Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Kullback-Leibler Information for Ordering Genes Using Sperm Typing and Radiation Hybrid Mapping -- Statistical Models For Forecasting Tornado Intensity -- Incorporating Geographic Distribution into the Expected Number of Deaths in a Comparative Study -- Fitting Random Coefficient Regression Models -- Design and Analysis in Repeated Measurement Experiment : on Use of Preliminary Knowledge about Covariance Structure of Observations -- Least Squares Estimators of Regression Coefficients by using Misspecified Covariance Structure for Error Process -- Estimation of Regression Parameters When the Errors are Auto correlated -- Centering and Scaling in Ridge Regression -- Reparametrization Methods in Linear Minimax Estimation -- Robust Tests for Linear Models -- CIRCULAR REGRESSION -- Properties of Least Squares Methods for Choosing the Parameter of the Simple Exponential Smoothing Predictor -- Characterization of MTV model and its diagnostic checking -- Limit theorems for statistical inference on stationary processes with strong dependence -- Two Sample Problem in Time Series Analysis -- Malliavin Calculus and Higher Order Statistical Inference -- Estimation of Levels of Intensity in a Simple Self-Correcting Point Process -- Additional Information and Precision of Estimators in Multivariate Structural Models -- Sensitivity Analysis in Covariance Structure Analysis: A Numerical Investigation in the Case of Confirmatory Factor Analysis -- Likelihood Ratio Tests for Means and Covariances with Incomplete Multinormal Observations -- Maximally orthogonally invariant higher order moments and their application to testing elliptically-contouredness -- Asymptotic Theory for the Concentrated Matrix Langevin Distributions on the Grassmann Manifold -- On Canonical Correlations and the Degrees of Non-Orthogonality in the Three-way Layout -- Partial Canonical Correlations Associated with the Inverse and Some Generalized Inverses of a Partitioned Dispersion Matrix -- Approximation to the Upper Percentiles of T2max type Statistics -- Curvature Measures in Data Analysis -- Statistical Inference from Observations with Censoring and Grouping for Exponential Families -- Pitman Closeness of the Equivariant Shrinkage Estimators of the Normal Variance -- Normal Approximation to the Distribution of the Sample Mean in the Exponential Family -- A New Approach to Asymptotic Distributions of Maximum Likelihood Ratio Statistics -- Test of homogeneity of parameters -- Determining the No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level in Continuous Response -- Asymptotics on the Statistics for a Family of Non-Regular Distributions -- Error Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of Some Distributions in a SUR Model -- Second Order Asymptotic Bound for the Variance of Estimators for the Double Exponential Distribution -- Asymptotic Expansions for E0 {min ( t , m )} and E0{xmin(t,m)} -- Aspects of Goodness-of-Fit -- On the Central Limit Theorem in Hilbert Space with Application to U-Statistics -- Asymptotics of the Perturbed Sample Quantile for a Sequence of mdependent Stationary Random Process -- The L1 Complete Convergence of Recursive Kernel Density Estimators Under Weak Dependence -- MULTIVARIATE L1-NORM ESTIMATION AND THE VULNERABLE BOOTSTRAP -- Convergent Rates of M-Estimators for a Partly Linear Model -- Discrete Distributions Related to Succession Events in a Two-State Markov Chain -- How Large the Class of Waiting Distribution Can Be? -- The use of the inverse Gaussian model for analysing the lognormal data -- AN ANALISYS OF DEGRADATION DATA OF A CARBON FILM AND THE PROPERTIES OF THE ESTIMATORS -- Bayesian Analysis for Exponential Zero-failure Data -- The Estimation of Distribution under a Particular Random Censoring -- New Main Effect Plus One Plans For 27 Factorial Experiments And Their Robustness Property Against Deletion Of Runs -- PROFILES OF 2m FACTORIAL DESIGNS -- Characterization and Optimality of Block Designs with Estimation of