Volume 10 Number 2 April 2000
Evolutionary Monte Carlo: applications to Cp model sampling and change point problem......................................Faming Liang and Wing Hung Wong 317 Increment-based estimators of fractal dimension for two-dimensional surface data ............................................Grace Chan and Andrew T. A. Wood 343 Spline smoothing for bivariate data with applications to association between hormones......................Yuedong Wang, Wensheng Guo and Morton B. Brown 377 Multivariate wavelet thresholding in anisotropic function spaces............... .............................................................Michael H. Neumann 399 Kernel smoothing on varying coefficient models with longitudinal dependent variable..................................Colin O. Wu and Chin-Tsang Chiang 433 Information bound for bandwidth selection in kernel estimation of density derivatives.........................................Tiee-Jian Wu and Yue Lin 457 Nonparametric confidence intervals based on extreme bootstrap percentiles...... ...........................................................Stephen M. S. Lee 475 Variance estimation in high dimensional regression models...................... .........................................Snigdhansu Chatterjee and Arup Bose 495 The derivation of a latent threshold instrumental variables model.............. .................................Mark E. Glickman and Sharon-Lise T. Normand 517 Empirical exponential family likelihood using several moment conditions....... ..............................................................S. A. Corcoran 545 Asymptotically optimal representative points of bivariate random vectors...... ..................................................................Yingcai Su 559 Rank tests for independence --- with a weighted contamination alternative..... ..............................Grace S. Shieh, Zhidong Bai and Wei-Yann Tsai 577 Umbrella tests for right-censored survival data............................... ...........................................Yuh-Ing Chen and Douglas A. Wolfe 595 A unified measure of uncertainty of estimated best linear unbiased predictors in small area estimation problems..................G. S. Datta and P. Lahiri 613 Asymptotic expansions for the moments of a randomly stopped average: extension and applications of a result of Aras and Woodroofe......Wei Liu and Nan Wang 629 A natural variation of the standard secretary problem......................... ...........................................Shoou-Ren Hsiau and Jiing-Ru Yang 639 Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of binary matched pairs data................... .................Malay Ghosh, Ming-Hui Chen, Atalanta Ghosh and Alan Agresti 647 Improved confidence estimators for the multivariate normal confidence set..... ...............................................................Hsiuying Wang 659