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Volume 35, Number 1, 2006
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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 35, Number 1, 2006

          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
    Lúcia P. Barroso and   
               Denise A. Botter   Covariance Matrix Formula for
                                  Generalized Linear Models with Unknown
                                  Dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--120


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 1, 2009

             Salim Bouzebda and   
                    Amor Keziou   A New Test Procedure of Independence in
                                  Copula Models via $ \chi^2$-Divergence   1--20
                     M. Ghorbel   On the Inverted Dirichlet Distribution   21--37
                     O. Lee and   
                     D. W. Shin   Geometric Ergodicity and Moment
                                  Conditions for a Seasonal GARCH Model
                                  with Periodic Coefficients . . . . . . . 38--51
              Maria Grazia Zoia   Tailoring the Gaussian Law for Excess
                                  Kurtosis and Skewness by Hermite
                                  Polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--64
                 Yasutaka Chiba   Sensitivity Analysis of Unmeasured
                                  Confounding for the Causal Risk Ratio by
                                  Applying Marginal Structural Models  . . 65--76
         Biswabrata Pradhan and   
               Anup Dewanji and   
               Debasis Sengupta   Parametric Estimation of Quality
                                  Adjusted Lifetime (QAL) Distribution in
                                  Simple Illness-Death Model . . . . . . . 77--93
                   S. Parsi and   
                 M. Ganjali and   
           N. Sanjari Farsipour   Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for
                                  the Parameters of Pareto Distribution
                                  under Progressive Censoring  . . . . . . 94--106
             Jerzy K. Filus and   
             Lidia Z. Filus and   
                Barry C. Arnold   Families of Multivariate Distributions
                                  Involving ``Triangular'' Transformations 107--116
               Xiuqing Zhou and   
                     Jinde Wang   LAD Estimation for Multiple Regression
                                  Models with Doubly Censored Data . . . . 117--129
             Rovshan Aliyev and   
             Tahir Khaniyev and   
                  Tulay Kesemen   Asymptotic Expansions for the Moments of
                                  the Semi-Markovian Random Walk with
                                  Gamma Distributed Interference of Chance 130--143
     Ellinor Fackle Fornius and   
                   Hans Nyquist   Using the Canonical Design Space to
                                  Obtain $c$-optimal Designs for the
                                  Quadratic Logistic Model . . . . . . . . 144--157
                  Dilip Roy and   
                  Rishideep Roy   Characterizations of Bivariate and
                                  Multivariate Life Distributions Based on
                                  Reciprocal Subtangent  . . . . . . . . . 158--169
                     R. Willink   A Single Form for $t$-Distributions and
                                  Symmetric Beta Distributions . . . . . . 170--176
                     Ilia Negri   Efficiency of a Class of Unbiased
                                  Estimators for the Invariant
                                  Distribution Function of a Diffusion
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--185
              Rinaldo Artes and   
             Clelia M. C. Toloi   An Autoregressive Model for Time Series
                                  of Circular Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--194

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 2, 2009

             S. K. Upadhyay and   
             Bhaswati Mukherjee   Bayes Analysis and Comparison of
                                  Accelerated Weibull and Accelerated
                                  Birnbaum--Saunders Models  . . . . . . . 195--213
                   Tianyue Zhou   Weighting Method for a Linear Mixed
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--227
                 Ijaz Iqbal and   
                M. H. Tahir and   
        Syed Skahir Ali Ghazali   Circular First- and Second-Order
                                  Balanced Repeated Measurements Designs   228--240
           Shuenn-Ren Cheng and   
            Deng-Yuan Huang and   
                Hung-Yun Lu and   
               S. Panchapakesan   Multiple Decision Procedures for
                                  Inference in Regression Models . . . . . 241--248
                    W. F. Scott   The Uniform-Laplace Distribution and the
                                  $D$-Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--255
             Jian-Ying Rong and   
                    Xu-Qing Liu   On Superiority of Estimation Regarding
                                  Pitman Closeness Criterion in General
                                  Mixed Linear Models  . . . . . . . . . . 256--265
           Yulia Kotlyarova and   
           Victoria Zinde-Walsh   Robust Estimation in Binary Choice
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--279
           Arabin Kumar Dey and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Discriminating Between the Log-Normal
                                  and Log-Logistic Distributions . . . . . 280--292
          Getachew A. Dagne and   
                   James Snyder   Bayesian Analysis of Repeated Events
                                  Using Event-Dependent Frailty Models: an
                                  Application to Behavioral Observation
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--310
                   M. Burkschat   Linear Estimators and Predictors Based
                                  on Generalized Order Statistics from
                                  Generalized Pareto Distributions . . . . 311--326
          Priyanka Aggarwal and   
                Ashok K. Bansal   Robustness of Bayes Prediction Under
                                  Error-in-Variables Superpopulation Model 327--339
               Guodong Xing and   
                  Shanchao Yang   An Exponential Inequality for Strictly
                                  Stationary and Negatively Associated
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--349
              Ruiguang Song and   
  Kathleen McDavid Harrison and   
            Debra L. Hanson and   
                  H. Irene Hall   Correction of Bias in Imputing Missing
                                  Values of Categorical Variables  . . . . 350--362
                Richard Huggins   A Note on Estimating the Size of an Open
                                  Population of Stationary Size  . . . . . 363--371
               Wolf Schwarz and   
                 Jeff O. Miller   Locking the Wiener Process to its
                                  Level-Crossing Time  . . . . . . . . . . 372--381

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 3, 2010

Christos H. Skiadas Guest Editor   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--384
Frédéric Guyon and   
          Alain Guénoche   An Evolutionary Distance Based on
                                  Maximal Unique Matches . . . . . . . . . 385--397
             Vladimir Rykov and   
               Dmitry Efrosinin   Degradation Models with Random Life
                                  Resources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--407
                Leda D. Minkova   Pólya--Aeppli Distribution of Order $k$   408--415
      Gérard Govaert and   
                  Mohamed Nadif   Latent Block Model for Contingency Table 416--425
        Víctor Leiva and   
              Filidor Vilca and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
               Antonio Sanhueza   A Skewed Sinh-Normal Distribution and
                                  Its Properties and Application to Air
                                  Pollution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--443
          Charilaos Skiadas and   
            Christos H. Skiadas   Development, Simulation, and Application
                                  of First-Exit-Time Densities to Life
                                  Table Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--451
            Vassilly Voinov and   
                    Natalie Pya   A Note on Vector-Valued Goodness-of-Fit
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--459
             B. Yu Lemeshko and   
             S. B. Lemeshko and   
               S. N. Postovalov   Statistic Distribution Models for Some
                                  Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Tests in
                                  Testing Composite Hypotheses . . . . . . 460--471
           A. Karagrigoriou and   
                    K. Mattheou   On Distributional Properties and
                                  Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Generalized
                                  Measures of Divergence . . . . . . . . . 472--482
  Sébastien Lê and   
    Jérôme Pag\`es   DMFA: Dual Multiple Factor Analysis  . . 483--492
                   P. Lenca and   
                 S. Lallich and   
                    B. Vaillant   Construction of an Off-Centered Entropy
                                  for the Supervised Learning of
                                  Imbalanced Classes: Some First Results   493--507
           Alessandra Durio and   
             Ennio Davide Isaia   Clusters Detection in Regression
                                  Problems: a Similarity Test Between
                                  Estimated Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--516
                  N. Martin and   
                       L. Pardo   A New Measure of Leverage Cells in
                                  Multinomial Loglinear Models . . . . . . 517--530
             Julien Ah-Pine and   
Jean-François Marcotorchino   Unifying Some Association Criteria
                                  Between Partitions by Using Relational
                                  Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--542
                  Yann Guermeur   Sample Complexity of Classifiers Taking
                                  Values in R$^Q$, Application to
                                  Multi-Class SVMs . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--557

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 4, 2010

              Chongqi Zhang and   
                  Heng Peng and   
                 Jin-Ting Zhang   Two Samples Tests for Functional Data    559--578
            Babette A. Brumback   On the Built-in Restrictions in Linear
                                  Mixed Models, with Application to
                                  Smoothing Spline Analysis of Variance    579--591
              Shun Matsuura and   
                Nobuo Shinozaki   Optimal Binning Strategies Under Squared
                                  Error Loss in Selective Assembly with a
                                  Tolerance Constraint . . . . . . . . . . 592--605
         Mahmoud A. Mahmoud and   
                Alyaa R. Zahran   A Multivariate Adaptive Exponentially
                                  Weighted Moving Average Control Chart    606--625
    Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis and   
          George C. Canavos and   
        Athanasios G. Kallioras   Cumulant Plots for Assessing the Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--641
               Xiaoqian Sun and   
                Dongchu Sun and   
                   Zhuoqiong He   Bayesian Inference on Multivariate
                                  Normal Covariance and Precision Matrices
                                  in a Star-Shaped Model with Missing Data 642--666
                Vassilly Voinov   A Decomposition of Pearson--Fisher and
                                  Dzhaparidze--Nikulin Statistics and Some
                                  Ideas for a More Powerful Test
                                  Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--677
      Jorge L. Bazán and   
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
        Márcia D. Branco   A Framework for Skew-Probit Links in
                                  Binary Regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 678--697
        M. Jabbari Nooghabi and   
        H. Jabbari Nooghabi and   
                      P. Nasiri   Detecting Outliers in Gamma Distribution 698--706
                 Han-Ying Liang   Empirical Likelihood for Conditional
                                  Density Under Left Truncation and $
                                  \alpha $-Mixing Condition  . . . . . . . 707--721
                   Hasan Hamdan   Modeling Data with Flat Densities  . . . 722--728
            M. Mohammadpour and   
                  A. R. Soltani   Forward Moving Average Representation in
                                  Multivariate $ {\rm MA}(1) $ Processes   729--737
               S. G. Lehrke and   
                   J. K. Ghorai   Large Sample Properties of ML Estimator
                                  of the Parameters of Multivariate
                                  $O$-$U$ Random Fields  . . . . . . . . . 738--752

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 5, 2010

           Lovleen Kumar Grover   A Correction Note on Improvement in
                                  Variance Estimation Using Auxiliary
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--764
           Isaac K. M. Kwan and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Dependent Insurance Risk Model:
                                  Deterministic Threshold  . . . . . . . . 765--776
             Nezhat Shakeri and   
                 Gurprit Grover   Estimation of Survivorship Function
                                  Based on Doubly Censored Data with
                                  Application to HIV/AIDS  . . . . . . . . 777--790
           Housila P. Singh and   
                Sunil Kumar and   
                   Marcin Kozak   Improved Estimation of Finite-Population
                                  Mean Using Sub-Sampling to Deal with Non
                                  Response in Two-Phase Sampling Scheme    791--802
          Rabindra Nath Das and   
               Sung H. Park and   
               Manohar Aggarwal   Robust Second-Order Slope-Rotatable
                                  Designs with Maximum Directional
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803--814
                 Yashi Wang and   
                      Peng Zhao   A Note on DRHR Preservation Property of
                                  Generalized Order Statistics . . . . . . 815--822
                 Mario Lefebvre   Nearly Gaussian Distributions and
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823--836
                Daniel Dufresne   The Beta Product Distribution with
                                  Complex Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 837--854
                     Jaerin Cho   Rational Regression Models with
                                  Continuous Chebyshev Design  . . . . . . 855--873
         Martin R. Petersen and   
               James A. Deddens   Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the
                                  Log-Binomial Model . . . . . . . . . . . 874--883
Héctor W. Gómez and   
             Luis M. Castro and   
            Hugo S. Salinas and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   Properties and Inference on the
                                  Skew-Curved-Symmetric Family of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884--898
             Chanchal Kundu and   
                  Asok K. Nanda   Some Reliability Properties of the
                                  Inactivity Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--911
 Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and   
    Milton A. Cortés and   
  Héctor W. Gómez   An Extension of the Epsilon-Skew-Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--922

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 6, 2010

                    Hu Yang and   
                  Xinfeng Chang   A New Two-Parameter Estimator in Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--934
                    Jun Hui and   
                  Guangming Pan   Limiting Spectral Distribution for Large
                                  Sample Covariance Matrices with
                                  $m$-Dependent Elements . . . . . . . . . 935--941
               K. Jayakumar and   
       Miroslav M. Risti\'c and   
        Davis Antony Mundassery   A Generalization to Bivariate
                                  Mittag-Leffler and Bivariate Discrete
                                  Mittag-Leffler Autoregressive Processes  942--955
             Neda Farzinnia and   
              Kevin F. McCardle   Bayesian Updating with Confounded
                                  Signals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956--972
                Roy T. Sabo and   
                N. Rao Chaganty   Estimation Methods for an Autoregressive
                                  Familial Correlation Structure . . . . . 973--991
            Chang-Kyoon Son and   
                Ki-Hak Hong and   
                Gi-Sung Lee and   
                   Jong-Min Kim   The Calibration for Two-Phase Randomized
                                  Response Estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 992--1012
      Emmanuel N. Papadakis and   
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Multivariate Pareto Distributions:
                                  Inference and Financial Applications . . 1013--1025
                 Sedigheh Shams   A Convergent Iterative Procedure for
                                  Constructing Bivariate Distributions . . 1026--1037
        Frantisek Rublík   A Note on Simultaneous Confidence
                                  Intervals for Ratio of Variances . . . . 1038--1045
     Debanjan Bhattacharjee and   
             Nitis Mukhopadhyay   Stirling's Formula and Its Extensions:
                                  Heuristic Approaches . . . . . . . . . . 1046--1053
                    Feng Li and   
                     Lu Lin and   
                        Xia Cui   Covariate-Adjusted Partially Linear
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1054--1074
               Jianxin Zhao and   
               Xingzhong Xu and   
                    Xiaobo Ding   New Goodness of Fit Tests Based on
                                  Stochastic EDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1094
                  Junfeng Shang   A Multiple Comparison Procedure Based on
                                  a Variant of the Schwarz Information
                                  Criterion in a Mixed Model . . . . . . . 1095--1109

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 7, 2010

                 Linyuan Li and   
                     Yimin Xiao   A Note on Block-Thresholded Wavelet
                                  Estimators with Correlated Noise . . . . 1111--1128
                  Yoichi Miyata   Approximate Marginal Posterior
                                  Distributions Using Asymptotic Modes . . 1129--1140
                Ali Gannoun and   
             Jerome Saracco and   
                      Keming Yu   On Semiparametric Mode Regression
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1141--1157
               Jan Beirlant and   
            Armelle Guillou and   
             Gwladys Toulemonde   Peaks-Over-Threshold Modeling Under
                                  Random Censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 1158--1179
           Gemechis Dilba Djira   Relative Potency Estimation in
                                  Parallel-Line Assays --- Method
                                  Comparison and Some Extensions . . . . . 1180--1189
            Richard A. Chechile   A Novel Bayesian Parameter Mapping
                                  Method for Estimating the Parameters of
                                  an Underlying Scientific Model . . . . . 1190--1201
                Hee J. Park and   
                   Sung H. Park   Extension of Central Composite Design
                                  for Second-Order Response Surface Model
                                  Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1202--1211
          Gilberto A. Paula and   
Francisco José A. Cysneiros   Local Influence Under Parameter
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212--1228
                Bao-Hong Li and   
               Zhen-Qiu Sun and   
                    Shi-Fu Dong   Correspondence Analysis and Its
                                  Application in Oncology  . . . . . . . . 1229--1236
           Hafiz M. R. Khan and   
           Serge B. Provost and   
                   Ashima Singh   Predictive Inference from a
                                  Two-Parameter Rayleigh Life Model Given
                                  a Doubly Censored Sample . . . . . . . . 1237--1246
                    Jinwen Chen   Inference for Mixtures . . . . . . . . . 1247--1257
                  Ke-Ang Fu and   
                   Li-Xin Zhang   Characterization of LIL Behavior for
                                  Non-Degenerate $B$-Valued $U$-Statistics 1258--1269
           Nasser Davarzani and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Bayesian Inference in Dependent Right
                                  Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1270--1288
         Enrico A. Colosimo and   
       Gustavo L. Gilardoni and   
           Wagner B. Santos and   
                Sergio B. Motta   Optimal Maintenance Time for Repairable
                                  Systems Under Two Types of Failures  . . 1289--1298
             Changliang Zou and   
                  Yukun Liu and   
               Zhaojun Wang and   
                   Runchu Zhang   Adaptive Nonparametric Comparison of
                                  Regression Curves  . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1320

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 8--9, 2010

Makoto Aoshima Organizing Editor   A Path to the Special Issue on Recent
                                  Advances in Statistical Inference --- In
                                  Honor of Professor Masafumi Akahira  . . 1321--1323
             Makoto Aoshima and   
                 Ken-Ichi Koike   The Professional Career and
                                  Contributions of Professor Masafumi
                                  Akahira  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324--1342
                      Anonymous   Referee Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1343
              Yoshihiko Maesono   Edgeworth Expansion and Normalizing
                                  Transformation of Ratio Statistics and
                                  Their Application  . . . . . . . . . . . 1344--1358
                 Yoshiji Takagi   On Characterization of Second-Order
                                  Asymptotic Optimality Under Asymmetric
                                  Loss Functions: Loss Coefficient Vector
                                  and Admissibility  . . . . . . . . . . . 1359--1372
                    N. Reid and   
                         Y. Sun   Assessing Sensitivity to Priors Using
                                  Higher Order Approximations  . . . . . . 1373--1386
               Masafumi Akahira   The First- and Second-Order
                                  Large-Deviation Efficiency for an
                                  Exponential Family and Certain Curved
                                  Exponential Models . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1403
               Masahito Hayashi   Two Non-Regular Extensions of Large
                                  Deviation Bound  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1404--1423
             Yoshihide Kakizawa   Second-Order Power Comparison of Tests   1424--1436
             Chris Klaassen and   
               Shanti Venetiaan   Optimizing Lengths of Confidence
                                  Intervals: Fourth-Order Efficiency in
                                  Location Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437--1448
              Yuji Sakamoto and   
               Nakahiro Yoshida   Asymptotic Expansion for Functionals of
                                  a Marked Point Process . . . . . . . . . 1449--1465
         Nitis Mukhopadhyay and   
         Debanjan Bhattacharjee   A Note on Minimum Variance Unbiased
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1466--1476
                Hidekazu Tanaka   Sufficient Conditions for the
                                  Admissibility Under LINEX Loss Function
                                  in Regular Case  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1477--1489
                Yoshihiko Konno   Estimation of Multivariate Complex
                                  Normal Covariance Matrices Under an
                                  Invariant Quadratic Loss . . . . . . . . 1490--1497
              Shinto Eguchi and   
                Koichi Yoshioka   Maximum Regularized Likelihood Estimator
                                  of Finite Mixtures with a Structural
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1498--1510
             Kazuyoshi Yata and   
                 Makoto Aoshima   Intrinsic Dimensionality Estimation of
                                  High-Dimension, Low Sample Size Data
                                  with $D$-Asymptotics . . . . . . . . . . 1511--1521
                 Satoshi Kuriki   Distributions of the Largest Singular
                                  Values of Skew-Symmetric Random Matrices
                                  and their Applications to Paired
                                  Comparisons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1522--1535
      Jana Jurecková and   
                   Marek Omelka   Estimator of the Pareto Index Based on
                                  Nonparametric Test . . . . . . . . . . . 1536--1551
           Tatsuya Kubokawa and   
               Nyambaa Erdembat   On Testing Linear Hypothesis in a Nested
                                  Error Regression Model . . . . . . . . . 1552--1562
             Taka-Aki Shiraishi   Multiple Comparisons Based on
                                  Studentized $M$-Statistics in a
                                  Randomized Block Design  . . . . . . . . 1563--1573
               Yoshikazu Takada   A Three-Stage Selection Procedure With
                                  an Exact Consistency . . . . . . . . . . 1574--1584
                 Ken-Ichi Koike   Sequential Estimation Procedures for End
                                  Points of Support in a Non-Regular
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1585--1596
               Jay Bartroff and   
                  Tze Leung Lai   Multistage Tests of Multiple Hypotheses  1597--1607
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Nonparametric Density Estimation for
                                  Functional Data via Wavelets . . . . . . 1608--1618
      Ursula U. Müller and   
            Wolfgang Wefelmeyer   Estimation in Nonparametric Regression
                                  with Non-Regular Errors  . . . . . . . . 1619--1629
           Tsutomu Watanabe and   
          Hiroshi Shiraishi and   
             Masanobu Taniguchi   Cluster Analysis for Stable Processes    1630--1642
              Hisayuki Hara and   
              Akimichi Takemura   A Localization Approach to Improve
                                  Iterative Proportional Scaling in
                                  Gaussian Graphical Models  . . . . . . . 1643--1654
               Taiji Suzuki and   
                Fumiyasu Komaki   On Prior Selection and Covariate Shift
                                  of $ \beta $-Bayesian Prediction Under $
                                  \alpha $-Divergence Risk . . . . . . . . 1655--1673
Valérie Chavez-Demoulin and   
                 Paul Embrechts   Revisiting the Edge, Ten Years On  . . . 1674--1688

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 10, 2010

           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Bayesian Analysis of Poisson Regression
                                  with Lognormal Unobserved Heterogeneity:
                                  With an Application to the Patent-R&D
                                  Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1689--1706
                 Haim Shore and   
                   Fatina A'wad   Statistical Comparison of the Goodness
                                  of Fit Delivered by Five Families of
                                  Distributions Used in Distribution
                                  Fitting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1707--1728
                 Shubiao Li and   
               Dennis Black and   
                   Carl Lee and   
               Felix Famoye and   
                        Sung Li   Dependence Models Arising from the
                                  Lagrangian Probability Distributions . . 1729--1742
                 F. L. Chen and   
                      C. H. Yeh   Economic Design of VSI $x$-Bar Control
                                  Charts for Non Normally Distributed Data
                                  under $ {\rm Gamma}(\lambda, 2)$ Failure
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1743--1760
       Panagis Moschopoulos and   
                      Max Shpak   The Distribution of Family Sizes Under a
                                  Time-Homogeneous Birth and Death Process 1761--1775
                   S. Stylianou   Foldover Conference Designs for
                                  Screening Experiments  . . . . . . . . . 1776--1784
                E. Mahmoudi and   
                  H. Zakerzadeh   Generalized Poisson--Lindley
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1785--1798
                 Sanzhi Shi and   
                     Lixin Song   Comparison of Nonparametric Components
                                  in Two Partially Linear Models . . . . . 1799--1816
              David Kaziska and   
                Anuj Srivastava   Joint Gait-Cadence Analysis for Human
                                  Identification Using an Elastic Shape
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1817--1831
                Livio Finos and   
             Chiara Brombin and   
                  Luigi Salmaso   Adjusting Stepwise $p$-Values in
                                  Generalized Linear Models  . . . . . . . 1832--1846
               Guangbao Guo and   
                   Shaoling Lin   Schwarz Method for Penalized
                                  Quasi-Likelihood in Generalized Additive
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847--1854
              H. A. Muttlak and   
           W. A. Abu-Dayyeh and   
                M. F. Saleh and   
                     E. Al-Sawi   Estimating $ P(Y < X) $ using Ranked Set
                                  Sampling in Case of the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855--1868
                 Jing Chang and   
                 David J. Olive   OLS for $1$D Regression Models . . . . . 1869--1882
        Patrick Fitzsimmons and   
                 Tucker McElroy   On Joint Fourier--Laplace Transforms . . 1883--1885

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 11, 2010

           Siva Sivaganesan and   
                 Dongming Jiang   Objective Bayesian Testing of a Poisson
                                  Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1887--1897
                Peixin Zhao and   
                     Liugen Xue   Empirical Likelihood Inferences for
                                  Semiparametric Varying-Coefficient
                                  Partially Linear Models with
                                  Longitudinal Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1898--1914
                         Jin Xu   Asymptotic Expansion of the Non Null
                                  Distribution of the Two-Sample
                                  $t$-Statistic Under Non Normality with
                                  Application in Power Comparison  . . . . 1915--1921
                 Yong Zhang and   
                   XiaoYun Yang   Limit Theory for Random Coefficient
                                  First-Order Autoregressive Process . . . 1922--1931
             Jun-Qiang Yang and   
                  Xuewen Lu and   
                Radhey S. Singh   Semiparametric Estimation for Two-Sample
                                  Location-Scale Models under Type I
                                  Censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1932--1950
          N. K. Sajeevkumar and   
               P. Yageen Thomas   Use of Spacings in the Estimation of
                                  Common Scale Parameter of Several
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1951--1959
             Amina Barhdadi and   
                   Sorana Froda   An Exact Test for Additivity in Two-Way
                                  Tables under Biadditive Modelling  . . . 1960--1978
                S. Satheesh and   
                 E. Sandhya and   
              T. Lovely Abraham   Limit Distributions of Random Sums of $
                                  Z_+ $-Valued Random Variables  . . . . . 1979--1984
             Vanessa Kuentz and   
           Beno\^\it Liquet and   
    Jérôme Saracco   Bagging Versions of Sliced Inverse
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985--1996
   Daniel Ventosa-Santaul\`aria   Spurious Instrumental Variables  . . . . 1997--2007
                  Zhao Yang and   
            James W. Hardin and   
                 Cheryl L. Addy   Score Tests for Zero-Inflation in
                                  Overdispersed Count Data . . . . . . . . 2008--2030
               Manuel Galea and   
        Patricia Giménez   Estimation and Testing in Elliptical
                                  Functional Measurement Error Models  . . 2031--2045
                S. W. Human and   
             S. Chakraborti and   
                     C. F. Smit   Nonparametric Shewhart-Type Sign Control
                                  Charts Based on Runs . . . . . . . . . . 2046--2062
          Vivian Yi-Ju Chen and   
           Vernon M. Chinchilli   A Generalized Correlation Coefficient
                                  for the General Two-Treatment Crossover
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2063--2080
                 Tetsuto Himeno   A Test for the Equality of Means of Two
                                  Groups with Different Variances When the
                                  Sample Size and the Dimension are Large  2081--2093
      M. Bolbolian Ghalibaf and   
                  N. Eghbal and   
                   M. Amini and   
            H. A. Azarnoosh and   
                   A. Bozorgnia   Aspects of Dependence in Cuadras--Auge
                                  Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2094--2107

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 12, 2010

          Ilknur Özmen and   
                Haydar Demirhan   A Bayesian Approach for Zero-Inflated
                                  Count Regression Models by Using the
                                  Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo
                                  Method and an Application  . . . . . . . 2109--2127
            Robert L. Mason and   
              Youn-Min Chou and   
                  John C. Young   Decomposition of Scatter Ratios Used in
                                  Monitoring Multivariate Process
                                  Variability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2128--2145
                 Yasutaka Chiba   An Approach for Estimating Causal
                                  Effects in Randomized Trials with
                                  Noncompliance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2146--2156
          Nalini Mahalingam and   
                    Alwell Oyet   Score Test for Homogeneity of Variances
                                  in Longitudinal Time Series Via Wavelets 2157--2171
              Abbas Rasouli and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Exact Likelihood Inference for Two
                                  Exponential Populations Under Joint
                                  Progressive Type-II Censoring  . . . . . 2172--2191
                Xu-Qing Liu and   
                 Jian-Ying Rong   Admissible Estimation for Linear
                                  Combination of Fixed and Random Effects
                                  in General Mixed Linear Models . . . . . 2192--2204
                  Peter Congdon   Assessing Differential Area Mortality
                                  Trends via Bayesian Random Effects . . . 2205--2230
                Paloma Main and   
                Hilario Navarro   Conditional Specification with
                                  Exponential Power Distributions  . . . . 2231--2240
                  D. Campos and   
      C. E. Martínez and   
A. Contreras-Cristán and   
                    F. O'Reilly   Inferences for Mixtures of Distributions
                                  for Centrally Censored Data with Partial
                                  Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2241--2263
              L. Ramprasath and   
               T. M. Durairajan   Locally Maximin Test for the Mixture
                                  Proportion with Type-I Censoring . . . . 2264--2270
                  V. Fakoor and   
                 N. Nakhaei Rad   Strong Gaussian Approximations of
                                  Product-Limit and Quantile Processes for
                                  Strong Mixing and Censored Data  . . . . 2271--2279
                 Qunshu Ren and   
            Majid Mojirsheibani   A Note on Nonparametric Regression with
                                  $ \beta $-Mixing Sequences . . . . . . . 2280--2287
           Fabrizio Durante and   
             Rachele Foschi and   
                  Peter Sarkoci   Distorted Copulas: Constructions and
                                  Tail Dependence  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2288--2301
                  Peng Zeng and   
                     Yu Zhu and   
                Kevin T. Phelps   Bounds on the Maximum Number of Factors
                                  in Designs with Two Distinct Groups of
                                  Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2302--2310

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 13, 2010

               Tadashi Dohi and   
                 Shey-Huei Sheu   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311--2311
           Shui-Ching Chang and   
                     Tze Fen Li   Bayes Empirical Bayes Classification of
                                  Components Using Masked Data . . . . . . 2312--2320
                Ki Mun Jung and   
               Sung Sil Han and   
                   Dong Ho Park   A Bayesian Approach to Maintenance
                                  Policy Based on Cost and Downtime After
                                  Non-Renewing Warranty  . . . . . . . . . 2321--2332
               Y. Yamaguchi and   
                 H. Okamura and   
                        T. Dohi   A Variational Bayesian Approach for
                                  Estimating Parameters of a Mixture of
                                  Erlang Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 2333--2350
               Chien-Wei Wu and   
                    P. H. Huang   Generalized Confidence Intervals for
                                  Comparing the Capability of Two
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2351--2364
                Ho Gyun Kim and   
                  Won Young Yun   A Repair-Time Limit Replacement Policy
                                  With Estimation Error  . . . . . . . . . 2365--2378
             Shey-Huei Sheu and   
            Chin-Chih Chang and   
                  Yen-Luan Chen   A Generalized Periodic Preventive
                                  Maintenance Model With Virtual Age for a
                                  System Subjected to Shocks . . . . . . . 2379--2393
                Cunhua Qian and   
             Dingzhou Zhang and   
                Xufeng Zhao and   
                Toshio Nakagawa   A Maintenance Policy for a Parallel
                                  System With Cascading Failure  . . . . . 2394--2403
                Jih-An Chen and   
                  Yu-Hung Chien   Optimal Spare Ordering Time for
                                  Preventive Replacement to Maximize the
                                  Cost Effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . 2404--2421
              Yu-Hung Chien and   
                  Mingchih Chen   An Optimal Age for Preventive
                                  Replacement Under Fully Renewing
                                  Combination Free Replacement and Pro
                                  Rata Warranty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2422--2439
            Shin-Guang Chen and   
                    Yi-Kuei Lin   An Approximate Algorithm for the Robust
                                  Design in a Stochastic-Flow Network  . . 2440--2454
                  Xujie Jia and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                     Jinqiu Yan   A Study on the Reliability of
                                  Consecutive $k$-Out-of-$n$: $G$ Systems
                                  Based on Copula  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2455--2472

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 14, 2010

            N. Balakrishnan and   
           Enrique Castillo and   
José María Sarabia   Bivariate Continuous Distributions with
                                  Specified Conditional Hazard Functions   2473--2484
                Pi-Hsiang Huang   Two-Level Designs in Blocks of Size Two
                                  in Which All Main Effects and Two-Factor
                                  Interactions Are Estimable . . . . . . . 2485--2491
                    Xi Chen and   
                         Lu Lin   Nonparametric Estimation for FBSDEs
                                  Models with Applications in Finance  . . 2492--2514
                 Chao-Ping Ting   $D$-Optimal Two-Level Fractional
                                  Factorial Designs of Resolution III with
                                  Two Dispersion Factors . . . . . . . . . 2515--2532
                  Amal Helu and   
         Muhammad Abu-Salih and   
                    Osama Alkam   Bayes Estimation of Weibull Distribution
                                  Parameters Using Ranked Set Sampling . . 2533--2551
               Roy Cerqueti and   
               Mauro Costantini   Some Nonparametric Asymptotic Results
                                  for a Class of Stochastic Processes  . . 2552--2560
                  D. S. Paolino   Exact Inference for the $p$-th-Quantile
                                  and the Reliability of the Two-Parameter
                                  Exponential Distribution with Singly
                                  Type II Censoring: a Standard Approach   2561--2572
              Zhengyuan Wei and   
             Xinsheng Zhang and   
                       Taifu Li   On Stein Identity, Chernoff Inequality,
                                  and Orthogonal Polynomials . . . . . . . 2573--2593
                  Yalian Li and   
                        Hu Yang   Two Kinds of Restricted Estimators in
                                  Singular Linear Regression . . . . . . . 2594--2603
               M. T. Alodat and   
           M. Y. Al-Rawwash and   
                  I. M. Nawajah   Inference about the Regression
                                  Parameters Using Median-Ranked Set
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2604--2616
                   M. Denis and   
                    N. Molinari   Free Knot Splines with RJMCMC in
                                  Survival Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . 2617--2629
                M. A. Alkhamisi   Ridge Estimation in Linear Models with
                                  Autocorrelated Errors  . . . . . . . . . 2630--2644
            Farinetto Christian   On Least Absolute Value Estimators for
                                  Poisson Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 2645--2658

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 15, 2010

     Liciana V. A. Silveira and   
         Enrico A. Colosimo and   
José Raimundo de S. Passos   A Generalized Log-Normal Model for
                                  Grouped Survival Data  . . . . . . . . . 2659--2666
                    Miki Aoyagi   A Bayesian Learning Coefficient of
                                  Generalization Error and Vandermonde
                                  Matrix-Type Singularities  . . . . . . . 2667--2687
         Sylvan Wallenstein and   
               Carol Bodian and   
                  Robin Herbert   A Capture-Recapture Problem When
                                  Information is Obtained From Two
                                  Qualitatively Different Sources  . . . . 2688--2700
          N. Jafari Tabrizi and   
                 N. Nematollahi   Minimax Estimation of the Bounded
                                  Parameter of Some Discrete Distributions
                                  Under LINEX Loss Function  . . . . . . . 2701--2710
              Norou Diawara and   
                 Mark Carpenter   Mixture of Bivariate Exponential
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2711--2720
              Xiangrong Yin and   
                        Bing Li   A Note on the Invariance Law for
                                  Surrogate Dimension Reduction  . . . . . 2721--2724
              Mayuri Pandya and   
                Prabha V. Jadav   Bayes Estimation of Change Point in Non
                                  Standard Mixture of Left-Truncated
                                  Exponential With Unknown Proportions . . 2725--2742
                  Zhao Yang and   
            James W. Hardin and   
                 Cheryl L. Addy   Some Remarks on Testing Overdispersion
                                  in Zero-Inflated Poisson and Binomial
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2743--2752
             Marek Kaluszka and   
              Andrzej Okolewski   Bounds for Moments of the Maximum of
                                  Concomitants of Selected Order
                                  Statistics With Application  . . . . . . 2753--2766
            Subrata Chakraborty   On Some Distributional Properties of the
                                  Family of Weighted Generalized Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2767--2788
            Ashok K. Bansal and   
              Priyanka Aggarwal   Bayes Prediction for a Stratified
                                  Regression Superpopulation Model Using
                                  Balanced Loss Function . . . . . . . . . 2789--2799
                   Tian Xia and   
               Xue-Ren Wang and   
                  Xue-Jun Jiang   Asymptotic Properties of the MLE in
                                  Nonlinear Reproductive Dispersion Models
                                  With Stochastic Regressors . . . . . . . 2800--2810
                 Lin Fuming and   
                  Peng Zuoxiang   Tail Behavior and Extremes of
                                  Short-Tailed Symmetric Distribution  . . 2811--2817
               L. Al Labadi and   
                        Z. Wang   Modified Wynn's Sequential Algorithm for
                                  Constructing $D$-Optimal Designs: Adding
                                  Two Points at a Time . . . . . . . . . . 2818--2828
              Amitava Mukherjee   Semi-Sequential One-Shot Monitoring of
                                  Small Disorders With Controlled Type I
                                  Error Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2829--2847

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 16, 2010

                   Miao-Yu Tsai   A Hybrid Approximation Bayesian Test of
                                  Variance Components for Longitudinal
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2849--2864
              Seung-Ho Kang and   
                    Yonghee Lee   New Confidence Intervals for the
                                  Proportion of Interest in One-Sample
                                  Correlated Binary Data . . . . . . . . . 2865--2876
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Nonparametric Estimators of the
                                  Bivariate Survival Function Under Left
                                  Truncation and Right Censoring . . . . . 2877--2889
              Lingyun Zhang and   
             Wenjiang Jiang and   
                     Gemai Chen   A Note on Bartlett's $M$Test for
                                  Homogeneity of Variances . . . . . . . . 2890--2900
           Fabrizio Durante and   
                 Piotr Jaworski   A New Characterization of Bivariate
                                  Copulas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2901--2912
                    Daniel Grau   New Capability Indices for Non Normal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2913--2929
             Ulrich Menzefricke   Control Charts for the Variance and
                                  Coefficient of Variation Based on Their
                                  Predictive Distribution  . . . . . . . . 2930--2941
             Ulrich Menzefricke   Multivariate Exponentially Weighted
                                  Moving Average Charts for a Mean Based
                                  on Its Prediction Distribution . . . . . 2942--2960
           Ching-Chun Huang and   
                  Fei-Long Chen   Economic Design of Max Charts  . . . . . 2961--2976
                         Wen Yu   Empirical Likelihood Method for General
                                  Additive-Multiplicative Hazard Models    2977--2990
          Douglas J. Taylor and   
             Mark A. Weaver and   
            Natalie Cheung Hall   A Proportional Odds Beta-Binomial Model
                                  for Evaluating the Effect of Treatment
                                  in Cross-Over Studies with Baseline
                                  Covariates: an Application to Condom
                                  Failure Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2991--3000
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   Some Estimators of Finite Population
                                  Variance of Stratified Sample Mean . . . 3001--3008
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3009--3009

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 17, 2010

            Hidekazu Tanaka and   
              Masashi Tatsukawa   On the Admissibility of Linear
                                  Estimators in a Multivariate Normal
                                  Distribution Under LINEX Loss Function   3011--3020
              Xue-Dong Chen and   
            Nian-Sheng Tang and   
                   Xue-Ren Wang   Influence Diagnostics of Semiparametric
                                  Nonlinear Reproductive Dispersion Models 3021--3040
                      Ying Zhou   Multiple Interval Mapping for
                                  Quantitative Trait Loci via EM Algorithm
                                  in the Presence of Crossover
                                  Interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3041--3057
               Jafar Ahmadi and   
          Mahdi Doostparast and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Bayes Estimation Based on Random
                                  Censored Data for Some Life Time Models
                                  Under Symmetric and Asymmetric Loss
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3058--3071
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   Attainability of the Upper Bounds for
                                  the Mean Past Lifetime of Parallel
                                  System Components  . . . . . . . . . . . 3072--3080
                    Hu Yang and   
                  Wenxue Li and   
                     Jianwen Xu   Comparison of Two Estimators of
                                  Parameters Under Pitman Nearness
                                  Criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3081--3094
                      Jiang Hui   Berry--Esséen Bound for a Class of
                                  Normalized $L$-Statistics  . . . . . . . 3095--3107
               Julio Mulero and   
                Franco Pellerey   Bivariate Aging Properties under
                                  Archimedean Dependence Structures  . . . 3108--3121
                       Zhu Wang   Tests for Paired Lifetime Data with
                                  Frailty Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3122--3139
               Xiuqing Zhou and   
                  Ningzhong Shi   Methods of Statistical Inference for
                                  Median Regression Models with Doubly
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3140--3152
       Constantinos Petropoulos   A Class of Improved Estimators for the
                                  Scale Parameter of a Mixture Model of
                                  Exponential Distribution with Unknown
                                  Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3153--3162
            Chang-Kyoon Son and   
               Jong-Min Kim and   
                Ki-Hak Hong and   
                    Gi-Sung Lee   Calibration for Randomized Response
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3163--3177
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Semiparametric Analysis of Doubly
                                  Truncated Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3178--3190
          Jirí Andel and   
      Sárka Doslá   Bernoulli Processes with Non-Positive
                                  Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3191--3201

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 18, 2010

         M. S. Chikkagoudar and   
                  B. S. Biradar   Rank Tests for Two-Sample Problems Based
                                  on Multiple Type-II Censored Data  . . . 3203--3221
                   Feng-Shou Ko   Using Frailty Models to Identify the
                                  Longitudinal Biomarkers in Survival
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3222--3237
              Silvia Figini and   
               Pierpaolo Uberti   Model Assessment for Predictive
                                  Classification Models  . . . . . . . . . 3238--3244
            Giancarlo Diana and   
           Pier Francesco Perri   Improved Estimators of the Population
                                  Mean for Missing Data  . . . . . . . . . 3245--3251
    Mansour Aghababaei Jazi and   
     Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz   Ordering Comparison of Logarithmic
                                  Series Random Variables with their
                                  Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3252--3263
                G. N. Singh and   
          Jaishree Prabha Karna   Some Imputation Methods to Minimize the
                                  Effect of Non Response in Two-Occasion
                                  Rotation Patterns  . . . . . . . . . . . 3264--3281
              S. K. Khilare and   
                   D. T. Shirke   A Nonparametric Synthetic Control Chart
                                  Using Sign Statistic . . . . . . . . . . 3282--3293
         Christopher Louden and   
                   Anuradha Roy   Classification Rules under
                                  Autoregressive and General Circulant
                                  Covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3294--3315
                     Fei Li and   
                     Yifeng Xue   The Density Functions of the Singular
                                  Quaternion Normal Matrix and the
                                  Singular Quaternion Wishart Matrix . . . 3316--3331
       Alicja Jokiel-Rokita and   
                Ryszard Magiera   Minimum Risk Invariant Estimators of a
                                  Continuous Cumulative Distribution
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3332--3342
Mátyás Barczy and   
Márton Ispány and   
                  Gyula Pap and   
              Manuel Scotto and   
            Maria Eduarda Silva   Innovational Outliers in $ {\rm INAR}(1)
                                  $ Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3343--3362
                     P. C. Wang   A Simple Method for Obtaining Minimum
                                  Aberration Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 3363--3370
              Xiaobing Zhao and   
                      Xian Zhou   Semiparametric Estimation in
                                  Transformation Models with Cure Fraction 3371--3388

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 19, 2010

                      Yang Xing   Rates of Posterior Convergence for iid
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3389--3398
                Yanqin Feng and   
                     Guoxin Zuo   A Unified Approach to Likelihood
                                  Inference on Linear Inequality
                                  Constraints in Contingency Tables  . . . 3399--3420
                   Wei Wang and   
                  Wensheng Wang   Pricing Vulnerable Options Under a
                                  Markov-Modulated Regime Switching Model  3421--3433
               Ganesh Dutta and   
              Premadhis Das and   
               Nripes K. Mandal   $D$-Optimal Designs for Covariate
                                  Parameters in Block Design Set Up  . . . 3434--3443
             Walter Racugno and   
          Alessandra Salvan and   
                  Laura Ventura   Bayesian Analysis in Regression Models
                                  Using Pseudo-Likelihoods . . . . . . . . 3444--3455
           Housila P. Singh and   
        Gajendra K. Vishwakarma   Estimation of Mean Using Auxiliary
                                  Information and Post-Stratification  . . 3456--3471
                   E. Porcu and   
                   J. Mateu and   
                       C. Comas   A Note on Continuous Spatial-Temporal
                                  Dynamics of Stochastic Processes . . . . 3472--3484
            Davinder Kumar Garg   Pseudo New Modified Latin Square $ ({\rm
                                  NML}_m(m)) $ Type PBIB Designs . . . . . 3485--3491
                Sang-Ho Lee and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   A New Control Scheme Always Better Than
                                  $X$-Bar Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3492--3503
                   Hong Shu and   
                Xinsheng Ma and   
                   Chunsheng Ma   Isotropic Random Fields with the von
                                  Kármán--Whittle Type Correlation Structure 3504--3512
                 Xiuli Wang and   
                  Fang Chen and   
                         Lu Lin   Empirical Likelihood Inference for the
                                  Parameter in Additive Partially Linear
                                  EV Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3513--3524
                     Yunqing Lu   A Revised Version of McNemar's Test for
                                  Paired Binary Data . . . . . . . . . . . 3525--3539
          Tony Vangeneugden and   
          Geert Molenberghs and   
          Annouschka Laenen and   
                Helena Geys and   
         Caroline Beunckens and   
                 Cristina Sotto   Marginal Correlation in Longitudinal
                                  Binary Data Based on Generalized Linear
                                  Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3540--3557
                F. Alqallaf and   
              A. R. Soltani and   
                  N. Al-Kandari   Continuity and Analysis of Sequences of
                                  Principal Components . . . . . . . . . . 3558--3567
           R. N. Rattihalli and   
                    P. Y. Patil   Generalized $ \upsilon $-Spherical
                                  Densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3568--3583

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 39, Number 20, 2010

                Yongming Li and   
              Chengdong Wei and   
                  Shanchao Yang   The Recursive Kernel Distribution
                                  Function Estimator Based on Negatively
                                  and Positively Associated Sequences  . . 3585--3595
         H. A. Mardani-Fard and   
     S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi and   
                   Z. Shishebor   Bounds on Bivariate Distribution
                                  Functions with Given Margins and Known
                                  Values at Several Points . . . . . . . . 3596--3621
               Yuanjia Wang and   
              Daniel Rabinowitz   Efficient Nonparametric Estimation from
                                  Kin-Cohort Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3622--3634
               Michael R. Flynn   Constrained Maximization of the
                                  Shapiro--Wilk $W$ Statistic to Estimate
                                  Parameters of the Johnson $ S_B$
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3635--3644
                   S. Baratpour   Characterizations Based on Cumulative
                                  Residual Entropy of First-Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3645--3651
            N. Balakrishnan and   
        I. S. Triantafyllou and   
                  M. V. Koutras   A Distribution-Free Control Chart Based
                                  on Order Statistics  . . . . . . . . . . 3652--3677
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
                  S. Y. Teh and   
                       Zhang Wu   Monitoring Process Mean and Variability
                                  with One Double EWMA Chart . . . . . . . 3678--3694
             Yuri Goegebeur and   
               Jan Beirlant and   
                 Tertius De Wet   Generalized Kernel Estimators for the
                                  Weibull-Tail Coefficient . . . . . . . . 3695--3716
           John A. Kairalla and   
            Keith E. Muller and   
          Christopher S. Coffey   Combining an Internal Pilot with an
                                  Interim Analysis for Single Degree of
                                  Freedom Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3717--3738
         Andrea A. Prudente and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Generalized Weibull Linear Models  . . . 3739--3755


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 1, 2010

          Do Le (Paul) Minh and   
             Nicholas R. Farnum   A New Fixed Point Iteration to Find
                                  Percentage Points for Distributions on
                                  the Positive Axis  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
                    Yu Miao and   
              Ying-Xia Chen and   
                   Shou-Fang Xu   Asymptotic Properties of the Deviation
                                  Between Order Statistics and
                                  $p$-Quantile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--14
                Jaime Arrue and   
Héctor W. Gómez and   
       Héctor Varela and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   On the Skew-Normal-Cauchy Distribution   15--27
               Xingzhong Xu and   
                 Qian Zhang and   
                    Xiaobo Ding   Hypothesis Testing and Confidence
                                  Regions for the Mean Sojourn Time of an
                                  M/M/1 Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . 28--39
              M. Abbasnejad and   
                  N. R. Arghami   Renyi Entropy Properties of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--52
           Anoop Chaturvedi and   
              Suchita Kesarwani   Effect of Misspecifying the Disturbance
                                  Covariance Matrix on a Family of
                                  Shrinkage Estimators . . . . . . . . . . 53--67
             A. Asgharzadeh and   
                      A. Fallah   Estimation and Prediction for
                                  Exponentiated Family of Distributions
                                  Based on Records . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--83
                    Li-Ping Zhu   Extending the Scope of Inverse
                                  Regression Methods in Sufficient
                                  Dimension Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . 84--95
        Rostyslav Maiboroda and   
                 Olena Sugakova   Generalized Estimating Equations for
                                  Symmetric Distributions Observed with
                                  Admixture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--116
          K. Krishnamoorthy and   
              Xiaodong Lian and   
                  Sumona Mondal   Tolerance Intervals for the Distribution
                                  of the Difference Between Two
                                  Independent Normal Random Variables  . . 117--129
              Guo-Dong Xing and   
                 Shan-Chao Yang   Precise Rates in the Law of the Iterated
                                  Logarithm for Associated Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--144
               K. Teerapabolarn   Non Uniform Bounds on Geometric
                                  Approximation Via Stein's Method and
                                  $w$-Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
                   Guo Chen and   
                 Hiroki Tsurumi   Probit and Logit Model Selection . . . . 159--175
                  Mustafa Nadar   Local Convergence Rate of Mean Squared
                                  Error in Density Estimation  . . . . . . 176--185

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 2, 2010

                  Peiyan Qi and   
                 Zheng Tian and   
                      Xifa Duan   Detection of Change Point in
                                  Nonparametric Function with Unit-Root
                                  Noise by Wavelet . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--198
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   On Estimating Finite Population Mean in
                                  Simple and Stratified Random Sampling    199--212
              Ricardo Leiva and   
                   Anuradha Roy   A Quadratic Classification Rule with
                                  Equicorrelated Training Vectors for Non
                                  Random Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--231
           Artur J. Lemonte and   
           Silvia L. P. Ferrari   Small-Sample Corrections for Score Tests
                                  in Birnbaum--Saunders Regressions  . . . 232--243
                    Ian Fellows   The Minimaxity of the Mid $p$-value
                                  under Linear and Squared Loss Functions  244--254
                Frans E. S. Tan   Conditions for $ D_A $-Maximin Marginal
                                  Designs for Generalized Linear Mixed
                                  Models to be Uniform . . . . . . . . . . 255--266
                Maude Gathy and   
               Claude Lef\`evre   On Markov--Pólya Distribution and the
                                  Katz Family of Distributions . . . . . . 267--278
     Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay and   
              Mathews P. Samuel   Bayesian Analysis of a Superimposed
                                  Renewal Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--303
               Fu-Kwun Wang and   
                   Chih-Wen Lee   An $M$-Estimator for Estimating the
                                  Extended Burr Type III Parameters with
                                  Outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--322
      M. Bolbolian Ghalibaf and   
                  V. Fakoor and   
                H. A. Azarnoosh   Asymptotic Behaviors of the Lorenz Curve
                                  for Censored Data Under Strong Mixing    323--332
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                      Peng Zhao   On the Mixture of Proportional Odds
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--344
             Chun-Ying Chen and   
                Pei-Ju Chou and   
           Jeff Yu-Shun Hsu and   
         Wisely Po-Hong Liu and   
              Yuh-Dauh Lyuu and   
                  Chuan-Ju Wang   A Closed-Form Formula for an Option with
                                  Discrete and Continuous Barriers . . . . 345--357
                C. Demattei and   
                      L. Cucala   Multiple Spatio-Temporal Cluster
                                  Detection for Case Event Data: an
                                  Ordering-Based Approach  . . . . . . . . 358--372

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 3, 2011

  Warangkhana Keerativibool and   
         Jirawan Jitthavech and   
        Vichit Lorchirachoonkul   Model Selection in a System of
                                  Simultaneous Equations Model . . . . . . 373--393
               Hanchao Wang and   
                   Zhengyan Lin   Local Linear Estimation of Second-Order
                                  Diffusion Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--407
     Terry L. Mashtare, Jr. and   
                 Alan D. Hutson   Utilizing the Flexibility of the
                                  Epsilon-Skew-Normal Distribution for
                                  Tobit Regression Problems  . . . . . . . 408--423
                Yiping Yang and   
                 Liugen Xue and   
                    Weihu Cheng   The Empirical Likelihood Goodness-of-Fit
                                  Test for a Regression Model with
                                  Randomly Censored Data . . . . . . . . . 424--435
         Michael G. Hudgens and   
                  Hae-Young Kim   Optimal Configuration of a Square Array
                                  Group Testing Algorithm  . . . . . . . . 436--448
                   Xiaofeng Liu   The Effect of a Covariate on Standard
                                  Error and Confidence Interval Width  . . 449--456
             Ashis Sengupta and   
             Fidelis I. Ugwuowo   A Classification Method for Directional
                                  Data with Application to the Human Skull 457--466
                 Qunying Wu and   
                 Yuanying Jiang   The Strong Consistency of $M$ Estimator
                                  in a Linear Model for Negatively
                                  Dependent Random Samples . . . . . . . . 467--491
             Haixiang Zhang and   
                 Dehui Wang and   
                     Fukang Zhu   The Empirical Likelihood for First-Order
                                  Random Coefficient Integer-Valued
                                  Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 492--509
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                   Hans Volkmer   On the Distributions of Certain Spacings 510--514
           Matthew J. Gurka and   
               Lloyd J. Edwards   Estimating Variance Components and
                                  Random Effects Using the Box--Cox
                                  Transformation in the Linear Mixed Model 515--531
                Yujie Huang and   
                     Lixin Song   $M$-Estimator of a Generalized Linear
                                  Model with Measurement Errors  . . . . . 532--546
            Serkan Eryilmaz and   
          Funda Isçioglu   Reliability Evaluation for a Multi-State
                                  System Under Stress-Strength Setup . . . 547--558
               Zhi-Wen Zhao and   
                    De-Hui Wang   Empirical Likelihood for an
                                  Autoregressive Model with Explanatory
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--570

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 4, 2011

                    Yu Miao and   
               Guangyu Yang and   
                    Jianyong Mu   Minimum $ L_p $ Norm Estimator for
                                  Simple Linear Regressive Model . . . . . 571--580
           Rossita M. Yunus and   
                 Shahjahan Khan   Increasing the Power of the Test Through
                                  Pre-Test --- a Robust Method . . . . . . 581--597
   Antonio Fernández and   
          Manuel Vázquez   A Generalized Regression Methodology for
                                  Bivariate Heteroscedastic Data . . . . . 598--621
      Jean-Philippe Boucher and   
             Montserrat Guillen   A Semi-Nonparametric Approach to Model
                                  Panel Count Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--634
            Hooshang Talebi and   
              Nabaz Esmailzadeh   Weighted Searching Probability for
                                  Classes of Equivalent Search Designs
                                  Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--647
                  Khosrow Fazli   Power Loss for Inhomogeneous Poisson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648--662
                     Mosisa Aga   Edgeworth Expansion for Linear
                                  Regression Processes with Long-Memory
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--673
                Michael Lechner   A Note on the Relation of
                                  Inverse-Probability-Weighting and
                                  Matching Estimators  . . . . . . . . . . 674--683
            Mahmood Shafiee and   
           Stefanka Chukova and   
    Mohammad Saidi-Mehrabad and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   Two-Dimensional Warranty Cost Analysis
                                  for Second-Hand Products . . . . . . . . 684--701
Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   A Multi-Stage Two-Machines Replacement
                                  Strategy Using Mixture Models, Bayesian
                                  Inference, and Stochastic Dynamic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702--725
                W. F. Scott and   
                     B. Stewart   Tables for the Lilliefors and Modified
                                  Cramér--von Mises Tests of Normality  . . 726--730
             Eugenia Stoimenova   The Power of Exceedance-Type Tests Under
                                  Lehmann Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . 731--744
                    Vivek Vijay   Relationships Between Full and Layer
                                  Models with Applications to Level
                                  Merging  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--761

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 5, 2011

                Philip Prescott   Orthogonally Blocked Mixture Experiments
                                  in Ellipsoidal Restricted Regions  . . . 763--784
                M. Herrador and   
              M. D. Esteban and   
                   T. Hobza and   
                     D. Morales   A Fay--Herriot Model with Different
                                  Random Effect Variances  . . . . . . . . 785--797
       Wagner Barreto-Souza and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
             Alexandre B. Simas   Some Results for Beta Fréchet
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798--811
                       Fang Liu   Estimation Bias in Complete-Case
                                  Analysis in Crossover Studies with
                                  Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812--827
           Bernard De Baets and   
              Hans De Meyer and   
     Manuel Úbeda-Flores   Constructing Copulas with Given Diagonal
                                  and Opposite Diagonal Sections . . . . . 828--843
                  Qiqing Yu and   
                Chingfu Sen and   
              Jinlong Huang and   
                    Chinsan Lee   Is Each NPMLE of a Continuous Bivariate
                                  Distribution Function with Singly
                                  Right-Censored Data Really Inconsistent? 844--862
             Samuel O. M. Manda   A Nonparametric Frailty Model for
                                  Clustered Survival Data  . . . . . . . . 863--875
               Marko Nagode and   
                 Matija Fajdiga   The REBMIX Algorithm and the Univariate
                                  Finite Mixture Estimation  . . . . . . . 876--892
                 Minh-Ngoc Tran   A Criterion for Optimal Predictive Model
                                  Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--906
                H. S. Patil and   
               R. N. Rattihalli   Fixed Width Confidence Interval for the
                                  Parameter of $ U(\theta, m \theta) $
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--915
       Anna E. Bargagliotti and   
           Raymond N. Greenwell   Statistical Significance of Ranking
                                  Paradoxes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916--928
 Abdollah Bayati Eshkaftaki and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Robust Bayes Estimation  . . . . . . . . 929--941
            Robert L. Mason and   
              Youn-Min Chou and   
                  John C. Young   Detection and Interpretation of a
                                  Multivariate Signal Using Combined
                                  Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 942--957

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 6, 2011

                  Xiaohu Li and   
               Rongfang Yan and   
                    Xiaoxiao Hu   On the Allocation of Redundancies in
                                  Series and Parallel Systems  . . . . . . 959--968
                Xiaojian Xu and   
                  Wai Kong Yuen   Applications and Implementations of
                                  Continuous Robust Designs  . . . . . . . 969--988
                  Filippo Domma   Bivariate Reversed Hazard Rate, Notions,
                                  and Measures of Dependence and their
                                  Relationships  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989--999
                  Qian Chen and   
                 David E. Giles   Finite-Sample Properties of the Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimator for the Poisson
                                  Regression Model With Random Covariates  1000--1014
                Zhensheng Huang   Empirical Likelihood for a Partially
                                  Linear Single-Index Measurement Error
                                  Model with Right-Censored Data . . . . . 1015--1029
                      Ke-Ang Fu   Exact Moment Convergence Rates of
                                  $U$-Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030--1040
                  Jixue Liu and   
                     Shuyuan He   Autoregressive Process with Measurement
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1048
Miguel A. Gómez-Villegas and   
Beatriz González-Pérez   A Bayesian Analysis for the Homogeneity
                                  Testing Problem Using $ \epsilon
                                  $-Contaminated Priors  . . . . . . . . . 1049--1062
        Monjed Hisham Samuh and   
      Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh   The Effectiveness of Multistage Ranked
                                  Set Sampling in Stratifying the
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1080
             Sugata Sen Roy and   
            Sankha Bhattacharya   Rate of Convergence to Normality of
                                  Estimators in a Random Coefficient $
                                  {\rm ARMA}(p, q) $ Model . . . . . . . . 1081--1092
José María Sarabia and   
Emilio Gómez-Déniz   Multivariate Poisson--Beta Distributions
                                  with Applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 1093--1108
                Zhiming Xia and   
              Pengjiang Guo and   
                    Wenzhi Zhao   CUSUM Methods for Monitoring Structural
                                  Changes in Structural Equations  . . . . 1109--1123
              Pawe\l R. Pordzik   Orthogonality and Linear Sufficiency in
                                  Partitioned and Reduced Linear Models    1124--1130

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 7, 2011

                Caiya Zhang and   
                    Yan Luo and   
                   Zhengyan Lin   On Two Types of Breakdown Points of
                                  Weighted $ L^2 $-median  . . . . . . . . 1131--1141
         Nitis Mukhopadhyay and   
                     Mun S. Son   On the Covariance Between the Sample
                                  Mean and Variance  . . . . . . . . . . . 1142--1148
                      Qiang Liu   Asymptotic Normality for the Partially
                                  Linear EV Models with Longitudinal Data  1149--1158
                   M. H. Ngerng   Recursive Nonparametric Estimation of
                                  Local First Derivative Under Dependence
                                  Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159--1168
         A. A. M. Nurunnabi and   
  A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon and   
                      M. Nasser   A Diagnostic Measure for Influential
                                  Observations in Linear Regression  . . . 1169--1183
       Ernest Fokoué and   
                      Prem Goel   An Optimal Experimental Design
                                  Perspective on Radial Basis Function
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1195
               Abdullah Almasri   A New Approach for Testing Periodicity   1196--1217
              Roel Braekers and   
                 Auguste Gaddah   Flexible Modeling in the Koziol--Green
                                  Model by a Copula Function . . . . . . . 1218--1235
                    J. Gani and   
                    R. J. Swift   An Immigration--Death Process with a
                                  Time-Dependent Delay . . . . . . . . . . 1236--1240
          Tõnu Kollo and   
          Tatjana Von Rosen and   
             Dietrich Von Rosen   Estimation in High-Dimensional Analysis
                                  and Multivariate Linear Models . . . . . 1241--1253
              Zhanshou Chen and   
                 Zheng Tian and   
                    Ruibing Qin   Monitoring Variance Change in Infinite
                                  Order Moving Average Processes and
                                  Nonstationary Autoregressive Processes   1254--1270
         Robert G. Newcombe and   
             Markku M. Nurminen   In Defence of Score Intervals for
                                  Proportions and their Differences  . . . 1271--1282
             Nitis Mukhopadhyay   On Sharp Jensen's Inequality and Some
                                  Unusual Applications . . . . . . . . . . 1283--1297
              Morteza Amini and   
               Jafar Ahmadi and   
                    M. Razmkhah   Fisher Information in Record Values and
                                  Their Concomitants: a Comparison of Two
                                  Sampling Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298--1314
              Marco Giordan and   
                Giancarlo Diana   A Clustering Method for Categorical
                                  Ordinal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1334

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 8, 2011

               Yaohui Zheng and   
                    Nanlian Cai   A Note on the Relations Between Some
                                  Concepts of Positive Dependence  . . . . 1335--1341
                      Xuemei Hu   The Block Empirical Likelihood Method of
                                  the Semivarying Coefficient Model with
                                  Application to Longitudinal Data . . . . 1342--1351
              Amir Ahmadi-Javid   Lower and Upper Bounds for Rectangular
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1352--1362
                   Elvan Ceyhan   Spatial Clustering Tests Based on the
                                  Domination Number of a New Random
                                  Digraph Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363--1395
              Guo-Liang Fan and   
             Han-Ying Liang and   
                    Hong-Xia Xu   Empirical Likelihood for a
                                  Heteroscedastic Partial Linear Model . . 1396--1417
                Xu-Qing Liu and   
                Yan-Dong Wu and   
                 Jian-Ying Rong   Best Quadratic Unbiased Prediction in a
                                  General Linear Model with Stochastic
                                  Regression Coefficients  . . . . . . . . 1418--1433
                    Jianhong Wu   A Joint Test for Conditional
                                  Heteroscedasticity in Dynamic Panel Data
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1434--1444
           P. Yageen Thomas and   
                    T. G. Veena   On an Application of Concomitants of
                                  Order Statistics in Characterizing a
                                  Family of Bivariate Distributions  . . . 1445--1452
                      Yu-Pin Hu   Likelihood Function and Canonical
                                  Correlation Analysis of the Peña--Box
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1467
                 Anna Dudek and   
                 Jacek Le\'skow   A Bootstrap Algorithm for Data from a
                                  Periodic Multiplicative Intensity
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1468--1489
             Salim Bouzebda and   
       Nour-Eddin El Faouzi and   
                     Tarek Zari   On the Multivariate Two-Sample Problem
                                  Using Strong Approximations of Empirical
                                  Copula Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1490--1509
                 Xikui Wang and   
                   Qier Tan and   
              Mikelis G. Bickis   Clinical Trials with Exponential
                                  Survival Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1510--1524

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 9, 2011

                Yanhua Wang and   
                     Shuyuan He   Fisher Information in Left-Truncated
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1525--1532
               Carole Toque and   
               Virginie Terraza   Time Series Factorial Models with
                                  Uncertainty Measures: Applications to
                                  ARMA Processes and Financial Data  . . . 1533--1544
                  Shun Matsuura   Optimal Partitioning of Probability
                                  Distributions under General Convex Loss
                                  Functions in Selective Assembly  . . . . 1545--1560
                Rudy Gideon and   
             Adele Marie Rothan   Location and Scale Estimation with
                                  Correlation Coefficients . . . . . . . . 1561--1572
        Mostafa K. Ardakani and   
               Debashis Das and   
             Shaun S. Wulff and   
            Timothy J. Robinson   Estimation in Second-Order Models with
                                  Errors in the Factor Levels  . . . . . . 1573--1590
               Zhengcheng Zhang   Ordering New Conditional Residual
                                  Lifetimes of $k$-out-of-$n$ Systems  . . 1591--1600
              Ya. Lumelskii and   
                  V. Voinov and   
                  E. Voinov and   
                     M. Nikulin   Approximate Confidence Limits for a
                                  Proportion of the Pólya Distribution  . . 1601--1619
                Eric J. Beh and   
              Luigi D'ambra and   
               Biagio Simonetti   Correspondence Analysis of Cumulative
                                  Frequencies Using a Decomposition of
                                  Taguchi's Statistic  . . . . . . . . . . 1620--1632
                 Chen-Yu Li and   
                      Yu-Pin Hu   Robustness Comparison of the Peña--Box
                                  Model and the Factor Model to Extract
                                  Useful Predictors  . . . . . . . . . . . 1633--1650
                B. De Boeck and   
                    O. Thas and   
                    J. P. Ottoy   Reweighted Smooth Tests of Goodness of
                                  Fit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1651--1670
              T. Baghfalaki and   
                     M. Ganjali   An EM Estimation Approach for Analyzing
                                  Bivariate Skew Normal Data with Non
                                  monotone Missing Values  . . . . . . . . 1671--1686
                 M. B. Adam and   
                     J. A. Tawn   Modification of Pickands' Dependence
                                  Function for Ordered Bivariate Extreme
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687--1700
             Haruhiko Ogasawara   Asymptotic Expansions in Multi-Group
                                  Analysis of Moment Structures with an
                                  Application to Linearized Estimators . . 1701--1716

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 10, 2011

      Agnieszka Stepie\'n-Baran   Sequential Estimation of a Continuous
                                  Distribution Function from Delayed
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1717--1733
              Jian-Hui Ning and   
               Kai-Tai Fang and   
                  Yong-Dao Zhou   Uniform Design for Experiments with
                                  Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1734--1742
             Robert G. Newcombe   Measures of Location for Confidence
                                  Intervals for Proportions  . . . . . . . 1743--1767
              Zhaoping Hong and   
                      Heng Lian   Inference of Genetic Networks from Time
                                  Course Expression Data Using Functional
                                  Regression with Lasso Penalty  . . . . . 1768--1779
              N. K. Sajeevkumar   Use of Quasi-Ranges in the Estimation of
                                  Scale Parameter of a Symmetric
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1780--1786
               B. N. Mandal and   
                V. K. Gupta and   
                Rajender Parsad   Construction of Polygonal Designs Using
                                  Linear Integer Programming . . . . . . . 1787--1794
                 Fuming Lin and   
               Xinhua Zhang and   
              Zuoxiang Peng and   
                 Yingying Jiang   On the Rate of Convergence of STSD
                                  Extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1795--1806
                M. Razmkhah and   
                   Jafar Ahmadi   Nonparametric Prediction Intervals for
                                  Future Order Statistics in a
                                  Proportional Hazard Model  . . . . . . . 1807--1820
     Marianne Frisén and   
              Eva Andersson and   
            Linus Schiöler   Sufficient Reduction in Multivariate
                                  Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1821--1838
                Raghunath Arnab   Alternative Estimators for Randomized
                                  Response Techniques in Multi-Character
                                  Surveys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839--1848
               Yongsong Qin and   
                     Yinghua Li   Empirical Likelihood for Partially
                                  Linear Models with Missing Responses:
                                  The Fixed Design Case  . . . . . . . . . 1849--1865
         Julia N. Soulakova and   
                     Ananya Roy   Application of Anbar's Approach to
                                  Hypothesis Testing to Detect the
                                  Difference between Two Proportions . . . 1866--1878
                     Steve Webb   Screening Experiments with Many Factors  1879--1892
                  Limin Wen and   
                      Xianyi Wu   The Credibility Estimator with General
                                  Dependence Structure Over Risks  . . . . 1893--1910

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 11, 2011

               Pei-Wen Chen and   
              Chuen-Sheng Cheng   On Statistical Design of the Cumulative
                                  Quantity Control Chart for Monitoring
                                  High Yield Processes . . . . . . . . . . 1911--1928
                Li-Ping Zhu and   
                 Ya-Ni Yang and   
                    Li-Xing Zhu   Dimension Reduction in Regressions
                                  through Weighted Variance Estimation . . 1929--1944
               Anuradha Roy and   
                  Ricardo Leiva   Estimating and Testing a Structured
                                  Covariance Matrix for Three-Level
                                  Multivariate Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1945--1963
José A. Díaz-García and   
               J. Fernando Vera   Multivariate Three-Parameter
                                  Log-Elliptical Distributions . . . . . . 1964--1976
            Tomonori Sugita and   
              Kunio Shimizu and   
                  S. H. Ong and   
                       C. M. Ng   A Family Which Integrates the
                                  Generalized Charlier Series and Extended
                                  Noncentral Negative Binomial
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1977--1998
                 Han-Ying Liang   Asymptotic Normality for Regression
                                  Function Estimate Under Truncation and $
                                  \alpha $-Mixing Conditions . . . . . . . 1999--2021
               Marko Nagode and   
                 Matija Fajdiga   The REBMIX Algorithm for the
                                  Multivariate Finite Mixture Estimation   2022--2034
               Fu-Kai Chang and   
                 Chao-Ping Ting   Optimal Two-Level Fractional Factorial
                                  Designs for Location Main Effects with
                                  Dispersion Factors . . . . . . . . . . . 2035--2043
                B. B. Khare and   
                   Sanjay Kumar   Estimation of Population Mean Using
                                  Known Coefficient of Variation of the
                                  Study Character in the Presence of Non
                                  Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2044--2058
                Manisha Pal and   
           Nripes K. Mandal and   
                 M. L. Aggarwal   Optimum Designs for Parameter Estimation
                                  in Linear Mixture Models with
                                  Synergistic Effects  . . . . . . . . . . 2059--2073
              Hiromu Yumiba and   
                Yoshifumi Hyodo   Characterization of Balanced Fractional
                                  $ 3^m $ Factorial Designs of Resolution
                                  III  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2074--2080

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 12, 2011

               Yu-Sheng Hsu and   
                  Cheng-Hsun Wu   A Generalization of Geometric Brownian
                                  Motion with Applications . . . . . . . . 2081--2103
                 K. Govindaraju   Zero Acceptance Number Chained Quick
                                  Switching System . . . . . . . . . . . . 2104--2116
                   S. Parsi and   
                 M. Ganjali and   
           N. Sanjari Farsipour   Conditional Maximum Likelihood and
                                  Interval Estimation for Two Weibull
                                  Populations under Joint Type-II
                                  Progressive Censoring  . . . . . . . . . 2117--2135
                   Hea-Jung Kim   A Class of Multivariate Bilateral
                                  Selection $t$ Distributions and Its
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2136--2154
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Sharp Negative Bounds On Differences of
                                  Small Quantiles and Means of
                                  Distributions from Nonparametric
                                  Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2155--2171
                   Jun Yang and   
                    Min Xie and   
                 Thong Ngee Goh   Control Limits Based on the Narrowest
                                  Confidence Interval  . . . . . . . . . . 2172--2181
                Xu-Qing Liu and   
                       Feng Gao   Linearized Ridge Regression Estimator in
                                  Linear Regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 2182--2192
                    Yu Miao and   
                  Ying-Xia Chen   Some Limit Theorems of Survival Function
                                  Estimator for $m$-Dependent Processes    2193--2204
            Alexandra Ramos and   
                Anthony Ledford   An Alternative Point Process Framework
                                  for Modeling Multivariate Extreme Values 2205--2224
         C. D. Yenigün and   
       G. J. Székely and   
                    M. L. Rizzo   A Test of Independence in Two-Way
                                  Contingency Tables Based on Maximal
                                  Correlation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2225--2242
          K. Krishnamoorthy and   
                Yanping Xia and   
                       Fang Xie   A Simple Approximate Procedure for
                                  Constructing Binomial and Poisson
                                  Tolerance Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . 2243--2258

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 13, 2011

           Mahendran Shitan and   
                 Shelton Peiris   Time Series Properties of the Class of
                                  Generalized First-Order Autoregressive
                                  Processes with Moving Average Errors . . 2259--2275
         M. C. Ausín and   
M. A. Gómez-Villegas and   
B. González-Pérez and   
M. T. Rodríguez-Bernal and   
                 I. Salazar and   
                        L. Sanz   Bayesian Analysis of Multiple Hypothesis
                                  Testing with Applications to Microarray
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2276--2291
                  Yalian Li and   
                    Hu Yang and   
                     Jianwen Xu   More on the Preliminary Test Estimator
                                  in Almost Unbiased Liu Regression  . . . 2292--2304
       Gregoria Mateos-Aparicio   Partial Least Squares (PLS) Methods:
                                  Origins, Evolution, and Application to
                                  Social Sciences  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305--2317
                    Hu Yang and   
                       Juan Cui   A Stochastic Restricted Two-Parameter
                                  Estimator in Linear Regression Model . . 2318--2325
                   Ancha Xu and   
                    Yincai Tang   Nonparametric Bayesian Analysis of
                                  Competing Risks Problem with Masked Data 2326--2336
            Armando J. Rios and   
           James R. Simpson and   
  José A. Vázquez   Sequential Experimentation Approach for
                                  Augmenting of Resolution III Fractions   2337--2357
              K. Chatterjee and   
             H. Evangelaras and   
                 C. Koukouvinos   A Lower Bound to the Measure of
                                  Optimality for Main Effect Plans in the
                                  Symmetric Factorial Experiments  . . . . 2358--2365
                   Soo Hak Sung   Convergence of Moving Average Processes
                                  for Dependent Random Variables . . . . . 2366--2376
             Youcef Berkoun and   
                    Hamid Douki   Testing Independence in Linear Process
                                  with Non-Normal Innovations  . . . . . . 2377--2384
                   Yushu Li and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   Wavelet Improvement of the
                                  Over-Rejection of Unit Root Test Under
                                  GARCH Errors: an Application to Swedish
                                  Immigration Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2385--2396
               Cuiling Wang and   
              Myunghee Cho Paik   A Weighting Approach for GEE Analysis
                                  with Missing Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 2397--2411
             Shuichi Kawano and   
               Sadanori Konishi   Semi-Supervised Logistic Discrimination
                                  via Regularized Gaussian Basis
                                  Expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2412--2423
               Yanfeng Shen and   
               Zhengyan Lin and   
                        Jun Zhu   Penalized Independence Rule for Testing
                                  High-Dimensional Hypotheses  . . . . . . 2424--2435

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 14, 2011

      Sárka Doslá   Estimation of Parameters of a Clipped $
                                  {\rm MA}(1) $ Process  . . . . . . . . . 2437--2454
                        Yu Miao   The Discounted Large Deviation Principle
                                  for Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . 2455--2461
            Jiang-Feng Wang and   
             Han-Ying Liang and   
                  Guo-Liang Fan   Asymptotic Properties of Conditional
                                  Quantile Estimator Under Left-Truncated
                                  and $ \alpha $-Mixing Conditions . . . . 2462--2486
               David M. Kaziska   Functional Analysis of Variance,
                                  Discriminant Analysis, and Clustering in
                                  a Manifold of Elastic Curves . . . . . . 2487--2499
      Jürg Hüsler and   
                  Deyuan Li and   
                Mathias Raschke   Estimation for the Generalized Pareto
                                  Distribution Using Maximum Likelihood
                                  and Goodness of Fit  . . . . . . . . . . 2500--2510
              Erhard Cramer and   
                 Christain Bagh   Minimum and Maximum Information
                                  Censoring Plans in Progressive Censoring 2511--2527
           David P. M. Scollnik   Bayesian Inference for a Class of
                                  Start-Up Demonstration Tests with
                                  Rejection of Units upon the Observation
                                  of $d$ Failures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2528--2538
                M. K. Patil and   
                   D. T. Shirke   Tests for Equality of Inflation
                                  Parameters of Two Zero-Inflated Power
                                  Series Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2539--2553
                Xiaohui Liu and   
              Zhizhong Wang and   
                  Xuemei Hu and   
                     Guofu Wang   Testing Serial Correlation in Partially
                                  Linear Single-Index Errors-in-Variables
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2554--2573
     Félix Almendra-Arao   Barnard Convex Sets  . . . . . . . . . . 2574--2582
                M. H. Tahir and   
                 Ijaz Iqbal and   
                 M. L. Aggarwal   Cyclic Polygonal Designs with Block Size
                                  $3$ and Joint Distance $ \alpha = 2$ . . 2583--2590
    Mansour Aghababaei Jazi and   
 Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz and   
                Somayyeh Abbasi   A Unified Approach to Ordering
                                  Comparison of GPS Distributions with
                                  their Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2591--2604
         Elias Ould Sa\"\id and   
                 Djabrane Yahia   Asymptotic Normality of a Kernel
                                  Conditional Quantile Estimator Under
                                  Strong Mixing Hypothesis and
                                  Left-Truncation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2605--2627

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 15, 2011

      Julián De La Horra   The Positive False Discovery Quantile    2629--2638
                  Olivier Lopez   Nonparametric Estimation of the
                                  Multivariate Distribution Function in a
                                  Censored Regression Model with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2639--2660
          Thomas M. Loughin and   
          Christopher R. Bilder   On the Use of a Log-Rate Model for
                                  Survey-Weighted Categorical Data . . . . 2661--2669
          Frederik Michiels and   
                  Inge Koch and   
                Ann De Schepper   A New Method for the Construction of
                                  Bivariate Archimedean Copulas Based on
                                  the $ \lambda $ Function . . . . . . . . 2670--2679
               Davide Farchione   Frequentist and Bayesian Interval
                                  Estimators for the Normal Mean . . . . . 2680--2694
                  Yalian Li and   
                        Hu Yang   On the Performance of the Jackknifed
                                  Modified Ridge Estimator in the Linear
                                  Regression Model with Correlated or
                                  Heteroscedastic Errors . . . . . . . . . 2695--2708
             Hani M. Samawi and   
                      Amal Helu   Distribution-Free Runs Test for
                                  Conditional Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . 2709--2718
               Somesh Kumar and   
          Manas Ranjan Tripathy   Estimating Quantiles of Normal
                                  Populations with a Common Mean . . . . . 2719--2736
             Hiroshi Kurata and   
                     Dingxi Qiu   Linear Subspace Spanned by Principal
                                  Points of a Mixture of Spherically
                                  Symmetric Distributions  . . . . . . . . 2737--2750
                    Daniel Grau   Process Yield and Capability Indices . . 2751--2771
                   Feng-Shou Ko   Detecting Outliers in Large Medical
                                  Records: Using a Frontier Model  . . . . 2772--2780
                  Haiyan Xu and   
                Heliang Fei and   
                   Zhenmin Chen   Design of Bivariate Accelerated Life
                                  Tests with One Main Effect and One
                                  Interaction Effect for
                                  Log-Location-Scale Distributions . . . . 2781--2798
                   Mike Jacroux   Reverse Foldovers for Blocked $ 2^{m -
                                  k} $ Fractional Factorial Designs  . . . 2799--2808
               Jian-Yong Mu and   
                        Yu Miao   Generalizing the Marshall's Inequality   2809--2817
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2818--2818
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2819--2819
                      Anonymous   Corrigenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2820--2820

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 16, 2011

            Gilbert Saporta and   
            Christos H. Skiadas   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2821--2822
            Wojciech Pieczynski   Exact Smoothing in Hidden Conditionally
                                  Markov Switching Linear Models . . . . . 2823--2829
          Larisa Afanasyeva and   
           Ekaterina Bulinskaya   Stochastic Models of Transport Flows . . 2830--2846
                Leda D. Minkova   $I$-Pólya Process and Applications  . . . 2847--2855
              Wojciech M. Kempa   Analysis of Departure Process in Batch
                                  Arrival Queue with Multiple Vacations
                                  and Exhaustive Service . . . . . . . . . 2856--2865
              Doncho S. Donchev   Random Series with Time-Varying
                                  Discounting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2866--2878
            B. Yu. Lemeshko and   
                 S. B. Lemeshko   Models of Statistic Distributions of
                                  Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Tests in
                                  Composite Hypotheses Testing for Double
                                  Exponential Law Cases  . . . . . . . . . 2879--2892
                   Yuriy Kharin   Robustness of the Mean Square Risk in
                                  Forecasting of Regression Time Series    2893--2906
    Dimitrios G. Konstantinides   Extremal Subexponentiality in Ruin
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2907--2918
              Gaida Pettere and   
              Tõnu Kollo   Risk Modeling for Future Cash Flow Using
                                  Skew $t$-Copula  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2919--2925
                 E. B. Yarovaya   Supercritical Branching Random Walks
                                  with a Single Source . . . . . . . . . . 2926--2945
            M. Ivette Gomes and   
     Sandra Mendonça and   
                  Dinis Pestana   Adaptive Reduced-Bias Tail Index and VaR
                                  Estimation via the Bootstrap Methodology 2946--2968
      Mavroudis Eleftheriou and   
               Nicolas Farmakis   Expected Cost for Continuous Sampling
                                  Plans  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2969--2984
  Vaida Bartkute-Norkuniene and   
           Leonidas Sakalauskas   Consistent Estimator of the Shape
                                  Parameter of Three-Dimensional Weibull
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2985--2996
             Zeev Volkovich and   
               Zeev Barzily and   
               Renata Avros and   
           Dvora Toledano-Kitai   On Application of a Probabilistic
                                  $K$-Nearest Neighbors Model for Cluster
                                  Validation Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 2997--3010
              F. I. Ugwuowo and   
                  E. F. Udoumoh   Multi-Stage Semi-Markov Models for
                                  Recovery Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 3011--3019
              Antanas Zilinskas   Small Sample Estimation of Parameters
                                  for Wiener Process with Noise  . . . . . 3020--3028
                K. Y. Szeto and   
                      Yunbo Guo   Multi-Population Genetic Algorithm for
                                  Locating Multi-Optima in Noisy Complex
                                  Landscape  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3029--3048

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 17, 2011

              John M. Ennis and   
                Daniel M. Ennis   Confidence Bounds for Multiplicative
                                  Comparisons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3049--3054
                   Min Chen and   
                   Yang Xie and   
                  Michael Story   An Exponential-Gamma Convolution Model
                                  for Background Correction of Illumina
                                  BeadArray Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3055--3069
                  Peng Zhao and   
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                     Gaofeng Da   Right Spread Order of the Second-Order
                                  Statistic from Heterogeneous Exponential
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 3070--3081
           Ma\lgorzata Wojty\'s   Post-Model-Selection Method for Density
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3082--3098
    Luis G. González and   
Graciela González-Farías and   
             M. Vittoria Levati   Identifying Preferences for Conditional
                                  Cooperation Using Individual Beliefs . . 3099--3118
                    Jie Mao and   
                    Zhongyi Zhu   Joint Mean-Covariance Models with
                                  Applications to Longitudinal Data in
                                  Partially Linear Model . . . . . . . . . 3119--3140
          Mohamed El Methni and   
                Mustapha Rachdi   Local Weighted Average Estimation of the
                                  Regression Operator for Functional Data  3141--3153
             Robert G. Newcombe   Propagating Imprecision: Combining
                                  Confidence Intervals from Independent
                                  Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3154--3180
                  Lee-Shen Chen   Empirical Bayes Testing for Uniform
                                  Distributions: Non Identical Components
                                  Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3181--3197
               Rashid Ahmed and   
                   Munir Akhtar   Construction of Neighbor-Balanced
                                  Designs in Linear Blocks . . . . . . . . 3198--3205

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 18, 2011

                      Ke-Ang Fu   Asymptotic Properties of the $ R / S $
                                  Statistics for Linear Processes  . . . . 3207--3217
            Nyongesa L. Kennedy   Dual Estimation of Prevalence and
                                  Disease Incidence in Pool-Testing
                                  Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3218--3229
                  Tao Zhang and   
                    Zhongyi Zhu   Empirical Likelihood Inference for
                                  Longitudinal Data with Missing Response
                                  Variables and Error-Prone Covariates . . 3230--3244
               Yinfeng Wang and   
                   Chuancun Yin   Minimum of Dependent Random Variables
                                  with Convolution-Equivalent
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3245--3251
                    A. Stepanov   Runs Based on the Ratios of Consecutive
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 3252--3268
     José Candel Ato and   
               Milenko Bernadic   The Characterization of the Symmetric
                                  Lorenz Curves by Doubly Truncated Mean
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3269--3280
 Krzysztof Podgórski and   
              Jörg Wegener   Estimation for Stochastic Models Driven
                                  by Laplace Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . 3281--3302
                       Ming Han   E-Bayesian Estimation and Hierarchical
                                  Bayesian Estimation of Failure
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3303--3314
               Seongbaek Yi and   
                   Taeryon Choi   A Direct Approach to Understanding
                                  Posterior Consistency of Bayesian
                                  Regression Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 3315--3326
                V. Srinivas and   
               S. Subba Rao and   
                     B. K. Kale   Estimation of Measures in M/M/1 Queue    3327--3336
                     Yuqiang Li   A Note on Estimation of Parameters for
                                  Branching Processes with Immigration . . 3337--3348
              Yalcin Tuncer and   
           Fahrettin Arslan and   
                  Mehmet Yilmaz   Functions of Concordance and Dependence
                                  with Related Measures  . . . . . . . . . 3349--3365
    Kristofer Månsson and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   On Ridge Parameters in Logistic
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3366--3381

