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  • Asymptotic spacings theory with applications to the two-sample problem (with Lars Holst), Canadian J.of Statist., 9 (1981), 79-89. [PDF]
  • Estimation problems for rectangular distributions (or the taxi problem revisited), Metrika, 28 (1981), 257-262. [PDF]
  • A two-sample nonparametric test based on spacings frequencies (with V.K. Murthy), Proc. of International Statistical Institute Contributed Papers, 43rd session, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1981), 223-227.[PDF]
  • On tests for the two-sample problem based on higher order spacing-frequencies (with R.L. Schweitzer).  Statistical Theory and Data Analysis, (ed. K. Matusita), North-Holland Publishing Co. (1982), 583-618.[PDF]
  • Comparison of the limiting efficiencies of two chi-square type tests for the circle (with Y. Yoon), Jour. Indian Statistical Association, 21 (1983), 19-26.[PDF]
  • Bayesian nonparametric estimation of failure rates with censored data (with R.C. Tiwari), Calcutta Statist. Assoc. Bull32 (1983), 79-90.[PDF]
  • One- and two-sample match statistics (with R.C. Tiwari), Statistics and Probability Letters, 1 (1983), 129-135. [PDF]
  • A measure of association for circular data (with Y.R. Sarma), Proc.of International Statistical Inst. Contributed Papers, 44th Session, Madrid (Spain), (1983), 571-574.
  • On ordered uniform spacings for testing goodness of fit, Statistical Extremes and Applications, (ed. T. de Olivera) Reidel Publ. Co. (1983), 589-596.[PDF]
  • Limit theory and efficiencies for tests based on higher order spacings (with M. Kuo), in Statistics-Applications and New Directions, (eds. J.K. Ghosh and J. Roy), Indian Statist. Instt., Calcutta (1984), 333-352.
  • Asymptotic normality and relative efficiencies of tests based on modified spacings (with J. Sethuraman), Tamkang Jour. of Mathematics, 15 (1984), 55-76.
  • Asymptotic results on the Greenwood statistic and some of its generalizations (with M. Kuo), Jour. Royal Statist. Soc. Ser. B., 46 (1984), 228-237. [PDF]
  • Nonparametric methods in directional data analysis, in Nonparametric Methods, Handbook of Statistics, Vol. IV (eds. P.R. Krishnaiah and P.K. Sen), North Holland Publ. Co. (1984), 755-770.[PDF]
  • On the limiting distribution of the number of near-matches (with S. Janson), Statistics and Probability Letters, 2 (1984), 353-356. [PDF]
  • Estimation of survival function and failure rate (R.C. Tiwari), Statistics, (previously Math. Operationsforsch. U. Statist.), 16 (1985), 535-540. [PDF]
  • On the Bayes estimate of a functional of two distributions (with R.C. Tiwari), Calcutta Statist. Assoc. Bul. 34 (1985), 15-22.
  • Asymptotic comparison of three tests for goodness of fit (with R.C. Tiwari), Jour. of Statistical Planning and Inference, 12 (1985), 295-304. [PDF]
  • Pitman efficiencies of some goodness of fit tests, Proc. of International Statistical Inst., Contributed Papers 45th Session, Amsterdam (Netherlands), (1985), 527-530.
  • Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation of the probability that Z > X +Y (with R.C. Tiwari and J.N. Zalkikar), Commun. Statist. - Theory. Meth. 15 (10) (1986), 3079-3101.[PDF]
  • Limit theorems for a triangular scheme of U-statistics with applications to inter-point distances, (with S. Janson), Ann. Probability, 14 (1986), 1347-1358. [PDF]
  • Functional assessment of knee and ankle during level walking (with N. Bhadra, D. Chaturvedi, T.K. Kutty, P.P. Majumdar and G. Poduval), in Data Analysis in the Life Sciences, (ed. T. Krishnan) Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, (1986), 21-54.[PDF]
  • Efficiencies of some disjoint spacings tests relative to a chi-square test (with R.C. Tiwari), New Perspectives in Theoretical and Applied Statistics (eds. M.L. Puri, J. Vilaplana and W. Wertz) John Wiley (1987), 311-317.[PDF]
  • A New Definition of the Predictive Likelihood (with S. Chib and R.C.Tiwari), Statistics and Probability Letters, 5, (1987), 113-118. [PDF]
  • Another look at some results on the recursive estimation in the General Linear Model (with S. Chib and R.C. Tiwari), American Statistician, 41 (1987), 56-58. [PDF]
  • Bayes Prediction in the Linear Model with spherically symmetric errors (with S. Chib and R.C. Tiwari), Economics Letters, 24 (1987), 39-44. [PDF]
  • A correlation coefficient for angular variables (with Y.R. Sarma), in Statistical Theory and Data Analysis II, (ed. K. Matusita) North Holland Publishing Co.(1988), 349-364.[PDF]
  • Bayes prediction in regressions with elliptical errors (with S. Chib and R.C. Tiwari), Journal of Econometrics, 38 (1988),349-360. [PDF]
  • A test of goodness of fit based on extreme spacings with some efficiency comparisons (with M. Wells), Metrika, 35 (1988), 223-232. [PDF]
  • a. Bayes prediction density and regression estimation - a semiparametric approach (with R.C. Tiwari and S. Chib) Empirical Economics, 13 (1988), 209-222. [PDF]
    b. Bayes prediction density and regression estimation - a semiparametric approach (with R.C. Tiwari and S. Chib).  Also reprinted in Semiparametric and Nonparametric Econometrics - Studies in Empirical Economics (ed. Aman Ullah), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, (1989), 87-100.[PDF]
  • Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation of survival function under progressive censoring (with R.C. Tiwari and J.N. Zalkikar), Comm. in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 17 (10) (1988), 3591-3606.[PDF]
  • A class of large sample tests for bivariate exponentiality versus BIFRA and BNBU-(to, to ) alternatives (with R.C. Tiwari and J.N. Zalkikar), Statistics, 20 (1989), 297-304. [PDF]
  • Testing an increasing failure rate average distribution with censored data (with R.C. Tiwari and J.N. Zalkikar), Statistics, 20 (1989), 279-286. [PDF]
  • Bayes estimation of the multiple correlation coefficient (with S. Chib and R.C. Tiwari), Comm. in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 18 (1989) 1401-1413.[PDF]
  • A test of goodness of fit based on extreme multinomial cell frequencies (with R.C. Tiwari and M. Wells) Comm. in Statistics -Theory and Methods, 18 (1989) 1527-1547.[PDF]
  • Is p a prime number? Some probabilistic tests for primality (with V.R.R. Uppuluri), Math.Scientist, 14 (1989), 55-61.
  • Rank correlation based on “near-matches” (with M.R. Kafai), Proc. of International Statistical Instt. Contributed Papers, 47th session, Paris (France) (1989), 501-502.
  • A rank test for stochastically ordered alternatives.  (with G. Aras and M. Kafai), Comm. in Statistics, (1989) 18, pp 2263-2277.[PDF]
  • Limit distribution of spacing statistics when the sample size is random (with G. Aras and X. Zhou) Statistics and Probability Letters, 8, (1989), 451-457. [PDF]
  • Bahadur efficiencies of spacings tests for goodness of fit (with X.Zhou), Ann. Inst. of Statist. Math., 41 (1989), 541-553.[PDF]
  • Nonparametric Bayes estimation of Multivariate regression with a Dirichlet Invariant prior (with S. Chib and R.C. Tiwari), Recent Developments in Statistics and Actuarial Science (eds. M.S. Haq and S.B. Provost), Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada (1989), 201-215.[PDF]
  • On Bayes smoothing in a time varying regression model (with S. Chib and R.C. Tiwari), in Bayesian and Likelihood methods in Statistics and Econometrics, Essays in honor of George Barnard (eds. S. Geisser et al) North Holland Publ. Co. (1990) 105-119.[PDF]
  • Asymptotic efficiencies of spacings tests for goodness of fit (with Xian Zhou and R.C. Tiwari), Metrika (1989) 36, 355-377. [PDF]
  • On an interval splitting problem (with T. Bruss and X. Zhou), Statistics and Probability Letters, (1990), 10, 321-324. [PDF]
  • Testing for exponentiality against IFRA alternatives using a U-statistic process (with R.C. Tiwari and J.N.Zalkikar), Revista Brasileira de Probabilidade e Estatistica (1990), 4, 147-159.[PDF]
  • Some goodness of fit tests in  higher dimensions based on interpoint distances (with X. Zhou), in Probability, Statistics and Design of Experiments (ed. R.R. Bahadur) Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, (1990) 391-404.[PDF]
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