Progress in Applied Statistics Research

Preface; An Approximate Fast Bayesian Algorithm for the Analysis and Forecasting of the Lognormal Time Series; Efficient Uniform Designs for Mixture Experiments in Three and Four Components; Design of Accelerated Life Tests for Periodic Inspection with Burr Type III Distributions: Models, Assumptions and Applications; Parameter Estimation Using Cressie-Read Divergence Measures with Exponential Grouped Censored Data; Estimating the Variance Components of Accelerated Degradation Models; On The Ratio of The Symmetric Differences of Order Statistics; Measuring the Surface Roughness Using the Spatial Statistics Application; Diallel Crosses with Block Sizes Three; On Characterizing Distributions by Conditional Expectations of Function of Generalized Order Statistics; Estimating the Location and Scale Parameters Using Ranked Set Sampling; pp. 245-252; Robust Estimation in Calibration Models Using the Student-t Distribution; Useful Results for the Renewal and the Alternating Renewal Process; Classification of Multivariate Repeated Measures Data with Temporal Autocorrelation; Bayesian Estimation for the AR(1) Model Using Asymmetric Loss Functions;; Bayesian Modelling for Recurrent Lifetime Data with a Non Homogeneous Poisson Process with a Frailty Term with a Gamma or Inverse Gaussian distribution.; Local Influence for Measurement Error Regression Models for the Analysis of Pretest/Posttest Data; A Transition Model for an Ordered Cluster of Mixed Continuous and Discrete Responses with Non-Monotone Missingness; On A Nonbinary S-Optimal Design Over a Class of Minimally Connected Binary Row-Column Designs; The Erlangian Machine Interference Model: Er/M/2/k/N With Balking, Reneging and Heterogeneous Repairmen; Some Extensions to Double Ranked Set Sampling; Index.