The Annals of Statistics

An Official Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.


Volume 2, Number 1

Publication Date: January, 1974

Miscellaneous front pages, Ann. Statist., Volume 2, Number 1 (1974)

Special Invited Paper

Edgeworth Expansions in Nonparametric Statistics

P. J. Bickel; 1-20

Improving on Equivariant Estimators

J. F. Brewster and J. V. Zidek; 21-38

Probability Inequalities for the Sum in Sampling without Replacement

R. J. Serfling; 39-48

The Invariance Principle for One-Sample Rank-Order Statistics

Pranab Kumar Sen; 49-62

Asymptotically Efficient Adaptive Rank Estimates in Location Models

Rudolf Beran; 63-74

Asymptotic Sufficiency of the Vector of Ranks in the Bahadur Sense

Jaroslav Hajek; 75-83

Multivariate Distributions with Exponential Minimums

James D. Esary and Albert W. Marshall; 84-98

Estimation of Models of Autoregressive Signal Plus White Noise

Marcello Pagano; 99-108

Asymptotic Expansions of the Non-Null Distributions of Likelihood Ratio Criteria for Covariance Matrices

C. G. Khatri and M. S. Srivastava; 109-117

Rate of Convergence in the Sequence-Compound Squared-Distance Loss Estimation Problem for a Family of $m$-Variate Normal Distributions

V. Susarla; 118-133

Control Charts Based on Weighted Sums

Tze Leung Lai; 134-147

Resistant and Susceptible BIB Designs

A. Hedayat and P. W. M. John; 148-158

On Maximal Rewards and $|varepsilon$-Optimal Policies in Continuous Time Markov Decision Chains

Mark R. Lembersky; 159-169

Short Communications

Note on Anderson's Sequential Procedures with Triangular Boundary

Vaclav Fabian; 170-176

Robustness of the Wilcoxon Test to a Certain Dependency Between Samples

Myles Hollander, Gordon Pledger and Pi-Erh Lin; 177-181

The Intersection of Random Spheres and the Noncentral Radial Error Distribution for Spherical Models

Andre G. Laurent; 182-189

Minimax Estimation of Powers of the Variance of a Normal Population Under Squared Error Loss

William E. Strawderman; 190-198

On Symmetric Compound Decision Rules for Dichotomies

J. B. Copas; 199-204

Hyperadmissibility in Survey Sampling

Jan Lanke and M. K. Ramakrishnan; 205-215

A Convergence Theorem in the Theory of $D$-Optimum Experimental Designs

A. Pazman; 216-218

On Stationary Policies--The General Case

Michael Orkin; 219-222

Note: Correction to Minimax Tests and the Neyman-Pearson Lemma for Capacities

Peter J. Huber and Volker Strassen; 223-224

Miscellaneous back pages, Ann. Statist., Volume 2, Number 1 (1974)


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