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Volume 40, issue 2, 2012

Principal component analysis of canine hip dysplasia phenotypes and their statistical power for genome-wide association mapping pp. 235-251

Faping Duan, Daniel Ogden, Ling Xu, Kang Liu, George Lust, Jody Sandler, Nathan L. Dykes, Lan Zhu, Steven Harris, Paul Jones, Rory J. Todhunter and Zhiwu Zhang

Parameter estimation of nonlinear mixed-effects models using first-order conditional linearization and the EM algorithm pp. 252-265

Liyong Fu, Yuancai Lei, Ram P. Sharma and Shouzheng Tang

An iterative plug-in algorithm for decomposing seasonal time series using the Berlin Method pp. 266-281

Yuanhua Feng

Contrasting the Gini and Zenga indices of economic inequality pp. 282-297

Francesca Greselin, Leo Pasquazzi and Ričardas Zitikis

Modeling healthcare costs in simultaneous presence of asymmetry, heteroscedasticity and correlation pp. 298-310

Ileana Baldi, Eva Pagano, Paola Berchialla, Alessandro Desideri, Alberto Ferrando, Franco Merletti and Dario Gregori

A comment on sample size calculations for binomial confidence intervals pp. 311-319

Lai Wei and Alan D. Hutson

Robust mixture model cluster analysis using adaptive kernels pp. 320-336

J. Andrew Howe and Hamparsum Bozdogan

A family of methods for statistical disclosure control pp. 337-346

Andreas Quatember and Monika Cornelia Hausner

Empirical null distribution-based modeling of multi-class differential gene expression detection pp. 347-357

Xiting Cao, Baolin Wu and Marshall . Hertz

Sparse cluster analysis of large-scale discrete variables with application to single nucleotide polymorphism data pp. 358-367

Baolin Wu

Joint confidence region estimation of L-moment ratios with an extension to right censored data pp. 368-379

Dongliang Wang and Alan D. Hutson

Instrumental variable-based empirical likelihood inferences for varying-coefficient models with error-prone covariates pp. 380-396

Peixin Zhao and Liugen Xue

Different estimation methods for the parameters of the extended Burr XII distribution pp. 397-414

Ilhan Usta

Extending dual multiple factor analysis to categorical tables pp. 415-428

Elena Abascal, Vidal Díaz de Rada, Ignacio García Lautre and M. Isabel Landaluce

An orthogonal arrays approach to robust parameter designs methodology pp. 429-437

P. Angelopoulos, K. Drosou and C. Koukouvinos

Signaling NBER turning points: a sequential approach pp. 438-448

Vasyl Golosnoy and Jens Boysen-Hogrefe

Optimal asymmetric classification procedures for interval-screened normal data pp. 449-462

Hea-Jung Kim

Econometric methods for labour economics pp. 463-464

Shuangzhe Liu

Data mining with Rattle and R pp. 464-464

Kassim S. Mwitondi

Volume 40, issue 1, 2013

Editorial pp. 1-1

Robert G. Aykroyd

Heterogeneity and study size in random-effects meta-analysis pp. 2-16

Russell J. Bowater and Gabriel Escarela

Joint modeling of censored longitudinal and event time data pp. 17-27

Francis Pike and Lisa Weissfeld

Bayesian influence diagnostics in radiocarbon dating pp. 28-39

J. M. Fernández-Ponce, F. Palacios-Rodríguez and M. R. Rodríguez-Griñolo

Lower posterior death probabilities from a quick medical response in road traffic accidents pp. 40-58

Antonio S.M. Arroyo, Antonio García-Ferrer, Aránzazu de Juan Fernández and Rocío Sánchez-Mangas

Prior distribution elicitation for generalized linear and piecewise-linear models pp. 59-75

Paul H. Garthwaite, Shafeeqah A. Al-Awadhi, Fadlalla G. Elfadaly and David J. Jenkinson

Hypothesis test for paired samples in the presence of missing data pp. 76-87

Pablo Martínez-Camblor, Norberto Corral and Jesus María de la Hera

Building up adjusted indicators of students’ evaluation of university courses using generalized item response models pp. 88-102

Isabella Sulis and Vincenza Capursi

Quasi-optimal Bayesian procedures of many hypotheses testing pp. 103-122

K. J. Kachiashvili, M. A. Hashmi and A. Mueed

A joint modelling approach for clustered recurrent events and death events pp. 123-140

