Dear All,
I am sending you the table of contents for the Jan 2008 issue of Statistica Sinica. In this issue, there are several discussions on Fygenson's paper "Modeling and predicting extrapolated probabilities with outlooks," and a short editorial by Dr. Xuming He. Please click on the "Current Issue" at the following website to access the editorial:
Sincerely, Karen Li---on behalf of the Co-editors Editorial Assistant Statistica Sinica
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Editor's Melange Highlights Far away from data-land Michelle Liou and Xiao-Li Meng
Editorial Pessimistic outlook with an optimistic outlook Xuming He
Discussion Paper
Modeling and predicting extrapolated probabilities with outlooks Mendel Fygenson
Invited discussions I-Shou Chang, Li-Chu Chien and Chao A. Hsiung Cheng-Der Fuh and Inchi Hu Peter McCullagh Stephen Portnoy
Contributed discussions Vance Berger, Shu Zhang and YanYan Zhou Jose M. Bernardo Atanu Biswas David Draper Mark S. Kaiser and Daniel J. Nordman Michael D. Larsen Chuanhai Liu
Rejoinder Mendel Fygenson
General
General ranked set sampling for efficient treatment comparisons Zehua Chen, Jianbin Liu, Liang Shen and You-Gan Wang
Second order saturated orthogonal arrays of strength three Ching-Shui Cheng, Robert W. Mee and Oksoun Yee
Efficient estimation methods for informative cluster size data Chin-Tsang Chiang and Kuang-Yao Lee
Exact optimal designs for weighted least squares analysis with correlated errors Holger Dette, Joachim Kunert and Andrey Pepelyshev
Nonparametric conditional inference for regression coefficients with application to configural polysampling Yvonne H. S. Ho and Stephen M. S. Lee
Orthogonal-Maximin Latin hypercube designs V. Roshan Joseph and Ying Hung
Parameter estimation of chirp signals in presence of stationary noise Debasis Kundu and Swagata Nandi
A generalization of the the Levin-Robbins procedure for binomial subset selection and recruitment problems Cheng-Shiun Leu and Bruce Levin
Analysis of competing risks data with missing cause of failure under additive hazards model Wenbin Lu and Yu Liang
Uniformly balanced repeated measurements designs in the presence of subject dropout Dibyen Majumdar, Angela M. Dean and Susan M. Lewis
The maxiset point of view for estimating integrated quadratic functionals Vincent Rivoirard and Karine Tribouley
Confidence intervals based on survey data with nearest neighbor imputation Jun Shao and Hansheng Wang
Improving dimension reduction via contour-projection Hansheng Wang, Liqiang Ni and Chih-Ling Tsai
Empirical processes of stationary sequences Wei Biao Wu
Common canonical variates for independent groups using information theory Xiangrong Yin and T. N. Sriram
Semiparametric transformation models with random effects for clustered failure time data Donglin Zeng, D. Y. Lin and Xihong Lin
The $F_{\infty}$-norm support vector machine Hui Zou and Ming Yuan