Proceedings of the Second Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics

Whither PQL? . - Correlation and marginal longitudinal kernel nonparametric regression. - Analysis of multivariate monotone missing data by a pseudolikelihood method. - Quantile regression for correlated observations. - Small sample inference for clustered data. - Some appications of indirect inference to longitudinal and repeated events data. - On characterizing joint survivor functions by minima. - Nonparametric estimation of the bivariate survivor function. - A semiparametric regression model for panel count data: When do pseudo-likelihood estimators become badly inefficient? . - Some biases that may affect kin-cohort studies for estimating the risks from indentified disease genes. - Optimal structural nested models for optimal sequential decisions. - Addresses for Contact Authors. - List of Referees.