COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS Theory and Methods
Volume 34, No. 3, 2005 CONTENTS
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. Castano-Martinez and F. Lopez-Blazquez
Incomplete Exponential and Hypergeometric Functions with
Applications to the Non Central -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 hi 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
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COMMUN. STATIST.—THEORY METH., 34(3), 2005 (Contents Continued)
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
