Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

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Volume 30, Issue 7

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Volume 30, Issue 10

Volume 30, Issue 11

Volume 30, Issue 12


Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

Table of Contents, Volume 30, Issue 3, 2001

Title / Author(s)

Qualification of Incompatibility of Conditional and Marginal Information ... 381
Barry C. Arnold, Enrique Castillo and José María Sarabia

Tests for Exponentiality Against Gamma Alternatives Using Normalized Waiting Times ... 397
K. Muralidharan

On Exact Inference for Change in a Poisson Sequence ... 407
H. Boudjellaba, B. MacGibbon and P. Sawyer

Local Influence in Nonlinear Reproductive Dispersion Models ... 435
Nian-Sheng Tang, Bo-Cheng Wei and Xue-Ren Wang

On the Common Scale Parameter of Several Pareto Populations in Censored Samples ... 451
Chun Jin and Abdulaziz Elfessi

A Graphical Technique for Detecting Influential Cases in Regression Analysis ... 463
Baibing Li, Elaine B. Martin and A. Julian Morris

Bayesian Analysis of Gumbel Distributed Data ... 485
Richard A. Chechile

Estimation of the Offspring Distribution and the Mean Vector for a Bisexual Galton-Watson Process ... 497
M. González, M. Molina and M. Mota

Estimating Parameters in Autoregressive Models in Non-Normal Situations: Asymmetric Innovations ... 517
Aysen Akkaya and Moti L. Tiku

Induced Cores and Their Use in Robust Parametric Estimation ... 537
Zdenek Fabián

A Nonparametric Test of Changing Conditional Variances in Autoregressive Time Series ... 557
Min Chen and Gemai Chen


Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

Table of Contents, Volume 30, Issue 4, 2001

Title / Author(s)

Testing Model Specification in Seemingly Unrelated Regression Models ...579
Neil H. Timm and Ali A. Al-Subaihi

Equivalence Between Score and Weighted Tests for Survival Curves ... 591
E. Letón and P. Zuluaga

The Asymptotic Joint Distribution of the Yule-Walker Estimators of a Casual Multidimensional AR Process ... 609
Byoung Seon Choi

The Analysis of Discrete Choice Experiments with Correlated Error Structure ... 615
George Montopoli and Donald A. Anderson

Assessing Familial Aggregation with an Ordinal Response ... 627
Amita K. Manatunga and John M. Williamson

Estimation Procedures for Categorical Survey Data with Nonignorable Nonresponse ... 643
Anthony Y. C. Kuk, T. K. Mak and W. K. Li

Calculating the Optimal Sample Size for Binomial Populations ... 665
Athanassios Katsis

Selection of Sample Size for Discrete Feedback Dead-Band Control Schemes ... 679
Alberto Luceño

On the Prediction of Future Failures for a Repairable Equipment Subject to Overhauls ... 691
Gianpaolo Pulcini

Smooth Quantile Processes from Right Censored Data and Construction of Simulataneous Confidence Bands ... 707
Yanqing Sun, Shan Sun and Yuanan Diao

On Bayesian Predictive Moments of Next Record Value Using Three-Parameter Gamma Priors ... 729
Ping-Hung Hsieh

Recurrence Relations for Single and Product Moments of Generalized Order Statistics from Pareto, Generalized Pareto and Burr Distributions ... 739
Piotr Pawlas and Dominik Szynal

Exact Inference in Four-Parameter Generalized Gamma Distributions ... 747
Efthymios G. Tsionas

Test of Fit for the Inverse Gaussian and Gamma Distributions Under Censoring ... 757
K. Anaya and F. O'Reilly

Approximation to Optimal Stopping Rules for Gamma Random Variables with Unknown Location and Scale Parameters ... 775
Juei-Chao Chen and Shen-Ming Lee

Erratum ... 785
Jeffrey T. Terpstra


Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

Table of Contents, Volume 30, Issue 5, 2001

Title / Author(s)

Power Function for Inverse Gaussian Regression Models ... 787
Mammo Woldie, J. Leroy Folks and John P. Chandler

