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Volume 4, Number 8, 1975
Volume 5, Number 1, 1976
Volume 5, Number 2, 1976
Volume 5, Number 3, 1976
Volume 5, Number 4, 1976
Volume 5, Number 5, 1976
Volume 5, Number 6, 1976
Volume 5, Number 7, 1976
Volume 5, Number 8, 1976
Volume 5, Number 9, 1976
Volume 5, Number 10, 1976
Volume 5, Number 11, 1976
Volume 5, Number 12, 1976
Volume 5, Number 13, 1976
Volume 5, Number 14, 1976
Volume 5, Number 15, 1976
Volume 6, Number 1, 1977
Volume 6, Number 2, 1977
Volume 6, Number 3, 1977
Volume 6, Number 4, 1977
Volume 6, Number 5, 1977
Volume 6, Number 6, 1977
Volume 6, Number 7, 1977
Volume 6, Number 8, 1977
Volume 6, Number 9, 1977
Volume 6, Number 10, 1977
Volume 6, Number 11, 1977
Volume 6, Number 12, 1977
Volume 6, Number 13, 1977
Volume 6, Number 14, 1977
Volume 6, Number 15, 1977
Volume 7, Number 1, 1978
Volume 7, Number 2, 1978
Volume 7, Number 3, 1978
Volume 7, Number 4, 1978
Volume 7, Number 5, 1978
Volume 7, Number 6, 1978
Volume 7, Number 7, 1978
Volume 7, Number 8, 1978
Volume 7, Number 9, 1978
Volume 7, Number 10, 1978
Volume 7, Number 11, 1978
Volume 7, Number 12, 1978
Volume 7, Number 13, 1978
Volume 7, Number 14, 1978
Volume 7, Number 15, 1978
Volume 8, Number 1, 1979
Volume 8, Number 2, 1979
Volume 8, Number 3, 1979
Volume 8, Number 4, 1979
Volume 8, Number 5, 1979
Volume 8, Number 6, 1979
Volume 8, Number 7, 1979
Volume 8, Number 8, 1979
Volume 8, Number 9, 1979
Volume 8, Number 10, 1979
Volume 8, Number 11, 1979
Volume 8, Number 12, 1979
Volume 8, Number 13, 1979
Volume 8, Number 14, 1979
Volume 8, Number 15, 1979


Communications in Statistics
Volume 4, Number 8, 1975

                     M. L. Tiku   A new statistic for testing suspected
                                  outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--752


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 1, 1976

              W. J. Conover and   
                     K. E. Kemp   Comparisons of the asymptotic
                                  efficiencies of two sample tests for
                                  discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 1--15
              V. P. Bhapkar and   
                 Grant W. Somes   Multiple comparisons of matched
                                  proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25
                Sidney Addelman   Systematic latin squares . . . . . . . . 27--44
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Distribution of the sum of independent
                                  generalized logarithmic series variables 45--48
        Govind S. Mudholkar and   
        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
               Lin Ching-Chuong   Approximations for the doubly
                                  noncentral-$F$ distribution  . . . . . . 49--63
                Norman Neff and   
         William E. Strawderman   Further remarks on estimating the
                                  parameter of a noncentral chi-square
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--76
            Arthur E. Hoerl and   
              Robert W. Kennard   Ridge regression iterative estimation of
                                  the biasing parameter  . . . . . . . . . 77--88
              Bradford R. Grain   Matrix density estimation  . . . . . . . 89--96
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 2, 1976

            D. A. S. Fraser and   
              Irwin Guttman and   
             George P. H. Styan   Serial correlation and distributions on
                                  the sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--118
            Robert M. Smith and   
                    Lee J. Bain   Correlation type goodness-of-fit
                                  statistics with censored sampling  . . . 119--132
              Shyaai Johari and   
              Stanley L. Selove   Partitioning a distribution  . . . . . . 133--147
                R. L. Scheaffer   A note on approximate confidence limits
                                  for the negative binomial model  . . . . 149--158
          Matthew Goldstein and   
                Edward Wolf and   
                 William Dillon   On a test of independence for
                                  contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
                  J. N. Adichie   A note on asymptotic linearity of a bank
                                  statistic in regression parameter  . . . 171--181
                  P. V. Rao and   
               C. Littell Ramon   An estimator of relative potency . . . . 183--189
                 K. R. Shah and   
                     S. C. Puri   Application of MINQUE procedure to block
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--196
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 3, 1976

                   S. Zacks and   
                     H. Solomon   On testing and estimating the
                                  interaction between treatments and
                                  environmental conditions in binomial
                                  experiments: The case of two stations    197--223
            Alan E. Gelfand and   
                   D. L. Thomas   Discrimination between the binomial and
                                  hypergeometric models  . . . . . . . . . 225--240
                  Joel Michalek   Uniform convergence of an empirical cdf
                                  based on a relatively small number of
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250
           Douglas H. Jones and   
              Lewis Coopersmith   A ratio estimator of the total of a
                                  subpopulation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--260
                     D. E. Amos   Computation of the central and
                                  noncentral $F$ distributions . . . . . . 261--281
              Thomas J. Santner   A two stage procedure for selecting $
                                  \delta^*$-optimal means in the normal
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--292
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 4, 1976

              J. J. Shuster and   
                 F. H. Dietrich   Quantal response assays by inverse
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305
              J. F. Lawless and   
                        P. Wang   A simulation study of ridge and other
                                  regression estimators  . . . . . . . . . 307--323
           Austin F. S. Lee and   
           Ralph B. D. Agostino   Levels of significance of some
                                  two-sample tests when observations are
                                  from compound normal distributions . . . 325--342
               John D. Spurrier   Double sample tests for the equality of
                                  two means  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--349
                  Charles Locke   A test for the composite hypothesis that
                                  a population has a gamma distribution    351--364
              Meena Pradhan and   
                    Y. S. Sathe   Modification of fixed even sample size
                                  procedure for play-the-winner  . . . . . 365--371
         Michael A. Fligner and   
             Robert V. Hogg and   
             Timothy J. Killeen   Some distribution-free Rane-like
                                  statistics having the
                                  Mann--Whitney--Wilcoxon null
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--376
                 J. E. Dutt and   
                     A. P. Soms   An integral representation technique for
                                  calculating general multivariate
                                  probabilities with an application to
                                  multivariate $ \chi^2 $  . . . . . . . . 377--388
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 5, 1976

          Jerald F. Lawless and   
                  Nancy R. Mann   Tests for homogeneity of extreme value
                                  scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--405
                  G. Nagase and   
                 K. S. Banerjee   On the distribution of a second degree
                                  polynomial statistic in singular normal
                                  variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--412
               Robb J. Muirhead   Forms for the distribution of the
                                  ellipticity statistic for bivariate
                                  sphericity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--420
             George W. Williams   Testing the association between health
                                  status and an environmental index  . . . 421--427
               Z. Govindarajulu   A brief survey of nonparametric
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--453
                V. Susarlam and   
                   E. G. Phadia   Empirical Bayes testing of a
                                  distribution function with Dirichlet
                                  process priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--469
               S. K. Sinlia and   
                  Irwin Guttman   Bayesian inference about the reliability
                                  function for the exponential
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--479
            Victor J. Yohai and   
             Ricardo A. Maronna   Location estimators based on linear
                                  combinations of modified order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--486
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 6, 1976

             James W. Frane and   
                   Maryann Hill   Factor analysis as a tool for data
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--506
          C. P. Quasenberry and   
                 R. R. Starbuck   On optimal tests for separate hypotheses
                                  and conditional probability integral
                                  transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--524
             Khursheed Alam and   
                K. T. Wallenius   Positive dependence and monotonicity in
                                  conditional distributions  . . . . . . . 525--534
                   Harold Ruben   On the evaluation of Steck's determinant
                                  for rectangle probabilities of uniform
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--543
                      R. M. Ray   A new $ C(\alpha) $ test for $ 2 \times
                                  2 $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--563
                   Wanzer Drane   N the theory of randomized responses to
                                  two sensitive questions  . . . . . . . . 565--574
               K. Aiyappan Nair   Bivariate extreme value distributions    575--581
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 7, 1976

