Journal of Applied Statistics

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Volume 40, issue 12, 2013

Efficient sample size allocation with cost constraints for heterogeneous-variance group comparison pp. 2549-2563

Jiin-Huarng Guo and Wei-Ming Luh

A new variable selection method for uniform designs pp. 2564-2578

E. Androulakis and C. Koukouvinos

Posterior likelihood ratios for evaluation of forensic trace evidence given a two-level model on the data pp. 2579-2600

Ivo Alberink, Annabel Bolck and Sonja Menges

Identification of multiple high leverage points in logistic regression pp. 2601-2616

A.H.M. Rahmatullah Imon and Ali S. Hadi

Parametric and nonparametric confidence intervals for estimating the difference of means of two skewed populations pp. 2617-2636

B. M. Golam Kibria and Shipra Banik

Variable selection for partially varying coefficient single-index model pp. 2637-2652

Sanying Feng and Liugen Xue

Integer autoregressive models with structural breaks pp. 2653-2669

Akanksha S. Kashikar, Neelabh Rohan and T.V. Ramanathan

Frailty modeling for clustered survival data: an application to birth interval in Bangladesh pp. 2670-2680

Sharif Mahmood, Begum Zainab and A.H.M. Mahbub Latif

The use of a reference variety for comparisons in incomplete series of crop variety trials pp. 2681-2698

Johannes Forkman

A fast Monte Carlo expectation--maximization algorithm for estimation in latent class model analysis with an application to assess diagnostic accuracy for cervical neoplasia in women with atypical glandular cells pp. 2699-2719

Le Kang, Randy Carter, Kathleen Darcy, James Kauderer and Shu-Yuan Liao

Estimation under modified Weibull distribution based on right censored generalized order statistics pp. 2720-2734

Saieed F. Ateya

Fractionally integrated ARMA for crude palm oil prices prediction: case of potentially overdifference pp. 2735-2748

Abdul Aziz Karia, Imbarine Bujang and Ismail Ahmad

Modular-transform based clustering pp. 2749-2759

Gang Wang, Jun Wang and Mingyu Wang

A new discrete distribution: properties and applications in medical care pp. 2760-2770

Emilio Gómez Déniz

Advances in time series forecasting pp. 2771-2772

Mikhail Moklyachuk

Handbook of statistics in clinical oncology pp. 2772-2773

Yves Laberge

Bayesian statistics pp. 2773-2774

Mark Webster

Methodology in robust and nonparametric statistics pp. 2773-2773

Eugenia Stoimenova

The BUGS book: a practical introduction to Bayesian analysis pp. 2774-2775

Han Lin Shang

Introduction to linear regression analysis pp. 2775-2776

Pieter Bastiaan Ober

Regression analysis by example pp. 2776-2777

Giovanni C. Porzio

Maximum-likelihood estimation for sample surveys pp. 2777-2777

Claire Keeble

Design and analysis of experiments in the health sciences pp. 2778-2779

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Confidence intervals for proportions and related measures of effect size pp. 2778-2778

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Volume 40, issue 11, 2013

Temporal dynamics of inter-limb coordination in ice climbing revealed through change-point analysis of the geodesic mean of circular data pp. 2317-2331

Ludovic Seifert, Jean-Fran�ois Coeurjolly, Romain H�rault, L�o Wattebled and Keith Davids

A revisitation of the export-led growth hypothesis in Malaysia using the leveraged bootstrap simulation and rolling causality techniques pp. 2332-2340

Chor Foon Tang

Properties and performance of one-sided cumulative count of conforming chart with parameter estimation in high-quality processes pp. 2341-2353

Jing-Er Chiu and Chih-Hsin Tsai

On a variance stabilizing model and its application to genomic data pp. 2354-2371

Filidor Vilca, Mariana Rodrigues-Motta and V�ctor Leiva

Sequential LND sensitivity test for binary response data pp. 2372-2384

Lei Wang, Yukun Liu, Wei Wu and Xiaolong Pu

Mobile safety cameras: estimating casualty reductions and the demand for secondary healthcare pp. 2385-2406

Lee Fawcett and Neil Thorpe

Improving TAIEX forecasting using fuzzy time series with Box--Cox power transformation pp. 2407-2422