Regression Diagnostic Using Local Influence: A Review ... 799
M. Mercedes Suárez Rancel and Miguel A. Ganzález Sierra

Regression in the Bivariate Poisson Distribution ... 815
Subrahmaniam Kocherlakota and Kathleen Kocherlakota

An Approach to Optimization in Response Surface Methodology ... 827
José A. Díaz-García and Rogelio Ramos-Quiroga

Effect of Missing an Influential Covariate ... 837
Manisha Sane and A. V. Kharshikar

Posterior Analysis of the Multiplicative Heteroscedasticity Model ... 855
Hisashi Tanizaki and Xingyuan Zhang

Multi-Level Factorial Designs with Minimum Numbers of Level Changes ... 875
M. H. Chen and P. C. Wang

Nested Designs with Multivariate Measurement: An Illustration of the Structural Approach to Random Effects Multivariate Analysis of Variance ... 887
Heng Li

Optimal Designs for Binomial Sampling Under a Mixture Hypothesis ... 897
Göran Arnoldsson

Optimality of Nonparametric Tests for Association Between Survival Time and Continuous Covariates ... 913
Karen Leffondré, Joseph Lellouch, Catherine Com-Nougué and Thierry Moreau

On the Likelihood Ratio Test for a Single Model Against the Mixture of Two Known Densities ... 931
Hironori Takeuchi

On Convergence Theorems for Quantiles ...943
Jose M. González-Barrios and Raúl Rueda

Exact and Approximated Relations Between Negative Hypergeometric and Negative Binomial Probabilities ... 957
F. López-Blázquez and B. Salamanca-Miño

Quality Improvement from Disassembly-Reassembly Experiments ... 969
Yisrael Parmet and David M. Steinberg

Letter to the Editor ... 987
Samuel Kotz and Saralees Nadarajah

Response to the Letter to the Editor ... 989
E. Gómez, M. A. Gómez-Villegas and J. M. Marín


Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

Table of Contents, Volume 30, Issue 6, 2001

Title / Author(s)

Nonnormal Regression: Part I, Skew Distributions ... 993
M. Qamarul Islam, Moti L. Tiku and F. Yildirim

Non-Normal Regression: Part II Symmetric Distributions ... 1021
Moti L. Tiku, M. Qamarul Islam and A. Sevtap Selcuk

Long-Range Dependent Common Factor Models: A Bayesian Approach ... 1047
Nan-Jung Hsu, Bonnie K. Ray and F. Jay Breidt

Multi-Frequential Periodogram Analysis and the Detection of Periodic Components in Time Series ... 1063
Pierre Dutilleul

The Symmetric Footrule ... 1099
Ibrahim A. Salama, Dana Quade and Ezz H. Abdelfatteh

Explicit Bayesian Solution for Incomplete Pre-Post Test Problems Using Inverse Bayes Formulae ... 1111
Ming Tan, Guo-Liang Tian and Xiaping Xiong

Csiszar Divergence from Constant Failure Rate Model for Grouped Data ... 1131
Bhaskar Bhattacharya

Bayesian Classification of ARMA Sources with Unknown Order ... 1143
Samir M. Shaarawy, Ahmed L. Daif and Alyaa R. Zahran

Bounds on Bivariate Distribution Functions with Given Margins and Measures of Association ... 1155
Roger B. Nelson, José Juan Quesada-Molina, José Antonio Rodríguez-Lallena and Manuel Úbeda-Flores

A Central Limit Theorem for Testing Exponentiality ...1163
L. C. Zhao and H. Zhang

The Examination and Analysis of Residuals for Some Biased Estimators in Linear Regression ... 1171
Fikri Akdeniz

On System Reliability Under Stress-Strength Modeling ... 1185
Anup Dewanji and Tummala S. Rao

Regression Diagnostics for the Least Absolute Deviations and the Minimax Methods ... 1197
Enrique Castillo, Ali S. Hadi and Beatriz Lacruz

A Simple Variable Selection Technique for Nonlinear Models ... 1227
Gianluigi Rech, Timo Teräsvirta and Rolf Tschernig


Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

Table of Contents, Volume 30, Issue 7, 2001

Title / Author(s)

