Editor's Melange

Highlights -- FDR, ROC and BYE..........................Michelle Liu and Xiao-Li Meng       803

Editorial -- False discovery rate and the James-Stein estimor..........Bradley Efron        805

FDR and ROC: Similarities, assumptions and decisions...................Peter Westfall       811

FDR&ROC 

Regression analysis for the partial area under the ROC curve...........................
...........................................................Tianxi Cai and Lori E. Dodd      817

Positive false discovery proportions: Intrinsic bounds and adaptive control............
............................................................Zhiyi Chi and Zhiqiang Tan      837

Choosing the lesser evil: Trade-off between false discovery rate and non-discovery rate
.............................................................Radu V. Craiu and Lei Sun      861

Some Step-down Procedures Controlling the False Discovery Rate under Dependence........
....................................Yongchao Ge, Stuart C.Sealfon and Terence P. Speed      881

Nonparametric estimator of false discovery rate based on Bernstein polynomials.........
..................................................Zhong Guan, Baolin Wu and Hongyu Zhao     905

A general decision theoretic formulation of procedures controlling FDR and FNR from a 
Bayesian perspective...................Sanat K. Sarkar, Tianhui Zhou and Debashis Ghosh     925

A semiparametric approach for the covariate specific ROC curve with survival outcome..
............................................................Xiao Song and Xiao-Hua Zhou     947
   
General

On the choice of m in the m out of n bootstrap and confidence bounds for extrema......
   ......................................................Peter J. Bickel and Anat Sakov     967

Estimation of time-varying parameters in deterministic dynamic models ................
............................................................. Jianwei Chen and Hulin Wu     987

Wavelet estimation via Block thresholding : A minimax study under the L^p risk........
.................................................................... Christophe Chesneau   1007

An alternative view of the deconvolution problem........................Aurore Delaigle    1025

Optimal designs for free knot least squares splines...................................
...............................Holger Dette, Viatcheslav B. Melas and Andrey Pepelyshev    1047

Minimax unfolding spheres' size distribution from linear sections.....................
.......................................................Anna Dudek and Zbigniew Szkutnik    1063

On error-rate estimation in nonparametric classification..............................
...........................................................Anil K. Ghosh and Peter Hall    1081

On a Class of Distributions With Simple Exponential Tails....................M.C. Jones    1101

A blockwise empirical likelihood for spatial lattice data.............Daniel J. Nordman    1111

Nonparametric prewhitening estimators for conditional quantiles.......................
..............................................................Liangjun Su and Aman Ullah   1131

A Pseudo-likelihood estimation method for nonhomogeneous gamma process model with random
effects.........................................................................Xiao Wang  1153

Some association measures and their collapsibility.....................................
..................................................Xianchao Xie, Zongming Ma and Zhi Geng   1165

Bayesian hypothesis tests using nonparametric statistics...............................
.........................................................Ying Yuan and Valen E. Johnson    1185



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