Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications Registration No. 32833

Statistics and Applications ISSN 2454-7395(online)

Special Issue "Challenges and Opportunities in Statistical Data Designing and Inference in the Emerging Global Scenario" in honour of twin statisticians Bimal and Bikas Sinha on their 75th Birthday

Issue 2 (New Series)



Contents

I-II



Message

V-VII


Preface

IX-X



Wanted! A Mathematician

Jyotirmoy Sarkar

1-14






Discriminating Between Superior UE(s^2)-optimal Supersaturated Designs

Feng- Shun Chai, Ashish Das, Rakhi Singh and John Stufken

67-74


A New Family of Probability Density Functions With Deflated Tails

Avinash D. Dharmadhikari, Sanjeev V. Sabnis and Bikas K. Sinha

75-84






Identification of Multiple Unusual Observations in Spatial Regression

A.H.M. Rahmatullah Imom and Ali S Hadi

155-162


Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Relationships Among Tree-Ring Records

Megan Heyman, Scott St George and Snigdhansu Chatterjee

163-185



Bayesian Mixture Designs for Hypothesis Testing

N.K. Mandal and Manisha Pal

207-221


A Comparative Study of Approximate Bayesian Computation Methods for Gibbs Point Processes

Jiaxun Chen, Athanasios C. Micheas and Scott H. Holan

223-248




U-Statistics CLT Using Cumulants and a Free Version

Arup Bose and Apratim Dey

275-286




Horseshoe and Strawderman-Berger Estimators for Non-negative Normal Means

Neha Agarwala and Junyong Park and Anindya Roy

317-332


Finite Mixture Modelling of Survival Data: With Applications to Pensioner Lifetime

Jyrki Mottonen, Janne Salonen, Tapio Nummi and Timothy E. O’Brien

333-351


Estimation of Kurtosis Parameters of Multivariate Populations

Nighat Zahra, Muhammad Kashif Ali Shah and S. Ejaz Ahmed

353-368



Finite Sample Properties of A-Optimal Designs for Binary Response Data

Rajesh Ranjan Nandy, Srichand Jasti and Karabi Nandy

383-391