Volume 44 Number 1 (2010) August 22, 2010September 22, 2023 Publisher A biographical sketch of professor Bradley Efron: A distinguished statistician and the star of the science By B. M. Golam Kibria Combining p-values: A definitive process By D.A.S. Fraser, A.K.Md.Ehsanes Saleh, K. Ji A review of linear mixed models and small area estimation By T. Kubokawa Asymptotically optimal tests under a general dependence set-up By George G. Roussas, Debasis Bhattacharya Controlling the average false discovery in large-scale multiple testing By Muni S. Srivastava A generalized Fourier approach to estimating the null parameters and proportion of nonnull effects in large multiple testing By Jiashun Jin, Jie Peng, Pei Wang Admissible estimation of multivariate normal mean By BARRY C. ARNOLD A likelihood ratio test for nonignorable missingness in incomplete binary longitudinal data By Sanjoy K. Sinha Variance function in semi-parametric analysis of count data By Sudhir R. Paul, Tasneem Zaihra A comparison of computational approaches to Bayesian small area estimation of proportions in hierarchical logistic models By Patrick J. Farrell, Brenda MacGibbon, Thomas J. Tomberlin Variational Bayesian logistic regression model selection: an improvement over Laplace? By Liang Zhang, David B. Dunson