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Volume 1, Number 1, April, 2001
Volume 1, Number 2, August, 2001
Volume 1, Number 3, December, 2001
Volume 2, Number 1, April, 2002
Volume 2, Number 2, August, 2002
Volume 2, Number 3, December, 2002
Volume 3, Number 1, April, 2003
Volume 3, Number 2, August, 2003
Volume 3, Number 3, December, 2003
Volume 4, Number 1, April, 2004
Volume 4, Number 2, August, 2004
Volume 4, Number 3, December, 2004
Volume 5, Number 1, April, 2005
Volume 5, Number 2, August, 2005
Volume 5, Number 3, December, 2005
Volume 6, Number 1, April, 2006
Volume 6, Number 2, August, 2006
Volume 6, Number 3, December, 2006
Volume 7, Number 1, April, 2007
Volume 7, Number 2, August, 2007
Volume 7, Number 3, December, 2007
Volume 8, Number 1, February, 2008
Volume 8, Number 2, April, 2008
Volume 9, Number 1, June, 2008
Volume 9, Number 2, August, 2008
Volume 10, Number 1, October, 2008
Volume 10, Number 2, December, 2008
Volume 11, Number 1, February, 2009
Volume 11, Number 2, April, 2009
Volume 12, Number 1, June, 2009
Volume 12, Number 2, August, 2009
Volume 13, Number 1, October, 2009
Volume 13, Number 2, December, 2009
Volume 14, Number 1, January, 2010
Volume 14, Number 2, February, 2010
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 2010
Volume 15, Number 2, April, 2010
Volume 16, Number 1, May, 2010
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 2010
Volume 17, Number 1, July, 2010
Volume 17, Number 2, August, 2010
Volume 18, Number 1, September, 2010
Volume 18, Number 2, October, 2010
Volume 19, Number 1, November, 2010
Volume 19, Number 2, December, 2010
Volume 20, Number 1, January, 2011
Volume 20, Number 2, February, 2011
Volume 21, Number 1, March, 2011
Volume 21, Number 2, April, 2011
Volume 22, Number 1, May, 2011
Volume 22, Number 2, June, 2011
Volume 23, Number 1, July, 2011
Volume 23, Number 2, August, 2011
Volume 24, Number 1, September, 2011
Volume 24, Number 2, October, 2011
Volume 25, Number 1, November, 2011
Volume 25, Number 2, December, 2011
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 2012
Volume 26, Number 2, February, 2012
Volume 27, Number 1, March, 2012
Volume 27, Number 2, April, 2012
Volume 28, Number 1, May, 2012
Volume 28, Number 2, June, 2012
Volume 29, Number 1, July, 2012
Volume 29, Number 2, August, 2012
Volume 30, Number 1, September, 2012
Volume 30, Number 2, October, 2012
Volume 31, Number 1, November, 2012
Volume 31, Number 2, December, 2012
Volume 32, Number 1, January, 2013
Volume 32, Number 2, February, 2013
Volume 33, Number 1, March, 2013
Volume 33, Number 2, April, 2013
Volume 34, Number 1, May, 2013
Volume 34, Number 2, June, 2013
Volume 35, Number 1, July, 2013
Volume 35, Number 2, August, 2013
Volume 36, Number 1, September, 2013
Volume 36, Number 2, October, 2013
Volume 37, Number 1, November, 2013
Volume 37, Number 2, December, 2013
Volume 38, Number 1, January, 2014
Volume 38, Number 2, February, 2014
Volume 39, Number 1, March, 2014
Volume 39, Number 2, April, 2014
Volume 40, Number 1, May, 2014
Volume 40, Number 2, June, 2014
Volume 41, Number 1, July, 2014
Volume 41, Number 2, August, 2014
Volume 42, Number 1, September, 2014
Volume 42, Number 2, October, 2014
Volume 43, Number 1, November, 2014
Volume 43, Number 2, December, 2014
Volume 44, Number 1, January, 2015
Volume 44, Number 2, February, 2015
Volume 44, Number 3, March, 2015
Volume 45, Number 1, April, 2015
Volume 45, Number 2, May, 2015
Volume 45, Number 3, June, 2015
Volume 46, Number 1, July, 2015
Volume 46, Number 2, August, 2015
Volume 46, Number 3, September, 2015
Volume 47, Number 1, October, 2015
Volume 47, Number 2, November, 2015
Volume 47, Number 3, December, 2015
Volume 48, Number 1, January, 2016
Volume 48, Number 2, February, 2016
Volume 48, Number 3, March, 2016
Volume 48, Number 4, April, 2016
Volume 48, Number 5, May, 2016
Volume 48, Number 6, June, 2016
Volume 49, Number 1, July, 2016
Volume 49, Number 2, August, 2016
Volume 49, Number 3, September, 2016
Volume 49, Number 4, October, 2016
Volume 49, Number 5, November, 2016
Volume 49, Number 6, December, 2016
Volume 50, Number 1, January, 2017
Volume 50, Number 2, February, 2017
Volume 50, Number 3, March, 2017
Volume 50, Number 4, April, 2017
Volume 50, Number 5, May, 2017
Volume 50, Number 6, June, 2017
Volume 51, Number 1, July, 2017
Volume 51, Number 2, August, 2017
Volume 51, Number 3, September, 2017
Volume 51, Number 4, October, 2017
Volume 51, Number 5, November, 2017
Volume 51, Number 6, December, 2017
Volume 52, Number 1, January, 2018
Volume 52, Number 2, February, 2018
Volume 52, Number 3, March, 2018
Volume 52, Number 4, April, 2018
Volume 52, Number 5, May, 2018
Volume 52, Number 6, June, 2018
Volume 53, Number 1, July, 2018
Volume 53, Number 2, August, 2018
Volume 53, Number 3, September, 2018
Volume 53, Number 4, October, 2018
Volume 53, Number 5, November, 2018
Volume 53, Number 6, December, 2018
Volume 54, Number 1, January, 2019
Volume 54, Number 2, February, 2019
Volume 55, Number 1, March, 2019
Volume 55, Number 2, April, 2019
Volume 56, Number 1, May, 2019
Volume 56, Number 2, June, 2019
Volume 57, Number 1, July, 2019
Volume 57, Number 2, August, 2019
Volume 58, Number 1, September, 2019
Volume 58, Number 2, October, 2019
Volume 59, Number 1, November, 2019
Volume 59, Number 2, December, 2019
Volume 60, Number 1, January, 2020
Volume 60, Number 2, February, 2020
Volume 61, Number 1, March, 2020
Volume 61, Number 2, April, 2020
Volume 62, Number 1, May, 2020
Volume 62, Number 2, June, 2020
Volume 63, Number 1, July, 2020
Volume 63, Number 2, August, 2020
Volume 64, Number 1, September, 2020
Volume 64, Number 2, October, 2020
Volume 65, Number 1, November, 2020
Volume 65, Number 2, December, 2020
Volume 66, Number 1, January, 2021
Volume 66, Number 2, February, 2021
Volume 67, Number 1, March, 2021
Volume 67, Number 2, April, 2021
Volume 68, Number 1, May, 2021


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 1, Number 1, April, 2001

            Kuo-Ching Chiou and   
                   Lee-Ing Tong   A novel means of estimating quantiles
                                  for $2$-parameter Weibull distribution
                                  under the right random censoring model   1--26
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
        Naftali A. Langberg and   
                Benjamin Reiser   Limiting distributions for statistics
                                  based on different samples . . . . . . . 27--48
                     Dane W. Wu   A new measure of attributable risk and
                                  its stratification . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
     Ömer Öztürk   Robust estimation of regression and
                                  scale parameters in linear models  . . . 59--87
               Tae-Sung Kim and   
                    Dae-Hee Ryu   A central limit theorem for stationary
                                  linear processes generated by associated
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
                 L. Abbaoui and   
                  A. Bendjeddou   Exact stationary solutions for a class
                                  of nonlinear oscillators . . . . . . . . 99--106
                 A. Gandomi and   
            S. Noorbaloochi and   
                   A. Bozorgnia   Linex Bayes estimation of Weibull
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--118
             Seung Hoe Choi and   
              Hae Kyung Kim and   
                Byung Heum Song   Optimal nonlinear $ L_p $-norm
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--131

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 1, Number 2, August, 2001

                S. K. Liang and   
                 Y. H. Hung and   
                     K. S. Chen   Using the signal-to-noise ratio to
                                  evaluate the teller performance in the
                                  banking system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--148
             Sadao Tomizawa and   
             Masahiko Sagae and   
                  Makiko Uehara   Power-divergence type measure of
                                  departure from an entropy model  . . . . 149--163
             M. Gürcan and   
                   Y. Öner   On the existence problem in logistic
                                  regression models by alternative form    165--174
               Wen-Pei Sung and   
             Kuen-Suan Chen and   
                  Cheer Germ Go   The effective method of evaluation for
                                  the quality control of steel reinforcing
                                  bar  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--193
                     Seonha Lee   Classification of the person groups
                                  using the individual behavior model in
                                  the information society  . . . . . . . . 195--205
                  Kee-Hoon Kang   On adaptive estimation of regression
                                  coefficients with symmetric errors . . . 207--220

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 1, Number 3, December, 2001

               Shaul K. Bar-Lev   Applying the Neyman--Pearson lemma to
                                  distributions with terminal points
                                  depending upon a parameter . . . . . . . 221--225
               Ching-Ho Leu and   
                     K. S. Chen   On a modification of the circular
                                  systematic sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 227--246
                  Igor Zurbenko   Algorithm of local information . . . . . 247--275
                 Ruzong Fan and   
              Joanna Floros and   
                   Momiao Xiong   Transmission disequilibrium test of two
                                  unlinked disease loci; application to
                                  respiratory distress syndrome  . . . . . 277--308


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 2, Number 1, April, 2002

        Matthias J. Müller   Finite biprediction tests in
                                  treatment-response contingency tables    1--18
                 Jann-Pygn Chen   Evaluating the bootstrap p control chart 19--30
                       Min Tsao   Uniform validity of Lugannani--Rice
                                  expansion for the tail probability of a
                                  sample mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--37
                 Anna Kokla and   
                George Tzavelas   A mathematical model for the Gensini
                                  index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--50
                   Mario Abundo   Some comparison results of solutions of
                                  diffusion and jump-diffusion equations   51--78
               Wolfgang Stummer   Decision risk reductions for stock
                                  indices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--99

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 2, Number 2, August, 2002

                  Elies Kouider   Least-squares estimation of Pareto
                                  parameters by judgment ordered
                                  ranked-set samples . . . . . . . . . . . 101--117
                      G. H. Lin   Process incapability index for
                                  contaminated normal processes  . . . . . 119--130
                     Dane W. Wu   Some study of kurtosis: a new measure of
                                  peakedness for distributions . . . . . . 131--137
         D. B. Panagiotakos and   
                C. Pitsavos and   
                    G. Tzavelas   An attempt to analyze series of
                                  epidemiological data using multiple
                                  correspondence analysis: an application
                                  to cardio2000 database . . . . . . . . . 139--147
            Chiehwen Ed Hsu and   
                 Dejian Lai and   
             Charles Begley and   
                 Luisa Franzini   The association between income and
                                  mortality in Texas and Taiwan --- a
                                  comparative study of spatial statistics  149--176
                   Yong Mun and   
                      Jisun Mun   A time-dependent Poisson process
                                  approach to chain smoking behavior . . . 177--187
                 S. J. Liao and   
                 K. S. Chen and   
                       R. K. Li   Capability evaluation for processes of
                                  the larger-the-better type for
                                  non-normal populations . . . . . . . . . 189--198
            Sana S. BuHamra and   
       Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and   
         Shafeeqah A. Al-Awadhi   Nonparametric change point tests for
                                  randomly censored data . . . . . . . . . 199--216

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 2, Number 3, December, 2002

                M. L. Huang and   
                     Y. H. Hung   Capability analysis for an entire
                                  product with symmetric tolerances  . . . 217--231
             Sadao Tomizawa and   
             Tomoyuki Hashimoto   Power-divergence type measure of
                                  departure from uniform association for
                                  cross-classifications having ordered
                                  categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--248
           Miroslaw Krzysko and   
              Waldemar Wolynski   Pairwise multiple discriminant analysis  249--268
              Denise Benton and   
              K. Krishnamoorthy   Performance of the parametric bootstrap
                                  method in small sample interval
                                  estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--285
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                      P. Mantas   $ E(s^2) $-optimal supersaturated
                                  designs constructed from conference
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--300
            George Tzavelas and   
    Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos   Optimal prediction for diagnostic tests
                                  using logistic regression analysis: an
                                  algorithm and large sample properties    301--309
          M. Salicrú and   
                   S. Vives and   
                 J. Sanchez and   
                       F. Oliva   Asymptotic and bootstrap methodologies
                                  on the estimation of the sonorous
                                  sensation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--322


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 3, Number 1, April, 2003

             H. Evangelaras and   
               I. Kotsireas and   
                 C. Koukouvinos   Application of Gröbner bases to the
                                  analysis of certain two or three level
                                  factorial designs  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
        Erhard Reschenhofer and   
             Lakdere Benkherouf   Automatic continuous smoothing . . . . . 15--32
                  Ayman Baklizi   Acceptance sampling based on truncated
                                  life tests in the Pareto distribution of
                                  the second kind  . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--48
               Gideon Doron and   
                Camil Fuchs and   
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                David Navon and   
                    Hani Zubida   Deferred forced choice questions:
                                  theoretical aspects and empirical
                                  experimentation in political surveys . . 49--66
              M. E. Ghitany and   
               D. K. Al-Mutairi   A generalized geometric distribution and
                                  its application  . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76
       S. Rao Jammalamadaka and   
           Tomasz J. Kozubowski   A new family of circular models: the
                                  wrapped Laplace distributions  . . . . . 77--103

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 3, Number 2, August, 2003

              Kuldeep Kumar and   
              Mukesh Srivastava   On the specification of error structure
                                  in the linear regression model . . . . . 105--133
             Karan P. Singh and   
       Alfred A. Bartolucci and   
                   Shimin Zheng   Mixed-effects linear models based on
                                  elliptically contoured distribution
                                  assumptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--143
               Felix Famoye and   
                 Karan P. Singh   On inflated generalized Poisson
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
                   Ravi Gor and   
                   Nita H. Shah   An order level lot-size model with time
                                  dependent deterioration and permissible
                                  delay in payments  . . . . . . . . . . . 159--172
                Ahmad A. Zghoul   Estimating the Cauchy location and scale
                                  parameters using empirical
                                  characteristic function  . . . . . . . . 173--181
                  Kwang-Hee Han   Almost sure convergence for a linear
                                  process generated by NA sequence . . . . 183--189

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 3, Number 3, December, 2003

              Wai-Cheung Ip and   
                 Heung Wong and   
                    Qinghu Chen   Identification of ballistic texture
                                  using wavelet decomposition  . . . . . . 191--198
          Gareth O. Roberts and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Downweighting tightly knit communities
                                  in World Wide Web rankings . . . . . . . 199--216
          Werner Hürlimann   A generalized Benford law and its
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--228
                   H. A. Charif   Confidence intervals for the variance
                                  ratio in mixed linear models . . . . . . 229--241
               Teag-Hee Lee and   
                Bo-Hyun Yun and   
                 Young-Chul Kim   Neural network-based image retrieval
                                  using nonlinear combining of
                                  heterogeneous features . . . . . . . . . 243--254
               K. Jayakumar and   
                P. C. Sreenivas   On discrete stable laws  . . . . . . . . 255--266
              Hee-Kyung Yoo and   
               Hea-Jung Kim and   
                  Dae-Hwang Kim   A Bayesian approach for ordering
                                  products of independent normal means . . 267--283
              Daya K. Nagar and   
María Eugenia Castañeda   Testing multisample compound symmetry    285--292


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 4, Number 1, April, 2004

             K. J. Peschell and   
                     S. Bae and   
               R. Shanmugam and   
           A. A. Bartolucci and   
                    K. P. Singh   Therapeutic equivalence assessment (TEA)
                                  for exponential data . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
              M. E. Ghitany and   
            F. A. Al-Awadhi and   
                S. A. Al-Awadhi   Modeling the presence of long-term
                                  survivors using generalized Burr XII
                                  mixture model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--26
            Sana S. BuHamra and   
           Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly   Nonparametric change point tests for
                                  LTRC data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--44
             H. Evangelaras and   
                 E. Kolaiti and   
                 C. Koukouvinos   Regular fractional factorial designs:
                                  resolution, defining relations and
                                  blocking via coding theory . . . . . . . 45--58
            Wei-Kwang Huang and   
                   Wan-Kai Pang   The noncentral chi-square distribution
                                  revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--64
              Yoko Tanokura and   
              Genshiro Kitagawa   Power contribution analysis for
                                  multivariate time series with correlated
                                  noise sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--95
                Jae-Hak Lim and   
             Dae-Kyoung Kim and   
                   Dong Ho Park   Testing the equality of NBU-ness at a
                                  specified age  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108
                Merry Eapen and   
                     K. K. Jose   Modified ratio estimators of the finite
                                  population mean based on multi-auxiliary
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 4, Number 2, August, 2004

                    Dae-Hee Ryu   Complete convergence for weighted sums
                                  of AANA random variables . . . . . . . . 117--128
      Miquel Salicrú and   
               Antonio Vaamonde   Confidence intervals for capability
                                  indices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--137
                Sana S. BuHamra   Application of preliminary test and
                                  shrinkage estimation in change point
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--153
                Tae Soo Kim and   
              Joung Nam Lee and   
                 Jong Hyouk Kim   On the combinations of random number
                                  generators and empirical tests . . . . . 155--166
              Gengsheng Qin and   
                   Min Tsao and   
                   Yu-Sheng Hsu   Empirical likelihood ratio confidence
                                  interval for the Winsorized mean . . . . 167--180
             H. Evangelaras and   
                 C. Koukouvinos   Statistical criteria for evaluating
                                  fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 181--193
              B. S. Bhullar and   
                  Pritpal Singh   On the use of design of experiments in
                                  the cluster sampling . . . . . . . . . . 195--207
             Adnan Mazmano\uglu   Variance analyses of advantages and
                                  disadvantages of the service that active
                                  financial associations provide their
                                  customers solution by the model of
                                  hierarchy classification with two
                                  factors and their applications . . . . . 209--222
              Kenichi Satoh and   
        Hirokazu Yanagihara and   
                    Megu Ohtaki   Clustering method by connected
                                  neighborhoods and its application  . . . 223--231
               Ashok K. Nag and   
                     Amit Mitra   Time series lag selection using genetic
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--251

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 4, Number 3, December, 2004

             Ibrahim M. Abdalla   Extra-variation and Bayesian binomial
                                  regression models for estimating
                                  earnings probabilities using a three-way
                                  layout income data . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264
            Erhard Reschenhofer   On subset selection and beyond . . . . . 265--286
              Daya K. Nagar and   
           Elizabeth Bedoya and   
              Elkin Lubin Arias   Non-central complex matrix-variate beta
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--302
           Mohamed G. Habib and   
             Adel I. Bargal and   
           Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly   On testing for a change in variance: new
                                  tests and a Monte Carlo study  . . . . . 303--326
           Salina S. T. Lau and   
                        H. Wong   Modelling seasonal conditional
                                  heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 327--355
           Tatjana Pavlenko and   
             Dietrich von Rosen   On the optimal weighting of
                                  high-dimensional Bayesian networks . . . 357--377
            Gary K. C. Chan and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Ruin problems under feedback model with
                                  random interest  . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--395


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 5, Number 1, April, 2005

          Mohamed A. Ismail and   
             Tarek I. Eldomiaty   Bayesian identification of the
                                  predictors for capital structure in
                                  Egypt  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
              Umberto Amato and   
            Theofanis Sapatinas   Wavelet shrinkage approaches to baseline
                                  signal estimation from repeated noisy
                                  measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--50
            Tsung-Shan Tsou and   
                   Li-Chu Chien   Parametric robust tests for multiple
                                  regression parameters under generalized
                                  linear models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--86
                  A. V. Kelarev   A statistical algorithm for computing
                                  information rates of codes with computer
                                  algebra systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
                  Luigi Salmaso   Permutation tests in screening two-level
                                  factorial experiments  . . . . . . . . . 91--110
            George Tzavelas and   
    Athanasios G. Paliatsos and   
            Nikolaos Prezerakos   Distribution of the extreme annual
                                  precipitation over urban areas . . . . . 111--123

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 5, Number 2, August, 2005

          Werner Hürlimann   Properties and measures of dependence
                                  for the Archimax copula  . . . . . . . . 125--143
               Yichuan Zhao and   
                     Zhiheng Xu   Inference for the mixed discrete and
                                  continuous Cox regression model via
                                  empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . 145--157
                    Yonghwan Um   A new generalization of Cohen's kappa to
                                  multivariate interval data and several
                                  observers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
                    Olcay Akman   Iterative mixture estimation for models
                                  with length-biased component . . . . . . 171--182
             C. C. Y. Dorea and   
            G. L. Gilardoni and   
         C. R. Gonçalves   Stationary distribution estimation in
                                  hidden Markov models . . . . . . . . . . 183--195
            M. Khoshnevisan and   
       Sukanto Bhattacharya and   
          Florentin Smarandache   Optimal plant layout design for
                                  process-focused systems  . . . . . . . . 197--208
              Chang C. Y. Dorea   Measuring asymptotic dependence of
                                  extremes and tests based on tail indexes 209--227
              Jorge Navarro and   
            José M. Ruiz   A note on the discrete normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--245
               Ahmed H. Youssef   Finite sample properties of the random
                                  coefficients regression model  . . . . . 247--256

