Advances in Order Restricted Statistical Inference: Proceedings of the Symposium on Order Restricted

Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Approaches to Order Restricted Inference for Models from Ordinal Categorical Data.- A Method of Finding Projections Onto the Intersection of Convex Sets in Hilbert Spaces.- Isotonic M-Estimation.- An Application of Isotonic Regression to Multivariate Density Estimation.- Least-Squares Regression Under Convexity and Higher Order Difference Constraints with Applications to Software Reliability.- Dose-Response Analysis under Unimodality of Response-to-Dose.- On Nonparametric Tests for Ordered Alternatives in Two-Way Layouts.- A Class of Distribution-Free Tests for Testing Homogeneity of Variances Against Ordered Alternatives.- Robustness of $${\overline {\rm{\chi }} ^2}$$ and E $${\overline {\rm{E}} ^2}$$: A Case for a Ranked Test in Ordered Restricted Inference.- multiple Contrast Tests for Testing Against a Simple Tree Ordering.- On Testing Symmetry and Unimodality.- On Tests Under Order Restrictions in Generalized Homogeneity and Reduction of Dimensionality.- Power Series Approximations to the Null Distributions of Some Chi-Bar-Square Statistics.- Conditional Tests With an Order Restriction as a Null Hypothesis.