STATISTICA   SINICA
Volume 13   Number 4   October  2003

Statistical Applications in Financial Econometrics
Financial econometrics: an introduction ..............................Ruey S. Tsay  927
Modelling extreme-value dependence in international stock markets.................
   ............................Ser-Huang Poon, Michael Rockinger and Jonathan Tawn  929
On pricing of discrete barrier options...................................S. G. Kou  955
Time-dependent diffusion models for term structure dynamics.......................
   .................Jianqing Fan, Jiancheng Jiang, Chunming Zhang and Zhenwei Zhou  965
On the statistical equivalence at suitable frequencies of GARCH and stochastic
   volatility models with the corresponding diffusion model ......................
   ...............................Lawrence D. Brown, Yazhen Wang and Linda H. Zhao  993
On conditional moments of GARCH models, with applications to multiple period
   value at risk estimation........................Chi-Ming Wong and Mike K. P. So 1015
Tests for breaks in the conditional co-movements of asset returns.................
   .................................................Elena Andreou and Eric Ghysels 1045
Building tracking portfolios based on a generalized information criterion.........
   ....................................Shaojun Zhang, Xu-Feng Niu and James S. Ang 1075
Time series modeling via hierarchical mixtures....................................
   ..............................Gabriel Huerta, Wenxin Jiang and Martin A. Tanner 1097

General
A functional multiplicative effects model for longitudinal data, with application
   to reproductive histories of female medflies...................................
   ...........Jeng-Min Chiou, Hans-Georg Muller, Jane-Ling Wang and James R. Carey 1119
Applying the law of iterated logarithm to cumulative meta-analysis of a continuous
   endpoint .................K. K. Gordon Lan, Mingxiu Hu and Joseph C. Cappelleri 1135
Standardized maximin E-optimal designs for the Michaelis-Menten model.............
   .......................Holger Dette, Viatcheslav B. Melas and Andrey Pepelyshev 1147
Predictive densities: general asymptotic results and admissibility................
   ....................................................Gang Wei and Ruhal Mukerjee 1165
Optimal selection of single arrays for parameter design experiments ..............
   .........................................................C. F. J. Wu and Yu Zhu 1179
Estimation of nonlinear Berkson-type measurement error models...........Liqun Wang 1201
Generalized weighted Chinese restaurant processes for species sampling mixture
   models....................................Hemant Ishwaran and Lancelot F. James 1211
Additive hazards regression with missing censoring information....................
   ......................................................Xian Zhou and Liuquan Sun 1237
Additive functionals of infinite-variance moving averages..............Wei Biao Wu 1259
On partial sufficiency and invariance.............................................
   ............Jesús Montanero, Agustín G. Nogales, José A. Oyola and Paloma Pérez 1269



2003 Statistica Sinica ISSN 1017-0405