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Volume 9, issue 5, 1990

On the inadmissibility of unbiased estimators pp. 381-384

James O. Berger

Empirical bayes prediction for a compound poisson-multinomial process pp. 385-389

Siddhartha R. Dalal, Jack C. Lee and Darius J. Sabavala

A relation between the Chernoff index and the Pitman efficacy pp. 391-395

Stavros Kourouklis

Large deviations for some weakly dependent random processes pp. 397-401

Robert M. Burton and Herold Dehling

The circle homogeneously covered by random walk on 2 pp. 403-407

Peter Auer

Two sample rank tests under a random truncation model pp. 409-422

Richard A. Johnson and Christopher H. Morrell

Smooth goodness of fit tests for categorised composite null hypotheses pp. 423-429

J. C. W. Rayner and L. G. McAlevey

Dirichlet integrals and moments of gamma distribution order statistics pp. 431-437

Milton Sobel and Martin Wells

U-statistics on winsorized and trimmed samples pp. 439-447

Paul Janssen, Noël Veraverbeke and Robert Serfling

On a multiple correlation ratio pp. 449-451

D. G. Kabe and A. K. Gupta

Multivariate distributions of order k on a generalized sequence pp. 453-463

Andreas N. Philippou and Demetris L. Antzoulakos

A note on the limiting distribution of certain characteristic roots pp. 465-470

Yasuo Amemiya

Volume 9, issue 4, 1990

Improving the hartley-David-Gumbel bound for the mean of extreme order statistics pp. 291-294

N. Balakrishnan

A circle covering problem and DNA breakage pp. 295-298

Lars Holst

A test for uniformity with unknown limits based on d'agostino's D pp. 299-304

L. Baringhaus and N. Henze

A note on linnik's distribution pp. 305-306

Luc Devroye

A counterexample to A.S. constructions pp. 307-309

S. T. Rachev and L. Rüschendorf

The generalized logarithmic series distribution pp. 311-316

B. G. Hansen and E. Willekens

A class of minimax estimators of the scale parameter of the uniform distribution pp. 317-321

Andrew L. Rukhin, Lynn Kuo and Dipak K. Dey

A simple test for dispersive ordering pp. 323-325

Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly

Best constant in the decoupling inequality for non-negative random variables pp. 327-329

Pawel Hitczenko

Limit points of sample maxima pp. 331-336

Allan Gut

Approximate power of portmanteau tests for time series pp. 337-341

Francesco Battaglia

A note on ridge regression pp. 343-345

J. S. Chawla

On the measures of multicollinearity in least squares regression pp. 347-355

Song-Gui Wang, Siu-Keung Tse and Shein-Chung Chow

Existence and uniqueness of a Martingale problem in D+, I' pp. 357-359

Raul Fierro

Lp nonuniform bounds for asymptotic normality of linear rank statistics pp. 361-365

Tiee-Jian Wu

Robustness against unexpected dependence in the location model pp. 367-374

Ruben H. Zamar

Robustified version of Stein's multivariate location estimation pp. 375-380

Jana Jurecková and A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh

Volume 9, issue 3, 1990

A note on the almost sure central limit theorem pp. 201-205

Michael T. Lacey and Walter Philipp

A local limit theorem for sums of dependent random variables pp. 207-213

Mei Wang and Michael Woodroofe

A covariance inequality for coherent structures pp. 215-216

Kumar Joag-Dev and Frank Proschan

Stochastic ordering for permutation symmetric distributions pp. 217-222

Marco Scarsini and Moshe Shaked

Measure of information and contiguity pp. 223-228

Madan Lal Puri and István Vincze

Rates of convergence of some estimators in a class of deconvolution problems pp. 229-235

Leonard A. Stefanski

On the law of the logarithm for density estimators pp. 237-240

Peter Hall

On the approximation of P--P and Q--Q plot processes by brownian bridges pp. 241-251

Jan Beirlant and Paul Deheuvels

An asymptotic sufficiency property of observations related to the first hitting times of a diffusion pp. 253-258

