| Preface | |
| Referees | |
| On the Entropies and Mutual Information of Some Bivariate Continuous Distributions Used in Reliability | p. 1 |
| Initial Conditions Problem in Event History Analysis: An Indirect Inference Procedure | p. 7 |
| Analysis of Survival Data Under Competing Risks with Missing Cause of Death Information: Application and Implications for Study Design | p. 13 |
| Conditional Proportional Hazards Models | p. 21 |
| A Comparison of Conditional and Unconditional Inference Relating to Log-Gamma Distribution | p. 29 |
| Universal Formulas for Treatment Effects from Noncompliance Data | p. 39 |
| Foundational Issues Concerning the Analysis of Censored Data | p. 45 |
| Burn-in at the Component and System Level | p. 53 |
| Identification of Dependent Competing Risks Models | p. 59 |
| Reliability Modelling for Optical Amplified Communication Systems | p. 65 |
| A Parametric Approach to Measurement Errors in Receiver Operating Characteristic Studies | p. 71 |
| A Modification of Goel-Okumoto Model | p. 77 |
| Models for Degradation Processes and Event Times Based on Gaussian Processes | p. 85 |
| A Non-Parametric Two-Sample Survival Test Based on a Single Occupancy Fermi-Dirac Model for the Discrete Range Distribution | p. 93 |
| Probably Approximations and Inequalities for Sequential Tests | p. 99 |
| Cure Mixture Models in Breast Cancer Survival Studies | p. 107 |
| A General Approach to Derive Chi-Square Type of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Life-time Data | p. 113 |
| Prediction in Survival Analysis: Model or Medic | p. 125 |
| Dynamic Reliability Models | p. 131 |
| Generalizations of Current Status Data with Applications | p. 141 |
| Trend Analysis of Multiple Counting Processes | p. 149 |
| Historical Controls and Model Survival Analysis | p. 157 |
| A Random Effects Model for Multivariate Life Data | p. 167 |
| Statistical Challenges in Comparing Chemotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplantation as a Treatment for Leukimia | p. 175 |
| Maximum Likelihood Estimation and the Multivariate Bernoulli Distribution: An Application to Reliability | p. 187 |
| Intermediate Clinical Events, Surrogate Markers and Survival | p. 195 |
| A Semiparametric Bootstrap for Proportional Hazards Models | p. 207 |
| Application of Cox Regression with a Change Point in Clinical Studies | p. 213 |
| Burn-in with Age Replacement | p. 219 |
| Fitting Cox's Proportional Hazards Model Using Grouped Survival Data | p. 227 |
| Statistical Methods for Dependent Competing Risks | p. 233 |
| Orthogonal Functions of Inverse Gaussian Distributions | p. 243 |
| Statistical Models for Quality of Life Measures | p. 251 |
| Nonparametric Estimation of Regression Parameters from Censored Data with Two Discrete Covariates | p. 257 |
| Locally Efficient Median Regression with Random Censoring and Surrogate Markers | p. 263 |
| Survival Models for Heterogeneity Using the Non-Central Chi-Squared Distribution with Zero Degrees of Freedom | p. 275 |
| Efficiently Weighted Estimating Equations with Application to Proportional Excess Hazards | p. 281 |
| Sequential Multi-Hypothesis Testing in Software Reliability | p. 291 |
| Assessing Gamma Frailty Models for Clustered Failure Time Data | p. 299 |
| The Shapes of a Probability Density Function and its Hazard Function | p. 307 |
| Therapeutic Equivalence Using a Rich Family of Prior Distributions | p. 315 |
| Dependent Competing Risks with Time-Dependent Covariates | p. 323 |
| Life Estimation from Pooled Discrete Renewal Counts | p. 331 |
| Efficient and Ad Hoc Estimation in the Bivariate Censonring Model | p. 339 |
| Efficient Estimation in a Nonproportional Hazards Model | p. 347 |
| Modeling Frailty in Manufacturing Processes | p. 353 |
| Estimation of Wiener Diffusion Parameters Using Process Measurements Subject to Error | p. 363 |
| Adaptive Replacement Policies for a System of Parallel Machines | p. 371 |
| Discrete First Passage Time Distribution for Describing Inequality among Individuals | p. 377 |
| A Graphical Classification of Survival Distributions | p. 385 |
| Survival Analysis in S-Plus | p. 393 |
| A Note on Strong Uniform Consistency of Kernel Estimators of Hazard Functions Under Random Censorship | p. 395 |
| Identifiability and Estimation of Marginal Survival Functions for Dependent Competing Risks Assuming the Copula is Known | p. 401 |
| Author Index | p. 409 |
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