A large deviation approach to normality
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--756
Yuwon Kim and
Ja-Yong Koo Inverse boosting for monotone regression
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--770
Haruhiko Ogasawara Asymptotic robustness of the asymptotic
biases in structural equation modeling 771--783
Yoshio Takane and
Heungsun Hwang An extended redundancy analysis and its
applications to two practical examples 785--808
David J. Olive Two simple resistant regression
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--819
Peter C. Austin and
Michael D. Escobar Bayesian modeling of missing data in
clinical research . . . . . . . . . . . 821--836
José A. Díaz-García and
Rogelio Ramos-Quiroga and
Enrique Cabrera-Vicencio Stochastic programming methods in the
response surface methodology . . . . . . 837--848
A. Peters and
T. Hothorn and
B. Lausen Generalised indirect classifiers . . . . 849--861
Shagufta Aslam and
David M. Rocke A robust testing procedure for the
equality of covariance matrices . . . . 863--874
Tsung-Chi Cheng Robust regression diagnostics with data
transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--891
Yunhee Choi and
Hongshik Ahn and
James J. Chen Regression trees for analysis of count
data with extra Poisson variation . . . 893--915
Angela D'Elia and
Domenico Piccolo A mixture model for preferences data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917--934
Michael Sherman and
Edward Carlstein Addendum to ``Confidence intervals based
on estimators with unknown rates of
convergence'' [Comp. Stat. and Data \bf
46/1 (2003) 123--139] . . . . . . . . . 935
Nicola Sartori and
Alberto Salvan and
Karl Thomaseth Multiple imputation of missing values in
a cancer mortality analysis with
estimated exposure dose . . . . . . . . 937--953
M. Eduarda Silva and
Teresa Mendonça and
Isabel Silva and
Hugo Magalhães Statistical analysis of neuromuscular
blockade response: contributions to an
automatic controller calibration . . . . 955--968
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
David J. Hand and
Wojtek J. Krzanowski Optimising $k$-means clustering results
with standard software packages . . . . 969--973
Pedro R. Peres-Neto and
Donald A. Jackson and
Keith M. Somers How many principal components? stopping
rules for determining the number of
non-trivial axes revisited . . . . . . . 974--997
M. Egmont-Petersen and
A. Feelders and
B. Baesens Confidence intervals for probabilistic
network classifiers . . . . . . . . . . 998--1019
E. Kuhn and
M. Lavielle Maximum likelihood estimation in
nonlinear mixed effects models . . . . . 1020--1038
Faming Liang and
Chuanhai Liu Efficient MCMC estimation of discrete
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1052
Costas A. Christophi and
Reza Modarres Approximating the distribution function
of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053--1067
Torsten Hothorn and
Berthold Lausen Bundling classifiers by bagging trees 1068--1078
Nelufa Begum and
Maxwell L. King Most mean powerful test of a composite
null against a composite alternative . . 1079--1104
Seong Keon Lee On generalized multivariate decision
tree by using GEE . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1119
Carlos Daniel Paulino and
Giovani Silva and
Jorge Alberto Achcar Bayesian analysis of correlated
misclassified binary data . . . . . . . 1120--1131
Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis and
George C. Canavos and
Simos G. Meintanis Estimation in the three-parameter
inverse Gaussian distribution . . . . . 1132--1147
Haim Shore Response modeling methodology (RMM) ---
maximum likelihood estimation procedures 1148--1172
Cristiano Varin and
Gudmund Hòst and
Òivind Skare Pairwise likelihood inference in spatial
generalized linear mixed models . . . . 1173--1191
Soo Jung Park and
Dong Wan Shin and
Byeong Uk Park and
Woo Chul Kim and
Man-Suk Oh Bayesian test for asymmetry and
nonstationarity in MTAR model with
possibly incomplete data . . . . . . . . 1192--1204
Ivan Kojadinovic Relevance measures for subset variable
selection in regression problems based
on $k$-additive mutual information . . . 1205--1227
Vishal Varma and
Don R. Halverson Applications of unbiased perturbations
towards quantifying robustness with
pragmatic geometric methods . . . . . . 1228--1243
B. D. McCullough and
Berry Wilson On the accuracy of statistical
procedures in Microsoft Excel 2003 . . . 1244--1252
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253--1255
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii
Jesse L. Barlow and
Haesun Park and
Patrick J. F. Groenen and
Hongyuan Zha 2nd Special issue on matrix computations
and statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Xiao-Wen Chang Computation of Huber's $M$-estimates for
a block-angular regression problem . . . 5--20
Jan de Leeuw Principal component analysis of binary
data by iterated singular value
decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--39
Achiya Dax The $ \ell_1 $ solution of linear
inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--60
Paul H. C. Eilers and
Iain D. Currie and
Maria Durbán Fast and compact smoothing on large
multidimensional grids . . . . . . . . . 61--76
H. Evangelaras and
C. Koukouvinos A comparison between the Gröbner bases
approach and hidden projection
properties in factorial designs . . . . 77--88
John C. Gower An application of the modified
Leverrier--Faddeev algorithm to the
spectral decomposition of symmetric
block-circulant matrices . . . . . . . . 89--106
Sugnet Gardner and
John C. Gower and
N. J. le Roux A synthesis of canonical variate
analysis, generalised canonical
correlation and Procrustes analysis . . 107--134
R. M. Lewis and
M. W. Trosset Sensitivity analysis of the strain
criterion for multidimensional scaling 135--153
Baibing Li Sign eigenanalysis and its applications
to optimization problems and robust
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--162
Jia Li and
Hongyuan Zha Two-way Poisson mixture models for
simultaneous document classification and
word clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--180
Ivan Markovsky and
Maria Luisa Rastello and
Amedeo Premoli and
Alexander Kukush and
Sabine Van Huffel The element-wise weighted total
least-squares problem . . . . . . . . . 181--209
Alwin Stegeman and
Jos M. F. Ten Berge Kruskal's condition for uniqueness in
Candecomp/Parafac when ranks and
$k$-ranks coincide . . . . . . . . . . . 210--220
Yoshio Takane and
Haruo Yanai and
Heungsun Hwang An improved method for generalized
constrained canonical correlation
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--241
Nickolay T. Trendafilov and
Ian T. Jolliffe Projected gradient approach to the
numerical solution of the SCoTLASS . . . 242--253
Shu Yamada and
Michiyo Matsui and
Tomomi Matsui and
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Takenori Takahashi A general construction method for
mixed-level supersaturated design . . . 254--265
Anonymous Acknowledgement referees of 2004 . . . . I--III
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Magne Aldrin Improved predictions penalizing both
slope and curvature in additive models 267--284
Jixiang Wu and
Dongfeng Wu and
Johnie N. Jenkins and
Jack C. McCarty, Jr. A recursive approach to detect
multivariable conditional variance
components and conditional random
effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--300
Oscar H. Bustos and
Alejandro C. Frery Statistical functions and procedures in
IDL 5.6 and 6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--310
W. C. Ip and
Heung Wong and
J. Z. Pan and
D. F. Li The asymptotic convexity of the negative
likelihood function of GARCH models . . 311--331
Johan Lim Permutation procedures with censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--345
Peter Congdon Bayesian model choice based on Monte
Carlo estimates of posterior model
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--357
F. Husson and
J. Pag\`es $I$NDSCAL model: geometrical
interpretation and methodology . . . . . 358--378
Matei Demetrescu An extension of the Gauss--Newton
algorithm for estimation under
asymmetric loss . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--401
B. U. Khan and
S. E. Ahmed Comparisons of improved risk estimators
of the multivariate mean vector . . . . 402--421
Peter Congdon A model for non-parametric spatially
varying regression effects . . . . . . . 422--445
Anita J. van der Kooij and
Jacqueline J. Meulman and
Willem J. Heiser Local minima in categorical multiple
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--462
Binbing Yu Estimation of shared Gamma frailty
models by a modified EM algorithm . . . 463--474
M. Alan Brookhart and
Mark J. van der Laan A semiparametric model selection
criterion with applications to the
marginal structural model . . . . . . . 475--498
Jobst Landgrebe and
Frank Bretz and
Edgar Brunner Efficient design and analysis of two
colour factorial microarray experiments 499--517
Rhonda DeCook and
Dan Nettleton and
Carol Foster and
Eve S. Wurtele Identifying differentially expressed
genes in unreplicated multiple-treatment
microarray timecourse experiments . . . 518--532
Servane Gey and
Jean-Michel Poggi Boosting and instability for regression
trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--550
Carey E. Priebe and
Michael I. Miller and
J. Tilak Ratnanather Segmenting magnetic resonance images via
hierarchical mixture modelling . . . . . 551--567
Valderio Anselmo Reisen and
Alexandre L. Rodrigues and
Wilfredo Palma Estimation of seasonal fractionally
integrated processes . . . . . . . . . . 568--582
Yuwon Kim and
Ja-Yong Koo Erratum to ``Inverse boosting for
monotone regression functions'' [Comput.
Statist. Data Anal. \bf 49 (2005)
757--770] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Soo Jung Park and
Dong Wan Shin and
Byeong Uk Park and
Woo Chul Kim and
Man-Suk Oh Corrigendum to ``Bayesian test for
asymmetry and nonstationarity in MTAR
model with possibly incomplete data'':
[Computational Statistics and Data
Analysis \bf 49/4 (2005) 1192--1204] . . 584
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Weiliang Qiu and
Harry Joe Separation index and partial membership
for clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--603
Donald E. K. Martin A recursive algorithm for computing the
distribution of the number of successes
in higher-order Markovian trials . . . . 604--610
Seong-Ho Kim and
Sung-Ho Kim A divide-and-conquer approach in
applying EM for large recursive models
with incomplete categorical data . . . . 611--641
Berwin A. Turlach An even faster algorithm for ridge
regression of reduced rank data . . . . 642--658
Lynn Kuo and
Tae Young Yang An improved collapsed Gibbs sampler for
Dirichlet process mixing models . . . . 659--674
Hua Liang Estimation in partially linear models
and numerical comparisons . . . . . . . 675--687
Daniel Peña and
Dolores Redondas Bayesian curve estimation by model
averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--709
Jinseog Kim and
Yongdai Kim Maximum a posteriori pruning on decision
trees and its application to bootstrap
BUMPing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710--719
J. K. Lindsey and
P. J. Lindsey Multivariate distributions with
correlation matrices for nonlinear
repeated measurements . . . . . . . . . 720--732
Guy Brys and
Mia Hubert and
Anja Struyf Robust measures of tail weight . . . . . 733--759
Woncheol Jang Nonparametric density estimation and
clustering in astronomical sky surveys 760--774
Douglas G. Bonett Approximate confidence interval for
standard deviation of nonnormal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--782
Anne-Laure Boulesteix and
Gerhard Tutz Identification of interaction patterns
and classification with applications to
microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--802
Dong Hoon Lim Robust edge detection in noisy images 803--812
Ming Yuan GACV for quantile smoothing splines . . 813--829
Ivy Jansen and
Niel Hens and
Geert Molenberghs and
Marc Aerts and
Geert Verbeke and
Michael G. Kenward The nature of sensitivity in monotone
missing not at random models . . . . . . 830--858
Roger Hartley and
Gauthier Lanot Heterogeneous demand responses to
discrete price changes: an application
to the purchase of lottery tickets . . . 859--877
Giovanni Lafratta Efficiency evaluation of MEV spatial
sampling strategies: a scenario analysis 878--890
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Haruhiko Ogasawara Asymptotic expansion of the sample
correlation coefficient under
nonnormality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891--910
Tsai-Yu Lin and
Chen-Tuo Liao A $ \beta $-expectation tolerance
interval for general balanced mixed
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--925
Ito Wasito and
Boris Mirkin Nearest neighbours in least-squares data
imputation algorithms with different
missing patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--949
Saralees Nadarajah Information matrices for Laplace and
Pareto mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . 950--966
Andreas Brezger and
Stefan Lang Generalized structured additive
regression based on Bayesian $P$-splines 967--991
P. Bertrand and
G. Bel Mufti Loevinger's measures of rule quality for
assessing cluster stability . . . . . . 992--1015
G. Ayala and
I. Epifanio and
A. Simó and
V. Zapater Clustering of spatial point patterns . . 1016--1032
Zhihui Wang and
A. F. Desmond and
Xuewen Lu Modified censored moment estimation for
the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1051
Z. Liu and
J. Almhana and
V. Choulakian and
R. McGorman Online EM algorithm for mixture with
application to Internet traffic modeling 1052--1071
John Jen Tai and
Chia-Ding Hou On the combination of
transmission/disequilibrium test and
mean test for linkage detection using
affected sib pairs . . . . . . . . . . . 1072--1089
Chih-Chien Yang Evaluating latent class analysis models
in qualitative phenotype identification 1090--1104
Luigi Salmaso and
Aldo Solari Nonparametric iterated combined tests
for genetic differentiation . . . . . . 1105--1112
Tian-Shyug Lee and
Chih-Chou Chiu and
Yu-Chao Chou and
Chi-Jie Lu Mining the customer credit using
classification and regression tree and
multivariate adaptive regression splines 1113--1130
Norbert Holländer and
Martin Schumacher Estimating the functional form of a
continuous covariate's effect on
survival time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131--1151
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Rosa M. Abellana and
Josep L. Carrasco and
Lluís Jover and
Carlos Ascaso Improving the convergence rate in
conditional autoregressive models . . . 1153--1163
C. Du and
D. Kurowicka and
R. M. Cooke Techniques for generic probabilistic
inversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164--1187
Tianming Hu and
Sam Yuan Sung A hybrid EM approach to spatial
clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1188--1205
Saralees Nadarajah and
Arjun K. Gupta On the ratio of logistic random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1206--1219
Sandra Paterlini and
Thiemo Krink Differential evolution and particle
swarm optimisation in partitional
clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1220--1247
Wilfried Seidel and
Krunoslav Sever and
Hana \vSev\vciková Efficient calculation of the NPMLE of a
mixing distribution for mixtures of
exponentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248--1271
Ming Tan and
Guo-Liang Tian and
Kai Wang Ng Hierarchical models for repeated binary
data using the IBF sampler . . . . . . . 1272--1286
Stefan Van Aelst and
Xiaogang (Steven) Wang and
Ruben H. Zamar and
Rong Zhu Linear grouping using orthogonal
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287--1312
Indrani Basak and
Prasanta Basak and
N. Balakrishnan On some predictors of times to failure
of censored items in progressively
censored samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313--1337
Victoria Kehl and
Kurt Ulm Responder identification in clinical
trials with censored data . . . . . . . 1338--1355
Sik-Yum Lee and
Bin Lu and
Xin-Yuan Song Assessing local influence for nonlinear
structural equation models with
ignorable missing data . . . . . . . . . 1356--1377
Xiao-Hua Zhou and
Hua Liang Semi-parametric single-index two-part
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 1378--1390
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Humberto Barreto and
David Maharry Least median of squares and regression
through the origin . . . . . . . . . . . 1391--1397
Erik Brodin On quantile estimation by bootstrap . . 1398--1406
Seong S. Chae and
William D. Warde Effect of using principal coordinates
and principal components on retrieval of
clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407--1417
Colin Chen Tests of fit for the three-parameter
lognormal distribution . . . . . . . . . 1418--1440
V. Choulakian $ L_1 $-norm projection pursuit
principal component analysis . . . . . . 1441--1451
Renato Coppi and
Pierpaolo D'Urso Fuzzy unsupervised classification of
multivariate time trajectories with the
Shannon entropy regularization . . . . . 1452--1477
Rosario Dell'Aquila and
Elvezio Ronchetti Stock and bond return predictability:
the discrimination power of model
selection criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 1478--1495
Pierpaolo D'Urso and
Paolo Giordani A weighted fuzzy $c$-means clustering
model for fuzzy data . . . . . . . . . . 1496--1523
B. Hafidi and
A. Mkhadri A corrected Akaike criterion based on
Kullback's symmetric divergence:
applications in time series, multiple
and multivariate regression . . . . . . 1524--1550
José Antonio Roldán Nofuentes and
Juan de Dios Luna del Castillo Comparing two binary diagnostic tests in
the presence of verification bias . . . 1551--1564
Jesus Orbe and
Vicente Núñez-Antón Alternative approaches to study lifetime
data under different scenarios: from the
PH to the modified semiparametric AFT
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565--1582
Friedrich Schmid and
Axel Schmidt Nonparametric estimation of the
coefficient of overlapping --- theory
and empirical application . . . . . . . 1583--1596
Shun-Fang Wang and
Nian-Sheng Tang and
Xue-Ren Wang Analysis of the risk difference of
marginal and conditional probabilities
in an incomplete correlated $ 2 \times 2
$ table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1597--1614
Xiaomi Hu Approximation of partial distribution in
renewal function calculation . . . . . . 1615--1624
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Laura Bocci and
Donatella Vicari and
Maurizio Vichi A mixture model for the classification
of three-way proximity data . . . . . . 1625--1654
William J. Browne MCMC algorithms for constrained variance
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1655--1677
Davide Raggi and
Silvano Bordignon Comparing stochastic volatility models
through Monte Carlo simulations . . . . 1678--1699
Giorgio Tomasi and
Rasmus Bro A comparison of algorithms for fitting
the PARAFAC model . . . . . . . . . . . 1700--1734
Frank Bretz An extension of the Williams trend test
to general unbalanced linear models . . 1735--1748
A. K. Gupta and
T. Nguyen and
L. Pardo Preliminary Phi-divergence test
estimator for multinomial probabilities 1749--1773
Gareth M. James and
Ashish Sood Performing hypothesis tests on the shape
of functional data . . . . . . . . . . . 1774--1792
Myung Suk Kim and
Suojin Wang Sizes of two bootstrap-based
nonparametric specification tests for
the drift function in continuous time
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1793--1806
Baibing Li and
Xiangning Huang Existence and uniqueness of relative
incidence estimates in case-series
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1807--1817
Joan G. Staniswalis On fitting generalized non-linear models
with varying coefficients . . . . . . . 1818--1839
S. J. Steel and
D. W. Uys Influential data cases when the $ C_p $
criterion is used for variable selection
in multiple linear regression . . . . . 1840--1854
Biao Zhang A semiparametric hypothesis testing
procedure for the ROC curve area under a
density ratio model . . . . . . . . . . 1855--1876
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Oliver Kuss On the estimation of the stereotype
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877--1890
Christian Menn and
Svetlozar T. Rachev Calibrated FFT-based density
approximations for $ \alpha $-stable
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1891--1904
Ana M. Aguilera and
Manuel Escabias and
Mariano J. Valderrama Using principal components for
estimating logistic regression with
high-dimensional multicollinear data . . 1905--1924
Elvan Ceyhan and
Carey E. Priebe and
John C. Wierman Relative density of the random
$r$-factor proximity catch digraph for
testing spatial patterns of segregation
and association . . . . . . . . . . . . 1925--1964
A. Delaigle and
I. Gijbels Data-driven boundary estimation in
deconvolution problems . . . . . . . . . 1965--1994
E. Deschepper and
O. Thas and
J. P. Ottoy Regional residual plots for assessing
the fit of linear regression models . . 1995--2013
Arturo J. Fernández Bounding maximum likelihood estimates
based on incomplete ordered data . . . . 2014--2027
Pilar Iglesias and
Hector Jorquera and
Wilfredo Palma Data analysis using regression models
with missing observations and
long-memory: an application study . . . 2028--2043
Sung-Ho Kim Conditional log-linear structures for
log-linear modelling . . . . . . . . . . 2044--2064
Rafael Schmidt and
Tomas Hrycej and
Eric Stützle Multivariate distribution models with
generalized hyperbolic margins . . . . . 2065--2096
Timo Similä Self-organizing map visualizing
conditional quantile functions with
multidimensional covariates . . . . . . 2097--2110
Tomoya Yamada and
Takakazu Sugiyama On the permutation test in canonical
correlation analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2111--2123
Francesca Di Iorio and
Giorgio Calzolari Discontinuities in indirect estimation:
an application to EAR models . . . . . . 2124--2136
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x
D. S. G. Pollock Introduction to the special issue on
statistical signal extraction and
filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2137--2145
Carmen Broto and
Esther Ruiz Unobserved component models with
asymmetric conditional variances . . . . 2146--2166
Agustín Maravall An application of the TRAMO-SEATS
automatic procedure; direct versus
indirect adjustment . . . . . . . . . . 2167--2190
Mario Mazzocchi Time patterns in UK demand for alcohol
and tobacco: an application of the EM
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2191--2205
Tucker McElroy and
Andrew Sutcliffe An iterated parametric approach to
nonstationary signal extraction . . . . 2206--2231
E. J. Godolphin and
Kostas Triantafyllopoulos Decomposition of time series models in
state-space form . . . . . . . . . . . . 2232--2246
Chris M. Strickland and
Catherine S. Forbes and
Gael M. Martin Bayesian analysis of the stochastic
conditional duration model . . . . . . . 2247--2267
D. S. G. Pollock Econometric methods of signal extraction 2268--2292
Lorenzo Pascual and
Juan Romo and
Esther Ruiz Bootstrap prediction for returns and
volatilities in GARCH models . . . . . . 2293--2312
Roland Fried and
Thorsten Bernholt and
Ursula Gather Repeated median and hybrid filters . . . 2313--2338
Hernando Ombao and
Moon-ho Ringo Ho Time-dependent frequency domain
principal components analysis of
multichannel non-stationary signals . . 2339--2360
Jerry Coakley and
Ana-María Fuertes and
Ron Smith Unobserved heterogeneity in panel time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2361--2380
Mina Aminghafari and
Nathalie Cheze and
Jean-Michel Poggi Multivariate denoising using wavelets
and principal component analysis . . . . 2381--2398
Brandon Whitcher Wavelet-based bootstrapping of spatial
patterns on a finite lattice . . . . . . 2399--2421
U. Amato and
A. Antoniadis and
I. De Feis Dimension reduction in functional
regression with applications . . . . . . 2422--2446
Stilian Stoev and
Murad S. Taqqu and
Cheolwoo Park and
George Michailidis and
J. S. Marron LASS: a tool for the local analysis of
self-similarity . . . . . . . . . . . . 2447--2471
Yujing Zeng and
Javier Garcia-Frias A novel HMM-based clustering algorithm
for the analysis of gene expression
time-course data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2472--2494
Aki Lehtinen Signal extraction for simulated games
with a large number of players . . . . . 2495--2507
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Debasis Kundu and
Avijit Joarder Analysis of Type-II progressively hybrid
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509--2528
Roger Lafosse and
Jos M. F. ten Berge A simultaneous CONCOR algorithm for the
analysis of two partitioned matrices . . 2529--2535
Yuichi Nagahara Erratum to ``A method of simulating
multivariate nonnormal distributions by
the Pearson distribution system and
estimation'' [Comput. Statist. Data
Anal. \bf 47 (2004) 1--29] . . . . . . . 2536
Jan Purczy\'nki and
Przemys\law W\lodarski On fast generation of fractional
Gaussian noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2537--2551
L. M. Ainsworth and
C. B. Dean Approximate inference for disease
mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2552--2570
C. G. G. Aitken and
D. Lucy and
G. Zadora and
J. M. Curran Evaluation of transfer evidence for
three-level multivariate data with the
use of graphical models . . . . . . . . 2571--2588
Andrés M. Alonso and
Elizabeth A. Maharaj Comparison of time series using
subsampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2589--2599
A. Batsidis and
K. Zografos and
S. Loukas Errors in discrimination with monotone
missing data from multivariate normal
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2600--2634
Thomas Bengtsson and
Joseph E. Cavanaugh An improved Akaike information criterion
for state-space model selection . . . . 2635--2654
P. R. Bouzas and
M. J. Valderrama and
A. M. Aguilera and
N. Ruiz-Fuentes Modelling the mean of a doubly
stochastic Poisson process by functional
data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2655--2667
Jorge Caiado and
Nuno Crato and
Daniel Peña A periodogram-based metric for time
series classification . . . . . . . . . 2668--2684
Salaheddine El Adlouni and
Anne-Catherine Favre and
Bernard Bobée Comparison of methodologies to assess
the convergence of Markov chain Monte
Carlo methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2685--2701
Ahmed M. Gad and
Abeer S. Ahmed Analysis of longitudinal data with
intermittent missing values using the
stochastic EM algorithm . . . . . . . . 2702--2714
L. G. Godfrey Tests for regression models with
heteroskedasticity of unknown form . . . 2715--2733
David I. Harvey and
Dick van Dijk Sample size, lag order and critical
values of seasonal unit root tests . . . 2734--2751
Alfio Marazzi and
Victor J. Yohai Robust Box--Cox transformations based on
minimum residual autocorrelation . . . . 2752--2768
J. M. Muiño and
E. O. Voit and
A. Sorribas GS-distributions: a new family of
distributions for continuous unimodal
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2769--2798
S. O. Nyangoma and
W.-K. Fung and
R. C. Jansen Identifying influential multinomial
observations by perturbation . . . . . . 2799--2821
A. R. Rasekh Local influence in measurement error
models with ridge estimate . . . . . . . 2822--2834
David N. Sessions and
Lonnie K. Stevans Investigating omitted variable bias in
regression parameter estimation: a
genetic algorithm approach . . . . . . . 2835--2854
Venkat S. Sethuraman and
Damaraju Raghavarao and
Bikas K. Sinha Optimal $ s^n $ factorial designs when
observations within-blocks are
correlated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2855--2862
Yury P. Shimansky Continuous significant linear
dimensionality: Geometric interpretation
and statistical characteristics . . . . 2863--2877
Gerhard Tutz and
Florian Leitenstorfer Response shrinkage estimators in binary
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2878--2901
Georges Van Landeghem and
Patrick Onghena and
Jan Van Damme Separability in the fixed part of
multilevel models . . . . . . . . . . . 2902--2919
Eli Walters and
Naomi S. Altman and
Laura Elnitski Clustering of gene locations . . . . . . 2920--2932
Rand R. Wilcox Pairwise comparisons of dependent groups
based on medians . . . . . . . . . . . . 2933--2941
Yongge Tian and
Agnes M. Herzberg $A$-minimax and $D$-minimax robust
optimal designs for approximately linear
Haar-wavelet models . . . . . . . . . . 2942--2951
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
Douglas G. Bonett Confidence interval for a coefficient of
quartile variation . . . . . . . . . . . 2953--2957
Guy Mélard and
Roch Roy and
Abdessamad Saidi Exact maximum likelihood estimation of
structured or unit root multivariate
time series models . . . . . . . . . . . 2958--2986
Achim Zeileis Implementing a class of structural
change tests: an econometric computing
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2987--3008
Xibin Zhang and
Maxwell L. King and
Rob J. Hyndman A Bayesian approach to bandwidth
selection for multivariate kernel
density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 3009--3031
Francesco Audrino The impact of general non-parametric
volatility functions in multivariate
GARCH models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3032--3052
Rahman Azari and
Lexin Li and
Chih-Ling Tsai Longitudinal data model selection . . . 3053--3066
K. Benhenni and
M. Rachdi Nonparametric estimation of the
regression function from quantized
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3067--3085
Tobias Dahl and
Tormod Næs A bridge between Tucker-$1$ and
Carroll's generalized canonical analysis 3086--3098
Orhan Feyzio\uglu and
\.I. Kuban Altìnel and
Süleyman Özekici The design of optimum component test
plans for system reliability . . . . . . 3099--3112
Anil K. Ghosh On optimum choice of $k$ in nearest
neighbor classification . . . . . . . . 3113--3123
Avi Giloni and
Jeffrey S. Simonoff and
Bhaskar Sengupta Robust weighted LAD regression . . . . . 3124--3140
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Xue Li Statistical inference for the common
mean of two log-normal distributions and
some applications in reliability . . . . 3141--3164
Jinheum Kim and
Dae Ryong Kang and
Chung Mo Nam Logrank-type tests for comparing
survival curves with interval-censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3165--3178
Jin-Guan Lin and
Bo-cheng Wei Approximate power of score test for
variance heterogeneity under local
alternatives in nonlinear models . . . . 3179--3198
J. Muñoz-García and
J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo and
L. Pardo Cressie and Read power-divergences as
influence measures for logistic
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 3199--3221
H. K. T. Ng and
D. Kundu and
N. Balakrishnan Point and interval estimation for the
two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution based on Type-II censored
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3222--3242
Susan M. Paddock and
Greg Ridgeway and
Rongheng Lin and
Thomas A. Louis Flexible distributions for triple-goal
estimates in two-stage hierarchical
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3243--3262
M. Rueda and
S. Martínez and
H. Martínez and
A. Arcos Mean estimation with calibration
techniques in presence of missing data 3263--3277
Shohei Shimizu and
Aapo Hyvärinen and
Patrik O. Hoyer and
Yutaka Kano Finding a causal ordering via
independent component analysis . . . . . 3278--3293
Damla \cSentürk and
Danh V. Nguyen Estimation in covariate-adjusted
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3294--3310
Ardo van den Hout and
Peter Kooiman Estimating the linear regression model