                 Ronald L. Iman   An approximation to the exact
                                  distribution of the
                                  Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney rank sum test
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--598
                 P. D. Puri and   
                    A. K. Nigam   Balanced factorial experiments. I  . . . 599--619
            Deng-Yuan Huang and   
               S. Panchapakesan   A modified subset selection formulation
                                  with special reference to one-way and
                                  two-way layout experiments . . . . . . . 621--633
                Robert W. Resek   Estimation of the parameters of a
                                  general Student's $t$ distribution . . . 635--645
             Marakatha Krishnan   The noncentral bivariate chi-squared
                                  distribution and extensions  . . . . . . 647--660
                  Bertram Price   A note on estimation in Bernoulli trials
                                  with dependence  . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--671
                   Stuart Scott   Moments of suprema of random variables   673--680
              R. F. Woolson and   
               J. D. Leeper and   
              J. W. L. Cole and   
                   W. R. Clarke   A Monte Carlo investigation of a
                                  statistic for a bivariate missing data
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--688
        William L. Harkness and   
               Ashok V. Godambe   Inequalities for tail probabilities for
                                  the multivariate normal distribution . . 689--692
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 8, 1976

           Joseph W. McKean and   
       Thomas P. Hettmansperger   Tests of hypotheses based on ranks in
                                  the general linear model . . . . . . . . 693--709
                T. Sugiyama and   
                        H. Tong   On a statistic useful in dimensionality
                                  reduction in multivariable linear
                                  stochastic system  . . . . . . . . . . . 711--721
                    D. Holt and   
                    J. G. Fryer   On the robustness of the power function
                                  of the one-sample test for the negative
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 723--734
               Joseph B. Kadane   For what use are tests of hypotheses and
                                  tests of significance, introduction  . . 735--736
                   Jerzy Neyman   Tests of statistical hypotheses and
                                  their use in studies of natural
                                  phenomena  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--751
               Harry V. Roberts   For what use are tests of hypotheses and
                                  tests of significance  . . . . . . . . . 753--761
                Oscar Kempthore   Of what use are tests of significance
                                  and tests of hypothesis  . . . . . . . . 763--777
                  John W. Pratt   A discussion of the question: for what
                                  use are tests of hypotheses and tests of
                                  significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--787
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 9, 1976

                  John E. Rolph   Choosing shrinkage estimators for
                                  regression problems  . . . . . . . . . . 789--802
          P. A. V. B. Swamy and   
                    J. S. Mehta   Minimum average risk estimators for
                                  coefficients in linear models  . . . . . 803--818
              Irwin Guttman and   
                  Rudolf Dutter   Procedures for investigating outliers
                                  when estimating in the general
                                  univariate linear situation-nonfull rank
                                  case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--835
             K. S. Banerjee and   
                      G. Nagase   A note on the generalisation of
                                  Cochran's theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . 837--842
           Pasquale J. Di Pillo   The application of bias to discriminant
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--854
                A. K. Gupta and   
                    D. S. Tracy   Recurrence relations for the moments of
                                  truncated multinormal distribution . . . 855--865
                  J. J. Shuster   The precision of an estimator due to
                                  Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--874
             Joseph A. Cima and   
                 Yosef Hochberg   On optimality criteria in simultaneous
                                  interval estimation  . . . . . . . . . . 875--882
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 10, 1976

                 Betty Beck and   
             Lorraine Denby and   
              James M. Landwehr   Statistics in the elementary school  . . 883--894
             Susan Dadakis Horn   Teaching statistics to elementary school
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--899
                     F. Downton   Statistics in English schools for the $
                                  16$--$ 18$ + age group . . . . . . . . . 901--924
               Richard F. Gunst   Reassessing service courses in
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925--934
                D. C. Haack and   
                   H. E. McKean   Graduate and undergraduate modular
                                  instruction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--941
                    D. G. Haack   A nonsymbolic statistics course  . . . . 943--947
              Jane F. Gentleman   Interactive graphics in a
                                  terminal-equipped classroom  . . . . . . 949--967
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 11, 1976

                  W. Fraser and   
                   B. L. Raktoe   A theorem on invariance of estimability
                                  of linear parametric functions in linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--983
                  J. N. Adichie   Testing parallelism of regression lines
                                  against ordered alternatives . . . . . . 985--997
             Howard A. Bird and   
             George A. Milliken   Estimable functions in the nonlinear
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1012
          Robert E. Colvert and   
             Thomas J. Boardman   Estimation in the piece-wise constant
                                  hazard rate model  . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1029
              Bertram Price and   
                Aaron Tenenbein   Probability computations for an
                                  extension of the geometric distribution  1031--1039
                  Leo A. Aroian   Moments of the decisive sample number
                                  and of the average time to termination
                                  of sequential tests  . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1045
                 C. E. Mc Henry   A note on expressing Wilks' $A$ as the
                                  product of independent beta variables    1047--1053
                  K. Pinski and   
                  V. A. Sposito   Consistency of the normal equations  . . 1055--1057
             Robert P. Clickner   On least squares estimation for
                                  categorical data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1064
               Benee F. Swindel   Good ridge estimators based on prior
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065--1075
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 12, 1976

                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--v
               Patrick L. Odell   Current and past roles of the
                                  statistician in space applications . . . 1077--1089
                P. L. Odell and   
                     J. P. Basu   Concerning several methods for
                                  estimating crop acreages using remote
                                  sensing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1114
                J. D. Tubbs and   
                  W. A. Coberly   An empirical sensitivity study of
                                  mixture proportion estimators  . . . . . 1115--1125
             Charles Peters and   
             William A. Coberly   The numerical evaluation of the
                                  maximum-likelihood estimate of mixture
                                  proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127--1135
          B. C. Peters, Jr. and   
                  J. L. Solomon   A note on optimum linear feature
                                  extraction for Gaussian populations with
                                  equal covariances and equal a priori
                                  probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1141
       Henry P. Decell, Jr. and   
                Salma K. Marani   Feature combinations and the
                                  Bhattacharyya criterion  . . . . . . . . 1143--1152
       Henry P. Decell, Jr. and   
               W. G. Smiley III   Optimal linear combinations using
                                  Householder transformations  . . . . . . 1153--1162
             Robert M. Haralick   The table look-up rule . . . . . . . . . 1163--1191
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 13, 1976

             D. A. Anderson and   
                  W. T. Federer   Multidimensional balanced designs  . . . 1193--1204
         Edward F. Meydrech and   
             Lawrence L. Kupper   On quadratic approximation of a cubic
                                  response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205--1213
          Bimal Kumar Sinha and   
              Bikas Kumar Sinha   On a characterization of the dispersion
                                  matrix based on the properties of
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1224
              Bruce W. Turnbull   Multiple decision rules for comparing
                                  several populations with a fixed known
                                  standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1244
                  Peter Tan and   
                   B. Bernholtz   On structural models and a theorem of D.
                                  Basu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245--1256
                    Yves Lepage   Asymptotic power efficiency for a
                                  location and scale problem . . . . . . . 1257--1274
                   Lionel Weiss   Two-sample tests and tests of fit  . . . 1275--1285
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 14, 1976