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 19--20, 2011

             Yuliya Mishura and   
            Lyudmyla Sakhno and   
             Georgiy Shevchenko   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3383--3384
          Volodymyr S. Koroliuk   Large Deviation Problems for Markov
                                  Random Evolution with Independent
                                  Increments in the Scheme of
                                  Asymptotically Small Diffusion . . . . . 3385--3395
               Nikolaos Limnios   Discrete-Time Semi-Markov Random
                                  Evolutions --- Average and Diffusion
                                  Approximation of Difference Equations
                                  and Additive Functionals . . . . . . . . 3396--3406
        Valerii V. Buldygin and   
             Marina K. Runovska   Almost Sure Convergence of the Series of
                                  Gaussian Markov Sequences  . . . . . . . 3407--3424
           Dung Tien Nguyen and   
                         G. Yin   Asymptotic Expansions for Solutions of
                                  Systems of Kolmogorov Backward Equations
                                  of Two-Time-Scale Switching Jump
                                  Diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3425--3439
                 Anatoly Manita   Brownian Particles Interacting via
                                  Synchronizations . . . . . . . . . . . . 3440--3451
              Benedict Baur and   
             Florian Conrad and   
                Martin Grothaus   Smooth Contractive Embeddings and
                                  Application to Feynman Formula for
                                  Parabolic Equations on Smooth Bounded
                                  Domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3452--3464
José Luís da Silva and   
                Mohamed Erraoui   The $ \alpha $-Dependence of Stochastic
                                  Differential Equations Driven by
                                  Variants of $ \alpha $-Stable Processes  3465--3478
          Alexandre Brouste and   
           Marina Kleptsyna and   
               Alexandre Popier   Fractional Diffusion with Partial
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3479--3491
           Yulia S. Mishura and   
          Georgiy M. Shevchenko   Existence and Uniqueness of the Solution
                                  of Stochastic Differential Equation
                                  Involving Wiener Process and Fractional
                                  Brownian Motion with Hurst Index $ H > 1
                                  / 2 $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3492--3508
             N. N. Leonenko and   
               S. Petherick and   
                   A. Sikorskii   The Student Subordinator Model with
                                  Dependence for Risky Asset Returns . . . 3509--3523
             Erland Ekheden and   
             Dmitrii Silvestrov   Coupling and Explicit Rate of
                                  Convergence in Cramér--Lundberg
                                  Approximation for Reinsurance Risk
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3524--3539
              S. Ejaz Ahmed and   
                     S. Chitsaz   Data-Based Adaptive Estimation in an
                                  Investment Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3540--3554
        Alexander V. Ivanov and   
                Irina N. Savich   Asymptotic Properties of
                                  Koenker--Bassett Estimator in Regression
                                  Model with Long-Range Dependence . . . . 3555--3568
               Gennadi Martynov   Weighted Cramér-von Mises Test with
                                  Estimated Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 3569--3586
              Andriy Olenko and   
            Tibor Pogány   Average Sampling Restoration of
                                  Harmonizable Processes . . . . . . . . . 3587--3598
María Dolores Ruiz-Medina and   
    Rosa María Crujeiras   Minimum Contrast Parameter Estimation
                                  for Fractal Random Fields Based on the
                                  Wavelet Periodogram  . . . . . . . . . . 3599--3613
                    Shalabh and   
                Gaurav Garg and   
                   Neeraj Misra   Estimation of Regression Coefficients in
                                  a Restricted Measurement Error Model
                                  Using Instrumental Variables . . . . . . 3614--3629
           Yuri E. Gliklikh and   
          Natalia V. Vinokurova   On the Description of Motion of a
                                  Quantum Particle in the Classical Gauge
                                  Field in the Language of Stochastic
                                  Mechanics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3630--3640
          Karl-Heinz Indlekofer   On Labeled and Unlabeled Combinatorial
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3641--3653
              Imre Kátai   A Proof of the Generalized Second-Limit
                                  Theorem in the Theory of Probability . . 3654--3662
Dimitrios G. Konstantinides and   
                Fotis Loukissas   Precise Large Deviations for Sums of
                                  Negatively Dependent Random Variables
                                  with Common Long-Tailed Distributions    3663--3671
         Yury V. Kozachenko and   
            Iryna V. Rozora and   
              Yevgen V. Turchyn   Properties of Some Random Series . . . . 3672--3683
           Vladimir V. Anisimov   Statistical Modeling of Clinical Trials
                                  (Recruitment and Randomization)  . . . . 3684--3699
         Mikhail Moklyachuk and   
             Aleksandr Masyutka   Minimax Prediction Problem for
                                  Multidimensional Stationary Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3700--3710

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 21, 2011

    M. Hassanzadeh Bashtian and   
                  M. Arashi and   
            S. M. M. Tabatabaey   Ridge Estimation under the Stochastic
                                  Restriction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3711--3747
                   Maria Kateri   On the Comparison of Two Ordinal
                                  Responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3748--3763
             Dragan \Dbarori\'c   New Generalizations of Cauchy
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3764--3776
                Alan J. Watkins   On an Integral Related to the Burr XII
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3777--3779
                Zhao Shuran and   
                     Ren Peimin   Weighted Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
                                  for Generalized Behrens--Fisher Problems 3780--3788
                Daojiang He and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Admissibility of Linear Predictors in
                                  the Superpopulation Model with Respect
                                  to Inequality Constraints under Matrix
                                  Loss Function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3789--3799
                Steven P. Ellis   When a Constant Classifier is as Good as
                                  Any Linear Classifier  . . . . . . . . . 3800--3811
                     Xu Qin and   
            Jiang-She Zhang and   
                  Xiao-Dong Yan   Local Linear Least Squares Kernel
                                  Regression for Linear and Circular
                                  Predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3812--3823
                   Feng-shou Ko   Using the Score Test to Identify the
                                  Longitudinal Biomarker Considering
                                  Accelerate Failure Time Model with the
                                  Frailty in Survival Analysis . . . . . . 3824--3838
             Masahiko Gosho and   
             Chikuma Hamada and   
                 Isao Yoshimura   Criterion for the Selection of a Working
                                  Correlation Structure in the Generalized
                                  Estimating Equation Approach for
                                  Longitudinal Balanced Data . . . . . . . 3839--3856
              Marie Chavent and   
             Vanessa Kuentz and   
              Benoit Liquet and   
    Jérôme Saracco   A Sliced Inverse Regression Approach for
                                  a Stratified Population  . . . . . . . . 3857--3878
                 Li Lun Yeh and   
              Peng Kai Wang and   
               Feng Chia Li and   
                     Yu Mei Yeh   An Extension of Economic Design of
                                  $x$-Bar Control Charts for Non Normally
                                  Distributed Data Under Weibull Shock
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3879--3902
                  Qian Chen and   
                 David E. Giles   A Saddlepoint Approximation to the
                                  Distribution of the Half-Life Estimator
                                  in a Stationary Autoregressive Model . . 3903--3916
                 Jinxia Zhu and   
              Hailiang Yang and   
                    Kai Wang Ng   Ruin Probabilities for the Perturbed
                                  Compound Poisson Risk Process with
                                  Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3917--3934
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3935--3935

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 22, 2011

                M. Bentarzi and   
                   M. Merzougui   Moments of Mixture Periodic
                                  Autoregressive Models  . . . . . . . . . 3937--3947
              Dja-Shin Wang and   
               Chao-Yu Chou and   
                   Yu-Chang Lin   On the Asymptotic Confidence Intervals
                                  of Multiple-Stream Yield Index . . . . . 3948--3958
               Jan Beirlant and   
     Ségolen Geffray and   
                Armelle Guillou   Estimation of the Bias of the Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimators in an Extreme
                                  Value Context  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3959--3971
                      Na Li and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Comparison of Nonparametric Regression
                                  Curves by Spline Smoothing . . . . . . . 3972--3987
                 Shuwen Wan and   
                   Xin Deng and   
                     Biao Zhang   A Goodness-of-Fit Test for Logistic
                                  Regression Models in Stratified
                                  Case-Control Studies via Empirical
                                  Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3988--4000
                  L. Desmet and   
                     I. Gijbels   Curve Fitting Under Jump and Peak
                                  Irregularities Using Local Linear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4001--4020
                Shuyun Wang and   
                 Yihui Luan and   
                      Qin Chang   On Model Selection Consistency of
                                  Bayesian Method for Normal Linear Models 4021--4040
           N. R. Abeynayake and   
                Seema Jaggi and   
                  Cini Varghese   Neighbor-Balanced Bipartite Block
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4041--4052
                 Jianwen Xu and   
                        Hu Yang   More on the Bias and Variance
                                  Comparisons of the Restricted Almost
                                  Unbiased Estimators  . . . . . . . . . . 4053--4064
              D. Szatmari-Voicu   Robust $M$- and $L$-Estimators of Scale
                                  Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4065--4077
                    Hu Yang and   
                        Jibo Wu   Some Matrix Norm Kantorovich
                                  Inequalities and Their Applications  . . 4078--4085
                 Yanyan Liu and   
                Zhongshang Yuan   Estimated Generalized Estimating
                                  Equation for Correlated Failure Time
                                  Data with Auxiliary Covariates . . . . . 4086--4103
        Uttam Bandyopadhyay and   
                      Saurav De   On Multi-Treatment Adaptive Allocation
                                  Design for Dichotomous Response  . . . . 4104--4124
          Y. Kayhan Atilgan and   
                 Suleyman Gunay   Least Median of Squares Solution of
                                  Multiple Linear Regression Models
                                  Through the Origin . . . . . . . . . . . 4125--4137

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 23, 2011

          Richard A. Groeneveld   Influence Functions for the Coefficient
                                  of Variation, Its Inverse, and CV
                                  Comparisons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4139--4150
             Shey-Huei Sheu and   
            Chin-Chih Chang and   
                Chaun-Hung Chiu   Age Replacement Policy with a Safety
                                  Constraint via the Bayesian Method . . . 4151--4164
                  A. Bekker and   
              J. J. J. Roux and   
                  R. Ehlers and   
                      M. Arashi   Bimatrix Variate Beta Type IV
                                  Distribution: Relation to Wilks's
                                  Statistic and Bimatrix Variate
                                  Kummer--Beta Type IV Distribution  . . . 4165--4178
                  Ayman Baklizi   Empirical Likelihood Inference for
                                  Population Quantiles with Unbalanced
                                  Ranked Set Samples . . . . . . . . . . . 4179--4188
                A. F. Attia and   
           E. D. Abou Elela and   
                   H. A. Hosham   The Optimal Preventive Maintenance
                                  Policy for the Multistate System Profit  4189--4199
                   M. Diniz and   
           C. A. B. Pereira and   
                    J. M. Stern   Unit Roots: Bayesian Significance Test   4200--4213
                     Yunqing Lu   Considering the Concordant Observations
                                  in Likelihood Ratio Test for Paired
                                  Binary Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4214--4232
                  Wentao Gu and   
                     Soyeon Lee   On Fixed Design Regression for General
                                  Linear Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 4233--4248
               Vahid Fakoor and   
                 Sarah Jomhoori   Some Asymptotic Results of Kernel
                                  Density Estimators Under Random
                                  Left-Truncation and Dependent Data . . . 4249--4262
                 K. K. Jose and   
             Manu Mariam Thomas   Generalized Laplacian Distributions and
                                  Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 4263--4277
                 Yasutaka Chiba   Simple Formulae for Evaluating the
                                  Potential Impact of Confounding Bias . . 4278--4288
               Yongsong Qin and   
                    Qingzhu Lei   Quantile Estimation in the Presence of
                                  Auxiliary Information under Negatively
                                  Associated Samples . . . . . . . . . . . 4289--4307
             Cheng-Hung Lee and   
               Leng-Cheng Hwang   Asymptotic Optimal Estimation of Poisson
                                  Mean Under LINEX Loss Function . . . . . 4308--4321
                    Fatih Akici   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 4322--4323
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4324--4324

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 40, Number 24, 2011

               Mingqiu Wang and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                 Xiaoguang Wang   Bridge Estimators in the Partially
                                  Linear Model with High Dimensionality    4325--4346
                 P. R. Dash and   
                      G. Mishra   An Improved Class of Estimators in
                                  Two-Phase Sampling Using Two Auxiliary
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4347--4352
                Omar Eidous and   
               M. K. Shakhatreh   Asymptotic Unbiased Kernel Estimator for
                                  Line Transect Sampling . . . . . . . . . 4353--4363
                    Hu Yang and   
                        Jibo Wu   Estimation in Singular Linear Models
                                  with Stochastic Linear Restrictions and
                                  Linear Equality Restrictions . . . . . . 4364--4371
             Xiaoguang Wang and   
                     Lixin Song   Adaptive Lasso Variable Selection for
                                  the Accelerated Failure Models . . . . . 4372--4386
              Jiangyan Peng and   
                  Jin Huang and   
                 Dingcheng Wang   The Ruin Probability of a Discrete-Time
                                  Risk Model with a One-Sided Linear Claim
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4387--4399
                 S. De Iaco and   
                D. E. Myers and   
                        D. Posa   Strict Positive Definiteness of a
                                  Product of Covariance Functions  . . . . 4400--4408
 Ülkü Gürler and   
                      Paul Kvam   Adjusted Hazard Rate Estimator Based on
                                  a Known Censoring Probability  . . . . . 4409--4416
               Sanguo Zhang and   
                  Yuan Liao and   
                       Wei Ning   Asymptotic Properties of Quasi-Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimates in Generalized
                                  Linear Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4417--4430
                Munir Ahmed and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                    G. R. Pasha   Inference under Heteroscedasticity of
                                  Unknown Form Using an Adaptive Estimator 4431--4457
        S. K. Bhattacharjee and   
              Ahmed Shamiri and   
           Md. Sabiruzzaman and   
           S. Rao Jammalamadaka   Predictive Influence of Unavailable
                                  Values of Future Explanatory Variables
                                  in a Linear Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 4458--4466
  J. Andrés Christen and   
             Bruno Sansó   Advances in the Sequential Design of
                                  Computer Experiments Based on Active
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4467--4483
                    Lin Fei and   
                         Jie Mi   Some Aspects of Probability of Correct
                                  Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4484--4495
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board EOV  . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 1, 2012

            N. Balakrishnan and   
        Katherine F. Davies and   
          Jerome P. Keating and   
                Robert L. Mason   Pitman Closeness Comparison of Best
                                  Linear Unbiased and Invariant Predictors
                                  for Exponential Distribution in One- and
                                  Two-Sample Situations  . . . . . . . . . 1--15
            Olivier P. Faugeras   Prediction via the Quantile-Copula
                                  Conditional Density Estimator  . . . . . 16--33
              Alessio Farcomeni   Testing Supremacy or Inferiority of
                                  Multinomial Cell Probabilities with
                                  Application to Biting Preferences of
                                  Loggerhead Marine Turtles  . . . . . . . 34--45
               Isao Higuchi and   
                  Toshio Mikami   Maxima and Minima of Overall Survival
                                  Functions with Fixed Marginal
                                  Distributions and Transmission of
                                  Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--61
                   Dawei Lu and   
                     Lixin Song   The Asymptotic Behavior of a Brownian
                                  Motion with a Drift from a Random Domain 62--75
                 Hsiaw-Chan Yeh   Characterizations of the General
                                  Multivariate Weibull Distributions . . . 76--87
            V. A. Dimitriou and   
                     N. Tsantas   The Augmented Semi-Markov System in
                                  Continuous Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--107
              Guo-Liang Fan and   
             Han-Ying Liang and   
                Jiang-Feng Wang   Empirical Likelihood for a
                                  Heteroscedastic Partial Linear
                                  Errors-in-Variables Model  . . . . . . . 108--127
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   A Generalized Time-Dependent Conditional
                                  Linear Model with Left-Truncated and
                                  Right-Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . 128--137
            Michael Tsagris and   
        Ioannis Elmatzoglou and   
            Christos C. Frangos   The Assessment of Performance of
                                  Correlation Estimates in Discrete
                                  Bivariate Distributions Using Bootstrap
                                  Methodology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--152
                Pei-Hsi Lee and   
              Yi-Chia Chang and   
                Chau-Chen Torng   A Design of $s$ Control Charts with a
                                  Combined Double Sampling and Variable
                                  Sampling Interval Scheme . . . . . . . . 153--165
           Bozidar V. Popovi\'c   On an $ {\rm Ar}(1) $ Time Series Model
                                  with Marginal Two Parameter Wright
                                  Inverse-Gamma Distribution . . . . . . . 166--177
                 J. S. Baek and   
                 M. S. Choi and   
                    S. Y. Hwang   A Broad Class of Partially Specified
                                  Autoregressions on Multi-Casting Data    178--193

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 2, 2012

                 Pao-sheng Shen   Nonparametric Estimation of the
                                  Bivariate Distribution Function with
                                  Doubly Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . 195--211
                 David E. Giles   Bias Reduction for the Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimators of the Parameters
                                  in the Half-Logistic Distribution  . . . 212--222
      A. F. M. Saiful Islam and   
                   L. I. Pettit   Bayesian Sample Size Determination Using
                                  LINEX Loss and Linear Cost . . . . . . . 223--240
                   Zujun Ou and   
                   Hong Qin and   
                      Hongyi Li   Connections Among Different Criteria for
                                  Optimal Factor Assignments . . . . . . . 241--250
              Maher B. Qumsiyeh   An $ L^2 $ Comparison Between the
                                  Bootstrap and the Empirical Edgeworth
                                  Expansion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--261
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                   V. N. Sreeja   A Proportional Hazards Model for
                                  Successive Duration Times Under
                                  Informative Censoring  . . . . . . . . . 262--280
       Pär Stockhammar and   
           Lars-Erik Öller   A Simple Heteroscedasticity Removing
                                  Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--299
             Jian-Ying Rong and   
                Zhi-Feng Lu and   
                    Xu-Qing Liu   On Quadratic Forms of Multivariate $t$
                                  Distribution with Applications . . . . . 300--308
          Raúl Gouet and   
     F. Javier López and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Central Limit Theorem for the Number of
                                  Near-Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--324
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   Shocks as Burn-In in Heterogeneous
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--340
      Mohammad R. Niavarani and   
         Rassoul Noorossana and   
                   Babak Abbasi   Three New Multivariate Process
                                  Capability Indices . . . . . . . . . . . 341--356
                  Karsten Webel   A Short Note on the Dependence Structure
                                  of a Stochastic Process Generated by the
                                  Asymmetric Cusp Map  . . . . . . . . . . 357--362
                Yudong Zhao and   
                 Bruce M. Brown   A Boundary-Respecting Confidence
                                  Interval Method for a General Effect
                                  Size Measure in Paired Experiments . . . 363--379

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 3, 2012

         M. M. Mohie El-Din and   
               Y. Abdel-Aty and   
                   A. R. Shafay   Two-Sample Bayesian Prediction Intervals
                                  of Generalized Order Statistics Based on
                                  Multiply Type II Censored Data . . . . . 381--392
            Ben Salah Nahla and   
                  Masmoudi Afif   Poisson Limit Laws for Exponential
                                  Dispersion Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 393--402
                     Weixin Yao   Bayesian Mixture Labeling and Clustering 403--421
                  Yunyan Ma and   
                     Yihui Luan   Covariate-Adjusted Regression for Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--436
               Tanvir Ahmad and   
               Munir Akhtar and   
              Steven G. Gilmour   Multilevel Augmented Pairs Second-Order
                                  Response Surface Designs and Their
                                  Robustness to Missing Data . . . . . . . 437--452
               Junlong Zhao and   
                Yuliang Yin and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Penalized Weighted Variance Estimate for
                                  Dimension Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . 453--473
            Parminder Singh and   
             Narendra Kumar and   
                 Amar Nath Gill   A Note on Testing Homogeneity of Several
                                  Exponential Location Parameters  . . . . 474--484
           Mina Aminghafari and   
              Jean-Michel Poggi   Nonstationary Time Series Forecasting
                                  Using Wavelets and Kernel Smoothing  . . 485--499
       N. Unnikrishnan Nair and   
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                      M. Preeth   Reliability Aspects of Discrete
                                  Equilibrium Distributions  . . . . . . . 500--515
               Jingyan Feng and   
            Zhensheng Huang and   
                   Riquan Zhang   Estimation on Varying-Coefficient
                                  Partially Linear Model With Different
                                  Smoothing Variables  . . . . . . . . . . 516--529
                  Arzdar Kiraci   Formulas for the Exact LMS and LQS
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--543
               Fares Qeadan and   
       Tomasz J. Kozubowski and   
               Anna K. Panorska   The Joint Distribution of the Sum and
                                  the Maximum of IID Exponential Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--569

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 4, 2012

                  S. H. Ong and   
             S. Chakraborty and   
                   T. Imoto and   
                     K. Shimizu   Generalizations of Non Central Negative
                                  Binomial, Charlier Series Distributions,
                                  and Their Extensions by Lagrange
                                  Expansion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--590
         K. J. Kachiashvili and   
               M. A. Hashmi and   
                       A. Mueed   Sensitivity Analysis of Classical and
                                  Conditional Bayesian Problems of Many
                                  Hypotheses Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 591--605
       Miroslav M. Risti\'c and   
     Aleksandar S. Nasti\'c and   
              Hassan S. Bakouch   Estimation in an Integer-Valued
                                  Autoregressive Process with Negative
                                  Binomial Marginals (NBINAR(1)) . . . . . 606--618
                G. N. Singh and   
          Jaishree Prabha Karna   On the Use of Superpopulation Model in
                                  Estimation of Population Mean in
                                  Two-Occasion Rotation Patterns . . . . . 619--637
          G. Bruce Schaalje and   
                 Paul J. Fields   Open-Set Nearest Shrunken Centroid
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638--652
             Martin S. Levy and   
           James J. Cochran and   
                  Saeed Golnabi   A Moment Preserving Finitization Across
                                  the Power Series Family of Probability
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--664
                Manisha Pal and   
            Nripes Kumar Mandal   Optimum Designs for Estimation of
                                  Parameters in a Quadratic Mixture-Amount
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--673
                      Ke-Ang Fu   Invariance Principles for Products of
                                  $U$-Statistics Without Variance  . . . . 674--683
          Samir M. Shaarawy and   
                  Sherif S. Ali   Bayesian Model Order Selection of Vector
                                  Moving Average Processes . . . . . . . . 684--698
     Thulasyammal R. Pillai and   
           Mahendran Shitan and   
                 Shelton Peiris   Some Properties of the Generalized
                                  Autoregressive Moving Average $ ({\rm
                                  GARMA}(1, 1; \delta_1, \delta_2)) $
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--716
        Kristofer Månsson   A Wavelet-Based Approach of Testing for
                                  Granger Causality in the Presence of
                                  GARCH Effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--728
          Ramu G. Sudhagoni and   
              Gemechis D. Djira   Multiple Comparisons of Parametric
                                  Models in Longitudinal Studies . . . . . 729--740
     Mariana Ragassi Urbano and   
Clarice Garcia Borges Demétrio and   
        Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro   On Wald Residuals in Generalized Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--758
        Ivana Horová and   
         Jan Kolácek and   
         Kamila Vopatová   Visualization and Bandwidth Matrix
                                  Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759--777
                     Zaixing Li   A Comparison of Error Variance Estimates
                                  in Nonparametric Mixed Models  . . . . . 778--790

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 5, 2012

                 Jianwen Xu and   
                        Hu Yang   On the Stein-Type Liu Estimator and
                                  Positive-Rule Stein-Type Liu Estimator
                                  in Multiple Linear Regression Models . . 791--808
                Sangun Park and   
                  Dong Wan Shin   On the Choice of Nonparametric Entropy
                                  Estimator in Entropy-Based
                                  Goodness-of-Fit Test Statistics  . . . . 809--819
             Nirpeksh Kumar and   
                     S. Lalitha   Testing for Upper Outliers in Gamma
                                  Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820--828
               Haisong Deng and   
                 Yizhong Ma and   
                 Wenze Shao and   
                       Yiliu Tu   A Bayesian Meta-Modeling Approach for
                                  Gaussian Stochastic Process Models Using
                                  a Non Informative Prior  . . . . . . . . 829--850
            Nirmal S. Kambo and   
              Alagar Rangan and   
            Ehsan Moghimi Hadji   Moments-Based Approximation to the
                                  Renewal Function . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--868
             Arjun K. Gupta and   
                  Daya K. Nagar   Some Bimatrix Beta Distributions . . . . 869--879
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                    H. M. Saleh   Relations for Moments of Progressively
                                  Type-II Censored Order Statistics from
                                  Log-Logistic Distribution with
                                  Applications to Inference  . . . . . . . 880--906
      Gustavo H. A. Pereira and   
           Denise A. Botter and   
       Mônica C. Sandoval   The Truncated Inflated Beta Distribution 907--919
                  Amrita Biswas   Block Designs Robust Against the
                                  Presence of an Aberration in a
                                  Treatment-Control Setup  . . . . . . . . 920--933
              Nikolai Dokuchaev   On Detecting the Dependence of Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934--942
                   Jacek Bialek   Proposition of a General Formula for
                                  Price Indices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--952

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 6, 2012

           Eugene Demidenko and   
              James Sargent and   
                    Tracy Onega   Random Effects Coefficient of
                                  Determination for Mixed and
                                  Meta-Analysis Models . . . . . . . . . . 953--969
               Yanhong Chen and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                   Jinghai Feng   Empirical Likelihood for Threshold
                                  Autoregressive Models  . . . . . . . . . 970--982
                V. Zardasht and   
           P. Zeephongsekul and   
                       M. Asadi   On Nonparametric Estimation of a
                                  Reliability Function . . . . . . . . . . 983--999
   Juan F. Olivares-Pacheco and   
             Estrella Salas and   
Héctor W. Gómez and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   An Asymmetric Extension for the Family
                                  of Elliptical Slash Distributions  . . . 1000--1012
                     Ying-Zi Fu   Model Selection of Zero-Inflated
                                  Generalized Power Series Distribution
                                  with Missing Responses . . . . . . . . . 1013--1028
        Fikri Gökpinar and   
       Yaprak Arzu Özdemir   A Horvitz--Thompson Estimator of the
                                  Population Mean Using Inclusion
                                  Probabilities of Ranked Set Sampling . . 1029--1039
         M. Naghizadeh Qomi and   
             N. Nematollahi and   
                     A. Parsian   Estimation After Selection Under
                                  Reflected Normal Loss Function . . . . . 1040--1051
       Carlos Martins-Filho and   
                  Paulo Saraiva   On Asymptotic Normality of the Local
                                  Polynomial Regression Estimator with
                                  Stochastic Bandwidths  . . . . . . . . . 1052--1068
              Juan M. Vilar and   
           José A. Vilar   A Bootstrap Test for the Equality of
                                  Nonparametric Regression Curves Under
                                  Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1088
                  Qiang Xia and   
                Jinshan Liu and   
                 Jiazhu Pan and   
                   Rubing Liang   Bayesian Analysis of Two-Regime
                                  Threshold Autoregressive Moving Average
                                  Model with Exogenous Inputs  . . . . . . 1089--1104
         M. Khorashadizadeh and   
     A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   Characterizations of Lifetime
                                  Distributions Based on Doubly Truncated
                                  Mean Residual Life and Mean Past to
                                  Failure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1115
              Guo-dong Xing and   
                 Shan-chao Yang   A Note on the Convergence Rate of Strong
                                  Law of Large Numbers for Positively
                                  Associated Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 1116--1125
          Werner G. Müller   Remarks on \booktitleCommunications in
                                  Statistics --- Theory and Methods, Vol.
                                  39, No. 15 (2010), pp. 2818--2828  . . . 1126--1127

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 7, 2012

   Theodora Dimitrakopoulou and   
      Konstantinos Adamidis and   
                Sotirios Loukas   Bivariate Extended Exponential-Geometric
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1150
              Andrey Rukhin and   
                Carey E. Priebe   On the Limiting Distribution of a Graph
                                  Scan Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1170
              Arindam Gupta and   
    Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and   
      Asis Kumar Chattyopadhyay   Exploring New Models for Population
                                  Prediction in Detecting Demographic
                                  Phase Change for Sparse Census Data  . . 1171--1193
                   Qiang Wu and   
               Allan R. Sampson   Structured Modeling for Post-Mortem
                                  Brain Tissue Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1194--1213
                Zhensheng Huang   Inference for Nonparametric Parts in
                                  Single-Index Varying-Coefficient Model   1214--1227
                 Hong Zhang and   
                        Ping Sa   An Improved Solution for Multiple
                                  Comparisons with a Control in Response
                                  Surface Methodology with Two Predictor
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1228--1241
                  Eisa Mahmoudi   Admissible and Minimax Estimators of $
                                  \theta^r $ with Truncated Parameter
                                  Space Under Squared-Log Error Loss
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242--1253
          Sophie Dabo-Niang and   
                    Ali Laksaci   Nonparametric Quantile Regression
                                  Estimation for Functional Dependent Data 1254--1268
             Shey-Huei Sheu and   
            Chin-Chih Chang and   
                  Yen-Luan Chen   An Extended Sequential Imperfect
                                  Preventive Maintenance Model with
                                  Improvement Factors  . . . . . . . . . . 1269--1283
                   Chuanhua Wei   Statistical Inference in Partially
                                  Linear Varying-Coefficient Models with
                                  Missing Responses at Random  . . . . . . 1284--1298
             Alan D. Hutson and   
             Dongliang Wang and   
       Jeffrey C. Miecznikowski   An Inversion Theorem-Based Kernel
                                  Density Estimator for a Weighted Average
                                  and Difference of Weighted Averages with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1312
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313--1313

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 8, 2012

                Lichun Wang and   
                Radhey S. Singh   An Application of Matrix Power Series to
                                  Linear Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315--1333
             Sarah Jomhoori and   
               Vahid Fakoor and   
             Hasanali Azarnoosh   Central Limit Theorem for ISE of Kernel
                                  Density Estimators in Censored Dependent
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334--1349
               Manuel Galea and   
         Mário de Castro   Influence Assessment in an
                                  Heteroscedastic Errors-in-Variables
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350--1363
                 M. Roozbeh and   
                  M. Arashi and   
                   M. Gasparini   Seemingly Unrelated Ridge Regression in
                                  Semiparametric Models  . . . . . . . . . 1364--1386
               S. Baratpour and   
                  A. Habibi Rad   Testing Goodness-of-Fit for Exponential
                                  Distribution Based on Cumulative
                                  Residual Entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1396
                S. M. Sunoj and   
                 T. B. Sreejith   Some Results on Reciprocal Subtangent in
                                  the Context of Weighted Models . . . . . 1397--1410
               Anuradha Roy and   
                  Ricardo Leiva   Classification Rules for Multivariate
                                  Repeated Measures Data with
                                  Equicorrelated Correlation Structure on
                                  Both Time and Spatial Repeated
                                  Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1411--1420
                    Edel Garcia   The Self-Weighting Model . . . . . . . . 1421--1427
               P. D. Feigin and   
           Ya. P. Lumelskii and   
               A. V. Kryvoshaev   Approximate Confidence Limits for the
                                  Difference between Parameters of Two
                                  Pólya Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 1428--1454
                Ivan Vazler and   
              Kristian Sabo and   
               Rudolf Scitovski   Weighted Median of the Data in Solving
                                  Least Absolute Deviations Problems . . . 1455--1465
                Dexter O. Cahoy   Estimation and Simulation for the
                                  $M$-Wright Function  . . . . . . . . . . 1466--1477
                David R. Bickel   Coherent Frequentism: a Decision Theory
                                  Based on Confidence Sets . . . . . . . . 1478--1496
  José R. Berrendero and   
          Javier Cárcamo   Tests for Stochastic Orders and Mean
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1497--1509

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 9, 2012

            N. Balakrishnan and   
                   A. R. Shafay   One- and Two-Sample Bayesian Prediction
                                  Intervals Based on Type-II Hybrid
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1511--1531
                      Ke-Ang Fu   An Application of $U$-Statistics to
                                  Nonparametric Functional Data Analysis   1532--1542
              Norbert Henze and   
         Simos G. Meintanis and   
                    Bruno Ebner   Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Gamma
                                  Distribution Based on the Empirical
                                  Laplace Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . 1543--1556
                     Li Yan and   
                       Xia Chen   Consistency and Normality of
                                  $M$-Estimators in Partly Linear Models
                                  with Stochastic Adapted Errors . . . . . 1557--1568
                   Raoudha Zine   On the Matrix-Variate Beta Distribution  1569--1582
                   R. P. Suresh   A Test for Constant Hazard Against a
                                  Change-Point Alternative . . . . . . . . 1583--1589
               K. Neammanee and   
               N. Rerkruthairat   An Improvement of a Uniform Bound on a
                                  Combinatorial Central Limit Theorem  . . 1590--1602
                   Ching-Ho Yen   Fuzzy Testing for One-Sided Process
                                  Capability Indices . . . . . . . . . . . 1603--1616
                    Hong-Fwu Yu   The Effect of Mis-Specification Between
                                  the Lognormal and Weibull Distributions
                                  on the Interval Estimation of a Quantile
                                  for Complete Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1617--1635
 Félix Almendra-Arao and   
             David Sotres-Ramos   Some Properties of Non Inferiority Tests
                                  for Two Independent Probabilities  . . . 1636--1646
                   Aaron Childs   Unification of Dirichlet Methodology . . 1647--1662
                   Soo Hak Sung   On Complete Convergence for Arrays of
                                  Dependent Random Variables . . . . . . . 1663--1674
                 Z. Zeebari and   
                  G. Shukur and   
                B. M. G. Kibria   Modified Ridge Parameters for Seemingly
                                  Unrelated Regression Model . . . . . . . 1675--1691
                 Akio Namba and   
                Kazuhiro Ohtani   MSE Performance of a Heterogeneous
                                  Pre-Test Ridge Regression Estimator  . . 1692--1700

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 10, 2012

               Lie-Jane Kao and   
                   Li-Shya Chen   The Dynamic Model for Cancer Relapse
                                  Based on Two-Stage Model of
                                  Carcinogenesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1701--1720
               Xiaodong Bai and   
                     Lixin Song   Asymptotic Behavior of Random Time Ruin
                                  Probability Under Heavy-Tailed Claim
                                  Sizes and Dependence Structure . . . . . 1721--1732
                 Miroslav Siman   On Kendall's Autocorrelations  . . . . . 1733--1738
                 Yasutaka Chiba   Monte-Carlo Sensitivity Analysis for
                                  Controlled Direct Effects Using Marginal
                                  Structural Models in the Presence of
                                  Confounded Mediators . . . . . . . . . . 1739--1749
             Haixiang Zhang and   
                 Dehui Wang and   
                     Fukang Zhu   Generalized $ {\rm RCINAR}(1) $ Process
                                  with Signed Thinning Operator  . . . . . 1750--1770
               Stephen Bush and   
          Deborah J. Street and   
                 Leonie Burgess   Optimal Designs for Stated Choice
                                  Experiments that Incorporate Position
                                  Effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1771--1795
               Ronghua Wang and   
                Xiaoling Xu and   
                   Rong Pan and   
                     Naijun Sha   On Parameter Inference for Step-Stress
                                  Accelerated Life Test with Geometric
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1796--1812
Lupércio F. Bessegato and   
         Roberto C. Quinino and   
            Luiz H. Duczmal and   
                   Linda Lee Ho   On-Line Process Control using Attributes
                                  with Misclassification Errors: an
                                  Economical Design for Short-Run
                                  Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1813--1832
               K. Teerapabolarn   The Least Upper Bound on the
                                  Poisson-Negative Binomial Relative Error 1833--1838
        Mark M. Meerschaert and   
              Parthanil Roy and   
                       Qin Shao   Parameter Estimation for Exponentially
                                  Tempered Power Law Distributions . . . . 1839--1856
                G. N. Singh and   
                V. K. Singh and   
                   Priyanka and   
              Shakti Prasad and   
          Jaishree Prabha Karna   Rotation Patterns Under Imputation of
                                  Missing Data Over Two-Occasion . . . . . 1857--1874
              Joon Jin Song and   
                   Jong-Min Kim   Bayesian Analysis of Randomized Response
                                  Sum Score Variables  . . . . . . . . . . 1875--1884
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1885--1885

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 11, 2012

                Takayuki Yamada   High-Dimensional Edgeworth Expansion of
                                  LR Statistic for Testing Circular
                                  Symmetric Covariance Structure and Its
                                  Error Bound  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1887--1910
                Liuquan Sun and   
               Xinyuan Song and   
                     Xiaoyun Mu   Regression Analysis for the Additive
                                  Hazards Model with Covariate Errors  . . 1911--1932
                  Peter Congdon   Spatial Health Factors with Selection
                                  Among Multiple Causes: Lung Cancer in
                                  U.S. Counties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1933--1953
               S. Tahmasebi and   
                  J. Behboodian   Information Properties for Concomitants
                                  of Order Statistics in
                                  Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern (FGM) Family   1954--1968
             N. Balakrishna and   
                     G. Hareesh   Stable Autoregressive Models and Signal
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1969--1988
        Nripes Kumar Mandal and   
                    Manisha Pal   Optimum Designs for Estimation of
                                  Optimum Amount and Proportions in a
                                  Mixture-Amount Model . . . . . . . . . . 1989--1999
               V. Nekoukhou and   
            M. H. Alamatsaz and   
                      H. Bidram   A Discrete Analog of the Generalized
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 2000--2013
              Neeraj Tiwari and   
                      U. C. Sud   An Optimal Procedure for Sample
                                  Coordination Using Multiple Objective
                                  Functions and Nearest Proportional to
                                  IPPS Size Sampling Designs . . . . . . . 2014--2033
                Zhimeng Sun and   
            Zhongzhan Zhang and   
                       Jiang Du   Semiparametric Analysis of Isotonic
                                  Errors-in-Variables Regression Models
                                  with Missing Response  . . . . . . . . . 2034--2060
             Emilia Athayde and   
            Cecilia Azevedo and   
        Víctor Leiva and   
               Antonio Sanhueza   About Birnbaum--Saunders Distributions
                                  Based on the Johnson System  . . . . . . 2061--2079

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 12, 2012

                    Yongho Jeon   A Characterization of the Log-Density
                                  Smoothing Spline ANOVA Model . . . . . . 2081--2087
                 Fuming Lin and   
                 Yingying Jiang   A General Version of the Short-Tailed
                                  Symmetric Distribution . . . . . . . . . 2088--2095
                     I. Rahimov   Conditional Least Squares Estimators for
                                  the Offspring Mean in a Subcritical
                                  Branching Process with Immigration . . . 2096--2110
                  Mehmet Yilmaz   Hazard Rate Properties of Systems with
                                  Two Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2111--2132
             Gerd Christoph and   
                Sergey V. Malov   Asymptotic Properties of Generalized
                                  Multivariate Rank Statistics . . . . . . 2133--2159
                     Xu Qin and   
            Jiang-She Zhang and   
                  Xiao-Dong Yan   A Finite Mixture Three-Parameter Weibull
                                  Model for the Analysis of Wind Speed
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2160--2171
            Jing-Jing Zhang and   
                 Han-Ying Liang   Asymptotic Normality of Estimators in
                                  Heteroscedastic Semi-Parametric Model
                                  with Strong Mixing Errors  . . . . . . . 2172--2201
                     Jun Lu and   
                    Lei Shi and   
                       Fei Chen   Outlier Detection in Time Series Models
                                  Using Local Influence Method . . . . . . 2202--2220
                  S. Y. Teh and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
                       Zhang Wu   Monitoring Process Mean and Variance
                                  with a Single Generally Weighted Moving
                                  Average Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2221--2241
      Zahra Asadollahi Sohi and   
         Rassoul Noorossana and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   New Statistic to Increase Correctness in
                                  Simulation Factor Screening Using
                                  Frequency Domain Method  . . . . . . . . 2242--2255
               Michael Vock and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Nonparametric Prediction Intervals Based
                                  on Ranked Set Samples  . . . . . . . . . 2256--2268
                  Hong Wang and   
                     John Klein   Semiparametric Estimation for the
                                  Additive Inverse Gaussian Frailty Model  2269--2278
                   Marcin Kozak   ``A Dendrite Method for Cluster
                                  Analysis'' by Cali\'nski and Harabasz: a
                                  Classical Work that is Far Too Often
                                  Incorrectly Cited  . . . . . . . . . . . 2279--2280

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 13--14, 2012

         Katarzyna Filipiak and   
             Dietrich von Rosen   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2281--2282
            Anthony C. Atkinson   Optimum Experimental Designs for
                                  Choosing Between Competitive and Non
                                  Competitive Models of Enzyme Inhibition  2283--2296
         Bronis\law Ceranka and   
            Ma\lgorzata Graczyk   Robustness of Optimal Chemical Balance
                                  Weighing Designs for Estimation of Total
                                  Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2297--2304
                 S. Chitsaz and   
                  S. Ejaz Ahmed   An Improved Estimation in Regression
                                  Parameter Matrix in Multivariate
                                  Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305--2320
       Luís M. Grilo and   
               Carlos A. Coelho   A Family of Near-Exact Distributions
                                  Based on Truncations of the Exact
                                  Distribution for the Generalized Wilks
                                  Lambda Statistic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2321--2341
          Carles M. Cuadras and   
              Silvia Valero and   
             Daniel Cuadras and   
         Philippe Salembier and   
              Jocelyn Chanussot   Distance-Based Measures of Association
                                  with Applications in Relating
                                  Hyperspectral Images . . . . . . . . . . 2342--2355
         Katarzyna Filipiak and   
            Augustyn Markiewicz   On Universal Optimality of Circular
                                  Weakly Neighbor Balanced Designs Under
                                  an Interference Model  . . . . . . . . . 2356--2366
        Eva Fiserová and   
                     Karel Hron   Statistical Inference in Orthogonal
                                  Regression for Three-Part Compositional
                                  Data Using a Linear Model with Type-II
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2367--2385
            Ma\lgorzata Graczyk   $A$-Optimal Spring Balance Weighing
                                  Designs Under Some Conditions  . . . . . 2386--2393
                  Sat Gupta and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                 Rita Sousa and   
               Pedro Corte-Real   Estimation of the Mean of a Sensitive
                                  Variable in the Presence of Auxiliary
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2394--2404
                  Jan Hauke and   
        Augustyn Markiewicz and   
                  Simo Puntanen   Comparing the BLUEs Under Two Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405--2418
              Masashi Hyodo and   
                    Takashi Seo   A Model Selection Criterion for
                                  Discriminant Analysis of Several Groups
                                  When the Dimension is Larger than the
                                  Total Sample Size  . . . . . . . . . . . 2419--2436
                 Deniz Inan and   
                Müjgan Tez   A New Estimator for Cox Proportional
                                  Hazard Regression Model in Presence of
                                  Collinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2437--2444
          Krystyna Katulska and   
                   Lukasz Smaga   $D$-Optimal Chemical Balance Weighing
                                  Designs with $ N \equiv 0 \pmod 4$ and
                                  $3$ Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2445--2455
            Maria Kozlowska and   
            Agnieszka Lacka and   
                 Anna Skorupska   Block Design with Nested Rows and
                                  Columns for Research on Food
                                  Acceptability Limitation . . . . . . . . 2456--2464
           Tatsuya Kubokawa and   
             Muni S. Srivastava   Selection of Variables in Multivariate
                                  Regression Models for Large Dimensions   2465--2489
              Shinji Kuriki and   
                Iwona Mejza and   
               Stanis\law Mejza   Incomplete Split-Plot Designs
                                  Supplemented by a Single Control . . . . 2490--2502
                    Ying Li and   
             Dietrich von Rosen   Maximum Likelihood Estimators in a Two
                                  Step Model for PLS . . . . . . . . . . . 2503--2511
             Martin Singull and   
              M. Rauf Ahmad and   
             Dietrich von Rosen   More on the Kronecker Structured
                                  Covariance Matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 2512--2523
            Luis N. Pereira and   
                Pedro S. Coelho   A Small Area Predictor under Area-Level
                                  Linear Mixed Models with Restrictions    2524--2544
               Anuradha Roy and   
                 Miguel Fonseca   Linear Models with Doubly Exchangeable
                                  Distributed Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 2545--2569
         Burkhard Schaffrin and   
               Gerhard Navratil   On Reproducing Linear Estimators within
                                  the Gauss--Markov Model with Stochastic
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2570--2587
                    Yongge Tian   Characterizing Relationships Between
                                  Estimations Under a General Linear Model
                                  with Explicit and Implicit Restrictions
                                  by Rank of Matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 2588--2601
            Takayuki Yamada and   
             Muni S. Srivastava   A Test for Multivariate Analysis of
                                  Variance in High Dimension . . . . . . . 2602--2615

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 15, 2012

      Stephan Schlüter and   
               Matthias Fischer   A Tail Quantile Approximation for the
                                  Student $t$ Distribution . . . . . . . . 2617--2625
           Tatsuya Kubokawa and   
             Muni S. Srivastava   Akaike Information Criterion for
                                  Selecting Variables in the Nested Error
                                  Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2626--2642
                   Yaowu Li and   
                      Meihua Li   Moment Estimation of the Parameters in
                                  Rayleigh Distribution with Two
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2643--2660
              Kahadawala Cooray   Analyzing Grouped, Censored, and
                                  Truncated Data Using the Odd Weibull
                                  Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2661--2680
                   Feng-Shou Ko   The Identification of Potential
                                  Longitudinal Biomarkers and Measurements
                                  of Effectiveness for Biomarkers as
                                  Surrogates in Multivariate Survival Data 2681--2698
         Amir Afshin Fatahi and   
         Rassoul Noorossana and   
         Pershang Dokouhaki and   
        Babak Farhang Moghaddam   Copula-Based Bivariate ZIP Control Chart
                                  for Monitoring Rare Events . . . . . . . 2699--2716
             Magda Monteiro and   
           Manuel G. Scotto and   
                 Isabel Pereira   Integer-Valued Self-Exciting Threshold
                                  Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 2717--2737
            Jiin-Huarng Guo and   
                  Lynne Billard   Assessing One-Step-Ahead Prediction
                                  Error Based on the Median for
                                  First-Order Autoregressive Models in the
                                  Presence Of Outliers . . . . . . . . . . 2738--2749
             Wen-Jang Huang and   
                   Nan-Cheng Su   Characterizations of Distributions Based
                                  on Moments of Residual Life  . . . . . . 2750--2761
          A. Ahmad Abd El-Baset   Joint Moment Generating Functions of
                                  Nonadjacent Dual Generalized Order
                                  Statistics from Reflected Generalized
                                  Pareto Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2762--2772
             Alireza Ghodsi and   
           Mahendran Shitan and   
              Hassan S. Bakouch   A First-Order Spatial Integer-Valued
                                  Autoregressive $ {\rm SINAR}(1, 1) $
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2773--2787
                     Haifeng Xu   The Exact General Formulas for the
                                  Moments of a Ridge Regression Estimator
                                  when the Regression Error Terms Follow a
                                  Multivariate $t$ Distribution  . . . . . 2788--2802
             E. P. Sreedevi and   
                 P. G. Sankaran   A Semiparametric Bayesian Approach for
                                  the Analysis of Competing Risks Data . . 2803--2818
Gülesen Üstünda\ug \vSiray and   
         Sadullah Sakallio\uglu   Superiority of the $r$--$k$ Class
                                  Estimator Over Some Estimators in a
                                  Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2819--2832

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 16--17, 2012

                   Paola Monari   Fortunato Pesarin: a Statistician for
                                  Complex Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 2833--2835
        Katerina Pericleous and   
                Stratis Kounias   The Concept of Majorization in
                                  Experimental Design  . . . . . . . . . . 2836--2850
            Delphine Blanke and   
                     Denis Bosq   Comparing ARMA Processes with Roots of
                                  Modulus $1$ and Polynomial Regression    2851--2863
                Jordan Stoyanov   Inference Problems Involving Moment
                                  Determinacy of Distributions . . . . . . 2864--2878
            Stefano Bonnini and   
           Domenico Piccolo and   
              Luigi Salmaso and   
                Francesca Solmi   Permutation Inference for a Class of
                                  Mixture Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2879--2895
                  P. Monari and   
               L. Stracqualursi   A Forecast Model to Assess the Critical
                                  Points in University Systems . . . . . . 2896--2907
       Viatcheslav B. Melas and   
                   Petr Shpilev   On the Functional Approach to Bayesian
                                  Efficient Designs for Nonlinear
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2908--2921
                  M. Atlagh and   
            M. Broniatowski and   
                      G. Celant   A Convergence Result for a Class of
                                  Asymptotically Linear Estimators . . . . 2922--2931
             Laura Deldossi and   
                    Diego Zappa   Confidence Intervals for Variance
                                  Components in Measurement System
                                  Capability Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 2932--2943
      Mariagiulia Matteucci and   
           Stefania Mignani and   
            Bernard P. Veldkamp   Prior Distributions for Item Parameters
                                  in IRT Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2944--2958
             Silvano Fiorin and   
             Francesca Parpinel   Least Squares Consistent Estimates for
                                  Arbitrary Regression Functions Over an
                                  Abstract Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2959--2982
                     S. Cagnone   A Note on Goodness-of-Fit Test in Latent
                                  Variable Models with Categorical
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2983--2990
                Dario Basso and   
                    Livio Finos   Exact Multivariate Permutation Tests for
                                  Fixed Effects in Mixed-Models  . . . . . 2991--3001
        Michel Broniatowski and   
             Giorgio Celant and   
          Marco Di Battista and   
            Samuela Leoni-Aubin   Upper Bounds for the Error in Some
                                  Interpolation and Extrapolation Designs  3002--3019
            Monjed H. Samuh and   
            Leonardo Grilli and   
           Carla Rampichini and   
              Luigi Salmaso and   
                Nicola Lunardon   The Use of Permutation Tests for
                                  Variance Components in Linear Mixed
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3020--3029
           Paola Palmitesta and   
                Corrado Provasi   GSH Dependence Modeling with an
                                  Application to Risk Management . . . . . 3030--3042
             Chiara Brombin and   
             Massimo Crippa and   
                Clelia Di Serio   Modeling Cancer Cells Growth . . . . . . 3043--3059
                 Italo Pegoraro   A Transformation Characterizing the
                                  Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 3060--3067
                  Marco Marozzi   A Modified Hall--Padmanabhan Test for
                                  the Homogeneity of Scales  . . . . . . . 3068--3078
             S. Bianconcini and   
                     S. Cagnone   Multivariate Latent Growth Models for
                                  Mixed Data with Covariate Effects  . . . 3079--3093
Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro and   
               Livio Corain and   
                Susanna Ragazzi   The Multivariate Randomized Complete
                                  Block Design: a Novel Permutation
                                  Solution in Case of Ordered Categorical
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3094--3109
                 Maria Iannario   Hierarchical \em CUB Models for Ordinal
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3110--3125
              Michele Costa and   
                Luca De Angelis   A Permutation Based Procedure for
                                  Classification Assessment  . . . . . . . 3126--3137
                 Rossella Berni   Quality and Reliability in Top-event
                                  Estimation: Quantitative Fault Tree
                                  Analysis in Case of Dependent Events . . 3138--3149
                Giulia Roli and   
            Fabrizia Mealli and   
                 Barbara Pacini   Estimation of Causal Effects in Latent
                                  Strata with an Encouragement for
                                  Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3150--3161
Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro and   
            Roberto Fontana and   
                Susanna Ragazzi   Construction and Nonparametric Testing
                                  of Orthogonal Arrays through Algebraic
                                  Strata and Inequivalent Permutation
                                  Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3162--3178
   Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi   Centrality Measures for Text Clustering  3179--3197
            Raghunath Arnab and   
            Sarjinder Singh and   
                       D. North   Use of Two Decks of Cards in Randomized
                                  Response Techniques for Complex Survey
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3198--3210
      F. Marta L. Di Lascio and   
              Simone Giannerini   Clustering Microarray Data: Theoretical
                                  and Practical Issues . . . . . . . . . . 3211--3232
              Marco Scutari and   
                Adriana Brogini   Bayesian Network Structure Learning with
                                  Permutation Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . 3233--3243
       Luc Villandré and   
              Benjamin Rich and   
                 Antonio Ciampi   Soft Classification Trees  . . . . . . . 3244--3258
                 I. Gijbels and   
                  I. Prosdocimi   Flexible Mean and Dispersion Function
                                  Estimation in Extended Generalized
                                  Additive Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3259--3277
        Abdulhakeem A. H. Eideh   Fitting Variance Components Model and
                                  Fixed Effects Model for One-Way Analysis
                                  of Variance to Complex Survey Data . . . 3278--3300

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 18, 2012

        Subrata Chakraborty and   
        Dhrubajyoti Chakravarty   Discrete Gamma Distributions: Properties
                                  and Parameter Estimations  . . . . . . . 3301--3324
                    Ying Xu and   
             Paul S. F. Yip and   
             Richard M. Huggins   A Generalized Chain Binomial Model with
                                  Aggregated Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3325--3338
                  R. Jacobs and   
                  A. Bekker and   
                    S. W. Human   On the Bivariate Kummer--Beta Type IV
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3339--3354
                B. M. Brown and   
              Thomas Suesse and   
                   Von Bing Yap   Wilson Confidence Intervals for the
                                  Two-Sample Log-Odds-Ratio in Stratified
                                  $ 2 \times 2 $ Contingency Tables  . . . 3355--3370
            Shaheena Bashir and   
                   E. M. Carter   Robust Mixture of Linear Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3371--3388
                    Ying Xu and   
                  K. F. Lam and   
                Feifei Zhou and   
             Paul S. F. Yip and   
                     Ray Watson   A Study of Suicide Risk Using a Cox Cure
                                  Model via a Retrospective Sampling and
                                  Multiple Imputation  . . . . . . . . . . 3389--3402
             Martin Singull and   
                     Timo Koski   On the Distribution of Matrix Quadratic
                                  Forms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3403--3415
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Reliability Properties of Systems with
                                  Two Exchangeable Log-Logistic Components 3416--3427
                  X. H. Liu and   
                 Z. Z. Wang and   
                       X. M. Hu   Estimation in Partially Linear
                                  Single-Index Models with Missing
                                  Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3428--3447

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 19, 2012

               Birgit Debrabant   Point Processes with a Generalized Order
                                  Statistic Property . . . . . . . . . . . 3449--3467
                 Xueli Wang and   
                   Hua Chen and   
                   Zhi Geng and   
                   Xiaohua Zhou   Using Auxiliary Data for Binomial
                                  Parameter Estimation with Nonignorable
                                  Nonresponse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3468--3478
                  Hyun Suk Park   Asymptotic Behavior of the Kernel
                                  Density Estimator from a Geometric
                                  Viewpoint  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3479--3496
                   Hea-Jung Kim   On a Screened Pearson Correlation and
                                  Its Application to Interdependence
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3497--3510
       Abdulhamid A. Alzaid and   
                  Maha A. Omair   An Extended Binomial Distribution with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3511--3527
               Maiying Kong and   
                Alex Cambon and   
               Michael J. Smith   Extended Logistic Regression Model for
                                  Studies with Interrupted Events,
                                  Seasonal Trend, and Serial Correlation   3528--3543
                Qi-Bing Gao and   
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
               Chun-Hua Zhu and   
                     Yao-Hua Wu   Asymptotic Properties of Maximum
                                  Quasi-Likelihood Estimates in
                                  Generalized Linear Models with
                                  ``Working'' Covariance Matrix and
                                  Adaptive Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 3544--3561
                   M. Diniz and   
           C. A. B. Pereira and   
                    J. M. Stern   Cointegration: Bayesian Significance
                                  Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3562--3574
             Yuri Goegebeur and   
                 Tertius De Wet   Local Estimation of the Second-Order
                                  Parameter in Extreme Value Statistics
                                  and Local Unbiased Estimation of the
                                  Tail Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3575--3607
                Sangun Park and   
                      Johan Lim   On the Effect of Imperfect Ranking on
                                  the Amount of Fisher Information in
                                  Ranked Set Samples . . . . . . . . . . . 3608--3620

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 20, 2012

             O. Y. Kravchuk and   
                  P. K. Pollett   Hodges--Lehmann Scale Estimator for
                                  Cauchy Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 3621--3632
             Muhammad Aslam and   
               Ching-Ho Yen and   
             Chia-Hao Chang and   
              Chi-Hyuck Jun and   
                Munir Ahmad and   
                 Mujahid Rasool   Two-Stage Variables Acceptance Sampling
                                  Plans Using Process Loss Functions . . . 3633--3647
                   Feng-shou Ko   Approaches to Allocate Sample Size
                                  Rationally Into Individual Regions for a
                                  Multi-regional Trial Under Heterogeneous
                                  Effect Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3648--3665
             Hossein Zamani and   
               Noriszura Ismail   Functional Form for the Generalized
                                  Poisson Regression Model . . . . . . . . 3666--3675
             Yoshihide Kakizawa   Second-Order Powers of a Class of Tests
                                  in the Presence of a Nuisance Parameter  3676--3691
                William J. Reed   Power-Law Adjusted Survival Models . . . 3692--3703
          Maria Grazia Zoia and   
                 Laura Barbieri   A Short-Cut Derivation for the Solution
                                  of Autoregressive Models from Sharp
                                  Algebraic Arguments  . . . . . . . . . . 3704--3721
      Leandro C. Rêgo and   
           Renato J. Cintra and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   On Some Properties of the Beta Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3722--3738
            Marvin H. J. Gruber   Liu and Ridge Estimators --- a
                                  Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3739--3749
                  Reza Modarres   Testing the Equality and Exchangeability
                                  of Bivariate Distributions . . . . . . . 3750--3758
                 A. Ardalan and   
     S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi and   
              A. R. Nematollahi   The Two-Piece Normal-Laplace
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3759--3785
      Subrata Kumar Satpati and   
                V. K. Gupta and   
            Rajender Parsad and   
                 M. L. Aggarwal   Computer-Generated Change-Over Designs
                                  for Correlated Observations  . . . . . . 3786--3798
     Efigénio Rebelo and   
Patrícia Oom Do Valle and   
                      Rui Nunes   Nonnested Testing for Competing
                                  Autoregressive Dynamic Models Estimated
                                  by Instrumental Variables  . . . . . . . 3799--3812

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 21, 2012

                 Lirong Cui and   
                   Guoxiao Yang   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3813--3813
                       Ming Han   The $M$-Bayesian Credible Limits of the
                                  Reliability Derived from Binomial
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3814--3830
                      Fujun Hou   Rank Preserved Aggregation Rules and
                                  Application to Reliability Allocation    3831--3845
                  Shubin Si and   
                Hongyan Dui and   
               Zhiqiang Cai and   
                Shudong Sun and   
                 Yingfeng Zhang   Joint Integrated Importance Measure for
                                  Multi-State Transition Systems . . . . . 3846--3862
                Yincai Tang and   
                 Qiang Guan and   
                 Peirong Xu and   
                      Haiyan Xu   Optimum Design for Type-I Step-stress
                                  Accelerated Life Tests of Two-parameter
                                  Weibull Distributions  . . . . . . . . . 3863--3877
                 Hai-Yan Xu and   
                    Heliang Fei   Models Comparison for Step-Stress
                                  Accelerated Life Testing . . . . . . . . 3878--3887
              Xiaofang Dong and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                     Fangyu Liu   A Further Study on Reliable Life
                                  Estimation under Ranked Set Sampling . . 3888--3902
                Yanyang Zhu and   
                 Aofu Zhang and   
                   Baoliang Liu   Sequential Series Systems and Their Risk
                                  Assessments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3903--3914
              Franck Corset and   
              Laurent Doyen and   
                Olivier Gaudoin   Bayesian Analysis of ARA Imperfect
                                  Repair Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3915--3941
                      Lixin Cui   Applying Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation
                                  Method to Evaluate Quality in Crisis and
                                  Emergency Management . . . . . . . . . . 3942--3959
                 Xiaoyue Wu and   
                    Hua Yan and   
                      Lirong Li   Numerical Method for Reliability
                                  Analysis of Phased-Mission System Using
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3960--3973
                   Renyan Jiang   Three New Life Distribution Models for
                                  Modeling Field Failure Data  . . . . . . 3974--3987
                Xinzhuo Bao and   
                     Lirong Cui   A Study on Reliability for A Two-Item
                                  Cold Standby Markov Repairable System
                                  with Neglected Failures  . . . . . . . . 3988--3999
                   Jian Shi and   
              Shaoping Wang and   
                  Kang Wang and   
           John P. Sullivan and   
                  Chin-Yin Chen   Performance-Related Reliability Analysis
                                  Methodology of Computer Networks . . . . 4000--4022
                  Xujie Jia and   
                     Lirong Cui   Reliability Research of $k$-out-of-$n$:
                                  $G$ Supply Chain System Based on Copula  4023--4033
                   Ancha Xu and   
                    Yincai Tang   Objective Bayesian Analysis for Linear
                                  Degradation Models . . . . . . . . . . . 4034--4046

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 22, 2012

               Yi-Chun Chen and   
             Wheyming Tina Song   The Effects of Sample Sizes in Phases I
                                  and II on $p$ Control Chart Performance  4047--4068
          Samaradasa Weerahandi   Generalized Point Estimation with
                                  Application to Small Response Estimation 4069--4095
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Nonparametric Estimators of the
                                  Distribution Function for One Modified
                                  Model of Current Status Data . . . . . . 4096--4106
           Laura L. R. Rifo and   
Verónica González-López   Full Bayesian Analysis for a Model of
                                  Tail Dependence  . . . . . . . . . . . . 4107--4123
                 Dejian Lai and   
      Lemuel A. Moyé and   
           Kuang-Chao Chang and   
                Robert J. Hardy   Sample Size Re-Estimation Based on
                                  Two-Stage Analysis of Variance: Interim
                                  Analysis of Clinical Trials  . . . . . . 4124--4131
               A. J. Hayter and   
            S. Kiatsupaibul and   
                     W. Liu and   
                     H. P. Wynn   An Independence Point Method of
                                  Confidence Band Construction for
                                  Multiple Linear Regression Models  . . . 4132--4141
                 Muhammad Hanif   Local Linear Estimation of Recurrent
                                  Jump-Diffusion Models  . . . . . . . . . 4142--4163
       Tahani Coolen-Maturi and   
   Pauline Coolen-Schrijner and   
             Frank P. A. Coolen   Nonparametric Predictive Multiple
                                  Comparisons of Lifetime Data . . . . . . 4164--4181
            Fayçal Hamdi   Computing the Exact Fisher Information
                                  Matrix of Periodic State-Space Models    4182--4199
     S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi and   
               A. A. Jafari and   
             H. A. Mardani-Fard   One-way ANOVA with Unequal Variances . . 4200--4221
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4222--4222
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4223--4223

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 23, 2012

      Hafiz Muhammad Arshad and   
               Munir Akhtar and   
              Steven G. Gilmour   Augmented Box--Behnken Designs for
                                  Fitting Third-Order Response Surfaces    4225--4239
                  Chin-Shang Li   Lack-of-Fit Tests for Generalized Linear
                                  Models via Splines . . . . . . . . . . . 4240--4250
       Bader A. I. Aljawadi and   
        Mohd Rizam A. Bakar and   
              Noor Akma Ibrahim   Nonparametric versus Parametric
                                  Estimation of the Cure Fraction Using
                                  Interval Censored Data . . . . . . . . . 4251--4275
                  Qinglong Yang   Asymptotic Normality of LS Estimators in
                                  the Simple Linear EV Regression Model
                                  with PA Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4276--4284
         Aleksandar S. Nasti\'c   On Shifted Geometric $ {\rm INAR}(1) $
                                  Models Based on Geometric Counting
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4285--4301
            Giancarlo Diana and   
                  Marco Giordan   Finite Population Variance Estimation in
                                  Presence of Measurement Errors . . . . . 4302--4314
         M. S. Chikkagoudar and   
                  B. S. Biradar   Locally Most Powerful Rank Tests for
                                  Comparison of Two Failure Rates Based on
                                  Multiple Type-II Censored Data . . . . . 4315--4331
              Eiichi Isogai and   
                Chikara Uno and   
               Daisuke Takeuchi   Two-Stage Procedure Having Exact
                                  Third-Order Properties for a Normal Mean 4332--4347
               Soon S. Kwon and   
                   Sung H. Park   Conditions of Slope-Rotatability for
                                  Third-Order Polynomial Regression Models 4348--4359
               Jiaping Wang and   
                      Qiqing Yu   Consistency of the Generalized MLE with
                                  Interval-Censored and Masked Competing
                                  Risks Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4360--4377

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 41, Number 24, 2012

                  Hamzeh Torabi   A Generalized Version of Neyman--Pearson
                                  Lemma for Testing Fuzzy Hypotheses Based
                                  on $r$-Level Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . 4379--4390
       N. Unnikrishnan Nair and   
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                 B. Vineshkumar   The Govindarajulu Distribution: Some
                                  Properties and Applications  . . . . . . 4391--4406
                    Vee Ming Ng   Bayesian Inference for the Precision
                                  Matrix for Scale Mixtures of Normal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4407--4412
                 Lianyan Fu and   
                    Wei Gao and   
               Man-Lai Tang and   
                 Ning-Zhong Shi   On Modelling Agreement and Category
                                  Distinguishability on an Ordinal Scale   4413--4426
               Hafiz M. R. Khan   Improved Predictive Inference for
                                  Responses Based on Location Parameter
                                  Median from the Rayleigh Model Given a
                                  Doubly Censored Sample . . . . . . . . . 4427--4438
                James R. Schott   An Approximation for the Test of the
                                  Equality of the Smallest Eigenvalues of
                                  a Covariance Matrix  . . . . . . . . . . 4439--4443
                 Bing Xing Wang   Exact Interval Estimation for the Scale
                                  Family Under General Progressive Type-II
                                  Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4444--4452
       Shashibhushan B. Mahadik   Exact Results for Variable Sampling
                                  Interval Shewhart Control Charts with
                                  Runs Rules for Switching Between
                                  Sampling Interval Lengths  . . . . . . . 4453--4469
                Yaoguang Hu and   
                       Xi Cheng   A Quality Control Approach of PVC Gloves
                                  Based on the Integration of SPC and EPC  4470--4483
             Jan Mielniczuk and   
               Pawe\l Teisseyre   Selection of Regression and
                                  Autoregression Models with Initial
                                  Ordering of Variables  . . . . . . . . . 4484--4502
                Xu-Qing Liu and   
                   Feng Gao and   
                    Jian-Wen Xu   Linearized Restricted Ridge Regression
                                  Estimator in Linear Regression . . . . . 4503--4514
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board EOV  . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 1, 2013

                  Chao Zhou and   
                   Mingzhe Wang   Research on a New System with Neglected
                                  or Delayed Failure Impact  . . . . . . . 1--10
             Salim Bouzebda and   
                     Tarek Zari   A Strong Invariance Theorem of the Tail
                                  Empirical Copula Processes . . . . . . . 11--27
            Anis Iranmanesh and   
                  M. Arashi and   
                D. K. Nagar and   
            S. M. M. Tabatabaey   On Inverted Matrix Variate Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--41
               Hafiz M. R. Khan   Predictive Inference from the
                                  Half-Normal Model Given a Type II
                                  Censored Sample  . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--55
                  Feng Chen and   
                Qiang Cheng and   
                   Hong Liu and   
                   Wenli Xu and   
                      Song Wang   A New Inference Framework for Dependency
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--75
         M. Khorashadizadeh and   
     A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   Characterization of Life Distributions
                                  Using Log-odds Rate in Discrete Aging    76--87
             Manoj K. Yadav and   
             Girdhar G. Agarwal   On Estimation of Standard Error of
                                  Intra-Class Correlation Coefficient in
                                  Unbalanced Nested Designs  . . . . . . . 88--97
            Christophe Chesneau   Wavelet Estimation of a Density in a
                                  GARCH-type Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--117
           N. Rerkruthairat and   
                   K. Neammanee   An Improvement of a Non Uniform Bound on
                                  Normal Approximation of Randomized
                                  Orthogonal Array Sampling Designs  . . . 118--134
                Nasir Abbas and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Modeling the Factors Influencing the
                                  Evaluations of Items Through Mixture
                                  Models for Preference Datasets . . . . . 135--144
           Housila P. Singh and   
          Ramkrishna S. Solanki   An Efficient Class of Estimators for the
                                  Population Mean Using Auxiliary
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--163
      Alain Desgagné and   
  Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux and   
              Alexandre Leblanc   Test of Normality Against Generalized
                                  Exponential Power Alternatives . . . . . 164--190

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 2, 2013

               Michael Vock and   
                N. Balakrishnan   A Connection Between Two Nonparametric
                                  Tests for Perfect Ranking in Balanced
                                  Ranked Set Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 191--193
                    Litong Wang   Several Kantorovich Inequalities
                                  Involving Tracy--Singh Product . . . . . 194--200
                   Yimei Li and   
              Daniel F. Heitjan   A Note on the Complementary Mixture
                                  Pareto II Distribution . . . . . . . . . 201--213
               Gonglin Yuan and   
                    Zengxin Wei   Non Monotone Backtracking Inexact BFGS
                                  Method for Regression Analysis . . . . . 214--238
            Ana Georgina Flesia   A Note on Distinguishing Random Trees
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--251
                    Jing Li and   
                  Sunil K. Dhar   Modeling with Bivariate Geometric
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--266
              Shun Matsuura and   
                 Hiroshi Kurata   Definition and Properties of
                                  $m$-Dimensional $n$-Principal Points . . 267--282
                 Jaejik Kim and   
                     L. Billard   Dissimilarity Measures for
                                  Histogram-valued Observations  . . . . . 283--303
    Mustafa Ismaeel Alheety and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   Modified Liu-Type Estimator Based on $
                                  (r - k) $ Class Estimator  . . . . . . . 304--319
             Sharoon Hanook and   
    Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz and   
            Muhammad Mohsin and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   A Note On Beta Inverse-Weibull
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--335
              Hong Min Xiao and   
                  Ze Hui Li and   
                    Wei Wei Liu   The Finite Time Ruin Probability of a
                                  New Risk Model Based on Entrance Process 336--345
               Ruby C. Weng and   
                 Cheng-Hung Hsu   A Study of Expansions of Posterior
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--364
              Ma\lgorzata Murat   Bayesian Estimation for Deformed
                                  Modified Power Series Distribution . . . 365--384

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 3, 2013

           Zhengcheng Zhang and   
              William Q. Meeker   Mixture Representations of Reliability
                                  in Coherent Systems and Preservation
                                  Results Under Double Monitoring  . . . . 385--397
                Yonghui Liu and   
                     Chenqi Xia   Fundamental Equations of BLUE and BLUP
                                  in the Multivariate Linear Model with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--412
              Wen-Chuan Lee and   
                Jong-Wuu Wu and   
                     Chun-Te Li   Characterization of Mixtures of Weibull
                                  and Pareto Distributions Based on
                                  Conditional Expectation of Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--428
                Guohong Sun and   
                      Xuemin Zi   An Empirical-Likelihood-Based
                                  Multivariate EWMA Control Scheme . . . . 429--446
                  Limin Wen and   
             Jiangfeng Wang and   
                      Xianyi Wu   A New Class of Credibility Estimators
                                  Under the Generalized Weighted Premium
                                  Principle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--465
              Tomoaki Imoto and   
                  Seng Huat Ong   A Lagrangian Non Central Negative
                                  Binomial Distribution of the First Kind  466--477
                      Yunxia Li   An Extension of the Almost Sure Central
                                  Limit Theorem for Products of Sums Under
                                  Association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--490
               Patrick Lang and   
              Ann Gironella and   
                  Rieken Venema   Invariant Subspaces and Regression . . . 491--504
                   S. Kalke and   
              W.-D. Richter and   
                      F. Thauer   Linear Combinations, Products and Ratios
                                  of Simplicial or Spherical Variates  . . 505--527
               Hamid Bidram and   
           Javad Behboodian and   
                   Mina Towhidi   A New Generalized Exponential Geometric
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--542
                 Jianwen Xu and   
                        Hu Yang   Performances of the Positive-Rule
                                  Stein-Type Ridge Estimator in a Linear
                                  Regression Model with Spherically
                                  Symmetric Error Distributions  . . . . . 543--560
         André Beauducel   A Note on Unwanted Variance in
                                  Exploratory Factor Models  . . . . . . . 561--565
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum for: The Distribution of
                                  Family Sizes Under a Time-Homogeneous
                                  Birth and Death Process  . . . . . . . . 566--567
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--568

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 4, 2013

                  Nikolai Kolev   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--569
 Maristela Dias De Oliveira and   
         Enrico A. Colosimo and   
           Gustavo L. Gilardoni   Power Law Selection Model for Repairable
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--578
            Wolf-Dieter Richter   Geometric and Stochastic Representations
                                  for Elliptically Contoured Distributions 579--602
 Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and   
             Luis M. Castro and   
            Rosangela H. Loschi   Change Point Detection in The
                                  Skew-Normal Model Parameters . . . . . . 603--618
           Jan-Frederik Mai and   
               Matthias Scherer   Sampling Exchangeable and Hierarchical
                                  Marshall--Olkin Distributions  . . . . . 619--632
Guillermo Martínez-Flórez and   
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
  Héctor W. Gómez   The Alpha-power Tobit Model  . . . . . . 633--643
               Guannan Wang and   
              Zhizhong Wang and   
                    Xiaohui Liu   Empirical Likelihood For Censored
                                  Partial Linear Model Based On Imputed
                                  Value  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644--659
           Arnab Kumar Laha and   
               K. C. Mahesh and   
              Dilip Kumar Ghosh   SB-Robust Estimators of the Parameters
                                  of the Wrapped Normal Distribution . . . 660--672
                 F. Louzada and   
               A. K. Suzuki and   
                   V. G. Cancho   The FGM Long-Term Bivariate Survival
                                  Copula Model: Modeling, Bayesian
                                  Estimation, and Case Influence
                                  Diagnostics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--691
                 Hsiaw-Chan Yeh   General Multivariate Weibull Processes   692--715
             Jerzy K. Filus and   
                 Lidia Z. Filus   A Method for Multivariate Probability
                                  Distributions Construction via Parameter
                                  Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--721
            Dimitris Karlis and   
                  Xanthi Pedeli   Flexible Bivariate $ {\rm INAR}(1) $
                                  Processes Using Copulas  . . . . . . . . 723--740

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 5, 2013

                Pablo A. Mitnik   New Properties of the Kumaraswamy
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--755
           Mahendran Shitan and   
                 Shelton Peiris   Approximate Asymptotic
                                  Variance-Covariance Matrix for the
                                  Whittle Estimators of $ {\rm GAR}(1) $
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--770
                    Jiexiang Li   Kernel Estimators for Additive Models
                                  with Dependent Observations from Random
                                  Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--781
                  Abdul Haq and   
                  Javid Shabbir   Improved Family of Ratio Estimators in
                                  Simple and Stratified Random Sampling    782--799
                   Anissa Rabhi   On Threshold Choice in Hypothesis
                                  Testing for Dynamical Systems with Small
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800--811
             Velika I. Dragieva   A Finite Source Retrial Queue: Number of
                                  Retrials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812--829
                   Kaiyong Wang   The Uniform Asymptotics of the Overshoot
                                  of a Random Walk with Light-Tailed
                                  Increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830--837
                S. Izadkhah and   
     A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   On Properties of Reversed Mean Residual
                                  Life Order for Weighted Distributions    838--851
                   Yan Ling and   
                 Paul I. Nelson   Consistency of $p$-Values Obtained by
                                  Averaging Over Nuisance Parameters . . . 852--866
                   Habib Jafari   Locally $D$-Optimal Design for a Logit
                                  Model in Discrete Choice Experiment  . . 867--882
                    Ming Ha Lee   Adaptive Hotelling's $ T^2 $ Control
                                  Charts with Run Rules  . . . . . . . . . 883--897
             Bing Xing Wang and   
                    Min Xie and   
                  Jun Xing Zhou   Generalized Confidence Interval for the
                                  Scale Parameter of the Power-Law Process 898--906
                   M. Amini and   
            H. R. Nili Sani and   
                   A. Bozorgnia   Aspects of Negative Dependence
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907--917

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 6, 2013

Emilio Gómez-Déniz and   
Enrique Calderín-Ojeda and   
José María Sarabia   Gamma-Generalized Inverse Gaussian Class
                                  of Distributions with Applications . . . 919--933
                   Farhat Iqbal   Diagnostic Checking for GARCH-Type
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934--953
                   Fang Zhu and   
                      Gong Tang   An Index of Local Sensitivity to
                                  Nonignorability for a Pseudolikelihood
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954--973
               Linda Lee Ho and   
       Roberto Da Costa Quinino   The Variable Sampling Interval (VSI) in
                                  an Analysis of Taguchi's On-line Quality
                                  Monitoring Procedure for Variables . . . 974--987
             Ulrich Menzefricke   Control Charts for the Mean and Variance
                                  based on Changepoint Methodology . . . . 988--1007
           Housila P. Singh and   
          Ramkrishna S. Solanki   Efficient Ratio and Product Estimators
                                  in Stratified Random Sampling  . . . . . 1008--1023
             Jeff Pettyjohn and   
            Daniel R. Jeske and   
                         Jun Li   Estimation and Confidence Intervals for
                                  Clock Offset in Networks with Bivariate
                                  Exponential Delays . . . . . . . . . . . 1024--1041
             Wen-Jang Huang and   
                    Hui-Yi Teng   A Study of Some Different Concepts of
                                  Symmetry on the Real Line  . . . . . . . 1042--1055
               Yang-Jin Kim and   
               Chung Mo Nam and   
                    Jinheum Kim   Nonparametric Two-Sample Tests of
                                  Longitudinal Data with Termination
                                  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056--1069
            A. Stavropoulos and   
              M. G. Akritas and   
                      C. Caroni   Likelihood Ratio Type Statistics for
                                  Repeated Measures Designs with
                                  Heterogeneous Covariance Matrices  . . . 1070--1086
             S. H. Alizadeh and   
                    S. Rezakhah   Hidden Markov Mixture Autoregressive
                                  Models: Stability and Moments  . . . . . 1087--1104
            Hamid Zareifard and   
           Majid Jafari Khaledi   Empirical Bayes Estimation in Regression
                                  Models with Generalized Skew-Slash
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105--1123
        Abdelhamid Hassairi and   
                   Mahdi Louati   Mixture of the Riesz Distribution with
                                  Respect to a Multivariate Poisson  . . . 1124--1140
                      Anonymous   Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1141--1141

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 7, 2013

         Paulo C. Rodrigues and   
             Miguel de Carvalho   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1144
          M. Chvosteková   Simultaneous Two-Sided Tolerance
                                  Intervals for a Univariate Linear
                                  Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145--1152
           Carlos A. Coelho and   
              Filipe J. Marques   The Multi-Sample Block-Scalar Sphericity
                                  Test: Exact and Near-Exact Distributions
                                  for Its Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic  1153--1175
         Miguel de Carvalho and   
                Boris Oumow and   
               Johan Segers and   
                 Michal Warchol   A Euclidean Likelihood Estimator for
                                  Bivariate Tail Dependence  . . . . . . . 1176--1192
                Jan De Neve and   
               Olivier Thas and   
              Jean-Pierre Ottoy   Goodness-of-Fit Methods for
                                  Probabilistic Index Models . . . . . . . 1193--1207
        Marek Dvorák and   
  Zuzana Prásková   On Testing Changes in Autoregressive
                                  Parameters of a VAR Model  . . . . . . . 1208--1226
            M. Ivette Gomes and   
     M. João Martins and   
               M. Manuela Neves   Generalized Jackknife-Based Estimators
                                  for Univariate Extreme-Value Modeling    1227--1245
                 Nina Huber and   
                    Hannes Leeb   Shrinkage Estimators for Prediction
                                  Out-of-Sample: Conditional Performance   1246--1264
             Francesca Ieva and   
               Anna M. Paganoni   Depth Measures for Multivariate
                                  Functional Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265--1276
            Carsten Jentsch and   
            Dimitris N. Politis   Valid Resampling of Higher-Order
                                  Statistics Using the Linear Process
                                  Bootstrap and Autoregressive Sieve
                                  Bootstrap  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277--1293
               B. T. Knapik and   
        A. W. van der Vaart and   
               J. H. van Zanten   Bayesian Recovery of the Initial
                                  Condition for the Heat Equation  . . . . 1294--1313
    Hendrik P. Lopuhaä and   
               Gabriela F. Nane   An Asymptotic Linear Representation for
                                  the Breslow Estimator  . . . . . . . . . 1314--1324
            Luis N. Pereira and   
            Jorge M. Mendes and   
                Pedro S. Coelho   Model-Based Estimation of Unemployment
                                  Rates in Small Areas of Portugal . . . . 1325--1342
               Jan Johannes and   
                   Maik Schwarz   Adaptive Gaussian Inverse Regression
                                  with Partially Unknown Operator  . . . . 1343--1362
          Andrew D. A. C. Smith   Quadratic Programming and Penalized
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363--1372
          Drago Spoljari\'c and   
                     Ivo Ugrina   On Statistical Properties of Palindromes
                                  in DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373--1385
                  Gyula Pap and   
   Tamás T. Szabó   Change Detection in $ {\rm INAR}(p) $
                                  Processes Against Various Alternative
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1386--1405
               Grzegorz Wylupek   Data-Driven Tests for Trend  . . . . . . 1406--1427
                 Johanna Ziegel   Stereological Modelling of Random
                                  Particles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1428--1442

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 8, 2013

           D. K. Al-Mutairi and   
              M. E. Ghitany and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Inferences on Stress-Strength
                                  Reliability from Lindley Distributions   1443--1463
              Semhar Beyene and   
                V. Ramakrishnan   A Numerical Method for Estimating the
                                  Variance of Age at Maximum Growth Rate
                                  in Growth Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 1464--1475
                  G. Khalaf and   
    Kristofer Månsson and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   Modified Ridge Regression Estimators . . 1476--1487
         Anatoliy Swishchuk and   
              Md Shafiqul Islam   Normal Deviation and Poisson
                                  Approximation of a Security Market by
                                  the Geometric Markov Renewal Processes   1488--1501
           J. A. A. Andrade and   
             C. C. Y. Dorea and   
         C. E. Guevara Otiniano   On the Robustness of Bayesian Modelling
                                  of Location and Scale Structures Using
                                  Heavy-Tailed Distributions . . . . . . . 1502--1514
             Alireza Ghodsi and   
               Mahendran Shitan   Some Properties of the Normalized
                                  Periodogram of a Fractionally Integrated
                                  Separable Spatial ARMA (FISSARMA) Model  1515--1530
            Deniz Ünal and   
         Güzin Yüksel   Comparison of the Iterative Stein-Rule
                                  and the Usual Estimators of the
                                  Disturbance Variance Under the Pitman
                                  Nearness Criterion in a Linear
                                  Regression Model with Proxy Variables    1531--1541
Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   A New Acceptance Sampling Policy Based
                                  on Number of Successive Conforming Items 1542--1552
                      Mi-Hwa Ko   On the Asymmetric Marcinkiewicz--Zygmund
                                  Strong Law of Large Numbers for Linear
                                  Random Fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1553--1562
                    Litong Wang   Quasi-Minimax Estimation in the Linear
                                  Model with Measurement Errors  . . . . . 1563--1571
 M. Esmail Dehghan Monfared and   
                  Fazlollah Lak   Bayesian Estimation of the Change Point
                                  Using $ X^- $ Control Chart  . . . . . . 1572--1582

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 9, 2013

                  Dilip Roy and   
                  Rishideep Roy   Stability of the Characterization
                                  Results in Terms of Hazard Rate and Mean
                                  Residual Life for the Univariate and
                                  Bivariate Setups . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583--1598
              Xiangjin Shen and   
                 Hiroki Tsurumi   Comparison of Bayesian Model Selection
                                  Criteria and Conditional Kolmogorov Test
                                  as Applied to Spot Asset Pricing Models  1599--1617
    Lúcia P. Barroso and   
           Denise A. Botter and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Second-Order Covariance Matrix Formula
                                  for Heteroskedastic Generalized Linear
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1618--1627
                Reiichiro Kawai   Fisher Information for Fractional
                                  Brownian Motion Under High-Frequency
                                  Discrete Sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . 1628--1636
                Masaki Narukawa   On Semiparametric Testing of $ I(d) $ by
                                  FEXP Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1637--1653
              Inder Jeet Taneja   Generalized Symmetric Divergence
                                  Measures and the Probability of Error    1654--1672
            Ayman Alzaatreh and   
               Felix Famoye and   
                       Carl Lee   Weibull--Pareto Distribution and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1673--1691
      Luis Hernando Vanegas and   
          Luz Marina Rondon and   
Francisco José A. Cysneiros   Assessing Robustness of Inference in
                                  Symmetrical Nonlinear Regression Models  1692--1711
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1712--1712

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 10, 2013

              Antonis Demos and   
          Dimitra Kyriakopoulou   Edgeworth and Moment Approximations: The
                                  Case of MM and QML Estimators for the $
                                  {\rm MA}(1) $ Models . . . . . . . . . . 1713--1747
            Abouzar Bazyari and   
              Rahim Chinipardaz   Upper Bound for $p$-Value of the Test of
                                  Multivariate Normal Ordered Mean Vectors
                                  Against all Alternatives . . . . . . . . 1748--1758
                 M. Z. Anis and   
                   Ishita Basak   On $ C_{pk} $ Assessment in the Presence
                                  of Tool Wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759--1773
                        Yuao Hu   Nonparametric Estimation of Variance
                                  Function for Functional Data Under
                                  Mixing Conditions  . . . . . . . . . . . 1774--1786
                Bei-Qing Gu and   
                  Rong-Xian Yue   Some Notes on Parameter Estimation for
                                  Generalized Exponential Distribution . . 1787--1805
                Glen Meeden and   
            Siamak Noorbaloochi   Hypotheses Testing as a Fuzzy Set
                                  Estimation Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1806--1820
               Xingfa Zhang and   
                 Heung Wong and   
                    Yuan Li and   
                  Wai-Cheung Ip   An Alternative GARCH-in-Mean Model:
                                  Structure and Estimation . . . . . . . . 1821--1838
               Rohini Yadav and   
       Lakshmi N. Upadhyaya and   
           Housila P. Singh and   
                  S. Chatterjee   A Generalized Family of Transformed
                                  Ratio-Product Estimators for Variance in
                                  Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839--1850
                M. A. Ullah and   
                G. R. Pasha and   
                       M. Aslam   Local Influence Diagnostics in the
                                  Modified Ridge Regression  . . . . . . . 1851--1869
                 P. C. Wang and   
                     Soushan Wu   Trend-Free Designs in Blocked Factorial
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1870--1878
          Petcharat Rattanawong   A Non-Uniform Concentration Inequality
                                  for a Random Permutation Sum . . . . . . 1879--1888
             Maryam Sharafi and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
             Baha-Eldin Khaledi   Distribution-Free Comparison of Hazard
                                  Rates of Two Distributions Under Type-II
                                  Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1889--1898
                S. Izadkhah and   
               A. H. Rezaei and   
                   M. Amini and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   A General Approach for Preservation of
                                  Some Aging Classes Under Weighting . . . 1899--1909