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 5, Number 3, December, 2005

                G. A. Berti and   
                   M. Monti and   
                     L. Salmaso   DoE techniques applied to the modelling
                                  of scale in hot forging and relevant
                                  effects on temperature distribution and
                                  forging load in the tooling system . . . 257--269
               P. C. Consul and   
                   Felix Famoye   Dev probability distribution and some of
                                  its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--287
                Chang-Hung Hung   Physical fitness indices . . . . . . . . 289--299
            Nobuko Miyamoto and   
          Satoshi Shinohara and   
                Akira Inoue and   
                 Sadao Tomizawa   A note on different selection of
                                  best-fitting model by likelihood ratio
                                  test and Akaike information criterion
                                  for the analysis of contingency tables   301--312
                    Shuangge Ma   Constraint maximum likelihood estimation
                                  of relative risk . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--323
             Mekki Terbeche and   
           Broderick O. Oluyede   Two stage design for estimation of mean
                                  difference in the exponential family . . 325--339
              Daya K. Nagar and   
      José Angel Alvarez   Properties of the hypergeometric
                                  function type I distribution . . . . . . 341--351
                 J. Annaert and   
                    G. Brys and   
                  M. De Ceuster   A new large sample test of univariate
                                  symmetry: a comparative size-power study 353--370
              Jyh-Jiuan Lin and   
            Ching-Hui Chang and   
                    Nabendu Pal   A brief review of shrinkage estimation
                                  of a multivariate normal mean with
                                  extension to multiple linear regression  371--399


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 6, Number 1, April, 2006

                  Yang Yang and   
                 Isao Shoji and   
                 Sumei Kanehiro   Optimal dividend policy of life
                                  insurance company with policyholders'
                                  dynamically inconsistent time
                                  preferences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
                Wei Kwang Huang   On the noncentral chi-square
                                  distribution --- a computer-aided
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--32
              George Stoica and   
             Michael T. Bradley   False discovery rate due to additional
                                  outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39
   Theodora Dimitrakopoulou and   
      Konstantinos Adamidis and   
                Sotirios Loukas   On the gamma frailty model . . . . . . . 41--52
                  A. V. Kelarev   Computing statistics for polynomial
                                  codes: an algorithm based on the
                                  Mann--Whitney $U$-test . . . . . . . . . 53--56
               Riquan Zhang and   
                 Yiqiang Lu and   
                  Yusheng Zhang   Functional-Coefficient partially linear
                                  time series models for hydrology . . . . 57--69
        Janelle S. Erickson and   
            James D. Stamey and   
                 John W. Seaman   Bayesian methods for bioequivalence
                                  studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
             Andreas Loizos and   
           Matthew G. Karlaftis   Neural networks and non-parametric
                                  statistical models: a comparative
                                  analysis in pavement condition
                                  assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--110
              Mark Fielding and   
           Fima C. Klebaner and   
               Zinoviy Landsman   Random volatility and option prices with
                                  the generalized Student-$t$ distribution 111--120

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 6, Number 2, August, 2006

                  S. Mandal and   
                     M. Samanta   O-BLUE and minimum MSE linear estimator
                                  of the location parameter of an
                                  exponential distribution with known
                                  coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 121--128
          Rahim Chinipardaz and   
           Seyed Mahmoud Latifi   Time series discriminant analysis of $ A
                                  R(p) $ plus noise processes: a time
                                  domain approach  . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--144
               Isamu Dôku   A certain class of immigration
                                  superprocesses and its limit theorem . . 145--205
                Tae-Soo Kim and   
                    Jung-Ho Ahn   Support vector machine with kernel
                                  methods and simulations  . . . . . . . . 207--216
                Olcay Akman and   
                  Sevtap Kestel   Length-biased inverse Gaussian hazard
                                  rate estimation: a predictive density
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--233
                  George Stoica   Non-parametric estimation of Barlow's
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240
                    R. O. Simwa   On statistical modelling of floods and
                                  drought insurance products for
                                  developing countries . . . . . . . . . . 241--248
                 Fulong Han and   
                 Yiqiung Lu and   
                   Riquan Zhang   Inferences on single index models  . . . 249--259

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 6, Number 3, December, 2006

          Abdul Aziz Jemain and   
          Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari   Double percentile ranked set samples for
                                  estimating the population mean . . . . . 261--276
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
 Frank A. Van Der Duyn Schouten   Likelihood-based inference for series
                                  system reliability . . . . . . . . . . . 277--294
         Anouar Ben Mabrouk and   
            Nidhal Ben Abdallah   Study of some multinomial cascades . . . 295--303
              Mavis Pararai and   
               Felix Famoye and   
                       Carl Lee   Generalized Poisson regression model for
                                  underreported counts . . . . . . . . . . 305--322
          B. Re. Victorbabu and   
          V. Vasundharadevi and   
                 B. Viswanadham   Modified second order response surface
                                  designs, rotatable designs using
                                  pairwise balanced designs  . . . . . . . 323--334
                  Peter Congdon   Modelling hospital activity: accounting
                                  for small area and primary care practice
                                  variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--351
                 Fulong Han and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
               Jingyan Feng and   
                 Zhiqiang Zhang   Uniform coverage rate of nonparametric
                                  kernel estimate under mixing dependent
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--359
      Ferdinand J. Paraguas and   
            Madan Mohan Dey and   
         Anton Abdulbasah Kamil   Spatial linear approximate to almost
                                  ideal demand system  . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
                I. Irigoien and   
               E. Fernandez and   
                   S. Vives and   
                      C. Arenas   Clapper: a clustering algorithm based on
                                  path-distances for experimental
                                  replicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--398
          D. K. Shangodoyin and   
                  O. O. Obe and   
                   R. Arnab and   
                  S. S. Dlamini   Tool support for systematic test data
                                  generation using genetic algorithms  . . 399--409
                  George Stoica   A Baum--Katz law under regularly varying
                                  moment conditions  . . . . . . . . . . . 411--417


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 7, Number 1, April, 2007

               David M. Day and   
                 Irene Bevc and   
           Thierry Duchesne and   
       Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and   
             Lianne Rossman and   
                Frances Theodor   Comparison of adult offense prediction
                                  methods based on juvenile offense
                                  trajectories using cross-validation  . . 1--46
             Sadao Tomizawa and   
            Nobuko Miyamoto and   
                   Noriaki Ohba   Improved approximate unbiased estimators
                                  of measures of asymmetry for square
                                  contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 47--63
             Rosa Arboretti and   
               Livio Corain and   
                  Marco Marozzi   Nonparametric pooling of preference
                                  ratings for conjoint analysis
                                  experiments with application on health
                                  assistance service . . . . . . . . . . . 65--80
                Lii-Yuh Leu and   
                   Kuan-Fu Shen   Optimal step-stress accelerated life
                                  test plans with progressive type-II
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
                  C. Arenas and   
                     F. Mestres   RMDSE: an extension to related metric
                                  scaling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--113
                   Jie Chen and   
                    A. K. Gupta   A Bayesian approach to the statistical
                                  analysis of a smooth-abrupt change point
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126
          Abdul Aziz Jemain and   
          Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari   Multistage percentile ranked set samples 127--139
          G. A. Tripsiannis and   
            A. N. Philippou and   
            A. A. Papathanasiou   Multivariate generalized run-related
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--156

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 7, Number 2, August, 2007

                    Sara Diallo   Estimation of the change-points of the
                                  mean residual life function  . . . . . . 157--174
       Broderick O. Oluyede and   
                 Mekki Terbeche   On weighted covariance and vitality
                                  orderings with application to the
                                  exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 175--192
              S. El Adlouni and   
         T. B. M. J. Ouarda and   
                B. Bobée   Orthogonal projection $L$-moment
                                  estimators for three-parameter
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--209
     Gregory A. Tripsiannis and   
  Afroditi A. Papathanasiou and   
           Andreas N. Philippou   Multivariate extended generalized
                                  distributions of order $k$ . . . . . . . 211--227
              Carlo Grillenzoni   Statistical optimization of digital
                                  image enhancement  . . . . . . . . . . . 229--244
                     Xikui Wang   Stochastic order and bandit processes
                                  with survival time responses . . . . . . 245--254
        Ferran Galán and   
             Francesc Oliva and   
                 Joan Gu\`ardia   Assessment and comparison of
                                  discriminant analysis methods and
                                  non-parametric error estimators with
                                  mixed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--280
                    K. Azam and   
                   A. Grami and   
                K. Mohammad and   
               Gh. Jandaghi and   
                M. Karimlou and   
                  A. Kazemnejad   Estimation of parameters in
                                  unconditional categorical regression
                                  models with incomplete data in
                                  covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--290
            James P. Hobert and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Norm comparisons for data augmentation   291--302
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos and   
               George Dedoussis   Classification trees in determining
                                  health outcomes, using genetic
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 7, Number 3, December, 2007

              Nicolas Gomez and   
             Victor M. Guerrero   Restricted VAR forecasts of economic
                                  time series with contemporaneous
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--340
                 A. Dimitri and   
                      M. Talamo   A meta-analysis framework based on
                                  hierarchical mixture model . . . . . . . 341--356
          John E. Goulionis and   
                    V. K. Benos   A maintenance policy under Markovian
                                  deterioration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--388
               Wan Kai Pang and   
              Shui Hung Hou and   
           Marvin D. Troutt and   
             Bosco Wing Tong Yu   A Bayesian approach to the estimation of
                                  Pareto distribution with an application
                                  in insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--401
                Yu-Jan Shen and   
               Kuan-Fu Shen and   
                  Ming-Chih Lee   Mixed GARCH-jump models with generalized
                                  error distribution for assets returns    403--416
               J. I. Odiase and   
                S. M. Ogbonmwan   Exact permutation paradigm in
                                  multisample experiments  . . . . . . . . 417--434
             Ateq A. Al-Ghamedi   A robust estimation of spline function   435--440
                   Jang Sik Cho   Multiple comparisons for Freund's
                                  bivariate exponential populations based
                                  on fractional Bayes factor . . . . . . . 441--449
                 I. D. Essi and   
                J. O. Iyaniwura   On robustness and choosing between two
                                  nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--462


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 8, Number 1, February, 2008

            K. Aneesh Kumar and   
                   M. Manoharan   Modelling seed germination --- an
                                  application of phase type distribution   1--18
                E. Di Nardo and   
                 G. Guarino and   
                      D. Senato   A Maple algorithm for polykays and
                                  multivariate polykays  . . . . . . . . . 19--36
              Seemon Thomas and   
           Alex Thannippara and   
                   A. M. Mathai   On a matrix-variate generalized Type-2
                                  Dirichlet density  . . . . . . . . . . . 37--56
                     Y. S. Yang   Evaluation of Johnson's system for
                                  transforming non-normal data . . . . . . 57--71
                Key-Il Shin and   
               Sang Eun Lee and   
               Yonghee Kim-Park   A note on small area estimations for
                                  rare event data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--88
                G. Kourlaba and   
            D. Panagiotakos and   
                   V. Stavrinos   The diagnostic accuracy of composite
                                  indices is associated with the number of
                                  partitions of their components: a
                                  simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
               Jang Sik Cho and   
             Chang Wan Kang and   
                 Seung Bae Choi   Bayesian testing for independence in
                                  Marshall and Olkin's bivariate
                                  exponential model  . . . . . . . . . . . 101--107
      Vyacheslav M. Abramov and   
               Fima C. Klebaner   Prediction of missing observations by a
                                  control method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--129
              B. Re. Victorbabu   On modified second order slope rotatable
                                  designs using incomplete block designs
                                  with unequal block sizes . . . . . . . . 131--151

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 8, Number 2, April, 2008

           Ingrid Kreuzmair and   
               Helge Toutenburg   Sensitivity of the restricted least
                                  squares estimator under misspecified
                                  restrictions and multicollinearity . . . 153--175
               Fawaz S. Al-Anzi   Modeling Arabic language diacritized
                                  names Markovian chains . . . . . . . . . 177--192
                 Mekki Hajlaoui   On multivariate economical quality
                                  control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--207
             Sadao Tomizawa and   
            Nobuko Miyamoto and   
                 Masaya Sakurai   Decomposition of independence model and
                                  separability of its test statistic for
                                  two-way contingency tables with ordered
                                  categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--218
           Mohamed Bentarzi and   
                    Fay?? Hamdi   Mixture periodic autoregression with
                                  periodic ARCH errors . . . . . . . . . . 219--246
     Alexandros A. Zimbidis and   
        Athanasios A. Pantelous   Dynamic hedging of the mortality risk
                                  via a continuous control strategy of the
                                  portfolio of investments of a pension
                                  fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--289
             Zhiqiang Zhang and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
                   Jingyan Feng   Stationarity of squares sequences from $
                                  {\rm ARCH}(1) $  . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--296


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 9, Number 1, June, 2008

               Kouji Tahata and   
             Ryota Tomisato and   
                 Sadao Tomizawa   An improved approximate unbiased
                                  estimator of log-odds ratio for $ 2
                                  \times 2 $ contingency tables  . . . . . 1--12
       Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and   
Emilia I. de la Fuente-Solana and   
Luis Manuel Lozano-Fernández   Bayesian inference for binomial
                                  populations. Bayesian estimation for
                                  child depression prevalence  . . . . . . 13--35
          Rabindra Nath Das and   
                   Sung H. Park   On $D$-optimal robust first order
                                  designs with tri-diagonal errors . . . . 37--51
                   Felix Famoye   Bivariate generalized Poisson regression
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--69
         Alexandros A. Zimbidis   Optimal management of the safety loading
                                  and the exposure to proportional
                                  reinsurance coverage of an ordinary
                                  insurance system using a diffusion
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--100
               Randall J. Swift   A birth-death process with deterministic
                                  mean population  . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--108
          D. K. Shangodoyin and   
                P. M. Kgosi and   
                    K. Setlhare   A comparison of distribution test
                                  statistics for detecting outliers in
                                  dataset  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--125
               Yuh-Ing Chen and   
                  Kuang-Lu Wang   Simultaneous nonparametric confidence
                                  regions for comparing successive
                                  treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139
                  George Stoica   A counterexample concerning a series of
                                  T. L. Lai  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--144
         Rohan J. Dalpatadu and   
                 Ashok K. Singh   A numerical method for computing the
                                  probability distribution of a finite sum
                                  of independent nonnegative random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 9, Number 2, August, 2008

                Thierry Ane and   
                Guillaume Fabre   Local dependence functions for North and
                                  South American stock index returns . . . 153--176
             Halina Frydman and   
                     Gary Simon   Discrete quantile estimation . . . . . . 177--203
          John E. Goulionis and   
           Dimitrios I. Stengos   The partially observable Markov decision
                                  processes framework in medical decision
                                  making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--232
                  Jiantian Wang   On beta-family distributions . . . . . . 233--246
                       Wei Ning   Detecting an unconditionally
                                  identifiable pattern in two-way ANOVA    247--260
                 Rosa Arboretti   A permutation approach for multivariate
                                  repeated measures with application to a
                                  complex randomized clinical trial  . . . 261--282
               Wen-Xin Wang and   
                    Yan-Peng Ma   Stochastic comparisons of excess
                                  lifetimes of renewal processes based
                                  upon generalized stochastic orderings    283--292
                    Wei Liu and   
               Wan-Kai Pang and   
             Ping-Kei Leung and   
                  Shui-Hung Hou   A note on the comparison of several
                                  linear regression models . . . . . . . . 293--301


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 10, Number 1, October, 2008

                George Tzavelas   Some new results concerning the
                                  efficiency of the method of moments
                                  estimators for the location parameter
                                  case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                    Yonghwan Um   A new multivariate measure of
                                  association for nominal independent
                                  variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
              Mariana Craiu and   
                  Radu V. Craiu   Choice of parametric families of copulas 25--40
                  Jiafu Ren and   
              Zongfang Zhou and   
                       Lin Chen   On dynamic combined credit evaluation
                                  and error estimation to the ETF's
                                  service agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--53
                 Kent Riggs and   
              Dean M. Young and   
                James D. Stamey   Statistical inference for a bivariate
                                  Poisson regression model . . . . . . . . 55--73
             J. H. Sepanski and   
                    Lingji Kong   A family of generalized beta
                                  distributions for income . . . . . . . . 75--84
                  John J. Hsieh   Exact distributions of the empirical
                                  generalized survival and distribution
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--109
             Paolo C. Cozzucoli   On the genuine replicate design for
                                  statistical calibration  . . . . . . . . 111--130
             Ezz H. Abdelfattah   A parametric estimation of Weibull
                                  density  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--147
                   Yang Shi and   
             Zhiqiang Zhang and   
                   Riquan Zhang   On almost sure limit theorem and strong
                                  law of large numbers for squares
                                  sequence from ARCH(1)  . . . . . . . . . 149--154

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 10, Number 2, December, 2008

                   Jorge Garcia   Convergence of stochastic integrals and
                                  SDE's associated to approximations of
                                  the Gaussian white noise . . . . . . . . 155--177
           David D. Hanagal and   
           Kambiz Ahmadi Angali   Bayesian estimation of parameters in
                                  some bivariate exponential models  . . . 179--193
                A. K. Gupta and   
                     D. G. Kabe   On the distribution of the
                                  magnitude-squared coherence estimator    195--200
                M. Khodabakhshi   Using feasible directions to prove the
                                  existence of strong efficient unit in
                                  data envelopment analysis  . . . . . . . 201--206
         Jennifer L. Asimit and   
              W. John Braun and   
             William A. Simpson   On a threshold model for estimating
                                  response bias and its application to
                                  choice reaction time data  . . . . . . . 207--218
               O. I. Shittu and   
              T. A. Oyeniyi and   
                  T. O. Olatayo   The seasonality of birth in urban
                                  southwestern Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . 219--235
                  Junfeng Shang   A note on the relationship between
                                  influential observations and model
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246
                 K. Thiagarajah   Fuzzy estimation of the parameters in
                                  location-scale models  . . . . . . . . . 247--258
                     Isao Shoji   A simple numerical method of checking
                                  normality in statistical models  . . . . 259--275
                   Afaf M. Mady   A Bayesian approach for an exponential
                                  parameter with delayed observations  . . 277--284
                   Jang Sik Cho   Bayesian testing in Marshall and Olkin's
                                  bivariate exponential model with
                                  bivariate random censored data . . . . . 285--293
             Q. D. Katatbeh and   
               M. T. Alodat and   
                  K. M. Aludaat   Up-crossings rate by the product of two
                                  Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . 295--301


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 11, Number 1, February, 2009

          Sumith Gunasekera and   
           Malwane M. A. Ananda   Unbalanced two-way ANOVA additive model
                                  under heteroscedasticity using
                                  generalized $p$-values . . . . . . . . . 1--13
          Tasos C. Christofides   Randomized response without a
                                  randomization device . . . . . . . . . . 15--28
Mohammad Ahmad Ali Al-Saleh and   
      Suhaila Humoud Al-Farhoud   Multivariate model for bankruptcy
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--45
               Xiaoqian Sun and   
                   Zhuoqiong He   An efficient simulation algorithm for
                                  Bayesian spatial analysis via the
                                  generalized ratio-of-uniforms method . . 47--63
              Merlin Guy Nkodia   Amortization possibilities in the
                                  explosive evolution of poverty in
                                  Congo--Brazzaville: an econometrical
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--85
Amelia V. García Luengo and   
   Inmaculada Oña Casado   A note on sampling over two occasions
                                  for the estimation of current population
                                  product  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--99
      M. L. Menéndez and   
                   L. Pardo and   
                    K. Zografos   Preliminary test and Stein-type
                                  estimation of location parameter for
                                  elliptically contoured distributions . . 101--136

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 11, Number 2, April, 2009

                Nadia Oukid and   
                   Amar Aissani   Bounds on busy period for queues with
                                  breakdowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--156
       Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and   
      Sergi Valera Pertegas and   
         Daniel Carro Lemos and   
Emilia Inmaculada De La Fuente Solana   Bayesian structural equation models:
                                  analysis of two alternative models about
                                  safety perception  . . . . . . . . . . . 157--172
            Sumihiro Suzuki and   
               Michael I. Baron   $ \epsilon $-Bayes sequential plan . . . 173--183
               K. Farahmand and   
                          T. Li   Single retrial queues with loss of
                                  customers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197
          Guglielmo D'Amico and   
          Giuseppe Di Biase and   
            Jacques Janssen and   
                 Raimondo Manca   Patient's age depending HIV/AIDS
                                  evolution analysis by means of a
                                  non-homogeneous semi-Markov model  . . . 199--215
            Chang-Hung Hung and   
                Jung-Chi Su and   
                 Wen-Tzung Chen   Obesity prevalence and an evaluation
                                  model for weight control performance . . 217--228
                  S. Darwis and   
                  N. Sunusi and   
              A. Y. Gunawan and   
               I. W. Mangku and   
                S. Wahyuningsih   Single decrement approach for estimating
                                  earthquake hazard rate . . . . . . . . . 229--237
             Seung-Hwan Lee and   
                    Eun-Joo Lee   Confidence interval of survival function
                                  for extreme value distribution with
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--253
             Takahiro Nishiyama   On the multiple comparisons among the
                                  components of the mean vector in
                                  repeated measure design  . . . . . . . . 255--272


