COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS Theory and Methods
Volume 36, No. 5, 2007
ORDERED DATA AND APPLICATIONS How Many Observations Fall in a Neighborhood
of an Order Statistic? 851 A. Dembinska, A. Stepanov, and J. Wesotowski
Asymptotic Normality of Extreme Quantile Estimators Based
on the Peaks-Over-Threshold Approach 869 J. Diebolt, A. Guillou, and P. Ribereau
INFERENCE
On a Test of the Difference Between Two Binomial Proportions 887 Y. Parmet and E. Schechtman
Testing Equality of Order Constrained Inverse Gaussian Means 897 L. Tian and G. S. Mudholkar
BAYESIAN INFERENCE
Bayesian Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Models with Multivariate
Skew t Error Terms 907 S. Tchumtchoua and D. K. Dey
The Superiorities of Bayes Linear Minimum Risk Estimation
in Linear Model 917 L. Wei and W. Zhang
NONPARAMETRIC INFERENCE A Note on the Variances of the Tests of Kendall, Jonckheere,
and Terpstra 927 E. Leton and P. Zuluaga
REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND LINEAR MODELS
Constructive Cross-Validation in Linear Prediction 939 D. J. Spitzner
Consistent Estimation of the Regression Coefficient Through Weighted Arithmetic Mean of the Inconsistent Estimators
in Replicated Ultrastructural Model 955 Shalabh and P.-H. Liau
Admissible Linear Estimators with Respect to Inequality Constraints 961 C.-Y. Lu, J.-H. Wu, and B.-Y. Zhang
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS Spurious Regressions with Time-Series Data:
Further Asymptotic Results 967 D. E. A. Giles
Finite Sample Modifications of the Granger Non Causality Test
in Cointegrated Vector Autoregressions 981 H. Chigira and T. Yamamoto
Sample Entropy Statistics and Testing for Order in Complex
Physiological Signals 1005 J. S. Richman
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Estimation of Sib-Sib Correlation via a Kotz-Type Density Function 1021 A. Helu and D. N. Naik
QUALITY CONTROL Control Charts for the Generalized Variance Based
on Its Predictive Distribution 1031 U. Menzefricke
SAMPLING THEORY
Inverse Sampling with Unequal Selection Probabilities 1039 L. Greco and S. Naddeo
Volume 36, No. 6, 2007
DISTRIBUTIONS AND APPLICATIONS
Characterization Problems Related to the Shepp Property 1049 G. G. Hamedani, H. Volkmer, and J. Wesotowski
Analysis of Experimental Poisson Data 1059 P. C. Wang
INFERENCE
Estimation for Location-Scale Models with Censored Data 1069 X. Lu, R. S. Singh, and A. F. Desmond
M-Estimators Based on Inverse Probability Weighted Estimating
Equations with Response Missing at Random 1091 Q. Wang
Exponential-Bound Property of Estimators and Variable
Selection in Generalized Additive Models 1105 X. Wang and K. C. Carriere
BAYESIAN INFERENCE
Reconciling Bayesian and Frequentist Evidence in the One-Sided
Scale Parameter Testing Problem 1123 A. C. Micheas and D. K. Dey
Bayes Estimation of Shift Point in Geometric Sequence 1139 J. B. Shah and M. N. Patel
NONPARAMETRIC INFERENCE Testing Treatment-Covariate Interaction in a Nonparametric
Analysis of Covariance Model 1153 W. Chen and A. Bathke
Nonparametric Estimation of Average Growth Curve
with General Nonstationary Error Process 1173 K. Benhenni and M. Rachdi
DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS Efficient Block Designs for Dependent Observations—A
Computer-Aided Search 1187 S. K. Satpati, R. Parsad, and V. K. Gupta
Minimax Design for the Difference Between Estimated Responses
for the Quadratic Model Over Hypercubic Regions 1225 S. Huda
ECONOMETRIC METHODS The Estimation and Inference of a Panel Cointegration Model
with a Time Trend 1233 M.-H. Chiang, C. Kao, and C.-H. Lo
RELIABILITY ANALYSIS Adaptive Sequential Preventive Maintenance Policy and
Bayesian Consideration 1251 H. S. Kim, Y. S. Kwon, and D. H. Park
Volume 36, No. 7, 2007 Special Issue on
