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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