with categorical covariates subject to
randomized response . . . . . . . . . . 3311--3323
K. H. Wu and
M. L. Tang and
K. M. Lee Multiple testing procedures for
analyzing stratified comparative
clinical trials using odds ratios . . . 3324--3342
Todd C. Headrick and
Abdel Mugdadi On simulating multivariate non-normal
distributions from the generalized
lambda distribution . . . . . . . . . . 3343--3353
Ning Li and
Guoqi Qian and
Richard Huggins A latent variable model for estimating
disease transmission rate from data on
household outbreaks . . . . . . . . . . 3354--3368
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x
Doyle H. Boese and
Dean M. Young and
James D. Stamey Confidence intervals for a binomial
parameter based on binary data subject
to false-positive misclassification . . 3369--3385
Gilles Celeux and
Jean-Michel Marin and
Christian P. Robert Iterated importance sampling in missing
data problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3386--3404
M. Levine Bandwidth selection for a class of
difference-based variance estimators in
the nonparametric regression: a possible
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3405--3431
Hui-Yi Lin and
Leann Myers Power and Type $I$ error rates of
goodness-of-fit statistics for binomial
generalized estimating equations (GEE)
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3432--3448
Saralees Nadarajah and
M. Masoom Ali The distribution of sums, products and
ratios for Lawrance and Lewis's
bivariate exponential random variables 3449--3463
W. Sauerbrei and
C. Meier-Hirmer and
A. Benner and
P. Royston Multivariable regression model building
by using fractional polynomials:
Description of SAS, STATA and R programs 3464--3485
Diana M. Sima and
Sabine Van Huffel A class of template splines . . . . . . 3486--3499
David R. Bickel and
Rudolf Frühwirth On a fast, robust estimator of the mode:
Comparisons to other robust estimators
with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 3500--3530
Seong S. Chae and
Janice L. DuBien and
William D. Warde A method of predicting the number of
clusters using Rand's statistic . . . . 3531--3546
Jane L. Harvill and
Bonnie K. Ray Functional coefficient autoregressive
models for vector time series . . . . . 3547--3566
Helmut Herwartz Testing for random effects in panel data
under cross sectional error correlation
--- A bootstrap approach to the Breusch
Pagan test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3567--3591
Yuan Ji and
Kam-Wah Tsui and
KyungMann Kim A two-stage empirical Bayes method for
identifying differentially expressed
genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3592--3604
Takafumi Kanamori and
Ichiro Takeuchi Conditional mean estimation under
asymmetric and heteroscedastic error by
linear combination of quantile
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3605--3618
L. Klebanov and
A. Gordon and
Y. Xiao and
H. Land and
A. Yakovlev A permutation test motivated by
microarray data analysis . . . . . . . . 3619--3628
Xiaochun Li and
Ronghui Xu Empirical and kernel estimation of
covariate distribution conditional on
survival time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3629--3643
José Alberto Mauricio Exact maximum likelihood estimation of
partially nonstationary vector ARMA
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3644--3662
James M. McMahon and
Enrique R. Pouget and
Stephanie Tortu A guide for multilevel modeling of
dyadic data with binary outcomes using
SAS PROC NLMIXED . . . . . . . . . . . . 3663--3680
Kurex Sidik and
Jeffrey N. Jonkman Robust variance estimation for random
effects meta-analysis . . . . . . . . . 3681--3701
Kostas Triantafyllopoulos Multivariate discount weighted
regression and local level models . . . 3702--3720
Karen Kafadar and
Edward J. Wegman Visualizing ``typical'' and ``exotic''
Internet traffic data . . . . . . . . . 3721--3743
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3744--3751
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vii
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--x
Renato Coppi and
Maria A. Gil and
Henk A. L. Kiers The fuzzy approach to statistical
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Lotfi A. Zadeh Generalized theory of uncertainty (GTU)
--- principal concepts and ideas . . . . 15--46
Didier Dubois Possibility theory and statistical
reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--69
Hung T. Nguyen and
Berlin Wu Random and fuzzy sets in coarse data
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--85
C. Baudrit and
D. Dubois Practical representations of incomplete
probabilistic knowledge . . . . . . . . 86--108
Miguel López-Díaz and
Dan A. Ralescu Tools for fuzzy random variables:
Embeddings and measurabilities . . . . . 109--114
Giulianella Coletti and
Romano Scozzafava Conditional probability and fuzzy
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--132
Reinhard Viertl Univariate statistical analysis with
fuzzy data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--147
María Ángeles Gil and
Manuel Montenegro and
Gil González-Rodríguez and
Ana Colubi and
María Rosa Casals Bootstrap approach to the multi-sample
test of means with imprecise data . . . 148--162
Gil González-Rodríguez and
Ana Colubi and
María Ángeles Gil A fuzzy representation of random
variables: an operational tool in
exploratory analysis and hypothesis
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--176
J. D. Bermúdez and
J. V. Segura and
E. Vercher A decision support system methodology
for forecasting of time series based on
soft computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--191
Christian Döring and
Marie-Jeanne Lesot and
Rudolf Kruse Data analysis with fuzzy clustering
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--214
Richard J. Hathaway and
James C. Bezdek Extending fuzzy and probabilistic
clustering to very large data sets . . . 215--234
Wolfgang Näther Regression with fuzzy random data . . . 235--252
Peijun Guo and
Hideo Tanaka Dual models for possibilistic regression
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--266
Renato Coppi and
Pierpaolo D'Urso and
Paolo Giordani and
Adriana Santoro Least squares estimation of a linear
regression model with LR fuzzy response 267--286
Pierpaolo D'Urso and
Adriana Santoro Fuzzy clusterwise linear regression
analysis with symmetrical fuzzy output
variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--313
Przemys\law Grzegorzewski The coefficient of concordance for vague
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--322
Olgierd Hryniewicz Goodman--Kruskal $ \gamma $ measure of
dependence for fuzzy ordered categorical
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--334
Pierre-Alexandre Hébert and
Marie-Hél\`ene Masson and
Thierry Den\oeux Fuzzy multidimensional scaling . . . . . 335--359
P. J. F. Groenen and
S. Winsberg and
O. Rodríguez and
E. Diday I-Scal: Multidimensional scaling of
interval dissimilarities . . . . . . . . 360--378
Paolo Giordani and
Henk A. L. Kiers A comparison of three methods for
principal component analysis of fuzzy
interval data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--397
Piero P. Bonissone and
Anil Varma and
Kareem S. Aggour and
Feng Xue Design of local fuzzy models using
evolutionary algorithms . . . . . . . . 398--416
David Shepherd and
Francis K. C. Shi Fuzzy modelling and estimation of
economic relationships . . . . . . . . . 417--433
Murat Gülbay and
Cengiz Kahraman Development of fuzzy process control
charts and fuzzy unnatural pattern
analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--451
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--xi
Richard William Farebrother A linear programming procedure based on
de la Vallée Poussin's minimax estimation
procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--456
Hansong Wang and
Daniel O. Stram Optimal two-stage genome-wide
association designs based on false
discovery rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--465
Allou Samé and
Christophe Ambroise and
Gérard Govaert A classification EM algorithm for binned
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--480
Wim P. Krijnen Convergence of the sequence of
parameters generated by alternating
least squares algorithms . . . . . . . . 481--489
F. Requena and
N. Martín Ciudad A major improvement to the Network
Algorithm for Fisher's Exact Test in $ 2
\times c $ contingency tables . . . . . 490--498
Sven Knoth Computation of the ARL for CUSUM--$ S^2
$ schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--512
Thanh N. Tran and
Ron Wehrens and
Lutgarde M. C. Buydens KNN-kernel density-based clustering for
high-dimensional multivariate data . . . 513--525
Friedrich Leisch A toolbox for $K$-centroids cluster
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--544
P. \vCi\vzek and
W. Härdle Robust estimation of dimension reduction
space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--555
Athanassios Kondylis and
Ali S. Hadi Derived components regression using the
BACON algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--569
Qinfang Xiang and
Jode Edwards and
Gary L. Gadbury Interval estimation in a finite mixture
model: Modeling $P$-values in multiple
testing applications . . . . . . . . . . 570--586
Christophe Biernacki and
Gilles Celeux and
Gérard Govaert and
Florent Langrognet Model-based cluster and discriminant
analysis with the MIXMOD software . . . 587--600
Edson Zangiacomi Martinez and
Jorge Alberto Achcar and
Francisco Louzada-Neto Estimators of sensitivity and
specificity in the presence of
verification bias: a Bayesian approach 601--611
George Kapetanios Choosing the optimal set of instruments
from large instrument sets . . . . . . . 612--620
M. J. Bayarri and
M. E. Castellanos and
J. Morales MCMC methods to approximate conditional
predictive distributions . . . . . . . . 621--640
Yi He and
Wei Pan and
Jizhen Lin Cluster analysis using multivariate
normal mixture models to detect
differential gene expression with
microarray data . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--658
Tzu-Haw Lee and
Yu-Shan Shih Unbiased variable selection for
classification trees with multivariate
responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--667
G. Kokolakis and
Ph. Nanopoulos and
D. Fouskakis Bregman divergences in the $ m \times k
$-partitioning problem . . . . . . . . . 668--678
M. N. M. van Lieshout and
R. S. Stoica Perfect simulation for marked point
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--698
Hans J. Skaug and
David A. Fournier Automatic approximation of the marginal
likelihood in non-Gaussian hierarchical
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--709
Seung-Ho Kang and
Yonghee Lee and
EunSug Park The sizes of the three popular
asymptotic tests for testing homogeneity
of two binomial proportions . . . . . . 710--722
Adeniyi J. Adewale and
Douglas P. Wiens New criteria for robust integer-valued
designs in linear models . . . . . . . . 723--736
V. Choulakian and
J. Allard and
J. Almhana Robust centroid method . . . . . . . . . 737--746
Wolfgang Jank Ascent EM for fast and global solutions
to finite mixtures: an application to
curve-clustering of online auctions . . 747--761
A. M. Alonso and
J. R. Berrendero and
A. Hernández and
A. Justel Time series clustering based on forecast
densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--776
Thomas Kneib Mixed model-based inference in
geoadditive hazard regression for
interval-censored survival times . . . . 777--792
Marinela Capanu and
Gregory A. Jones and
Ronald H. Randles Testing for preference using a sum of
Wilcoxon signed rank statistics . . . . 793--796
Dimitrios V. Vougas On unit root testing with smooth
transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--800
Guoqing Zheng and
Pingjian Zhang Meta-heuristic algorithms for parameter
estimation of semi-parametric linear
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 801--808
David Huard and
Guillaume Évin and
Anne-Catherine Favre Bayesian copula selection . . . . . . . 809--822
C. J. Pérez and
J. Martín and
M. J. Rufo MCMC-based local parametric sensitivity
estimations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--835
John E. Hinkle and
William S. Rayens Reciprocal curves . . . . . . . . . . . 836--858
A. Tscheschel and
D. Stoyan Statistical reconstruction of random
point patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--871
G. L. Gilardoni Very accurate posterior approximations
based on finite mixtures of the
hyperparameters conditionals . . . . . . 872--884
Siem Jan Koopman and
Marius Ooms Forecasting daily time series using
periodic unobserved components time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885--903
Alberto Luceño Fitting the generalized Pareto
distribution to data using maximum
goodness-of-fit estimators . . . . . . . 904--917
Mu Zhu and
Ali Ghodsi Automatic dimensionality selection from
the scree plot via the use of profile
likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918--930
Hans-Friedrich Köhn Combinatorial individual differences
scaling within the city-block metric . . 931--946
Juha Karvanen Estimation of quantile mixtures via
$L$-moments and trimmed $L$-moments . . 947--959
Raydonal Ospina and
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos Improved point and interval estimation
for a beta regression model . . . . . . 960--981
Hubert J. Chen and
Miin-Jye Wen Optimal confidence interval for the
largest normal mean under
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 982--1001
E. M. Silva and
G. C. Franco and
V. A. Reisen and
F. R. B. Cruz Local bootstrap approaches for
fractional differential parameter
estimation in ARFIMA models . . . . . . 1002--1011
Seung-Chun Lee Interval estimation of binomial
proportions based on weighted Polya
posterior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012--1021
Miin-Jye Wen and
Hubert J. Chen A Studentized range test for the
equivalency of normal means under
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1022--1038
Reza Modarres and
Terrence P. Hui and
Gang Zheng Resampling methods for ranked set
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1050
Jin Xu and
Arjun K. Gupta Improved confidence regions for a mean
vector under general conditions . . . . 1051--1062
Antonio Cuevas and
Manuel Febrero and
Ricardo Fraiman On the use of the bootstrap for
estimating functions with functional
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1074
P. Goos and
A. N. Donev Blocking response surface designs . . . 1075--1088
Arvind Ruggoo and
Martina Vandebroek Model-sensitive sequential optimal
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089--1099
M. L. Menéndez and
J. A. Pardo and
L. Pardo and
K. Zografos On tests of independence based on
minimum $ \phi $-divergence estimator
with constraints: an application to
modeling DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100--1118
Arturo J. Fernández Bayesian estimation based on trimmed
samples from Pareto populations . . . . 1119--1130
Liang Xu and
Sik-Yum Lee and
Wai-Yin Poon Deletion measures for generalized linear
mixed effects models . . . . . . . . . . 1131--1146
Tathagata Banerjee and
Tapabrata Maiti and
Pushpal Mukhopadhyay Classification of pathological stage of
prostate cancer patients using penalized
splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1155
Lili Tian Testing equality of inverse Gaussian
means under heterogeneity, based on
generalized test variable . . . . . . . 1156--1162
Yi-Ting Hwang and
Peir Feng Wei A novel method for testing normality in
a mixed model of a nested classification 1163--1183
V. Nikulin Threshold-based clustering with merging
and regularization in application to
network intrusion detection . . . . . . 1184--1196
Bradley G. Hammill and
John S. Preisser A SAS/IML software program for GEE and
regression diagnostics . . . . . . . . . 1197--1212
Mark A. Lukas and
Mingren Shi Sensitivity analysis of constrained
linear $ L_1 $ regression: Perturbations
to constraints, addition and deletion of
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1231
Cajo J. F. ter Braak Bayesian sigmoid shrinkage with improper
variance priors and an application to
wavelet denoising . . . . . . . . . . . 1232--1242
Zhiguang Qian and
Alexander Shapiro Simulation-based approach to estimation
of latent variable models . . . . . . . 1243--1259
Assi N'Guessan and
Azeddine Essai and
Modeste N'Zi An estimation method of the average
effect and the different accident risks
when modelling a road safety measure: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260--1277
Abdelaziz Ouali and
Amar Ramdane Cherif and
Marie-Odile Krebs Data mining based Bayesian networks for
best classification . . . . . . . . . . 1278--1292
Thierry Ané An analysis of the flexibility of
Asymmetric Power GARCH models . . . . . 1293--1311
Oriol Roch and
Antonio Alegre Testing the bivariate distribution of
daily equity returns using copulas. An
application to the Spanish stock market 1312--1329
David I. Stern An atmosphere--ocean time series model
of global climate change . . . . . . . . 1330--1346
N. Miklós Arató and
Ian L. Dryden and
Charles C. Taylor Hierarchical Bayesian modelling of
spatial age-dependent mortality . . . . 1347--1363
N. T. Longford and
M. G. Pittau Stability of household income in
European countries in the 1990s . . . . 1364--1383
Afaf M. Mady Some extensions of Langenberg model for
clinical trials with delayed
observations normally distributed
responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1384--1392
E. Sicard and
R. Sabatier Theoretical framework for local PLS1
regression, and application to a
rainfall data set . . . . . . . . . . . 1393--1410
Haiying Chen and
Elizabeth A. Stasny and
Douglas A. Wolfe An empirical assessment of ranking
accuracy in ranked set sampling . . . . 1411--1419
Ana-Maria Fuertes and
Elena Kalotychou Early warning systems for sovereign debt
crises: the role of heterogeneity . . . 1420--1441
Anonymous Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2003 Faults,
Problems, Workarounds and Fixes . . . . 1442--1443
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix
Raquel Prado and
Francisco Molina and
Gabriel Huerta Multivariate time series modeling and
classification via hierarchical VAR
mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1445--1462
Joaquín Pacheco and
Silvia Casado and
Laura Núñez and
Olga Gómez Analysis of new variable selection
methods for discriminant analysis . . . 1463--1478
T. Garlipp and
C. H. Müller Detection of linear and circular shapes
in image analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 1479--1490
Mohamed Hanafi and
Henk A. L. Kiers Analysis of $K$ sets of data, with
differential emphasis on agreement
between and within sets . . . . . . . . 1491--1508
Jukka Jokinen Fast estimation algorithm for
likelihood-based analysis of repeated
categorical responses . . . . . . . . . 1509--1522
Amal Helu and
Dayanand N. Naik Estimation of interclass correlation via
a Kotz-type distribution . . . . . . . . 1523--1534
Jorge González and
Francis Tuerlinckx and
Paul De Boeck and
Ronald Cools Numerical integration in logistic-normal
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535--1548
Masahiro Kuroda and
Michio Sakakihara Accelerating the convergence of the EM
algorithm using the vector $ \epsilon $
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1561
Adeline Samson and
Marc Lavielle and
France Mentré Extension of the SAEM algorithm to
left-censored data in nonlinear
mixed-effects model: Application to HIV
dynamics model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1562--1574
F. Izsák Maximum likelihood estimation for
constrained parameters of multinomial
distributions --- Application to
Zipf--Mandelbrot models . . . . . . . . 1575--1583
Saralees Nadarajah FIM for Arnold and Strauss's bivariate
gamma distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 1584--1590
B. Torsney and
S. Mandal Two classes of multiplicative algorithms
for constructing optimizing
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1591--1601
Annamaria Guolo and
Alessandra R. Brazzale and
Alessandra Salvan Improved inference on a scalar fixed
effect of interest in nonlinear
mixed-effects models . . . . . . . . . . 1602--1613
B. A. Wichmann and
I. D. Hill Generating good pseudo-random numbers 1614--1622
Jan Schepers and
Iven van Mechelen and
Eva Ceulemans Three-mode partitioning . . . . . . . . 1623--1642
Yongdai Kim and
Sunghoon Kwon and
Seuck Heun Song Multiclass sparse logistic regression
for classification of multiple cancer
types using gene expression data . . . . 1643--1655
F. Frommlet and
M. Bogdan and
A. Futschik Power analysis of database search using
multiple scoring matrices . . . . . . . 1656--1663
Romain Neugebauer and
Mark J. van der Laan Causal effects in longitudinal studies:
Definition and maximum likelihood
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1664--1675
Romain Neugebauer and
Mark J. van der Laan G-computation estimation for causal
inference with complex longitudinal data 1676--1697
Aila Särkkä and
Eric Renshaw The analysis of marked point patterns
evolving through space and time . . . . 1698--1718
Tor Arne Òigård and
Håvard Rue and
Fred Godtliebsen Bayesian multiscale analysis for time
series data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1719--1730
Jen-Wen Lin and
A. Ian McLeod Improved Peña--Rodriguez portmanteau test 1731--1738
Eugene Demidenko Criteria for global minimum of sum of
squares in nonlinear regression . . . . 1739--1753
Ming Yuan Flexible temporal expression profile
modelling using the Gaussian process . . 1754--1764
Christelle Reyn\`es and
Robert Sabatier and
Nicolas Molinari Choice of B-splines with free parameters
in the flexible discriminant analysis
context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1778
P. W. Fong and
W. K. Li and
Hong-Zhi An A simple multivariate ARCH model
specified by random coefficients . . . . 1779--1802
G. Storti Minimum distance estimation of $ {\rm
GARCH}(1, 1) $ models . . . . . . . . . 1803--1821
Lining Yu and
Eberhard O. Voit Construction of bivariate
$S$-distributions with copulas . . . . . 1822--1839
Jason H. Stover An algorithm for simulating permutation
tests of graph-intersection measures of
association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840--1847
Christel Faes and
Helena Geys and
Marc Aerts and
Geert Molenberghs A hierarchical modeling approach for
risk assessment in developmental
toxicity studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848--1861
J. D. Godolphin The specification of rank reducing
observation sets in experimental design 1862--1874
Gianfranco Adimari and
Monica Chiogna Partially parametric interval estimation
of $ {\em Pr} \{ Y > X \} $ . . . . . . . 1875--1891
Jan G. De Gooijer Detecting change-points in
multidimensional stochastic processes 1892--1903
Anne Philippe Bayesian analysis of autoregressive
moving average processes with unknown
orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1904--1923
Qiang Zhao and
Jianguo Sun Semiparametric and nonparametric
analysis of recurrent events with
observation gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . 1924--1933
Rand R. Wilcox Comparing medians . . . . . . . . . . . 1934--1943
Göran Kauermann and
Pavel Khomski Additive two-way hazards model with
varying coefficients . . . . . . . . . . 1944--1956
Parminder Singh and
Wei Liu A test against an umbrella ordered
alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1957--1964
Amit Mitra and
Debasis Kundu and
Gunjan Agrawal Frequency estimation of undamped
exponential signals using genetic
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965--1985
Zeng-Hua Lu The numerical evaluation of the
probability density function of a
quadratic form in normal variables . . . 1986--1996
Huiping Jiang and
Henry L. Gray and
Wayne A. Woodward Time-frequency analysis --- $ G(\lambda)
$-stationary processes . . . . . . . . . 1997--2028
Tatiana Miazhynskaia and
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and
Georg Dorffner Bayesian testing for non-linearity in
volatility modeling . . . . . . . . . . 2029--2042
N. Louw and
S. J. Steel Variable selection in kernel Fisher
discriminant analysis by means of
recursive feature elimination . . . . . 2043--2055
Byeongchan Seong and
A. K. M. Mahbub Morshed and
Sung K. Ahn Additional sources of bias in half-life
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2056--2064
Ahmed A. Soliman and
A. H. Abd Ellah and
K. S. Sultan Comparison of estimates using record
statistics from Weibull model: Bayesian
and non-Bayesian approaches . . . . . . 2065--2077
Shin-Fu Tsai and
Chen-Tuo Liao and
Feng-Shun Chai Statistical designs for two-color
microarray experiments involving
technical replication . . . . . . . . . 2078--2090
Sophie Lambert-Lacroix and
Julie Peyre Local likelihood regression in
generalized linear single-index models
with applications to microarray data . . 2091--2113
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Alessandra Amendola and
Christian Francq and
Siem Jan Koopman Special Issue on Nonlinear Modelling and
Financial Econometrics . . . . . . . . . 2115--2117
J. Arteche Semiparametric estimation in perturbed
long memory series . . . . . . . . . . . 2118--2141
Pierre Duchesne Testing for multivariate autoregressive
conditional heteroskedasticity using
wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2142--2163
Cathy W. S. Chen and
Richard Gerlach and
Mike K. P. So Comparison of nonnested asymmetric
heteroskedastic models . . . . . . . . . 2164--2178
Giovanni De Luca and
Paola Zuccolotto Regime-switching Pareto distributions
for ACD models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2179--2191
Jan Bulla and
Ingo Bulla Stylized facts of financial time series
and hidden semi-Markov models . . . . . 2192--2209
Myung Suk Kim and
Suojin Wang On the applicability of stochastic
volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . 2210--2217
Jun Yu and
Zhenlin Yang and
Xibin Zhang A class of nonlinear stochastic
volatility models and its implications
for pricing currency options . . . . . . 2218--2231
C. T. Brownlees and
G. M. Gallo Financial econometric analysis at
ultra-high frequency: Data handling
concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2232--2245
Bart Frijns and
Peter C. Schotman Nonlinear dynamics in Nasdaq dealer
quotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2246--2266
Francesco Audrino and
Giovanni Barone-Adesi A dynamic model of expected bond
returns: a functional gradient descent
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2267--2277
J. Carlos Escanciano and
Carlos Velasco Testing the martingale difference
hypothesis using integrated regression
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2278--2294
Christoph Hartz and
Stefan Mittnik and
Marc Paolella Accurate value-at-risk forecasting based
on the normal-GARCH model . . . . . . . 2295--2312
Zhengjun Zhang and
James Huang Extremal financial risk models and
portfolio evaluation . . . . . . . . . . 2313--2338
Zden\vek Hlávka Fast algorithm for nonparametric
arbitrage-free SPD estimation . . . . . 2339--2349
Robert C. Jung and
Martin Kukuk and
Roman Liesenfeld Time series of count data: modeling,
estimation and diagnostics . . . . . . . 2350--2364
Cristiano Varin and
Paolo Vidoni Pairwise likelihood inference for
ordinal categorical time series . . . . 2365--2373
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iv--vi
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii
Matthew K. Davis and
Gemai Chen Graphing Kendall's $ \tau $ . . . . . . 2375--2378
Yann Guédon Exploring the state sequence space for
hidden Markov and semi-Markov chains . . 2379--2409
Lang Wu A computationally efficient method for
nonlinear mixed-effects models with
nonignorable missing data in
time-varying covariates . . . . . . . . 2410--2419
Binbing Yu and
Michael J. Barrett and
Hyune-Ju Kim and
Eric J. Feuer Estimating joinpoints in continuous time
scale for multiple change-point models 2420--2427
Patrick Marsh Goodness of fit tests via exponential
series density estimation . . . . . . . 2428--2441
Carole Siani and
Christian de Peretti Analysing the performance of bootstrap
neural tests for conditional
heteroskedasticity in ARCH-M models . . 2442--2460
David M. Mount and
Nathan S. Netanyahu and
Kathleen Romanik and
Ruth Silverman and
Angela Y. Wu A practical approximation algorithm for
the LMS line estimator . . . . . . . . . 2461--2486
Stefano Merler and
Bruno Caprile and
Cesare Furlanello Parallelizing AdaBoost by weights
dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2487--2498
Aapo Hyvärinen Some extensions of score matching . . . 2499--2512
Manuel Abellanas and
Merc\`e Claverol and
Ferran Hurtado Point set stratification and Delaunay
depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2513--2530
Ruggero Bellio Algorithms for bounded-influence
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2531--2541
Astrid Jullion and
Philippe Lambert Robust specification of the roughness
penalty prior distribution in spatially
adaptive Bayesian $P$-splines models . . 2542--2558
María del Mar Rueda and
Antonio Arcos and
Juan Francisco Muñoz and
Sarjinder Singh Quantile estimation in two-phase
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2559--2572
Marco Di Zio and
Ugo Guarnera and
Roberto Rocci A mixture of mixture models for a
classification problem: the unity
measure error . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2573--2585
P. Congdon Bayesian modelling strategies for
spatially varying regression
coefficients: a multivariate perspective
for multiple outcomes . . . . . . . . . 2586--2601
I. B. Lian and
C. J. Chang and
Y. J. Liang and
M. J. Yang and
C. S. J. Fann Identifying differentially expressed
genes in dye-swapped microarray
experiments of small sample size . . . . 2602--2620
Li-Xing Zhu and
Megu Ohtaki and
Yingxing Li On hybrid methods of inverse
regression-based algorithms . . . . . . 2621--2635
María Concepción Ausín and
Pedro Galeano Bayesian estimation of the Gaussian
mixture GARCH model . . . . . . . . . . 2636--2652
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez and
Alberto Rodríguez-Casal Nonparametric estimation from
length-biased data under competing risks 2653--2669
Ping Zhang and
Nicoleta Serban Discovery, visualization and performance
analysis of enterprise workflow . . . . 2670--2687
Marco J. Lombardi Bayesian inference for $ \alpha $-stable
distributions: a random walk MCMC
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2688--2700
Janette F. Walde Valid hypothesis testing in face of
spatially dependent data using
multi-layer perceptrons and sub-sampling
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701--2719
W. González-Manteiga and
M. J. Lombardía and
I. Molina and
D. Morales and
L. Santamaría Estimation of the mean squared error of
predictors of small area linear
parameters under a logistic mixed model 2720--2733
Yulia R. Gel and
Weiwen Miao and
Joseph L. Gastwirth Robust directed tests of normality
against heavy-tailed alternatives . . . 2734--2746
Ilya Novikov and
Bernice Oberman Optimization of large simulations using
statistical software . . . . . . . . . . 2747--2752
Michael D. Porter and
Donald E. Brown Detecting local regions of change in
high-dimensional criminal or terrorist
point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2753--2768
Alberto Contreras-Cristán Using the EM algorithm for inference in
a mixture of distributions with censored
but partially identifiable data . . . . 2769--2781
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
José Antonio Cordeiro Logical operators of some statistical
computing packages and missing values 2783--2787
Roger L. Berger Nonstandard operator precedence in Excel 2788--2791
Olcay Arslan Comment on ``Information matrices for
Laplace and Pareto mixtures'' by S.
