STATISTICA   SINICA
Volume 15   Number 4   October  2005





Last observation analysis in ANOVA and ANCOVA    .........................
   .....................................  Bin Cheng, Jun Shao and Bob Zhong. 857

Two-stage group screening in the presence of noise factors and unequal proba-
   bilities of active effects .......A. E. Vine, S. M. Lewis and A. M. Dean  871

Gibbs sampler for statistical multiple alignment ..........................
   ......................................  Jens Ledet Jensen and Jotun Hein  889

On some statistical aspects of the interval mapping for QTL detection   ...
   ...........................................  Zehua Chen and Hanfeng Chen  909

A  non-monotone CFTP  perfect simulation method   ..............Yuzhi Cai    927

Iterating the m out of n bootstrap in nonregular smooth function models ..
   ...............   K. Y. Cheung, Stephen M. S. Lee and G. Alastair Young   945

Bayesian bootstrap analysis of doubly censored data using Gibbs sampler...
   ............................. Yongdai Kim, Jaeyong Lee and Jinseog Kim    969

Multivariate regression S-estimators for robust estimation and inference..
   ......................................Stefan Van Aelst and Gert Willems   981

Maximum smoothed likelihood estimation  .....................E. L. Ionides  1003

Quantifying PQL bias in estimating cluster-level covariate effects in gene-
   ralized linear mixed models for group-randomized trials................
   ..............Scarlett L. Bellamy, Yi Li, Xihong Lin and Louise M. Ryan  1015

Two-step cross-validation selection method for partially linear models....
   ...................................................Panagiotis Avramidis  1033   

Testing the adequacy for a general linear errors-in-variables model.......
   ...........................................Lixing Zhu and  Hengjian Cui  1049

Asymptotic distributions for dimension reduction in the SIR-II method.....
   ........................................Xiangrong Yin and Lynne Seymour  1069

Confidence intervals for the mean value of response function in generalized
   linear models................................ Jin Xu and Arjun K. Gupta  1081



2005 Statistica Sinica ISSN 1017-0405