BIOMETRICS

Volume 60, Number 1, March 2004

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VII    Report of the Co-Editors-2003

 

REGULAR SUBMISSIONS

1    Conditional Estimation for Generalized Linear Models When Convariates Are Subject-Specific

Parameters in a Mixed Model for Longitudinal Measurements.

E. Li. D. Zhang and M. Davidian

 

8    Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Varying Coefficients for Longitudinal Data

D. Zhang

 

16    Multivariate Multilevel Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models for Timber Yield Predictions

D. B. Hall and M. Clutter

 

25    Bayesian Experimental Design for Nonlinear Mixed-Effects Models with Application

to HIV Dynamics

C. Han and K. Chaloner  

 

34    A Bayesian Approach for the Analysis of Panel Count Data with Dependent Termination

D. Sinha and T. Maiti 

 

41    Bayesian Semiparametric Modeling for Matched Case-Control Studies with Multiple Disease

States

S. Sinha, B. Mukherjee and M. Ghosh  

 

50    Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in Dichotomous Processes in the Presence of Nonresponse

J. J. Oleson and C. Z. He 

 

60    Bayesian Point Estimation of Quantitative Trait Loci                                          

S. A. Sisson and M. A. Hurn

 

69    Properties of the Multiallelic Trend Test

W. Czika and B. S. Weir      

 

75    Functional Form Diagonostics for Cox's Proportional Hazards Model               

L. F. Leon and C.-L. Tsai       

 

85    Joint Analysis of Time-to-Event and Multiple Binary Indicators of Latent Classes

K. Larsen 

 

93    Multivariate Survival Trees: A Maximum Likelihood Approach Based on Frailty Models

X. Su and J. Fan  

 

100    Loglinear Models for the Robust Design in Mark-Recapture Experiments                     

L.-P. Rivest and G. Daigle

 

108    N-Mixture Models for Estimating Population Size from Spatially Replicated Counts

J. A. Royle 

 

116    Estimation of Fish Abundance Indices Based on Scientific Research Trawl Surveys

J. Chen, M. E. Thompson and C. Wu     

 

124    Optimal Estimator for the Survival Distribution and Related Quantities for Treatment

Policies in Two-Stage Randomization Designs in Clinical Trials 

A. S. Wahed and A. A. Tsiatis            

134    Design and Analysis of Group Sequential Clinical Trials with Multiple Primary Endpoints

M. R. Kosorok, Y. Shi and D. L. DeMets     

 

146    A Bound for Publication Bias Based on the Fraction of Unpublished Studies

J. Copas and D. Jackson                                               

 

154    On the Construction of Bounds in Prospective Studies with Missing Ordinal Outcomes:

Application to the Good Behavior Game Trial

D. O. Scharfstein, C. F. manski and J. C. Anthony 

 

165    Sample Size Calculations for Surveys to Substantiate Freedom of Populations from

Infectious Agents

W. O. Johnson, C.-L. Su, I. A. Gardner and R. Christensen 

 

172    A New Method for Dealing with Measurement Error in Explanatory Variables of Regression

Models

L. S. Freedman, V. Fainberg, V. Kipnis, D. Midthune and R. J. Carroll 

 

182    Semiparametric Models for Cumulative Incidence Functions

J. Bryant and J. J. Dignam   

191    An Early and Late-Stage Convolution Model for Disease Natural History

P. F. Pinsky                                      

 

199    Partially Supervised Learning Using an EM-Boosting Algorithm

Y. Yasui, M. Pepe, L. Hsu, B. -L. Adam and Z. Feng  

 

207    Judgement Post-Stratification with Imprecise Rankings

S. N. MacEachern, E. A. Stasny and D. A. Wolfe           

 

216    Exact Analysis of Dose Response for Multiple Correlated Binary Outcomes

K. E. Han, P. J. Catalano, P. Senchaudhuri and C. Mehta

 

255    Testing for Common Structures in a Panel of Threshold Models

K. S. Chan, H. Tong and N. C. Stenseth                      

233    The Case-Only Odds Ratio as a Causal Parameter                                           

P. R. Rosenbaum                                                                                         

 

CONSULTANT'S FORUM

 

241    Testing for Marginal Independence between Two Categorical Variables with Multiple

Responses

C. R. Bilder and T. M. Loughin

 

249    A Model to Estimate Risk of Infection with Human Herpesvirus 8 Associated with

Transfusion from Cross-Sectional Data

R. M. Pfeiffer, S. Mbulaiteye and E. Engels  

 

257    Analyzing Excessive No Changes in Clinical Trials with Clustered Data

S.-E. Lu, Y. Lin and W.-C. J. Shih                                                         

 

268    Parametric Spatial Cure Rate Models for Interval-Censored Time-to-Relapse Data

S. Banerjee and B. P. Carlin  

 

READER REACTION

 

276    A Note on One-Sided Tests with Multiple Endpoints                            

M. D. Perlman and L. Wu         

 

279    Rejoinder to " A Note on One-Sided Tests with Multiple Endpoints"

D. A. Bloch, T. L. Lai and P. Tubert-Bitter                                                    

 

CORRESPONDENCE

 

281    Naïve Nonparametric Bootstrap Model Weights Are Biased

E.J. Wagenmakers, S. Farrell and R. Ratcliff   

 

283    Rejoinder to the letter to the Editors from E,-J. Wagenmakers, S. Farrell and R. Ratecliff

S. T. Buckland, K. P. Burnham and N. H. Augustin 

 

284    Letter to the Editors

S. Julious        

 

284    Rejoinder to Steven Julious's Letter to the Editors

D. M. Zuker and J. Denne                                                                                                 

 

286    BOOK REVIEWS                                                                                                               

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