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 11, 2013

              Ken-Ichi Kamo and   
        Hirokazu Yanagihara and   
                  Kenichi Satoh   Bias-Corrected AIC for Selecting
                                  Variables in Poisson Regression Models   1911--1921
        Matthew R. Williams and   
                   Dong-Yun Kim   A Test for an Abrupt Change in Weibull
                                  Hazard Functions with Staggered Entry
                                  and Type I Censoring . . . . . . . . . . 1922--1933
             David E. Giles and   
                   Hui Feng and   
                 Ryan T. Godwin   On the Bias of the Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimator for the Two-Parameter Lomax
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1934--1950
                Liwen Huang and   
                      Lianta Su   Hierarchical Discriminant Analysis and
                                  Its Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1951--1957
                Wanrong Liu and   
                  Xuewen Lu and   
                   Yongcheng Qi   On Local Polynomial Modelling of the
                                  Additive Risk Model  . . . . . . . . . . 1958--1981
                  Daniel Li and   
                     Liqun Wang   A Semiparametric Estimation Approach for
                                  Linear Mixed Models  . . . . . . . . . . 1982--1997
              David D. Tung and   
           S. Rao Jammalamadaka   On the Gini Mean Difference Test for
                                  Circular Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1998--2008
             Sandra E. Melo and   
     Betty J. Garzón and   
                  Oscar O. Melo   Cell Means Model for Balanced Factorial
                                  Designs with Nested Mixed Factors  . . . 2009--2024
            Vladimir Vinogradov   Some Utilizations of Lambert $W$
                                  Function in Distribution Theory  . . . . 2025--2043
        Lenka Filová and   
                Radoslav Harman   Criterion-Robust Experimental Designs
                                  for the Quadratic Regression on a Square
                                  and a Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2044--2055
            Mohsen Rezapour and   
 Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz and   
                Franco Pellerey   Multivariate Aging with Archimedean
                                  Dependence Structures in High Dimensions 2056--2070
                    Xuan Li and   
                     Xikui Wang   Response Adaptive Designs with
                                  Misclassified Responses  . . . . . . . . 2071--2083
                  M. Arashi and   
             Shahjahan Khan and   
        S. M. M. Tabatabaey and   
                   H. Soleimani   Shrinkage Estimation Under Multivariate
                                  Elliptic Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2084--2103

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 12, 2013

             Andrea J. Cook and   
              Diane R. Gold and   
                          Yi Li   Spatial Cluster Detection for
                                  Longitudinal Outcomes Using
                                  Administrative Regions . . . . . . . . . 2105--2117
                 Toru Ogura and   
         Yasunori Fujikoshi and   
              Takakazu Sugiyama   A Variable Selection Criterion for Two
                                  Sets of Principal Component Scores in
                                  Principal Canonical Correlation Analysis 2118--2135
            Murray A. Jorgensen   Forming Clusters from Census Areas with
                                  Similar Tabular Statistics . . . . . . . 2136--2151
                     Haifeng Xu   MSE Performance and Minimax Regret
                                  Significance Points for a HPT Estimator
                                  when each Individual Regression
                                  Coefficient is Estimated . . . . . . . . 2152--2164
             Miguel Fonseca and   
        João Tiago Mexia   Delta Method, Moment Convergence, and
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2165--2171
                    Qiang Zhang   Asymmetric Group Sequential Designs
                                  under Fractional Brownian Motion . . . . 2172--2184
                M. Rezapour and   
               E. T. Salehi and   
                M. H. Alamatsaz   Stochastic Comparison of Residual and
                                  Past Lifetimes of $ (n - k +
                                  1)$-Out-of-$n$ Systems with Dependent
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2185--2199
        J. E. Chacón and   
                    C. Tenreiro   Data-Based Choice of the Number of Pilot
                                  Stages for Plug-in Bandwidth Selection   2200--2214
     S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi and   
               Z. Shishebor and   
             H. A. Mardani-Fard   Sharp Bounds on a Class of Copulas with
                                  known Values at Several Points . . . . . 2215--2228
           Valentina Mameli and   
                   Monica Musio   A Generalization of the Skew-Normal
                                  Distribution: The Beta Skew-Normal . . . 2229--2244
             Salim Bouzebda and   
             Issam Elhattab and   
                Amor Keziou and   
                  Tewfik Lounis   New Entropy Estimator with an
                                  Application to Test of Normality . . . . 2245--2270
                    G. Afendras   Moment-Based Inference for Pearson's
                                  Quadratic $q$ Subfamily of Distributions 2271--2280

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 13, 2013

                 Dong Joon Park   Alternative Confidence Intervals on
                                  Variance Components in a Simple
                                  Regression Model with a Balanced
                                  Two-Fold Nested Error Structure  . . . . 2281--2291
                 Yong Zhang and   
                  Xiao-Yun Yang   Asymptotic Distribution for Products of
                                  Sums of Linear Processes Under
                                  Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2292--2300
                   Feng-shou Ko   A Design For Survival Studies: a
                                  Multi-regional Trial With Unrecognized
                                  Heterogeneity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2301--2323
               V. Nekoukhou and   
            M. H. Alamatsaz and   
                 A. H. Aghajani   A Flexible Skew-Generalized Normal
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2324--2334
               Xiao-Xin Zhu and   
                    Bin Zhu and   
                 Chun-Zheng Cao   Diagnostics for a Linear Model with
                                  First-Order Autoregressive Symmetrical
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2335--2350
        Bindu Punathumparambath   A New Family of Skewed Slash
                                  Distributions Generated by the Cauchy
                                  Kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2351--2361
           Nasser Davarzani and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Inference Under Right Censoring in a
                                  Discrete Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2362--2375
           Shovan Chowdhury and   
                S. P. Mukherjee   Estimation of Traffic Intensity Based on
                                  Queue Length in a Single M/M/1 Queue . . 2376--2390
                Xuejun Wang and   
              Tien-Chung Hu and   
             Andrei Volodin and   
                       Shuhe Hu   Complete Convergence for Weighted Sums
                                  and Arrays of Rowwise Extended
                                  Negatively Dependent Random Variables    2391--2401
                Christian Meyer   The Bivariate Normal Copula  . . . . . . 2402--2422
                 Yunwen Ren and   
                 Xinsheng Zhang   Model Selection for Vector
                                  Autoregressive Processes via Adaptive
                                  Lasso  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2423--2436
              Guo-Liang Fan and   
               Zhen-Sheng Huang   Empirical Likelihood for Semiparametric
                                  Varying-Coefficient Heteroscedastic
                                  Partially Linear Errors-in-Variables
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2437--2450
              Zhongquan Tan and   
                    Yuebao Wang   Extremes Values of Discrete and
                                  Continuous Time Strongly Dependent
                                  Gaussian Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 2451--2463
                  Qing-pei Zang   A Kind of Exact Rates in Complete Moment
                                  Convergence for Moving-Average Processes 2464--2471

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 14, 2013

     S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi and   
                   A. A. Jafari   A Parametric Bootstrap Approach for
                                  One-Way ANCOVA with Unequal Variances    2473--2498
            Raghunath Arnab and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Estimation of Mean of Sensitive
                                  Characteristics for Successive Sampling  2499--2524
                   Tomonari Sei   A Jacobian Inequality for Gradient Maps
                                  on the Sphere and Its Application to
                                  Directional Statistics . . . . . . . . . 2525--2542
                    Mounir Arfi   Nonparametric Estimation for the Hazard
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2543--2550
                   M.-L. Feddag   Composite Likelihood Estimation for
                                  Multivariate Probit Latent Traits Models 2551--2566
                   Hui Zhao and   
                   Jie Zhou and   
                    Liuquan Sun   A Marginal Additive Rates Model for
                                  Recurrent Event Data with a Terminal
                                  Event  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2567--2583
               Emma M. Iglesias   The Block-Block Bootstrap for Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2584--2600
           Walter Sosa-Escudero   Testing for Persistence in the Error
                                  Component Model: A One-Sided Approach    2601--2616
                     Yiqiang Lu   Estimation for the Power-transformed
                                  Varying-coefficient Quantile Regression
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2617--2633
         Mohammed El Anbari and   
               Abdallah Mkhadri   The Adaptive Gril Estimator with a
                                  Diverging Number of Parameters . . . . . 2634--2660

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 15, 2013

              Gianpaolo Pulcini   Modeling the Mileage Accumulation
                                  Process with Random Effects  . . . . . . 2661--2683
                    Yu Miao and   
                 Tianyu Xue and   
                        Tian Du   The Discounted Berry--Esséen Analogue for
                                  Autoregressive Processes . . . . . . . . 2684--2693
                Guojun Wang and   
               Siva Sivaganesan   Objective Priors for Parameters in a
                                  Normal Linear Regression with
                                  Measurement Error  . . . . . . . . . . . 2694--2713
             Changyong Feng and   
               Hongyue Wang and   
                      Xin M. Tu   Geometric Mean of Nonnegative Random
                                  Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2714--2717
           Housila P. Singh and   
          Ramkrishna S. Solanki   Improved Estimation of Finite Population
                                  Variance Using Auxiliary Information . . 2718--2730
                    Lichun Wang   Consistency of Posterior Distributions
                                  for Heteroscedastic Nonparametric
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2731--2740
              Tomoyuki Sugimoto   On Consistencies of the Profile
                                  Likelihood Estimators and their
                                  Derivatives of the Distribution Function
                                  in Doubly Censored Data  . . . . . . . . 2741--2757
                 Juan Zhang and   
                John E. Kolassa   A Practical Procedure to Find Matching
                                  Priors for Frequentist Inference . . . . 2758--2767
Vilijandas B. Bagdonavicius and   
          Ruta J. Levuliene and   
             Mikhail S. Nikulin   Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Tests for
                                  Parametric Accelerated Failure Time
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2768--2785
        Nimai Kumar Chandra and   
                  Dilip Roy and   
               Tirthankar Ghosh   A Generalized Poisson Distribution . . . 2786--2797
                 Jing Cheng and   
              Rong-Xian Yue and   
                        Xin Liu   Optimal Designs for Random Coefficient
                                  Regression Models with Heteroscedastic
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2798--2809
              Amrita Biswas and   
              Premadhis Das and   
            Nripes Kumar Mandal   Designs Robust Against the Presence of
                                  an Aberration in a Diallel Cross Design
                                  Setup  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2810--2817
          Asuman S. Turkmen and   
                  Nedret Billor   Influence Function Analysis for the
                                  Robust Partial Least Squares (RoPLS)
                                  Estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2818--2836
              Shangli Zhang and   
                 Zhide Fang and   
                       Gang Liu   Characterization of Admissible Linear
                                  Estimators in Multivariate Linear Model
                                  with Respect to Inequality Constraints
                                  under Matrix Loss Function . . . . . . . 2837--2850

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 16, 2013

        Christos H. Skiadas and   
               Sally I. McClean   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2851--2852
          Aleka A. Papadopoulou   Some Results on Modeling Biological
                                  Sequences and Web Navigation with a Semi
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2853--2871
          Guglielmo D'Amico and   
         Montserrat Guillen and   
                 Raimondo Manca   Semi-Markov Disability Insurance Models  2872--2888
          Guglielmo D'Amico and   
          Giuseppe Di Biase and   
            Fulvio Gismondi and   
                 Raimondo Manca   The Input Evaluation of Generalized
                                  Bernoulli Processes for Salary Lines
                                  Construction by Means of Continuous Time
                                  Generalized Non-Homogeneous Semi-Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2889--2901
             Marc Joannides and   
    Ir\`ene Larramendy-Valverde   On Geometry and Scale of a Stochastic
                                  Chemostat  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2902--2911
                 Lalit Garg and   
              Sally McClean and   
               Maria Barton and   
               Brian Meenan and   
                  Ken Fullerton   An Extended Mixture Distribution
                                  Survival Tree for Patient Pathway
                                  Prognostication  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2912--2934
             Nicholas Brown and   
     Rachael Hamilton-Keene and   
           Philippa Hartney and   
                  Terence Mills   Forecasting the Incidence of Cancer in
                                  Regional Victoria, Australia . . . . . . 2935--2943
            Mohamed Saidane and   
                 Xavier Bry and   
             Christian Lavergne   Generalized Linear Factor Models: a New
                                  Local EM Estimation Algorithm  . . . . . 2944--2958
               J.-O. Maaita and   
               G. Tsaklidis and   
                  E. Meletlidou   The Homogeneous Markov System (HMS) as
                                  an Elastic Medium. The Three-Dimensional
                                  Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2959--2970
             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   Exotic Properties of Non Homogeneous
                                  Markov and Semi-Markov Systems . . . . . 2971--2990
          U. U. Müller and   
                  A. Schick and   
                  W. Wefelmeyer   Non Standard Behavior of Density
                                  Estimators for Functions of Independent
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2991--3000
                 Elena Yarovaya   Branching Random Walks with Heavy Tails  3001--3010
                  Yann Guermeur   Combining Multi-class SVMs with Linear
                                  Ensemble Methods that Estimate the Class
                                  Posterior Probabilities  . . . . . . . . 3011--3030

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 17, 2013

Mehrzad Ghorbani-Mandolakani and   
   Mohammad Reza Salehi Rad and   
              Nader Nematollahi   Estimation of the Parameters of a
                                  Two-phase Tandem Queue with a Second
                                  Optional Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 3031--3052
S. Mohammad E. Hosseini-Nasab and   
                Masoumeh Vakili   Percentile-$t$ Bootstrap Confidence
                                  Intervals for Period Using Periodogram   3053--3064
     Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi and   
             Naser Reza Arghami   Testing Normality Using Transformed Data 3065--3075
          Agnieszka Goroncy and   
                      Udo Kamps   Random Convex Combinations of
                                  $m$-Generalized Order Statistics . . . . 3076--3084
        Christophe Chesneau and   
                   Jalal Fadili   Wavelet-Based Density Estimation in a
                                  Heteroscedastic Convolution Model  . . . 3085--3099
                M. A. Ullah and   
                G. R. Pasha and   
                       M. Aslam   Assessing Influence on the Liu Estimates
                                  in Linear Regression Models  . . . . . . 3100--3116
               Shesh N. Rai and   
                Jianmin Pan and   
               Xiaobin Yuan and   
                Jianguo Sun and   
          Melissa M. Hudson and   
              Deo K. Srivastava   Estimating Incidence Rate on Current
                                  Status Data with Application to a Phase
                                  IV Cancer Trial  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3117--3133
        Kimberly F. Sellers and   
                  Galit Shmueli   Data Dispersion: Now You See It \ldots
                                  Now You Don't  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3134--3147
                Hamdi Fathallah   Asymptotic Properties of the
                                  LS-estimator of a Gaussian
                                  Autoregressive Process by an Averaging
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3148--3173
                Keiji Takai and   
                    Yutaka Kano   Asymptotic Inference with Incomplete
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3174--3190
                  Bin Zhang and   
               Xingwei Tong and   
                 Jing Zhang and   
               Chunjie Wang and   
                    Jianguo Sun   Efficient Estimation for Linear
                                  Transformation Models with Current
                                  Status Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3191--3203
             Shey-Huei Sheu and   
                      ShinLi Lu   The Generally Weighted Moving Average
                                  Variance Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3204--3214
                Adrian Pizzinga   Diffuse Restricted Kalman Filtering  . . 3215--3233

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 18, 2013

          Frederik Herzberg and   
      Angélique Herzberg   Testing Fiscal Sustainability via Strong
                                  Convergence of Gaussian Random Variables 3235--3242
                Omer Ozturk and   
           Steven N. MacEachern   Inference Based on General Linear Models
                                  for Order Restricted Randomization . . . 3243--3266
                  Zhulin He and   
            Babette A. Brumback   An Equivalence of Conditional and
                                  Unconditional Maximum Likelihood
                                  Estimators via Infinite Replication of
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3267--3279
                P. Economou and   
                    G. Tzavelas   Sample Tests for Detection of
                                  Size-Biased Sampling Mechanism . . . . . 3280--3295
                 Changsoon Park   An Economic Design of the Bounded Reset
                                  Chart Using the Integral Controller for
                                  Batch-Oriented Processes . . . . . . . . 3296--3309
                 David J. Olive   Plots for Generalized Additive Models    3310--3328
            Takayuki Yamada and   
              Masashi Hyodo and   
                    Takashi Seo   The Asymptotic Approximation of EPMC for
                                  Linear Discriminant Rules Using a
                                  Moore--Penrose Inverse Matrix in High
                                  Dimension  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3329--3338
  Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and   
  Fazlollah Masoumi Gazaneh and   
           Moslem Toosheghanian   Economic Design of Variable Sampling
                                  Interval $X$-Bar Control Charts for
                                  Monitoring Correlated Non Normal Samples 3339--3358
                Zaheen Khan and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   A New Sampling Design for Systematic
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3359--3370
             Sharoon Hanook and   
    Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz and   
            Muhammad Mohsin and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 3371--3372
         Mahdi Ebrahimzadeh and   
          Noor Akma Ibrahim and   
          Abdul Aziz Jemain and   
                  Adem Kilicman   Claim Dependence Induced by Common
                                  Effects in Hierarchical Credibility
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3373--3400
               Rung-Hung Su and   
              Dong-Yuh Yang and   
                    W. L. Pearn   Assessing Profitability of a
                                  Newsboy-Type Product with Normally
                                  Distributed Demand Based on Multiple
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3401--3419
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3420--3420

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 19, 2013

             Xian-zhu Xiong and   
                  Zheng-yan Lin   Empirical Likelihood Inference for
                                  Nonparametric Regression Functions with
                                  Functional Stationary Ergodic Data . . . 3421--3431
             Amar Nath Gill and   
                 Anju Goyal and   
                Parminder Singh   On a Multiple Three-Decision Problem for
                                  Comparing Several Treatments with the
                                  Best Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3432--3454
            Carey E. Priebe and   
          Joshua Vogelstein and   
                      Davi Bock   Optimizing the Quantity/Quality
                                  Trade-Off in Connectome Inference  . . . 3455--3462
            Daniela Marella and   
                   Paola Vicard   Object-Oriented Bayesian Networks for
                                  Modeling the Respondent Measurement
                                  Error  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3463--3477
            F. P. A. Coolen and   
        P. Coolen-Schrijner and   
           T. Coolen-Maturi and   
                F. F. Elkhafifi   Nonparametric Predictive Inference for
                                  Ordinal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3478--3496
           Abdelouahab Bibi and   
                   Ines Lescheb   Estimation and Asymptotic Properties in
                                  Periodic $ {\rm GARCH}(1, 1) $ Models    3497--3513
            J. Van den Berg and   
              J. J. J. Roux and   
                      A. Bekker   A Bivariate Generalization of Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3514--3527
              Qing-Wen Wang and   
                        Xin Liu   The Equalities of BLUPs for Linear
                                  Combinations Under Two General Linear
                                  Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3528--3543
                Ali Laksaci and   
               Fethi Madani and   
                Mustapha Rachdi   Kernel Conditional Density Estimation
                                  When the Regressor is Valued in a
                                  Semi-Metric Space  . . . . . . . . . . . 3544--3570
             Thomas Birkner and   
         Inmaculada B. Aban and   
             Charles R. Katholi   Evaluation of a Frequentist Hierarchical
                                  Model to Estimate Prevalence When
                                  Sampling from a Large Geographic Area
                                  Using Pool Screening . . . . . . . . . . 3571--3595
        Abdelnasser Dahmani and   
                 Karima Belaide   Exponential Inequalities in Calibration
                                  Problems with Gaussians Errors . . . . . 3596--3607
              M. Ahsanullah and   
                 G. G. Hamedani   Characterizations of Continuous
                                  Distributions Based on Conditional
                                  Expectation of Generalized Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3608--3613

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 20, 2013

                 G. G. Hamedani   Sub-Independence: an Expository
                                  Perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3615--3638
      Eleftheriou Mavroudis and   
               Farmakis Nicolas   EWMA Control Charts for Monitoring High
                                  Yield Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3639--3654
             Sean M. Devlin and   
        Elizabeth G. Thomas and   
               Scott S. Emerson   Robustness of Approaches to ROC Curve
                                  Modeling under Misspecification of the
                                  Underlying Probability Model . . . . . . 3655--3664
 J. Hrabáková and   
                         V. Kus   The Consistency and Robustness of
                                  Modified Cramér--von Mises and
                                  Kolmogorov--Cramér Estimators . . . . . . 3665--3677
                   Lei Wang and   
             Dongdong Xiang and   
                Xiaolong Pu and   
                         Yan Li   A Double Sequential Weighted Probability
                                  Ratio Test for One-Sided Composite
                                  Hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3678--3695
          Josemar Rodrigues and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                 Patrick Borges   Markov-Correlated Poisson Processes  . . 3696--3703
            I. B. J. Goudie and   
                     R. Gormley   Maximum Likelihood Estimates for the
                                  Schnabel Census with Plants  . . . . . . 3704--3715
                   Jiang Du and   
            Zhongzhan Zhang and   
                     Tianfa Xie   Focused Information Criterion and Model
                                  Averaging in Quantile Regression . . . . 3716--3734
          Amal D. Alhejaili and   
           Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah   Saddlepoint Approximations for
                                  Stopped-Sum Distributions  . . . . . . . 3735--3743
           David D. Hanagal and   
                 Alok D. Dabade   Modeling of Inverse Gaussian Frailty
                                  Model for Bivariate Survival Data  . . . 3744--3769
             Anurag N. Banerjee   The Sensitivity of Detrended Long-Memory
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3770--3780
              L. Baringhaus and   
                 F. Taherizadeh   A K--S Type Test for Exponentiality
                                  Based on Empirical Hankel Transforms . . 3781--3792
                    Jibo Wu and   
                        Hu Yang   Two Stochastic Restricted Principal
                                  Components Regression Estimator in
                                  Linear Regression  . . . . . . . . . . . 3793--3804

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 21, 2013

                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Nonparametric Estimation of the
                                  Bivariate Distribution Function with
                                  Doubly Truncated Data  . . . . . . . . . 3805--3818
              Hongsheng Dai and   
                Jianxin Pan and   
                    Yanchun Bao   Modelling Survival Events with
                                  Longitudinal Covariates Measured with
                                  Error  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3819--3837
              Kahadawala Cooray   Exponentiated Sinh Cauchy Distribution
                                  with Applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 3838--3852
           Yuriy Kozachenko and   
              Andriy Olenko and   
                  Olga Polosmak   Convergence Rate of Wavelet Expansions
                                  of Gaussian Random Processes . . . . . . 3853--3872
             Xiaoguang Wang and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                        Jie Cui   Tuning Parameter Selector for the
                                  Penalized Likelihood Method in
                                  Multivariate Generalized Linear Models   3873--3888
               Bing-Yi Jing and   
                 Cui-Xia Li and   
                        Zhi Liu   On Estimating the Integrated
                                  Co-Volatility Using Noisy High-Frequency
                                  Data with Jumps  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3889--3901
        Antonio F. B. Costa and   
                    M. A. Rahim   Economic Design of and $R$ Charts Under
                                  Weibull Shock Models . . . . . . . . . . 3902--3925
               Yinghui Dong and   
                   Guojing Wang   Fair Valuation of Life Insurance
                                  Contracts Under a Two-Sided Jump
                                  Diffusion Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3926--3948
                 Heung Wong and   
              Wai Cheung Ip and   
               Jin Shan Liu and   
                  Jian Yan Long   Bayesian Time Series Analysis of
                                  Structural Changes in Level and Trend    3949--3964
                   Soo Hak Sung   Strong Limit Theorems for Pairwise NQD
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 3965--3973
                E. Di Nardo and   
                       I. Oliva   On Some Applications of a Symbolic
                                  Representation of Non Centered Lévy
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3974--3988

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 22, 2013

                E. Nadaraya and   
                 P. Babilua and   
                    G. Sokhadze   About the Nonparametric Estimation of
                                  the Bernoulli Regression . . . . . . . . 3989--4002
             Ulrich Menzefricke   Combined Exponentially Weighted Moving
                                  Average Charts for the Mean and Variance
                                  Based on the Predictive Distribution . . 4003--4016
                  Ling Chen and   
                   Laisheng Wei   The Superiorities of Empirical Bayes
                                  Estimation of Variance Components in
                                  Random Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 4017--4033
                  Sat Gupta and   
             Samridhi Mehta and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                     B. K. Dass   Generalized Scrambling in Quantitative
                                  Optional Randomized Response Models  . . 4034--4042
                  Yutao Liu and   
                Liuquan Sun and   
                      Yong Zhou   Additive Transformation Models for
                                  Recurrent Events . . . . . . . . . . . . 4043--4055
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                   Yudan Wu and   
               Zhengchang Zhang   On the Allocation of General Standby
                                  Redundancy to Series and Parallel
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4056--4069
              Filippo Domma and   
              Francesca Condino   The Beta-Dagum Distribution: Definition
                                  and Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4070--4090
                 E. Krishna and   
                 K. K. Jose and   
                   T. Alice and   
           Miroslav M. Risti\'c   The Marshall--Olkin Fréchet Distribution  4091--4107
            Chin-Chih Chang and   
             Shey-Huei Sheu and   
                  Yen-Luan Chen   A Bivariate Optimal Replacement Policy
                                  for a System With Age-dependent Minimal
                                  Repair and Cumulative Repair-cost Limit  4108--4126
              Javid Shabbir and   
               Nasir Saeed Khan   On Estimating the Finite Population Mean
                                  Using Two Auxiliary Variables in Two
                                  Phase Sampling in the Presence of Non
                                  Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4127--4145
                Yongming Li and   
                Junhao Peng and   
                  Yufang Li and   
                  Chengdong Wei   A Berry--Esséen Type Bound of Wavelet
                                  Estimator Under Linear Process Errors
                                  Based on a Strong Mixing Sequence  . . . 4146--4155
                     M. Afshari   A Fast Wavelet Algorithm for Analyzing
                                  One-Dimensional Signal Processing and
                                  Asymptotic Distribution of Wavelet
                                  Coefficients With Numerical Example and
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4156--4169
                   Shirong Deng   Semiparametric Regression Analysis of
                                  Panel Count Data with Time-Dependent
                                  Covariates and Informative Observation
                                  and Censoring Times  . . . . . . . . . . 4170--4183

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 23, 2013

           Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah   Saddlepoint Approximations to the
                                  Density and the Distribution Functions
                                  of Linear Combinations of Ratios of
                                  Partial Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4185--4198
                    Jianhong Wu   Robust Estimation of Moments in Dynamic
                                  Panel Models with Potential
                                  Intercorrelation . . . . . . . . . . . . 4199--4209
                 Yonghui Ge and   
                    Xiaohui Han   The Extent of Gross Errors Eliminated by
                                  Robust Multiple Linear Regressions . . . 4210--4221
           Housila P. Singh and   
          Ramkrishna S. Solanki   Some Classes of Estimators for the
                                  Population Median Using Auxiliary
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4222--4238
                  Igor Melnykov   A Positive False Discovery Rate
                                  Convergence Result . . . . . . . . . . . 4239--4246
                D. Thongtha and   
                   K. Neammanee   Constants on a Uniform Berry--Esséen
                                  Bound on Some Borel Sets in R$^k$ via
                                  Stein's Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4247--4258
               Hongxia Wang and   
                     Jinde Wang   Local Linear Regression for Non Grid
                                  Spatiotemporal Models with
                                  Autoregressive Errors  . . . . . . . . . 4259--4275
                    Chang-Yu Lu   Universal Domination and Stochastic
                                  Domination --- an Improved lower Bound
                                  for the Dimensionality . . . . . . . . . 4276--4286
                Daojiang He and   
               Xingzhong Xu and   
                      Xuhua Liu   The Use of Posterior Predictive
                                  $p$-Values in Testing Goodness-of-Fit    4287--4297
             Jacek Le\'skow and   
                Mariola Molenda   Resampling Methods for Time Series Level
                                  Crossings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4298--4322
             Shey-Huei Sheu and   
              Chi-Jui Huang and   
                 Tsung-Shin Hsu   Maximum Chi-Square Generally Weighted
                                  Moving Average Control Chart for
                                  Monitoring Process Mean and Variability  4323--4341
               Haiying Wang and   
              Sherry Z. F. Zhou   Interval Estimation by Frequentist Model
                                  Averaging  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4342--4356
                  Yufang Li and   
                   Yongsong Qin   Empirical Likelihood Confidence
                                  Intervals for Distribution Functions
                                  under Negatively Associated Samples  . . 4357--4364

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 42, Number 24, 2013

                 Ming Zheng and   
                Yunting Sun and   
                         Wen Yu   Empirical Likelihood Based Synthetic
                                  Data Method for Censored Regression
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4365--4383
                    Yu Miao and   
               Yanling Wang and   
                      Xinwen Ma   Some Limit Results for Pareto Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4384--4391
             Scott M. Lesch and   
                Daniel R. Jeske   A New Exponential GOF Test for Data
                                  Subject to Multiply Type II Censoring    4392--4410
               Yue-Wen Wang and   
                  Li-Yu Liu and   
                  Chen-Tuo Liao   Two-level Orthogonal and Saturated
                                  Designs for Estimating Main Effects and
                                  Certain Important Interactions . . . . . 4411--4416
            Jyoti Rajarajan and   
                   Chhaya Sonar   $G$-Efficient Designs for Quadratic
                                  Mixture Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4417--4430
               Ganesh Dutta and   
                  Premadhis Das   Optimum Design for Estimation of
                                  Regression Parameters in Multi-Factor
                                  Set-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4431--4443
                Shijie Wang and   
                  Wensheng Wang   Precise Large Deviations for Sums of
                                  Random Variables with Consistent
                                  Variation in Dependent Multi-Risk Models 4444--4459
      Beatriz Larraz-Iribas and   
Jose M. Pavía-Miralles and   
                  Guido Ferrari   Weighting Elementary Prices in Consumer
                                  Price Index Construction Using Spatial
                                  Autocorrelation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 4460--4475


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 1, 2014

                    Omar Eidous   Histogram Model with Plausible
                                  Parametric Detection Function for Line
                                  Transect Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
             Xiaoguang Wang and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                  Xiaoning Kang   Profile Likelihood Inferences on the
                                  Partially Linear Model with a Diverging
                                  Number of Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 13--27
                   Dawei Lu and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                        Ying Xu   Precise Large Deviations for Sums of
                                  Independent Random Variables with
                                  Consistently Varying Tails . . . . . . . 28--43
                Szu-Yun Leu and   
                  Pranab K. Sen   Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process Model
                                  for Genetic Crossover Interference . . . 44--71
                   Feng-Shou Ko   The Method to Identify a Biomarker and
                                  to Evaluate Its Efficiency for Survival
                                  by Using the Joint Model of the
                                  Accelerate Failure Time and Longitudinal
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--89
             Rovshan Aliyev and   
                 Tahir Khaniyev   On the Moments of a Semi-Markovian
                                  Random Walk with Gaussian Distribution
                                  of Summands  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--104
          Alexander Dentler and   
       Gabriel Montes-Rojas and   
                      Jose Olmo   Endogeneity in Threshold Nonlinearity
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--114
                  G. Rajesh and   
         E. I. Abdul-Sathar and   
                    R. Maya and   
       K. R. Muraleedharan Nair   Nonparametric Estimation of the
                                  Geometric Vitality Function  . . . . . . 115--130
                  G. Khalaf and   
           K. Månsson and   
          P. Sjölander and   
                      G. Shukur   A Tobit Ridge Regression Estimator . . . 131--140
            M. Mohammadpour and   
                  A. R. Soltani   Forward Moving Average Representations
                                  for MA Processes of Finite Order:
                                  Multivariate Stationary and Periodically
                                  Correlated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--150
                Shaoyong Hu and   
                  Rongming Wang   Stochastic Comparisons and Optimal
                                  Allocation for Policy Limits and
                                  Deductibles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--164
               Ganesh Dutta and   
              Premadhis Das and   
               Nripes K. Mandal   $D$-Optimal Designs for Covariate Models 165--174
                   J. Subramani   Star-Type Systematic Sampling Schemes
                                  for Finite Populations . . . . . . . . . 175--190
          Rabindra Nath Das and   
                 Jeong-Soo Park   A Reinforced Randomized Block Design
                                  with Correlated Errors . . . . . . . . . 191--209
         Ma\lgorzata Kuchta and   
                 Michal Morayne   A Secretary Problem with Many Lives  . . 210--218

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 2, 2014

                Md. Moudud Alam   Likelihood Prediction for Generalized
                                  Linear Mixed Models under Covariate
                                  Uncertainty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--234
    Kristofer Månsson and   
               Ghazi Shukur and   
        Pär Sjölander   A New Ridge Regression Causality Test in
                                  the Presence of Multicollinearity  . . . 235--248
            Liliana Garrido and   
            Edilberto C. Cuervo   Heteroscedastic Weibull--Normal Mixture
                                  Models: a Bayesian Approach  . . . . . . 249--265
  Manuel L. Esquível and   
  João Lita da Silva and   
    João Tiago Mexia and   
              Luís Ramos   The Rate of Convergence of some
                                  Asymptotic Expansions for Distribution
                                  Approximations via an Esséen Type
                                  Estimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--290
               Yanfeng Shen and   
                   Zhengyan Lin   Tests for a Multiple-Sample Problem in
                                  High Dimensions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--305
                 T. A. Ugbe and   
                   P. E. Chigbu   On Non Overlapping Segmentation of the
                                  Response Surfaces for Solving
                                  Constrained Programming Problems Through
                                  Super Convergent Line Series . . . . . . 306--320
                V. Srinivas and   
           H. Jayakrishna Udupa   Best Unbiased Estimation and CAN
                                  Property in the Stable M/M/1 Queue . . . 321--327
                Shih-Feng Huang   A Modified Empirical Martingale
                                  Simulation for Financial Derivative
                                  Pricing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--342
              Rajesh Tailor and   
                  Sunil Chouhan   Ratio-Cum-Product Type Exponential
                                  Estimator of Finite Population Mean in
                                  Stratified Random Sampling . . . . . . . 343--354
                  Maher Kachour   On the Rounded Integer-Valued
                                  Autoregressive Process . . . . . . . . . 355--376
                 Miroslav Siman   Precision Index in the Multivariate
                                  Context  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--387
            Krystyna Maciag and   
              Czes\law Stepniak   Lack of Synergy Regression Models  . . . 388--391
                Puja Makkar and   
       Puneet K. Srivastava and   
                R. S. Singh and   
                 S. K. Upadhyay   Bayesian Survival Analysis of Head and
                                  Neck Cancer Data Using Lognormal Model   392--407
               Man-Lai Tang and   
                     Qin Wu and   
             Guo-Liang Tian and   
                   Jian-Hua Guo   Two-sample Non Randomized Response
                                  Techniques for Sensitive Questions . . . 408--425
                    Wen Hou and   
                 Lixin Song and   
               Xiangyan Hou and   
                 Xiaoguang Wang   Penalized Empirical Likelihood via
                                  Bridge Estimator in Cox's Proportional
                                  Hazard Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--440

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 3, 2014

             Nengxiang Ling and   
                 Zhihuan Li and   
                    Wenzhi Yang   Conditional Density Estimation in the
                                  Single Functional Index Model for $
                                  \alpha $-Mixing Functional Data  . . . . 441--454
                    Yi-Kuei Lin   System Reliability Assessment through
                                  $p$ Minimal Paths in Stochastic Case
                                  with Backup-routing  . . . . . . . . . . 455--469
     Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti and   
                   Silvia Bacci   Identifying Guttman Structures in
                                  Incomplete Rasch Datasets  . . . . . . . 470--497
                  Xue Liang and   
                   Yinghui Dong   A Markov Chain Copula Model for Credit
                                  Default Swaps with Bilateral
                                  Counterparty Risk  . . . . . . . . . . . 498--514
             Hossein Zamani and   
               Noriszura Ismail   Functional Form for the Zero-Inflated
                                  Generalized Poisson Regression Model . . 515--529
            Paria Soleimani and   
                  R. Noorossana   Monitoring Multivariate Simple Linear
                                  Profiles in the Presence of between
                                  Profile Autocorrelation  . . . . . . . . 530--546
           Housila P. Singh and   
           Balkishan Sharma and   
                  Rajesh Tailor   Hartley--Ross Type Estimators for
                                  Population Mean Using Known Parameters
                                  of Auxiliary Variate . . . . . . . . . . 547--565
                Defei Zhang and   
                  Zengjing Chen   A Weighted Central Limit Theorem Under
                                  Sublinear Expectations . . . . . . . . . 566--577
                 Jiro Hodoshima   On the Properties of the Likelihood
                                  Function of Spanos' Conditional $t$
                                  Heteroskedastic Model  . . . . . . . . . 578--598
               B. N. Mandal and   
                V. K. Gupta and   
                Rajender Parsad   Construction of Efficient Multi-Level
                                  $k$-Circulant Supersaturated Designs . . 599--615
    Kristofer Månsson and   
               Ghazi Shukur and   
        Pär Sjölander   A New Asymmetric Interaction Ridge (AIR)
                                  Regression Method  . . . . . . . . . . . 616--643
                   Hui Zhao and   
               Kate Virkler and   
                    Jianguo Sun   Nonparametric Comparison for
                                  Multivariate Panel Count Data  . . . . . 644--655
               Shesheng Gao and   
              Yongmin Zhong and   
              Chunmeng Sang and   
              Bijan Shirinzadeh   Random Weighting Estimation for Quantile
                                  Processes and Negatively Associated
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--662

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 4, 2014

 Paola Monari Guest Editors and   
           Domenico Piccolo and   
           Carla Rampichini and   
                  Luigi Salmaso   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--663
                   Anthea Monod   Random Effects Modeling and the
                                  Zero-Inflated Poisson Distribution . . . 664--680
         Silvia Bianconcini and   
                 Silvia Cagnone   The Role of Posterior Densities in
                                  Latent Variable Models for Ordinal Data  681--692
                Roberto Fontana   Fractional Factorial Designs for
                                  Model-Based Evaluation of Customer
                                  Preferences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--703
           Laura Anderlucci and   
               Christian Hennig   The Clustering of Categorical Data: a
                                  Comparison of a Model-based and a
                                  Distance-based Approach  . . . . . . . . 704--721
              Brian Francis and   
            Regina Dittrich and   
         Reinhold Hatzinger and   
                  Les Humphreys   A Mixture Model for Longitudinal
                                  Partially Ranked Data  . . . . . . . . . 722--734
         Francesco Giordano and   
           Michele La Rocca and   
                     Cira Perna   Input Variable Selection in Neural
                                  Network Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--750
          Mariagiulia Matteucci   An Investigation of Parameter Recovery
                                  in MCMC Estimation for the Additive IRT
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--770
                 Maria Iannario   Modelling Uncertainty and Overdispersion
                                  in Ordinal Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--786
               Silvia Bacci and   
       Francesco Bartolucci and   
                 Michela Gnaldi   A Class of Multidimensional Latent Class
                                  IRT Models for Ordinal Polytomous Item
                                  Responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--800
               Alan Agresti and   
                   Maria Kateri   Some Remarks on Latent Variable Models
                                  in Categorical Data Analysis . . . . . . 801--814
          Alessandra Mattei and   
            Fabrizia Mealli and   
                 Barbara Pacini   Identification of Local Causal Effects
                                  with Missing Outcome Values and an
                                  Instrument for Non Response  . . . . . . 815--825
     Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti and   
                  Antonio Punzo   Refusal to Answer Specific Questions in
                                  a Survey: a Case Study . . . . . . . . . 826--838
           L. Stracqualursi and   
                       P. Agati   The Role of Classification Trees and
                                  Expert Knowledge in Building Bayesian
                                  Networks: a Case Study in Medicine . . . 839--850
             Laura Deldossi and   
                    Diego Zappa   A Novel Approach to Evaluate
                                  Repeatability and Reproducibility for
                                  Ordinal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--866
           Paola Cerchiello and   
                  Paolo Guidici   Bayesian Credit Ratings  . . . . . . . . 867--878
               Livio Corain and   
           Valeria De Giuli and   
                Roberto Zecchin   A Permutation and Combination-Based
                                  Solution on the Ranking of Multivariate
                                  Populations in the Case of Ordered
                                  Categorical Responses with Application
                                  to the Evaluation of the Indoor
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--890
  Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro   Permutation Solutions for Multivariate
                                  Ranking and Testing with Applications    891--905
                Stefano Bonnini   Testing for Heterogeneity with
                                  Categorical Data: Permutation Solution
                                  vs. Bootstrap Method . . . . . . . . . . 906--917

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 5, 2014

            Julia Volaufova and   
            Augustyn Markiewicz   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--920
   Nesrìn Güler and   
              Simo Puntanen and   
      Halìm Özdemir   On the BLUEs in Two Linear Models via C.
                                  R. Rao's Pandora's Box . . . . . . . . . 921--931
                       K. Nosek   Change-Point Detection in Two-Phase
                                  Regression with Inequality Constraints
                                  on the Regression Parameters . . . . . . 932--946
         Bronis\law Ceranka and   
            Ma\lgorzata Graczyk   Regular $E$-Optimal Spring Balance
                                  Weighing Designs with Correlated Errors  947--953
         Tadeusz Cali\'nski and   
                Agnieszka Lacka   On Combining Information in Generally
                                  Balanced Nested Block Designs  . . . . . 954--974
       Barbora Arendacká   Independent Quadratic Forms in
                                  $3$-Variance-Component Models  . . . . . 975--988
              Ricardo Leiva and   
                   Anuradha Roy   Classification of Higher-order Data with
                                  Separable Covariance and Structured
                                  Multiplicative or Additive Mean Models   989--1012
      Tomasz Górecki and   
        Miros\law Krzy\'sko and   
                 \Lukasz Waszak   Functional Discriminant Coordinates  . . 1013--1025
          Shakhawat Hossain and   
                  S. Ejaz Ahmed   Penalized and Shrinkage Estimation in
                                  the Cox Proportional Hazards Model . . . 1026--1040

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 6, 2014

                 A. Chamany and   
                   S. Baratpour   A Dynamic Discrimination Information
                                  Based On Cumulative Residual Entropy And
                                  Its Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1049
                 Hadi Emami and   
             Abdolrahman Rasekh   Influence Diagnostics on Testing Linear
                                  Hypothesis in Linear Models with
                                  Correlated Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . 1050--1060
                 Asma Graja and   
               Aida Jarraya and   
                  Afif Masmoudi   Implicit Estimation for the Stochastic
                                  Volatility Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061--1076
              Rita Giuliano and   
                  Claudio Macci   Large Deviation Principles for Sequences
                                  of Maxima and Minima . . . . . . . . . . 1077--1098
              Luigi D'Ambra and   
                Eric J. Beh and   
              Ida Camminatiello   Cumulative Correspondence Analysis of
                                  Two-Way Ordinal Contingency Tables . . . 1099--1113
          Michael F. Rempel and   
                     Julie Zhou   On Exact $K$-optimal Designs Minimizing
                                  the Condition Number . . . . . . . . . . 1114--1131
            Kanti V. Mardia and   
                    Jochen Voss   Some Fundamental Properties of a
                                  Multivariate von Mises Distribution  . . 1132--1144
              Fei-Bao Liang and   
                     Yi-Xin Lan   A Generalized Diagonal Ridge-type
                                  Estimator in Linear Regression . . . . . 1145--1163
Tristan Senga Kiessé and   
             Tristan Lorino and   
              Hussein Khraibani   Discrete Nonparametric Kernel and
                                  Parametric Methods for the Modeling of
                                  Pavement Deterioration . . . . . . . . . 1164--1178
                   Haibing Zhao   Two-sided Confidence Bands with the
                                  Inferential Sensitivity of One-Sided
                                  Bands  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179--1191
                Shuguang He and   
                    Zhen He and   
                   G. Alan Wang   CUSUM Control Charts for Multivariate
                                  Poisson Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1192--1208
          Antonello D'Ambra and   
                    Anna Crisci   The Confidence Ellipses in Decomposition
                                  Multiple Non Symmetric Correspondence
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1221
                 Lixin Song and   
                   Dawei Lu and   
                       Fang Liu   Using Convex Combination of Copulas and
                                  EM Algorithm for Credibility . . . . . . 1222--1233
                 Ying Zhang and   
                      Keying Ye   Bayesian $D$-Optimal Designs for Poisson
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1234--1247
               Rohini Yadav and   
       Lakshmi N. Upadhyaya and   
           Housila P. Singh and   
                  S. Chatterjee   A Class of Estimators of Population
                                  Variance Using Auxiliary Information in
                                  Sample Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248--1260
             Eldho Varghese and   
                Seema Jaggi and   
                  Cini Varghese   Neighbor-Balanced Row-column Designs . . 1261--1276
                   C. Viseu and   
                 L. Pereira and   
              A. P. Martins and   
                    H. Ferreira   On the Multivariate Upcrossings Index    1277--1292

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 7, 2014

             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293--1295
                  Eugene Seneta   Inhomogeneous Markov Chains and
                                  Ergodicity Coefficients: John Hajnal
                                  (1924--2008) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296--1308
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   The Role of Kemeny's Constant in
                                  Properties of Markov Chains  . . . . . . 1309--1321
             P. C. G. Vassiliou   Markov Systems in a General State Space  1322--1339
          George C. Mytalas and   
             Michael A. Zazanis   Central Limit Theorem Approximations for
                                  the Number of Runs in Markov-dependent
                                  Multi-type Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 1340--1350
                  N. H. Bingham   Modelling and Prediction of Financial
                                  Time Series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351--1361
         Tomasz R. Bielecki and   
              Areski Cousin and   
Stéphane Crépey and   
          Alexander Herbertsson   A Bottom-Up Dynamic Model of Portfolio
                                  Credit Risk with Stochastic Intensities
                                  and Random Recoveries  . . . . . . . . . 1362--1389
Stéphane Crépey and   
                  Abdallh Rahal   Simulation/Regression Pricing Schemes
                                  for CVA Computations on CDO Tranches . . 1390--1408
      Alexander Herbertsson and   
              Rüdiger Frey   Parameter Estimation in Credit Models
                                  Under Incomplete Information . . . . . . 1409--1436
              Sally McClean and   
                 Lalit Garg and   
                  Ken Fullerton   Costing Mixed Coxian Phase-type Systems
                                  with Poisson Arrivals  . . . . . . . . . 1437--1452
         Dmitrii Silvestrov and   
             Raimondo Manca and   
            Evelina Silvestrova   Computational Algorithms for Moments of
                                  Accumulated Markov and Semi-Markov
                                  Rewards  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1469
         Aleka Papadopoulou and   
             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   On the Variances and Convariances of the
                                  Duration State Sizes of Semi-Markov
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1470--1483
                   I. Votsi and   
                 N. Limnios and   
               G. Tsaklidis and   
               E. Papadimitriou   Hidden Semi-Markov Modeling for the
                                  Estimation of Earthquake Occurrence
                                  Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1484--1502
          Guglielmo D'Amico and   
             Raimondo Manca and   
                 Giovanni Salvi   Bivariate Semi-Markov Process for
                                  Counterparty Credit Risk . . . . . . . . 1503--1522
                 E. B. Yarovaya   Operators Satisfying the Schur Condition
                                  and their Applications to the Branching
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1523--1532
                     G. Yin and   
             Yousef Talafha and   
                       Fubao Xi   Stochastic Liénard Equations with Random
                                  Switching and Two-time Scales  . . . . . 1533--1547
                  G. Vasiliadis   Transient Analysis of the M/M/k/N/N
                                  Queue using a Continuous Time
                                  Homogeneous Markov System with Finite
                                  State Size Capacity  . . . . . . . . . . 1548--1562
       Ekaterina Bulinskaya and   
           Kseniya Shakhgildyan   Inventory Systems with Unreliable
                                  Suppliers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1563--1574
              Marie-Anne Guerry   Some Results on the Embeddable Problem
                                  for Discrete-Time Markov Models in
                                  Manpower Planning  . . . . . . . . . . . 1575--1584
        Christos H. Skiadas and   
              Charilaos Skiadas   The First Exit Time Theory Applied to
                                  Life Table Data: The Health State
                                  Function of a Population and Other
                                  Characteristics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1585--1600

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 8, 2014

              Guangjun Shen and   
                      Litan Yan   Estimators for the Drift of
                                  Subfractional Brownian Motion  . . . . . 1601--1612
              Shin-Ichi Tsukada   Unbiased Estimator for a Covariance
                                  Matrix Under Two-Step Monotone
                                  Incomplete Sample  . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1629
                Iraj Kazemi and   
          Reyhaneh Rikhtehgaran   Topics on Dynamic Panel Data Models with
                                  Random Effects Using Semi-Parametric
                                  Bayesian Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 1630--1648
              K. K. Kamalja and   
                   R. L. Shinde   On the Reliability of $ (n, f, k) $ and
                                  $ \langle n, f, k \rangle $ Systems  . . 1649--1665
            Wen-shuenn Deng and   
              Jyh-shyang Wu and   
              Li-ching Chen and   
                    Shun-jie Ke   A Note on the Frequency Polygon Based on
                                  the Weighted Sums of Binned Data . . . . 1666--1685
                   Nan Wang and   
                        Wei Liu   A Distribution-free Approach in
                                  Statistical Modelling with Repeated
                                  Measurements and Missing Values  . . . . 1686--1697
JosÉ E. ValdÉs and   
               Yoel G. Yera and   
               Leonel Zuaznabar   Bounds for the Expected Time to
                                  Extinction and the Probability of
                                  Extinction in the Galton--Watson Process 1698--1707
         Simos G. Meintanis and   
Ma Dolores JimÉnez Gamero and   
       V. Alba-fernÁndez   A Class of Goodness-of-fit Tests Based
                                  on Transformation  . . . . . . . . . . . 1708--1735
             Jochen Einbeck and   
              Mohammad A. Zayed   Some Asymptotics for Localized Principal
                                  Components and Curves  . . . . . . . . . 1736--1749
                   Shuhe Hu and   
               Xinghui Wang and   
                Wenzhi Yang and   
                    Xuejun Wang   A Note on the Inverse Moment for the Non
                                  Negative Random Variables  . . . . . . . 1750--1757
               K. Teerapabolarn   An Improvement of Poisson Approximation
                                  for Sums of Dependent Bernoulli Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1758--1777
                  Xiao Ling and   
                 David E. Giles   Bias Reduction for the Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimator of the Parameters
                                  of the Generalized Rayleigh Family of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1778--1792
            Andrius Ciginas and   
                Dalius Pumputis   A Note on the Upper Bound to Variance of
                                  the Sample Extreme from a Finite
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1793--1799
                Shi-hang Yu and   
                    De-hui Wang   Empirical Likelihood for First-order
                                  Autoregressive Error-in-variable of
                                  Models With Validation Data  . . . . . . 1800--1823
           L. Hedhili Zaier and   
                        M. Abed   Temporal Disaggregation of Economic Time
                                  Series using Artificial Neural Networks  1824--1833
                  Aditi Pal and   
               Murari Mitra and   
                     M. Z. Anis   On Testing Exponentiality against NBAFR
                                  Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1834--1844
Jean-François Coeurjolly and   
                 Kichun Lee and   
                Brani Vidakovic   Variance Estimation for Fractional
                                  Brownian Motions with Fixed Hurst
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845--1858
                 Mehdi Razzaghi   A Hierarchical Model for the Skew-normal
                                  Distribution with Application in
                                  Developmental Neurotoxicology  . . . . . 1859--1872

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 9, 2014

              Guangjun Shen and   
                      Litan Yan   An Approximation of Subfractional
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1873--1886
              Peter Zörnig   On Generalized Binomial and Negative
                                  Binomial Distributions for Dependent
                                  Bernoulli Variables  . . . . . . . . . . 1887--1906
              Nenghui Kuang and   
                     Fuqing Gao   Hypothesis Testing in a Rayleigh
                                  Diffusion Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1907--1917
           Fabrizio Durante and   
Juan Fernández Sánchez   A Note on the Compatibility of Bivariate
                                  Copulas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1918--1923
           Soudabeh Shemehsavar   A Bivariate Gamma Model for a Latent
                                  Degradation Process  . . . . . . . . . . 1924--1938
                 J. Navarro and   
                S. M. Sunoj and   
                     M. N. Linu   Characterizations of Bivariate Models
                                  Using Some Dynamic Conditional
                                  Information Divergence Measures  . . . . 1939--1948
                 Miroslav Siman   Multivariate Process Capability Indices:
                                  a Directional Approach . . . . . . . . . 1949--1955
                Jingle Wang and   
                 Ming Zheng and   
                         Wen Yu   Wavelet Analysis of Change Points in
                                  Nonparametric Hazard Rate Models Under
                                  Random Censorship  . . . . . . . . . . . 1956--1978
             Dongliang Wang and   
                 Alan D. Hutson   A Smooth Bootstrap Procedure towards
                                  Deriving Confidence Intervals for the
                                  Relative Risk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979--1990

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 10--12, 2014

                 P. S. Chan and   
                H. K. T. Ng and   
                     M. L. Tang   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1991--1991
              K. Bayramoglu and   
       I. Bayramoglu (Bairamov)   Baker--Lin--Huang Type Bivariate
                                  Distributions Based on Order Statistics  1992--2006
           Carlos A. Coelho and   
                Barry C. Arnold   On the Exact and Near-Exact
                                  Distributions of the Product of
                                  Generalized Gamma Random Variables and
                                  the Generalized Variance . . . . . . . . 2007--2033
Jesús E. García and   
V. A. González-López   Modeling of Acoustic Signal Energies
                                  with a Generalized Frank Copula. A
                                  Linguistic Conjecture is Reviewed  . . . 2034--2044
       Vasileios M. Koutras and   
        Konstantinos Drakos and   
              Markos V. Koutras   A Polynomial Logistic Distribution and
                                  its Applications in Finance  . . . . . . 2045--2065
           Artur J. Lemonte and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
             Edwin M. M. Ortega   On the Additive Weibull Distribution . . 2066--2080
              Renxiang Wang and   
                    Juan Du and   
                   Chunsheng Ma   Covariance Matrix Functions of Isotropic
                                  Vector Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . 2081--2093
                      Yang Yang   Estimate for the Finite-time Ruin
                                  Probability in the Discrete-time Risk
                                  Model with Insurance and Financial Risks 2094--2104
  Ismihan Bayramoglu (Bairamov)   On Conditionally Independent Random
                                  Variables, Copula and Order Statistics   2105--2117
           Enrique Castillo and   
         MarÍa Nogal and   
            Aida Calviño   Two Applications of Statistics to
                                  Traffic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2118--2134
                  Erhard Cramer   Extreme Value Analysis for Progressively
                                  Type-II Censored Order Statistics  . . . 2135--2155
                  Johan Lim and   
                   Min Chen and   
                Sangun Park and   
                Xinlei Wang and   
                   Lynne Stokes   Kernel Density Estimator From Ranked Set
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2156--2168
             Elham Mirfarah and   
                   Jafar Ahmadi   Closeness of $k$-records to Progressive
                                  Type-II Censored Order Statistics for
                                  Location-scale Families  . . . . . . . . 2169--2182
             Reza Pourmousa and   
               Ahad Jamalizadeh   On Bivariate Order Statistics from
                                  Elliptical Distributions . . . . . . . . 2183--2198
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Maximal Expectations of Extreme Order
                                  Statistics from Increasing Density and
                                  Failure Rate Populations . . . . . . . . 2199--2213
           Khalaf S. Sultan and   
             Mohamed E. Moshref   Moments of Order Statistics from Weibull
                                  Distribution in the Presence of Multiple
                                  Outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2214--2226
            Stefano Bonnini and   
               Nicola Prodi and   
              Luigi Salmaso and   
                Chiara Visentin   Permutation Approaches for Stochastic
                                  Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2227--2235
                Ren-Fen Lee and   
             Hsu-Sheng Wang and   
                Wen-Hung Wu and   
                Deng-Yuan Huang   Some Multiple Decision Procedures for
                                  Comparing Several Population Proportions 2236--2249
               Pinyuen Chen and   
                 Lifang Hsu and   
               S. Panchapakesan   A Restricted Subset Selection Rule for
                                  Selecting at Least One of the $t$ Best
                                  Normal Populations in Terms of Their
                                  Means When Their Common Variance is
                                  Known, Case II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2250--2259
                  Peng Zhao and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Ordering Properties of Convolutions from
                                  Heterogeneous Populations: a Review on
                                  Some Recent Developments . . . . . . . . 2260--2273
                   Zujun Ou and   
                   Hong Qin and   
                         Xu Cai   A Lower Bound for the Wrap-around $ L_2
                                  $-discrepancy on Combined Designs of
                                  Mixed Two- and Three-level Factorials    2274--2285
             Pen-Hwang Liau and   
            Pi-Hsiang Huang and   
                Jui-Jung Ho and   
                  Yen-Hung Chen   Hyper-Graeco-Latin Squares and
                                  Fractional Factorial Designs . . . . . . 2286--2296
              Vahid Nassiri and   
           Mina Aminghafari and   
           Ali Mohammad-Djafari   Solving Noisy ICA Using Multivariate
                                  Wavelet Denoising with an Application to
                                  Noisy Latent Variables Regression  . . . 2297--2310
       Nirian MartÍn and   
                  Leandro Pardo   New Influence Measures in Polytomous
                                  Logistic Regression Models Based on
                                  Phi-Divergence Measures  . . . . . . . . 2311--2321
                  Indrani Basak   Prediction of Times to Failure of
                                  Censored Items for a Simple Step-Stress
                                  Model with Regular and Progressive Type
                                  I Censoring from the Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2322--2341
      Efrén M. Benavides   General Model for Reliability-Based
                                  Engineering Design . . . . . . . . . . . 2342--2356
            Ming-Chung Yang and   
              Lee-Shen Chen and   
                   Tachen Liang   A Bayesian Approach for Selecting the
                                  Best Exponential Population with
                                  Interval Censored Samples  . . . . . . . 2357--2369
              Tsai-hung Fan and   
                 Tsung-ming Hsu   Constant Stress Accelerated Life Test on
                                  a Multiple-Component Series System under
                                  Weibull Lifetime Distributions . . . . . 2370--2383
                  David Han and   
                    H. K. T. Ng   Asymptotic Comparison Between
                                  Constant-stress Testing and Step-stress
                                  Testing for Type-I Censored Data from
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 2384--2394
             Sarah Jomhoori and   
            Fatemeh Yousefzadeh   On Estimating the Residual Rényi Entropy
                                  under Progressive Censoring  . . . . . . 2395--2405
                  K. K. Kamalja   Birnbaum Reliability Importance for $
                                  (n, f, k) $ and $ \langle n, k, f
                                  \rangle $ System . . . . . . . . . . . . 2406--2418
             Chih-chun Tsai and   
                  Chien-tai Lin   Optimal Selection of the Most Reliable
                                  Design Based on Gamma Degradation
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2419--2428
                 Soumya Roy and   
         Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay   Bayesian Accelerated Life Testing under
                                  Competing Weibull Causes of Failure  . . 2429--2451
         Michael P. McAssey and   
         Francisco J. Samaniego   On Uniformly Optimal Networks: a
                                  Reversal of Fortune? . . . . . . . . . . 2452--2467
                Majid Asadi and   
                  Amir R. Asadi   On the Failure Probability of Used
                                  Coherent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 2468--2475
                  Chien-Tai Lin   Approximations for Multiple Scan
                                  Statistics on the Circle . . . . . . . . 2476--2488
                  Xiao Wang and   
                    Joseph Glaz   Variable Window Scan Statistics for
                                  Normal Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2489--2504
        Jennifer S. K. Chan and   
           S. T. Boris Choy and   
               Connie P. Y. Lam   Modeling Electricity Price Using A
                                  Threshold Conditional Autoregressive
                                  Geometric Process Jump Model . . . . . . 2505--2515
Jesús E. García and   
V. A. González-López and   
                 M. L. L. Viola   Robust Model Selection for Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2516--2526
                    Ming Le Guo   Equivalent Conditions of Complete Moment
                                  Convergence of Weighted Sums for $
                                  \varphi $-Mixing Sequence of Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2527--2539
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                     Lanpeng Ji   Asymptotics of the Finite-time Ruin
                                  Probability for the Sparre Andersen Risk
                                  Model Perturbed by an Inflated
                                  Stationary Chi-process . . . . . . . . . 2540--2548
           Yuriy Kozachenko and   
              Andriy Olenko and   
                  Olga Polosmak   Uniform Convergence of Compactly
                                  Supported Wavelet Expansions of Gaussian
                                  Random Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2549--2562
             Ashis Sengupta and   
                      S. H. Ong   A Unified Approach for Construction of
                                  Probability Models for Bivariate Linear
                                  and Directional Data . . . . . . . . . . 2563--2569
          Josemar Rodrigues and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
         Mário de Castro   Modeling Lifetimes by a Stochastic
                                  Process Hitting a Critical Point . . . . 2570--2580
                Shoufang Xu and   
                        Yu Miao   Almost Sure Convergence of Weighted Sums
                                  for Negatively Associated Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2581--2594
               Kaiyong Wang and   
                Jinguan Lin and   
                      Yang Yang   Asymptotics for Tail Probability of
                                  Random Sums with a Heavy-Tailed Number
                                  and Dependent Increments . . . . . . . . 2595--2604

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 13, 2014

               Hafida Goual and   
            Nacira Seddik-Ameur   Chi-Squared Type Test for the
                                  AFT-Generalized Inverse Weibull
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2605--2617
                     Min Yi and   
                Guohua Deng and   
                      Hua Liang   Cramér Asymptotic Efficiency in a
                                  Semiparametric Model . . . . . . . . . . 2618--2628
   Oluwagbohunmi A. Awosoga and   
           Joseph W. Mckean and   
             Bradley E. Huitema   Simple Robust Tests for Autocorrelated
                                  Errors in Time Series Design
                                  Intervention Models  . . . . . . . . . . 2629--2641
        Christophe Chesneau and   
                Esmaeil Shirazi   Nonparametric Wavelet Regression Based
                                  on Biased Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2642--2658
          E. Bahrami Samani and   
                     M. Ganjali   Mixed Correlated Bivariate Ordinal and
                                  Negative Binomial Longitudinal Responses
                                  with Nonignorable Missing Values . . . . 2659--2673
            Leda D. Minkova and   
                    Edward Omey   A New Markov Binomial Distribution . . . 2674--2688
            Daniel R. Jeske and   
            James M. Flegal and   
            Stephen R. Spindler   Minimum Size Survival Analysis Sampling
                                  Plans for Comparing Multiple Treatment
                                  Groups to a Single Control Group . . . . 2689--2701
                   Yu Huang and   
                Yongling Li and   
                     Maochao Xu   Analysis of Order Statistics from
                                  Distributions with Regularly Varying
                                  Tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2702--2713
                Aiting Shen and   
               Xinghui Wang and   
                 Xiaoqin Li and   
                    Xuejun Wang   On the Rate of Complete Convergence for
                                  Weighted Sums of Arrays of Rowwise $
                                  \varphi $-Mixing Random Variables  . . . 2714--2725
                     Jesse Frey   A Note on Fisher Information and
                                  Imperfect Ranked-Set Sampling  . . . . . 2726--2733
             Eugene Kouassi and   
                 Joel Sango and   
          J. M. Bosson Brou and   
          Mbodja Mougoué   A Joint Score Test for
                                  Heteroscedasticity in the Two Way Error
                                  Components Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2734--2751
              Guo-Dong Xing and   
                 Shan-Chao Yang   Rate of Convergence of Strong Law of
                                  Large Numbers for Positively Associated
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2752--2765
                Hongyan Dui and   
                  Shubin Si and   
               Zhiqiang Cai and   
                Shudong Sun and   
                 Yingfeng Zhang   On the Use of the Importance Measure for
                                  Multi-State Repairable $k$-out-of-$n$:
                                  $G$ Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2766--2781
              Lalmohan Bhar and   
                  Sankalpa Ojha   Outliers in Multi-Response Experiments   2782--2798
            Manuela Cazzaro and   
                Roberto Colombi   Marginal Nested Interactions for
                                  Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 2799--2814
                  D. Shukla and   
      Yashwant Singh Rajput and   
          Narendra Singh Thakur   Edge Estimation in the Population of a
                                  Binary Tree Using Node-Sampling  . . . . 2815--2829
               Xianhua Meng and   
              Jinglong Wang and   
                      Xianyi Wu   Multiple Comparisons Controlling
                                  Expected Number of False Discoveries . . 2830--2843
            Robert L. Mason and   
              Youn-Min Chou and   
                  John C. Young   The Relationship Between the $ T^2 $
                                  Statistic and the Influence Function . . 2844--2857

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 14, 2014

              Rishideep Roy and   
                      Dilip Roy   The Lack of Memory Property in the
                                  Density Form for the Bivariate Setup . . 2859--2869
                 Linyi Qian and   
              Rongming Wang and   
                      Qian Zhao   Valuation of Equity-indexed Annuities
                                  with Stochastic Interest Rate and Jump
                                  Diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2870--2885
                  Xiaowu Li and   
                Jingyan Hao and   
                   Jie Zhou and   
                      Dasen Ren   On a Family of Trimodal Distributions    2886--2896
      Marcela A. G. Machado and   
            Antonio F. B. Costa   Some Comments Regarding the Synthetic
                                  Chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2897--2906
              Ming-Hung Shu and   
                 Hsien-Chung Wu   Supplier Evaluation and Selection Based
                                  on Stochastic Dominance: a Quality-Based
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2907--2922
                Xuejun Wang and   
                 Xiaoqin Li and   
                   Shuhe Hu and   
                   Xinghui Wang   On Complete Convergence for an Extended
                                  Negatively Dependent Sequence  . . . . . 2923--2937
                   Chen Sun and   
                  Ming Zhao and   
                  Yangjing Long   Learning Concepts and Taxonomic
                                  Relations by Metric Learning for
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2938--2950
      Rameela Chandrasekhar and   
             Gregory E. Wilding   A Modification of a Percentile
                                  Estimation Procedure Based on
                                  Generalized Pólya Urns  . . . . . . . . . 2951--2957
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   A Generalization of Turnbull's Estimator
                                  for Interval-Censored and Doubly
                                  Truncated Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2958--2972
               Z. F. Jaheen and   
             H. M. Moustafa and   
             G. H. Abd El-Monem   Bayes Inference in Constant Partially
                                  Accelerated Life Tests for the
                                  Generalized Exponential Distribution
                                  with Progressive Censoring . . . . . . . 2973--2988
            S. Yasaei Sekeh and   
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
         A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi   Some Results Based on a Version of the
                                  Generalized Dynamic Entropies  . . . . . 2989--3006
                        Lina Li   Moderate Deviations Results for a
                                  Symmetry Testing Statistic Based on the
                                  Kernel Density Estimator for Directional
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3007--3018
             C. M. Theobald and   
                    A. M. Davie   Group Testing, the Pooled Hypergeometric
                                  Distribution, and Estimating the Number
                                  of Defectives in Small Populations . . . 3019--3026
               Weiming Yang and   
                N. Rao Chaganty   A Contrasting Study of Likelihood
                                  Methods for the Analysis of Longitudinal
                                  Binary Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3027--3046
              Mingtian Tang and   
                    Yunyan Wang   The Asymptotic Behavior of $ {\rm
                                  INAR}(p) $ Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 3047--3056
          Amirhossein Amiri and   
              Abbas Saghaei and   
           Mohammad Mohseni and   
                 Yaser Zerehsaz   Diagnosis Aids in Multivariate Multiple
                                  Linear Regression Profiles Monitoring    3057--3079
                    Ao Yuan and   
              Jan G. De Gooijer   Asymptotically Informative Prior for
                                  Bayesian Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 3080--3094

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 15, 2014

               J. Subramani and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Estimation of Population Mean in the
                                  Presence of Linear Trend . . . . . . . . 3095--3116
                      Xuemei Hu   Efficient Estimation for Semi-varying
                                  Coefficient Model with An Invertible
                                  Linear Process Error . . . . . . . . . . 3117--3134
              S. K. Khilare and   
                   D. T. Shirke   The Steady-State Performance of
                                  Cumulative Count of a Conforming Control
                                  Chart Based On Runs Rules  . . . . . . . 3135--3147
        Christian Paroissin and   
                     Ali Salami   Failure Time of Non Homogeneous Gamma
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3148--3161
                  T. J. Rao and   
              A. K. P. C. Swain   A Note on the Hartley--Ross Unbiased
                                  Ratio Estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3162--3169
                    Yu Miao and   
                     Nan Li and   
              Weiqiang Geng and   
                   Yaohua Zhang   Some Limit Behaviors for Linear EV Model
                                  with Replicate Observations  . . . . . . 3170--3185
            Dabuxilatu Wang and   
                 Pinghui Li and   
                  Masami Yasuda   Construction of Fuzzy Control Charts
                                  Based on Weighted Possibilistic Mean . . 3186--3207
               Jonathan Gillard   Method of Moments Estimation in Linear
                                  Regression with Errors in both Variables 3208--3222
                  Zhi-Yi Lu and   
                Le-Ping Liu and   
              Qing-Jie Shen and   
                     Li-Li Meng   Optimal Reinsurance Under VaR and CTE
                                  Risk Measures When Ceded Loss Function
                                  is Concave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3223--3247
               Binhuan Wang and   
                  Gengsheng Qin   Empirical Likelihood-Based Confidence
                                  Intervals for the Sensitivity of a
                                  Continuous-Scale Diagnostic Test with
                                  Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3248--3268
               Rohini Yadav and   
       Lakshmi N. Upadhyaya and   
           Housila P. Singh and   
                  S. Chatterjee   Improved Ratio and Product Exponential
                                  type Estimators for Finite Population
                                  Mean in Stratified Random Sampling . . . 3269--3285
                  M. Madadi and   
                        M. Tata   Shannon Information In $k$-records . . . 3286--3301
    Mohammad Saber Fallahnezhad   A Finite Horizon Dynamic Programming
                                  Model for Production and Repair
                                  Decisions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3302--3313
               Artur J. Lemonte   Non Null Asymptotic Distributions of
                                  Some Criteria in Censored Exponential
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3314--3328

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 16, 2014

                   Feng-Shou Ko   Identification of Longitudinal
                                  Biomarkers in Survival Analysis for
                                  Competing Risks Data . . . . . . . . . . 3329--3342
            Edmore Ranganai and   
        Johan O. Van Vuuren and   
                 Tertius De Wet   Multiple Case High Leverage Diagnosis in
                                  Regression Quantiles . . . . . . . . . . 3343--3370
               Rashid Ahmed and   
                 Ijaz Iqbal and   
                   Munir Akhtar   Universally Optimal Designs Balanced for
                                  Neighbor Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 3371--3379
      Ramkrishna S. Solanki and   
               Housila P. Singh   An Efficient Class of Estimators for the
                                  Population Mean Using Auxiliary
                                  Information in Stratified Random
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3380--3401
                 Piotr Jaworski   On the Characterization of Copulas by
                                  Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 3402--3428
                G. N. Singh and   
                    J. P. Karna   Estimation of Population Mean Under Non
                                  Response in Two-Occasion Rotation
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3429--3442
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Quantile Inequalities for the
                                  Expectations of Generalized
                                  $L$-Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3443--3463
                 Yuzhu Tian and   
                Maozai Tian and   
                   Qianqian Zhu   Linear Quantile Regression Based on EM
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3464--3484
                Nasir Abbas and   
              Muhammad Riaz and   
           Ronald J. M. M. Does   An EWMA-Type Control Chart for
                                  Monitoring the Process Mean Using
                                  Auxiliary Information  . . . . . . . . . 3485--3498
               Shaun Seaman and   
                      Ian White   Inverse Probability Weighting with
                                  Missing Predictors of Treatment
                                  Assignment or Missingness  . . . . . . . 3499--3515
                Zhiping Qiu and   
              Makhija Neeta and   
                      Yong Zhou   Weighted Estimator for the Linear
                                  Transformation Models with Multivariate
                                  Failure Time Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 3516--3535
                  Yong Chen and   
                  Sheng Luo and   
                 Haitao Chu and   
                    Xiao Su and   
                        Lei Nie   An Empirical Bayes Method for
                                  Multivariate Meta-analysis with an
                                  Application in Clinical Trials . . . . . 3536--3551

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 17, 2014

          Solomon W. Harrar and   
                         Jin Xu   Analyzing Mean Profiles of Nonnormal
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3553--3573
                 Hakan Demirtas   Generating Bivariate Uniform Data with a
                                  Full Range of Correlations and
                                  Connections to Bivariate Binary Data . . 3574--3579
                  Lian Yang and   
                        Hu Yang   Local Influence Analysis for The Ridge
                                  Regression Under Stochastic Linear
                                  Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3580--3595
                Henryk Gzyl and   
  Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi and   
                  Aldo Tagliani   Fractional Moments and Maximum Entropy:
                                  Geometric Meaning  . . . . . . . . . . . 3596--3601
           Reem Al-Jarallah and   
           Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly   Nonparametric Tests for Comparing
                                  Several Coefficients of Variation  . . . 3602--3613
                 Yoshiji Takagi   Asymptotics of Likelihood Ratio Tests
                                  for General One-sided Hypotheses in the
                                  Two-sample Normal Model  . . . . . . . . 3614--3628
              Xinfeng Chang and   
                        Hu Yang   Preliminary Test Estimators Induced by
                                  Three Large Sample Tests for Stochastic
                                  Constraints in a Regression Model with
                                  Multivariate Student-$t$ Error . . . . . 3629--3640
                 J. Coetsee and   
                  A. Bekker and   
                     S. Millard   Preliminary test and Bayes Estimation of
                                  a Location Parameter Under BLINEX Loss   3641--3660
   Sárka Hudecová   On Some Properties of Autopersistence
                                  Functions and Autopersistence Graphs . . 3661--3673
                N. N. Midhu and   
             P. G. Sankaran and   
           N. Unnikrishnan Nair   A Class of Distributions with Linear
                                  Hazard Quantile Function . . . . . . . . 3674--3689
                   Hui Zhou and   
                     Jie Li and   
                      Ke-Ang Fu   LIL for the Adjusted Range of Partial
                                  Sums in $ {\rm AR}(1) $ Models with
                                  Possibly Infinite Variance . . . . . . . 3690--3697
             Vera Georgescu and   
           Nicolas Desassis and   
          Samuel Soubeyrand and   
   André Kretzschmar and   
                Rachid Senoussi   An Automated MCEM Algorithm for
                                  Hierarchical Models with Multivariate
                                  and Multitype Response Variables . . . . 3698--3719
                Fuxia Cheng and   
                  Jigao Yan and   
                    Lijian Yang   Extended Glivenko--Cantelli Theorem in
                                  Nonparametric Regression . . . . . . . . 3720--3725
                      Mi-Hwa Ko   On Complete Convergence for Weighted
                                  Sums of NA Random Fields . . . . . . . . 3726--3732
               F. Azizzadeh and   
                    S. Rezakhah   The CUSUM Test for Detecting Structural
                                  Changes in Strong Mixing Processes . . . 3733--3750
                Eunju Hwang and   
                  Dong Wan Shin   Block Bootstrapping for Kernel Density
                                  Estimators under $ \psi $-Weak
                                  Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3751--3761
                 Yuzhu Tian and   
                Maozai Tian and   
                   Qianqian Zhu   Estimating a Finite Mixed Exponential
                                  Distribution under Progressively Type-II
                                  Censored Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3762--3776

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 18, 2014

             A. Kontorovich and   
                   A. Brockwell   A Strong Law of Large Numbers for
                                  Strongly Mixing Processes  . . . . . . . 3777--3796
                Tiejun Tong and   
                      Heng Peng   Tail Probability Ratios of Normal and
                                  Student's $t$ Distributions  . . . . . . 3797--3811
             Eugene Kouassi and   
                 Joel Sango and   
             Jm Bosson Brou and   
          Mbodja Mougoué   Conditional Score Tests for
                                  Heteroscedasticity in the Two-Way Error
                                  Components Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3812--3835
        M. Shafaei Noughabi and   
     A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   On the Percentile Residual Lifetime of
                                  Parallel Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 3836--3847
                       Dawei Lu   Some Asymptotic Formulas for a Brownian
                                  Motion from The Maximum and Minimum
                                  Domains with Regular Varying Boundary    3848--3865
                   Laisheng Wei   A Summary of Some Research on PC and
                                  Bayesian PC Criterion in China . . . . . 3866--3892
                Ruiqin Tian and   
                     Liugen Xue   Generalized Empirical Likelihood
                                  Inference in Generalized Linear Models
                                  for Longitudinal Data  . . . . . . . . . 3893--3904
           Hideki Nagatsuka and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
             Toshinari Kamakura   A Consistent Method of Estimation For
                                  The Three-Parameter Gamma Distribution   3905--3926
                      Xuemei Hu   Semi-parametric Efficient Inference for
                                  Heteroscedastic Semivarying-coefficient
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3927--3942
                Weiguo Yang and   
                   Bei Wang and   
                     Zhiyan Shi   Strong Law of Large Numbers for
                                  Countable Asymptotic Circular Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3943--3954
             Maciej Kostrzewski   Bayesian Inference for the
                                  Jump-Diffusion Model with $M$ Jumps  . . 3955--3985
                  E. Kwessi and   
                   A. Abebe and   
                    G. De Souza   Efficient Rank Regression with Wavelet
                                  Estimated Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . 3986--3996

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 19, 2014

                    M-L. Feddag   Generalized Estimating Equations to
                                  Binary Probit Model  . . . . . . . . . . 3997--4010
           Zhong-Yuan Zhang and   
                     Tao Li and   
                 Chris Ding and   
                       Jie Tang   An NMF-framework for Unifying Posterior
                                  Probabilistic Clustering and
                                  Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing   4011--4024
       Lizanne Raubenheimer and   
            Abrie van der Merwe   Bayesian Estimation for Linear Functions
                                  of Poisson Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . 4025--4045
   Ioannis S. Triantafyllou and   
              Markos V. Koutras   Failure Rate and Aging Properties of
                                  Generalized Beta- and Gamma-generated
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4046--4061
                  Yen-Luan Chen   Optimal Age Policy for a Used System
                                  with Imperfect Preventive Maintenance
                                  and Cumulative Damage Model  . . . . . . 4062--4073
               Paul Kabaila and   
                 Khageswor Giri   Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for
                                  the Population Cell Means, for
                                  Two-by-Two Factorial Data, that Utilize
                                  Uncertain Prior Information  . . . . . . 4074--4087
              Zheng-Yan Lin and   
                       Ran Wang   Empirical Likelihood for Partial Linear
                                  Models under Negatively Associated
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4088--4102
                 Stefen Hui and   
                     C. J. Park   The Representation of Hypergeometric
                                  Random Variables using Independent
                                  Bernoulli Random Variables . . . . . . . 4103--4108
                 S. Shafiei and   
                 M. Doostparast   Balakrishnan Skew-$t$ Distribution and
                                  Associated Statistical Characteristics   4109--4122
               Yongsong Qin and   
                    Tao Qiu and   
                    Qingzhu Lei   Confidence Intervals for Nonparametric
                                  Regression Functions with Missing Data   4123--4142
            Engin A. Sungur and   
                Jessica M. Orth   Understanding Directional Dependence
                                  Through Angular Correlation  . . . . . . 4143--4155
                  Zhuoxi Yu and   
                    Bing He and   
                       Min Chen   Empirical Likelihood for Generalized
                                  Partially Linear Single-index Models . . 4156--4163
          Tony Vangeneugden and   
          Geert Molenberghs and   
              Geert Verbeke and   
  Clarice G. B. Demétrio   Marginal Correlation from Logit- and
                                  Probit-Beta-Normal Models for
                                  Hierarchical Binary Data . . . . . . . . 4164--4178
                 Ali S. Gargoum   On Using Hellinger Distance in Checking
                                  the Validity of Dynamic Approximations   4179--4186
                Wenzhi Yang and   
                Xuejun Wang and   
                       Shuhe Hu   A Note on the Berry--Esséen Bound of
                                  Sample Quantiles for $ \varphi $-mixing
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4187--4194
                U. C. Nduka and   
                   P. E. Chigbu   On The Optimal Choice of Cube and Star
                                  Replications in Restricted Second-Order
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4195--4214
                    Yu Miao and   
              Weiqiang Geng and   
                     Nan Li and   
                      Qing Xiao   Moderate deviation principle for the
                                  error variance estimator in linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4215--4222

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 20, 2014

             Xiaoliang Ling and   
                      Peng Zhao   On General Multivariate Mixture Models   4223--4240
                    Hu Yang and   
                Huiliang Ye and   
                        Kai Xue   A Further Study of Predictions in Linear
                                  Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4241--4252
           Anoop Chaturvedi and   
                        Shalabh   Bayesian Estimation of Regression
                                  Coefficients Under Extended Balanced
                                  Loss Function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4253--4264
                      Gary Witt   A Simple Distribution for the Sum of
                                  Correlated, Exchangeable Binary Data . . 4265--4280
                Sheng-Mao Chang   Maximizing Complex Likelihoods via
                                  Directed Stochastic Searching Algorithm  4281--4296
              John F. Clare and   
                Annette Koo and   
               Robert B. Davies   Evaluation of Measurement Comparisons
                                  Using Generalized Least Squares: the
                                  Role of Participants' Estimates of
                                  Systematic Error . . . . . . . . . . . . 4297--4307
               Mohsen Ebadi and   
                Hamid Shahriari   Robust Estimation of Parameters in
                                  Simple Linear Profiles Using
                                  $M$-Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4308--4323
              Mahdi Bashiri and   
    Mohammad Hasan Bakhtiarifar   An Optimality Probability Index for
                                  Correlated Multiple Responses  . . . . . 4324--4336
              J. D. Nielsen and   
            J. S. Rosenthal and   
                     Y. Sun and   
                  D. M. Day and   
                    I. Bevc and   
                    T. Duchesne   Group-based Criminal Trajectory Analysis
                                  Using Cross-validation Criteria  . . . . 4337--4356
             Mosayeb Ahmadi and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   On the Nearness of Records to Population
                                  Quantiles with Respect to Order
                                  Statistics in the Sense of Pitman
                                  Closeness  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4357--4370
      Cesar A. Acosta-Mejia and   
                    Luis Rincon   The Continuous Run Sum Chart . . . . . . 4371--4383
             Dang Duc Trong and   
            Cao Xuan Phuong and   
         Truong Trung Tuyen and   
                Dinh Ngoc Thanh   Tikhonov's Regularization to the
                                  Deconvolution Problem  . . . . . . . . . 4384--4400
              Erhard Cramer and   
                    Miriam Tamm   On a Correction of the Scale MLE for a
                                  Two-Parameter Exponential Distribution
                                  Under Progressive Type-I Censoring . . . 4401--4414
              M. I. Alheety and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   A Generalized Stochastic Restricted
                                  Ridge Regression Estimator . . . . . . . 4415--4427
          R. A. Al-Jarallah and   
              M. E. Ghitany and   
                Ramesh C. Gupta   A Proportional Hazard Marshall--Olkin
                                  Extended Family of Distributions and its
                                  Application to Gompertz Distribution . . 4428--4443

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 21, 2014

              Nima Shariati and   
            Hamid Shahriari and   
                 Rasoul Shafaei   Parameter Estimation of Autoregressive
                                  Models Using the Iteratively Robust
                                  Filtered Fast-$ \tau $ Method  . . . . . 4445--4470
                 Joseph B. Lang   The Pearson Score Statistic for
                                  Multinomial-Poisson Models . . . . . . . 4471--4491
             Abdolreza Sayyareh   Linear Signed Rank Test for Model
                                  Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4492--4502
                  R. Sharma and   
                    R. Bhandari   On Variance Upper Bounds for Unimodal
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4503--4513
            Edgardo Lorenzo and   
                  Hari Mukerjee   Improved Asymptotics of a Decreasing
                                  Mean Residual Life Estimator . . . . . . 4514--4518
                Yi-Kuei Lin and   
                 Cheng-Fu Huang   Reliability Evaluation of a Multi-state
                                  Network with Multiple Sinks under
                                  Individual Accuracy Rate Constraint  . . 4519--4533
         Katarzyna Filipiak and   
            Augustyn Markiewicz   On the Optimality of Circular Block
                                  Designs Under a Mixed Interference Model 4534--4545
              Hongjiang Gao and   
         Inmaculada B. Aban and   
             Charles R. Katholi   Properties of a One-Sided Likelihood
                                  Ratio Test as Applied to Pool Screening  4546--4565
                   Yali Fan and   
                 Guoyou Qin and   
                   Zhong Yi Zhu   Robust Variable Selection in Linear
                                  Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4566--4581
                     Ro Jin Pak   The Minimum Density Power Divergence
                                  Estimation for the Lognormal Density . . 4582--4588
            Ehsan Zamanzade and   
        Nasser Reza Arghami and   
                   Michael Vock   A Parametric Test of Perfect Ranking in
                                  Balanced Ranked Set Sampling . . . . . . 4589--4611
               Santiago Velilla   On the Properties of the SAVE Directions 4612--4627
                 Minjae Lee and   
                       Lan Kong   Quantile Regression For Longitudinal
                                  Biomarker Data Subject to Left Censoring
                                  and Dropouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4628--4641
                Bhupendra Gupta   On Secure Communication in a Sensor
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4642--4649
               M. Amanullah and   
                G. R. Pasha and   
                       M. Aslam   Influence in the Elliptical Modified
                                  Ridge Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . 4650--4667

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 22, 2014

                  Huang Chu and   
                   Zhang Li-Xin   Bahadur Representation of Linear Kernel
                                  Quantile Estimator for Stationary
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4669--4678
       Fadlalla G. Elfadaly and   
              Sanaa M. El Gayar   Two-Term Edgeworth Expansions for the
                                  Classes of $U$- and $V$-statistics . . . 4679--4706
              Xing-Cai Zhou and   
                   Jin-Guan Lin   Wavelet Estimator in Nonparametric
                                  Regression Model with Dependent Error's
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4707--4722
              P. Kritzinger and   
                S. W. Human and   
                 S. Chakraborti   Improved Shewhart-type Runs-rules
                                  Nonparametric Sign Charts  . . . . . . . 4723--4748
               Amir Moslemi and   
              Mahdi Bashiri and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   Robust Estimation of Multi-response
                                  Surfaces Considering Correlation
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4749--4765
            Gamze Özel and   
    Hülya Çingi and   
                     Merve Oguz   Separate Ratio Estimators for the
                                  Population Variance in Stratified Random
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4766--4779
                 Boting Jia and   
                 Dehui Wang and   
                 Haixiang Zhang   A Study for Missing Values in $ {\rm
                                  PINAR}(1)_T $ Processes  . . . . . . . . 4780--4789
              George Kalema and   
              Geert Molenberghs   Pseudo-Likelihood Methodology for
                                  Hierarchical Count Data  . . . . . . . . 4790--4805
              Achmad Efendi and   
          Geert Molenberghs and   
                    Samuel Iddi   A Marginalized Combined Gamma Frailty
                                  and Normal Random-effects Model for
                                  Repeated, Overdispersed, Time-to-event
                                  Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4806--4828
               Huiming Peng and   
                Jiawen Bian and   
                 Diwei Yang and   
                 Zhihui Liu and   
                     Hongwei Li   Statistical Analysis of Parameter
                                  Estimation for $2$-D Harmonics in
                                  Multiplicative and Additive Noise  . . . 4829--4844
                         Jie Li   Asymptotics of the $ L_p $-Norms of
                                  Density Estimators in the Nonlinear
                                  Autoregressive Models  . . . . . . . . . 4845--4855
                Aiting Shen and   
               Xinghui Wang and   
                     Jimin Ling   On Complete Convergence for
                                  Nonstationary $ \varphi $-Mixing Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4856--4866
           Housila P. Singh and   
      Ramkrishna S. Solanki and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Estimation of Bowley's Coefficient of
                                  Skewness in the Presence of Auxiliary
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4867--4880
                     A. Pak and   
          N. B. Khoolenjani and   
                   A. A. Jafari   Inference on $ P(Y < X) $ in Bivariate
                                  Rayleigh Distribution  . . . . . . . . . 4881--4892