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 12, Number 1, June, 2009

             Changyong Feng and   
               Carlo Ercoli and   
                   Hongyue Wang   A simple nonparametric approach of
                                  survival data with two-stage outcomes of
                                  different scales . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
               Nader Fallah and   
   Mohammad Reza Eshraghian and   
             Kazem Mohammad and   
       Keramat Nourijelyani and   
              Reza Hamidian and   
                   Mahdi Najafi   Does magnesium affect the risk of atrial
                                  fibrillation? An approach using
                                  generalized additive logistic regression 11--23
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos and   
                   Urania Dafni   Evaluation of stopping rules for
                                  stochastic curtailment . . . . . . . . . 25--36
              Maria Grazia Zoia   A unified representation theorem on new
                                  algebraic bases, for (co)integrated
                                  processes up to the second order . . . . 37--66
                 Jing Zhang and   
                Chong Z. He and   
              David R. Mehr and   
                 Robin L. Kruse   Analyzing pressure ulcer development in
                                  36 nursing homes using Bayesian
                                  hierarchical modeling  . . . . . . . . . 67--84
                R. Lombardo and   
               G. Tessitore and   
      J. L. A. van Rijckevorsel   Adaptive non-linear principal component
                                  and surface analysis . . . . . . . . . . 85--98
Célestin C. Kokonendji and   
Tristan Senga Kiessé and   
  Clarice G. B. Demétrio   Appropriate kernel regression on a count
                                  explanatory variable and applications    99--125
                M. S. Aminzadeh   Bayes estimation of $K$-variable
                                  reliability for multiple exponential
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 12, Number 2, August, 2009

                   Zhenmin Chen   A note on analyzing data with undetected
                                  observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--144
            Nairanjana Dasgupta   $D$- and $A$-optimal allocations in a
                                  multipoint grouped logit designed
                                  experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--162
            Hsin-Neng Hsieh and   
               Hsiu-Yuan Su and   
                      Xuewen Lu   A generalized inference on assessment of
                                  similarity between dissolution profiles  163--190
               W. J. Hurley and   
              Jack Brimberg and   
                    D. L. James   Testing the difference in population
                                  means for a Bernoulli-exponential
                                  mixture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--198
                Anthony Cossari   A note on the efficiency of Taguchi
                                  signal-to-noise ratio  . . . . . . . . . 199--206
                Eric Hervet and   
         Mustapha Kardouchi and   
               Thu Pham-Gia and   
           Francis Niyomwungere   Eye recognition using a statistical
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221
  José Igor Morlanes and   
               Antti Rasila and   
                 Tommi Sottinen   Empirical evidence on arbitrage by
                                  changing the stock exchange  . . . . . . 223--233
               Gianni Betti and   
                    Vijay Verma   Fuzzy measures of the incidence of
                                  relative poverty and deprivation: a
                                  longitudinal and comparative perspective 235--273


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 13, Number 1, October, 2009

                Mehdi Kiani and   
             John Panaretos and   
               Stelios Psarakis   Extensions to the strategy of the
                                  steepest ascent for response surface
                                  methodology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
                   Yue-Xian Lin   A rocket discarding algorithm for the
                                  valuation of Asian reset options . . . . 19--39
                     Sun-Ah Han   Recommendation of child education
                                  contents in the mobile Internet  . . . . 41--48
        Salvatore Ingrassia and   
               Isabella Morlini   Computational studies with equivalent
                                  degrees of freedoms in neural networks   49--81
                 K. Thiagarajah   Forecasts of volatility models: fuzzy
                                  estimation approach  . . . . . . . . . . 83--94
           Bruce Chaderjian and   
    Morteza Ebneshahrashoob and   
                     Tangan Gao   A numerical algorithm for distributions
                                  of soonest waiting time problems in
                                  Markov dependent trials  . . . . . . . . 95--109
                   May Barghout   An exponentiated Weibull software
                                  reliability model  . . . . . . . . . . . 111--130

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 13, Number 2, December, 2009

    Aránzazu De Juan and   
           Antonio S. M. Arroyo   An inverted beta approximation to a MPI
                                  unit root test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--164
             Dobrin Marchev and   
                James P. Hobert   Exact sampling from the Student's $t$
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--179
              Wai Kong Yuen and   
                 Mei Ling Huang   A weighted bivariate density estimation
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--191
            Joy Chioma Nwabueze   Pattern of exchange rate movement of
                                  seven underdeveloped countries . . . . . 193--204
              Luis A. Gil-Alana   Testing of $ I(d) $ statistical models
                                  with non-parametric disturbances . . . . 205--223
              Kuldeep Kumar and   
       Gulasekaran Rajaguru and   
              Samir Shrivastava   Modelling the glitter in gold  . . . . . 225--239
           Md. Enamul Kabir and   
                 Shahjahan Khan   Estimation of univariate normal mean
                                  using $p$-value  . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 14, Number 1, January, 2010

     Francisco Louzada-Neto and   
                  Juliana Cobre   A multiple time scale survival model . . 1--16
                Yan D. Zhao and   
              Dewi Rahardja and   
                   Xian-Jin Xie   Particle filter for target tracking and
                                  applications to bearing-angle problems   17--30
                   May Barghout   A non-parametric NHPP software
                                  reliability model  . . . . . . . . . . . 31--47
                Manlika Tanusit   A comparative study of parameter
                                  inference methods for Poisson
                                  distribution: small sample sizes . . . . 49--55
               Xian-Jin Xie and   
                     Aihua Bian   A SAS package for evaluating logistic
                                  and proportional odds model fit  . . . . 57--64
                Bao-Cai Guo and   
                    Li-Rong Sun   The effect of the allocation of sampling
                                  resources to the efficiency of $
                                  \overline x $ control chart  . . . . . . 65--76
      Piergiorgio Argentero and   
           Paola Cerchiello and   
                  Paolo Giudici   Models for questionnaires data in injury
                                  risk management  . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--100

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 14, Number 2, February, 2010

          Roland C. Deutsch and   
              John M. Grego and   
               Brian Habing and   
            Walter W. Piegorsch   Maximum likelihood estimation with
                                  binary-data regression models:
                                  small-sample and large-sample features   101--116
              Fernando A. Moala   Bayesian analysis for the Weibull
                                  parameters by using noninformative prior
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--143
            Ayten Yi\ugiter and   
                  Ceyhan \.Inal   Test for a change point in Poisson
                                  process with applications to the British
                                  coal mining disasters and the air
                                  traffic flow data set  . . . . . . . . . 145--155
           Faisal G. Khamis and   
             Muna F. Hanoon and   
                 Saad G. Yaseen   On a study of the relationship between
                                  education and mortality using fully and
                                  partially latent models  . . . . . . . . 157--172
                  Junfeng Shang   The bootstrap-based selection criteria:
                                  an optimal choice for model selection in
                                  linear regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 173--189
             G. C. G. Abreu and   
                A. Pinheiro and   
             R. D. Drummond and   
              S. R. Camargo and   
                     M. Menossi   Some statistical properties of gene
                                  expression clustering for array data . . 191--204


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 2010

Carlos Aparecido Dos Santos and   
           Jorge Alberto Achcar   A Bayesian analysis for bivariate
                                  Weibull distributions derived from
                                  copula functions in the presence of
                                  covariates and censored data . . . . . . 1--25
           Montip Tiensuwan and   
           Sukuman Sarikavanich   Applications of Box--Jenkins models to
                                  rainfall data of Chiang Mai province in
                                  Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--48
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                 Benzion Boukai   A simultaneous determination of the
                                  optimal sample size and sampling
                                  allocations from a stratified finite
                                  population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59
           Sri Wahyuningsih and   
           Sutawanir Darwis and   
          Agus Yodi Gunawan and   
            Asep Kurnia Permadi   Time varying autoregressions for
                                  hyperbolic decline curve . . . . . . . . 61--70
Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz and   
   Lia Hanna Martins Morita and   
         Francisco Louzada-Neto   Heteroscedastic von Bertalanffy growth
                                  model and an application to a Kubbard
                                  female chicken corporeal weight growth
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81
        Ibrahim B. Abdul-Moniem   $ T L $-moments and $L$-moments
                                  estimation for the Weibull distribution  83--99

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 15, Number 2, April, 2010

             C. C. Y. Dorea and   
          D. S. B. Martins Neto   Convergence of non-homogeneous versions
                                  of the MCEM and StEM algorithms  . . . . 101--113
               Mina Towhidi and   
       Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad   An optimal method of estimation in
                                  rotation sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . 115--136
               Marie M. Mahmoud   Statistical logistic model for fitting
                                  the relationship between students'
                                  grades and their gender  . . . . . . . . 137--155
                Youhei Kawasaki   Comparison of exact confidence intervals
                                  for the difference between two
                                  independent binomial proportions . . . . 157--170
               Shaojun Wang and   
              Xiaoping Yang and   
                   Peibiao Zhao   Management risk analysis of real estate
                                  companies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--180
                   G. Saidi and   
                     A. Aissani   Bounds on moment generating functions of
                                  HNBUE class and its variants . . . . . . 181--194
             Changyong Feng and   
                     Yan Ma and   
                  Xin M. Tu and   
                   Hongyue Wang   A note on the concordance correlation
                                  coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--205


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 16, Number 1, May, 2010

                  Mavis Pararai   Underreporting in generalized Poisson
                                  regression model with an application to
                                  demand for medical care data . . . . . . 1--15
               K. Farahmand and   
                  B. Mcguinness   Covariance of the number of real zeros
                                  of a random algebraic polynomial . . . . 17--24
               A. Intarasit and   
                 P. Sattayatham   A geometric Brownian motion model with
                                  compound Poisson process and fractional
                                  stochastic volatility  . . . . . . . . . 25--47
María Jesús Carrera-Fernández and   
    Guillem Feixas-Viaplana and   
           Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos   Effect of attenuation correction for the
                                  reduction of bias in psychological
                                  measurement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--64
    Aceng Komarudin Mutaqin and   
           Sutawanir Darwis and   
  Dumaria Rulina Tampubolon and   
      Rianto Ahmadi Djojosugito   Estimating mean and variance of sum of
                                  correlated random variables using
                                  empirical moments  . . . . . . . . . . . 65--81
             Mei Ling Huang and   
                        Ke Zhao   On estimation of the truncated Pareto
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--102

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 2010

            Massimo Pacella and   
                 Antonio Grieco   Production cost estimation by linear
                                  regression analysis: a case study of
                                  model selection in manufacturing . . . . 103--121
               Sang Eun Lee and   
                 C. J. Park and   
           Yonghee Kim-Park and   
                    Key-Il Shin   Stepwise estimation of cell
                                  probabilities in 2 by 2 independent
                                  contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 123--139
          Roshanak Alimohammadi   A different approach to quantify
                                  response variance in surveys . . . . . . 141--145
           Taichi Furukatsu and   
          Daisuke Shimamoto and   
               Hiroto Hyakutake   On comparison of univariate normal mean
                                  and elements of multivariate normal mean 147--161
                  John J. Hsieh   On the duality of the Poisson rate . . . 163--190
 Mohammed Ahmed Ali Alsaleh and   
       Ahmad Mohamad Al-Kandary   Forecasting exchange rate: a time series
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--199


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 17, Number 1, July, 2010

       Jorge Alberto Achcar and   
   Fernando Antônio Moala   Use of MCMC methods to obtain Bayesian
                                  inferences for the Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  distribution in the presence of censored
                                  data and covariates  . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
             Chi-Chuan Yang and   
                Tsung-Shan Tsou   Likelihood inferences for correlated
                                  nominal data without knowing the
                                  intra-cluster correlations . . . . . . . 29--40
     Nuengruithai Sontimoon and   
           Montip Tiensuwan and   
             Simona Panunzi and   
        Wutthi Sumetchotimaytha   Estimating recurrent time using
                                  nonlinear mixed effects model in
                                  patients with colorectal cancer  . . . . 41--60
                  John J. Hsieh   Asymptotic normal statistics for Poisson
                                  and compound Poisson distributions . . . 61--77
         Mohamed M. Aboubecrine   On prediction of future $k$-record
                                  values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--93
       H. F. Coronel-Brizio and   
               A. I. Shawky and   
              R. A. Bakoban and   
 A. R. Hernández-Montoya   EDF tests for the exponentiated gamma
                                  distribution under type II censoring . . 95--104

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 17, Number 2, August, 2010

             Amr I. A. Elatraby   Factors affecting the survival and
                                  solvency of small industrial businesses
                                  in Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--126
Camila Pedrozo Rodrigues Furlan and   
Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz and   
Maria Aparecida de Paiva Franco   Estimation of lag length in distributed
                                  lag models: a comparative study  . . . . 127--142
             Kouji Yamamoto and   
            Nobuko Miyamoto and   
                 Sadao Tomizawa   Harmonic, geometric and arithmetic means
                                  type uncertainty measures for two-way
                                  contingency tables with nominal
                                  categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--159
M. D. Jiménez-Gamero and   
    M. V. Alba-Fernández   On the use of the Kullback--Leibler
                                  distance for the two-sample problem with
                                  mixed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--173
                   Wei Yang and   
               Fares Qeadan and   
                Daniel Cook and   
              Julie Smith-Gagen   Heterogeneity of odds ratios over time
                                  in cross-sectional trend studies: an
                                  overweight-obesity example from a
                                  nationwide population-based study  . . . 175--190
             Amr I. Abdelrahman   Applying logistic regression model to
                                  the second primary cancer data . . . . . 191--210


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 18, Number 1, September, 2010

M. C. Juan Antonio González Mata and   
M. C. Ramón Luévanos Rojas and   
M. C. Cesar Uranga Sifuentes and   
  Arnulfo Luévanos Rojas   Forecasting of human migration flow in
                                  the Comarca Lagunera through the
                                  application of Markov processes  . . . . 1--26
          Ashok Shanubhogue and   
                     N. R. Jain   Minimum variance unbiased estimation in
                                  exponential distribution using
                                  progressively type II censored data with
                                  binomial removals  . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
              Silvia Figini and   
                  Paolo Giudici   Statistical models for customer lifetime
                                  value  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--55
                      Jan Vrbik   Moments of $ {\rm AR}(2) $-model
                                  parameter estimators . . . . . . . . . . 57--72
                        Wei Liu   A Bayesian approach to nonlinear
                                  mixed-effects models with measurement
                                  errors and missingness in covariates . . 73--87
Eduardo Gutiérrez González and   
   Olga Vladimirovna Panteleeva   Control charts for generalized log-gamma
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--107

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 18, Number 2, October, 2010

        M. E. Ferrão and   
                   P. Costa and   
                  J. M. R. Gama   Distribution-free item response model
                                  based on marginal maximum likelihood
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--126
              Merlin Guy Nkodia   Impact of the labour supply on an
                                  economic system: an econometrical
                                  approach on Congolese data . . . . . . . 127--160
           Sutawanir Darwis and   
          Agus Yodi Gunawan and   
           Sri Wahyuningsih and   
             Nurtiti Sunusi and   
    Aceng Komarudin Mutaqin and   
                 Nina Fitriyati   Use of ensemble Kalman filter for
                                  bounded reservoir  . . . . . . . . . . . 161--173
           K. Harishchandra and   
               K. M. Manjunatha   Maximum likelihood and Bayesian
                                  estimation in a software reliability
                                  model with exponential fault correction
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--188
                G. Ayyappan and   
                Gopal Sekar and   
 A. Muthu Ganapathi Subramanian   M/M/1 retrial queueing system with
                                  variable service rates under Erlang
                                  $k$-type services  . . . . . . . . . . . 189--208


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 19, Number 1, November, 2010

                Weihua Zhou and   
                       Jin Wang   A simulation study for some
                                  graphic-based multivariate two sample
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
Gülesen Üstünda\ug \cSiray and   
         Sadullah Sakallio\uglu   Inadmissibility of the Liu estimator to
                                  the ordinary least squares estimator . . 21--32
           Norton G. de Almeida   A possible implication of the coherent
                                  access hypothesis  . . . . . . . . . . . 33--38
                   Pejmon Sadri   A simple method for assessing bivariate
                                  normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--48
              Badih Ghattas and   
                  Claude Deniau   Multivariate unsupervised discretization
                                  preserving mutual information  . . . . . 49--64
             Omar M. Eidous and   
          Abedel-Qader Al-Masri   Fourth-order kernel method using line
                                  transect sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 19, Number 2, December, 2010

          Asma Graja Elabed and   
                  Afif Masmoudi   Bayesian analysis of stochastic
                                  volatility models  . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
                 Hajlaoui Mekki   A graphical quality control procedure
                                  using data depth . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111
              Zhao-Guo Chen and   
                       Ka Ho Wu   Benchmarking using working error-models  113--148
                  Jiantian Wang   Characterization of distributions
                                  through hazard functions and reversed
                                  hazard functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--153


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 20, Number 1, January, 2011

            Jorge A. Achcar and   
      Henrique C. Zozolotto and   
        Eliane R. Rodrigues and   
    Paulo H. Nascimento Saldiva   Two multivariate stochastic volatility
                                  models applied to air pollution data
                                  from São Paulo, Brazil  . . . . . . . . . 1--23
               Arthur L. Dryver   Focusing on the lower scoring data in
                                  order to improve credit scoring model
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--41
                    Li Rong Sun   A new chart for defecting asymmetric
                                  loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--53
                   Nan Wang and   
            Chun-Xiao Zhang and   
                        You Gao   Research on symmetric engines parameters
                                  difference in aero-engine condition
                                  monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65
       Dhanuja Kasturiratna and   
             Truc T. Nguyen and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   Characterization of $k$-variate normal
                                  distribution with covariance structure,
                                  $ \sigma^2 \Sigma_0$ and EDF
                                  goodness-of-fit tests  . . . . . . . . . 67--88

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 20, Number 2, February, 2011

               K. Farahmand and   
                  Jianliang Gao   Exceedance measure of amplified and
                                  de-amplified classes of algebraic
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
                  Eid M. Al-Eid   An alternative method for optimizing
                                  response in general linear models  . . . 101--108
Arnulfo Luévanos Rojas and   
Facundo Cortés Martinez and   
     Cesar Uranga Sifuentes and   
Ramon Luévanos Rojas and   
Ma Enriqueta Luévanos Soto   Vibrations in systems of pipes with
                                  different movements in the supports,
                                  considering the deformations by sharp    109--132
                  Johan Fellman   Discontinuous transfer policies with a
                                  given Lorenz curve . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
                     Baocai Guo   Variable sample size $ \overline X $
                                  charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151
              Narges Abbasi and   
             Amrolah Jafari and   
                  Iman Makhodom   Effect of parameters of skew
                                  normal-normal model on asymptotic
                                  distribution of sample variance  . . . . 153--157
           Vasileios Pappas and   
      Konstantinos Adamidis and   
                Sotirios Loukas   A three-parameter lifetime distribution  159--167


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 21, Number 1, March, 2011

                    Yan Bai and   
          Gareth O. Roberts and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   On the containment condition for
                                  adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--54
          Adriano K. Suzuki and   
          Francisco Louzada and   
          Vicente G. Cancho and   
           Gladys D. C. Barriga   The FGM bivariate lifetime copula model:
                                  a Bayesian approach  . . . . . . . . . . 55--76
                Gabriela Beganu   Optimal estimable parametric functions
                                  in a multivariate mixed linear model . . 77--83

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 21, Number 2, April, 2011

                   Dieter Rasch   Determining the size of experiments for
                                  ANOVA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--104
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and   
             Hala Abou Sena and   
        Muhamed Wael Farouq and   
     Abdel Badeeh Mohamed Salem   Decision support system for the
                                  classification of breast cancer
                                  diagnosis using ROC  . . . . . . . . . . 105--124
              Carlo Grillenzoni   Adaptive methods for financial decisions 125--139
                      M. Li and   
                    M. Predescu   Parameter estimation in a model of the
                                  labor market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--158
              Soner Yi\vgit and   
            Mehmet Mende\cs and   
Hamìt Mìrtagìo\uglu   Type I error rates and test power for
                                  some outlier detecting tests . . . . . . 159--167


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 22, Number 1, May, 2011

     Mohammad Ahmad Alsaleh and   
   Ahmad Mohamad Al-Kandary and   
      Wafaa Abdullah Al-Kharief   A time series analysis of Kuwait stock
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                F. Carvalho and   
                   R. Covas and   
                    J. T. Mexia   Manipulating light-models built through
                                  covering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24
        Cristiane Rodrigues and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
Clarice G. B. Demétrio and   
             Edwin M. M. Ortega   The Weibull negative binomial
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--55
         Samer A. Kharroubi and   
                   Alan Brennan   A novel formulation for approximation
                                  Bayesian computation based on signed
                                  roots of log-density ratios  . . . . . . 57--76

