Bayesian model determination in the complete class of graphical models is considered using a decision theoretic framework within the regular exponential family. The complete class contains both decomposable and non-decomposable graphical models. A utility measure based on a logarithmic score...

Phillips (J. Multivariate Anal. 16 (1985) 157) generalizes Cramer's (Mathematical Methods of Statistics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1946) inversion formula for the distribution of a quotient of two scalar random variables to the matrix quotient case. However, he gives the result...

The conditional maximum likelihood estimator is suggested as an alternative to the maximum likelihood estimator and is favorable for an estimator of a dispersion parameter in the normal distribution, the inverse-Gaussian distribution, and so on. However, it is not clear whether the conditional...

An asymptotic test procedure, proposed by Bar-Hen (J. Multivariate Anal. 57 (1996) 266), for deciding if a given set of data represents a new population or one of k a priori known populations, is extended to the case when the new population is described by more than one parameter.

We obtain the distribution of the sum of n random vectors and the distribution of their quadratic forms: their densities are expanded in series of Hermite and Laguerre polynomials. We do not suppose that these vectors are independent. In particular, we apply these results to multivariate...

A multivariate dispersion ordering based on quantiles more widely separated is defined. This new multivariate dispersion ordering is a generalization of the classic univariate version. If we vary the ordering of the components in the multivariate random variable then the comparison could not be...

This paper is on density estimation on the 2-sphere, S2, using the orthogonal series estimator corresponding to spherical harmonics. In the standard approach of truncating the Fourier series of the empirical density, the Fourier transform is replaced with a version of the discrete fast spherical...

We consider exact tests with several equicorrelation error structures and combination of equicorrelation covariance structures in simple growth curve model having single or multiple treatments and in one-way ANOVA model. Exact inferences using generalized p-values are obtained. Tests for equal...

This article proposes a reweighted estimator of multivariate location and scatter, with weights adaptively computed from the data. Its breakdown point and asymptotic behavior under elliptical distributions are established. This adaptive estimator is able to attain simultaneously the maximum...

In this paper, we use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with temporal structure to describe models of nonignorable nonresponse mechanisms for binary outcomes in longitudinal studies, and we discuss identification of these models under an assumption that the sequence of variables has the first-order...