STATISTICA SINICA Volume 16 Number 1 October 2006



Volume 16, Number 1	January 2006

Editorial -- After 15 years: Better and Faster ......................... ........................................... Xiao-Li Meng and Michelle Liou 1 A note on minimal sufficiency .......................................... ...................... J. E. Chacon, J. Montanero, A.G. Nogales, P. Perez 7 Quantile inference for near-integrated autoregressive time series with infi nite variance ..................Ngai Hang Chan, Liang Peng and Yongcheng Qi 15 Stationarity and mixing properties of replicating character strings........ ........................................Probal Chaudhuri and Amites Dasgupta 29 Stein confidence sets based on non-iterated and iterated parametric bootstr aps....................K. Y. Cheung,Stephen M. S. Lee and G. Alastair Young 45 Meeting Hausdorff in Monte Carlo: a surprising tour with antihype fractals ..............................................Radu V. Craiu and Xiao-Li Meng 77 Estimation in a semiparametric modulated renewal process................... .........................................Dorota M. Dabrowska and Wai Tung Ho 93 Optimal designs for parallel models with correlated responses............. ............Mong-Na Lo Huang, Ray-Bing Chen, Chun-Sui Lin and Weng Kee Wong 121 Asymptotic results for fitting semiparametric transformation models to fai lure time data from case-cohort studies.................................... ....................................Lan Kong, Jianwen Cai and Pranab K. Sen 135 Semi-parametric inference in a bivariate (multivariate) mixture model...... .........................................Denis Heng-Yan Leung and Jing Qin 153 Estimation following a group sequential test for distributions in the one- parameter exponential family............................................... ..........................Aiyi Liu, W. J. Hall, Kai F. Yu and Chengqing Wu 165 On closed form semiparametric estimators for measurement error models....... ........................................Yanyuan Ma and Anastasios A. Tsiatis 183 Density estimation with normal measurement error with unknown variance...... ...........................................................Alexander Meister 195 Quasi-maximum likelihood estimation of long-memory limiting aggregate processes ..............................................................Henghsiu Tsai 213 On adaptive testing in orthogonal saturated designs........................ ............................................Daniel T. Voss and Weizhen Wang 227 Corrected score estimator for joint modeling of longitudinal and failure time data..............................................................C. Y. Wang 235 Tests with optimal average power in multivariate analysis................... ...............................Samuel S. Wu, Hongying Li and George Casella 255 Nonparametric survival analysis on time-dependent covariate effects in case- cohort sampling design.....................Haimeng Zhang and Chunfeng Huang 267 Semiparametric additive risks model for interval-censored data ......................................Donglin Zeng, Jianwen Cai and Yu Shen 287 2006 Statistica Sinica ISSN 1017-0405