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 22, Number 2, June, 2011

             Mahdi Teimouri and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   On a bivariate Weibull distribution  . . 77--106
        Estela M. P. Bereta and   
          Francisco Louzada and   
             Maria A. P. Franco   The Poisson--Weibull distribution  . . . 107--118
            Fathali Firoozi and   
                Donald Lien and   
              Saeid Mahdavi and   
               Lynda De La Vina   A linear model test of sufficiency for
                                  non-orthogonality of matrices  . . . . . 119--127
        Marcel De T. Vieira and   
          Ronaldo R. Bastos and   
           Augusto C. Souza and   
            Henrique S. Hippert   On the use of exploratory and
                                  confirmatory longitudinal data analysis
                                  techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--156


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 23, Number 1, July, 2011

            Sumaia A. Latif and   
              Pedro A. Morettin   Nonparametric estimation of Sibuya's
                                  measure of local dependence for time
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
                  Maie M. Kamel   Use of Pareto charts and principle
                                  component analysis to determine the main
                                  reasons for train accidents in Egypt . . 29--41
          Almutairi Alya O. and   
           Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah   Saddlepoint approximation for two sample
                                  linear rank tests  . . . . . . . . . . . 43--52
                       Yong Mun   Issues of controlling family-wise type-I
                                  error rate (FWER) when simultaneously
                                  evaluating non-inferiority and
                                  superiority using sequence testing
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--57
      Vinicius F. Calsavara and   
       Vera L. D. Tomazella and   
            José C. Fogo   Family generalized modified Weibull for
                                  analyzing long-term survival data  . . . 59--76

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 23, Number 2, August, 2011

             P. G. Lovaglio and   
                S. Verzillo and   
                M. Mezzanzanica   Estimation of educational returns using
                                  university and labour market
                                  administrative archives  . . . . . . . . 77--105
                Mostefa El Bahi   Asymptotic normality of the
                                  nonparametric conditional quantile under
                                  censorship for dependent functional data 107--134
      Medhat M. A. Abdelaal and   
               Essam Fawzy Aziz   Using data mining to evaluate the
                                  foreign investment efficiency in Egypt   135--152


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 24, Number 1, September, 2011

              George Stoica and   
             Michael T. Bradley   A priori action-decision models:
                                  technical results  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
                  Kazumasa Oida   Enhanced variance-based suspended stream
                                  detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--33
     Nazif Çal\i \cs and   
Ayça Hatice Türkan and   
         Murat Eri\cso\uglu and   
Ülkü Eri\cso\uglu and   
                     Hamza Erol   EM algorithm for the mixtures of the
                                  Marshall--Olkin bivariate Weibull
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--48
                 N. Josephy and   
                M. Predescu and   
                    S. Woolford   Parameter estimation in a system of
                                  stochastic difference equations  . . . . 49--66
Maribel Peró-Cebollero and   
Juan Delgado Sánchez-Mateos and   
           Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos   Comparison of confidence intervals based
                                  on the median as a robust alternative to
                                  the classic hypotheses test  . . . . . . 67--82

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 24, Number 2, October, 2011

       Tarald O. Kvålseth   The lambda distribution and its
                                  applications to categorical summary
                                  measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--106
            Valentina Sinaj and   
                   Arjan Tushaj   Analysis problems and creating forecast
                                  models for CPI in Albania  . . . . . . . 107--128
                      Jan Vrbik   Edgeworth approximation of confidence
                                  regions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
             Sangeeta Arora and   
         Kalpana K. Mahajan and   
                   Pooja Bansal   Absolute partial mean curve: a new curve
                                  of inequality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--156
       H. F. Coronel-Brizio and   
A. R. Hernández-Montoya and   
  M. E. Rodríguez-Achach   A correlation test for bivariate
                                  normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--162


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 25, Number 1, November, 2011

                   Jaya Bishwal   Financial extremes: a short review . . . 1--14
          Chang C. Y. Dorea and   
            Jaques S. Lopes and   
                  Ary V. Medino   AIC, BIC and EDC criteria for higher
                                  order Markov chain with denumerable
                                  state space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--29
              I. C. Kipchirchir   On ultimate extinction probabilities and
                                  mean behaviour of spatial patterns . . . 31--45
          Suparat Niwitpong and   
          Sanoe Koonprasert and   
               Sa-aat Niwitpong   Confidence intervals for the ratio of
                                  normal means with a known coefficient of
                                  variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--61
                     Sun Ah Han   Difference of father's role playing,
                                  home environment stimulation, and
                                  child's self-regulation between
                                  father-children family and normal family 63--71
                    Jiexiang Li   Estimation of the parameters of Weibull
                                  distribution when samples are doubly
                                  censored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 25, Number 2, December, 2011

Natalia Jaría-Chacón and   
      Pilar Aparicio-Chueca and   
Xavier M. Triadó-Ivern and   
           Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos   A study of public spending on higher
                                  education institutions in Europe in the
                                  framework of the Bologna process using
                                  statistical fitting with spatial
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--102
                  George Stoica   A self-normalized weak law of large
                                  numbers for exchangeable sequences . . . 103--108
              T. O. Olatayo and   
              A. I. Oredein and   
                A. A. Akomolafe   Residual bootstrap method: an approach
                                  to model validation  . . . . . . . . . . 109--113
              Jelloul Allal and   
             Mohammed Benmoumen   Parameter estimation for $ {\rm
                                  GARCH}(1, 1) $ models based on Kalman
                                  filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--130
Arnulfo Luévanos Rojas and   
   Alberto Diosdado Salazar and   
Facundo Cortés Martinez and   
Ramón Luévanos Rojas and   
 Armando Cesar Uranga Sifuentes   Study of two models for a continuous
                                  beam reinforced concrete for three
                                  different sections . . . . . . . . . . . 131--151
             Landolsi Monia and   
          Ben Rejeb Jaleleddine   ARIMA forecasting of energy consumption
                                  in Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--164


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 2012

El-Houssainy Abd Elbar Rady and   
           Ahmed H. Youssef and   
       Tareq Abdul-Aziz Al-Doub   A Monte Carlo simulation study for (GLS)
                                  and (GMM) estimation . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
               Werner Hurlimann   On the CVaR measure of skew-symmetric
                                  families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--39
       Amany Hassan Abdel-Karim   Confidence interval estimation for the
                                  ratio of means of two independent
                                  lognormal distributions with
                                  applications to health economics . . . . 41--62
         I. B. Abdul-Moniem and   
         H. F. Abdel-Hameed and   
                 Y. M. Abo Essa   Estimation in linear exponential
                                  distribution using different methods . . 63--77

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 26, Number 2, February, 2012

              Thelma Safadi and   
              Pedro A. Morettin   A wavelet analysis to compare
                                  environmental time series  . . . . . . . 79--96
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and   
Hisham Abdel-Tawab Mahran Morsy   A study of the effect of worldwide
                                  governance and corruption indicators on
                                  the human development index using
                                  spatial regression analysis  . . . . . . 97--112
                   U. Verma and   
               H. P. Piepho and   
            M. H. Kalubarme and   
                       M. Goyal   Development of agrometeorological and
                                  spectral wheat yield models using
                                  various statistical procedures in
                                  Haryana State (India)  . . . . . . . . . 113--136
              Sumith Gunasekera   Generalized inferences for the common
                                  shape parameter of several Pareto
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--152


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 27, Number 1, March, 2012

                    Jiexiang Li   Estimation of parameters of Rayleigh
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
          Howraa Al-Mousawi and   
          Hassan Elsalloukh and   
          Jose H. Guardiola and   
                Thomas McMillan   The multivariate epsilon-skew Laplace
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--26
       Anderson C. O. Motta and   
                  Luiz K. Hotta   Influence in stochastic volatility
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--45
           Charles K. Mutai and   
            Joseph K. Koske and   
                 John M. Mutiso   Construction of a four dimensional third
                                  order rotatable design through balanced
                                  incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 47--53
         Shatha A. Alahmadi and   
           Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah   Saddlepoint approximations for linear
                                  combination and generalization of
                                  normal-Laplace distribution  . . . . . . 55--64
                   Hua Ding and   
                  Xuewen Lu and   
                    Lingxue Pan   A statistical study on the factors
                                  influencing CSR disclosure of listed
                                  companies in China . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 27, Number 2, April, 2012

             Changyong Feng and   
               Hongyue Wang and   
                      Xin M. Tu   A unified definition of conditional
                                  expectation and its applications in
                                  survival analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
           Justin R. Chimka and   
                       Jia Zhou   Error probabilities for
                                  gamma-distributed individual
                                  measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108
           Ashok Sanubhogue and   
                   A. K. Jiheel   Bayes pre-test estimation of mean of
                                  exponential distribution under
                                  asymmetric loss function using
                                  progressive type II censored sample  . . 109--130
            Arunendu Chatterjee   Detection of change points: a survey of
                                  methodologies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--165


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 28, Number 1, May, 2012

                   U. Verma and   
               H. P. Piepho and   
                J. O. Ogutu and   
            M. H. Kalubarme and   
                       M. Goyal   Multi-level mixed modelling for
                                  weather--crop-yield relationships on
                                  agro-climatic zone basis in Haryana
                                  (Northern India) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
Patrícia Borchardt Santos and   
            Dione Maria Valenca   Accelerated failure time models with
                                  random effects to estimate operation
                                  time of oil wells  . . . . . . . . . . . 23--44
           Sutawanir Darwis and   
          Agus Yodi Gunawan and   
            Asep K. Permadi and   
                 Nina Fitriyati   Reserve estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
           Ahmed H. Youssef and   
     Nada Ali-Mohammed Muqaibal   Determinants of foreign direct
                                  investment inflows of Gulf Cooperation
                                  Council: panel gravity model approach    55--75

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 28, Number 2, June, 2012

          Matthew A. Turner and   
       Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and   
                  Jian Chen and   
                    Chunyan Hao   Adaptation to climate change: evidence
                                  from 18th and 19th century Iceland . . . 77--108
                  Bayo H. Lawal   Measure of departure from symmetry model
                                  for square contingency tables  . . . . . 109--121
                Jangsik Cho and   
                    Yong S. Joe   Bayesian independent testing in a
                                  bivariate Weibull model  . . . . . . . . 123--131
                Seppo Laaksonen   A new visualization for uncertainty
                                  intervals with survey examples . . . . . 133--140
  Ali Akbar Rahimzadeh Sani and   
       Hamid Reza Mostafaei and   
              Mahdiyeh Ghohyeei   Difference between sample median and
                                  population median with odd sample sizes  141--147


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 29, Number 1, July, 2012

           Asanao Shimokawa and   
                  Etsuo Miyaoka   Application of genetic algorithm for
                                  classification of medical images . . . . 1--31
         Amr I. A. Elatraby and   
            Badrya M. M. Halaby   Technical efficiency and credit risk
                                  assessment for commercial banks under
                                  Basel II accord  . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--61
                Nader Alber and   
               Essam Fawzy Aziz   Forecasting of customers' retention in
                                  terms of merger and acquisition
                                  processes of Egyptian banks using panel
                                  data techniques  . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 29, Number 2, August, 2012

                   May Barghout   A new non-parametric non-homogeneous
                                  Poisson process software reliability
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--99
    Hossein Jabbari Khamnei and   
             Ali Abolhasani and   
               Parvin Fathipour   Reliability for six parameter
                                  generalized Burr-type XII distribution
                                  with transformation method . . . . . . . 101--110
       Anna Maria Altavilla and   
                   Angelo Mazza   On the analysis of immigrant settlement
                                  patterns using quadrat counts. The case
                                  of the city of Catania (Italy) . . . . . 111--123
                 Xiangke Li and   
                      Dejun Xie   A behavior finance approach for
                                  understanding prepayment propensity of
                                  mortgage loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--134
                  Marco Tolotti   A linear filtering approach for
                                  incomplete accounting information models 135--151


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 30, Number 1, September, 2012

                    S. Muzzioli   Put-call parity and options' forecasting
                                  power  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
                D. Grancher and   
                 A. Bar-Hen and   
                   R. Paris and   
                 F. Lavigne and   
                   D. Brunstein   Spatial interpolation of circular data:
                                  application to Tsunami of December 2004  19--29
                J. K. Koske and   
               J. M. Mutiso and   
                      I. K. Tum   Construction of a practical optimum
                                  second order rotatable design in three
                                  dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--43
           Brian P. Barthel and   
                Mezbahur Rahman   Comparing contingency table tests in
                                  logistic regression using bootstrap
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--75

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 30, Number 2, October, 2012

             M. Gerolimetto and   
                   C. Pizzi and   
                   I. Procidano   A procedure to detect hidden
                                  cointegration with the sieve bootstrap   77--92
                 Soufiane Gasmi   Statistical inference of an imperfect
                                  maintenance model  . . . . . . . . . . . 93--120
         Amr I. A. Elatraby and   
            Wahid A. M. Shehata   Using data envelopment analysis and
                                  discriminant analysis to evaluate the
                                  technical efficiency of private sector
                                  hospitals in Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133
                J. S. Sales and   
               N. G. de Almeida   The generalized $Q$ Mandel's parameter
                                  cannot reveal the nonclassicality of the
                                  squeezed coherent states . . . . . . . . 135--149
       H. F. Coronel-Brizio and   
A. R. Hernández-Montoya and   
  M. E. Rodríguez-Achach   A result on the asymptotic eigenvectors
                                  of covariance matrices of order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--155


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 31, Number 1, November, 2012

                  Atef Badr and   
         Aristides G. Karlaftis   Duration model estimation for pavement
                                  rehabilitation and service life  . . . . 1--19
       Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and   
     Esther Subir\`a-Lobera and   
José María Vilas-Aventín   A structural model to assess the factors
                                  that influence successful brand
                                  migration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--42
                       Xin Yang   The data-based choice of bandwidth for
                                  kernel quantile estimator of VaR . . . . 43--54
               Hend A. Auda and   
             Essam A. Ahmed and   
               Mahmoud M. Sadek   Re-sampling techniques in multilevel
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 55--76

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 31, Number 2, December, 2012

                  Willem Albers   \em MIXMAX charts  . . . . . . . . . . . 77--101
      H. Altan Çabuk and   
                  Fikri Akdeniz   An application of generalized maximum
                                  entropy and some biased estimation
                                  methods for the Almon distributed lag
                                  model: bootstrap efficiency  . . . . . . 103--124
       Claudio Giovanni Borroni   Extended proof of some results
                                  concerning the finite null distribution
                                  of a rank correlation measure  . . . . . 125--152


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 32, Number 1, January, 2013

Jose Mari Eguzkitza Arrizabalaga   A practical approach for estimating
                                  demand in periodicals with many
                                  retailers and infrequent stockouts . . . 1--13
 Félix Almendra-Arao and   
José Juan Castro-Alva and   
      Hortensia Reyes-Cervantes   Convergence of test sizes for the
                                  Blackwelder's non-inferiority test . . . 15--31
                      Jan Vrbik   Accurate confidence regions based on
                                  MLEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--56
         Amr I. A. Elatraby and   
         Dina H. Abdel-Hady and   
          Abeer R. Azazy Hassan   A proposed statistical model to study
                                  the factors affecting the recurrence of
                                  an individual's stroke by myocardial
                                  infarction occurrence with application
                                  in Ain Shams University hospitals  . . . 57--81

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 32, Number 2, February, 2013

             Adam L. Pintar and   
 Christine M. Anderson-Cook and   
                    Huaiqing Wu   Prediction-based model selection for
                                  Bayesian multiple regression models  . . 83--117
           Nasr Ibrahim Rashwan   A length-biased version of the
                                  generalized gamma distribution . . . . . 119--137
             Kouji Yamamoto and   
            Kazuho Masumura and   
                 Sadao Tomizawa   Generalized measures on marginal
                                  symmetry for nominal square contingency
                                  tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--149
             Nina Fitriyati and   
           Sutawanir Darwis and   
          Agus Yodi Gunawan and   
            Asep Kurnia Permadi   Exploring EnKF convergence for linear
                                  dynamical system . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--162


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 33, Number 1, March, 2013

             Mei Ling Huang and   
              Wai Kong Yuen and   
                     Miao Zhang   Efficient methods on confidence
                                  intervals for prediction intervals . . . 1--21
                S. Woolford and   
                     N. Josephy   A note on the asymptotic behavior of a
                                  nonlinear system of stochastic
                                  difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 23--35
             Ahmed F. Attia and   
             Essam A. Ahmed and   
            Eman A. El-Dessouky   Hybrid warranty cost models for
                                  repairable products based on
                                  log-logistic lifetime distribution . . . 37--53
           S. Udayabaskaran and   
                  R. Murthy and   
                   J. Viswanath   The problem of optimal harvesting in a
                                  stochastically branching population  . . 55--62
        Nairanjana Dasgupta and   
                Yibing Chen and   
        Ananth Kalyanaraman and   
                    Sayed Daoud   Comparison of clustering algorithms: an
                                  example with proteomic data  . . . . . . 63--81

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 33, Number 2, April, 2013

               Shimin Zheng and   
             Chunming Zhang and   
                   Jeff Knisley   Stochastic representations of the matrix
                                  variate skew elliptically contoured
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--98
                  G. Gaines and   
                   F. Ruymgaart   A theoretical note on the simulation of
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106
          Hiroyuki Kurakami and   
           Akihiro Fujimura and   
                 Sadao Tomizawa   Incomplete diagonals-parameter symmetry
                                  model for ordered square contingency
                                  tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--113
             Essam A. Ahmed and   
             Walid M. El-Badawy   Generalized methods of system
                                  reliability estimation based on
                                  estimated component reliability  . . . . 115--136
              Susanna Levantesi   Solvency capital requirements for
                                  longevity risk under different
                                  stochastic mortality models  . . . . . . 137--160


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 34, Number 1, May, 2013

                  Jiantian Wang   A note on the relationships between
                                  Spearman's $ \rho $ and Kendall's $ \tau
                                  $ under bivariate homogeneous shock
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
            Gabriel Kissita and   
       Léonard Niere and   
        Roger Armand Makany and   
               Dominique Mizere   Canonical correlation analysis between
                                  two vertical multi-block tables and
                                  applications to qualitative variables    11--38
                 Ghadban Khalaf   The helpful ridge regression estimator   39--48
      Robert J. Budzy\'nski and   
           Witold Kondracki and   
          Andrzej Królak   On the geometry of the parameter space
                                  reduction with application to
                                  gravitational wave data analysis . . . . 49--63
          Joanne Thandrayen and   
                       Yan Wang   A latent class approach with covariates
                                  and local dependence in
                                  capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . 65--84

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 34, Number 2, June, 2013

               Ali Alkenani and   
                      Keming Yu   Sparse MAVE with oracle penalties  . . . 85--105
    Manoel Wallace A. Ramos and   
    Pedro Rafael D. Marinho and   
        Ronaldo V. da Silva and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   The exponentiated Lomax Poisson
                                  distribution with an application to
                                  lifetime data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--135
                   Rong Wei and   
           Balgobin Nandram and   
                   Dilli Bhatta   A Bayesian analysis of US mortality
                                  curves for race-sex domains by small
                                  area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--165


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 35, Number 1, July, 2013

                  Masato Fujita   Estimation of navigation performance and
                                  offset by the EM algorithm and the
                                  variational Bayesian methods . . . . . . 1--27
             Junvie Pailden and   
                   Hanfeng Chen   Empirical likelihood ratio test for
                                  difference of the means of zero-inflated
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--55
               Brian W. Sloboda   Testing the neoclassical theories of
                                  labor demand: an application to the time
                                  series of the United States  . . . . . . 57--73

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 35, Number 2, August, 2013

              Bernard Colin and   
                   Ernest Monga   An empirical test of independence
                                  between random vectors . . . . . . . . . 75--110
                G. Ayyappan and   
                     K. Sathiya   Batch arrival queue with three stages of
                                  service having server vacations and
                                  service interruptions  . . . . . . . . . 111--126
             Ana Percontini and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
            Marcelo Bourguignon   The $G$-negative binomial family:
                                  general properties and applications  . . 127--160
                      Jan Vrbik   Errata and addendum to ``Accurate
                                  confidence regions based on MLEs''
                                  [MR3060565]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--163


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 36, Number 1, September, 2013

               Maojun Zhang and   
                 Xueni Zhao and   
                   Jiangxia Nan   The model for CDS pricing based on the
                                  Gaussian Copula method . . . . . . . . . 1--11
               Shimin Zheng and   
               Jeff Knisley and   
                 Chunming Zhang   Moments of matrix variate skew
                                  elliptically contoured distributions . . 13--27
     Christopher H. Morrell and   
               Veena Shetty and   
             Terry Phillips and   
        Thiruma V. Arumugam and   
            Mark P. Mattson and   
                    Ruiqian Wan   Testing the product of slopes in related
                                  regressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--46
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and   
Muhamed Wael Farouq Abdelazim and   
Hisham Abdel-Tawab Mahran Morsy and   
 Mona Mahmoud Mohamed Ebada and   
Hisham Mohamed Abdelaziz Saad and   
      Rashad Raouf Thabet Wahba   Parametric and non-parametric
                                  statistical techniques to investigate
                                  fisheries data in Lake Nasser Egypt  . . 47--73
                   Jian Yin and   
                     Lixin Tian   The impact of foreign direct investment
                                  on economic growth in China  . . . . . . 75--81

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 36, Number 2, October, 2013