Nadarajah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2792--2793
Saralees Nadarajah Reply to the Comment by O. Arslan on
``Information matrices for Laplace and
Pareto mixtures'' . . . . . . . . . . . 2794--2795
Debasis Kundu and
Rameshwar D. Gupta A convenient way of generating gamma
random variables using generalized
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 2796--2802
Hansheng Wang A note on iterative marginal
optimization: a simple algorithm for
maximum rank correlation estimation . . 2803--2812
B. Fournier and
N. Rupin and
M. Bigerelle and
D. Najjar and
A. Iost and
R. Wilcox Estimating the parameters of a
generalized lambda distribution . . . . 2813--2835
Gunky Kim and
Mervyn J. Silvapulle and
Paramsothy Silvapulle Comparison of semiparametric and
parametric methods for estimating
copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2836--2850
Marta Avalos and
Yves Grandvalet and
Christophe Ambroise Parsimonious additive models . . . . . . 2851--2870
Rafael E. Diaz Comparison of PQL and Laplace 6
estimates of hierarchical linear models
when comparing groups of small incident
rates in cluster randomised trials . . . 2871--2888
D. Kurowicka and
R. M. Cooke Sampling algorithms for generating joint
uniform distributions using the
vine-copula method . . . . . . . . . . . 2889--2906
Simon Broda and
Marc S. Paolella Saddlepoint approximations for the
doubly noncentral $t$ distribution . . . 2907--2918
Man-Lai Tang and
Kai Wang Ng and
Guo-Liang Tian and
Ming Tan On improved EM algorithm and confidence
interval construction for incomplete $ r
\times c $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . 2919--2933
Balgobin Nandram and
Daniel Zelterman Computational Bayesian inference for
estimating the size of a finite
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2934--2945
Ji-Ping Wang A linearization procedure and a VDM/ECM
algorithm for penalized and constrained
nonparametric maximum likelihood
estimation for mixture models . . . . . 2946--2957
Christos Koukouvinos and
Kalliopi Mylona and
Dimitris E. Simos Exploring $k$-circulant supersaturated
designs via genetic algorithms . . . . . 2958--2968
Ingelin Steinsland Parallel exact sampling and evaluation
of Gaussian Markov random fields . . . . 2969--2981
James Stamey and
Richard Gerlach Bayesian sample size determination for
case-control studies with
misclassification . . . . . . . . . . . 2982--2992
Durdu Sertkaya Karasoy and
Cem Kadilar A new Bayes estimate of the change point
in the hazard function . . . . . . . . . 2993--3001
María Ángeles Gil and
Gil González-Rodríguez and
Ana Colubi and
Manuel Montenegro Testing linear independence in linear
models with interval-valued data . . . . 3002--3015
José A. Díaz-García and
Ma. Magdalena Garay-Tápia Optimum allocation in stratified
surveys: Stochastic programming . . . . 3016--3026
Math J. J. M. Candel Empirical Bayes estimators of the random
intercept in multilevel analysis:
Performance of the classical, Morris and
Rao version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3027--3040
Stergios B. Fotopoulos and
Venkata K. Jandhyala and
Kim-Heng Chen Non-linear properties of conditional
returns under scale mixtures . . . . . . 3041--3056
Martin L. Hazelton and
Berwin A. Turlach Reweighted kernel density estimation . . 3057--3069
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Suzhong Tian Statistical inference for the risk ratio
in $ 2 \times 2 $ binomial trials with
structural zero . . . . . . . . . . . . 3070--3084
H. K. T. Ng and
K. Gu and
M. L. Tang A comparative study of tests for the
difference of two Poisson means . . . . 3085--3099
Niels Haldrup and
Morten Òrregaard Nielsen Estimation of fractional integration in
the presence of data noise . . . . . . . 3100--3114
David J. Olive Prediction intervals for regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3115--3122
Eric Renshaw and
Jorge Mateu and
Fuensanta Saura Disentangling mark/point interaction in
marked-point processes . . . . . . . . . 3123--3144
Mira Park and
Jae Won Lee and
Choongrak Kim Correspondence analysis approach for
finding allele associations in
population genetic study . . . . . . . . 3145--3155
D. Michael Cai and
Maya Gokhale and
James Theiler Comparison of feature selection and
classification algorithms in identifying
malicious executables . . . . . . . . . 3156--3172
Yan Li and
Julia L. Bienias and
David A. Bennett Confounding in the estimation of
mediation effects . . . . . . . . . . . 3173--3186
Nam H. Tran Fracture orientation characterization:
Minimizing statistical modelling errors 3187--3196
Peter Congdon Mixtures of spatial and unstructured
effects for spatially discontinuous
health outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . 3197--3212
Yuh-Ing Chen and
Yu-Mei Chang Identification of the minimum effective
dose for right-censored survival data 3213--3222
María José García-Zattera and
Alejandro Jara and
Emmanuel Lesaffre and
Dominique Declerck Conditional independence of multivariate
binary data with an application in
caries research . . . . . . . . . . . . 3223--3234
Chen-Tuo Liao and
Tsai-Yu Lin Robust balanced measurement designs when
errors are serially correlated . . . . . 3235--3243
Jing Wang EM algorithms for nonlinear mixed
effects models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3244--3256
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
David A. Belsley and
Erricos John Kontoghiorghes and
Jan R. Magnus The Third Special Issue on Computational
Econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3258
Russell Davidson and
James G. MacKinnon Improving the reliability of bootstrap
tests with the fast double bootstrap . . 3259--3281
L. G. Godfrey Alternative approaches to implementing
Lagrange multiplier tests for serial
correlation in dynamic regression models 3282--3295
Jan F. Kiviet and
Jerzy Niemczyk The asymptotic and finite sample
distributions of OLS and simple IV in
simultaneous equations . . . . . . . . . 3296--3318
Sarah Gelper and
Christophe Croux Multivariate out-of-sample tests for
Granger causality . . . . . . . . . . . 3319--3329
Mercedes Esteban-Bravo and
Jose M. Vidal-Sanz Worst-case estimation for econometric
models with unobservable components . . 3330--3354
Simon Broda and
Kai Carstensen and
Marc S. Paolella Bias-adjusted estimation in the ARX(1)
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3355--3367
Emmanuel Flachaire and
Olivier Nuñez Estimation of the income distribution
and detection of subpopulations: an
explanatory model . . . . . . . . . . . 3368--3380
P. A. V. B. Swamy and
Wisam Yaghi and
Jatinder S. Mehta and
I-Lok Chang Empirical best linear unbiased
prediction in misspecified and improved
panel data models with an application to
gasoline demand . . . . . . . . . . . . 3381--3392
Jérôme Detemple and
Marcel Rindisbacher Monte Carlo methods for derivatives of
options with discontinuous payoffs . . . 3393--3417
Jae H. Kim and
Param Silvapulle and
Rob J. Hyndman Half-life estimation based on the
bias-corrected bootstrap: a highest
density region approach . . . . . . . . 3418--3432
A. Alexandre Trindade and
Yun Zhu Approximating the distributions of
estimators of financial risk under an
asymmetric Laplace law . . . . . . . . . 3433--3447
Ana-Maria Fuertes and
Elena Kalotychou On sovereign credit migration: a study
of alternative estimators and rating
dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3448--3469
Francesco Bartolucci and
Valentina Nigro Maximum likelihood estimation of an
extended latent Markov model for
clustered binary panel data . . . . . . 3470--3483
Alicia Pérez-Alonso A bootstrap approach to test the
conditional symmetry in time series
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3484--3504
John Geweke and
Patrick J. F. Groenen and
Richard Paap and
Herman K. van Dijk Computational techniques for applied
econometric analysis of macroeconomic
and financial processes . . . . . . . . 3506--3508
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and
Rudolf Frühwirth Auxiliary mixture sampling with
applications to logistic models . . . . 3509--3528
John Geweke Interpretation and inference in mixture
models: Simple MCMC works . . . . . . . 3529--3550
L. Bauwens and
C. M. Hafner and
J. V. K. Rombouts Multivariate mixed normal conditional
heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 3551--3566
Alan E. Gelfand and
Sudipto Banerjee and
C. F. Sirmans and
Yong Tu and
Seow Eng Ong Multilevel modeling using spatial
processes: Application to the Singapore
housing market . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3567--3579
Michael P. Clements and
Jae H. Kim Bootstrap prediction intervals for
autoregressive time series . . . . . . . 3580--3594
Nalan Gülpìnar and
Berc Rustem Robust optimal decisions with imprecise
forecasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3595--3611
Christiaan Heij and
Patrick J. F. Groenen and
Dick van Dijk Forecast comparison of principal
component regression and principal
covariate regression . . . . . . . . . . 3612--3625
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
William K. Bertram and
M. Shelton Peiris An example of a misclassification
problem applied to Australian equity
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3627--3630
Christopher J. Paciorek Computational techniques for spatial
logistic regression with large data sets 3631--3653
Dorin Drignei The computational order of a DACE
dynamical model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3654--3665
Emmanuel Jakobowicz and
Christian Derquenne A modified PLS path modeling algorithm
handling reflective categorical
variables and a new model building
strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3666--3678
Johan Lim and
Xinlei Wang and
Michael Sherman An adjustment for edge effects using an
augmented neighborhood model in the
spatial auto-logistic model . . . . . . 3679--3688
A. Berlinet and
Ch. Roland Acceleration schemes with application to
the EM algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 3689--3702
Alina Matei and
Yves Tillé Computational aspects of order $ \pi p s
$ sampling schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 3703--3717
Nickolay T. Trendafilov and
Ian T. Jolliffe DALASS: Variable selection in
discriminant analysis via the LASSO . . 3718--3736
Bryan Langholz and
Jenny Jiao Computational methods for case-cohort
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3737--3748
A. R. Gilmour Mixed model regression mapping for QTL
detection in experimental crosses . . . 3749--3764
Chris J. Lloyd Efficient and exact tests of the risk
ratio in a correlated $ 2 \times 2 $
table with structural zero . . . . . . . 3765--3775
Yong Wang Maximum likelihood computation based on
the Fisher scoring and Gauss--Newton
quadratic approximations . . . . . . . . 3776--3787
Toshimitsu Hamasaki and
Seo Young Kim Box and Cox power-transformation to
confined and censored nonnormal
responses in regression . . . . . . . . 3788--3799
Neil C. Schwertman and
Rapti de Silva Identifying outliers with sequential
fences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3800--3810
Kellie B. Keeling and
Robert J. Pavur A comparative study of the reliability
of nine statistical software packages 3811--3831
Kung-Jong Lui Sample size calculation for
non-compliance randomized trials with
repeated measurements in binary data . . 3832--3843
Yufen Huang and
Tzu-Ling Kao and
Tai-Ho Wang Influence functions and local influence
in linear discriminant analysis . . . . 3844--3861
Jeffrey E. Jarrett and
Xia Pan The quality control chart for monitoring
multivariate autocorrelated processes 3862--3870
Francesco Giordano and
Michele La Rocca and
Cira Perna Forecasting nonlinear time series with
neural network sieve bootstrap . . . . . 3871--3884
Chen-An Tsai and
James J. Chen Kernel estimation for adjusted
$p$-values in multiple testing . . . . . 3885--3897
Rodney X. Sturdivant and
David W. Hosmer, Jr. A smoothed residual based
goodness-of-fit statistic for logistic
hierarchical regression models . . . . . 3898--3912
José Cortiñas Abrahantes and
Catherine Legrand and
Tomasz Burzykowski and
Paul Janssen and
Vincent Ducrocq and
Luc Duchateau Comparison of different estimation
procedures for proportional hazards
model with random effects . . . . . . . 3913--3930
Christophe Dematte\"\i and
Nicolas Molinari and
Jean-Pierre Daur\`es Arbitrarily shaped multiple spatial
cluster detection for case event data 3931--3945
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner Chi-squared components for tests of fit
and improved models for the grouped
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 3946--3954
Donna L. Mohr Bayesian identification of clustered
outliers in multiple regression . . . . 3955--3967
V. J. Rayward-Smith Statistics to measure correlation for
data mining applications . . . . . . . . 3968--3982
Steve Su Numerical maximum log likelihood
estimation for generalized lambda
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3983--3998
Hubert J. Chen and
Shun-Yi Chen Erratum to ``The optimal confidence
interval for the largest normal mean
with unknown variance'' [Computational
Statistics and Data Analysis \bf 47
(2004) 845--866] . . . . . . . . . . . . 3999--4000
H. K. T. Ng and
D. Kundu and
N. Balakrishnan Erratum to ``Point and interval
estimation for the two-parameter
Birnbaum--Saunders distribution based on
Type-II censored samples'':
[Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
\bf 50 (2006) 3222--3242] . . . . . . . 4001
Donald D. M. Tong and
Stephen Buxser and
Thomas J. Vidmar Application of a mixture model for
determining the cutoff threshold for
activity in high-throughput screening 4002--4012
Joost R. Van Ginkel and
L. Andries Van der Ark and
Klaas Sijtsma and
Jeroen K. Vermunt Two-way imputation: a Bayesian method
for estimating missing scores in tests
and questionnaires, and an accurate
approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4013--4027
Mario Cerrato and
Nicholas Sarantis A bootstrap panel unit root test under
cross-sectional dependence, with an
application to PPP . . . . . . . . . . . 4028--4037
R. Gutiérrez and
N. Rico and
P. Román and
F. Torres Approximate and generalized confidence
bands for the mean and mode functions of
the lognormal diffusion process . . . . 4038--4053
Willi Sauerbrei and
Patrick Royston and
Karina Zapien Detecting an interaction between
treatment and a continuous covariate: a
comparison of two approaches . . . . . . 4054--4063
Hakan Demirtas and
Lester M. Arguelles and
Hwan Chung and
Donald Hedeker On the performance of bias--reduction
techniques for variance estimation in
approximate Bayesian bootstrap
imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4064--4068
Giuseppe Arbia and
Giovanni Lafratta and
Carla Simeoni Spatial sampling plans to monitor the
$3$-D spatial distribution of extremes
in soil pollution surveys . . . . . . . 4069--4082
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix
Arthur Tenenhaus and
Alain Giron and
Emmanuel Viennet and
Michel Béra and
Gilbert Saporta and
Bernard Fertil Kernel logistic PLS: a tool for
supervised nonlinear dimensionality
reduction and binary classification . . 4083--4100
Václav \vSmídl and
Anthony Quinn On Bayesian principal component analysis 4101--4123
Anne Krampe and
Sonja Kuhnt Bowker's test for symmetry and
modifications within the algebraic
framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4124--4142
P. C. Wang Planning experiments when some specified
interactions are investigated . . . . . 4143--4151
Abel Tilahun and
Assam Pryseley and
Ariel Alonso and
Geert Molenberghs Flexible surrogate marker evaluation
from several randomized clinical trials
with continuous endpoints, using R and
SAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4152--4163
R. Tsonaka and
I. Moustaki Parameter constraints in generalized
linear latent variable models . . . . . 4164--4177
Matthew S. Johnson Modeling dichotomous item responses with
free-knot splines . . . . . . . . . . . 4178--4192
Amparo Vallejo-Arboleda and
José L. Vicente-Villardón and
M. P. Galindo-Villardón Canonical STATIS: Biplot analysis of
multi-table group structured data based
on STATIS-ACT methodology . . . . . . . 4193--4205
Dick van Dijk and
Philip Hans Franses and
H. Peter Boswijk Absorption of shocks in nonlinear
autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 4206--4226
Mortaza Jamshidian and
James R. Schott Testing equality of covariance matrices
when data are incomplete . . . . . . . . 4227--4239
P. Royston and
W. Sauerbrei Improving the robustness of fractional
polynomial models by preliminary
covariate transformation: a pragmatic
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4240--4253
Jun-Wu Yu and
Guo-Liang Tian and
Man-Lai Tang Predictive analyses for nonhomogeneous
Poisson processes with power law using
Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . . 4254--4268
Ruta Bajorunaite and
John P. Klein Two-sample tests of the equality of two
cumulative incidence functions . . . . . 4269--4281
C. L. Alston and
K. L. Mengersen and
C. P. Robert and
J. M. Thompson and
P. J. Littlefield and
D. Perry and
A. J. Ball Bayesian mixture models in a
longitudinal setting for analysing sheep
CAT scan images . . . . . . . . . . . . 4282--4296
Matthew J. Gurka and
Lloyd J. Edwards and
Leena Nylander-French Testing transformations for the linear
mixed model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4297--4307
Claude Manté Application of resampling and linear
spline methods to spectral and
dispersional analyses of long-memory
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4308--4323
Michela Baccini and
Annibale Biggeri and
Corrado Lagazio and
Aitana Lertxundi and
Marc Saez Parametric and semi-parametric
approaches in the analysis of short-term
effects of air pollution on health . . . 4324--4336
Majnu John and
Carey E. Priebe A data-adaptive methodology for finding
an optimal weighted generalized
Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon statistic . . . 4337--4353
Felipe Osorio and
Gilberto A. Paula and
Manuel Galea Assessment of local influence in
elliptical linear models with
longitudinal structure . . . . . . . . . 4354--4368
Jamal A. Al-Saleh and
Satish K. Agarwal Finite mixture of gamma distributions: a
conjugate prior . . . . . . . . . . . . 4369--4378
Mi-Ja Woo and
T. N. Sriram Robust estimation of mixture complexity
for count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4379--4392
Martin L. Hazelton Bias reduction in kernel binary
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4393--4402
L. A. García-Escudero and
A. Gordaliza The importance of the scales in
heterogeneous robust clustering . . . . 4403--4412
Jiajia Zhang and
Yingwei Peng An alternative estimation method for the
accelerated failure time frailty model 4413--4423
Yongqiang Tang and
Subhashis Ghosal A consistent nonparametric Bayesian
procedure for estimating autoregressive
conditional densities . . . . . . . . . 4424--4437
Tae Young Yang and
Jae Chang Lee Bayesian nearest-neighbor analysis via
record value statistics and
nonhomogeneous spatial Poisson processes 4438--4449
Kellie J. Archer and
Stanley Lemeshow and
David W. Hosmer Goodness-of-fit tests for logistic
regression models when data are
collected using a complex sampling
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4450--4464
Michael Schweinberger and
Tom A. B. Snijders Markov models for digraph panel data:
Monte Carlo-based derivative estimation 4465--4483
William H. Asquith $L$-moments and $ T L$-moments of the
generalized lambda distribution . . . . 4484--4496
Co\cskun Ku\cs A new lifetime distribution . . . . . . 4497--4509
J. Mielniczuk and
P. Wojdy\l\lo Estimation of Hurst exponent revisited 4510--4525
Carlos M. Carvalho and
Hedibert F. Lopes Simulation-based sequential analysis of
Markov switching stochastic volatility
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4526--4542
Wai-Cheung Ip and
Heung Wong and
Riquan Zhang Generalized likelihood ratio test for
varying-coefficient models with
different smoothing variables . . . . . 4543--4561
Matthew J. Langdon and
Charles C. Taylor and
Robert M. West Classification of type I-censored
bivariate data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4562--4576
H.-C. Huang and
F. Martinez and
J. Mateu and
F. Montes Model comparison and selection for
stationary space--time models . . . . . 4577--4596
D. G. Chen Bootstrapping estimation for estimating
relative potency in combinations of
bioassays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4597--4604
Florian Leitenstorfer and
Gerhard Tutz Knot selection by boosting techniques 4605--4621
Patrick D. Gerard and
William R. Schucany An enhanced sign test for dependent
binary data with small numbers of
clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4622--4632
Jadran Dobri\'c and
Friedrich Schmid A goodness of fit test for copulas based
on Rosenblatt's transformation . . . . . 4633--4642
G. Iliopoulos and
M. Kateri and
I. Ntzoufras Bayesian estimation of unrestricted and
order-restricted association models for
a two-way contingency table . . . . . . 4643--4655
Artur J. Lemonte and
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos Improved statistical inference for the
two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4656--4681
Jin Zhang and
Yuehua Wu $k$-Sample tests based on the likelihood
ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4682--4691
Feng-Chang Xie and
Bo-Cheng Wei Diagnostics analysis for
log-Birnbaum--Saunders regression models 4692--4706
Michiyo Yamamoto and
Takakazu Sugiyama and
Hidetoshi Murakami and
Fumitake Sakaori Correlation analysis of principal
components from two populations . . . . 4707--4716
Henar Urmeneta and
Víctor Hernández Random Riemann Sum estimator versus
Monte Carlo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4717--4730
Mirta Ben\vsi\'c and
Kristian Sabo Estimating the width of a uniform
distribution when data are measured with
additive normal errors with known
variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4731--4741
Ana Colubi and
Gil González-Rodríguez Triangular fuzzification of random
variables and power of distribution
tests: Empirical discussion . . . . . . 4742--4750
Peter Hall Book Review: \booktitleNonparametric
functional data analysis: Theory and
practice, F. Ferraty, P. Vieu, in:
Springer Series in Statistics. Springer,
Berlin (2006), xx + 268 pp, ISBN
978-0-387-30369-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 4751--4752
Xiaomi Hu Asymptotical distributions, parameters
and coverage probabilities of tolerance
limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4753--4760
Joseph L. Breeden Modeling data with multiple time
dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4761--4785
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
Wenceslao González Manteiga and
Philippe Vieu Statistics for Functional Data . . . . . 4788--4792
Anestis Antoniadis and
Theofanis Sapatinas Estimation and inference in functional
mixed-effects models . . . . . . . . . . 4793--4813
J. A. Cuesta-Albertos and
E. del Barrio and
R. Fraiman and
C. Matrán The random projection method in goodness
of fit for functional data . . . . . . . 4814--4831
Hervé Cardot and
Christophe Crambes and
Alois Kneip and
Pascal Sarda Smoothing splines estimators in
functional linear regression with
errors-in-variables . . . . . . . . . . 4832--4848
Jeng-Min Chiou and
Hans-Georg Müller Diagnostics for functional regression
via residual processes . . . . . . . . . 4849--4863
Juan Antonio Cuesta-Albertos and
Ricardo Fraiman Impartial trimmed $k$-means for
functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 4864--4877
Sophie Dabo-Niang and
Frédéric Ferraty and
Philippe Vieu On the using of modal curves for radar
waveforms classification . . . . . . . . 4878--4890
M. Escabias and
A. M. Aguilera and
M. J. Valderrama Functional PLS logit regression model 4891--4902
Frédéric Ferraty and
Philippe Vieu and
Sylvie Viguier-Pla Factor-based comparison of groups of
curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4903--4910
Jaroslaw Harezlak and
Brent A. Coull and
Nan M. Laird and
Shannon R. Magari and
David C. Christiani Penalized solutions to functional
regression problems . . . . . . . . . . 4911--4925
Daniel Hlubinka and
Lubo\vs Prchal Changes in atmospheric radiation from
the statistical point of view . . . . . 4926--4941
Rob J. Hyndman and
Md. Shahid Ullah Robust forecasting of mortality and
fertility rates: a functional data
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4942--4956
Sara López-Pintado and
Juan Romo Depth-based inference for functional
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4957--4968
Claude Manté and
Anne-Françoise Yao and
Claude Degiovanni Principal component analysis of
measures, with special emphasis on
grain-size curves . . . . . . . . . . . 4969--4983
David Nerini and
Badih Ghattas Classifying densities using functional
regression trees: Applications in
oceanology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4984--4993
M. D. Ruiz-Medina and
R. Salmerón and
J. M. Angulo Kalman filtering from POP-based
diagonalization of $ {\rm ARH}(1) $ . . 4994--5008
Rand R. Wilcox and
Simon Sheather and
Edgar Brunner and
Michael G. Schimek Nonparametric and Robust Methods . . . . 5010--5012
Mia Hubert and
Sanne Engelen Fast cross-validation of high-breakdown
resampling methods for PCA . . . . . . . 5013--5024
R. Wellmann and
S. Katina and
Ch. H. Müller Calculation of simplicial depth
estimators for polynomial regression
with applications . . . . . . . . . . . 5025--5040
Carola Werner and
Edgar Brunner Rank methods for the analysis of
clustered data in diagnostic trials . . 5041--5054
Markus Neuhäuser and
Christian Lösch and
Karl-Heinz Jöckel The Chen--Luo test in case of
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 5055--5060
Hidetoshi Murakami Lepage type statistic based on the
modified Baumgartner statistic . . . . . 5061--5067
Kane Nashimoto and
F. T. Wright Nonparametric multiple-comparison
methods for simply ordered medians . . . 5068--5076
Xiaojiang Zhan and
Thomas P. Hettmansperger Bayesian $R$-estimates in two-sample
location models . . . . . . . . . . . . 5077--5089
M. Zetlaoui and
N. Picard and
A. Bar-Hen Robustness of the estimators of
transition rates for size-classified
matrix models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5090--5102
S. Taskinen and
S. Sirkiä and
H. Oja Independent component analysis based on
symmetrised scatter matrices . . . . . . 5103--5111
F. Belzunce and
A. Castaño and
A. Olvera-Cervantes and
A. Suárez-Llorens Quantile curves and dependence structure
for bivariate distributions . . . . . . 5112--5129
N. L. Glenn and
Yichuan Zhao Weighted empirical likelihood estimates
and their robustness properties . . . . 5130--5141
Hél\`ene Jacqmin-Gadda and
Solenne Sibillot and
Cécile Proust and
Jean-Michel Molina and
Rodolphe Thiébaut Robustness of the linear mixed model to
misspecified error distribution . . . . 5142--5154
A. Kovac Smooth functions and local extreme
values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5155--5171
Bruno Bertaccini and
Roberta Varriale Robust ANalysis Of VAriance: an approach
based on the Forward Search . . . . . . 5172--5183
Jana Jure\vcková and
Jan Picek Shapiro--Wilk-type test of normality