              Benjamin S. Duran   A survey of nonparametric tests for
                                  scale  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287--1312
                 Robert V. Hogg   A new dimension to nonparametric tests   1313--1325
        William R. Schucany and   
                  James Beckett   Analysis of multiple sets of incomplete
                                  rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1327--1334
             Ronald L. Iman and   
             James M. Davenport   New approximations to the exact
                                  distribution of the Kruskal--Wallis test
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1348
              W. J. Conover and   
                     R. L. Iman   On some alternative procedures using
                                  ranks for the analysis of experimental
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1349--1368
            Myles Hollander and   
               Ramesh M. Korwar   Nonparametric empirical Bayes estimation
                                  of the probability that $ x \geq y $ . . 1369--1383
                Kamal C. Chanda   Some comments on sample quantiles for
                                  dependent observations . . . . . . . . . 1385--1392
            N. F. Laubscher and   
                 Robert E. Odeh   A confidence interval for the scale
                                  parameter based on Sukhtmes two-sample
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393--1407
        Paul W. Mielke, Jr. and   
           Kenneth J. Berry and   
                Earl S. Johnson   Multi-response permutation procedures
                                  for a priori classifications . . . . . . 1409--1424
               Gary G. Koch and   
      M. Nabil El-Khorazaty and   
               Alcinda L. Lewis   The asymptotic covariance structure of
                                  log-linear model estimated parameters
                                  for the multiple recapture census  . . . 1425--1445
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 5, Number 15, 1976

             Yosef Hochberg and   
           Peter A. Lachenbruch   Two stage multiple comparison procedures
                                  based on the Studentized range . . . . . 1447--1453
             D. D. Wackerly and   
                 F. H. Dietrich   Pairwise comparisons of matched
                                  proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1467
                 Earl Nordbrock   A sequential design for binomial
                                  clinical trials  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1469--1478
                  K. G. Russell   The connectedness and optimality of a
                                  class of row-column designs  . . . . . . 1479--1488
                Deng-Yuan Huang   On some selection procedures for normal
                                  means problems with unequal sample sizes 1489--1499
                R. F. Gunst and   
                    R. L. Mason   Generalized mean squared error
                                  properties of regression estimators  . . 1501--1508
                   A. Hsuan and   
                   D. S. Robson   The $ \chi^2$-goodness-of-fit tests with
                                  moment type estimators . . . . . . . . . 1509--1519
          Gerald J. La Cava and   
                   Kenneth Reid   Scale estimators for symmetric stable
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1521--1531
                    F. K. Hwang   The rank distribution of the maximin in
                                  a random matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1538
                     C. J. Park   The power series distribution with
                                  unknown truncation parameter: Two sample
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1539--1544
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 1, 1977

                H. D. Brunk and   
               Donald A. Pierce   Large sample posterior normality of the
                                  population mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                Ajit C. Tamhane   Multiple comparisons in Model I one-way
                                  ANOVA with unequal variances . . . . . . 15--32
              G. L. Hensler and   
             K. G. Mehrotra and   
                 J. E. Michalek   A goodness of fit test for multivariate
                                  normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41
                  Karen K. Yuen   Robustness of some sequential procedures 43--54
                  Hajime Yamato   Relations between limiting Bayes
                                  estimates and the $U$-statistics for
                                  estimable parameters of degrees $2$ and
                                  $3$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66
          Takis Papaioannou and   
                    Ted Speevak   Rank correlation inequalities with
                                  missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--72
         George A. Milliken and   
                  Fikri Akdeniz   A theorem on the difference of the
                                  generalized inverses of two nonnegative
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--79
                N. I. Lyons and   
                  C. H. Proctor   A test for regression function adequacy  81--86
             Lyle D. Broemeling   Forecasting future values of changing
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--102
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 2, 1977

                Lee J. Bain and   
             Max Engelhardt and   
                   F. T. Wright   Inferential procedures for the truncated
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 103--111
                  Ram C. Dahiya   Estimation in a truncated bivariate
                                  Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 113--120
               G. S. Rogers and   
                    D. L. Young   Explicit maximum likelihood estimators
                                  for certain patterned covariance
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133
                      W. Fieger   A characterization of the multivariate
                                  normal distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 135--140
           J. N. Srivastava and   
                       S. Ghosh   Balanced $ 2^m $ factorial designs of
                                  resolution V which allow search and
                                  estimation of one extra unknown effect,
                                  $ 4 \leq m \leq 8 $  . . . . . . . . . . 141--166
                G. P. Patil and   
              M. V. Ratnaparkhi   Invariance of linearity of regression
                                  and related characterizations of some
                                  classical discrete distributions . . . . 167--174
                    P. F. Ramig   On the Galton--Watson branching process:
                                  application of a method of moments and
                                  recursive determination for certain
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--196
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 3, 1977

      Abdalla T. El-Helbawy and   
               Ralph A. Bradley   Treatment contrasts in paired
                                  comparisons: convergence of a basic
                                  iterative scheme for estimation  . . . . 197--207
                  Paul J. Smith   A nonparametric test for bivariate
                                  circular symmetry based on the empirical
                                  cdf  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--220
                       B. Kedem   On the asymptotic normality of linear
                                  rank statistics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--229
              G. S. Lingappaiah   On some inflated generalized discrete
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--241
                  E. D. Mc Cune   On Cornish--Fisher expansions as a ratio
                                  of determinants without cumulants  . . . 243--250
                    E. R. Jones   Fixed-size rectangular confidence
                                  regions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--264
             Donald Holbert and   
                Lyle Broemeling   Bayesian inferences related to shifting
                                  sequences and two-phase regression . . . 265--275
                   Claude Cohen   The generalized symmetric eigenproblem
                                  in multivariate statistical models . . . 277--288
                     A. Dey and   
                    S. C. Gupta   Singular weighing designs and estimation
                                  of total weight  . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--295
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 4, 1977

                Saul Blumenthal   Estimating population size with
                                  truncated sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 297--308
             R. Carter Hill and   
            Thomas B. Fomby and   
                  S. R. Johnson   Component selection norms for principal
                                  components regression  . . . . . . . . . 309--334
                   L. Denby and   
                   W. A. Larsen   Robust regression estimators compared
                                  via Monte Carlo  . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--362
             Prem P. Talwar and   
                James E. Gentle   A robust test for the homogeneity of
                                  scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--369
              A. R. Padmanabhan   Hodges--Lehmann estimators in the case
                                  of grouped data --- I  . . . . . . . . . 371--380
                    C. A. Field   Confidence sets as programming problems  381--390
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 5, 1977

               M. J. Doviak and   
                R. L. Scheaffer   Utilizing auxiliary variables in
                                  sequential ratio and regression
                                  estimation schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 391--404
              Allen H. Reed and   
                      Gaw T. Wu   Estimation of bias in classical linear
                                  regression slope when the proper model
                                  is functional linear regression  . . . . 405--416
              Stanley L. Sclove   Population mixture models and clustering
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--434
             Douglas M. Hawkins   Comment on ``A new statistic for testing
                                  suspected outliers'' . . . . . . . . . . 435--438
        William R. Schucany and   
              Wayne A. Woodward   Adjusting the degrees of freedom for the
                                  jackknife  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--442
              W. J. Padgett and   
                      L. J. Wei   Bayes estimation of reliability for the
                                  two-parameter lognormal distribution . . 443--457
             K. G. Mehrotra and   
              R. A. Johnson and   
            G. K. Bhattacharyya   Locally most powerful rank tests for
                                  multiple-censored data . . . . . . . . . 459--469
                    K. G. Brown   On estimation of diagonal covariance
                                  matrices by MINQUE . . . . . . . . . . . 471--484
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 6, 1977

              N. L. Johnson and   
                        S. Kotz   On some generalized
                                  Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern
                                  distributions --- II regression,
                                  correlation and further generalizations  485--496
                 A. Hedayat and   
               B. L. Raktoe and   
                 Prem P. Talwar   Examination and analysis of residuals: A
                                  test for detecting a monotonic relation
                                  between mean and variance in regression
                                  through the origin . . . . . . . . . . . 497--506
          Hiranmay Majumdar and   
               Pranab Kumar Sen   Rank order tests for grouped data under
                                  progressive censoring  . . . . . . . . . 507--524
           Austin M. Barron and   
                Eugene Mignogna   Sequential selection procedures for
                                  choosing the better of two binomial
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--552
               Campbell B. Read   Partitioning chi-square in contingency
                                  tables: a teaching approach  . . . . . . 553--562
                   Hira L. Koul   A test for new better than used  . . . . 563--573
                G. J. McLachlan   Constrained sample discrimination with
                                  the Studentized classification statistic
                                  $w$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--583
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 7, 1977