             Livia Dancelli and   
            Marica Manisera and   
                 Marika Vezzoli   On Pinto da Costa and Soares' and other
                                  weighted rank correlation measures
                                  deriving from the Spearman's rho . . . . 83--104
                  Patrick Marsh   Saddlepoint approximations for the
                                  estimator on a lagged dependent variable 105--118
            Azar Khosravani and   
           Constantin Rasinariu   $n$-digit Benford distributed random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
      Rania Ahmed Hamed Mohamed   A comparison between the models
                                  ARIMA/GARCH and artificial neural
                                  networks in modeling financial returns
                                  to the Arab Republic of Egypt market
                                  securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--150
         David Sotres-Ramos and   
         Yoni Castillo-Tzec and   
     Félix Almendra-Arao   Adjusting the Laster--Johnson--Kotler
                                  non-inferiority test for comparing two
                                  proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--163


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 37, Number 1, November, 2013

           Lamine Konaté   On LAN for parametrized continuous
                                  signals in non-homogeneous diffusion . . 1--12
              I. C. Kipchirchir   Comparative analysis of dispersion
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--35
      Medhat M. A. Abdelaal and   
    Moustafa Galal Moustafa and   
       Dalia Mohamed Samy Aglan   Hybrid model of MARIMA and ANNBP for
                                  forecasting sales tax in Egypt . . . . . 37--71
            Mahmoud M. Alderiny   Bootstrap determination of the
                                  co-integration rank with unknown lag
                                  order in VAR model: application on
                                  Egypt's imports from the main crops  . . 73--94

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 37, Number 2, December, 2013

               Changwon Yoo and   
                  Erik M. Brilz   Efficient and scalable Bayesian
                                  statistical method for identifying
                                  causal relationships from intervention
                                  studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--122
               Kelly Bodwin and   
       Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and   
                 Albert H. Yoon   A statistical approach to judicial
                                  authorship: a case study of Judge
                                  Easterbrook  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--148
           Haruhisa Nishino and   
                Kazuhiko Kakamu   Bayesian Whittle estimation of ARFIMA
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--170
                      M. Li and   
                    M. Predescu   A note on an unemployment model dynamics
                                  and estimation of parameters . . . . . . 171--186
                 Kengo Ueda and   
               Hiroto Hyakutake   Note on estimating parameters in
                                  heterogeneous random effects models for
                                  two sample problem . . . . . . . . . . . 187--193


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 38, Number 1, January, 2014

Amr Ibrahim Abdelrahman Elatraby and   
   Ahmed Fathy Abdelaal Elwaqdy   Suggested statistical model for
                                  describing the fluctuations in the
                                  conditional variation with application
                                  on the general index of the Egyptian
                                  capital market . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--36
                      Jan Vrbik   Asymptotic expansion of sampling
                                  distribution of an MLE to $ 1 / n $
                                  accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50
           Osama H. Mahmoud and   
            Eman A. El-Dessouky   Estimating the number excess of loss
                                  claims using the
                                  exponentiated-exponential distribution   51--69
                 Yohei Kawasaki   A new confidence interval for the
                                  difference between two independent
                                  binomial proportions . . . . . . . . . . 71--80

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 38, Number 2, February, 2014

         Val Andrei Fajardo and   
                 Mei Ling Huang   A least square method on confidence
                                  regions for high quantile of heavy
                                  tailed distributions . . . . . . . . . . 81--111
                    Wan-Yi Chiu   The impact of investor's view on hedging
                                  effectiveness  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--128
            Saieed F. Ateya and   
                Mohamed M. Rizk   Prediction under bivariate generalized
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 129--147
      Rania Ahmed Hamed Mohamed   Classification of the companies listed
                                  on the Egyptian stock using SOM neural
                                  network, $K$-means and hierarchical
                                  clustering methods . . . . . . . . . . . 149--159


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 39, Number 1, March, 2014

             A. Shanubhogue and   
             D. P. Raykundaliya   A test for main effects when
                                  observations are randomly right censored 1--23
                   U. Verma and   
               H. P. Piepho and   
                   M. Goyal and   
                   A. Goyal and   
                       P. Verma   Impact of climatic variables on
                                  sugarcane yield prediction in Haryana
                                  (India)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--35
       El-Housseiny A. Rady and   
                   Dalia Ziedan   Estimation of population total using
                                  nonparametric regression models  . . . . 37--59
      Kasahun Takele Geneti and   
         Teshome Kebede Deressa   Correlates of under five child mortality
                                  in Ethiopia: a logistic regression
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--79

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 39, Number 2, April, 2014

                      Jan Vrbik   Improving accuracy of $ \chi^2 $ test of
                                  independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94
            Mezbahur Rahman and   
         Faysal Ibne Satter and   
                         Han Wu   Fixed regressors in bootstrap regression 95--108
           Yorghos Tripodis and   
            Nagaraj K. Neerchal   Estimation of missing values in linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--123
                  Johan Fellman   The properties of a class of tax
                                  policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--148
                M. S. Aminzadeh   A surveillance scheme for reliability
                                  growth of repairable systems and
                                  software based on NHPP . . . . . . . . . 149--160


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 40, Number 1, May, 2014

               Khyam Paneru and   
                   Hanfeng Chen   Regression analysis under complex
                                  probability sampling designs in presence
                                  of many zero-value responses . . . . . . 1--29
                    Ying Ji and   
                Tienan Wang and   
                   Yijun Li and   
                      Yong Zhou   A new smoothing nonmonotone trust region
                                  method for solving nonlinear
                                  complementarity problems . . . . . . . . 31--60
                   Jing Xia and   
          Michelle Yongmei Wang   Particle filtering with sequential
                                  parameter learning for nonlinear bold
                                  fMRI signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74
             Kouji Yamamoto and   
             Kanau Kawasaki and   
                 Sadao Tomizawa   Marginal point-symmetry measure for
                                  multi-way contingency tables . . . . . . 75--91

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 40, Number 2, June, 2014

                     Daiki Maki   A comparison of linearity tests based on
                                  wild bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--107
            Tsung-Shan Tsou and   
                Wei-Cheng Hsiao   Robust regression modeling via
                                  parametric likelihoods: an alternative
                                  to using the skew $t$ distribution and
                                  several rank-based methods . . . . . . . 109--132
             Magda M. M. Haggag   Combining of dimension reduction
                                  regression methods . . . . . . . . . . . 133--156
               A. H. Wigena and   
               A. Djuraidah and   
                   I. W. Mangku   Ensemble two return levels of
                                  generalized Pareto and modified
                                  Champernowne distributions using linear
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--167
                Seppo Laaksonen   Introduction to sampling design data
                                  file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--179


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 41, Number 1, July, 2014

       H. F. Coronel-Brizio and   
        A. R. Hernandez-Montoya   A result concerning quadratic forms in
                                  functions of order statistics  . . . . . 1--9
        Davinder Kumar Garg and   
             Gurinder Pal Singh   Construction of four associate class
                                  PBIB designs using pairing in triplets
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
                   Ka Ho Wu and   
              Zhao-Guo Chen and   
                  Wensheng Wang   A robust and practical method of unit
                                  root tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--67
               Xiaoyin Wang and   
                   Dongqing Yao   Bayesian inference of predictor's
                                  relative importance in multiple
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--96

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 41, Number 2, August, 2014

             Rada Somkhuean and   
          Suparat Niwitpong and   
               Sa-aat Niwitpong   On upper bound of the generalized
                                  $p$-value for the mean of lognormal
                                  distribution when the coefficient of
                                  variation is known . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107
        K. V. Abdul Rasheed and   
                   M. Manoharan   Markovian queueing system with self
                                  regulatory servers . . . . . . . . . . . 109--128
     Sayed Mesheal El-Sayed and   
       Ahmed Amin El-Sheikh and   
     Mohamed Khalifa Ahmed Issa   New estimators of $ {\rm AR}(2) $ panel
                                  data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136
                   Zailong Wang   Longitudinal data analysis strategies
                                  --- an application of mixed model to
                                  post-transplant serum
                                  \booktitlecreatinine data  . . . . . . . 137--165


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 42, Number 1, September, 2014

            Arunee Wongkhao and   
           Sa-aat Niwitpong and   
              Suparat Niwitpong   Confidence intervals for the inverse of
                                  mean in a normal distribution with a
                                  known coefficient of variation . . . . . 1--14
                  Patrick Marsh   Approximation for the conditional
                                  distribution of the MLE with application
                                  to autoregression  . . . . . . . . . . . 15--32
        Ch. Lakshmi Sujatha and   
         M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao   A new non parametric method of
                                  estimation of prediction limits and
                                  comparison of its performance with semi
                                  parametric method  . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46
              Omar M. Bdair and   
              Raed R. Abu Awwad   Aging and characterization properties of
                                  $k$ th records under mean past lifetime
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--64
          Kim Samejima M. Lopes   Partial directed coherence applications
                                  on EEG data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--82

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 42, Number 2, October, 2014

                M. A. Islam and   
            R. I. Chowdhury and   
                     S. Bae and   
                    K. P. Singh   Assessing the association in repeated
                                  measures of depression . . . . . . . . . 83--93
            J. T. Guemmegne and   
        J-J Kengwoung-Keumo and   
            M. A. Tabatabai and   
                    K. P. Singh   Modeling the dynamics of the U.S.
                                  healthcare expenditure using a
                                  hyperbolastic function . . . . . . . . . 95--117
                  Shiang-Jen Wu   Stochastic modeling of wave equation
                                  with uncertainties in initial and
                                  boundary conditions  . . . . . . . . . . 119--156
             David Sotres-Ramos   How randomization validates the
                                  significance levels of the Fisher exact
                                  test for $ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . . 157--164


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 43, Number 1, November, 2014

              Samson Henry Dogo   An adaptation of LAN method for
                                  monitoring cumulative correlations . . . 1--20
               David P. Chu and   
               Ali Reza Fotouhi   A trivariate beta distribution and
                                  related distances  . . . . . . . . . . . 21--36
               Nasr Rashwan and   
                    Hanaa Salem   A Bayesian method to estimate the
                                  parameters of regression model . . . . . 37--52
                Alyaa R. Zahran   An rspca-type wealth index for telephone
                                  surveys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--63
           Dilcu B. Helvaci and   
              Saeed Maghsoodloo   Renewal and availability functions . . . 65--89

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 43, Number 2, December, 2014

       Patrick Franco Alves and   
         Gustavo T. L. da Costa   Measuring bivariate average treatment
                                  effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--105
       Oscar Palmeros-Rojas and   
José A. Villaseñor-Alva and   
  Francisco S. Tajonar-Sanabria   Estimation of a change-point in the
                                  Weibull regression model . . . . . . . . 107--118
 Jan Ámos Ví\vsek   Diagnostics of robust identification of
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--161


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 44, Number 1, January, 2015

         Silvia Maria Prado and   
          Francisco Louzada and   
José Gilberto Rinaldi and   
     Marcio Luis Lanfredi Viola   A distribution for service model . . . . 1--19
              Preety Rattan and   
             Sangeeta Arora and   
             Kalpana K. Mahajan   Some results on ordering of Lorenz and
                                  related curves for power function
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--41
                 Serpil Akta\cs   Analysis of cancer incidence data using
                                  generalized linear model with nested
                                  effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56
                   Arthur Yosef   Some classical-new results on the
                                  set-indexed Brownian motion  . . . . . . 57--76
                    Jibo Wu and   
                  Abdul Shakoor   An almost unbiased Liu estimator in
                                  linear regression model with measurement
                                  error  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 44, Number 2, February, 2015

         Jirawan Jitthavech and   
        Vichit Lorchirachoonkul   Estimators using weights based on
                                  stratum statistics in stratified random
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--116
                 Jiaorui Li and   
                   Yuan Yao and   
                       Li Zheng   Comprehensive evaluation of operational
                                  risks of Chinese public pension fund . . 117--132
                  T. K. Mak and   
                      F. Nebebe   A parametric approach for estimating
                                  conditional probability distributions    133--143
                 Ali S. Gargoum   Optimizing probability computations on
                                  dynamic processes using graphical models 145--161
           Sibnarayan Guria and   
                 Sugata Sen Roy   Diagnostics in log-linear models . . . . 163--176

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 44, Number 3, March, 2015

                    Jiexiang Li   Interval estimation for a lifetime
                                  distribution with increasing failure
                                  rate when samples are doubly censored    177--189
            Mezbahur Rahman and   
    Mohammad Shaha Alam Patwary   A note on unequal probability sampling
                                  in bootstrap sampling  . . . . . . . . . 191--200
               Kamal Samy Selim   Distribution and moments of the double
                                  exponential sample range . . . . . . . . 201--217
               Shengxi Wang and   
                  Junfeng Shang   Independence among random variables
                                  between semi-martingales . . . . . . . . 219--239


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 45, Number 1, April, 2015

           Rashad M. El-Sagheer   Estimation of the parameters of life for
                                  distributions having power hazard
                                  function based on progressively type-II
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
        Nairanjana Dasgupta and   
               Ruojin Zhang and   
                   Tory Schmidt   Significance testing of alternate
                                  bearing in `Granny Smith' apple  . . . . 29--44
          K. Abdollahnezhad and   
                F. Yaghmaei and   
                    S. Mahmoudi   Testing equality of the scale parameters
                                  of Pareto distributions; two
                                  computational approaches . . . . . . . . 45--57
                      Jan Vrbik   Accurate confidence regions for
                                  Markov-model parameters  . . . . . . . . 59--74

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 45, Number 2, May, 2015

           Balgobin Nandram and   
              Dhiman Bhadra and   
                      Yiwei Liu   A Bayesian analysis of racial
                                  differences in treatment among breast
                                  cancer patients  . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--104
         Amr I. A. Elatraby and   
             Rashad R. T. Wahba   Features selection using parametric and
                                  non-parametric methods: tag SNPS
                                  selection using GA-SVM and GA-KNN  . . . 105--123
             R. A. Robinson and   
                     R. S. Gill   Asymptotics and confidence estimation in
                                  segmented regression models  . . . . . . 125--151

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 45, Number 3, June, 2015

                   Chuanhua Wei   Empirical likelihood ratio test for
                                  serial correlation in additive models    153--165
                  S. Mandal and   
                        Y. Yang   $ D_s $-Optimal designs in polynomial
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 167--179
    Rogério F. Porto and   
            Oscar E. Molina and   
              Gladys E. Salcedo   A tv-ivar model for multivariate
                                  irregular time series  . . . . . . . . . 181--200
           Jessica Kubrusly and   
             Hélio Lopes   Constructive regression on implicit
                                  regions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--223


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 46, Number 1, July, 2015

               Ayman A. Mostafa   Bayesian analysis technique for
                                  generalized Cox's proportional hazards
                                  model using bugs: applications in
                                  medical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--36
               Rieken S. Venema   Geometric ergodicity of the normalized
                                  perceptron algorithm for the
                                  classification of non-separable Gaussian
                                  input vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--55
      Juliet Gratia D'Cunha and   
               K. Aruna Rao and   
             T. Mallikarjunappa   Application of Bayesian inference for
                                  the analysis of stock prices . . . . . . 57--78

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 46, Number 2, August, 2015

          Mohamed A. Ismail and   
             Essam A. Ahmed and   
          Howaida M. Ezz El-Din   Identification of moving average models:
                                  a Bayesian approach  . . . . . . . . . . 79--96
               Yosuke Inaba and   
                  Etsuo Miyaoka   Bootstrapping method for constructing
                                  confidential intervals for estimated
                                  parameters of the hidden Markov model    97--105
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and   
       Sally Hossam Eldin Ahmed   Analysis of survival data by using
                                  non-parametric methods . . . . . . . . . 107--117
      Stéphane Bouka and   
          Sophie Dabo-Niang and   
              Guy Martial Nkiet   Non-Parametric level set estimation for
                                  spatial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--158

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 46, Number 3, September, 2015

Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and   
Hisham Abdel-Tawab Mahran Morsy   The measurement of productivity growth
                                  in Egyptian universities using DEA-based
                                  Malmquist productivity index . . . . . . 159--181
             Yohei Kawasaki and   
                 Hiroshi Yamada   Non-Inferiority test statistics for two
                                  independent binomial proportions:
                                  comparison of eight methods  . . . . . . 183--196
     Christopher H. Morrell and   
          Michael W. Kattan and   
          F. Roy MacKintosh and   
      Stephen Van Den Eeden and   
              Thomas B. Neville   Estimating prostate cancer relative
                                  survival and cancer-specific death . . . 197--223
           Sutawanir Darwis and   
           Nusar Hajarisman and   
           Teti Sofia Yanti and   
             Mohammad Sobri and   
                  Irfan Muharam   Kalman filtering applied to engine fault
                                  detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--236


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 47, Number 1, October, 2015

           Nasr Ibrahim Rashwan   Estimation of the parameters of mixed
                                  exponentiated Weibull and exponentiated
                                  exponential from censored type I samples 1--18
              R. A. Bakoban and   
                 M. I. Abubaker   Parameters estimation of the generalized
                                  inverted Rayleigh distribution based on
                                  progressive Type II censoring  . . . . . 19--50
                  Taylan A. Ula   Corrections for estimated XBAR control
                                  charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--63
               Jeffrey Gory and   
                    Omer Ozturk   Analysis of the NHANES III data set
                                  using ranked set and judgment
                                  post-stratified samples  . . . . . . . . 65--89

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 47, Number 2, November, 2015

 Jan Ámos Ví\vsek   Representation of the least weighted
                                  squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--144
     Sayed Mesheal El-Sayed and   
       Ahmed Amin El-Sheikh and   
     Mohamed Khalifa Ahmed Issa   Weighted symmetric estimators of
                                  autoregressive models  . . . . . . . . . 145--152
Natalia Jaría-Chacón and   
           Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos   A higher education expenditure
                                  prediction model: evidence from European
                                  countries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--174

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 47, Number 3, December, 2015

          Werner Hürlimann   Angle correlation inequalities of De
                                  Finetti type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--187
   Amr Ibrahim Abdul Rahman and   
Mohamed Alsayid Abdel Salam Abdel Rasoul   Proposed statistical model for
                                  identifying and studying the factors
                                  affecting the occurrence of financial
                                  failure case study: Egyptian Arab Real
                                  Estate Bank  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--210
               Kamal Samy Selim   Bounds on variance based on differences
                                  of mass points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--224
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and   
     Saeed Farouk Saber Mohamed   Statistical model of Egyptian economic
                                  growth prediction  . . . . . . . . . . . 225--246
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                 Benzion Boukai   Recycled estimation of population
                                  pharmacokinetics models  . . . . . . . . 247--263


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 48, Number 1, January, 2016

              Saleem Z. Ramadan   An efficient method for global
                                  optimization of black-box functions
                                  using one-dimensional interpolation and
                                  reduced design space . . . . . . . . . . 1--31
               Albert Luguterah   Odd generalized exponential Rayleigh
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--48
         Amr I. A. Elatraby and   
  Hisham Mohamed Abdelaziz Saad   Forecasting the exchange rate of the
                                  Egyptian pound against the U.S. dollar:
                                  an empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . 49--67
            Takuma Kurosawa and   
           Asanao Shimokawa and   
                  Etsuo Miyaoka   A note on using the maximum partial
                                  likelihood estimator of transition model
                                  for binary time series . . . . . . . . . 69--90

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 48, Number 2, February, 2016

                 Yingmei Xu and   
             Diawara Daouda and   
              Kané Ladji   An application of extreme value theory
                                  in automobile insurance: a new approach
                                  to the convex combination of two
                                  variables thresholds minimizing the
                                  variance of this combination . . . . . . 91--108
                  Kee-Hoon Kang   An approach for bias reduction in
                                  density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 109--121
       Amany Hassan Abdel-Karim   Modeling the proportion of neonatal
                                  mortality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--139
               Essam Fawzy Aziz   A suggested statistical model for
                                  whether a small industrial business is
                                  tripped or not in Great Cairo using
                                  probit model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--156
                    W. M. Afify   Adding a new parameter in flexible
                                  Weibull distribution using
                                  Marshall--Olkin model and its
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--167

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 48, Number 3, March, 2016

              Enas Gawdat Yehia   The shqc criterion for order selection
                                  in autoregressive models . . . . . . . . 169--183
              Saleem Z. Ramadan   A note on planning the simple
                                  step-stress accelerated life test under
                                  Bayesian method and Type-I right
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--204
             Amal S. Hassan and   
                     M. Elgarhy   Kumaraswamy Weibull-generated family of
                                  distributions with applications  . . . . 205--239

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 48, Number 4, April, 2016

      Monchaya Chiangpradit and   
               Sa-aat Niwitpong   Coverage probability of a prediction
                                  interval for a seasonal $ {\rm AR}(1) $
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--255
                W. M. Afify and   
                    Ahmed Ramzy   Modified goodness of fit tests for the
                                  inverse flexible Weibull distribution    257--272
             Suleman Nasiru and   
           Albert Luguterah and   
        Mohammed Muniru Iddrisu   Generalized Erlang-truncated exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--301
                    Jia Luo and   
                  Junfeng Shang   Exploratory data analysis on
                                  unemployment rates in USA  . . . . . . . 303--316

