Papers to Appear

Vol. 64, No. 3
September 2008

Biometric Methodology

Haplotype-based regression analysis and inference of case-control studies with unphased genotypes and measurement errors in environmental exposures
Iryna Lobach, Raymond J. Carroll, Christine Spinka, Mitchell H. Gail and Nilanjan Chatterjee

Exploiting gene-environment independence for analysis of case-control studies: An empirical-Bayes type shrinkage estimator to trade off between bias and efficiency Bhramar Mukherjee and Nilanjan Chatterjee

Bounds on direct effects in the presence of confounded intermediate variables
Zhihong Cai, Manabu Kuroki, Judea Pearl and Jin Tian

The sign of the bias of unmeasured confounding
Tyler J. VanderWeele

Improving efficiency of inferences in randomized clinical trials using auxiliary covariates
Min Zhang, Anastasios A. Tsiatis and Marie Davidian

A new exact and more powerful unconditional test of no treatment effect from binary matched pairs
Chris J. Lloyd

Estimating cumulative treatment effects in the presence of non-proportional hazards
Guanghui Wei and Douglas E. Schaubel

Comparing treatments in the presence of crossing survival curves: an application to bone marrow transplantation
Brent R. Logan, John P. Klein and Mei-Jie Zhang

Robust covariate-adjusted log-rank statistics and corresponding sample size formula for recurrent events data
Rui Song, Michael R. Kosorok and Jianwen Cai

Clustered mixed nonhomogeneous Poisson process spline models for the analysis of recurrent event panel data
J. D. Nielsen and C. B. Dean

A joint model for longitudinal measurements and survival data in the presence of multiple failure types
Robert M. Elashoff, Gang Li and Ning Li

Conditional generalized estimating equations for the analysis of clustered and longitudinal data
Sylvie Goetgeluk and Stijn Vansteelandt

Inference for Kappas for longitudinal study data: applications to sexual health research
Y. Ma, W. Tang, C. Feng and X. M. Tu

Modeling longitudinal spatial periodontal data: A spatially-adaptive model with tools for specifying priors and checking fit
Brian J. Reich and James S. Hodges

A KPSS test for stationarity for spatial point processes
Yongtao Guan

Modelling time series of animal behaviour by means of a latent-state model with feedback
Walter Zucchini, David Raubenheimer and Iain L. MacDonald

On the Bayesian estimation of a closed population size in the presence of heterogeneity and model uncertainty
R. King and S. P. Brooks

Bayesian nonparametric meta-analysis using Polya tree mixture models
Adam J. Branscum and Timothy E. Hanson

Fitting conditional survival models to meta-analytic data by using a transformation towards mixed-effects models
Goele Massonnet, Paul Janssen and Tomasz Burzykowski

Modeling non-homogeneous Markov processes via time transformation
R. A. Hubbard, L. Y. T. Inoue and J. R. Fann

Multivariate Markov process models for the transmission of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a hospital ward
C. C. Drovandi and A. N. Pettitt

Optimal observation times in experimental epidemic processes
A. R. Cook, G. J. Gibson and C. A. Gilligan

A test for constant fatality rate of an emerging epidemic: with applications to severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong and Beijing
K. F. Lam, J. V. Deshpande, E. H. Y. Lau, U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar, P. S. F. Yip and Ying Xu

Stepwise confidence intervals for monotone dose-response studies
J. Peng, C. I. C. Lee, K. A. Davis and Weizhen Wang

Bayesian optimal design for phase II screening trials
Meichun Ding, Gary L. Rosner and Peter Mueller

Maximum likelihood ratio tests for comparing the discriminatory ability of biomarkers subject to limit of detection
Albert Vexler, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Aiyi Liu and Enrique Schisterman

Efficient statistical inference procedures for partially nonlinear models and their applications
Runze Li and Lei Nie

Tests and diagnostic plots for detecting lack-of-fit for circular-linear regression models
E. Deschepper, O. Thas and J. P. Ottoy

Variable selection in penalized model-based clustering via regularization on grouped parameters
Benhuai Xie, Wei Pan and Xiaotong Shen

Order-preserving dimension reduction procedure for the dominance of two mean curves with application to tidal volume curves
Sang Han Lee, Johan Lim, Marina Vannucci, Eva Petkova, Maurice Preter and Donald F. Klein

Biometric Practice

Simple sequential boundaries for treatment selection in multi-armed randomized clinical trials with a control
Ying Cheung Cheung

Analysis of longitudinal data in the presence of informative observational times and a dependent terminal event, with application to medical cost data
Lei Liu, Xuelin Huang and John O'Quigley

Estimating a predator-prey dynamical model with the parameter cascades method
Jiguo Cao, Gregor F. Fussmann and James O. Ramsay

A general framework for the analysis of animal resource selection from telemetry data
Devin S. Johnson, Dana L. Thomas, Jay M. Ver Hoef and Aaron Christ

Reader Reaction

On the nonidentifiability of population sizes
Chang Xuan Mao

Rejoinder to "On the nonidentifiability of population sizes," by Hajo Holzmann and Axel Munk

A note on sliced inverse regression with regularizations
Caroline Bernard-Michel, Laurent Gardes and Stephane Girard

Rejoinder to "A note on sliced inverse regression with regularizations," by Lexin Li and Xiangrong Yin