V. Genon-Catalot and C. Larédo

Model selection for least absolute deviations regression in small samples pp. 259-265

Clifford Hurvich and Chih-Ling Tsai

Rate of convergence in the strong law of large numbers for U-statistics based on a multidimensionally indexed array of random variables pp. 267-272

Tasos C. Christofides

Inequalities for noncentral chi-square distributions pp. 273-278

Wilbert C. M. Kallenberg

Isotonic estimation in stochastic approximation pp. 279-287

D. L. Hanson and Hari Mukerjee

Thomas Bayes: some clues to his education pp. 289-290

A. I. Dale

Volume 9, issue 2, 1990

Testing regression function adequacy in nonlinear multiresponse models pp. 101-105

James W. Neill and Shie-Shien Yang

A class of tests for homogeneity of quantiles under unequal right-censorship pp. 107-109

S. Chakraborti

Density estimation with Haar series pp. 111-117

Joachim Engel

An extension of Anderson's multiple decision procedure pp. 119-124

Brendan McCabe

On order statistics in waiting time for runs in Markov chains pp. 125-127

Dragan Banjevic

The performance of kernel density functions in kernel distribution function estimation pp. 129-132

M. C. Jones

Improvements on strong uniform consistency of some known kernel estimates of a density and its derivatives pp. 133-140

R. J. Karunamuni and K. L. Mehra

Circular balanced uniform repeated measurements designs, II pp. 141-143

Kasra Afsarinejad

Some characterizations of distributions based on order statistics pp. 145-147

V. Papathanasiou

A note on the asymptotic distribution of a statistic for testing stability of a correlation coefficient pp. 149-154

D. L. Hawkins

Modified Bessel functions and their applications in probability and statistics pp. 155-161

Christian Robert

On geometric distributions of order (k1,...,km) pp. 163-171

K. D. Ling

On the asymptotic behavior of a class of nonparametric tests for a change-point problem pp. 173-177

Yi-Ching Yao

Minimax sequential estimation plans for exponential-type processes pp. 179-185

Ryszard Magiera

Some properties of adding a smoothing step to the EM algorithm pp. 187-193

Douglas Nychka

Testing for and against an order restriction in mixed-effects models pp. 195-200

Bahadur Singh and F. T. Wright

Volume 9, issue 1, 1990

On a recurrence relation for order statistics pp. 1-4

Y. S. Sathe and U. J. Dixit

Sooner and later waiting time problems for Bernoulli trials: frequency and run quotas pp. 5-11

M. Ebneshahrashoob and Milton Sobel

Estimation in two sample type II censoring models pp. 13-22

K. G. Mehrotra, A. Schick and V. Susarla

A short note on optimal bandwidth selection for kernel estimators pp. 23-25

Enno Mammen

Remark concerning data-dependent bandwidth choice in density estimation pp. 27-33

Jan Mielniczuk

Toward a universal random number generator pp. 35-39

George Marsaglia, Arif Zaman and Wai Wan Tsang

On the characterization of Pitman measure of nearness pp. 41-46

Carl M. -S. Lee

Weak convergence of the remainder term in the Bahadur representation of extreme quantiles pp. 47-50

Michael Falk

Median polish and a modified procedure pp. 51-57

Shande Chen and David Farnsworth

On conditionally mixing processes pp. 59-65

Ari Veijanen

Influence diagnostics for the Weibull model fit to censored data pp. 67-73

Lisa A. Weissfeld and Helmut Schneider

Families of min-stable multivariate exponential and multivariate extreme value distributions pp. 75-81

Harry Joe

inadmissibility of the maximum likelihood estimator of the inverse gaussian mean pp. 83-90

H. K. Hsieh, R. M. Korwar and A. L. Rukhin

Full maximum likelihood analysis of structural equation models with polytomous variables pp. 91-97

Sik-Yum Lee, Wai-Yin Poon and P. M. Bentler

Complete characterization of optimum weighing designs for estimating the total weight pp. 99-100

Sanpei Kageyama