The Annals of Statistics

An Official Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.


Volume 32, Number 5

Publication Date: October 2004

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Editorial Staff

Nonparametric Inference

Periodic boxcar deconvolution and diophantine approximation

Iain M. Johnstone and Marc Raimondo; 1781-1804

An adaptation theory for nonparametric confidence intervals

T. Tony Cai and Mark G. Low; 1805-1840

Robust nonparametric inference for the median

Víctor J. Yohai and Ruben H. Zamar; 1841-1857

Sieve empirical likelihood ratio tests for nonparametric functions

Jianqing Fan and Jian Zhang; 1858-1907

The Hough transform estimator

Alexander Goldenshluger and Assaf Zeevi; 1908-1932

Wavelet-based estimation with multiple sampling rates

Peter Hall and Spiridon Penev; 1933-1956

On the testability of the CAR assumption

Eric A. Cator; 1957-1980

On optimal spatial subsample size for variance estimation

Daniel J. Nordman and Soumendra N. Lahiri; 1981-2027

Bayesian Analysis

New approaches to Bayesian consistency

Stephen Walker; 2028-2043

On the posterior distribution of the number of components in a finite mixture

Agostino Nobile; 2044-2073

Density Estimation

Equivalence theory for density estimation, Poisson processes and Gaussian white noise with drift

Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew V. Carter, Mark G. Low and Cun-Hui Zhang; 2074-2097

Attributing a probability to the shape of a probability density

Peter Hall and Hong Ooi; 2098-2123

Bump hunting with non-Gaussian kernels

Peter Hall, Michael C. Minnotte and Chunming Zhang; 2124-2141

Experimental Design

Optimal designs for a class of nonlinear regression models

Holger Dette, Viatcheslav B. Melas and Andrey Pepelyshev; 2142-2167

Geometric isomorphism and minimum aberration for factorial designs with quantitative factors

Shao-Wei Cheng and Kenny Q. Ye; 2168-2185

Inference for Diffusions

Estimators of diffusions with randomly spaced discrete observations: A general theory

Yacine Aït-Sahalia and Per A. Mykland; 2186-2222

Nonparametric estimation of scalar diffusions based on low frequency data

Emmanuel Gobet, Marc Hoffmann and Markus Reiß; 2223-2253

Hidden Markov Models

Asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator in autoregressive models with Markov regime

Randal Douc, Éric Moulines and Tobias Rydén; 2254-2304

Asymptotic operating characteristics of an optimal change point detection in hidden Markov models

Cheng-Der Fuh; 2305-2339

Correction

Smooth discrimination analysis

Enno Mammen and Alexandre B. Tsybakov; 2340-2341

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