M. H. Lee, H. J. Sadaei and Suhartono

Estimation of parameters in DNA mixture analysis pp. 2423-2436

Therese Graversen and Steffen Lauritzen

Optimal progressive group censoring scheme under cost considerations for pareto distribution pp. 2437-2450

Coskun Kus, Yunus Akdogan and Shuo-Jye Wu

Heterogeneous data modeling with two-component Weibull--Poisson distribution pp. 2451-2461

�lk� Erisoglu, Murat Erisoglu and Nazif Çalis

Accuracy and fairness of rain rules for interrupted one-day cricket matches pp. 2462-2479

Robert Schall and Dianne Weatherall

Decomposing the predictive performance of the moving average trading rule of technical analysis: the contribution of linear and non-linear dependencies in stock returns pp. 2480-2494

Alexandros E. Milionis and Evangelia Papanagiotou

Robust and scale-free effect sizes for non-Normal two-sample comparisons, with applications in e-commerce pp. 2495-2515

David A. Wooff and Amin Jamalzadeh

Hybrid Bayesian inference on HIV viral dynamic models pp. 2516-2532

Gang Han, Yangxin Huang, Qizhai Li, Lili Chen and Xi Zhang

New measures of clumpiness for incidence data pp. 2533-2548

Yao Zhang, Eric T. Bradlow and Dylan S. Small

Volume 40, issue 10, 2013

A cointegration analysis of crime, economic activity, and police performance in São Paulo city pp. 2087-2109

Marcelo Justus dos Santos and Ana Lucia Kassouf

Variable dimension via stochastic volatility model using FX rates pp. 2110-2128

Wantanee Surapaitoolkorn

A multiple group item response theory model with centered skew-normal latent trait distributions under a Bayesian framework pp. 2129-2149

Jose R.S. Santos, Caio L.N. Azevedo and Heleno Bolfarine

Financial data modeling by Poisson mixture regression pp. 2150-2162

S. Faria and F. Gon�alves

A concentration approach to sensitivity studies in statistical estimation problems pp. 2163-2180

Jacques B�nass�ni

Confidence intervals for the ratio of two variances pp. 2181-2187

Vesna Ćojbašić Rajić and J. Stanojević

Power-law scaling behavior analysis of financial time series model by voter interacting dynamic system pp. 2188-2203

Hongli Niu and Jun Wang

Analysis of the amended Davidson model with order effect for paired comparison in the Bayesian paradigm pp. 2204-2218

Saima Altaf, Muhammad Aslam and Muhammad Aslam

Influence measures in affine combination type regression pp. 2219-2243

M. Revan Özkale

Segmental modeling of changing immunologic response for CD4 data with skewness, missingness and dropout pp. 2244-2258

Yangxin Huang, Getachew A. Dagne and Jeong-Gun Park

Robust explicit estimation of the two-parameter Birnbaum--Saunders distribution pp. 2259-2274

Min Wang, Jing Zhao, Xiaoqian Sun and Chanseok Park

Forecasting the industrial production using alternative factor models and business survey data pp. 2275-2289

Mauro Costantini

Forecasting before, during, and after recession with singular spectrum analysis pp. 2290-2302

Hossein Hassani, Saeed Heravi, Gary Brown and Daniel Ayoubkhani

Bayesian estimation of log odds ratios over two-way contingency tables with intraclass correlated cells pp. 2303-2316

Haydar Demirhan

Volume 40, issue 9, 2013

Non-parametric estimation of data dimensionality prior to data compression: the case of the human development index pp. 1853-1863

David Canning, Declan French and Michael Moore

Block and Basu bivariate lifetime distribution in the presence of cure fraction pp. 1864-1874

Jorge Alberto Achcar, Em�lio Augusto Coelho-Barros and Josmar Mazucheli

Clustering algorithm for proximity-relation matrix and its applications pp. 1875-1892

Wen-Liang Hung and De-Hua Chen

Estimation of cost allocation coefficients at the farm level using an entropy approach pp. 1893-1906

Rui Fragoso and Maria Leonor Silva Carvalho

A longitudinal analysis of infant and senescent mortality using mixture models pp. 1907-1920