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 48, Number 5, May, 2016

                B. Farahani and   
                M. Khodabin and   
                      R. Ezzati   Numerical solution of stochastic
                                  nonlinear Volterra integral equations by
                                  a stochastic operational matrix based on
                                  Haar wavelets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--336
          Suparat Niwitpong and   
                Arunee Wongkhao   Confidence intervals for the difference
                                  between inverse of normal means  . . . . 337--347
             Ali A. Al-Shomrani   Characterization and recurrence
                                  relations of certain distributions of
                                  $k$ th upper record values . . . . . . . 349--361
                        Jibo Wu   A note on the difference-based almost
                                  unbiased Liu estimator in partial linear
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--368
          Saeedeh Pourahmad and   
    Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei and   
    Zahra Hosseini-Moghadam and   
                Sadat Nouri and   
      Mojgan Akbarzadeh Jahromi   An optimal combination of several binary
                                  markers based on Neyman--Pearson lemma:
                                  with an application to
                                  immunohistochemical markers for the
                                  diagnosis of classical Hodgkin lymphoma  369--389

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 48, Number 6, June, 2016

                  Aya Farag and   
               Ragaa Kassem and   
                  Ramadan Hamed   Mathematical programming model for
                                  selecting generalized ridge regression
                                  parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--409
           Ahmed H. Youssef and   
          Ali H. Almarshadi and   
         Abdulqader H. Almusabi   A simulation study for sure estimators
                                  with an application in air navigation in
                                  Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--428
      Saowanit Sukparungsee and   
             Sophana Somran and   
              Yupaporn Areepong   Exact expression of average run length
                                  for two-sided exponential cusum
                                  procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--444
              Saleem Z. Ramadan   Sampling target distributions based on
                                  support alteration and discretization    445--471


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 49, Number 1, July, 2016

                   Trijya Singh   A method of moments approach to
                                  parameter estimation in intrinsically
                                  nonlinear regression models  . . . . . . 1--20
               J. M. Mutiso and   
               G. K. Kerich and   
                   H. M. Ng'eno   Construction of five level second order
                                  rotatable designs using supplementary
                                  difference sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
             Andrea Lavalle and   
                Sergio Bramardi   An algorithm based on generalized
                                  Procrustes analysis to find the
                                  consensus of several configurations of
                                  individuals connected by common checks   31--48
               Sa-aat Niwitpong   Confidence intervals for the difference
                                  between normal means with a known
                                  coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 49--65
 Félix Almendra-Arao and   
  Hortensia Reyes-Cervantes and   
   José Juan Castro-Alva   Adjusting nominal significance levels
                                  and test sizes when using an asymptotic
                                  non-inferiority test . . . . . . . . . . 67--86

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 49, Number 2, August, 2016

             Alya O. Al Mutairi   Distribution of the order statistics of
                                  the generalized power function . . . . . 87--104
          Nipaporn Chutiman and   
      Monchaya Chiangpradit and   
               Sujitta Suraphee   Ratio estimator in adaptive cluster
                                  sampling based on ranked set . . . . . . 105--116
                Abeer Hasan and   
                   Wei Ning and   
                    Arjun Gupta   A new approach for skew $t$ distribution
                                  with applications to environmental data  117--136
      B. Bhargavarama Sarma and   
                      B. Shobha   Estimation in functional measurement
                                  error models with compound symmetric
                                  covariance structured equation errors    137--166

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 49, Number 3, September, 2016

Mamdouh Abdel Alim Saad Mowafy and   
  Hanaa Hussein Ali Abou Alaela   A statistical study to predict to
                                  development index of information and
                                  communication technology (ICT) in the
                                  Arab countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--194
       Ayubu Anapapa Okango and   
      Joseph Kipsigei Koske and   
             John Muindi Mutiso   Optimization of germination conditions
                                  of \bionameMelia volkensii by response
                                  surface methodology  . . . . . . . . . . 195--210
 Melike Bahçecitapar and   
                   Mehmet Uysal   Statistical power/sample size analysis
                                  for linear mixed effects models with $
                                  {\rm MA}(1) $ and $ {\rm ARMA}(1, 1) $
                                  autocorrelated errors in longitudinal
                                  studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--229
         Alya O. Al Mutairi and   
              Ameenah Alofi and   
               Mai Alsoubhi and   
              Sara Alradadi and   
                    Huda Alblwi   Saddle point approximation for the
                                  random sum Poisson--Bernoulli model  . . 231--243

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 49, Number 4, October, 2016

         Venkatesh B. Joshi and   
             Bhargavi Deshpande   A new modification to the adaptive
                                  Nadaraya--Watson kernel regression
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--256
                Ninghui Tan and   
                        Jibo Wu   On a restricted estimator in an
                                  errors-in-variable model . . . . . . . . 257--265
          Hajar Banikhademi and   
         Hasan Salehi Fathabadi   A solution to the inverse minimum cut
                                  problem in dynamic network flows . . . . 267--285
        N. V. Chandrasekara and   
             M. A. Mammadov and   
              C. D. Tilakaratne   Parameter estimation of multivariate
                                  scaled t distribution: an application to
                                  all share price index  . . . . . . . . . 287--303
             Amany M. Mousa and   
         Ahmed A. El-Sheikh and   
        Mahmoud A. Abdel-Fattah   A gamma regression for bounded
                                  continuous variables . . . . . . . . . . 305--326

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 49, Number 5, November, 2016

                A. M. Mousa and   
             S. M. El Sayed and   
              S. H. Abdel Latif   A general delete-group jackknife
                                  variance estimator for stratified
                                  sampling survey  . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--341
Julio César Martínez Sánchez and   
         David Sotres-Ramos and   
Martha Elva Ramírez Guzmán   Portfolio selection with conditional
                                  covariance matrix and nonlinear
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--355
                     Han Wu and   
            Mezbahur Rahman and   
    Mohammad Shaha Alam Patwary   A study of a generalized modified
                                  Weibull model: an exponentiated Weibull
                                  case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--367
          Yupaporn Areepong and   
          Saowanit Sukparungsee   An explicit expression of average run
                                  length of exponentially weighted moving
                                  average control chart with $ {\rm
                                  ARIMA}(p, d, q)(P, D, Q)_L $ models  . . 369--385
           Fajar Adi-Kusumo and   
                    Gunardi and   
                Herni Utami and   
  Aluicius Irwan Endrayanto and   
          Mulyono Nitisapto and   
           Tony Agus Wijaya and   
    Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan and   
              Titus Christiawan   Climate changes detection using Bayesian
                                  change point methods and empirical
                                  orthogonal function for improving the
                                  traditional cropping calendar in Gunung
                                  Kidul Regency of Indonesia . . . . . . . 387--398
           Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly   Nonparametric test for ordered variances 399--408

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 49, Number 6, December, 2016

                   Trijya Singh   Estimation of parameters of a
                                  Weibull-type nonlinear regression model  409--416
              Ilaria L. Amerise   Iteratively reweighted constrained
                                  quantile regressions . . . . . . . . . . 417--441
     A. M. C. H. Attanayake and   
       D. D. M. Jayasundara and   
                T. S. G. Peiris   An application of $5$-fold cross
                                  validation on a binary logistic
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--451
              Behzad Pirouz and   
                Esmaile Khorram   A computational approach based on the
                                  $e$-constraint method in multi-objective
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 453--483
     Sayed Mesheal El-Sayed and   
       Ahmed Amin El-Sheikh and   
     Mahmoud Mohamed Abdelwahab   Estimation of $ {\rm AR}(1) $ models
                                  with missing values  . . . . . . . . . . 485--492


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 50, Number 1, January, 2017

                Afrah Al-Bossly   A reliability study on some
                                  chemotaxonomic profiles of the genus
                                  \bionamePenicillium  . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
          Yupaporn Areepong and   
          Saowanit Sukparungsee   Explicit formulas of average run length
                                  of cumulative sum control chart for
                                  autoregressive integrated moving average
                                  with exogenous variable model  . . . . . 21--36
              I. O. Ayodeji and   
              T. O. Obilade and   
             O. A. Adelodun and   
                 K. O. Sofowora   Canonical correlation analysis approach
                                  for the geochemistry of a Nigerian crude
                                  oil well . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--49
             Muhammad Aslam and   
             Nasrullah Khan and   
                  Osama H. Arif   The EWMA moving average control chart
                                  for exponential distribution using
                                  multiple dependent state sampling  . . . 51--71
                R. Dayanian and   
                      L. Navaei   On special case of $r$-identification
                                  problems of multiple hypotheses testing
                                  for Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . 73--83

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 50, Number 2, February, 2017

                  L. Navaei and   
                    R. Dayanian   On some properties of a
                                  pseudo-probability space . . . . . . . . 85--95
         Abdalla Abdelghaly and   
                Essam Ahmed and   
                Rasha Ebaid and   
                 Walid Elbadawy   An extension of the Cuadras copula . . . 97--106
      Parameshwar V. Pandit and   
                 Savitha Kumari   On testing against positive quadrant
                                  dependence based on sub-sample order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--121
       H. F. Coronel-Brizio and   
A. R. Hernández-Montoya and   
  M. E. Rodríguez-Achach   Tests of fit for the power-law
                                  distribution and some applications to
                                  the Mexican stock market index relative
                                  changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--136
              Mostafa Omidi and   
 Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh and   
                  Ali Payan and   
      Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi   Radial sensitivity analysis of left,
                                  right, and overall returns to scale
                                  using the virtual anti-ideal unit  . . . 137--171

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 50, Number 3, March, 2017

                  Yong Wang and   
                        Juan Hu   Fast computation of predictive scores
                                  under cross-validation for multivariate
                                  spatial models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--189
     Sayed Mesheal El-Sayed and   
       Ahmed Amin El-Sheikh and   
 Mohamed Khalifa Ahmed Issa and   
Hadia Faried Mohamed Ahmed Azmy   A closed form of biased $ {\rm AR}(1) $
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--199
               Arthur Yosef and   
                   Eli Shnaider   On measuring the relative importance of
                                  explanatory variables in a soft
                                  regression method  . . . . . . . . . . . 201--228
               Said Jaouadi and   
               Ilhem Zorgui and   
        Slaheddine Trabelsi and   
               Rafik Ben Samida   The predictors of students' satisfaction
                                  in Jazan University: evidence from
                                  partial least squares  . . . . . . . . . 229--242
             Muhammad Aslam and   
    Mansour Sattam Aldosari and   
              Muhammad Azam and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Attribute--variable resubmitted sampling
                                  plan for controlling lot fraction
                                  nonconforming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--259

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 50, Number 4, April, 2017

         Hassan Pouresmaeil and   
            Elyas Shivanian and   
            Esmaile Khorram and   
        Hassan Salehi Fathabadi   An extended method using TOPSIS and
                                  VIKOR for multiple attribute decision
                                  making with multiple decision makers and
                                  single valued neutrosophic numbers . . . 261--292
                Rasha Ebaid and   
             Rasha Farghali and   
             Samah Abo-El-Hadid   A mathematical programming approach for
                                  liu-type estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 293--314
           K. Harishchandra and   
                    Balakrishna   Software reliability model when a random
                                  number of faults occurring at a time
                                  with correction process  . . . . . . . . 315--327
   Vanesa Berlanga-Silvente and   
       Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and   
         Pilar Figuera-Gazo and   
             Ernest Pons-Fanals   Salary scholarships as a factor
                                  associated with improved academic
                                  performance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 50, Number 5, May, 2017

           Suchismita Maiti and   
             Debashis Nandi and   
           Baisakhi Chakraborty   Statistical modelling of log-compressed
                                  Nakagami distributed ultrasound echo
                                  envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--366
          Afsana-Al-Sharmin and   
              M. Ataharul Islam   Generalized Weibull linear models with
                                  different link functions . . . . . . . . 367--384
                  Xiaowu Li and   
                   Lin Wang and   
            Mingsheng Zhang and   
                  Linke Hou and   
                     Juan Liang   On convolution of unimodal distribution
                                  and multimodal distribution  . . . . . . 385--395
                      Jan Vrbik   Approximate distribution of sample
                                  quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--410
                      Jan Vrbik   General formulas for serial correlation,
                                  variance and likelihood function
                                  relating to $ {\rm AR}(k) $ models . . . 411--421
                Rasha Ebaid and   
                 Walid Elbadawy   A new modification of the Cuadras copula 423--434

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 50, Number 6, June, 2017

             Maher Qumsiyeh and   
                Robert Deis and   
                  Dalton Gannon   Bootstrapping an autoregressive time
                                  series model using SAS . . . . . . . . . 435--467
         David Sotres-Ramos and   
             Yoni Castillo-Tzec   The asymptotic distribution of the
                                  Pearson chi-square statistic for the $ 2
                                  \times 2 $ table . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--476
                Abdul Basit and   
                  Anam Riaz and   
                Zafar Iqbal and   
                    Munir Ahmad   On comparison of entropy measures for
                                  weighted and truncated weighted
                                  exponential distributions  . . . . . . . 477--495
                  A. Amin Essam   On record values of the power Lomax
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--515


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 51, Number 1, July, 2017

        Saman Hanif Shahbaz and   
            Saeed Al-Ghamdi and   
             Khushnoor Khan and   
        Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz   Bayesian estimation for the parameters
                                  of Poisson--Lomax distribution using
                                  conditional and unconditional gamma
                                  priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
              I. C. Kipchirchir   Comparative analysis of the effect of
                                  dispersion and competition on population
                                  sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--38
           Nihal Abd El Aty and   
            Mahmoud Rashwan and   
                   Ramdan Hamed   A goal programming approach for samples
                                  overlap in stratified random sampling    39--57
            Warisa Thangjai and   
          Suparat Niwitpong and   
               Sa-Aat Niwitpong   On large sample confidence intervals for
                                  the common inverse mean of several
                                  normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . 59--84

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 51, Number 2, August, 2017

               S. K. Ashour and   
                 D. R. Said and   
                  M. A. Mostafa   Log-Exponentiated Kumaraswamy power
                                  series family of distributions . . . . . 85--129
               Soroor Sadri and   
 Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh and   
                    Naghi Shoja   Inverse linear programming in cost
                                  efficiency and network . . . . . . . . . 131--149
              Suparat Niwitpong   Generalized confidence intervals for
                                  function of variances of lognormal
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--163

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 51, Number 3, September, 2017

              Liaquat Ahmad and   
                 Iqra Rafiq and   
    Mansour Sattam Aldosari and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Mixed repetitive sampling plan using
                                  EWMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--186
             Direk Bualuang and   
          Yupaporn Areepong and   
          Saowanit Sukparungsee   Explicit expressions of average run
                                  length of double moving average control
                                  chart for ZIB models when the underlying
                                  distribution is ratio of two Poisson
                                  means  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--204
Mamdouh Abdel Alim Saad Mowafy and   
   Hanaa Hussein Ali Abou Alela   A statistical model to predict the food
                                  gap of the wheat crop in Egypt . . . . . 205--230
              Yang Shanchao and   
                     Xiang Ping   Strong consistency of robust
                                  nonparametric kernel regression
                                  estimation for $a$-mixing processes  . . 231--244

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 51, Number 4, October, 2017

            Warisa Thangjai and   
           Sa-Aat Niwitpong and   
              Suparat Niwitpong   Confidence intervals for the common mean
                                  of several one-parameter exponential
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--260
                Ali. S. Gargoum   Some new properties of Hellinger
                                  distance for validating approximations
                                  in Bayesian analysis . . . . . . . . . . 261--276
               C. Fernandes and   
                       P. Ramos   A method to minimize the sum of the
                                  variances of the estimators of the
                                  variance components in stair nested
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--282
  Mostafa Sayed Mostafa Abd and   
            El Hameed El Misery   The impact of female employment and the
                                  third birth event in Egypt using
                                  simultaneous hazard regression . . . . . 283--293
     Diabaté Lassina and   
          Kané Ladji and   
             Diawara Daouda and   
                    Diarra Diby   A study of the bonus--malus system in
                                  the case of the car insurance sector in
                                  Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--307

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 51, Number 5, November, 2017

             Bol A. M. Atem and   
             George O. Orwa and   
                 Levi N. Mbugua   The odd Kumaraswamy inverse Weibull
                                  distribution with application to
                                  survival data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--335
               Lampang Saenchan   Comparisons of interval estimators for
                                  the linear function of variances under
                                  non-normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--350
 Félix Almendra-Arao and   
             David Sotres-Ramos   Assessing test sizes for the
                                  Farrington--Manning test . . . . . . . . 351--366
                  Hend Auda and   
                     Hend Attia   Comparative ARIMA models for
                                  age-specific fertility rates . . . . . . 367--388

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 51, Number 6, December, 2017

                        Jibo Wu   Ridge-Type estimation in semiparametric
                                  EV model with linear measurement error   389--395
         Nasrin Borumandnia and   
           Hamid Alavi Majd and   
               Farid Zayeri and   
      Ahmad Reza Baghestani and   
        Mahmood Reza Gohari and   
 Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei and   
                Fariborz Faeghi   Bayesian $3$-dimensional spatial
                                  variable selection modeling of
                                  voxel-specific HRFS for localization in
                                  FMRI time series data  . . . . . . . . . 397--426
          Saeed Maghsoodloo and   
                 Randy West and   
                   Dilcu Barnes   A statistical study on the variability
                                  of aggregate characteristics of asphalt
                                  mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--444
                    W. M. Afify   Hybridization of distributions using
                                  transmutation and proportional hazard
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--468


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 52, Number 1, January, 2018

                A. S. Dabye and   
                   L. Gueye and   
                   M. A. Issaka   On detection of epileptic seizure with
                                  an approach based on power spectral
                                  density with an AR model . . . . . . . . 1--31
                  Doan Van Dinh   World crude oil prices impact on
                                  consumer price index . . . . . . . . . . 33--54
              Farzana Jahan and   
             Borhan Siddika and   
       Rafiqul I. Chowdhury and   
              M. Ataharul Islam   A Poisson--Poisson model to analyze
                                  congestion data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--71

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 52, Number 2, February, 2018

   Fatemeh Keshavarz Gildeh and   
  Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
       Alireza Amirteimoori and   
     Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh   Optimal utilization of resources in
                                  organizations using data envelopment
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--95
             Suganya Phantu and   
      Saowanit Sukparungsee and   
              Yupaporn Areepong   Dma chart monitoring of the first
                                  integer-valued autoregressive processes
                                  of Poisson counts  . . . . . . . . . . . 97--119
                  M. Rekkas and   
                        O. Wong   Transformations, means, and accurate
                                  confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 121--144

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 52, Number 3, March, 2018

             Suleman Nasiru and   
             Peter N. Mwita and   
                    Oscar Ngesa   Exponentiated generalized half logistic
                                  Burr X distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 145--169
               Maliheh Piri and   
  Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and   
  Mohsen Rostamy-alkhalifeh and   
         Mohammad Hasan Behzadi   The selection of projects within
                                  constrained resources using stochastic
                                  data envelopment analysis  . . . . . . . 171--201
               Song Jea Woo and   
                  Kee-Hoon Kang   On comparison of estimation methods in
                                  quantile regression  . . . . . . . . . . 203--213

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 52, Number 4, April, 2018

                   M. Y. Hassan   Joint modeling of correlated time
                                  durations and their marks using a
                                  Weibull--Poisson marked point process
                                  mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234
      Saowanit Sukparungsee and   
             Suganya Phantu and   
              Yupaporn Areepong   Explicit formula of average run length
                                  of moving average control chart for
                                  Poisson $ {\rm INMA}(1) $ process  . . . 235--250
        Georgina Maria Tinungki   The election of the best autoregressive
                                  integrated moving average model to
                                  forecasting rice production in Indonesia 251--265
          Mona Mustafa El Biely   Short and long-term prediction based on
                                  complex statistics and artificial
                                  intelligence techniques  . . . . . . . . 267--280

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 52, Number 5, May, 2018

         Arwa M. Alshangiti and   
          Samah A. Alghamdi and   
            A. M. Abouammoh and   
              Asma H. Althagafi   Estimation of $l$-geometric-discrete
                                  Rayleigh model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--306
           Mashail Al-Sobhi and   
           Saman H. Shahbaz and   
    Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz and   
              Bander Al-Zahrani   The Gauss hypergeometric family of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--326
                  T. K. Mak and   
                      F. Nebebe   Estimating nonlinear structural
                                  relationships  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--338
            S. Yu. Karanina and   
             N. A. Kocheeva and   
            M. Yu. Belikova and   
              N. V. Baranovskiy   Spatial and temporal distribution of
                                  lightning discharges over Tomsk region
                                  according to WWLLN data for 2010--2015   339--362

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 52, Number 6, June, 2018

                  B. Benaid and   
                    H. Bouzahir   A statistical test of volatility
                                  persistence in GARCH models and
                                  application to stock exchange  . . . . . 363--374
                 Tarek M. Omara   Weight LAD and weight LAD ridge
                                  estimator for seemingly unrelated
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 375--389
       Thammarat Panityakul and   
               Ronnason Chinram   Applied meta-analysis for teacher
                                  research in southern border provinces of
                                  Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--400
               Kiyotaka Iki and   
                 Sadao Tomizawa   Measure of departure from symmetry using
                                  cumulative probability for square
                                  contingency tables with ordered
                                  categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--412
                  S. Z. Taj and   
               S. M. Rizwan and   
               B. M. Alkali and   
             D. K. Harrison and   
                      G. Taneja   Reliability analysis of a $3$-unit
                                  subsystem of a cable plant . . . . . . . 413--429
               Hend A. Auda and   
          Mohamed A. Ismail and   
                  Ali A. Rashed   Wilcoxon rank based principal component
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--447