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 23, 2014

           Raja Fawad Zafar and   
                Nasir Abbas and   
              Muhammad Riaz and   
                  Zawar Hussain   Progressive Variance Control Charts for
                                  Monitoring Process Dispersion  . . . . . 4893--4907
                 Chung-I Li and   
               Nan-Cheng Su and   
                Pei-Fang Su and   
                        Yu Shyr   The Design of, and $R$ Control Charts
                                  for, Skew Normal Distributed Data  . . . 4908--4924
                   Feng-Shou Ko   An Approach to Determine Sample Size and
                                  to Allocate Sample Size for a Specific
                                  Region in a Multiregional Trial for
                                  Survival (Time-to-Event) Data under
                                  Accelerated Failure Time Model . . . . . 4925--4935
               M. T. Alodat and   
                E. Y. Al-Momani   Skew Gaussian Process for Nonlinear
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4936--4961
             Kerry L. Leask and   
                Linda M. Haines   The Beta-Poisson Distribution in
                                  Wadley's Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 4962--4971
                Naiju M. Thomas   On the Ratios of Pathway Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4972--4987
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Bayesian Analysis of Least Absolute
                                  Relative Error Regression  . . . . . . . 4988--4997
                  Liang Zhu and   
                   Hui Zhao and   
                Jianguo Sun and   
                 Stanley Pounds   A Conditional Approach for Regression
                                  Analysis of Longitudinal Data with
                                  Informative Observation Time and
                                  Non-negligible Observation Duration  . . 4998--5011
                Yanli Zhang and   
                    Lei Huo and   
                     Lu Lin and   
                    Yunhui Zeng   The Dantzig Discriminant Analysis with
                                  High Dimensional Data  . . . . . . . . . 5012--5025
            Leda D. Minkova and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On a Bivariate Pólya--Aeppli Distribution 5026--5038
                V. U. Dixit and   
                    S. P. Nabar   Estimation of Parameters of a Mixed
                                  Failure Time Distribution Which is a
                                  Mixture of Degenerate (Degenerate at
                                  Zero) and I.G. Distribution  . . . . . . 5039--5051
                  Chi-Jui Huang   A Sum of Squares Generally Weighted
                                  Moving Average Control Chart . . . . . . 5052--5071
                   Min Wang and   
                   Xiaoqian Sun   Bayes Factor Consistency for One-way
                                  Random Effects Model . . . . . . . . . . 5072--5090
          Huda A. El-Wahish and   
          Mohammad Z. Raqab and   
                Ahmad A. Zghoul   Pitman Closeness of kth Records Based on
                                  a Two-Sequence Case  . . . . . . . . . . 5091--5104
              Guo-Dong Xing and   
             Shan-Chao Yang and   
                   Yong-Ming Li   Strong Consistency of Conditional
                                  Value-at-risk Estimate for $ \varphi
                                  $-mixing Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 5105--5113
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5114--5114

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 43, Number 24, 2014

                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   Burn-in for Eliminating Weak Items in
                                  Heterogeneous Populations  . . . . . . . 5115--5129
Gülesen Üstünda\ug \vSiray   Modified and Restricted $r$-$k$ Class
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5130--5155
                   B. Kodia and   
                       B. Garel   Estimation and Comparison of Signed
                                  Symmetric Covariation Coefficient and
                                  Generalized Association Parameter for
                                  Alpha-stable Dependence Modeling . . . . 5156--5174
               Hongbing Qiu and   
                     Ji Luo and   
                  Shurong Zheng   On Bayes Linear Unbiased Estimator Under
                                  the Balanced Loss Function . . . . . . . 5175--5194
                    Q. Song and   
                     R. Liu and   
                    Q. Shao and   
                        L. Yang   A Simultaneous Confidence Band for Dense
                                  Longitudinal Regression  . . . . . . . . 5195--5210
             Kosto V. Mitov and   
                    Edward Omey   A Branching Process with Immigration in
                                  Varying Environments . . . . . . . . . . 5211--5225
         Tatiane F. N. Melo and   
           Silvia L. P. Ferrari   Adjusted Likelihood Inference in an
                                  Elliptical Multivariate
                                  Errors-in-Variables Model  . . . . . . . 5226--5240
                   Feng-Shou Ko   Sample Size Determination for a
                                  Two-Sided Multiple Components Tolerance
                                  Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5241--5248
              Mansi Khurana and   
        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
                Shalini Chandra   Jackknifing the Ridge Regression
                                  Estimator: a Revisit . . . . . . . . . . 5249--5262
                 Cui-Xia Li and   
              Jin-Yuan Chen and   
                    Zhi Liu and   
                   Bing-Yi Jing   On Integrated Volatility of Itô
                                  Semimartingales when Sampling Times are
                                  Endogenous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5263--5275
                   Xin Liao and   
              Zuoxiang Peng and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Tail Behavior and Limit Distribution of
                                  Maximum of Logarithmic General Error
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5276--5289
             Shota Katayama and   
                    Yutaka Kano   A New Test on High-Dimensional Mean
                                  Vector Without Any Assumption on
                                  Population Covariance Matrix . . . . . . 5290--5304
                Haifang Shi and   
                     Dehui Wang   An Approximation Model of the Collective
                                  Risk Model with $ {\rm INAR}(1) $ Claim
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5305--5317
                Helena Ferreira   Bivariate Tail Dependence and the
                                  Generation of Multivariate Extreme Value
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5318--5325


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 1, 2015

           R. Arabi Belaghi and   
                  M. Arashi and   
            S. M. M. Tabatabaey   On the Construction of Preliminary Test
                                  Estimator Based on Record Values for the
                                  Burr XII Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
           David D. Hanagal and   
                   Richa Sharma   Bayesian Inference in Marshall--Olkin
                                  Bivariate Exponential Shared Gamma
                                  Frailty Regression Model under Random
                                  Censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--47
                Yunyan Wang and   
                  Mingtian Tang   Local $M$-estimation for Conditional
                                  Variance in Heteroscedastic Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--62
            Raghunath Arnab and   
                 T. Zewotir and   
                       D. North   Variance Estimation from Complex Survey
                                  Designs: a Case Study of Household
                                  Income and Expenditure Survey Design
                                  2002/03, Botswana  . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
          Rabindra Nath Das and   
                 Partha Pal and   
                   Sung H. Park   Modified Robust Second-Order
                                  Slope-Rotatable Designs  . . . . . . . . 80--94
                Eric J. Beh and   
               Rosaria Lombardo   Confidence Regions and Approximate
                                  $p$-values for Classical and Non
                                  Symmetric Correspondence Analysis  . . . 95--114
                    S. Ravi and   
                 A. S. Praveena   On The Intersection Of Max Domains Of
                                  Attraction Of $p$-Max Stable Laws and
                                  the Class of Subexponential
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--124
                Haiwu Huang and   
             Dingcheng Wang and   
                     Qunying Wu   Further Study on the Marcinkiewicz
                                  Strong Laws for Linear Statistics of $
                                  \rho^*$-Mixing Sequences of Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--134
              Jessica Kasza and   
                  Patty Solomon   Comparing Score-Based Methods for
                                  Estimating Bayesian Networks Using the
                                  Kullback--Leibler Divergence . . . . . . 135--152
           Efthymios G. Tsionas   Likelihood-based Inference in
                                  $S$-distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . 153--158
               George Nenes and   
             Yiannis Nikolaidis   A New Model for the Representation of
                                  the ISO 2859 Standard  . . . . . . . . . 159--170
                Weihua Zhao and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
                  Jicai Liu and   
                      Yazhao Lv   Semi Varying Coefficient Zero-Inflated
                                  Generalized Poisson Regression Model . . 171--185
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
             Edwin M. M. Ortega   The Zografos--Balakrishnan--$G$ Family
                                  of Distributions: Mathematical
                                  Properties and Applications  . . . . . . 186--215

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 2, 2015

               Huiming Peng and   
                Shaoquan Yu and   
                Jiawen Bian and   
                Yujie Zhang and   
                     Hongwei Li   Statistical Analysis of Non Linear Least
                                  Squares Estimation for Harmonic Signals
                                  in Multiplicative and Additive Noise . . 217--240
                  Wanbin Li and   
                     Liugen Xue   Efficient Inference in a Generalized
                                  Partially Linear Model with Random
                                  Effect for Longitudinal Data . . . . . . 241--260
             M. Hafidz Omar and   
           Anwar H. Joarder and   
                  Muhammad Riaz   On a Correlated Variance Ratio
                                  Distribution and Its Industrial
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274
           Barry Kurt Moser and   
                   Susan Halabi   Sample Size Requirements and Study
                                  Duration for Testing Main Effects and
                                  Interactions in Completely Randomized
                                  Factorial Designs When Time to Event is
                                  the Outcome  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--285
                    Ryan Martin   Asymptotically Optimal Nonparametric
                                  Empirical Bayes Via Predictive Recursion 286--299
               Majid Rezaei and   
          Behzad Gholizadeh and   
                Salman Izadkhah   On Relative Reversed Hazard Rate Order   300--308
                   Jacek Bialek   Generalization of the Divisia Price and
                                  Quantity Indices in a Stochastic Model
                                  with Continuous Time . . . . . . . . . . 309--328
                  Yujie Cai and   
                 Fuqing Gao and   
                  Shaochen Wang   Moderate Deviations for Estimators of
                                  Financial Risk Under an Asymmetric
                                  Laplace Law  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--339
             I. Juutilainen and   
                S. Tamminen and   
                 J. Röning   Visualizing Predicted and Observed
                                  Densities Jointly with Beanplot  . . . . 340--348
                 Brent D. Burch   Improved Large-Sample Confidence
                                  Intervals for Ratios of Variance
                                  Components in Nonnormal Distributions    349--362
    Kristofer Månsson and   
         B. M. Golam Kibria and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   Performance of Some Weighted Liu
                                  Estimators for Logit Regression Model:
                                  an Application to Swedish Accident Data  363--375
             Paul Blomstedt and   
                 Jukka Corander   Posterior Predictive Comparisons for the
                                  Two-sample Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 376--389
                      T. Princy   Mixture Models and the Krätzel Integral
                                  Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--405
          Eugene C. Ukaegbu and   
             Polycarp E. Chigbu   Comparison of Prediction Capabilities of
                                  Partially Replicated Central Composite
                                  Designs in Cuboidal Region . . . . . . . 406--427
                   Soo Hak Sung   A Strong Limit Theorem for Weighted Sums
                                  of Negatively Dependent Random Variables 428--439

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 3, 2015

                 P. Ah-Kine and   
                         W. Liu   Optimal Simultaneous Confidence Bands in
                                  Multiple Linear Regression with
                                  Predictor Variables Constrained in an
                                  Ellipsoidal Region . . . . . . . . . . . 441--452
               Hai-Bin Wang and   
                        Ping Wu   Bayesian Inference of Autoregressive and
                                  Functional-Coefficient Moving Average
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--467
                     Denis Bosq   Models Associated with Extended
                                  Exponential Smoothing  . . . . . . . . . 468--475
                  Xin-Bing Kong   $M$-estimation for Moderate Deviations
                                  From a Unit Root . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--485
                   Feng-Shou Ko   Sample Size Determination and Rational
                                  Partition for a Multi-Regional Trial for
                                  Survival (Time-To-Event) Data with
                                  Unrecognized Heterogeneity that
                                  Interacts with Treatment . . . . . . . . 486--496
                   Felix Famoye   A Multivariate Generalized Poisson
                                  Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--511
                      V. Fakoor   On the Nonparametric Mean Residual Life
                                  Estimator in Length-biased Sampling  . . 512--519
                       Fan Yang   First- and Second-order Asymptotics for
                                  the Tail Distortion Risk Measure of
                                  Extreme Risks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--532
             A. A. Abdushukurov   Estimation of Survival Function in Cox
                                  Regression Model Under Random Censoring
                                  From Both Sides  . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--553
                Dexter O. Cahoy   Some Skew-Symmetric Distributions Which
                                  Include the Bimodal Ones . . . . . . . . 554--563
                     Zaixing Li   Testing for Random Effects in Growth
                                  Curve Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--572
          C. Satheesh Kumar and   
                  M. R. Anusree   On an Extended Version of Skew
                                  Generalized Normal Distribution and Some
                                  of its Properties  . . . . . . . . . . . 573--586
     S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi and   
             M. Kharrati-Kopaei   Testing Three-factor Interaction in
                                  Unreplicated Three-way Layouts . . . . . 587--606
             Tapan K. Nayak and   
                    Bimal Sinha   An Appreciation of Balanced Loss
                                  Functions Via Regret Loss  . . . . . . . 607--616
  João Lita Da Silva and   
    João Tiago Mexia and   
        Luís Pedro Ramos   On the Strong Consistency of Ridge
                                  Estimates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--626
             Sobhan Shafiei and   
          Mahdi Doostparast and   
               Ahad Jamalizadeh   Prediction of Variables Via Their Order
                                  Statistics in Bivariate Elliptical
                                  Distributions with Application in the
                                  Financial Markets  . . . . . . . . . . . 627--643
                   Aamir Saghir   Phase-I Design Scheme for $ \bar {X}
                                  $-chart Based on Posterior Distribution  644--655

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 4, 2015

                  Liu Chang and   
              Shouting Chen and   
                      Ailin Zhu   Properties of the Cox--Ingersoll--Ross
                                  Interest Rate Processes with Two-sided
                                  Reflections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--670
               Jianxin Wang and   
                    Ye Yuan and   
                   Shengli Zhao   Fractional Factorial Split-plot Designs
                                  with Two- and Four-level Factors
                                  Containing Clear Effects . . . . . . . . 671--682
                   Tomasz Zadlo   On Prediction for Correlated Domains in
                                  Longitudinal Surveys . . . . . . . . . . 683--697
          Eugenio P. Balanzario   Benford's Law for Mixtures . . . . . . . 698--709
              Xiaobing Zhao and   
              Jinglong Wang and   
                  Xian Zhou and   
                    Zhongyi Zhu   Recurrent Events Analysis in the
                                  Presence of Terminal Event and
                                  Zero-recurrence Subjects . . . . . . . . 710--725
            Zaher Khraibani and   
            Christine Jacob and   
           Christian Ducrot and   
     Myriam Charras-Garrido and   
                    Carole Sala   A Non Parametric Exact Test Based on the
                                  Number of Records for an Early Detection
                                  of Emerging Events: Illustration in
                                  Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726--749
           Gary C. McDonald and   
                      Feiyi Jia   Operating Characteristics of a Subset
                                  Selection Procedure Applied to a Hybrid
                                  Randomized Response Model  . . . . . . . 750--777
                  M. Arashi and   
                  A. Bekker and   
                M. T. Loots and   
                  J. J. J. Roux   Integral Representation of Quaternion
                                  Elliptical Density and its Applications  778--789
                    C. Dong and   
                    B. Miao and   
                     C. Tan and   
                     D. Wei and   
                          Y. Wu   An Estimate of a Change Point in
                                  Variance of Measurement Errors and Its
                                  Convergence Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . 790--797
              Adriana Reyes and   
       Ramón Giraldo and   
                    Jorge Mateu   Residual Kriging for Functional Spatial
                                  Prediction of Salinity Curves  . . . . . 798--809
                     Xu Lin and   
                Zhu Dongjin and   
                     Zhou Yanru   Minimizing Upper Bound of Ruin
                                  Probability Under Discrete Risk Model
                                  with Markov Chain Interest Rate  . . . . 810--822
          Samir M. Shaarawy and   
                  Sherif S. Ali   Bayesian Identification of Seasonal
                                  Multivariate Autoregressive Processes    823--836
                Gaowen Wang and   
                    Nan-Wei Han   Spurious Regressions in Time Series with
                                  Long Memory  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--854
            Chang-Kyoon Son and   
                   Jong-Min Kim   Calibration Estimator of a Rare
                                  Sensitive Attribute with Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--871
              Chuan-Hua Wei and   
                 Xu-Jie Jia and   
                  Hong-Sheng Hu   Statistical Inference on Partially
                                  Linear Additive Models with Missing
                                  Response Variables and Error-prone
                                  Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872--883

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 5, 2015

        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
                Esmaeil Shirazi   On MISE of a Non linear Wavelet
                                  Estimator of the Regression Function
                                  Based on Biased Data under Strong Mixing 885--899
              H. M. Barakat and   
                 E. M. Nigm and   
                  A. M. Elsawah   Asymptotic Distributions of the
                                  Generalized Range, Midrange, Extremal
                                  Quotient, and Extremal Product, with a
                                  Comparison Study . . . . . . . . . . . . 900--913
                     Kai Yu and   
                   Xin Dang and   
                     Yixin Chen   Robustness of the Affine Equivariant
                                  Scatter Estimator Based on the Spatial
                                  Rank Covariance Matrix . . . . . . . . . 914--932
             Alireza Ghodsi and   
               Mahendran Shitan   Autocovariance Function of the
                                  Fractionally Integrated Separable
                                  Spatial ARMA (FISSARMA) Models . . . . . 933--941
      Adnaik Sachin Bajirao and   
        Gadre Mukund Parasharam   Modified Synthetic Control Chart for
                                  One-Step Markov-Dependent Processes  . . 942--952
                  Cheng Gao and   
                 Hiroki Tsurumi   Bayesian Analysis of the Censored
                                  Regression Model with an AEPD Error Term 953--971
                      Yang Xing   A Universal Prior Distribution for
                                  Bayesian Consistency of Non parametric
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972--982
                   Qin Wang and   
                    Rongning Wu   Semiparametric Regression for Time
                                  Series of Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--995
              Yanliang Chen and   
               Man-Lai Tang and   
                    Maozai Tian   Semiparametric Hierarchical Composite
                                  Quantile Regression  . . . . . . . . . . 996--1012
               Sibel Aladag and   
                    Hulya Cingi   Improvement in Estimating the Population
                                  Median in Simple Random Sampling and
                                  Stratified Random Sampling Using
                                  Auxiliary Information  . . . . . . . . . 1013--1032
                  Weiyan Mu and   
                  Shifeng Xiong   Robust Sparse Regression with
                                  High-Breakdown Value . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1043
         Sergio Alvarez-Andrade   On Complete Convergence for the Hybrid
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1052
                Qiang Zhang and   
                 Dejian Lai and   
                 Barry R. Davis   Stochastically Curtailed Tests Under
                                  Fractional Brownian Motion . . . . . . . 1053--1064
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Additive Transformation Models for
                                  Multivariate Interval-Censored Data  . . 1065--1079
                     Li Yin and   
                   Xiaoqin Wang   Measuring and Estimating Treatment
                                  Effect on Count Outcome in Randomized
                                  Trial and Observational Studies  . . . . 1080--1095

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 6, 2015

                   Dan Wang and   
                  Pengjiang Guo   Detection and Estimation of Jump Points
                                  in Non parametric Regression Function
                                  with $ {\rm AR}(1) $ Noise . . . . . . . 1097--1110
               Shibin Zhang and   
               Zhengyan Lin and   
                 Xinsheng Zhang   A Least Squares Estimator for Lévy-driven
                                  Moving Averages Based on Discrete Time
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111--1129
                      Hyunsu Ju   Moving Block Bootstrap for Analyzing
                                  Longitudinal Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1130--1142
        Subrata Chakraborty and   
             Rameshwar D. Gupta   Exponentiated Geometric Distribution:
                                  Another Generalization of Geometric
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1157
        Moutushi Chatterjee and   
        Ashis Kumar Chakraborty   A Superstructure of Process Capability
                                  Indices for Circular Specification
                                  Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1158--1181
                G. N. Singh and   
                   D. Majhi and   
                  S. Prasad and   
                        F. Homa   Effective Rotation Patterns Under Non
                                  Response in Two-Occasion Successive
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182--1195
              Rajesh Tailor and   
           Balkishan Sharma and   
               Housila P. Singh   An Improved Procedure of Estimating the
                                  Finite Population Mean Using Auxiliary
                                  Information in the Presence of Random
                                  Non Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1196--1209
            Pierre Nguimkeu and   
               Marie Rekkas and   
                 Augustine Wong   Interval Estimation of the
                                  Stress-Strength Reliability with
                                  Independent Normal Random Variables  . . 1210--1221
                   Chun Luo and   
             Yingshan Zhang and   
                       Sihui He   Asymmetrical Orthogonal Arrays With Run
                                  Size $ 100 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222--1240
             Taher Ben Arab and   
              Afif Masmoudi and   
                   Mourad Zribi   Trace of the Variance-Covariance Matrix
                                  in Natural Exponential Families  . . . . 1241--1254
         Rassoul Noorossana and   
          Maryam Shekary A. and   
                  Ali Deheshvar   Combined Variable Sample Size, Sampling
                                  Interval, and Double Sampling (CVSSIDS)
                                  Adaptive Control Charts  . . . . . . . . 1255--1269
                Ozge Cagcag and   
                 Ufuk Yolcu and   
                  Erol Egrioglu   A New Robust Regression Method Based on
                                  Particle Swarm Optimization  . . . . . . 1270--1280
                  M. Arashi and   
                 M. Janfada and   
                  M. Norouzirad   Singular Ridge Regression With
                                  Stochastic Constraints . . . . . . . . . 1281--1292
                   M. Shams and   
                   M. Emadi and   
                  N. R. Arghami   Maximal Invariant and Weakly Equivariant
                                  Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293--1317

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 7, 2015

       Stylianos Georgiadis and   
               Nikolaos Limnios   Nonparametric Estimation of the
                                  Stationary Distribution of a
                                  Discrete-Time Semi-Markov Process  . . . 1319--1337
           David D. Hanagal and   
                   Richa Sharma   Comparison of Frailty Models for Acute
                                  Leukemia Data under Gompertz Baseline
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338--1350
           David D. Hanagal and   
                   Richa Sharma   Analysis of Bivariate Survival Data
                                  using Shared Inverse Gaussian Frailty
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351--1380
                Ted Speevak and   
              Takis Papaioannou   A Note on Rank Correlation Inequalities
                                  with Missing Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 1381--1386
              M. Rauf Ahmad and   
             Dietrich Von Rosen   Tests of Covariance Matrices for High
                                  Dimensional Multivariate Data Under Non
                                  Normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1398
                  Hongshuai Dai   Approximation to Multifractional
                                  Riemann--Liouville Brownian Sheet  . . . 1399--1410
                   Ji Young Kim   A Lasso-type Robust Variable Selection
                                  for Time-Course Microarray Data  . . . . 1411--1425
                     M. E. Mead   Generalized Inverse Gamma Distribution
                                  and its Application in Reliability . . . 1426--1435
                    Guangyu Mao   Efficient Penalized Estimation for
                                  Linear Regression Model  . . . . . . . . 1436--1449
      Ramkrishna S. Solanki and   
               Housila P. Singh   Some Classes of Estimators for Median
                                  Estimation in Survey Sampling  . . . . . 1450--1465
        Uttam Bandyopadhyay and   
            Shirsendu Mukherjee   Adaptive Crossover Design for Normal
                                  Responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1466--1482
                  Jiang Hui and   
                         Yu Lei   Precise Asymptotics in Complete Moment
                                  Convergence of Parameter Estimator in
                                  the Gaussian Autoregressive Process  . . 1483--1496
                 Xueli Wang and   
                  Xiao-Hua Zhou   Some Results About Standardization for a
                                  Non Confounder in Estimators of (log)
                                  Relative Risk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1497--1507
               Hongxia Wang and   
                Jinguan Lin and   
                     Jinde Wang   Local Linear Estimation for
                                  Spatiotemporal Models Based on Least
                                  Absolute Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . 1508--1522
                     Jinho Park   Quantile Regression with Left-Truncated
                                  and Right-Censored Data in a Reproducing
                                  Kernel Hilbert Space . . . . . . . . . . 1523--1536

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 8, 2015

                Peijie Wang and   
               Xingwei Tong and   
               Shishun Zhao and   
                    Jianguo Sun   Regression Analysis of Left-truncated
                                  and Case I Interval-censored Data with
                                  the Additive Hazards Model . . . . . . . 1537--1551
         Caroline C. Vieira and   
        Rosangela H. Loschi and   
                  Denise Duarte   Nonparametric Mixtures Based on
                                  Skew-normal Distributions: an
                                  Application to Density Estimation  . . . 1552--1570
             Dongliang Wang and   
                 Alan D. Hutson   Inversion Theorem Based Kernel Density
                                  Estimation for the Ordinary Least
                                  Squares Estimator of a Regression
                                  Coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1571--1579
Sévérien Nkurunziza and   
             Abdulkadir Hussein   Shrinkage Estimation of the Memory
                                  Parameter in Stationary Gaussian
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1580--1591
              A. R. Soltani and   
             S. M. Aboukhamseen   An Alternative Cluster Detection Test in
                                  Spatial Scan Statistics  . . . . . . . . 1592--1601
                 Weixin Yao and   
                   Weixing Song   Mixtures of Linear Regression with
                                  Measurement Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 1602--1614
                Alexei Stepanov   On Strong Convergence  . . . . . . . . . 1615--1620
                   Guolong Zhao   A Test of Non Null Hypothesis for Linear
                                  Trends in Proportions  . . . . . . . . . 1621--1639
    Mohammadreza Nourbakhsh and   
              Yaser Mehrali and   
           Ahad Jamalizadeh and   
             Gholamhoseein Yari   On a Selection Weibull Distribution  . . 1640--1652
              M. Abbasnejad and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   Some Results on Dynamic Generalized
                                  Survival Entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . 1653--1668
                   Hea-jung Kim   Best Linear Classification Rule for
                                  Multivariate Interval Screened Data  . . 1669--1690
            Subrata Chakraborty   A New Discrete Distribution Related to
                                  Generalized Gamma Distribution and Its
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1691--1705
           Antonio E. Gomes and   
         Cibele Q. da-Silva and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Two Extended Burr Models: Theory and
                                  Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1706--1734
           Sibnarayan Guria and   
                 Sugata Sen Roy   Missing Values in Linear Regression:
                                  Imputations Using An Error-Contaminated
                                  Linear Predictor . . . . . . . . . . . . 1735--1744
          K. Krishnamoorthy and   
                      Dan Zhang   Approximate and Fiducial Confidence
                                  Intervals for the Difference Between Two
                                  Binomial Proportions . . . . . . . . . . 1745--1759
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1760--1760
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1761--1761
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1762--1762

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 9, 2015

                   Dawei Lu and   
                     Lixin Song   Some Asymptotic Formulas for a Brownian
                                  Motion With a Regular Variation From a
                                  Parabolic Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . 1763--1778
                 Huihui Sun and   
                    Jinguan Lin   Diagnostics of Variance of the Error in
                                  Mixed Effects Linear Models Based on
                                  $M$-estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779--1785
        Suresh Kumar Sharma and   
               Kanchan Jain and   
                   Neetu Singla   A Selection Procedure for Selecting the
                                  Least Increasing Failure Rate Average
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1786--1796
Omar Abd Al-Rahman Ibrahim Kittaneh   A Measure of Discrimination Between two
                                  Double Truncated Distributions . . . . . 1797--1805
                   Xi-Liang Fan   Non Autonomous Semilinear Stochastic
                                  Evolution Equations  . . . . . . . . . . 1806--1818
                     Haim Shore   A General Model of Random Variation  . . 1819--1841
            Bruno R. Santos and   
                Silvia N. Elian   Influence Measures in Quantile
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1842--1853
              Zheng-Yan Lin and   
                       Ran Wang   Empirical Likelihood for Single-Index
                                  Regression Models under Negatively
                                  Associated Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . 1854--1868
    Meelis Käärik and   
                Anne Selart and   
           Ene Käärik   On Parametrization of Multivariate
                                  Skew-Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . 1869--1885
               Rodrigo Tsai and   
                  Luiz K. Hotta   Fitting Distributions with the
                                  Polyhazard Model with Dependence . . . . 1886--1895
                 Muhammad Hanif   Non Parametric Estimation of
                                  Second-Order Diffusion Equation by Using
                                  Asymmetric Kernels . . . . . . . . . . . 1896--1910
                   Dong Han and   
                Fugee Tsung and   
                  Xianghui Ning   Detection and Diagnosis of Distribution
                                  Changes of Degree Ratio in Complex
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1911--1938
                     Li Hao and   
                  Daniel Houser   Adaptive Procedures for the
                                  Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney Test: Seven
                                  Decades of Advances  . . . . . . . . . . 1939--1957
            Hidekazu Tanaka and   
              Chie Obayashi and   
                 Yoshiji Takagi   On Second Order Admissibilities in
                                  Two-Parameter Logistic Regression Model  1958--1966
                  Qiang Xia and   
               Rubing Liang and   
                    Jinshan Liu   A Bayesian Analysis of Autoregressive
                                  Models with Exogenous Variables and
                                  Power-Transformed and Threshold GARCH
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1967--1980

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 10, 2015

            Fela Özbey and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   Evaluation of the Predictive Performance
                                  of the Liu Estimator . . . . . . . . . . 1981--1993
      Michael Vander Wielen and   
             Ryan Vander Wielen   The General Segmented Distribution . . . 1994--2009
            N. Balakrishnan and   
             Abedin Haidari and   
               Ghobad Barmalzan   Improved Ordering Results for Fail-Safe
                                  Systems with Exponential Components  . . 2010--2023
                  Jian Chen and   
            John J. Hanfelt and   
                   Yijian Huang   A Simple Corrected Score for Logistic
                                  Regression with Errors-in-Covariates . . 2024--2036
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
               Edwin Ortega and   
                  Artur Lemonte   The Poisson Generalized Linear Failure
                                  Rate Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2037--2058
                Hamdi Ra\"\issi   Autoregressive Order Identification for
                                  VAR Models with Non Constant Variance    2059--2078
               V. Nekoukhou and   
            M. H. Alamatsaz and   
                  H. Bidram and   
                 A. H. Aghajani   Discrete Beta-Exponential Distribution   2079--2091
              Arpan Bhowmik and   
                Seema Jaggi and   
              Cini Varghese and   
                 Eldho Varghese   Optimal Block Designs With Interference
                                  Effects From Neighboring Units Under a
                                  Non Additive Model . . . . . . . . . . . 2092--2103
                    Elias Masry   On Linear Operations on Stationary and
                                  Non Stationary Random Processes  . . . . 2104--2106
                    Lai Wei and   
             Dongliang Wang and   
                 Alan D. Hutson   An Investigation of Quantile Function
                                  Estimators Relative to Quantile
                                  Confidence Interval Coverage . . . . . . 2107--2135
             Indranil Ghosh and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Inference for a Hidden Truncated
                                  (Both-Sided) Bivariate Pareto (II)
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2136--2150
            Kiheiji Nishida and   
              Yuichiro Kanazawa   On Variance-Stabilizing Multivariate Non
                                  Parametric Regression Estimation . . . . 2151--2175
            H. E. T. Holgersson   A Note on a Commonly Used Ridge
                                  Regression Monte Carlo Design  . . . . . 2176--2179
              Jinlong Huang and   
               Chunjuan Qiu and   
                      Xianyi Wu   Stochastic Loss Reserving in Discrete
                                  Time: Individual vs. Aggregate Data
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2180--2206

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 11, 2015

                 Huahui Yan and   
               Huisheng Shu and   
                        Xiu Kan   Pricing Equity-indexed Annuities When
                                  Discrete Dividends Follow a
                                  Markov-Modulated Jump Diffusion Model    2207--2221
           Nasser Davarzani and   
              Ahmad Parsian and   
                   Ralf Peeters   Dependent Right Censorship in the MOMW
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2222--2242
              Kangning Wang and   
                         Lu Lin   Variable Selection in Semiparametric
                                  Quantile Modeling for Longitudinal Data  2243--2266
       M. Revan Özkale and   
Tugba Söküt Açar   Leverages and Influential Observations
                                  in a Regression Model with
                                  Autocorrelated Errors  . . . . . . . . . 2267--2290
           Haruka Yamashita and   
                   Hideo Suzuki   The Methods for Approximation of
                                  Principal Points for Binary
                                  Distributions on the Basis of
                                  Submodularity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2291--2309
          Wichairat Chuntee and   
             Kritsana Neammanee   Bounds on Normal Approximations for the
                                  number of Descents and Inversions  . . . 2310--2329
       Kenneth S. Berenhaut and   
    James W. Chernesky, Jr. and   
                 Ross P. Hilton   Asymptotic Expansions for i.i.d. Sums
                                  Via Lower-order Convolutions . . . . . . 2330--2350
               Junyong Park and   
                Bimal Sinha and   
                Arvind Shah and   
                   Dihua Xu and   
                    Jianxin Lin   Likelihood Ratio Tests for Interval
                                  Hypotheses with Applications . . . . . . 2351--2370
                 Miao Zhang and   
                   Gaofeng Zong   Almost Periodic Solutions for Stochastic
                                  Differential Equations Driven By
                                  $G$-Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . 2371--2384
        Abdelnasser Dahmani and   
                 Karima Belaide   Exponential Inequalities in Stochastic
                                  Inverse Problems Using an Iterative
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2385--2397
              Saadia Masood and   
                  Javid Shabbir   On Some Families of Estimators of
                                  Variance of Post-Stratified Sample Mean
                                  Using Two Auxiliary Variables  . . . . . 2398--2415
          Annamaria Bianchi and   
                 Nicola Salvati   Asymptotic Properties and Variance
                                  Estimators of the $M$-quantile
                                  Regression Coefficients Estimators . . . 2416--2429

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 12, 2015

               Guannan Wang and   
              Zhizhong Wang and   
                        Ye Tian   The Empirical Likelihood Inference of a
                                  Regression Parameter in Censored Partial
                                  Linear Models Based on a Piecewise
                                  Polynomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2431--2451
               Mingqiu Wang and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                 Guo-liang Tian   SCAD-Penalized Least Absolute Deviation
                                  Regression in High-Dimensional Models    2452--2472
         Yibing Oliver Chen and   
                   Mike Jacroux   On the Use of Semi-folding in Regular
                                  Blocked Two-level Factorial Designs  . . 2473--2506
                 Antonio Canale   A Note On Regions of Given Probability
                                  of the Extended Skew-normal Distribution 2507--2516
                M. Rezapour and   
            M. H. Alamatsaz and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Distribution of the Number of
                                  Observations Greater Than the $i$-th
                                  Dependent Progressively Type-II Censored
                                  Order Statistic and Its Use in
                                  Goodness-of-fit Testing  . . . . . . . . 2517--2529
                T. G. Veena and   
               P. Yageen Thomas   Application of Concomitants of Order
                                  Statistics of Independent Non
                                  Identically Distributed Random Variables
                                  in Estimation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2530--2545
         Pavle Mladenovi\'c and   
            Lenka Zivadinovi\'c   Uniform $ {\rm AR}(1) $ Processes and
                                  Maxima on Partial Samples  . . . . . . . 2546--2563
                   Y. Hyodo and   
                  H. Yumiba and   
                      M. Kuwada   Existence Conditions for Balanced
                                  Fractional $ 2^m $ Factorial Designs of
                                  Resolution $ 2 l + 1 $ Derived from
                                  Simple Arrays  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2564--2570
                G. N. Singh and   
                   D. Majhi and   
                  S. Maurya and   
                   A. K. Sharma   Some Effective Rotation Patterns in
                                  Estimation of Population Mean in
                                  Two-Occasion Successive Sampling . . . . 2571--2585
               Zhi-Wen Zhao and   
                De-Hui Wang and   
               Cui-Xin Peng and   
                   Mei-Li Zhang   Empirical Likelihood-based Inference for
                                  Stationary-ergodicity of the Generalized
                                  Random Coefficient Autoregressive Model  2586--2599
    Tonya Lauriski-Karriker and   
                 William Navidi   Improving The Efficiency of The
                                  Case-Crossover Design  . . . . . . . . . 2600--2619
                   Feng-Shou Ko   A Statistical Issue About a Phase III
                                  Multi-regional Trial for the Survival
                                  Data under Accelerated Failure Time
                                  Model with Unrecognized Heterogeneity    2620--2629
               Ali Akbar Jafari   Inferences on the Coefficients of
                                  Variation in a Multivariate Normal
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2630--2643
                Giulia Roli and   
                   Paola Monari   Hierarchical Bayesian Models for the
                                  Estimation of Correlated Effects in
                                  Multilevel Data: a Simulation Study to
                                  Assess Model Performance . . . . . . . . 2644--2653

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 13, 2015

                    Henry H. Bi   A Note on the Factor Values of Three
                                  Common Shewhart Variables Control Charts 2655--2673
             David A. Rolls and   
                  Owen D. Jones   An Improved Test for Continuous Local
                                  Martingales  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2674--2688
              R. Noorossana and   
             S. T. A. Niaki and   
                  H. Izadbakhsh   Statistical Monitoring of Nominal
                                  Logistic Profiles in Phase II  . . . . . 2689--2704
                Brian Moore and   
      Balasubramaniam Natarajan   A Compressive Sensing Based Analysis of
                                  Anomalies in Generalized Linear Models   2705--2719
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
         Rejane dos S. B. Bager   Moments for Some Kumaraswamy Generalized
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2720--2737
   Francisco J. Caro-Lopera and   
Graciela González-Farías and   
                N. Balakrishnan   The Generalized Pascal Triangle and the
                                  Matrix Variate Jensen-Logistic
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2738--2752
           Deemat C. Mathew and   
                      M. I. Beg   Characterizing Discrete Life
                                  Distributions by Properties of Reversed
                                  Variance Residual life . . . . . . . . . 2753--2763
              Ya-Chun Hsiao and   
              Chen-Tuo Liao and   
                   Li-Yu D. Liu   Minimum Aberration Regular Two-Level
                                  Designs in the Presence of Dispersion
                                  Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2764--2773
                  M. Arashi and   
    A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and   
              Daya K. Nagar and   
            S. M. M. Tabatabaey   Bayesian Statistical Inference For
                                  Laplacian Class of Matrix Variate
                                  Elliptically Contoured Models  . . . . . 2774--2787
                 Ying Zhang and   
               Jagbir Singh and   
           Ramalingam Shanmugam   A Tutorial of Survival Modeling to
                                  Capture Covariate Effect . . . . . . . . 2788--2797
                  Sat Gupta and   
                  Javid Shabbir   Estimation of Finite Population Mean in
                                  Stratified Random Sampling with Two
                                  Auxiliary Variables under Double
                                  Sampling Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2798--2808
                   Jiang Du and   
                 Gaorong Li and   
                      Heng Peng   Variable Selection for Semiparametric
                                  Partially Linear Covariate-Adjusted
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2809--2826
             Yun-Cheng Tsai and   
                  Yuh-Dauh Lyuu   Faster Convergence to the Estimation of
                                  Quadratic Variation with Microstructure
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2827--2841
                 Rong Jiang and   
             Zhan-Gong Zhou and   
                   Wei-Min Qian   Generalized Analysis-of-variance-type
                                  Test for the Single-index Quantile Model 2842--2861
         Ronald Christensen and   
                       Yong Lin   Lack-of-fit Tests Based On Partial Sums
                                  of Residuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2862--2880

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 14, 2015

             Dianliang Deng and   
                       Yu Zhang   Score Tests for Both Extra Zeros and
                                  Extra Ones in Binomial Mixed Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2881--2897
                  A. Biswas and   
                     P. Das and   
                   N. K. Mandal   Designs Robust against Violation of
                                  Normality Assumption in the Standard
                                  $F$-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2898--2910
            Marcella Niglio and   
          Cosimo Damiano Vitale   Threshold Vector ARMA Models . . . . . . 2911--2923
                R. S. Priya and   
               P. Yageen Thomas   A Note on the Use of Some Functions of
                                  Spacings in the Estimation of Common
                                  Scale Parameter of Several Symmetric
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2924--2932
             K. Govindaraju and   
                  M. Bebbington   The Consumer's Risk and Costs in
                                  Zero-Acceptance Number Sampling  . . . . 2933--2944
               Kamran Abbas and   
                    Yincai Tang   Analysis of Frechet Distribution Using
                                  Reference Priors . . . . . . . . . . . . 2945--2956
           Steve P. Verrill and   
             James W. Evans and   
       David E. Kretschmann and   
           Cherilyn A. Hatfield   Asymptotically Efficient Estimation of a
                                  Bivariate Gaussian--Weibull Distribution
                                  and an Introduction to the Associated
                                  Pseudo-truncated Weibull . . . . . . . . 2957--2975
               Xiaodong Bai and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                    Yuebao Wang   Uniform asymptotics for random time ruin
                                  probability with subexponential claims
                                  and constant interest rate . . . . . . . 2976--2983
                    Mingue Park   Partially Calibrated Poststratified
                                  Weights for Handling Unit Non Response   2984--3000
            N. Balakrishnan and   
               A. J. Hayter and   
                     W. Liu and   
                S. Kiatsupaibul   Confidence Intervals for Quantiles of a
                                  Two-parameter Exponential Distribution
                                  under Progressive Type-II Censoring  . . 3001--3010
          C. Satheesh Kumar and   
                       A. Riyaz   A Modified Version of Logarithmic Series
                                  Distribution and Its Applications  . . . 3011--3021
                Jie-Hua Xie and   
               Jian-Wei Gao and   
                        Wei Zou   On a Risk Model With Delayed Claims
                                  Under Stochastic Interest Rates  . . . . 3022--3041
                    Li Wang and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Bonferroni-type Plug-in Procedure
                                  Controlling Generalized Familywise Error
                                  Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3042--3055
 A. J. Sáez-Castillo and   
A. M. Martínez-Rodríguez   Two Conditionally Specified Mixed
                                  Binomial Distributions . . . . . . . . . 3056--3072
                 Hsiaw-Chan Yeh   Multivariate Weibull and Pareto
                                  Distributions in Hilbert Space . . . . . 3073--3086
            A. M. Abouammoh and   
             Najla S. Alhazzani   On Discrete Gamma Distribution . . . . . 3087--3098
           Silvio S. Zocchi and   
  Célestin C. Kokonendji   On General Continuous Triangular and
                                  Two-sided Power Distributions  . . . . . 3099--3106

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 15, 2015

        Ehsan Moghimi Hadji and   
         Nirmal Singh Kambo and   
                  Alagar Rangan   Two-dimensional Renewal Function
                                  Approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3107--3124
          Alicia A. Johnson and   
                   Owen Burbank   Geometric Ergodicity and Scanning
                                  Strategies for Two-Component Gibbs
                                  Samplers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3125--3145
                S. Izadkhah and   
               H. Ahmadzade and   
                       M. Amini   Further Results for a General Family of
                                  Bivariate Copulas  . . . . . . . . . . . 3146--3157
                   Hisham Hilow   Minimum Cost Linear Trend Free $ 2^{n -
                                  (n - k)} $ Designs of Resolution IV  . . 3158--3172
                Edoardo Otranto   Capturing the Spillover Effect With
                                  Multiplicative Error Models  . . . . . . 3173--3191
                       Dawei Lu   Some Asymptotic Formulas for a Brownian
                                  Motion From the Maximum and Minimum
                                  Complicated Domains  . . . . . . . . . . 3192--3217
               Yongsong Qin and   
                    Qingzhu Lei   Empirical Likelihood for Linear Models
                                  Under Linear Process Errors  . . . . . . 3218--3233
              Shintaro Hojo and   
            Michio Yamamoto and   
                    Yutaka Kano   Effect of Violation of the Normal
                                  Assumption on MI and ML Estimators in
                                  the Analysis of Incomplete Data  . . . . 3234--3250
                   Feng Yao and   
           Carlos Martins-Filho   An Asymptotic Characterization of Finite
                                  Degree $U$-statistics With Sample
                                  Size-Dependent Kernels: Applications to
                                  Nonparametric Estimators and Test
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3251--3265
             Changyong Feng and   
               Hongyue Wang and   
                     Yu Han and   
                Yinglin Xia and   
                   Naiji Lu and   
                      Xin M. Tu   Some Theoretical Comparisons of Negative
                                  Binomial and Zero-Inflated Poisson
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3266--3277
                 Qingtai Wu and   
                  Jin Zhang and   
                   Jiashan Tang   Reliability Evaluation for A Class of
                                  Multi-Unit Cold Standby Systems under
                                  Poisson Shocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3278--3288
               Julien Worms and   
                      Rym Worms   A Test for Comparing Tail Indices for
                                  Heavy-Tailed Distributions via Empirical
                                  Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3289--3302
    A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and   
                 Amal F. Ghania   Ridge Autoregression Estimation: LS
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3303--3320

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 16, 2015

             Rachid Boumaza and   
               Smail Yousfi and   
         Sabine Demotes-Mainard   Interpreting the Principal Component
                                  Analysis of Multivariate Density
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3321--3339
            Raghunath Arnab and   
              D. K. Shangodoyin   Randomized Response Techniques Using
                                  Maximum Likelihood Estimator . . . . . . 3340--3349
                 Fangyu Liu and   
                     Lirong Cui   A New Design on Attributes Single
                                  Sampling Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3350--3362
              Shi-Shun Zhao and   
                   Jian Tao and   
             Ning-Zhong Shi and   
                        Nan Lin   A Note on the Comparison of the Stein
                                  Estimator and the James--Stein Estimator 3363--3374
       Tarald O. Kvålseth   Bounds on Sample Variation Measures
                                  Based on Majorization  . . . . . . . . . 3375--3386
Daniele Cristina Tita Granzotto and   
              Francisco Louzada   The Transmuted Log-Logistic
                                  Distribution: Modeling, Inference, and
                                  an Application to a Polled Tabapua Race
                                  Time up to First Calving Data  . . . . . 3387--3402
                  Lee Dykes and   
            Sarjinder Singh and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                  Vincent Louis   Calibrated Estimators of Population Mean
                                  for a Mail Survey Design . . . . . . . . 3403--3427
                Xingyu Tang and   
              Zhaoping Hong and   
                    Yuao Hu and   
                      Heng Lian   Gaussian Process Models for Non
                                  Parametric Functional Regression with
                                  Functional Responses . . . . . . . . . . 3428--3445
                   Jie Zhou and   
                     Lu Han and   
                    Sanyang Liu   Kernel-Based Profile Estimation for
                                  Ordinary Differential Equations with
                                  Partially Measured State Variables . . . 3446--3463
        Mongkhon Tuntapthai and   
          Nattakarn Chaidee and   
             Kritsana Neammanee   Berry--Esséen Bounds for Random Index Non
                                  Linear Statistics via Stein's Method . . 3464--3485
  Luis Gustavo Bastos Pinho and   
    Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro and   
    Juvêncio Santos Nobre   The Harris Extended Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3486--3502
             Haruhiko Ogasawara   Bias Adjustment Minimizing the
                                  Asymptotic Mean Square Error . . . . . . 3503--3522
               Yanting Xiao and   
                 Zheng Tian and   
                     Wenyan Guo   Empirical Likelihood for Partially Non
                                  Linear Models with Missing Response
                                  Variables at Random  . . . . . . . . . . 3523--3540

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 17, 2015

                  D. Shukla and   
               B. V. S. Sisodia   Preliminary Test Regression Estimator
                                  When two Prior Values of Population Mean
                                  $ (\mu_x) $ of an Auxiliary Variable
                                  ($x$) are Available  . . . . . . . . . . 3541--3548
          Stelios Arvanitis and   
               Alexandros Louka   Limit Theory for the QMLE of the $ {\rm
                                  GQARCH}(1, 1) $ Model  . . . . . . . . . 3549--3575
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                Xiaojun Zhu and   
              Bander Al-Zahrani   A Recursive Algorithm For the Single and
                                  Product Moments of Order Statistics From
                                  the Exponential-geometric Distribution
                                  and Some Estimation Methods  . . . . . . 3576--3598
                Paulo Teles and   
                    Paula Brito   Modeling Interval Time Series with
                                  Space-Time Processes . . . . . . . . . . 3599--3627
                J. F. Rosco and   
              Arthur Pewsey and   
                    M. C. Jones   On Blest's Measure of Kurtosis Adjusted
                                  for Skewness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3628--3638
              Wensheng Wang and   
                   Ka-Ho Wu and   
                 Kyo-Shin Hwang   The Berry--Esséen Bounds for Sample
                                  Rescaled Poly-Variograms . . . . . . . . 3639--3652
         André Beauducel   A Note on Equality and Inequality of
                                  Some Factor Score Predictors . . . . . . 3653--3657
              A. G. Nogales and   
                P. Pérez   Unbiased Estimation for the General
                                  Half-Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . 3658--3667
                 Nirpeksh Kumar   Testing of Suspected Observations in an
                                  Exponential Sample With Unknown Origin   3668--3679
        Christophe Chesneau and   
                  Thomas Willer   Estimation of a Cumulative Distribution
                                  Function Under Interval Censoring ``case
                                  1'' Via Warped Wavelets  . . . . . . . . 3680--3702
               Xiaoqin Wang and   
                    Yin Jin and   
                         Li Yin   Point and Interval Estimations of
                                  Marginal Risk Difference by Logistic
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3703--3722
               S. B. Adnaik and   
                M. P. Gadre and   
               R. N. Rattihalli   Single Attribute Control Charts for a
                                  Markovian-Dependent Process  . . . . . . 3723--3737
             J. Van Niekerk and   
                  A. Bekker and   
                  M. Arashi and   
                  J. J. J. Roux   Subjective Bayesian Analysis of the
                                  Elliptical Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 3738--3753
           Gunnar Taraldsen and   
                Bo H. Lindqvist   Fiducial and Posterior Sampling  . . . . 3754--3767

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 18, 2015

                Juntao Fang and   
                    Zhen He and   
                     Linxi Song   Evaluation of Response Surface Designs
                                  in Presence of Errors in Factor Levels   3769--3781
                   Hongxia Wang   Conditional Choquet Expectation  . . . . 3782--3795
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   On Fitting Transformation Model to
                                  Survey Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3796--3811
                   Gaoge Hu and   
               Shesheng Gao and   
              Yongmin Zhong and   
                    Chengfan Gu   Asymptotic Properties of Random Weighted
                                  Empirical Distribution Function  . . . . 3812--3824
                       Xue Ding   Convergence of Sample Eigenvectors of
                                  Spiked Population Model  . . . . . . . . 3825--3840
                  Chi-Jui Huang   A New GWMA Control Chart for Monitoring
                                  Process Mean and Variability . . . . . . 3841--3856
             Sean C. Kerman and   
              James B. McDonald   Skewness--Kurtosis Bounds for EGB1,
                                  EGB2, and Special Cases  . . . . . . . . 3857--3864
            Frosso S. Makri and   
          Zaharias M. Psillakis   On $l$ $l$-overlapping Runs of Ones of
                                  Length $k$ in Sequences of Independent
                                  Binary Random Variables  . . . . . . . . 3865--3884
                 Qingwu Gao and   
                         Na Jin   Randomly Weighted Sums of Pairwise Quasi
                                  Upper-Tail Independent Increments with
                                  Application to Risk Theory . . . . . . . 3885--3902
                Yingyu Chen and   
                    Lixin Zhang   Local Linear Estimation of Second-order
                                  Jump-diffusion Model . . . . . . . . . . 3903--3920
                  Ferebee Tunno   Bounded Area Tests For Comparing The
                                  Dynamics Between ARMA Processes  . . . . 3921--3941
                 Demei Yuan and   
                    Shunjing Li   From Conditional Independence to
                                  Conditionally Negative Association: Some
                                  Preliminary Results  . . . . . . . . . . 3942--3966
                Francesco Porro   Zenga Distribution and Inequality
                                  Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3967--3977
   Juan José Egozcue and   
       Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn and   
             Matthias Templ and   
                     Karel Hron   Independence in Contingency Tables Using
                                  Simplicial Geometry  . . . . . . . . . . 3978--3996

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 19, 2015

Syed N. U. A. Kirmani Guest Editors and   
  Ram C. Tripathi Guest Editors   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3997--3997
            Barry C. Arnold and   
             Jose A. Villasenor   Orthogonal Spacings  . . . . . . . . . . 3998--4006
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                      Suvra Pal   Likelihood Inference for Flexible Cure
                                  Rate Models with Gamma Lifetimes . . . . 4007--4048
        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
                      Rui Zhang   An Extension of Chen's Family of
                                  Survival Distributions with Bathtub
                                  Shape or Increasing Hazard Rate Function 4049--4064
              J. Y. Dauxois and   
                    S. Jomhoori   Testing an Exponential Delay Time Model
                                  Against an Intensity Proportional Repair
                                  Alert Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4065--4076
       Mohammad A. Aljarrah and   
               Felix Famoye and   
                       Carl Lee   A New Weibull--Pareto Distribution . . . 4077--4095
           D. K. Al-Mutairi and   
              M. E. Ghitany and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Inferences on Stress-Strength
                                  Reliability from Weighted Lindley
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4096--4113
                Pushpa L. Gupta   Properties of Reliability Functions of
                                  Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 4114--4131
          Subhash C. Kochar and   
                  Nuria Torrado   On Stochastic Comparisons of Largest
                                  Order Statistics in the Scale Model  . . 4132--4143
               Mohd. Arshad and   
                   Neeraj Misra   Selecting The Exponential Population
                                  Having The Larger Guarantee Time With
                                  Unequal Sample Sizes . . . . . . . . . . 4144--4171
             H. N. Nagaraja and   
                     Qinying He   Fisher Information in Censored Samples
                                  from the Marshall--Olkin Bivariate
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 4172--4184
       N. Unnikrishnan Nair and   
                 P. G. Sankaran   Odds Function and Odds Rate for Discrete
                                  Lifetime Distributions . . . . . . . . . 4185--4202
                  S. H. Ong and   
               Atanu Biswas and   
                  S. Peiris and   
                      Y. C. Low   Count Distribution for Generalized
                                  Weibull Duration with Applications . . . 4203--4216

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 20, 2015

           Antonio E. Gomes and   
         Cibele Q. Da-Silva and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   The Exponentiated $G$ Poisson Model  . . 4217--4240
      Ramkrishna S. Solanki and   
               Housila P. Singh   An Improved Class of Estimators for the
                                  General Population Parameters Using
                                  Auxiliary Information  . . . . . . . . . 4241--4262
               Majid Rezaei and   
              Behzad Gholizadeh   On the Mixture Proportional Mean
                                  Residual Life Model  . . . . . . . . . . 4263--4277
               Fenglong Guo and   
                 Dingcheng Wang   Uniform Asymptotic Estimates for Ruin
                                  Probabilities with Exponential Lévy
                                  Process Investment Returns and Two-sided
                                  Linear Heavy-tailed Claims . . . . . . . 4278--4306
             Walid Horrigue and   
             Elias Ould Sa\"\id   Non Parametric Regression Quantile
                                  Estimation for Dependent Functional Data
                                  under Random Censorship: Asymptotic
                                  Normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4307--4332
        Moutushi Chatterjee and   
        Ashis Kumar Chakraborty   Distributions and Process Capability
                                  Control Charts for $ C_{PU} $ and $
                                  C_{PL} $ Using Subgroup Information  . . 4333--4353
                Yebin Cheng and   
                    Dawit Zerom   A Quantile Regression Model for
                                  Time-Series Data in the Presence of
                                  Additive Components  . . . . . . . . . . 4354--4379
                  Qiqing Yu and   
          George Y. C. Wong and   
         Michael P. Osborne and   
                 Yuting Hsu and   
                    Xiaosong Ai   The Lehmann Model with Time-dependent
                                  Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4380--4395
       Mahmoud Riad Mahmoud and   
   Amani Shaheen Abd El-Ghafour   Fisher Information Matrix for the
                                  Generalized Feller--Pareto Distribution  4396--4407
               S. Nadarajah and   
                 S. A. A. Bakar   New Folded Models for the
                                  Log-Transformed Norwegian Fire Claim
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4408--4440

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 21, 2015

                  Michele Gallo   Tucker3 Model for Compositional Data . . 4441--4453
  Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and   
             Majid Khedmati and   
           Mir Emad Soleymanian   Statistical Monitoring of Autocorrelated
                                  Simple Linear Profiles Based on
                                  Principal Components Analysis  . . . . . 4454--4475
               Zaher Mohdeb and   
            Abdelkader Mokkadem   Testing Linear Regression Models in Non
                                  Regular Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4476--4490
        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
                Esmaeil Shirazi   On Wavelet Estimation of the Derivatives
                                  of a Density Based on Biased Data  . . . 4491--4506
                Jianwei Gou and   
                     Jinde Wang   Multiple Comparisons with Control Under
                                  Stochastic Ordering: Controlling FDR . . 4507--4520
                    Hu Yang and   
                   Xiaochao Xia   Variable Selection for Semiparametric
                                  Varying Coefficient Partially Linear
                                  Errors-in-Variables (EV) Model with
                                  Missing Response . . . . . . . . . . . . 4521--4539
                Suela Ruffa and   
             Grazia Vicario and   
               Giovanni Pistone   Analysis of the Covariance Structure in
                                  Manufactured Parts . . . . . . . . . . . 4540--4551
                  Jan Bulla and   
        Christophe Chesneau and   
                  Maher Kachour   On the Bivariate Skellam Distribution    4552--4567
         Victor M. Guerrero and   
                    Eliud Silva   Smoothing a Time Series by Segments of
                                  the Data Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4568--4585
               Jim Lawrence and   
               Raghu Kacker and   
            Rüdiger Kessel   Obtaining a Trapezoidal Distribution . . 4586--4599
                    S. Huda and   
                    R. M'Hallah   D-minimax Second-order Designs Over
                                  Hypercubes for Extrapolation and
                                  Restricted Interpolation Regions . . . . 4600--4613
                Tülin Acar   An Investigation of Agreement Between
                                  the Item Difficulty Coefficient
                                  Calculated in Accordance With Classical
                                  Test Theory and Item Response Theory
                                  With Bland--Altman Method  . . . . . . . 4614--4621
                Vassilly Voinov   A Note on Wald's Type Chi-squared Tests
                                  of Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4622--4630
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Estimation of Multiple Linear Regression
                                  Model with Twice-Censored Data . . . . . 4631--4640
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                   Zhichao Weng   Limit Laws for Maxima of Contracted
                                  Stationary Gaussian Sequences  . . . . . 4641--4650
                 Ahmed El Ghini   Probabilistic Properties of Parametric
                                  Dual and Inverse Time Series Models
                                  Generated by ARMA Models . . . . . . . . 4651--4661

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 22, 2015

                      Yong Kong   Distributions of Runs Revisited  . . . . 4663--4678
           Hafiz M. R. Khan and   
              Anshul Saxena and   
                Sankalp Das and   
                 Elizabeth Ross   Inference from the Exponentiated Weibull
                                  Model with Applications to Real Data . . 4679--4695
                Yurong Chen and   
                      Luqin Liu   Laws of the Iterated Logarithm and a
                                  Moderate Deviation of MLE for the
                                  Proportional Hazards Model with
                                  Incomplete Information . . . . . . . . . 4696--4708
                Sucharita Ghosh   Computation of Spatial Gini Coefficients 4709--4720
                   Hao Chen and   
                   Min-Qian Liu   Nested Latin Hypercube Designs with
                                  Sliced Structures  . . . . . . . . . . . 4721--4733
               Koji Tsukuda and   
                 Yasushi Nagata   Asymptotic Theory of Taguchi's Natural
                                  Estimators of the Signal to Noise Ratio
                                  for Dynamic Robust Parameter Design  . . 4734--4741
Gülesen Üstünda\ug \vSiray   $r$-$d$ Class Estimator Under
                                  Misspecification . . . . . . . . . . . . 4742--4756
                   M. A. A. Cox   Exact Average Run Lengths for Monitoring
                                  Poisson Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4757--4771
                 Sungsu Kim and   
                 Ashis SenGupta   Inverse Circular-Linear/Linear-Circular
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4772--4782
                     Wenhao Gui   An Alpha Half Normal Slash Distribution
                                  for Analyzing Non Negative Data  . . . . 4783--4795
        Riyadh R. Al-Mosawi and   
                  P. Vellaisamy   Estimation of the Parameter of the
                                  Selected Binomial Population . . . . . . 4796--4811
              Lucia Modugno and   
              Simone Giannerini   The Wild Bootstrap for Multilevel Models 4812--4825
               Yongli Zhang and   
                Sergio Koreisha   Adaptive Order Determination for
                                  Constructing Time Series Forecasting
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4826--4847
              Tianxiao Pang and   
                    Danna Zhang   Asymptotic Inferences for an $ {\rm
                                  AR}(1) $ Model with a Change Point and
                                  Possibly Infinite Variance . . . . . . . 4848--4865
            Leonardo Grilli and   
           Carla Rampichini and   
               Roberta Varriale   Binomial Mixture Modeling of University
                                  Credits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4866--4879
              Fortunato Pesarin   Some Elementary Theory of Permutation
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4880--4892

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 23, 2015

            Dieter Grientschnig   Reference Priors for Poisson Processes
                                  Involving Nuisance Parameters  . . . . . 4893--4911
                 Kanwar Sen and   
           Manju L. Agarwal and   
            Sonali Bhattacharya   Geiger Counter-Type Pólya--Eggenberger
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4912--4926
            Edgardo Lorenzo and   
               Ganesh Malla and   
                  Hari Mukerjee   A New Test for New Better Than Used in
                                  Expectation Lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . 4927--4939
            Hammou El Barmi and   
                Lahcen El Bermi   On Comparing Cumulative Incidence
                                  Functions Using an Empirical Likelihood
                                  Ratio Type Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . 4940--4952
           G. Srinivasa Rao and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                  Debasis Kundu   Burr--XII Distribution Parametric
                                  Estimation and Estimation of Reliability
                                  of Multicomponent Stress-Strength  . . . 4953--4961
              Guangyu Zheng and   
                      Yimin Shi   Statistical Analysis in Constant-stress
                                  Accelerated Life Tests for Generalized
                                  Exponential Distribution with
                                  Progressive Type-I Hybrid Censoring  . . 4962--4982
                  Y. Maleki and   
                    S. Rezakhah   The Scale Invariant Wigner Spectrum
                                  Estimation of Gaussian Locally
                                  Self-Similar Processes . . . . . . . . . 4983--5004
                  Tomoaki Imoto   Convolution of Binomial and Negative
                                  Binomial Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 5005--5022
               Domenico Piccolo   Inferential Issues on CUBE Models with
                                  Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5023--5036
              Michele Costa and   
                Luca De Angelis   A Dynamic Latent Model for Poverty
                                  Measurement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5037--5048
  Mustafa Ç. Korkmaz and   
             Ali I. Genç   Two-Sided Generalized Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5049--5070
                     Qie Li and   
                  Junfeng Shang   A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for
                                  Multiple Comparisons in Mixed Models . . 5071--5090
           David D. Hanagal and   
                 Alok D. Dabade   Comparison of Shared Frailty Models for
                                  Kidney Infection Data under Exponential
                                  Power Baseline Distribution  . . . . . . 5091--5108

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 44, Number 24, 2015

              Jinsen Zhuang and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Allocating Redundancies to
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ Systems with Independent
                                  and Heterogeneous Components . . . . . . 5109--5119
                Yanqin Feng and   
                    Ling Ma and   
                    Jianguo Sun   Empirical Analysis of Interval-Censored
                                  Failure Time Data with Linear
                                  Transformation Models  . . . . . . . . . 5120--5135
               A. J. Hayter and   
            S. Kiatsupaibul and   
                 P. Napalai and   
                         W. Liu   Simultaneous Inferences on the
                                  Cumulative Distribution Function of a
                                  Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 5136--5145
                Hongmei Xie and   
              Weiwei Zhuang and   
                   Keshe Ni and   
                      Wenyu Liu   Multivariate Excess Wealth Ordering of
                                  Generalized Order Statistics . . . . . . 5146--5160
               Xiaolin Chen and   
                     Qihua Wang   Semiparametric Proportional Mean
                                  Residual Life Model With Censoring
                                  Indicators Missing at Random . . . . . . 5161--5188
               Yinfeng Wang and   
                Yanlin Tang and   
                 Xinsheng Zhang   Estimation of Parameters of the
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Type Processes with
                                  Continuum of Moment Conditions . . . . . 5189--5203
Tomás del Barrio Castro and   
   Andreu Sansó Rossello   On Augmented Franses Tests for Seasonal
                                  Unit Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5204--5212
         Shintaro Hashimoto and   
                 Ken-Ichi Koike   Bhattacharyya-Type Information
                                  Inequality for the Bayes Risk  . . . . . 5213--5224
                  Luigi Salmaso   Combination-Based Permutation Tests:
                                  Equipower Property and Power Behavior in
                                  Presence of Correlation  . . . . . . . . 5225--5239
                 Xibin Zhao and   
                  Shubin Si and   
                Hongyan Dui and   
               Zhiqiang Cai and   
                 Junbo Wang and   
                    Xiaoyu Song   Compositional Performance Evaluation
                                  with Importance Measures . . . . . . . . 5240--5253
            Bojuan Barbara Zhao   Generalized Concept of Relative Risk and
                                  Wider Applications of the Proportional
                                  Hazards Model and the Kaplan--Meier
                                  Estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5254--5266
                  Peiyan Qi and   
                 Zheng Tian and   
                      Xifa Duan   Sequential Monitoring Variance Changes
                                  in Location Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 5267--5284
                  Zhibin Xu and   
                  Luqin Liu and   
                     Yanyan Liu   Proportional Rate Model with Incomplete
                                  Covariate and Complete Auxiliary
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5285--5305
              Shirin Shoaee and   
                Esmaile Khorram   Stress-Strength Reliability of a
                                  Two-Parameter Bathtub-shaped Lifetime
                                  Distribution Based on Progressively
                                  Censored Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . 5306--5328


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 1, 2016

                      Mi-Hwa Ko   A central limit theorem for weighted
                                  sums of associated random field  . . . . 1--8
                Lida Fallah and   
            Leila Golparvar and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Inference based on progressively
                                  censored sample from Pareto population   9--24
                  Abdul Haq and   
             Jennifer Brown and   
          Elena Moltchanova and   
          Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari   Best linear unbiased and invariant
                                  estimation in location-scale families
                                  based on double-ranked set sampling  . . 25--48
                  M. Faliva and   
                 V. Pot\`\i and   
                     M. G. Zoia   Orthogonal polynomials for tailoring
                                  density functions to excess kurtosis,
                                  asymmetry, and dependence  . . . . . . . 49--62
            Maria Iwi\'nska and   
           Magdalena Szymkowiak   Characterizations of the exponential
                                  distribution by Pascal compound  . . . . 63--70
              Husam Awni Bayoud   Admissible minimax estimators for the
                                  shape parameter of Topp--Leone
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--82
          K. Krishnamoorthy and   
                   Jie Peng and   
                      Dan Zhang   Modified large sample confidence
                                  intervals for Poisson distributions:
                                  Ratio, weighted average, and product of
                                  means  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--97
 Krzysztof Podgórski and   
                   Jonas Wallin   Convolution-invariant subclasses of
                                  generalized hyperbolic distributions . . 98--103
              Amarjit Kundu and   
                  Asok K. Nanda   On study of dynamic survival and
                                  cumulative past entropies  . . . . . . . 104--122
                 K. K. Jose and   
                K. D. Mariyamma   A note on an integer valued time series
                                  model with Poisson-negative binomial
                                  marginal distribution  . . . . . . . . . 123--131
         Michal Chrzanowski and   
                Ryszard Magiera   Consistency of non parametric estimators
                                  of the area under the ROC curve  . . . . 132--141
                  Jiantian Wang   Improved versions of Greenwood
                                  estimators under Koziol--Green model . . 142--157
           Housila P. Singh and   
      Ramkrishna S. Solanki and   
                  Alok K. Singh   A generalized ratio-cum-product
                                  estimator for estimating the finite
                                  population mean in survey sampling . . . 158--172
                 F. Bordbar and   
              A. R. Nematollahi   The modified exponential-geometric
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--181
              Zawar Hussain and   
              Bander Al-Zahrani   Mean and sensitivity estimation of a
                                  sensitive variable through additive
                                  scrambling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--193
               E. G. Kyriakidis   Equilibrium probabilities for a
                                  production-inventory system maintained
                                  by a control-limit policy  . . . . . . . 194--200
         Simos G. Meintanis and   
           James S. Allison and   
                Leonard Santana   Diagnostic tests for the distribution of
                                  random effects in multivariate mixed
                                  effects models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--215

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 2, 2016

                  Siming Li and   
                  Yao Sheng and   
                        Yong Li   The quasi-stochastically constrained
                                  least squares method for ill linear
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--225
                 Mahdi Tavangar   Some representation theorems in terms of
                                  mean residual lifetime and mean
                                  inactivity time of coherent systems  . . 226--235
                   Silvia Golia   A proposal for categorizing the severity
                                  of non uniform differential item
                                  functioning: The polytomous case . . . . 236--251
              Santanu Dutta and   
                   Koushik Saha   Consistency of multivariate density
                                  estimators using random bandwidths . . . 252--266
         Nitu Mehta (Ranka) and   
                V. L. Mandowara   A modified ratio-cum-product estimator
                                  of finite population mean using ranked
                                  set sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276
                  Qiongxia Song   Non parametric derivative estimation
                                  with confidence bands  . . . . . . . . . 277--290
                   Dawei Lu and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                    Xiaohu Wang   Precise large deviation for the
                                  difference of two sums of random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--306
           Anoop Chaturvedi and   
             Arvind Shrivastava   Bayesian analysis of a linear model
                                  involving structural changes in either
                                  regression parameters or disturbances
                                  precision  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--320
                  Lionel Cucala   A Mann--Whitney scan statistic for
                                  continuous data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--329
                  Hui Jiang and   
                  Qingshan Yang   Moderate deviations for the moment
                                  estimators in Rayleigh distribution with
                                  two parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--339
                       Ting Yan   Ranking in the generalized
                                  Bradley--Terry models when the strong
                                  connection condition fails . . . . . . . 340--353
        Matteo Farné and   
               Angela Montanari   Different estimators of the spectral
                                  matrix: an empirical comparison testing
                                  a new shrinkage estimator  . . . . . . . 354--364
               Yongxia Zhao and   
              Rongming Wang and   
                    Dingjun Yao   Optimal dividend and equity issuance in
                                  the perturbed dual model under a penalty
                                  for ruin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--384
          Jan G. De Gooijer and   
                        Ao Yuan   Non parametric portmanteau tests for
                                  detecting non linearities in high
                                  dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--399
              Zengjing Chen and   
                    Xinwei Feng   Large deviation for negatively dependent
                                  random variables under sublinear
                                  expectation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--412
            Graciela Boente and   
   Alejandra M. Martínez   Estimating additive models with missing
                                  responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--429
         Antonello Maruotti and   
                 Maurizio Vichi   Time-varying clustering of multivariate
                                  longitudinal observations  . . . . . . . 430--443
             A. Asgharzadeh and   
                L. Esmaeili and   
                   S. Nadarajah   Balakrishnan skew logistic distribution  444--464
             Jacob Schwartz and   
                 David E. Giles   Bias-reduced maximum likelihood
                                  estimation of the zero-inflated Poisson
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--478
                Linjun Tang and   
              Zhangong Zhou and   
                   Changchun Wu   The LAD estimation of the change-point
                                  linear model with randomly censored data 479--491
        Subrata Chakraborty and   
        Dhrubajyoti Chakravarty   A new discrete probability distribution
                                  with integer support on $ ( - \infty,
                                  \infty) $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--505
                     Haifeng Xu   Finite sample properties of an HPT
                                  estimator when each individual
                                  regression coefficient is estimated in a
                                  misspecified linear regression model . . 506--519
              Samir Rahmani and   
            Abdelnasser Dahmani   Exponential inequalities for the
                                  Robbins--Monro's algorithm under mixing
                                  condition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--528
                 Borek Puza and   
                        Mo Yang   Improved confidence intervals for the
                                  exponential mean via tail functions  . . 529--539
             Longxiang Fang and   
                   Jie Ling and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Stochastic comparisons of series and
                                  parallel systems with independent
                                  heterogeneous lower-truncated Weibull
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--551

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 3, 2016

               Zahoor Ahmad and   
               Ijaz Hussain and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   Estimation of finite population variance
                                  in successive sampling using
                                  multi-auxiliary variables  . . . . . . . 553--565
                    Hu Yang and   
                    Jiewu Huang   Further research on the principal
                                  component two-parameter estimator in
                                  linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--576
                    M. C. Jones   On bivariate transformation of scale
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--588
                       Shan Lin   Comparison of simultaneous confidence
                                  bands for univariate polynomial
                                  regression over an interval  . . . . . . 589--596
               Jin-Guo Xian and   
                   Dong Han and   
                     Jian-Qi Yu   Online change detection of Markov chains
                                  with unknown post-change transition
                                  probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--611
            M. Bhaskara Rao and   
              Haimeng Zhang and   
             Chunfeng Huang and   
                  Fu-Chih Cheng   A discrete probability problem in card
                                  shuffling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--620
                Peng Xiuyun and   
                     Yan Zaizai   Bayesian estimation and prediction for
                                  the inverse Weibull distribution under
                                  general progressive censoring  . . . . . 621--635
            Ayman Alzaatreh and   
                 Indranil Ghosh   A study of the Gamma-Pareto (IV)
                                  distribution and its applications  . . . 636--654
                   Feng-Shou Ko   Identification of potential longitudinal
                                  biomarkers under the accelerated failure
                                  time model in multivariate survival data 655--669
              M. G. M. Khan and   
                   N. Ahmad and   
                     L. S. Rafi   Determining the optimal allocation of
                                  testing resource for modular software
                                  system using dynamic programming . . . . 670--694
                Ehsan Ormoz and   
               Farzad Eskandari   Variable selection in finite mixture of
                                  semi-parametric regression models  . . . 695--711
                  Tomoaki Imoto   Properties of Lagrangian distributions   712--721
         Roohollah Roozegar and   
           Ahad Jamalizadeh and   
            Alireza Nematollahi   Concomitants of multivariate order
                                  statistics from multivariate elliptical
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--738
          Timothy G. Feeman and   
                     Jesse Frey   Efficiency bounds for a generalization
                                  of ranked-set sampling . . . . . . . . . 739--756
   Carmelo Rodríguez and   
               Isabel Ortiz and   
        Ignacio Martínez   $A$-optimal designs for heteroscedastic
                                  multifactor regression models  . . . . . 757--771
            Mohsen Khosravi and   
        Víctor Leiva and   
           Ahad Jamalizadeh and   
                   Emilio Porcu   On a nonlinear Birnbaum--Saunders model
                                  based on a bivariate construction and
                                  its characteristics  . . . . . . . . . . 772--793
               Shimin Zheng and   
               Jeff Knisley and   
                   Kesheng Wang   Moments and quadratic forms of matrix
                                  variate skew normal distributions  . . . 794--803
            Waldemar Popi\'nski   Trigonometric regression estimation for
                                  observations with additive and
                                  multiplicative errors  . . . . . . . . . 804--812
                     Sui He and   
                    Ting Du and   
                    Liuquan Sun   Joint modeling of longitudinal data with
                                  a dependent terminal event . . . . . . . 813--835

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 4, 2016

        Sylvanus Itoro Etuk and   
       Ekaette Inyang Enang and   
        Emmanuel John Ekpenyong   A modified class of ratio estimators for
                                  population mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--849
               Baoliang Liu and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                Yanqing Wen and   
                       Furi Guo   A cold standby repairable system with
                                  the repairman having multiple vacations
                                  and operational, repair, and vacation
                                  times following phase-type distributions 850--858
               B. N. Mandal and   
            Rajender Parsad and   
                    V. K. Gupta   Cyclic circular balanced and strongly
                                  balanced crossover designs through
                                  integer programming  . . . . . . . . . . 859--871
                   M. Merzougui   Optimal test for $ {\rm PAR}(1) $
                                  dependence against $ {\rm PSETAR}(2, 1,
                                  1) $ models with specified threshold . . 872--886
        David Källberg and   
                 Oleg Seleznjev   Estimation of entropy-type integral
                                  functionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--905
  Enrique E. Álvarez and   
               Julieta Ferrario   Robust estimation in the additive
                                  hazards model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906--921
                Guimei Zhao and   
               Xingzhong Xu and   
                        Li Wang   The adaptive calibration of testing
                                  $p$-values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922--932
        Sándor Baran and   
                  Gyula Pap and   
                  Kinga Sikolya   Testing stability in a spatial
                                  unilateral autoregressive model  . . . . 933--949
            S. Siripanthana and   
                 E. C. Stillman   Sufficient reduction methods for
                                  multivariate time-dependent health
                                  surveillance data  . . . . . . . . . . . 950--966
                 I. Mohamed and   
                  K. Khalid and   
                    M. S. Yahya   Combined estimating function for random
                                  coefficient models with correlated
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--975
                 Lele Huang and   
                     Tao Hu and   
                   Hengjian Cui   The $T$-type estimate of a class of
                                  partially non linear models  . . . . . . 976--999
                 Baoguo Pan and   
                       Min Chen   Quasi-maximum exponential likelihood
                                  estimation for a non stationary $ {\rm
                                  GARCH}(1, 1) $ model . . . . . . . . . . 1000--1013
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Tanveer A. Tarray   Role of weights in improving the
                                  efficiency of Kim and Warde's mixed
                                  randomized response model  . . . . . . . 1014--1030
       Akanksha S. Kashikar and   
                 S. R. Deshmukh   Estimation in second order branching
                                  processes with application to swine flu
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031--1046
        Kiranmoy Chatterjee and   
              Diganta Mukherjee   An improved estimator of omission rate
                                  for census count: With particular
                                  reference to India . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1062
             Ming-Xiang Cao and   
                Guang-Jun Shena   Linearly admissible estimators of mean
                                  vector with respect to balanced loss
                                  function in multivariate statistics  . . 1063--1069
                Jimmy Reyes and   
Héctor W. Gómez and   
                  Ignacio Vidal   Modified skew-slash distribution . . . . 1070--1080
                    G. Asha and   
                 I. Elbatal and   
                  C. J. Rejeesh   Further results on discrete mean past
                                  lifetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1081--1098
               Haibing Zhao and   
                         Rui Li   Difference-based estimation and model
                                  identification for panel data
                                  semiparametric models with cross-section
                                  dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099--1117
           Zdenek Fabián   Score function of distribution and
                                  revival of the moment method . . . . . . 1118--1136
             Diwakar Shukla and   
          Uttam Kumar Khedlekar   Inventory model for convertible item
                                  with deterioration . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1147
         Shigekazu Nakagawa and   
          Hiroki Hashiguchi and   
                     Naoto Niki   Recurrence formula on the joint
                                  distribution of sample skewness and
                                  kurtosis under normality . . . . . . . . 1148--1155
                Zhaolei Cui and   
                Yuebao Wang and   
                   Kaiyong Wang   The uniform local asymptotics for a Lévy
                                  process and its overshoot and undershoot 1156--1181
                     Shu Wu and   
       Philippe Castagliola and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Run rules based phase II $c$ and $ n p$
                                  charts when process parameters are
                                  unknown  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182--1197

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 5, 2016

                Tingting Li and   
                        Hu Yang   Inverse probability weighted estimators
                                  for single-index models with missing
                                  covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1199--1214
               Zhiyong Chen and   
               Tingting Liu and   
                 Jimin Ling and   
                    Xuejun Wang   On the convergence rate for arrays of
                                  row-wise NOD random variables  . . . . . 1215--1223
              Mark E. Eakin and   
              Mary M. Whiteside   The sampling distribution of the $W$
                                  estimator of the number of valid
                                  signatures on a petition . . . . . . . . 1224--1240
                Manel Kacem and   
     Stéphane Loisel and   
Véronique Maume-Deschamps   Some mixing properties of conditionally
                                  independent processes  . . . . . . . . . 1241--1259
         Toshihiko Kawamura and   
               Hitoshi Motoyama   Performance measures for asymmetric
                                  power loss functions . . . . . . . . . . 1260--1269
           Prabhanjan N. Tattar   Bootstrap test of hypothesis for the
                                  multi-state models in survival analysis  1270--1277
             Salim Bouzebda and   
              Khalid Chokri and   
                  Djamal Louani   Some uniform consistency results in the
                                  partially linear additive model
                                  components estimation  . . . . . . . . . 1278--1310
              Daya K. Nagar and   
Alejandro Roldán-Correa and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   Matrix variate Macdonald distribution    1311--1328
                  Fei Xiang and   
              Stephen G. Walker   Sup-Hellinger consistency for local
                                  density regression . . . . . . . . . . . 1329--1344
            Francesco Bravo and   
   David T. Jacho-Chávez   Semiparametric quasi-likelihood
                                  estimation with missing data . . . . . . 1345--1369
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
          Vicente G. Cancho and   
         Edwin M. M. Ortega and   
           Gladys D. C. Barriga   A model with long-term survivors:
                                  negative binomial Birnbaum--Saunders . . 1370--1387
                    Hu Yang and   
                Chaohui Guo and   
                        Jing Lv   Penalized inverse probability weighted
                                  estimators for weighted rank regression
                                  with missing covariates  . . . . . . . . 1388--1402
              George Vasiliadis   Transient analysis of a finite source
                                  discrete-time queueing system using
                                  homogeneous Markov system with state
                                  size capacities (HMS/c)  . . . . . . . . 1403--1423
               Jordi Valero and   
  Marta Pérez-Casany and   
                  Josep Ginebra   On left-truncating and mixing Poisson
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1424--1434
              D. Najarzadeh and   
                 M. Khazaei and   
                     M. Ganjali   Performance evaluation of
                                  likelihood-ratio tests for assessing
                                  similarity of the covariance matrices of
                                  two multivariate normal populations  . . 1435--1452
                        Jibo Wu   Superiority of the $r$--$k$ class
                                  estimator over some estimators in a
                                  misspecified linear model  . . . . . . . 1453--1458
                       Dawei Lu   A note on the estimates of multivariate
                                  Gaussian probability . . . . . . . . . . 1459--1465
           Housila P. Singh and   
                   Vishal Mehta   Improved estimation of scale parameters
                                  of Morgenstern type bivariate uniform
                                  distribution using ranked set sampling   1466--1476
         Mehdi Jabbari Nooghabi   Shrinkage estimation of $ P(Y < X) $ in
                                  the exponential distribution mixing with
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 1477--1486
         Jan Kolácek and   
           Ivanka Horová   Selection of bandwidth for kernel
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1487--1500
                      Xiaomi Hu   On an ad hoc test for order restricted
                                  multivariate normal means  . . . . . . . 1501--1507
Juan Fernández Sánchez and   
            Wolfgang Trutschnig   Some members of the class of
                                  (quasi-)copulas with given diagonal from
                                  the Markov kernel perspective  . . . . . 1508--1526
               M. Y. Hassan and   
             M. Y. El-Bassiouni   Bimodal skew-symmetric normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1527--1541
              Khaled Smaili and   
              Therrar Kadri and   
                Seifedine Kadry   Finding the PDF of the hypoexponential
                                  random variable using the Kad matrix
                                  similar to the general Vandermonde
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1542--1549
               Abdus Saboor and   
         Tibor K. Pogány   Marshall--Olkin gamma-Weibull
                                  distribution with applications . . . . . 1550--1563
                     Jie Xu and   
                    Yu Miao and   
                    Jicheng Liu   Quasi-sure functional limit theorem for
                                  increments of a fractional Brownian
                                  sheet in Hölder norm  . . . . . . . . . . 1564--1574
               V. Nekoukhou and   
            M. H. Alamatsaz and   
                      H. Bidram   A note on exponentiated geometric
                                  distribution: Another generalization of
                                  geometric distribution . . . . . . . . . 1575--1575

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 6, 2016

          Guglielmo D'Amico and   
             Raimondo Manca and   
                  Sally McClean   Theory and practice of stochastic models
                                  and data analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 1577--1579
             Takeaki Kariya and   
           Yoshiro Yamamura and   
                       Zhu Wang   Empirically effective bond pricing model
                                  for USGBs and analysis on term
                                  structures of implied interest rates in
                                  financial crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . 1580--1606
         Dmitrii Silvestrov and   
                    Yanxiong Li   Stochastic approximation methods for
                                  American type options  . . . . . . . . . 1607--1631
                   Jie Chen and   
                    Joseph Glaz   Scan statistics for monitoring data
                                  modeled by a negative binomial
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1632--1642
             Charlotte Baey and   
             Samis Trevezas and   
          Paul-Henry Courn\`ede   A non linear mixed effects model of
                                  plant growth and estimation via
                                  stochastic variants of the EM algorithm  1643--1669
       Jaume Belles-Sampera and   
  Montserrat Guillén and   
               Miguel Santolino   The use of flexible quantile-based
                                  measures in risk assessment  . . . . . . 1670--1681
        Christos H. Skiadas and   
              Charilaos Skiadas   The health state curve and the health
                                  state life table: Life expectancy and
                                  healthy life expectancy estimates  . . . 1682--1692
                  Alexey Kharin   Performance and robustness evaluation in
                                  sequential hypotheses testing  . . . . . 1693--1709
               M. Symeonaki and   
           G. Stamatopoulou and   
               C. Michalopoulou   Intergenerational educational mobility
                                  in Greece: Transitions and social
                                  distances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1710--1722
            Valeria D'Amato and   
            Steven Haberman and   
          Gabriella Piscopo and   
           Maria Russolillo and   
                Lorenzo Trapani   Multiple mortality modeling in Poisson
                                  Lee--Carter framework  . . . . . . . . . 1723--1732
           Eva-Maria Ortega and   
         José Alonso and   
      Encarnacion Ortega-Quiles   Comparisons of multistate models with
                                  discrete-time pure-birth process for
                                  recurrent events and uncertain
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1733--1746
                   Jie Chen and   
                Joseph Glaz and   
              Cristina P. Sison   Testing homogeneity of the multinomial
                                  proportions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1747--1777
       Ekaterina Bulinskaya and   
               Alexander Gromov   Asymptotic behavior of the processes
                                  describing some insurance models . . . . 1778--1793
 André G. C. Pereira and   
           Viviane S. M. Campos   Multistage non homogeneous Markov chain
                                  modeling of the non homogeneous genetic
                                  algorithm and convergence results  . . . 1794--1804
                  Komarudin and   
              Tim De Feyter and   
          Marie-Anne Guerry and   
            Greet Vanden Berghe   Balancing desirability and promotion
                                  steadiness in partially stochastic
                                  manpower planning systems  . . . . . . . 1805--1818
           Mariangela Zenga and   
          Adele H. Marshall and   
              Franca Crippa and   
                Hannah Mitchell   The Coxian phase-type distribution as a
                                  contribution to the multilevel model of
                                  in-hospital mortality  . . . . . . . . . 1819--1830
            Ping Shing Chan and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
                 Hon Yiu So and   
              Hon Keung Tony Ng   Optimal sample size allocation for
                                  multi-level stress testing with
                                  exponential regression under Type-I
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831--1852