               Anil K. Bhargava   Maximum likelihood estimation in a
                                  multivariate `errors in variables'
                                  regression model with unknown error
                                  covariance matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 587--601
           Friedrich Pukelsheim   Equality of two blues and ridge-type
                                  estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--610
         L. F. Guseman, Jr. and   
                  Jay R. Walton   An application of linear feature
                                  selection to estimation of proportions   611--617
                    Tom Leonard   Bayesian simultaneous estimation for
                                  several multinomial distributions  . . . 619--630
                A. I. Khuri and   
                  J. A. Cornell   Secondary design considerations for
                                  minimum bias estimation  . . . . . . . . 631--647
                    Yves Lepage   A class of nonparametric tests for
                                  location and scale parameters  . . . . . 649--659
                 P. M. Robinson   Finite-parameter approximations to
                                  frequency response function  . . . . . . 661--677
          Wilkie W. Chaffin and   
           John T. Sennetti and   
               Klaus Hinkelmann   A procedure for optimal augmentation of
                                  multidimensional designs . . . . . . . . 679--689
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 8, 1977

                 C. Brownie and   
                      J. Kiefer   The ideas of conditional confidence in
                                  the simplest setting . . . . . . . . . . 691--751
                 P. D. Puri and   
                    A. K. Nigam   Partially efficiency balanced designs    753--771
               Kim Andriano and   
            James E. Gentle and   
                  V. A. Sposito   On the asymptotic bias of Grenander's
                                  mode estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--776
              Richard Simon and   
              David G. Hoel and   
                George H. Weiss   The use of covariate information in the
                                  sequential analysis of dichotomous
                                  response experiments . . . . . . . . . . 777--788
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 9, 1977

                 Robert V. Hogg   An introduction to robust procedures . . 789--794
           Edward J. Wegman and   
             Raymond J. Carroll   A Monte Carlo study of robust estimators
                                  of location  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--812
            Paul W. Holland and   
                  Roy E. Welsch   Robust regression using iteratively
                                  reweighted least-squares . . . . . . . . 813--827
                 H. Leon Harter   Nonuniqueness of least absolute values
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--838
               J. E. Gentle and   
              W. J. Kennedy and   
                  V. A. Sposito   On least absolute values estimation  . . 839--845
               Russell V. Lenth   Robust splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--854
   Thomas P. Hettmansperger and   
                Jessica M. Utts   Robustness properties for a simple class
                                  of rank estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . 855--868
               Douglas H. Jones   A one-sample adaptive distribution-free
                                  test with a stable power function  . . . 869--877
         Ronald M. Schrader and   
              Joseph W. Mc Kean   Robust analysis of variance  . . . . . . 879--894
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 10, 1977

                 U. B. Paik and   
                  W. T. Federer   Analysis of binary number association
                                  scheme partially balanced designs  . . . 895--931
           Pasquale J. Di Pillo   Further applications of bias to
                                  discriminant analysis  . . . . . . . . . 933--943
                     H. P. Wynn   The combinatorial characterization of
                                  certain connected $ 2 \times j \times k
                                  $ three-way layouts  . . . . . . . . . . 945--953
                  Umesh D. Naik   Some subset selection problems . . . . . 955--966
                  Edwin L. Crow   Minimum variance unbiased estimators of
                                  the ratio of means of two lognormal
                                  variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--975
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Minimum variance unbiased estimation in
                                  a modified power series distribution and
                                  some of its applications . . . . . . . . 977--991
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 11, 1977

                Shanti S. Gupta   Selection and ranking procedures: a
                                  brief introduction . . . . . . . . . . . 993--1001
            Ajit C. Tamhane and   
            Robert E. Bechhofer   A Two-stage minimax procedure with
                                  screening for selecting the largest
                                  normal mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1033
            Shanti S. Gupta and   
                Deng-Yuan Huang   Some multiple decision problems in
                                  analysis of variance . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1054
              Gary C. Mc Donald   Subset selection procedures based on
                                  sample ranges  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055--1079
           S. Panchapakesan and   
                  T. J. Santner   Subset selection procedures for $
                                  \Delta_P $-superior populations  . . . . 1081--1090
             Alam Khursheed and   
                K. T. Wallenius   On selecting the best population . . . . 1091--1104
                     Y. L. Tong   Applications of a probability inequality
                                  to ranking and selection and other
                                  related problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1120
          Peter O. Anderson and   
           Thomas A. Bishop and   
             Edward J. Dudewicz   Indifference-zone ranking and selection:
                                  confidence intervals for true achieved
                                  P(CD)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121--1132
                John S. Ramberg   Selecting the best predictor variate . . 1133--1147
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 12, 1977

            James A. Koziol and   
                     Nancy Reid   On multiple comparisons among $K$
                                  samples subject to unequal patterns of
                                  censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1164
                      L. L. Sia   Some Properties of connectedness in
                                  two-way designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165--1169
                 P. D. Puri and   
                    A. K. Nigam   Balanced block designs . . . . . . . . . 1171--1179
          P. A. V. B. Swamy and   
                    J. S. Mehta   A note on minimum average risk
                                  estimators for coefficients in linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1186
             J. T. Mc Clave and   
                    R. G. Marks   Predicting hospital census using time
                                  series regression methods  . . . . . . . 1187--1205
                S. Lynne Stokes   Ranked set sampling with concomitant
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1211
    A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and   
                   J.-P. Dionne   On a further generalization of the
                                  savage test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213--1221
                 M. M. Desu and   
          Subhash C. Narula and   
            Bernardo Villarreal   A two-stage procedure for selecting the
                                  best of $k$ exponential distributions    1223--1230
                 Dan Weiner and   
                   Peter Purdue   A semi-Markov approach to stochastic
                                  compartmental models . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1243
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 13, 1977

            Thomas B. Fomby and   
                  S. R. Johnson   MSE evaluation of ridge estimators based
                                  on stochastic prior information  . . . . 1245--1258
           Stanley Lemeshow and   
                     Robert Epp   Properties of the balanced half-sample
                                  and jackknife variance estimation
                                  techniques in the linear case  . . . . . 1259--1274
               Robert J. Beaver   Weighted least squares response surface
                                  fitting in factorial paired comparisons  1275--1287
                 Yosef Hochberg   On the use of general positive quadratic
                                  forms in simultaneous inference  . . . . 1289--1300
                    John G. Saw   On inequalities in constrained random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301--1304
                 Detlef Plachky   Note on sums of a random number of
                                  random variables with exponential family
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1309
                Robert M. Smith   Some results on interval estimation for
                                  the two-parameter Weibull or
                                  extreme-value distribution . . . . . . . 1311--1321
                   Moshe Shaked   Statistical inference for a class of
                                  life distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 1323--1339
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 14, 1977

                   Alan Agresti   A coefficient of multiple association
                                  based on ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341--1359
                    H. M. Schey   The asymptotic distribution of the
                                  one-sided Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistic
                                  for truncated data . . . . . . . . . . . 1361--1366
            Albert M. Liebetrau   Tests of randomness in two dimensions    1367--1383
               Peter W. M. John   Series of semiregular group divisible
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1385--1392
                  Hari H. Dayal   Bayesian procedures for testing partial
                                  equality of two populations when
                                  parameters are exchangeable  . . . . . . 1393--1397
                    S. K. Perng   An asymptotically efficient test for the
                                  location parameter and the scale
                                  parameter of an exponential distribution 1399--1407
                   R. M. Korwar   On characterizing Lagrangian, Poisson,
                                  and quasi-binomial distributions . . . . 1409--1415
                     M. L. Tiku   Rejoinder: ``Comment on `A new Statistic
                                  for Testing Suspected Outliers'\,''  . . 1417--1422
          Matthew Goldstein and   
              William R. Dillon   A stepwise discrete variable selection
                                  procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423--1436
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 6, Number 15, 1977

