No. 1

[articles]

1. Analysis of Longitudinal Ordered Polytomous Data Using Generalized Estimating Equations, 1

   Eiji Nakashima

2. Analysis of Binary Cross-Over Data with Generalized Linear Transition Models, 17

   Etsuo Miyaoka, Miki Kajikawa and Bruce Smith

3. Second-Order Properties of a Two-Stage Procedure for Comparing Several Treatments with a Control, 27

   Makoto Aoshima and Yoshikazu Takada

4. Rankings Generated by Spherical Discriminant Analysis, 43

   Hidehiko Kamiya and Akimichi Takemura

5. Two Principal Points for Multivariate Location Mixtures of Spherically Symmetric Distribuions, 53

   Wataru Yamamoto and Nobuo Shinozaki

6. Empirical Bayes Estimation and Unbiased Prediction Theory, 65

   Yushan Xiao

7. An Estimation Method in Time Series Errors-in-Variables Models, 75

   Norihisa Tsuga, Masanobu Taniguchi and Madan L. Puri

8. Relative Efficiency of the Expanded Double F-Class Generalized Ridge Estimators, 89

   Takakatsu Inoue

9. Characterization of the Finite Mixture of Exponential Distributions by Conditional Moments of Nonadjacent Record values, 105

   Jong-Wuu Wu

No. 2

[articles]

1. Selection of Post-Treatment Variables for Estimating Total Effect from Empirical Research, 115

   Manabu Kuroki

2. Nonparametric Estimation of the Conditional Median Function for Long-Range Dependent Processes, 129

   Toshio Honda

3. Estimation of Variance and Covariance Components in Elliptically Contoured Distributions, 143

   Tatsuya Kubokawa

4. Estimation of Survival Function Based oÓ?n Modeling of Censoring Pattern, 177

   Akio Suzukawa and Nobuhiro Taneichi

5. On the Rate of Convergence of Fisher Information in Multiple Type II Censored Data, 197

   Gang Zheng

6. On Consistency of Mantel-Haenszel Type Estimators in Nested Case-Control Studies, 205

   Zhong-Zhan Zhang

7. On the Bioequivalence Problem and a Testing Hypothesis Problem for the Bivariate Normal Distribution, 213

   Yoshiyuki Tsuda

8. Improving Efficiency of the•HKB' Ordinary Type Ridge Estimator, 237

   Takakatsu Inoue

9. On Mallows' C_p for the GMANOVA Model under Double Linear Restrictions on the Regression Parameter Matrix, 253

   A.K.Gupta and D.G.Kabe