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RECENT ADVANCES IN STATISTICAL METHODS
Proceedings of Statistics 2001 Canada: The 4th Conference in Applied Statistics

Montreal, Canada, 6 - 8 July 2001


CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER
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ON THE ESTIMATION OF SIZE AND MEAN VALUE OF A STIGMATIZED CHARACTERISTIC OF A HIDDEN GANG IN A FINITE POPULATION
RAGHUNATH ARNAB and SARJINDER SINGH
1
UNEMPLOYMENT, SEARCH AND THE GENDER WAGE GAP: A STRUCTURAL MODEL
CHRISTIAN BELZIL and XUELIN ZHANG
12
KULLBACK-LEIBLER OPTIMIZATION OF DENSITY ESTIMATES
A. BERLINET and E. BRUNEL
31
THE ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTION OF SPACINGS OF ORDER STATISTICS
MIKELIS G. BICKIS
42
THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES IN BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE ORDINAL CATEGORICAL DATA WITH REFERENCE TO AN OPHTHALMOLOGIC STUDY
ATANU BISWAS
50
SECOND-ORDER MOMENTS AND MUTUAL INFORMATION IN THE ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES
DAVID R. BRILLINGER
64
SPATIAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COMMUNITY AIR POLLUTION AND HEART DISEASE: ANALYSIS OF CORRELATED DATA
SABIT CAKMAK, RICK BURNETT, MICHAEL JERRETT, MARK S. GOLDBERG, ARDEN POPE, III, RENJUN MA and DANIEL KREWSKI
77
ON THE ROBUSTNESS OF RELATIVE SURPRISE INFERENCES TO THE CHOICE OF PRIOR
MICHAEL EVANS and TIANLI ZOU
91
USING SURVIVAL ANALYSIS IN PRETERM BIRTH STUDY
CHONG YAU FU and SHIH HUA LIU
107
ASYMPTOTIC FORMS AND BOUNDS FOR TAILS OF CONVOLUTIONS OF COMPOUND GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS, WITH APPLICATIONS
JUN CAI and JOSÉ GARRIDO
114
IMPROVED FINITE-SAMPLE INFERENCE IN OVERIDENTIFIED MODELS WITH WEAK INSTRUMENTS
NIKOLAY GOSPODINOV
132
PROBABILITY OF CORRECT SELECTION OF GAMMA VERSUS GE OR WEIBULL VERSUS GE BASED ON LIKELIHOOD RATIO STATISTIC
RAMESHWAR D. GUPTA, DEBASIS KUNDU and ANUBHAV MANGLICK
147
SURVEY METHODOLOGY FOR STUDYING SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS
SHELTON M. JONES, BRIAN C. SUTTON and KERRIE E. BOYLE
157
ONE-STEP ESTIMATION FOR THE PARTIALLY LINEAR PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL
XUEWEN LU and R. S. SINGH
169
A NESTED FRAILTY SURVIVAL MODEL FOR RECURRENT EVENTS
RENJUN MA, J. DOUGLAS WILLMS and RICHARD T. BURNETT
186
MULTIPLE COMPARISON PROCEDURES FOR LINEAR MODELS UNDER ORDER RESTRICTIONS
HOSSEIN MANSOURI and ROBERT PAIGE
198
TESTING GOODNESS-OF-FIT OF THE GAMMA MODELS
CAROL E. MARCHETTI, GOVIND S. MUDHOLKAR and GREGORY E. WILDING
207
ON FRAILTY MODELS AND COPULAS
DAVID OAKES
218
SURROGATE DATA AND FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION
PETER RABINOVITCH
225
ANALYSIS OF OCCULT TUMOUR TRIAL DATA WITH VARYING LETHALITY
S. N. RAI, J. SUN and D. HUNT
233
NONLINEAR MIXED EFFECTS MODELS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
PODURI S. R. S. RAO and NICHOLAS ZAINO
252
THE SAMPLING BIAS OF HECKMAN'S SAMPLE BIAS ESTIMATOR
PAUL RILSTONE and AMAN ULLAH
263
COMPUTATIONAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS: GENOMICS AND STATISTICAL CONTROVERSIES
PRANAB K. SEN
274
UNIVERSAL OPTIMALITY OF COMPLETELY RANDOMIZED DESIGNS
KIRTI R. SHAH and BIKAS K. SINHA
290
A NONPARAMETRIC COMPARISON OF TUMOR INCIDENCES WITH INTERMEDIATE LETHALITY AND DIFFERENT DEATH RATES
JIANGUO SUN, QIANG ZHAO and SHESH N. RAI
296
GENERALIZED SMOOTHED ESTIMATING FUNCTIONS WITH CENSORED OBSERVATIONS
A. THAVANESWARAN and JAGBIR SINGH
304
LARGE SAMPLE ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES OF ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES, TWO STAGE LEAST SQUARES AND LIMITED INFORMATION MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS IN SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS MODELS
R. TIWARI and V. K. SRIVASTAVA
312
RELATIVE STABILITY OF WEIGHTED MAXIMA OF BOUNDED I.I.D. RANDOM VARIABLES
R. J. TOMKINS
324
TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF SOME INFINITE SERVER QUEUES
GORDON E. WILLMOT and STEVE DREKIC
329
EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD METHOD FOR FINITE POPULATIONS
CHANGBAO WU
339
SECOND ORDER ESTIMATING EQUATIONS FOR CLUSTERED LONGITUDINAL BINARY DATA WITH MISSING OBSERVATIONS
GRACE Y. YI and RICHARD J. COOK
352
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