             Thomas J. Boardman   Graphical contributions to the $ \chi^2
                                  $ statistic for two-way contingency
                                  tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1451
          John H. Skillings and   
               Douglas A. Wolfe   Testing for ordered alternatives by
                                  combining independent distribution-free
                                  block statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1463
              Yadolah Dodge and   
                     K. R. Shah   Estimation of parameters in latin
                                  squares and graeco-latin squares with
                                  missing observations . . . . . . . . . . 1465--1472
           Z. Govindarajulu and   
                    A. K. Gupta   Estimators for ``the fraction of
                                  variance explained'' in the one-way
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1473--1484
                 M. L. Tiku and   
                  D. E. Stewart   Estimating and testing group effects
                                  from Type I censored normal samples in
                                  experimental design  . . . . . . . . . . 1485--1501
                  Frank Alt and   
                   Carl Spruill   A comparison of confidence intervals
                                  generated by the Scheffé and Bonferroni
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1503--1510
         Michael A. Fligner and   
     George E. Policello II and   
                   Jagbir Singh   A comparison of two randomized response
                                  survey methods with consideration for
                                  the level of respondent protection . . . 1511--1524
                  Jay L. Devore   A note on the randomized response
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1525--1529
                      Anonymous   Referee recognition  . . . . . . . . . . 1531--1533
                Ajit C. Tamhane   Corrections and amendments Multiple
                                  Comparisons in Model I one-way ANOVA
                                  With Unequal Variances . . . . . . . . . 1535--1536
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 1, 1978

                 Daniel Krewski   Jackknifing $U$-statistics in finite
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
                Nariaki Sugiura   Further analysts of the data by Akaike's
                                  information criterion and the finite
                                  corrections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--26
                S. Kullback and   
                  D. V. Gokhale   Information analysis of linear
                                  interactions in contingency tables . . . 27--45
              Chien-Pai Han and   
                 T. A. Bancroft   Estimating regression coefficients
                                  tinder conditional specification . . . . 47--56
                    G. H. Brown   Estimation from smallest values  . . . . 57--64
         George A. Milliken and   
              Robert L. Debruin   A procedure to test hypotheses for
                                  nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79
                P. M. V. Yu and   
             T. L. Bouillon and   
                  I. A. Watkins   The use of prior information in linear
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 2, 1978

                  Nancy R. Mann   Calculation of small-sample Weibull
                                  tolerance bounds for accelerated testing 97--112
                R. G. Marks and   
                      P. V. Rao   A modified Tiao--Guttman rule for
                                  multiple outliers  . . . . . . . . . . . 113--126
                 L. H. Koopmans   An application of a crossing probability
                                  bound to population biology  . . . . . . 127--137
                  J. F. Lawless   Ridge and related estimation procedures:
                                  theory and practice  . . . . . . . . . . 139--164
              Leo A. Aroian and   
            Vidya S. Taneja and   
              Larry W. Cornwell   Mathematical forms of the distribution
                                  of the product of two normal variables   165--172
            Donna R. Brogan and   
                Joseph Sedransk   Estimating one mean of a bivariate
                                  normal distribution using a preliminary
                                  test of significance and a two-stage
                                  sampling scheme  . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--186
                    K. G. Brown   On ridge estimation in rank deficient
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192
              R. W. Farebrother   Estimating regression coefficients under
                                  conditional specification: comment . . . 193--196
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 3, 1978

           Richard F. Gunst and   
                Tsushung A. Hua   \booktitleCommunications in Statistics:
                                  1972--1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--209
               J. Van Ryzin and   
                     H. C. Wang   The methods for Smooth estimation of
                                  discrete distributions . . . . . . . . . 211--228
                Dennis G. Haack   An adaptive approach to compound
                                  multiple decisions . . . . . . . . . . . 229--239
              Charles Locke and   
               John D. Spurrier   On tests of uniformity . . . . . . . . . 241--258
               James T. McClave   Estimating the order of moving average
                                  models: the max $ \chi^2 $ method  . . . 259--276
                  Allan Seheult   Minium bias or least squares estimation? 277--283
                      L. J. Wei   A class of treatment assignment rules
                                  for sequential experiments . . . . . . . 285--295
               L. D. Broemeling   Simultaneous inferences for variance
                                  ratios of some mixed linear models . . . 297--305
                  M. I. Beq and   
            S. N. U. A. Kirmani   Characterization of the exponential
                                  distribution by a weak homoscedasticity  307--310
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 4, 1978

               Pranab Kumar Sen   Time-sequential statistical procedures:
                                  a preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--314
                 Norman Breslow   The proportional hazards model:
                                  applications in epidemiology . . . . . . 315--332
              Nathan Mantel and   
             Benjamin F. Hankey   A logistic regression analysis of
                                  response-time data where the hazard
                                  function is time dependent . . . . . . . 333--347
          Hiranmay Majumdar and   
               Pranab Kumar Sen   Nonparametric testing for simple
                                  regression under progressive censoring
                                  with staggering entry and random
                                  withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--371
         Jodrph C. Gardiner and   
               Pranab Kumar Sen   Asymptotic normality of a class of
                                  time-sequential statistics and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--388
                    C. E. Davis   A two sample Wilcoxon test for
                                  progressively censored data  . . . . . . 389--398
               John D. Spurrier   Two stage sign tests that allow first
                                  stage acceptance and rejection . . . . . 399--408
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 5, 1978

            C. Radhakrishna Rao   A note on the unified theory of least
                                  squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411
                C. E. Davis and   
                     Dana Quade   U-statistics for skewness or symmetry    413--418
              Paula Kanarek and   
                   Lloyd Fisher   A goodness-of-fit comparison of four
                                  survival curve models  . . . . . . . . . 419--426
            Kamal C. Chanda and   
                Richard W. Kulp   On some nonparametric estimators for the
                                  linear Markov scheme . . . . . . . . . . 427--439
           Norman R. Draper and   
                  Irwin Guttman   Bayesian analysis of reliability in
                                  multicomponent stress-strength models    441--451
                Ashok K. Bansal   Robustness of a Bayes estimator for the
                                  mean of a normal population with
                                  nonnormal prior  . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--460
                 P. C. Burr and   
                    D. H. Young   The power of the exponential scores test
                                  for an ordinary renewal process against
                                  trend alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . 461--473
                   Pankaj Chosh   A characterization of a bimodal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--477
          Agnes M. Herzberg and   
               David F. Andrews   The robustness of chain block designs
                                  and coat-of-mail designs . . . . . . . . 479--485
              T. D. Dwivedi and   
               V. K. Srivastava   On the minimum mean squared error
                                  estimators in a regression model . . . . 487--494
               Thomas A. Bishop   A Stein two-sample procedure for the
                                  general linear model with unequal error
                                  variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--507
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 6, 1978

                   V. I. Oliker   On the relationship between the sample
                                  size and the number of variables in a
                                  linear regression model  . . . . . . . . 509--516
                 Samuel D. Oman   A Bayesian comparison of some estimators
                                  used in linear regression with
                                  multicollinear data  . . . . . . . . . . 517--534
               Robert D. Gordon   On monotonicity of power of two-sample
                                  rank tests when testing the alternative
                                  $g$ is stochastically larger than $f$    535--541
                 Tea-Yuan Hwang   The Chernoff efficiency of the Wilcoxon
                                  rank test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--555
            Marshall N. Brunden   The probability contours and a
                                  goodness-of-fit test for the singly
                                  truncated bivariate normal distribution  557--572
                    Ruth Marcus   Further results on simultaneous
                                  confidence bounds in normal models with
                                  restricted alternatives  . . . . . . . . 573--590
                 P. D. Puri and   
                    A. K. Nigam   Balanced factorial experiments. II . . . 591--605
                    G. W. Lynch   A decision theoretic approach to ridits  607--614
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 7, 1978