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 7, 2016

             Yacine Ferrani and   
         Elias Ould Sa\"\id and   
            Abdelkader Tatachak   On kernel density and mode estimates for
                                  associated and censored data . . . . . . 1853--1862
             Khardani Salah and   
                     Thiam Baba   Strong consistency result of a non
                                  parametric conditional mode estimator
                                  under random censorship for functional
                                  regressors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863--1875
          Deniz Özonur and   
        Fikri Gökpinar and   
         Esra Gökpinar and   
              Hülya Bayrak   Goodness of fit tests for Nakagami
                                  distribution based on smooth tests . . . 1876--1886
                 Ryan T. Godwin   Bias reduction for the maximum
                                  likelihood estimator of the
                                  doubly-truncated Poisson distribution    1887--1901
      Chibueze E. Ogbonnaya and   
             Emeka C. Uzochukwu   Estimation of missing data in analysis
                                  of covariance: A least-squares approach  1902--1909
              Masashi Hyodo and   
           Nobumichi Shutoh and   
                Takashi Seo and   
               Tatjana Pavlenko   Estimation of the covariance matrix with
                                  two-step monotone missing data . . . . . 1910--1922
             Zhengqiang Pan and   
                   Quan Sun and   
                      Jing Feng   Reliability modeling of systems with two
                                  dependent degrading components based on
                                  gamma processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1923--1938
           Carsten Drinkuth and   
                Matthias Arnold   Asymptotics of improved generalized
                                  moment estimators for spatial
                                  autoregressive error models  . . . . . . 1939--1952
         Michael G. Kenward and   
              Geert Molenberghs   A taxonomy of mixing and outcome
                                  distributions based on conjugacy and
                                  bridging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1953--1968
              Roel Braekers and   
                  Yves Grouwels   A semi-parametric Cox's regression model
                                  for zero-inflated left-censored time to
                                  event data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1969--1988
               Wojciech Rejchel   Lasso with convex loss: Model selection
                                  consistency and estimation . . . . . . . 1989--2004
       José Oliveira and   
      Jéssica Santos and   
              Cleber Xavier and   
           Daniele Trindade and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   The McDonald half-logistic distribution:
                                  Theory and practice  . . . . . . . . . . 2005--2022
        V. J. García and   
E. Gómez-Déniz and   
      F. J. Vázquez-Polo   A Marshall--Olkin family of heavy-tailed
                                  distributions which includes the
                                  lognormal one  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2023--2044
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
                    Weiguo Yang   The strong law of large numbers and the
                                  Shannon--McMillan theorem for the $m$
                                  th-order nonhomogeneous Markov chains
                                  indexed by an $m$ rooted Cayley tree . . 2045--2055
      Ramkrishna S. Solanki and   
               Housila P. Singh   An improved estimation in stratified
                                  random sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2056--2070
           David D. Hanagal and   
                  Arvind Pandey   Gamma shared frailty model based on
                                  reversed hazard rate . . . . . . . . . . 2071--2088
               Anja B. Schmiedt   Domains of attraction of asymptotic
                                  distributions of extreme generalized
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 2089--2104
                Zaheen Khan and   
                  Javid Shabbir   Some remarks on the traditional way of
                                  circular and diagonal circular
                                  systematic sampling schemes  . . . . . . 2105--2117
                   Dawei Lu and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                      Tao Zhang   Large deviations for sum of UEND and $
                                  \phi $-mixing random variables with
                                  heavy tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2118--2129
        M. Shafaei Noughabi and   
                    S. Izadkhah   On the quantile past lifetime of the
                                  components of the parallel systems . . . 2130--2136
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
               Stephen Chan and   
             Emmanuel Afuecheta   On the distribution of some ordered
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2137--2142
                   Ye Liang and   
                    Dongchu Sun   Identifiability of masking probabilities
                                  in competing risks models with emphasis
                                  on Weibull models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2143--2157

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 8, 2016

                Mehdi Amiri and   
           Ahad Jamalizadeh and   
                   Mina Towhidi   Some multivariate singular unified
                                  skew-normal distributions and their
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2159--2171
                    Yan Liu and   
                   Min-Qian Liu   Construction of uniform designs for
                                  mixture experiments with complex
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2172--2180
          Ali Dastbaravarde and   
        Nasser Reza Arghami and   
                   Majid Sarmad   Some theoretical results concerning non
                                  parametric estimation by using a
                                  judgment poststratification sample . . . 2181--2203
           S. Shams Harandi and   
                M. H. Alamatsaz   Generalized linear failure rate power
                                  series distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 2204--2227
                Chaolin Liu and   
                        Hu Yang   Positive-rule Stein-type almost unbiased
                                  ridge estimator in linear regression
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2228--2255
                 Qian Zhang and   
               Xingzhong Xu and   
                      Shiyun Mi   A generalized $p$-value approach to
                                  inference on the performance measures of
                                  an M/E$_k$ /1 queueing system  . . . . . 2256--2267
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
     Maria Do Carmo S. Lima and   
  Audrey H. M. A. Cysneiros and   
     Marcelino A. R. Pascoa and   
          Rodrigo R. Pescim and   
             Edwin M. M. Ortega   An extended Birnbaum-Saunders
                                  distribution: Theory, estimation, and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2268--2297
           Luis Firinguetti and   
        Hernán Rubio and   
            Yogendra P. Chaubey   A non stochastic ridge regression
                                  estimator and comparison with the
                                  James--Stein estimator . . . . . . . . . 2298--2310
Emilio Gómez Déniz and   
José María Sarabia   A discrete distribution including the
                                  Poisson  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311--2322
          Josemar Rodrigues and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
     Mário de Castro and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   A unified class of compound lifetime
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2323--2331
            Zheng-Ling Yang and   
               Yan-Wen Song and   
              Zhi-Feng Duan and   
                  Teng Wang and   
                      Jun Zhang   New Sigmoid-like function better than
                                  Fisher $z$ transformation  . . . . . . . 2332--2341
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Reliability characteristics of
                                  Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern family of
                                  bivariate distributions  . . . . . . . . 2342--2353
          E. Bahrami Samani and   
                     M. Ganjali   A Bayesian random effects model for
                                  analyzing mixed negative binomial and
                                  continuous longitudinal responses  . . . 2354--2367
     Hrishikesh Chakraborty and   
                  Pranab K. Sen   Resampling method to estimate
                                  intra-cluster correlation for clustered
                                  binary data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2368--2377
                     Liang Wang   Estimation for exponential distribution
                                  based on competing risk middle censored
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2378--2391
           Krzysztof Jasi\'nski   On maximum variance of $k$-th records    2392--2401
                Aiting Shen and   
               Xinghui Wang and   
                     Huayan Zhu   Convergence properties for weighted sums
                                  of NSD random variables  . . . . . . . . 2402--2412
             Shashi Shekhar and   
                  Lalmohan Bhar   Incomplete block designs for asymmetric
                                  parallel line assays . . . . . . . . . . 2413--2425
           Hamid El Maroufy and   
              Driss Kiouach and   
                      Taib Ziad   Final outcome probabilities for SIR
                                  epidemic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2426--2437
          Rahim Chinipardaz and   
                 Khadijeh Mehri   Irreconcilability of $P$-value and
                                  Bayesian measure in two-sided
                                  hypothesis: Pareto distribution with the
                                  presence of nuisance parameter . . . . . 2438--2449
        Ioannis A. Koutrouvelis   Graphical procedures and goodness-of-fit
                                  tests for the compound
                                  Poisson--exponential distribution  . . . 2450--2464
             David E. Giles and   
                   Hui Feng and   
                 Ryan T. Godwin   Bias-corrected maximum likelihood
                                  estimation of the parameters of the
                                  generalized Pareto distribution  . . . . 2465--2483

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 9, 2016

                 Shuwen Wan and   
                 Binrong Xu and   
                     Biao Zhang   Using logistic regression for
                                  semiparametric comparison of population
                                  means and variances  . . . . . . . . . . 2485--2503
            Hamid Shahriari and   
                    Orod Ahmadi   A robust $R$ control chart based on a
                                  two-step estimator of the process
                                  dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2504--2523
                  Shijia Du and   
                   Cong Lin and   
                     Lirong Cui   Reliabilities of a single-unit system
                                  with multi-phased missions . . . . . . . 2524--2537
          Vidhura Tennekoon and   
                Robert Rosenman   Systematically misclassified binary
                                  dependent variables  . . . . . . . . . . 2538--2555
José Augusto Fioruci and   
                   Bao Yiqi and   
          Francisco Louzada and   
              Vicente G. Cancho   The exponential Poisson logarithmic
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2556--2575
Mehrzad Ghorbani-Mandolakani and   
       Mohammad Reza Salehi Rad   ML and Bayes estimation in a two-phase
                                  tandem queue with a second optional
                                  service and random feedback  . . . . . . 2576--2591
       Emmanuel O. Ogundimu and   
                 Jane L. Hutton   A unified approach to multilevel sample
                                  selection models . . . . . . . . . . . . 2592--2611
             Sam Weerahandi and   
                Jinadasa Gamage   A general method of inference for
                                  two-parameter continuous distributions   2612--2625
                   Xili Tan and   
                  Hang Wang and   
                     Yong Zhang   Complete convergence of the
                                  non-identically distributed pairwise NQD
                                  random sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 2626--2637
                    Tuli De and   
        Didier Fraix Burnet and   
       Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay   Clustering large number of extragalactic
                                  spectra of galaxies and quasars through
                                  canopies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2638--2653
          Nattakarn Chaidee and   
     Tippawan Santiwipanont and   
          Songkiat Sumetkijakan   Patched approximations and their
                                  convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2654--2664
                     Surupa Roy   Analysis of ordered probit model with
                                  surrogate response data and measurement
                                  error in covariates  . . . . . . . . . . 2665--2678
                G. N. Singh and   
                      S. Prasad   Some estimation procedures using a
                                  linear model in successive sampling  . . 2679--2698
               Elham Basiri and   
               Jafar Ahmadi and   
              Mohammad Z. Raqab   Comparison among non parametric
                                  prediction intervals of order statistics 2699--2713
        A. D. C. Nascimento and   
            G. J. A. Amaral and   
                B. B. Achic and   
                  J. T. M. Cruz   Influential observation in complex
                                  normal data for problems in allometry    2714--2729
             Laurent Bordes and   
        Christian Paroissin and   
                     Ali Salami   Parametric inference in a perturbed
                                  gamma degradation process  . . . . . . . 2730--2747
                     Yu Fei and   
                 Yating Pan and   
                   Yin Chen and   
                    Jianxin Pan   Modeling of covariance structures of
                                  random effects and random errors in
                                  linear mixed models  . . . . . . . . . . 2748--2769
               M. Merzougui and   
                   H. Dridi and   
                      A. Chadli   Test for periodicity in restrictive
                                  EXPAR models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2770--2783

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 10, 2016

                       J. Cheng   A transitional Markov switching
                                  autoregressive model . . . . . . . . . . 2785--2800
                  Yang Yang and   
                      Liwei Sha   Precise large deviations for aggregate
                                  claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2801--2809
               Hongjun Wang and   
                   Paul S. Horn   A low-end quantile estimator from a
                                  right-skewed distribution  . . . . . . . 2810--2833
                  Hongshuai Dai   Random walks and subfractional Brownian
                                  motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2834--2841
          Rohan Kumar Raman and   
                  U. C. Sud and   
                  Hukum Chandra   Calibration approach for estimating
                                  population total with subsampling of non
                                  respondents under single- and two-phase
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2842--2856
E. Gómez-Déniz and   
       E. Calderín-Ojeda   The Poisson-conjugate Lindley mixture
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2857--2872
                  Abdul Haq and   
             Jennifer Brown and   
          Elena Moltchanova and   
          Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari   Paired double-ranked set sampling  . . . 2873--2889
              Sumith Gunasekera   Bayesian inference for the offered
                                  optical network unit load  . . . . . . . 2890--2919
                Adam Lenart and   
               Trifon I. Missov   Goodness-of-fit tests for the Gompertz
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2920--2937
                Liying Wang and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                  Jie Zhang and   
                      Jing Peng   Reliability evaluation of a Semi-Markov
                                  repairable system under alternative
                                  environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2938--2957
J. M. Fernández-Ponce and   
                 F. Pellery and   
M. R. Rodríguez-Griñolo   New multivariate aging notions based on
                                  the corrected orthant and the standard
                                  construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2958--2974
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                 E. P. Sreedevi   A proportional hazards model for the
                                  analysis of doubly censored competing
                                  risks data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2975--2987
                Chun-Yi Lin and   
                 P. C. Wang and   
                Meijie Wang and   
                  Ming-Hao Wang   A simple method to obtain minimum
                                  aberration split-plot designs  . . . . . 2988--2997
                Litong Wang and   
                    Guobing Pan   The non parametric regression estimate
                                  with dependent measurement errors  . . . 2998--3010
        Dwi Yuli Rakhmawati and   
               Chien-Wei Wu and   
                 Chao-Lung Yang   Performance evaluation of processes with
                                  asymmetric tolerances in the presence of
                                  gauge measurement errors . . . . . . . . 3011--3026
                    Yan Fan and   
                Manlai Tang and   
                    Maozai Tian   Composite quantile regression for
                                  varying-coefficient single-index models  3027--3047
              Jukka Kohonen and   
                 Jukka Corander   Computing exact clustering posteriors
                                  with subset convolution  . . . . . . . . 3048--3058
                  Peter Congdon   A local join counts methodology for
                                  spatial clustering in disease from
                                  relative risk models . . . . . . . . . . 3059--3075
                     Yanhong Wu   Inference after truncated one-sided
                                  sequential test  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3076--3094
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3095--3095

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 11, 2016

            Fatima Benziadi and   
                Ali Laksaci and   
             Fethallah Tebboune   Recursive kernel estimate of the
                                  conditional quantile for functional
                                  ergodic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3097--3113
                G. N. Singh and   
                    F. Homa and   
                      S. Maurya   On the use of several auxiliary
                                  variables in estimation of current
                                  population mean in successive sampling   3114--3125
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Tanveer A. Tarray   A stratified Tracy and Osahan's
                                  two-stage randomized response model  . . 3126--3137
            Gordon Anderson and   
                   Teng Wah Leo   A note on a family of criteria for
                                  evaluating test statistics . . . . . . . 3138--3144
    A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and   
                    Amal Ghania   New estimators of distribution functions 3145--3157
                  Ke-Ang Fu and   
                     Jie Li and   
                 Xiao-Rong Yang   Asymptotic properties of the bootstrap
                                  unit root test statistic under possibly
                                  infinite variance  . . . . . . . . . . . 3158--3167
              Baicheng Chen and   
                  Hua Liang and   
                      Yong Zhou   GMM estimation in partial linear models
                                  with endogenous covariates causing an
                                  over-identified problem  . . . . . . . . 3168--3184
                Yongfeng Wu and   
                 Andrei Volodin   Complete moment convergence of weighted
                                  sums for arrays of negatively dependent
                                  random variables and its applications    3185--3195
            Jorge M. Arevalillo   The Cornish--Fisher expansion for a
                                  class of statistics in first order
                                  autoregression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3196--3205
                 Suisui Che and   
                  Kai Huang and   
                         Jie Mi   Inference about parameters in
                                  Binomial-Poisson distribution with
                                  additional incomplete data . . . . . . . 3206--3222
                    Yu Miao and   
             Wei-Qiang Geng and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Invariance principles and almost sure
                                  central limit theorem for the error
                                  variance estimator in linear models  . . 3223--3235
                   Wei Chen and   
                     Dehui Wang   Empirical likelihood inference for a
                                  semiparametric hazards regression model  3236--3248
            Vassilly Voinov and   
                Natalie Pya and   
             Rashid Makarov and   
                Yevgeniy Voinov   New invariant and consistent chi-squared
                                  type goodness-of-fit tests for
                                  multivariate normality and a related
                                  comparative simulation study . . . . . . 3249--3263
                Parminder Singh   A note on successive comparisons between
                                  several ordered variances  . . . . . . . 3264--3273
              Jinliang Wang and   
             Changshou Deng and   
               Jiangfeng Li and   
                    Mingfa Zhou   On variances and covariances of a kind
                                  of extreme order statistics  . . . . . . 3274--3282
Lupércio F. Bessegato and   
              Lucas S. Mota and   
             Roberto C. Quinino   Online control by attributes in the
                                  presence of classification errors with
                                  variable inspection interval . . . . . . 3283--3301
              Hilal A. Lone and   
              Rajesh Tailor and   
               Housila P. Singh   Generalized ratio-cum-product type
                                  exponential estimator in stratified
                                  random sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3302--3309
             Mahdi Teimouri and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Simulation of Balakrishnan skew-normal
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 3310--3322
              J. Martin Van Zyl   Regression with an infinite number of
                                  observations applied to estimating the
                                  parameters of the stable distribution
                                  using the empirical characteristic
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3323--3331
              Ludwig A. Hothorn   The two-step approach --- a significant
                                  ANOVA $F$-test before Dunnett's
                                  comparisons against a control --- is not
                                  recommended  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3332--3343
                     Shin-Li Lu   Applying fast initial response features
                                  on GWMA control charts for monitoring
                                  autocorrelation data . . . . . . . . . . 3344--3356
              Eugene Seneta and   
                       Simon Ku   Unique decomposition of low-order time
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3357--3366
           Edleide de Brito and   
     Giovana Oliveira Silva and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
Clarice Garcia B. Demétrio   The McDonald Gumbel model  . . . . . . . 3367--3382
             Kamyar Chalaki and   
              Abbas Saghaei and   
                 M. B. Moghadam   A comparison study of effectiveness and
                                  robustness of robust economic designs of
                                  $ T^2 $ chart using genetic algorithm    3383--3396
                John Tuhao Chen   A nonparametric coherent confidence
                                  procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3397--3409

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 12, 2016

               Zhengyan Lin and   
             Tian-Xiao Pang and   
                 Kyo-Shin Hwang   An almost sure central limit theorem for
                                  self-normalized partial sums of weakly
                                  dependent random variables . . . . . . . 3411--3420
           Rostyslav Bodnar and   
               Taras Bodnar and   
                Wolfgang Schmid   Multivariate autoregressive extreme
                                  value process and its application for
                                  modeling the time series properties of
                                  the extreme daily asset prices . . . . . 3421--3440
              Zai-Ying Zhou and   
                      Ying Yang   A random weighting approach for
                                  posterior distributions  . . . . . . . . 3441--3457
                  Jorge Navarro   A very simple proof of the multivariate
                                  Chebyshev's inequality . . . . . . . . . 3458--3463
                 Om Parkash and   
                         Mukesh   Contribution of maximum entropy
                                  principle in the field of queueing
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3464--3472
      Muhammad Anas Knefati and   
          Abderrahim Oulidi and   
                Belkacem Abdous   Local linear double and asymmetric
                                  kernel estimation of conditional
                                  quantiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3473--3488
               Jianhong Shi and   
                   Weixing Song   Asymptotic results in gamma kernel
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3489--3509
            Sarjinder Singh and   
          Stephen Andrew Sedory   Two-step calibration of design weights
                                  in survey sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 3510--3523
               David Nelson and   
            Siamak Noorbaloochi   Splice plots for generalized linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3524--3540
                  Abdul Haq and   
             Jennifer Brown and   
              Elena Moltchanova   Improved best linear unbiased estimators
                                  for the simple linear regression model
                                  using double ranked set sampling schemes 3541--3561
               Zhiyong Zhou and   
                   Zhengyan Lin   Limit theory for random coefficient
                                  autoregressive process under possibly
                                  infinite variance error sequence . . . . 3562--3576
                   Wei Wang and   
                 Linyi Qian and   
                  Wensheng Wang   Hedging of contingent claims written on
                                  non traded assets under Markov-modulated
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3577--3595
           Alan M. Polansky and   
                    Santu Ghosh   Using observed confidence levels to
                                  perform principal component analyses . . 3596--3611
               Peer Bilal Ahmad   On the Bayes estimators of the
                                  parameters of size-biased generalized
                                  power series distributions . . . . . . . 3612--3624
      Jürg Hüsler and   
                  Deyuan Li and   
                Mathias Raschke   Extreme value index estimator using
                                  maximum likelihood and moment estimation 3625--3636
               Jau-Chuan Ke and   
                  Dong-Yuh Yang   Analysis of a batch arrival queue with
                                  vacation policy and exceptional service  3637--3657
               Xiuqing Zhou and   
                   Guoxiang Liu   LAD-Lasso variable selection for doubly
                                  censored median regression models  . . . 3658--3667
                   Feng-Shou Ko   Sample size determination for quality
                                  control process using a multiple
                                  components tolerance interval  . . . . . 3668--3674
           Zohreh Mohammadi and   
                   Mina Towhidi   Empirical Bayes estimation for the mean
                                  of the selected normal population when
                                  there are additional data  . . . . . . . 3675--3691
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                  Chengxiu Ling   Maxima of skew elliptical triangular
                                  arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3692--3705
                 Demei Yuan and   
                        Lan Lei   Some results following from conditional
                                  characteristic functions . . . . . . . . 3706--3720

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 13, 2016

               Mahdi Salehi and   
               Jafar Ahmadi and   
                      Sanku Dey   Comparison of two sampling schemes for
                                  generating record-breaking data from the
                                  proportional hazard rate models  . . . . 3721--3733
                Jianwei Gao and   
                  Liyuan Wu and   
                     Huihui Liu   On the probability of ruin in a
                                  continuous risk model with two types of
                                  delayed claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3734--3750
                  Junfeng Shang   A diagnostic of influential cases based
                                  on the information complexity criteria
                                  in generalized linear mixed models . . . 3751--3760
               A. A. Jafari and   
                   S. Tahmasebi   Gompertz-power series distributions  . . 3761--3781
             E. Androulakis and   
                  K. Drosou and   
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                     Y.-D. Zhou   Measures of uniformity in experimental
                                  designs: a selective overview  . . . . . 3782--3806
               Xingfa Zhang and   
                 Heung Wong and   
                        Yuan Li   A functional coefficient GARCH-$M$ model 3807--3821
                 F. Graiche and   
                 D. Merabet and   
                  D. Hamadouche   Testing change in the variance with
                                  epidemic alternatives  . . . . . . . . . 3822--3837
      Natalie V. R. Mendoza and   
         Edwin M. M. Ortega and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   The exponentiated-log-logistic geometric
                                  distribution: Dual activation  . . . . . 3838--3859
           E. G. Kyriakidis and   
               T. D. Dimitrakos   A semi-Markov decision model for the
                                  optimal control of a simple
                                  immigration-birth-death process through
                                  the introduction of a predator . . . . . 3860--3873
                     Tao Li and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Sign test based on $k$-tuple general
                                  ranked set samples . . . . . . . . . . . 3874--3883
             Xiaoqing Liang and   
                      Junyi Guo   Optimal investment, consumption, and
                                  life insurance in an incomplete market   3884--3903
                K. S. Meena and   
                    T. Vasanthi   Reliability design for a MANET with
                                  cluster-head gateway routing protocol    3904--3918
                Asghar Seif and   
              Alireza Faraz and   
               Erwin Saniga and   
        Cédric Heuchenne   A statistically adaptive sampling policy
                                  to the Hotelling's $ T^2 $ control
                                  chart: Markov chain approach . . . . . . 3919--3929
                G. N. Singh and   
                    A. K. Singh   An improved estimation procedure of
                                  population mean in two-occasion
                                  successive sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 3930--3938
                G. N. Singh and   
                  M. Khetan and   
                      S. Maurya   Estimation under non response when it
                                  occurs on both occasions in two-occasion
                                  successive sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 3939--3951
              Ma\lgorzata Murat   Bayesian estimation for non zero
                                  inflated modified power series
                                  distribution under linex and generalized
                                  entropy loss functions . . . . . . . . . 3952--3969
            Leila Golparvar and   
            Ali Karimnezhad and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Bayes and robust Bayes predictions in a
                                  subfamily of scale parameters under a
                                  precautionary loss function  . . . . . . 3970--3992
            Jing-Jing Zhang and   
                 Han-Ying Liang   Berry--Esséen type bounds in
                                  heteroscedastic errors-in-variables
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3993--4017
                 H. Morabbi and   
                M. Razmkhah and   
                   Jafar Ahmadi   Point estimation of lower quantiles
                                  based on two-sampling scheme . . . . . . 4018--4034

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 14, 2016

                   Majid Rezaei   On proportional mean past lifetimes
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4035--4047
                    Hu Yang and   
                    Jing Lv and   
                    Chaohui Guo   Robust estimation and variable selection
                                  for varying-coefficient single-index
                                  models based on modal regression . . . . 4048--4067
            Zhensheng Huang and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
                      Yazhao Lv   Semiparametric inference on partially
                                  linear single-index model  . . . . . . . 4068--4085
      Ramkrishna S. Solanki and   
               Housila P. Singh   The generalized family of estimators of
                                  population mean using auxiliary
                                  information in double sampling . . . . . 4086--4105
           Housila P. Singh and   
                Jong M. Kim and   
              Tanveer A. Tarray   A family of estimators of population
                                  variance in two-occasion rotation
                                  patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4106--4116
             S. Chakraborty and   
                      S. H. Ong   A COM--Poisson-type generalization of
                                  the negative binomial distribution . . . 4117--4135
           A. Bandyopadhyay and   
                    G. N. Singh   Estimation of ratio of population means
                                  in two-occasion successive sampling  . . 4136--4155
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
       Philippe Castagliola and   
                 J. Y. Liew and   
                 W. L. Teoh and   
          Petros E. Maravelakis   A Study on EWMA charts with runs
                                  rules-the Markov chain approach  . . . . 4156--4180
             Michael Maraun and   
                   Moritz Heene   A note on the implications of factorial
                                  invariance for common factor variable
                                  equivalence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4181--4193
     Athanasios C. Rakitzis and   
           Philippe Castagliola   The effect of parameter estimation on
                                  the performance of one-sided Shewhart
                                  control charts for zero-inflated
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4194--4214
                    Feng Hu and   
                  Zengjing Chen   General laws of large numbers under
                                  sublinear expectations . . . . . . . . . 4215--4229
              Jianwen Huang and   
                  Shouquan Chen   Tail behavior of the generalized Maxwell
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4230--4236
             Rovshan Aliyev and   
                Ozlem Ardic and   
                 Tahir Khaniyev   Asymptotic approach for a renewal-reward
                                  process with a general interference of
                                  chance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4237--4248
           A. Bandyopadhyay and   
                    G. N. Singh   Predictive estimation of population mean
                                  in two-phase sampling  . . . . . . . . . 4249--4267
               Abdelouahab Bibi   Two-stage generalized moment method
                                  approach for bidimensional random
                                  coefficient autoregressive models  . . . 4268--4284
               Chunlin Wang and   
                     Gemai Chen   A new hybrid estimation method for the
                                  generalized Pareto distribution  . . . . 4285--4294
                Qiang Zhang and   
                 Dejian Lai and   
                 Barry R. Davis   Repeated confidence intervals and
                                  prediction intervals using stochastic
                                  curtailment under fractional Brownian
                                  motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4295--4306
               L. R. Naidoo and   
                   D. North and   
                 T. Zewotir and   
                       R. Arnab   Multiple-start balanced modified
                                  systematic sampling in the presence of
                                  linear trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4307--4324

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 15, 2016

                H. S. Jhajj and   
              Harpreet Kaur and   
                   Puneet Jhajj   Efficient family of estimators of median
                                  using two-phase sampling design  . . . . 4325--4331
             N. Alemohammad and   
                S. Rezakhah and   
                 S. H. Alizadeh   Markov switching component GARCH model:
                                  Stability and forecasting  . . . . . . . 4332--4348
           Jean-Claude Fort and   
              Thierry Klein and   
                   Nabil Rachdi   New sensitivity analysis subordinated to
                                  a contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4349--4364
    Sueli Aparecida Mingoti and   
Graziele Umbelina Alves Ferreira   Hayter and Tsui's test with double
                                  sampling for the vector mean of
                                  multivariate normal population . . . . . 4365--4377
        Alfredas Rackauskas and   
                 Charles Suquet   Computing the distribution of sequential
                                  Hölder norms of the Brownian motion . . . 4378--4391
               M. K. Sharma and   
               Mekonnen Tadesse   Optimal block designs for double cross
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4392--4396
Guillermo Martínez-Flórez and   
              Mario Pacheco and   
           Ramón Giraldo   Inference in log-alpha-power and
                                  log-skew-normal multivariate models  . . 4397--4415
             Indranil Ghosh and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   An alternative approach for
                                  compatibility of two discrete
                                  conditional distributions  . . . . . . . 4416--4432
        Francisco J. Ortega and   
           Jesús Basulto   A generalization of Jeffreys' rule for
                                  non regular models . . . . . . . . . . . 4433--4444
                  DeHua Qiu and   
                   PingYan Chen   Convergence for weighted sums of widely
                                  orthant dependent random variables . . . 4445--4453
Sévérien Nkurunziza and   
           Marwan Al-Momani and   
                Eric Yu Yin Lin   Shrinkage and LASSO strategies in
                                  high-dimensional heteroscedastic models  4454--4470
                  Jianbo Li and   
                    Yuan Li and   
            Zhensheng Huang and   
                   Riquan Zhang   Empirical likelihood-based serial
                                  correlation testing in partially varying
                                  coefficient single-index models  . . . . 4471--4485
                    Sangun Park   On the Kullback--Leibler information of
                                  hybrid censored data . . . . . . . . . . 4486--4493
                Xuejun Wang and   
                   Shuhe Hu and   
                 Andrei Volodin   General results of complete convergence
                                  and complete moment convergence for
                                  weighted sums of some class of random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4494--4508
           Syeda Rabab Mudakkar   Construction of peculiar diffusion
                                  process having Gaussian marginals  . . . 4509--4516
                    Hu Yang and   
                      Lian Yang   Assessing local influence for elliptical
                                  linear models under equality constraints 4517--4527
                Lingxiang Zhang   Performance of unit-root tests for non
                                  linear unit-root and partial unit-root
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4528--4536
          Fredy Castellares and   
               Artur J. Lemonte   On the Marshall--Olkin extended
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4537--4555
            Muhyiddin Izadi and   
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
                  Chin-Diew Lai   On testing more IFRA ordering --- II . . 4556--4568
               Tiantian Mao and   
                        Lei Hua   Second-order regular variation inherited
                                  from Laplace--Stieltjes transforms . . . 4569--4588
                S. Izadkhah and   
                   M. Amini and   
    G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran   Preservation of dependence concepts
                                  under bivariate weighted distributions   4589--4599
                   Wenjun Xiong   The optimal group size using inverse
                                  binomial group testing considering
                                  misclassification  . . . . . . . . . . . 4600--4610
                   Chien-Hua Wu   Randomized response model versus mixture
                                  model in the crossover design for
                                  clinical trials  . . . . . . . . . . . . 4611--4627
                Suchandan Kayal   Characterization based on generalized
                                  entropy of order statistics  . . . . . . 4628--4636

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 16, 2016

                   M. Javed and   
                S. S. Sidhu and   
                Sarjinder Singh   An extension of Franklin's randomized
                                  response technique for multi-proportions 4637--4662
             Peter Rogerson and   
                   Peter Kedron   A changepoint statistic with uniform
                                  Type I error probabilities . . . . . . . 4663--4672
               Tianhua Wang and   
                 Shuguang Huang   An adaptive multivariate CUSUM control
                                  chart for signaling a range of location
                                  shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4673--4691
              Zhengjia Chen and   
                    Xinjia Chen   Exact calculation of minimum sample size
                                  for estimating a Poisson parameter . . . 4692--4715
              Reza Hosseini and   
              Akimichi Takemura   An objective look at obtaining the
                                  plotting positions for $ Q Q $-plots . . 4716--4728
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   The distribution of the maximum of a
                                  first-order moving average: The discrete
                                  casex  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4729--4744
               Sang Joon Um and   
                  Jong Gurl Kim   A simultaneous control scheme for mean
                                  and fraction non conforming in small
                                  process variation  . . . . . . . . . . . 4745--4759
                  Hui Jiang and   
                    Xin Yun and   
                       Chen Xie   Asymptotic properties for the moment
                                  estimators in Rayleigh distribution with
                                  two parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4760--4770
                David Patterson   A three-population constrained
                                  discrimination procedure . . . . . . . . 4771--4787
                  Sofia Normark   Minimax designs for $ 2^k $ factorial
                                  experiments for generalized linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4788--4797
     Manoj Kumar Srivastava and   
              Namita Srivastava   Chain-type ratio estimator in successive
                                  sampling using multi-auxiliary
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4798--4811
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   On goodness-of-fit tests for Aalen's
                                  additive model based on left-truncated
                                  right-censored or doubly censored data   4812--4823
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
                         Jie Mi   Dynamic mixing probability measures of
                                  mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4824--4839
                G. N. Singh and   
                  M. Khetan and   
                      S. Maurya   Use of multiauxiliary variables to cope
                                  with non response in estimation of
                                  current population mean in two-occasion
                                  successive sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 4840--4857
       Yogesh Mani Tripathi and   
            Manoj Kumar Rastogi   Estimation using hybrid censored data
                                  from a generalized inverted exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4858--4873
                 P. S. Asha and   
                   Manoj Chacko   Residual Renyi entropy of $k$-record
                                  values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4874--4885
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Conditioning out rare events for
                                  exponential families has negligible
                                  effect on inference  . . . . . . . . . . 4886--4895
            Ahmed Ait Saidi and   
                 Mecheri Kheira   The conditional cumulative distribution
                                  function in single functional index
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4896--4911
          Chang C. Y. Dorea and   
               Luciene P. Lopes   Weighted similarity tests for
                                  location-scale families of stable
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4912--4922
          Mohammad Z. Raqab and   
               D. K. Al-Mutairi   Inferential analysis for the reliability
                                  parameter based on the three-parameter
                                  Lindley distribution . . . . . . . . . . 4923--4936

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 17, 2016

                        Jib Huh   Estimation of a change point in the
                                  variance function based on the $
                                  \chi^2$-distribution . . . . . . . . . . 4937--4968
           David D. Hanagal and   
            Susmita M. Bhambure   Modeling bivariate survival data using
                                  shared inverse Gaussian frailty model    4969--4987
          Hassan S. Bakouch and   
           Bozidar V. Popovi\'c   Lindley first-order autoregressive model
                                  with applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 4988--5006
           Gunnar Taraldsen and   
             Bo Henry Lindqvist   Conditional probability and improper
                                  priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5007--5016
           Housila P. Singh and   
                   Surya K. Pal   An efficient effective rotation pattern
                                  in successive sampling over two
                                  occasions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5017--5027
              Sheng-Li Zhao and   
                    Peng-Fei Li   Construction of minimum aberration
                                  blocked two-level regular factorial
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5028--5036
            Pierre Ribereau and   
          Esterina Masiello and   
                Philippe Naveau   Skew generalized extreme value
                                  distribution: Probability-weighted
                                  moments estimation and application to
                                  block maxima procedure . . . . . . . . . 5037--5052
             Dong Joon Park and   
                       Min Yoon   Confidence intervals for the regression
                                  coefficient in a simple regression model
                                  with a balanced two-fold nested error
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5053--5065
                 Chih-Hsiang Ho   Forecasting a point process with an
                                  ARIMA model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5066--5076
             Han-Ying Liang and   
                    Deli Li and   
                  Tianxuan Miao   Berry--Esséen type bound of conditional
                                  mode estimation under truncation and
                                  strong mixing assumptions  . . . . . . . 5077--5097
           P. H. Garthwaite and   
                     Y. Fan and   
                   S. A. Sisson   Adaptive optimal scaling of
                                  Metropolis--Hastings algorithms using
                                  the Robbins--Monro process . . . . . . . 5098--5111
               Joan Parrish and   
            Steven M. Crunk and   
                   Bee Leng Lee   The Yule--Walker equations as a weighted
                                  least-squares problem and the
                                  association with tapering  . . . . . . . 5112--5122
                    C. C. Chang   Optimal preventive policies for
                                  imperfect maintenance models with
                                  replacement first and last . . . . . . . 5123--5136
                   Luna Sun and   
               Alix I. Gitelman   Simultaneous tests for homogeneity of
                                  two zero-inflated (beta) populations . . 5137--5153
              Jung-Yu Cheng and   
                Shinn-Jia Tzeng   Quantile regression methods for censored
                                  gap time data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5154--5165
                   H. Ogasawara   Matching pseudocounts for interval
                                  estimation of binomial and Poisson
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5166--5178
                  Libin Jin and   
                Xiaowen Dai and   
                   Anqi Shi and   
                        Lei Shi   Detection of outliers in mixed
                                  regressive-spatial autoregressive models 5179--5192
                        Jibo Wu   On the predictive performance of the
                                  almost unbiased Liu estimator  . . . . . 5193--5203
         M. M. E. Abd El-Monsef   A new Lindley distribution with location
                                  parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5204--5219
                Katarzyna Budny   An extension of the multivariate
                                  Chebyshev's inequality to a random
                                  vector with a singular covariance matrix 5220--5223
               Jiannan Ning and   
                       Wende Yi   Tail dependence for skew Laplace
                                  distribution and skew Cauchy
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5224--5233
        M. Jabbari Nooghabi and   
       E. Khaleghpanah Nooghabi   On entropy of a Pareto distribution in
                                  the presence of outliers . . . . . . . . 5234--5250

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 18, 2016

            Zerouati Halima and   
            Dahmani Abdelnasser   Exponential inequalities in linear
                                  calibration problem  . . . . . . . . . . 5251--5262
               N. Modarresi and   
                    S. Rezakhah   Characterization of discrete scale
                                  invariant Markov sequences . . . . . . . 5263--5278
              Ottmar Cronie and   
                         Jun Yu   The discretely observed
                                  immigration--death process: Likelihood
                                  inference and spatiotemporal
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5279--5298
               A. K. Pathak and   
                  P. Vellaisamy   Various measures of dependence of a new
                                  asymmetric generalized
                                  Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern copulas  . . 5299--5317
                  Wenxue Li and   
                Tingting Li and   
                        Hu Yang   Restricted estimation and testing of
                                  hypothesis in linear measurement errors
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5318--5330
                 Hadi Emami and   
                  Mostafa Emami   Influence diagnostics in constrained
                                  general linear models  . . . . . . . . . 5331--5340
                  Xijun Liu and   
                     Qingwu Gao   Uniformly asymptotic behavior for the
                                  tail probability of discounted aggregate
                                  claims in the time-dependent risk model
                                  with upper tail asymptotically
                                  independent claims . . . . . . . . . . . 5341--5354
Pedro Henrique Melo Albuquerque and   
        Mariana Rosa Montenegro   PROMETHEE IV through kernel density
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5355--5362
               Rena K. Mann and   
           Roderick Edwards and   
                     Julie Zhou   Robust designs for experiments with
                                  blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5363--5379
           Ding-Geng (Din) Chen   Robustness of the shrinkage estimator
                                  for the relative potency in the
                                  combination of multivariate bioassays    5380--5391
             Akram Kohansal and   
                 Saeid Rezakhah   Two new estimators of entropy for
                                  testing normality  . . . . . . . . . . . 5392--5411
              Fatima Batool and   
                  Javid Shabbir   A two-stage design for multivariate
                                  estimation of proportions  . . . . . . . 5412--5426
            D. V. S. Sastry and   
              Deepesh Bhati and   
           R. N. Rattihalli and   
   E. Gómez-Déniz   On zero-distorted generalized geometric
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5427--5442
            Kumari Priyanka and   
                   Richa Mittal   Searching effective rotation patterns
                                  for population median using exponential
                                  type estimators in two-occasion rotation
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5443--5460
          S. M. Mirhosseini and   
                  A. Dolati and   
                       M. Amini   On a bivariate Kumaraswamy type
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 5461--5477
       Vasileios M. Koutras and   
            Konstantinos Drakos   A generalized polynomial-logistic
                                  distribution and applications  . . . . . 5478--5494
          Rodrigo R. Pescim and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   An extension of the gamma distribution   5495--5516
              W. Simcharoen and   
                   K. Neammanee   Non uniform bound on a combinatorial
                                  central limit theorem  . . . . . . . . . 5517--5532
                    Hu Yang and   
                    Jing Lv and   
                    Chaohui Guo   Robust variable selection and parametric
                                  component identification in varying
                                  coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 5533--5549
            B. Chandrasekar and   
               S. Amala Revathy   Equivariant estimation for the
                                  parameters of location-scale
                                  multivariate exponential models and its
                                  application in reliability analysis  . . 5550--5559

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 19, 2016

Daniel Ventosa-Santaul\`aria and   
             Antonio E. Noriega   A simple solution for spurious
                                  regressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5561--5583
               Mike Jacroux and   
                    Tom Jacroux   On the $E$-optimality of blocked main
                                  effects plans when $ n \equiv 1 \pmod 4$ 5584--5589
                      Jan Beran   On the effect of long-range dependence
                                  on extreme value copula estimation with
                                  fixed marginals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5590--5618
                     I. Rahimov   Estimation of the offspring mean in a
                                  branching process with non stationary
                                  immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5619--5627
                Serkan Eryilmaz   On an application of concomitants of
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 5628--5636
                 M. Akahira and   
               S. Hashimoto and   
                   K. Koike and   
                    N. Ohyauchi   Second-order asymptotic comparison of
                                  the MLE and MCLE for a two-sided
                                  truncated exponential family of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5637--5659
     Aleksandar S. Nasti\'c and   
       Miroslav M. Risti\'c and   
           Predrag M. Popovi\'c   Estimation in a bivariate integer-valued
                                  autoregressive process . . . . . . . . . 5660--5678
                     Liang Wang   Interval estimation for a
                                  lower-truncated distribution based on
                                  the double Type-II censored sample . . . 5679--5692
           Hideki Nagatsuka and   
                N. Balakrishnan   A consistent method of estimation for
                                  the three-parameter lognormal
                                  distribution based on Type-II right
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5693--5708
         Vikas Kumar Sharma and   
         Sanjay Kumar Singh and   
                Umesh Singh and   
                  Faton Merovci   The generalized inverse Lindley
                                  distribution: a new inverse statistical
                                  model for the study of upside-down
                                  bathtub data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5709--5729
               Vijaya Bhatt and   
                  Neeraj Tiwari   A spatial scan statistic for survival
                                  data based on generalized life
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5730--5744
                    S. Sengupta   Admissibility of a variance estimator in
                                  finite population sampling under
                                  Warner's randomized response plan with
                                  multiple responses . . . . . . . . . . . 5745--5750
                    Jiexiang Li   On asymptotic behavior of
                                  Nadaraya--Watson regression estimator    5751--5761
           Marcelo de Paula and   
   Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz   Generalized linear regression models
                                  incorporating original outcome
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5762--5786
                 M. Basirat and   
               S. Baratpour and   
                   Jafar Ahmadi   On estimation of stress-strength
                                  parameter using record values from
                                  proportional hazard rate models  . . . . 5787--5801
                  Tao Zhang and   
             Qingzhao Zhang and   
                    Naixiong Li   Least absolute relative error estimation
                                  for functional quadratic multiplicative
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5802--5817
                 Suxin Wang and   
                 Shiyu Song and   
                   Yongjin Wang   Closed-form likelihood estimation for
                                  one type of affine point processes . . . 5818--5825
                V. Srinivas and   
                     B. K. Kale   ML and UMVU estimation in the M/D/1
                                  queuing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5826--5834
                     Mayer Alvo   Bridging the gap: a likelihood function
                                  approach for the analysis of ranking
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5835--5847
               Tingting Liu and   
                Xuejun Wang and   
               Xinghui Wang and   
                       Shuhe Hu   On the exponential inequalities for
                                  widely orthant-dependent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5848--5856
          Waqas Ahmed Malik and   
              Hans-Peter Piepho   On generalized exponential
                                  transformations for proportions  . . . . 5857--5870
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5871--5871

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 20, 2016

                 Liu Zhibin and   
                     Liu Haohan   Multi-factor prediction of water
                                  flooding efficiency based on a
                                  time-varying system  . . . . . . . . . . 5873--5883
                 Caiyun Fan and   
              Feipeng Zhang and   
                      Yong Zhou   Power-transformed linear regression on
                                  quantile residual life for censored
                                  competing risks data . . . . . . . . . . 5884--5905
               S. M. Taheri and   
                G. Hesamian and   
                      R. Viertl   Contingency tables with fuzzy
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5906--5917
                     Ying-zi Fu   Stochastic EM algorithm of a finite
                                  mixture model from hurdle Poisson
                                  distribution with missing responses  . . 5918--5932
                        Li Chen   Empirical likelihood ratio tests for the
                                  linear regression model with inequality
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5933--5945
           Santosh S. Sutar and   
           U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar   A model for $k$-out-of-$m$ load-sharing
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5946--5960
                Naqvi Hamad and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   Non binary partially neighbor balanced
                                  designs for circular blocks  . . . . . . 5961--5965
                   A. J. Hayter   Win-probabilities for comparing two
                                  Poisson variables  . . . . . . . . . . . 5966--5976
                Yongfeng Wu and   
                     Mingle Guo   Convergence of weighted sums for
                                  sequences of pairwise NQD random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5977--5989
               Edmund Jones and   
                Vanessa Didelez   Inequalities on partial correlations in
                                  Gaussian graphical models containing
                                  star shapes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5990--5996
               Marta Moreno and   
                      Juan Romo   Robust unit root tests with
                                  autoregressive errors  . . . . . . . . . 5997--6021
              Mahdi Roozbeh and   
                Mohammad Arashi   Shrinkage ridge regression in partial
                                  linear models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6022--6044
                  Xijun Liu and   
                 Qingwu Gao and   
                      Ermin Guo   Uniform asymptotics for ruin probability
                                  of a two-dimensional dependent renewal
                                  risk model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6045--6060
             S. Arumairajan and   
                    P. Wijekoon   Generalized preliminary test stochastic
                                  restricted estimator in the linear
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 6061--6086
               Ferhat Ziram and   
          Dominique Cellier and   
        François Charlot   Statistical analysis of the number of
                                  self-overlapping leftmost repeats in an
                                  homogeneous stationary Markov chain on
                                  finite states  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6087--6101
                Xiaorui Zhu and   
                         Li Xie   Adaptive quasi-maximum likelihood
                                  estimation of GARCH models with
                                  Student's $t$ likelihood . . . . . . . . 6102--6111
                   Qin Zhou and   
                Lianjie Shu and   
                      Wei Jiang   One-sided EWMA control charts for
                                  monitoring Poisson processes with
                                  varying sample sizes . . . . . . . . . . 6112--6132
          Grigory Alexandrovich   Penalized maximum likelihood estimation
                                  for Gaussian hidden Markov models  . . . 6133--6148
     Selim Gündüz and   
             Ali I. Genç   Distribution of the product of a pair of
                                  independent two-sided power variates . . 6149--6164
            Nil Kamal Hazra and   
                  Asok K. Nanda   On some generalized orderings: In the
                                  spirit of relative ageing  . . . . . . . 6165--6181

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 21, 2016

       Gholamreza Shafipour and   
            Abdolvahhab Fetanat   Survival analysis in supply chains using
                                  statistical flowgraph models: Predicting
                                  time to supply chain disruption  . . . . 6183--6208
                Aiting Shen and   
                 Ying Zhang and   
                 Andrei Volodin   On the rate of convergence in the strong
                                  law of large numbers for negatively
                                  orthant-dependent random variables . . . 6209--6222
                    S. Sengupta   Admissible and optimal sampling strategy
                                  for estimating finite population mean in
                                  randomized response surveys with
                                  multiple responses . . . . . . . . . . . 6223--6228
                Xiaodi Wang and   
                 Yingshan Zhang   General orthogonal designs for parameter
                                  estimation of ANOVA models under
                                  weighted sum-to-zero constraints . . . . 6229--6244
                 Mangey Ram and   
                    Arpan Gupta   Numerical solution to stochastic partial
                                  differential equation with variable
                                  repair rate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6245--6252
                     Yashi Wang   Conditional $k$-out-of-$n$ systems with
                                  a cold standby component . . . . . . . . 6253--6262
        Wolfgang Wiedermann and   
                Michael Hagmann   Asymmetric properties of the Pearson
                                  correlation coefficient: Correlation as
                                  the negative association between linear
                                  regression residuals . . . . . . . . . . 6263--6283
     Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi and   
          Marziyeh Mahmoudi and   
               Elaheh Nahavandi   Testing the difference between two
                                  independent regression models  . . . . . 6284--6289
              Chenhua Zhang and   
                    Shaobai Kan   Uniform approximation of the tail
                                  probability of weighted sums of
                                  subexponential random variables  . . . . 6290--6298
               Guangbao Guo and   
                   Wei Shao and   
                     Lu Lin and   
                      Xuehu Zhu   Parallel tempering for dynamic
                                  generalized linear models  . . . . . . . 6299--6310
            William A. Link and   
                  John R. Sauer   Modeling participation duration, with
                                  application to the North American
                                  Breeding Bird Survey . . . . . . . . . . 6311--6320
                 C. Fonseca and   
              A. P. Martins and   
                 L. Pereira and   
                    H. Ferreira   Dependence matrices for spatial extreme
                                  events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6321--6341
                       Ran Wang   Inferences on partial linear models with
                                  right censored data by empirical
                                  likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6342--6356
                Xinmei Shen and   
                    Hailan Tian   Precise large deviations for sums of
                                  two-dimensional random vectors with
                                  dependent components of heavy tails  . . 6357--6368
               Mridula Garg and   
                Ajay Sharma and   
               Pratibha Manohar   The distribution of the product of two
                                  independent generalized trapezoidal
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 6369--6384
               Kaifeng Zhao and   
                      Heng Lian   Sparsistent and constansistent
                                  estimation of the varying-coefficient
                                  model with a diverging number of
                                  predictors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6385--6399
        Ana V. Mileti\'c Ili\'c   A geometric time series model with a new
                                  dependent Bernoulli counting series  . . 6400--6415
                       Eric Key   A recipe for bivariate copulas . . . . . 6416--6420
                  Marco Marozzi   Combination of distribution-free tests
                                  for the general two-sample problem with
                                  application to the social sciences . . . 6421--6435
               Jianjun Zhou and   
                   Jiang Du and   
                    Zhimeng Sun   $M$-Estimation for partially functional
                                  linear regression model based on splines 6436--6446
               Dongya Cheng and   
               Wenhai Zhang and   
                    Yuebao Wang   On the strong convergence of weighted
                                  sums of widely dependent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6447--6460
             Demba Bocar Ba and   
           Ali Souleymane Dabye   On minimum $ L^p $-distance estimation
                                  for inhomogeneous Poisson processes  . . 6461--6470
              M. Fathizadeh and   
                 K. Khorshidian   An alternative approach to reliability
                                  analysis of cold standby systems . . . . 6471--6480
                 Isha Dewan and   
             K. K. Sudheesh and   
                      P. Anisha   Proportional hazards model for discrete
                                  data: Some new developments  . . . . . . 6481--6493

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 22, 2016

                    Xingwei Ren   The equalities of estimations under a
                                  general partitioned linear model and its
                                  stochastically restricted model  . . . . 6495--6509
          Tanveer A. Tarray and   
               Housila P. Singh   A sinuous stratified unrelated question
                                  randomized response model  . . . . . . . 6510--6520
                    Ting Du and   
                 Jieli Ding and   
                    Liuquan Sun   Joint modeling and estimation for
                                  longitudinal data with informative
                                  observation and terminal event times . . 6521--6539
   K. R. Muraleedharan Nair and   
                 N. Sreelakshmi   The New Zenga curve in the context of
                                  reliability analysis . . . . . . . . . . 6540--6552
  Gladys D. Cacsire Barriga and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   Bayesian inference and diagnostics in
                                  zero-inflated generalized power series
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 6553--6568
                       Dawei Lu   Some asymptotic formulas of a Brownian
                                  motion with regular variation from the
                                  maximum and minimum complicated domains  6569--6595
  María Paz Casanova and   
                 Yasna Orellana   A Bayesian semi-parametric approach to
                                  the ordinal calibration problem  . . . . 6596--6610
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Tanveer A. Tarray   An efficient new ``Partial'' randomized
                                  response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6611--6624
                     Yong Zhang   An extension of almost sure central
                                  limit theorem for self-normalized
                                  products of sums for mixing sequences    6625--6640
                Mariusz Bieniek   Comparison of the bias of trimmed and
                                  Winsorized means . . . . . . . . . . . . 6641--6650
                   Meng Wei and   
               Guangyu Yang and   
                  Lingling Yang   The limiting spectral distribution for
                                  large sample covariance matrices with
                                  unbounded $m$-dependent entries  . . . . 6651--6662
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Tanveer A. Tarray   A modified optimal orthogonal new
                                  additive model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6663--6669
                  Gaku Igarashi   Weighted log-normal kernel density
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6670--6687
                 Manoj K. Yadav   Estimating standard error of intra-class
                                  correlation coefficients up to three
                                  level unbalanced nested clinical trials  6688--6699
             Shibasish Dasgupta   High-dimensional posterior consistency
                                  of the Bayesian lasso  . . . . . . . . . 6700--6708
             Muhammad Aslam and   
              Muhammad Azam and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Mixed sampling plan based on
                                  exponentially weighted moving average
                                  statistic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6709--6719
          C. Satheesh Kumar and   
           B. Unnikrishnan Nair   On generalized hyper-Poisson
                                  distribution of order $k$ and its
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6720--6731
              Eckhard Liebscher   Approximation of distributions by using
                                  the Anderson Darling statistic . . . . . 6732--6745
          Hassan S. Bakouch and   
              Maher Kachour and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   An extended Poisson distribution . . . . 6746--6764
                      Yong Kong   Number of appearances of events in
                                  random sequences: a new approach to
                                  non-overlapping runs . . . . . . . . . . 6765--6772
            Sandra Donevska and   
        Eva Fiserová and   
                     Karel Hron   Calibration of compositional
                                  measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6773--6788
              Huiming Zhang and   
                          Bo Li   Characterizations of discrete compound
                                  Poisson distributions  . . . . . . . . . 6789--6802

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 23, 2016

            Yung-Chia Chang and   
              Kuei-Hu Chang and   
             Heng-Hsuan Chu and   
                   Lee-Ing Tong   Establishing decision tree-based
                                  short-term default credit risk
                                  assessment models  . . . . . . . . . . . 6803--6815
                 S. Dachian and   
           Yu. A. Kutoyants and   
                        L. Yang   On hypothesis testing for Poisson
                                  processes: Regular case  . . . . . . . . 6816--6832
                 S. Dachian and   
           Yu. A. Kutoyants and   
                        L. Yang   On hypothesis testing for Poisson
                                  processes. Singular cases  . . . . . . . 6833--6859
            Jumpei Hayakawa and   
              Akimichi Takemura   Estimation of exponential--polynomial
                                  distribution by holonomic gradient
                                  descent  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6860--6882
                  Idir Arab and   
            Abdelnasser Dahmani   Consistency of stochastic approximation
                                  algorithm with quasi-associated random
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6883--6890
         Paul J. van Staden and   
              Robert A. R. King   Kurtosis of the logistic-exponential
                                  survival distribution  . . . . . . . . . 6891--6899
       Abdelaziz El Matouat and   
    Freedath Djibril Moussa and   
              Hassania Hamzaoui   Consistency of information criteria for
                                  model selection with missing data  . . . 6900--6914
                Santu Ghosh and   
               Alan M. Polansky   New bootstrap confidence intervals for
                                  means of positively skewed distributions 6915--6927
           Housila P. Singh and   
                   Surya K. Pal   Use of several auxiliary variables in
                                  estimating the population mean in a
                                  two-occasion rotation pattern  . . . . . 6928--6942
                 Ting Jiang and   
                  XiaoJian Zhou   Estimation of actuarial quantities at
                                  fractional ages with Kriging . . . . . . 6943--6954
                Hidehiko Kamiya   A unified approach to marginal
                                  equivalence in the general framework of
                                  group invariance . . . . . . . . . . . . 6955--6968
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
            Marcelo Bourguignon   New results on the
                                  Risti\'c--Balakrishnan family of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6969--6988
              Alireza Faraz and   
             Kamyar Chalaki and   
            Erwin M. Saniga and   
               Cedric Heuchenne   The robust economic statistical design
                                  of the Hotelling's $ T^2 $ chart . . . . 6989--7001
                A. M. Mousa and   
              M. Kh. Hassan and   
                       A. Fathi   A new non parametric estimator for Pdf
                                  based on inverse gamma distribution  . . 7002--7010
                Yonggang Lu and   
          Peter H. Westfall and   
                   Gang Han and   
                 Marilyn M. Bui   Bayesian hypothesis testing for selected
                                  regression coefficients  . . . . . . . . 7011--7026
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
                Weiguo Yang and   
                       Bei Wang   A class of small deviation theorems for
                                  the random variables associated with $m$
                                  th-order asymptotic circular Markov
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7027--7039
                R. S. Priya and   
               P. Yageen Thomas   An application of ranked set sampling
                                  when observations from several
                                  distributions are to be included in the
                                  sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7040--7052
                Abdullah Yilmaz   The flexible skew Laplace distribution   7053--7059
                   Feng-shou Ko   Comparisons of allocating sample size
                                  rationally into individual regions under
                                  heterogeneous effect size in a
                                  multiregional trial by a fixed effect
                                  model and a random effect model  . . . . 7060--7074
                  Qian Ding and   
               Qiaohui Tong and   
              Qiaoling Tong and   
               Xuecheng Zou and   
                  Hengqing Tong   A new definite linear algorithm for the
                                  structural equation model with
                                  application in fire risk evaluation  . . 7075--7085
           Elizbar Nadaraya and   
                Grigol Sokhadze   On integral functionals of a density . . 7086--7102

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 45, Number 24, 2016

               Yanting Xiao and   
                 Zheng Tian and   
                        Jin Sun   Empirical likelihood dimension reduction
                                  inference for partially non-linear
                                  error-in-responses models with
                                  validation data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 7103--7118
                    Junshan Xie   A limit theorem on moment convergence of
                                  centered spectral statistics of random
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7119--7129
        Moutushi Chatterjee and   
        Ashis Kumar Chakraborty   Some process capability indices for
                                  unilateral specification limits ---
                                  their properties and the process
                                  capability control charts  . . . . . . . 7130--7160
              Nigel G. Bean and   
                Ali Eshragh and   
                 Joshua V. Ross   Fisher Information for a partially
                                  observable simple birth process  . . . . 7161--7183
                  Yalian Li and   
                        Hu Yang   More on the two-parameter estimation in
                                  the restricted regression  . . . . . . . 7184--7196
                  Guikai Hu and   
                 Qingguo Li and   
                    Shenghua Yu   Linear minimax prediction of finite
                                  population regression coefficient under
                                  a balanced loss function . . . . . . . . 7197--7209
             Nicy Sebastian and   
                Rudolf Gorenflo   Time series models associated with
                                  Mittag-Leffler type distributions and
                                  its properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7210--7225
         Esra Gökpinar and   
            Fikri Gökpinar   A modified Mack--Wolfe test for the
                                  umbrella alternative problem . . . . . . 7226--7241
                    Xing Wu and   
                    Conglian Yu   Estimation of the mixtures of GLMs with
                                  covariate-dependent mixing proportions   7242--7257
            Leila Golparvar and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Inference on proportional hazard rate
                                  model parameter under Type-I
                                  progressively hybrid censoring scheme    7258--7274
                   Jinyu Li and   
              Xingtong Chen and   
                       Song Zhu   Smoothed empirical likelihood for GARCH
                                  models with heavy-tailed errors  . . . . 7275--7293
              Shanshan Wang and   
                     Tao Hu and   
                   Hengjian Cui   Adjusted empirical likelihood inference
                                  for additive hazards regression  . . . . 7294--7305
                  Xiang Gao and   
                     Ming Zheng   Causal inference for recurrent events
                                  data with all-or-none compliance . . . . 7306--7325
                M. H. Tahir and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
            Ayman Alzaatreh and   
                 M. Mansoor and   
                      M. Zubair   The logistic-$X$ family of distributions
                                  and its applications . . . . . . . . . . 7326--7349
                  B. Babadi and   
                  A. Rasekh and   
                    K. Zare and   
                  A. A. Rasekhi   A variance shift model for detection of
                                  outliers in the linear mixed measurement
                                  error models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7350--7366
     José M. R. Murteira   Goodness-of-link tests for multivariate
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 7367--7375
                M. H. Tahir and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
                 M. Mansoor and   
                  M. Zubair and   
                 Morad Alizadeh   The Weibull--Dagum distribution:
                                  Properties and applications  . . . . . . 7376--7398
                Serkan Eryilmaz   Discrete time cold standby repairable
                                  system: Combinatorial analysis . . . . . 7399--7405


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 1, 2017

                 F. Yousefzadeh   $E$-Bayesian and hierarchical Bayesian
                                  estimations for the system reliability
                                  parameter based on asymmetric loss
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
                     P. C. Wang   Design two-level factorial experiments
                                  in blocks of size four . . . . . . . . . 9--16
          Tanveer A. Tarray and   
               Housila P. Singh   A stratified unrelated question
                                  randomized response model using Neyman
                                  allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--27
                 Huijuan Ma and   
                      Yong Zhou   Pseudo-likelihood for case-cohort
                                  studies under length-biased sampling . . 28--48
         Blache Paul Akpoue and   
    Jean-François Angers   Some contributions on the multivariate
                                  Poisson--Skellam probability
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--68
            Maria Iwi\'nska and   
           Magdalena Szymkowiak   Characterizations of distributions
                                  through selected functions of
                                  reliability theory . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74
                     Min Wu and   
                  Yimin Shi and   
                     Yudong Sun   Statistical analysis for competing risks
                                  model from a Weibull distribution under
                                  progressively hybrid censoring . . . . . 75--86
           Ali Keyvandarian and   
              R. Noorossana and   
      S. Mohammad Hashemian and   
              Shekary A. Maryam   Adaptive $c$-chart with estimated
                                  parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--103
                   Qing Liu and   
               Tiantian Mao and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Closure properties of the second-order
                                  regular variation under convolutions . . 104--119
                   Hong Qin and   
             Nabakumar Jana and   
               Somesh Kumar and   
           Kashinath Chatterjee   Stress-strength models with more than
                                  two states under exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--132
                 Jaehee Kim and   
                  Geung-Hee Lee   Local Fourier tests for structural
                                  change based on residuals  . . . . . . . 133--147
             Vikram V. Garg and   
               Luis Tenorio and   
                  Karen Willcox   Minimum local distance density
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--164
                Wenzhi Yang and   
                 Yiwei Wang and   
                       Shuhe Hu   Some probability inequalities of
                                  least-squares estimator in non linear
                                  regression model with strong mixing
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--175
                 Wei-an Yan and   
               Bao-wei Song and   
               Gui-lin Duan and   
                     Yi-min Shi   Real-time reliability evaluation of
                                  two-phase Wiener degradation process . . 176--188
         Ahmad Ahmadi Yazdi and   
    Mohammad Saber Fallahnezhad   Comparison between count of cumulative
                                  conforming sampling plans and
                                  Dodge--Romig single sampling plan  . . . 189--199
        Miltiadis Chalikias and   
                Stratis Kounias   Optimal two treatment repeated
                                  measurement designs for three periods    200--209
               Houchun Wang and   
                 Nengxiang Ling   On the Gerber--Shiu function with random
                                  discount rate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--220
                  Bruce Barrett   Simple, exact inference for $ 2 \times 2
                                  $ tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--233
           David D. Hanagal and   
                  Arvind Pandey   Shared frailty models based on reversed
                                  hazard rate for modified inverse Weibull
                                  distribution as baseline distribution    234--246
                  M. Arashi and   
                   S. Nadarajah   On singular elliptical models  . . . . . 247--258
      Upendra Kumar Pradhan and   
                Krishan Lal and   
               Sukanta Dash and   
                    K. N. Singh   Design and analysis of mixture
                                  experiments with process variable  . . . 259--270
         M. Naghizadeh Qomi and   
                     A. Kiapour   Shortest tolerance intervals controlling
                                  both tails of the exponential
                                  distribution based on record values  . . 271--279
                G. N. Singh and   
                  S. Maurya and   
                      M. Khetan   Some effective combinations of available
                                  information under non response in
                                  two-occasion successive sampling . . . . 280--295
Sergio A. Calderón V. and   
                 Fabio H. Nieto   Bayesian analysis of multivariate
                                  threshold autoregressive models with
                                  missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--318
             Yuri Goegebeur and   
            Armelle Guillou and   
                 Michael Osmann   A local moment type estimator for an
                                  extreme quantile in regression with
                                  random covariates  . . . . . . . . . . . 319--343
                   Ying Lou and   
                   Jing Cao and   
                 Song Zhang and   
                       Chul Ahn   Sample size calculations for
                                  time-averaged difference of longitudinal
                                  binary outcomes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--353
                  Fuxiao Li and   
                 Zheng Tian and   
              Zhanshou Chen and   
                      Peiyan Qi   Monitoring distributional changes of
                                  squared residuals in GARCH models  . . . 354--372
               Ankur Biswas and   
                   Anil Rai and   
             Tauqueer Ahmad and   
             Prachi Misra Sahoo   Spatial estimation and rescaled spatial
                                  bootstrap approach for finite population 373--388
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Tanveer A. Tarray   A two-stage Land et al.'s randomized
                                  response model for estimating a rare
                                  sensitive attribute using Poisson
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--405
                     T. Lengyel   Order statistics and the length of the
                                  best-$n$-of-$ (2 n - 1)$ competition . . 406--414
Amir T. Payandeh Najafabadi and   
           Fatemeh Atatalab and   
        Maryam Omidi Najafabadi   Credibility premium for rate-making
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--426
             Yuan-Lin Zhang and   
                  Guan-Jun Wang   An extended geometric process repair
                                  model with delayed repair and slight
                                  failure type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--437
               Wenming Hong and   
                        Ke Zhou   A note on the passage time of
                                  finite-state Markov chains . . . . . . . 438--445
               Michael Grabchak   A simple condition for the multivariate
                                  CLT and the attraction to the Gaussian
                                  of Lévy processes at long and short times 446--456
                Xuejun Wang and   
                Shijie Wang and   
                       Rui Wang   Exponential inequalities for sums of
                                  unbounded $ \varphi $-mixing sequence
                                  and their applications . . . . . . . . . 457--464
            Marek Dvorák   Darling--Erd\Hos-type test for change
                                  detection in parameters and variance for
                                  stationary VAR models  . . . . . . . . . 465--484
            Eita Kamitamari and   
                Hidekazu Tanaka   On second-order admissibilities of the
                                  estimators of gamma shape vector . . . . 485--496
                Yinping You and   
                  Xiaohu Li and   
               Jairo Santanilla   Optimal allocations of coverage limits
                                  for two independent random losses of
                                  insurance policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--509
               Leila Baiche and   
           Megdouda Ourbih-Tari   Large-sample variance of simulation
                                  using refined descriptive sampling: Case
                                  of independent variables . . . . . . . . 510--519

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 2, 2017

           Housila P. Singh and   
              Tanveer A. Tarray   An efficient use of moment's ratios of
                                  scrambling variables in a randomized
                                  response technique . . . . . . . . . . . 521--531
          Huybrechts F. Bindele   Strong consistency of the general rank
                                  estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--539
                 Maria Kyriacou   Overlapping subsampling and invariance
                                  to initial conditions  . . . . . . . . . 540--553
              Hilal A. Lone and   
              Rajesh Tailor and   
                  Med Ram Verma   Efficient separate class of estimators
                                  of population mean in stratified random
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--573
         Ahmed N. Albatineh and   
        Ibrahimou Boubakari and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   New confidence interval estimator of the
                                  signal-to-noise ratio based on
                                  asymptotic sampling distribution . . . . 574--590
                Changjun Yu and   
                   Dongya Cheng   Randomly weighted sums of linearly wide
                                  quadrant-dependent random variables with
                                  heavy tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--601
                     Ro Jin Pak   The influence function of the optimal
                                  bandwidth for kernel density estimation  602--608
                      Mi-Hwa Ko   On convergence rate in the SLLN for
                                  maximums of moving-average sums of ALNQD
                                  random fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--615
                   Jiao Jin and   
                  Liang Zhu and   
               Xingwei Tong and   
                Kirsten K. Ness   $t$-Type corrected-loss estimation for
                                  error-in-variable model  . . . . . . . . 616--627
                 Yongjin Li and   
                 Qihua Wang and   
                 Liping Zhu and   
                    Xiaobo Ding   Mean response estimation with missing
                                  response in the presence of
                                  high-dimensional covariates  . . . . . . 628--643
                   M. Aslam and   
                    M. Azam and   
                      C.-H. Jun   A new sampling plan under the
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 644--652
   S. M. T. K. MirMostafaee and   
              M. Mahdizadeh and   
               Artur J. Lemonte   The Marshall--Olkin extended generalized
                                  Rayleigh distribution: Properties and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--671
                   Xin Deng and   
                Xuejun Wang and   
                     Fengxi Xia   Hajek--Renyi-type inequality and strong
                                  law of large numbers for END sequences   672--682
                  Lee-Shen Chen   Empirical Bayes testing for guarantee
                                  lifetime: Non identical components case  683--705
               Chien-Wei Wu and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Developing a variables two-plan sampling
                                  system for product acceptance
                                  determination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706--720
               A. R. Shafay and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                   Jafar Ahmadi   Bayesian prediction of order statistics
                                  with fixed and random sample sizes based
                                  on $k$-record values from Pareto
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--735
               Zhiqiang Hua and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                   Dawei Lu and   
                    Xiaomeng Qi   Precise large deviations for the
                                  difference of two sums of END random
                                  variables with heavy tails . . . . . . . 736--746
           Zhengcheng Zhang and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Stochastic properties and parameter
                                  estimation for a general load-sharing
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--760
            Hossein Haghbin and   
              Atefeh Zamani and   
               Zohreh Shishebor   Inference on the asymptotic behavior of
                                  covariance operator of first-order
                                  periodically correlated autoregressive
                                  Hilbertian processes . . . . . . . . . . 761--769
     Aleksandar S. Nasti\'c and   
       Miroslav M. Risti\'c and   
        Ana V. Mileti\'c Ili\'c   A geometric time-series model with an
                                  alternative dependent Bernoulli counting
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--785
                Stephen Burgess   Estimating and contextualizing the
                                  attenuation of odds ratios due to non
                                  collapsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786--804
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                    S. M. Sunoj   Quantile-based cumulative entropies  . . 805--814
                   Wang Dan and   
              Guo Pengjiang and   
                    Xia Zhiming   Detection and estimation of structural
                                  change in heavy-tailed sequence  . . . . 815--827
             Guilherme Pumi and   
      Sílvia R. C. Lopes   Copulas related to piecewise monotone
                                  functions of the interval and associated
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828--860
          Mark F. Schilling and   
                  Bret Holladay   Length minimization for Poisson
                                  confidence procedures  . . . . . . . . . 861--873
                    Chen Li and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Aging and ordering properties of
                                  multivariate lifetimes with Archimedean
                                  dependence structures  . . . . . . . . . 874--891
                 David Stiburek   Statistical inference on the drift
                                  parameter in fractional Brownian motion
                                  with a deterministic drift . . . . . . . 892--905
                      A. Toomaj   Renyi entropy properties of mixed
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906--916
                Yuquan Cang and   
                      Yang Yang   On extremal behavior of aggregation of
                                  largest claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917--926
                     Liang Hong   Estimators of contingent probabilities
                                  and means with actuarial applications    927--941
            Masahide Kuwada and   
            Yoshifumi Hyodo and   
                  Hiromu Yumiba   Existence conditions for balanced
                                  fractional $ 3^m $ factorial designs of
                                  resolution R(00, 10, 01, 20, 11) . . . . 942--966
           Pier Luigi Conti and   
            Daniela Marella and   
                    Mauro Scanu   How far from identifiability? A
                                  systematic overview of the statistical
                                  matching problem in a non parametric
                                  framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--994
                    Mu Zhao and   
              Hongmei Jiang and   
                      Yong Zhou   Estimation of percentile residual life
                                  function with left-truncated and
                                  right-censored data  . . . . . . . . . . 995--1006
                  Yu-Ye Zou and   
                 Han-Ying Liang   Convergence rate of wavelet density
                                  estimator with data missing randomly
                                  when covariables are present . . . . . . 1007--1023
                   Hazhir Homei   Characterizations of arcsin and related
                                  distributions based on a new generalized
                                  unimodality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1024--1030

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 3, 2017

                   Qi Zheng and   
                     Limin Peng   Consistent model identification of
                                  varying coefficient quantile regression
                                  with BIC tuning parameter selection  . . 1031--1049
                  Qing-Pei Zang   Almost sure local central limit theorem
                                  for sample range . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050--1055
                 Yuanqing Zhang   Estimation of partially specified
                                  spatial panel data models with
                                  random-effects and spatially correlated
                                  error components . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056--1079
A. M. M. Shahiduzzaman Quoreshi   A bivariate integer-valued long-memory
                                  model for high-frequency financial count
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080--1089
                  Limin Wen and   
                     Jun Yu and   
                Guoping Mei and   
                       Yi Zhang   The credibility premiums based on
                                  estimated moment-generating function . . 1090--1106
                    Hui Guo and   
                Shijie Wang and   
                 Chuanwei Zhang   Precise large deviations of aggregate
                                  claims in a compound size-dependent
                                  renewal risk model . . . . . . . . . . . 1107--1116
            Hyoung-Moon Kim and   
                    Chiwhan Kim   Moments of scale mixtures of skew-normal
                                  distributions and their quadratic forms  1117--1126
         Katarzyna Filipiak and   
            Augustyn Markiewicz   Universally optimal designs under
                                  interference models with and without
                                  block effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127--1143
             Hyeyoung Maeng and   
                  Dong Wan Shin   Bootstrap forecast intervals for
                                  asymmetric volatilities via EGARCH model 1144--1157
               Chunpeng Fan and   
                  Donghui Zhang   Rank repeated measures analysis of
                                  covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1158--1183
           Mohamed Bentarzi and   
                Wissam Bentarzi   Periodic integer-valued bilinear time
                                  series model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1201
                 Steven G. From   Non parametric confidence intervals for
                                  the extinction probability of a
                                  Galton--Watson branching process . . . . 1202--1217
          Wichairat Chuntee and   
             Kritsana Neammanee   Exponential bounds for normal
                                  approximation of the number of descents
                                  and inversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1218--1229
           Nahed A. Mokhlis and   
            Emad J. Ibrahim and   
                Dina M. Gharieb   Stress-strength reliability with general
                                  form distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 1230--1246
              Jorge Navarro and   
             Georgios Psarrakos   Characterizations based on generalized
                                  cumulative residual entropy functions    1247--1260
              Sheng-Li Zhao and   
                       Qing Sun   On constructing general minimum lower
                                  order confounding two-level block
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1261--1274
               Huilin Huang and   
                Weiguo Yang and   
                     Zhiyan Shi   Asymptotic equipartition property for
                                  second-order circular Markov chains
                                  indexed by a two-rooted Cayley tree  . . 1275--1289
 Juan Manuel Romero-Padilla and   
                  Chein-Pai Han   Estimation of variance in bivariate
                                  normal distribution after the
                                  preliminary test of homogeneity  . . . . 1290--1305
           Mohammed Badaoui and   
             Noureddine Rhomari   $ \mathbb {L}_2 (\mathbb {R}^d) $-Almost
                                  sure convergence for multivariate
                                  probability density estimate from
                                  dependent observations . . . . . . . . . 1306--1316
                D. R. Barot and   
                    M. N. Patel   Posterior analysis of the compound
                                  Rayleigh distribution under balanced
                                  loss functions for censored data . . . . 1317--1336
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                   Hans Volkmer   Weak convergence of bivariate sequence
                                  to bivariate normal  . . . . . . . . . . 1337--1341
           Mohamed Mubasher and   
             Howard E. Rockette   Stopping rules for long-term clinical
                                  trials based on two consecutive
                                  rejections of the null hypothesis  . . . 1342--1351
             Myoungjin Jung and   
               Seongho Song and   
                 Younshik Chung   Bayesian change-point problem using
                                  Bayes factor with hierarchical prior
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1352--1366
             Salim Bouzebda and   
                   Sultana Didi   Multivariate wavelet density and
                                  regression estimators for stationary and
                                  ergodic discrete time processes:
                                  Asymptotic results . . . . . . . . . . . 1367--1406
                Selma Toker and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   Ridge estimator with correlated errors
                                  and two-stage ridge estimator under
                                  inequality restrictions  . . . . . . . . 1407--1421
                S. Zinodiny and   
                  S. Rezaei and   
                   S. Nadarajah   Minimax estimation of the mean of the
                                  multivariate normal distribution . . . . 1422--1432
                Aiting Shen and   
              Mingxiang Xue and   
                   Wenjuan Wang   Complete convergence for weighted sums
                                  of extended negatively dependent random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1433--1444
         Tülay Kesemen and   
Zafer Küçük and   
             Tahir Khaniyev and   
  Çisem Öçal   Three-term asymptotic expansion: a
                                  semi-Markovian random walk with a
                                  generalized beta distributed
                                  interference of chance . . . . . . . . . 1445--1455
                    S. Sengupta   On the comparison of Horvitz--Thompson
                                  and Murthy's sampling strategies for
                                  estimating finite population proportions
                                  in direct and randomized response
                                  surveys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1456--1461
                   Bao Yiqi and   
          Vicente G. Cancho and   
              Francisco Louzada   On the Bayesian estimation and influence
                                  diagnostics for the
                                  Weibull-Negative-Binomial regression
                                  model with cure rate under latent
                                  failure causes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1462--1489
                 M. Towhidi and   
                  M. Salmanpour   A test of fit for a continuous
                                  distribution based on the empirical
                                  convex conditional mean function . . . . 1490--1505
                      Hu Xuemei   The indirect method for stochastic
                                  logistic growth models . . . . . . . . . 1506--1518
              Fouad Maouche and   
        Abdelnasser Dahmani and   
                 Nadji Rahmania   A stochastic procedure to solve linear
                                  ill-posed problems . . . . . . . . . . . 1519--1531
                Shi-Hang Yu and   
                De-Hui Wang and   
                     Kun Li and   
                   Zhi-Wen Zhao   Estimation in autoregressive models with
                                  surrogate data and validation data . . . 1532--1545

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 4, 2017

                    M. A. Ollis   Simple constructions for minimal
                                  neighbor and $ {\rm GN}_2 $ designs in
                                  linear blocks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1547--1550
                 Yang Zhang and   
                    Lixin Zhang   Limit theorems for dependent Bernoulli
                                  variables with statistical inference . . 1551--1559
                  Sanku Dey and   
           Josmar Mazucheli and   
                     M. Z. Anis   Estimation of reliability of
                                  multicomponent stress-strength for a
                                  Kumaraswamy distribution . . . . . . . . 1560--1572
            Hamid Shahriari and   
                    Orod Ahmadi   Robust estimation of complicated
                                  profiles using wavelets  . . . . . . . . 1573--1593
                      Qing Xiao   Generating correlated random vector
                                  involving discrete variables . . . . . . 1594--1605
                       Ming Han   The $E$-Bayesian and hierarchical
                                  Bayesian estimations for the system
                                  reliability parameter  . . . . . . . . . 1606--1620
              A. M. Elsawah and   
                       Hong Qin   A new look on optimal foldover plans in
                                  terms of uniformity criteria . . . . . . 1621--1635
            Hamid Lorestani and   
             Abdolreza Sayyareh   Model selection using union-intersection
                                  principle for non nested models  . . . . 1636--1649
                       Zhi Wang   Stochastic heat equation and martingale
                                  differences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1650--1660
                        Jibo Wu   The small sample properties of the
                                  restricted principal component
                                  regression estimator in linear
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1661--1667
                  Hua Huang and   
                    Jibo Wu and   
                       Wende Yi   On the restricted almost unbiased
                                  two-parameter estimator in linear
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1668--1678
             Muhammad Azeem and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   Joint influence of measurement error and
                                  non response on estimation of population
                                  mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1679--1693
               M. Taghipour and   
              A. R. Nematollahi   On discrete-time stable multiple Markov
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1694--1708
                       Xin Yang   Uniform strong consistency of histogram
                                  density estimation for dependent process 1709--1719
              J. Martin van Zyl   Exact expressions for the weights used
                                  in least-squares regression estimation
                                  for the log-logistic and Weibull
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1720--1730
               Jiyanglin Li and   
                     Ze-Chun Hu   Toeplitz lemma, complete convergence,
                                  and complete moment convergence  . . . . 1731--1743
              Ana M. Bianco and   
            Graciela Boente and   
            Isabel M. Rodrigues   Conditional tests for elliptical
                                  symmetry using robust estimators . . . . 1744--1765
                Saima Altaf and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                  Madiha Liaqat   Decision-making for paired comparison
                                  using the extended amended Davidson
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1766--1778
                  Z. Zamani and   
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
                       M. Amini   On a new positive dependence concept
                                  based on the conditional mean inactivity
                                  time order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779--1787
   S. M. T. K. MirMostafaee and   
              Morteza Amini and   
                 A. Asgharzadeh   Bayesian prediction of minimal repair
                                  times of a series system based on hybrid
                                  censored sample of components' lifetimes
                                  under Rayleigh distribution  . . . . . . 1788--1806
                V. U. Dixit and   
              Leela Subramanian   Tests for symmetry of two-piece normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1807--1820
                Shaoyong Hu and   
                      Ailin Zhu   Risk-minimizing pricing and hedging
                                  foreign currency options under
                                  regime-switching jump-diffusion models   1821--1842
                  Reza Modarres   Estimating the distribution function of
                                  symmetric pairs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843--1854
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
                    Weiguo Yang   Strong laws of large numbers for the $m$
                                  th-order asymptotic odd-even Markov
                                  chains indexed by an $m$-rooted Cayley
                                  tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855--1870
                   Michal Pesta   Block bootstrap for dependent
                                  errors-in-variables  . . . . . . . . . . 1871--1897
                Jie-Hua Xie and   
                        Wei Zou   On the expected discounted penalty
                                  function for a risk model with
                                  dependence under a multi-layer dividend
                                  strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1898--1915
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Linear transformation models for
                                  survival analysis with tumor growth
                                  information in cancer screening study    1916--1926
                Reza Pourtaheri   Three-level control charts with variable
                                  sample size, sampling interval, and
                                  control limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1927--1940
          Alessandro Selvitella   On $ 1 / \alpha $-characteristic
                                  functions and applications to asymptotic
                                  statistical inference  . . . . . . . . . 1941--1958
                      Jinzhu Li   The infinite-time ruin probability for a
                                  bidimensional renewal risk model with
                                  constant force of interest and dependent
                                  claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1959--1971
                 Marco Enea and   
                Antonella Plaia   A gradient-based deletion diagnostic
                                  measure for generalized linear mixed
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1972--1982
                Yaohua Rong and   
                Manlai Tang and   
                    Maozai Tian   Longitudinal data analysis based on
                                  generalized linear partially
                                  varying-coefficient models . . . . . . . 1983--2001
               Zhi-Wen Zhao and   
                De-Hui Wang and   
               Cui-Xin Peng and   
                          Li Bi   A note on the limiting properties of the
                                  least squares estimation for the random
                                  coefficient autoregressive model . . . . 2002--2006
             Fareeha Rashid and   
             Muhammad Akram and   
                 Atif Akbar and   
                     Anum Javed   Some new augmented fractional
                                  Box--Behnken designs . . . . . . . . . . 2007--2012
                 Lixin Song and   
               Zhiqiang Hua and   
                   Dawei Lu and   
                    Xiaomeng Qi   Precise large deviations for the
                                  difference of two sums of WUOD and non
                                  identically distributed random variables
                                  with dominatedly varying tails . . . . . 2013--2028
                   Tahsin Mehdi   Poverty comparisons with common relative
                                  poverty lines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2029--2036
          Alessandro Selvitella   The Monge--Amp\`ere equation in
                                  transformation theory and an application
                                  to $ 1 / \alpha $-probabilities  . . . . 2037--2054
               Shu-Ching Su and   
          Stephan A. Sedory and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Adjusted Kuk's model using two non
                                  sensitive characteristics unrelated to
                                  the sensitive characteristic . . . . . . 2055--2075
                Zahra Amini and   
                Hossein Rabbani   Letter to the editor: Correction to
                                  ``The Normal-Laplace distribution and
                                  its relatives''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2076--2078

