Metron - International Journal of Statistics

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Volume LXIX, issue 1, 2011

Corrado Gini: the man and the scientist pp. 1-28

Giovanni Giorgi

On the interpolation of a straight line when the values of the independent variable are affected by accidental errors pp. 29-43

Corrado Gini

Corrado Gini, a pioneer in balanced sampling and inequality theory pp. 45-65

Matti Langel and Yves Tillé

Gini’s multiple regressions: two approaches and their interaction pp. 67-99

Edna Schechtman, Shlomo Yitzhaki and Taina Pudalov

Gini’s criticisms to the theory of inference: a missed opportunity pp. 101-117

Ludovico Piccinato

Volume LXVIII, issue 3, 2010

Multivariate extended skew-t distributions and related families pp. 201-234

Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and Marc G. Genton

On Fisher information matrices and profile log-likelihood functions in generalized skew-elliptical models pp. 235-250

Christophe Ley and Davy Paindaveine

Modelling conditional heteroskedasticity and skewness using the skew-normal distribution pp. 251-263

Thomas R. Allen Corns and Stephen E. Satchell

Some moment properties of skew-symmetric circular distributions pp. 265-273

Dale Umbach and Sreenivas Rao Jammalamadaka

Invariance-based estimating equations for skew-symmetric distributions pp. 275-298

Adelchi Azzalini, Marc G. Genton and Bruno Scarpa

On the approximation of the tail probability of the scalar skew-normal distribution pp. 299-308

Antonella Capitanio

Selection bias in linear mixed models pp. 309-329

Leonardo Grilli and Carla Rampichini

Truncated skew-normal distributions: moments, estimation by weighted moments and application to climatic data pp. 331-345

Cedric Flecher, Denis Allard and Philippe Naveau

A prospective combination of phase II and phase III in drug development pp. 347-369

Adelchi Azzalini and Antonella Bacchieri

On the information matrix of the multivariate skew-t model pp. 371-386

Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle

Volume LXVIII, issue 2, 2010

A pretest for choosing between logrank and Wilcoxon tests in the two-sample problem pp. 111-125

Ruvie Lou Maria C. Martinez and Joshua D. Naranjo

Order statistics from a family of J-shaped distributions pp. 127-136

Ahmad A. Zghoul

Speeding up the asymptotics when constructing one-sided coverage intervals with survey data pp. 137-151

Phillip S. Kott and Yan K. Liu

Length biased weighted residual inaccuracy measure pp. 153-160

Vikas Kumar, H.C. Taneja and R. Srivastava

Clustering multivariate time series by genetic multiobjective optimization pp. 161-183

S. Bandyopadhyay, R. Baragona and U. Maulik

Improvement in estimating the population mean using two-stage balanced groups ranked set sampling pp. 185-196

Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari and Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh

Volume LXVIII, issue 1, 2010

Estimating function approach for CHARN Models pp. 1-21

Hiroomi Kanai, Hiroaki Ogata and Masanobu Taniguchi

Bonferroni and Gini indices for various parametric families of distributions pp. 23-46

Giovanni Giorgi and Saralees Nadarajah

A general procedure for estimating the population mean in stratified sampling using auxiliary information pp. 47-65

Housila P. Singh and Gajendra K. Vishwakarma

Variance residual life function in discrete random ageing pp. 67-75

M. Khorashadizadeh, A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi and G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran

Characterization of discrete distributions by conditional variance pp. 77-85

Kumar Kattumannil Sudheesh and N. Unnikrishnan Nair

On the identifiability of a mixture model for ordinal data pp. 87-94

Maria Iannario

On stochastic optimization in sample allocation among strata pp. 95-103

Marcin Kozak and Hai Ying Wang

Volume LXVII, issue 3, 2009

Transvariation and inequality between subpopulations in the Dagum’s Gini index decomposition pp. 229-241

Michele Costa

Optimum quadratic three-step stress plans for log-logistic distribution pp. 243-255

Mohammed Al-Haj Ebrahem and Abedel-Qader Al-Masri

On non-isomorphic orthogonal array OA(3^5,20,3,3) pp. 257-267

Veena Budhraja and Seema Gupta

Bayesian analysis for the exponentiated Rayleigh distribution pp. 269-288

Mohammad Z. Raqab and Mohamed T. Madi

Quantile estimation and the statistical relative efficiency curve pp. 289-301

Vytaras Brazauskas

On a construction of Markov models in continuous time pp. 303-323

Ramses H. Mena and Stephen G. Walker

An improved skewness measure pp. 325-337

Richard A. Groeneveld and Glen Meeden

Volume LXVII, issue 2, 2009

Mixture Designs in orthogonal blocks using F-squares pp. 105-128

M. L. Aggarwal, Poonam Singh, Vandana Sarin and Bushra Husain

On the Polya-Aeppli regression model pp. 129-152

Carlo Ferreri

Multivariate indirect methods of estimation in presence of non-response in successive sampling pp. 153-175

