Kameo Matusita & Madan L. Puri 
Statistical Sciences and Data Analysis [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the Third Pacific Area Statistical Conference

Frontmatter — Contents — Preface — Kullback-Leibler Information for Ordering Genes Using Sperm Typing and Radiation Hybrid Mapping — Statistical Models For Forecasting Tornado Intensity — Incorporating Geographic Distribution into the Expected Number of Deaths in a Comparative Study — Fitting Random Coefficient Regression Models — Design and Analysis in Repeated Measurement Experiment : on Use of Preliminary Knowledge about Covariance Structure of Observations — Least Squares Estimators of Regression Coefficients by using Misspecified Covariance Structure for Error Process — Estimation of Regression Parameters When the Errors are Auto correlated — Centering and Scaling in Ridge Regression — Reparametrization Methods in Linear Minimax Estimation — Robust Tests for Linear Models — CIRCULAR REGRESSION — Properties of Least Squares Methods for Choosing the Parameter of the Simple Exponential Smoothing Predictor — Characterization of MTV model and its diagnostic checking — Limit theorems for statistical inference on stationary processes with strong dependence — Two Sample Problem in Time Series Analysis — Malliavin Calculus and Higher Order Statistical Inference — Estimation of Levels of Intensity in a Simple Self-Correcting Point Process — Additional Information and Precision of Estimators in Multivariate Structural Models — Sensitivity Analysis in Covariance Structure Analysis: A Numerical Investigation in the Case of Confirmatory Factor Analysis — Likelihood Ratio Tests for Means and Covariances with Incomplete Multinormal Observations — Maximally orthogonally invariant higher order moments and their application to testing elliptically-contouredness — Asymptotic Theory for the Concentrated Matrix Langevin Distributions on the Grassmann Manifold — On Canonical Correlations and the Degrees of Non-Orthogonality in the Three-way Layout — Partial Canonical Correlations Associated with the Inverse and Some Generalized Inverses of a Partitioned Dispersion Matrix — Approximation to the Upper Percentiles of T2max – type Statistics — Curvature Measures in Data Analysis — Statistical Inference from Observations with Censoring and Grouping for Exponential Families — Pitman Closeness of the Equivariant Shrinkage Estimators of the Normal Variance — Normal Approximation to the Distribution of the Sample Mean in the Exponential Family — A New Approach to Asymptotic Distributions of Maximum Likelihood Ratio Statistics — Test of homogeneity of parameters — Determining the No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level in Continuous Response — Asymptotics on the Statistics for a Family of Non-Regular Distributions — Error Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of Some Distributions in a SUR Model — Second Order Asymptotic Bound for the Variance of Estimators for the Double Exponential Distribution — Asymptotic Expansions for E0 {min ( t , m )} and E0{xmin(t, m)} — Aspects of Goodness-of-Fit — On the Central Limit Theorem in Hilbert Space with Application to U-Statistics — Asymptotics of the Perturbed Sample Quantile for a Sequence of m—dependent Stationary Random Process — The L1 Complete Convergence of Recursive Kernel Density Estimators Under Weak Dependence — MULTIVARIATE L1-NORM ESTIMATION AND THE VULNERABLE BOOTSTRAP — Convergent Rates of M-Estimators for a Partly Linear Model — Discrete Distributions Related to Succession Events in a Two-State Markov Chain — How Large the Class of Waiting Distribution Can Be? — The use of the inverse Gaussian model for analysing the lognormal data — AN ANALISYS OF DEGRADATION DATA OF A CARBON FILM AND THE PROPERTIES OF THE ESTIMATORS — Bayesian Analysis for Exponential Zero-failure Data — The Estimation of Distribution under a Particular Random Censoring — New Main Effect Plus One Plans For 27 Factorial Experiments And Their Robustness Property Against Deletion Of Runs — PROFILES OF 2m FACTORIAL DESIGNS — Characterization and Optimality of Block Designs with Estimation of