R. M. Green and M. S. Bebbington

A new behavioural model for fertility schedules pp. 1921-1930

Arindam Gupta and Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti

Integer-valued autoregressive models for counts showing underdispersion pp. 1931-1948

Christian H. Weiß

Estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses using the pattern of observed p -values pp. 1949-1964

Tiejun Tong, Zeny Feng, Julia S. Hilton and Hongyu Zhao

On a bounded bimodal two-sided distribution fitted to the Old-Faithful geyser data pp. 1965-1978

Donatella Vicari and Johan Ren� van Dorp

Detection of multiple change-points in multivariate data pp. 1979-1995

Edgard M. Maboudou-Tchao and Douglas M. Hawkins

An optimal allocation for response-adaptive designs pp. 1996-2008

Yanqing Yi and Yuan Yuan

Band-limited component estimation in time-limited economic series pp. 2009-2023

Laura Barbieri, Mario Faliva and Maria Zoia

Robust variable selection for the varying coefficient model based on composite L 1 -- L 2 regression pp. 2024-2040

Weihua Zhao, Riquan Zhang and Jicai Liu

Searching for contaminants pp. 2041-2055

Nicholas T. Longford

Score test for testing zero-inflated Poisson regression against zero-inflated generalized Poisson alternatives pp. 2056-2068

Hossein Zamani and Noriszura Ismail

Identifying radon-prone building typologies by marginal modelling pp. 2069-2086

Riccardo Borgoni, Valeria Tritto and Daniela de Bartolo

Volume 40, issue 8, 2013

Application of ordinal correspondence analysis for submerged aquatic vegetation monitoring pp. 1619-1638

Claude Mant�, Guillaume Bernard, Patrick Bonhomme and David Nerini

Selection of suitable prior for the Bayesian mixture of a class of lifetime distributions under type-I censored datasets pp. 1639-1658

Syed Mohsin Ali Kazmi, Muhammad Aslam, Sajid Ali and Nasir Abbas

Medical diagnostic test based on the potential test result approach: bounds and identification pp. 1659-1672

Akiko Kada, Zhihong Cai and Manabu Kuroki

Multivariate control chart based on the highest possibility region pp. 1673-1681

Ting-Ting Gang, Jun Yang and Yu Zhao

A dynamic analysis of stock markets using a hidden Markov model pp. 1682-1700

Luca De Angelis and Leonard J. Paas

Causality and interdependence analysis in linear econometric models with an application to fertility pp. 1701-1716

Laura Barbieri

Pareto Poisson--Lindley distribution with applications pp. 1717-1734

A. Asgharzadeh, Hassan S. Bakouch and L. Esmaeili

Detecting influential observations in Liu and modified Liu estimators pp. 1735-1745

Hasan Ertas, Murat Erisoglu and Selahattin Kaciranlar

Bayesian semiparametric models for nonignorable missing mechanisms in generalized linear models pp. 1746-1763

Z. I. Kalaylioglu and O. Ozturk

Do stock returns have an Archimedean copula? pp. 1764-1778

Mark Trede and Cornelia Savu

Bayesian growth curve models with the generalized error distribution pp. 1779-1795

Zhiyong Zhang

Bayesian modeling of autoregressive partial linear models with scale mixture of normal errors pp. 1796-1816

Guillermo Ferreira, Luis M. Castro, Victor H. Lachos and Ronaldo Dias

Multiple comparisons with a control for exponential location parameters under heteroscedasticity pp. 1817-1830

Vishal Maurya, Amar Nath Gill and Parminder Singh

Measuring the impact of the Web: Rasch modelling for survey evaluation pp. 1831-1851

Paola Annoni, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska and Hania Farhan

Volume 40, issue 7, 2013

A powerful test method for analyzing unreplicated factorials pp. 1387-1401

Ying Chen

Bayesian factor models in characterizing molecular adaptation pp. 1402-1424

Saheli Datta, Raquel Prado and Abel Rodr�guez

A Bayesian approach for analysing longitudinal nominal outcomes using random coefficients transitional generalized logit model: an application to the labour force survey data pp. 1425-1445

Z. Rezaei Ghahroodi and M. Ganjali

Point-symmetry models and decomposition for collapsed square contingency tables pp. 1446-1452