Vol. 64, No. 4
December 2008

Biometric Methodology

Inference for constrained estimation of tumor size distributions
Debashis Ghosh, Moulinath Banerjee and Pinaki Biswas

Comparison of properties of tests for assessing tumor clonality
Irina Ostrovnaya, Venkatraman E. Seshan and Colin B. Begg

Varying-coefficient model with unknown within-subject covariance for analysis of tumor growth curves
Robert T. Krafty, Phyllis Gimotty, David O. Holtz, George Coukos and Wensheng Guo

A semiparametric transition model with latent traits for longitudinal multistate data
Haiqun Lin, Zhenchao Guo, Peter Peduzzi, Thomas Gill and Heather Allore

Detection of significant disease risks using a spatial conditional autoregressive model
Georgia Escaramis, Josep L. Carrasco and Carlos Ascaso

Incorporating marginal covariate information in a nonparametric regression model for a sample of R x C tables
Joan G. Staniswalis

Variable selection with incomplete covariate data
Gerda Claeskens and Fabrizio Consentino

Testing and estimation of time-varying cause-specific hazard ratios with covariate adjustment
Yanqing Sun, Seunggeun Hyun and Peter Gilbert

Nonparametric tests for continuous covariate effects with multistate survival data
L. Peng and J. P. Fine

Regression survival analysis with an assumed copula for dependent censoring: a sensitivity analysis approach
Xuelin Huang and Nan Zhang

A multistate model for bivariate interval censored failure time data
Richard J. Cook, Leilei Zeng and Ker-Ai Lee

A new non-parametric approach for baseline covariate adjustment for two-group comparative studies
A. Schacht, Kris Bogaerts, Erich Bluhmki and Emmanuel Lesaffre

A statistical framework for quantile equivalence clinical trials with application to pharmacokinetic studies which bridge from HIV-infected adults to children
Lixia Pei and Michael D. Hughes

Patient-specific dose-finding based on bivariate outcomes and covariates
Peter F. Thall, Hoang Q. Nguyen and Elihu H. Estey

Nonparametric and semiparametric group sequential methods for comparing accuracy of diagnostic tests
Liansheng Tang, Scott S. Emerson and Xiao-Hua Zhou

Evaluating candidate principal surrogate endpoints
Peter B. Gilbert and Michael G. Hudgens

ROC based utility function maximization for feature selection and classification with applications to high dimensional protease data
Zhenqiu Liu and Ming Tan

Extending the modified Bayesian information criterion (mBIC) to dense markers and multiple interval mapping
M. Bogdan, F. Frommlet, P. Biecek, R. Cheng, J. K. Ghosh and R. W. Doerge

Bayesian analysis of wildlife age-at-harvest data
Paul B. Conn, Duane R. Diefenbach, Jeffrey L. Laake, Mark A. Ternent and Gary C. White

A two-stage probabilistic approach to multiple-community similarity indices
Anne Chao, Lou Jost, S. C. Chiang and Y.-H. Jiang

Analysing complex capture-recapture data in the presence of individual and temporal covariates and model uncertainty
R. King, S. P. Brooks and T. Coulson

A finite-state continuous-time approach for inferring regional migration and mortality rates from archival tagging and conventional tag-recovery experiments
Timothy J. Miller and Per K. Andersen

A flexible approach to measurement error correction in case-control studies
A. Guolo

Screening for partial conjunction hypotheses
Yoav Benjamini and Ruth Heller

Biometric Practice

Bayesian estimation of inverse dose-response
Bo Hu, Yuan Ji and Kam-Wah Tsui

A Bayesian random-effects Markov model for tumor progression in women with a family history of breast cancer
Grace Hui-Min Wu, Shu-Hui Chang and Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen

Semiparametric modeling of longitudinal measurements and time-to-event data - A two-stage regression calibration approach
Wen Ye, Xihong Lin and Jeremy M. G. Taylor

Weighted likelihood method for grouped survival data in case-cohort studies with application to HIV vaccine trials
Zhiguo Li, Peter Gilbert and Bin Nan

Statistical power and sample size requirements for three level hierarchical cluster randomized trials
Moonseong Heo and Andrew C. Leon

Generalized maximally selected statistics
Torsten Hothorn and Achim Zeileis

Simultaneous confidence intervals for comparing binomial parameters
Alan Agresti, Matilde Bini, Bruno Bertaccini and Euijung Ryu

Analysis of ordered categorical data: two score-independent approaches
Gang Zheng

Comparing trends in cancer rates across overlapping regions
Yi Li and Ram C. Tiwari

Reader Reaction

Asymptotic distribution of score statistics for spatial cluster detection with censored data
Daniel Commenges and Benoit Liquet

Rejoinder to "Asymptotic distribution of score statistics for spatial cluster detection with censored data," by Andrea J. Cook and Yi Li

Inference for proportions in a 2 x 2 contingency table: HPD or not HPD?
Frank Tuyl, Richard Gerlach and Kerrie Mengersen

Rejoinder to "Inference for proportions in a 2 x 2 contingency table: HPD or not HPD?," by Alan Agresti and Yongyi Min

Correspondence

Letter to the Editors by Changyong Feng

Rejoinder to Letter to the Editors by Bingshu E. Chen, Joan L. Kramer, Mark H. Greene and Philip S. Rosenberg