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INFERENCE

Estimating Scale and Truncation Parameters for the Truncated Exponential Distribution with Type I Censored Sampling ... 1
S. Blumenthal and R. C. Dahiya

On Some One-parameter Families where Maximal Invariants do not Distinguish Hypothesized Models ... 23
N. Mukhopadhyay

Estimating Population Size in Logistic Capture-recapture Models with a Known Sex Ratio ... 37
L. Zhang, L. Liu and N. You

Step Contrasts for Identifying the Minimum Effective Dose ... 45
S-L. Jan

Semiparametric Density Estimators using Copulas ... 59
E Liebscher

Inference for the Scaled Half-logistic Distribution Based on Progressively Type-II Censored Samples ... 73
N. Balakrishnan and A. Asgharzadeh

DISTRIBUTION THEORY

Sums, Products, and Ratios of Noncentral Beta Variables ... 89
S. Nadarajah

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Inference for Variance Components in a Mixed Model for Unbalanced Split Plot Design ... 101
B. Güven

An Alternative Method for Estimating the Variance Components in a Replicated Crossover Study ... 113
G. Jiang and J. Wu

Some Methods of Constructing Generalized Group Divisible Designs with Two Groups ... 127
S. K. Srivastav and A. Shankar

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

Robust Reduced Rank Mixture Discriminant Analysis ... 135
S. Bashir and E. M. Carter

Robust Inference for the Correlation Coefficient -- A Parametric Method ... 147
T-S. Tsou

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

Nonstationary Data Analysis by Time Deformation ... 163
H. L. Gray, C-P. C. Vijverberg and W. A. Woodward

Probabilistic Properties of a Nonlinear ARMA Process with Markov Switching ... 193
O. Lee

STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL

Bayesian and Shrinkage Estimation of Process Capability Index C_p ... 205 
H. P. Singh and S. Saxena

On Statistical Design of the S² Control Chart ... 229
L. Zhang, M. S. Bebbington, C. D. Lai and K. Govindaraju

Distributions and Models

Implicit Distributions and Estimation ... 245
A. Hassairi, C. C. Kokonendji and A. Masmoudi

On the Moments of the Exponential Weibull Distribution ... 253
S. Nadarajah and A. K. Gupta

Inference

Adjusted profile likelihood for Two-parameter Exponential Family Models ... 257
S. L. P. Ferrari, M. Ferreira da Silva and F. Cribari-Neto

Estimation and Inference in Complex Triparametric Pearson Distributions ... 277
J. Rodríguez-Avi, A. Conde-Sánchez, A. J. Sáez-Castillo and M. J. Olm Jiménez

Assessment of a Preliminary F-test solution to the Behrens-Fisher Problem ... 291
P. Kabaila

Bayesian Inference

Bayesian Inference of Scale Parameters in Exponential Family using Conditionally Specified Priors ... 303
P. Moschopoulos and N. Sha

Extreme Values and Inference

Revisiting the Role of the Jackknife Methodology in the Estimation of a Positive Tail Index ... 319
M. I. Gomes, H. Pereira and M. C. Souto de Miranda

Estimation of Tails and Related Quantities using the Number of Near-extremes ... 337
E. Hashorva and J. Hüsler

Outliers and Robustness

Bayes Methods for Outliers in Binomial Samples ... 351
N. Sothinathan and L. I. Pettit

Regression and Linear Models

Pitman Nearness Comparison of the Traditional Estimator of the Coefficient of Determination and its Adjusted Version in Linear Regression Models ... 367
J. P. Keating and R. L. Mason

Estimation of Linear Regression Models with Missing Data: The Role of Stochastic Linear Constraints ... 375
Shalabh and H. Toutenburg

Empirical Likelihood in partial Linear Error-in-covariable Model with Censored Data ... 389
M. Zheng and S. Li

Design of Experiments

A Step-down Test for Effects in Unreplicated Factorial Designs ... 405
S. Holm, S. Mark and T. Adolfsson