Kernel Estimation of Residual Entropy ... 1243
F. Belzunce, A. Guillamon, J. Navarro and J.M. Ruiz

A Note on Asymptotic Efficiency of a Regression Coefficient Parameter Under Ordinal Logistic Regression Model ... 1257
Jong-Hyeon Jeong

Local Polynomial Regression Estimation with Correlated Errors ... 1271
M. Francisco-Fernandez and J. M. Vilar-Fernandez

Improved Score Tests for Von Mises Regression Models ... 1295
Lucia P. Barroso, Gauss M. Cordeiro, and Klaus L. P. Vasconcellos

Skewness for Parameters in Generalized Linear Models ... 1317
Herbetes de H. Cordeiro and Gauss M. Cordeiro

Analysis of Variance in Experimental Design with Nonnormal Error Distributions ... 1335
Birdal Senoglu and M. L. Tiku

Bartlett Corrected Likelihood Ratio Tests in Location-Scale Nonlinear Models ... 1353
Gauss M. Cordeiro and Lourdes Coral C. Montenegro

A Conditional Cook's Distance to Assess Influence in Autoregressive Models ...1373
Hua Lin and Andy H. Lee

Bayes Discrete Sequential Boundaries for Clinical Trials ... 1381
Chin-Fu Hsiao and Murray K. Clayton

On Bayes Prediction of Future Median ... 1395
Essam K. AL-Hussaini

Orthogonally Decomposing the Interaction Sum of Squares in Two Factor Experiments When Both Factors are Quantitative: Unbalanced Data and Unequal Spacing ... 1411
Charles J. Monlezun

A New Test of Uniformity Based on Overlapping Sample Spacings ... 1435
Neeraj Misra and Edward C. van der Meulen

Two-Stage Approximation of Expected Reward for Gamma Random Variables ... 1471
Jeng-Fu Liu

Permutation Tests and Other Test Statistics for Ill-Behaved Data Experience of the Ninds t-PA Stroke Trial ... 1481
Mei Lu, Gary Chase and Shuhui Li


Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

Table of Contents, Volume 30, Issue 8 & 9, 2001

Statistics: Reflections on the Past and Visions for the Future.
An International Conference in Honor of Prof C. R. Rao on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

Title / Author(s)

Asymptotic Efficiency of Analysis of Rao's Quadratic Entropy ... 1497
Z. Liu

On the Null Distributions of the Entropy Tests for the Gaussian and Inverse Gaussian Models ...1507
G. S. Mudholkar and L. Tian

Rao's Score Tests in Survival Analysis: Examples and Bartlett Type Adjustments ... 1521
D. Tu

On Some Optimality Properties of Fisher-Rao Score Function in Testing and Estimation ... 1533
A. K. Bera and Y. Bilias

On Asymptotic Properties of a Two Dimensional Frequency Estimator ... 1561
D. Kundu and S. Nandi

A Note on Estimating the Number of Superimposed Exponential Signals by the Cross-Validation Approach ... 1579
Y. Wu, K. W. Tam, M. M. Zen, and F. Li

Minimum Norm Estimation of Variance Components for Life Insurance Data ... 1591
J. Kleffe and R. Norberg

Nonnegative Estimators for the One-Way Random Effects Model ... 1605
P. S. R. S. Rao

A Problem in Ascertainment ...1615
K. J. Keen and R. C. Elston

A Characteristic Measure of Asymmetry and Its Application for Testing DiagonaI Symmetry ... 1633
G. J. Szekely and T. F. Mori

Ranked Set Sampling from Location-Scale Families of Symmetric Distributions ... 1641
R. C. Tiwari and P. H. Kvam

The Sequential Bootstrap: A Comparison with Regular Bootstrap ... 1661
0. J. Shoemaker and P. K. Pathak

New Large Sample and Bootstrap Methods on Shape Spaces in High Level Analysis of Natural Images ... 1675
V. Patrangenaru

Size and Shape as Linear Combinations of Untransformed Measurements ... 1695
R. de Bruin, W. Schaafsma, A. G. M. Steerneman, and G. N. van Vark

