Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability

Inference.- Score Test: Historical Review and Recent Developments.- EM Algorithm and Optimal Censoring Schemes for Progressively Type-II Censored Bivariate Normal Data.- Inference Guided Data Exploration.- Discriminating Between Normal and Laplace Distributions.- A Simple Classification Rule for Directional Data.- Ranking and Selection.- On Some Ranking and Selection Procedures for MANOVA Models with Applications.- A Restricted Subset Selection Rule for Selecting At Least One of the t Best Normal Populations in Terms of Their Means: Common Known Variance Case.- Selecting the Best Population with Two Controls: An Empirical Bayes Approach.- Simultaneous Selection of Extreme Populations: Optimal Two-stage Decision Rules.- Multiple Comparisons and Tests.- Comparing Variances of Several Measurement Methods Using a Randomized Block Design with Repeat Measurements: A Case Study.- Impact of Missing Data and Imputation Methods on Multiple Test Procedures.- Asymptotic Second-order Efficiency for Two-stage Multiple Comparisons with Components of a Linear Function of Mean Vectors.- Agreement Assessment.- Measuring Agreement in Method Comparison Studies — A Review.- Measures of Concordance for Assessing Agreement in Ratings and Rank Order Data.- Reliability.- Cost-effective Analysis of Optimal Order-replacement Policies.- Estimating Reliabilities Following Purely Sequential Sampling from Exponential Populations.- Empirical Bayes Estimation of Mean Lifetime for an Exponential Distribution: Unequal Sample Sizes Case.- Blostatistics.- Bayesian Analysis of Mixtures of Improper Survival Distributions.- Multivariate Survival Analysis with PVF Frailty Models.- A Two-stage Design for Choosing Among Experimental Treatments in Clinical Trials.