The Annals of Applied Statistics

An Official Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.


Volume 6, Number 1

Publication Date: March 2012

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Editorial Board

Articles

Estimating within-school contact networks to understand influenza transmission

Gail E. Potter, Mark S. Handcock, Ira M. Longini and M. Elizabeth Halloran; 1-26

Marginal analysis of longitudinal count data in long sequences: Methods and applications to a driving study

Zhiwei Zhang, Paul S. Albert and Bruce Simons-Morton; 27-54

Optimal pricing using online auction experiments: A Pólya tree approach

Edward I. George and Sam K. Hui; 55-82

An exact adaptive test with superior design sensitivity in an observational study of treatments for ovarian cancer

Paul R. Rosenbaum; 83-105

Self-exciting hurdle models for terrorist activity

Michael D. Porter and Gentry White; 106-124

A stochastic algorithm for probabilistic independent component analysis

Stéphanie Allassonnière and Laurent Younes; 125-160

Good, great, or lucky? Screening for firms with sustained superior performance using heavy-tailed priors

Nicholas G. Polson and James G. Scott; 161-185

Context tree selection and linguistic rhythm retrieval from written texts

Antonio Galves, Charlotte Galves, Jesús E. García, Nancy L. Garcia and Florencia Leonardi; 186-209

Properties of design-based estimation under stratified spatial sampling with application to canopy coverage estimation

Lucio Barabesi, Sara Franceschi and Marzia Marcheselli; 210-228

Multiple imputation for sharing precise geographies in public use data

Hao Wang and Jerome P. Reiter; 229-252

Efficient regularized isotonic regression with application to gene–gene interaction search

Ronny Luss, Saharon Rosset and Moni Shahar; 253-283

Measuring the vulnerability of the Uruguayan population to vector-borne diseases via spatially hierarchical factor models

Hedibert F. Lopes, Alexandra M. Schmidt, Esther Salazar, Mariana Gómez and Marcel Achkar; 284-303

Estimation and extrapolation of time trends in registry data—Borrowing strength from related populations

Andrea Riebler, Leonhard Held and Håvard Rue; 304-333

Bayesian joint modeling of multiple gene networks and diverse genomic data to identify target genes of a transcription factor

Peng Wei and Wei Pan; 334-355

A Bayesian measurement error model for two-channel cell-based RNAi data with replicates

Chung-Hsing Chen, Wen-Chi Su, Chih-Yu Chen, Jing-Ying Huang, Fang-Yu Tsai, Wen-Chang Wang, Chao A. Hsiung, King-Song Jeng and I-Shou Chang; 356-382

Prototype selection for parameter estimation in complex models

Joseph W. Richards, Ann B. Lee, Chad M. Schafer and Peter E. Freeman; 383-408

Profile control charts based on nonparametric L-1 regression methods

Ying Wei, Zhibiao Zhao and Dennis K. J. Lin; 409-427

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