Risk Preferences Under Price Uncertainties and Production Risk ... 1715
S. C. Kumbhakar

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Parameters of the Truncated Cauchy Distribution ... 1737
R. C. Dahiya, P. G. Staneski, and N. Rao Chaganty

Multiple Comparisons of Log-Likelihoods and Combining Nonnested Models with Applications to Phylogenetic Tree Selection ... 1751
H. Shimodaira

Sample Size Determination for Multiple Comparisons with Components of a Linear Function of Mean Vectors ... 1773
M. Aoshima

Robust Tests for the Significance of Orthant Restricted Mean Vector ... 1789
G. S. Mudholkar, J. Kost, and P. Subbaiah

Estimation of Familial Correlations Under Autoregressive Circular Covariance ...1811
A. M. Hartley and D. N. Naik

Conditioning vs. Standardization for Contrasts on Errors Attracted to Stable Laws ... 1829
R. LePage and M. Ryznar

On Some Properties of the Quantiles of the Chi-Square Distribution and Their Applications to Interval Estimation ... 1851
C. W. Brain and J. Mi

Bias Reduction and Elimination with Kernel Estimators ... 1869
S. R. Sain

Differential Geometry of ARFIMA Processes ... 1889
N. Ravishanker

Determination of Change Points of Non-monotonic Failure Rates ... 1903
R. C. Gupta and R. Warren

Progressive Interval Censoring: Some Mathematical Results with Applications to Inference ... 1921
R. Aggarwala

The Control Chart for Individual Observations from a Multi-variate Non-normal Distribution ... 1937
Y.-M. Chou, R. L. Mason, and J. C. Young

Variation Reduction and Robust Designs ... 1951
B. Abraham and M. Brajac

Beads, Bags, Bayes, and the Fundamental Problem of Sampling Theory ... 1963
B. C. Arnold


Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

Table of Contents, Volume 30, Issue 10, 2001

Title / Author(s)

An Alternative Parametric Approach for Discrete Missing Data Problems ... 1969
R. H. Lyles, D. J. Taylor, J. J. Hanfel,. and L. L. Kupper

An Examination of Estimated Residuals in a Regression with an Infinite Order Parametric Model ... 1989
Y. Usami and Y. Toyooka

Evaluation of Power of Tests Involving Covariates Under Nonconstant Variance ... 2005
J. M. Jackson and J. E. Hewett

Random Permutation Testing in Multiple Linear Regression ... 2023
M.-H. Huh and M. Jhun

Asymptotic Stability of the OSCV Smoothing Parameter Selection ... 2033
S. Yi

Segmented Dose-Response Models for Repeated Measures Data ... 2045
T. Park

Comparative Calibration with Subgroups ... 2057
K. H. Garcia-Alfaro and H. Bolfarine

Efficiency of Linear Regression Estimators Based on Presmoothing ... 2079
P. Janssen, J. Swanepoel, and N. Veraverbeke

On UMP Invariant F-Test Procedures in a General Linear Model ... 2099
K. Noda and H. Ono

A Nonparametric Test of Symmetry Versus Asymmetry for Ranked-Set Samples ... 2117
O. Ozturk

Testing New Better Than Renewal Used Life Distributions Based on U-Test ... 2135
M. I. Hendi and A. M. Ahouammoh

Optimal Designs for 2^k Paired Comparison Experiments ... 2149
D. J. Street, D. S. Bunch, and B. J. Moore

Importance Bootstrap Resampling for Proportional Hazards Regression ... 2173
K.-A. Do, X. Wang, and B. M. Broom

Comparison of Costs for Multi-stage Group Testing Methods in the Pharmaceutical Industry ... 2189
C. M. Jones and A. A. Zhigljavsky

The Asymptotic Equivalence of the Fisher Information Matrices for Type I and Type II Censored Data from Location-Scale Families ... 2211
L. A. Escobar and W. Q. Meeker

Corrigendum: Time Series Models with Asymmetric Innovations ... 2227
A. D. Akkaya and M. L Tiku

Letters to the Editor ... 2231


Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

Table of Contents, Volume 30, Issue 11, 2001

Selected Papers Presented at the
International Conference on Statistics in the 21st Century

