BIOMETRICS

Volume 60, Number 2, June 2004


 

REGULAR SUBMISSIONS  
  

Latent Pattern Mixture Models for Informative Intermittent Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies

Haiqun Lin, Charles E. McCulloch, Robert A. Rosenheck                                                     295

 

Nonignorable Missingness in Matched Case-Control Data Analyses

Myunghee Cho Paik                                                                                                    306

 

Estimating Mean Response as a Function of Treatment Duration in an Observational Study, Where Duration May Be Informatively Censored

Brent A. Johnson, Anastasios A. Tsiatis                                                                          315

 

Inference for the Proportional Hazards Model with Misclassified Discrete-Valued Covariates

David M. Zucker, Donna Spiegelman                                                                              324

 

Analyzing Time-to-Event Data in a Clinical Trial When an Unknown Proportion of Subjects Has Experienced the Event at Entry

Raji Balasubramanian, Stephen W. Lagakos                                                                     335

 

Erosion of Regression Effect in a Survival Study

John O'Quigley, Loki Natarajan                                                                                      344

 

Selecting Factors Predictive of Heterogeneity in Multivariate Event Time Data

David B. Dunson, Zhen Chen                                                                                        352

 

Best Linear Unbiased Allele-Frequency Estimation in Complex Pedigrees

Mary Sara McPeek, Xiaodong Wu, Carole Ober                                                                 359

 

Measuring the Relative Information in Allele-Sharing Linkage Studies

Dan L. Nicolae, Augustine Kong                                                                                    368

 

Modeling Microarray Data Using a Threshold Mixture Model

Göran Kauermann, Paul Eilers                                                                                       376

 

Bayesian Sample Size Determination for Prevalence and Diagnostic Test Studies

in the Absence of a Gold Standard Test

Nandini Dendukuri, Elham Rahme, Patrick Bélisle, Lawrence Joseph                                      388

 

Bayesian Isotonic Regression and Trend Analysis

Brian Neelon, David B. Dunson                                                                                      398

 

Bayesian Analysis of Serial Dilution Assays

Andrew Gelman, Ginger L. Chew, Michael Shnaidman                                                         407

 

Accounting for Multiplicities in Assessing Drug Safety: A Three-Level Hierarchical

Mixture Model

Scott M. Berry, Donald A. Berry                                                                                    418

 

A Cautionary Note on the Robustness of Latent Class Models for Estimating Diagnostic Error without a Gold Standard

Paul S. Albert, Lori E. Dodd                                                                                          427

 

A Conditional Markov Model for Clustered Progressive Multistate Processes under Incomplete Observation

Richard J. Cook, Grace Y. Yi, Ker-Ai Lee, Dafna D. Gladman                                                436

 

Assessing the Goodness-of-Fit of Hidden Markov Models

Rachel MacKay Altman                                                                                                444

 

A Population Pharmacokinetic Model with Time-Dependent Covariates Measured with Errors

Lang Li, Xihong Lin, Morton B. Brown, Suneel Gupta, Kyung-Hoon Lee                                  451

 

Self Modeling with Flexible, Random Time Transformations

Lyndia C. Brumback, Mary J. Lindstrom                                                                           461

 

Testing Separability in Spatial-Temporal Marked Point Processes

Frederic Paik,  Schoenberg                                                                                          471

 

Adaptive Two-Stage Designs for Single-Arm Phase IIA Cancer Clinical Trials

Yong Lin, Weichung J. Shih                                                                                          482

 

Multiple Testing to Establish Superiority/Equivalence of a New Treatment Compared with k Standard Treatments for Unbalanced Designs

Koon Shing Kwong, Siu Hung Cheung, Wai Sum Chan                
 

Circular Distributions Based on Nonnegative Trigonometric Sums

J. J. Fernández-Durán                                                                                                 499

 

Cutpoint Selection for Categorizing a Continuous Predictor

Sean M. O'Brien                                                                                                         504

 

A Multiple-Record Systems Estimation Method that Takes Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity into Account

Elena Stanghellini, Peter G. M. van der Heijden                                                                510

 

Biplots for Multifactorial Analysis of Distance

W. J. Krzanowski                                                                                                       517

 

CONSULTANT'S FORUM    

 

Small-Sample Inference for the Comparison of Means of Log-Normal Distributions

Paramjit S. Gill                                                                                                           525

 

The Analysis of Placement Values for Evaluating Discriminatory Measures

Margaret Sullivan Pepe, Tianxi Cai                                                                                 528

 

Sensitivity of Bayes Estimators to Hyper-Parameters with an Application to Maximum Yield from Fisheries

Russell B. Millar                                                                                                          536

 

Multivariate Regression Trees for Analysis of Abundance Data

David R. Larsen, Paul L. Speckman                                                                                543

 

READER REACTION    

 

Confidence Interval for Rate Ratio in a 2  2 Table with Structural Zero: An Application in Assessing False-Negative Rate Ratio When Combining Two Diagnostic Tests

Man-Lai Tang, Nian-Sheng Tang, Vincent J. Carey                                                           550

 

General Ranked Set Sampling with Cost Considerations

You-Gan Wang, Zehua Chen, Jianbin Liu                                                                         556

 

BOOK REVIEWS                                                                                                                                 562