Highlights -- A glimpse into the Bayesian century ...................... Xiao-Li Meng 411 Editorials -- Bayesian model selection: some thoughts on future directions .......... ........................................................................ Hani Doss 413 Bayes: radical, liberal, or conservative? ............................. Andrew Gelman 422 Bayesian nonparametric estimation of a bivariate survival function .................. .................................... Paolo Bulla, Pietro Muliere and Stephen Walker 427 Bayesian approaches to joint longitudinal and survival models accommodating both zero and nonzero cure fractions .................... Yueh-Yun Chi and Joseph G. Ibrahim 445 Maximin and Bayesian optimal designs for regression models .......................... ................................ Holger Dette, Linda M. Haines and Lorens A. Imhof 463 Empirical Bayes density regression .................................. David B. Dunson 481 A new class of skewed multivariate distributions with applications to regression analysis ............................. Jose T. A. S. Ferreira and Mark F. J. Steel 505 Bayesian dose finding in phase I clinical trials based on a new statistical framework .......................................................... Y. Ji, Y. Li and G. Yin 531 Bayesian accelerated failure time model for correlated interval-censored data with a normal mixture as error distribution ............................................. ............................................ Arnovst Komarek and Emmanuel Lesaffre 549 A robust sequential Bayesian method for identification of differentially expressed genes ................................ Faming Liang, Chuanhai Liu and Naisyin Wang 571 Frequentist optimality of Bayes factor estimators in wavelet regression models ...... .......................................... Marianna Pensky and Theofanis Sapatinas 599 Bayesian decision theoretic scale-adaptive estimation of a log-spectral density ..... ........................ Marianna Pensky, Brani Vidakovic and Daniela De Canditiis 631 Adaptive Bayesian criteria in variable selection for generalized linear models ...... ................................................. Xinlei Wang and Edward I. George 667 An extended class of marginal link functions for modelling contingency tables by equality and inequality constraints .............................................. ........................ Francesco Bartolucci, Roberto Colombi and Antonio Forcina 691 A test for constancy of isotonic regressions using the $L_2$-norm ................... .............. Ana Colubi, J. Santos Dominguez-Menchero and Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez 713 Stopping at the last renewal up to a terminal time .................. Shoou-Ren Hsiau 725 Testing dynamic rules of animal cognitive processing with longitudinal distribution data ................ Fushing Hsieh, Shwu-Bin Horng, Hui-Ying Lin and Yen-Chiu Lan 735 Effect of measurement error on monitoring multivariate process variability .......... ................................................... Longcheen Huwang and Ying Hung 749 Estimating species accumulation curves and diversity indices ......... Chang Xuan Mao 761 Testing for symmetric error distribution in nonparametric regression models ......... ................................................ Natalie Neumeyer and Holger Dette 775 Backfitting versus profiling in general criterion functions ......................... ....................................... Ingrid Van Keilegom and Raymond J. Carroll 797 Statistics with estimated parameters ............ Z. L. Yang, Y. K. Tse and Z. D. Bai 8172007 Statistica Sinica ISSN 1017-0405