Advances in Directional and Linear Statistics: A Festschrift for Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Models for Axial Data....Pages 1-9
Asymptotic Behavior of the Universally Consistent Conditional U-Statistics for Nonstationary and Absolutely Regular Processes....Pages 11-25
Regression Models with STARMA Errors: An Application to the Study of Temperature Variations in the Antarctic Peninsula....Pages 27-50
The Generalized von Mises℃Fisher Distribution....Pages 51-68
A New Nonparametric Test of Symmetry....Pages 69-83
A Semiparametric Bayesian Method of Clustering Genes Using Time-Series of Expression Profiles....Pages 85-96
On Implementation of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Stochastic Approximation Algorithm....Pages 97-111
Stochastic Comparisons of Spacings from Heterogeneous Samples....Pages 113-129
The Distributions of the Peak to Average and Peak to Sum Ratios Under Exponentiality....Pages 131-142
Least Square Estimation for Regression Parameters Under Lost Association....Pages 143-154
On Tests of Fit Based on Grouped Data....Pages 155-171
Innovation Processes in Logically Constrained Time Series....Pages 173-188
Laws of Large Numbers and Nearest Neighbor Distances....Pages 189-199
Nonparametric and Probabilistic Classification Using NN-balls with Environmental and Remote Sensing Applications....Pages 201-216
Probabilistic Recurrence Relations....Pages 217-233
On Some Inequalities of Chernoff–Borovkov–Utev Type for Circular Distributions....Pages 235-251
Revisiting Local Asymptotic Normality (LAN) and Passing on to Local Asymptotic Mixed Normality (LAMN) and Local Asymptotic Quadratic (LAQ) Experiments....Pages 253-280
Long Range Dependence in Third Order for Non-Gaussian Time Series....Pages 281-304
Graphical Models for Clustered Binary and Continuous Responses....Pages 305-321