SANKHYA, Series A, Vol. 63, Part 1, February 2001
 CONTENTS 

 
         
 
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Bayesian analysis of Life Time Data        
Bayesian analysis of interval-censored survival data using penalized likelihood  ... Sujit K. Ghosh and Debajyoti Sinha ... 1
Bayes inference in life testing and reliability via Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation  ... S.K. Upadhyay, N. Vasishtha and A.F.M. Smith ... 15
Test of Hypotheses        
Asymptotic optimality of data driven smooth tests for location-scale family  ... Tadeusz Inglot and Teresa Ledwina ... 41
Minimum \varphi-divergence estimator for homogeneity in multinomial populations  ... L. Pardo, M.C. Pardo and K. Zografos ... 72
Order Selection        
An asymptotically optimal selection of the order of a linear process  ... Sangyeol Lee and Alex Karagrigoriou ... 93
Characterization Problems        
Mutual characterizations of the gamma and the generalized inverse Gaussian laws by constancy of regression  ... Vanamamalai Seshadri and Jacek Wesolowski ... 107
Results related to the Bhattacharyya matrices  ... G.R. Mohtashami Borzadaran ... 113
Invariance in Linear Models        
The equality of linear transforms of the ordinary least squares estimator and the best linear unbiased estimator  ... J\" urgen Gross, G\" otz Trenkler and Hans Joachim Werner ... 118
Probability Inequalities        
Stochastic Inequalities for the weighted sums of pairwise i.i.d. generalized gamma random variables  ... Chin-Yuan Hu and Gwo Dong Lin ... 128
Book Review        
Review of Linear Models: Least Squares and Alternatives  by C.R. Rao and H. Toutenberg  ... Aloke Dey ... 133
Review of Permutation Tests: A Practical Guide to Resampling Methods for Testing Hypotheses  by Phillip Good  ... John I. Marden ... 134