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 5, 2017

             Bing Xing Wang and   
               Xiu Kun Wang and   
                      Keming Yu   Inference on the Kumaraswamy
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2079--2090
            Juan M. Astorga and   
Héctor W. Gómez and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   Slashed generalized exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2091--2102
       Essam K. Al-Hussaini and   
            Alaa H. Abdel-Hamid   Bayes inference using half-logistic
                                  generated Weibull model based on type-II
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2103--2122
             Eldho Varghese and   
                  Cini Varghese   Variance-balanced row--column designs
                                  involving diallel crosses incorporating
                                  specific combining abilities for
                                  comparing test lines with a control line 2123--2131
               Mike Jacroux and   
            Bonni Kealy-Dichone   On the $E$-optimality of blocked main
                                  effects plans in blocks of different
                                  sizes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2132--2138
                  G. Rajesh and   
         E. I. Abdul-Sathar and   
                 S. Nair Rohini   On dynamic weighted survival entropy of
                                  order $ \alpha $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 2139--2150
            Tsung-Shan Tsou and   
                Wei-Cheng Hsiao   Likelihood inference for correlated
                                  binary data without any information
                                  about the joint distributions  . . . . . 2151--2160
                Huiming Zhu and   
                  Chao Deng and   
              Yingchun Deng and   
                       Ya Huang   Optimal financing and dividend policy
                                  with Markovian switching regimes . . . . 2161--2180
               Siraj Muneer and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                 Alamgir Khalil   Estimation of finite population mean in
                                  simple random sampling and stratified
                                  random sampling using two auxiliary
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2181--2192
                 S. M. R. Alavi   A generalized class of form-invariant
                                  bivariate weighted distributions . . . . 2193--2201
Mohammad Saber FallahNezhad and   
             Ahmad Ahmadi Yazdi   An optimization model for economic
                                  design of sampling plans based on
                                  conforming run length considering
                                  outgoing quality . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202--2211
           Jacek Wesolowski and   
           Robert Wieczorkowski   An eigenproblem approach to optimal
                                  equal-precision sample allocation in
                                  subpopulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212--2231
    Edilberto Nájera and   
              Federico O'Reilly   On fiducial generators . . . . . . . . . 2232--2248
           Housila P. Singh and   
        Manoj K. Srivastava and   
              Namita Srivastava   Efficient use of multi-auxiliary
                                  information in search of good rotation
                                  patterns in successive sampling  . . . . 2249--2269
      Leili Hassani Oskouei and   
        Parisa Hasanalipour and   
    Hossein Jabbari Khamnei and   
             Kavoos Khorshidian   The beta skew-generalized normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2270--2276
             Nathan Bennett and   
           Srikanth K. Iyer and   
           S. Rao Jammalamadaka   Analysis of Gamma and Weibull lifetime
                                  data under a general censoring scheme
                                  and in the presence of covariates  . . . 2277--2289
                   N. K. Mandal   Block designs robust against the
                                  presence of positional effects . . . . . 2290--2298
              S. Balamurali and   
                        M. Usha   Designing of variables quick switching
                                  sampling system by considering process
                                  loss functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2299--2314
               Weiyong Ding and   
                Jiaxin Yang and   
                 Xiaoliang Ling   On the skewness of extreme order
                                  statistics from heterogeneous samples    2315--2331
       Veronika Gontscharuk and   
                  Helmut Finner   Asymptotics of goodness-of-fit tests
                                  based on minimum $p$-value statistics    2332--2342
                      Anil Gaur   A class of $k$-sample distribution-free
                                  tests for location against ordered
                                  alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2343--2353
                  Xijun Liu and   
                Changjun Yu and   
                     Qingwu Gao   Precise large deviations of aggregate
                                  claim amount in a dependent renewal risk
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2354--2363
            Nripes Kumar Mandal   Measures of non orthogonality in block
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2364--2369
                    S. Sengupta   On the comparison of Warner's and
                                  unrelated question randomized response
                                  plans for estimating sensitive finite
                                  population proportions . . . . . . . . . 2370--2374
                  Junke Kou and   
                    Youming Liu   Non parametric regression estimations
                                  over $ L^p $ risk based on biased data   2375--2395
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Wavelet estimation for derivative of a
                                  density in a GARCH-type model  . . . . . 2396--2410
              Lalmohan Bhar and   
                  Sankalpa Ojha   Influence measures in blocked designs of
                                  experiments with correlated errors . . . 2411--2434
           Stylianos Georgiadis   First hitting probabilities for
                                  semi-Markov chains and estimation  . . . 2435--2446
                   Yoonsuh Jung   Shrinkage estimation of proportion via
                                  logit penalty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2447--2453
             Salim Bouzebda and   
                   Sultana Didi   Additive regression model for stationary
                                  and ergodic continuous time processes    2454--2493
                Weiguo Yang and   
                 Daying Zhu and   
                       Rong Gao   Almost everywhere convergence for
                                  sequences of pairwise NQD random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2494--2505
                       M. Kiani   The augmentation of existing data for
                                  improving the path of steepest ascent    2506--2518
                Dingjun Yao and   
              Rongming Wang and   
                         Lin Xu   Optimal impulse control for dividend and
                                  capital injection with proportional
                                  reinsurance and exponential premium
                                  principle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2519--2541
                  Yanyan Li and   
        Damaraju Raghavarao and   
                Inna Chervoneva   Extensions of $D$-optimal minimal
                                  designs for symmetric mixture models . . 2542--2558
                  Ke-Ang Fu and   
                         Jie Li   Tail behavior for the sum of two
                                  correlated classes of discounted
                                  aggregate claims in a time-dependent
                                  risk model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2559--2570
                 Rovshan Aliyev   On a stochastic process with a
                                  heavy-tailed distributed component
                                  describing inventory model type of $ (s,
                                  S) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2571--2579
                   Zhen Yan and   
                  Junjian Zhang   Adjusted empirical likelihood for value
                                  at risk and expected shortfall . . . . . 2580--2591

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Volume 46, Number 6, 2017

                     Qunying Wu   Almost sure central limit theorem for
                                  self-normalized products of partial sums
                                  of negatively associated sequences . . . 2593--2606
          Tanveer A. Tarray and   
               Housila P. Singh   A stratified randomized response model
                                  for sensitive characteristics using the
                                  negative hypergeometric distribution . . 2607--2629
           Housila P. Singh and   
             Surya Kant Pal and   
          Ramkrishna S. Solanki   A new class of estimators of finite
                                  population mean in sample surveys  . . . 2630--2637
          Tanveer A. Tarray and   
               Housila P. Singh   An optional randomized response model
                                  for estimating a rare sensitive
                                  attribute using Poisson distribution . . 2638--2654
       Muhamamd Yousaf Shad and   
                    Ijaz Husain   Trade-off between cost and variance for
                                  a multi-objective compromise allocation
                                  in stratified random sampling  . . . . . 2655--2666
             N. David Yanez and   
           Ibrahim Aljasser and   
                 Mose Andre and   
              Chengcheng Hu and   
             Michal Juraska and   
                  Thomas Lumley   Assessing the impact of measurement
                                  error in modeling change in the absence
                                  of auxiliary data  . . . . . . . . . . . 2667--2680
                    Xu Chen and   
                        Wang Qi   The parametric hypothesis test of
                                  multiple uniform populations . . . . . . 2681--2685
                  Idir Arab and   
            Abdelnasser Dahmani   Kiefer--Wolfowitz algorithm under
                                  quasi-associated random errors . . . . . 2686--2695
             Trinh Hoai Nam and   
              Tien-Chung Hu and   
                 Andrei Volodin   Maximal inequalities and strong law of
                                  large numbers for sequences of
                                  $m$-asymptotically almost negatively
                                  associated random variables  . . . . . . 2696--2707
              Santanu Dutta and   
                   Koushik Saha   Pointwise and uniform convergence of
                                  multivariate kernel density estimators
                                  using random bandwidths  . . . . . . . . 2708--2723
            Tian-Fang Zhang and   
             Jian-Feng Yang and   
                Zhi-Ming Li and   
                  Run-Chu Zhang   Construction of regular $ 2^n 4^1 $
                                  designs with general minimum lower-order
                                  confounding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2724--2735
                Shubhabrata Das   On generalized geometric distributions
                                  and improved estimation of batting
                                  average in cricket . . . . . . . . . . . 2736--2750
              Luke Smallman and   
               Andreas Artemiou   A study on imbalance support vector
                                  machine algorithms for sufficient
                                  dimension reduction  . . . . . . . . . . 2751--2763
             S. A. Alawadhi and   
                 F. A. Alawadhi   Spatial-temporal interpolation of non
                                  methane hydrocarbon levels in Kuwait . . 2764--2779
              Sumith Gunasekera   Bayesian inference for a common scale
                                  parameter of several Pareto populations  2780--2800
                   Yan Zhou and   
                    Liya Fu and   
                   Baoxue Zhang   Two non parametric methods for
                                  change-point detection in distribution   2801--2815
                     S. Minimol   On generalized dynamic cumulative past
                                  entropy measure  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2816--2822
                Roy T. Sabo and   
                   Ghalib Bello   Optimal and lead-in adaptive allocation
                                  for binary outcomes: a comparison of
                                  Bayesian methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 2823--2836
             Yuan Lin Zhang and   
                  Guan Jun Wang   An optimal age-replacement policy for a
                                  simple repairable system with delayed
                                  repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2837--2850
                    Xu Chen and   
                  Chang Guisong   Exact distribution of the convolution of
                                  negative binomial random variables . . . 2851--2856
                  M. Mirali and   
               S. Baratpour and   
                      V. Fakoor   On weighted cumulative residual entropy  2857--2869
          Tanveer A. Tarray and   
               Housila P. Singh   An adept-stratified Kuk's randomized
                                  response model using Neyman allocation   2870--2881
                Dale Bowman and   
             E. Olusegun George   Likelihood estimation for exchangeable
                                  multinomial data . . . . . . . . . . . . 2882--2892
              Sadegh Rezaei and   
        Behnam Bahrami Sadr and   
             Morad Alizadeh and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Topp--Leone generated family of
                                  distributions: Properties and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2893--2909
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   On generalized exponential chain ratio
                                  estimators under stratified two-phase
                                  random sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2910--2920
       Pawe\l Marcin Kozyra and   
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Sharp bounds on the expectations of
                                  $L$-statistics expressed in the Gini
                                  mean difference units  . . . . . . . . . 2921--2941
              Antonello D'Ambra   Cumulative correspondence analysis using
                                  orthogonal polynomials . . . . . . . . . 2942--2954
             Jaffer Hussain and   
              S. Balamurali and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   SkSP-R sampling plan based on process
                                  capability index . . . . . . . . . . . . 2955--2966
                Chaohui Guo and   
                    Hu Yang and   
                        Jing Lv   Robust variable selection for
                                  generalized linear models with a
                                  diverging number of parameters . . . . . 2967--2981
                        Jibo Wu   Quasi-minimax estimation in the partial
                                  linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2982--2989
     Jolanta Pielaszkiewicz and   
         Dietrich Von Rosen and   
                 Martin Singull   On $ \mathbb {E}[\prod_{i = 0}^k {\rm
                                  Tr} \{ W^{m_i} \}] $, where $ \sim
                                  \mathcal {W}_p(I, n) $ . . . . . . . . . 2990--3005
             Salah Khardani and   
      Anne Françoise Yao   Non linear parametric mode regression    3006--3024
           Farnoosh Ashoori and   
         Malihe Ebrahimpour and   
           Abolghasem Bozorgnia   Modeling of maximum precipitation using
                                  maximal generalized extreme value
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3025--3033
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Optimal designs of multivariate
                                  synthetic $ |S| $ control chart based on
                                  median run length  . . . . . . . . . . . 3034--3053
    Ernesto J. Veres-Ferrer and   
           Jose M. Pavía   Properties of the elasticity of a
                                  continuous random variable. A special
                                  look at its behavior and speed of change 3054--3069
              Fatima Batool and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                  Zawar Hussain   On the estimation of a sensitive
                                  quantitative mean using blank cards  . . 3070--3079
          Adriano K. Suzuki and   
       Gladys D. C. Barriga and   
          Francisco Louzada and   
              Vicente G. Cancho   A general long-term aging model with
                                  different underlying activation
                                  mechanisms: Modeling, Bayesian
                                  estimation, and case influence
                                  diagnostics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3080--3098
              Budi Pratikno and   
                 Shahjahan Khan   Testing equality of two intercepts for
                                  the parallel regression model with non
                                  sample prior information . . . . . . . . 3099--3110

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 7, 2017

               Ying-Ju Chen and   
                   Wei Ning and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   Jackknife empirical likelihood test for
                                  mean residual life functions . . . . . . 3111--3122
                     Haifeng Xu   MSE performance and minimax regret
                                  significance points for a HPT estimator
                                  under a multivariate $t$ error
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3123--3134
                 Chanchal Kundu   On weighted measure of inaccuracy for
                                  doubly truncated random variables  . . . 3135--3147
              Robert G. Staudte   Inference for quantile measures of
                                  kurtosis, peakedness, and tail weight    3148--3163
              Mustafa Nadar and   
            Elif Erçelik   Local convergency rate of MSE in density
                                  estimation using the second-order
                                  modulus of smoothness  . . . . . . . . . 3164--3173
          Robert M. Mnatsakanov   Recovery of functions from transformed
                                  moments: a unified approach  . . . . . . 3174--3185
                       T. Imada   Successive comparisons between ordered
                                  normal means using isotonic regression
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3186--3199
               Jafar Ahmadi and   
             Elham Mirfarah and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Comparison of preliminary test
                                  estimators based on generalized order
                                  statistics from proportional hazard
                                  family using Pitman measure of closeness 3200--3216
              Morteza Amini and   
              Nader Nematollahi   Estimation of the parameter of a
                                  dynamically selected population for two
                                  subclasses of the exponential family . . 3217--3234
                  Ke-Ang Fu and   
                    Xinmei Shen   Moderate deviations for sums of
                                  dependent claims in a size-dependent
                                  renewal risk model . . . . . . . . . . . 3235--3243
                   Zujun Ou and   
                   Hong Qin and   
           Kashinath Chatterjee   Some new lower bounds to various
                                  discrepancies on combined designs  . . . 3244--3254
 Chien-Chia Liäm Huang and   
                Yow-Jen Jou and   
                  Hsun-Jung Cho   VIF-based adaptive matrix perturbation
                                  method for heteroskedasticity-robust
                                  covariance estimators in the presence of
                                  multicollinearity  . . . . . . . . . . . 3255--3263
          Z. Ghayour Moradi and   
                  M. Arashi and   
                  O. Arslan and   
                Anis Iranmanesh   A new family of multivariate slash
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3264--3275
                Junfeng Liu and   
               Donglei Tang and   
                    Yuquan Cang   Variations and estimators for
                                  self-similarity parameter of
                                  sub-fractional Brownian motion via
                                  Malliavin calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 3276--3289
                 Alan Huang and   
                Paul J. Rathouz   Orthogonality of the mean and error
                                  distribution in generalized linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3290--3296
                Yiping Yang and   
                Lifang Chen and   
                    Peixin Zhao   Empirical likelihood inference in
                                  partially linear single-index models
                                  with endogenous covariates . . . . . . . 3297--3307
                       Liwen Xu   Parametric bootstrap inferences for the
                                  growth curve models with intraclass
                                  correlation structure  . . . . . . . . . 3308--3320
                       Dong Xia   Variable selection of linear programming
                                  discriminant estimator . . . . . . . . . 3321--3341
           William F. Scott and   
                   Sheng Lu and   
                  Cheuk Ngai Lo   Orthogonal polynomials, repeated
                                  measures, and SPSS . . . . . . . . . . . 3342--3364
     Sergio Alvarez-Andrade and   
             Salim Bouzebda and   
             Aimé Lachal   Some asymptotic results for the
                                  integrated empirical process with
                                  applications to statistical tests  . . . 3365--3392
              A. Saadatmand and   
          A. R. Nematollahi and   
         S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi   On the estimation of missing values in
                                  AR(1) model with exponential innovations 3393--3400
               A. Parvardeh and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
               Azam Arshadipour   Conditional residual lifetimes of
                                  coherent systems under double monitoring 3401--3410
                          Y. Tu   Efficient estimation of non parametric
                                  simultaneous equations models  . . . . . 3411--3416
     André Beauducel and   
                 Norbert Hilger   The determinacy of the regression factor
                                  score predictor based on continuous
                                  parameter estimates from categorical
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3417--3425
               Kuo-Chin Lin and   
                     Yi-Ju Chen   Assessment of modeling longitudinal
                                  binary data based on graphical methods   3426--3437
                    C. Tenreiro   A weighted least-squares
                                  cross-validation bandwidth selector for
                                  kernel density estimation  . . . . . . . 3438--3458
              Shouquan Chen and   
                    Lingling Du   Asymptotic expansions of density of
                                  normalized extremes from logarithmic
                                  general error distribution . . . . . . . 3459--3478
               S. K. Ashour and   
                O. E. Abo-Kasem   Statistical inference for two
                                  exponential populations under joint
                                  progressive Type-I censored scheme . . . 3479--3488
             Changyong Feng and   
               Hongyue Wang and   
                  Yun Zhang and   
                     Yu Han and   
              Yuefeng Liang and   
                      Xin M. Tu   On testing proportionality in the Cox
                                  regression model by Andersen's plot  . . 3489--3500
                G. N. Singh and   
                  M. Khetan and   
                      S. Maurya   On the use of multi-auxiliary variables
                                  to neutralize the effect of non response
                                  in two-occasion successive sampling  . . 3501--3519
     N. Ch. Bhatra Charyulu and   
                Sk. Ameen Saheb   Note on reduction of dimensionality for
                                  second-order response surface design
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3520--3525
              Masashi Hyodo and   
             Takahiro Nishiyama   A one-sample location test based on
                                  weighted averaging of two test
                                  statistics when the dimension and the
                                  sample size are large  . . . . . . . . . 3526--3541
   Amin Ghalamfarsa Mostofi and   
        Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei   Ratio- and difference-type estimators
                                  for estimating finite population
                                  variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3542--3555
       Philippe Castagliola and   
        Pedro Carlos Oprime and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   The double sampling $ S^2 $ chart with
                                  estimated process variance . . . . . . . 3556--3573
               Shuxia Zhang and   
                  Gejun Bao and   
                Boping Tian and   
                       Yijun Li   Semiparametric test for multiple
                                  change-points based on empirical
                                  likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3574--3585
                        Feng Hu   The modulus of continuity theorem for
                                  $G$-Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . 3586--3598
               Pingyan Chen and   
              Ningning Kong and   
                   Soo Hak Sung   Complete convergence for weighted sums
                                  of i.i.d. random variables with
                                  applications in regression estimation
                                  and EV model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3599--3613
             Changyong Feng and   
               Hongyue Wang and   
                  Yun Zhang and   
                     Yu Han and   
              Yuefeng Liang and   
                      Xin M. Tu   Generalized definition of the geometric
                                  mean of a non negative random variable   3614--3620
                Qingzhu Lei and   
                   Yongsong Qin   Empirical Bayes estimation in continuous
                                  one-parameter exponential families under
                                  associated samples . . . . . . . . . . . 3621--3630

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Volume 46, Number 8, 2017

              Hang Keun Ryu and   
              Daniel J. Slottje   Income inequality versus utility
                                  inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3631--3640
              Abbas Mahdavi and   
           Malek Fathizadeh and   
               Ahad Jamalizadeh   On the bivariate weighted exponential
                                  distribution based on the generalized
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 3641--3648
             Bahareh Afhami and   
                  Mohsen Madadi   Entropy-based goodness-of-fit tests for
                                  the Pareto I distribution  . . . . . . . 3649--3666
                     Qunying Wu   An extension of almost sure central
                                  limit theorem for the maximum of
                                  stationary Gaussian random fields  . . . 3667--3675
               Yukio Yanagisawa   Tests for compound periodicities and
                                  estimating a non linear function . . . . 3676--3689
               Jay H. Beder and   
          Margaret Ann McComack   A note on the minimum size of an
                                  orthogonal array . . . . . . . . . . . . 3690--3697
     Chathuri L. Jayasinghe and   
           Panlop Zeephongsekul   Non parametric hypothesis tests for
                                  comparing reliability functions  . . . . 3698--3717
                  Johan Lim and   
                     Sungim Lee   Testing the effect of treatment on
                                  survival time with an immediate
                                  intermediate event . . . . . . . . . . . 3718--3727
               B. N. Mandal and   
                V. K. Gupta and   
                Rajender Parsad   Balanced treatment incomplete block
                                  designs through integer programming  . . 3728--3737
                  M. Rauf Ahmad   Testing homogeneity of several
                                  covariance matrices and multi-sample
                                  sphericity for high-dimensional data
                                  under non-normality  . . . . . . . . . . 3738--3753
           David D. Hanagal and   
            Susmita M. Bhambure   Modeling Australian twin data using
                                  shared positive stable frailty models
                                  based on reversed hazard rate  . . . . . 3754--3771
             Muhammad Aslam and   
        Saqlain Latif Satti and   
      Mitwali Abd-el Moemen and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Design of sampling plan using auxiliary
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3772--3781
                   Tang Qingguo   M-estimation for functional linear
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3782--3800
              Christophe Dutang   Theoretical $L$-moments and $ T
                                  L$-moments using combinatorial
                                  identities and finite operators  . . . . 3801--3828
                  M. Arashi and   
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                  Fikri Akdeniz   The distribution of the Liu-type
                                  estimator of the biasing parameter in
                                  elliptically contoured models  . . . . . 3829--3837
             Haritha N. Haridas   Modeling censored data using modified
                                  lambda family  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3838--3847
               Xiuqing Zhou and   
                Yanqin Feng and   
                       Xiuli Du   Quantile regression for interval
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3848--3863
                 Shuo Zhang and   
              Zhan-Jie Song and   
                        Ying Li   Approximation of homogeneous random
                                  field from local averages  . . . . . . . 3864--3877
                     Lucy Kerns   Confidence bands for the logistic and
                                  probit regression models over intervals  3878--3890
              Kazuhiko Hayakawa   Unit root test for short panels with
                                  serially correlated errors . . . . . . . 3891--3900
             N. Nematollahi and   
                      A. Pagheh   Estimation of the location parameter and
                                  the average worth of the selected subset
                                  of two parameter exponential populations
                                  under LINEX loss function  . . . . . . . 3901--3914
                    Hong Li and   
                 Donald Hedeker   Statistical methods for continuous
                                  outcomes in partially clustered designs  3915--3933
                    Chen Li and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Some new results on allocation of
                                  coverage limits and deductibles to
                                  mutually independent risks . . . . . . . 3934--3948
                 A. Kiapour and   
             M. Naghizadeh Qomi   Equal-tailed and shortest Bayesian
                                  tolerance intervals based on exponential
                                  $k$-records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3949--3956
           Housila P. Singh and   
                   Surya K. Pal   A class of exponential-type ratio
                                  estimators of a general parameter  . . . 3957--3984
           Zbigniew S. Szewczak   Berry--Esséen theorem for sample
                                  quantiles of asymptotically uncorrelated
                                  non reversible Markov chains . . . . . . 3985--4003
                   Li-Fei Huang   Approximated non parametric confidence
                                  regions for the ratio of two percentiles 4004--4015
                Yves Nievergelt   Least-squares logistic curves with
                                  initial conditions exist . . . . . . . . 4016--4030
               Issam Dawoud and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   Evaluation of the predictive performance
                                  of the $r$--$k$ and $r$--$d$ class
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4031--4050
                 Ujjwal Das and   
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Covariate selection for accelerated
                                  failure time data  . . . . . . . . . . . 4051--4064
                  Xiang Gao and   
                     Ming Zheng   Estimating the causal effects in
                                  randomized trials for survival data with
                                  a cure fraction and non compliance . . . 4065--4087
       Andreas Kyriakoussis and   
              Malvina Vamvakari   Heine process as a $q$-analog of the
                                  Poisson process-waiting and interarrival
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4088--4102
              Guangjun Shen and   
               Liangwen Xia and   
                    Dongjin Zhu   A strong convergence to the tempered
                                  fractional Brownian motion . . . . . . . 4103--4118
             Zohdy M. Nofal and   
             Ahmed Z. Afify and   
          Haitham M. Yousof and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   The generalized transmuted-$G$ family of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4119--4136
                     Likai Zhou   Double-smoothed drift estimation of
                                  jump-diffusion model . . . . . . . . . . 4137--4149
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4150--4150

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 9, 2017

               Junlong Zhao and   
                     Xiuli Zhao   Dimension reduction boosting . . . . . . 4151--4162
              Amarjit Kundu and   
                 Chanchal Kundu   Bivariate extension of (dynamic)
                                  cumulative past entropy  . . . . . . . . 4163--4180
          Maddalena Cavicchioli   Third and fourth moments of vector
                                  autoregressions with regime switching    4181--4194
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
             Morad Alizadeh and   
          Rodrigo R. Pescim and   
             Edwin M. M. Ortega   The odd log-logistic generalized
                                  half-normal lifetime distribution:
                                  Properties and applications  . . . . . . 4195--4214
                   Min Yuan and   
                   Laisheng Wei   Two-sided empirical Bayes test for
                                  location parameter in the gamma
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4215--4225
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
                   Hong Qin and   
           Kashinath Chatterjee   Multivariate Bayesian $U$-type
                                  asymmetric designs for non parametric
                                  response surface prediction under
                                  correlated errors  . . . . . . . . . . . 4226--4239
        Nripes Kumar Mandal and   
                    Manisha Pal   Optimum mixture designs in some
                                  constrained experimental regions . . . . 4240--4249
         Michiel B. De Kock and   
                 Hans C. Eggers   Bayesian variable selection with
                                  spherically symmetric priors . . . . . . 4250--4263
            Yuri A. Iriarte and   
            Juan M. Astorga and   
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
  Héctor W. Gómez   Gamma--Maxwell distribution  . . . . . . 4264--4274
                Roberto Fontana   Generalized minimum aberration
                                  mixed-level orthogonal arrays: a general
                                  approach based on sequential integer
                                  quadratically constrained quadratic
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4275--4284
               Shimin Zheng and   
              Eunice Mogusu and   
      Sreenivas P. Veeranki and   
                Megan Quinn and   
                        Yan Cao   The relationship between the mean,
                                  median, and mode with grouped data . . . 4285--4295
            Vahid Nekoukhou and   
                   Hamid Bidram   A new generalization of the
                                  Weibull-geometric distribution with
                                  bathtub failure rate . . . . . . . . . . 4296--4310
                  Yang Zhao and   
                 Liugen Xue and   
                   Sanying Feng   Semiparametric estimation of the
                                  single-index varying-coefficient model   4311--4326
                     Nuo Xu and   
                 Xuan Huang and   
                   Samuel Huang   A measure of general functional
                                  dependence between two continuous
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4327--4352
            Christian Farinetto   On hypothesis tests for disk-type
                                  intensities of spatial Poisson processes 4353--4368
                Yousri Henchiri   Non parametric learning approach to
                                  estimate conditional quantiles in the
                                  dependent functional data case . . . . . 4369--4387
            Jui-Chieh Huang and   
              Wen-Tso Huang and   
                Pei-Tzu Chu and   
                 Wen-Yi Lee and   
              Hsin-Ping Pai and   
           Chih-Chen Chuang and   
                      Ya-Wen Wu   Applying a Markov chain for the stock
                                  pricing of a novel forecasting model . . 4388--4402
  Sébastien Da Veiga and   
         Jean-Michel Loubes and   
            Maikol Solís   Efficient estimation of conditional
                                  covariance matrices for dimension
                                  reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4403--4424
                  Abdul Haq and   
               Manzoor Khan and   
                  Zawar Hussain   A new estimator of finite population
                                  mean based on the dual use of the
                                  auxiliary information  . . . . . . . . . 4425--4436
                Zhiwen Zhao and   
                 Dehui Wang and   
                    Cuixin Peng   Conditional heteroscedasticity test for
                                  Poisson autoregressive model . . . . . . 4437--4448
                     Zaixing Li   Profile maximal likelihood estimation
                                  for non linear mixed models with
                                  longitudinal data  . . . . . . . . . . . 4449--4463
                D. K. Nagar and   
                  M. Arashi and   
                   S. Nadarajah   Bimatrix variate gamma-beta
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4464--4483
                Yongxiu Cao and   
                     Jichang Yu   Optimal generalized case-cohort sampling
                                  design under the additive hazard model   4484--4493
              Mariem Tounsi and   
                   Raoudha Zine   Wilks' factorization of the
                                  matrix-variate Dirichlet--Riesz
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4494--4509
                  Qiu Dehua and   
                   Chen Pingyan   Complete and complete moment convergence
                                  for i.i.d. random variables under
                                  exponential moment conditions  . . . . . 4510--4519
                U. C. Nduka and   
               S. I. Iwueze and   
                    E. C. Nwogu   Fitting polynomial trend to time series
                                  by the method of Buys-Ballot estimators  4520--4538
                Rasool Roozegar   Limiting behavior of randomly weighted
                                  averages of symmetric heavy-tailed
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 4539--4544
                 Ji-Ji Xing and   
                   Xi-Yuan Qian   Bayesian expectile regression with
                                  asymmetric normal distribution . . . . . 4545--4555
                  Litan Yan and   
                  Yumiao Li and   
                          Di Wu   Approximation of the Rosenblatt process
                                  by semimartingales . . . . . . . . . . . 4556--4578
           Simon Loertscher and   
              Ellen V. Muir and   
                Peter G. Taylor   A general non-central hypergeometric
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4579--4598
                  Xia Yemao and   
                     Pan Maolin   Bayesian analysis for confirmatory
                                  factor model with finite-dimensional
                                  Dirichlet prior mixing . . . . . . . . . 4599--4619
                    Hui-Hui Sun   Testing for heteroscedasticity of
                                  exponential correlation mixed-effects
                                  linear models based on $M$-estimation    4620--4630
                      Dewang Li   Kernel estimations for multivariate
                                  density functional with bootstrap  . . . 4631--4641
                   Qi Zheng and   
            Colin Gallagher and   
               K. B. Kulasekera   Robust adaptive Lasso for variable
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4642--4659
         Walter Díaz and   
              Carles M. Cuadras   On a multivariate generalization of the
                                  covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4660--4669

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 10, 2017

               Juan Kalemkerian   An integral formula for the distribution
                                  of self-normalized Gaussian random
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4671--4685
            Yuri A. Iriarte and   
                   F. Vilca and   
       Héctor Varela and   
  Héctor W. Gómez   Slashed generalized Rayleigh
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4686--4699
                 Yasaman Maleki   Optimal covariance estimation of
                                  discrete-time locally self-similar
                                  processes in time-scale and ambiguity
                                  domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4700--4712
            Dabuxilatu Wang and   
                Liang Zhang and   
                    Qiang Xiong   A non parametric CUSUM control chart
                                  based on the Mann--Whitney statistic . . 4713--4725
              Mavis Pararai and   
    Gayan Warahena-Liyanage and   
           Broderick O. Oluyede   Exponentiated power Lindley--Poisson
                                  distribution: Properties and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4726--4755
               S. K. Ashour and   
                      M. Nassar   Inference for Weibull distribution under
                                  adaptive Type-I progressive hybrid
                                  censored competing risks data  . . . . . 4756--4773
             Russell J. Bowater   A formulation of the concept of
                                  probability based on the use of
                                  experimental devices . . . . . . . . . . 4774--4790
               Chen-Yen Lin and   
                   Susan Halabi   A simple method for deriving the
                                  confidence regions for the penalized
                                  Cox's model via the minimand
                                  perturbation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4791--4808
            Chaitra H. Nagaraja   Theory and methods for partitioned Gini
                                  coefficients computed on post-stratified
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4809--4823
                 Linyuan Li and   
                     Yimin Xiao   Wavelet-based estimation of regression
                                  function with strong mixing errors under
                                  fixed design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4824--4842
                Eddy Kwessi and   
            Brice M. Nguelifack   Signed-rank analysis of a partial linear
                                  model with B-splines estimated monotone
                                  non parametric function  . . . . . . . . 4843--4854
            Hammou El Barmi and   
                    Rongning Wu   On estimation of peakedness-ordered
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4855--4869
                   A. R. Shafay   Bayesian estimation and prediction based
                                  on generalized Type-I hybrid censored
                                  sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4870--4887
                Xingwu Zhou and   
               Martin Solberger   An LM-type test for idiosyncratic unit
                                  roots in the exact factor model with
                                  integrated factors . . . . . . . . . . . 4888--4914
               Tatiana Komarova   Extremum sieve estimation in
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ systems . . . . . . . . . 4915--4931
                      Nidhi and   
           B. V. S. Sisodia and   
              Subedar Singh and   
                Sanjay K. Singh   Calibration approach estimation of the
                                  mean in stratified sampling and
                                  stratified double sampling . . . . . . . 4932--4942
               Woo Dong Lee and   
              Sang Gil Kang and   
                     Yongku Kim   Objective Bayesian inference for the
                                  ratio of the scale parameters of two
                                  Weibull distributions  . . . . . . . . . 4943--4956
Selahattin Kaçiranlar and   
                   Issam Dawoud   Comment on a generalized stochastic
                                  restricted ridge regression estimator    4957--4960
             Yun-Cheng Tsai and   
                  Yuh-Dauh Lyuu   A new robust Kalman filter for filtering
                                  the microstructure noise . . . . . . . . 4961--4976
     Sherzod B. Akhundjanov and   
             Francis G. Pascual   Exponentially weighted moving average
                                  charts for correlated multivariate
                                  Poisson processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 4977--5000
             A. Asgharzadeh and   
               S. Nadarajah and   
                     F. Sharafi   Generalized inverse Lindley distribution
                                  with application to Danish fire
                                  insurance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5001--5021
             Dongliang Wang and   
                 Alan D. Hutson   A weighted Harrell--Davis distance test
                                  with applications to censored data . . . 5022--5034
            Muhammad Shafiq and   
                Reinhard Viertl   On the estimation of parameters,
                                  survival functions, and hazard rates
                                  based on fuzzy life time data  . . . . . 5035--5055
               Yiying Zhang and   
                      Peng Zhao   On the maxima of heterogeneous gamma
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5056--5071
                 Jiyang Tan and   
                   Yuhui Ma and   
               Hanjun Zhang and   
                 Ziqiang Li and   
                  Xiangqun Yang   Optimal control strategies for dividend
                                  payments and capital injections in
                                  compound Markov binomial risk model with
                                  penalties for deficits . . . . . . . . . 5072--5092
               Xinghui Wang and   
                       Shuhe Hu   The strong consistency of $M$-estimates
                                  in linear models with extended
                                  negatively dependent errors  . . . . . . 5093--5108
    Katharina Tschumitschew and   
                  Frank Klawonn   Effects of drift and noise on the
                                  optimal sliding window size for data
                                  stream regression models . . . . . . . . 5109--5132
           Emanuela Dreassi and   
                   Emilia Rocco   A Bayesian semiparametric model for non
                                  negative semicontinuous data . . . . . . 5133--5146
                  Wei Xiong and   
                Maozai Tian and   
                   Man-Lai Tang   Randomized quantile regression
                                  estimation for heteroskedastic non
                                  parametric model . . . . . . . . . . . . 5147--5179
               Jooyong Shim and   
               Kyungha Seok and   
                  Changha Hwang   Monotone support vector quantile
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5180--5193

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 11, 2017

                  Thomas Parker   Finite-sample distributions of the Wald,
                                  likelihood ratio, and Lagrange
                                  multiplier test statistics in the
                                  classical linear model . . . . . . . . . 5195--5202
                 Ali Sayyad and   
  Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and   
          Behrouz Afshar-Najafi   A non parametric approach to monitor
                                  simple linear profiles in phases I and
                                  II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5203--5222
        M. Magdalena Lucini and   
             Alejandro C. Frery   Comments on ``Detecting Outliers in
                                  Gamma Distribution'' by M. Jabbari
                                  Nooghabi et al. (2010) . . . . . . . . . 5223--5227
              Saeed Adibfar and   
Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad and   
                    Roya Jafari   Optimal acceptance sampling policy
                                  considering Bayesian risks . . . . . . . 5228--5237
               Kristi Morin and   
                  John L. Davis   Cross-validation: What is it and how is
                                  it used in regression? . . . . . . . . . 5238--5251
               Shaun Bender and   
              Daniel F. Heitjan   Ignorability conditions for frequentist
                                  non parametric analysis of conditional
                                  distributions with incomplete data . . . 5252--5264
                     Z.-Z. Wang   Some limit theorems of delayed sums for
                                  rowwise conditionally independent
                                  stochastic arrays  . . . . . . . . . . . 5265--5272
              Asok K. Nanda and   
            Nil Kamal Hazra and   
           D. K. Al-Mutairi and   
                  M. E. Ghitany   On some generalized ageing orderings . . 5273--5291
                    Kun Fan and   
                  Yang Shen and   
               Tak Kuen Siu and   
                  Rongming Wang   An FFT approach for option pricing under
                                  a regime-switching stochastic interest
                                  rate model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5292--5310
José María Sarabia and   
        Vanesa Jordá and   
                  Carmen Trueba   The Lamé class of Lorenz curves . . . . . 5311--5326
            David J. Mauler and   
          James B. McDonald and   
                Logan C. Tatham   Partially adaptive quantile estimators   5327--5341
                    Zean Li and   
                Weihua Zhao and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
                      Jicai Liu   Robust estimation for partially linear
                                  single-index model . . . . . . . . . . . 5342--5356
         Etebong P. Clement and   
               Ekaette I. Enang   On the efficiency of ratio estimator
                                  over the regression estimator  . . . . . 5357--5367
               Shengjun Gan and   
                  Yuqin Sun and   
                    Yongge Tian   Equivalence of predictors under real and
                                  over-parameterized linear models . . . . 5368--5383
       N. Unnikrishnan Nair and   
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                Nidhi P. Ramesh   Some properties of discrete
                                  bathtub-shaped distributions . . . . . . 5384--5393
       Muhammad Shuaib Khan and   
                Robert King and   
              Irene Lena Hudson   Transmuted Weibull distribution:
                                  Properties and estimation  . . . . . . . 5394--5418
                Joleen Beltrami   Weibull lagged effect step-stress model
                                  with competing risks . . . . . . . . . . 5419--5442
                   Dawei Lu and   
                    Xiaomeng Qi   Precise large deviations for $ \phi
                                  $-mixing and UND random variables with
                                  long-tailed distributions  . . . . . . . 5443--5452
E. Gómez-Déniz and   
              M. E. Ghitany and   
                Ramesh C. Gupta   A bivariate generalized geometric
                                  distribution with applications . . . . . 5453--5465
           Housila P. Singh and   
                   Surya K. Pal   Search of good rotation patterns using
                                  exponential method of estimation in
                                  two-occasion successive sampling . . . . 5466--5486
        Ché L. Smith and   
               Lloyd J. Edwards   A test of separate hypotheses for
                                  comparing linear mixed models with non
                                  nested fixed effects . . . . . . . . . . 5487--5500
                Yuh-Jenn Wu and   
                  Wei-Quan Fang   Consistent estimation approach to
                                  tackling collinearity and Berkson-type
                                  measurement error in linear regression
                                  using adjusted Wald-type estimator . . . 5501--5516
                    Bo Zhao and   
                    Joseph Glaz   Scan statistics for detecting a local
                                  change in variance for two-dimensional
                                  normal data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5517--5530
          Priyanka Aggarwal and   
                Ashok K. Bansal   Bayes prediction of Poisson regression
                                  superpopulation mean with a non gamma
                                  prior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5531--5543
          Rahim Chinipardaz and   
          Behzad Falahifard and   
          Mohammad Reza Akhoond   The discrepancy of $P$-values and
                                  posterior probability: Two-sided
                                  hypothesis of variance of normal
                                  distribution with unknown mean . . . . . 5544--5555
               Henrik Nyman and   
               Johan Pensar and   
                 Jukka Corander   Stratified Gaussian graphical models . . 5556--5578
                   Liwen Xu and   
                    Maozai Tian   Parametric bootstrap inferences for
                                  panel data models  . . . . . . . . . . . 5579--5594
                Mohsen Rezapour   Progressively Type-II censored
                                  conditionally $N$-ordered statistics
                                  from a unified elliptically contoured
                                  copula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5595--5611
             Wen-Jang Huang and   
                   Nan-Cheng Su   A study of generalized normal
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5612--5632
               Nabila Aiane and   
            Abdelnasser Dahmani   Consistency of the Tikhonov's
                                  regularization in an ill-posed problem
                                  with $ \alpha $-mixing random data . . . 5633--5642
        Christophe Chesneau and   
                 Fabien Navarro   On the pointwise mean squared error of a
                                  multidimensional term-by-term
                                  thresholding wavelet estimator . . . . . 5643--5655
      Manas Ranjan Tripathy and   
               Somesh Kumar and   
             Adarsha Kumar Jena   Estimating quantiles of several normal
                                  populations with a common mean . . . . . 5656--5671
    Konstantinos C. Fragkos and   
            Michail Tsagris and   
            Christos C. Frangos   Exploring the distribution for the
                                  estimator of Rosenthal's `fail-safe'
                                  number of unpublished studies in
                                  meta-analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5672--5684
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
             Morad Alizadeh and   
          Thiago G. Ramires and   
             Edwin M. M. Ortega   The generalized odd half-Cauchy family
                                  of distributions: Properties and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5685--5705

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 12, 2017

                 Suchismita Das   On weighted generalized entropy  . . . . 5707--5727
          Johannes Ledolter and   
                Franklin Dexter   On the reciprocity of connections in
                                  weighted and unweighted networks . . . . 5728--5737
                   F. Razie and   
          E. Bahrami Samani and   
                     M. Ganjali   Latent variable model for mixed
                                  correlated power series and ordinal
                                  longitudinal responses with non
                                  ignorable missing values . . . . . . . . 5738--5753
               Issam Dawoud and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   An optimal $k$ of $k$-th MA-ARIMA models
                                  under a class of ARIMA model . . . . . . 5754--5765
        S. Abedin Daryabari and   
      S. Mohammad Hashemian and   
           Ali Keyvandarian and   
              Shekary A. Maryam   The effects of measurement error on the
                                  MAX EWMAMS control chart . . . . . . . . 5766--5778
                  S. H. Lin and   
                     R. S. Wang   Discussion on the common threshold of
                                  several exponential distributions with
                                  different rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5779--5794
                 R. van Zyl and   
            A. J. van der Merwe   A Bayesian control chart for a common
                                  coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 5795--5811
           David D. Hanagal and   
            Susmita M. Bhambure   Shared gamma frailty models based on
                                  reversed hazard rate for modeling
                                  Australian twin data . . . . . . . . . . 5812--5826
                    Chaobing He   Bayesian multiple change-point
                                  estimation for exponential distribution
                                  with truncated and censored data . . . . 5827--5839
       Megdouda Ourbih-Tari and   
                   Mahdia Azzal   Survival function estimation with non
                                  parametric adaptive refined descriptive
                                  sampling algorithm: a case study . . . . 5840--5850
              Bu Hyoung Lee and   
              William W. S. Wei   The use of temporally aggregated data on
                                  detecting a mean change of a time series
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5851--5871
                 Yongku Kim and   
               Woo Dong Lee and   
              Sang Gil Kang and   
                     Dal Ho Kim   Objective Bayesian hypothesis testing in
                                  regression models with first-order
                                  autoregressive residuals . . . . . . . . 5872--5887
              Yanfang Zhang and   
                 Fengyang Cheng   Asymptotic tail behavior of a random sum
                                  with conditionally dependent
                                  subexponential summands  . . . . . . . . 5888--5895
        Miodrag S. Djordjevi\'c   An extension on \em INAR models with
                                  discrete Laplace marginal distributions  5896--5913
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Synthetic double sampling $s$ chart  . . 5914--5931
               Andrei N. Frolov   On Esséen type inequalities for
                                  combinatorial random sums  . . . . . . . 5932--5940
               Karima Lagha and   
                   Smail Adjabi   Non parametric sequential estimation of
                                  the probability density function by
                                  orthogonal series  . . . . . . . . . . . 5941--5955
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
               Stephen Chan and   
             Emmanuel Afuecheta   Tabulations for value at risk and
                                  expected shortfall . . . . . . . . . . . 5956--5984
               Weijia Zhang and   
                        Po Yang   Optimal investment and consumption with
                                  unknown parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 5985--5993
          Guglielmo D'Amico and   
            Filippo Petroni and   
                Flavio Prattico   On the limit distribution of a
                                  second-order semi-Markov chain in state
                                  and duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5994--5999
               Jong-Il Baek and   
                      Si-Li Niu   Estimation of conditional mode with
                                  truncated, censored, and dependent data  6000--6016
              Gabriela Ciuperca   Estimation in a change-point non linear
                                  quantile model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6017--6034
       Alessandro Chiancone and   
     Stéphane Girard and   
              Jocelyn Chanussot   Collaborative sliced inverse regression  6035--6053
                  S. Rezaei and   
             A. K. Marvasty and   
               S. Nadarajah and   
                    M. Alizadeh   A new exponentiated class of
                                  distributions: Properties and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6054--6073
                   Feng Liu and   
              Xiangyong Tan and   
                 Sitong Guo and   
                    Xinmei Kang   Testing for serial correlation in linear
                                  model with validation data . . . . . . . 6074--6084
                 M. Akahira and   
                    N. Ohyauchi   Second-order asymptotic loss of the MLE
                                  of a truncation parameter for a
                                  truncated exponential family of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6085--6097
             Maryam Sharafi and   
            Zahra Sajjadnia and   
               Javad Behboodian   A new generalization of
                                  alpha-skew-normal distribution . . . . . 6098--6111
                James R. Schott   Some tests for the allometric extension
                                  model in regression  . . . . . . . . . . 6112--6118
                  Corey Peltier   ``What If'' analysis: Benefits of
                                  utilizing a ``What If'' analysis in
                                  Excel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6119--6129
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Orthogonal polynomials generated by
                                  random vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6130--6136
                 Yang Aijun and   
               Jiang Xuejun and   
               Xiang Liming and   
                    Lin Jinguan   Sparse Bayesian variable selection in
                                  multinomial probit regression model with
                                  application to high-dimensional data
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6137--6150
                     Liang Wang   Reliability inference for a general
                                  lower-truncated family of distributions
                                  under records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6151--6173
                    Bin Liu and   
                  Yimin Shi and   
                   Jing Cai and   
                   Ruibing Wang   Reliability analysis of masked data in
                                  adaptive step-stress partially
                                  accelerated lifetime tests with
                                  progressive removal  . . . . . . . . . . 6174--6191
        Cheikh Tidiane Seck and   
     Joseph Ngatchou-Wandji and   
             Gane Samb Lô   Asymptotic inference in poverty indices:
                                  an empirical processes approach  . . . . 6192--6212
             Anindita Datta and   
                Seema Jaggi and   
             Eldho Varghese and   
                  Cini Varghese   Generalized confounded row--column
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6213--6221
              M. Ahsanullah and   
              M. E. Ghitany and   
               D. K. Al-Mutairi   Characterization of Lindley distribution
                                  by truncated moments . . . . . . . . . . 6222--6227

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 13, 2017

               Xuejun Jiang and   
                   Tian Xia and   
                    Xueren Wang   Asymptotic properties of maximum
                                  quasi-likelihood estimator in
                                  quasi-likelihood non linear models with
                                  stochastic regression  . . . . . . . . . 6229--6239
            Neveka M. Olmos and   
Guillermo Martínez-Flórez and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   Bimodal Birnbaum--Saunders distribution
                                  with applications to non negative
                                  measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6240--6257
               B. N. Mandal and   
                   Sukanta Dash   On balanced incomplete Latin square
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6258--6263
    Mostafa M. Mohie El-Din and   
            Mohamed S. Kotb and   
       Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah and   
                 Haidy A. Newer   Bayesian inference and prediction of the
                                  Pareto distribution based on ordered
                                  ranked set sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 6264--6279
                    Mei Yao and   
            Jiang-Feng Wang and   
                         Lu Lin   Asymptotic normality for a non
                                  parametric estimator of conditional
                                  quantile with left-truncated data  . . . 6280--6292
 Félix Almendra-Arao and   
         David Sotres-Ramos and   
    Magin Zuñiga-Estrada   Extending the Barnard's test to
                                  non-inferiority  . . . . . . . . . . . . 6293--6302
                    Li Wang and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Consistent variable selection via the
                                  optimal discovery procedure in multiple
                                  testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6303--6322
              Jianglin Fang and   
                Wanrong Liu and   
                      Xuewen Lu   Two-sample high-dimensional empirical
                                  likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6323--6335
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
             F. G. Badía   Prediction of the residual failure
                                  processes based on the process history   6336--6357
                 Dezhao Han and   
               Ken Seng Tan and   
                  Chengguo Weng   Vine copula models with GLM and sparsity 6358--6381
                  E. Salehi and   
            S. S. Hashemi-Bosra   The mean general residual lifetime of $
                                  (n - k + 1)$-out-of-$n$ systems with
                                  exchangeable components  . . . . . . . . 6382--6400
                    Fei Yan and   
              Chongqi Zhang and   
                      Heng Peng   Optimal designs for additive mixture
                                  model with heteroscedastic errors  . . . 6401--6411
                  M. Arashi and   
                   S. Nadarajah   Generalized elliptical distributions . . 6412--6432
                    Ping Li and   
             Xiaoliang Ling and   
                   Weiyong Ding   Stochastic properties of the mixed
                                  accelerated hazard models  . . . . . . . 6433--6445
             Roman Salmeron and   
            Catalina Garcia and   
                Jose Garcia and   
            Maria del Mar Lopez   The raise estimator estimation,
                                  inference, and properties  . . . . . . . 6446--6462
                Patrick Richard   Heteroskedasticity-robust tests with
                                  minimum size distortion  . . . . . . . . 6463--6477
          Ajeet Kumar Singh and   
             Priyanka Singh and   
                    V. K. Singh   Model-based study of families of
                                  exponential-type estimators in presence
                                  of non response  . . . . . . . . . . . . 6478--6490
              Zhengyuan Wei and   
                    Juan Li and   
                 Xiaoyang Zheng   A probabilistic approach to Wallis'
                                  formula  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6491--6496
                   Jing Cai and   
                  Yimin Shi and   
                        Bin Liu   Analysis of incomplete data in the
                                  presence of dependent competing risks
                                  from Marshall--Olkin bivariate Weibull
                                  distribution under progressive hybrid
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6497--6511
      Félix Belzunce and   
Carolina Martínez-Riquelme   On sufficient conditions for the
                                  comparison of some quantile-based
                                  measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6512--6527
          C. E. G. Otiniano and   
     C. R. Gonçalves and   
                 C. C. Y. Dorea   Mixture of extreme-value distributions:
                                  identifiability and estimation . . . . . 6528--6542
              Abbas Mahdavi and   
                  Debasis Kundu   A new method for generating
                                  distributions with an application to
                                  exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 6543--6557
                 Huilan Liu and   
                        Hu Yang   Penalized composite quantile estimation
                                  for censored regression model with a
                                  diverging number of parameters . . . . . 6558--6578
                B. B. Khare and   
                      P. S. Jha   Classes of estimators for population
                                  mean using auxiliary variable in
                                  stratified population in the presence of
                                  non response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6579--6589
                  Jan Bulla and   
        Christophe Chesneau and   
                  Maher Kachour   A bivariate first-order signed
                                  integer-valued autoregressive process    6590--6604
        Gabriele Fiorentini and   
          Christophe Planas and   
               Alessandro Rossi   Marginal distribution of
                                  Markov-switching VAR processes . . . . . 6605--6623
Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad and   
                     Sina Seifi   Designing optimal double-sampling plan
                                  based on process capability index  . . . 6624--6634
             Jin-Jian Hsieh and   
                    Zih-Jyun Li   Estimation and test of conditional
                                  Kendall's Tau under bivariate
                                  left-truncation data . . . . . . . . . . 6635--6644
               Ai-Chun Chen and   
                  Takeshi Emura   A modified Liu-type estimator with an
                                  intercept term under mixture experiments 6645--6667
         Muni S. Srivastava and   
                 Martin Singull   Test for the mean matrix in a Growth
                                  Curve model for high dimensions  . . . . 6668--6683
                    Jing Xu and   
                         Jun Ma   Fitting finite mixture models using
                                  iterative Monte Carlo classification . . 6684--6693
               Nabila Aiane and   
            Abdelnasser Dahmani   On the rate of convergence of the
                                  Robbins--Monro's algorithm in a linear
                                  stochastic ill-posed problem with $
                                  \alpha $-mixing data . . . . . . . . . . 6694--6703
         Victor M. Guerrero and   
    Alejandro Islas-Camargo and   
     L. Leticia Ramirez-Ramirez   Trend estimation of multivariate time
                                  series with controlled smoothness  . . . 6704--6726
                Mahmut Kara and   
              Halil Aydogdu and   
                 Birdal Senoglu   Statistical inference for $ \alpha
                                  $-series process with gamma distribution 6727--6736
                  Bruce Barrett   A note on exact calculation of the non
                                  central hypergeometric distribution  . . 6737--6741

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 14, 2017

                   Ying Lou and   
                   Jing Cao and   
                 Song Zhang and   
                       Chul Ahn   Sample size estimation for a two-group
                                  comparison of repeated count outcomes
                                  using GEE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6743--6753
       A. E. Monsalve-Cobis and   
W. González-Manteiga and   
                       W. Stute   The statistical impact of inflation on
                                  interest rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6754--6763
                 Lulu Zheng and   
                  Yang Ding and   
                    Xuejun Wang   Asymptotic normality for the estimator
                                  of non parametric regression model under
                                  $ \varphi $-mixing errors  . . . . . . . 6764--6773
               Jake Olivier and   
              Warren L. May and   
                Melanie L. Bell   Relative effect sizes for measures of
                                  risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6774--6781
         V. S. S. Yadavalli and   
         V. S. Vaidyanathan and   
           P. Chandrasekhar and   
                       S. Abbas   Applications of quadrivariate
                                  exponential distribution to a three-unit
                                  warm standby system with dependent
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6782--6790
                Xufeng Zhao and   
           Satoshi Mizutani and   
                Toshio Nakagawa   Replacement policies for age and working
                                  numbers with random life cycle . . . . . 6791--6802
                    Fuxia Cheng   Strong uniform consistency rates of
                                  kernel estimators of cumulative
                                  distribution functions . . . . . . . . . 6803--6807
                 Xing Zhang and   
                   Jian Liu and   
                       Chao Tan   Economic design based on a multivariate
                                  Bayesian VSI chart with a dual control
                                  limit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6808--6822
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
                   Jinli Ji and   
                    Weiguo Yang   A class of small deviation theorem for
                                  the sequences of countable state random
                                  variables with respect to homogeneous
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6823--6830
                Edit Gombay and   
                  Fuxiao Li and   
                         Hao Yu   Retrospective change detection in
                                  categorical time series  . . . . . . . . 6831--6845
                Yanning Liu and   
                      Pilar Lim   Sample size increase during a survival
                                  trial when interim results are promising 6846--6863
                 Yasin Asar and   
             Murat Erisoglu and   
                Mohammad Arashi   Developing a restricted two-parameter
                                  Liu-type estimator: a comparison of
                                  restricted estimators in the binary
                                  logistic regression model  . . . . . . . 6864--6873
           Stanislaus S. Uyanto   Coefficient of relationship for two
                                  symmetric alpha-stable variables when
                                  alpha is in the interval $ (1, 2] $  . . 6874--6881
               C. M. Barros and   
            G. J. A. Amaral and   
        A. D. C. Nascimento and   
          A. H. M. A. Cysneiros   Detecting influential observations in
                                  Watson data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6882--6898
                Sunah Chung and   
                    S. Y. Hwang   A profile Godambe information of power
                                  transformations for ARCH time series . . 6899--6908
              Conghua Cheng and   
                 Yiming Liu and   
                        Zhi Liu   Empirical likelihood ratio under
                                  infinite second moment . . . . . . . . . 6909--6915
              Zhi Lin Chong and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
                Ming Ha Lee and   
                  Chung-Ho Chen   Group runs revised $m$-of-$k$ runs rule
                                  control chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6916--6935
               Bai Jing Pan and   
                    Ma Ming and   
                    Yang Ya Wen   Parameter estimation of the censored $
                                  \delta $-shock model on uniform interval 6936--6946
                   Tao Wang and   
                    Zhonghua Li   Outlier detection in high-dimensional
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 6947--6958
                Amy M. Kwon and   
                      Gong Tang   Application of an imputation method for
                                  variance estimation under
                                  pseudo-likelihood when missing data are
                                  NMAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6959--6966
                Wenhui Zhou and   
                  Qiang Wan and   
              Yanfang Zheng and   
                   Yong-wu Zhou   A joint-adaptive np control chart with
                                  multiple dependent state sampling scheme 6967--6979
        Jimoh Olawale Ajadi and   
                  Muhammad Riaz   Mixed multivariate EWMA--CUSUM control
                                  charts for an improved process
                                  monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6980--6993
               Shuxia Zhang and   
                    Boping Tian   Inference for random coefficient
                                  INAR($k$) with the occasional level
                                  shift random noise based on dual
                                  empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . 6994--7006
            Ümit Aksoy and   
           Sofiya Ostrovska and   
         Ahmet Yasar Özban   Polynomial logistic distribution
                                  associated with a cubic polynomial . . . 7007--7019
                  Peng Zhao and   
                   Lei Wang and   
                   Yiying Zhang   On extreme order statistics from
                                  heterogeneous beta distributions with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7020--7038
               Ali Al-Sharadqah   A new perspective in functional EIV
                                  linear model: Part I . . . . . . . . . . 7039--7062
                Jie-hua Xie and   
                        Wei Zou   Dividend barrier and ruin problems for a
                                  risk model with delayed claims . . . . . 7063--7084
    Mohammadreza Nourbakhsh and   
             Gholamhoseein Yari   Weighted Renyi's entropy for lifetime
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7085--7098
              H. M. Barakat and   
                 E. M. Nigm and   
                 E. O. Abo Zaid   Limit distributions of order statistics
                                  with random indices in a stationary
                                  Gaussian sequence  . . . . . . . . . . . 7099--7113
         Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi   Gini index based goodness-of-fit test
                                  for the logistic distribution  . . . . . 7114--7124
                Ying-Ying Zhang   The Bayes rule of the variance parameter
                                  of the hierarchical normal and inverse
                                  gamma model under Stein's loss . . . . . 7125--7133
                   Jacek Bialek   Bounds for the expected value of the
                                  stochastic Divisia's price index . . . . 7134--7146
          Francisco Louzada and   
               Anderson Ara and   
            Guilherme Fernandes   The bivariate alpha-skew-normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7147--7156
                  Fuqi Chen and   
Sévérien Nkurunziza   On estimation of the change points in
                                  multivariate regression models with
                                  structural changes . . . . . . . . . . . 7157--7173
        Gregori Baetschmann and   
              Rainer Winkelmann   A dynamic hurdle model for zero-inflated
                                  count data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7174--7187
                  Fanyin He and   
              Sati Mazumdar and   
                  Gong Tang and   
            Triptish Bhatia and   
        Stewart J. Anderson and   
            Mary Amanda Dew and   
              Robert Krafty and   
       Vishwajit Nimgaonkar and   
            Smita Deshpande and   
               Martica Hall and   
        Charles F. Reynolds III   Non-parametric MANOVA approaches for
                                  non-normal multivariate outcomes with
                                  missing values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7188--7200
                G. N. Singh and   
               A. K. Sharma and   
               A. Bandyopadhyay   Effectual variance estimation strategy
                                  in two-occasion successive sampling in
                                  presence of random non response  . . . . 7201--7224
              Johann Cuenin and   
              Adrien Faivre and   
  Célestin C. Kokonendji   On generalized variance of product of
                                  powered components and multiple stable
                                  Tweedie models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7225--7237
                    Fen Liu and   
                      Yimin Shi   Inference for a simple step-stress model
                                  with progressively censored competing
                                  risks data from Weibull distribution . . 7238--7255
                     Xi Liu and   
                   Yan Shen and   
                   Jie Yang and   
                       Yamei Lu   Complete moment convergence of widely
                                  orthant dependent random variables . . . 7256--7265

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Volume 46, Number 15, 2017

                       Tian Liu   Statistical inference of partially
                                  linear panel data regression models with
                                  fixed individual and time effects  . . . 7267--7288
                 Imad Bou-Hamad   Bayesian credit ratings: a random forest
                                  alternative approach . . . . . . . . . . 7289--7300
  Sayed Mohammad Reza Alavi and   
                 Mahtab Tarhani   On a Skew Bimodal Normal--Normal
                                  distribution fitted to the Old-Faithful
                                  geyser data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7301--7312
             Shoujiang Zhao and   
                      Ting Chen   Large deviation expansion for
                                  maximum-likelihood estimator of $ \alpha
                                  $ Brownian bridge  . . . . . . . . . . . 7313--7326
           Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah   Densities and distribution functions of
                                  the ratio of two linear functions and
                                  the product of Gamma variates: A
                                  saddlepoint approach . . . . . . . . . . 7327--7336
                 Jinru Wang and   
             Qingqing Zhang and   
                      Junke Kou   Wavelet estimators for the derivatives
                                  of the density function from data
                                  contaminated with heteroscedastic
                                  measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 7337--7354
Carolina Costa Mota Paraíba and   
Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz and   
Aline de Holanda Nunes Maia and   
          Lineu Neiva Rodrigues   Truncated location-scale non linear
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 7355--7374
       Abdulhamid A. Alzaid and   
     Fatimah E. Almuhayfith and   
                  Maha A. Omair   Bivariate regression models based on
                                  compound Poisson distribution  . . . . . 7375--7389
               Jingning Mei and   
                    Q. Shao and   
                         R. Liu   Efficient inference for parameters of
                                  unobservable periodic autoregressive
                                  time series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7390--7408
                  Dandan Li and   
               Siva Sivaganesan   An objective Bayesian estimation in a
                                  two-period crossover design  . . . . . . 7409--7426
                 Weiguo Liu and   
                    Jiaowan Luo   Modified Euler approximation of
                                  stochastic differential equation driven
                                  by Brownian motion and fractional
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 7427--7443
              Arpan Bhowmik and   
             Eldho Varghese and   
                Seema Jaggi and   
                  Cini Varghese   Minimally changed run sequences in
                                  factorial experiments  . . . . . . . . . 7444--7459
                    Yanning Liu   Planning the duration of a survival
                                  group sequential trial with a fixed
                                  follow-up time for all subjects  . . . . 7460--7478
                  Y. Parmet and   
                  E. Schechtman   Simultaneous decomposition of the
                                  variance by sources and subgroups ---
                                  new insights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7479--7494
           G. Srinivasa Rao and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                  Osama H. Arif   Estimation of reliability in
                                  multicomponent stress-strength based on
                                  two parameter exponentiated Weibull
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7495--7502
                Huajiang Li and   
                      Yi Ma and   
                      Hong Zhou   Generalized Holm's procedure for
                                  multiple hypotheses testing problems . . 7503--7510
                Hongmei Lin and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
                   Jianhong Shi   Local estimation for varying-coefficient
                                  models with longitudinal data  . . . . . 7511--7528
              Zengjing Chen and   
                   Cheng Hu and   
                   Gaofeng Zong   Strong laws of large numbers for
                                  sub-linear expectation without
                                  independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7529--7545
                  M. Maleki and   
              A. R. Nematollahi   Bayesian approach to epsilon-skew-normal
                                  family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7546--7561
              Guangren Yang and   
                    Xia Cui and   
                      Sumin Hou   Empirical likelihood confidence regions
                                  in the single-index model with growing
                                  dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7562--7579
        S. M. A. Jahanshahi and   
              A. Habibi Rad and   
                      V. Fakoor   Goodness-of-fit test under length-biased
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7580--7592
               Kien C. Tran and   
                Mike G. Tsionas   Series estimation of
                                  functional-coefficient partially linear
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 7593--7602
              Ying-Xia Chen and   
              Shui-Li Zhang and   
                    Fu-Qiang Ma   On the complete convergence for
                                  martingale difference sequence . . . . . 7603--7611
                  L. Ramprasath   Role of stylized features in
                                  constructing better estimators . . . . . 7612--7620
                Mathias Raschke   Criticism of the predictive distribution 7621--7629
                   Zujun Ou and   
                       Hong Qin   Analytic connections between a double
                                  design and its original design in terms
                                  of different optimality criteria . . . . 7630--7641
               Gordon Hazen and   
               Daniel Apley and   
                  Neehar Parikh   ANOVA models for Brownian motion . . . . 7642--7660
                 Hsiaw-Chan Yeh   Multivariate semi-$ \alpha $-Laplace
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7661--7671
              Chia Chye Yee and   
         Yves F. Atchadé   On the sparse Bayesian learning of
                                  linear models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7672--7691
              N. G. Ushakov and   
                  V. G. Ushakov   Permutation tests for homogeneity based
                                  on some characterizations  . . . . . . . 7692--7702
              Guangren Yang and   
                Yanqing Sun and   
                        Xia Cui   Automatic structure discovery for
                                  varying-coefficient partially linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7703--7716
                 Yuzhu Tian and   
                  Heng Lian and   
                    Maozai Tian   Bayesian composite quantile regression
                                  for linear mixed-effects models  . . . . 7717--7731
           Housila P. Singh and   
                   Surya K. Pal   Improvement over variance estimation
                                  using auxiliary information in sample
                                  surveys  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7732--7750
                Jung In Seo and   
                     Yongku Kim   Bayesian inference on extreme value
                                  distribution using upper record values   7751--7768
             Pouya Faroughi and   
               Noriszura Ismail   Bivariate zero-inflated generalized
                                  Poisson regression model with flexible
                                  covariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7769--7785

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 16, 2017

                Wenzhi Yang and   
                   Shuhe Hu and   
                    Xuejun Wang   On the asymptotic approximation of
                                  inverse moment for non negative random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7787--7797
               Wenxue Huang and   
                   Yong Shi and   
                  Xiaogang Wang   A nominal association matrix with
                                  feature selection for categorical data   7798--7819
                 Nayabuddin and   
                   Haseeb Athar   Recurrence relations for single and
                                  product moments of generalized order
                                  statistics from Marshall--Olkin extended
                                  Pareto distributions . . . . . . . . . . 7820--7826
                   Xinqi Wu and   
               Sanguo Zhang and   
                 Qingzhao Zhang   A note on the two-sample mean problem
                                  based on jackknife empirical likelihood  7827--7836
                  Tao Zhang and   
                Pengjie Dai and   
                 Qingzhao Zhang   Joint detection for functional
                                  polynomial regression with
                                  autoregressive errors  . . . . . . . . . 7837--7854
              A. A. Heydari and   
             M. B. Moghadam and   
                   F. Eskandari   An extension of Banerjee and Rahim model
                                  in economic and economic statistical
                                  designs for multivariate quality
                                  characteristics under Burr XII
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7855--7871
          E. J. Vanderperre and   
                 S. S. Makhanov   On the survival time of a repairable
                                  duplex system sustained by a cold
                                  standby unit subjected to a priority
                                  rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7872--7886
          Elena M. Buzaianu and   
               Pinyuen Chen and   
               S. Panchapakesan   Selecting the normal population with the
                                  smallest variance: a restricted subset
                                  selection rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7887--7901
Anna Szczepa\'nska-Álvarez and   
             Chengcheng Hao and   
                 Yuli Liang and   
             Dietrich von Rosen   Estimation equations for multivariate
                                  linear models with Kronecker structured
                                  covariance matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 7902--7915
               M. R. Kazemi and   
               A. A. Jafari and   
                   S. Tahmasebi   An extension of the generalized linear
                                  failure rate distribution  . . . . . . . 7916--7933
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
                    Weiguo Yang   The definition of tree-indexed Markov
                                  chains in random environment and their
                                  existence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7934--7941
                 Ngoc Khue Tran   LAN property for an ergodic
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process with Poisson
                                  jumps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7942--7968
    Mohammed Mohammed El Genidy   Multiple non linear regression model for
                                  the maximum number of migratory bird
                                  types during migration years . . . . . . 7969--7975
                T. G. Veena and   
               P. Yageen Thomas   Role of concomitants of order statistics
                                  in determining parent bivariate
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7976--7997
              Hafida Saggou and   
          Tassadit Lachemot and   
           Megdouda Ourbih-Tari   Performance measures of M/G/1 retrial
                                  queues with recurrent customers,
                                  breakdowns, and general delays . . . . . 7998--8015
            Saeedreza Rafie and   
    Masoud Ghaderi Moghadam and   
                 M. B. Moghadam   A generalized version of Banerjee and
                                  Rahim model in economic and economic
                                  statistical designs of multivariate
                                  control charts under generalized
                                  exponential shock model  . . . . . . . . 8016--8026
            Mhamed Mesfioui and   
       Abdulrahman M. Abouammoh   On a multivariate Lindley distribution   8027--8045
             Yuan Lin Zhang and   
                  Guan Jun Wang   A geometric process repair model for a
                                  cold standby repairable system with
                                  imperfect delay repair and priority in
                                  use  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8046--8058
                  Ming Zhou and   
                      Zhao Yang   A note on generating correlated
                                  matched-pair binary data through
                                  conditional linear family  . . . . . . . 8059--8068
                 Xiao Jiang and   
                Jeffrey Chu and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   New classes of discrete bivariate
                                  distributions with application to
                                  football data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8069--8085
           Majid Hashempour and   
              Mahdi Doostparast   Bayesian inference on multiply
                                  sequential order statistics from
                                  heterogeneous exponential populations
                                  with GLR test for homogeneity  . . . . . 8086--8100
              Shen-Ming Lee and   
              Ter-Chao Peng and   
       Jean de Dieu Tapsoba and   
                  Shu-Hui Hsieh   Improved estimation methods for
                                  unrelated question randomized response
                                  techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8101--8112
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   Estimation of population coefficient of
                                  variation in simple and stratified
                                  random sampling under two-phase sampling
                                  scheme when using two auxiliary
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8113--8133
               Jiangtao Gou and   
                Ajit C. Tamhane   Estimation of a parametric function
                                  associated with the lognormal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8134--8154
              Premadhis Das and   
                 Bikas K. Sinha   Mixture designs with orthogonal blocks   8155--8165
                Zhongde Luo and   
                       Shide Ou   The almost sure convergence rate of the
                                  estimator of optimized certainty
                                  equivalent risk measure under $ \alpha
                                  $-mixing sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 8166--8177
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                 Isha Dewan and   
                 E. P. Sreedevi   A martingale-based test for independence
                                  of time to failure and cause of failure
                                  for competing risks models . . . . . . . 8178--8186
               Anil K. Bera and   
       Gabriel Montes-Rojas and   
           Walter Sosa-Escudero   A new robust and most powerful test in
                                  the presence of local misspecification   8187--8198
                 Xinghu Jin and   
                Zhenzhong Zhang   Ergodicity of generalized
                                  Ait--Sahalia-type interest rate model    8199--8209
                     Xiaohui Ai   Karhunen--Loeve expansion for the
                                  additive detrended Brownian motion . . . 8210--8216
            Engin A. Sungur and   
                Jessica M. Orth   A note on dependence modeling for
                                  Bernoulli variables  . . . . . . . . . . 8217--8229
                Umberto Triacca   Predictive information and distance
                                  between past and future of a time series 8230--8235
         Hakan Tahiri Mutlu and   
        Fikri Gökpinar and   
         Esra Gökpinar and   
Hasan Hüseyin Gül and   
               Gamze Güven   A new computational approach test for
                                  one-way ANOVA under heteroscedasticity   8236--8256
                   S. Kayal and   
                    S. M. Sunoj   Generalized Kerridge's inaccuracy
                                  measure for conditionally specified
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8257--8268
                     Huihui Sun   Perturbation diagnostics of
                                  autocorrelation coefficients in non
                                  linear mixed-effects models with AR(1)
                                  errors based on $M$-estimation . . . . . 8269--8277
                  Yang Ding and   
                      Yi Wu and   
                 Songlin Ma and   
                 Xinran Tao and   
                    Xuejun Wang   Complete convergence and complete moment
                                  convergence for widely orthant-dependent
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 8278--8294
                   Jian Liu and   
                      Lei Shang   Large and moderate deviations for
                                  modified Engel series  . . . . . . . . . 8295--8306

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 17, 2017

              Mingxiang Cao and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   Linearly admissible estimators of the
                                  common mean parameter under balanced
                                  loss function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8307--8317
               Zong-Feng Qi and   
             Jian-Feng Yang and   
                    Yan Liu and   
                   Min-Qian Liu   Construction of nearly uniform designs
                                  on irregular regions . . . . . . . . . . 8318--8327
              Richard Labib and   
              Simon de Montigny   Closed-form evaluation of integrals
                                  involving the gamma function . . . . . . 8328--8342
                    Vikas Kumar   Characterization results based on
                                  dynamic Tsallis cumulative residual
                                  entropy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8343--8354
                 Xichao Sun and   
                      Litan Yan   Weak convergence to a class of multiple
                                  stochastic integrals . . . . . . . . . . 8355--8368
             Abdolreza Sayyareh   Non parametric multiple comparisons of
                                  non nested rival models  . . . . . . . . 8369--8386
                      Qing Wang   Extrapolation techniques in
                                  $U$-statistic variance estimation  . . . 8387--8400
               Sungwhan Cho and   
                      Jin Jiang   Change detection in the mean of a white
                                  Gaussian process by the backward
                                  standardized sum . . . . . . . . . . . . 8401--8418
                    Ted Speevak   Inequalities for sums of squares of
                                  reranked differences involving ties and
                                  missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8419--8429
                 Hiroshi Yamada   A small but practically useful
                                  modification to the Hodrick--Prescott
                                  filtering: a note  . . . . . . . . . . . 8430--8434
              Shakeel Ahmed and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   Use of scrambled response model in
                                  estimating the finite population mean in
                                  presence of non response when
                                  coefficient of variation is known  . . . 8435--8449
                      Abdul Haq   Two-stage cluster sampling with hybrid
                                  ranked set sampling in the secondary
                                  sampling frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8450--8467
             Chanchal Kundu and   
                     Amit Ghosh   Inequalities involving expectations of
                                  selected functions in reliability theory
                                  to characterize distributions  . . . . . 8468--8478
                Junshan Xie and   
                    Nannan Xiao   The likelihood ratio test for
                                  high-dimensional linear regression model 8479--8492
                      Jin Zhang   On the independence of linear and
                                  quadratic forms in normal variates . . . 8493--8496
            Tian-Fang Zhang and   
                Zhi-Ming Li and   
             Jian-Feng Yang and   
                  Run-Chu Zhang   Construction of some mixed two- and
                                  four-level regular designs with GMC
                                  criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8497--8509
             Kirandeep Kaur and   
                     Umme Afifa   Testing Wagner's Law in India: a
                                  cointegration and causality analysis . . 8510--8520
               M. Qamarul Islam   Estimation and hypothesis testing in
                                  multivariate linear regression models
                                  under non normality  . . . . . . . . . . 8521--8543
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Optimal design of synthetic np control
                                  chart based on median run length . . . . 8544--8556
             Nengxiang Ling and   
                       Yang Liu   The kernel regression estimation for
                                  randomly censored functional stationary
                                  ergodic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8557--8574
                 Jun-mo Nam and   
                   Deukwoo Kwon   Inference on the ratio of two
                                  coefficients of variation of two
                                  lognormal distributions  . . . . . . . . 8575--8587
           Takeshi Kurosawa and   
              Kohei Noguchi and   
                  Fumiaki Honda   Bias reduction of the maximum-likelihood
                                  estimator for a conditional Gaussian $
                                  {\rm MA}(1) $ model  . . . . . . . . . . 8588--8602
               N. Shinozaki and   
                        T. Iida   A variable selection method for
                                  detecting abnormality based on the $ T^2
                                  $ test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8603--8617
              Conghua Cheng and   
                    Zhi Liu and   
                         Yi Wan   Empirical likelihood for compound
                                  Poisson processes under infinite second
                                  moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8618--8627
                   Holly Carley   Examples of doubly stochastic measures
                                  supported on the graphs of two functions 8628--8630
    Ernesto J. Veres-Ferrer and   
           Jose M. Pavía   Elasticity function of a discrete random
                                  variable and its properties  . . . . . . 8631--8646
                Qingqing Ye and   
                      Liwei Liu   Performance analysis of queue with
                                  two-stage vacation policy  . . . . . . . 8647--8665
             Gopinath Panda and   
                A. D. Banik and   
                 M. L. Chaudhry   Stationary distributions of the $
                                  R^{[X]} $ /R/1 cross-correlated queue    8666--8689
                    Xing Wu and   
                       Tian Liu   Estimation and testing for
                                  semiparametric mixtures of partially
                                  linear models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8690--8705
                       Jing Sun   Weighted quantile average estimation for
                                  general linear models with missing
                                  covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8706--8722
            Rahman Farnoosh and   
            Mahmood Parsamanesh   Stochastic differential equation systems
                                  for an SIS epidemic model with
                                  vaccination and immigration  . . . . . . 8723--8736
         J. Vasantha Kumari and   
                R. Vasudeva and   
                        S. Ravi   On the asymptotic behavior of maxima and
                                  near-maxima of random observations from
                                  three parameter lognormal distribution   8737--8747
          Drago Spoljari\'c and   
                     Ivo Ugrina   Limiting distribution of the number of
                                  clumps of palindromes in DNA . . . . . . 8748--8759
             Indranil Ghosh and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   On the Bayesian inference of Kumaraswamy
                                  distributions based on censored samples  8760--8777
          C. Satheesh Kumar and   
              S. H. S. Dharmaja   The exponentiated reduced Kies
                                  distribution: Properties and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8778--8790
                   Guoping Zeng   Invariant properties of logistic
                                  regression model in credit scoring under
                                  monotonic transformations  . . . . . . . 8791--8807
               Guoqing Yang and   
                Weiguo Yang and   
                     Xiaotai Wu   The strong laws of large numbers for
                                  countable non homogeneous hidden Markov
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8808--8819

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 18, 2017

                     Rui Li and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   The true maximum-likelihood estimators
                                  for the generalized Gaussian
                                  distribution with $ p = 3, 4, 5 $  . . . 8821--8835
                   Tian Xia and   
               Xuejun Jiang and   
                    Xueren Wang   Diagnostics for quasi-likelihood
                                  nonlinear models . . . . . . . . . . . . 8836--8851
                   Jing Luo and   
                   Hong Qin and   
                   Ting Yan and   
                   Laala Zeyneb   A note on asymptotic distributions in
                                  directed exponential random graph models
                                  with bi-degree sequences . . . . . . . . 8852--8864
          Ayman M. Abd-Elrahman   A new two-parameter lifetime
                                  distribution with decreasing, increasing
                                  or upside-down bathtub-shaped failure
                                  rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8865--8880
              M. A. Alawady and   
              A. M. Elsawah and   
                 Jianwei Hu and   
                       Hong Qin   Asymptotic random extremal ratio and
                                  product based on generalized order
                                  statistics and its dual  . . . . . . . . 8881--8896
            Barry C. Arnold and   
             Indranil Ghosh and   
                Ayman Alzaatreh   Construction of bivariate and
                                  multivariate weighted distributions via
                                  conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8897--8912
                Shanqi Pang and   
                   Rong Yan and   
                         Sen Li   Schematic saturated orthogonal arrays
                                  obtained by using the contractive
                                  replacement method . . . . . . . . . . . 8913--8924
               Jianzhang Wu and   
                    Xiao Yu and   
                        Wei Gao   Disequilibrium multi-dividing ontology
                                  learning algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 8925--8942
                 Dejian Lai and   
                Qiang Zhang and   
          Jose-Miguel Yamal and   
           Paula T. Einhorn and   
                 Barry R. Davis   Conditional moving linear regression:
                                  Modeling the recruitment process for
                                  ALLHAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8943--8951
                  Lisha Guo and   
                 X. Joan Hu and   
                     Yanyan Liu   Estimation under Cox proportional
                                  hazards model with covariates missing
                                  not at random  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8952--8972
            Raghunath Arnab and   
                   J. O. Olaomi   Optional randomized response technique
                                  in two-phase sampling  . . . . . . . . . 8973--8986
                S. H. Patil and   
                   D. T. Shirke   Economic design of non parametric sign
                                  control chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8987--8998
                     D. Dai and   
              T. Holgersson and   
                    P. Karlsson   Expected and unexpected values of
                                  individual Mahalanobis distances . . . . 8999--9006
Emilio Gómez-Déniz and   
Jorge V. Pérez-Rodríguez   Mixture inverse Gaussian for unobserved
                                  heterogeneity in the autoregressive
                                  conditional duration model . . . . . . . 9007--9025
                Yahia Abdel-Aty   Exact likelihood inference for two
                                  populations from two-parameter
                                  exponential distributions under joint
                                  Type-II censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . 9026--9041
            Takayuki Yamada and   
             Tetsuto Himeno and   
                Tetsuro Sakurai   Interval estimation in discriminant
                                  analysis for large dimension . . . . . . 9042--9052
         Ahmad Reza Soltani and   
           Kamel Abdollahnezhad   Limiting behavior of random Stieltjes
                                  partial sum: adjusted method of moments
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9053--9062
                Tingxun Gou and   
                   Hong Qin and   
           Kashinath Chatterjee   A new extension strategy on three-level
                                  factorials under wrap-around $ L_2
                                  $-discrepancy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9063--9074
                Shijie Wang and   
                   Cen Chen and   
                    Xuejun Wang   Some novel results on pairwise
                                  quasi-asymptotical independence with
                                  applications to risk theory  . . . . . . 9075--9085
                Youyou Chen and   
                     Tailong Li   Moment convergence rates for the uniform
                                  empirical process and the uniform sample
                                  quantile process . . . . . . . . . . . . 9086--9091
               Chong-Zhi Di and   
       Kwun Chuen Gary Chan and   
                Cheng Zheng and   
                 Kung-Yee Liang   Testing homogeneity in semiparametric
                                  mixture case-control models  . . . . . . 9092--9100
                  Yousri Slaoui   Recursive kernel density estimators
                                  under missing data . . . . . . . . . . . 9101--9125
                  Xujie Jia and   
              Jingyuan Shen and   
                Liying Wang and   
                   Zhongping Li   Vine copula constructions of
                                  higher-dimensional dependent reliability
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9126--9136
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Discrete random vectors generated by
                                  Taylor expansions  . . . . . . . . . . . 9137--9149
             Thomas E. Bartlett   Network inference and community
                                  detection, based on covariance matrices,
                                  correlations, and test statistics from
                                  arbitrary distributions  . . . . . . . . 9150--9165
             Devendra Kumar and   
                  Sanku Dey and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Extended exponential distribution based
                                  on order statistics  . . . . . . . . . . 9166--9184
       Yogesh Mani Tripathi and   
               Somesh Kumar and   
                 C. Petropoulos   Minimax estimators for the lower-bounded
                                  scale parameter of a location-scale
                                  family of distributions  . . . . . . . . 9185--9193
                    Yanning Liu   Covariance and variance evaluations of
                                  two estimators for drug-placebo
                                  difference in a trial with sequential
                                  parallel design  . . . . . . . . . . . . 9194--9217
             Karima Boualam and   
                 Youcef Berkoun   Hill's estimator under weak dependence   9218--9229
                M. M. Saber and   
              A. R. Nematollahi   Comparison of spatial interpolation
                                  methods in the first order stationary
                                  multiplicative spatial autoregressive
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9230--9246
               Vahid Fakoor and   
                 Raheleh Zamini   $ L_p $ distance for kernel density
                                  estimator in length-biased data  . . . . 9247--9264
               Miin-Jye Wen and   
             Li-Ching Huang and   
                 Junjiang Zhong   Single-stage sampling procedure of the
                                  $t$ best populations under
                                  heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 9265--9273
                    Jibo Wu and   
                     Yasin Asar   A weighted stochastic restricted ridge
                                  estimator in partially linear model  . . 9274--9283
                A. N. Kumar and   
                  N. S. Upadhye   On perturbations of Stein operator . . . 9284--9302
            Kumari Priyanka and   
                   Richa Mittal   A fresh approach for intercession of
                                  nonresponse in multivariate longitudinal
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9303--9323
        Gholamreza Hesamian and   
          Mohamad Ghasem Akbari   Statistical test based on intuitionistic
                                  fuzzy hypotheses . . . . . . . . . . . . 9324--9334
            Barry C. Arnold and   
                 Indranil Ghosh   Some alternative bivariate Kumaraswamy
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9335--9354

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 19, 2017

      Robert J. Budzy\'nski and   
               Witold Kondracki   Remarks on the $ L_1 $ distance in
                                  statistical data analysis  . . . . . . . 9355--9363
               Yu-Mei Chang and   
             Pao-Sheng Shen and   
                  Chun-Shu Chen   Adaptive-Cox model averaging for
                                  right-censored data  . . . . . . . . . . 9364--9376
                  Shin S. Ikeda   A note on mixingale limit theorems and
                                  stable convergence in law  . . . . . . . 9377--9387
                  Xia Yemao and   
                    Gou Jianwei   A note on the finite-dimensional
                                  Dirichlet prior  . . . . . . . . . . . . 9388--9396
                Yarong Feng and   
                  Xing Chen and   
                   Liyi Jia and   
                 Xiruo Song and   
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Estimating the Pólya process  . . . . . . 9397--9406
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Chebyshev's inequality for Hilbert-space
                                  valued random elements with estimated
                                  mean and covariance  . . . . . . . . . . 9407--9414
                  Ying Tang and   
                    Weiguo Yang   The generalizations of strong law of
                                  large numbers for asymptotic even-odd
                                  Markov chains indexed by a homogeneous
                                  tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9415--9424
                   Chun-Lung Su   Asymptotic posterior distributions for
                                  balanced nested multi-way models with a
                                  large number of main effect levels . . . 9425--9440
             Julia N. Soulakova   Generalized confidence intervals
                                  compatible with the Min test for
                                  simultaneous comparisons of one
                                  subpopulation to several other
                                  subpopulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9441--9449
                Lichun Wang and   
                  Haocheng Wang   On estimating uniform distribution via
                                  linear Bayes method  . . . . . . . . . . 9450--9458
                 Danping Li and   
                 Ximin Rong and   
                       Hui Zhao   Equilibrium excess-of-loss
                                  reinsurance-investment strategy for a
                                  mean-variance insurer under stochastic
                                  volatility model . . . . . . . . . . . . 9459--9475
           Tahani Coolen-Maturi   Three-group ROC predictive analysis for
                                  ordinal outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . 9476--9493
     M. M. E. Abd El-Monsef and   
            W. A. Hassanein and   
                   N. M. Kilany   Erlang--Lindley distribution . . . . . . 9494--9506
              Silvia Figini and   
                  Paolo Giudici   Credit risk assessment with Bayesian
                                  model averaging  . . . . . . . . . . . . 9507--9517
                 Jerin Paul and   
               P. Yageen Thomas   Concomitant record ranked set sampling   9518--9540
        Yogendra P. Chaubey and   
        Christophe Chesneau and   
                 Fabien Navarro   Linear wavelet estimation of the
                                  derivatives of a regression function
                                  based on biased data . . . . . . . . . . 9541--9556
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Swarangi M. Gorey   Efficient estimation of population mean
                                  of sensitive variable in presence of
                                  scrambled responses  . . . . . . . . . . 9557--9565
             Resit Çelik   Correcting double outward box
                                  distributed residuals by WCEV  . . . . . 9566--9590
      Devendra Pratap Singh and   
       Yogesh Mani Tripathi and   
        Manoj Kumar Rastogi and   
                  Nikhil Dabral   Estimation and prediction for a Burr
                                  type-III distribution with progressive
                                  censoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9591--9613
                  Jin H. Oh and   
               Sung H. Park and   
                   Soon S. Kwon   Extended scaled prediction variance
                                  optimality for modified central
                                  composite design . . . . . . . . . . . . 9614--9624
                   Hamzeh Agahi   Multivariate Chebyshev inequality in
                                  generalized measure space based on
                                  Choquet integral . . . . . . . . . . . . 9625--9628
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Swarangi M. Gorey   An efficient new randomized response
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9629--9635
                  Liang Yan and   
                   Xingzhong Xu   A new confidence interval in measurement
                                  error model with the reliability ratio
                                  known  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9636--9650
         Bardia Panahbehagh and   
                 Jennifer Brown   Gap-based inverse sampling . . . . . . . 9651--9661
              Guangying Liu and   
                Lixin Zhang and   
                    Xinian Fang   Multipower variation from generalized
                                  difference for fractional integral
                                  processes with jumps . . . . . . . . . . 9662--9678
                    Lu Wang and   
                   Yong Lin and   
                   John T. Chen   Simultaneous inference for treatment
                                  regimes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9679--9690
               Ganesh Dutta and   
              Bikas Kumar Sinha   Nearly optimal covariate designs ---
                                  Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9691--9702
               Ganesh Dutta and   
              Bikas Kumar Sinha   Nearly optimal covariate designs ---
                                  Part II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9703--9725
             Ali I. Genç   An absolutely continuous bivariate
                                  Topp--Leone distribution: a useful model
                                  on a bounded domain  . . . . . . . . . . 9726--9742
               Juanfang Liu and   
                 Liugen Xue and   
                    Ruiqin Tian   Generalized empirical likelihood
                                  inference in partially linear model for
                                  longitudinal data with missing response
                                  variables and error-prone covariates . . 9743--9762
Vinicius Fernando Calsavara and   
Agatha Sacramento Rodrigues and   
Vera Lúcia Damasceno Tomazella and   
         Mário de Castro   Frailty models power variance function
                                  with cure fraction and latent risk
                                  factors negative binomial  . . . . . . . 9763--9776
                   Tomasz B\kak   An extension of Horvitz--Thompson
                                  estimator used in adaptive cluster
                                  sampling to continuous universe  . . . . 9777--9786
                Iskander Kareev   Lower bounds for expected sample size of
                                  sequential procedures for the
                                  multinomial selection problems . . . . . 9787--9794
                   Feng Liu and   
              Xiangyong Tan and   
                 Sitong Guo and   
                    Xinmei Kang   Testing serial correlation in partially
                                  linear models with validation data . . . 9795--9806
              Hayet Merabet and   
             Ahlam Labdaoui and   
                Pierre Druilhet   Bayesian prediction for two-stage
                                  sequential analysis in clinical trials   9807--9816
             P. G. Sankaran and   
            Nidhi P. Ramesh and   
           N. Unnikrishnan Nair   Multivariate discrete reversed hazard
                                  rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9817--9833
                   Chang Yu and   
               Daniel Zelterman   A general approximation to quantiles . . 9834--9841
            Nil Kamal Hazra and   
                  Asok K. Nanda   General standby allocation in series and
                                  parallel systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 9842--9858
             M. Naghizadeh Qomi   Bayesian shrinkage estimation based on
                                  Rayleigh type-II censored data . . . . . 9859--9868