                Eric Peritz and   
                       Ray Rose   Some statistical methods for survival
                                  analysis with rare failures  . . . . . . 619--636
          Bimal Kumar Sinha and   
                B. Raja Rao and   
                Bernard Clement   Behrens--Fisher problem under the
                                  assumption of homogeneous coefficients
                                  of variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--656
                      A. R. Sen   Estimation of the population mean when
                                  the coefficient of variation is known    657--672
          Kathleen Subrahmaniam   The Pascal--Poisson distribution
                                  revisited: estimation and efficiency . . 673--683
                   Hira L. Koul   Testing for new is better than used in
                                  expectation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--701
              K. Ravi Kumar and   
                 Elinor S. Pape   Selecting a test level for random
                                  effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--707
              Suneeta Joshi and   
                    Y. S. Sathe   A generalization of Mosteller's test . . 709--715
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 8, 1978

              C. P. Quesenberry   On similarity and independence
                                  properties of composite EDF
                                  goodness-of-fit tests  . . . . . . . . . 717--723
                 C. L. Anderson   Random visibility models . . . . . . . . 725--731
                  G. Nagase and   
                 K. S. Banerjee   On the independence between two
                                  generalized second degree polynomial
                                  statistics and their covariance  . . . . 733--738
            Ranjit M. Passi and   
              James S. Williams   Sample-size requirements for confidence
                                  bounds of prescribed precision on
                                  multivariate normal quantiles  . . . . . 739--753
               G. D. Herrin and   
                 J. B. Neuhardt   A useful approximation for planning
                                  block designs with potential missing
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--766
        Poduri S. R. S. Rao and   
            Yogendra P. Chaubey   Three modifications of the principle of
                                  the MINQUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--778
                   A. C. Harvey   On the unbiasedness of robust regression
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--783
                      Sven Berg   Characterization of a class of discrete
                                  distributions by properties of their
                                  moment distributions . . . . . . . . . . 785--789
               Kali S. Banerjee   Wald's ``true index'' derived ipso facto 791--798
                   Yosef Rinott   On two-stage selection procedures and
                                  related probability-inequalities . . . . 799--811
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 9, 1978

             Tea-Yuan Hwang and   
                 Jain-Feng Tsay   The treatment of ties in some linear
                                  rank tests when the underlying
                                  distribution is discrete . . . . . . . . 813--827
         J. W. H. Swanepoel and   
                     F. Lombard   Fixed width sequential confidence
                                  interval for the median of a
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--835
       A. K. M. Sirajul Hoq and   
                 Mir M. Ali and   
             J. G. C. Templeton   The distribution of Student's ratio for
                                  samples from an exponential population   837--850
                 K. S. Banerjee   On the factorial approach providing the
                                  true index of cost of living: an
                                  interpretation of a special pair of
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--856
                  M. Safiul Haq   On prediction from the location-scale
                                  model with equi correlated response  . . 857--866
                  Rasul A. Khan   A note on testing the means of normal
                                  distributions with known coefficient of
                                  variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--876
                    K. Byth and   
                G. J. McLachlan   The biases associated with maximum
                                  likelihood methods of estimation of the
                                  multivariate logistic risk function  . . 877--890
      Francis G. Giesbrecht and   
               Peter M. Burrows   Estimating variance components in
                                  hierarchical structures using MINQUE and
                                  restricted maximum livelihood  . . . . . 891--904
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 10, 1978

                        J. Gani   The analysis of some biological data . . 905--915
                   John J. Gart   The analysis of ratios and cross-product
                                  ratios of Poisson variates with
                                  application to incidence rates . . . . . 917--937
             R. L. Plackett and   
                     S. R. Paul   Dirichlet models for square contingency
                                  tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--952
              Nathan Mantel and   
                  David P. Byar   Marginal homogeneity, symmetry, and
                                  independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--976
            Alio Kudô and   
                Tomoyuki Tarumi   $ 2 \times 2 $ Tables emerging out of
                                  different chance mechanisms  . . . . . . 977--986
              D. V. Gokhale and   
                    S. Kullback   The minimum discrimination information
                                  approach in analyzing categorical data   987--1005
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 11, 1978

          Hiranmay Majumdar and   
               Pranab Kumar Sen   Invariance principles for jackknifing
                                  $U$-statistics for finite population
                                  sampling and some applications . . . . . 1007--1025
              John H. Skillings   Adaptively combining independent
                                  Jonckheere statistics in a randomized
                                  block design with unequal scales . . . . 1027--1039
          Bruce L. Bowerman and   
                Anne B. Koehler   Ax optimal policy for sampling from
                                  uncertain distributions  . . . . . . . . 1041--1051
              A. C. Gleeson and   
              C. A. McGilchrist   An introduction to relationship algebras 1053--1078
                 Thomes Johnson   Selection without (unfair)
                                  discrimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1098
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 12, 1978

                   Lionel Weiss   Some tests of whether several samples
                                  are from identical populations . . . . . 1099--1127
                    N. S. Kambo   Maximum likelihood estimators of the
                                  location and scale parameters of the
                                  exponential distribution from a censored
                                  sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1132
          P. A. V. B. Swamy and   
                J. S. Mehta and   
                P. N. Rappoport   Two methods of evaluating Hoerl and
                                  Kennard's ridge regression . . . . . . . 1133--1155
                    H. D. Vinod   Equivariance of ridge estimators through
                                  standardization, a note  . . . . . . . . 1157--1161
          P. A. V. B. Swamy and   
                J. S. Mehta and   
                P. N. Rappoport   Reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163--1168
                    H. D. Vinod   A rejoinder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1170
          P. A. V. B. Swamy and   
                J. S. Mehta and   
                P. N. Rappoport   Further reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171--1172
            Barry C. Arnold and   
          Richard A. Groeneveld   Bounds on deviations of estimates
                                  arising in finite population regression
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1179
              Constance L. Wood   On null-hypothesis limiting
                                  distributions of Kolmogorov--Smiirnov
                                  type statistics with estimated location
                                  and scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1198
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 13, 1978

            C. Radhakrishna Rao   Choice of best linear in the
                                  Gauss--Markoff model with a singular
                                  dispersion matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 1199--1208
            Kent F. Baldwin and   
                Arthur E. Hoerl   Bounds on minimum mean squared error in
                                  ridge regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1232
                   K. V. Mardia   Some properties of classical
                                  multi-dimensional scaling  . . . . . . . 1233--1241
              Subhash C. Kochar   A class of distribution-free tests for
                                  the two-sample slippage problem  . . . . 1243--1252
             David W. Smith and   
                  R. R. Hocking   Maximum likelihood analysis of the mixed
                                  model: the balanced case . . . . . . . . 1253--1266
          Ibrahim A. Salama and   
               Gary G. Koch and   
               Dennis H. Tolley   On the estimation of the most probable
                                  number in a serial dilution experiment   1267--1281
                    A. I. Khuri   A conservative Sample size for the
                                  comparison of several proportions  . . . 1283--1293
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 14, 1978

                     A. Ash and   
                     A. Hedayat   An introduction to design optimality
                                  with an overview of the literature . . . 1295--1325
               Ching-Shui Cheng   A note on (m.s)-optimality . . . . . . . 1327--1338
                  V. V. Fedorov   Some extremal problems in designing
                                  discriminating experiments . . . . . . . 1339--1345
                      J. Kiefer   Asymptotic approach to families of
                                  design problems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347--1362
                  V. Kurotschka   Optimal design of complex experiments
                                  with qualitative factors of influence    1363--1378
               S. D. Silvey and   
         D. H. Titterington and   
                     B. Torsney   An algorithm for optimal designs on a
                                  design space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379--1389
                  W. J. Studden   Designs for large degree polynomial
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391--1397
                    Chien-Fu Wu   Some iterative procedures for generating
                                  nonsingular optimal designs  . . . . . . 1399--1412
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 7, Number 15, 1978