Supersaturated Latin Hypercube Designs ... 417
N. A. Butler

Survival Analysis and Reliability

Effects of Different Hazard Ratios on Asymptotic Relative Efficiency of Estimates from Cox's Model ... 429
J-H. Jeong and D. Oakes

Estimators for Survival Function when Censoring Times are Known ... 449
J. Wang and Y. Li

Asymptotic Properties of Estimators in a Model of Life Data with Warnings ... 461
H. Lindkvist and Y. Belyaev

A Note on the Mean Residual Life Function of a Parallel System ... 475
M. Asadi and I. Bayramoglu

STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL

Estimation Process Capability Indices Based on Subsamples for Asymmetric Tolerances ... 485
M. H. Shu and K. S. Chen

Distributions and Models

Accurate RMM-based Approximations for the CDF of the Normal Distribution ... 507
H. Shore

Distribution of a Sum of Weighted Central Chi-square Variables ... 515
A. Castanño-Martínez and F. López-Bláquez

Incomplete Exponential and Hypergeometric Functions with Applications to the Non-central χ²-Distribution ... 525
M. A. Chaudhry and A. Qadir

Properties of Binary Data Generated from a Truncated Gaussian Random Field ... 537
P-S. Lin and M. K. Clayton

Inference

Comparison of Poisson Confidence Intervals ... 545
J. Byrne and P. Kabaila

Analysis of Long-tailed Count Data by Poisson Mixtures ... 557
R. C. Gupta and S. H. Ong

Reconciling Classical and Prior Predictive P-values in the Two-sided Location Parameter Testing Problem ... 575
J. de la Horra

Computational Methods and Algorithms

An Extension of the Metropolis Algorithm ... 585
S. S. Wu and M. T. Wells

Sampling Theory

A New Ratio Estimator in Stratified Random Sampling ... 597
C. Kadilar and H. Cingi

Regression Analysis

Automatic Smoothing for Poisson Regression ... 603
M. Yuan

A Note on Prediction Error with Collinearity ... 619
W. J. Fu

Linear Models and Design of Experiments

Estimation-equivalent covariance structures for the Least Squares and Minque Estimators of the Linear Model Variance ... 625
D. M. Young, S. M. Scariano and C. R. Hallum

Best Unbiased Estimation in Unbalanced Split Plot Designs ... 631
S. S. Wulff

Multiple Comparisons

Multiple Comparisons with the Best Control in a One-way Layout ... 651
J. D. Spurrier

Reliability

On Empirical Bayes Testing for Reliability ... 661
T. Liang

Multivariate Analysis

Confidence Regions for the Mean Direction of the von Mises-Fisher Distribution ... 671
Y. Watamori and T. Fujioka

Series Representation of Non-null distribution of the Square of Sample Multiple Correlation Coefficient by use of the Mellin Integral Transform ... 679
S. B. Nandi and S. Choudhury

Nonparametric Statistics

Wavelet Like Behavior of Slepian Functions and Their use in Density Estimation ... 687
G. G. Walter and X. Shen

PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS

Hoeffding's Inequality for Stopped Martingales and Semi-Markov Processes ... 713
N. Limnios and M-L. T. Lee

Quality Control

Robustness of the Variable Sample Size and Control Limit X Chart to Non-normality ... 721
Y-C. Lin and C-Y. Chou

Distributions and Models

On the Moments of the 4-Parameter Lognormal Distribution ... 745
M. R. Flynn

Inference

A Confidence Interval and Test for the Mean of an Asymmetric Distribution ... 753
R. Willink

A Simple Measure of the Efficiency of a Buehler Confidence Limit ... 767
P. Kabaila and C. J. Lloyd

Order Statistics and Records

Applications of Order Statistics of Independent Non-identically Distributed Random Variables in Estimation ... 775
N. K. Sajeevkumar and P. Yageen Thomas

Estimation Based on Generalized Order Statistics from the Burr Model ... 785
Z. F. Jaheen

Estimation and Prediction in a Two Parameter Exponential Distribution Based on k-Record Values Under LINEX Loss Function ... 795
J. Ahmadi , M. Doostparast and A. Parsian

Bayesian Inference

On the Value of Imprecise Prior Information ... 807
B. C. Arnold and J. A. Villasenor

Regression Analysis

Regression Function Estimation using Spline Wavelets ... 823
Md. K. Uddin and U.V. Naik-Nimbalkar

Design of Experiments

Confidence Intervals on Sum of Variance Components with Unbalanced Designs ... 833
X. Li and G. Li

Multivariate Analysis

Some New Results on the Multinomial Randomized Response Model ... 847
J-M. Kim and W. D. Warde

Tests Concerning Equicorrelation Matrices with Grouped Normal Data ... 857
P. S. Gill, S. G. Banneheka and T. B. Swartz

Estimation of the Correlation Coefficient Using Bivariate Ranked Set Sampling with Application to the Bivariate Normal Distribution ... 875
M. F. Al-Saleh and A. M. Samawi

Time Series Analysis

Calculation of the Fisher Information Matrix for Periodic ARMA Models ... 891
M. Bentarzi and A. Aknouche

Modeling Bivariate Threshold Autoregressive Processes in the Presence of Missing Data ... 905
F. H. Nieto

Nonparametric Statistics

On Improving Kernel Estimators Using Line Transect Sampling ... 931
O. M. Eidous

Asymptotic Properties of the ISE in Nonparametric Regressions with Serially Correlated Errors ... 943
X. Wu, J. You and X. Zhou

Health Statistics

Multi-centre Clinical Trials with Random Enrollment Theoretical Approximations ... 955
V. Fedorov, B. Jones, C. M. Jones and A. Zhigljavsky

Processes and Applications

Empirical Estimator of Stationary Distribution for Semi-Markov Processes ... 987
N. Limnios, B. Ouhbi and A. Sadek

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor ... 997
J-K. Choi

Distributions, Models and Applications

The Distribution of a Ratio of Quadratic Forms in Noncentral Normal Variables ... 999
G. Forchini

On the General Class of Two Sided Power Distribution ... 1009
O. E. Oruç and I. Bayramoğlu

Sampling Formulae Arising from Random Dirichlet Populations ... 1019
T. Huillet

Inference

Third-order Asymptotic Distributions of Classic Test Statistics for One-parameter Exponential Family Models ... 1014
G. M. Cordeiro and S. L. P. Ferrari

Tail Index Estimation in Models of Generalized Order Statistics ... 1057
F. Marohn

Estimating Extreme Quantiles of Weibull Tail-distributions ... 1065
L. Gardes and S. Girard

Statistical Inference for Partially Hidden Markov Models ... 1081
L. Bordes and P. Vandekerkhove

A Closed Testing Procedure for Canonical Correlations ... 1105
T. Caliński and M. Krzyśko

A Note on Robustness of Normal Variance Estimators Under t-Distributions ... 1117
J-J. Lin and N. Pal

Bayesian Inference

Estimation of a Gamma Scale Parameter Under Asymptotic Squared Log Error Loss ... 1127
N. Sanjari Farsipour and H. Zakerzadeh

A Bayes Empirical Bayes Decision Rule for Classification ... 1137
T. F. Li and T-C. Yen

Design of Experiments

Optimal Experimental Designs for Multilevel Logistic Models with Two Binary Predictors ... 1151
M. Moerbeek and C. J. M. Maas

Quick, Easy, and Powerful Analysis of Unreplicated Factorial Designs ... 1169
M. A. F. Aboukalam

Regression Analysis and Time Series

Choosing Ridge Parameter for Regression Problems ... 1177
G. Khalaf and G. Shukur

Inference About the First-order Autoregressive Coefficient ... 1183
S. B. Provost and D. Sanjel

Reliability Analysis

Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for the Number of Spares Required for a Renewable System ... 1203
V. Bagdonavičius, A. Bikelis and V. Kazakevičius

On Reliability Estimation Based on Ranked Set Sampling ... 1213
M.E. Ghitany

Survival Analysis

Monotonic Estimators for the Survival Function of Quality Adjusted Lifetime ... 1217
M. Almanassra, J. Wang and S. Jeyaratnam

A Latent Changepoint Model using a Generalized Estimating Equations Approach ... 1233
J-H. Lee and B. F. Qaqish

Letter to the Editor

Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimators for Autoregressive Models ... 1243
A. D. Akkaya and M. L. Tiku

Guest Editors

Pinyuen Chen, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Lifang Hsu, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York
S. Panchapakesan, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

PREFACE ... 1245

Ranking and Selection

On Selecting Among Treatments with Binomial Outcomes ... 1247
E. Buzaianu and P. Chen

A New Approach to Determine the Pilot Sample in Two-Stage Sampling ... 1265
N. Mukhopadhyay

Restricted Subset Selection Procedures for Normal Means: A Brief Review with A Fresh Look at the Classical Formulations of Bechhofer and Gupta ... 1275
S. Panchapakesan

Estimation and Hypothesis Testing

Point and Interval Estimation for Bivariate Normal Distribution Based on Progressively Type-II Censored Data ... 1297
N. Balakrishnan and J.-A. Kim

A Sequential Multi-Hypothesis Test for the Mean Function of a Discrete-Time Gaussian Process ... 1349
Y. L. Tong

Group Testing

Group Testing with a Goal in Estimating the Number of Defects under Imperfect Environmental Stress Screen Levels ... 1363
L. Hsu

Data Visualization

Data Visualization by Pairwise Distortion Minimization ... 1379
M. Sobel and L. J. Latecki

Applications of Dirichlet Integrals

Solutions of Some Birthday Problems Using Dirichlet Integrals ... 1393
K. S. Frankowski and M. Sobel

Graph Theory and Reliability

You May Rely on the Reliability Polynomial for Much More Than You Might Think ... 1411
J. Garver and M. Sobel

Random Accessibility As A Parallelism to Reliability Studies in Simple Graphs ... 1423
M. Ebneshahrashoob, T. Gao and M. Sobel

DISTRIBUTION THEORY

New Families of Copulas Based on Periodic Functions ... 1437
A. Alfonsi and D. Brigo

Strong Approximation of Quantile Function for Strong Mixing and Censored Processes ... 1449
E. Ould-Saïd and O. Sadki

INFERENCE

On Two Forms of Fisher's Measure of Information ... 1461
T. Papaioannou and K. Ferentinos

Consistency of ML Estimators in Finite Mixture Models of the Union of W-Type Families ... 1471
N. Atienza, J. García-Heras and J. Muñoz-Pichardo

Characterization of Ridge Trace Behavior ... 1487
R. Zhang and G.C. McDonald

Order-Preserving Estimators and an Inequality on the Integration of Zonal Polynomial ... 1503
Y. Sheena

Inference on the Common Variance of Correlated Normal Random Variables ... 1517
D.J. Ghezzi and S. Zacks

SAMPLING THEORY

A Variance Estimator for Systematic Sampling From a Deliberately Ordered Population ... 1533
Y. G. Berger

A Conditionally Unbiased Estimator for the Equal-Catchability Model ... 1543
I.B.J. Goudie and J. Ashbridge

RANKING AND SELECTION METHODOLOGY

A Subset Selection Procedure for Selecting the Exponential Population having the Longest Mean Lifetime when the Guarantee Times are the Same ... 1555
N. Misra, S. Kumar, E. C. van der Meulen and Y. M. Tripathi

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Construction of Nested Pairwise Efficiency and Variance Balanced Designs ... 1571
S. Kageyama, S. Rudra and S. Banerjee

Optimal Designs for Best Linear Unbiased Prediction in Diallel Crosses ... 1579
H. Ghosh and A. Das

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

On Efficient AR Spectral Estimation for Long-Range Predictions ... 1587
A. Karagrigoriou and F. Vonta

NONPARAMETRIC INFERENCE

Some Results on Nonparametric Calibration ... 1605
P. Misquitta and F.H. Ruygmgaart

Rank Test of Location Optimal For Hyperbolic Secant Distribution ... 1617
O.Y. Kravchuk

SEQUENTIAL INFERENCE

Sequential Comparison of Two Treatments Using Weighted Wald Type Statistics ... 1631
A. Hussein

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

Reliability of a Stress-Strength Model with Burr Type III Distributions ... 1643
N.A. Mokhlis

SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

Smoothing Techniques for the Bivariate Kaplan-Meier Estimator ... 1659
W. Bae, H. Choi, B.U. Park and C. Kim

Nonparametric Bivariate Estimation with Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data ... 1675
P. Shen

Erratum ... 1687

ESTIMATION

Estimation of the Generalized Lambda Distribution Parameters for Grouped Data ... 1689
A. Tarsitano

Nonparametric Estimation of Distribution Functions of Nonstandard Mixtures ... 1711
A. M. Polansky

REGRESSION ANALYSIS

Generalized Liu Type Estimators Under Zellner's Balanced Loss Function ... 1725
F. Akdeniz, A. T. K. Wan and E. Akdeniz

On Variation Estimation in Semiparametric Regression Models ... 1737
F. Cheng

ANALYSIS OF CONTINGENCY TABLES

Bayesian Analysis of Contingency Tables ... 1743
M. A. Gómez-Villegas and B. González Pérez

Catanova for Two Way Contingency Tables with Ordinal Variables using Orthogonal Polynomials ... 1755
L. D'Ambra, E. J. Beh and P. Amenta

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

Statistical Analysis of General Degradation Path Model and Failure Time Data with Multiple Failure Modes ... 1771
V. Bagdonavičius, F. Haghighi and M. Nikulin

SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

Cox's Regression Model Under Partially Informative Censoring ... 1793
R. Braekers and N. Veraverbeke

Distribution of Renewal Variables when Renewal Process Reaches a Special Event ... 1813
R. Song and J. M. Karon

Modeling Unequally Spaced Bivariate Growth Curve Data using a Kalman Filter Approach ... 1821
Q. Dang, S. Anderson, L. Tan and S. Mazumdar

Moments of the Product-Limit Estimator Under Left-Truncation and Right-Censoring ... 1833
Y-T. Hwang

NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS

Improved Upper Bounds for Hollander's Mu and Lehmann's Lambda ... 1851
J. D. Spurrier

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

A New Approach for Detecting Multivariate Outliers ... 1857
S. Gao, G. Li and D. Wang

DISTRIBUTIONS AND APPLICATIONS

A Three-Parameter Asymmetric Laplace Distribution and its Extension ... 1867
K. Yu and J. Zhang

Estimation and Simulation of the Riesz-Bessel Distribution ... 1881
V. V. Anh, R. McVinish and C. Pesee

ORDER STATISTICS

Bounds for L-Statistics from Weakly Dependent Samples of Random Length ... 1899
M. Kaluszka and A. Okolewski

Sharp Bounds for Generalized Order Statistics via Logarithmic Moments ... 1911
M. Kaluszka and A. Okolewski

Concomitants in a Sequence of Independent Nonidentically Distributed Random Vectors ... 1925
S. Eryilmaz

INFERENCE

Change Point Detection in a General Class of Distributions ... 1935
R. Habibi, S. M. Sadooghi-Alvandi and A. R. Nematollahi

A Pointwise Estimator for the K-Fold Convolution of a Distribution Function ... 1939
H. Aydoğdu

REGRESSION ANALYSIS

A Note on Directional Dependence in Regression Setting ... 1957
E. A. Sungur

Some Observations on Copula Regression Functions ... 1967
E. A. Sungur

LINEAR MODELS

Analysis of Linear Models with One Factor Having Both Fixed and Random Levels ... 1979
P. M. Njuho and G. A. Milliken