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 20, 2017

           Ghobad Barmalzan and   
Amir T. Payandeh Najafabadi and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Orderings for series and parallel
                                  systems comprising heterogeneous
                                  exponentiated Weibull-geometric
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9869--9880
                   Guohui Zhang   The strong laws of large numbers for
                                  weighted sums of extended negatively
                                  dependent random variables . . . . . . . 9881--9891
                Kevin Hayes and   
              Kevin O'Brien and   
               Anthony Kinsella   A decomposition of the
                                  Bradley--Blackwood paired-samples
                                  omnibus test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9892--9896
            Hossein Haghbin and   
                 Gamze Ozel and   
             Morad Alizadeh and   
                 G. G. Hamedani   A new generalized odd log-logistic
                                  family of distributions  . . . . . . . . 9897--9920
          Lars Erik Gangsei and   
        Trygve Almòy and   
        Solve Sæbò   Theoretical evaluation of prediction
                                  error in linear regression with a
                                  bivariate response variable containing
                                  missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9921--9929
         Alpha Oumar Diallo and   
                 Aliou Diop and   
     Jean-François Dupuy   Asymptotic properties of the
                                  maximum-likelihood estimator in
                                  zero-inflated binomial regression  . . . 9930--9948
                Jingyao Hou and   
                   Xin Liao and   
                  Zuoxiang Peng   Higher-order expansions of extremes from
                                  mixed skew-$t$ distribution  . . . . . . 9949--9971
                    Hua Yan and   
                     Li Gao and   
                   Kui Wang and   
                         Lei Qi   Reliability computing method combined
                                  with compressed storage and Krylov
                                  subspace for phased-mission system . . . 9972--9984
               Sangyeol Lee and   
                 Siyun Park and   
               Cathy W. S. Chen   On Fisher's dispersion test for
                                  integer-valued autoregressive Poisson
                                  models with applications . . . . . . . . 9985--9994
                Sumei Zhang and   
                    Junhao Geng   Fourier-cosine method for pricing
                                  forward starting options with stochastic
                                  volatility and jumps . . . . . . . . . . 9995--10004
           Douglas VanDerwerken   Not every Gibbs sampler is a special
                                  case of the Metropolis--Hastings
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10005--10009
                 Yunqing Lu and   
                   Min Wang and   
                Gengsheng Zhang   A new revised version of McNemar's test
                                  for paired binary data . . . . . . . . . 10010--10024
                    Hyo-Il Park   On tests detecting difference in means
                                  and variances simultaneously under
                                  normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10025--10035
                    Guangyu Mao   Robust test for independence in high
                                  dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10036--10050
              Hongfeng Peng and   
                 Zhijie Liu and   
                 Tsangyao Chang   Revisiting purchasing power parity in
                                  BRICS countries using more powerful
                                  quantile unit-root tests with stationary
                                  covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10051--10057
                  G. Rajesh and   
         E. I. Abdul Sathar and   
                K. V. Viswakala   Estimation of inaccuracy measure for
                                  censored dependent data  . . . . . . . . 10058--10070
                Xianzheng Huang   Semi-non parametric smooth isotonic
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10071--10087
        Mohammad Sepehrifar and   
            Shantia Yarahmadian   Testing monotonic equilibrium residual
                                  entropy of $N$-State Random Evolution    10088--10096
                     Yihao Deng   Modeling binary familial data using
                                  Gaussian copula  . . . . . . . . . . . . 10097--10102
            Christian Farinetto   On hypothesis tests in misspecified
                                  change-point problems for a Poisson
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10103--10115
               Yinghua Dong and   
                 Dingcheng Wang   Moderate deviations for the random
                                  weighted sums of END random variables
                                  with consistently varying tails  . . . . 10116--10134
              Javid Shabbir and   
                      Sat Gupta   Estimation of finite population mean in
                                  simple and stratified random sampling
                                  using two auxiliary variables  . . . . . 10135--10148
               Mehdi Katebi and   
                Asghar Seif and   
                  Alireza Faraz   Economic and economic-statistical
                                  designs of the $ T^2 $ control charts
                                  with SVSSI sampling scheme . . . . . . . 10149--10165
Guillermo Martínez-Flórez and   
Rafael Bráz Azevedo Farias and   
    Germán Moreno-Arenas   Multivariate log-Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 10166--10178
          Antonello D'Ambra and   
              Pietro Amenta and   
                    Anna Crisci   Decomposition of the main effects and
                                  interaction term by using orthogonal
                                  polynomials in multiple non symmetrical
                                  correspondence analysis  . . . . . . . . 10179--10188
                 Yanchun Yi and   
                  Dehua Qiu and   
                   Pingyan Chen   Complete moment convergence for weighted
                                  sums of extended negatively dependent
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 10189--10202
                 S. Eljabri and   
                   S. Nadarajah   The Kumaraswamy GEV distribution . . . . 10203--10235
                  M. Nassar and   
               A. Alzaatreh and   
                    M. Mead and   
                   O. Abo-Kasem   Alpha power Weibull distribution:
                                  Properties and applications  . . . . . . 10236--10252
             Eugene Kouassi and   
          Patrice Takam Soh and   
  Jean Marcelin Bosson Brou and   
            Emile Herve Ndoumbe   Pseudo maximum-likelihood estimation of
                                  the univariate $ {\rm GARCH}(1, 1) $ and
                                  asymptotic properties  . . . . . . . . . 10253--10271
       Shashibhushan B. Mahadik   A unified approach to adaptive Shewhart
                                  control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10272--10293
         Pham Thi Thu Huong and   
               Darfiana Nur and   
                  Alan Branford   Penalized spline joint models for
                                  longitudinal and time-to-event data  . . 10294--10314
              Salman Babayi and   
                Esmaile Khorram   Inference of $ R = P[X < Y] $ for skew
                                  normal distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 10315--10326
      Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and   
                      Fuyu Yang   Bayesian inference and forecasting in
                                  the stationary bilinear model  . . . . . 10327--10347
            Ahmad Mirjalili and   
   Mohammad Khanjari Sadegh and   
                   Majid Rezaei   A note on the mean residual life of a
                                  coherent system with a cold standby
                                  component  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10348--10358
               S. K. Maurya and   
                 A. Kaushik and   
                S. K. Singh and   
                       U. Singh   A new class of distribution having
                                  decreasing, increasing, and
                                  bathtub-shaped failure rate  . . . . . . 10359--10372
                 Mengmei Xi and   
                 Xufei Tang and   
                 Junjie Lin and   
                  Ming Wang and   
                    Xuejun Wang   Complete moment convergence and $ L_r $
                                  convergence for asymptotically almost
                                  negatively associated random variables   10373--10386

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 21, 2017

              Rajesh Tailor and   
              Ritesh Tailor and   
                  Sunil Chouhan   Improved Ratio- and Product-Type
                                  Exponential Estimators for Population
                                  Mean in Case of Post-Stratification  . . 10387--10393
            Robert Garthoff and   
                Wolfgang Schmid   Monitoring means and covariances of
                                  multivariate non linear time series with
                                  heavy tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10394--10415
                 Yuzhuo Wen and   
                  Guo-dong Xing   On the uniformly asymptotic normality of
                                  frequency polygons for $ \psi $-mixing
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10416--10425
                 Raju Kumar and   
                 Lal Mohan Bhar   Outliers in incomplete multiresponse
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10426--10445
               Mumtaz Ahmed and   
              Gulfam Haider and   
                     Asad Zaman   Detecting structural change with
                                  heteroskedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 10446--10455
                    M. Usha and   
                  S. Balamurali   Designing of a mixed-chain sampling plan
                                  based on the process capability index
                                  with chain sampling as the attributes
                                  plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10456--10475
              S. C. Shongwe and   
                   M. A. Graham   A letter to the editor about ``Machado,
                                  M. A. G. and Costa A. F. B. (2014), Some
                                  comments regarding the synthetic chart.
                                  \booktitleCommunications in Statistics
                                  --- Theory and Methods, \bf 43(14),
                                  2897--2906'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10476--10480
                M. A. Pasha and   
                  Y. Khadem and   
                 M. B. Moghadam   Application of decreasing integrated
                                  hazard in Rahim and Banerjee model on
                                  economic design of $ \bar {X} $-control
                                  charts for systems with increasing
                                  failure rate and early replacement . . . 10481--10494
                M. A. Pasha and   
             M. B. Moghadam and   
                       Sh. Fani   A generalized approach to economic
                                  design of control charts: a discussion
                                  on implementing  . . . . . . . . . . . . 10495--10506
                   Zhong Li and   
        Kristina P. Sendova and   
                      Chen Yang   On a perturbed dual risk model with
                                  dependence between inter-gain times and
                                  gain sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10507--10517
Katiane S. Conceição and   
             Vera Tomazella and   
         Marinho G. Andrade and   
              Francisco Louzada   Biparametric zero-modified power series
                                  distributions: Bayesian analysis under a
                                  reference prior approach . . . . . . . . 10518--10536
                Xiutao Yang and   
              Shanchao Yang and   
                       Xin Yang   Strong consistency of non parametric
                                  kernel regression estimator for strong
                                  mixing samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10537--10548
                 Tong-Yu Lu and   
               Yueqiong Lin and   
                 Junjiang Zhong   Pairwise comparisons of treatments with
                                  ordinal responses in a two-way setting   10549--10563
            Ani Budi Astuti and   
                Nur Iriawan and   
                    Irhamah and   
                  Heri Kuswanto   Bayesian mixture model averaging for
                                  identifying the different gene
                                  expressions of chickpea (\bionameCicer
                                  arietinum) plant tissue  . . . . . . . . 10564--10581
       Tarald O. Kvålseth   An alternative measure of ordinal
                                  association as a value-validity
                                  correction of the Goodman--Kruskal gamma 10582--10593
                 Chanchal Kundu   Chernoff distance for doubly truncated
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10594--10606
               Arfa Maqsood and   
              S. M. Aqil Burney   Standard errors for the Laspeyres index
                                  number with autocorrelated error models  10607--10616
         Claudio J. Tablada and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   The modified Fréchet distribution and its
                                  properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10617--10639
             Yuexiang Jiang and   
                  Haoze Sun and   
                   Yi Zhang and   
                  Huaigang Long   Non-parametric tests for the tail
                                  equivalence via empirical likelihood . . 10640--10656
                Yanqin Feng and   
                  Yuan Dong and   
                        Yang Li   Additive hazards regression of current
                                  status data with auxiliary covariates    10657--10671
                   Cao Chao and   
             Masahito Kobayashi   A new test for single against competing
                                  risks models in duration analysis  . . . 10672--10684
                     P. C. Wang   Orthogonal main-effect plans in
                                  row-column designs for two-level
                                  factorial experiments  . . . . . . . . . 10685--10691
                  Lin Zhang and   
                    Yu Miao and   
                Jianyong Mu and   
                         Jie Xu   Complete convergence for weighted sums
                                  of mixingale sequences and statistical
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10692--10701
  Tiago M. Magalhães and   
           Denise A. Botter and   
       Mônica C. Sandoval   Corrigendum to: ``Covariance matrix
                                  formula for generalized linear models
                                  with unknown dispersion'' by G. M.
                                  Cordeiro, L. P. Barroso, and D. A.
                                  Botter [\booktitleCommunications in
                                  Statistics --- Theory and Methods (2006)
                                  \bf 35(1), 113--120] . . . . . . . . . . 10702--10704
                 Ali Dolati and   
            Rasool Roozegar and   
              Najmeh Ahmadi and   
               Zohreh Shishebor   The effect of dependence on distribution
                                  of the functions of random variables . . 10704--10717
               Paul Kabaila and   
                A. H. Welsh and   
                Rheanna Mainzer   The performance of model averaged tail
                                  area confidence intervals  . . . . . . . 10718--10732
               Jieming Zhou and   
              Xiangqun Yang and   
                       Ya Huang   Robust optimal investment and
                                  proportional reinsurance toward joint
                                  interests of the insurer and the
                                  reinsurer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10733--10757
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                     Rui Li and   
            Rasool Roozegar and   
                     Ali Dolati   On estimation of population mean based
                                  on two measurements  . . . . . . . . . . 10758--10767
   Jean-Luc Dortet-Bernadet and   
                 Laurent Gardes   A mixture model for dimension reduction  10768--10787
                David R. Bickel   Confidence distributions applied to
                                  propagating uncertainty to inference
                                  based on estimating the local false
                                  discovery rate: a fiducial continuum
                                  from confidence sets to empirical Bayes
                                  set estimates as the number of
                                  comparisons increases  . . . . . . . . . 10788--10799
              Faton Merovci and   
             Morad Alizadeh and   
          Haitham M. Yousof and   
                 G. G. Hamedani   The exponentiated transmuted-$G$ family
                                  of distributions: Theory and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10800--10822
        S. L. Prince Nelson and   
            V. Ramakrishnan and   
              P. J. Nietert and   
                D. L. Kamen and   
                P. S. Ramos and   
                     B. J. Wolf   An evaluation of common methods for
                                  dichotomization of continuous variables
                                  to discriminate disease status . . . . . 10823--10834
           Innocent Ngaruye and   
           Joseph Nzabanita and   
         Dietrich von Rosen and   
                 Martin Singull   Small area estimation under a
                                  multivariate linear model for repeated
                                  measures data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10835--10850
                Shijie Wang and   
                    Yiyu Hu and   
                  Jijiao He and   
                    Xuejun Wang   Randomly weighted sums and their maxima
                                  with heavy-tailed increments and
                                  dependence structure . . . . . . . . . . 10851--10863
                    Qian Yu and   
              Guangjun Shen and   
                  Mingxiang Cao   Parameter estimation for
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes of the
                                  second kind driven by $ \alpha $-stable
                                  Lévy motions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10864--10878
          Fatma Zehra Dogru and   
                   Olcay Arslan   Parameter estimation for mixtures of
                                  skew Laplace normal distributions and
                                  application in mixture regression
                                  modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10879--10896
                 Hiroshi Yamada   The Frisch--Waugh--Lovell theorem for
                                  the lasso and the ridge regression . . . 10897--10902

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 22, 2017

                  Yang Ding and   
                Xuefei Tang and   
                   Hui Wang and   
                    Xuejun Wang   Complete moment convergence of
                                  moving-average process generated by a
                                  class of random variables  . . . . . . . 10903--10913
         Georgios Psarrakos and   
           Polychronis Economou   On the generalized cumulative residual
                                  entropy weighted distributions . . . . . 10914--10925
                 Wang Zhong-Zhi   A kind of asymptotic properties of
                                  moving averages for Markov chains in
                                  Markovian environments . . . . . . . . . 10926--10940
                       Lei Wang   Bartlett-corrected two-sample adjusted
                                  empirical likelihood via resampling  . . 10941--10952
           A. Aghamohammadi and   
                 M. R. Meshkani   Bayesian quantile regression for
                                  skew-normal linear mixed models  . . . . 10953--10972
                Hani Samawi and   
          Arpita Chatterjee and   
               JingJing Yin and   
                 Haresh Rochani   On kernel density estimation based on
                                  different stratified sampling with
                                  optimal allocation . . . . . . . . . . . 10973--10990
           Ahad Jamalizadeh and   
             Reza Pourmousa and   
                Mehdi Amiri and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Order statistics and their concomitants
                                  from multivariate normal mean-variance
                                  mixture distributions with application
                                  to Swiss Markets Data  . . . . . . . . . 10991--11009
                  Xiu-Li Du and   
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
                  Xiu-Qing Zhou   Parameter estimation for multivariate
                                  diffusion processes with the time
                                  inhomogeneously positive semidefinite
                                  diffusion matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 11010--11025
                  Juan Liao and   
               Huisheng Shu and   
                       Chao Wei   Pricing power options with a generalized
                                  jump diffusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11026--11046
                  M. Mirali and   
                   S. Baratpour   Dynamic version of weighted cumulative
                                  residual entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . 11047--11059
              Deepesh Bhati and   
              Pooja Kumawat and   
   E. Gómez-Déniz   A new count model generated from mixed
                                  Poisson transmuted exponential family
                                  with an application to health care data  11060--11076
                  H. W. You and   
         Michael B. C. Khoo and   
                  M. H. Lee and   
             P. Castagliola and   
                        S. Saha   Optimal design of exponentially weighted
                                  moving average-$ \bar {X} $ chart for
                                  the mean with estimated process
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11077--11090
           Emre Dünder and   
Serpil Gümüstekin and   
                 Naci Murat and   
              Mehmet Ali Cengiz   Subset selection in quantile regression
                                  analysis via alternative Bayesian
                                  information criteria and heuristic
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11091--11098
             Vidhika Tiwari and   
                    N. K. Singh   Process capability index for bivariate
                                  exponentially distributed quality
                                  characteristics and its sampling
                                  properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11099--11109
                 Eiji Nakashima   Modification of GEE1 and linear
                                  mixed-effects models for heteroscedastic
                                  longitudinal Gaussian data . . . . . . . 11110--11122
           J. García and   
                  D. E. Ramirez   The successive raising estimator and its
                                  relation with the ridge estimator  . . . 11123--11142
           David D. Hanagal and   
                  Arvind Pandey   Shared inverse Gaussian frailty models
                                  based on additive hazards  . . . . . . . 11143--11162
                 Yong Zhang and   
                Xiaodi Qian and   
                   Hong Qin and   
                       Ting Yan   Affiliation networks with an increasing
                                  degree sequence  . . . . . . . . . . . . 11163--11180
            Amanda Plunkett and   
                   Junyong Park   Two-sample tests for sparse
                                  high-dimensional binary data . . . . . . 11181--11193
                   Guoping Zeng   On the existence of maximum likelihood
                                  estimates for weighted logistic
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11194--11203
                   Ying Lou and   
                   Jing Cao and   
                       Chul Ahn   Sample size estimation for comparing
                                  rates of change in $K$-group repeated
                                  count outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11204--11213
                   Kai Yang and   
                     Dehui Wang   Bayesian estimation for first-order
                                  autoregressive model with explanatory
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11214--11227
              Guo-Liang Fan and   
            Zhi-Qiang Jiang and   
                Jiang-Feng Wang   Empirical likelihood for
                                  high-dimensional partially linear model
                                  with martingale difference errors  . . . 11228--11242
                Jan De Neve and   
                   Olivier Thas   A Mann--Whitney type effect measure of
                                  interaction for factorial designs  . . . 11243--11260
             Hien D. Nguyen and   
          Geoffrey J. McLachlan   Progress on a conjecture regarding the
                                  triangular distribution  . . . . . . . . 11261--11271
    Ebrahim Mazrae Farahani and   
  Reza Baradaran Kazemzadeh and   
         Rassoul Noorossana and   
              Ghazaleh Rahimian   A statistical approach to social network
                                  monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11272--11288
                      Jinzhu Li   A note on a by-claim risk model:
                                  Asymptotic results . . . . . . . . . . . 11289--11295
                  Jan Beran and   
                   Nadja Schumm   On non parametric statistical inference
                                  for densities under long-range
                                  dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11296--11314
           Nimet Özbay and   
   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   The performance of the adaptive optimal
                                  estimator under the extended balanced
                                  loss function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11315--11326
                   J. Zhang and   
                   J. Huang and   
                          X. Wu   Bayesian ratemaking under Dirichlet
                                  process mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . 11327--11340
            Inga Laukaityte and   
                   Marie Wiberg   Using plausible values in secondary
                                  analysis in large-scale assessments  . . 11341--11357
                 Deniz Inan and   
              Erol Egrioglu and   
             Busenur Sarica and   
           Oykum Esra Askin and   
                     Mujgan Tez   Particle swarm optimization based
                                  Liu-type estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 11358--11369
            Ajit Chaturvedi and   
                  Taruna Kumari   Estimation and testing procedures for
                                  the reliability functions of a general
                                  class of distributions . . . . . . . . . 11370--11382
                    Jing Xu and   
                     Jun Ma and   
                    Tania Prvan   Non parametric hazard estimation with
                                  dependent censoring using penalized
                                  likelihood and an assumed copula . . . . 11383--11403
            Rasool Roozegar and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   The power series skew normal class of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11404--11423

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 23, 2017

                  C. Franko and   
                      F. Yalcin   Signatures of series and parallel
                                  systems consisting of non disjoint
                                  modules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11425--11439
               Haiqing Chen and   
                Weihu Cheng and   
                 Leilei Zhu and   
                    Yaohua Rong   Parameter estimation for three-parameter
                                  generalized Pareto distribution by
                                  weighted non linear least squares  . . . 11440--11449
          R. Aliakbari Saba and   
        Z. Rezaei Ghahroodi and   
                   K. Kiani and   
                 D. M. Berridge   Mean and cell-mean imputation resulting
                                  in the use of a semicontinuous
                                  distribution and a mixture of
                                  semicontinuous distributions . . . . . . 11450--11465
               Guanghan Liu and   
              Steven Piantadosi   Ridge estimation in generalized linear
                                  models and proportional hazards
                                  regressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11466--11479
            Joanna Tarasi\'nska   Sample size needed to get given ratio of
                                  endpoints for confidence interval of
                                  standard deviation in a normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11480--11484
                   Daniele Coin   A goodness-of-fit test for generalized
                                  error distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 11485--11499
            Abdessamad Dine and   
             Denis Larocque and   
     François Bellavance   Multivariate forests with missing mixed
                                  outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11500--11513
         Resit Çelik and   
                     Aydin Erar   An alternative method correcting BDR
                                  type of heteroskedasticity by the
                                  weighting re-estimated absolute
                                  residuals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11514--11538
                Sucharita Ghosh   On estimating the marginal distribution
                                  of a detrended series with long memory   11539--11557
             Eugene Kouassi and   
          Patrice Soh Takam and   
  Jean Marcelin Bosson Brou and   
            Emile Herve Ndoumbe   Pseudo maximum likelihood estimation of
                                  the univariate $ {\rm GARCH}(2, 2) $ and
                                  asymptotic normality under dependent
                                  innovations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11558--11574
                    Zhiping Qiu   Statistical inference under imputation
                                  for proportional hazard model with
                                  missing covariates . . . . . . . . . . . 11575--11590
               D. T. Shirke and   
            S. R. Supanekar and   
                  Deepesh Bhati   On $k$-distorted generalized discrete
                                  family of distributions  . . . . . . . . 11591--11603
                   Chang Yu and   
               Sanguo Zhang and   
     Christine Friedenreich and   
            Charles E. Matthews   Using repeated measures to correct
                                  correlated measurement errors through
                                  orthogonal decomposition . . . . . . . . 11604--11611
           Tatjana Pavlenko and   
                   Anuradha Roy   Supervised classifiers for
                                  high-dimensional higher-order data with
                                  locally doubly exchangeable covariance
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11612--11634
            Matthieu Marbac and   
       Christophe Biernacki and   
             Vincent Vandewalle   Model-based clustering of Gaussian
                                  copulas for mixed data . . . . . . . . . 11635--11656
        Matthew B. Matheson and   
                Christopher Cox   The shape of the hazard function: Does
                                  the generalized gamma have the last
                                  word?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11657--11666
                 Wanxing Li and   
               Xiaoming Xue and   
                  Yonghong Long   An additive subdistribution hazard model
                                  for competing risks data . . . . . . . . 11667--11687
        Majid Mojirsheibani and   
               Kevin Manley and   
                William Pouliot   On density and regression estimation
                                  with incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . 11688--11711
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Swarangi M. Gorey   An efficient randomized response model
                                  utilizing higher order moments ratios of
                                  scrambling variables . . . . . . . . . . 11712--11720
                Masaki Kudo and   
                    Kanta Naito   Data sharpening on unknown manifold  . . 11721--11744
           Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah   Saddlepoint density and distribution
                                  functions for the ratio of two linear
                                  functions and the product of generalized
                                  gamma variates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11745--11755
            Femi B. Adebola and   
      Adedamola A. Adediran and   
           Olusegun S. Ewemooje   Hybrid tripartite randomized response
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11756--11763
                Chen-Ju Lin and   
                   Yi-Ling Shen   Comparing multiple process overall
                                  yields from multiple manufacturing lines 11764--11775
                    Feng Hu and   
               Zhaojun Zong and   
                       Helin Wu   Fubini theorem for non additive measures
                                  in the framework of $g$-expectation  . . 11776--11785
           Elia Liitiäinen   Asymptotics for Euclidean functionals of
                                  mixing processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 11786--11800
                Aiting Shen and   
                     Deping Shi   $ L_r $ convergence for arrays of
                                  rowwise asymptotically almost negatively
                                  associated random variables  . . . . . . 11801--11812
                     Wei Yu and   
                  Wangli Xu and   
                     Lixing Zhu   A modified Hosmer--Lemeshow test for
                                  large data sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 11813--11825
                    Yan Cui and   
                   Xia Chen and   
                         Li Yan   Adaptive Lasso for generalized linear
                                  models with a diverging number of
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11826--11842
               Rongfang Yan and   
                Yinping You and   
                      Xiaohu Li   On bivariate ageing properties of
                                  exchangeable Farlie--Gumbel--Morgenstern
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11843--11853
                  R. Fallah and   
                  M. Arashi and   
            S. M. M. Tabatabaey   On the ridge regression estimator with
                                  sub-space restriction  . . . . . . . . . 11854--11865
       Sibel Acik Kemaloglu and   
                  Mehmet Yilmaz   Transmuted two-parameter Lindley
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11866--11879
                    Weicai Peng   Conditional entropy, entropy density,
                                  and strong law of large numbers for
                                  generalized controlled tree-indexed
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11880--11891
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Combined double sampling and variable
                                  sampling interval np chart . . . . . . . 11892--11917
              Nadezhda Gribkova   Cramér-type moderate deviations for
                                  intermediate trimmed means . . . . . . . 11918--11932
        Nusa Mikuljan Sljivi\'c   Cross-entropy method for estimation of
                                  posterior expectation in Bayesian VAR
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11933--11947

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 46, Number 24, 2017

            Barry C. Arnold and   
                 G. G. Hamedani   Bivariate, multivariate, and matrix
                                  variate normal characterizations: a
                                  brief survey II  . . . . . . . . . . . . 11949--11971
              Agnieszka Goroncy   Upper non positive bounds on
                                  expectations of generalized order
                                  statistics from DD and DDA populations   11972--11987
              Zhiyong Zhang and   
              Kaifeng Jiang and   
                 Haiyan Liu and   
                      In-Sue Oh   Bayesian meta-analysis of correlation
                                  coefficients through power prior . . . . 11988--12007
                  Kan Shang and   
                   Cavan Reilly   Non parametric Bayesian analysis of the
                                  two-sample problem with censoring  . . . 12008--12022
               V. Golbafian and   
         M. S. Fallahnezhad and   
              Y. Zare Mehrjerdi   A new economic scheme for CCC charts
                                  with run rules based on average number
                                  of inspected items . . . . . . . . . . . 12023--12044
                  Chao Wang and   
                       Hong Liu   Estimation for the scaled half-logistic
                                  distribution under Type-I progressively
                                  hybrid censoring scheme  . . . . . . . . 12045--12058
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Swarangi M. Gorey   A new efficient unrelated randomized
                                  response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12059--12074
        Kimberly F. Sellers and   
                Darcy S. Morris   Underdispersion models: Models that are
                                  ``under the radar''  . . . . . . . . . . 12075--12086
            Milto Hadjikyriakou   Some results on dependent random
                                  variables and a connection with the
                                  multivariate s-increasing convex order   12087--12102
              Arpan Bhowmik and   
                Seema Jaggi and   
             Eldho Varghese and   
                  Cini Varghese   Optimal block designs with non additive
                                  mixed effects interference . . . . . . . 12103--12112
                M. A. Pasha and   
         M. Bameni Moghadam and   
                  Y. Khadem and   
                        S. Fani   An integration of Taguchi's loss
                                  function in Banerjee--Rahim model for
                                  the economic and economic statistical
                                  design of $ \bar {X} $-control charts
                                  under multiple assignable causes and
                                  Weibull shock model  . . . . . . . . . . 12113--12129
               Mazhar Yaqub and   
              Javid Shabbir and   
               Sat Narian Gupta   Estimation of population mean based on
                                  dual use of auxiliary information in non
                                  response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12130--12151
                 M. Bitaraf and   
                  M. Rezaei and   
                 F. Yousefzadeh   Goodness-of-fit tests based on Verma
                                  Kullback--Leibler information  . . . . . 12152--12164
                  Jun Zhang and   
                  Zhenghui Feng   Partial linear single-index models with
                                  additive distortion measurement errors   12165--12193
                G. N. Singh and   
                  M. Khalid and   
                   A. K. Sharma   Some efficient classes of estimators of
                                  population mean in two-phase successive
                                  sampling under random non response . . . 12194--12209
                   T. Imoto and   
                   C. M. Ng and   
                  S. H. Ong and   
                 S. Chakraborty   A modified Conway--Maxwell--Poisson type
                                  binomial distribution and its
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12210--12225
          Giovanni Forchini and   
                       Bin Peng   Modified first-difference estimator in a
                                  panel data model with unobservable
                                  factors both in the errors and the
                                  regressors when the time dimension is
                                  small  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12226--12239
                  Yoichi Miyata   Laplace approximations and Bayesian
                                  information criteria in possibly
                                  misspecified models  . . . . . . . . . . 12240--12258
              Fikri Akdeniz and   
                  Mahdi Roozbeh   Efficiency of the
                                  generalized-difference-based weighted
                                  mixed almost unbiased two-parameter
                                  estimator in partially linear model  . . 12259--12280
                    P. Druilhet   On the Flatland paradox and limiting
                                  arguments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12281--12289
            Cristiano Villa and   
                 Stephen Walker   On the mathematics of the
                                  Jeffreys--Lindley paradox  . . . . . . . 12290--12298
               Huang Xudong and   
                    Li Mengmeng   Confidence intervals for sparse
                                  precision matrix estimation via Lasso
                                  penalized D-trace loss . . . . . . . . . 12299--12316
                Lingxiang Zhang   Partial unit root and surplus-lag
                                  Granger causality testing: a Monte Carlo
                                  simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 12317--12323
                Serkan Eryilmaz   A new class of bivariate lifetime
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12324--12335
                   Feng-Shou Ko   Evaluate the relative efficiency of a
                                  targeted clinical trial design to an
                                  untargeted design under the issue of
                                  cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12336--12344
               S. K. Mathur and   
                   D. M. Sakate   A new test for two-sample location
                                  problem based on empirical distribution
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12345--12355
              Mohsen Maleki and   
         Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi   Two-Piece location-scale distributions
                                  based on scale mixtures of normal family 12356--12369
                    Xin Xin and   
                       Feng Qiu   Multiple-response repeated measurement
                                  or multivariate growth curve model with
                                  distribution-free errors . . . . . . . . 12370--12386
               Xiaoyan Chen and   
                       Fang Liu   Strong laws of large numbers for
                                  negatively dependent random variables
                                  under sublinear expectations . . . . . . 12387--12400
                      Anonymous   EOV: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 1, 2018

            M. H. Karbalaee and   
                  M. Arashi and   
            S. M. M. Tabatabaey   Performance analysis of the preliminary
                                  test estimator with series of stochastic
                                  restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
                 M. B. Rajarshi   Comparison of pivotals for confidence
                                  bounds and intervals for the mean of a
                                  stationary time series . . . . . . . . . 18--27
              Stelios Arvanitis   A note on stable limit theory for the
                                  OLSE with non usual rates and the
                                  heteroskedasticity robust Wald test  . . 28--41
        Tatpon Siripraparat and   
             Kritsana Neammanee   A non uniform bound for half-normal
                                  approximation of the number of returns
                                  to the origin of symmetric simple random
                                  walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--54
                  Jiantian Wang   Likelihood ratio order of parallel
                                  systems under multiple-outlier models    55--63
                    Lu Deng and   
                  Xuemin Zi and   
                    Zhonghua Li   False discovery rates for large-scale
                                  model checking under certain dependence  64--79
                 Borek Puza and   
                  Andre Bonfrer   A series of two-urn biased sampling
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--91
                  Javid Shabbir   Efficient utilization of two auxiliary
                                  variables in stratified double sampling  92--101
                Qiang Xiong and   
                 Zhiyong Hu and   
                        Yuan Li   Statistic inference for a single-index
                                  ARCH-M model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--117
        Sebastian Ankargren and   
                     Shaobo Jin   On the least-squares model averaging
                                  interval estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 118--132
              Wen-Tso Huang and   
                 Cheng-Chang Lu   An enhanced absorbing Markov chain model
                                  for predicting TAIEX Index Futures . . . 133--146
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                   Stephen Chan   Discrete distributions based on inter
                                  arrival times with application to
                                  football data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--165
           Takeshi Kurosawa and   
                Nobuhiro Suzuki   Asymptotic distribution of regression
                                  correlation coefficient for Poisson
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--180
                 Pao-Sheng Shen   Non parametric analysis of gap times for
                                  bivariate recurrent event data with cure
                                  fraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--195
                   Hao Ding and   
              Zhanfeng Wang and   
                      Yaohua Wu   A relative error-based estimation with
                                  an increasing number of parameters . . . 196--209
                 Linyi Qian and   
                   Zhuo Jin and   
                   Wei Wang and   
                       Lyu Chen   Pricing dynamic fund protections for a
                                  hyperexponential jump diffusion process  210--221
             Giuseppe Arbia and   
                  Marco Bee and   
              Giuseppe Espa and   
                   Flavio Santi   Fitting spatial regressions to large
                                  datasets using unilateral approximations 222--238
               Liborio I. Costa   An accurate, tractable, and analytically
                                  integrable polynomial expansion of the
                                  skewed Student's $t$-distribution  . . . 239--246
           Alok Kumar Singh and   
                     S. Lalitha   A novel spatial outlier detection
                                  technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--257

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 2, 2018

           Heleno Bolfarine and   
Guillermo Martínez-Flórez and   
                Hugo S. Salinas   Bimodal symmetric-asymmetric
                                  power-normal families  . . . . . . . . . 259--276
                    H. Safe and   
           R. B. Kazemzadeh and   
            Y. Gholipour Kanani   A Markov chain approach for
                                  double-objective economic statistical
                                  design of the variable sampling interval
                                  $ \bar {X} $ control chart . . . . . . . 277--288
                      M. Rahman   Asymptotic estimate of variance with
                                  applications to stochastic differential
                                  equations arises in mathematical
                                  neuroscience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--306
           Abdelouahab Bibi and   
                   Ahmed Ghezal   Markov-switching \em BILINEAR--GARCH
                                  models: Structure and estimation . . . . 307--323
                Segun Ahmed and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Simultaneous estimation of means of two
                                  sensitive variables  . . . . . . . . . . 324--343
               Billel Aliat and   
            Fayçal Hamdi   On Markov-switching periodic \em ARMA
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--364
                   Jing Luo and   
                   Hong Qin and   
                 Jianwei Hu and   
                     Yong Zhang   Asymptotic distributions in affiliation
                                  networks with an increasing sequence . . 365--371
             Chanchal Kundu and   
                   Arijit Patra   Some results on residual life and
                                  inactivity time at random time . . . . . 372--384
              S. Balamurali and   
               P. Jeyadurga and   
                        M. Usha   Economic design of quick switching
                                  sampling system for assuring Weibull
                                  distributed mean life  . . . . . . . . . 385--398
           Idowu O. Ayodeji and   
            Titilola O. Obilade   Development of a canonical correlation
                                  model involving non linearity and
                                  asymmetric variables . . . . . . . . . . 399--414
                   Yi Zhang and   
                   Qingle Zheng   Non parametric mixture of strictly
                                  monotone regression models . . . . . . . 415--426
                   Qiang Fu and   
                    Xin Guo and   
                Kenneth C. Land   A Poisson-multinomial mixture approach
                                  to grouped and right-censored counts . . 427--447
        Anastassia Baxevani and   
     Krzysztof Podgórski   Random spectral measure for non Gaussian
                                  moving averages  . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--462
         Nagarajah Varathan and   
         Pushpakanthie Wijekoon   Optimal generalized logistic estimator   463--474
              P. K. Babilua and   
                 E. A. Nadaraya   On deviations between kernel-type
                                  estimators of a distribution density in
                                  $ p \geq 2 $ independent samples . . . . 475--492
         Olatunde A. Adeoti and   
                 John O. Olaomi   Capability index-based control chart for
                                  monitoring process mean using repetitive
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--507

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 3, 2018

                Kun-Lin Kuo and   
                Thomas J. Jiang   A revisit of the distribution of linear
                                  combinations of Dirichlet components . . 509--520
                  Cuixia Li and   
                      Erlin Guo   Estimation of the integrated volatility
                                  using noisy high-frequency data with
                                  jumps and endogeneity  . . . . . . . . . 521--531
              Sumito Kurata and   
                   Etsuo Hamada   A robust generalization and asymptotic
                                  properties of the model selection
                                  criterion family . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--547
            Parminder Singh and   
                  Navdeep Singh   A closed testing procedure for comparing
                                  successive exponential populations with
                                  respect to location parameter  . . . . . 548--561
              Zhang Yongjin and   
                Sun Youchao and   
                Li Longbiao and   
                      Zhao Ming   Copula-based reliability analysis for a
                                  parallel system with a cold standby  . . 562--582
                  Xinfeng Chang   On preliminary test almost unbiased
                                  two-parameter estimator in linear
                                  regression model with student's $t$
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--600
             Magda C. Pires and   
         Enrico A. Colosimo and   
               Arlaine A. Silva   Survival Weibull regression model for
                                  mismeasured outcomes . . . . . . . . . . 601--614
              S. Balamurali and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                  Ahmad Liaquat   Determination of a new mixed variable
                                  lot-size multiple dependent state
                                  sampling plan based on the process
                                  capability index . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--627
Frédéric Pro\"\ia   Testing for residual correlation of any
                                  order in the autoregressive process  . . 628--654
            Philippe Bernardoff   Marshall-Olkin Laplace transform copulas
                                  of multivariate gamma distributions  . . 655--670
                      Mi-Hwa Ko   Complete convergence for coordinatewise
                                  asymptotically negatively associated
                                  random vectors in Hilbert spaces . . . . 671--680
                   Yi Zhang and   
                   Qingle Zheng   Semiparametric mixture of additive
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 681--697
                  Ke-Ang Fu and   
                         Jie Li   Precise large deviations of aggregate
                                  claims in a risk model with size
                                  dependence and non stationary arrivals   698--707
               Jianbin Chen and   
               Yiying Zhang and   
                  Peng Zhao and   
                      Shan Zhou   Allocation strategies of standby
                                  redundancies in series/parallel system   708--724
                  Shun Matsuura   Correlation coefficient of response
                                  variances in compound noise and product
                                  array experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . 725--738
                   Miao Han and   
               Dongxiao Han and   
                    Liuquan Sun   A class of partially linear
                                  transformation models for recurrent gap
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--766

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 4, 2018

                Sangun Park and   
                    Jiwhan Park   A general class of flexible Weibull
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--778
           Al-ameen Sama-ae and   
          Nattakarn Chaidee and   
             Kritsana Neammanee   Half-normal approximation for statistics
                                  of symmetric simple random walk  . . . . 779--792
                      Yalian Li   Efficiency of two classes of stochastic
                                  restricted almost unbiased type
                                  principal component estimators in linear
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--804
               Kalyan Joshi and   
                 M. B. Rajarshi   Modified probability proportional to
                                  size sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--815
              Tabti Hadjila and   
                Ait Saidi Ahmed   Estimation and simulation of conditional
                                  hazard function in the quasi-associated
                                  framework when the observations are
                                  linked via a functional single-index
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816--838
                G. N. Singh and   
               A. K. Sharma and   
                    A. K. Singh   Estimation of population mean on the
                                  most recent occasion under non response
                                  in $h$-occasion successive sampling
                                  using several auxiliary variables  . . . 839--861
               Yanchun Xing and   
                    Lili Xu and   
                 Wenqing Ma and   
                   Zhichuan Zhu   Conditional mix-GEE models for
                                  longitudinal data with unspecified
                                  random-effects distributions . . . . . . 862--876
                 Kaiyuan Wu and   
                    Wei Hou and   
                    Hongbo Yang   Density estimation via the random forest
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877--889
              Mohamed Ahkim and   
            Anneleen Verhasselt   Testing for constancy in varying
                                  coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 890--911
           Housila P. Singh and   
         Abhishek C. Mishra and   
                   Surya K. Pal   Improved estimator of population total
                                  in PPS sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--934
          K. Krishnamoorthy and   
                    Yanping Xia   Confidence intervals for a two-parameter
                                  exponential distribution: One- and
                                  two-sample problems  . . . . . . . . . . 935--952
       Xenos Chang-Shuo Lin and   
      Daniel Wei-Chung Miao and   
                  Wan-Ling Chao   Analysis of a jump-diffusion option
                                  pricing model with serially correlated
                                  jump sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--979
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
                Muhammad Waleed   Analysis of survival data by a
                                  Weibull--Bessel distribution . . . . . . 980--995
                 N. Sreelakshmi   An introduction to copula-based
                                  bivariate reliability Concepts . . . . . 996--1012

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 5, 2018

              Savitri Joshi and   
                     K. K. Jose   Wrapped Lindley distribution . . . . . . 1013--1021
                 Hiroshi Yamada   Several least-squares problems related
                                  to the Hodrick--Prescott filtering . . . 1022--1027
          C. Satheesh Kumar and   
                  Subha R. Nair   On some aspects of a flexible class of
                                  additive Weibull distribution  . . . . . 1028--1049
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
        Marcelo Bourguignon and   
         Edwin M. M. Ortega and   
              Thiago G. Ramires   General mathematical properties,
                                  regression and applications of the
                                  log-gamma-generated family . . . . . . . 1050--1070
               Nina Strydom and   
                  Nico Crowther   Multivariate normal estimation: the case
                                  $ (n > p) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071--1090
               Pradip Kundu and   
                  Asok K. Nanda   Reliability study of proportional odds
                                  family of discrete distributions . . . . 1091--1103
                Ruibing Qin and   
                       Yang Liu   Block bootstrap testing for changes in
                                  persistence with heavy-tailed
                                  innovations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104--1116
  Kamonrat Kamjornkittikoon and   
         Kritsana Neammanee and   
              Nattakarn Chaidee   Non uniform exponential bounds on normal
                                  approximation by Stein's method and
                                  monotone size bias couplings . . . . . . 1117--1132
                V. Jowaheer and   
             N. Mamode Khan and   
                    Y. Sunecher   A BINAR(1) time-series model with
                                  cross-correlated COM--Poisson
                                  innovations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1154
             Vikas Kumar Sharma   Bayesian analysis of head and neck
                                  cancer data using generalized inverse
                                  Lindley stress--strength reliability
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1180
           Daniel F. Linder and   
               Jingjing Yin and   
             Haresh Rochani and   
                Hani Samawi and   
                   Sanjay Sethi   Increased Fisher's information for
                                  parameters of association in count
                                  regression via extreme ranks . . . . . . 1181--1203
                 Akio Namba and   
                Kazuhiro Ohtani   MSE performance of the weighted average
                                  estimators consisting of shrinkage
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1204--1214
          O. V. Chernoyarov and   
           Yu. A. Kutoyants and   
                         A. Top   On multiple change-point estimation for
                                  Poisson process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1233
              Hukum Chandra and   
                 Nicola Salvati   Small area estimation of proportions
                                  under a spatial dependent aggregated
                                  level random effects model . . . . . . . 1234--1255
Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad and   
       Tahereh Jafari Nodoushan   Designing an economic rectifying
                                  sampling plan in the presence of two
                                  markets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256--1272

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 6, 2018

                Xiaojian Xu and   
                Mark Krzeminski   Optimal designs for accelerated life
                                  tests with multiple stress factors and
                                  heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 1273--1306
              Chun-Shu Chen and   
                   Yi-Tsz Huang   Some characteristics on the selection of
                                  spline smoothing parameter . . . . . . . 1307--1317
               Rakesh Kumar and   
                  Sapana Sharma   Transient analysis of an M/M/c queuing
                                  system with balking and retention of
                                  reneging customers . . . . . . . . . . . 1318--1327
            Betuel Canhanga and   
        Anatoliy Malyarenko and   
                    Ying Ni and   
            Milica Ranci\'c and   
              Sergei Silvestrov   Analytical and numerical studies on the
                                  second-order asymptotic expansion method
                                  for European option pricing under
                                  two-factor stochastic volatilities . . . 1328--1349
                     Zhi Li and   
                  Litan Yan and   
                      Liping Xu   Stepanov-like almost automorphic
                                  solutions for stochastic differential
                                  equations with Lévy noise . . . . . . . . 1350--1371
               Yinghui Dong and   
             Kam Chuen Yuen and   
                   Guojing Wang   Regime-switching pure jump processes and
                                  applications in the valuation of
                                  mortality-linked products  . . . . . . . 1372--1391
                   Linqi Yi and   
                    Junshan Xie   A high-dimensional likelihood ratio test
                                  for circular symmetric covariance
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1392--1402
               Ching-Ho Yen and   
             Chia-Hao Chang and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Multiple dependent state repetitive
                                  sampling plans based on one-sided
                                  process capability indices . . . . . . . 1403--1412
                Guanghui Li and   
                  Chongqi Zhang   Random search algorithm for optimal
                                  mixture experimental design  . . . . . . 1413--1422
                Liheng Sang and   
              Guangjun Shen and   
               Qiangqiang Chang   Approximation of fractional Brownian
                                  sheet by Wiener integral . . . . . . . . 1423--1441
           Housila P. Singh and   
               Surya K. Pal and   
                    Anita Yadav   A study on the chain ratio-ratio-type
                                  exponential estimator for finite
                                  population variance  . . . . . . . . . . 1442--1458
                Iryna V. Rozora   Statistical hypothesis testing for the
                                  shape of impulse response function . . . 1459--1474
           Augustus Jayaraj and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
            Sarjinder Singh and   
                Oluseun Odumade   A new estimator of proportion with a
                                  linear function using data from
                                  two-decks randomized response model  . . 1475--1490
         Piyachart Wiangnak and   
                      Suvra Pal   Gamma lifetimes and associated inference
                                  for interval-censored cure rate model
                                  with COM-Poisson competing cause . . . . 1491--1509
              Deepesh Bhati and   
                  Savitri Joshi   Weighted geometric distribution with new
                                  characterizations of geometric
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1510--1527

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 7, 2018

                Rongfei Liu and   
             Dingcheng Wang and   
                   Fenglong Guo   The ruin probabilities of a discrete
                                  time risk model with one-sided linear
                                  claim sizes and dependent risks  . . . . 1529--1550
                Sangun Park and   
     Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi and   
                      Ilmun Kim   General cumulative Kullback--Leibler
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551--1560
                 F. Ghapani and   
                      B. Babadi   Mixed Liu estimator in linear
                                  measurement error models . . . . . . . . 1561--1570
                   Jie Yang and   
                Weiguo Yang and   
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
                  Yiqing Li and   
                   Bei Wang and   
                      Yue Zhang   Strong law of large numbers for
                                  generalized sample relative entropy of
                                  non homogeneous Markov chains  . . . . . 1571--1579
                       Amit Sen   Lagrange multiplier unit root test in
                                  the presence of a break in the
                                  innovation variance  . . . . . . . . . . 1580--1596
                Jianjing Ma and   
               Guojing Wang and   
            George Xianzhi Yuan   Optimal reinsurance and investment
                                  problem in a defaultable market  . . . . 1597--1614
               Tanmay Kayal and   
       Yogesh Mani Tripathi and   
            Manoj Kumar Rastogi   Estimation and prediction for an
                                  inverted exponentiated Rayleigh
                                  distribution under hybrid censoring  . . 1615--1640
       Hamed Fazlollahtabar and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   Modified branching process for the
                                  reliability analysis of complex systems:
                                  Multiple-robot systems . . . . . . . . . 1641--1652
                Kush Sharma and   
            Davinder Kumar Garg   m-Associate PBIB designs using Youden-m
                                  squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1653--1662
               Peng Xiaozhi and   
                 Wu Hecheng and   
                        Ma Ling   Asymptotic properties of the estimators
                                  of the semi-parametric spatial
                                  regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 1663--1678
                K. R. Meena and   
               Mohd. Arshad and   
         Aditi Kar Gangopadhyay   Estimating the parameter of selected
                                  uniform population under the squared log
                                  error loss function  . . . . . . . . . . 1679--1692
                    Duni Hu and   
                   Hailong Wang   Time-consistent investment and
                                  reinsurance under relative performance
                                  concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1693--1717
                  Shimin Li and   
                  Hui Jiang and   
                  Shaochen Wang   Large and moderate deviations for the
                                  total population in the nearly unstable
                                  INAR(1) model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1718--1730
                   Jun Zhao and   
                       Yi Zhang   Variable selection in expectile
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1731--1746
              Sana Eftekhar and   
  Mohammad Sadooghi-Alvandi and   
        Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei   Testing the equality of several
                                  multivariate normal mean vectors under
                                  heteroscedasticity: a fiducial approach
                                  and an approximate test  . . . . . . . . 1747--1766
               K. Jayakumar and   
                 M. Girish Babu   Discrete Weibull geometric distribution
                                  and its properties . . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1783

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 8, 2018

              Guang-hui Cai and   
                  Lin Xiang and   
                Xin-xing Su and   
                   Xue-hai Ying   A self-normalized central limit theorem
                                  for a $ \rho $-mixing stationary
                                  sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1785--1791
                  Tai VoVan and   
               Thao NguyenTrang   Similar coefficient for cluster of
                                  probability density functions  . . . . . 1792--1811
            Romain Aza\"\is and   
              Alexandre Genadot   A new characterization of the jump rate
                                  for piecewise-deterministic Markov
                                  processes with discrete transitions  . . 1812--1829
                G. N. Singh and   
                   S. Suman and   
                  M. Khetan and   
                        C. Paul   Some estimation procedures of sensitive
                                  character using scrambled response
                                  techniques in successive sampling  . . . 1830--1841
                M. A. Pasha and   
             M. B. Moghadam and   
                    S. Fani and   
                      Y. Khadem   Effects of quality characteristic
                                  distributions on the integrated model of
                                  Taguchi's loss function and economic
                                  statistical design of $ \bar {X}
                                  $-control charts by modifying the
                                  Banerjee and Rahim economic model  . . . 1842--1855
               Zahid Pervez and   
              Zawar Hussain and   
                  Maryam Hafeez   On using non identical and independent
                                  Bernoulli trials in human surveys  . . . 1856--1867
        Virtue U. Ekhosuehi and   
       Daniel O. Iruegbukpe and   
               Julian I. Mbegbu   Minimum aberration criterion for
                                  screening experiments at two levels from
                                  an entropy-based perspective . . . . . . 1868--1881
                 Juming Pan and   
                  Junfeng Shang   Adaptive LASSO for linear mixed model
                                  selection via profile log-likelihood . . 1882--1900
                  Kang FangYuan   An additive marginal regression model
                                  for clustered recurrent event in the
                                  presence of a terminal event . . . . . . 1901--1912
         Henriette Groenvik and   
                    Yeonwoo Rho   A self-normalizing approach to the
                                  specification test of mixed-frequency
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1913--1922
                  Ilmun Kim and   
                    Sangun Park   Likelihood ratio tests for multivariate
                                  normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1923--1934
              Xinfeng Chang and   
                        Jibo Wu   Performance of the stein-type
                                  two-parameter estimator in multiple
                                  linear regression model  . . . . . . . . 1935--1952
            Ying-Ying Zhang and   
                 Yu-Han Xie and   
                Wen-He Song and   
                  Ming-Qin Zhou   Three strings of inequalities among six
                                  Bayes estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . 1953--1961
              Amarjit Kundu and   
                 Chanchal Kundu   Bivariate extension of generalized
                                  cumulative past entropy  . . . . . . . . 1962--1977
            Ambreen Shafqat and   
             Jaffer Hussain and   
         Amjad D. Al-Nasser and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Attribute control chart for some popular
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1978--1988
        Gajendra K. Vishwakarma   An alternative to ratio estimator in
                                  post-stratification  . . . . . . . . . . 1989--2000
                    Yu Shen and   
             Han-Ying Liang and   
                  Guo-Liang Fan   Penalized empirical likelihood for
                                  quantile regression with missing
                                  covariates and auxiliary information . . 2001--2021
 Fatma Sevinç Kurnaz and   
                Kadri Ulas Akay   Matrix mean squared error comparisons of
                                  some biased estimators with two biasing
                                  parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2022--2035
                Behzad Mansouri   Wavelet analysis of uniformly
                                  time-modulated processes . . . . . . . . 2036--2041

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 9, 2018

             Indranil Ghosh and   
                Ayman Alzaatreh   A new class of generalized logistic
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2043--2055
             Indranil Ghosh and   
                 G. G. Hamedani   The Gamma-Kumaraswamy distribution: an
                                  alternative to Gamma distribution  . . . 2056--2072
                   I. Ghosh and   
             G. G. Hamedani and   
                  N. Bansal and   
                  M. Maadooliat   On the mixtures of Weibull and Pareto
                                  (IV) distribution: an alternative to
                                  Pareto distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 2073--2084
             Dinesh Sarvate and   
               Nutan Mishra and   
                 Kasifa Namyalo   Group divisible designs with block size
                                  five from Clatworthy's table . . . . . . 2085--2097
                M. A. Pasha and   
             M. Bameni Moghadam   An extension of Ben--Daya--Rahim (2000)
                                  and Rahim--Banerjee (1993) cost models
                                  for economic design of $ T^2 $-control
                                  charts for multivariate deteriorating
                                  processes with preventive maintenance
                                  and early replacement  . . . . . . . . . 2098--2109
                       Hui Dang   The strong law of large numbers for non
                                  homogeneous $M$-bifurcating Markov
                                  chains indexed by a $M$-branch Cayley
                                  tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2110--2125
            Sergey V. Malov and   
             Stephen J. O'Brien   Life table estimator revisited . . . . . 2126--2133
                      Zhulin He   Conditional logistic regression in
                                  cluster-specific $ 1 \colon m $ matched
                                  treatment-control designs  . . . . . . . 2134--2145
             Eugene Kouassi and   
          Patrice Takam Soh and   
          Morvan N. Donfack and   
        Jean Marcelin B. Bosson   The ARCH(2) model: Pseudo-maximum
                                  estimation and asymptotic results under
                                  dependent innovations  . . . . . . . . . 2146--2171
H. S. Rupasinghe Arachchige Don and   
       L. C. R. Pelawa Watagoda   Bootstrapping analogs of the two-sample
                                  Hotelling's $ T^2 $ test . . . . . . . . 2172--2182
               Zahid Bashir and   
               Rashid Ahmed and   
                M. H. Tahir and   
    Syed Shakir Ali Ghazali and   
                Farrukh Shehzad   Some extensions of circular balanced and
                                  circular strongly balanced repeated
                                  measurements designs . . . . . . . . . . 2183--2194
             Zohra Guessoum and   
     Mohamed-Amine Mansouri and   
             Elias Ould Sa\"\id   Asymptotic properties of the kernel mode
                                  estimator under twice censorship model   2195--2212
             S. Ghorbanpour and   
             R. Chinipardaz and   
                 S. M. R. Alavi   Fisher information in
                                  exponential-weighted location-scale
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2213--2226
              Sheng-Li Zhao and   
                 Qian-Qian Zhao   Some results on constructing two-level
                                  block designs with general minimum lower
                                  order confounding  . . . . . . . . . . . 2227--2237
       Anastasios N. Arapis and   
            Frosso S. Makri and   
          Zaharias M. Psillakis   Distributions of statistics describing
                                  concentration of runs in non homogeneous
                                  Markov-dependent trials  . . . . . . . . 2238--2250
                Serkan Eryilmaz   On the first time of ruin in
                                  two-dimensional discrete time risk model
                                  with dependent claim occurrences . . . . 2251--2258
                Jung In Seo and   
                     Yongku Kim   Robust Bayesian analysis for exponential
                                  parameters under generalized Type-II
                                  progressive hybrid censoring . . . . . . 2259--2277
             Nilgün Yildiz   On the performance of the Jackknifed
                                  Liu-type estimator in linear regression
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2278--2290
                    Servane Gey   Vapnik--Chervonenkis dimension of
                                  axis-parallel cuts . . . . . . . . . . . 2291--2296

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 10, 2018

                Saad J. Almalki   A reduced new modified Weibull
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2297--2313
 Camilla Mondrup Andreassen and   
              Jens Ledet Jensen   On the three-dimensional negative
                                  binomial distribution  . . . . . . . . . 2314--2326
                    Jian Wu and   
                 Liugen Xue and   
                    Peixin Zhao   Quickly variable selection for varying
                                  coefficient models with missing response
                                  at random  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2327--2336
              Yanting Zheng and   
              Jingping Yang and   
               Jianhua Z. Huang   Shuffle of min's random variable
                                  approximations of bivariate copulas'
                                  realization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2337--2350
                   Hui Zhou and   
                         Jie Li   Empirical likelihood inference for error
                                  density estimators in first-order
                                  autoregression models  . . . . . . . . . 2351--2361
           S. Goliforushani and   
                     M. Xie and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On the mean residual life of a
                                  generalized $k$-out-of-$n$ system  . . . 2362--2372
               A. Parvardeh and   
            N. Balakrishnan and   
               Azam Arshadipour   A note on the conditional residual
                                  lifetime of a coherent system under
                                  double monitoring  . . . . . . . . . . . 2373--2378
               Rongfang Yan and   
                     Tianqi Luo   On the optimal allocation of active
                                  redundancies in series system  . . . . . 2379--2388
                  Yunzhu He and   
                   Dongsheng Wu   Wavelet-based estimators of
                                  multivariable mean regression function
                                  with long-memory data  . . . . . . . . . 2389--2406
              Feipeng Zhang and   
                      Yong Zhou   Non-parametric quantile estimate for
                                  length-biased and right-censored data
                                  with competing risks . . . . . . . . . . 2407--2424
            H. R. Nili Sani and   
                   M. Amini and   
                   A. Bozorgnia   Complete convergence for weighted sums
                                  of arrays of APND random variables . . . 2425--2431
               Fanrong Zhao and   
               Weixing Song and   
                   Jianhong Shi   Statistical inference for
                                  heteroscedastic semi-varying coefficient
                                  EV models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2432--2455
                  Jing Zhao and   
                Weihu Cheng and   
               Haiqing Chen and   
                       Mixia Wu   Comparisons of several Pareto
                                  distributions based on record values . . 2456--2468
               L. R. Naidoo and   
                   D. North and   
                 T. Zewotir and   
                       R. Arnab   Remainder modified systematic sampling
                                  in the presence of linear trend  . . . . 2469--2481
                   I. Iqbal and   
               P. F. Buzdar and   
                       I. Ahmed   Construction of neighbor designs of
                                  block size 4 for all values of $v$ $>$= 5
                                  by using the method of addition  . . . . 2482--2489
                  S. Balamurali   Optimal designing of a new mixed
                                  variable lot-size chain sampling plan
                                  based on the process capability index    2490--2503
              Xing-cai Zhou and   
                Ying-zhi Xu and   
                   Jin-guan Lin   Wavelet estimation in time-varying
                                  coefficient time series models with
                                  measurement errors . . . . . . . . . . . 2504--2519
                   Tomer Shushi   The generalized exponential family of
                                  distributions and its characteristics    2520--2526
         Frank P. A. Coolen and   
       Tahani Coolen-Maturi and   
               Hana N. Alqifari   Non-parametric predictive inference for
                                  future order statistics  . . . . . . . . 2527--2548

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 11, 2018

          Francisco Louzada and   
             Vitor A. A. Marchi   A log-location-scale lifetime
                                  distribution with censored data:
                                  Regression modeling, residuals, and
                                  global influence . . . . . . . . . . . . 2549--2562
               Petan Dossar and   
                  Mounir Mesbah   Cumulative or adjacent logits: Which
                                  choice for an ordinal logistic latent
                                  variable model?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2563--2575
             Shashi Bhushan and   
            Abhay Pratap Pandey   Optimality of ratio type estimation
                                  methods for population mean in the
                                  presence of missing data . . . . . . . . 2576--2589
       Buddhananda Banerjee and   
             Biswabrata Pradhan   Kolmogorov--Smirnov test for life test
                                  data with hybrid censoring . . . . . . . 2590--2604
             Ahmed Z. Afify and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
         Edwin M. M. Ortega and   
          Haitham M. Yousof and   
           Nadeem Shafique Butt   The four-parameter Burr XII
                                  distribution: Properties, regression
                                  model, and applications  . . . . . . . . 2605--2624
                  Qiang Wan and   
               Yongzhong Wu and   
                Wenhui Zhou and   
                  Xiaohong Chen   Economic design of an integrated
                                  adaptive synthetic $ \bar {X} $ chart
                                  and maintenance management system  . . . 2625--2642
            Michael Feldman and   
                  Adir Even and   
                 Yisrael Parmet   A methodology for quantifying the effect
                                  of missing data on decision quality in
                                  classification problems  . . . . . . . . 2643--2663
               Shuxia Zhang and   
                    Boping Tian   Semiparametric method for detecting
                                  multiple change points model in
                                  financial time series  . . . . . . . . . 2664--2683
                     Shin-Li Lu   Non parametric double generally weighted
                                  moving average sign charts based on
                                  process proportion . . . . . . . . . . . 2684--2700
                    Shu Liu and   
                      Heng Lian   Robust estimation and model
                                  identification for longitudinal data
                                  varying-coefficient model  . . . . . . . 2701--2719
            A. Bolivar-Cime and   
        L. M. Cordova-Rodriguez   Binary discrimination methods for
                                  high-dimensional data with a geometric
                                  representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2720--2740
          Vicente G. Cancho and   
                   Bao Yiqi and   
           Jose A. Fiorucci and   
       Gladys D. C. Barriga and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   Estimation and influence diagnostics for
                                  zero-inflated hyper-Poisson regression
                                  model: full Bayesian analysis  . . . . . 2741--2759
               Chunpeng Fan and   
                  Donghui Zhang   Testing factor-covariate interaction in
                                  rank repeated-measures analysis of
                                  covariance models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2760--2778
           Ghobad Barmalzan and   
Amir. T. Payandeh Najafabadi and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Some new results on aggregate claim
                                  amounts from two heterogeneous
                                  Marshall-Olkin extended exponential
                                  portfolios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2779--2794

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 12, 2018

    Kristofer Månsson and   
               Ghazi Shukur and   
             B. M. Golam Kibria   Performance of some ridge regression
                                  estimators for the multinomial logit
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2795--2804
            Edgardo Lorenzo and   
               Ganesh Malla and   
                  Hari Mukerjee   A new test for decreasing mean residual
                                  lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2805--2812
    A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and   
         B. M. Golam Kibria and   
                Florence George   Simultaneous estimation of several
                                  CDF's: homogeneity constraint  . . . . . 2813--2826
                   Shili Ye and   
              Dongying Wang and   
                   Runchu Zhang   $ 2^{m - p} $ compromise plans with
                                  strongly clear specified main effects
                                  and two-factor interactions  . . . . . . 2827--2834
             Etebong P. Clement   A note on calibration weightings for
                                  stratified double sampling with equal
                                  probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2835--2847
                  Sumen Sen and   
             Pooja Sengupta and   
                  Norou Diawara   Doubly inflated Poisson model using
                                  Gaussian copula  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2848--2858
              H. M. Barakat and   
          M. A. Abd Elgawad and   
                       Ting Yan   Generalized-order statistics with random
                                  indices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2859--2868
                Tingxun Gou and   
                   Hong Qin and   
           Kashinath Chatterjee   A study of uniformity pattern for
                                  extended designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 2869--2880
             Nasrullah Khan and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
              Chi-Hyuck Jun and   
                 Jaffer Hussain   Design of acceptance sampling plan using
                                  a modified EWMA statistic  . . . . . . . 2881--2891
                Hasan Rasay and   
Mohammad Saber Fallahnezhad and   
           Yahia Zare Mehrjerdi   An integrated model for economic design
                                  of chi-square control chart and
                                  maintenance planning . . . . . . . . . . 2892--2907
                      Bo Lu and   
               Dingjiao Cai and   
                Luheng Wang and   
               Xingwei Tong and   
                   Huiyun Xiang   Inference for proportional hazard model
                                  with propensity score  . . . . . . . . . 2908--2918
     Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi and   
              Mohsen Maleki and   
                      Abbas Pak   Testing the equality of two independent
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 2919--2926
                Yanqin Feng and   
                    Yurong Chen   Oracle inequalities for the Lasso in the
                                  additive hazards model with
                                  interval-censored data . . . . . . . . . 2927--2949
     Altemir da Silva Braga and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
             Edwin M. M. Ortega   A new skew-bimodal distribution with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2950--2968
           R. Arabi Belaghi and   
               M. Noori Asl and   
                 H. Bevrani and   
          William Volterman and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On the distribution-free confidence
                                  intervals and universal bounds for
                                  quantiles based on joint records . . . . 2969--2978
                        Jibo Wu   Performance of the difference-based
                                  Liu-type estimator in partially linear
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2979--2987
               Nawal Belaid and   
               Smail Adjabi and   
Célestin C. Kokonendji and   
                   Nabil Zougab   Bayesian adaptive bandwidth selector for
                                  multivariate discrete kernel estimator   2988--3001
          Francisco Louzada and   
        Fernando F. Moreira and   
      Mauro Ribeiro de Oliveira   A zero-inflated non default rate
                                  regression model for credit scoring data 3002--3021
                Mike G. Tsionas   Note on posterior inference for the
                                  Bingham distribution . . . . . . . . . . 3022--3028
                    Hiba Nassar   A consistent estimator of the smoothing
                                  operator in the functional
                                  Hodrick-Prescott filter  . . . . . . . . 3029--3042

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 13, 2018

               Debashis Kushary   Finding confidence bound using two-stage
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3043--3051
                M. Goldoust and   
                  S. Rezaei and   
                      Y. Si and   
                   S. Nadarajah   A lifetime distribution motivated by
                                  parallel and series structures . . . . . 3052--3072
                Qingqing Ye and   
                      Liwei Liu   Analysis of MAP/M/1 queue with working
                                  breakdowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3073--3084
                 Xiaohui Ai and   
                       Yang Sun   Karhunen-Loeve expansion for the
                                  additive two-sided Brownian motion . . . 3085--3091
                     Guoxin Qiu   Further results on the residual quantile
                                  entropy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3092--3103
               S. Baratpour and   
                  A. H. Khammar   A quantile-based generalized dynamic
                                  cumulative measure of entropy  . . . . . 3104--3117
                 Ali H. Abuzaid   A half circular distribution for
                                  modeling the posterior corneal curvature 3118--3124
                David R. Bickel   A note on fiducial model averaging as an
                                  alternative to checking Bayesian and
                                  frequentist models . . . . . . . . . . . 3125--3137
                     M. Bee and   
                      L. Trapin   A characteristic function-based approach
                                  to approximate maximum likelihood
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3138--3160
                 Chao Zhang and   
                Zhidong Bai and   
                   Jiang Hu and   
                      Chen Wang   Multi-sample test for high-dimensional
                                  covariance matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 3161--3177
                S. Rezakhah and   
                A. Philippe and   
                   N. Modarresi   Innovative methods for modeling of scale
                                  invariant processes  . . . . . . . . . . 3178--3191
             Zhenghong Wang and   
                       Hong Qin   Uniformity pattern and related criteria
                                  for mixed-level designs  . . . . . . . . 3192--3203
                Y. L. Zhang and   
                     G. J. Wang   An extended geometric process repair
                                  model with imperfect delayed repair
                                  under different objective functions  . . 3204--3219
            Yuri A. Iriarte and   
          Nabor O. Castillo and   
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
  Héctor W. Gómez   Modified slashed-Rayleigh distribution   3220--3233
                        D. Bosq   Detecting instants of jumps and
                                  estimating their intensity in the
                                  context of $p$ derivatives with
                                  continuous or discrete data  . . . . . . 3234--3251
               Daisuke Nagakura   On the relationship between the matrix
                                  operators, vech and vecd . . . . . . . . 3252--3268
         Razieh Jafaraghaie and   
              Nader Nematollahi   Robust Bayesian prediction under a
                                  general linear-exponential posterior
                                  risk function and its application in
                                  finite population  . . . . . . . . . . . 3269--3292

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 14, 2018

        T. H. M. Abouelmagd and   
                M. S. Hamed and   
    Abd El Hadi N. Ebraheim and   
                 Ahmed Z. Afify   Toward the evaluation of $ P(X_{(t)} >
                                  Y_{(t)}) $ when both $ X_{(t)} $ and $
                                  Y_{(t)} $ are inactivity times of two
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3293--3304
             Husam I. Ardah and   
                     Evrim Oral   Model selection in randomized response
                                  techniques for binary responses  . . . . 3305--3323
                Yuh-Jenn Wu and   
             Li-Hsueh Cheng and   
                  Wei-Quan Fang   Using Wald-type estimator to combat
                                  outliers and Berkson-type uncertainties
                                  with mixture distributions in linear
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 3324--3337
                 Cunjie Lin and   
                 Wenhua Wei and   
                      Yong Zhou   Semiparametric estimation of treatment
                                  effect with density ratio model  . . . . 3338--3359
                    Siyu Lv and   
                        Zhen Wu   Infinite horizon reflected backward
                                  stochastic differential equations with
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3360--3376
                  David Roodman   Bias and size corrections in extreme
                                  value modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3377--3391
                    Keiji Takai   On the use of the selection matrix in
                                  the maximum likelihood estimation of
                                  normal distribution models with missing
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3392--3407
        M. Fernández and   
Jesús E. García and   
V. A. González-López   A copula-based partition Markov
                                  procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3408--3417
              Xianzhu Xiong and   
                Peiqin Zhou and   
                    Chen Ailian   Asymptotic normality of the local linear
                                  estimation of the conditional density
                                  for functional time-series data  . . . . 3418--3440
              Jianwen Huang and   
               Jianjun Wang and   
                Guowang Luo and   
                         Hao Pu   Higher order expansion for moments of
                                  extreme for generalized Maxwell
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3441--3452
                Tingting Li and   
                  Zuoxiang Peng   Moment convergence of powered normal
                                  extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3453--3463
                 M. Khalili and   
               A. Habibirad and   
                 F. Yousefzadeh   Some properties of Lin-Wong divergence
                                  on the past lifetime data  . . . . . . . 3464--3476
                 Ivair R. Silva   On the correspondence between
                                  frequentist and Bayesian tests . . . . . 3477--3487
               Xue-Ru Zhang and   
               Zong-Feng Qi and   
              Yong-Dao Zhou and   
                      Feng Yang   Orthogonal-array composite design for
                                  the third-order models . . . . . . . . . 3488--3507
               Alaa Elkadry and   
               Gary C. McDonald   Analyzing continuous randomized response
                                  data with an indifference-zone selection
                                  procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3508--3522
                  Jin H. Oh and   
               Sung H. Park and   
                   Soon S. Kwon   Graphical evaluation of robust parameter
                                  designs based on extended scaled
                                  prediction variance and extended
                                  spherical average prediction variance    3523--3531
            Kiyoshi I. Noue and   
                      Sigeo Aki   On discrete distributions generated from
                                  drawing balls with bivariate labels  . . 3532--3546

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 15, 2018

               Amir Moslemi and   
   Mirmehdi Seyyed-Esfahani and   
      Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki   A robust posterior preference
                                  multi-response optimization approach in
                                  multistage processes . . . . . . . . . . 3547--3570
         Taka-Aki Shiraishi and   
              Shin-Ichi Matsuda   Closed testing procedures for all
                                  pairwise comparisons in a randomized
                                  block design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3571--3587
             David D. Watts and   
              Joshua D. Habiger   A multiple testing protocol for
                                  exploratory data analysis and the local
                                  misclassification rate . . . . . . . . . 3588--3604
           Priyaranjan Dash and   
            Bijoy Kumar Pradhan   A note on a transient queuing system of
                                  a linear birth-immigration process in
                                  presence of twin births  . . . . . . . . 3605--3615
                   Y. Zhang and   
                   S. Nadarajah   A review of backtesting for value at
                                  risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3616--3639
          Tõnu Kollo and   
    Meelis Käärik and   
                    Anne Selart   Asymptotic normality of estimators for
                                  parameters of a multivariate skew-normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3640--3655
                    Shu Liu and   
                  Liangyuan Liu   Efficient estimation for time-dynamic
                                  longitudinal single-index model  . . . . 3656--3674
                Omar Eidous and   
                Fahid Al-Eibood   A bias-corrected histogram estimator for
                                  line transect sampling . . . . . . . . . 3675--3686
                Z. Al Masry and   
                 S. Mercier and   
                     G. Verdier   Generalized method of moments for an
                                  extended gamma process . . . . . . . . . 3687--3714
              Danyang Huang and   
              Xiangyu Chang and   
                  Hansheng Wang   Spatial autoregression with repeated
                                  measurements for social networks . . . . 3715--3727
              Eiichi Isogai and   
               Andreas Futschik   Bounded risk estimation of a linear
                                  combination of location parameters in
                                  negative exponential distributions via
                                  three-stage sampling . . . . . . . . . . 3728--3733
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                   Stephen Chan   Elementary expressions for moments of
                                  truncated negative binomial random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3734--3743
                G. N. Singh and   
                   C. Singh and   
                   S. Suman and   
                       A. Kumar   A two-stage unrelated randomized
                                  response model for estimating a rare
                                  sensitive attribute in probability
                                  proportional to size sampling using
                                  Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 3744--3766
           Josmar Mazucheli and   
André Felipe Berdusco Menezes and   
                      Sanku Dey   Improved maximum-likelihood estimators
                                  for the parameters of the unit-gamma
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3767--3778
                 Rizwan Ali and   
                      Abdul Haq   A mixed GWMA-CUSUM control chart for
                                  monitoring the process mean  . . . . . . 3779--3801

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 16, 2018

                    Yi Zhai and   
                     Zhide Fang   Locally optimal designs for some
                                  dose-response models with continuous
                                  endpoints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3803--3819
                Wenzhao Liu and   
                Yanlei Diao and   
                       Anna Liu   An analysis of query-agnostic sampling
                                  for interactive data exploration . . . . 3820--3837
                 Heiko Groenitz   Logistic regression analyses for
                                  indirect data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3838--3856
      István Fazekas and   
               Alexey Chuprunov   The conditional maximum of Poisson
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 3857--3870
            Cao Xuan Phuong and   
             Dang Duc Trong and   
                 Tran Quoc Viet   On the mean $ L^1 $-error in the
                                  heteroscedastic deconvolution problem
                                  with compactly supported noises  . . . . 3871--3892
                      Jigao Yan   Almost sure convergence for weighted
                                  sums of WNOD random variables and its
                                  applications to non parametric
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 3893--3909
                  Bing Meng and   
             Dingcheng Wang and   
                     Qunying Wu   Complete convergence and complete moment
                                  convergence for arrays of rowwise
                                  negatively superadditive dependent
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 3910--3922
                Chen-Ju Lin and   
                W. L. Pearn and   
                J. Y. Huang and   
                     Y. H. Chen   Group selection for processes with
                                  multiple quality characteristics . . . . 3923--3934
                    Chen Li and   
             George Casella and   
                    Malay Ghosh   Estimation of regression vectors in
                                  linear mixed models with Dirichlet
                                  process random effects . . . . . . . . . 3935--3954
            Olusola Makinde and   
              Biman Chakraborty   On some classifiers based on
                                  multivariate ranks . . . . . . . . . . . 3955--3969
             Robert F. Phillips   Quasi maximum likelihood estimation of
                                  dynamic panel data models  . . . . . . . 3970--3986
                 Rong Jiang and   
               Wei-Min Qian and   
                 Zhan-Gong Zhou   Weighted composite quantile regression
                                  for partially linear varying coefficient
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3987--4005
             Laleh Tafakori and   
          Armin Pourkhanali and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   A new lifetime model with different
                                  types of failure rate  . . . . . . . . . 4006--4020
             Samridhi Mehta and   
              Priyanka Aggarwal   Bayesian estimation of sensitivity level
                                  and population proportion of a sensitive
                                  characteristic in a binary optional
                                  unrelated question RRT model . . . . . . 4021--4028
          Agnieszka Goroncy and   
                 Tomasz Rychlik   Refined solution to upper-bound problem
                                  for the expectations of order statistics
                                  from decreasing density on the average
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4029--4041
                     Bo Yan and   
                      Zhuo Chen   A prediction approach for precise
                                  marketing based on ARIMA-ARCH Model: a
                                  case of China Mobile . . . . . . . . . . 4042--4058
                      Yo Sheena   Asymptotic expansion of the risk of
                                  maximum likelihood estimator with
                                  respect to $ \alpha $-divergence . . . . 4059--4087
               Uzma Rasheed and   
       H. M. Kashif Rasheed and   
           Muhammad Rasheed and   
                   Rashid Ahmed   Minimal circular strongly balanced
                                  repeated measurements designs in periods
                                  of three different sizes . . . . . . . . 4088--4094

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 17, 2018

                  Abbas Pak and   
              Arjun Kumar Gupta   Bayesian inference on $ P(X > Y) $ in
                                  bivariate Rayleigh model . . . . . . . . 4095--4105
                Jingyun Sun and   
                 Yongjun Li and   
                     Ling Zhang   Robust portfolio choice for a defined
                                  contribution pension plan with
                                  stochastic income and interest rate  . . 4106--4130
                 Jesse Frey and   
              Timothy G. Feeman   Finding the maximum efficiency for
                                  multistage ranked-set sampling . . . . . 4131--4141
             Muhammad Rajab and   
               Rashid Ahmed and   
            Farrukh Shehzad and   
                    M. H. Tahir   Some new constructions of circular
                                  balanced repeated measurements designs   4142--4151
                 Songfeng Zheng   An improved Bennett's inequality . . . . 4152--4159
                Donglin Guo and   
                     Liugen Xue   CBPS-based estimation for linear models
                                  with responses missing at random . . . . 4160--4169
                Rongfei Liu and   
             Dingcheng Wang and   
                   Fenglong Guo   The finite-time ruin probability of a
                                  discrete-time risk model with GARCH
                                  discounted factors and dependent risks   4170--4186
                   Rui Fang and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Ordering extremes of interdependent
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 4187--4201
                Dingfang Li and   
                  Yifan Gui and   
                   Yifan Li and   
                    Lihua Xiong   A method for constructing asymmetric
                                  pair-copula and its application  . . . . 4202--4214
             Xiaoguang Wang and   
                   Dawei Lu and   
                     Lixin Song   Robust image segmentation via Bayesian
                                  type criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4215--4228
             Myoungjin Jung and   
                 Younshik Chung   Bayesian inference of three-parameter
                                  bathtub-shaped lifetime distribution . . 4229--4241
            Bikram Karmakar and   
          Indranil Mukhopadhyay   Risk efficient estimation of fully
                                  dependent random coefficient
                                  autoregressive models of general order   4242--4253
            Valbona Bejleri and   
               Balgobin Nandram   Bayesian and frequentist prediction
                                  limits for the Poisson distribution  . . 4254--4271
                 Ujjwal Das and   
         Subhra Sankar Dhar and   
                  Vivek Pradhan   Corrected likelihood-ratio tests in
                                  logistic regression using small-sample
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4272--4285
                  Yunxia Li and   
                     Jiali Ding   Weighted composite quantile regression
                                  method via empirical likelihood for non
                                  linear models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4286--4296
            N. Balakrishnan and   
              M. V. Koutras and   
                 F. S. Milienos   A weighted Poisson distribution and its
                                  application to cure rate models  . . . . 4297--4310
Çagatay Çetinkaya and   
             Ali I. Genç   Moments of order statistics of the
                                  standard two-sided power distribution    4311--4328
      Saminathan Balamurali and   
              Liaquat Ahmad and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
             Jaffer Hussain and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Optimal designing of an SkSP-R double
                                  sampling plan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4329--4337
              Rong-Xian Yue and   
                 Xiao-Dong Zhou   Robust integer-valued designs for linear
                                  random intercept models  . . . . . . . . 4338--4354
           Roberto Baragona and   
        Francesco Battaglia and   
                Domenico Cucina   Portmanteau tests based on quadratic
                                  forms in the autocorrelations  . . . . . 4355--4374

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 18, 2018

               Jiting Huang and   
                    Peixin Zhao   Orthogonal weighted empirical
                                  likelihood-based variable selection for
                                  semiparametric instrumental variable
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4375--4388
                    Jibo Wu and   
                 Yasin Asar and   
                Mohammad Arashi   On the restricted almost unbiased Liu
                                  estimator in the logistic regression
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4389--4401
                       T. Imada   Multiple comparison for checking
                                  differences among normal variances . . . 4402--4414
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   On some analogues of lack of memory
                                  properties for the Gompertz distribution 4415--4421
           Ramezan Khosravi and   
       Mohammad Saleh Owlia and   
Mohammad Saber Fallahnezhad and   
              Amirhossein Amiri   Phase I risk-adjusted control charts for
                                  surgical data with ordinal outcomes  . . 4422--4432
                        Jibo Wu   Improvement of generalized
                                  difference-based mixed Liu estimator in
                                  partially linear model . . . . . . . . . 4433--4442
                    Jie Guo and   
               Yinghui Dong and   
                   Guojing Wang   Basket CDS pricing with default
                                  intensities using a regime-switching
                                  shot-noise model . . . . . . . . . . . . 4443--4458
       Yogesh Mani Tripathi and   
   Constantinos Petropoulos and   
                     Mayank Jha   Estimation of the shape parameter of a
                                  Pareto distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 4459--4468
                    Mei Yao and   
            Jiang-Feng Wang and   
                     Lu Lin and   
                    Yu-Xin Wang   Variable selection and weighted
                                  composite quantile estimation of
                                  regression parameters with
                                  left-truncated data  . . . . . . . . . . 4469--4482
    Abdolnasser Sadeghkhani and   
                 Indranil Ghosh   A new generalized Balakrishnan type
                                  skewed-normal distribution: properties
                                  and associated inference . . . . . . . . 4483--4492
      Pratheesh P. Gopinath and   
            Rajender Parsad and   
             Baidya Nath Mandal   Incomplete row-column designs with
                                  factorial treatment structure for
                                  estimating main effects with full
                                  efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4493--4502
                   Yin Hang and   
                        Shu Liu   Non parametric regression analysis for
                                  longitudinal data with time-depending
                                  autoregressive error process . . . . . . 4503--4533
                  N. Zougab and   
               L. Harfouche and   
                   Y. Ziane and   
                      S. Adjabi   Multivariate generalized
                                  Birnbaum-Saunders kernel density
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4534--4555
         Yury V. Kozachenko and   
              Viktor B. Troshki   Construction of a criterion for testing
                                  hypothesis about covariance function of
                                  a stationary Gaussian stochastic process
                                  with unknown mean  . . . . . . . . . . . 4556--4567
                   M. Ganji and   
                     F. Gharari   The discrete delta and nabla
                                  Mittag-Leffler distributions . . . . . . 4568--4589
                   George Nenes   New measures of statistical performance
                                  of process control charts  . . . . . . . 4590--4608
                    Hao Jin and   
                   Si Zhang and   
               Jinsuo Zhang and   
                 Shougang Zhang   Bootstrap procedures for variance breaks
                                  test in time series with a changing
                                  trend  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4609--4627
             Xiaoguang Wang and   
                     Yi Niu and   
                    Xiaofang Li   Bayesian ROC curve estimation under
                                  binormality using an ordinal category
                                  likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4628--4640