                 E. J. Williams   A simple derivation of the distribution
                                  of the multiple correlation coefficient  1413--1420
                   N. Shinozaki   A note on estimating the common mean of
                                  $k$ normal distributions and the Stein
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421--1432
               Adrienne W. Kemp   Slustep size probabilities for
                                  generalized Poisson distributions  . . . 1433--1438
         L. F. Guseman, Jr. and   
                  Jay R. Walton   Methods for estimating proportions of
                                  convex combinations of normals using
                                  linear feature selection . . . . . . . . 1439--1450
               Allan Donner and   
                Walter W. Hauck   A simple alternative to the likelihood
                                  ratio test in a logistic discrimination
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451--1463
                   Justus Seely   A complete sufficient statistic for the
                                  linear model under normality and a
                                  singular covariance matrix . . . . . . . 1465--1473
               M. A. Hidiroglou   An approximation of the inverse moments
                                  of the positive hypergeometric
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1487
                   Eve Bofinger   Selection using ``play-the-winner''
                                  sampling for non-negative observations   1489--1499
             Yosef Fochberr and   
                    Puth Marcus   On partitioning successive increments in
                                  means of ratios of variances in a chain
                                  of normal populations  . . . . . . . . . 1501--1513
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 1, 1979

              Danny D. Dyer and   
              Jerome P. Keating   A further look at the comparison of
                                  normal percentile estimators . . . . . . 1--16
                   Moshe Shaked   An estimator for the generalized hazard
                                  rate function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--33
                 Lawrence Peele   Characterizations of autoregressive
                                  prediction and moving average prediction
                                  as discrete-time spline interpolation    35--46
                   A. M. Mathai   On the non-null distributions of test
                                  statistics connected with exponential
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55
                      Prajneshu   Stability of two interacting species
                                  subject to stochastic parameter
                                  variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--69
              M. G. Akritas and   
                 M. L. Puri and   
                  G. G. Roussas   Sample size, parameter rates and
                                  contiguity: the I.I.D. case  . . . . . . 71--83
             F. H. Dietrich and   
                    R. G. Marks   Analysis of a factorial quantal response
                                  assay using inverse regression . . . . . 85--98
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 2, 1979

           Norman B. Draper and   
              Irwin Guttman and   
                Lillian Lapczak   Actual rejection levels in a certain
                                  stepwise test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105
                 F. Lombard and   
             J. W. H. Swanepoel   An asymptotic sequential test based on
                                  confidence sequences . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
                  T. De Wet and   
               J. W. J. Van Wyk   Efficiency and robustness of Hogg's
                                  adaptive trimmed means . . . . . . . . . 117--128
              W. J. Padgett and   
                      L. J. Wei   Estimation for the three-parameter
                                  inverse Gaussian distribution  . . . . . 129--137
      A. B. M. Lutful Kabir and   
                  M. Ahsanullah   Estimation of the location and scale
                                  parameters of a power function
                                  distribution based on a selected number
                                  of order statistics  . . . . . . . . . . 139--149
               Ashish Kumar and   
                   P. C. Consul   Negative moments of a modified power
                                  series distribution and bias of the
                                  maximum likelihood estimator . . . . . . 151--166
                     T. O'Bryan   Rates of convergence in a modified
                                  empirical Bayes estimation problem
                                  involving Poisson distributions  . . . . 167--174
                     J. Brucker   A note on the bivariate normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177
              M. Safiul Haq and   
                     V. Ming Ng   On marginal likelihood inference for the
                                  intra-class correlation coefficient  . . 179--189
                       O. Zerbe   Randomization analysis of randomized
                                  blocks design extended to growth and
                                  response curves  . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--205
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 3, 1979

                James A. Koziol   A test for bivariate symmetry based on
                                  the empirical distribution function  . . 207--221
                Rudolf Avenhaus   Significance thresholds of onesided
                                  tests for means of bivariate normally
                                  distributed variables  . . . . . . . . . 223--230
            Nebojsa Nakicenovic   Annex: Numerical calculations  . . . . . 231--235
               G. G. Khatri and   
                   R. T. Ratani   On estimation of the mean parameter of a
                                  truncated normal distribution with known
                                  coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 237--244
                  T. A. Watkins   On estimating a function of the mean of
                                  a multivariate normal distribution . . . 245--256
                B. M. Brown and   
                   D. G. Kildea   Outlier-detection tests and robust
                                  estimators based on signs of residuals   257--269
        Roberto E. Altschul and   
               Richard Marcuson   A generalized Scheffé method of multiple
                                  comparisons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--281
                 Paul I. Nelson   Least squares tests for discrete
                                  parameter stochastic processes . . . . . 283--297
         Paul R. McAllister and   
                Burt S. Holland   On O.L.S. estimation in singular linear
                                  models with general positive definite
                                  dispersion matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 4, 1979

                 Ronald D. Snee   Experimental designs for mixture systems
                                  with multicomponent constraints  . . . . 303--326
               T. P. Hutchinson   The validity of the chi-squared test
                                  when expected frequencies are small: a
                                  list of recent research references . . . 327--335
            Ajit C. Tamhane and   
            Robert E. Bechhofer   A two-stage minimax procedure with
                                  screening for selecting the largest
                                  normal mean (II): an improved PCS lower
                                  bound and associated tables  . . . . . . 337--358
                   B. N. Pandey   On shrinkage estimation of normal
                                  population variance  . . . . . . . . . . 359--365
           Pramod K. Pathak and   
          William J. Zimmer and   
            Raymond E. Williams   Non-parametric estimation of an
                                  acceleration parameter . . . . . . . . . 367--383
                 V. Susarla and   
                     T. O'Bryan   Empirical Bayes interval estimates
                                  involving uniform distributions  . . . . 385--397
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 5, 1979

                  Dany Dyer and   
          Jerome P. Keating and   
                Onas L. Hensley   On the relative behavior of estimators
                                  of reliability/survivability . . . . . . 399--416
         Thomas J. Boardman and   
              Robert E. Colvert   Estimation in the piece-wise constant
                                  hazard rate model --- when the data are
                                  grouped  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--432
            Edward E. Gbur, Jr.   Analysis of variance with Poisson
                                  responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--445
                 R. A. Chechile   Exact and approximate distributions for
                                  linear contrasts of means and variances  447--461
              V. P. Bhapkar and   
                  T. C. Venable   On Gart's test for interaction of second
                                  order  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--470
                    H. K. Hsieh   On multivariate extension of
                                  Sukhatme--Perng--Littell test  . . . . . 471--475
            Thomas E. Fomby and   
                 R. Carter Hill   Multicollinearity and the value of a
                                  priori information . . . . . . . . . . . 477--486
             D. R. Anderson and   
              K. P. Burnham and   
                    B. R. Crain   Line transect estimation of population
                                  size: the exponential case with grouped
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--507
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 6, 1979

                   Moshe Pollak   A class of robust estimators . . . . . . 509--531
                Y. S. Sathe and   
                  S. R. Lingras   Bounds for the Pearson type IV tail
                                  probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--541
                Roger L. Berger   Gamma minimax robustness of Bayes rules  543--560
                       M. James   The generalised inverse form of
                                  canonical correlation  . . . . . . . . . 561--568
                N. I. Lyons and   
                   K. Hutcheson   Distributional properties of Simpson's
                                  index of diversity . . . . . . . . . . . 569--574
                Y. S. Sathe and   
                   R. G. Shenoy   On inequalities for statistics similar
                                  to Student's $t$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--579
             Khursheed Alam and   
                James S. Hawkes   Minimax property of Stein's estimator    581--590
                 Do Sun Bai and   
                   Seong-in Kim   Estimation of transition probabilities
                                  in a two-state Markov chain  . . . . . . 591--599
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Waiting time paradox and size biased
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--607
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 7, 1979

