Statistical Sciences and Data Analysis: Proceedings of the Third Pacific Area Statistical Conference

01/07 This title is now available from Walter de Gruyter. Please see www.degruyter.com for more information. The Third Pacific Area Statistical Conference was held under the auspices of the Pacific Statistical Institute and with the support and cooperation of the Foundation for Advancement of International Science, the Japan Statistical Society and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. The main theme of the conference was ''Statistical Sciences and Data Analysis''. The purpose was to bring together researchers in statistics and related fields to exchange results and problems in topics of mutual interest. The papers in this volume have been presented at the conference and have been carefully refereed and edited before their inclusion in the proceedings.

Table of Contents:
Kullback-Leibler information for ordering genes using sperm typing and radiation hybrid mapping, H. Chernoff; statistical models for forecasting tornado intensity, J.F. Monahan, et al; incorporating geographic distribution into the expected number of deaths in a comparative study, T. Yanagawa and D.G. Hoel; fitting random coefficient regression models, R. Beran; design and analysis in repeated measurement experiment - on use of preliminary knowledge about covariance structure of observations, Y. Uragari and M. Goto; least squares estimators of regression coefficients by using misspecified covariance structure for error process, Y. Usami and M. Huzii; estimation of regression parameters when the errors are autocorrelated, E.J. Chen and A.K. Saleh; centring and scaling in ridge regression, M. Jimichi and N. Inagaki; reparametrization methods in linear minimax estimation, H. Drygas; robust tests for linear models, S. Morgenthaler; circular regression, Y.R. Sarma and S.R. Jammalamadaka; properties of least squares methods for choosing the parameter of the simple exponential smoothing predictor, C.H. Chen and M. Huzii; characterization of MTV model and its diagnostic checking, T. Kariya; limit theorems for statistical inference on stationary processes with strong dependence, Y. Hosoya; two sample problem in time series analysis, M. Kondo and M. Taniguchi; Malliavin calculus and higher order statistical inference, N. Yoshida; estimation of levels of intensity in a simple self-correcting point process, T. Hayashi and N. Inagaki; additional information and precision of estimators in multivariate structural models, Y. Kano, et al; sensitivity analysis in covariance structure analysis - a numerical investigation in the case of confirmatory factor analysis, S. Watadani and Y. Tanaka; likelihood ratio tests for means and covariances with incomplete multinormal observations, S.B. Provost; maximally orthogonally invariant higher order moments and their application to testing elliptically-contouredness, A. Takemura; asymptotic theory for the concentrated matrix Langevin distributions on the Grassmann manifold, Y. Chikuse; on canonical correlations and the degrees of non-orthogonality in the three-way layout, J. Berube, et al; partial canonical correlations associated with the inverse and some generalized inverses of a partitioned dispersion matrix, H. Yanai and S. Puntanen; approximation to the upper percentiles of T2 - type statistics, T. Seo and M. Siotani. Part contents.