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 19, 2018

                G. N. Singh and   
                      M. Khalid   An effective estimation strategy for
                                  population mean under random
                                  non-response situations in two-phase
                                  successive sampling  . . . . . . . . . . 4641--4660
                  Wenhan Li and   
                  Lixia Liu and   
                  Guiwen Lv and   
                    Cuixiang Li   Exchange option pricing in
                                  jump-diffusion models based on Esscher
                                  transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4661--4672
                  Yuping Hu and   
                 Liugen Xue and   
                   Sanying Feng   Empirical likelihood inference for
                                  partial functional linear model with
                                  missing responses  . . . . . . . . . . . 4673--4691
       Maryam Eskandarzadeh and   
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
                Saeid Tahmasebi   Measures of information for maximum
                                  ranked set sampling with unequal samples 4692--4709
       N. Unnikrishnan Nair and   
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                    S. M. Sunoj   Proportional hazards model with quantile
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4710--4723
               Neeraj Misra and   
                   Sameen Naqvi   A unified approach to stochastic
                                  comparisons of multivariate mixture
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4724--4740
                 Donglin Yu and   
                     Qunying Wu   Complete convergence for weighted sums
                                  of extended negatively dependent random
                                  variables under sub-linear expectations  4741--4750
          Fatma Zehra Dogru and   
             Y. Murat Bulut and   
                   Olcay Arslan   Doubly reweighted estimators for the
                                  parameters of the multivariate
                                  t-distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4751--4771
                Yinping You and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Ordering $k$-out-of-$n$ systems with
                                  interdependent components and one active
                                  redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4772--4784
           Sascha Wörz and   
                Heinz Bernhardt   A note on multivariate linear regression 4785--4790
                   Dawei Lu and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                       Henan Li   Precise large deviations for sums of
                                  WUOD and $ \phi $-mixing random
                                  variables with dominated variation . . . 4791--4807
                    Guangyu Mao   Testing for error cross-sectional
                                  uncorrelatedness in a two-way error
                                  components panel data model  . . . . . . 4808--4839
                      Abdul Haq   A new adaptive EWMA control chart using
                                  auxiliary information for monitoring the
                                  process mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4840--4858
               Fu-Kwun Wang and   
                Yeneneh Tamirat   Acceptance sampling plan based on an
                                  exponentially weighted moving average
                                  statistic with the yield index for
                                  autocorrelation between polynomial
                                  profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4859--4871
               Altan Tuncel and   
                Serkan Eryilmaz   System reliability under $ \delta
                                  $-shock model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4872--4880
                 Xiaofei Li and   
                  Deng Ding and   
                        Di Sang   Exponential stability of stochastic
                                  cellular neural networks with mixed
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4881--4894

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 20, 2018

               D. R. Jensen and   
                  D. E. Ramirez   Designs enhancing Fisher information . . 4895--4904
              Gaku Igarashi and   
             Yoshihide Kakizawa   Limiting bias-reduced Amoroso kernel
                                  density estimators for non-negative data 4905--4937
                Suchandan Kayal   Quantile-based Chernoff distance for
                                  truncated random variables . . . . . . . 4938--4957
                    Hu Yang and   
                        Ning Li   WLAD-LASSO method for robust estimation
                                  and variable selection in partially
                                  linear models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4958--4976
              Zawar Hussain and   
                  Naila Shabbir   On some new randomized item sum
                                  techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4977--4990
            Inga Laukaityte and   
                   Marie Wiberg   Importance of sampling weights in
                                  multilevel modeling of international
                                  large-scale assessment data  . . . . . . 4991--5012
                  Zhongquan Tan   Asymptotics of maxima and sums for a
                                  type of strongly dependent isotropic
                                  Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . 5013--5028
             Zangin Zeebari and   
         B. M. Golam Kibria and   
                   Ghazi Shukur   Seemingly unrelated regressions with
                                  covariance matrix of cross-equation
                                  ridge regression residuals . . . . . . . 5029--5053
                Shijie Wang and   
                    Yiyu Hu and   
             LianQiang Yang and   
                  Wensheng Wang   Randomly weighted sums under a wide type
                                  of dependence structure with application
                                  to conditional tail expectation  . . . . 5054--5063
                 T. Alanazi and   
             S. D. Georgiou and   
                   S. Stylianou   Construction and analysis of edge
                                  designs from skew-symmetric
                                  supplementary difference sets  . . . . . 5064--5076
                    S. Sengupta   Admissible unbiased estimation of finite
                                  population variance under a randomized
                                  response model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5077--5082
             Hien D. Nguyen and   
          Geoffrey J. McLachlan   Some theoretical results regarding the
                                  polygonal distribution . . . . . . . . . 5083--5095
                    M. C. Jones   Letter to the Editor concerning ``A new
                                  method for generating distributions with
                                  an application to exponential
                                  distribution'' and ``Alpha power Weibull
                                  distribution: Properties and
                                  applications'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5096--5096
           Johannes T. N. Krebs   A Bernstein inequality for exponentially
                                  growing graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5097--5106
                  Jun Zhang and   
                Jiefei Wang and   
                Cuizhen Niu and   
                       Ming Sun   Quantile regression estimation for
                                  distortion measurement error data  . . . 5107--5126
                Mengta Yang and   
                  Reza Modarres   $ \beta $-Skeleton depth functions and
                                  medians  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5127--5143

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 21, 2018

           Florencia Statti and   
               Mariela Sued and   
                Victor J. Yohai   High breakdown point robust estimators
                                  with missing data  . . . . . . . . . . . 5145--5162
                    Rong Lu and   
                Danxin Wang and   
                   Min Wang and   
            Grzegorz A. Rempala   Estimation of Sobol's sensitivity
                                  indices under generalized linear models  5163--5195
                 Mian Huang and   
                 Qinghua Ji and   
                     Weixin Yao   Semiparametric hidden Markov model with
                                  non-parametric regression  . . . . . . . 5196--5204
         Mohammed K. Shakhatreh   A new three-parameter extension of the
                                  log-logistic distribution with
                                  applications to survival data  . . . . . 5205--5226
              Edmund Rudiuk and   
            Aleksander Kowalski   The exact distribution function of the
                                  ratio of two dependent quadratic forms   5227--5240
            Richard A. Chechile   A Bayesian analysis for the Wilcoxon
                                  signed-rank statistic  . . . . . . . . . 5241--5254
            Wolfgang Wiedermann   A note on fourth moment-based direction
                                  dependence measures when regression
                                  errors are non normal  . . . . . . . . . 5255--5264
Adji Achmad Rinaldo Fernandes and   
               Paul Janssen and   
                Umu Sa'adah and   
                    Solimun and   
             Achmad Effendi and   
                  Nurjannah and   
             Luthfatul Amaliana   Comparison of spline estimator at
                                  various levels of autocorrelation in
                                  smoothing spline non parametric
                                  regression for longitudinal data . . . . 5265--5285
               Huilin Huang and   
                Weiguo Yang and   
                     Zhiyan Shi   The Shannon--McMillan theorem for Markov
                                  chains in Markovian environments indexed
                                  by homogeneous trees . . . . . . . . . . 5286--5297
          Haydar Koç and   
           Emre Dünder and   
Serpil Gümüstekin and   
            Tuba Koç and   
              Mehmet Ali Cengiz   Particle swarm optimization-based
                                  variable selection in Poisson regression
                                  analysis via information complexity-type
                                  criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5298--5306
Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad and   
    Faeze Zahmatkesh Saredorahi   A new policy for designing acceptance
                                  sampling plan based on Bayesian
                                  inference in the presence of inspection
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5307--5318
                Carlos Tenreiro   A new class of boundary kernels for
                                  distribution function estimation . . . . 5319--5332
                  Ayman A. Amin   Bayesian inference for double SARMA
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5333--5345
                 Xiang Deng and   
                       Jing Yao   On the property of multivariate
                                  generalized hyperbolic distribution and
                                  the Stein-type inequality  . . . . . . . 5346--5356
             Pao-sheng Shen and   
                   Li Ning Weng   The Cox-Aalen model for left-truncated
                                  and right-censored data  . . . . . . . . 5357--5368
                Suling Kang and   
              Rashid Abbasi and   
               Huiling Wang and   
                 Lixiang Xu and   
              Xiaofeng Wang and   
                   Yuanyan Tang   Asymptotic behaviour of frequency
                                  polygons under $ \phi $-mixing samples   5369--5377
                Eunju Hwang and   
                  Dong Wan Shin   Tests for structural breaks in memory
                                  parameters of long-memory heterogeneous
                                  autoregressive models  . . . . . . . . . 5378--5389

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 22, 2018

      Martín Egozcue and   
     Luis Fuentes García   The variance upper bound for a mixed
                                  random variable  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5391--5395
               Hongmin Xiao and   
                        Lin Xie   Asymptotic ruin probabilities of a
                                  dependent renewal risk model based on
                                  entrance processes with constant
                                  interest rate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5396--5417
     Mulugeta Gebregziabher and   
             Mark A. Eckert and   
           Lois J. Matthews and   
     Abeba A. Teklehaimanot and   
                  Judy R. Dubno   Joint modeling of multivariate hearing
                                  thresholds measured longitudinally at
                                  multiple frequencies . . . . . . . . . . 5418--5434
            Akaninyene Udo Udom   Stochastic approximation results for
                                  variational inequality problem using
                                  random-type iterative schemes  . . . . . 5435--5444
                Dan-Ling Li and   
             Jun-Xiang Peng and   
            Chong-Yang Duan and   
                    Ju-Min Deng   Weighted product index and its
                                  two-independent-sample comparison based
                                  on weighted sensitivity and specificity  5445--5459
                  Jan Beran and   
                 Klaus Telkmann   On nonparametric density estimation for
                                  multivariate linear long-memory
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5460--5473
                S. M. Sunoj and   
                    R. S. Rasin   A quantile-based study on ageing
                                  intensity function . . . . . . . . . . . 5474--5484
                   Feng Liu and   
                 Chunyan Li and   
               Pengfei Wang and   
                    Xinmei Kang   Empirical likelihood based diagnostics
                                  for heteroscedasticity in semiparametric
                                  varying-coefficient partially linear
                                  errors-in-variables models . . . . . . . 5485--5496
             Chanchal Kundu and   
                     Amit Ghosh   On some dynamic generalized information
                                  measures for bivariate lifetimes . . . . 5497--5513
            Hok Shing Kwong and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Expectation formulas for integer valued
                                  multivariate random variables  . . . . . 5514--5518
                    S. Zinodiny   Bayes minimax ridge regression
                                  estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5519--5533
                 Ayaka Yagi and   
                Takashi Seo and   
             Muni S. Srivastava   Testing equality of mean vectors in a
                                  one-way MANOVA with monotone missing
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5534--5546
              Zahirul Hoque and   
           Jacek Wesolowski and   
               Shahadut Hossain   Shrinkage estimator of regression model
                                  under asymmetric loss  . . . . . . . . . 5547--5557
                   Yan Shen and   
                       Ancha Xu   On the dependent competing risks using
                                  Marshall-Olkin bivariate Weibull model:
                                  Parameter estimation with different
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5558--5572
              Zahra Behdani and   
Gholam Reza Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
       Bahram Sadeghpour Gildeh   Relationship between the weighted
                                  distributions and some inequality
                                  measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5573--5589
                Ta Cong Son and   
            Dang Hung Thang and   
                    Le Van Dung   On convergence of moving average series
                                  of martingale differences fields taking
                                  values in Banach spaces  . . . . . . . . 5590--5603
                 Mengmei Xi and   
                   Xin Deng and   
                Xuejun Wang and   
                 Zhaoyang Cheng   $ L^p $ convergence and complete
                                  convergence for weighted sums of AANA
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 5604--5613
                   Xin Wang and   
               Xiaoming Xue and   
                    Liuquan Sun   Regression analysis of restricted mean
                                  survival time based on
                                  pseudo-observations for competing risks
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5614--5625
                  Shixin Li and   
                    Hua Jin and   
                     Wanyi Chen   Two-stage phase II trials with early
                                  stopping for effectiveness and safety as
                                  well as ineffectiveness or harm  . . . . 5626--5638

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 23, 2018

                 Jianhua Hu and   
                    NengHui Zhu   M-estimation and model identification
                                  based on double SCAD penalization  . . . 5639--5661
       Tarald O. Kvålseth   An alternative to Cramér's coefficient of
                                  association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5662--5674
                Daniel Hackmann   Karhunen-Lo\`eve expansions of Lévy
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5675--5687
        William M. Cockriel and   
              James B. McDonald   Two multivariate generalized beta
                                  families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5688--5701
                 Shuai Chen and   
                  Wenbin Lu and   
                   Hongwei Zhao   An improved survival estimator for
                                  censored medical costs with a kernel
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5702--5716
                Takayuki Yamada   Interval estimation in two-group
                                  discriminant analysis under
                                  heteroscedasticity for large dimension   5717--5728
              Guo-Xiang Liu and   
             Meng-Meng Wang and   
                  Xiu-Li Du and   
               Jin-Guan Lin and   
                    Qi-Bing Gao   Jump-detection and curve estimation
                                  methods for discontinuous regression
                                  functions based on the piecewise
                                  B-spline function  . . . . . . . . . . . 5729--5749
  Bernardo Borba de Andrade and   
 Joanlise Marco de Leon Andrade   Some results for maximum likelihood
                                  estimation of adjusted relative risks    5750--5769
       H. Alizadeh Noughabi and   
                   M. Chahkandi   Testing the validity of the exponential
                                  model for hybrid Type-I censored data    5770--5778
               Jiamao Zhang and   
                     Jianwen Xu   A model selection method based on the
                                  adaptive LASSO-penalized GEE and
                                  weighted Gaussian pseudo-likelihood BIC
                                  in longitudinal robust analysis  . . . . 5779--5794
                Sara Leulmi and   
                 Fatiha Messaci   Local linear estimation of a generalized
                                  regression function with functional
                                  dependent data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5795--5811
              Weizhong Tian and   
               Tonghui Wang and   
                 Arjun K. Gupta   A new family of multivariate skew slash
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5812--5824
  Muhammed Fatih Tüzen and   
                    Semra Erbas   A comparison of count data models with
                                  an application to daily cigarette
                                  consumption of young persons . . . . . . 5825--5844
                 Nursel Koyuncu   Calibration estimator of population mean
                                  under stratified ranked set sampling
                                  design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5845--5853
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
           Ghobad Barmalzan and   
             Abedin Haidari and   
    Amir T. Payandeh Najafabadi   Necessary and sufficient conditions for
                                  stochastic orders between $ (n - r + 1)
                                  $-out-of-$n$ systems in proportional
                                  hazard (reversed hazard) rates model . . 5854--5866
              Yingchun Deng and   
                   Juan Liu and   
                   Ya Huang and   
                     Man Li and   
                   Jieming Zhou   On a discrete interaction risk model
                                  with delayed claims and stochastic
                                  incomes under random discount rates  . . 5867--5883

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 47, Number 24, 2018

               M. R. Maleki and   
                   A. Amiri and   
           A. R. Taheriyoun and   
                 P. Castagliola   Phase I monitoring and change point
                                  estimation of autocorrelated Poisson
                                  regression profiles  . . . . . . . . . . 5885--5903
              M. Mahdizadeh and   
                Ehsan Zamanzade   Stratified pair ranked set sampling  . . 5904--5915
                 Marc Sobel and   
                 Ibrahim Turkoz   Bayesian blinded sample size
                                  re-estimation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5916--5933
               P. Jeyadurga and   
              S. Balamurali and   
                       M. Aslam   Design of an attribute np control chart
                                  for process monitoring based on
                                  repetitive group sampling under
                                  truncated life tests . . . . . . . . . . 5934--5955
             Narinder Kumar and   
                   Manish Goyal   A general class of non parametric tests
                                  for comparing scale parameters . . . . . 5956--5972
             Muhammad Aslam and   
              Muhammad Azam and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   A HEWMA-CUSUM control chart for the
                                  Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 5973--5985
              Chun Gun Park and   
                    Inyoung Kim   Outlier detection using difference-based
                                  variance estimators in multiple
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5986--6001
               S. Tahmasebi and   
                     S. Daneshi   Measures of inaccuracy in record values  6002--6018
            Eliana Christou and   
             Michael G. Akritas   Variable selection in heteroscedastic
                                  single-index quantile regression . . . . 6019--6033
                Fengli Song and   
                   Peng Lai and   
                Baohua Shen and   
                 Guosheng Cheng   Variance ratio screening for ultrahigh
                                  dimensional discriminant analysis  . . . 6034--6051
                 Rafa\l Kapelko   On the moment distance of Poisson
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6052--6063
               K. Jayakumar and   
                 K. K. Sankaran   A generalization of discrete Weibull
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6064--6078
                   Jing Luo and   
                      Shan Duan   Affiliation discrete weighted networks
                                  with an increasing degree sequence . . . 6079--6094
       Cachimo Combo Assane and   
Basilio de Bragança Pereira and   
Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira   Bayesian significance test for
                                  discriminating between survival
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6095--6107
            Robert L. Paige and   
                 Emad Abdurasul   Small sample confidence intervals for
                                  survival functions under the
                                  proportional hazards model . . . . . . . 6108--6124
                   Cheng Xu and   
                  Tianxiao Pang   Limit theory for moderate deviations
                                  from a unit root with a break in
                                  variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6125--6143
                      Anonymous   EOV: End of Volume Editorial Board . . . ??


Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 1, 2019

              Sally McClean and   
        Christos H. Skiadas and   
              Guglielmo D'Amico   Special issue --- communications in
                                  statistics --- theory and methods 4th
                                  stochastic modeling techniques and data
                                  analysis international conference  . . . 1--2
              Robert G. Aykroyd   Bayesian modeling of temperature-related
                                  mortality with latent functional
                                  relationships  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--14
         Liberato Camilleri and   
               Kathleen England   Modeling mortality rates in Malta using
                                  GEE models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
             Marcella Mazzoleni   The analysis of student paths at the
                                  University using the multivariate joint
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--39
                Maria Symeonaki   Rate of convergence in fuzzy non
                                  homogeneous Markov systems . . . . . . . 40--49
           Valeria D. Amato and   
            Steven Haberman and   
              Gabriella Piscopo   The dependency premium based on a
                                  multifactor model for dependent
                                  mortality data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--61
    Valérie Girardin and   
               Justine Lequesne   Entropy-based goodness-of-fit tests ---
                                  a unifying framework: Application to DNA
                                  replication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--74
              D. V. Boreiko and   
            S. Y. Kaniovski and   
            Y. M. Kaniovski and   
                   G. Ch. Pflug   Identification of hidden Markov chains
                                  governing dependent credit-rating
                                  migrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--87
              Ka Ching Chan and   
      Christopher T. Lenard and   
           Terence M. Mills and   
            Ruth F. G. Williams   Measuring inequality in society  . . . . 88--99
           Mark Anthony Caruana   Non parametric estimation of the measure
                                  associated with the Lévy-Khintchine
                                  canonical representation . . . . . . . . 100--111
   Konstantinos N. Zafeiris and   
              Anastasia Kostaki   Recent mortality trends in Greece  . . . 112--126
    Panagiotis Andreopoulos and   
     G. Fragkiskos Bersimis and   
          Alexandra Tragaki and   
                Antonis Rovolis   Mortality modeling using probability
                                  distributions. Application in Greek
                                  mortality data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--140
     Fragkiskos G. Bersimis and   
   Demosthenes Panagiotakos and   
              Malvina Vamvakari   The use of components' weights improves
                                  the diagnostic accuracy of a
                                  health-related index . . . . . . . . . . 141--164
                 Aijun Yang and   
               Xuejun Jiang and   
                Lianjie Shu and   
                    Pengfei Liu   Sparse Bayesian kernel multinomial
                                  probit regression model for
                                  high-dimensional data classification . . 165--176

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 2, 2019

    Nilgün Özgül   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 177--177
    Eva María Ortega and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Analytical results for \em IGFR and \em
                                  DRPFR distributions, with actuarial
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--202
                  Junmei Ma and   
                     Kun Du and   
                     Guiding Gu   An efficient exponential twisting
                                  importance sampling technique for
                                  pricing financial derivatives  . . . . . 203--219
                 M. Mansoor and   
                M. H. Tahir and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
           Serge B. Provost and   
                Ayman Alzaatreh   The Marshall-Olkin logistic-exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--234
                  Yaolan Ma and   
             Yuexiang Jiang and   
                      Wei Huang   Tail index varying coefficient model . . 235--256
          Ludwig Baringhaus and   
                 Daniel Gaigall   On Hotelling's $ T^2 $ test in a special
                                  paired sample case . . . . . . . . . . . 257--267
Carlos López-Vázquez and   
              Esther Hochsztain   Extended and updated tables for the
                                  Friedman rank test . . . . . . . . . . . 268--281
           Mohammad Mehdi Saber   Performance of extrapolation based on
                                  Pitman's measure of closeness in spatial
                                  regression models with extended skew t
                                  innovations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--299
               Xiaodong Fan and   
               Shishun Zhao and   
                    Jianguo Sun   Nonparametric test for stratum effects
                                  in the Cox model with interval-censored
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--310
    Ebrahim Mazrae Farahani and   
      Reza Baradaran Kazemzadeh   Phase $I$ monitoring of social network
                                  with baseline periods using Poisson
                                  regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--331
         S. Zamani Mehreyan and   
                A. Sayyareh and   
                    D. Thomakos   Non-nested model selection based on the
                                  quantiles and it's application in time
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--353
              Zawar Hussain and   
                 Akbar Ali Khan   A new index for measuring evenness . . . 354--367
    Kurdistan M. Taher Omar and   
                        Bo Wang   Nonparametric regression method with
                                  functional covariates and multivariate
                                  response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--380
                   Jie Zeng and   
                Weihu Cheng and   
                  Guozhi Hu and   
                    Yaohua Rong   Model selection and model averaging for
                                  semiparametric partially linear models
                                  with missing data  . . . . . . . . . . . 381--395
                   A. Kumar and   
              N. S. Upadhye and   
           A. Wy\loma\'nska and   
                       J. Gajda   Tempered Mittag-Leffler Lévy processes    396--411
        Julian Górny and   
                  Erhard Cramer   Type-I hybrid censoring of uniformly
                                  distributed lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . 412--433
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--434

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 3, 2019

   Selahattin Kaçiranlar   Comments on ``On the weighted mixed
                                  Liu-type estimator under unbiased
                                  stochastic restrictions''  . . . . . . . 435--437
                 Rida Benhaddou   Blind deconvolution model in periodic
                                  setting with fractional Gaussian noise   438--449
             Zhongwen Zhang and   
                 Lixin Song and   
             Xiaoguang Wang and   
                  Muhammad Amin   Estimation of multivariate frailty
                                  models with varying coefficients . . . . 450--461
         Shunichiro Orihara and   
                   Etsuo Hamada   Double robust estimator in general
                                  treatment regimes based on
                                  Covariate-balancing  . . . . . . . . . . 462--478
              M. J. S. Khan and   
                       S. Iqrar   On moments of dual generalized order
                                  statistics from Topp--Leone distribution 479--492
                      Yong Kong   Joint distribution of rises, falls, and
                                  number of runs in random sequences . . . 493--499
          Aitin Saadatmelli and   
         M. Bameni Moghadam and   
                Asghar Seif and   
                  Alireza Faraz   Economic design of $ \bar {X} $ control
                                  charts with multiple assignable causes
                                  under Burr XII shock model . . . . . . . 500--522
               Xiaohui Shen and   
                     Long Jiang   BSDEs driven by time-changed Lévy noises
                                  with non-Lipschitz generators  . . . . . 523--536
            Ajit Chaturvedi and   
                  Taruna Kumari   Estimation and comparison of the
                                  stress-strength models with more than
                                  two states under Weibull distribution
                                  and type II censoring scheme . . . . . . 537--548
                  Lei Huang and   
                  Hui Jiang and   
                    Haitao Tian   The consistency of model selection for
                                  dynamic Semi-varying coefficient models
                                  with autocorrelated errors . . . . . . . 549--558
                   Shan Luo and   
                  Gengsheng Qin   Jackknife empirical likelihood-based
                                  inferences for Lorenz curve with kernel
                                  smoothing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--582
     Abhishek Bhattacharjee and   
                    Malay Ghosh   Bias corrected empirical Bayes
                                  confidence intervals for the selected
                                  mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--595
                  A. Bekker and   
                  M. Arashi and   
                 J. T. Ferreira   New bivariate gamma types with MIMO
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--615
         David S. Robertson and   
                 Ekkehard Glimm   Conditionally unbiased estimation in the
                                  normal setting with unknown variances    616--627
                 Qingan Qiu and   
                     Lirong Cui   Availability analysis for general
                                  repairable systems with repair time
                                  threshold  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628--647
                       Ming Han   E-Bayesian estimation of the
                                  exponentiated distribution family
                                  parameter under LINEX loss function  . . 648--659
           Ghobad Barmalzan and   
Amir T. Payandeh Najafabadi and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Ordering results for series and parallel
                                  systems comprising heterogeneous
                                  exponentiated Weibull components . . . . 660--675
                  Yen-Luan Chen   Optimal scheduling replacement policies
                                  for a system with multiple random works  676--688
              S. Weerahandi and   
              K. Krishnamoorthy   A note reconciling ANOVA tests under
                                  unequal error variances  . . . . . . . . 689--693
                    Chen Li and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Stochastic comparisons of parallel and
                                  series systems of dependent components
                                  equipped with starting devices . . . . . 694--708
             N. Mamode Khan and   
                V. Jowaheer and   
                    Y. Sunecher   Communication in Statistics-Theory and
                                  methods improved GQL estimation method
                                  for the generalised BINMA(1) model . . . 709--725
       Miroslav M. Risti\'c and   
        Marcelo Bourguignon and   
         Aleksandar S. Nasti\'c   Zero-Inflated NGINAR(1) process  . . . . 726--741
                Dan-Ling Li and   
             Jun-Xiang Peng and   
            Chong-Yang Duan and   
                    Ju-Min Deng   Three optimal cut-point selection
                                  criteria based on sensitivity and
                                  specificity with user-defined weights    742--754
          Sumith Gunasekera and   
       Danush K. Wijekularathna   Generalized confidence limits for the
                                  performance index of the exponentially
                                  distributed lifetime . . . . . . . . . . 755--773
            Tian-fang Zhang and   
                  Guobin Wu and   
                      Aloke Dey   Construction of some new families of
                                  nested orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . 774--779

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 4, 2019

                   Dawei Lu and   
                 Lixin Song and   
                        Fuqi Li   Uniform asymptotics for discounted
                                  aggregate claims in dependent multi-risk
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--793
           Housila P. Singh and   
              Swarangi M. Gorey   Estimation of population proportion of a
                                  qualitative character using randomized
                                  response technique in stratified random
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794--809
               Fenglong Guo and   
             Dingcheng Wang and   
                  Jiangyan Peng   Tail asymptotic of discounted aggregate
                                  claims with compound dependence under
                                  risky investment . . . . . . . . . . . . 810--830
Shahram Yaghoobzadeh Shahrastani   Estimating E-Bayesian and hierarchical
                                  Bayesian of scalar parameter of Gompertz
                                  distribution under type II censoring
                                  schemes based on fuzzy data  . . . . . . 831--840
              Ravindra Khattree   The Parshvanath yantram yields a
                                  constant-sum partially balanced
                                  incomplete block design  . . . . . . . . 841--849
             Hong-Yan Jiang and   
              Rong-Xian Yue and   
                 Xiao-Dong Zhou   Optimal designs for multivariate
                                  logistic mixed models with longitudinal
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850--864
              Kahina Ouadhi and   
           Megdouda Ourbih-Tari   Monte Carlo simulation of ordinary least
                                  squares estimator through linear
                                  regression adaptive refined descriptive
                                  sampling algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 865--875
               Xuexue Liang and   
                    Zhiming Xia   Detection of jump location curve in
                                  spatial linear regression model with
                                  two-dimensional threshold  . . . . . . . 876--888
                 S. Mirzaei and   
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
                   M. Amini and   
                     H. Jabbari   A new generalized Weibull distribution
                                  in income economic inequality curves . . 889--908
     Marie Turcicová and   
                 Jan Mandel and   
                   Krystof Eben   Multilevel maximum likelihood estimation
                                  with application to covariance matrices  909--925
                  Tao Jiang and   
                     Baogui Xin   Computational analysis of the queue with
                                  working breakdowns and delaying repair
                                  under a Bernoulli-schedule-controlled
                                  policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--941
                 F. Sadeghi and   
             F. Yousefzadeh and   
                   M. Chahkandi   Some new stochastic orders based on
                                  quantile function  . . . . . . . . . . . 942--953
                     Karim Zare   Multiple cases deletion measures in
                                  linear measurement error models  . . . . 954--963
             Haruhiko Ogasawara   Asymptotic biases of information and
                                  cross-validation criteria under
                                  canonical parametrization  . . . . . . . 964--985
                   Rui Yang and   
              Zhaojing Jing and   
                       Yan Shen   On convergence rate for weighted sums of
                                  arrays of rowwise ANA random variables   986--994
                   Xue Yang and   
               Gui-Jun Yang and   
                     Ya-Juan Su   Lower bound of average centered $ L_2
                                  $-discrepancy for $U$-type designs . . . 995--1008
            Kumari Priyanka and   
              Pidugu Trisandhya   A composite class of estimators using
                                  scrambled response mechanism for
                                  sensitive population mean in successive
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1032
           Sascha Wörz and   
            Heinz Bernhardt and   
            Anja Gräff and   
                   Huber Stefan   Multiple hypothesis tests based On
                                  conditional differences in means . . . . 1033--1041

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 5, 2019

   Ranadeera G. M. Samanthi and   
             Jungsywan Sepanski   A bivariate extension of the beta
                                  generated distribution derived from
                                  copulas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043--1059
               Guodong Xing and   
                  Shanchao Yang   On the Bahadur representation of sample
                                  quantiles for $ \psi $-mixing sequences
                                  and its application  . . . . . . . . . . 1060--1072
           P. Yageen Thomas and   
                     Jerin Paul   On diagnostic devices for proposing
                                  half-logistic and inverse half-logistic
                                  models using generalized (k) record
                                  values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1091
                   Tao Yang and   
         Colin M. Gallagher and   
         Christopher S. McMahan   A robust regression methodology via
                                  M-estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092--1107
           Yuan-Tsung Chang and   
                Nobuo Shinozaki   New types of shrinkage estimators of
                                  Poisson means under the normalized
                                  squared error loss . . . . . . . . . . . 1108--1122
        Christophe Chesneau and   
              Hassan Doosti and   
                     Lewi Stone   Adaptive wavelet estimation of a
                                  function from an m-dependent process
                                  with possibly unbounded $m$  . . . . . . 1123--1135
            Zhensheng Huang and   
                       Xin Zhao   Statistical estimation for a partially
                                  linear single-index model with errors in
                                  all variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136--1148
              B. M. Ringham and   
             S. M. Kreidler and   
               K. E. Muller and   
                   D. H. Glueck   On the distribution of summary
                                  statistics for missing data  . . . . . . 1149--1165
                Chuandi Liu and   
                  Chengxiu Ling   A location-invariant non-positive
                                  moment-type estimator of the extreme
                                  value index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166--1176
                 Scott E. Smith   The Hazard-Product method of
                                  generalization: Application to the
                                  Gompertz and exponentiated Half-Normal
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177--1192
               Jia-Han Shih and   
                    Wei Lee and   
               Li-Hsien Sun and   
                  Takeshi Emura   Fitting competing risks data to
                                  bivariate Pareto models  . . . . . . . . 1193--1220
                Huiyan Zhao and   
                  Chongqi Zhang   Maximum likelihood estimation for
                                  reflected Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes
                                  with jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221--1233
                  Jin Zhang and   
                Junmei Zhou and   
                      Fen Jiang   A reformulation of the criteria for the
                                  independence of quadratic functions in
                                  normal variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234--1238
                 Seongil Jo and   
              Jeongseon Kim and   
                     Woojoo Lee   An analysis pipeline for estimating true
                                  intake from repeated measurements with
                                  random errors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1239--1254
              Gideon Magnus and   
                  Jan R. Magnus   The estimation of normal mixtures with
                                  latent variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255--1269
             Zhaoliang Wang and   
                     Liugen Xue   Variance estimation for sparse
                                  ultra-high dimensional varying
                                  coefficient models . . . . . . . . . . . 1270--1283
            Abouzar Bazyari and   
                Rasool Roozegar   Finite time ruin probability and
                                  structural density properties in the
                                  presence of dependence in insurance risk
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284--1304

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 6, 2019

        Akaninyene Udo Udom and   
                    Quanxin Zhu   Global stability of stochastic systems
                                  with Poisson distributed random
                                  time-delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1315
             Abedin Haidari and   
Amir T. Payandeh Najafabadi and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Comparisons between parallel systems
                                  with exponentiated generalized gamma
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1316--1332
                  Abdul Haq and   
             Zain Ul Abidin and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   An enhanced EWMA-$t$ control chart for
                                  monitoring the process mean  . . . . . . 1333--1350
            Feng-Xiang Feng and   
            Ding-Cheng Wang and   
                    Qun-Ying Wu   Complete convergence for weighted sums
                                  of negatively dependent random variables
                                  under the sub-linear expectations  . . . 1351--1366
                Aiting Shen and   
              Mingming Ning and   
                     Caoqing Wu   The asymptotic normality of the linear
                                  weighted estimator in nonparametric
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1367--1376
               Qaiser Munir and   
                 Kok Sook Ching   Revisiting calendar effects in Malaysian
                                  finance stocks market: Evidence from
                                  threshold GARCH (TGARCH) model . . . . . 1377--1400
              Deepesh Bhati and   
              Hassan S. Bakouch   A new infinitely divisible discrete
                                  distribution with applications to count
                                  data modeling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1401--1416
                 Linyi Qian and   
                   Wei Wang and   
                  Ning Wang and   
                     Shuai Wang   Pricing and hedging equity-indexed
                                  annuities via local risk-minimization    1417--1434
             S. M. Kreidler and   
              B. M. Ringham and   
               K. E. Muller and   
                   D. H. Glueck   Calculating power for the general linear
                                  multivariate model with one or more
                                  Gaussian covariates  . . . . . . . . . . 1435--1448
        Veronica I. Salinas and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Calibrated estimators in two-stage
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449--1469
                 B. Ceranka and   
                     M. Graczyk   Recent developments in $D$-optimal
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1470--1480
                   Nilgun Ozgul   New calibration estimator based on two
                                  auxiliary variables in stratified
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1481--1492
             Yuan Lin Zhang and   
                  Guan Jun Wang   A geometric process warranty model using
                                  a combination policy . . . . . . . . . . 1493--1505
               Haiqing Chen and   
                Weihu Cheng and   
                  Jin Mingzhong   Parameter estimation for generalized
                                  logistic distribution by estimating
                                  equations based on the order statistics  1506--1516
                  Yuge Dong and   
              Haimeng Zhang and   
                Liangguo He and   
                   Can Wang and   
                   Minghui Wang   The computation of standard normal
                                  distribution integral in any required
                                  precision based on reliability method    1517--1528
                Hani Samawi and   
          Arpita Chatterjee and   
               Jingjing Yin and   
                 Haresh Rochani   On quantiles estimation based on
                                  different stratified sampling with
                                  optimal allocation . . . . . . . . . . . 1529--1544
               Mohd. Arshad and   
                  Ayman Baklizi   Estimation of common location parameter
                                  of two exponential populations based on
                                  records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1545--1552
               Sadia Khalil and   
                  Sat Gupta and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   Estimation of finite population mean in
                                  stratified sampling using scrambled
                                  responses in the presence of measurement
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1553--1561

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 7, 2019

                  Rimsha H. and   
                    Dais George   $q$-Esscher transformed Laplace
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1563--1578
                    Fuxia Cheng   The $ L_p $ consistency of error density
                                  estimator in censored linear regression  1579--1584
                Gi-Sung Lee and   
                Ki-Hak Hong and   
                Chang-Kyoon Son   A new stratified three-stage unrelated
                                  randomized response model for estimating
                                  a rare sensitive attribute based on the
                                  Poisson distribution . . . . . . . . . . 1585--1610
     Mohammad Sal Moslehian and   
                     Ali Talebi   Non-commutative Stein inequality and its
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1611--1620
              D. M. Zombade and   
                    V. B. Ghute   Shewhart-type nonparametric control
                                  chart for process location . . . . . . . 1621--1634
               Guoping Zeng and   
                    Edward Zeng   On the three-way equivalence of AUC in
                                  credit scoring with tied scores  . . . . 1635--1650
                 E. Tabrizi and   
          E. Bahrami Samani and   
                     M. Ganjali   Analysis of mixed correlated bivariate
                                  zero-inflated count and $ (k,
                                  l)$-inflated beta responses with
                                  application to social network datasets   1651--1681
              Fares Alazemi and   
          Khalifa Es-Sebaiy and   
                Youssef Ouknine   Efficient and superefficient estimators
                                  of filtered Poisson process intensities  1682--1692
                Ruibing Qin and   
                      Weiqi Liu   Ratio detection for mean change in $
                                  \alpha $ mixing observations . . . . . . 1693--1708
            Yuri A. Iriarte and   
                 Mario A. Rojas   Slashed power-Lindley distribution . . . 1709--1720
     Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi and   
            Roya Nasirzadeh and   
              Mahmoud Mohammadi   On the ratio of two independent
                                  skewnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1721--1727
                  Qing Xiao and   
                    Shaowu Zhou   Matching a correlation coefficient by a
                                  Gaussian copula  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1728--1747
             Maurizio Guida and   
          Fabio Postiglione and   
              Gianpaolo Pulcini   A Bayesian approach for non-homogeneous
                                  gamma degradation processes  . . . . . . 1748--1765
                 R. van Zyl and   
            A. J. van der Merwe   Bayesian process monitoring schemes for
                                  the two-parameter exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1766--1797
    Daniele C. T. Granzotto and   
          Paulo H. Ferreira and   
              Francisco Louzada   Likelihood-based inference for the
                                  transmuted log-logistic model in the
                                  presence of right-censored data  . . . . 1798--1813

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 8, 2019

      Camila Borelli Zeller and   
              Filidor Vilca and   
                   Manuel Galea   Influence diagnostics for the structural
                                  Sharpe model under normal/independent
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1815--1835
           Mohammed Attouch and   
                Ali Laksaci and   
                   Fatima Rafaa   On the local linear estimate for
                                  functional regression: Uniform in
                                  bandwidth consistency  . . . . . . . . . 1836--1853
               Z. Shishebor and   
             B. Amiri Aghbilagh   On the asymptotic behavior of the
                                  periodograms of periodically correlated
                                  spatial processes: Periodicity detection 1854--1870
                 XueLong Hu and   
       Philippe Castagliola and   
              XiaoJian Zhou and   
                      AnAn Tang   Conditional design of the EWMA median
                                  chart with estimated parameters  . . . . 1871--1889
                   Tian Xia and   
               Xuejun Jiang and   
                    Xueren Wang   Asymptotic properties of approximate
                                  maximum quasi-likelihood estimator in
                                  quasi-likelihood nonlinear models with
                                  random effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1890--1901
              Kahadawala Cooray   A new extension of the FGM copula for
                                  negative association . . . . . . . . . . 1902--1919
             Roshini George and   
                     S. Thobias   Kumaraswamy Marshall-Olkin Exponential
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1920--1937
            M. S. Aminzadeh and   
                        M. Deng   Bayesian predictive modeling for Inverse
                                  Gamma-Pareto composite distribution  . . 1938--1954
               Qingpei Zang and   
                       Tao Wang   Sequential estimation for nonhomogeneous
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes  . . . . . 1955--1962
                  Ruofei Du and   
                    Ji-Hyun Lee   A weighted Jackknife method for
                                  clustered data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963--1980
               T. S. Kamble and   
               D. N. Kashid and   
                   D. M. Sakate   Consistent and robust variable selection
                                  in regression based on Wald test . . . . 1981--2000
         Rahul Bhattacharya and   
                Madhumita Shome   A multi-treatment two stage adaptive
                                  allocation for survival outcomes . . . . 2001--2013
                 Seyoon Lee and   
               Joseph H. T. Kim   Exponentiated generalized Pareto
                                  distribution: Properties and
                                  applications towards extreme value
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2014--2038
                Tolga Zaman and   
                    Hasan Bulut   Modified ratio estimators using robust
                                  regression methods . . . . . . . . . . . 2039--2048
            Raul Matsushita and   
              Donald Pianto and   
     Bernardo B. De Andrade and   
       Andre Cançado and   
                Sergio Da Silva   The Touchard distribution  . . . . . . . 2049--2059
           Innocent Ngaruye and   
         Dietrich Von Rosen and   
                 Martin Singull   Mean-Squared errors of small area
                                  estimators under a multivariate linear
                                  model for repeated measures data . . . . 2060--2073
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2074--2074

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 9, 2019

Emilio Gómez-Déniz and   
Nancy Dávila-Cárdenes   Reference points for getting a target in
                                  a soccer competition. A probabilistic
                                  model with applications to the Spanish
                                  and English Premier League . . . . . . . 2075--2087
                   A. Hajrajabi   Analysis of nonlinear state space model
                                  with dependent measurement noises  . . . 2088--2101
                    Yu Miao and   
                     Xiaoyan Xu   A note on the almost sure central limit
                                  theorem for the product of partial sums
                                  of $m$-dependent random variables  . . . 2102--2112
          Rodrigo R. Pescim and   
         Edwin M. M. Ortega and   
          Adriano K. Suzuki and   
          Vicente G. Cancho and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   A new destructive Poisson odd
                                  log-logistic generalized half-normal
                                  cure rate model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2113--2128
  Patcharee Sumritnorrapong and   
         Kritsana Neammanee and   
          Jiraphan Suntornchost   An improvement of a non-uniform bound
                                  for combinatorial central limit theorem  2129--2146
              Mahwish Rabia and   
                Nadia Saeed and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Reliability and sensitivity comparisons
                                  and average run lengths of CUSUM scale
                                  chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2147--2162
                David R. Bickel   Reporting Bayes factors or probabilities
                                  to decision makers of unknown loss
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2163--2174
       Magdalena Szymkowiak and   
                Maria Iwi\'nska   Some results about bivariate discrete
                                  distributions through the vector of
                                  aging intensities  . . . . . . . . . . . 2175--2184
                    Chao Xu and   
               Yinghui Dong and   
                   Guojing Wang   The pricing of defaultable bonds under a
                                  regime-switching jump-diffusion model
                                  with stochastic default barrier  . . . . 2185--2205
                   Yanjiao Meng   General strong convergence for
                                  negatively associated random variables   2206--2217
                Shijie Wang and   
                    Duo Guo and   
                  Wensheng Wang   Closure property of consistently varying
                                  random variables based on precise large
                                  deviation principles . . . . . . . . . . 2218--2228
               Fengjun Duan and   
                   Guanjun Wang   Optimal design for constant-stress
                                  accelerated degradation test based on
                                  gamma process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2229--2253
             Somayeh Fallah and   
            Ali Reza Najafi and   
              Farshid Mehrdoust   A fractional version of the
                                  Cox--Ingersoll--Ross interest rate model
                                  and pricing double barrier option with
                                  Hurst index $ H \in (2 / 3, 1) $ . . . . 2254--2266
             Zohdy M. Nofal and   
                  M. Ahsanullah   A new extension of the Fréchet
                                  distribution: Properties and its
                                  characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 2267--2285
            Ying-Ying Zhang and   
            Teng-Zhong Rong and   
                     Man-Man Li   The empirical Bayes estimators of the
                                  mean and variance parameters of the
                                  normal distribution with a conjugate
                                  normal-inverse-gamma prior by the moment
                                  method and the MLE method  . . . . . . . 2286--2304
              Kamlesh Kumar and   
         Sayed Mohammed Zeeshan   Improved two phase sampling exponential
                                  ratio and product type estimators for
                                  population mean of study character in
                                  the presence of non response . . . . . . 2305--2319
     Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi and   
   Mohammad Hossein Heydari and   
               Zakieh Avazzadeh   Testing the difference between spectral
                                  densities of two independent
                                  periodically correlated
                                  (cyclostationary) time series models . . 2320--2328
         Md. Mazharul Islam and   
   Md. Hasinur Rahaman Khan and   
               Tamanna Hawlader   Modified profile likelihood estimation
                                  for the Weibull regression models in
                                  survival analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 2329--2343

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 10, 2019

                 Zhibin Zhu and   
                Guanghui Li and   
                  Chongqi Zhang   $A$-optimal designs for mixture central
                                  polynomial model with qualitative
                                  factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2345--2355
                 Jinru Wang and   
                        Wei Liu   Wavelet estimations for heteroscedastic
                                  super smooth errors  . . . . . . . . . . 2356--2371
             Pedro L. Ramos and   
          Francisco Louzada and   
      Taciana K. O. Shimizu and   
                  Aline O. Luiz   The inverse weighted Lindley
                                  distribution: Properties, estimation and
                                  an application on a failure time data    2372--2389
                   Sheng Wu and   
                       Yi Zhang   A class of distortion measures generated
                                  from expectile and its estimation  . . . 2390--2408
                  Jiaqi Liu and   
                   Zujun Ou and   
                 Liuping Hu and   
                      Kang Wang   \em Lee discrepancy on mixed two- and
                                  three-level uniform augmented designs    2409--2424
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
         Emmanuel Afuecheta and   
                   Stephen Chan   On the distribution of maximum of
                                  multivariate normal random vectors . . . 2425--2445
               Jinying Tong and   
                    Xuan Ma and   
            Zhenzhong Zhang and   
                      Enwen Zhu   Ergodicity for population dynamics
                                  driven by stable processes with
                                  Markovian switching  . . . . . . . . . . 2446--2458
                   Hoa Pham and   
               Darfiana Nur and   
           Huong T. T. Pham and   
                  Alan Branford   A Bayesian approach for parameter
                                  estimation in multi-stage models . . . . 2459--2482
             Nuanpan Lawson and   
                Chugiat Ponkaew   New generalized regression estimator in
                                  the presence of non response under
                                  unequal probability sampling . . . . . . 2483--2498
                   Kun Chen and   
                       Man Wang   On empirical likelihood test for
                                  predictability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2499--2508
          A. Badamchi Zadeh and   
               M. H. Ghahramani   Analysis of a two incongruent arrivals
                                  and services M/G/1 queue with random
                                  feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509--2520
                  Ziqi Chen and   
                       Yan Zhou   New test statistics for hypothesis
                                  testing of parameters in conditional
                                  moment restriction models  . . . . . . . 2521--2528
                    Lihong Wang   Time varying long memory parameter
                                  estimation for locally stationary long
                                  memory processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2529--2547
             Ali I. Genç   The two-sided power-binomial
                                  distribution for modeling binary count
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2548--2561
             Shivangi Singh and   
                 Chanchal Kundu   On weighted Renyi's entropy for
                                  double-truncated distribution  . . . . . 2562--2579
               Imane Terfas and   
              Hafida Saggou and   
           Megdouda Ourbih-Tari   Transient study of a queueing system
                                  with one unreliable server, batch
                                  arrivals, two types of verification,
                                  loss and vacation  . . . . . . . . . . . 2580--2601
          Shuvashree Mondal and   
                  Debasis Kundu   A new two sample type-II progressive
                                  censoring scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 2602--2618

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 11, 2019

                 Evrim Oral and   
                Denise M. Danos   Modeling binary responses with
                                  stochastic covariates  . . . . . . . . . 2619--2640
         Kalsoom Afzal Butt and   
             Muhammad Aslam and   
                   Fu-Kwun Wang   Selecting better process based on
                                  difference statistic using double
                                  sampling plan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2641--2656
             Mihai Giurcanu and   
                 Brett Presnell   Oracle GMM estimation for misspecified
                                  models via thresholding  . . . . . . . . 2657--2686
               Xiaodong Bai and   
              Qingjian Zhou and   
                   Zhiqiang Hua   Strong law of large numbers and complete
                                  convergence for non-identically
                                  distributed WOD random variables . . . . 2687--2699
              MingXiang Cao and   
                    DaoJiang He   Linearly admissible estimators on linear
                                  functions of regression coefficient
                                  under balanced loss function . . . . . . 2700--2706
               Abdelghani Hamaz   Prediction of random fields with
                                  incomplete quarter-plane past  . . . . . 2707--2716
              T. Baghfalaki and   
             E. Farahani Jalali   Reversible jump MCMC to identify dropout
                                  mechanism in longitudinal data . . . . . 2717--2733
               Xiaomeng Niu and   
              Hyunkeun Ryan Cho   Simultaneous estimation and inference
                                  for multiple response variables  . . . . 2734--2747
             Panayiotis Bobotas   Estimation of the smallest scale
                                  parameter of two-parameter exponential
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2748--2765
                G. N. Singh and   
                   C. Singh and   
                       S. Suman   Revisit of a randomized response model
                                  for estimating a rare sensitive
                                  attribute under probability proportional
                                  to size sampling using Poisson
                                  probability distribution . . . . . . . . 2766--2786
                 Qingan Qiu and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                    Dejing Kong   Availability analysis and optimal
                                  inspection policy for systems with
                                  neglected down time  . . . . . . . . . . 2787--2809
                   Qihui Bu and   
                      Liwei Liu   An M/G/1 clearing queueing system with
                                  setup time and multiple vacations for an
                                  unreliable server  . . . . . . . . . . . 2810--2826
     Luis Fernando Grajales and   
            Raydonal Ospina and   
       Luis A. López and   
                  Oscar O. Melo   A doubly restricted exponential
                                  dispersion model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2827--2841
            Alessandro Barbiero   A bivariate geometric distribution
                                  allowing for positive or negative
                                  correlation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2842--2861
               Navid Feroze and   
                 Muhammad Aslam   Approximate Bayesian analysis of doubly
                                  censored samples from mixture of two
                                  Weibull distributions  . . . . . . . . . 2862--2878

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 12, 2019

                Mingzhi Mao and   
                      Wanli Guo   Moderate deviations for quantile
                                  regression processes . . . . . . . . . . 2879--2892
            S. Mehr Mansour and   
                   M. Niaparast   The effect of small sample on optimal
                                  designs for logistic regression models   2893--2903
        T. H. M. Abouelmagd and   
             A. A. E. Ahmed and   
      Enayat M. Abd Elrazik and   
         Mahmoud M. Mansour and   
            A-Hadi N. Ahmed and   
                 Ahmed Z. Afify   A new aging concept derived from the
                                  increasing convex ordering . . . . . . . 2904--2916
                  Chang Cui and   
                     Tao Li and   
                      Lei Zhang   Mean estimate in ranked set sampling
                                  using a length-biased concomitant
                                  variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2917--2931
              David Andrich and   
                  Pender Pedler   Modelling ordinal assessments: fit is
                                  not sufficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2932--2947
                     Baoguo Pan   Estimation for periodic ARMA models with
                                  unspecified noises . . . . . . . . . . . 2948--2961
               Peiyun Jiang and   
                  Eiji Kurozumi   Power properties of the modified CUSUM
                                  tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2962--2981
             Miran A. Jaffa and   
                  Ayad A. Jaffa   A likelihood based approach for joint
                                  modeling of longitudinal trajectories
                                  and informative censoring process  . . . 2982--3004
                 Alan D. Hutson   An alternative skew exponential power
                                  distribution formulation . . . . . . . . 3005--3024
                   F. Razie and   
              E. Bahrami Samani   Joint $ (k, l)$-hurdle random effects
                                  models for mixed longitudinal power
                                  series and normal outcomes . . . . . . . 3025--3043
                Wenzhi Yang and   
                   Lei Yang and   
                     Da Wei and   
                       Shuhe Hu   The laws of large numbers for
                                  Pareto-type random variables with
                                  infinite means . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3044--3054
                  Peng Zeng and   
                         Yu Zhu   A novel regularization method for
                                  estimation and variable selection in
                                  multi-index models . . . . . . . . . . . 3055--3067
               Xiaohui Yuan and   
                  Xiaogang Dong   Weighted empirical likelihood for
                                  quantile regression with non ignorable
                                  missing covariates . . . . . . . . . . . 3068--3084
                   Tomer Shushi   Explicit formulas for the cumulants and
                                  the vector-valued odd moments of the
                                  multivariate linearly skewed elliptical
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3085--3091
                Hidehiko Kamiya   A note on estimation of the shape of
                                  density level sets of star-shaped
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3092--3104
                Jimmy Reyes and   
          Diego I. Gallardo and   
           Heleno Bolfarine and   
  Héctor W. Gómez   A new class of slash-elliptical
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3105--3121
                Mehdi Amiri and   
         Roohollah Roozegar and   
               Yousef Behbahani   Selected singular-generalized-hyperbolic
                                  distributions with applications to order
                                  statistics and reliability . . . . . . . 3122--3135
            Karuna G. Reddy and   
                  M. G. M. Khan   Optimal stratification in stratified
                                  designs using Weibull-distributed
                                  auxiliary information  . . . . . . . . . 3136--3152
             Hiroshi Yamada and   
               Fatima Tuj Jahra   Explicit formulas for the smoother
                                  weights of the Whittaker-Henderson
                                  graduation of order 1  . . . . . . . . . 3153--3161
       Lovleen Kumar Grover and   
                 Amanpreet Kaur   Corrigendum to: Gupta et al. (2012).
                                  Estimation of the mean of a sensitive
                                  variable in the presence of auxiliary
                                  information. \em CSTM, \bf
                                  41(13--14):2394--2404  . . . . . . . . . 3162--3163

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 13, 2019

               Wenjuan Wang and   
                     Qunying Wu   Complete convergence for arrays of
                                  row-wise ND random variables under
                                  sub-linear expectations  . . . . . . . . 3165--3176
             T. B. Sreejith and   
                S. M. Sunoj and   
                      G. Rajesh   Non-parametric estimation of reciprocal
                                  coordinate subtangent for right censored
                                  dependent scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 3177--3190
           Firmin Doko Tchatoka   Near exogeneity, weak identification and
                                  specification testing: Some asymptotic
                                  results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3191--3207
       Luísa Pereira and   
         Cecília Fonseca   Statistical methods for assessing the
                                  contagion of spatial extreme events
                                  among regions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3208--3218
                 Huijun Guo and   
                      Junke Kou   Non linear wavelet estimation of
                                  regression derivatives based on biased
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3219--3235
          Supranee Lisawadi and   
              S. Ejaz Ahmed and   
         Orawan Reangsephet and   
       Muhammad Kashif Ali Shah   Simultaneous estimation of Cronbach's
                                  alpha coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . 3236--3257
             Resit Çelik   RCEV heteroscedasticity test based on
                                  the studentized residuals  . . . . . . . 3258--3268
            Helena Ferreira and   
                 Marta Ferreira   Asymptotic dependence of bivariate
                                  maxima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3269--3279
                 Haifeng Xu and   
                     Akio Namba   MSE performance of the weighted average
                                  estimators consisting of shrinkage
                                  estimators when each individual
                                  regression coefficient is estimated  . . 3280--3290
           Abdelouahab Bibi and   
                   Ahmed Ghezal   \em QMLE of periodic time-varying
                                  bilinear-\em GARCH models  . . . . . . . 3291--3310
          Kazuhiko Hayakawa and   
                        Jie Hou   Estimation of time-varying coefficient
                                  dynamic panel data models  . . . . . . . 3311--3324
                 Jikun Chen and   
                     Hui Xu and   
                 Fengyang Cheng   The product distribution of dependent
                                  random variables with applications to a
                                  discrete-time risk model . . . . . . . . 3325--3340
              Stefan Bedbur and   
                  Udo Kamps and   
               Jens M. Lennartz   Confidence regions for Pareto parameters
                                  from a single and independent samples    3341--3359
               Faisal Nawaz and   
             Faisal Shahzad and   
             Ijaz Ur Rehman and   
          Muhammad Shujahat and   
               Shabir Hyder and   
           Sameer Al Barghouthi   The Performance of Gaussian and non
                                  Gaussian dynamic models in assessing
                                  market risk: The Implications for risk
                                  management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3360--3376
                Jianhua Shi and   
                Zhiping Qiu and   
              Xiaoping Chen and   
                    Haiqing Lin   The empirical likelihood estimation of
                                  the quantile function under the
                                  multiplicative intercept risk model  . . 3377--3387
                 Yunwei Cui and   
                   Xiaoyin Wang   Conditional maximum likelihood
                                  estimation in negative binomial INGARCH
                                  processes with known number of successes
                                  when the true parameter is at the
                                  boundary of the parameter space  . . . . 3388--3401
             Qian-Qian Zhao and   
                  Sheng-Li Zhao   Mixed-level designs with multi block
                                  variables containing clear two-factor
                                  interaction components . . . . . . . . . 3402--3412
                Mehdi Amiri and   
               Ahad Jamalizadeh   Stochastic ordering of medians in
                                  samples from normal distributions  . . . 3413--3420
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3421--3421

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 14, 2019

              M. E. Ghitany and   
               J. Mazucheli and   
           A. F. B. Menezes and   
                    F. Alqallaf   The unit-inverse Gaussian distribution:
                                  a new alternative to two-parameter
                                  distributions on the unit interval . . . 3423--3438
               Gulab Singh Bura   Transient solution of an M/M/$ \infty $
                                  queue with catastrophes  . . . . . . . . 3439--3450
                  Lina Bian and   
                    Ming Ma and   
                    Hua Liu and   
                    Jian Hua Ye   Lifetime distribution of two discrete
                                  censored $ \delta $ shock models . . . . 3451--3463
              Debasis Kundu and   
                Vahid Nekoukhou   On bivariate discrete Weibull
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3464--3481
                  Yuqin Sun and   
                   Bo Jiang and   
                     Hong Jiang   Computations of predictors/estimators
                                  under a linear random-effects model with
                                  parameter restrictions . . . . . . . . . 3482--3497
     Suporn Jongpreechaharn and   
             Kritsana Neammanee   Normal approximation for call function
                                  via Stein's method . . . . . . . . . . . 3498--3517
             Mohammad Mohammadi   Confidence intervals for the closed
                                  population size under inverse sampling
                                  without replacement  . . . . . . . . . . 3518--3529
                   Hao Wang and   
              Rongming Wang and   
                 Jiaqin Wei and   
                   Shaosheng Xu   Optimal investment-consumption-insurance
                                  strategy in a continuous-time
                                  self-exciting threshold model  . . . . . 3530--3548
        Sarat Kumar Acharya and   
             Saroja Kumar Singh   Asymptotic properties of maximum
                                  likelihood estimators from single server
                                  queues: a martingale approach  . . . . . 3549--3557
               Yanhong Chen and   
                       Yijun Hu   Systemic risk statistics with scenario
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3558--3569
         Adarsha Kumar Jena and   
          Manas Ranjan Tripathy   Estimating ordered quantiles of two
                                  exponential populations with a common
                                  minimum guarantee time . . . . . . . . . 3570--3585
                  Reba Maji and   
                G. N. Singh and   
            Arnab Bandyopadhyay   Estimation of population mean in
                                  presence of random non response in
                                  two-stage cluster sampling . . . . . . . 3586--3608
             Zhong-zhi Wang and   
                   Yun Dong and   
                  Fangqing Ding   On almost sure convergence for sums of
                                  stochastic sequence  . . . . . . . . . . 3609--3621
               V. P. Ramesh and   
          Priyanga Baskaran and   
    Aarthika Krishnamoorthy and   
            Divya Damodaran and   
              Preethi Sadasivam   Back propagation neural network based
                                  big data analytics for a stock market
                                  challenge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3622--3642
            Dreamlee Sharma and   
        Tapan Kumar Chakrabarty   The quantile-based flattened logistic
                                  distribution: Some properties and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3643--3662
                Emrah Altun and   
           Huseyin Tatlidil and   
                     Gamze Ozel   Value-at-risk estimation with new skew
                                  extension of generalized normal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3663--3681

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 15, 2019

                 Xuchao Bai and   
                  Yimin Shi and   
                 Yiming Liu and   
          Hon Keung Tony Ng and   
                        Bin Liu   Statistical analysis of competing risks
                                  model from Marshall--Olkin extended Chen
                                  distribution under adaptive
                                  progressively interval censoring with
                                  random removals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3683--3702
                  Abdul Haq and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   A new non-parametric multivariate EWMA
                                  sign control chart for monitoring
                                  process dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . 3703--3716
          Chandi Ram Kalita and   
               Gautam Choudhury   The $N$-policy for an unreliable queue
                                  (M$^x$ /$ G_1 \over G_2$ /1) queue with
                                  optional repeated service and delayed
                                  repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3717--3745
            Ronna C. Turner and   
           Elizabeth A. Keiffer   Impact of unbalanced DIF item
                                  proportions on group-specific DIF
                                  identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3746--3760
              Javid Shabbir and   
                  Sat Gupta and   
                  Shakeel Ahmed   A generalized class of estimators under
                                  two-phase stratified sampling for non
                                  response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3761--3777
       Supawadee Wichitchan and   
                 Weixin Yao and   
                  Guangren Yang   A simple root selection method for
                                  univariate finite normal mixture models  3778--3794
             Hiroshi Yamada and   
                      Ruixue Du   A modification of the
                                  Whittaker--Henderson method of
                                  graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3795--3800
              Sumito Kurata and   
                   Etsuo Hamada   A discrete probabilistic model for
                                  analyzing pairwise comparison matrices   3801--3815
                 Yiqiang Lu and   
                    Feng Li and   
                   Sanying Feng   Local linear estimation for
                                  covariate-adjusted varying-coefficient
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3816--3835
         Zakariya Yahya Algamal   Performance of ridge estimator in
                                  inverse Gaussian regression model  . . . 3836--3849
              A. Chatterjee and   
                G. N. Singh and   
               A. Bandyopadhyay   Estimation of population mean in
                                  successive sampling under
                                  super-population model in presence of
                                  random non response situations . . . . . 3850--3863
                Yongfeng Wu and   
                  JiangYan Peng   Complete convergence and the strong laws
                                  of large numbers for pairwise NQD random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3864--3875
       Mohammad Reza Kazemi and   
         Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi   A note on limiting distribution of the
                                  sample auto-covariance function for the
                                  first-order autoregressive (AR(1)) model 3876--3883
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   Some results on discrete mixture failure
                                  rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3884--3898
            Ali Karimnezhad and   
                  Ahmad Parsian   Bayesian and robust Bayesian analysis in
                                  a general setting  . . . . . . . . . . . 3899--3920
           Abdelouahab Bibi and   
                Karima Kimouche   Whittle estimation in multivariate \em
                                  CCC--GARCH processes . . . . . . . . . . 3921--3940
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3941--3942

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 16, 2019

             Hien D. Nguyen and   
             Geoffrey McLachlan   On approximations via
                                  convolution-defined mixture models . . . 3945--3955
               Juan Kalemkerian   A truncated Cramér--von Mises test of
                                  normality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3956--3975
                J. Ravichandran   Transition probabilities and ARL
                                  performance of Six Sigma zone control
                                  charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3976--3991
                        Jin Liu   Averaging estimation for conditional
                                  covariance models  . . . . . . . . . . . 3992--4007
               Pingfan Song and   
                  Shaochen Wang   Generalized Log-Lindley distribution and
                                  its applications in stochastic
                                  comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4008--4018
            Usha Mahalingam and   
          Saminathan Balamurali   Economic design of quick switching
                                  sampling system for resubmitted lots . . 4019--4033
               Zhiyong Zhou and   
                         Jun Yu   Adaptive estimation for varying
                                  coefficient models with nonstationary
                                  covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4034--4050
              Bingzhen Geng and   
                   Cen Chen and   
                    Shijie Wang   Uniform asymptotics for a non standard
                                  renewal risk model with CLWD
                                  heavy-tailed claims  . . . . . . . . . . 4051--4066
                  H. Nguyen and   
                        Q. Shao   Oracle model selection for correlated
                                  data via residuals . . . . . . . . . . . 4067--4081
             Somayeh Abbasi and   
    Mohammasd Hossein Alamatsaz   Some bounds related to Harris family of
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4082--4095
                  Yuliana Linke   Asymptotic properties of one-step
                                  $M$-estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4096--4118
           K. Teerapabolarn and   
                  C. Soponpimol   A non uniform bound on geometric
                                  approximation with $w$-functions . . . . 4119--4131
            Kaito Shimamura and   
                 Masao Ueki and   
             Shuichi Kawano and   
               Sadanori Konishi   Bayesian generalized fused lasso
                                  modeling via NEG distribution  . . . . . 4132--4153
                Raghunath Arnab   Optional randomized response techniques
                                  for quantitative characteristics . . . . 4154--4170
  Mustafa Ç. Korkmaz and   
          Gauss M. Cordeiro and   
          Haitham M. Yousof and   
          Rodrigo R. Pescim and   
             Ahmed Z. Afify and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   The Weibull Marshall--Olkin family:
                                  Regression model and application to
                                  censored data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4171--4194

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 17, 2019

                   Jing Luo and   
                   Hong Qin and   
                 Zhenghong Wang   Asymptotic distribution in affiliation
                                  finite discrete weighted networks with
                                  an increasing degree sequence  . . . . . 4195--4205
            Rim Ben Elouefi and   
                Rim Ben Elouefi   A goodness-of-fit test for the
                                  stratified proportional hazards model
                                  for survival data  . . . . . . . . . . . 4206--4220
                 Suxin Wang and   
                 Ximin Rong and   
                       Hui Zhao   Mean-variance problem for an insurer
                                  with default risk under a jump-diffusion
                                  risk model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4221--4249
  Tiago M. Magalhães and   
           Denise A. Botter and   
   Mônica C. Sandoval and   
      Gustavo H. A. Pereira and   
              Gauss M. Cordeiro   Skewness of maximum likelihood
                                  estimators in the varying dispersion
                                  beta regression model  . . . . . . . . . 4250--4260
            Chin-Chih Chang and   
                  Yen-Luan Chen   Optimization of continuous and discrete
                                  scheduled times for a cumulative damage
                                  system with age-dependent maintenance    4261--4277
                      Xianye Yu   Smoothness of self-intersection local
                                  time of multidimensional fractional
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 4278--4293
       Roberto Campos Leoni and   
  Antonio Fernando Branco Costa   The performance of the truncated mixed
                                  control chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4294--4301
                     Yanhong Wu   A combined SR-CUSUM procedure for
                                  detecting common changes in panel data   4302--4319
                 Haifeng Xu and   
                Kazuhiro Ohtani   PMSE performance of two different types
                                  of preliminary test estimators under a
                                  multivariate $t$ error term  . . . . . . 4320--4338
           Hossein Mansouri and   
                          Bo Li   On simultaneous confidence intervals
                                  based on rank-estimates with application
                                  to analysis of gene expression data  . . 4339--4349
              Sang-Hoon Cho and   
             Richard A. Johnson   Inference for Izawa's Bivariate Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4350--4366
            K. V. Viswakala and   
             E. I. Abdul Sathar   Classical estimation of hazard rate and
                                  mean residual life functions of Pareto
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4367--4379
                Hanbing Zhu and   
               Riquan Zhang and   
                     Huiying Li   Estimation on semi-functional linear
                                  errors-in-variables models . . . . . . . 4380--4393
                 Juxia Xiao and   
                      Xu Li and   
                   Jianhong Shi   Estimation in a semiparametric partially
                                  linear errors-in-variables model with
                                  inverse Gaussian kernel  . . . . . . . . 4394--4424
              Arvind Pandey and   
             Shashi Bhushan and   
             Ralte Lalpawimawha   Shared frailty models with baseline
                                  generalized Pareto distribution  . . . . 4425--4447

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 18, 2019

              Xinfeng Chang and   
                   Hexiang Wang   Preliminary test almost unbiased
                                  two-parameter estimators with student's
                                  $t$ errors and conflicting test
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4449--4473
       Mohammad A. Aljarrah and   
               Felix Famoye and   
                       Carl Lee   A new generalized normal distribution:
                                  Properties and applications  . . . . . . 4474--4491
                    Qingqing Ye   The analysis of M$^X$ /M/1 queue with
                                  two-stage vacations policy . . . . . . . 4492--4510
                  Zhongyang Sun   Upper bounds for ruin probabilities
                                  under model uncertainty  . . . . . . . . 4511--4527
               Mehdi Katebi and   
             M. Bameni Moghadam   Optimal statistical, economic and
                                  economic statistical designs of
                                  attribute np control charts using a
                                  full adaptive approach . . . . . . . . . 4528--4549
                 Youjiao Yu and   
                Jane L. Harvill   Bootstrap likelihood ratio test for
                                  Weibull mixture models fitted to grouped
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4550--4568
          Mohammad Baratnia and   
              Mahdi Doostparast   Sequential order statistics from
                                  dependent random variables . . . . . . . 4569--4580
              Laura H. Gunn and   
                Henryk Gzyl and   
          Enrique ter Horst and   
         Miller Janny Ariza and   
                  German Molina   Maximum entropy in the mean methods in
                                  propensity score matching for interval
                                  and noisy data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4581--4597
             Latifa Adjoudj and   
            Abdelkader Tatachak   Conditional Quantile Estimation for
                                  Truncated and Associated Data  . . . . . 4598--4641
              Ralph C. Ward and   
              Leonard Egede and   
   Viswanathan Ramakrishnan and   
                 Lewis Frey and   
           Robert Neal Axon and   
     Clara Libby E. Dismuke and   
              Kelly J. Hunt and   
         Mulugeta Gebregziabher   An improved comorbidity summary score
                                  for measuring disease burden and
                                  predicting mortality with applications
                                  to two national cohorts  . . . . . . . . 4642--4655
            Giancarlo Manzi and   
                 Martin Forster   Biases in bias elicitation . . . . . . . 4656--4674
                Haiwu Huang and   
                   Hang Zou and   
                  Qingxia Zhang   Equivalent conditions of the complete
                                  convergence for weighted sums of NSD
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 4675--4689
               Rongfang Yan and   
                     Bin Lu and   
                      Xiaohu Li   On Redundancy Allocation to Series and
                                  Parallel Systems of Two Components . . . 4690--4701

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 19, 2019

Gustavo Guimarães de Castro Amorim   Semiparametric estimator for a secondary
                                  analysis with correlated outcomes  . . . 4703--4711
             Wen-Jang Huang and   
               Nan-Cheng Su and   
                    Hui-Yi Teng   On some study of skew-$t$ distributions  4712--4729
                Leila Mohammadi   The joint reliability signature of order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4730--4747
                Fatemeh Ghapani   Using Liu estimator for detection of
                                  influential observations in linear
                                  measurement error models . . . . . . . . 4748--4763
                Nanlian Cai and   
                 Wenqing Ni and   
                        Chen Li   Some ordering properties of series and
                                  parallel systems with dependent
                                  component lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . . 4764--4779
         Saroja Kumar Singh and   
            Sarat Kumar Acharya   Equivalence between Bayes and the
                                  maximum likelihood estimator in M/M/1
                                  queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4780--4793
                  Chao Chen and   
                  Run-Chu Zhang   Robust two-level regular fractional
                                  factorial designs  . . . . . . . . . . . 4794--4803
                A. Pakgohar and   
               A. Habibirad and   
                 F. Yousefzadeh   Lin--Wong divergence and relations on
                                  type I censored data . . . . . . . . . . 4804--4819
                 Wenhui Wei and   
               Shesheng Gao and   
               Bingbing Gao and   
              Yongmin Zhong and   
                Chengfan Gu and   
                    Zhaohui Gao   Random weighting-based quantile
                                  estimation via importance resampling . . 4820--4833
          Hafida Guerbyenne and   
             Abderrahim Kessira   Power periodic threshold GARCH model:
                                  Structure and estimation . . . . . . . . 4834--4860
        Lakshmi Kanta Patra and   
                   Somesh Kumar   Estimating the common hazard rate of
                                  several exponential distributions  . . . 4861--4873
           Richa Srivastava and   
             S. K. Upadhyay and   
                   V. K. Shukla   Subjective elicitation of
                                  hyperparameters of a conjugate Dirichlet
                                  prior and the corresponding Bayes
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4874--4887
                  Jiao Song and   
                   Jiang-Lun Wu   A detection algorithm for the first jump
                                  time in sample trajectories of
                                  jump-diffusions driven by $ \alpha
                                  $-stable white noise . . . . . . . . . . 4888--4902
              Shengbin Zhou and   
                Jingke Zhou and   
                       Bo Zhang   Overlapping group lasso for
                                  high-dimensional generalized linear
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4903--4917
           Mahboubeh Akbari and   
               Majid Rezaei and   
             Sarah Jomhoori and   
                   Vahid Fakoor   Nonparametric estimators for quantile
                                  density function under length-biased
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4918--4935
             P. G. Sankaran and   
                M. Dileep Kumar   A class of distributions with the
                                  quadratic mean residual quantile
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4936--4957

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 20, 2019

                Yanning Liu and   
                      Dayong Li   Optimal group sequential designs
                                  constrained on both overall and stage
                                  one error rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 4959--4975
                Mahmut Kara and   
         Ömer Altindag and   
       Mustafa Hilmi Pekalp and   
                  Halil Aydogdu   Parameter estimation in $ \alpha
                                  $-series process with lognormal
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4976--4998
          Michael J. Brusco and   
           Douglas Steinley and   
                 Jordan Stevens   $K$-medoids inverse regression . . . . . 4999--5011
                 Fenge Chen and   
              Xingchun Peng and   
                   Wenyuan Wang   Risk minimization for an insurer with
                                  investment and reinsurance via
                                  $g$-expectation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5012--5035
      Michelangelo Misuraca and   
                Maria Spano and   
                   Simona Balbi   BMS: An improved Dunn index for Document
                                  Clustering validation  . . . . . . . . . 5036--5049
                   M. A. A. Cox   A tool to facilitate the production of
                                  control charts within a spreadsheet  . . 5050--5057
               Miaomiao Gao and   
                    Feng Hu and   
                 Jingbo Sun and   
                   Zhaojun Zong   A strong law of large number for
                                  negatively dependent and non identical
                                  distributed random variables in the
                                  framework of sublinear expectation . . . 5058--5073
                      Jigao Yan   On Complete Convergence in
                                  Marcinkiewicz--Zygmund Type SLLN for END
                                  Random Variables and Its Applications    5074--5098
     Palaniappan Vellaisamy and   
                  Aklilu Zeleke   Exponential order statistics and some
                                  combinatorial identities . . . . . . . . 5099--5105
                 Ailing Yan and   
                    Fengli Song   Adaptive elastic net-penalized quantile
                                  regression for variable selection  . . . 5106--5120
                 Yafeng Xia and   
                  Yarong Qu and   
                    Nailing Sun   Variable selection for semiparametric
                                  varying coefficient partially linear
                                  model based on modal regression with
                                  missing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5121--5137
       Vasileios Alevizakos and   
           Christos Koukouvinos   An asymptotic confidence interval for
                                  the process capability index $ C_{\rm
                                  pm} $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5138--5144
             Phalguni Nanda and   
                Suchandan Kayal   Mean inactivity time of lower record
                                  values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5145--5164
              Ravindra Khattree   A note on the nonexistence of the
                                  constant block-sum balanced incomplete
                                  block designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5165--5168
               Pingfan Song and   
                  Shaochen Wang   On the moment generating functions for
                                  integer valued random variables  . . . . 5169--5174
               Fotios Loukissas   Precise large deviations for strong
                                  subexponential distributions and
                                  applications on a multi risk model . . . 5175--5190
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5191--5191

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 21, 2019

                        Yong Li   Comments on ``Improvement of generalized
                                  difference-based mixed Liu estimator in
                                  partially linear model'' . . . . . . . . 5193--5194
            Raja Ben Hajria and   
             Salah Khardani and   
                Hamdi Ra\"\issi   Testing for abrupt breaks in variance
                                  structures with smooth changes . . . . . 5195--5212
                 Dennis DeRiggi   A central limit theorem for correlated
                                  variables with limited normal or gamma
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5213--5222
               Rashid Ahmed and   
            Farrukh Shehzad and   
             Muhammad Rajab and   
           Muhammad Daniyal and   
                    M. H. Tahir   Minimal circular balanced repeated
                                  measurement designs in unequal period
                                  sizes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5223--5232
                    Samuel Rosa   $E$- and $R$-optimality of block designs
                                  for treatment-control comparisons  . . . 5233--5244
            Ajit Chaturvedi and   
                Ananya Malhotra   Shrinkage estimators of the reliability
                                  characteristics of a family of lifetime
                                  distributions based on records . . . . . 5245--5264
                 Nora Saadi and   
               Smail Adjabi and   
                 Lamia Djerroud   On the estimation of the quantile
                                  density function by orthogonal series    5265--5289
          Michael J. Brusco and   
           J. Dennis Cradit and   
                  Susan Brudvig   An integrated dominance analysis and
                                  dynamic programing approach for
                                  measuring predictor importance for
                                  customer satisfaction  . . . . . . . . . 5290--5307
                  Chen Chen and   
                   Panpan Zhang   Characterizations of asymptotic
                                  distributions of continuous-time Pólya
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5308--5321
                    Jun Jin and   
                Chenyan Hao and   
                     Tiefeng Ma   B-spline estimation for partially linear
                                  varying coefficient composite quantile
                                  regression models  . . . . . . . . . . . 5322--5335
          Chandi Ram Kalita and   
               Gautam Choudhury   Analysis of an unreliable M$^X$ /$ G_1
                                  \over G_2$ /1/ repeated service queue
                                  with delayed repair under randomized
                                  vacation policy  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5336--5369
                    Lin Dai and   
                 Junhui Yin and   
               Zhengfen Xie and   
                     Liucang Wu   Robust variable selection in finite
                                  mixture of regression models using the
                                  $t$ distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 5370--5386
    Muhammad Nouman Qureshi and   
               Sadia Khalil and   
             Chang-Tai Chao and   
                 Muhammad Hanif   Estimation of rare and clustered
                                  population variance in adaptive cluster
                                  sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5387--5400
               Pingyan Chen and   
                   Soo Hak Sung   Weak laws of large numbers for
                                  nonnegative independent random variables
                                  without finite means . . . . . . . . . . 5401--5413
                  H. Naderi and   
                 P. Matu\la and   
                   M. Amini and   
                   H. Ahmadzade   A version of the Kolmogrov--Feller weak
                                  law of large numbers for maximal
                                  weighted sums of random variables  . . . 5414--5418
Raúl Pérez-Fernández and   
               Bernard De Baets   The sample monomode and an associated
                                  test for discrete monomodality . . . . . 5419--5426

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 22, 2019

             Mohammed El Genidy   Multiple nonlinear regression of the
                                  Markovian arrival process for estimating
                                  the daily global solar radiation . . . . 5427--5444
      Dário Ferreira and   
         Sandra S. Ferreira and   
         Célia Nunes and   
             Miguel Fonseca and   
           João T. Mexia   Chisquared and related inducing pivot
                                  variables: an application to orthogonal
                                  mixed models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5445--5466
            Ying-Ying Zhang and   
            Teng-Zhong Rong and   
                     Man-Man Li   Expectation identity for the binomial
                                  distribution and its application in the
                                  calculations of high-order binomial
                                  moments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5467--5476
                Farag Hamad and   
         Nezamoddin N. Kachouie   A hybrid method to estimate the full
                                  parametric hazard model  . . . . . . . . 5477--5491
                    Aris Spanos   Near-collinearity in linear regression
                                  revisited: The numerical vs. the
                                  statistical perspective  . . . . . . . . 5492--5516
                 Eiji Nakashima   Impact of additive covariate error on
                                  linear model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5517--5529
           Hamed Haselimashhadi   A unified class of penalties with the
                                  capability of producing a differentiable
                                  alternative to $ l_1 $ norm penalty  . . 5530--5545
Hasthika S. Rupasinghe Arachchige Don and   
                 David J. Olive   Bootstrapping analogs of the one way
                                  MANOVA test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5546--5558
            W. A. Hassanein and   
                    M. M. Seyam   Construction of some compound criteria
                                  via $A$-optimality . . . . . . . . . . . 5559--5570
                    S. Fani and   
                M. A. Pasha and   
             M. Bameni Moghadam   A new approach to optimal design of
                                  control charts based on change point
                                  estimation and total time on test plot   5571--5584
                    Wei Liu and   
                Linxiao Wei and   
                       Yijun Hu   Multivariate convex risk statistics with
                                  scenario analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 5585--5601
                    Gang He and   
                 Wenqing Wu and   
                 Yuanyuan Zhang   Performance analysis of machine repair
                                  system with single working vacation  . . 5602--5620
                Hong-Xia Xu and   
              Guo-Liang Fan and   
               Cheng-Xin Wu and   
                 Zhen-Long Chen   Statistical inference for
                                  varying-coefficient partially linear
                                  errors-in-variables models with missing
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5621--5636
           Mitsuru Tamatani and   
                    Kanta Naito   High dimensional asymptotics for the
                                  naive Hotelling $ T^2 $ statistic in
                                  pattern recognition  . . . . . . . . . . 5637--5656
                Sumei Zhang and   
                Guangdong Zhang   An analytical approximation method for
                                  pricing barrier options under the double
                                  Heston model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5657--5671

Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods
Volume 48, Number 23, 2019

             Madelyn Houser and   
                   Pak-Wing Fok   Convergence of sums of dependent
                                  Bernoulli random variables: an
                                  application from portfolio theory  . . . 5673--5681
           W\lodzimierz Wysocki   Sampling from Archimedean $n$-copulas    5682--5700
                       Lei Wang   Multiple robustness estimation in causal
                                  inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5701--5718
              Jiajuan Liang and   
               Man-Lai Tang and   
                   Xuejing Zhao   Testing high-dimensional normality based
                                  on classical skewness and kurtosis with
                                  a possible small sample size . . . . . . 5719--5732
                 Wenjie Lou and   
              Erin L. Abner and   
                  Lijie Wan and   
             David W. Fardo and   
             Richard Lipton and   
                 Mindy Katz and   
             Richard J. Kryscio   Estimation of multi-state models with
                                  missing covariate values based on
                                  observed data likelihood . . . . . . . . 5733--5747
                  Xuyang He and   
             Yuexiang Jiang and   
                   Jiazhen Wang   High-order data sharpening with
                                  dependent errors for regression bias
                                  reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5748--5755
                Ho-Lan Peng and   
       Andrew Aschenbrenner and   
         Kirk von Sternberg and   
         Patricia D. Mullen and   
                    Wenyaw Chan   A continuous-time Markov chain approach
                                  with the analytic likelihood in studies
                                  of behavioral changes  . . . . . . . . . 5756--5765
Engakkattu Purushothaman Sreedevi and   
    Paduthol Godan Sankaran and   
                     Isha Dewan   Comparison of cumulative incidence
                                  functions of current status competing
                                  risks data with discrete observation
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5766--5776
            Niharika Yennum and   
          Stephen A. Sedory and   
                Sarjinder Singh   Improved strategy to collect sensitive
                                  data by using geometric distribution as
                                  a randomization device . . . . . . . . . 5777--5795
    Edilberto Nájera and   
          Federico O'Reilly and   
            Silvia Ruiz-Velasco   Fiducial distribution in a power series
                                  family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5796--5808
         Panayiotis Theodossiou   Skewed type III generalized logistic
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5809--5819
     Josué M. Corujo and   
José E. Valdés and   
                  Juan C. Laria   Stochastic comparisons of two-unit
                                  repairable systems . . . . . . . . . . . 5820--5838
            Mitsuhiro Odaki and   
                         Min Li   Johansen cointegration rank tests under
                                  local alternative hypotheses when
                                  related drift or linear trend is not
                                  dependent upon sample size in VARs . . . 5839--5849
               Zailei Cheng and   
                  Youngsoo Seol   Precise deviations for Cox processes
                                  with a shot noise intensity  . . . . . . 5850--5861
                Ming Ha Lee and   
             Michael B. C. Khoo   Economic-statistical design of synthetic
                                  double sampling $ T^2 $ chart  . . . . . 5862--5876
Wilfrido J. Paredes-García and   
 Eduardo Castaño-Tostado   Optimal designs for estimating a choice
                                  hierarchy by a general nested
                                  multinomial logit model  . . . . . . . . 5877--5888
                    Rui Xia and   
               Qiuyue Zhang and   
                   Xiaoyan Deng   Multiscale Gaussian convolution
                                  algorithm for estimate of Gaussian
                                  mixture model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5889--5910
Seyedeh Azadeh Fallah Mortezanejad and   
Gholamreza Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
       Bahram Sadeghpour Gildeh   An entropic structure in capability
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                  Yige Wang and   
                  Nan Zhang and   
                   Zhuo Jin and   
                    Tin Long Ho   Pricing longevity-linked derivatives
                                  using a stochastic mortality model . . . 5923--5942
               Abdelaziz Ghribi   On the UMVU estimator for the
                                  generalized variance of the multinomial
                                  family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5943--5952
               Janusz Gajda and   
       Agnieszka Wylomanska and   
                     Arun Kumar   Fractional Lévy stable motion
                                  time-changed by gamma subordinator . . . 5953--5968
                Jingwei Cai and   
                Quanxin Zhu and   
                  Ping Chen and   
                        Xia Mei   Central limit theorems of range-based
                                  estimators for diffusion models  . . . . 5969--5984
                 Hongqi Xue and   
                 Arun Kumar and   
                       Hulin Wu   Parameter estimation for semiparametric
                                  ordinary differential equation models    5985--6004
               Xiaomeng Niu and   
              Hyunkeun Ryan Cho   Efficient regression modeling for
                                  correlated and overdispersed count data  6005--6018
               Zhongqin Gao and   
                     Jingmin He   The Gerber--Shiu function for the
                                  compound Poisson Omega model with a
                                  three-step premium rate  . . . . . . . . 6019--6037
          Shyamsundar Parui and   
            Rajender Parsad and   
               B. N. Mandal and   
                   Sukanta Dash   Block designs for incomplete factorial
                                  treatment structures with two factors    6038--6053
             Fareeha Rashid and   
                 Atif Akbar and   
                    Zahra Zafar   Some new third order designs robust to
                                  one missing observation  . . . . . . . . 6054--6062
                Yongxiu Cao and   
                Yueyong Shi and   
                     Jichang Yu   Statistical inference for the
                                  accelerated failure time model under
                                  two-stage generalized case-cohort design 6063--6079
             Leena Kulkarni and   
                 Sanjeev Sabnis   Construction of optimal reliability test
                                  plans for multi-state coherent systems
                                  of type 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6080--6097
                    Yun Liu and   
                    Yeonwoo Rho   On the choice of instruments in mixed
                                  frequency specification tests  . . . . . 6098--6118
               Yoel G. Yera and   
 Carlos A. Fernández and   
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                  Ying Fang and   
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                 Hongli Liu and   
                        Tong Li   Pareto-optimal reinsurance for both the
                                  insurer and the reinsurer with general
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           Oskar Gustafsson and   
           Pär Stockhammar   Variance stabilizing filters . . . . . . 6155--6168
                  Ke-Ang Fu and   
                         Jie Li   Asymptotic ruin probabilities for a
                                  bidimensional risk model with
                                  heavy-tailed claims and non-stationary
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           Krzysztof Jasi\'nski   Weak $k$-th records from geometric
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                                  C. Xavier, D. Trindade, and G. M.
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