Volume 15 Number 1 January 2005
Editorial............................................H. C. Ho and J. L. Wang 1 Improving on the independent Metropolis-Hastings algorithm................. ....................................Yves F. Atchadé and François Perron 3 A rapid method for the comparison of cluster analyses...................... .......................Cavan Reilly, Changchun Wang and Mark Rutherford 19 Asymptotic properties of bootstrapped likelihood ratio statistics for time censored data........Shuen-Lin Jeng, S. N. Lahiri and William Q. Meeker 35 Admissible minimax estimation of the signalwith known background........... ....................................Tonglin Zhang and Michael Woodroofe 59 Unimodal kernel density estimation by data sharpening...................... ...........................................Peter Hall and Kee-Hoon Kang 73 Partially linear single-index measurement error models..................... .............................................Hua Liang and Naisyin Wang 99 Bootstrap of a semiparametric partiallylinear model with autoregressive er- rors..........................................Jinhong You and Xian Zhou 117 Testing lack-of-fit of parametric regression models using nonparametric re- gression techniques....Randall L. Eubank, Chin-Shang Li and Suojin Wang 135 D-optimal designs for weighted polynomial regression-a functional-algebraic approach.................................................Fu-Chuen Chang 153 Optimal designs for an additive quadratic mixture model involving the amount of mixture..C. Q. Zhang, L. Y. Chan, Y. N. Guan, K. H. Li and T. S. Lau 165 Weighted residual-based density estimators for nonlinear autoregressive mo- dels...........Ursula U. M\"uller, Anton Schick and Wolfgang Wefelmeyer 177 Modified Burg algorithms for multivariate subset autoregression............ ..........Peter J. Brockwell, Rainer Dahlhaus and A. Alexandre Trindade 197 Asymptotic theory for arch-sm models: lan and residual empirical processes. ....................................Sangyeol Lee and Masanobu Taniguchi 215 Testing generalized linear models using smoothing spline methods........... ...............................Anna Liu, Wendy Meiring and Yuedong Wang 235 Score tests for zero-inflation and over-dispersion in generalized linear models................................Dianliang Deng and Sudhir R. Paul 257