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 53, Number 1, July, 2018

                 Nada Hafez and   
               Afaf El-Dash and   
                 Nagwa Albehery   Joint chance constrained programming
                                  with dependent parameters  . . . . . . . 1--12
    Muhammad Nouman Qureshi and   
               Sadia Khalil and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   Joint influence of exponential ratio and
                                  exponential product estimator for the
                                  estimation clustered population mean in
                                  adaptive cluster sampling  . . . . . . . 13--28
Maribel Peró-Cebollero and   
       Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and   
       Núria Mancho-Fora   A systematic review of simulation
                                  procedures for FMRI connectivity studies 29--69
                Abdul Raziq and   
        Raja Muhammad Ilyas and   
            Ghulam Hyder Talpur   Differences among factors of job
                                  satisfaction in classification of the
                                  academic institute (school, college and
                                  university) teachers of Balochistan,
                                  Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 53, Number 2, August, 2018

          Afsana-Al-Sharmin and   
              M. Ataharul Islam   Generalized Weibull linear models for
                                  Type-I censoring data  . . . . . . . . . 87--102
             Samira Zaroudi and   
    Mohammad Hassan Behzadi and   
      Mohammad Reza Faridrohani   A copula approach for finding the type
                                  of dependency with mortality force
                                  function in insurance market . . . . . . 103--121
     Mohd Saifullah Rusiman and   
           Suliadi Sufahani and   
 Nur Afifi Izzati Mohd Robi and   
       Abdul Wahab Abdullah and   
                 Nur Amira Azmi   Predictive modelling of marine fish
                                  landings in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . 123--135
  Mostafa Sayed Mostafa Abd and   
        El Hameed El Misery and   
            Mohamed Ali Hussein   Fertility decline and contraceptive use
                                  inequality: evidence from a
                                  cross-sectional study in Egypt . . . . . 137--152
                      Na Li and   
                      Jan Vrbik   Linear regression with non-normal errors 153--164
               Mahmoud Riad and   
       Ola Farouk Abd El Mabood   A new goodness of fit test for the beta
                                  distribution based on the empirical
                                  Laplace transform  . . . . . . . . . . . 165--177
             Saeed Ghanbari and   
                 Najaf Zare and   
                   Zahra Shayan   A practical method based on functional
                                  data analysis and single exponential
                                  smoothing to combine survival curves in
                                  meta-analysis: a simulation study  . . . 179--197

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 53, Number 3, September, 2018

 Nelson Christopher Dzupire and   
               Philip Ngare and   
                     Leo Odongo   Lévy process based Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  temperature model with time varying
                                  speed of mean reversion  . . . . . . . . 199--224
              Kshma Kaushal and   
                  Sukhdev Singh   Portfolio optimization using wind driven
                                  optimization technique . . . . . . . . . 225--241
              Lam Weng Siew and   
      Saiful Hafizah Jaaman and   
                   Lam Weng Hoe   Enhanced index tracking model with
                                  entropy maximization . . . . . . . . . . 243--258
            Warisa Thangjai and   
           Sa-Aat Niwitpong and   
              Suparat Niwitpong   Confidence intervals for variance and
                                  difference between variances of
                                  one-parameter exponential distributions  259--283
            Warisa Thangjai and   
              Suparat Niwitpong   Confidence intervals for common variance
                                  of several one-parameter exponential
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--311

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 53, Number 4, October, 2018

        Boonkong Dhakonlayodhin   The performance of fuzzy control chart
                                  for monitoring process mean and
                                  variability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--324
               Essam Fawzy Aziz   Modelling EGX30 of Egyptian stock market
                                  using spectral analysis and harmonic
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--343
         Bryan P. Sumalinab and   
                Arnulfo P. Supe   Bayesian estimation of $ {\rm GARCH}(p,
                                  q) $ model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--361
            Arunendu Chatterjee   Comparison of different wavelet
                                  techniques for finding change points . . 363--378
                  Hend Auda and   
             Nagwa Albehery and   
                   Esraa Hassan   Robust estimator for relative poverty
                                  line with application to Egypt . . . . . 379--400
      A. Kübra Demirel and   
           H. Eray Çelik   Dirichlet distribution and estimation of
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--421
      Abdullah M. Almarashi and   
          Mohamed G. Khalil and   
                 M. Elgarhy and   
           Mamhoud M. ElSehetry   Exponentiated half logistic exponential
                                  distribution with statistical properties
                                  and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--440
Yasemin Gençtürk and   
            Ayten Yi\ugiter and   
           Canan Hamurkaro\uglu   A new model for data with structural
                                  change at threshold: composite
                                  exponential-lognormal model  . . . . . . 441--456
                  Hina Khan and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
              Masood Amjad Khan   Ratio type estimators in unequal
                                  probability sampling: a numerical study  457--471

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 53, Number 5, November, 2018

                  Grine Azedine   A pseudo-bivariate Weibull-$G$ family    473--486
              Behnam Hozzar and   
              Ghasem Tohidi and   
               Behroz Daneshian   On efficient solution of multiobjective
                                  linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . 487--499
            Mezbahur Rahman and   
               Sabiha Mahzabeen   Maximum likelihood parameter estimation
                                  for the mixtures of normal distributions 501--518
                Safwan Altarazi   Enhancing conformance of injection blow
                                  molding by integrating machine learning
                                  modeling and Taguchi parameter design    519--535
                Said H. Alkarni   Generalized Lindley power series family
                                  of distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--567
            Yaqoob Al Rahbi and   
               S. M. Rizwan and   
               B. M. Alkali and   
              Andrew Cowell and   
                      G. Taneja   Reliability analysis of rodding anode
                                  plant in an aluminum industry with
                                  multiple repairmen . . . . . . . . . . . 569--597
         Ahmed A. El-Sheikh and   
         Alaa A. Abdel-Aziz and   
           Hossameldin A. Afify   On the properties of quantile regression
                                  for dynamic panel data model using
                                  two-stage approach . . . . . . . . . . . 599--609
     Sameer Ahmad Hasan Al-Subh   Chi-square test for Laplace distribution
                                  using extreme and median RSS . . . . . . 611--623

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 53, Number 6, December, 2018

  Hanaa Abd El Reheem Salem and   
             Mona N. Abdel Bary   Selection of variables in multi-group
                                  discriminant analysis using mathematical
                                  programming and classical approaches . . 625--645
        N. V. Chandrasekara and   
          C. D. Tilakaratne and   
                 M. A. Mammadov   An ensemble technique for multi class
                                  imbalanced problem using probabilistic
                                  neural networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--658
           G. Kallah-Dagadu and   
              B. K. Nkansah and   
                   N. K. Howard   Flexible statistical modelling of the
                                  occurrences of transcription factor
                                  binding sites along a DNA sequence . . . 659--691
        Medhat M. Abdel Aal and   
Mamdouh A. Alim Saad Mowafy and   
                    Nehal Etman   A statistical approach for understanding
                                  the plethora of MIRNAS and MRNAS
                                  interplay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--713
          Dioggban Jakperik and   
    Romanus Odhiambo Otieno and   
             George Otieno Orwa   A semi-parametric multiplicative bias
                                  reduction density with a parametric
                                  start  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--729
                 Olli Salmensuu   Potato price forecasts in Delhi retail
                                  from Bayesian regime switching . . . . . 731--770
Naureen Riaz Muhammad Nouman Qureshi and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   Generalized estimator for population
                                  variance in systematic random sampling   771--788


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 54, Number 1, January, 2019

            Felix O. Mettle and   
          Enoch N. B. Quaye and   
        Ravenhill A. Laryea and   
                   Louis Asiedu   Analysis of share prices as Markov
                                  chains with countably infinite states    1--20
         Alaa A. Abdel-Aziz and   
           Hossameldin A. Afify   Two-stage quantile regression for
                                  dynamic panel data models with fixed
                                  effects: Monte Carlo simulation study    21--30
                  Maie M. Kamel   Intervention model for exchange rate in
                                  Egypt  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
          Mohamed A. Ismail and   
               Hend A. Auda and   
               Mahmoud M. Sadek   Robust recursive analysis of seasonal
                                  moving average models  . . . . . . . . . 43--67
            Mhamed Mesfioui and   
                    Ali Algarni   New ordering properties of order
                                  statistics from dependent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--84
                   Aisha Fayomi   Type I half logistic power Lomax
                                  distribution: statistical properties and
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--98
           Syed Wasim Abbas and   
                Munir Ahmad and   
                    Sajid Rasul   Leveraging big data for official
                                  statistics: some recent developments . . 99--136
             Kamruzzaman Md and   
          Md. Arafat Rahman and   
                Muhammad Shuaib   Analysis of count data fitting GEE
                                  model: an application to adolescent
                                  behavioral monitoring data . . . . . . . 137--149
            Yaqoob Al Rahbi and   
               S. M. Rizwan and   
               B. M. Alkali and   
              Andrew Cowell and   
                      G. Taneja   Reliability analysis of multiple units
                                  with multiple repairmen of rodding anode
                                  plant in aluminum industry . . . . . . . 151--178

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 54, Number 2, February, 2019

          Hilary I. Okagbue and   
            Muminu O. Adamu and   
               Timothy A. Anake   Closed form expression of the quantile
                                  function of Maxwell--Boltzmann
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--197
              Saeed Maghsoodloo   On sigma-estimators from a normal
                                  universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--236
                      Na Li and   
                  Jan Vrbik and   
                    Xiaojian Xu   Linear regression with mis-specified
                                  error distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 237--253
         K. Sirikantisophon and   
           W. Wanishsakpong and   
             P. Chuangchang and   
                  O. Thinnukool   Land use change over time in Chiang Mai
                                  Province, Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . 255--272
               Aisha Fayomi and   
                  Dalal Mal and   
                    Samia Adham   Statistical inference of the
                                  exponentiated Kumaraswamy--exponential
                                  distribution based on complete and Type
                                  II censored samples  . . . . . . . . . . 273--288
      Seda Ba\csar Y\i lmaz and   
       H. Eray Çelik and   
                Veysel Y\i lmaz   Healthcare service quality --- customer
                                  satisfaction: PLS path model . . . . . . 289--300
                Demet Sezer and   
                     Nuri Celik   Transmuted normal distribution and an
                                  application to finance . . . . . . . . . 301--313
               Oksana Kubaychuk   Fast correction algorithms for weighted
                                  empirical distribution functions . . . . 315--326
               Rania M. Shalabi   Non Bayesian and Bayesian estimation for
                                  the bivariate generalized Lindley
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--344


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 55, Number 1, March, 2019

  Wan Muhamad Amir W. Ahmad and   
        Nursyabiha Zafakali and   
           Nor Azlida Aleng and   
        Mohd Shafiq Ibrahim and   
               Ruhaya Hasan and   
                 Kasypi Mokhtar   Modified zero inflated Poisson
                                  regression analysis and its application
                                  to public health data  . . . . . . . . . 1--18
             Alfred K. Mbah and   
                 Wei Wei He and   
               Ronee Wilson and   
               O'Neil Lynch and   
               Karen Bruder and   
               Hamisu M. Salihu   Transitions in depressive symptoms among
                                  pregnant women exposed to environmental
                                  tobacco smoke: an application of latent
                                  transition analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 19--34
        Saman Hanif Shahbaz and   
        Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz   On concomitants of dual generalized
                                  order statistics for a bivariate inverse
                                  Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 35--46
                 Tarek M. Omara   Modification of Liu-type estimator for
                                  two SUR model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--66
                Nurin Dureh and   
         Phattrawan Tongkumchum   A comparison of logistic regression and
                                  machine learning algorithms applied to
                                  zero counts data in contingency tables   67--76
              Aideed Bashir and   
                    Abeera Amir   Relationship between government
                                  expenditure on education and GDP per
                                  capita in Pakistan: an ARDL approach to
                                  cointegration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--103
              Yongshun Xiao and   
                     Tony Wragg   A stochastic process model for the
                                  survival and splintering of terrorist
                                  organizations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--155

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 55, Number 2, April, 2019

                Neda Sedghi and   
            Reza Moghaddasi and   
              Saeed Yazdani and   
          Seyed Safdar Hosseini   On the dependency of food price and
                                  production: an Iranian modern time
                                  varying copula-based analysis  . . . . . 157--174
              Shanchao Yang and   
                  Weiwei Xu and   
                       Xin Yang   G-M integrated type instantaneous
                                  volatility estimation  . . . . . . . . . 175--192
                 A. Buabeng and   
          S. Twumasi-Ankrah and   
            K. A. Nyantakyi and   
                B. Kumi-Boateng   Parsimonious model for predicting cocoa
                                  production in Ghana  . . . . . . . . . . 193--220
       Amany Hassan Abdel-Karim   Effect of different sampling methods on
                                  estimating the confidence interval of
                                  population coefficient of variation  . . 221--236
             Suboohi Safdar and   
                 Ejaz Ahmed and   
                   Arfa Maqsood   Process capability indices for fatigue
                                  life model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--251
               Arfa Maqsood and   
          S. M. Aqil Burney and   
             Suboohi Safdar and   
           Tahseen Ahmed Jilani   Outlier detection in linear time series
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 253--268


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 56, Number 1, May, 2019

          Ashok Shanubhogue and   
              Rajendra G. Desai   A method of constructing interval
                                  estimations for the parameters of a
                                  family of distributions under
                                  progressive censoring  . . . . . . . . . 1--20
              Ramadan Hamed and   
                  Hanan Aly and   
                    Heba ElDeeb   Optimum step stress accelerated
                                  degradation test using goal programming  21--36
             Athanase Polymenis   A note on the asymptotic distribution of
                                  Student's $t$ for AR(1) processes  . . . 37--42
               Essam Fawzy Aziz   A suggested statistical model for
                                  whether the liver is cirrhosed or not    43--51
              Marta Galvani and   
                  Silvia Figini   Machine learning techniques to
                                  understand the dynamics of terrorist
                                  events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--76
     Tabatabaee Seyed Mehdi and   
               Zayeri Farid and   
      Baghestani Ahmad Reza and   
             Ghorbani Zahra and   
     Akbarzadeh Baghban Alireza   A comparison between zero and doubly
                                  inflated Poisson models based on a
                                  simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--93

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 56, Number 2, June, 2019

             Direk Bualuang and   
          Yupaporn Areepong and   
          Saowanit Sukparungsee   ARL of CUSUM control schemes for ZIB
                                  model when the underlying distribution
                                  is the ratio of two Poisson means  . . . 95--112
              Riffat Jabeen and   
        Saman Hanif Shahbaz and   
        Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz   Relations for moments of generalized
                                  order statistics for power Lindley
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--124
                  Doan Van Dinh   Analysed money supply and inflation:
                                  evidence from Vietnam economy  . . . . . 125--142
        M. G. A. Saumyamala and   
            N. V. Chandrasekara   Hourly solar radiation forecasting using
                                  artificial neural network model for
                                  Colombo, Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151
                    Tolga Zaman   Efficient estimators of population mean
                                  using auxiliary attribute in stratified
                                  random sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--171
      Hanaa Abd El-Reheem Salem   Approximate Bayesian estimation for odd
                                  Burr III Lomax distribution  . . . . . . 173--185


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 57, Number 1, July, 2019

        Heba A. Abd-ElWahab and   
           Rasha B. Elkholy and   
                   Ahmed M. Gad   Sensitivity analysis index for shared
                                  parameter models in longitudinal studies 1--20
              A. Amin Essam and   
            A. El-Dessouky Eman   Estimation and prediction for
                                  Kumaraswamy exponential distribution
                                  based on upper record values . . . . . . 21--39
              Yupaporn Areepong   The exact solution of ARL on EWMA chart
                                  for non seasonal AR model with exogenous
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--59
                W. M. Afify and   
              Dina H. Abdelhady   On progressive Type-I interval censored
                                  under mixed model  . . . . . . . . . . . 61--87
      Hanaa Abd El-Reheem Salem   Exponentiated exponential Pareto
                                  distribution: properties and estimation  89--104

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 57, Number 2, August, 2019

                 Ghada Abo-Zaid   Multilevel modelling to examine the
                                  effect of mothers' smoke prior to
                                  pregnancy on childhood and adulthood
                                  asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--119
              Silvia Figini and   
               Pierpaolo Uberti   Uncertainty interval to assess
                                  performances of credit risk models . . . 121--133
  Muhammad Rafique Daudpoto and   
                Abdul Raziq and   
         Muhammad Ismail Wassan   Investigating the effect of RBC on
                                  different parameters through hydraulic
                                  retention time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--144
           Essam Fawzy Aziz and   
             Nader Alber Fanous   Determinants of Egyptian bank's
                                  profitability using seemingly unrelated
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--153
             Magda M. M. Haggag   A new difference method for variance
                                  estimation in non-parametric regression
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--189


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 58, Number 1, September, 2019

           Cherdchai Me-ead and   
               Rhysa McNeil and   
           Wandee Wanishsakpong   Clustering regions in South Asia based
                                  on factor analysis of temperature
                                  anomalies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
         Abdulaziz Alghamdi and   
                Alison Gray and   
                   David Watson   Investigation of metabolomics techniques
                                  by analysis of MS Propolis data: which
                                  pre-treatment method is better?  . . . . 13--34
  Hortensia Reyes-Cervantes and   
 Félix Almendra-Arao and   
   Marcos Morales-Cortés   A comparison of confidence intervals for
                                  a proportion and criteria for their
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
             Nikka S. Agbas and   
               Roel F. Ceballos   On the conjoint analysis of consumer's
                                  preferences on quality attributes of
                                  rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55
             Dina H. Abdel Hady   Use of exponential distribution for
                                  hybridization of distributions . . . . . 57--75

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 58, Number 2, October, 2019

    Zakiah Ibrahim Kalantan and   
      Mervat Khalifah Abd Elaal   Parameters estimations on bivariate
                                  Weibull $G$ distributions: a new family  77--122
              Elham Sadeghi and   
            Reza Moghaddasi and   
      Seyed Safdar Hosseini and   
           Amir Mohammadi Nejad   Is diversified export a driver for
                                  agricultural growth in developing
                                  countries? A dynamic model . . . . . . . 123--135
             Yasser M. Amer and   
               Rania M. Shalabi   Bias-Corrected maximum likelihood
                                  estimation of the parameters of the
                                  two-parameter Lindley distribution . . . 137--158
          A. H. Al-Marshadi and   
             A. H. Alharbey and   
         A. M. Abd-Elfattah and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Step--stress reliability for generalized
                                  Rayleigh distribution based on censoring
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 59, Number 1, November, 2019

              Shamsa Kanwal and   
                    Munir Ahmad   Weighted Fréchet distribution
                                  (area-biased): properties and
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
                  Hakiim J. and   
                Nor Idayu Mahat   The effects of resampling methods on
                                  linear discriminant analysis for data
                                  set with two imbalanced groups: an
                                  empirical evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 17--42
               N. Q. Thuong and   
            V. A. Kolobkova and   
                     P. T. Dong   Application of the statistical method of
                                  the stable design solutions synthesis
                                  for UAV's development  . . . . . . . . . 43--54
             Anurak Busaman and   
            Khamron Mekchay and   
           Suchada Siripant and   
         Somporn Chuai-Aree and   
                   Rhysa McNeil   Testing an adaptive grid-based first
                                  order finite volume scheme for dam-break
                                  simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--73
          Ouchar Cherif Ali and   
Stéphane Metchebon Takougang Aime and   
               Rasmane Yaro and   
              Youssouf Pare and   
                    Blaise Some   Comparison of two regression models for
                                  predicting cotton yields in the Logone
                                  occidental region of South Chad  . . . . 75--87
                Essam Fawzy and   
             Badrya Mahmoud and   
                      Aya Mongy   Modeling and forecasting of wheat
                                  production in Egypt  . . . . . . . . . . 89--101

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 59, Number 2, December, 2019

         Rohan J. Dalpatadu and   
          Kasun S. Kodikara and   
                 Ashok K. Singh   Impact of seasonality and rainfall on
                                  tea production in Sri Lanka  . . . . . . 103--123
            Nazneen Sultana and   
            Shamima Hossain and   
         Kazi Md. Farhad Mahmud   Factors influencing women's opinions
                                  regarding violence in Bangladesh . . . . 125--147
           Anthony C. Ogola and   
             Levi N. Mbugua and   
                 George O. Orwa   The gamma inverse Weibull Poisson
                                  distribution with application to
                                  survival data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--172
             Amani A. Ahmed and   
            Alyaa R. Zahran and   
          Moshira A. Ismail and   
              Abd El Naser Saad   The effect of introducing a scale
                                  parameter on the estimation of offset
                                  normal distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 173--197
     A. M. C. H. Attanayake and   
            S. S. N. Perera and   
                 U. P. Liyanage   Combining forecasts of ARIMA and
                                  exponential smoothing models . . . . . . 199--208


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 60, Number 1, January, 2020

