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iv Contents<br />

Copulas and Decoupling<br />

Characterizations of joint distributions, copulas, information, dependence and<br />

decoupling, with applications to time series<br />

Victor H. de la Peña, Rustam Ibragimov and Shaturgun Sharakhmetov . . . . . . . . . 183<br />

Regression Trees<br />

Regression tree models for designed experiments<br />

Wei-Yin Loh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210<br />

Competing Risks<br />

On competing risk and degradation processes<br />

Nozer D. Singpurwalla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229<br />

Restricted estimation of the cumulative incidence functions corresponding to<br />

competing risks<br />

Hammou El Barmi and Hari Mukerjee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241<br />

Robustness<br />

Comparison of robust tests for genetic association using case-control studies<br />

Gang Zheng, Boris Freidlin and Joseph L. Gastwirth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253<br />

Multiscale Stochastic Processes<br />

Optimal sampling strategies for multiscale stochastic processes<br />

Vinay J. Ribeiro, Rudolf H. Riedi and Richard G. Baraniuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266<br />

Asymptotics<br />

The distribution of a linear predictor after model selection: Unconditional finitesample<br />

distributions and asymptotic approximations<br />

Hannes Leeb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291<br />

Local asymptotic minimax risk bounds in a locally asymptotically mixture of<br />

normal experiments under asymmetric loss<br />

Debasis Bhattacharya and A. K. Basu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312<br />

Density Estimation<br />

On moment-density estimation in some biased models<br />

Robert M. Mnatsakanov and Frits H. Ruymgaart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322<br />

A note on the asymptotic distribution of the minimum density power divergence<br />

estimator<br />

Sergio F. Juárez and William R. Schucany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

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