STATISTICA SINICA
Volume 10   Number 4   October   2000

Bayesian wavelet shrinkage for nonparametric mixed-effects models..............
   .......................................Su-Yun Huang and Henry Horng-Shing Lu  1021
Asymptotic distribution of estimates for a time-varying parameter in a harmonic 
   model with multiple fundamentals..........................Rafael A. Irizarry  1041
Adaptive estimation in pattern recognition by combining different procedures...
   .................................................................Yuhong Yang  1069
On the type-1 optimality of nearly balanced incomplete block designs with small
   concurrence range.....................John P. Morgan and Sudesh K. Srivastav  1091
Regular fractions of mixed factorials with maximum estimation capacity.........
   ..............................Rahul Mukerjee, Ling-Yau Chan and Kai-Tai Fang  1117
Sequential design of computer experiments to minimize integrated response......
   functions...........Brian J. Williams, Thomas J. Santner and William I. Notz  1133
Efficient random imputation for missing data in complex surveys................
   ......................................J. Chen, J. N. K. Rao and R. R. Sitter  1153
On a simplification of the linear programming approach to controlled sampling..
   ................................................P. Lahiri and Rahul Mukerjee  1171
Estimating the distribution of age at onset from case-control family data......
   .......................................Emilia Bagiella and Daniel Rabinowitz  1179
Estimation of Kendall's Tau under censoring....Weijing Wang and Martin T. Wells  1199
Quantile estimation for left truncated and right censored data...............
   ........................................Xian Zhou, Liuquan Sun and Haobo Ren  1217
Denoised least squares estimators: an application to estimating advertising..
   effectiveness..................Zongwu Cai, Prasad A. Naik and Chih-Ling Tsai  1231
The symmetric type two-stage trimmed least squares estimator for the simultaneous 
   equations model................Lin-An Chen, Peter Thompson and Hui-Nien Hung  1243
Estimation in a proportional hazard model for semi-Markov counting process...
   ..................................I-Shou Chang, Chao A. Hsiung and Su-Mei Wu  1257
Where is the fisher information in an ordered sample?........................
   ..........................................Gang Zheng and Joseph L. Gastwirth  1267
Modeling covariance matrices in terms of standard deviations and correlations,
  with application to shrinkage..John Barnard, Robert McCulloch and Xiao-Li Meng 1281
Decision-making with augmented action spaces...................Andrew L. Rukhin  1313
Asymptotic properties of maximum (composite) likelihood estimators for.......
   partially ordered Markov models............Hsin-Cheng Huang and Noel Cressie  1325
Boundary adjusted density estimation and bandwidthelection.....Shean-Tsong Chiu  1345
Generalized confidence intervals for the largest value of some functions.....
   of parameters under normality................Yi-Ping Chang and Wen-Tao Huang  1369


2000 Statistica Sinica ISSN 1017-0405