Statistical Theory and Applications

I General Distribution Theory and Inference.- 1 PIC: Power Divergence Information Criterion.- 2 Multivariate Student's t and Its Applications.- 3 Two Sets of Multivariate Bonferroni-type Inequalities.- 4 On the Proportion above Sample Mean for Symmetric Stable Laws.- 5 The Relative Efficiency of Several Statistics Measuring Skewness.- 6 On a Class of Symmetric Nonnormal Distributions with a Kurtosis of Three.- II Order Statistics - Distribution Theory.- 7 Moments of the Selection Differential from Exponential and Uniform Parents.- 8 The Tallest Man in the World.- 9 Characterizing Distributions by Properties of Order Statistics - A Partial Review.- 10 Stochastic Ordering of the Number of Records.- 11 Moments of Cauchy Order Statistics via Riemann Zeta Functions.- 12 Order Statistics of Bivariate Exponential Random Variables.- III Order Statistics in Inference and Applications.- 13 Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Laplace Parameters Based on Type-II Censored Samples.- 14 The Impact of Order Statistics on Signal Processing.- 15 A Nonlinear Ordered Rank Test to Detect Stochastic Ordering Between Two Distributions.- 16 Estimation of Location and Scale Parameters of a Logistic Distribution Using a Ranked Set Sample.- 17 Probability Models for an Employment Problem.- IV Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design.- 18 On the Robustness of Bayes Estimators of the Variance Ratio in Balanced One-Way ANOVA Models with Covariates.- 19 Interchange Algorithms for Constructing Designs with Complex Blocking Structures.- 20 Paired Comparisons for Multiple Characteristics: An ANOCOVA Approach.- V Biometry and Applications.- 21 On Assessing Multiple Equivalences with Reference to Bioequivalence.- 22 Competing Risks.- 23 Statistical Aspects of the Detection of Activation Effects in Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism by Positron Emission Tomography.- 24 On Optimality of Q-Charts for Outliers in Statistical Process Control.- VI Postscript.- 25 Herbert A. David.- 26 Conference

H. N. NAGARAJA, PhD, is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University. He coedited, along with P. K. Sen and D. F. Morrison, Statistical Theory and Applications: Papers in Honor of H. A. David, and coauthored, along with B. C. Arnold and N. Balakrishnan, Records.