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Estimating the location and scale parameters using ranked set sampling / M.T. Alodat and O.A. Al-sagheer -- Robust estimation in calibration models using the student-t distribution / Claudia R.O.P. Lima ... [et al.] -- Useful results for the renewal and the alternating renewal process / M.Z. Tsoukalas and G.K. Agrafiotis -- Classification of multivariate repeated measures data with temporal autocorrelation / Anuradha Roy and Ravindra Khattree -- Bayesian estimation for the AR(1) model using asymmetric loss functions / Richard A. Levine and Debasis Bhattacharya -- Bayesian modelling for recurrent lifetime data with a non-homogeneous poisson process with a frailty term with a gamma or inverse Gaussian distribution / Francisco Louzada-Neto ... [et al.] -- Local influence for measurement error regression models for the analysis of pretest/posttest data / Reiko Aoki, Julio M. Singer and Heleno Bolfarine -- A transition model for an ordered cluster of mixed continuous and discrete responses with non-monotone missingness / M. Ganjali and K. Shafie -- On a nonbinary s-optimal design over a class of minimally connected binary row-column designs / Theophilus Ogunyemi, Xianggui Qu and M. Bhaskara Rao -- The Erlangian machine interference model : Er/M/2/k/N with balking, reneging and heterogeneous repairmen / A.I. Shawky -- Some extensions to double ranked set sampling / Mu'azu R. Abujiya and Hassen A. Muttlak.