Kouji Yamamoto, Shota Murakami and Sadao Tomizawa

Wavelet fuzzy hybrid model for physico-financial signals pp. 1453-1463

Anouar BenMabrouk and Olfa Zaafrane

Exact inferences of the two-parameter exponential distribution and Pareto distribution with censored data pp. 1464-1479

Conghua Cheng, Jinyuan Chen and Jianming Bai

Discriminating between the generalized Rayleigh and Weibull distributions pp. 1480-1493

Mohammad Z. Raqab

Extended tests for non-zero between-study variance pp. 1494-1505

K. H. Makambi

Comparing the methods of measuring multi-rater agreement on an ordinal rating scale: a simulation study with an application to real data pp. 1506-1519

Y. Sertdemir, H. R. Burgut, Z. N. Alparslan, I. Unal and S. Gunasti

Additive hazards model with truncated and doubly censored data pp. 1520-1532

Pao-Sheng Shen

Predicting probabilities for the 2010 FIFA World Cup games using a Poisson-Gamma model pp. 1533-1544

Leonardo Soares Bastos and Joel Mauricio Correa da Rosa

One-step M -estimators: Jones and Faddy's skewed t -distribution pp. 1545-1560

Sukru Acitas, Pelin Kasap, Birdal Senoglu and Olcay Arslan

Effect of individual observations on the Box--Cox transformation pp. 1561-1571

L. I. Pettit and N. Sothinathan

Things that make us different: analysis of deviance with time-use data pp. 1572-1585

Jorge Gonz�lez Chapela

Multivariate models for correlated count data pp. 1586-1596

Mariana Rodrigues-Motta, Hildete P. Pinheiro, Eduardo G. Martins, M�rcio S. Araújo and S�rgio F. dos Reis

Bayesian estimation of parameters of inverse Weibull distribution pp. 1597-1607

Sanjay Kumar Singh, Umesh Singh and Dinesh Kumar

A subset selection procedure for multinomial distributions pp. 1608-1618

Saad T. Bakir

Volume 40, issue 6, 2013

Bayesian networks for sex-related homicides: structure learning and prediction pp. 1155-1171

Stephan Stahlschmidt, Helmut Tausendteufel and Wolfgang Härdle

Modelling small and medium enterprise loan defaults as rare events: the generalized extreme value regression model pp. 1172-1188

Raffaella Calabrese and Silvia Angela Osmetti

An extensive power evaluation of a novel two-sample density-based empirical likelihood ratio test for paired data with an application to a treatment study of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and severe mood dysregulation pp. 1189-1208

Wan-Min Tsai, Albert Vexler and Gregory Gurevich

Multivariate linear regression for heterogeneous data pp. 1209-1230

Donatella Vicari and Maurizio Vichi

A multi-index model for quantile regression with ordinal data pp. 1231-1245

Hyokyoung Grace Hong and Jianhui Zhou

Hip fracture prediction from a new classification algorithm based on recursive partitioning methods pp. 1246-1253

Hua Jin and Qi Mo

Bayesian structural equation modeling for the health index pp. 1254-1269

Ferra Yanuar, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim and Abdul Aziz Jemain

Segmentation, alignment and statistical analysis of biosignals with application to disease classification pp. 1270-1288

Sebastian Kurtek, Wei Wu, Gary E. Christensen and Anuj Srivastava

Bayesian analysis for partially complete time and type of failure data pp. 1289-1300

Debasis Kundu

The economic design of multivariate binomial EWMA VSSI control charts pp. 1301-1318

Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki and Paravaneh Jahani

Detecting and removing outlier(s) in electromyographic gait-related patterns pp. 1319-1332

Miler Jerkovic Vera, Bojanic Dubravka, Jorgovanovic Nikola, Ilic Vojin and Petrovacki-Balj Bojana

A SARIMAX coupled modelling applied to individual load curves intraday forecasting pp. 1333-1348

Sophie Bercu and Fr�d�ric Proïa

Robust testing for stationarity of global surface temperature pp. 1349-1361

Erhard Reschenhofer

A stochastic frontier approach to survival analysis pp. 1362-1371

K. Suresh Chandra, G. Gopal and M. Ramadurai

A note on statistical method for genotype calling of high-throughput single-nucleotide polymorphism arrays pp. 1372-1381

