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