An Official Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Volume 19, Number 3
Publication Date: September, 1991
Miscellaneous front pages, Ann. Statist., Volume 19, Number 3 (1991)
Maximum Likelihood Type Estimation for Nearly Nonstationary Autoregressive Time Series
Dennis D. Cox and Isabel Llatas; 1109-1128
Gaussian Likelihood Estimation for Nearly Nonstationary AR(1) Processes
Dennis D. Cox; 1129-1142
Estimation of the Parameters of Linear Time Series Models Subject to Nonlinear Restrictions
Neerchal K. Nagaraj and Wayne A. Fuller; 1143-1154
Convergence of Moments of Least Squares Estimators for the Coefficients of an Autoregressive Process of Unknown Order
R. J. Bhansali and F. Papangelou; 1155-1162
Bayes Empirical Bayes Estimation for Natural Exponential Families with Quadratic Variance Functions
G. G. Walter and G. G. Hamedani; 1191-1224
Diameter and Volume Minimizing Confidence Sets in Bayes and Classical Problems
Anirban DasGupta; 1225-1243
Robust Bayesian Experimental Designs in Normal Linear Models
A. DasGupta and W. J. Studden; 1244-1256
On the Optimal Rates of Convergence for Nonparametric Deconvolution Problems
Jianqing Fan; 1257-1272
Edgeworth Expansion of a Function of Sample Means
Z. D. Bai and C. Radhakrishna Rao; 1295-1315
Efficient Estimation of Linear Functionals of a Probability Measure $P$ with Known Marginal Distributions
Peter J. Bickel, Ya'Acov Ritov and Jon A. Wellner; 1316-1346
Approximation of Density Functions by Sequences of Exponential Families
Andrew R. Barron and Chyong-Hwa Sheu; 1347-1369
Large Sample Theory of a Modified Buckley-James Estimator for Regression Analysis with Censored Data
Tze Leung Lai and Zhiliang Ying; 1370-1402
Weak Convergence of Time-Sequential Censored Rank Statistics with Applications to Sequential Testing in Clinical Trials
Ming Gao Gu and Tze Leung Lai; 1403-1433
Almost Sure Asymptotic Representation for a Class of Functionals of the Kaplan-Meier Estimator
Irene Gijbels and Noel Veraverbeke; 1457-1470
The Asymptotic Behavior of Some Nonparametric Change-Point Estimators
L. Dumbgen; 1471-1495
Some Bootstrap Tests of Symmetry for Univariate Continuous Distributions
Miguel A. Arcones and Evarist Gine; 1496-1511
Some Stabilized Bandwidth Selectors for Nonparametric Regression
Shean-Tsong Chiu; 1528-1546
Trend-Free Block Designs for Varietal and Factorial Experiments
Meily Lin and A. M. Dean; 1582-1596
On the Balanced Incomplete Block Design for Rankings
M. Alvo and P. Cabilio; 1597-1613
Optimal Weights for Experimental Designs on Linearly Independent Support Points
Friedrich Pukelsheim and Ben Torsney; 1614-1625
Inference for the Crossing Point of Two Continuous CDF's
D. L. Hawkins and Subhash C. Kochar; 1626-1638
Generalizations of James-Stein Estimators Under Spherical Symmetry
Ann Cohen Brandwein and William E. Strawderman; 1639-1650
An $E$-Ancillarity Projection Property of Cox's Partial Score Function
I.-Shou Chang and Chao A. Hsiung; 1651-1660
Short Communications
Optimality of Some Two-Associate-Class Partially Balanced Incomplete-Block Designs
C.-S. Cheng and R. A. Bailey; 1667-1671
Monotone Gain, First-Order Autocorrelation and Zero-Crossing Rate
Benjamin Kedem and Ta-Hsin Li; 1672-1676
Miscellaneous back pages, Ann. Statist., Volume 19, Number 3 (1991)