EM and MCMC: Workhorses for Scientific Computing

Dear all,

I am sending you the table of contents for the July 2007 issue of
Statistica Sinica. In this issue, we are featuring nine articles on
the theme topic of "EM and MCMC: Workhorses for Scientific Computing",
with some personal stories and views by Professor Xiao-Li Meng on EM
and MCMC in the "highlights". " For accessing the articles, please
click on the current issue at http://www.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/
if you are a subscriber, or click on the "membership only area" at
http://www.icsa.org/ if you are an ICSA member.

With Best Wishes,
Karen Li---on behalf of the Co-Editors
Editorial Assistant
Statistica Sinica
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EDITOR'S MELANGE

Highlights
Thirty years of EM and much more
Xiao-Li Meng

EM AND MCMC: WORKHORSES FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

A fast algorithm for the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimate in
the Cox-Gene model
I-Shou Chang, Chi-Chung Wen, Yuh-Jenn Wu and Che-Chi Yang

Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for permutation tests on truncated data
Yuguo Chen and Jun S. Liu

A modified EM-algorithm for estimating the parameters of inverse
Gaussian distribution based on time-censored Wiener degradation data
Ming-Yung Lee and Jen Tang

Pool size selection for the sampling/importance resampling algorithm
Kim-Hung Li

Finite mixture modelling using the skew normal distribution
Tsung I. Lin, Jack C. Lee and Shu Y. Yen

Maximum likelihood inference in robust linear mixed-effects models
using multivariate t distributions
Peter X.-K. Song, Peng Zhang and Annie Qu

A fast EM algorithm for quadratic optimization subject to convex
constraints
Ming Tan, Guo-Liang Tian, Hong-Bin Fang and Kai Wang Ng

Functional principal component analysis for longitudinal and survival
data
Fang Yao

Lookahead and piloting strategies for variable selection
Junni L. Zhang, Ming T. Lin, Jun S. Liu and Rong Chen

GENERAL

An algebraic construction of minimally-supported D-optimal designs for
weighted polynomial regression
Fu-Chuen Chang and Bo-Jung Jiang

A profile likelihood theory for the correlated gamma-frailty model
with current status family data
I-Shou Chang, Chi-Chung Wen and Yuh-Jenn Wu

Asymptotic normality under two-phase sampling designs
Jiahua Chen and J. N. K. Rao

Adaptive estimation in a nonparametric regression model with errors-in-
variables
Fabienne Comte and Marie-Luce Taupin

The maximum likelihood method with estimated nuisance parameters in
hazard rate models with discontinuities
Dietmar Ferger

Testing for the equality of k regression curves
Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernandez, Ingrid Van Keilegom and
Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga

CUSUM and EWMA multi-charts for detecting a range of mean shifts
Dong Han, Fugee Tsung, Xijian Hu and Kaibo Wang

Inference under peakedness restrictions
Javier Rojo, Jose Batun-Cutz and Ramon Durazo-Arvizu

Two-level nonregular designs from quaternary linear codes
Hongquan Xu and Alan Wong

Population size estimation in proportional trapping removal and
recapture models with known capture times
Paul S. F. Yip, Liqun Xi and Liping Liu

Structure functions for regular s^{l-m} designs with multiple groups
of factors
Yu Zhu and C. F. J. Wu