No. 1

[articles]

1. On the Asymptotic Equivalence of Hellinger Distance and Kullback-Leibler Loss, 1

   Yuichiro Kanazawa, Atsuyuki Kogure and Sang-Gil Lee

2. Shrinkage Regression Predictor in a Generalized Linear Model with Autocorrelated Error Term, 23

   Takakatsu Inoue

3. Density Function and Relative Efficiency of the Modified Generalized Ridge Regression Estimators, 39

   Takakatsu Inoue

4. Estimation of Regression Coefficients in an Exponential Regression Model with Censored Observations, 55

   S. E. Ahmed and A. K. Md. E. Saleh

5. Measure of Departure from Conditional Symmetry for Square Contingency Tables with Ordered Categories, 65

   Sadao Tomizawa and Kayo Saitoh

6. A Power Approximation for the Multinomial Goodness-of-Fit Test Based on a Normalizing Transformation, 79

   Yuri Sekiya, Nobuhiro Taneichi and Hideyuki Imai

7. Modeling Life Length Data Using Mixture Distributions, 89

   N. Unnikrishnan Nair, K. G. Geetha and P. Priya

8. On Characterizations of Generalized Mixtures of Geometric and Exponential Distributions by Conditional Expectation of Record Values, 99

   Jong-Wuu Wu and Wen-Chuan Lee

No. 2

[articles]

1. Identifiability Criteria for Causal Effects of Joint Interventions, 105

   Manabu Kuroki and Masami Miyakawa

2. Estimation of Area Rain-Rate First Product Moment and Covariance by the Threshold Method, 119

   Md. Monir Hossain and Kunio Shimizu

3. Enumeration and Classification of Two-Symbol Orthogonal Arrays of Strength t and m=t+4 Constraints, 135

   Sumiyasu Yamamoto, Yoshifumi Hyodo, Hiromu Yumiba and Tomonori Takahashi

4. Asymptotic Approximations of the Null Distribuion of the One-way ANOVA Test Statistic under Nonnormality, 147

   Yasunori Fujikoshi, Masashi Ohmae and Hirokazu Yanagihara

5. Monte Carlo Results on the Semiparametric nearest Neighbor Estimator, 163

   Ken Inoue

6. Parameter Estimation of Unit Root Processes with Missing Observations, 181

   Haruhisa Nishino and Yoshihiro Yajima

7. Randomized Confidence Intervals of a Parameter for the Negative Binomial and Logarithmic Series Distribuions, 201

   Kunihiko Takahashi

8. Homogeneity for Multinomial Populations Based on ?-Divergences, 213

   L. Pardo, M. C. Pardo and K. Zografos

9. On Gott III's Delta t Argument : A Good Test Creating a Bad Confidence Interval, 229

   Michikazu Sato