1. Joint Distributions of Numbers of Success-runs Until the First Consecutive k Successes in a Higher-Order Two-State Markov Chain

   • Masayuki Uchida

   OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 222

2. Data Sphering: Some Properties and Applications

   • Jian Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 240

3. The Decomposition of the Behrens-Fisher Statistic in q-Dimensional Common Principal Component Submodels

   • D.G. Nel
   • I. Pienaar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 252

4. A Simple Goodness-of-fit Test for Linear Models Under a Random Design Assumption

   • Holger Dette
   • Axel Munk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 275

5. Testing for Varying Dispersion in Exponential Family Nonlinear Models

   • Bo-Cheng Wei
   • Jian-Qing Shi
   • Yue-Qing Hu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 294

6. f-Dissimilarity of Several Distributions in Testing Statistical Hypotheses

   • K. Zografos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 310

7. Simple-Tree Weighted Logrank Tests for Right-Censored Data

   • Yuh-Ing Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 324

8. The Nonexistence of Procedures with Bounded Performance Characteristics in Certain Parametric Inference Problems

   • Yoshikazu Takada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 335

9. Inference for the Tail Parameters of a Linear Process with Heavy Tail Innovations

   • Somnath Datta
   • William P. McCormick

   OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 359

10. Prediction of the Maximum Size in Wicksell's Corpuscle Problem

    • Rinya Takahashi
    • Masaaki Sibuya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 377

11. Space-Time Point-Process Models for Earthquake Occurrences

    • Yosihiko Ogata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 379 - 402