under nuisance regression and scale . . 5184--5191
Karin Neubert and
Edgar Brunner A Studentized permutation test for the
non-parametric Behrens--Fisher problem 5192--5204
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Dankmar Böhning and
Wilfried Seidel and
Macro Alfó and
Bernard Garel and
Valentin Patilea and
Günther Walther Advances in Mixture Models . . . . . . . 5205--5210
Chang Xuan Mao Estimating population sizes for
capture--recapture sampling with
binomial mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . 5211--5219
Brian Caffo and
Ming-Wen An and
Charles Rohde Flexible random intercept models for
binary outcomes using mixtures of
normals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5220--5235
Anton K. Formann Mixture analysis of multivariate
categorical data with covariates and
missing entries . . . . . . . . . . . . 5236--5246
Bettina Grün and
Friedrich Leisch Fitting finite mixtures of generalized
linear regressions in R . . . . . . . . 5247--5252
Marco Alf\`o and
Alessio Farcomeni and
Luca Tardella Robust semiparametric mixing for
detecting differentially expressed genes
in microarray experiments . . . . . . . 5253--5265
Alexandre X. Carvalho and
Martin A. Tanner Modelling nonlinear count time series
with local mixtures of Poisson
autoregressions . . . . . . . . . . . . 5266--5294
Bernard Garel Recent asymptotic results in testing for
mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5295--5304
Marco Di Zio and
Ugo Guarnera and
Orietta Luzi Imputation through finite Gaussian
mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5305--5316
Soleiman Kheiri and
Alan Kimber and
Mohammad Reza Meshkani Bayesian analysis of an inverse Gaussian
correlated frailty model . . . . . . . . 5317--5326
G. J. McLachlan and
R. W. Bean and
L. Ben-Tovim Jones Extension of the mixture of factor
analyzers model to incorporate the
multivariate $t$-distribution . . . . . 5327--5338
Salvatore Ingrassia and
Roberto Rocci Constrained monotone EM algorithms for
finite mixture of multivariate Gaussians 5339--5351
C. A. McGrory and
D. M. Titterington Variational approximations in Bayesian
model selection for finite mixture
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5352--5367
Jeroen K. Vermunt A hierarchical mixture model for
clustering three-way data sets . . . . . 5368--5376
K. S. Sultan and
M. A. Ismail and
A. S. Al-Moisheer Mixture of two inverse Weibull
distributions: Properties and estimation 5377--5387
Dimitris Karlis and
Valentin Patilea Confidence intervals of the hazard rate
function for discrete distributions
using mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5388--5401
Alejandro Jara and
María José García-Zattera and
Emmanuel Lesaffre A Dirichlet process mixture model for
the analysis of correlated binary
responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5402--5415
P. M. Steiner and
M. Hudec Classification of large data sets with
mixture models via sufficient EM . . . . 5416--5428
Laurent Bordes and
Didier Chauveau and
Pierre Vandekerkhove A stochastic EM algorithm for a
semiparametric mixture model . . . . . . 5429--5443
Paul H. C. Eilers and
M. W. Borgdorff Non-parametric log-concave mixtures . . 5444--5451
M. J. Rufo and
C. J. Pérez and
J. Martín Bayesian analysis of finite mixtures of
multinomial and negative-multinomial
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5452--5466
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--xi
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal AMCMC: an R interface for adaptive MCMC 5467--5470
Sonia Malefaki and
George Iliopoulos Simulating from a multinomial
distribution with large number of
categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5471--5476
Juhyun Park On the choice of an auxiliary function
in the M/G/$ \infty $ estimation . . . . 5477--5482
Stéphane Robin and
Avner Bar-Hen and
Jean-Jacques Daudin and
Laurent Pierre A semi-parametric approach for mixture
models: Application to local false
discovery rate estimation . . . . . . . 5483--5493
Dajun Qian and
John Kaddis and
Joyce C. Niland A matching algorithm for the
distribution of human pancreatic islets 5494--5506
Dianxu Ren and
Roslyn A. Stone A Bayesian approach for analyzing a
cluster-randomized trial with adjustment
for risk misclassification . . . . . . . 5507--5518
Ray-Bing Chen and
Ying Nian Wu A null space method for over-complete
blind source separation . . . . . . . . 5519--5536
R. J. O'Hara Hines and
W. G. S. Hines Covariance miss-specification and the
local influence approach in sensitivity
analyses of longitudinal data with
drop-outs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5537--5546
R. Martín-Martín and
B. Torsney and
J. López-Fidalgo Construction of marginally and
conditionally restricted designs using
multiplicative algorithms . . . . . . . 5547--5561
Vesna Cojbasic and
Andrija Tomovic Nonparametric confidence intervals for
population variance of one sample and
the difference of variances of two
samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5562--5578
C. Xu and
G. Gertner Extending a global sensitivity analysis
technique to models with correlated
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5579--5590
Johan Pea and
Lionel Qualité and
Yves Tillé Systematic sampling is a minimum support
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5591--5602
Nicolas Dobigeon and
Jean-Yves Tourneret Joint segmentation of wind speed and
direction using a hierarchical model . . 5603--5621
Andreas Obereder and
Otmar Scherzer and
Arne Kovac Bivariate density estimation using BV
regularisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5622--5634
A. Durio E. D. Isaia A quick procedure for model selection in
the case of mixture of normal densities 5635--5643
Maciej Patan and
Barbara Bogacka Optimum experimental designs for dynamic
systems in the presence of correlated
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5644--5661
Yong Wang Minimum disparity computation via the
iteratively reweighted least integrated
squares algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 5662--5672
Nabendu Pal and
Jyh-Jiuan Lin and
Ching-Hui Chang and
Somesh Kumar A revisit to the common mean problem:
Comparing the maximum likelihood
estimator with the Graybill--Deal
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5673--5681
C. G. G. Aitken and
Q. Shen and
R. Jensen and
B. Hayes The evaluation of evidence for
exponentially distributed data . . . . . 5682--5693
Víctor Leiva and
Michelli Barros and
Gilberto A. Paula and
Manuel Galea Influence diagnostics in
log-Birnbaum--Saunders regression models
with censored data . . . . . . . . . . . 5694--5707
Hodaka Numasaki and
Hajime Harauchi and
Yuko Ohno and
Kiyonari Inamura and
Satoko Kasahara and
Morito Monden and
Masato Sakon New classification of medical staff
clinical services for optimal
reconstruction of job workflow in a
surgical ward: Application of spectrum
analysis and sequence relational
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5708--5717
Florin Vaida and
Anthony P. Fitzgerald and
Victor DeGruttola Efficient hybrid EM for linear and
nonlinear mixed effects models with
censored response . . . . . . . . . . . 5718--5730
K. Krishnamoorthy and
Fei Lu and
Thomas Mathew A parametric bootstrap approach for
ANOVA with unequal variances: Fixed and
random models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5731--5742
David Beaudoin and
Thierry Duchesne and
Christian Genest Improving the estimation of Kendall's
tau when censoring affects only one of
the variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5743--5764
Jianxin Pan and
Robin Thompson Quasi-Monte Carlo estimation in
generalized linear mixed models . . . . 5765--5775
Erning Li and
Daowen Zhang and
Marie Davidian Likelihood and pseudo-likelihood methods
for semiparametric joint models for a
primary endpoint and longitudinal data 5776--5790
Thomas J. Santner and
Vivek Pradhan and
Pralay Senchaudhuri and
Cyrus R. Mehta and
Ajit Tamhane Small-sample comparisons of confidence
intervals for the difference of two
independent binomial proportions . . . . 5791--5799
Alejandro Quintela-del-Río Plug-in bandwidth selection in kernel
hazard estimation from dependent data 5800--5812
Joyee Ghosh and
Jerome P. Reiter and
Alan F. Karr Secure computation with horizontally
partitioned data using adaptive
regression splines . . . . . . . . . . . 5813--5820
B. Ceranka and
M. Graczyk and
K. Katulska On certain $A$-optimal chemical balance
weighing designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 5821--5827
Giorgio Vittadini and
Simona C. Minotti and
Marco Fattore and
Pietro G. Lovaglio On the relationships among latent
variables and residuals in PLS path
modeling: the formative-reflective
scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5828--5846
João R. Sato and
Pedro A. Morettin and
Paula R. Arantes and
Edson Amaro, Jr. Wavelet based time-varying vector
autoregressive modelling . . . . . . . . 5847--5866
Claudio Agostinelli Robust estimation for circular data . . 5867--5875
Manuela M. Oliveira and
João T. Mexia Modelling series of studies with a
common structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 5876--5885
Yufen Huang and
Mei-Ling Kuo and
Tai-Ho Wang Pair-perturbation influence functions
and local influence in PCA . . . . . . . 5886--5899
Silvano Bordignon and
Massimiliano Caporin and
Francesco Lisi Generalised long-memory GARCH models for
intra-daily volatility . . . . . . . . . 5900--5912
Fredrik A. Dahl Convergence of random
$k$-nearest-neighbour imputation . . . . 5913--5917
Man-Lai Tang and
Wai-Yin Poon Statistical inference for equivalence
trials with ordinal responses: a latent
normal distribution approach . . . . . . 5918--5926
José A. Díaz-García and
José Ramón Domínguez-Molina A new family of life distributions for
dependent data: Estimation . . . . . . . 5927--5939
Melody Y. Kiang and
Michael Y. Hu and
Dorothy M. Fisher The effect of sample size on the
extended self-organizing map network ---
A market segmentation application . . . 5940--5948
Jeffrey S. Racine and
James G. MacKinnon Inference via kernel smoothing of
bootstrap $P$ values . . . . . . . . . . 5949--5957
Miin-Jye Wen and
Shun-Yi Chen and
Hubert J. Chen On testing a subset of regression
parameters under heteroskedasticity . . 5958--5976
Liming Xiang and
Kelvin K. W. Yau and
S. K. Tse and
Andy H. Lee Influence diagnostics for random effect
survival models: Application to a
recurrent infection study for kidney
patients on portable dialysis . . . . . 5977--5993
Cheolwoo Park and
Fred Godtliebsen and
Murad Taqqu and
Stilian Stoev and
J. S. Marron Visualization and inference based on
wavelet coefficients, SiZer and SiNos 5994--6012
Alan M. Polansky Detecting change-points in Markov chains 6013--6026
Andrew B. Lawson and
Silvia Simeon and
Martin Kulldorff and
Annibale Biggeri and
Corrado Magnani Line and point cluster models for
spatial health data . . . . . . . . . . 6027--6043
Gerhard Tutz and
Harald Binder Boosting ridge regression . . . . . . . 6044--6059
Ardo van den Hout and
Peter G. M. van der Heijden and
Robert Gilchrist The logistic regression model with
response variables subject to randomized
response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6060--6069
Peter M. Hooper Period analysis of variable stars:
Temporal dependence and local optima . . 6070--6083
Mahesh Kumar and
Nitin R. Patel Clustering data with measurement errors 6084--6101
Luis E. Nieto-Barajas and
Stephen G. Walker A Bayesian semi-parametric bivariate
failure time model . . . . . . . . . . . 6102--6113
Andrew C. Leon and
Donald Hedeker Quintile stratification based on a
misspecified propensity score in
longitudinal treatment effectiveness
analyses of ordinal doses . . . . . . . 6114--6122
Tonglin Zhang and
Ge Lin A decomposition of Moran's $I$ for
clustering detection . . . . . . . . . . 6123--6137
J. Rodríguez-Avi and
A. Conde-Sánchez and
A. J. Sáez-Castillo and
M. J. Olmo-Jiménez A new generalization of the Waring
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6138--6150
Pedro Galeano The use of cumulative sums for detection
of changepoints in the rate parameter of
a Poisson Process . . . . . . . . . . . 6151--6165
Hongshik Ahn and
Hojin Moon and
Melissa J. Fazzari and
Noha Lim and
James J. Chen and
Ralph L. Kodell Classification by ensembles from random
partitions of high-dimensional data . . 6166--6179
Guoqi Qian and
Xindong Zhao On time series model selection involving
many candidate ARMA models . . . . . . . 6180--6196
Helmut Küchenhoff and
Wolfgang Lederer and
Emmanuel Lesaffre Asymptotic variance estimation for the
misclassification SIMEX . . . . . . . . 6197--6211
S. Heim and
L. Fahrmeir and
P. H. C. Eilers and
B. D. Marx $3$D space-varying coefficient models
with application to diffusion tensor
imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6212--6228
Pankaj K. Choudhary Semiparametric regression for assessing
agreement using tolerance bands . . . . 6229--6241
George T. Chang and
Guenther Walther Clustering with mixtures of log-concave
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6242--6251
B. Vandewalle and
J. Beirlant and
A. Christmann and
M. Hubert A robust estimator for the tail index of
Pareto-type distributions . . . . . . . 6252--6268
Mortaza Jamshidian and
Robert I. Jennrich and
Wei Liu A study of partial $F$ tests for
multiple linear regression models . . . 6269--6284
Aykut Firat and
Sangit Chatterjee and
Mustafa Yilmaz Genetic clustering of social networks
using random walks . . . . . . . . . . . 6285--6294
Anne-Laure Boulesteix and
Carolin Strobl Maximally selected Chi-squared
statistics and non-monotonic
associations: an exact approach based on
two cutpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6295--6306
Philippe Lambert Archimedean copula estimation using
Bayesian splines smoothing techniques 6307--6320
Michael A. Martin Bootstrap hypothesis testing for some
common statistical problems: a critical
evaluation of size and power properties 6321--6342
Chang C. Y. Dorea and
Cira E. Guevara Otiniano and
Raul Matsushita and
Pushpa N. Rathie Lévy flight approximations for scaled
transformations of random walks . . . . 6343--6354
Faming Liang Use of SVD-based probit transformation
in clustering gene expression profiles 6355--6366
Irene Klugkist and
Herbert Hoijtink The Bayes factor for inequality and
about equality constrained models . . . 6367--6379
Yufeng Liu and
Hao Helen Zhang and
Cheolwoo Park and
Jeongyoun Ahn Support vector machines with adaptive $
L_q $ penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6380--6394
Mónica Benito and
Daniel Peña Detecting defects with image data . . . 6395--6403
Samuel Soubeyrand and
Joël Chad\oeuf Residual-based specification of a hidden
random field included in a hierarchical
spatial model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6404--6422
Andreas Baierl and
Andreas Futschik and
Ma\lgorzata Bogdan and
Przemys\law Biecek Locating multiple interacting
quantitative trait loci using robust
model selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 6423--6434
Mary C. Phipps and
Peter M. Byron A filter for ``Confidence interval
$P$-values'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6435--6446
Alan Agresti and
Anna Gottard Nonconservative exact small-sample
inference for discrete data . . . . . . 6447--6458
Ryan Gill and
Kiseop Lee and
Seongjoo Song Computation of estimates in segmented
regression and a liquidity effect model 6459--6475
Shigeru Takasaki and
Yoshihoro Kawamura Using radial basis function networks and
significance testing to select effective
siRNA sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 6476--6487
Yanchun Bao and
Shuyuan He and
Changlin Mei The Koul--Susarla--Van Ryzin and
weighted least squares estimates for
censored linear regression model: a
comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 6488--6497
Dayanand N. Naik and
Amal Helu On testing equality of intraclass
correlations under unequal family sizes 6498--6510
M. Helena Gonçalves and
M. Salomé Cabral and
Maria Carme Ruiz de Villa and
Eduardo Escrich and
Montse Solanas Likelihood approach for count data in
longitudinal experiments . . . . . . . . 6511--6520
C. Q. da-Silva and
P. V. S. Gomes and
M. A. Stradioto Bayesian estimation of survival and
capture probabilities using logit link
and photoidentification data . . . . . . 6521--6534
James R. Schott A test for the equality of covariance
matrices when the dimension is large
relative to the sample sizes . . . . . . 6535--6542
Chun-Xia Zhang and
Chang-Lin Mei and
Jiang-She Zhang An empirical study of a test for
polynomial relationships in randomly
right censored regression models . . . . 6543--6556
Seung-Hwan Lee On the versatility of the combination of
the weighted log-rank statistics . . . . 6557--6564
Javier Roca-Pardiñas and
Stefan Sperlich Testing the link when the index is
semiparametric --- a comparative study 6565--6581
Yang Yang and
Ira M. Longini, Jr. and
M. Elizabeth Halloran A data-augmentation method for
infectious disease incidence data from
close contact groups . . . . . . . . . . 6582--6595
M. Rueda and
J. F. Muñoz and
S. González and
A. Arcos Estimating quantiles under sampling on
two occasions with arbitrary sample
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6596--6613
Xiaoning Wang and
Alan Schumitzky and
David Z. D'Argenio Nonlinear random effects mixture models:
Maximum likelihood estimation via the EM
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6614--6623
Enrique González-Dávila and
Roberto Dorta-Guerra and
Josep Ginebra Simulation-based designs for multiperiod
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6624--6641
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vii
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--xi
Manfred Gilli and
Peter Winker 2nd Special Issue on Applications of
Optimization Heuristics to Estimation
and Modelling Problems . . . . . . . . . 2--3
George Kapetanios Variable selection in regression models
using nonstandard optimisation of
information criteria . . . . . . . . . . 4--15
Marc Hofmann and
Cristian Gatu and
Erricos John Kontoghiorghes Efficient algorithms for computing the
best subset regression models for
large-scale problems . . . . . . . . . . 16--29
Federico Ambrogi and
Nicola Lama and
Patrizia Boracchi and
Elia Biganzoli Selection of artificial neural network
models for survival analysis with
Genetic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 30--42
Luiz Duczmal and
André L. F. Cançado and
Ricardo H. C. Takahashi and
Lupércio F. Bessegato A genetic algorithm for irregularly
shaped spatial scan statistics . . . . . 43--52
Timur Keskintürk and
\cSebnem Er A genetic algorithm approach to
determine stratum boundaries and sample
sizes of each stratum in stratified
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--67
Thiemo Krink and
Sandra Paterlini and
Andrea Resti Using differential evolution to improve
the accuracy of bank rating systems . . 68--87
Bernd Fitzenberger and
Peter Winker Improving the computation of censored
quantile regressions . . . . . . . . . . 88--108
Zheng Yang and
Zheng Tian and
Zixia Yuan GSA-based maximum likelihood estimation
for threshold vector error correction
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--120
Anna Staszewska Representing uncertainty about response
paths: the use of heuristic optimisation
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132
M. M. Ali Synthesis of the $ \beta $-distribution
as an aid to stochastic global
optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--149
Christophe Croux and
Efstratios Gallopoulos and
Stefan Van Aelst and
Hongyuan Zha Machine Learning and Robust Data Mining 151--154
Michael W. Berry and
Murray Browne and
Amy N. Langville and
V. Paul Pauca and
Robert J. Plemmons Algorithms and applications for
approximate nonnegative matrix
factorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--173
Jane E. Tougas and
Raymond J. Spiteri Updating the partial singular value
decomposition in latent semantic
indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--183
Hongyuan Zha and
Zhenyue Zhang Continuum Isomap for manifold learnings 184--200
S. I. Ao and
Michael K. Ng and
Pak C. Sham Constrained unidimensional scaling with
application to genomics . . . . . . . . 201--210
Shuo Chen and
Don Hong and
Yu Shyr Wavelet-based procedures for proteomic
mass spectrometry data processing . . . 211--220
Roland Fried and
Ursula Gather On rank tests for shift detection in
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--233
Tadeusz Bednarski On a robust modification of Breslow's
cumulated hazard estimator . . . . . . . 234--238
Jafar A. Khan and
Stefan Van Aelst and
Ruben H. Zamar Building a robust linear model with
forward selection and stepwise
procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--248
Lauren McCann and
Roy E. Welsch Robust variable selection using least
angle regression and elemental set
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--257
Christian Hennig Cluster-wise assessment of cluster
stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--271
A. C. Atkinson and
M. Riani Exploratory tools for clustering
multivariate data . . . . . . . . . . . 272--285
Xiaogang Wang and
Weiliang Qiu and
Ruben H. Zamar CLUES: a non-parametric clustering
method based on local shrinking . . . . 286--298
N. Neykov and
P. Filzmoser and
R. Dimova and
P. Neytchev Robust fitting of mixtures using the
trimmed likelihood estimator . . . . . . 299--308
A. N. Dolia and
C. J. Harris and
J. S. Shawe-Taylor and
D. M. Titterington Kernel ellipsoidal trimming . . . . . . 309--324
C. Andy Tsao and
Yuan-chin Ivan Chang A stochastic approximation view of
boosting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--334
Chien-Ming Huang and
Yuh-Jye Lee and
Dennis K. J. Lin and
Su-Yun Huang Model selection for support vector
machines via uniform design . . . . . . 335--346
Andreas Christmann and
Ingo Steinwart and
Mia Hubert Robust learning from bites for data
mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--361
Christophe Croux and
Kristel Joossens and
Aurélie Lemmens Trimmed bagging . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--368
Hans-Hermann Bock and
Maurizio Vichi Statistical Learning Methods Including
Dimensionality Reduction . . . . . . . . 370--373
Nicolai Meinshausen Relaxed Lasso . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--393
Yoshio Takane and
Heungsun Hwang Regularized linear and kernel redundancy
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--405
Timo Similä and
Jarkko Tikka Input selection and shrinkage in
multiresponse linear regression . . . . 406--422
Jurjen Duintjer Tebbens and
Pavel Schlesinger Improving implementation of linear
discriminant analysis for the high
dimension/small sample size problem . . 423--437
Luca Scrucca Class prediction and gene selection for
DNA microarrays using regularized sliced
inverse regression . . . . . . . . . . . 438--451
Chunming Zhang and
Haoda Fu and
Yuan Jiang and
Tao Yu High-dimensional pseudo-logistic
regression and classification with
applications to gene expression data . . 452--470
Daniela G. Cal\`o Gaussian mixture model classification: a
projection pursuit approach . . . . . . 471--482
Carolin Strobl and
Anne-Laure Boulesteix and
Thomas Augustin Unbiased split selection for
classification trees based on the Gini
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--501
C. Bouveyron and
S. Girard and
C. Schmid High-dimensional data clustering . . . . 502--519
Giuliano Galimberti and
Gabriele Soffritti Model-based methods to identify multiple
cluster structures in a data set . . . . 520--536
Iven Van Mechelen and
Jan Schepers A unifying model involving a categorical
and/or dimensional reduction for
multimode data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--549
J. A. Cumming and
D. A. Wooff Dimension reduction via principal
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--565
R. Lombardo and
E. J. Beh and
L. D'Ambra Non-symmetric correspondence analysis
with ordinal variables using orthogonal
polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--577
José R. Quevedo and
Antonio Bahamonde and
Oscar Luaces A simple and efficient method for
variable ranking according to their
usefulness for learning . . . . . . . . 578--595
Marie Plasse and
Ndeye Niang and
Gilbert Saporta and
Alexandre Villeminot and
Laurent Leblond Combined use of association rules mining
and clustering methods to find relevant
links between binary rare attributes in
a large data set . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--613
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix
Cristian Gatu and
James Gentle and
John Hinde and
Moon Huh Special Issue on Statistical Algorithms
and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--617
Markus Krätzig A software framework for data analysis 618--634
Tom\`as Aluja-Banet and
Josep Daunis-i-Estadella and
David Pellicer GRAFT, a complete system for data fusion 635--649
Takeshi Fujiwara and
Junji Nakano and
Yoshikazu Yamamoto Using mathematical expressions in a
statistical language . . . . . . . . . . 650--662
Michael Massmann Cobra: a package for co-breaking
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--679
Michael Höhle and
Ulrike Feldmann RLadyBug --- an R package for stochastic
epidemic models . . . . . . . . . . . . 680--686
Marie Chavent and
Yves Lechevallier and
Olivier Briant DIVCLUS-T: a monothetic divisive
hierarchical clustering method . . . . . 687--701
W. T. P. S. Fernando and
D. D. S. Kulatunga On the computation and some applications
of multivariate isotonic regression . . 702--712
Josef Tvrdík and
Ivan K\vrivý and
Ladislav Mi\vsík Adaptive population-based search:
Application to estimation of nonlinear
regression parameters . . . . . . . . . 713--724
Jens Gramm and
Jiong Guo and
Falk Hüffner and
Rolf Niedermeier and
Hans-Peter Piepho and
Ramona Schmid Algorithms for compact letter displays:
Comparison and evaluation . . . . . . . 725--736
Farid Beninel and
Gérard Grélaud Exact algorithms for computing
$p$-values of statistics-linear
combination of $3$-nomial variables . . 737--749
Byung-Hoon Park and
George Ostrouchov and
Nagiza F. Samatova Sampling streaming data with replacement 750--762
Thorsten Bernholt and
Robin Nunkesser and
Karen Schettlinger Computing the least quartile difference
estimator in the plane . . . . . . . . . 763--772
Stefano M. Iacus and
Giuseppe Porro Missing data imputation, matching and
other applications of random recursive
partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--789
Guido Consonni and
Jean-Michel Marin Mean-field variational approximate
Bayesian inference for latent variable
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790--798
Cristian Gatu and
Petko I. Yanev and
Erricos J. Kontoghiorghes A graph approach to generate all
possible regression submodels . . . . . 799--815
D. S. G. Pollock and
Tommaso Proietti 2nd Special Issue on Statistical Signal
Extraction and Filtering . . . . . . . . 817--820
Bart Bakker and
Tom Heskes Learning and approximate inference in
dynamic hierarchical models . . . . . . 821--839
Vladimir Shin and
Georgy Shevlyakov and
Kiseon Kim A new fusion formula and its application
to continuous-time linear systems with
multisensor environment . . . . . . . . 840--854
Katy Klauenberg and
