Jewell, N.P.; Kimber, A.C.; Mei-Ling Ting Lee; Whitmore, G.A. (Eds.)

Table of Contents

1. On the Entropies and Mutual Information of Some Bivariate Continuous Distributions Used in Reliability; M. Ahsanullah, M. Habibullah.
   
2. Initial Conditions Problem in Event History Analysis: An Indirect Inference Procedure; M.Y. An.
   
3. Analysis of Survival Data Under Competing Risks with Missing Cause of Death Information: Application and Implications for Study Design; J.W. Andersen, et al.
   
4. Conditional Proportional Hazards Models; B.C. Arnold, Y.H. Kim.
   
5. A Comparison of Conditional and Unconditional Inference Relating to Log-Gamma Distribution; N. Balakrishnan, P.S. Chan.
   
6. Universal Formulas for Treatment Effects from Noncompliance Data; A.A. Balke, J. Pearl.
   
7. Fundational Issues Concerning the Analysis of Censored Data; R.E. Barlow, P. Tsai.
   
8. Burn-in at the Component and System Level; H.W. Block, et al.
   
9. Identificationof Dependent Competing Risks Models; K. Carling, T. Jacobson.
   
10. Reliability Modelling for Optical Amplified Communication Systems; M. Chown, G.A. Whitmore.
    
11. A Parametric Approach to Measurement Errors in Receiver Operating Characteristic Studies; M. Coffin, S. Sukhatme.
    
12. Models for Degradation Processes and Event Times Based on Gaussian Processes; K. Doksum, S.-L. Normand.
    
13. A Non-Parametric Two-Sample Survival Test Based on a Single Occupancy Fermi-Dirac Model for the Discrete Range Distribution; J.T. Efird, F. Pardo.
    
14. Probability Approximations and Inequalities for Sequential Tests; J. Glaz, J.R. Kenyon.
    
15. Cure Mixture Models in Breast Cancer Survival Studies; N.H. Gordon.
    
16. A General Approach to Derive Chi-Square Type of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Lifetime Data; S. Hawala, J.-L. Wang.
    
17. Prediction in Survival Analysis: Model or Medic?; R. Henderson, M. Jones.
    
18. Dynamic Reliability Models; M. Hollander, E.A. Peña.
    
19. Generalizations of Current Status Data with Applications; N.P. Jewell, M. van der Laan.
    
20. Trend Analysis of Multiple Counting Processes; T. Kamakura.
    
21. Historical Controls and Model Survival Analysis; N. Keiding.
    
22. A Random Effects Model for Multivariate Life Data; A.C. Kimber.
    
23. Statistical Challenges in Comparing Chemotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplantation as a Treatment for Leukemia; J.P. Klein, M.-J. Zhang.
    
24. Maximum Likelihood Estimation and the Multivariate Bernoulli Distribution: An Application to Reliability; P.H. Kvam.
    
25. Intermediate Clinical Events, Surrogate Markers and Survival; M. Lefkopoulou, M. Zelen.
    
26. A Semiparametric Bootstrap for Proportional Hazards Models; T.M. Loughin, K.J. Koehler.
    
27. Application of Cox Regression with a Change Point in Clinical Studies; X. Luo, et al.
    
28. Burn-in with Age Replacement; A.W. Marshall.
    
29. Fitting Cox's Proportional Hazards Model Using Grouped Survival Data; I.W. McKeague, M.-J. Zhang.
    
30. Statistical Methods for Dependent Competing Risks; M.L. Moeschberger, J.P. Klein.
    
31. Orthogonal Functions of Inverse Gaussian Disbrituions; R. Nishii.
    
32. Statistical Models for Quality of Life Measures; Y. Palesch, A.J. Groos.
    
33. Nonparametric Estimation of Regression Parameters from Censored Data with Two Discrete Covariates; M.H. Rahbar.
    
34. Locally Efficient Median Regressionwith Random Censoring and Surrogate Markers; J.M. Robins.
    
35. Survival Models for Heterogeneity Using the Non-Central Chi-Squared Distribution with Zero Degrees of Freedom; C.S. Rocha.
    
36. Efficiently Weighted Estimating Equations with Application to Proportional Excess Hazards; P. Sasieni.
    
37. Sequential Multi-Hypothesis Testing in Software Reliability; J.S. Shieh, Y.L. Tong.
    
38. Assessing Gamma Frailty Models for Clustered Failure Time Data; J.H. Shih, T.A. Louis.
    
39. The Shapes of a Probability Density Function and its Hazard Function; M. Sibuya.
    
40. Therapeutic Equivalence Using a Rich Family of Prior Distributions; K.P. Singh.
    
41. Dependent Competing Risks with Time-Dependent Covariates; E.V. Slud, L. Kopylev.
    
42. Life Estimation from Pooled Discrete Renewal Counts; M. Tortorella.
    
43. Efficient and Ad Hoc Estimation in the Bivariate Censoring Model; F. Vonta.
    
44. Modeling Frailty in Manufacturing Processes; J.T. Wassell, et al.
    
45. Estimation of Wiener Diffusion Parameters Using Process Measurements Subject to Error; G.A. Whitmore.
    
46. Adaptive Replacement Policies for a System of Parallel Machines; J.G. Wilson, E. Popova.
    
47. Discrete First Passage Time Distribution for Describing Inequality among Individuals; T. Yanagimoto.
    
48. A Graphical Classification of Survival Distributions; S. Yu, E.O. Voit.
    
49. Survival Analysis in S-Plus; A.M. Zaslavsky.
    
50. A Note on Strong Uniform Consistency of Kernel Estimators of Hazard Functions Under Random Censorship; B. Zhang.
    
51. Identifiability and Estimation of Marginal Survival Functions for Dependent Competing Risks Assuming the Copula is Known; M. Zheng, J.P. Klein.