Statistica Sinica January issue

[Karen Li]

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:

http://www.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/

We are still accepting submissions to the theme topic on multiscale
methods up until February 29th. Please check the journal sites above
for more information.

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