Francesco Lagona Hidden Markov random field models for
TCA image analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 855--868
P. G. Howlett and
A. Torokhti and
C. E. M. Pearce Optimal multilinear estimation of a
random vector under constraints of
causality and limited memory . . . . . . 869--878
Elizabeth A. Maharaj and
Andrés M. Alonso Discrimination of locally stationary
time series using wavelets . . . . . . . 879--895
Gianluca Cubadda A unifying framework for analysing
common cyclical features in cointegrated
time series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--906
Camilla Mastromarco and
Ulrich Woitek Regional business cycles in Italy . . . 907--918
Claudio Morana Multivariate modelling of long memory
processes with common components . . . . 919--934
Tommaso Proietti Signal extraction and filtering by
linear semiparametric methods . . . . . 935--958
Howard L. Weinert Efficient computation for
Whittaker--Henderson smoothing . . . . . 959--974
A. Maravall and
A. del Río Temporal aggregation, systematic
sampling, and the Hodrick--Prescott
filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--998
Marcos Bujosa and
Antonio García-Ferrer and
Peter C. Young Linear dynamic harmonic regression . . . 999--1024
K. Triantafyllopoulos and
G. P. Nason A Bayesian analysis of moving average
processes with time-varying parameters 1025--1046
Sergio Ledesma and
Derong Liu and
Donato Hernández Two approximation methods to synthesize
the power spectrum of fractional
Gaussian noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1062
Roland Fried On the robust detection of edges in time
series filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1074
Sabine Van Huffel and
Chi-Lun Cheng and
Nicola Mastronardi and
Chris Paige and
Alexander Kukush Total Least Squares and
Errors-in-variables Modeling . . . . . . 1076--1079
G. A. Watson Robust counterparts of
errors-in-variables problems . . . . . . 1080--1089
J. Lampe and
H. Voss On a quadratic eigenproblem occurring in
regularized total least squares . . . . 1090--1102
Diana M. Sima and
Sabine Van Huffel Level choice in truncated total least
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103--1118
Nicola Mastronardi and
Dianne P. O'Leary Fast robust regression algorithms for
problems with Toeplitz structure . . . . 1119--1131
Mário de Castro and
Manuel Galea-Rojas and
Heleno Bolfarine Local influence assessment in
heteroscedastic measurement error models 1132--1142
H. Schneeweiß and
H. Shalabh On the estimation of the linear relation
when the error variances are known . . . 1143--1148
Shalabh and
Gaurav Garg and
Neeraj Misra Restricted regression estimation in
measurement error models . . . . . . . . 1149--1166
A. Kukush and
I. Markovsky and
S. Van Huffel Estimation in a linear multivariate
measurement error model with a change
point in the data . . . . . . . . . . . 1167--1182
Kimmo Vehkalahti and
Simo Puntanen and
Lauri Tarkkonen Effects of measurement errors in
predictor selection of linear regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183--1195
Michelli Barros and
Viviana Giampaoli and
Claudia R. O. P. Lima Hypothesis testing in the unrestricted
and restricted parametric spaces of
structural models . . . . . . . . . . . 1196--1207
Kenichi Kanatani and
Yasuyuki Sugaya Performance evaluation of iterative
geometric fitting algorithms . . . . . . 1208--1222
Ivo Petras and
Igor Podlubny State space description of national
economies: the V4 countries . . . . . . 1223--1233
José A. Ramos Applications of TLS and related methods
in the environmental sciences . . . . . 1234--1267
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
P.-A. Cornillon and
W. Imam and
E. Matzner-Lòber Forecasting time series using principal
component analysis with respect to
instrumental variables . . . . . . . . . 1269--1280
M. González and
J. Martín and
R. Martínez and
M. Mota Non-parametric Bayesian estimation for
multitype branching processes through
simulation-based methods . . . . . . . . 1281--1291
Jan Kloppenborg Mòller and
Henrik Aalborg Nielsen and
Henrik Madsen Time-adaptive quantile regression . . . 1292--1303
Quanxi Shao and
Yongqin D. Chen and
Lu Zhang An extension of three-parameter Burr III
distribution for low-flow frequency
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1304--1314
Nicolas Wicker and
Jean Muller and
Ravi Kiran Reddy Kalathur and
Olivier Poch A maximum likelihood approximation
method for Dirichlet's parameter
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1322
Paul N. Somerville and
Claudia Hemmelmann Step-up and step-down procedures
controlling the number and proportion of
false positives . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323--1334
James D. Stamey and
Doyle H. Boese and
Dean M. Young Confidence intervals for parameters of
two diagnostic tests in the absence of a
gold standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1346
Remus K. W. Ho and
Inchi Hu Flexible modelling of random effects in
linear mixed models --- A Bayesian
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347--1361
J. Brian Gray and
Guangzhe Fan Classification tree analysis using
TARGET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1362--1372
David J. Marchette and
Carey E. Priebe Predicting unobserved links in
incompletely observed networks . . . . . 1373--1386
Guei-Feng Tsai and
Annie Qu Testing the significance of cell-cycle
patterns in time-course microarray data
using nonparametric quadratic inference
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1398
Chu-Chih Chen Extended rank analysis of covariance
adjusting for local correlations . . . . 1399--1412
Takahiro Hoshino A Bayesian propensity score adjustment
for latent variable modeling and MCMC
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1413--1429
K. S. Sultan and
G. R. AL-Dayian and
H. H. Mohammad Estimation and prediction from gamma
distribution based on record values . . 1430--1440
Rolando De la Cruz-Mesía and
Fernando A. Quintana and
Guillermo Marshall Model-based clustering for longitudinal
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441--1457
Heung Wong and
Wai-cheung Ip and
Riquan Zhang Varying-coefficient single-index model 1458--1476
L. Pardo and
M. C. Pardo An extension of likelihood-ratio-test
for testing linear hypotheses in the
baseline-category logit model . . . . . 1477--1489
S. H. Ong and
K. Shimizu and
Choung Min Ng A class of discrete distributions
arising from difference of two random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1490--1499
Eufrásio de A. Lima Neto and
Francisco de A. T. de Carvalho Centre and Range method for fitting a
linear regression model to symbolic
interval data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1500--1515
Arthur Pewsey The wrapped stable family of
distributions as a flexible model for
circular data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1516--1523
Binbing Yu and
Yingwei Peng Mixture cure models for multivariate
survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1524--1532
Caroline Beunckens and
Cristina Sotto and
Geert Molenberghs A simulation study comparing weighted
estimating equations with multiple
imputation based estimating equations
for longitudinal binary data . . . . . . 1533--1548
D. Giannikis and
I. D. Vrontos and
P. Dellaportas Modelling nonlinearities and heavy tails
via threshold normal mixture GARCH
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549--1571
S. T. Bate and
E. J. Godolphin and
J. D. Godolphin Choosing cross-over designs when few
subjects are available . . . . . . . . . 1572--1586
Jun-Wu Yu and
Guo-Liang Tian and
Man-Lai Tang Statistical inference and prediction for
the Weibull process with incomplete
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587--1603
M. Debruyne and
M. Hubert and
S. Portnoy and
K. Vanden Branden Censored depth quantiles . . . . . . . . 1604--1614
M. Concepción Ausín and
Michael P. Wiper and
Rosa E. Lillo Bayesian prediction of the transient
behaviour and busy period in short- and
long-tailed GI/G/1 queueing systems . . 1615--1635
Chang Yu and
Daniel Zelterman Sums of exchangeable Bernoulli random
variables for family and litter
frequency data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1636--1649
Lila Ricci and
Raúl Martínez Adjusted $ R^2 $-type measures for
Tweedie models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1650--1660
P. Delicado and
M. N. Goria A small sample comparison of maximum
likelihood, moments and $L$-moments
methods for the asymmetric exponential
power distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 1661--1673
A. Golightly and
D. J. Wilkinson Bayesian inference for nonlinear
multivariate diffusion models observed
with error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1674--1693
Peter Filzmoser and
Ricardo Maronna and
Mark Werner Outlier identification in high
dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1694--1711
Sven Serneels and
Tim Verdonck Principal component analysis for data
containing outliers and missing elements 1712--1727
Moti L. Tiku and
M. Qamarul Islam and
Hakan S. Sazak Estimation in bivariate nonnormal
distributions with stochastic variance
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1728--1745
José Alberto Mauricio Computing and using residuals in time
series models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1746--1763
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
Ajay Jasra and
Arnaud Doucet and
David A. Stephens and
Christopher C. Holmes Interacting sequential Monte Carlo
samplers for trans-dimensional
simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1791
Andrés M. Alonso and
Ana E. Sipols A time series bootstrap procedure for
interpolation intervals . . . . . . . . 1792--1805
Makoto Tomita and
Masahiro Hatsumichi and
Koji Kurihara Identify LD blocks based on hierarchical
spatial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1806--1820
Ammar M. Sarhan and
Debasis Kundu Bayes estimators for reliability
measures in geometric distribution model
using masked system life test data . . . 1821--1836
Marieke E. Timmerman and
Cajo J. F. Ter Braak Bootstrap confidence intervals for
principal response curves . . . . . . . 1837--1849
Jörn Dannemann and
Hajo Holzmann The likelihood ratio test for hidden
Markov models in two-sample problems . . 1850--1859
Marcella Corduas and
Domenico Piccolo Time series clustering and
classification by the autoregressive
metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860--1872
Debasis Kundu and
Rameshwar D. Gupta Generalized exponential distribution:
Bayesian estimations . . . . . . . . . . 1873--1883
Simos G. Meintanis and
George Iliopoulos Fourier methods for testing multivariate
independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1884--1895
Jean G. Orelien and
Lloyd J. Edwards Fixed-effect variable selection in
linear mixed models using $ R^2 $
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1896--1907
Simon J. Sheather and
Joseph W. McKean and
Kimberly Crimin Sliced mean variance--covariance inverse
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1908--1927
Chun-Xia Zhang and
Jiang-She Zhang A local boosting algorithm for solving
classification problems . . . . . . . . 1928--1941
Patrick Musonda and
Mounia N. Hocine and
Heather J. Whitaker and
C. Paddy Farrington Self-controlled case series analyses:
Small-sample performance . . . . . . . . 1942--1957
Javier Roca-Pardiñas and
Carmen Cadarso-Suárez and
Pablo G. Tahoces and
María J. Lado Assessing continuous bivariate effects
among different groups through
nonparametric regression models: an
application to breast cancer detection 1958--1970
Juha Karvanen and
Arto Nuutinen Characterizing the generalized lambda
distribution by $L$-moments . . . . . . 1971--1983
Roberto Rocci and
Maurizio Vichi Two-mode multi-partitioning . . . . . . 1984--2003
Junfeng Shang and
Joseph E. Cavanaugh Bootstrap variants of the Akaike
information criterion for mixed model
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004--2021
M. Ivette Gomes and
Andreia Hall and
M. Cristina Miranda Subsampling techniques and the Jackknife
methodology in the estimation of the
extremal index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2022--2041
Tsung-Chi Cheng and
Atanu Biswas Maximum trimmed likelihood estimator for
multivariate mixed continuous and
categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2042--2065
Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and
Monjed Hisham Samuh On multistage ranked set sampling for
distribution and median estimation . . . 2066--2078
Víctor Leiva and
Marco Riquelme and
N. Balakrishnan and
Antonio Sanhueza Lifetime analysis based on the
generalized Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2079--2097
Madhuri S. Mulekar and
John C. Knutson and
Jyoti A. Champanerkar How useful are approximations to mean
and variance of the index of
dissimilarity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2098--2109
Milovan Krnjaji\'c and
Athanasios Kottas and
David Draper Parametric and nonparametric Bayesian
model specification: a case study
involving models for count data . . . . 2110--2128
Enrique Castillo and
Ali S. Hadi and
Beatriz Lacruz and
Rosa E. Pruneda Semi-parametric nonlinear regression and
transformation using functional networks 2129--2157
Micha Mandel and
Rebecca A. Betensky Simultaneous confidence intervals based
on the percentile bootstrap approach . . 2158--2165
A. I. McLeod and
Y. Zhang Faster ARMA maximum likelihood
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2166--2176
Yasmin H. Said and
Edward J. Wegman and
Walid K. Sharabati and
John T. Rigsby RETRACTED: Social networks of
author--coauthor relationships . . . . . 2177--2184
Daniele Coin A goodness-of-fit test for normality
based on polynomial regression . . . . . 2185--2198
Silvina San Martino and
Julio M. Singer and
Edward J. Stanek III Performance of balanced two-stage
empirical predictors of realized cluster
latent values from finite populations: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 2199--2217
A. R. de Leon and
Y. Zhu ANOVA extensions for mixed discrete and
continuous data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2218--2227
Stéphane Dray On the number of principal components: a
test of dimensionality based on
measurements of similarity between
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2228--2237
Weiwen Miao and
Paul Chiou Confidence intervals for the difference
between two means . . . . . . . . . . . 2238--2248
Kellie J. Archer and
Ryan V. Kimes Empirical characterization of random
forest variable importance measures . . 2249--2260
Hakan Demirtas On imputing continuous data when the
eventual interest pertains to
ordinalized outcomes via threshold
concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2261--2271
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
Yaming Yu Efficient simulation of a bivariate
exponential conditionals distribution 2273--2276
Tianni Zhou and
Robert Shumway One-step approximations for detecting
regime changes in the state space model
with application to the influenza data 2277--2291
Yalcin Tuncer and
Murat M. Tanik and
David B. Allison An overview of statistical decomposition
techniques applied to complex systems 2292--2310
Roberta Paroli and
Luigi Spezia Bayesian inference in non-homogeneous
Markov mixtures of periodic
autoregressions with state-dependent
exogenous variables . . . . . . . . . . 2311--2330
Linda Hartman and
Ola Hössjer Fast kriging of large data sets with
Gaussian Markov random fields . . . . . 2331--2349
Alain Celisse and
Stéphane Robin Nonparametric density estimation by
exact leave-$p$-out cross-validation . . 2350--2368
Roselinde Kessels and
Peter Goos and
Martina Vandebroek Optimal designs for conjoint experiments 2369--2387
Yong Wang Dimension-reduced nonparametric maximum
likelihood computation for
interval-censored data . . . . . . . . . 2388--2402
Ingunn Berget and
Bjòrn-Helge Mevik and
Tormod Næs New modifications and applications of
fuzzy $C$-means methodology . . . . . . 2403--2418
Laura Spierdijk Nonparametric conditional hazard rate
estimation: a local linear approach . . 2419--2434
F. Giordano and
M. L. Parrella Neural networks for bandwidth selection
in local linear regression of time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2435--2450
Jean-Baptiste Aubin and
Samuela Leoni-Aubin Projection density estimation under a
$m$-sample semiparametric model . . . . 2451--2468
Joel Corrêa da Rosa and
Alvaro Veiga and
Marcelo C. Medeiros Tree-structured smooth transition
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 2469--2488
B. Salvador and
M. A. Fernández and
I. Martín and
C. Rueda Robustness of classification rules that
incorporate additional information . . . 2489--2495
Simos G. Meintanis A new approach of goodness-of-fit
testing for exponentiated laws applied
to the generalized Rayleigh distribution 2496--2503
Andrei Semenov Testing the random walk hypothesis
through robust estimation of correlation 2504--2513
Göran Kauermann and
Ronghui Xu and
Florin Vaida Stacked Laplace-EM algorithm for
duration models with time-varying and
random effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2514--2528
Vito M. R. Muggeo and
Giancarlo Ferrara Fitting generalized linear models with
unspecified link function: a $P$-spline
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2529--2537
Hua Liang and
Guohua Zou Improved AIC selection strategy for
survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 2538--2548
Joseph Sexton and
Petter Laake LogitBoost with errors-in-variables . . 2549--2559
Yi He and
James S. Hodges Point estimates for variance-structure
parameters in Bayesian analysis of
hierarchical models . . . . . . . . . . 2560--2577
Changyi Park and
Ja-Yong Koo and
Sujong Kim and
Insuk Sohn and
Jae Won Lee Classification of gene functions using
support vector machine for time-course
gene expression data . . . . . . . . . . 2578--2587
Athanassios Kondylis and
Joe Whittaker Spectral preconditioning of Krylov
spaces: Combining PLS and PC regression 2588--2603
George Streftaris and
Bruce J. Worton Efficient and accurate approximate
Bayesian inference with an application
to insurance data . . . . . . . . . . . 2604--2622
Ignacio López-de-Ullibarri and
Ricardo Cao and
Carmen Cadarso-Suárez and
María J. Lado Nonparametric estimation of conditional
ROC curves: Application to
discrimination tasks in computerized
detection of early breast cancer . . . . 2623--2631
Emily L. Webb and
Jonathan J. Forster Bayesian model determination for
multivariate ordinal and binary data . . 2632--2649
Shengde Liang and
Sudipto Banerjee and
Sally Bushhouse and
Andrew O. Finley and
Bradley P. Carlin Hierarchical multiresolution approaches
for dense point-level breast cancer
treatment data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2650--2668
Lihua An and
S. Ejaz Ahmed Improving the performance of kurtosis
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2669--2681
Myung Suk Kim and
Suojin Wang Consistent estimation in regression
models for the drift function in some
continuous time models . . . . . . . . . 2682--2691
Debasis Kundu and
Nandini Kannan and
N. Balakrishnan On the hazard function of
Birnbaum--Saunders distribution and
associated inference . . . . . . . . . . 2692--2702
Xian-Jin Xie and
Jane Pendergast and
William Clarke Increasing the power: a practical
approach to goodness-of-fit test for
logistic regression models with
continuous predictors . . . . . . . . . 2703--2713
Daisuke Watanabe and
Susumu Okada and
Yasunori Fujikoshi and
Takakazu Sugiyama Large sample approximations for the LR
statistic for equality of the smallest
eigenvalues of a covariance matrix under
elliptical population . . . . . . . . . 2714--2724
N. Balakrishnan and
Abbas Rasouli Exact likelihood inference for two
exponential populations under joint
Type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 2725--2738
Patrice Bertail and
Stéphan Clémençon Approximate regenerative-block bootstrap
for Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . 2739--2756
G. Aneiros-Pérez and
J. M. Vilar-Fernández Local polynomial estimation in partial
linear regression models under
dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2757--2777
Anika Buchholz and
Norbert Holländer and
Willi Sauerbrei On properties of predictors derived with
a two-step bootstrap model averaging
approach --- A simulation study in the
linear regression model . . . . . . . . 2778--2793
Noel Cressie and
Nicolas Verzelen Conditional-mean least-squares fitting
of Gaussian Markov random fields to
Gaussian fields . . . . . . . . . . . . 2794--2807
Graciela Boente and
Daniela Rodriguez Robust bandwidth selection in
semiparametric partly linear regression
models: Monte Carlo study and
influential analysis . . . . . . . . . . 2808--2828
Yue Fang Semi-parametric specification tests for
mixing distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2829--2839
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
Alessandra Amendola and
David Belsley and
Erricos John Kontoghiorghes and
Herman K. van Dijk and
Yasuhiro Omori and
Eric Zivot Special Issue on Statistical and
Computational Methods in Finance . . . . 2842--2845
Esther Ruiz and
Helena Veiga Modelling long-memory volatilities with
leverage effect: A-LMSV versus FIEGARCH 2846--2862
Drew D. Creal Analysis of filtering and smoothing
algorithms for Lévy-driven stochastic
volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . 2863--2876
Erik Lindström and
Jonas Ströjby and
Mats Brodén and
Magnus Wiktorsson and
Jan Holst Sequential calibration of options . . . 2877--2891
Yasuhiro Omori and
Toshiaki Watanabe Block sampler and posterior mode
estimation for asymmetric stochastic
volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . 2892--2910
Chris M. Strickland and
Gael M. Martin and
Catherine S. Forbes Parameterisation and efficient MCMC
estimation of non-Gaussian state space
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2911--2930
Andréas Heinen and
Erick Rengifo Multivariate reduced rank regression in
non-Gaussian contexts, using copulas . . 2931--2944
Ludovic Giet and
Michel Lubrano A minimum Hellinger distance estimator
for stochastic differential equations:
an application to statistical inference
for continuous time interest rate models 2945--2965
M. E. Mancino and
S. Sanfelici Robustness of Fourier estimator of
integrated volatility in the presence of
microstructure noise . . . . . . . . . . 2966--2989
Cathy W. S. Chen and
Richard Gerlach and
Edward M. H. Lin Volatility forecasting using threshold
heteroskedastic models of the intra-day
range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2990--3010
Giampiero M. Gallo and
Edoardo Otranto Volatility spillovers, interdependence
and comovements: a Markov Switching
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3011--3026
Christian Francq and
Jean-Michel Zako\"\ian Deriving the autocovariances of powers
of Markov-switching GARCH models, with
applications to statistical inference 3027--3046
Alessandra Amendola and
Giuseppe Storti A GMM procedure for combining volatility
forecasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3047--3060
Marco Gallegati Wavelet analysis of stock returns and
aggregate economic activity . . . . . . 3061--3074
Jerry Coakley and
Jian Dollery and
Neil Kellard The role of long memory in hedging
effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3075--3082
Lorne D. Johnson and
Georgios Sakoulis Maximizing equity market sector
predictability in a Bayesian
time-varying parameter model . . . . . . 3083--3106
L. Dalla Valle and
P. Giudici A Bayesian approach to estimate the
marginal loss distributions in
operational risk management . . . . . . 3107--3127
A. Debón and
F. Montes and
J. Mateu and
E. Porcu and
M. Bevilacqua Modelling residuals dependence in
dynamic life tables: a geostatistical
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3128--3147
Denis Bolduc and
Lynda Khalaf and
Érick Moyneur Identification-robust simulation-based
inference in joint discrete/continuous
models for energy markets . . . . . . . 3148--3161
Patrice Bertrand and
Gilbert Saporta Some Recent Trends in Applied Stochastic
Modeling and Multidimensional Data
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3164--3166
Dominique Pastor A theoretical result for processing
signals that have unknown distributions
and priors in white Gaussian noise . . . 3167--3186
Ana M. Aguilera and
Manuel Escabias and
Mariano J. Valderrama Forecasting binary longitudinal data by
a functional PC-ARIMA model . . . . . . 3187--3197
L. Regad and
F. Guyon and
J. Maupetit and
P. Tufféry and
A. C. Camproux A Hidden Markov Model applied to the
protein $3$D structure analysis . . . . 3198--3207
Amor Messaoud and
Claus Weihs and
Franz Hering Detection of chatter vibration in a
drilling process using multivariate
control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3208--3219
Jean-Jacques Daudin and
Tristan Mary-Huard Estimation of the conditional risk in
classification: the swapping method . . 3220--3232
Gérard Govaert and
Mohamed Nadif Block clustering with Bernoulli mixture
models: Comparison of different
approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3233--3245
Angela Montanari and
Daniela G. Cal\`o and
Cinzia Viroli Independent factor discriminant analysis 3246--3254
Mónica Bécue-Bertaut and
Jérôme Pag\`es Multiple factor analysis and clustering
of a mixture of quantitative,
categorical and frequency data . . . . . 3255--3268
Alfonso Iodice D'Enza and
Francesco Palumbo and
Michael Greenacre Exploratory data analysis leading
towards the most interesting simple
association rules . . . . . . . . . . . 3269--3281
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix
Fabian Scheipl and
Sonja Greven and
Helmut Küchenhoff Size and power of tests for a zero
random effect variance or polynomial
regression in additive and linear mixed
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3283--3299
Fengming M. Chang and
Long-Hui Chen and
Yueh-Li Chen and
Chien-Yu Huang Approximate distribution of demerit
statistic --- A bounding approach . . . 3300--3309
Lena Ringstad Olsen and
Probal Chaudhuri and
Fred Godtliebsen Multiscale spectral analysis for
detecting short and long range change
points in time series . . . . . . . . . 3310--3330
Roman Werner Lutz and
Markus Kalisch and
Peter Bühlmann Robustified $ L_2 $ boosting . . . . . . 3331--3341
Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos and
Dimitris Karlis Copula model evaluation based on
parametric bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . 3342--3353
Ana-Maria Fuertes Sieve bootstrap $t$-tests on long-run
average parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 3354--3370
Willem Waegeman and
Bernard De Baets and
Luc Boullart On the scalability of ordered
multi-class ROC analysis . . . . . . . . 3371--3388
J. Sadefo Kamdem and
A. Genz Approximation of multiple integrals over
hyperboloids with application to a
quadratic portfolio with options . . . . 3389--3407
Renate Meyer and
Bo Cai and
François Perron Adaptive rejection Metropolis sampling
using Lagrange interpolation polynomials
of degree 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3408--3423
Peter Winker Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
Parallel Computing and Statistics, E. J.