                  R. Dutter and   
                     I. Guttman   On estimation in the linear model when
                                  spurious observations are present: a
                                  Bayesian approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 611--635
                Malay Ghosh and   
             Nitis Mukhopadhyay   Sequential point estimation of the mean
                                  when the distribution is unspecified . . 637--652
             Peter B. Imrey and   
                   E. Sobel and   
                  M. E. Francis   Analysis of categorical data obtained by
                                  stratified random sampling . . . . . . . 653--670
             Nitis Mukhopadhyay   Some comments on two-stage selection
                                  procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--683
                Ramesh C. Gupta   On the characterization of survival
                                  distributions in reliability by
                                  properties of their renewal densities    685--697
                  A. N. Pettitt   Testing for bivariate normality using
                                  the empirical distribution function  . . 699--712
           V. K. Srivastava and   
                     Baldev Raj   The existence of the mean of the
                                  estimator in seemingly unrelated
                                  regressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--717
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 8, 1979

              Walter T. Federer   Preface to special issue on covariance   719--721
          Russell R. Barton and   
              Bruce W. Turnbull   A survey of covariance models for
                                  censored life data with an application
                                  to recidivism analysis . . . . . . . . . 723--750
  Charles R. Henderson, Jr. and   
                C. R. Henderson   Analysis of covariance in mixed models
                                  with unequal subclass numbers  . . . . . 751--787
             Bradley E. Huitema   An analysis of covariance Markov model
                                  for interrupted time series experiments  789--797
                   S. R. Searle   Alternative covariance models for the
                                  $2$-way crossed classification . . . . . 799--818
               Pranab Kumar Sen   Nonparametric repeated significance
                                  tests for some analysis of covariance
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--841
              D. Raghavarao and   
                G. Nageswararao   Analysis of covariance as an alternative
                                  approach to the analysis of
                                  non-orthogonal lay-outs  . . . . . . . . 843--854
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 9, 1979

            Ram C. Tripathi and   
                   John Gurland   Some aspects of the Kemp families of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--869
            Agam Nath Sinha and   
               Pranab Kumar Sen   Progressively censored tests for
                                  clinical experiments and life testing
                                  problems based on weighted empirical
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--897
          James B. McDonald and   
              Michael R. Ransom   Alternative parameter estimators based
                                  upon grouped data  . . . . . . . . . . . 899--917
                G. J. McLachlan   A comparison of the estimative and
                                  predictive methods of estimating
                                  posterior probabilities  . . . . . . . . 919--929
         Donald A. Anderson and   
                  Ann M. Thomas   Resolution IV fractional factorial
                                  designs for the general asymmetric
                                  factorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931--943
                A. K. Gupta and   
            A. K. Chattopadhyay   Gammaization and Wishartness of
                                  dependent quadratic forms  . . . . . . . 945--951
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 10, 1979

                    E. J. Smith   An experimenter's view of the
                                  application of statistics to
                                  cloud-seeding experiments  . . . . . . . 223--230
         John J. Wiorkowski and   
               Patrick L. Odell   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--954
               K. Ruben Gabriel   Some statistical issues in weather
                                  experimentation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--1015
               A. J. Miller and   
                 D. E. Shaw and   
               L. G. Veitch and   
                    E. J. Smith   Analyzing the results of a cloud-seeding
                                  experiment in Tasmania . . . . . . . . . 1017--1047

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 11, 1979

           Ralph A. Bradley and   
       Sushil S. Srivastava and   
                 Adolf Lanzdorf   Some approaches to statistical analysis
                                  of a weather modification experiment . . 1049--1081
                   P. W. Mielke   Some parametric, nonparametric and
                                  permutation inference procedures result
                                  ind from weather modification
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1096
                   Jerzy Neyman   Developments in probability and
                                  mathematical statistics generated by
                                  studies in meteorology and weather
                                  modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097--1110
              Robert D. Elliott   Physically meaningful covariates
                                  Physically meaningful covariates . . . . 1111--1127
           Morgan A. Hanson and   
         Lawrence E. Barker and   
            Charles L. Bach and   
           Ldward A. Cooley and   
              Charles H. Hunter   A bibliography of weather modification
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1153
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 12, 1979

              R. R. Hocking and   
                     D. L. Marx   Estimation with incomplete data: An
                                  improved computational method and the
                                  analysis of nested data  . . . . . . . . 1155--1181
                Richard W. Hill   On estimating the covariance matrix of
                                  robust regression $M$-estimates  . . . . 1183--1196
                     Y. L. Tong   Counterexamples to a result of
                                  Broemeling on simultaneous inferences
                                  for variance ratios of some mixed linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1204
               Klaus-J. Mieseke   Bayesian subset selection for additive
                                  and linear loss function . . . . . . . . 1205--1226
              Johannes Ledolter   A recursive approach to parameter
                                  estimation in regression and time series
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227--1245
                Hans K. Ury and   
               Alvin D. Wiggins   Distribution-free confidence bounds for
                                  $ {\rm Pr}(y < x) $ when $ F(x) $ and $
                                  G(y) = F(x - c) $ are continuous and
                                  symmetric  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1253

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 13, 1979

            Nebojsa Mari\'c and   
             Franklin A. Grayhi   Small samples confidencce intervals on
                                  common mean of two normal distributions
                                  variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255--1269
                J. E. Angus and   
                  R. E. Schafer   Estimation of logistic quantiles with
                                  minimum error in the predicted
                                  distribution function  . . . . . . . . . 1271--1284
          William R. Clarke and   
       Peter A. Lachenbruch and   
              Barabara Broffitt   How non-normality affects the quadratic
                                  discriminant function  . . . . . . . . . 1285--1301
         Robert J. Anderson and   
              J. Richard Landis   A note on the asymptotic variance of the
                                  Gray and Williams measure of partial
                                  association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303--1314
            W. O. Williford and   
                  S. K. Bingham   Bayesian estimation of the parameters in
                                  two modified Poisson distributions . . . 1315--1326
               E. G. Phadia and   
                     V. Susarla   An empirical Bayes approach to
                                  two-sample problems with censored data   1327--1351
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 14, 1979

            C. Radhakrishna Rao   Estimation of parameters in the singular
                                  Gauss--Markoff model . . . . . . . . . . 1353--1358
                R. H. Myers and   
                    A. I. Khuri   A new procedure for steepest ascent  . . 1359--1376
               Krishna Kadiyala   Operational ridge regression estimators
                                  under the prediction goal  . . . . . . . 1377--1391
                 Bert M. Steece   A Bayesian approach to model adequacy    1393--1402
              G. S. Lingappaiah   Bayesian approach to the prediction
                                  problem in complete and censored samples
                                  from the gamma and exponential
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403--1423
              Heather A. Camber   Choice of an optimal shape parameter
                                  when smoothing noisy data  . . . . . . . 1425--1435
                 Heather Camber   Confidence regions for periodic
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1446
            Pasquale J. Dipillo   Biased discriminant analysis: Evaluation
                                  of the optimum probability of
                                  misclassification  . . . . . . . . . . . 1447--1457
              Allen H. Reed and   
                 Mary E. Frantz   A sequential two sample $t$ test using
                                  Welch type modification for unequal
                                  variances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1459--1471
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 8, Number 15, 1979

             H. Leon Harter and   
            Albert H. Moore and   
                Thomas F. Curry   Adaptive robust estimation of location
                                  and scale parameters of symmetric
                                  populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1473--1491
         Kishan G. Mehrotra and   
              R. A. Johnson and   
            G. K. Bhattacharyya   Exact fisher information for censored
                                  samples and the extended hazard rate
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1493--1510
                 A. John Petkau   Exact slopes for a life testing problem
                                  involving the two parameter exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1511--1521
                 J. John Petkau   On a life testing problem involving the
                                  two parameter exponential distribution   1523--1534
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Some counterexamples in the competing
                                  risk analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535--1540
                   P. W. Mielke   On asymptotic non-normality of null
                                  distributions of MRPP statistics . . . . 1541--1550
              Edward Hughes and   
                   J. N. K. Rao   Some problems of optimal allocation in
                                  sample surveys involving inequality
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551--1574
               M. S. Taylor and   
                   F. E. Grubbs   Use of tail areas for testing
                                  goodness-of-fit  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1575--1584
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi