COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS Theory and Methods
Volume 33, Number 8, 2004
CONTENTS
DISTRIBUTION THEORY The Double Pareto-Lognormal Distribution—A New
Parametric Model for Size Distributions 1733 W. J. Reed and M. Jorgensen
Characterization of the Geometric and Exponential Random
Variables 1755 R. Dodunekova
INFERENCE
A Note on Testing for Serial Correlation in Large Number
of Small Samples Using Tail Probability Approximations 1767 S. Peiris and C. R. Rao
Deficiency of Two Estimators in One-Parameter Exponential
Family of Distributions 1779 S. V. Gudi and B. N. Nagnur
On Bivariate Ranked Set Sampling for Distribution and Quantile Estimation and Quantile Interval Estimation
Using Ratio Estimator 1801 H. M. Samawi and M. F. Al-Saleh
CENSORED DATA AND ANALYSIS On the Fisher Information in Multiply Censored and
Progressively Censored Data 1821 G. Zheng and S. Park
Agreement Among Censored Rankings Using Spearman's
Footrule 1837 /. A. Salama and D. Quade
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BAYESIAN INFERENCE Empirical Bayes Inference for Generalized Exponential
Distribution Based on Records ; 1851 Z. F. Jaheen
A Bayesian Analysis of a Structural Change in the
Parameters of a Time Series 1863 B. Kezim and Z. Abdelli
ROBUST INFERENCE
Maximal Asymptotic Biases of M-Estimators of Location
with Preliminary Scale Estimates 1877 J. R. Collins and D. Szatmari- Voicu
Parametric Robust Regression Analysis of Contaminated
Data 1887 T.-S. Tsou and K.-F. Cheng
Robust Portmanteau TRA Tests and Their Limit
Distribution 1899 H. Allende, N. Lacourly, and S. Torres
NONPARAMETRIC INFERENCE On an Li Consistent Wavelet Density Estimator for the
Deconvolution Problem 1917 S. Lee and R. L. Taylor
Nonparametric Multi-focus Analysis for Categorical
Variables 1931 L. Finos and L. Salmaso
REGRESSION ANALYSIS Improved Empirical Bayes Ridge Regression Estimators
Under Multicollinearity 1943 T Kubokawa and M. S. Srivastava
Comparison of Semiparametric Regression Models for
Correlated Survival Data Using Simulations 1975 T. Lorino, M. Sanaa, S. Robin, andJ.-J. Daudin