Yanchun Bao, Hongsheng Dai, Tao Wang and Sung-Kiang Chuang

A simulation study on the hybrid nature of Tango's index pp. 141-151

Eugenia Nissi and Annalina Sarra

Functional time series approach for forecasting very short-term electricity demand pp. 152-168

Han Lin Shang

Heterogeneity of variance and biased hypothesis tests pp. 169-193

Donald W. Zimmerman

Modified method on the means for several log-normal distributions pp. 194-208

S. H. Lin and R. S. Wang

Improved ridge estimators in a linear regression model pp. 209-220

Xu-Qing Liu, Feng Gao and Zhen-Feng Yu

Estimating utility functions using generalized maximum entropy pp. 221-234

Cesaltina Pires, Andreia Dionísio and Luís Coelho

Volume 39, issue 12, 2012

Variable selection in joint mean and variance models of Box--Cox transformation pp. 2543-2555

Liu-Cang Wu, Zhong-Zhan Zhang and Deng-Ke Xu

Analysis of hedging based on co-persistence theory pp. 2557-2567

Chang-Shuai Li

The power of generalized odds ratio in assessing association in genetic studies with known mode of inheritance pp. 2569-2581

Elias Zintzaras

Creating facial animation of characters via MoCap data pp. 2583-2597

Kei Hirose and Tomoyuki Higuchi

A bivariate Sarmanov regression model for count data with generalised Poisson marginals pp. 2599-2617

Vera Hofer and Johannes Leitner

A computational understanding of partial and part determination coefficients pp. 2619-2626

Suzanne V. Landram and Frank G. Landram

Developing ridge estimation method for median regression pp. 2627-2638

Zangin Zeebari

Data envelopment analysis in the presence of measurement error: case study from the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators-super-® (NDNQI-super-®) pp. 2639-2653

Byron J. Gajewski, Robert Lee and Nancy Dunton

Comparing two dependent groups via quantiles pp. 2655-2664

Rand R. Wilcox and David M. Erceg-Hurn

The use of predicted values for item parameters in item response theory models: an application in intelligence tests pp. 2665-2683

Mariagiulia Matteucci, Stefania Mignani and Bernard P. Veldkamp

Robust modeling using the generalized epsilon-skew-t distribution pp. 2685-2698

Osvaldo Venegas, Francisco Rodríguez, Héctor W. Gómez, Juan F. Olivares-Pacheco and Heleno Bolfarine

Selection of a stroke risk model based on transcranial Doppler ultrasound velocity pp. 2699-2712

S. Mukhopadhyay, . Das and K. Das

Three estimators of the Mahalanobis distance in high-dimensional data pp. 2713-2720

H. E.T. Holgersson and Peter S. Karlsson

Degradation data analysis for samples under unequal operating conditions: a case study on train wheels pp. 2721-2739

Julio C. Ferreira, Marta A. Freitas and Enrico A. Colosimo

Estimation of the coefficient of variation for non-normal model using progressive first-failure-censoring data pp. 2741-2758

Ahmed A. Soliman, A. H. Abd Ellah, N. A. Abou-Elheggag and A. A. Modhesh

Statistical analysis of an endemic disease from a capture--recapture experiment pp. 2759-2773

Yinghui Wei, Peter Neal, Sandra Telfer and Mike Begon

Volume 39, issue 11, 2012

A wavelet-based time-varying autoregressive model for non-stationary and irregular time series pp. 2313-2325

G. E. Salcedo, R. F. Porto, S. Y. Roa and F. R. Momo

An index of local sensitivity to non-ignorability for parametric survival models with potential non-random missing covariate: an application to the SEER cancer registry data pp. 2327-2348

S. Eftekhari Mahabadi and M. Ganjali

A generalized Q--Q plot for longitudinal data pp. 2349-2362

M. C. Pardo and R. Alonso

Dirichlet process mixture models for unsupervised clustering of symptoms in Parkinson's disease pp. 2363-2377

Nicole White, Helen Johnson, Peter Silburn and Kerrie Mengersen

Validating protein structure using kernel density estimates pp. 2379-2388

Charles C. Taylor, Kanti V. Mardia, Marco Di Marzio and Agnese Panzera

Estimating the parameters of a bathtub-shaped distribution under progressive type-II censoring pp. 2389-2411

