Advances in Directional and Linear Statistics : A Festschrift for Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

The present volume consists of papers written by students, colleagues and collaborators of Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka from various countries, and covers a variety of research topics which he enjoys and contributed immensely to. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Models for Axial Data....Pages 1-9 Asymptotic Behavior of the Universally Consistent Conditional U-Statistics for Nonstationary and Absolutely Regular Processes....Pages 11-25 Regression Models with STARMA Errors: An Application to the Study of Temperature Variations in the Antarctic Peninsula....Pages 27-50 The Generalized von Mises°CFisher Distribution....Pages 51-68 A New Nonparametric Test of Symmetry....Pages 69-83 A Semiparametric Bayesian Method of Clustering Genes Using Time-Series of Expression Profiles....Pages 85-96 On Implementation of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Stochastic Approximation Algorithm....Pages 97-111 Stochastic Comparisons of Spacings from Heterogeneous Samples....Pages 113-129 The Distributions of the Peak to Average and Peak to Sum Ratios Under Exponentiality....Pages 131-142 Least Square Estimation for Regression Parameters Under Lost Association....Pages 143-154 On Tests of Fit Based on Grouped Data....Pages 155-171 Innovation Processes in Logically Constrained Time Series....Pages 173-188 Laws of Large Numbers and Nearest Neighbor Distances....Pages 189-199 Nonparametric and Probabilistic Classification Using NN-balls with Environmental and Remote Sensing Applications....Pages 201-216 Probabilistic Recurrence Relations....Pages 217-233 On Some Inequalities of Chernoff–Borovkov–Utev Type for Circular Distributions....Pages 235-251 Revisiting Local Asymptotic Normality (LAN) and Passing on to Local Asymptotic Mixed Normality (LAMN) and Local Asymptotic Quadratic (LAQ) Experiments....Pages 253-280 Long Range Dependence in Third Order for Non-Gaussian Time Series....Pages 281-304 Graphical Models for Clustered Binary and Continuous Responses....Pages 305-321 The present volume consists of papers written by students, colleagues and collaborators of Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka from various countries, and covers a variety of research topics which he enjoyed and contributed immensely to