STATISTICA  SINICA

Volume 19   Number 1   Jan 2009

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Editor Invited Thesis Paper
  Tracking of multiple merging and splitting targets: A statistical perspective
Curtis B. Storlie*, Thomas C.M. Lee, Jan Hannig and Douglas Nychka
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Commentaries
  Jason Adaskas* 31
  David S. Choi*, Patrick J. Wolfe 34
  Arnaud Doucet* and Ba-Ngu Vo 39
  Sumeetpal S. Singh* 41
  Ying Wu and Ying Nian Wu* 43

Response
  Curtis B. Storlie, Thomas C. M. Lee, Jan Hannig and Douglas Nychka 46

General
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53
  Smoothed block empirical likelihood for quantiles of weakly dependent processes
Song Xi Chen and Chiu Min Wong
71
  Robust designs for 3D shape analysis with spherical harmonic descriptors
Holger Dette and Douglas P. Wiens
83
  On design-weighted local fitting and its relation to the Horvitz-Thompson estimator
Jochen Einbeck and Thomas Augustin
103
  Empirical Bayes methods for estimation and confidence intervals in high-dimensional problems
Debashis Ghosh
125
  Calibration estimation using empirical likelihood in survey sampling
Jae Kwang Kim
145
  Multivariate histograms with data-dependent partitions
Jussi Klemela
159
  Estimating the population size for a multiple list problem with an open population
Huazhen Lin, Paul S. F. Yip and Feng Chen
177
  Construction of optimal mixed-level supersaturated designs
Min-Qian Liu and Dennis K. J. Lin
197
  Construction of exact simultaneous confidence bands in multiple linear regression with predictor variables constrained in an ellipsoidal region
Wei Liu and Shan Lin
213
  Cure model with current status data
Shuangge Ma
233
  The nested Dirichlet distribution and incomplete categorical data analysis
Kai Wang Ng, Man-Lai Tang, Guo-Liang Tian and Ming Tan
251
  Archimedean spectral densities for nonstationary space-time geostatistics
Emilio Porcu, Pablo Gregori and Jorge Mateu
273
  Nested Space-filling designs for computer experiments with two levels of accuracy
Peter Z. G. Qian, Boxin Tang and C. F. Jeff Wu
287
  On the unified method with nuisance parameters
Bodhisattva Sen, Matthew Walker and Michael Woodroofe
301
  Asymptotic overshoots for arithmetic I.I.D. random variables
I-Ping Tu
315
  Polynomial spline confidence bands for regression curves
Jing Wang and Lijian Yang
325
  Relative errors in central limit theorems for student's $t$ statistic, with applications
Qiying Wang and Peter Hall
343
  Selecting the last record with recall in a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials
Jiing-Ru Yang
355
  Characterization of general minimum lower order confounding via complementary sets
Runchu Zhang and Rahul Mukerjee
363
  A Change-point model for survival data with long-term survivors
Xiaobing Zhao, Xianyi Wu and Xian Zhou
377