Editor's Melange

Highlights -- A master of minds ........................................ Jianqing Fan       399

Editorial -- A rigorous statistician and passionate educator .............Jiahua Chen       401

Memorial Articles to Xiru Chen 

On constrained M-estimation and its recursive analog in multivariate linear regression 
models............................................Zhidong Bai, Xiru Chen and Yuehua Wu      405

Large sample covariance matrices without independence structures in columns............
.............................................................Zhidong Bai and Wang Zhou      425

Inference for normal mixtures in mean and variance ...................................
............................................Jiahua Chen, Xianming Tan and Runchu Zhang      443

General

Estimating monotone, unimodal and U--shaped failure rates using asymptotic pivots.....
   ................................................................ Moulinath Banerjee      467

Factorial designs with multiple levels of randomization ...........................
   .....Derek Bingham, Randy Sitter, Elizabeth Kelly, Leslie Moore and J. Davaid Olivas     493

Design-adaptive minimax local linear regression for longitudinal/clustered data....
   ............................................ Kani Chen, Jianqing Fan and Zhezhen Jin     515

Information identities and testing hypotheses: Power analysis for contingency tables.
   ................ Philip E. Cheng, Michelle Liou, John A. D. Aston and Arthur C. Tsai     535

Confidence intervals for the long memory parameter based on wavelets and resampling 
   ............Pier Luigi Conti, Livia De Giovanni, Stilian A. Stoev and Murad S. Taqqu     559


Classification efficiencies for robust linear discriminant analysis ................
................................ Christophe Croux, Peter Filzmoser and Kristel Joossens     581

Tests for independence in nonparametric regression .................................
   ......................................... John H. J. Einmahl and Ingrid Van Keilegom     601

Minimum distance inference in unilateral autoregressive lattice processes...........
........................................................Marc G. Genton and Hira L. Koul     617

A circular-circular regression model ..... Shogo Kato, Kunio Shimizu and Grace S. Shieh     633

Testing for threshold moving average with conditional heteroscedasticity............
   ........................................................ Guodong Li and Wai Keung Li     647

Spatial bootstrap with increasing observations in a fixed domain ...................
   ...........................................................J. M. Loh and M. L. Stein     667

Most robust BIBDs ......................................J. P. Morgan and Valentin Parvu     689

A nonparametric empirical Bayes approach to joint modeling of multiple sources of genomic
 data...........................Wei Pan, Keyong S. Jeong, Yang Xie and Arkady Khodursky     709

Between-and within-cluster covariate effects and model misspecification in the analysis
 of clustered data........................Lei Shen, Jun Shao, Soomin Park and Mari Palta    731

Asymptotically efficient product-limit estimators with censoring indicators missing at 
random..........................................................Qihua Wang and Kai W. Ng    749
    
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Moderate deviations for stationary processes ...............Wei Biao Wu and Zhibiao Zhao    769

Detecting differentially expressed genes using calibrated Bayes factors................
....................................................Fang Yu, Ming-Hui Chen and Lynn Kuo     783



2008 Statistica Sinica ISSN 1017-0405