           Sutawanir Darwis and   
           Nusar Hajarisman and   
                    Suliadi and   
                  Achmad Widodo   Exploring support vector regression for
                                  bearing degradation  . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
                J. Faridzah and   
              H. A. Hazlina and   
           S. Y. Sharipah Soaad   Robust alternatives to MEWMA control
                                  chart using distance-based and
                                  coordinate-wise robust estimators  . . . 11--33
          Suhailywati Ramli and   
          Saiful Hafizah Jaaman   Median-Variance fuzzy with trapezoidal
                                  fuzzy numbers for portfolio selection
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--44
                 Tak K. Mak and   
                  Fassil Nebebe   Simulated likelihood estimation using
                                  iterative importance sampling  . . . . . 45--62
               B. A. Anikin and   
               O. B. Anikin and   
               N. Q. Thuong and   
                     P. T. Dong   Forecasting the development of foreign
                                  trade of Russia and Vietnam until 2025
                                  based on logistic curve  . . . . . . . . 63--78
       Wandee Wanishsakpong and   
  Khairil Anwar Notodiputro and   
           Jeeraporn Thaithanan   On comparing the efficiency of two
                                  classification methods for precipitation
                                  occurrence in Bangkok  . . . . . . . . . 79--91
    Carlos Rondero-Guerrero and   
Isidro GonzÃ\textexclamdown lez-HernÃ\textexclamdown ndez and   
             Carlos Soto-Campos   On a generalized uniform distribution    93--103

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 60, Number 2, February, 2020

               Sima Sharghi and   
             Kevin E. Stoll and   
        Kimberlyn K. Brooks and   
                     Andrew Alt   Using tree-based methods to predict
                                  student retention with an emphasis on
                                  the education, wealth, and density of
                                  the hometown neighborhood  . . . . . . . 105--135
         M. M. T. Al-Kassab and   
                     M. Almousa   A comparison between ridge regression
                                  and least absolute value using
                                  simulation technique . . . . . . . . . . 137--146
          Nguyen Hoang Hung and   
                 Tran Tuan Kien   Profitability of moving average
                                  convergence divergence and moving
                                  average on Vietnamese stock: a
                                  comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--168
               Essam Fawzy Aziz   Using Holt's method and Holt--Winter's
                                  method to improve the performance
                                  quality of e-service FIFA2018  . . . . . 169--177
                     Sugito and   
             Alan Prahutama and   
                       Mustafid   Analysis of queue and performance of
                                  toll Muktiharjo Semarang, Indonesia as
                                  automatic toll service systems . . . . . 179--188
              Muhammad Ijaz and   
             Qamar-uz-Zaman and   
               Yousaf Hayat and   
                   Zafar Zaheer   Bayesian estimation of the parameter of
                                  exponential distribution under Jeffery
                                  prior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--199
   Ramadha D. Piyadi Gamage and   
               Ying-Ju Chen and   
                       Wei Ning   Modified jackknife empirical likelihood  201--215


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 61, Number 1, March, 2020

            Said H. Alkarni and   
              Wafaa A. Alshehri   Power Lindley geometric distribution: a
                                  new model for failure analysis in
                                  business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
                 P. T. Dong and   
            N. T. Hong Nham and   
                      V. D. Hoa   The application of logistic model in
                                  identifying factors affecting capital
                                  access of small and medium enterprises
                                  in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--32
                  Azam Zaka and   
         Ahmad Saeed Akhter and   
                  Riffat Jabeen   The exponentiated generalized power
                                  function distribution: theory and real
                                  life applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 33--63
                  Toan Ngoc Bui   How does financial depth influence real
                                  estate market? Evidence from the global
                                  financial crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--75
             Thu-Trang Thi Doan   Profitability of commercial banks:
                                  applying GMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--87
               S. I. Noskov and   
                 A. S. Vergasov   Application criterion of displacement
                                  when choosing the method of evaluating
                                  the parameters of regression equations   89--94
José-Salathiel Kossa-Kongbowali and   
           Boniface Mfourga and   
        Roger Armand Makany and   
                Gabriel Kissita   Proposal of dual simultaneous co-inertia
                                  analysis: DSCIA  . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--118

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 61, Number 2, April, 2020

            Ashwaq Bahaddad and   
             Bothinah Altaf and   
                Alyaa R. Zahran   Multidimensional child well-being in
                                  Jordan: a dominance approach . . . . . . 119--147
                    M. S. Hamed   A single acceptance sampling plan for
                                  truncated life test having the (P-A-L)
                                  extended Weibull distribution  . . . . . 149--159
                  V. D. Toropov   A possible approach to filling gaps in
                                  the source data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--167
            Ibrahim Sidi Zakari   Harnessing the potential of real-time
                                  data analysis and statistical modeling
                                  for mapping exposure to air pollution    169--181
           Mohamed Yusuf Hassan   An over-dispersed and under-dispersed
                                  generalized Poisson distribution . . . . 183--192
             Majdah M. Badr and   
                Arwa A. Alhijji   Statistical inference of generalized
                                  logistic distribution of Type I and its
                                  properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--216


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 62, Number 1, May, 2020

                     Yujan Shen   Optimum Bayesian inference for $3$-step
                                  step-stress tests under Type-II
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
                 P. T. Dong and   
                     T. T. Hung   An empirical study of the effect of
                                  monetary policy on the economic growth
                                  of Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--29
                   Fuad Alduais   Using non-linear programming to
                                  determine weighted coefficient of
                                  balanced loss function for estimating
                                  parameters and reliability function of
                                  Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 31--53
          Mohammed Alhagyan and   
                   Fuad Alduais   Forecasting the performance of Tadawul
                                  All Share Index (TASI) using geometric
                                  Brownian motion and geometric fractional
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65
                  Toan Ngoc Bui   Financial development and trade
                                  openness: a time series analysis . . . . 67--77
          Jetsada Laipaporn and   
         Phattrawan Tongkumchum   The time-varying correlation estimator
                                  using the natural cubic spline
                                  volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--95
 Mowafaq Muhammed Al-Kassab and   
        Mohammed Qasim Al-Awjar   A Monte Carlo comparison between least
                                  squares and the new ridge regression
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--105

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 62, Number 2, June, 2020

                    Vu Dinh Hoa   Estimation of factors affecting
                                  competitiveness of private business in
                                  the Song Hong Delta, Vietnam . . . . . . 107--125
              Riffat Jabeen and   
                      Azam Zaka   Percentiles estimation for the
                                  parameters of power function
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137
                    M. S. Hamed   The mixture Weibull-generalized gamma
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--171
             Thu-Trang Thi Doan   Cash holdings of consumer goods
                                  companies: applying GMM  . . . . . . . . 173--184
               Apiradee Lim and   
       Muhamad Rifki Taufik and   
     Phattrawan Tongkumchum and   
                    Nurin Dureh   Comparison of different supervised
                                  machine learning algorithms for the
                                  prediction of tuberculosis mortality . . 185--201
          Mohammed Alhagyan and   
            Masnita Misiran and   
                     Zurni Omar   Efficient estimators for geometric
                                  fractional Brownian motion perturbed by
                                  fractional Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process   203--226


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 63, Number 1, July, 2020

          Ayed R. A. Alanzi and   
                S. F. Niazi Ali   Bayesian prediction intervals for a new
                                  bathtub shape failure rate lifetime
                                  model in the presence of outliers  . . . 1--22
Mostafa Sayed Mostafa Abd-El Hameed El Misery   Female education and first birth event
                                  in Egypt as simultaneous processes . . . 23--37
                  Doan Van Dinh   Determinants of commercial banks'
                                  profitability: evidence from Vietnam . . 39--58
              Mayuening Eso and   
               Rhysa McNeil and   
            Abdunfattah Masamae   Factors associated with severe violent
                                  events in the southernmost provinces of
                                  Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--74
            Carina Ferreira and   
               Teresa Abreu and   
             Mário Basto   $p$-value misconceptions in health
                                  professionals and patients . . . . . . . 75--83
 H. N. A. M. Wijayawardhana and   
             A. P. Hewaarachchi   Periodic autoregressive model for
                                  temperature data in Nuwara Eliya, Sri
                                  Lanka  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96
              Muhammad Ijaz and   
            Atta Ullah Khan and   
         Syed Muhammad Asim and   
               Yousaf Hayat and   
            Syed Habib Shah and   
            Muhammad Farooq and   
                 Kashif Ali and   
                     Neelam and   
                   Seema Zubair   A new ratio type estimator to estimate
                                  the population mean using auxiliary
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108
 Mohamed Khalifa Ahmed Issa and   
Mahmoud Mohamed Abdelwahab Mahmoud   Estimation of AR(1) panel data models
                                  with missing observations  . . . . . . . 109--117

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 63, Number 2, August, 2020

      Rama Krishna Yelamanchili   Modeling stock market daily returns
                                  volatility using symmetric and
                                  asymmetric GARCH models with three
                                  different distributions  . . . . . . . . 119--140
              Sanaa Al-Marzouki   Statistical inference of Type II Topp
                                  Leone inverse Rayleigh distribution  . . 141--150
      Marcos Salazar Medina and   
José Luis Martinez Flores and   
Diana Sánchez Partida and   
            Patricia Cano Olivo   Motor equipment reliability analysis . . 151--174
           Mashail Al-Sobhi and   
        Saman Hanif Shahbaz and   
        Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz   Recursive computation for moments of
                                  order statistics for transmuted
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 175--189
              Saowapa Chaipitak   Time series ARIMA model for prediction
                                  of Thailand's monthly average cassava
                                  starch domestic price  . . . . . . . . . 191--205
 Félix Almendra-Arao and   
Hortensia J. Reyes-Cervantes and   
   Marcos Morales-Cortés   Behavior of the Wald's test for a
                                  proportion based on a shrinkage
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--218
          Qurat ul an Sabir and   
               Uzma Yasmeen and   
             Muhammad Hanif and   
               Tri Nguyen-Quang   Identification of influence of the risk
                                  factors to algal bloom in fresh water
                                  reservoirs using multinomial logistics
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--233
            Muhammad Rashad and   
                Zafar Iqbal and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   Characterizations and entropy measures
                                  of the Libby--Novick generalized beta
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--259


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 64, Number 1, September, 2020

           Dorcas W. Nduati and   
             Levi N. Mbugua and   
                Moses W. Wakoli   Application of Kumaraswamy inverse
                                  Weibull distribution in modeling
                                  survival data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
          David E. Omoregie and   
           Patrick Osatohanmwen   Forecasting Nigeria's per capita
                                  disposable income using the SARIMA time
                                  series framework . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--32
              Dina M. Sabry and   
               Ahmed M. Gad and   
             Ramadan H. Mohamed   Fitting joint modeling of longitudinal
                                  and time-to-event data using stochastic
                                  EM approach  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--62
                 I. Elbatal and   
                     M. Elgarhy   A new generalization of Erlang-truncated
                                  exponential distribution: properties and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--74
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Maximum binomial probabilities and game
                                  theory voter models  . . . . . . . . . . 75--85
             Chantha Wongoutong   Imputation for consecutive missing
                                  values in non-stationary time series
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--102
     A. M. C. H. Attanayake and   
            S. S. N. Perera and   
                 U. P. Liyanage   Negative binomial regression +
                                  autoregressive integrated moving average
                                  modelling of dengue disease in Colombo,
                                  Sri Lanka  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--112
                 I. Elbatal and   
                     M. Elgarhy   Extended Marshall--Olkin length-biased
                                  exponential distribution: properties and
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--125

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 64, Number 2, October, 2020

           Nesma M. Darwish and   
               Ahmed M. Gad and   
             Ramadan H. Mohamed   Fitting longitudinal data with missing
                                  values in the response and covariates    127--142
       Jeeraporn Thaithanan and   
             Chantha Wongoutong   A combined forecasting model for
                                  predicting the number of road traffic
                                  accident deaths in Thailand  . . . . . . 143--163
                   Arabinda Das   Gmm estimation of a copula-based
                                  stochastic frontier model  . . . . . . . 165--180
Mohammed Omar Musa Mohammed and   
    Ahmed Saied Rahama Abdallah   Using logistic regression to investigate
                                  the risk factors of diabetes in Hotat
                                  Bani Tamim Governorate . . . . . . . . . 181--201
               Guobing Ying and   
                  Shanchao Yang   Kernel weighted volatility estimation
                                  for stochastic diffusion model with jump 203--235
             Khushnoor Khan and   
                    Ali Algarni   A group acceptance sampling plan using
                                  mean lifetime as a quality parameter for
                                  inverse Weibull distribution . . . . . . 237--249
          Sanaa Al-Marzouki and   
               Sharifah Alrajhi   Kumaraswamy Weibull Rayleigh
                                  distribution: statistical properties and
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--266
                   Yanhui Zhang   $K$-Means clustering to ttr based
                                  lexical diversity analysis . . . . . . . 267--276


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 65, Number 1, November, 2020

              I. C. Kipchirchir   Estimating an exponentially decaying
                                  function of rate parameter of a Poisson
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
         Arniel A. Alderite and   
              Anthony F. Capili   Comparison of ARIMA and singular
                                  spectrum analysis in forecasting the
                                  Philippine inflation rate  . . . . . . . 19--31
                  G. Arslan and   
               B. Karabulut and   
               H. M. Ünver   On using structural patterns in data for
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--56
          Sadasivan Karuppusamy   Improved Poisson--Lindley distribution   57--68
              K. S. Deepthi and   
                   V. M. Chacko   Reliability estimation of
                                  stress-strength model using three
                                  parameter generalized Lindley
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--88
    Alejandro Ruiz-Olivares and   
Martha Elva Ramírez-Guzmán and   
     Sandy Yaredd Trujano-Ramos   Forecasting Mexican peso--US dollar
                                  exchange rate after the 2020 pandemic
                                  with GARCH and XGBoost time series
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--106
                Nguyen Hong Van   Influencing factors on the formation and
                                  development of the leather footwear
                                  industry association cluster in the
                                  northern key economic region in Vietnam  107--131
         Thu-Trang Thi Doan and   
                  Toan Ngoc Bui   Intention to use debit card services: an
                                  analysis in the light of the unified
                                  theory of acceptance and use of
                                  technology (UTAUT) . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142
                Yaqoob Al Rahbi   A comparative analysis between a model
                                  of multiple components with a single
                                  repairman and a model of multiple
                                  components with many repairmen . . . . . 143--150

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 65, Number 2, December, 2020

              Mishel Qyrana and   
                  Silvia Figini   Feature selection and multicollinearity
                                  in supervised models . . . . . . . . . . 151--164
        Kennet G. Cuarteros and   
          Noel G. Cuarteros Jr.   Survival analysis on hemodialysis
                                  patients using Cox regression  . . . . . 165--187
               B. Sulochana and   
             B. Re. Victor Babu   A study on second order slope rotatable
                                  designs under tri-diagonal correlated
                                  structure of errors using a pair of
                                  balanced incomplete block designs  . . . 189--208
           Dennis A. Tarepe and   
        Kennet G. Cuarteros and   
             Palawan M. Diangca   A simulation assessment of the
                                  properties of the estimators of a
                                  partially linear model . . . . . . . . . 209--226
                Fuad S. Alduais   Determination of the optimal period for
                                  carrying out preventive maintenance to
                                  minimize expected total cost . . . . . . 227--246
                Essam Fawzy and   
             Khaled Mohamed and   
                  Fatma Ibrahim   Suggested statistical models to study
                                  the affecting factors on the performance
                                  of shares and forecast the daily closing
                                  price (applied study on the shares of
                                  Google company)  . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 66, Number 1, January, 2021

             B. R. Sreedhar and   
             K. Muthyalappa and   
                 K. Pushpanjali   Statistical analysis of agricultural
                                  performance in different crops by using
                                  sampling techniques  . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
            K. M. Sakthivel and   
                    K. Dhivakar   Topp--Leone generated-Dagum distribution
                                  and its properties . . . . . . . . . . . 13--38
    J. G. L. S. Jayawardena and   
            U. Anura Kumara and   
            M. A. K. Sriyalatha   Measurement of relationship of power
                                  sector reforms and social aspect of
                                  corporate sustainability of electricity
                                  generation of Sri Lanka --- exploratory
                                  factor analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--60
           Federico Bonelli and   
              Silvia Figini and   
              Alessandra Grossi   Ensemble churn risk analytics  . . . . . 61--76
          Nawal G. Alghamdi and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                 Khushnoor Khan   Modeling count data using Poisson
                                  regression in evaluation of educational
                                  performance: a new paradigm  . . . . . . 77--95
                  V. D. Toropov   Application of the method of multiple
                                  estimation of linear regression
                                  parameters for modeling the level of
                                  economic transparency  . . . . . . . . . 97--102
         P. Balasubramanyam and   
           K. Sreenivasa Murthy   Trend based correction to the predicted
                                  results for time series forecasting  . . 103--114

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 66, Number 2, February, 2021

Ahmed Saied Rahama Abdallah and   
  Hashmia Salih El-Jack Al-Nour   Use of regression analysis to identify
                                  the relationship between training and
                                  real profits for Sudanese banks for the
                                  period (2001--2014)  . . . . . . . . . . 115--144
               Diponkar Das and   
                Nazneen Sultana   Climate change in Bangladesh: a quantile
                                  trend of temperature . . . . . . . . . . 145--164
          Mohammed Alhagyan and   
            Masnita Misiran and   
                     Zurni Omar   On effects of stochastic volatility and
                                  long memory towards mortgage insurance
                                  models: an empirical study . . . . . . . 165--174
             M. A. M. Abraj and   
             A. P. Hewaarachchi   Joint return period estimation of daily
                                  maximum and minimum temperatures using
                                  copula method  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--190
    Bindu Punathumparambath and   
     Kannan Vadakkadath Meethal   New approach for estimating
                                  differentially expressed genes in
                                  microarray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--208
               Milan Bimali and   
               Khimraj Shrestha   Weighted likelihood-based approach to
                                  hierarchical clustering  . . . . . . . . 209--226


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 67, Number 1, March, 2021

    Bhuwaneshwar Kumar Gupt and   
          Md. Irphan Ahamed and   
                 Manoshi Phukon   Optimum stratification for an auxiliary
                                  variable optimum allocation under a
                                  superpopulation model  . . . . . . . . . 1--20
            N. M. Hakmanage and   
        N. V. Chandrasekara and   
           D. D. M. Jayasundara   Application of linear programming models
                                  for optimal resource planning and
                                  management in sustainable cultivation
                                  --- a case study in a farming village of
                                  Sri Lanka  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31
                Fuad S. Alduais   A Bayesian analysis of record statistics
                                  from the Lomax model under balanced loss
                                  functions with nonlinear programming . . 33--45
          Felix Okoe Mettle and   
         Enoch NiiBoi Quaye and   
                Dennis Arku and   
            Emmanuel Kojo Aidoo   A quantitative model for a sustainable
                                  pension plan in a developing economy . . 47--64
          Sudarat Nidsunkid and   
                       Mena Lao   The performance of control chart for
                                  individual measurements when the process
                                  data are uniformly distributed . . . . . 65--83
         Mahmoud M. Mansour and   
           Salah M. Mohamed and   
          Enayat M. Abd Elrazik   An improved strategy to estimate the
                                  rare sensitive parameter under Poisson
                                  distribution by using two-stage
                                  unrelated question RRT model . . . . . . 85--116

Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 67, Number 2, April, 2021

      Geoffrey U. Ugwuanyim and   
          Harrison O. Amuji and   
     Desmond C. Bartholomew and   
                 Hyginus Wisdom   The reliability of art in the control of
                                  Human Immune Virus (HIV) . . . . . . . . 117--132
      Muhammad Zahid Rashid and   
             Ahmad Saeed Akhter   Survival weighted power function
                                  distribution with applications to
                                  medical, oceanology and metrology data   133--160
             Peter N. Mecha and   
       Isaac C. Kipchirchir and   
           Joseph A. M. Ottieno   Generators for discrete mixtures based
                                  on order statistics with application to
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 161--178
          Sulochana Beeraka and   
              B. Re. Victorbabu   Measure of slope rotatability for second
                                  order response surface designs under
                                  intra-class correlated structure of
                                  errors using balanced incomplete block
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--205
                Aseel Almansour   Using big data in the real estate sector 207--224
                 Ryan Sides and   
                   James Stamey   Underreporting in mixed treatment
                                  comparisons meta-analysis for Poisson
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--236
             Onchere Walter and   
               Weke Patrick and   
                 Otieno JAM and   
                 Ogutu Carolyne   Non-central gamma frailty with
                                  application to life term assurance data  237--253


Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 68, Number 1, May, 2021

              Anupma Kumari and   
                   Amisha Gupta   Application of multiple regression model
                                  to determine the impact of foreign
                                  direct investment and export on economic
                                  growth of food processing industry in
                                  India  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
             Onchere Walter and   
               Weke Patrick and   
                 Otieno JAM and   
                 Ogutu Carolyne   Shared frailty model with application in
                                  joint-life annuity insurance . . . . . . 23--42
    J. G. L. S. Jayawardena and   
            U. Anura Kumara and   
            M. A. K. Sriyalatha   Effectiveness of power sector reforms on
                                  social aspect of corporate
                                  sustainability of electricity generation
                                  in Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56
          Sukanya Intarapak and   
           Thidaporn Supapakorn   Forecasting the import value of Thailand 57--70
                  Hanan Elsaied   Using observation driven models to fit
                                  count daily new confirmed cases of
                                  ``COVID 19'' in Egypt  . . . . . . . . . 71--91
            Khushbakht Khan and   
        Muhammad Riaz Ahmad and   
          Mohammed Albassam and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   A statistical study on safety factors to
                                  reduce the road accidents  . . . . . . . 93--109
      Enayat M. Abd Elrazik and   
         Mahmoud M. Mansour and   
               Salah M. Mohamed   Modeling COVID-19 daily cases in Egypt   111--124