Jiaqi Yang, Wei Zhang and Baolin Wu

Expect the unexpected: a first course in biostatistics pp. 1382-1383

Jing Xu

Introduction to probability with Texas Hold'em examples pp. 1383-1384

Jing Xu

Economic time series pp. 1384-1385

Abhay Kumar Tiwari

Volume 40, issue 5, 2013

Three-part model for fractional response variables with application to Chinese household health insurance coverage pp. 925-940

Kuangnan Fang and Shuangge Ma

Identification of target clusters by using the restricted normal mixture model pp. 941-960

Seung-Gu Kim, Jeong-Soo Park and Yung-Seop Lee

Scheduling parallel conference sessions: an application of a novel hybrid clustering algorithm for ensuring constrained cardinality pp. 961-971

B. Houlding and J. Haslett

A modification of the Box–Meyer method for finding the active factors in screening experiments pp. 972-984

I-Tang Yu

Zero-inflated beta distribution for modeling the proportions in quantitative fatty acid signature analysis pp. 985-992

Connie Stewart

Bayesian model comparison for compartmental models with applications in positron emission tomography pp. 993-1016

Yan Zhou, John Aston and Adam Johansen

A model of regression lines through a common point: estimation of the focal point in wind-blown sand phenomena pp. 1017-1031

Nagatomo Nakamura and Takahiro Tsuchiya

Canonical correlation analysis in the definition of weight restrictions for data envelopment analysis pp. 1032-1043

Antonio Gonçalves, Renan Almeida, Marcos Lins and Carlos Samanez

Intertemporal persistence in healthcare spending and utilization: the role of insurance pp. 1044-1063

David Zimmer

A generalized bivariate Bernoulli model with covariate dependence pp. 1064-1075

M. Islam, Abdulhamid Alzaid, Rafiqul Chowdhury and Khalaf Sultan

Bayesian inference of the inverse Weibull mixture distribution using type-I censoring pp. 1076-1089

Farzana Noor and Muhammad Aslam

A generalized quantile regression model pp. 1090-1105

Vahid Nassiri and Ignace Loris

Bayesian estimation for randomly censored generalized exponential distribution under asymmetric loss functions pp. 1106-1119

Muhammad Danish and Muhammad Aslam

An empirical goodness-of-fit test for multivariate distributions pp. 1120-1131

Michael McAssey

A note on variance estimation in the Cox proportional hazards model pp. 1132-1139

Jiong Luo and Zheng Su

Statistical considerations in bioequivalence of two area under the concentration–time curves obtained from serial sampling data pp. 1140-1154

Steven Hua, D. Hawkins and Jihao Zhou

Volume 40, issue 4, 2013

Erratum pp. v-v

The Editors

Grouped penalization estimation of the osteoporosis data in the traditional Chinese medicine pp. 699-711

Yang Li, Yichen Qin, Yanming Xie and Feng Tian

A comparison of artificial neural network and multinomial logit models in predicting mergers pp. 712-720

Nilgun Fescioglu-Unver and Başak Tanyeri

Some ridge regression estimators for the zero-inflated Poisson model pp. 721-735

B. Kibria, Kristofer Månsson and Ghazi Shukur

Construction of disease risk scoring systems using logistic group lasso: application to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome survey data pp. 736-746

Hui Lin, Chong Wang, Peng Liu and Derald Holtkamp

Adaptive choice of scale tests in flexible two-stage designs with applications in experimental ecology and clinical trials pp. 747-762

Marco Marozzi

Sequential correction of linear classifiers pp. 763-776

T. Górecki

Large-scale Bayesian spatial modelling of air pollution for policy support pp. 777-794

Gavin Shaddick, Haojie Yan, Ruth Salway, Danielle Vienneau, Daphne Kounali and David Briggs

Functional principal component analysis for the explorative analysis of multisite–multivariate air pollution time series with long gaps pp. 795-807

Mariantonietta Ruggieri, Antonella Plaia, Francesca Di Salvo and Gianna Agró

On the use of different metrics for assessing complex pattern reproductions pp. 808-822

Sandra De Iaco

Exploring spatial dependence in area-level random effect model for disaggregate-level crop yield estimation pp. 823-842