Ordered Statistical Data: Approximations, Bounds and Characterizations
Guest Editor Ismihan Bairamov
Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey
Preface 1271 Are the Order Statistics Ordered? A Survey of Recent Results 1273 J. Navarro, T. Rychlik, and M. Shaked
On the Influence of Record Terms in the Addition
of Independent Random Variables 1291 I. Akhundov, A. Berred, and V. B. Nevzorov
Exact Distributions of the Number of r-Records
and the r-Record and Inter-r-Record Times 1305 Ch. A. Charalambides
On Characterization of Distributions Through the Properties
of Conditional Expectations of Order Statistics 1319 I. Bairamov and T. Ozkal
The Probability Distribution for the Number of Successes
in Independent Trials 1327 P. J. Boland
Generalized Pareto Distributions Characterized
by Generalized Order Statistics 1333 M. Tavangar and M. Asadi
Projection Bounds on Expectations of Spacings of Generalized
Order Statistics from DD and DDA Families 1343 M. Bieniek
Estimation for the Parameters of the Pareto Distribution
Under Progressive Censoring 1359 C. Kus and M. F. Kaya
Inequalities for Expected Current Record Statistics 1367 M. Z. Raqab
A Review on Characterizations of Discrete Distributions Based
on Records and kth Records 1381 A. Dembinska
Runs in a Bivariate Sequence Over the First Coordinate 1389 S. Eryilmaz and M. Bekci
Comparison of Records and Maxima 1397 A. Impert and T. Rychlik
Order Statistics from the Generalized Exponential Distribution
and Applications 1409 K. S. Sultan
Optimality Criteria and Optimal Schemes in Progressive Censoring 1419 M. Burkschat, E. Cramer, and U. Kamps
On the Similarity Structure of Order Statistics 1433 M. F. Al-Saleh
Stochastic Orderings of Order Statistics of Independent Random
Variables with Different Scale Parameters 1441 B.-E. Khaledi and S. Kochar
Best Bounds of kth Records from Bounded Samples 1451 M. Klimczak
Identification of Product Measures by Random Choice of Marginals 1465 M. Konwerska, F. Lopez-Bldzquez, and J. Wesolowski
On Distributions of Exceedances Based on Generalized
Order Statistics 1479 I. Bairamov and H. Tanil
Volume 36, No. 8, 2007
DISTRIBUTIONS, MODELS, AND APPLICATIONS Distributions with Generalized Skewed Conditionals and Mixtures
of Such Distributions 1493 B. C. Arnold, E. Castillo, and J. M. Sarabia
Comments on "Sums, Products, and Ratios of Non-Central Beta
Variables" by Saralees Nadarajah 1505 A. M. F. L Miranda de Sa, L. B. Felix, and E. M. A. M. Mendes
ORDERED DATA ANALYSIS
Likelihood Ratio Order of m-Spacings in Multiple-Outlier Models 1507 M. Xu, X. Li, P. Zhao, and Z. Li
BAYESIAN INFERENCE Constrained Bayes and Empirical Bayes Estimation
with Balanced Loss Functions 1527 M. Ghosh, M. J. Kim, and D. Kim
Empirical Bayes Testing for Double Exponential Distributions 1543 T. Liang
Detection and Localization in Test Accuracy: A Bayesian Perspective 1555 L. D. Broemeling
Bayes Prediction for a Heteroscedastic Regression Superpopulation
Model Using Balanced Loss Function 1565 A. K. Bansal and P. Aggarwal
NONPARAMETRIC INFERENCE
Estimation of the Entropy Functional from Dependent Samples 1577 J. him
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Extending Save and PHD 1591 J. Zhao, X. Xu, and J. Ma
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS A Note on Sample Size Determination for the Estimation
of the Mean Vector of a Multivariate Population 1607 W. Cui and F. Zhu
SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
A Class of Two-Sample Nonparametric Tests for Panel Count Data 1611 D.-H. Park, J. Sun, and X. Zhao
Proportional Hazards Model for Multivariate Failure Time Data 1627 P. G. Sankaran and V. N. Sreeja
CLINICAL TRIALS
Statistical Inference of Adaptive Designs with Binary Responses 1643 Y. Yi and X. Wang
Erratum 1655
