Anticipating the Bayesian Century

Dear all,

I am attaching the table of contents of the April 2007 issue of
Statistica Sinica for your reference. In this issue, we have
editorials by Professors Hani Doss and Andrew Gelman to highlight the
theme: "Anticipating the Bayesian Century." Please click on the
current issue at

http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/ .


With Best Wishes,
Karen Li---on behalf of the Co-Editors
Editorial Assistant
Statistica Sinica
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Editor's Melange


Highlights
"A glimpse into the Bayesian century" by
Xiao-Li Meng

Editorials
"Bayesian model selection: some thoughts on future directions" by
Hani Doss

"Bayes: radical, liberal, or conservative?" by
Andrew Gelman



Anticipating the Bayesian Century


"Bayesian nonparametric estimation of a bivariate survival function"
by
Paolo Bulla, Pietro Muliere and Stephen Walker

"Bayesian approaches to joint longitudinal and survival models
accommodating both zero and nonzero cure fractions" by
Yueh-Yun Chi and Joseph G. Ibrahim

"Maximin and Bayesian optimal designs for regression models" by
Holger Dette, Linda M. Haines and Lorens A. Imhof

"Empirical Bayes density regression" by
David B. Dunson

"A new class of skewed multivariate distributions with applications to
regression analysis" by
Jose T. A. S. Ferreira and Mark F. J. Steel

"Bayesian dose finding in phase I clinical trials based on a new
statistical framework" by
Yuan Ji, Yisheng Li and Guosheng Yin

"Bayesian accelerated failure time model for correlated interval-
censored data with a normal mixture as error distribution" by
Arnost Komarek and Emmanuel Lesaffre

"A robust sequential Bayesian method for identification of
differentially expressed genes" by
Faming Liang, Chuanhai Liu and Naisyin Wang

"Frequentist optimality of Bayes Factor estimators in wavelet
regression models" by
Marianna Pensky and Theofanis Sapatinas

"Bayesian decision theoretic scale-adaptive estimation of a log-
spectral density" by
Marianna Pensky, Brani Vidakovic and Daniela De Canditiis

"Adaptive Bayesian criteria in variable selection for generalized
linear models" by
Xinlei Wang and Edward I. George


General


"An extended class of marginal link functions for modelling
contingency tables by equality and inequality constraints" by
Francesco Bartolucci, Roberto Colombi and Antonio Forcina

"A test for constancy of isotonic regressions using the $L_2$-norm"
by
Ana Colubi, J. Santos Dominguez-Menchero and Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez

"Stopping at the last renewal up to a terminal time" by
Shoou-Ren Hsiau

"Testing dynamic rules of animal cognitive processing with
longitudinal distribution data" by
Fushing Hsieh, Shwu-Bin Horng, Hui-Ying Lin and Yen-Chiu Lan

"Effect of measurement error on monitoring multivariate process
variability" by
Longcheen Huwang and Ying Hung

"Estimating species accumulation curves and diversity indexes" by
Chang Xuan Mao

"Testing for symmetric error distribution in nonparametric regression
models" by
Natalie Neumeyer and Holger Dette

"Backfitting versus profiling in general criterion functions" by
Ingrid Van Keilegom and Raymond J. Carroll

"Statistics with estimated parameters" by
Zhenlin Yang, Yiu Kuen Tse and Zhidong Bai