Book Description

An interview with Professor Yaoting Zhang / Qiwei Yao and Zhaohai Li -- Significance level in interval mapping / David O. Siegmund and Benny Yakir -- An asymptotic Pythagorean identity / Zhiliang Ying -- A Monte Carlo gap test in computing HPD regions / Ming-Hui Chen [und weitere] -- Estimating restricted normal means using the EM-type algorithms and IBF sampling / Ming Tan, Guo-Liang Tian and Hong-Bin Fang -- An example of algorithm mining: covariance adjustment to accelerate EM and Gibbs / Chuanhai Liu -- Large deviations and deviation inequality for kernel density estimator in L[symbol]-distance / Liangzhen Lei, Liming Wu and Bin Xie -- Local sensitivity analysis of model misspecification / Guobing Lu -- Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for the difference of two quantiles of a population / Yongsong Qin and Yuehua Wu -- Exponential inequalities for spatial processes and uniform convergence rates for density estimation / Qiwei Yao -- A skew regression model for inference of stock volatility / Tuhao J. Chen and Hanfeng Chen -- Explicit transitional dynamics in growth models / Danyang Xie -- A fiscal federalism approach to optimal taxation and intergovernmental transfers in a dynamic model / Liutang Gong and Heng-Fu Zou -- Sharing catastrophe risk under model uncertainty / Xiaodong Zhu -- Ranked set sampling: a methodology for observational economy / Zehua Chen -- Some recent advances on response-adaptive randomized designs / Feifang Hu -- A childhood epidemic model with birthrate-dependent transmission / Yingcun Xia -- Linear regression analysis with observations subject to interval censoring / Linxiong Li -- When can the Haseman-Elston procedure for quantitative trait loci be improved? Insights from optimal design theory / Zhaohai Li, Minyu Xie and Joseph L. Gastwirth -- A semiparametric method for mapping quantitative trait loci / Jian Huang and Kai Wang -- Structure mixture regression models / Hongtu Zhu and Heping Zhang