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