Hukum Chandra

A time-varying measurement error model for age of onset of a psychiatric diagnosis: applied to first depressive episode diagnosed by the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) pp. 843-861

Ole Klungsøyr, Joe Sexton, Inger Sandanger and Jan Nygård

A new approach to choose acceptance cutoff for approximate Bayesian computation pp. 862-869

Muhammad Faisal, Andreas Futschik and Ijaz Hussain

An efficient non-rejective implementation of the πps sampling designs pp. 870-886

Zaizai Yan, Miaomiao Li and Yalu Yan

Inferences on the difference between future observations for comparing two treatments pp. 887-900

A. Hayter

Volatility clustering in the presence of time-varying model parameters pp. 901-915

Edoardo Otranto

Statistical computing in C++ and R pp. 916-916

Kassim Mwitondi

A practitioner's guide to resampling for data analysis, data mining, and modeling pp. 917-917

Pieter Bastiaan Ober

Data driven business decisions pp. 917-918

Pieter Bastiaan Ober

Time series modelling of neuroscience data pp. 918-919

Anouar Ben Mabrouk

Simulating nature: a philosophical study of computer-simulation uncertainties and their role in climate science and policy advice pp. 919-920

Yves Laberge

Sampling pp. 920-921

Mariano Ruiz Espejo

Ergodic control of diffusion processes pp. 921-922

Yiannis Kamarianakis

Behavioural research data analysis with R pp. 922-922

Chris Beeley

Geostatistics: modeling spatial uncertainty, second edition pp. 923-923

A. Mosammam

R for statistics pp. 924-924

Hassan Bakouch

Volume 40, issue 3, 2013

Test for the significance of the mean of a stable probability distribution with 1<α≤2 pp. 465-482

Michael Parkinson

Control charts for location based on different sampling schemes pp. 483-494

Rashid Mehmood, Muhammad Riaz and Ronald Does

Stochastic volatility models for exchange rates and their estimation using quasi-maximum-likelihood methods: an application to the South African Rand pp. 495-507

M. Kulikova and D. Taylor

Using the Hybrid Two-Step estimation approach for the identification of second-order latent variable models pp. 508-526

Enrico Ciavolino and Mariangela Nitti

A comparison of models using removal effort to estimate animal abundance pp. 527-545

Katherine St. Clair, Eric Dunton and John Giudice

Joint modelling of pre-randomisation event counts and multiple post-randomisation survival times with cure rates: application to data for early epilepsy and single seizures pp. 546-562

J. Rogers and J. Hutton

On the recoding of continuous and bounded indexes to a binomial form: an application to quality-of-life scores pp. 563-582

Inmaculada Arostegui, Vicente Núñez-Antón and José Quintana

A clustering approach to interpretable principal components pp. 583-599

Doyo Enki, Nickolay Trendafilov and Ian Jolliffe

SNP selection for predicting a quantitative trait pp. 600-613

S. Subedi, Z. Feng, R. Deardon and F. Schenkel

Smooth bootstrap-based confidence intervals for one binomial proportion and difference of two proportions pp. 614-625

Dongliang Wang and Alan Hutson

Modelling over- and underdispersed frequencies of successful ink transmissions onto paper pp. 626-643

Verena Feirer, Herwig Friedl and Ulrich Hirn

Robust ridge and robust Liu estimator for regression based on the LTS estimator pp. 644-655

Betül Kan, Özlem Alpu and Berna Yazıcı

Predicting infectious disease outbreak risk via migratory waterfowl vectors pp. 656-673

Jacob Oleson and Christopher Wikle

Distance-based approach in univariate longitudinal data analysis pp. 674-692

Sandra Melo and Oscar Melo

Nonparametric methods for the estimation of imputation uncertainty pp. 693-698

Akbar Heydarbeygie and Nima Ahmadi

Volume 40, issue 2, 2013

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 I. 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 D�az de Rada, Ignacio Garc�a 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-Rodr�guez and M. R. Rodr�guez-Griñolo

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

Antonio S.M. Arroyo, Antonio Garc�a-Ferrer, Aránzazu 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 Mart�nez-Camblor, Norberto Corral and Jesus Mar�a 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 Dion�sio and Luís Coelho