The Annals of Statistics



The Annals of Statistics

An Official Journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.


Volume 36, Number 5

Publication Date: October 2008

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Editorial Staff

Articles

Adaptive variance function estimation in heteroscedastic nonparametric regression

T. Tony Cai and Lie Wang; 2025-2054

Robust nonparametric estimation via wavelet median regression

Lawrence D. Brown, T. Tony Cai and Harrison H. Zhou; 2055-2084

Analysis of variance, coefficient of determination and F-test for local polynomial regression

Li-Shan Huang and Jianwei Chen; 2085-2109

Estimation of distributions, moments and quantiles in deconvolution problems

Peter Hall and Soumendra N. Lahiri; 2110-2134

Choice of neighbor order in nearest-neighbor classification

Peter Hall, Byeong U. Park and Richard J. Samworth; 2135-2152

A class of Rényi information estimators for multidimensional densities

Nikolai Leonenko, Luc Pronzato and Vippal Savani; 2153-2182

Learning by mirror averaging

A. Juditsky, P. Rigollet and A. B. Tsybakov; 2183-2206

Gibbs posterior for variable selection in high-dimensional classification and data mining

Wenxin Jiang and Martin A. Tanner; 2207-2231

Profile-kernel likelihood inference with diverging number of parameters

Clifford Lam and Jianqing Fan; 2232-2260

Moments of minors of Wishart matrices

Mathias Drton, Hélène Massam and Ingram Olkin; 2261-2283

Trimming and likelihood: Robust location and dispersion estimation in the elliptical model

Juan A. Cuesta-Albertos, Carlos Matrán and Agustín Mayo-Iscar; 2284-2318

Local antithetic sampling with scrambled nets

Art B. Owen; 2319-2343

Limit theorems for weighted samples with applications to sequential Monte Carlo methods

Randal Douc and Eric Moulines; 2344-2376

On the Behrens–Fisher problem: A globally convergent algorithm and a finite-sample study of the Wald, LR and LM tests

Alexandre Belloni and Gustavo Didier; 2377-2408

An algorithmic and a geometric characterization of coarsening at random

Richard D. Gill and Peter D. Grünwald; 2409-2422

Evaluation of formal posterior distributions via Markov chain arguments

Morris L. Eaton, James P. Hobert, Galin L. Jones and Wen-Lin Lai; 2423-2452

Residual empirical processes for long and short memory time series

Ngai Hang Chan and Shiqing Ling; 2453-2470

Tilted Euler characteristic densities for Central Limit random fields, with application to “bubbles”

N. Chamandy, K. J. Worsley, J. Taylor and F. Gosselin; 2471-2507

Multiple local whittle estimation in stationary systems

P. M. Robinson; 2508-2530

Stein estimation for the drift of Gaussian processes using the Malliavin calculus

Nicolas Privault and Anthony Réveillac; 2531-2550

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