Housila P. Singh and Sunil Kumar

Nonparametric estimation of regression parameters in measurement error models pp. 177-200

A. K. MD. Ehsanes Saleh, Jan Picek and Jan Kalina

On the existence of a posterior distribution for spatial mixed models with binomial responses pp. 201-209

Martin Vogt and Ralf Munnich

Mixture Designs in orthogonal blocks using F-squares pp. 211-227

Mahendra Kumar Sharma and Sileshi Fanta

Volume LXVII, issue 1, 2009

Bayes prediction of the regression coefficient in a finite population using balanced loss function pp. 1-16

Ashok K. Bansal and Priyanka Aggarwal

Robust inference in composite transformation models pp. 17-30

Luca Greco and Laura Ventura

Estimation of the Weibull shape parameter in failure censored sampling under the linex loss pp. 31-50

Gyan Prakash and Dinesh Chandra Singh

On characterizations of t2 distribution by regressional properties of maximums pp. 51-56

I. Akhundov and V. B. Nevzorov

Analysis of simple linear regression via median ranked set sampling pp. 57-74

M. T. Alodat, Mohammad Al-Rawwash and I. M. Nawajah

On the power generalizedWeibull family: model for cancer censored data pp. 75-86

Mikhail Nikulin and Firoozeh Haghighi

Estimation of population mean on current occasion in two-occasion successive sampling pp. 87-103

Garib Nath Singh and Jaishree Prabha Karna

Volume LXVI, issue 3, 2008

Attenuation of relative poverty by taxes and subsidies pp. 265-283

Karl Mosler and C. Scheicher

Mean squared error matrix comparison of least aquares and Stein-rule estimators for regression coefficients under non-normal disturbances pp. 285-298

Shalabh, H. Toutenburg and C. Heumann

Size-biased Poisson-Lindley distribution and its application pp. 299-311

M. E. Ghitany and D. K. Al-Mutairi

Two-stage restricted adaptive cluster sampling pp. 313-327

E. Rocco

Unbiased variance estimation in estimating P (X > Y) for one and two parameter exponential populations pp. 329-339

S. Sengupta

Method of trimmed moments for robust fitting of parametric failure time models pp. 341-360

R. Bajorunaite and V. Brazauskas

Volume LXVI, issue 2, 2008

Distributions of scan statistics in a sequence of Markov Bernoulli trials pp. 135-155

R. L. Shinde and K. S. Kotwal,

Using Markov chains for marginal modelling of binary longitudinal data in an exact likelihood approach pp. 157-181

M. H. Goncalves and A. Azzalini

Imputing and jackknifing scrambled responses pp. 183-204

S. Singh –, J.-M. Kim and I. Singh Grewal

The distribution of the sum of a normal and a t random variable with arbitrary degrees of freedom pp. 205-208

Giovanni Forchini

On auto-regression type dynamic mixed models for binary panel data pp. 209-221

B. C. Sutradhar

The role of lower partial moments in stochastic modeling pp. 223-242

S. M. Sunoj and S. S. Maya

Comments on a-decomposability pp. 243-252

N. Bouzar and S. Satheesh

Accounting for interviewer variability in small area estimation pp. 253-262

B. Liu

Volume LXVI, issue 1, 2008

Methodological advances in official statistics pp. 1-3

Mauro Scanu (Guest Ed.)

Another look at ridge calibration pp. 5-20

Jean-Francois Beaumont and Cynthia Bocci

Towards small area estimation at Statistics Netherlands pp. 21-49

Harm Jan Boonstra, Jan A. Van Den Brakel, Bart Buelens, Sabine Krieg and Marc Smeets

Propensity to respond and nonresponse bias pp. 51-73

J. Michael Brick and Michael E. Jones

A multiple imputation method for non-Gaussian data pp. 75-90

Marco Di Zio and Ugo Guarnera

Evaluation of some approximate variance estimators under the Rao-Sampford unequal probability sampling design pp. 91-108

David Haziza, Fulvia Mecatti and J.N.K. Rao

Data disclosure limitation as a decision problem pp. 109-134

Mario Trottini