The Annals of Statistics

An Official Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.


Volume 7, Number 2

Publication Date: March, 1979

Miscellaneous front pages, Ann. Statist., Volume 7, Number 2 (1979)

An Analysis of Cell Membrane Noise

Stuart Bevan, Richard Kullberg and John Rice; 237-257

Asymptotic Behavior of $M$-Estimators for the Linear Model

Victor J. Yohai and Ricardo A. Maronna; 258-268

Conjugate Priors for Exponential Families

Persi Diaconis and Donald Ylvisaker; 269-281

Estimation of Multinomial Probabilities

Khursheed Alam; 282-283

Admissible and Minimax Estimation for the Multinomial Distribution and for K Independent Binomial Distributions

Ingram Olkin and Milton Sobel; 284-290

The Generalized Polya's Urn Design for Sequential Medical Trials

L. J. Wei; 291-296

The Strong Consistency of Maximum Likelihood Estimators for ARMA Processes

J. Rissanen and P. E. Caines; 297-315

Remarks on Some Recursive Estimators of a Probability Density

Edward J. Wegman and H. I. Davies; 316-327

Probability Density Estimation Using Delta Sequences

G. Walter and J. Blum; 328-340

Density Estimation in a Continuous-Time Stationary Markov Process

Hung T. Nguyen; 341-348

Composition Rules for Probabilities from Paired Comparisons

Robert B. Latta; 349-371

Invariance Principles for the Coupon Collector's Problem: A Martingale Approach

Pranab Kumar Sen; 372-380

The Commutation Matrix: Some Properties and Applications

Jan R. Magnus and H. Neudecker; 381-394

A Minimax Approach to Randomization and Estimation in Survey Sampling

H. Stenger; 395-399

Upper and Lower Probability Inferences for the Logistic Function

Sandra A. West; 400-413

Weak Convergence of Some Quantile Processes Arising in Progressively Censored Tests

Pranab Kumar Sen; 414-431

On Dynamic Programming and Statistical Decision Theory

Manfred Schal; 432-445

The Small Sample Distribution of a Mann-Whitney Type Statistic for Circular Data

W. J. R. Eplett; 446-453

Short Communications

A Note on the Exact Distribution of a Nonparametric Test Statistic for Ordered Alternatives

Van L. Parsons; 454-458

On Dependent Tests of Significance in the Multivariate Analysis of Variance

Richard L. Dykstra; 459-461

Continued Fractions for the Incomplete Beta Function: Additions and Corrections

Marietta J. Tretter and G. William Walster; 462-465

Note: Correction to Linear Functions of Order Statistics with Smooth Weight Functions

Stephen M. Stigler; 466

Miscellaneous back pages, Ann. Statist., Volume 7, Number 2 (1979)


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