Manoj Kumar Rastogi, Yogesh Mani Tripathi and Shuo-Jye Wu

A joint marginalized multilevel model for longitudinal outcomes pp. 2413-2430

Samuel Iddi and Geert Molenberghs

Spatial modeling using frequentist approach for disease mapping pp. 2431-2439

Mahmoud Torabi

On inference for Kendall's τ within a longitudinal data setting pp. 2441-2452

Yan Ma

Sample size for estimating a binomial proportion: comparison of different methods pp. 2453-2473

Luzia Gonçalves, M. Rosário de Oliveira, Cláudia Pascoal and Ana Pires

Mixtures of concentrated multivariate sine distributions with applications to bioinformatics pp. 2475-2492

Kanti V. Mardia, John T. Kent, Zhengzheng Zhang, Charles C. Taylor and Thomas Hamelryck

Spatio-temporal improvised explosive device monitoring: improving detection to minimise attacks pp. 2493-2508

Matthew Benigni and Reinhard Furrer

A covariance-based test for shared frailty in multivariate lifetime data pp. 2509-2522

Alan Kimber and Shah-Jalal Sarker

Inference for serological surveys investigating past exposures to infections resulting in long-lasting immunity -- an approach using finite mixture models with concomitant information pp. 2523-2542

Irina Chis Ster

Volume 39, issue 10, 2012

A test statistic to choose between Liu-type and least-squares estimator based on mean square error criteria pp. 2081-2096

Meral Ebegil and Fikri Gökpınar

Robust methods for detecting familial aggregation of a quantitative trait in matched case--control family studies pp. 2097-2111

Jiun-Yi Wang, Li-Ching Chen and Hui-Min Lin

An example of a two-part latent growth curve model for semicontinuous outcomes in the health sciences pp. 2113-2128

Sterling McPherson and Celestina Barbosa-Leiker

A new per-field classification method using mixture discriminant analysis pp. 2129-2140

Nazif Çalış and Hamza Erol

A Bayesian inference of P(λ₁>λ₂) for two Poisson parameters pp. 2141-2152

Youhei Kawasaki and Etsuo Miyaoka

Optimal sample size planning for the Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney and van Elteren tests under cost constraints pp. 2153-2164

Jiin-Huarng Guo

Visualizing main effects and interaction in multiple non-symmetric correspondence analysis pp. 2165-2175

D'Ambra, Luigi, D'Ambra, Antonello and Pasquale Sarnacchiaro

Multiple imputation using multivariate gh transformations pp. 2177-2198

Yulei He and Trivellore E. Raghunathan

Exploring the variability of DNA molecules via principal geodesic analysis on the shape space pp. 2199-2207

H. Fotouhi and M. Golalizadeh

A new long-term lifetime distribution induced by a latent complementary risk framework pp. 2209-2222

Francisco Louzada, Vicente G. Cancho, Mari Roman and José G. Leite

OECD's ‘Better Life Index’: can any country be well ranked? pp. 2223-2230

Jérôme Kasparian and Antoine Rolland

A generalised Box--Cox transformation for the parametric estimation of clinical reference intervals pp. 2231-2245

Jonathan Gillard

Estimating the prevalence of low-lumbar spine bone mineral density in older men with or at risk for HIV infection using normal mixture models pp. 2247-2258

Yungtai Lo

Self-updating clustering algorithm for estimating the parameters in mixtures of von Mises distributions pp. 2259-2274

Wen-Liang Hung, Shou-Jen Chang-Chien and Miin-Shen Yang

Multiple comparisons with a control under heteroscedasticity pp. 2275-2283

Hong Li and Wei Ning

Bayesian semi-parametric analysis of Poisson change-point regression models: application to policy-making in Cali, Colombia pp. 2285-2298

Taeyoung Park, Robert T. Krafty and Alvaro . Sánchez

Statistical inference: The minimum distance approach pp. 2299-2300

Alex Karagrigoriou

Applied time series analysis pp. 2300-2301

Hassan S. Bakouch

Reversibility and stochastic networks pp. 2301-2302

Eliane R. Rodrigues

Statistical data mining using SAS applications pp. 2302-2302

Kassim S. Mwitondi

The Oxford handbook of economic forecasting pp. 2303-2304

Yiannis Kamarianakis

The R primer pp. 2303-2303

Claire Keeble

Expansions and asymptotics for statistics pp. 2304-2305

Isaac Dialsingh

Large-scale inference: empirical Bayes methods for estimation, testing, and prediction pp. 2305-2305

Isaac Dialsingh

Biostatistics: a computing approach pp. 2306-2306

P. William Hughes

Bayesian ideas and data analysis: An introduction for scientists and statisticians pp. 2306-2307

Rolando de la Cruz

The Oxford handbook of quantitative asset management pp. 2307-2308

Yves Laberge

Statistics for high-dimensional data pp. 2308-2309

Theofanis Sapatinas

Who's #1? The science of rating and ranking pp. 2309-2310

David J. Hand

Volume 39, issue 9, 2012

Clustering microarray data using model-based double K-means pp. 1853-1869

Francesca Martella and Maurizio Vichi

A cusum procedure to detect deviations from uniformity in angular data pp. 1871-1880

F. Lombard and R. K. Maxwell

Semiparametric mixed-effects models for clustered doubly censored data pp. 1881-1892

Pao-Sheng Shen

A simple way to deal with multicollinearity pp. 1893-1909

Gikuang Jeff Chen

Sample size determination for estimating multivariate process capability indices based on lower confidence limits pp. 1911-1920

Chung- Li and Jeh-Nan Pan

Analysis of pseudo-panel data with dependent samples pp. 1921-1937

Ainhoa Oguiza Tovar, Inmaculada Gallastegui Zulaica and Vicente Núñez-Antón

Efficient maximin distance designs for experiments in mixtures pp. 1939-1951

R. L.J. Coetzer, R. F Rossouw and N. J. Le Roux

Weibull and generalised exponential overdispersion models with an application to ozone air pollution pp. 1953-1963

Jorge Alberto Achcar, Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and Eliane R. Rodrigues

Likelihood estimation for longitudinal zero-inflated power series regression models pp. 1965-1974

E. Bahrami Samani, Y. Amirian and M. Ganjali

A Bayesian panel data framework for examining the economic growth convergence hypothesis: do the G7 countries converge? pp. 1975-1990

Loukia Meligkotsidou, Elias Tzavalis and Ioannis D. Vrontos

Cascade model with Dirichlet process for analyzing multiple dyadic matrices pp. 1991-2003

Hongxia Yang, Jun Wang and Alexsandra Mojslovic

Practical modeling strategies for unbalanced longitudinal data analysis pp. 2005-2013

Enrico A. Colosimo, Maria Arlene Fausto, Marta Afonso Freitas and Jorge Andrade Pinto

A note on the estimation methods of crop production at the block level pp. 2015-2027

Bhim Singh, B. V.S. Sisodia, Anupam Singh and R. P. Kaushal

Vector-borne infectious disease mapping with stochastic difference equations: an analysis of dengue disease in Malaysia pp. 2029-2046

N. A. Samat and D. F. Percy

Longitudinal data: different approaches in the context of item-response theory models pp. 2047-2065

Silvia Bacci

A new look at the difference between the GEE and the GLMM when modeling longitudinal count responses pp. 2067-2079

H. Zhang, Q. Yu, C. Feng, D. Gunzler, P. Wu and X. M. Tu

Volume 39, issue 8, 2012

Modelling of connected processes pp. 1623-1641

Thaung Lwin

Covariance structure approximation via gLasso in high-dimensional supervised classification pp. 1643-1666

Tatjana Pavlenko, Anders Björkström and Annika Tillander

Hypothesis testing with Rao's quadratic entropy and its application to Dinosaur biodiversity pp. 1667-1680

Yueqin Zhao and Dayanand N. Naik

Coordinate-free analysis of trends in British social mobility pp. 1681-1691

Anna Klimova and Tamás Rudas

Large sample confidence intervals for the skewness parameter of the skew-normal distribution based on Fisher's transformation pp. 1693-1702

Valentina Mameli, Monica Musio, Erik Sauleau and Annibale Biggeri

On a minimum distance estimate of the period in functional autoregressive processes pp. 1703-1718

Wafaa Benyelles and Tahar Mourid

Identification of quantitative trait loci for canine hip dysplasia by two sequential multipoint linkage analyses pp. 1719-1731

Lan Zhu, Su Chen, Zhuoxin Jiang, Zhiwu Zhang, Hung-Chih Ku, Xuesong Li, Melinda McCann, Steve Harris, George Lust, Pual Jones and Rory Todhunter

A Bayesian approach for generalized linear models with explanatory biomarker measurement variables subject to detection limit: an application to acute lung injury pp. 1733-1747

Huiyun Wu, Qingxia Chen, Lorraine B. Ware and Tatsuki Koyama

Concordance coefficients to measure the agreement among several sets of ranks pp. 1749-1764

Júlia Teles

Median regression for SUR models with the same explanatory variables in each equation pp. 1765-1779

Ghazi Shukur and Zangin Zeebari

Many-to-one comparison of nonlinear growth curves for Washington's Red Delicious apple pp. 1781-1795

Nairanjana Dasgupta and Monte J. Shaffer

Partly linear models on Riemannian manifolds pp. 1797-1809

Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga, Guillermo Henry and Daniela Rodriguez

Bayesian inference under progressive type-I interval censoring pp. 1811-1824

Yu-Jau Lin and Y. L. Lio

Error analysis of stochastic flight trajectory prediction models pp. 1825-1841

Vasileios Maroulas

Graphics for statistics and data analysis with R pp. 1843-1844

Han Lin Shang

Design and analysis of quality of life studies in clinical trials pp. 1844-1845

Ivana Holloway

Bayesian analysis made simple: An excel GUI for WinBUGS pp. 1845-1846

John Paul Gosling

Applied Bayesian hierarchical methods pp. 1845-1845

Chris Beeley

Linear model methodology pp. 1846-1847

Zhengfeng Guo

An elementary introduction to mathematical finance pp. 1847-1848

Søren Feodor Nielsen

Optimal experimental design with R pp. 1848-1849

Derek S. Young

The Oxford handbook of nonlinear filtering pp. 1849-1850

A. M. Mosammam

Multivariate generalized linear models using R pp. 1851-1851

Şebnem Er

Volume 39, issue 7, 2012

Variable selection for functional density trees pp. 1387-1395

Shu-Fu Kuo and Yu-Shan Shih

Nonparametric approach to intervention time series modeling pp. 1397-1408

Jin-Hong Park

Flexible parametric modelling of the hazard function in breast cancer studies pp. 1409-1421

. Ardoino, E. M. Biganzoli, C. Bajdik, P. J. Lisboa, P. Boracchi and F. Ambrogi

Asymptotic two-tailed confidence intervals for the difference of proportions pp. 1423-1435

A. Martín Andrés, M. Álvarez Hernández and . Herranz Tejedor

The likelihood approach for the comparison of medical diagnostic system with multiple binary tests pp. 1437-1454

Carol Y. Lin, Lance A. Waller and Robert H. Lyles

Comparison of three-dimensional profiles over time pp. 1455-1474

Margaret R. Donald, Chris Strickland, Clair L. Alston, Rick Young and Kerrie L. Mengersen

General partially linear varying-coefficient transformation models for ranking data pp. 1475-1488

Jianbo Li, Minggao Gu and Tao Hu

Bayesian model averaging for estimating the number of classes: applications to the total number of species in metagenomics pp. 1489-1504

Sébastien Li-Thiao-Té, Daudin Jean-Jacques and Robin Stéphane

Survival in the U.S. petroleum refining industry pp. 1505-1530

Shuyi Jiang

Wild-bootstrapped variance-ratio test for autocorrelation in the presence of heteroskedasticity pp. 1531-1542

Jinook Jeong and Byunguk Kang

Interpretation of the coefficient of determination of an ANOVA model as a measure of polarization pp. 1543-1555

Federico Palacios-González and Rosa María García-Fernández

Poverty and inequality in European regions pp. 1557-1576

Nicholas T. Longford, Maria Grazia Pittau, Roberto Zelli and Riccardo Massari

Experimentation order in factorial designs: new findings pp. 1577-1591

Alexander A. Correa, Pere Grima and Xavier Tort-Martorell

Maintaining the exchangeability assumption for a two-group permutation test in the non-randomized setting pp. 1593-1603

Alan D. Hutson and Gregory E. Wilding

Group variable selection in cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation data for veterinary patients pp. 1605-1621

Young Joo Yoon, Cheolwoo Park, Erik Hofmeister and Sangwook Kang

Volume 39, issue 6, 2012

Screening for prostate cancer using multivariate mixed-effects models pp. 1151-1175

Christopher H. Morrell, Larry J. Brant, Shan Sheng and E. Jeffrey Metter

Bayesian principal component regression with data-driven component selection pp. 1177-1189

Liuxia Wang

The negative binomial--beta Weibull regression model to predict the cure of prostate cancer pp. 1191-1210

Edwin M.M. Ortega, Gauss M. Cordeiro and Michael W. Kattan

The Complete Gradient Clustering Algorithm: properties in practical applications pp. 1211-1224

Piotr Kulczycki, Malgorzata Charytanowicz, Piotr A. Kowalski and Szymon Lukasik

Confidence intervals for estimating the population signal-to-noise ratio: a simulation study pp. 1225-1240

Florence George and B. M. Golam Kibria

Growth rate models: emphasizing growth rate analysis through growth curve modeling pp. 1241-1262

Zhiyong Zhang, John J. McArdle and John R. Nesselroade

The internal relocation premium: are migrants positively or negatively selected? Evidence from Italy pp. 1263-1278

Andrea Cutillo and Claudio Ceccarelli

Modelling skewness and kurtosis with the BCPE density in GAMLSS pp. 1279-1293

Vlasios Voudouris, Robert Gilchrist, Robert Rigby, John Sedgwick and Dimitrios Stasinopoulos

Evidence for hedge fund predictability from a multivariate Student's t full-factor GARCH model pp. 1295-1321

Ioannis Vrontos

Multiple outlier test for upper outliers in an exponential sample pp. 1323-1330

S. Lalitha and Nirpeksh Kumar

A new process for modeling heartbeat signals during exhaustive run with an adaptive estimator of its fractal parameters pp. 1331-1351

Jean-Marc Bardet, Imen Kammoun and Veronique Billat

General linear estimators under the prediction error sum of squares criterion in a linear regression model pp. 1353-1361

Xu-Qing Liu and Bo Li

Cross-correlating wavelet coefficients with applications to high-frequency financial time series pp. 1363-1379

Christian Matthias Hafner

Exploratory multivariate analysis by example using R pp. 1381-1382

Eric J. Beh

Using R for data management, statistical analysis, and graphics pp. 1382-1383

Georgi N. Boshnakov

Robust nonparametric statistical methods pp. 1383-1384

Eugenia Stoimenova

Nonparametric statistical inference pp. 1384-1385

Eugenia Stoimenova

Volume 39, issue 5, 2012

Model-based clustering of multivariate skew data with circular components and missing values pp. 927-945

Francesco Lagona and Marco Picone

Empirical likelihood ratio test for a mean change point model with a linear trend followed by an abrupt change pp. 947-961

Wei Ning

Two-step and likelihood methods for HIV viral dynamic models with covariate measurement errors and missing data pp. 963-978

Wei Liu and Lang Wu

An empirical comparison of Canonical Correspondence Analysis and STATICO in the identification of spatio-temporal ecological relationships pp. 979-994

Susana Mendes, M. José Fernández-Gómez, Mário Jorge Pereira, Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro and M. Purificación Galindo-Villardón

To move or not to move to find a new job: spatial duration time model with dynamic covariate effects pp. 995-1009

Göran Kauermann and Nina Westerheide

Estimating infant mortality in Colombia: some overdispersion modelling approaches pp. 1011-1036

Adrián Quintero-Sarmiento, Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo and Vicente Núñez-Antón

A generalization of the Grizzle model to the estimation of treatment effects in crossover trials with non-compliance pp. 1037-1048

Ali Reza Soltanian and Soghrat Faghihzadeh

Influence diagnostics in heteroscedastic and/or autoregressive nonlinear elliptical models for correlated data pp. 1049-1067

Cibele M. Russo, Gilberto A. Paula, Francisco José A. Cysneiros and Reiko Aoki

Stochastic models for greenhouse gas emission rate estimation from hydroelectric reservoirs: a Bayesian hierarchical approach pp. 1069-1086

Vinicius P. Israel and Hélio S. Migon

Bayesian analysis of longitudinal ordered data with flexible random effects using McMC: application to diabetic macular Edema data pp. 1087-1100

Marjan Mansourian, Anoshirvan Kazemnejad, Iraj Kazemi, Farid Zayeri and Masoud Soheilian

Solving endogeneity problems in multilevel estimation: an example using education production functions pp. 1101-1114

Saïd Hanchane and Tarek Mostafa

Linear regression with compositional explanatory variables pp. 1115-1128

K. Hron, P. Filzmoser and K. Thompson

Classification of textile fabrics using statistical multivariate techniques pp. 1129-1138

C. Kiruthika and R. Chandrasekaran

Spatial measurement error in infectious disease models pp. 1139-1150

Rob Deardon, Babak Habibzadeh and Hau Yi Chung

Volume 39, issue 4, 2012

Factor recovery by principal axis factoring and maximum likelihood factor analysis as a function of factor pattern and sample size pp. 695-710

J. C.F. de Winter and D. Dodou

Modeling delay in diagnosis of NF: under reportincg, incidence and prevalence estimates pp. 711-721

Irene Rocchetti, Domenica Taruscio and Marco Alfò

Quasi-asymmetry model for square tables with nominal categories pp. 723-729

Kouji Tahata

Sensory analysis via multi-block multivariate additive PLS splines pp. 731-743

Rosaria Lombardo, Pietro Amenta, Myrtille Vivien and Robert Sabatier

Improved quality control charts for monitoring the process mean, using double-ranked set sampling methods pp. 745-763

Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari and Abdul Haq

Profile likelihood-based confidence interval for the dispersion parameter in count data pp. 765-783

Krishna K. Saha, Debaraj Sen and Chun Jin

Lattice-oriented percolation system applied to volatility behavior of stock market pp. 785-797

Yao Yu and Jun Wang

Variable selection in quantile regression via Gibbs sampling pp. 799-813

Rahim Alhamzawi and Keming Yu

Estimating DEA confidence intervals with statistical panel data analysis pp. 815-828

Darold T. Barnum, John M. Gleason, Matthew G. Karlaftis, Glen T. Schumock, Karen L. Shields, Sonali Tandon and Surrey M. Walton

An empirical bias--variance analysis of DECORATE ensemble method at different training sample sizes pp. 829-850

Chun-Xia Zhang, Guan-Wei Wang and Jiang-She Zhang

A multivariate rank test for comparing mass size distributions pp. 851-865

F. Lombard and C. J. Potgieter

Understanding the epidemiology of foreign body injuries in children using a data-driven Bayesian network pp. 867-874

P. Berchialla, S. Snidero, A. Stancu, C. Scarinzi, R. Corradetti and D. Gregori

Spatio-temporal modeling of infectious disease dynamics pp. 875-882

Sifat Sharmin and Md. Israt Rayhan

Mixed-Poisson point process with partially observed covariates: ecological momentary assessment of smoking pp. 883-899

Benjamin Neustifter, Stephen L. Rathbun and Saul Shiffman

Change-point cure models with application to estimating the change-point effect of age of diagnosis among prostate cancer patients pp. 901-911

Megan Othus, Yi Li and Ram Tiwari

Autoregressive model selection based on a prediction perspective pp. 913-922

Yun-Huan Lee and Chun-Shu Chen

Introduction to general and generalized linear models pp. 923-924

Søren Feodor Nielsen

Time series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference pp. 923-923

Hassan S. Bakouch

The oxford handbook of credit derivatives pp. 924-925

Long Kang

Exercises and solutions in biostatistical theory pp. 925-926

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Volume 39, issue 3, 2012

Regression analysis of zero-inflated time-series counts: application to air pollution related emergency room visit data pp. 467-476

M. Tariqul Hasan, Gary Sneddon and Renjun Ma

Female athletic participation and income: evidence from a latent class model pp. 477-488

Steven B Caudill, James E. Long and Franklin G. Mixon

Evaluation of false discovery rate and power via sample size in microarray studies pp. 489-500

Jie Song, Herman W. Raadsma and Peter C. Thomson

Interval estimators for reliability: the bivariate normal case pp. 501-512

Alessandro Barbiero

Tree-structured analysis of treatment effects with large observational data pp. 513-529

Joseph Kang, Xiaogang Su, Brian Hitsman, Kiang Liu and Donald Lloyd-Jones

A non-iterative sampling Bayesian method for linear mixed models with normal independent distributions pp. 531-549

Victor H. Lachos, Celso R.B. Cabral and Carlos A. Abanto-Valle

F-tests with a rare pathology pp. 551-561

Célia Nunes, Dário Ferreira, Sandra S. Ferreira and João T. Mexia

Testing variance components in balanced linear growth curve models pp. 563-572

Reza Drikvandi, Ahmad Khodadadi and Geert Verbeke

Quad folding: a simple idea for the subjective property characterization of large sample sets pp. 573-580

Richard W. Miller

Fully observed INAR(1) processes pp. 581-598

Christian H. Weiß

An augmented approach to the desirability function pp. 599-613

Hsiu-Wen Chen, Weng Kee Wong and Hongquan Xu

Influence diagnostics in Gaussian spatial linear models pp. 615-630

Miguel Angel Uribe-Opazo, Joelmir André Borssoi and Manuel Galea

Slope estimation of covariates that influence renal outcome following renal transplant adjusting for informative right censoring pp. 631-642