Kontoghiorghes (Ed.). Chapman & Hall/CRC,
Boca Raton (2006) . . . . . . . . . . . 3424--3425
Arturo J. Fernández Reliability inference and sample-size
determination under double censoring for
some two-parameter models . . . . . . . 3426--3440
Arno\vst Komárek and
Emmanuel Lesaffre Generalized linear mixed model with a
penalized Gaussian mixture as a random
effects distribution . . . . . . . . . . 3441--3458
Enis Siniksaran A geometric interpretation of Mallows' $
C_p $ statistic and an alternative plot
in variable selection . . . . . . . . . 3459--3467
Ayman Baklizi Likelihood and Bayesian estimation of $
{\rm Pr}(X < Y) $ using lower record
values from the generalized exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3468--3473
Yonghai Li and
Daniel W. Schafer Likelihood analysis of the multivariate
ordinal probit regression model for
repeated ordinal responses . . . . . . . 3474--3492
Charles C. Taylor Automatic bandwidth selection for
circular density estimation . . . . . . 3493--3500
Hon Keung Tony Ng and
Giovanni Filardo and
Gang Zheng Confidence interval estimating
procedures for standardized incidence
rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3501--3516
Maengseok Noh and
Youngjo Lee Hierarchical-likelihood approach for
nonlinear mixed-effects models . . . . . 3517--3527
Guo-Liang Tian and
Man-Lai Tang and
Hong-Bin Fang and
Ming Tan Efficient methods for estimating
constrained parameters with applications
to regularized (lasso) logistic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3528--3542
Takahiro Hoshino Bayesian significance testing and
multiple comparisons from MCMC outputs 3543--3559
Juwon Song and
Thomas R. Belin Choosing an appropriate number of
factors in factor analysis with
incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . 3560--3569
Dimitrina S. Dimitrova and
Vladimir K. Kaishev and
Spiridon I. Penev GeD spline estimation of multivariate
Archimedean copulas . . . . . . . . . . 3570--3582
Parag C. Pendharkar Maximum entropy and least square error
minimizing procedures for estimating
missing conditional probabilities in
Bayesian networks . . . . . . . . . . . 3583--3602
Tachen Liang and
Wen-Tao Huang and
Kun-Cheng Yang Locally optimal tests for exponential
distributions with type-I censoring . . 3603--3615
Natsuhiko Kumasaka and
Ritei Shibata High-dimensional data visualisation: the
textile plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3616--3644
Nan-Jung Hsu and
Hung-Lin Hung and
Ya-Mei Chang Subset selection for vector
autoregressive processes using Lasso . . 3645--3657
David J. Nott Predictive performance of Dirichlet
process shrinkage methods in linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3658--3669
J. D. Nielsen and
C. B. Dean Adaptive functional mixed NHPP models
for the analysis of recurrent event
panel data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3670--3685
S. Bougeard and
M. Hanafi and
E. M. Qannari Continuum redundancy-- PLS regression: a
simple continuum approach . . . . . . . 3686--3696
Xiao Zhang and
W. John Boscardin and
Thomas R. Belin Bayesian analysis of multivariate
nominal measures using multivariate
multinomial probit models . . . . . . . 3697--3708
Changyi Park and
Ja-Yong Koo and
Peter T. Kim and
Jae Won Lee Stepwise feature selection using
generalized logistic loss . . . . . . . 3709--3718
Nian-Sheng Tang and
Man-Lai Tang and
Shi-Fang Qiu Testing the equality of proportions for
correlated otolaryngologic data . . . . 3719--3729
V. Alba Fernández and
M. D. Jiménez Gamero and
J. Muñoz García A test for the two-sample problem based
on empirical characteristic functions 3730--3748
Xiaoqian Sun and
Zhuoqiong He and
John Kabrick Bayesian spatial prediction of the site
index in the study of the Missouri Ozark
Forest Ecosystem Project . . . . . . . . 3749--3764
Yangxin Huang Long-term HIV dynamic models
incorporating drug adherence and
resistance to treatment for prediction
of virological responses . . . . . . . . 3765--3778
Shu-Fei Wu Interval estimation for a Pareto
distribution based on a doubly type II
censored sample . . . . . . . . . . . . 3779--3788
Esa Ollila and
Hannu Oja and
Visa Koivunen Complex-valued ICA based on a pair of
generalized covariance matrices . . . . 3789--3805
Xiaojing Shen and
Yunmin Zhu and
Lixin Song Linear B-spline copulas with
applications to nonparametric estimation
of copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3806--3819
Giovana Oliveira Silva and
Edwin M. M. Ortega and
Vicente G. Cancho and
Mauricio Lima Barreto Log-Burr XII regression models with
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3820--3842
Jae Keun Yoo A novel moment-based sufficient
dimension reduction approach in
multivariate regression . . . . . . . . 3843--3851
Leandro A. F. Fernandes and
Manuel M. Oliveira and
Roberto da Silva Uncertainty propagation: Avoiding the
expensive sampling process for real-time
image-based measurements . . . . . . . . 3852--3876
María Laura Nores and
María del Pilar Díaz Some properties of regression estimators
in GEE models for clustered ordinal data 3877--3888
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Rasool Tahmasbi and
Sadegh Rezaei A two-parameter lifetime distribution
with decreasing failure rate . . . . . . 3889--3901
A. C. M. Wong Approximating the $F$ distribution via a
general version of the modified signed
log-likelihood ratio statistic . . . . . 3902--3912
Chris Ding and
Tao Li and
Wei Peng On the equivalence between Non-negative
Matrix Factorization and Probabilistic
Latent Semantic Indexing . . . . . . . . 3913--3927
Nathan Carter and
Charles Hadlock and
Dominique Haughton Generating random networks from a given
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3928--3938
Xingcai Zhou and
Xinsheng Liu The EM algorithm for the extended finite
mixture of the factor analyzers model 3939--3953
Cheolwoo Park and
Kee-Hoon Kang SiZer analysis for the comparison of
regression curves . . . . . . . . . . . 3954--3970
Yufen Huang and
Ching-Ren Cheng and
Tai-Ho Wang Pair-perturbation influence functions of
nongaussianity by projection pursuit . . 3971--3987
Nalini Ravishanker and
Zhaohui Liu and
Bonnie K. Ray NHPP models with Markov switching for
software reliability . . . . . . . . . . 3988--3999
Galit Shmueli and
Wolfgang Jank and
Valerie Hyde Transformations for semi-continuous data 4000--4020
Jalmar M. F. Carrasco and
Edwin M. M. Ortega and
Gilberto A. Paula Log-modified Weibull regression models
with censored data: Sensitivity and
residual analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 4021--4039
P. S. Chan and
H. K. T. Ng and
N. Balakrishnan and
Q. Zhou Point and interval estimation for
extreme-value regression model under
Type-II censoring . . . . . . . . . . . 4040--4058
Zuzana Hrdli\vcková Approximation of powers of some tests in
one-way MANOVA type multivariate
generalized linear model . . . . . . . . 4059--4075
Bernhard Klingenberg Regression models for binary time series
with gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4076--4090
Kung-Jong Lui Notes on interval estimation of risk
difference in stratified noncompliance
randomized trials: a Monte Carlo
evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4091--4103
Insuk Sohn and
Sujong Kim and
Changha Hwang and
Jae Won Lee New normalization methods using support
vector machine quantile regression
approach in microarray analysis . . . . 4104--4115
Scott E. Coull and
Boleslaw K. Szymanski Sequence alignment for masquerade
detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4116--4131
P. Román and
J. J. Serrano and
F. Torres First-passage-time location function:
Application to determine
first-passage-time densities in
diffusion processes . . . . . . . . . . 4132--4146
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Rolf Turner Direct maximization of the likelihood of
a hidden Markov model . . . . . . . . . 4147--4160
Ghislain Verdier and
Nadine Hilgert and
Jean-Pierre Vila Adaptive threshold computation for
CUSUM-type procedures in change
detection and isolation problems . . . . 4161--4174
S. H. Ong and
Wen-Jau Lee Computer generation of negative binomial
variates by envelope rejection . . . . . 4175--4183
Susanne Gschlößl and
Claudia Czado Does a Gibbs sampler approach to spatial
Poisson regression models outperform a
single site MH sampler? . . . . . . . . 4184--4202
Dmitry Danilov and
Jan R. Magnus On the estimation of a large sparse
Bayesian system: the Snaer program . . . 4203--4224
Tarn Duong and
Arianna Cowling and
Inge Koch and
M. P. Wand Feature significance for multivariate
kernel density estimation . . . . . . . 4225--4242
Leo Knüsel Chisquare as a rotation criterion in
factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 4243--4252
Matthew Stearns and
Sarjinder Singh On the estimation of the general
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4253--4271
Solange Mongoué-Tchokoté and
Jong-Sung Kim New statistical software for the
proportional hazards model with current
status data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4272--4286
Roch Roy and
Abdessamad Saidi Aggregation and systematic sampling of
periodic ARMA processes . . . . . . . . 4287--4304
Holger Dette and
Douglas P. Wiens Robust designs for series estimation . . 4305--4324
Kung-Jong Lui and
William G. Cumberland Notes on estimation of proportion ratio
under a non-compliance randomized trial
with missing outcomes . . . . . . . . . 4325--4345
Peter Congdon A bivariate frailty model for events
with a permanent survivor fraction and
non-monotonic hazards; with an
application to age at first maternity 4346--4356
Michael Höhle and
Michaela Paul Count data regression charts for the
monitoring of surveillance time series 4357--4368
Christian H. Weiß and
Rainer Göb Discovering patterns in categorical time
series using IFS . . . . . . . . . . . . 4369--4379
Christelle Reyn\`es and
Robert Sabatier and
Nicolas Molinari and
Sylvain Lehmann A new genetic algorithm in proteomics:
Feature selection for SELDI-TOF data . . 4380--4394
Lianjie Shu and
Wei Jiang and
Zhang Wu Adaptive CUSUM procedures with Markovian
mean estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 4395--4409
Seung-Hwan Lee and
Eun-Joo Lee and
Bernard Oguna Omolo Using integrated weighted survival
difference for the two-sample censored
data problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4410--4416
Patrícia L. Espinheira and
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Influence diagnostics in beta regression 4417--4431
Jennifer Poulin and
Pierre Duchesne On the power transformation of
kernel-based tests for serial
correlation in vector time series: Some
finite sample results and a comparison
with the bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . 4432--4457
Lei Liu and
Mark R. Conaway and
William A. Knaus and
James D. Bergin A random effects four-part model, with
application to correlated medical costs 4458--4473
A. Alonso and
S. Liti\`ere and
G. Molenberghs A family of tests to detect
misspecifications in the random-effects
structure of generalized linear mixed
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4474--4486
Wilfredo Palma and
Pascal Bondon and
José Tapia Assessing influence in Gaussian
long-memory models . . . . . . . . . . . 4487--4501
Dragan Juki\'c and
Mirta Ben\vsi\'c and
Rudolf Scitovski On the existence of the nonlinear
weighted least squares estimate for a
three-parameter Weibull distribution . . 4502--4511
Qin Wang and
Xiangrong Yin A nonlinear multi-dimensional variable
selection method for high dimensional
data: Sparse MAVE . . . . . . . . . . . 4512--4520
Piotr Juszczak and
Niall M. Adams and
David J. Hand and
Christopher Whitrow and
David J. Weston Off-the-peg and bespoke classifiers for
fraud detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 4521--4532
Ana Colubi and
Gil González-Rodríguez and
María José Domínguez-Cuesta and
Montserrat Jiménez-Sánchez Favorability functions based on kernel
density estimation for logistic models:
a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4533--4543
Robert Moskovitch and
Yuval Elovici and
Lior Rokach Detection of unknown computer worms
based on behavioral classification of
the host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4544--4566
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
B. D. McCullough Special section on Microsoft Excel 2007 4568--4569
B. D. McCullough and
David A. Heiser On the accuracy of statistical
procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007 . . . 4570--4578
A. Talha Yalta The accuracy of statistical
distributions in Microsoft$^\reg $ Excel
2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4579--4586
B. D. McCullough Microsoft Excel --- Not The
Wichmann--Hill random number generators 4587--4593
Yu-Sung Su It's easy to produce chartjunk using
Microsoft $^\reg $ Excel 2007 but hard
to make good graphs . . . . . . . . . . 4594--4601
John C. Nash Teaching statistics with Excel 2007 and
other spreadsheets . . . . . . . . . . . 4602--4606
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter and
Helga Wagner Marginal likelihoods for non-Gaussian
models using auxiliary mixture sampling 4608--4624
S. Mukhopadhyay and
A. I. Khuri Optimization in a multivariate
generalized linear model situation . . . 4625--4634
Michael W. Trosset and
Carey E. Priebe The out-of-sample problem for classical
multidimensional scaling . . . . . . . . 4635--4642
Michael W. Trosset and
Carey E. Priebe and
Youngser Park and
Michael I. Miller Semisupervised learning from
dissimilarity data . . . . . . . . . . . 4643--4657
Chieh-Yuan Tsai and
Chuang-Cheng Chiu Developing a feature weight
self-adjustment mechanism for a
$K$-means clustering algorithm . . . . . 4658--4672
S. Saburi and
N. Chino A maximum likelihood method for an
asymmetric MDS model . . . . . . . . . . 4673--4684
Edoardo Otranto Clustering heteroskedastic time series
by model-based procedures . . . . . . . 4685--4698
David B. Hitchcock and
Zhimin Chen Smoothing dissimilarities to cluster
binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4699--4711
P. D. McNicholas and
T. B. Murphy and
M. O'Regan Standardising the lift of an association
rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4712--4721
R. McVinish and
K. Mengersen Semiparametric Bayesian circular
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4722--4730
Amandine Marrel and
Bertrand Iooss and
François Van Dorpe and
Elena Volkova An efficient methodology for modeling
complex computer codes with Gaussian
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4731--4744
Guo You Qin and
Zhong Yi Zhu and
Wing K. Fung Robust estimating equations and bias
correction of correlation parameters for
longitudinal data . . . . . . . . . . . 4745--4753
N. Ahlgren and
J. Antell Bootstrap and fast double bootstrap
tests of cointegration rank with
financial time series . . . . . . . . . 4754--4767
Guo-Liang Tian and
Kai Wang Ng and
Ming Tan EM-type algorithms for computing
restricted MLEs in multivariate normal
distributions and multivariate
$t$-distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 4768--4778
Robert Sabatier and
Christelle Reyn\`es Extensions of simple component analysis
and simple linear discriminant analysis
using genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . 4779--4789
Bin Li and
Qingzhao Yu Classification of functional data: a
segmentation approach . . . . . . . . . 4790--4800
Hubert J. Chen and
Hsiu-Ling Li and
Miin-Jye Wen Optimal confidence interval for the
largest mean of correlated normal
populations and its application to stock
fund evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . 4801--4813
Sik-Yum Lee and
Xin-Yuan Song On Bayesian estimation and model
comparison of an integrated structural
equation model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4814--4827
Peihua Qiu A nonparametric procedure for blind
image deblurring . . . . . . . . . . . . 4828--4841
Ke-Hai Yuan and
Wai Chan Structural equation modeling with near
singular covariance matrices . . . . . . 4842--4858
Chunming Zhang and
Yuefeng Lu and
Tom Johnstone and
Terry Oakes and
Richard J. Davidson Efficient modeling and inference for
event-related fMRI data . . . . . . . . 4859--4871
Lili Tian and
Gregory E. Wilding Confidence interval estimation of a
common correlation coefficient . . . . . 4872--4877
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Donald E. K. Martin and
John A. D. Aston Waiting time distribution of generalized
later patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4879--4890
Ji-Hong Zhang and
Ling-Yun Wu and
Jian Chen and
Xiang-Sun Zhang A fast haplotype inference method for
large population genotype data . . . . . 4891--4902
Jeffrey A. Nisen and
Neil C. Schwertman A simple method of computing the sample
size for Chi-square test for the
equality of multinomial distributions 4903--4908
E. Di Nardo and
G. Guarino and
D. Senato Symbolic computation of moments of
sampling distributions . . . . . . . . . 4909--4922
Dirk Depril and
Iven Van Mechelen and
Boris Mirkin Algorithms for additive clustering of
rectangular data tables . . . . . . . . 4923--4938
Audrey H. M. A. Cysneiros and
Francisco Cribari-Neto and
Carlos A. G. Araújo, Jr. On Birnbaum--Saunders inference . . . . 4939--4950
Arne C. Bathke and
Solomon W. Harrar and
Laurence V. Madden How to compare small multivariate
samples using nonparametric tests . . . 4951--4965
L. Cutillo and
U. Amato Localized empirical discriminant
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4966--4978
J. A. Cuesta-Albertos and
A. Nieto-Reyes The random Tukey depth . . . . . . . . . 4979--4988
Antje Jahn-Eimermacher Comparison of the Andersen--Gill model
with Poisson and negative binomial
regression on recurrent event data . . . 4989--4997
Guglielmo Maria Caporale and
Luis A. Gil-Alana Modelling the US, UK and Japanese
unemployment rates: Fractional
integration and structural breaks . . . 4998--5013
John A. Randal A reinvestigation of robust scale
estimation in finite samples . . . . . . 5014--5021
D. Wang and
S.-J. Soong Comparisons of titer estimation methods
for multiplexed pneumococcal
opsonophagocytic killing assay . . . . . 5022--5032
Alejandro Jara and
Fernando Quintana and
Ernesto San Martín Linear mixed models with skew-elliptical
distributions: a Bayesian approach . . . 5033--5045
Jen\Ho Reiczigel and
Zsolt Abonyi-Tóth and
Júlia Singer An exact confidence set for two binomial
proportions and exact unconditional
confidence intervals for the difference
and ratio of proportions . . . . . . . . 5046--5053
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
J. Fernando Vera and
Jose A. Díaz-García A global simulated annealing heuristic
for the three-parameter lognormal
maximum likelihood estimation . . . . . 5055--5065
Harry Joe Accuracy of Laplace approximation for
discrete response mixed models . . . . . 5066--5074
Celso Rômulo Barbosa Cabral and
Heleno Bolfarine and
José Raimundo Gomes Pereira Bayesian density estimation using skew
Student-$t$-normal mixtures . . . . . . 5075--5090
Koon-Shing Kwong and
Yiu-Man Chan On the evaluation of the joint
distribution of order statistics . . . . 5091--5099
Carsten H. Botts and
Michael J. Daniels A flexible approach to Bayesian multiple
curve fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5100--5120
Matias Salibian-Barrera and
Stefan Van Aelst Robust model selection using fast and
robust bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . 5121--5135
Jiaqiao Hu and
Zheng Su Bootstrap quantile estimation via
importance resampling . . . . . . . . . 5136--5142
Kane Nashimoto and
F. T. Wright Bayesian multiple comparisons of simply
ordered means using priors with a point
mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5143--5153
P. \vCi\vzek and
J. Tamine and
W. Härdle Smoothed $L$-estimation of regression
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5154--5162
Marius Hofert Sampling Archimedean copulas . . . . . . 5163--5174
Bhupendra Singh and
K. K. Sharma and
Anuj Kumar A classical and Bayesian estimation of a
$k$-components load-sharing parallel
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5175--5185
M. Hubert and
E. Vandervieren An adjusted boxplot for skewed
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5186--5201
Mingan Yang and
Timothy Hanson and
Ronald Christensen Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of a
bivariate density with interval censored
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5202--5214
Michael Last and
Gheorghe Luta and
Alex Orso and
Adam Porter and
Stan Young Pooled ANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5215--5228
Keiji Takai and
Yutaka Kano Test of independence in a $ 2 \times 2 $
contingency table with nonignorable
nonresponse via constrained EM algorithm 5229--5241
W. González-Manteiga and
M. J. Lombardía and
I. Molina and
D. Morales and
L. Santamaría Analytic and bootstrap approximations of
prediction errors under a multivariate
Fay--Herriot model . . . . . . . . . . . 5242--5252
Fetene B. Tekle and
Frans E. S. Tan and
Martijn P. F. Berger Maximin $D$-optimal designs for binary
longitudinal responses . . . . . . . . . 5253--5262
Antonio Forcina Identifiability of extended latent class
models with individual covariates . . . 5263--5268
Nam-Ky Nguyen and
Min-Qian Liu An algorithmic approach to constructing
mixed-level orthogonal and
near-orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . 5269--5276
Hansheng Wang and
Chenlei Leng A note on adaptive group lasso . . . . . 5277--5286
André Tscheschel and
Sung Nok Chiu Quasi-plus sampling edge correction for
spatial point patterns . . . . . . . . . 5287--5295
Hui Zou and
Ming Yuan Regularized simultaneous model selection
in multiple quantiles regression . . . . 5296--5304
Harald Binder and
Willi Sauerbrei Increasing the usefulness of additive
spline models by knot removal . . . . . 5305--5318
Luke A. Prendergast Trimming influential observations for
improved single-index model estimated
sufficient summary plots . . . . . . . . 5319--5327
N. Chernov and
P. N. Sapirstein Fitting circles to data with correlated
noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5328--5337
D. J. Best and
J. C. W. Rayner and
O. Thas Comparison of some tests of fit for the
Laplace distribution . . . . . . . . . . 5338--5343
Ralitza Gueorguieva and
Robert Rosenheck and
Daniel Zelterman Dirichlet component regression and its
applications to psychiatric data . . . . 5344--5355
Xueli Liu and
Sheng-Chien Lee and
George Casella and
Gary F. Peter Assessing agreement of clustering
methods with gene expression microarray
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5356--5366
Brooke L. Fridley and
Stephen T. Turner and
Arlene B. Chapman and
Andrei S. Rodin and
Eric Boerwinkle and
Kent R. Bailey Reproducibility of genotypes as measured
by the Affymetrix GeneChip$^\reg $ 100K
Human Mapping Array set . . . . . . . . 5367--5374
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vii
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--ix
M. Bentarzi and
F. Hamdi Mixture periodic autoregressive
conditional heteroskedastic models . . . 1--16
Hsiuying Wang Coverage probability of prediction
intervals for discrete random variables 17--26
Q. Yu and
W. Tang and
Y. Ma and
S. A. Gamble and
X. M. Tu Comparing multiple sensitivities and
specificities with different diagnostic
criteria: Applications to sexual abuse
and sexual health research . . . . . . . 27--37
John W. Lau and
Mike K. P. So Bayesian mixture of autoregressive
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--60
Christiane Belitz and
Stefan Lang Simultaneous selection of variables and
smoothing parameters in structured
additive regression models . . . . . . . 61--81
J. Josse and
J. Pag\`es and
F. Husson Testing the significance of the RV
coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--91
Ignacio Vidal and
Pilar Iglesias Comparison between a measurement error
model and a linear model without
measurement error . . . . . . . . . . . 92--102
Steen Magnussen and
Rob Reeves A method for bias-reduction of
sample-based MLE of the autologistic
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--111
Wei Liu and
Lang Wu A semiparametric nonlinear mixed-effects
model with non-ignorable missing data
and measurement errors for HIV viral
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--122
Robert B. Gramacy and
Herbert K. H. Lee Gaussian processes and limiting linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--136
H. Herwartz and
F. Siedenburg Homogeneous panel unit root tests under
cross sectional dependence: Finite
sample modifications and the wild
bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--150
Ana M. Aguilera and
Manuel Escabias and
Mariano J. Valderrama Discussion of different logistic models
with functional data. Application to
Systemic \em Lupus Erythematosus . . . . 151--163
Shurong Zheng Selection of components and degrees of
smoothing via lasso in high dimensional
nonparametric additive models . . . . . 164--175
Jie Sun and
Karen A. Kopciuk and
Xuewen Lu Polynomial spline estimation of
partially linear single-index
proportional hazards regression models 176--188
Javier Fernández-Macho Spectral estimation of a structural
thin-plate smoothing model . . . . . . . 189--195
Roberto Dorta-Guerra and
Enrique González-Dávila and
Josep Ginebra Two-level experiments for binary
response data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--208
Kung-Jong Lui and
Kuang-Chao Chang Testing homogeneity of risk difference
in stratified randomized trials with
noncompliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--221
Sohee Oh and
K. C. Carriere and
Taesung Park Model diagnostic plots for repeated
measures data using the generalized
estimating equations approach . . . . . 222--232
Shuwen Wan and
Biao Zhang Comparing correlated ROC curves for
continuous diagnostic tests under
density ratio models . . . . . . . . . . 233--245
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Radoslav Harman and
Tomá\vs Jurík Computing $c$-optimal experimental
designs using the simplex method of
linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
Carlos Rivero and
Teofilo Valdes An algorithm for robust linear
estimation with grouped data . . . . . . 255--271
Roman Liesenfeld and
Jean-François Richard Improving MCMC, using efficient
importance sampling . . . . . . . . . . 272--288
Quentin F. Stout Unimodal regression via prefix isotonic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--297
Matthias Schmid and
Torsten Hothorn Boosting additive models using
component-wise $P$-Splines . . . . . . . 298--311
Holger Dette and
Andrey Pepelyshev and
Anatoly Zhigljavsky Improving updating rules in
multiplicative algorithms for computing
$D$-optimal designs . . . . . . . . . . 312--320
Ching-Hui Chang and
Nabendu Pal Testing on the common mean of several
normal distributions . . . . . . . . . . 321--333
Jae Keun Yoo and
R. Dennis Cook Response dimension reduction for the
conditional mean in multivariate
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--343
Sarantis Tsiaplias Factor estimation using MCMC-based
Kalman filter methods . . . . . . . . . 344--353
Pier Luigi Conti and
Daniela Marella and
Mauro Scanu Evaluation of matching noise for
imputation techniques based on
nonparametric local linear regression
estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--365
N. Balakrishnan and
Marco Burkschat and
Erhard Cramer and
Glenn Hofmann Fisher information based progressive
censoring plans . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--380
R. A. Rigby and
D. M. Stasinopoulos and
C. Akantziliotou A framework for modelling overdispersed
count data, including the
Poisson-shifted generalized inverse
Gaussian distribution . . . . . . . . . 381--393
Mingue Park and
HyungJun Cho Minimum MSE regression estimator with
estimated population quantities of
auxiliary variables . . . . . . . . . . 394--404
Juned Siddique and
Thomas R. Belin Using an Approximate Bayesian Bootstrap
to multiply impute nonignorable missing
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415
M. Rauf Ahmad and
C. Werner and
E. Brunner Analysis of high-dimensional repeated
