Researchers in statistics from a range of industrialized and non-industrialized countries report recent findings as the growing speed and power of computing continues to grease the road from theory to application. Among the topics are testing proportional hazards assumptions by applying them to heart transplant data, prediction in growth curve models in Markov covariance structure, confidence limits for the availability of a complex two-unit system with varying repair rate, ranked set sampling from a dichotomous population, and inference for saturated orthogonal designs for fitting first-order models. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR