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Volume 7, issue 5, 1989

Characterizations of distributions by variance bounds pp. 351-356

T. Cacoullos and V. Papathanasiou

Characterizations of uniform and exponential distributions pp. 357-359

Yeu-Hua Too and Gwo Dong Lin

On random translation models pp. 361-367

Ludger Rüschendorf

A simple proof for the continuity of infinite convolutions of binary random variables pp. 369-370

Janos Galambos and Imre Kátai

A new class of negative binomial distributions of order k pp. 371-376

K. D. Ling

A test for Weibull populations pp. 377-380

Arijit Chaudhuri and Nimai Kumar Chandra

Another look at adaptation on the average pp. 381-383

Ker-Chau Li and Donald Ylvisaker

On Bayes' test for the population mean of bounded observations pp. 385-389

Zizhi Wu

Parameter identification in linear stochastic differential equations pp. 391-394

Jacek Dabrowski

A note of kernel smoothing of an estimator of a periodic function in the multiplicative intensity model pp. 395-400

Jacek Leskow

Locally optimal window widths for kernel density estimation with large samples pp. 401-405

William R. Schucany

Non-parametric estimation of conditional quantiles pp. 407-412

M. Samanta

The asymptotic statistical behaviour of some estimators for a circular structural model pp. 413-416

Mark Berman

An example concerning the likelihood function pp. 417-418

Michael Evans

On the theory of C[alpha]-tests pp. 419-424

Agnes Berger and Sylvan Wallenstein

An adjustment for a test concerning a principal component subspace pp. 425-430

James R. Schott

On Cox and renewal processes pp. 431-433

Nikos Yannaros

Inconsistencies in the argument leading to the rule of succession pp. 435-440

S. V. Bhave

Volume 7, issue 4, 1989

Asymptotic results for a conditional Poisson log-linear model pp. 267-270

Douglas G. Bonett, P. M. Bentler and J. Arthur Woodward

An agreement model with kappa as parameter pp. 271-273

Alan Agresti

An unbiased minimum distance estimator of the proportion parameter in a mixture of two normal distributions pp. 275-281

Brenton R. Clarke

Maxima of normal random vectors: Between independence and complete dependence pp. 283-286

Jürg Hüsler and Rolf-Dieter Reiss

Comparison of the efficiency of nonparametric location tests based on grouped and individual data pp. 287-291

J. Hüsler and H. Riedwyl

The coordinate-free estimation in finite population sampling pp. 293-295

Josemar Rodrigues and Silvia Nagib Elian

A characterization of multivariate l1-norm symmetric distributions pp. 297-299

Bi-Qi Fang and Kai-Tai Fang

Haight's distribution and busy periods pp. 301-302

F. W. Steutel and B. G. Hansen

On characterizations of exponential distributions pp. 303-305

G. F. Yeo and R. K. Milne

An optimal random number generator on Zp pp. 307-309

Philippe Chassaing

A note on the asymptotic properties of the product-limit estimator on the whole line pp. 311-314

Zhiliang Ying

Symmetrized nearest neighbor regression estimates pp. 315-318

R. J. Carroll and Wolfgang Härdle

Complete convergence of triangular arrays and the law of the iterated logarithm for U-statistics pp. 319-321

Herold Dehling

A continuous multivariate exponential distribution that is multivariate phase type pp. 323-325

Colm A. O'Cinneide and Adrian E. Raftery

How regular are conjugate exponential families? pp. 327-333

Ulrich Müller-Funk and Friedrich Pukelsheim

Confidence intervals on the ratio of expected mean squares ([theta]1 + [theta]2 + [theta]3)/[theta]4 pp. 335-342

Nancy J. Birch and Richard K. Burdick

Finitely determined processes in metric spaces pp. 343-347

Wolfram Strittmatter

Volume 7, issue 3, 1988

The reliability of k out of n systems when k components are equally reliable pp. 175-178

Dong Ho Park

Testing for dispersive ordering pp. 179-185

Ibrahim A. Ahmad and Subhash C. Kochar

Circular balanced uniform repeated measurements designs pp. 187-189

Kasra Afsarinejad

A note on estimating the number of errors in a system by recapture sampling pp. 191-194

