STATISTICA  SINICA

Volume 20  Number 1   Jan 2010

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Discussion Paper
  Intrinsic shape analysis: Geodesic PCA for Riemannian manifolds modulo isometric Lie group actions
Stephan Huckemann*, Thomas Hotz and Axel Munk
1

Comments
  Rabi N. Bhattacharya* 58
  Sungkyu Jung*, Mark Foskey and J. S. Marron 63
  John T. Kent* 65
  Peter T. Kim* and Ja-Yong Koo 72
  Manik C Mukherjee and Atanu Biswas* 76
  Vic Patrangenaru* 79

Rejoinder
  Stephan Huckemann*, Thomas Hotz and Axel Munk 84

Invited Review Article
  A selective overview of variable selection in high dimensional feature space
Jianqing Fan and Jinchi Lv*
101

General
  Variable selection for regression models with missing data
Ramon I. Garcia, Joseph G. Ibrahim and Hongtu Zhu*
149
  Variable selection and coefficient estimation via regularized rank regression
Chenlei Leng*
167
  Optimal blocking and foldover plans for regular two-level designs
Mingyao Ai*, Xu Xu and C. F. Jeff Wu
183
  The Wang-Landau algorithm in general state spaces: Applications and convergence analysis
Yves F. Atchad¡Še* and Jun S. Liu
209
  Necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency of a method for smoothed functional inverse regression
R. D. Cook, L. Forzani* and A. F. Yao
235
 

Inference for individual-level models of infectious diseases in large populations
Rob Deardon*, Stephen P. Brooks, Bryan T. Grenfell, Matthew J. Keeling, Michael J. Tildesley,
Nicholas J. Savill,Darren J. Shaw and Mark E. J. Woolhouse

239
  Empirical likelihood estimation for samples with nonignorable nonresponse
Fang Fang, Quan Hong and Jun Shao*
263
  Pessimistic modeling in the benchmark dose method with application to bromate in drinking water
Mendel Fygenson*
281
  Likelihood based inference for skew-normal independent linear mixed models
Victor H. Lachos, Pulak Ghosh* and Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle
303
  Testing for zero-modification in count regression models
Aleksey Min* and Claudia Czado
323
  Adaptively scaling the Metropolis algorithm using expected squared jumped distance
Cristian Pasarica and Andrew Gelman*
343
  A practical way for estimating tail dependence functions
Liang Peng*
365
  Feller operators and mixture priors in Bayesian nonparametrics
Sonia Petrone* and Piero Veronese
379
  Releasing multiply-imputed synthetic data generated in two stages to protect confidentiality
Jerome P. Reiter* and Jorg Drechsler
405
  Compatibility of finite discrete conditional distributions
Chwan-Chin Song, Lung-An Li*, Chong-Hong Chen, Thomas J. Jiang and Kun-Lin Kuo
423
  Goodness-of-fit tests for Archimedean copula models
Antai Wang*
441
  Evaluation of Value at Risk: an empirical likelihood approach
Zhenghong Wei* and Lixing Zhu
455
  Nonparametric covariance model
Jianxin Yin, Zhi Geng, Runze Li and Hansheng Wang*
469