Miran A. Jaffa, Ayad A. Jaffa and Stuart R. Lipsitz

Phylogenetic tree selection by the adjusted k-means approach pp. 643-655

Hsiuying Wang and Shan-Lin Hung

Estimating mean-standard deviation ratios of financial data pp. 657-671

H. E.T. Holgersson, Peter S. Karlsson and Rashid Mansoor

Optimizing a control plan using a structural equation model with an application to statistical process analysis pp. 673-694

Manabu Kuroki

Volume 39, issue 2, 2012

Multivariate outbreak detection pp. 223-242

Linus Schiöler and Marianne Frisén

New data dissemination approaches in old Europe -- synthetic datasets for a German establishment survey pp. 243-265

Joerg Drechsler

A jackknife-based versatile test for two-sample problems with right-censored data pp. 267-277

Yu-Mei Chang, Chun-Shu Chen and Pao-Sheng Shen

Measure of departure from marginal homogeneity using marginal odds for multi-way tables with ordered categories pp. 279-295

Kiyotaka Iki, Kouji Tahata and Sadao Tomizawa

Bivariate deconvolution with SIMEX: an application to mapping Alaska earthquake density pp. 297-308

Julie McIntyre and Ronald P. Barry

Estimation of δ=P(X>Y) for Burr XII distribution based on the progressively first failure-censored samples pp. 309-322

Y. L. Lio and Tzong-Ru Tsai

Measurement error effect on the CUSUM control chart pp. 323-336

Petros E. Maravelakis

Quantification of symmetry for functional data with application to equine lameness classification pp. 337-360

Helle Sørensen, Anders Tolver, Maj Halling Thomsen and Pia Haubro Andersen

Semi-parametric modelling of temperature records pp. 361-383

Terence C. Mills

Some multivariate goodness-of-fit tests based on data depth pp. 385-397

Caiya Zhang, Yanbiao Xiang and Xinmei Shen

Generalizing the standardized hazard ratio to multivariate proportional hazards regression, with an application to clinical~genomic studies pp. 399-417

Michael R. Crager

Identifying the time of change in the mean of a two-stage nested process pp. 419-433

Marcus B. Perry and Joseph J. Pignatiello

Applying a marginalized frailty model to competing risks pp. 435-443

Stephanie N. Dixon, Gerarda A. Darlington and Victoria Edge

Two-stage hierarchical modeling for analysis of subpopulations in conditional distributions pp. 445-460

Inna Chervoneva, Tingting Zhan, Boris Iglewicz, Walter W. Hauck and David E. Birk

Volume 39, issue 1, 2012

Editorial pp. 1-1

Robert G. Aykroyd

Modelling interval data with Normal and Skew-Normal distributions pp. 3-20

Paula Brito and Pedro Duarte Silva

A new compounding life distribution: the Weibull--Poisson distribution pp. 21-38

Wanbo Lu and Daimin Shi

Measures of predictor sensitivity for order-insensitive partitioning of multiple correlation pp. 39-51

Sammy Zahran, Michael A. Long and Kenneth J. Berry

A calibration-based approach to sensitive data: a simulation study pp. 53-65

Giancarlo Diana and Pier Francesco Perri

Confidence intervals and bands for the binormal ROC curve revisited pp. 67-79

Eugene Demidenko

Earthquakes occurrences estimation through a parametric semi-Markov approach pp. 81-96

Giovanni Masala

Discrepancy in regression estimates between log-normal and gamma: some case studies pp. 97-111

Rabindra Nath Das and Jeong-Soo Park

Trends in smoking cessation: a Markov model approach pp. 113-127

Charles G. Minard, Wenyaw Chan, David W. Wetter and Carol J. Etzel

Clustering time-course microarray data using functional Bayesian infinite mixture model pp. 129-149

Claudia Angelini, Daniela De Canditiis and Marianna Pensky

Bias-corrected random forests in regression pp. 151-160

Guoyi Zhang and Yan Lu

Ordinal ridge regression with categorical predictors pp. 161-171

Faisal M. Zahid and Shahla Ramzan

Assessing inter- and intra-agreement for dependent binary data: a Bayesian hierarchical correlation approach pp. 173-187

Miao-Yu Tsai

A classification updating procedure motivated by high-content screening data pp. 189-198

R. M. Jacques, N. R.J. Fieller and E. K. Ainscow

A spatial random-effects model for interzone flows: commuting in Northern Ireland pp. 199-213

P. Congdon and C. D. Lloyd

The malicious host: a minimax solution of the Monty Hall problem pp. 215-221

Jan C. Schuller