Tapan K. Nayak

Canonical kernels for density estimation pp. 195-199

J. S. Marron and D. Nolan

Singh's theorem in the lattice case pp. 201-205

Michael Woodroofe and Myoungshic Jhun

Multivariate distributions of order ? pp. 207-216

Andreas N. Philippou, Demetris L. Antzoulakos and Gregory A. Tripsiannis

A remark on the poisson-pascal and some other contagious distributions pp. 217-220

Gordon E. Willmot

On the asymptotic bias of estimators under parameter drift pp. 221-224

Alexander Shapiro and M. W. Browne

Testing the homogeneity of small error rates: application to the sensitivity of different Elisa tests for aids antibodies pp. 225-228

Joseph L. Gastwirth and Wesley O. Johnson

Convolution type estimators for nonparametric regression pp. 229-239

Y. P. Mack and Hans-Georg Müller

On two methods of identifying influential sets of observations pp. 241-245

Subir Ghosh

The limit distribution of the number of nodes in low strata of a random mapping pp. 247-251

Ljuben R. Mutafchiev

A logistic process constructed using geometric minimization pp. 253-257

Barry C. Arnold

Asymptotic behaviour of reliability functions pp. 259-263

P. Main

Volume 7, issue 2, 1988

Universal optimality of main effect deletion designs pp. 89-91

Rahul Mukerjee and Sudhir Gupta

On a characterization of the exponential distribution by properties of order statistics pp. 93-96

Ursula Gather

Dominance of the positive-part version of the James-Stein estimator pp. 97-103

David Nickerson

A differential version of the Efron-Stein inequality: bounding the variance of a function of an infinitely divisible variable pp. 105-112

Richard A. Vitale

A smooth nonparametric quantile estimator from right-censored data pp. 113-121

W. J. Padget and L. A. Thombs

A simple method for choosing between the lognormal and weibull models pp. 123-126

Russell F. Kappenman

A note on the noncentral chi-square distribution pp. 127-129

M. E. Bock and Z. Govindarajulu

"Almost arbitrary" minimax estimators of location for independent component variance mixtures of normal variates pp. 131-133

Robert Miceli and William E. Strawderman

The existence theorem in general ridge regression pp. 135-137

J. S. Chawla

A note on stirling's expansion for factorial n pp. 139-143

Adrienne W. Kemp

A filtering model for Bayesian analysis of failure data contaminated by maintenance pp. 145-150

C. A. Clarotti, G. Koch and F. Spizzichino

Bootstrap confidence intervals pp. 151-160

G. J. Babu and Arup Bose

A recurrence formula for the distribution of the wilcoxon rank sum statistic pp. 161-165

Tomek Brus

The inverse and determinant of a 2 x 2 uniformly distributed random matrix pp. 167-170

R. C. Williamson and T. Downs

A note on maximum likelihood estimation for the complex-valued first-order autoregressive process pp. 171-173

A. Le Breton

Volume 7, issue 1, 1988

On attainable Cramer - Rao type lower bounds for weighted loss functions pp. 1-2

Piotr W Mikulski and Michael Monsour

Splitting intervals pp. 3-7

Carl Herz

Universal asymptotic normality for conditionally trimmed sums pp. 9-15

M.G. Hahn and J. Kuelbs

A note on the strong law of large numbers for positively dependent random variables pp. 17-20

Thomas Birkel

An early occurrence of the Poisson distribution pp. 21-22

A.I. Dale

Strassen-type invariance principles for exchangeable sequences pp. 23-26

AndréRobert Dabrowski

Existence of variance-balanced binary designs with fewer experimental units pp. 27-28

Sanpei Kageyama

Variance bounds by a generalization of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality pp. 29-33

V. Papathanasiou

Asymptotic properties of the multivariate Nadaraya-Watson regression function estimate: The fixed design case pp. 35-40

Alexander A Georgiev

Some cross-product difference statistics and a test for trends in ordered contingency tables pp. 41-46

Mei-Ling Ting Lee

A U-statistic and estimation for the inverse Gaussian distribution pp. 47-49

V Seshadri

On the importance of components for multistate monotone systems pp. 51-59

Vanderlei Costa Bueno

A game with three players pp. 61-63

Dennis Sandell

Uniform consistency of r-means pp. 65-71

Juan A Cuesta and Carlos Matrán

Asymptotic properties for the sequential cusum procedure pp. 73-80

Vera R. Huse

The functional law of the iterated logarithm for the empirical process of some long-range dependent sequences pp. 81-85

Herold Dehling and Murad S. Taqqu