measures designs: the one sample case 416--427
Stelios D. Georgiou Modelling by supersaturated designs . . 428--435
Rolando De la Cruz Bayesian non-linear regression models
with skew-elliptical errors:
Applications to the classification of
longitudinal profiles . . . . . . . . . 436--449
Jalmar M. F. Carrasco and
Edwin M. M. Ortega and
Gauss M. Cordeiro A generalized modified Weibull
distribution for lifetime modeling . . . 450--462
A. J. Hayter and
Jongphil Kim and
W. Liu Critical point computations for
one-sided and two-sided pairwise
comparisons of three treatment means . . 463--470
Sundarraman Subramanian and
Derek Bean The missing censoring indicator model
and the smoothed bootstrap . . . . . . . 471--476
Jin Seon Kim and
Bong-Jin Yum Selection between Weibull and lognormal
distributions: a comparative simulation
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--485
Takuya Yamano and
Kodai Sato and
Taisei Kaizoji and
Jan-Michael Rost and
Luká\vs Pichl Symbolic analysis of indicator time
series by quantitative sequence
alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--495
Zhang Wu and
Mei Yang and
Wei Jiang and
Michael B. C. Khoo Optimization designs of the combined
Shewhart-CUSUM control charts . . . . . 496--506
Fabrizia Mealli and
Barbara Pacini Comparing principal stratification and
selection models in parametric causal
inference with nonignorable missingness 507--516
Angelika van der Linde Variational Bayesian functional PCA . . 517--533
George Kapetanios Bootstrap-based tests for deterministic
time-varying coefficients in regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--545
Hua Liang and
Haiyan Su and
Guohua Zou Confidence intervals for a common mean
with missing data with applications in
an AIDS study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546--553
Chia-Cheng Chen and
Huiman X. Barnhart Comparison of ICC and CCC for assessing
agreement for data without and with
replications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--564
Lyudmila Sakhanenko Testing for ellipsoidal symmetry: a
comparison study . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--581
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Lutz Edler and
Jae Won Lee and
Martina Mittlböck and
Joyce Niland and
Norbert Victor Computational statistics within clinical
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--585
Michael W. Sill and
Allan R. Sampson Drop-the-losers design: Binomial case 586--595
Chul Ahn and
Fan Hu and
Celette Sugg Skinner Effect of imbalance and intracluster
correlation coefficient in cluster
randomized trials with binary outcomes 596--602
Andrew C. Leon and
Moonseong Heo Sample sizes required to detect
interactions between two binary
fixed-effects in a mixed-effects linear
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--608
Daniel L. Gillen A random walk approach for quantifying
uncertainty in group sequential survival
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--620
Man-Lai Tang and
Maozai Tian Asymptotic confidence interval
construction for risk difference under
inverse sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--631
Nick R. Parsons and
Matthew L. Costa and
Juul Achten and
Nigel Stallard Repeated measures proportional odds
logistic regression analysis of ordinal
score data in the statistical software
package R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--641
J. Antic and
C. M. Laffont and
D. Chafa\"\i and
D. Concordet Comparison of nonparametric methods in
nonlinear mixed effects models . . . . . 642--656
M. J. Costa and
J. E. H. Shaw Parametrization and penalties in spline
models with an application to survival
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--670
Daniel Frobish and
Nader Ebrahimi Parametric estimation of change-points
for actual event data in recurrent
events models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--682
Serigne N. Lô and
Stephane Heritier and
Malcolm Hudson Saddlepoint approximation for
semi-Markov processes with application
to a cardiovascular randomised study . . 683--698
Pulak Ghosh and
Paul S. Albert A Bayesian analysis for longitudinal
semicontinuous data with an application
to an acupuncture clinical trial . . . . 699--706
John H. Page and
Andrea Rotnitzky Estimation of the disease-specific
diagnostic marker distribution under
verification bias . . . . . . . . . . . 707--717
Werner Adler and
Berthold Lausen Bootstrap estimated true and false
positive rates and ROC curve . . . . . . 718--729
Frank Konietschke and
Edgar Brunner Nonparametric analysis of clustered data
in diagnostic trials: Estimation
problems in small sample sizes . . . . . 730--741
J. A. Roldán Nofuentes and
J. D. Luna del Castillo and
M. A. Montero Alonso Determining sample size to evaluate and
compare the accuracy of binary
diagnostic tests in the presence of
partial disease verification . . . . . . 742--755
Tae Young Yang Efficient multi-class cancer diagnosis
algorithm, using a global similarity
pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--765
Christina M. R. Kitchen and
Jing Kroll and
Daniel R. Kuritzkes and
Erik Bloomquist and
Steven G. Deeks and
Marc A. Suchard Two-way Bayesian hierarchical
phylogenetic models: an application to
the co-evolution of gp120 and gp41
during and after enfuvirtide treatment 766--775
Siegfried Kropf and
Jürgen Läuter and
Daniela Kose and
Dietrich von Rosen Comparison of exact parametric tests for
high-dimensional data . . . . . . . . . 776--787
Cheng Cheng Internal validation inferences of
significant genomic features in
genome-wide screening . . . . . . . . . 788--800
Joseph Sexton and
Petter Laake Standard errors for bagged and random
forest estimators . . . . . . . . . . . 801--811
Gerd K. Rosenkranz Modeling laboratory data from clinical
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812--819
Inmaculada B. Aban and
Gary R. Cutter and
Nsoki Mavinga Inferences and power analysis concerning
two negative binomial distributions with
an application to MRI lesion counts data 820--833
Rachel L. O'Connell and
H. Malcolm Hudson Risk of mortality after acute myocardial
infarction: Performance of model
updating methods for application in
different geographical regions . . . . . 834--846
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix
A. Jamalizadeh and
M. Khosravi and
N. Balakrishnan Recurrence relations for distributions
of a skew-$t$ and a linear combination
of order statistics from a bivariate-$t$ 847--852
Huan Liu and
Yongqiang Tang and
Hao Helen Zhang A new chi-square approximation to the
distribution of non-negative definite
quadratic forms in non-central normal
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--856
Ibrahim A. Ahmad and
Mohammad B. Sepehrifar On testing alternative classes of life
distribution with guaranteed survival
times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--864
Faming Liang and
Jian Zhang Learning Bayesian networks for discrete
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--876
Irene Klugkist and
Herbert Hoijtink Obtaining similar null distributions in
the normal linear model using
computational methods . . . . . . . . . 877--888
Johan Lim and
Xinlei Wang and
Wanseok Choi Maximum likelihood estimation of ordered
multinomial probabilities by geometric
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889--893
Dimitris Karlis A note on the exponential Poisson
distribution: a nested EM algorithm . . 894--899
Panagiotis Papastamoulis and
George Iliopoulos Reversible Jump MCMC in mixtures of
normal distributions with the same
component means . . . . . . . . . . . . 900--911
Jooyong Shim and
Changha Hwang Support vector censored quantile
regression under random censoring . . . 912--919
S. J. Welham and
R. Thompson A note on bimodality in the
log-likelihood function for penalized
spline mixed models . . . . . . . . . . 920--931
Howard L. Weinert A fast compact algorithm for cubic
spline smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . 932--940
Junko Murakami Bayesian posterior mean estimates for
Poisson hidden Markov models . . . . . . 941--955
Debasis Kundu and
Arabin Kumar Dey Estimating the parameters of the
Marshall--Olkin bivariate Weibull
distribution by EM algorithm . . . . . . 956--965
Yushi Endo and
Akimichi Takemura Iterative proportional scaling via
decomposable submodels for contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966--978
Nickolay T. Trendafilov and
Karen Vines Simple and interpretable discrimination 979--989
Xiaoping Shi and
Yuehua Wu and
Baiqi Miao Strong convergence rate of estimators of
change point and its application . . . . 990--998
Samuel D. Oman Easily simulated multivariate binary
distributions with given positive and
negative correlations . . . . . . . . . 999--1005
Hisayuki Hara and
Akimichi Takemura and
Ruriko Yoshida A Markov basis for conditional test of
common diagonal effect in
quasi-independence model for square
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 1006--1014
Lior Rokach Collective-agreement-based pruning of
ensembles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1026
M.-L. Feddag and
S. Bacci Pairwise likelihood for the longitudinal
mixed Rasch model . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1037
Carlos Tenreiro On the choice of the smoothing parameter
for the BHEP goodness-of-fit test . . . 1038--1053
S. Chakraborti and
S. Eryilmaz and
S. W. Human A phase II nonparametric control chart
based on precedence statistics with
runs-type signaling rules . . . . . . . 1054--1065
Pulak Ghosh and
C. L. Bayes and
V. H. Lachos A robust Bayesian approach to null
intercept measurement error model with
application to dental data . . . . . . . 1066--1079
Guang Yong Zou and
Wenyi Huang and
Xiaohe Zhang A note on confidence interval estimation
for a linear function of binomial
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080--1085
Tom Wilderjans and
Eva Ceulemans and
Iven Van Mechelen Simultaneous analysis of coupled data
blocks differing in size: a comparison
of two weighting schemes . . . . . . . . 1086--1098
Jeffrey N. Jonkman and
Patrick D. Gerard and
William H. Swallow Estimating probabilities under the
three-parameter gamma distribution using
composite sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 1099--1109
Juanjuan Fan and
Martha E. Nunn and
Xiaogang Su Multivariate exponential survival trees
and their application to tooth prognosis 1110--1121
Sung-Ho Kim and
Hyemi Choi and
Sangjin Lee Estimate-based goodness-of-fit test for
large sparse multinomial distributions 1122--1131
Xingzhong Xu and
Xiaobo Ding and
Shuran Zhao New goodness-of-fit tests based on
fiducial empirical distribution function 1132--1141
Cécile Proust-Lima and
Pierre Joly and
Jean-François Dartigues and
Hél\`ene Jacqmin-Gadda Joint modelling of multivariate
longitudinal outcomes and a
time-to-event: a nonlinear latent class
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1142--1154
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Marinho G. Andrade and
Mário de Castro Power series generalized nonlinear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1166
Juha Karvanen Approximate cost-efficient sequential
designs for binary response models with
application to switching measurements 1167--1176
Jiajuan Liang and
Man-Lai Tang Generalized $F$-tests for the
multivariate normal mean . . . . . . . . 1177--1190
Philip Prescott Orthogonal-column Latin hypercube
designs with small samples . . . . . . . 1191--1200
James X. Song Sample size for simultaneous testing of
rate differences in non-inferiority
trials with multiple endpoints . . . . . 1201--1207
Bénédicte Briand and
Gilles R. Ducharme and
Vanessa Parache and
Catherine Mercat-Rommens A similarity measure to assess the
stability of classification trees . . . 1208--1217
Chun-Xia Zhang and
Jiang-She Zhang and
Gai-Ying Zhang Using Boosting to prune Double-Bagging
ensembles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1218--1231
Alun Thomas and
Peter J. Green Enumerating the decomposable neighbors
of a decomposable graph under a simple
perturbation scheme . . . . . . . . . . 1232--1238
Abbas Moghimbeigi and
Mohammad Reza Eshraghian and
Kazem Mohammad and
Brian McArdle A score test for zero-inflation in
multilevel count data . . . . . . . . . 1239--1248
Felipe Osorio and
Gilberto A. Paula and
Manuel Galea On estimation and influence diagnostics
for the Grubbs' model under heavy-tailed
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249--1263
S. Broda and
M. S. Paolella Evaluating the density of ratios of
noncentral quadratic forms in normal
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264--1270
Nuno Sepúlveda and
Carlos Daniel Paulino and
Carlos Penha-Gonçalves Bayesian analysis of allelic penetrance
models for complex binary traits . . . . 1271--1283
Z. John Daye and
X. Jessie Jeng Shrinkage and model selection with
correlated variables via weighted fusion 1284--1298
Jens D. Nielsen and
Rafael Rumí and
Antonio Salmerón Supervised classification using
probabilistic decision graphs . . . . . 1299--1311
Dong Wan Shin and
Soo Jung Park and
Man-Suk Oh A robust sign test for panel unit roots
under cross sectional dependence . . . . 1312--1327
Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid and
Essam K. AL-Hussaini Estimation in step-stress accelerated
life tests for the exponentiated
exponential distribution with type-I
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328--1338
Holger Dette and
Rafael Weißbach A bootstrap test for the comparison of
nonlinear time series . . . . . . . . . 1339--1349
Cristian Meza and
Florence Jaffrézic and
Jean-Louis Foulley Estimation in the probit normal model
for binary outcomes using the SAEM
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350--1360
Xueli Liu and
Mark C. K. Yang Simultaneous curve registration and
clustering for functional data . . . . . 1361--1376
J. Martín and
C. J. Pérez Bayesian analysis of a generalized
lognormal distribution . . . . . . . . . 1377--1387
Philippe Lambert and
Paul H. C. Eilers Bayesian density estimation from grouped
continuous data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1388--1399
Frédéric Ferraty and
Philippe Vieu Additive prediction and boosting for
functional data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1400--1413
Ahlame Douzal-Chouakria and
Alpha Diallo and
Françoise Giroud Adaptive clustering for time series:
Application for identifying cell cycle
expressed genes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1414--1426
D. Leão Pinto, Jr. and
R. Aoki and
G. F. Silva Statistical analysis of proficiency
testing results under elliptical
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1427--1439
Jiujun Zhang and
Zhonghua Li and
Zhaojun Wang Control chart based on likelihood ratio
for monitoring linear profiles . . . . . 1440--1448
Govert E. Bijwaard and
Philip Hans Franses The effect of rounding on payment
efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449--1461
Sounak Chakraborty Simultaneous cancer classification and
gene selection with Bayesian nearest
neighbor method: an integrated approach 1462--1474
Jerome P. Reiter and
Anna Oganian and
Alan F. Karr Verification servers: Enabling analysts
to assess the quality of inferences from
public use data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1482
Eitan Menahem and
Asaf Shabtai and
Lior Rokach and
Yuval Elovici Improving malware detection by applying
multi-inducer ensemble . . . . . . . . . 1483--1494
Ramesh C. Gupta and
Cheng Peng Estimating reliability in proportional
odds ratio models . . . . . . . . . . . 1495--1510
Michelli Barros and
Gilberto A. Paula and
Víctor Leiva An R implementation for generalized
Birnbaum--Saunders distributions . . . . 1511--1528
Kung-Jong Lui and
Kuang-Chao Chang Corrigendum to: ``Testing homogeneity of
risk difference in stratified randomized
trials with noncompliance'' [Comput.
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
David B. Allison and
Peter M. Visscher and
Guilherme J. M. Rosa and
Christopher I. Amos Statistical genetics & statistical
genomics: Where biology, epistemology,
statistics, and computation collide . . 1531--1534
Diego Salas-Gonzalez and
Ercan E. Kuruoglu and
Diego P. Ruiz A heavy-tailed empirical Bayes method
for replicated microarray data . . . . . 1535--1546
Claudia Angelini and
Daniela De Canditiis and
Marianna Pensky Bayesian models for two-sample
time-course microarray experiments . . . 1547--1565
W. M. Muir and
G. J. M. Rosa and
B. R. Pittendrigh and
Z. Xu and
S. D. Rider and
M. Fountain and
J. Ogas A mixture model approach for the
analysis of small exploratory microarray
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1566--1576
Shih-Huang Chan and
Wan-Chi Chang A robust ratio estimator of gene
expression via inverse-variance
weighting for cDNA microarray images . . 1577--1589
Wessel N. van Wieringen and
David Kun and
Regina Hampel and
Anne-Laure Boulesteix Survival prediction using gene
expression data: a review and comparison 1590--1603
Stan Pounds and
Shesh N. Rai Assumption adequacy averaging as a
concept for developing more robust
methods for differential gene expression
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1604--1612
Víctor Leiva and
Antonio Sanhueza and
Diana M. Kelmansky and
Elena J. Martínez On the glog-normal distribution and its
application to the gene expression
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1621
Alexander Gordon and
Linlin Chen and
Galina Glazko and
Andrei Yakovlev Balancing type one and two errors in
multiple testing for differential
expression of genes . . . . . . . . . . 1622--1629
Guillemette Marot and
Jean-Louis Foulley and
Florence Jaffrézic A structural mixed model to shrink
covariance matrices for time-course
differential gene expression studies . . 1630--1638
Juan P. Steibel and
Guilherme J. M. Rosa and
Robert J. Tempelman Optimizing design of two-stage
experiments for transcriptional
profiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1639--1649
Rudolph S. Parrish and
Horace J. Spencer III and
Ping Xu Distribution modeling and simulation of
gene expression data . . . . . . . . . . 1650--1660
Dong Wang and
Song Xi Chen Combining quantitative trait loci
analyses and microarray data: an
empirical likelihood approach . . . . . 1661--1673
Ping Xu and
Guy N. Brock and
Rudolph S. Parrish Modified linear discriminant analysis
approaches for classification of
high-dimensional microarray data . . . . 1674--1687
Daniel L. Hunt and
Cheng Cheng and
Stanley Pounds The beta-binomial distribution for
estimating the number of false
rejections in microarray gene expression
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1688--1700
Abbas Khalili and
Tim Huang and
Shili Lin A robust unified approach to analyzing
methylation and gene expression data . . 1701--1710
Ella Bingham and
Heikki Mannila Complexity control in a mixture model by
the Hardy--Weinberg equilibrium . . . . 1711--1719
Julia L. Sharp and
John J. Borkowski and
Denise Schmoyer and
Don S. Daly and
Samuel Purvine and
William R. Cannon and
Gregory B. Hurst Statistically appraising process quality
of affinity isolation experiments . . . 1720--1726
Insuk Sohn and
Jooyong Shim and
Changha Hwang and
Sujong Kim and
Jae Won Lee Informative transcription factor
selection using support vector
machine-based generalized approximate
cross validation criteria . . . . . . . 1727--1735
Jooyong Shim and
Insuk Sohn and
Sujong Kim and
Jae Won Lee and
Paul E. Green and
Changha Hwang Selecting marker genes for cancer
classification using supervised weighted
kernel clustering and the support vector
machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1736--1742
Tae Young Yang Simple Bayesian binary framework for
discovering significant genes and
classifying cancer diagnosis . . . . . . 1743--1754
Laura K. Vaughan and
Jasmin Divers and
Miguel A. Padilla and
David T. Redden and
Hemant K. Tiwari and
Daniel Pomp and
David B. Allison The use of plasmodes as a supplement to
simulations: a simple example evaluating
individual admixture estimation
methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1766
Zhaohai Li and
Hong Zhang and
Gang Zheng and
Joseph L. Gastwirth and
Mitchell H. Gail Excess false positive rate caused by
population stratification and disease
rate heterogeneity in case--control
association studies . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1781
Juha Karvanen and
Sangita Kulathinal and
Dario Gasbarra Optimal designs to select individuals
for genotyping conditional on observed
binary or survival outcomes and
non-genetic covariates . . . . . . . . . 1782--1793
Yan V. Sun and
Douglas M. Jacobsen and
Stephen T. Turner and
Eric Boerwinkle and
Sharon L. R. Kardia Fast implementation of a scan statistic
for identifying chromosomal patterns of
genome wide association studies . . . . 1794--1801
Linda Hartman and
Ola Hössjer and
Keith Humphreys Utilizing identity-by-descent
probabilities for genetic fine-mapping
in population based samples, via spatial
smoothing of haplotype effects . . . . . 1802--1817
Alun Thomas Estimation of graphical models whose
conditional independence graphs are
interval graphs and its application to
modelling linkage disequilibrium . . . . 1818--1828
Heejong Sung and
Fei Ji and
Deborah L. Levy and
Steven Matthysse and
Nancy Role Mendell The power of linkage analysis of a
disease-related endophenotype using
asymmetrically ascertained sib pairs . . 1829--1842
Jung-Yu Cheng and
Shinn-Jia Tzeng Parametric and semiparametric methods
for mapping quantitative trait loci . . 1843--1849
Daniel Shriner and
Nengjun Yi Deviance information criterion (DIC) in
Bayesian multiple QTL mapping . . . . . 1850--1860
N. Usotskaya and
B. Ryabko Application of information-theoretic
tests for the analysis of DNA sequences
based on Markov chain models . . . . . . 1861--1872
Darfiana Nur and
David Allingham and
Judith Rousseau and
Kerrie L. Mengersen and
Ross McVinish Bayesian hidden Markov model for DNA
sequence segmentation: a prior
sensitivity analysis . . . . . . . . . . 1873--1882
P. Narain Transmission Disequilibrium Test (TDT)
for a pair of linked marker loci . . . . 1883--1893
N. Verzelen and
F. Villers Tests for Gaussian graphical models . . 1894--1905
Nicola Lama and
Patrizia Boracchi and
Elia Biganzoli Exploration of distributional models for
a novel intensity-dependent
normalization procedure in censored gene
expression data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1906--1922
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Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
David A. Belsley and
Russell Davidson and
Erricos John Kontoghiorghes and
James G. MacKinnon and
Herman K. van Dijk The fourth special issue on
Computational Econometrics . . . . . . . 1923--1924
Tomohiro Ando Bayesian inference for the hazard term
structure with functional predictors
using Bayesian predictive information
criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1925--1939
Josu Arteche and
Jesus Orbe Using the bootstrap for finite sample
confidence intervals of the log
periodogram regression . . . . . . . . . 1940--1953
Dietmar Bauer and
Martin Wagner Using subspace algorithm cointegration
analysis: Simulation performance and
application to the term structure . . . 1954--1973
L. Bauwens and
F. Galli Efficient importance sampling for ML
estimation of SCD models . . . . . . . . 1974--1992
Cathy W. S. Chen and
Richard Gerlach and
D. C. M. Wei Bayesian causal effects in quantiles:
Accounting for heteroscedasticity . . . 1993--2007
Marie-Claude Beaulieu and
Jean-Marie Dufour and
Lynda Khalaf Finite sample multivariate tests of
asset pricing models with coskewness . . 2008--2021
Svetlana Borovkova and
Ferry J. Permana Implied volatility in oil markets . . . 2022--2039
T. Bouezmarni and
J. V. K. Rombouts Semiparametric multivariate density
estimation for positive data using
copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2040--2054
Arie ten Cate Solving models with inequalities using
standard econometric software . . . . . 2055--2060
Baoline Chen and
Peter A. Zadrozny Multi-step perturbation solution of
nonlinear differentiable equations
applied to an econometric analysis of
productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2061--2074
Carl Chiarella and
Hing Hung and
Thuy-Duong Tô The volatility structure of the fixed
income market under the HJM framework: a
nonlinear filtering approach . . . . . . 2075--2088
James Davidson and
Nigar Hashimzade Type $I$ and type II fractional Brownian
motions: a reconsideration . . . . . . . 2089--2106
Suad Elezovi\'c Functional modelling of volatility in
the Swedish limit order book . . . . . . 2107--2118
J. D. Godolphin New formulations for recursive residuals
as a diagnostic tool in the
fixed-effects linear model with design
matrices of arbitrary rank . . . . . . . 2119--2128
Markus Haas and
Stefan Mittnik and
Marc S. Paolella Asymmetric multivariate normal mixture
GARCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2129--2154
H. Herwartz and
F. Xu A new approach to bootstrap inference in
functional coefficient models . . . . . 2155--2167
Dean Fantazzini The effects of misspecified marginals
and copulas on computing the value at
risk: a Monte Carlo study . . . . . . . 2168--2188
Antonia Febrer and
Juan Mora Flexible estimation of wage
distributions in the presence of
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2189--2200
Gianna Fig\`a-Talamanca Testing volatility autocorrelation in
the constant elasticity of variance
stochastic volatility model . . . . . . 2201--2218
Paolo Foschi and
Andrea Pascucci Calibration of a path-dependent
volatility model: Empirical tests . . . 2219--2235
Ricardo Gimeno and
Juan M. Nave A genetic algorithm estimation of the
term structure of interest rates . . . . 2236--2250
Luigi Grossi and
Fabrizio Laurini A robust forward weighted Lagrange
multiplier test for conditional
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 2251--2263
Mia Hubert and
Peter Rousseeuw and
Tim Verdonck Robust PCA for skewed data and its
outlier map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2264--2274
Yonghee Lee and
Dong Wan Shin Optimal tests against the alternative
hypothesis of panel unit roots . . . . . 2275--2283
Yan Liu and
Richard Luger Efficient estimation of copula-GARCH
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2284--2297
Marco J. Lombardi and
Giorgio Calzolari Indirect estimation of $ \alpha $-stable
stochastic volatility models . . . . . . 2298--2308
Marco J. Lombardi and
David Veredas Indirect estimation of elliptical stable
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2309--2324
A. Murphy and
M. Izzeldin Bootstrapping long memory tests: Some
Monte Carlo results . . . . . . . . . . 2325--2334
Jouchi Nakajima and
Yasuhiro Omori Leverage, heavy-tails and correlated
jumps in stochastic volatility models 2335--2353
Robin Nunkesser and
Roland Fried and
Karen Schettlinger and
Ursula Gather Online analysis of time series by the $
Q_n $ estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . 2354--2362
J. J. Retzer and
E. S. Soofi and
R. Soyer Information importance of predictors:
Concept, measures, Bayesian inference,
and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 2363--2377
P. A. V. B. Swamy and
Jatinder S. Mehta and
I-Lok Chang and
T. S. Zimmerman An efficient method of estimating the
true value of a population
characteristic from its discrepant
estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2378--2389
Teruko Takada Simulated minimum Hellinger distance
estimation of stochastic volatility
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2390--2403
Makoto Takahashi and
Yasuhiro Omori and
Toshiaki Watanabe Estimating stochastic volatility models
using daily returns and realized
volatility simultaneously . . . . . . . 2404--2426
Emanuele Taufer and
Nikolai Leonenko Simulation of Lévy-driven
Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes with given
marginal distribution . . . . . . . . . 2427--2437
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
G. Kokolakis and
D. Fouskakis Importance partitioning in
micro-aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . 2439--2445
Sai Santosh Bangalore and
