Series: B

Year: 1998, Volume: 60, No: 3

Contents

TitleAuthor(s)Page
Fundamental substances and fundamental processes in life Motosaburo Masuyama 381
A transformation to normality for the skewness coefficient in normal samples Ram 'on Ardanuy, Mar 'ia M. Soldevilla and Quint 'in Mart 'in 387
Concomitant of order statistics in gumbel's bivariate exponential distribution K. Balasubramanian and M.I. Beg 399
Cochran theorems to vector elliptically contoured distributions of gamma type Chi Song Wong and Hua Cheng 407
A new covariance estimator in random coefficient regression model Nesan Chelliah 433
Preference regions of ridge regression and ols according to pitman's criterion Alessandro Bertuzzi Alberto Gandolfi and Carmela Sinisgalli 437
Fitting a sum of exponentials to equispaced data Debasis Kundu and Amit Mitra 448
Empirical bayes estimation of local area means for nef-qvf superpopulations Somnath Sarkar and Malay Ghosh 464
On the construction of efficient equineighboured incomplete block designs having block size 3 Mike Jacroux 488
A-optimal block designs under a mixed model for making test treatments- control comparisons V.K. Gupta, Archana Pandey and Rajender Parsad 496
On optimality of some partial diallel cross designs Ashish Das, Angela M. Dean and Sudhir Gupta 511
Corrigendum 377
Book Review 525
Editorial Collaboration 526
Editorial Note 380

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