Volume 15 Number 1 January 2005
Editorial............................................H. C. Ho and J. L. Wang 1
Improving on the independent Metropolis-Hastings algorithm.................
....................................Yves F. Atchadé and François Perron 3
A rapid method for the comparison of cluster analyses......................
.......................Cavan Reilly, Changchun Wang and Mark Rutherford 19
Asymptotic properties of bootstrapped likelihood ratio statistics for time
censored data........Shuen-Lin Jeng, S. N. Lahiri and William Q. Meeker 35
Admissible minimax estimation of the signalwith known background...........
....................................Tonglin Zhang and Michael Woodroofe 59
Unimodal kernel density estimation by data sharpening......................
...........................................Peter Hall and Kee-Hoon Kang 73
Partially linear single-index measurement error models.....................
.............................................Hua Liang and Naisyin Wang 99
Bootstrap of a semiparametric partiallylinear model with autoregressive er-
rors..........................................Jinhong You and Xian Zhou 117
Testing lack-of-fit of parametric regression models using nonparametric re-
gression techniques....Randall L. Eubank, Chin-Shang Li and Suojin Wang 135
D-optimal designs for weighted polynomial regression-a functional-algebraic
approach.................................................Fu-Chuen Chang 153
Optimal designs for an additive quadratic mixture model involving the amount
of mixture..C. Q. Zhang, L. Y. Chan, Y. N. Guan, K. H. Li and T. S. Lau 165
Weighted residual-based density estimators for nonlinear autoregressive mo-
dels...........Ursula U. M\"uller, Anton Schick and Wolfgang Wefelmeyer 177
Modified Burg algorithms for multivariate subset autoregression............
..........Peter J. Brockwell, Rainer Dahlhaus and A. Alexandre Trindade 197
Asymptotic theory for arch-sm models: lan and residual empirical processes.
....................................Sangyeol Lee and Masanobu Taniguchi 215
Testing generalized linear models using smoothing spline methods...........
...............................Anna Liu, Wendy Meiring and Yuedong Wang 235
Score tests for zero-inflation and over-dispersion in generalized linear
models................................Dianliang Deng and Sudhir R. Paul 257