An Official Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Volume 30, Number 4
Publication Date: August 2002
Cover, Ann. Statist., vol. 30, no. 4 (2002)
Editorial Staff, Ann. Statist., vol. 30, no. 4 (2002)
Vines--a new graphical model for dependent random variables
Tim Bedford and Roger M. Cooke; 1031-1068
Modeling through group invariance: an interesting example with potential applications
Heng Li; 1069-1080
Some hypothesis tests for the covariance matrix when the dimension is large compared to the sample size
Olivier Ledoit and Michael Wolf; 1081-1102
Optimal tests for multivariate location based on interdirections and pseudo-Mahalanobis ranks
Marc Hallin and Davy Paindaveine; 1103-1133
Canonical correlation analysis and reduced rank regression in autoregressive models
T. W. Anderson; 1134-1154
Laplace approximations for hypergeometric functions with matrix argument
Roland W. Butler and Andrew T. A. Wood; 1155-1177
Blackwell optimality in Markov decision processes with partial observation
Dinah Rosenberg, Eilon Solan and Nicolas Vieille; 1178-1193
The partitioning principle: a powerful tool in multiple decision theory
H. Finner and K. Strassburger; 1194-1213
Conditions for recurrence and transience of a Markov chain on $\mathbb{Z}^+$ and estimation of a geometric success probability
James P. Hobert and Jason Schweinsberg; 1214-1223
