Editor's Melange Highlights -- Far away from data-land ................. Michelle Liou and Xiao-Li Meng 1 Editorial -- Pessimistic outlook with an optimistic outlook ................ Xuming He 5 Discussion Paper Modeling and predicting extrapolated probabilities with outlooks ..................... ................................................................... Mendel Fygenson 9 Invited discussions Comment ................................ I-Shou Chang, Li-Chu Chien and Chao A. Hsiung 40 Comment ................................................... Cheng-Der Fuh and Inchi Hu 44 Comment .............................................................. Peter McCullagh 46 Comment .............................................................. Stephen Portnoy 48 Contributed discussions Comment ...................................... Vance Berger, Shu Zhang and YanYan Zhou 55 Comment ............................................................. Jose M. Bernardo 58 Comment ................................................................. Atanu Biswas 59 Comment ................................................................. David Draper 61 Comment ......................................... Mark S. Kaiser and Daniel J. Nordman 63 Comment ............................................................ Michael D. Larsen 69 Comment ................................................................. Chuanhai Liu 75 Rejoinder Rejoinder ............................................................ Mendel Fygenson 80 General General Ranked Set Sampling for Efficient Treatment Comparisons ...................... ............................... Zehua Chen, Jianbin Liu, Liang Shen and Yougan Wang 91 Second order saturated orthogonal arrays of strength three ........................... .................................... Ching-Shui Cheng, Robert W. Mee and Oksoun Yee 105 Efficient estimation methods for informative cluster size data ....................... ............................................... Chin-Tsang Chiang and Kuang-Yao Lee 121 Exact optimal designs for weighted least squares analysis with correlated errors ..... ................................ Holger Dette, Joachim Kunert and Andrey Pepelyshev 135 Nonparametric conditional inference for regression coefficients with application to configural polysampling ..................... Yvonne H. S. Ho and Stephen M. S. Lee 155 Orthogonal-Maximin Latin hypercube designs ............ V. Roshan Joseph and Ying Hung 171 Parameter estimation of chirp signals in presence of stationary noise ................ ................................................... Debasis Kundu and Swagata Nandi 187 A generalization of the Levin-Robbins procedure for binomial subset selection and recruitment problems .............................. Cheng-Shiun Leu and Bruce Levin 203 Analysis of competing risks data with missing cause of failure under additive hazards model ...................................................... Wenbin Lu and Yu Liang 219 Uniformly balanced repeated measurements designs in the presence of subject dropout .. ................................ Dibyen Majumdar, Angela M. Dean and Susan M. Lewis 235 The maxiset point of view for estimating integrated quadratic functionals ............ ............................................ Vincent Rivoirard and Karine Tribouley 255 Confidence intervals based on survey data with nearest neighbor imputation ........... ........................................................ Jun Shao and Hansheng Wang 281 Improving dimension reduction via contour-projection ................................. ...................................... Hansheng Wang, Liqiang Ni and Chih-Ling Tsai 299 Empirical processes of stationary sequences .............................. Wei Biao Wu 313 Common canonical variates for independent groups using information theory ............ ..................................................... Xiangrong Yin and T.N. Sriram 335 Semiparametric transformation models with random effects for clustered failure time data ....................................... Donglin Zeng, D. Y. Lin and Xihong Lin 355 The F∞-norm support vector machine ............................. Hui Zou and Ming Yuan 3792008 Statistica Sinica ISSN 1017-0405