Volume 13 Number 3 July 2003
Spline estimators for the functional linear model................................. ................................Herve Cardot, Frederic Ferraty and Pascal Sarda 571 AUC-based tests for nonparametric functions with longitudinal data ............... .......................................................Yanqing Sun and Hulin Wu 593 Two-way contingency tables under conditional hot deck imputation.................. .....................................................Hansheng Wang and Jun Shao 613 A noniterative sampling method for computing posteriors in the structure of EM - type algorithms........................Ming Tan, Guo-Liang Tian and Kai Wang Ng 625 Efficient replication variance estimation for two-phase sampling.................. .....................................................J. K. Kim and R. R. Sitter 641 Using auxiliary information for improving estimation in the number of species problem ................................................................S. Lynne Stokes 655 The estimation of the size of an open population using local estimating equations . .............................................Hsin-Chou Yang and Richard Huggins 673 Minimum moment aberration for nonregular designs and supersaturated designs ...... ....................................................................Hongquan Xu 691 A note on optimal mixture and mixture amount designs.............................. .....................................Berthold Heiligers and Ralf-Dieter Hilgers 709 On adaptive estimation in orthogonal saturated designs ........................... ................................................Weizhen Wang and Daniel T. Voss 727 A kernel-based method for estimating additive partially linear models ............ ...........................................................Yanqin Fan and Qi Li 739 Checking the adequacy of a partial linear model .................................. ......................................................Li-Xing Zhu and Kai W. Ng 763 Regression with multiple candidate models: selecting or mixing? .................. ....................................................................Yuhong Yang 783 Penalized likelihood density estimation: direct cross-validation and scalable approximation........................................Chong Gu and Jingyuan Wang 811 Robust tests for independence of two time series .....Pierre Duchesne and Roch Roy 827 Estimating the extreme value index and high quantiles with exponential regression models ..............................................G. Matthys and J. Beirlant 853 Rates of convergence and adaptation over Besov spaces under pointwise risk........ ....................................................................T. Tony Cai 881 Estimation of distribution functions under second order stochastic dominance...... ........................................Javier Rojo Jimenez and Hammou El Barmi 903