The Annals of Statistics

An Official Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.


Volume 33, Number 4

Publication Date: August 2005

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Editorial Staff

Machine Learning

Complexities of convex combinations and bounding the generalization error in classification

Vladimir Koltchinskii and Dmitry Panchenko; 1455-1496

Local Rademacher complexities

Peter L. Bartlett, Olivier Bousquet and Shahar Mendelson; 1497-1537

Boosting with early stopping: Convergence and consistency

Tong Zhang and Bin Yu; 1538-1579

Model Selection and Dimension Reduction

Contour regression: A general approach to dimension reduction

Bing Li, Hongyuan Zha and Francesca Chiaromonte; 1580-1616

Variable selection using MM algorithms

David R. Hunter and Runze Li; 1617-1642

Statistical Analysis of Shape

Statistical analysis on high-dimensional spheres and shape spaces

Ian L. Dryden; 1643-1665

Directions and projective shapes

Kanti V. Mardia and Vic Patrangenaru; 1666-1699

Bayesian Theory and Methods

Empirical Bayes selection of wavelet thresholds

Iain M. Johnstone and Bernard W. Silverman; 1700-1752

A new class of generalized Bayes minimax ridge regression estimators

Yuzo Maruyama and William E. Strawderman; 1753-1770

Bayesian Poisson process partition calculus with an application to Bayesian Lévy moving averages

Lancelot F. James; 1771-1799

Time Series Analysis

Efficiency improvements in inference on stationary and nonstationary fractional time series

P. M. Robinson; 1800-1842

Semiparametric estimation for stationary processes whose spectra have an unknown pole

Javier Hidalgo; 1843-1889

Exact local Whittle estimation of fractional integration

Katsumi Shimotsu and Peter C. B. Phillips; 1890-1933

Sample Quantiles

On the Bahadur representation of sample quantiles for dependent sequences

Wei Biao Wu; 1934-1963

Categorical Data and Ignorability

Ignorability for categorical data

Manfred Jaeger; 1964-1981

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