Generalized Linear Latent Variable Modeling for Multi-Group Studies ... 1991
J. C. Eickhoff and Y. Amemiya

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Optimal One-Way Random Effects Designs for the Intraclass Correlation Based on Confidence Intervals ... 2009
B. D. Burch and I. R. Harris

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

Influence Analysis in Principal Component Analysis through Power-Series Expansion ... 2025
A. Enguix-González, J. M. Muñoz-Pichardo, J. L. Moreno-Rebollo and R. Pino-Mejías

Alternative Procedures to Discriminate Nonnested Multivariate Linear Regression Models ... 2047
M. I. Araújo, M. Fernandes, B. de Bragança Pereira

STATISTICS IN HEALTH

A Multiple State Model for Disability using the Decomposition of Death Probabilities and Cross-Sectional Data ... 2063
I. Albarran, M. Ayuso, M. Guillén and M. Monteverde

Nonparametric Estimation and Hypothesis Testing on the Partial Area under Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves ... 2077
A. Liu, E. F. Schisterman and C. Wu

DISTRIBUTIONS AND APPLICATIONS

A General Class of Distributions -- Properties and Applications ... 2089
P. G. Sankaran and R. D. Gupta

Integral Representation of a Distribution Associated with a Pure Birth Process ... 2097
K. G. Janardan

ORDER STATISTICS

Some Properties of Order Statistics when The Sample Size is Random ... 2105
A. K. Nanda, N. Misra, P. Paul and H. Singh

ESTIMATION

A Note on the Pitman Estimator of Ordered Normal Means when the Variances are Unequal ... 2115
S. Kumar, A. Kumar and Y. M. Tripathi

INFERENCE

A Similarity Measure Based on Species Proportions ... 2123
J. C. Yue and M. K. Clayton

Stratification: Measuring and Inference ... 2133
E. Schechtman

Tests for Equality of Parameters of Two Exponential Distributions with Common Known Coefficient of Variation ... 2147
B. R. Handa and N. S. Kambo

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

The Design of Scoring Schemes for Surveys Using the Block Total Response Method ... 2157
N. F. Smith

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

Reliability Characteristics of the Maxwell Distribution: A Bayes Estimation Study ... 2169
A. Bekker and J. J. J. Roux

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

A Generalization of Hotelling's T²  ... 2179
B. Jørgensen and J. Rajeswaran

STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

On Erlang(2) Risk Process Perturbed by Diffusion ... 2197
K. C. Yuen, H. Yang and R. Wang

INFERENCE

Convergence Rates of Empirical Bayes Estimation for the Parameter of the Uniform Distribution U(0,θ) under Random Censorship ... 2209
L. Wang

Bayesian MLE and GMM Estimation of a Spot Rate Model ... 2221
X. Qian, R. Ashizawa and H. Tsurumi

Pitman Estimator to Pareto Scale Parameters ... 2235
T. Srivastava and H. Gupta

RANKING AND SELECTION METHODOLOGY

Estimating Average Worth of the Selected Subset from Two-Parameter Exponential Populations ... 2257
A.K. Gangopadhyay and S. Kumar

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

A Decomposition of Copulas and Its Use ... 2269
E. A. Sungur and P. Ng

Copula-based Models for the Power of Independence Tests ... 2283
D. De Martini and E. Vespa

A New Method for Statistical Multidimensional Unfolding ... 2299
M. J. Hinich

SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

Bayesian Model Choice in Exponential Survival Models ... 2311
Y. Chung, D.K. Dey, M. Kim and C. Kim

STATISTICS IN HEALTH

A Note on Sample Size Determination for Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) Approach to Clinical Data Analysis ... 2331
A. Yafune, M. Narukawa and M. Ishiguro

ORDERED DATA AND ANALYSIS

A Characterization of Geometric Distribution Through kth Weak Records ... 2345
A. Dembinska and Fernando López-Blázquez

Bayesian Prediction for Progressively Type-II Censored Data from the Rayleigh Model ... 2353
M. A. M. Ali Mousa and S. A. Al-Sagheer