Jelai Wang and
David B. Allison How accurate are the extremely small
$P$-values used in genomic research: an
evaluation of numerical libraries . . . 2446--2452
Nivien Shafik and
Gerhard Tutz Boosting nonlinear additive
autoregressive time series . . . . . . . 2453--2464
Min-Qian Liu and
Li Zhang An algorithm for constructing
mixed-level $k$-circulant supersaturated
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2465--2470
Jan de Leeuw and
Kenneth Lange Sharp quadratic majorization in one
dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2471--2484
Tzung-Pei Hong and
Chun-Wei Lin and
Yu-Lung Wu Maintenance of fast updated frequent
pattern trees for record deletion . . . 2485--2499
Karl Mosler and
Tatjana Lange and
Pavel Bazovkin Computing zonoid trimmed regions of
dimension $ d > 2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . 2500--2510
Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid Constant-partially accelerated life
tests for Burr type-XII distribution
with progressive type-II censoring . . . 2511--2523
Edmond H. C. Wu and
Philip L. H. Yu and
W. K. Li A smoothed bootstrap test for
independence based on mutual information 2524--2536
Lihua An and
Sévérien Nkurunziza and
Karen Y. Fung and
Daniel Krewski and
Isaac Luginaah Shrinkage estimation in general linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2537--2549
Jiguo Cao and
James O. Ramsay Generalized profiling estimation for
global and adaptive penalized spline
smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2550--2562
Qiang Wu and
Allan R. Sampson Mixture modeling with applications in
schizophrenia research . . . . . . . . . 2563--2572
Tatiane F. N. Melo and
Silvia L. P. Ferrari and
Francisco Cribari-Neto Improved testing inference in mixed
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2573--2582
Michael G. Kenward and
James H. Roger An improved approximation to the
precision of fixed effects from
restricted maximum likelihood . . . . . 2583--2595
Yves G. Berger and
Juan F. Muñoz and
Eric Rancourt Variance estimation of survey estimates
calibrated on estimated control totals
--- An application to the extended
regression estimator and the regression
composite estimator . . . . . . . . . . 2596--2604
Elizabeth J. Malloy and
Donna Spiegelman and
Ellen A. Eisen Comparing measures of model selection
for penalized splines in Cox models . . 2605--2616
Hai-Bin Wang Bayesian estimation and variable
selection for single index models . . . 2617--2627
A. Baíllo and
J. R. Berrendero and
J. Cárcamo Tests for zero-inflation and
overdispersion: a new approach based on
the stochastic convex order . . . . . . 2628--2639
H. Sulieman and
I. Kucuk and
P. J. McLellan Parametric sensitivity: a case study
comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2640--2652
Petros E. Maravelakis and
Philippe Castagliola An EWMA chart for monitoring the process
standard deviation when parameters are
estimated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2653--2664
Lexin Li Exploiting predictor domain information
in sufficient dimension reduction . . . 2665--2672
S. H. Hsieh and
S. M. Lee and
P. S. Shen Semiparametric analysis of randomized
response data with missing covariates in
logistic regression . . . . . . . . . . 2673--2692
Yunzhao Luo and
Zhonghua Li and
Zhaojun Wang Adaptive CUSUM control chart with
variable sampling intervals . . . . . . 2693--2701
Bing Xing Wang Testing for the validity of the
assumptions in the exponential
step-stress accelerated life-testing
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2702--2709
Zeng-Hua Lu Covariate selection in mixture models
with the censored response variable . . 2710--2723
Anastasia G. Eleftheraki and
Maria Kateri and
Ioannis Ntzoufras Bayesian analysis of two dependent $ 2
\times 2 $ contingency tables . . . . . 2724--2732
Hongkun Wang and
Yichuan Zhao A comparison of some confidence
intervals for the mean quality-adjusted
lifetime with censored data . . . . . . 2733--2739
Joanne Thandrayen and
Yan Wang A latent variable regression model for
capture--recapture data . . . . . . . . 2740--2746
Wojtek J. Krzanowski and
David J. Hand A simple method for screening variables
before clustering microarray data . . . 2747--2753
Kung-Jong Lui and
Kuang-Chao Chang Interval estimation of odds ratio in a
stratified randomized clinical trial
with noncompliance . . . . . . . . . . . 2754--2766
Federico Ambrogi and
Elia Biganzoli and
Patrizia Boracchi Estimating crude cumulative incidences
through multinomial logit regression on
discrete cause-specific hazards . . . . 2767--2779
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--viii
James LeSage and
Sudipto Banerjee and
Manfred M. Fischer and
Peter Congdon Spatial statistics: Methods, models &
computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2781--2785
Elvan Ceyhan Overall and pairwise segregation tests
based on nearest neighbor contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2786--2808
Liu-Cang Wu and
Hui-Qiong Li Summary statistics for measuring the
relationship among three types of points
in multivariate point patterns . . . . . 2809--2816
Renato Assunção and
Thais Correa Surveillance to detect emerging
space--time clusters . . . . . . . . . . 2817--2830
Md. Monir Hossain and
Andrew B. Lawson Approximate methods in Bayesian point
process spatial models . . . . . . . . . 2831--2842
Lionel Cucala A flexible spatial scan test for case
event data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2843--2850
Tonglin Zhang and
Ge Lin Spatial scan statistics in loglinear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2851--2858
Roger Bivand and
Werner G. Müller and
Markus Reder Power calculations for global and local
Moran's $I$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2859--2872
Andrew O. Finley and
Huiyan Sang and
Sudipto Banerjee and
Alan E. Gelfand Improving the performance of predictive
process modeling for large datasets . . 2873--2884
David Bolin and
Johan Lindström and
Lars Eklundh and
Finn Lindgren Fast estimation of spatially dependent
temporal vegetation trends using
Gaussian Markov random fields . . . . . 2885--2896
Badi H. Baltagi and
Seuck Heun Song and
Jae Hyeok Kwon Testing for heteroskedasticity and
spatial correlation in a random effects
panel data model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2897--2922
Robert Haining and
Jane Law and
Daniel Griffith Modelling small area counts in the
presence of overdispersion and spatial
autocorrelation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2923--2937
M. D. Ugarte and
T. Goicoa and
A. F. Militino Empirical Bayes and Fully Bayes
procedures to detect high-risk areas in
disease mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . 2938--2949
Ying C. MacNab and
Yi Lin On empirical Bayes penalized
quasi-likelihood inference in GLMMs and
in Bayesian disease mapping and
ecological modeling . . . . . . . . . . 2950--2967
Dae-Jin Lee and
María Durbán Smooth-CAR mixed models for spatial
count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2968--2979
Oleg A. Smirnov and
Luc E. Anselin An $ O(N) $ parallel method of computing
the Log-Jacobian of the variable
transformation for models with spatial
interaction on a lattice . . . . . . . . 2980--2988
Jungsoon Choi and
Montserrat Fuentes and
Brian J. Reich Spatial--temporal association between
fine particulate matter and daily
mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2989--3000
Laura A. Hatfield and
Richard W. Hoffbeck and
Bruce H. Alexander and
Bradley P. Carlin Spatiotemporal and spatial threshold
models for relating UV exposures and
skin cancer in the central United States 3001--3015
Emily L. Kang and
Desheng Liu and
Noel Cressie Statistical analysis of small-area data
based on independence, spatial,
non-hierarchical, and hierarchical
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3016--3032
Gentry White and
Sujit K. Ghosh A stochastic neighborhood conditional
autoregressive model for spatial data 3033--3046
Peter Congdon Modelling the impact of socioeconomic
structure on spatial health outcomes . . 3047--3056
Melanie M. Wall and
Xuan Liu Spatial latent class analysis model for
spatially distributed multivariate
binary data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3057--3069
Florent Bonneu and
Christine Thomas-Agnan Spatial point process models for
location--allocation problems . . . . . 3070--3081
L. Bel and
D. Allard and
J. M. Laurent and
R. Cheddadi and
A. Bar-Hen CART algorithm for spatial data:
Application to environmental and
ecological data . . . . . . . . . . . . 3082--3093
Jincao Wu and
Tasneem H. Patwa and
David M. Lubman and
Debashis Ghosh Identification of differentially
expressed spatial clusters using humoral
response microarray data . . . . . . . . 3094--3102
J. Blasius and
M. Greenacre and
P. J. F. Groenen and
M. van de Velden Special issue on correspondence analysis
and related methods . . . . . . . . . . 3103--3106
Michael Greenacre Power transformations in correspondence
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3107--3116
Marike Polak and
Willem J. Heiser and
Mark de Rooij Two types of single-peaked data:
Correspondence analysis as an
alternative to principal component
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3117--3128
Michel van de Velden and
Patrick J. F. Groenen and
Jeroen Poblome Seriation by constrained correspondence
analysis: a simulation study . . . . . . 3129--3138
Matthijs J. Warrens and
Willem J. Heiser Diagnostics for regression dependence in
tables re-ordered by the dominant
correspondence analysis solution . . . . 3139--3144
Jörg Blasius and
Paul H. C. Eilers and
John Gower Better biplots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3145--3158
Yoshio Takane and
Sunho Jung Regularized nonsymmetric correspondence
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3159--3170
A. Zárraga and
B. Goitisolo Simultaneous analysis and multiple
factor analysis for contingency tables:
Two methods for the joint study of
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 3171--3182
Cajo J. F. ter Braak and
Yiannis Kourmpetis and
Henk A. L. Kiers and
Marco C. A. M. Bink Approximating a similarity matrix by a
latent class model: a reappraisal of
additive fuzzy clustering . . . . . . . 3183--3193
Maurizio Vichi and
Gilbert Saporta Clustering and disjoint principal
component analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 3194--3208
Mark de Rooij Trend vector models for the analysis of
change in continuous time for multiple
groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3209--3216
Wayne S. DeSarbo and
A. Selin Atalay and
Simon J. Blanchard A three-way clusterwise multidimensional
unfolding procedure for the spatial
representation of context dependent
preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3217--3230
J. Fernando Vera and
Rodrigo Macías and
Willem J. Heiser A dual latent class unfolding model for
two-way two-mode preference rating data 3231--3244
Henri Caussinus Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3245--3246
Ken Reed Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3247--3248
Niël J. le Roux Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3249--3251
Antoine de Falguerolles Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3252--3255
Ludovic Lebart Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3256--3257
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Achim Zeileis and
Kurt Hornik and
Paul Murrell Escaping RGBland: Selecting colors for
statistical graphics . . . . . . . . . . 3259--3270
M. J. Rufo and
J. Martín and
C. J. Pérez Inference on exponential families with
mixture of prior distributions . . . . . 3271--3280
Chien-Tai Lin and
N. Balakrishnan Exact computation of the null
distribution of a test for multiple
outliers in an exponential sample . . . 3281--3290
F. Carbonell and
K. J. Worsley and
N. J. Trujillo-Barreto and
M. Vega-Hernandez The geometry of time-varying
cross-correlation random fields . . . . 3291--3304
Krishna K. Saha and
Roger Bilisoly Testing the homogeneity of the means of
several groups of count data in the
presence of unequal dispersions . . . . 3305--3313
Guo-Liang Tian and
Kai Wang Ng and
Kai-Can Li and
Ming Tan Non-iterative sampling-based Bayesian
methods for identifying changepoints in
the sequence of cases of Haemolytic
uraemic syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . 3314--3323
Steve Su Confidence intervals for quantiles using
generalized lambda distributions . . . . 3324--3333
Lei Yu and
Suzanne L. Tyas and
David A. Snowdon and
Richard J. Kryscio Effects of ignoring baseline on modeling
transitions from intact cognition to
dementia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3334--3343
Pablo Martínez-Camblor and
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez Non-parametric $k$-sample tests: Density
functions vs distribution functions . . 3344--3357
L. Gosoniu and
P. Vounatsou and
N. Sogoba and
N. Maire and
T. Smith Mapping malaria risk in West Africa
using a Bayesian nonparametric
non-stationary model . . . . . . . . . . 3358--3371
Olha Bodnar and
Taras Bodnar and
Yarema Okhrin Surveillance of the covariance matrix
based on the properties of the singular
Wishart distribution . . . . . . . . . . 3372--3385
B. Quenneville and
S. Fortier and
C. Gagné A non-parametric iterative smoothing
method for benchmarking and temporal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3386--3396
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Alexandre B. Simas The distribution of Pearson residuals in
generalized linear models . . . . . . . 3397--3411
Yafen Liu and
Zhen He and
Lianjie Shu and
Zhang Wu Statistical computation and analyses for
attribute events . . . . . . . . . . . . 3412--3425
Norbert Henze and
Yakov Nikitin and
Bruno Ebner Integral distribution-free statistics of
$ L_p $-type and their asymptotic
comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3426--3438
Moti L. Tiku and
Birdal \cSeno\uglu Estimation and hypothesis testing in BIB
design and robustness . . . . . . . . . 3439--3451
Juhyun Park and
Theo Gasser and
Valentin Rousson Structural components in functional data 3452--3465
Heung Wong and
Feng Liu and
Min Chen and
Wai Cheung Ip Empirical likelihood based diagnostics
for heteroscedasticity in partial linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3466--3477
Feng-Chang Xie and
Bo-Cheng Wei and
Jin-Guan Lin Score tests for zero-inflated
generalized Poisson mixed regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3478--3489
Jacobo de Uña Álvarez and
Javier Roca Pardiñas Additive models in censored regression 3490--3501
E. S. Soofi and
P. C. Nystrom and
M. Yasai-Ardekani Executives' perceived environmental
uncertainty shortly after 9/11 . . . . . 3502--3515
Mohamed M. Mostafa and
Rajan Nataraajan A neuro-computational intelligence
analysis of the ecological footprint of
nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3516--3531
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Fabian Scheipl and
Thomas Kneib Locally adaptive Bayesian $P$-splines
with a Normal--Exponential--Gamma prior 3533--3552
Yongzeng Lai Generating inverse Gaussian random
variates by approximation . . . . . . . 3553--3559
Safar Parsi and
Ismihan Bairamov Expected values of the number of
failures for two populations under joint
Type-II progressive censoring . . . . . 3560--3570
Sébastien Loisel and
Marina Takane Fast indirect robust generalized method
of moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3571--3579
Prasanta Basak and
Indrani Basak and
N. Balakrishnan Estimation for the three-parameter
lognormal distribution based on
progressively censored data . . . . . . 3580--3592
Ana Pérez and
Esther Ruiz and
Helena Veiga A note on the properties of
power-transformed returns in long-memory
stochastic volatility models with
leverage effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 3593--3600
Kim-Anh Lê Cao and
Agn\`es Bonnet and
Sébastien Gadat Multiclass classification and gene
selection with a stochastic algorithm 3601--3615
M. D. Ugarte and
T. Goicoa and
A. F. Militino and
M. Durbán Spline smoothing in small area trend
estimation and forecasting . . . . . . . 3616--3629
Yin Cui and
Yuejiao Fu and
Abdulkadir Hussein Group sequential testing of homogeneity
in genetic linkage analysis . . . . . . 3630--3639
Laura Forsberg White and
Marco Bonetti and
Marcello Pagano The choice of the number of bins for the
$M$ statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3640--3649
Augustine C. M. Wong and
Yan Yan Wu A note on interval estimation of $ P(X <
Y) $ using lower record data from the
generalized exponential distribution . . 3650--3658
Shuo-Jye Wu and
Co\cskun Ku\cs On estimation based on progressive
first-failure-censored sampling . . . . 3659--3670
Ying-Zi Fu and
Nian-Sheng Tang and
Xing Chen Local influence analysis of nonlinear
structural equation models with
nonignorable missing outcomes from
reproductive dispersion models . . . . . 3671--3684
Ahmed Hossain and
Joseph Beyene and
Andrew R. Willan and
Pingzhao Hu A flexible approximate likelihood ratio
test for detecting differential
expression in microarray data . . . . . 3685--3695
You-Gan Wang and
Quanxi Shao and
Min Zhu Quantile regression without the curse of
unsmoothness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3696--3705
Tao Chen and
Elaine Martin and
Gary Montague Robust probabilistic PCA with missing
data and contribution analysis for
outlier detection . . . . . . . . . . . 3706--3716
J. Rodríguez-Avi and
A. Conde-Sánchez and
A. J. Sáez-Castillo and
M. J. Olmo-Jiménez and
A. M. Martínez-Rodríguez A generalized Waring regression model
for count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3717--3725
M. C. Jones and
D. A. Henderson Maximum likelihood kernel density
estimation: On the potential of
convolution sieves . . . . . . . . . . . 3726--3733
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--vii
Ji-Hyun Kim Estimating classification error rate:
Repeated cross-validation, repeated
hold-out and bootstrap . . . . . . . . . 3735--3745
Sigrunn H. Sòrbye and
Kristian Hindberg and
Lena R. Olsen and
Håvard Rue Bayesian multiscale feature detection of
log-spectral densities . . . . . . . . . 3746--3754
Guang Yong Zou and
Julia Taleban and
Cindy Y. Huo Confidence interval estimation for
lognormal data with application to
health economics . . . . . . . . . . . . 3755--3764
Catherine M. Crespi and
W. John Boscardin Bayesian model checking for multivariate
outcome data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3765--3772
Ori Rosen and
Wesley K. Thompson A Bayesian regression model for
multivariate functional data . . . . . . 3773--3786
Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos and
L. M. Zea Fernandez Influence analysis with homogeneous
linear restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 3787--3794
Abdessamad Dine and
Denis Larocque and
François Bellavance Multivariate trees for mixed outcomes 3795--3804
Rhonda J. Rosychuk and
Shofiqul Islam Parameter estimation in a model for
misclassified Markov data --- a Bayesian
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3805--3816
Sung Nok Chiu and
Kwong Ip Liu Generalized Cramér--von Mises
goodness-of-fit tests for multivariate
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3817--3834
José A. Villaseñor-Alva and
Elizabeth González-Estrada A bootstrap goodness of fit test for the
generalized Pareto distribution . . . . 3835--3841
Fabrizio Laurini and
Francesco Pauli Smoothing sample extremes: the mixed
model approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3842--3854
Sven Serneels and
Tim Verdonck Principal component regression for data
containing outliers and missing elements 3855--3863
Joanna H. Shih and
Shou-En Lu Semiparametric estimation of a nested
random effects model for the analysis of
multi-level clustered failure time data 3864--3871
C. Maugis and
G. Celeux and
M.-L. Martin-Magniette Variable selection in model-based
clustering: a general variable role
modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3872--3882
Jiajuan Liang and
Man-Lai Tang and
Ping Shing Chan A generalized Shapiro--Wilk $ \mathbf
{W} $ statistic for testing
high-dimensional normality . . . . . . . 3883--3891
Chivalai Temiyasathit and
Seoung Bum Kim and
Sun-Kyoung Park Spatial prediction of ozone
concentration profiles . . . . . . . . . 3892--3906
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi--ix
Xiaoning Wang and
Alan Schumitzky and
David Z. D'Argenio Population
pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic mixture
models via maximum a posteriori
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3907--3915
Na You and
Chang Xuan Mao On hierarchical loglinear models in
capture--recapture studies . . . . . . . 3916--3920
Chiara Brombin and
Luigi Salmaso Multi-aspect permutation tests in shape
analysis with small sample size . . . . 3921--3931
Arno\vst Komárek A new R package for Bayesian estimation
of multivariate normal mixtures allowing
for selection of the number of
components and interval-censored data 3932--3947
Spyridon J. Hatjispyros and
Theodoros Nicoleris and
Stephen G. Walker A Bayesian nonparametric study of a
dynamic nonlinear model . . . . . . . . 3948--3956
M. D. Jiménez-Gamero and
V. Alba-Fernández and
J. Muñoz-García and
Y. Chalco-Cano Goodness-of-fit tests based on empirical
characteristic functions . . . . . . . . 3957--3971
Tatiane F. N. Melo and
Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos and
Artur J. Lemonte Some restriction tests in a new class of
regression models for proportions . . . 3972--3979
Kyle A. Caudle and
Edward Wegman Nonparametric density estimation of
streaming data using orthogonal series 3980--3986
George von Borries and
Haiyan Wang Partition clustering of high dimensional
low sample size data based on $p$-values 3987--3998
Jeffrey W. Heath and
Michael C. Fu and
Wolfgang Jank New global optimization algorithms for
model-based clustering . . . . . . . . . 3999--4017
A. Jamalizadeh and
Y. Mehrali and
N. Balakrishnan Recurrence relations for bivariate $t$
and extended skew-$t$ distributions and
an application to order statistics from
bivariate $t$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4018--4027
Ben Calderhead and
Mark Girolami Estimating Bayes factors via
thermodynamic integration and population
MCMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4028--4045
Lior Rokach Taxonomy for characterizing ensemble
methods in classification tasks: a
review and annotated bibliography . . . 4046--4072
Pulak Ghosh and
Lan Huang and
Binbing Yu and
Ram C. Tiwari Semiparametric Bayesian approaches to
joinpoint regression for
population-based cancer survival data 4073--4082
Bhuvanesh Pareek and
Debasis Kundu and
Sumit Kumar On progressively censored competing
risks data for Weibull distributions . . 4083--4094
Ana M. Bianco and
Elena Martínez Robust testing in the logistic
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 4095--4105
Lexin Li and
Xiangrong Yin Longitudinal data analysis using
sufficient dimension reduction method 4106--4115
Chris M. Strickland and
Ian. W. Turner and
Robert Denham and
Kerrie L. Mengersen Efficient Bayesian estimation of
multivariate state space models . . . . 4116--4125
Jesse Frey Confidence bands for the CDF when
sampling from a finite population . . . 4126--4132
Jeffrey Pai and
Nalini Ravishanker Maximum likelihood estimation in vector
long memory processes via EM algorithm 4133--4142
Cibele M. Russo and
Gilberto A. Paula and
Reiko Aoki Influence diagnostics in nonlinear
mixed-effects elliptical models . . . . 4143--4156
Qin Liu and
Nancy R. Cook and
Anna Bergström and
Chung-Cheng Hsieh A two-stage hierarchical regression
model for meta-analysis of epidemiologic
nonlinear dose--response data . . . . . 4157--4167
Sabine K. Schnabel and
Paul H. C. Eilers Optimal expectile smoothing . . . . . . 4168--4177
Yuta Minoda and
Takemi Yanagimoto Estimation of a common slope in a gamma
regression model with multiple strata:
an empirical Bayes method . . . . . . . 4178--4185
Jialiang Li and
Yingcun Xia and
Mari Palta and
Anoop Shankar Impact of unknown covariance structures
in semiparametric models for
longitudinal data: an application to
Wisconsin diabetes data . . . . . . . . 4186--4197
Sounak Chakraborty Bayesian binary kernel probit model for
microarray based cancer classification
and gene selection . . . . . . . . . . . 4198--4209
Hsiuying Wang Comparison of $p$ control charts for low
defective rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4210--4220
Myoungshic Jhun and
Inkyung Choi Bootstrapping least distance estimator
in the multivariate regression model . . 4221--4227
Simon D. Woodcock and
Gary Benedetto Distribution-preserving statistical
disclosure limitation . . . . . . . . . 4228--4242
T. Umashanger and
T. N. Sriram $ L_2 $ estimation of mixture complexity
for count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4243--4254
Eduardo Gutiérrez-Peña and
Raúl Rueda and
Alberto Contreras-Cristán Objective parametric model selection
procedures from a Bayesian nonparametric
perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4255--4265
Sung Nok Chiu and
Ling Wang Homogeneity tests for several Poisson
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4266--4278
Claire Pinçon and
Odile Pons Nonparametric linear tests with multiple
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4279--4289
P. J. Park and
J. Manjourides and
M. Bonetti and
M. Pagano A permutation test for determining
significance of clusters with
applications to spatial and gene
expression data . . . . . . . . . . . . 4290--4300
Giuliano Galimberti and
Angela Montanari and
Cinzia Viroli Penalized factor mixture analysis for
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C. A. McGrory and
A. N. Pettitt and
M. J. Faddy A fully Bayesian approach to inference
for Coxian phase-type distributions with
covariate dependent mean . . . . . . . . 4311--4321
R. M. Fernández-Alcalá and
J. Navarro-Moreno and
J. C. Ruiz-Molina Statistical inference for doubly
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processes: a PCA approach . . . . . . . 4322--4331
Daniel R. Jeske and
Veronica Montes De Oca and
Wolfgang Bischoff and
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with applications to network
surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4332--4344
Victor De Oliveira and
Changxiang Rui On shortest prediction intervals in
log-Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . 4345--4357
Hie-Choon Chung and
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Waleed A. Yousef and
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Robert F. Wagner Nonparametric estimation of the
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C. J. Scarrott and
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Feng-Chang Xie and
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Pao-sheng Shen Semiparametric analysis of survival data
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M. Chahkandi and
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Artur J. Lemonte and
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Jaakko Peltonen and
Jarkko Venna and
Samuel Kaski Visualizations for assessing convergence
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Patrick Richard Modified fast double sieve bootstraps
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Jennifer S. K. Chan and
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Frederieke van Perlo Generalised Procrustes Analysis with
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José María Sarabia On multivariate order statistics.
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Timothy D. Johnson and
Morand Piert A Bayesian analysis of dual
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Rashid Ahmed and
Munir Akhtar and
M. H. Tahir Economical generalized neighbor designs
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Mark Jones and
Annette Dobson and
Mark Onslow and
Brenda Carey Negative binomial mixed models for
analysis of stuttering rates . . . . . . 4590--4600
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