Title / Author(s)

Statistics: Reflections on the Past and Visions for the Future ... 2235
C. R. Rao

On Classification of a Bivariate Binary Observation ... 2259
S. C. Sutradhar and B. Sutradhar

Compositional Time Series Analysis of Mortality Proportions ... 2281
N. Ravishanker, D. K. Dey, and M. Iyengar

Exact Inference for Family Disease Clusters ... 2293
C. Yu and D. Zelterman

Recursive Estimation for Some Biostatistical Time Series ... 2307
A. Thavaneswaran, B. Abraham, and J. Singh

An Extension of the EM Algorithm for Optimization of Constrained Likelihood: An Application in Toxicology ... 2317
M. Razzaghi and R. L. Kodell

Optimal Software Release Policy Based on Markovian Perfect Debugging Model ... 2329
C. H. Lee, K. H. Nam, and D. H. Park

Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test for the Shoulder Condition in Line Transect Sampling ... 2343
S. Zhang

Characterization of Double Exponential Distribution Using Moments of Order Statistics ... 2355
Z. Govindarajulu

The q-Beta-Geometric Distribution as a Model for Fecundability ... 2373
A. W. Kemp

Product Moment Generating Function Technique and Its Applications to Modified Power Series Distributions ... 2385
R. Shanmugam

Properties of the Minimum Point of an Unbalanced Two-Sided Random Walk ... 2393
K. Ding

Cluster Size Distribution of the Non-central Negative Binomial Distribution ... 2415
S. H. Ong and K. K. Toh

Reliability Studies of the Skew-Normal Distribution and Its Application to a Strength-Stress Model ... 2427
R. C. Gupta and N. Brown

Some Results on Reversed Hazard Rate Ordering ... 2447
R. D. Gupta and A. K. Nanda

Accelerated Monte Carlo for Particle Dispersion ... 2459
M. Fitzgerald and R. Picard

Reliability Estimation via Length-Biased Transformation ... 2473
P. S. Sansgiry and O. Akman
 


Communications in Statistics:
Theory and Methods

Table of Contents, Volume 30, Issue 12, 2001

Title / Author(s)

Sample Size Determination for Multiple Many-One and Pairwise Comparisons of Proportions Using the Arcsin Transformation ... 2481
R. Vollandt and M. Horn

Multi-stage Kernel-Hased Conditional Quantile Prediction in TimeSeries ... 2499
J. G. De Gooijer, A. Gannoun, and D. Zerom

A Multivariate Version of Stein's Identity with Applications to Moment Calculations and Estimation of Conditionally Specified Distributions ... 2517
B. C. Arnold, E. Castillo, and J. M. Sarabia

On Estimation Following Selection from Nonregular Distributions ... 2543
N. Misra and E. C. van der Meulen

Applying the Savage-Dickey Density Ratio to Default Hayes Factors, with an lllustration to Outlier Detection in Random Effects Models ... 2563
Y. Chung, D. K. Dey, and S. Lee

An Estimation Procedure for Error Variance Incorporating PTS for Random Effects Model Under LINEX Loss Function ... 2583
R. Srivastava and V. Tanna

Functional Estimation by Asymptotic Regression ... 2601
J. Collins

A Two-Stage Estimation Procedure for Linear Mixed-Effects Models ... 2637
S.-S. Yang, Q. Yu, and M. A. AI-Zaid

Rao's Statistic for the Analysis of Uniform Association in Cross-Classifications ... 2655
M. L. Menendez, J. A. Pardo, and L. Pardo

Optimal Experimental Designs for Multilevel Models with Covariates ... 2683
M. Moerbeek, G. J. P. Van Breukelen, and M. P. F. Berger

Combining the Liu Estimator and the Principal Component Regression Estimator ... 2699
S. Kaciranlar and S. Sakalhoglu

Bayesian Smoothing with Occasional Jumps ... 2707
D. Barry

Letter to the Editor ... 2721

Listing of Referees for Volume 30 ... 2723

Author Index to Volume 30 ... 2727

Subject Index to Volume 30 ... 2733