STATISTICA  SINICA

Volume 21  Number 1  January 2011

Composite Likelihood Methods
  Introduction to Special Issue
Nancy Reid, Bruce Lindsay and Kung-Yee Liang
1
  An overview of composite likelihood methods
Cristiano Varin, Nancy Reid and David Firth
5
  On composite likelihoods in statistical genetics
F. Larribe and P. Fearnhead
43
  Issues and strategies in the selection of composite likelihoods
Bruce G. Lindsay, Grace Y. Yi and Jianping Sun
71
  Maximum local partial likelihood estimators for the counting process intensity function and its derivatives
Feng Chen
107
  Adjusting composite likelihood ratio statistics
Luigi Pace, Alessandra Salvan and Nicola Sartori
129
  Bayesian composite marginal likelihoods
Francesco Pauli, Walter Racugno and Laura Ventura
149
  Composite likelihood EM algorithm with applications to multivariate hidden Markov model
Xin Gao and Peter X.-K. Song
165
  Pseudo-likelihood estimation for incomplete data
Geert Molenberghs, Michael G. Kenward, Geert Verbeke and Teshome Birhanu
187
  A pairwise likelihood method for correlated binary data with/without missing observations under generalized partially linear single-index models
Wenqing He and Grace Y. Yi
207
  An EM composite likelihood approach for multistage sampling of family data
Y. Choi and L. Briollais
231
  Comments on pairwise likelihood in time series models
Richard A. Davis and Chun Yip Yau
255
  Composite likelihood for time series models with a latent autoregressive process
Chi Tim Ng, Harry Joe, Dimitris Karlis and Juxin Liu
279
  Nuisance parameters, composite likelihoods and a panel of GARCH models
Cavit Pakel, Neil Shephard and Kevin Sheppard
307
  Extending pseudo-likelihood for Potts models
Saisuke Okabayashi, Leif Johnson and Charles J. Geyer
331
General
  Semi-parametric inference for copula models for truncated data
Takeshi Emura, Weijing Wang and Hui-Nien Hung
349
  Theory of Gaussian variational approximation for a Poisson mixed model
Peter Hall, J. T. Ormerod and M. P. Wand
369
  Nonconcave penalized M-estimation with a diverging number of parameters
Gaorong Li, Heng Peng and Lixing Zhu
391
  Optimality criteria for multiresponse linear models based on predictive ellipsoids
Xin Liu, Rong-Xian Yue and Fred J. Hickernell
421
  Frequency properties of inferences based on an integrated likelihood function
Thomas A. Severini
433
  Empirical Bayesian thresholding for sparse signals using mixture loss functions
Vikas C. Raykar and Linda H. Zhao
449