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1. A note on the Dirichlet process (with D. Basu), in Statistics and Probability: Essays in Honor of C. R. Rao (G. Kallianpur, P. R. Krishnaiah, J. K. Ghosh, Editors), North-Holland Publishing Co. (1982), 89-103.

2. Convergence of Dirichlet measures and the interpretation of their parameter (with J. Sethuraman), in Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics III, vol. 2 (Shanti S. Gupta and James O. Berger, Editors), Academic Press (1982), 305-315.

3. Bayesian nonparametric estimation of failure rates with censored data (with J.S. Rao), Calcutta Statist. Assoc. Bull., 32 (1983), 79-90.

4. One- and two-sample match statistics (with J.S. Rao), Statistics and Probability Letters, (1983), 129-135.

5. Estimation of survival function and failure rates with censored data (with S.R. Jammalamadaka), Statistics, 16 (1985), 535-540.

6. On the Bayes estimation of a functional of two distributions (with S.R. Jammalamadaka), Calcutta Statist. Assoc. Bull., 34 (1985), 15-22.

7. Asymptotic comparison of three tests for goodness of fit (with S.R. Jammalamadaka), Jour. of Statistical Planning and Inference, 12 (1985), 295-304.

8. Empirical Bayes estimation of parameters of degree two (with J.N. Zalkikar), Calcutta Statist. Assoc. Bull., 34 (1985), 179-188.

9. Empirical Bayes estimation of functionals of unknown probability measures (with J.N. Zalkikar), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., A14 (2) (1985), 2963-2995.

10. Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation of the probability that Z>X+Y (with J.N. Zalkikar and S.R. Jammalamadaka), Commun. Statis.-Theor. Meth., A15 (10) (1986), 3079-3101.

11. Efficiencies of some disjoint spacing tests relative to a chi-square test (with S.R. Jammalamadaka), in Perspectives and New Directions in Theoretical and Applied Statistics (Madan Puri, J.P. Valaplana, and Wolgang Wertz), John Wiley (1987), 311-317.

12. A new definition of the predictive likelihood (with S. Chib and S.R. Jammalamadaka), Statistics and Probability Letters, 5 (1987), 113-118.

13. Another look at some results on the recursive estimation in the general linear models (with Chib Siddhartha and S.R. Jammalamadaka), American Statistician, 41 (1987), 56-58.

14. Bayes prediction in the linear model with spherically symmetric errors (with J.R. Jammalamadaka and S. Chib), Econometrics Letters, 24 (1987), 39-44.

15. Convergence of Dirichlet invariant measures and the limits of Bayes estimates. Commun. Statist., A17 (2) (1988), 375-393.

16. Bayes prediction in regressions with elliptical errors (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and S. Chib), Journal of Econometrics, 38 (1988), 349-360.

17. Testing whether F is "more IFRA" than is G (with J.N. Zalkikar), Microelectron Reliab., 28 (1988), 703-712.

18. Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation of survival function under progressive censoring (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and J.N. Zalkikar), Commun. Statist., A17 (10) (1988), 703-712.

19. Bayes prediction density and regression estimation: A semiparameter approach (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and S. Chib), Empirical Economics, 13 (1988), 3591-3606.

20. Bayes estimation of the reliability of a system under a random environment governed by a Dirichlet prior (with S. Kumar), Microelectron Reliab., 29 (1989), 255-265.

21. Testing whether F is "more NBU" than is G with randomly censored data (with Martin Wells), Microelectron Reliab., 28 (1988), 703-712.

22. Bayes estimation based on nomination sampling, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, R-29 (1988), 558-561.

23 .Nonparametric Bayes estimation of the distribution function and the mean (with Malay Ghosh and P. Lahiri), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 18 (1) (1989), 121-146.

24. Nonparametric Bayes estimation of multivariate regression with a Dirichlet invariant prior (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and S. Chib), in Recent Developments in Statistics Actuarial Science (M.S. Hog and S.B. Provost, Eds.) (1989), 201-215.

25. The power of certain NBU tests (with Jack Green), Microelectron Reliab., 29 (1989), 571-580.

26. On Bayes smoothing in a time varying regression model (with S. Chib and S.R. Jammalamadaka), in Essays in Honor of George A. Bernard (S. Geisser, J. Hodges, S.J. Press,and A. Zellner, Eds.), North Holland (1989), 105-120.

27. Testing an increasing failure rate average distribution with censored data (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and J.N. Zalkikar), Statistics, 20 (1989), 279-286.

28. A class of tests for bivariate exponentiality versus BIFRA and BNBU - (t0, t0) altervatives (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and J.N. Zalkikar), Statistics, 20 (1989), 297-304.

29. Bayes reliability estimation under a random environment governed by a Dirichlet prior (with S. Kumar), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, R-37 (1989), 218-223.

30. On robust empirical Bayes analysis of means and variance from stratified samples (with P. Lahiri), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 18 (3) (1989), 913-926.

31. Nonparametric Bayes estimation of the probability of discovering a new species (with Ram C. Tripathi), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 18 (3) (1989), 877-896.

32. A test of goodness-of-fit based on extreme multinomial cell frequencies (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and Martin T. Wells), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 18 (4) (1989), 1527-1548.

33.Bayesian Bootstrap lower confidence interval estimation of the reliability and failure rate (with Alex S. Papadopoulos), J. Statist. Comp. & Simul., 32 (1989), 185-192.

34. Bayes estimation of the multiple correlation coefficient (with S. Chib and S. R. Jammalamadaka), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 18 (4) (1989), 1401-1414.

35. Asymptotic efficiencies of spacing tests of goodness-of-fit (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and X. Zhou), Metrika, 36 (1989), 355-377.

36. Bayesian quantile plots and statistical inference for nonlinear models in the two sample case with incomplete data (with Martin T. Wells), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 18 (8) (1989), 2955-2964.

37. Bayesian approach to life testing and reliability estimation under competing exponential failure distribution (with Alex S. Papadopoulos), Microelectron. Reliab., 29 (1989), 1039-1050.

38. Empirical Bayes estimation of the mean of a "nonhomogeneous" population (with P. Lahiri), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 18 (7) (1989), 2553-2568.

39. Quantile estimation based on nomination sampling (with Martin T. Wells). IEEE Transactions on Reliability, R-38 (1989), 612-614.

40. Goodness-of-fit tests for components of a system with random redundancy levels (with Martin T. Wells), OPSEARCH, 27 (1990), 125-129.

41. Comments on Arizono and Ohta (with Martin T. Wells). American Statistician, 44 (1990), 56.

42. Empirical Bayes rank order estimation with the Dirichlet prior (with P. Lahiri), Statist. & Decisions, 8 (1990), 231-245.

43. Empirical Bayes estimation of the scale parameter in a Pareto distribution (with Jyoti Zalkikar), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 10 (1990), 261-270.

44. Testing for exponentiality against IFRA alternatives using a U-statistic process (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and Jyoti N. Zalkikar), Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, 4 (1990),

147-159.

45. Nonparametric Bayes estimation of the survival function from a record of failures and follow-ups (with Jyoti N. Zalkikar), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 19 (1990), 4331-4354.

46. Robust Bayes analysis in normal linear regression with an improper mixture prior (with Siddhartha Chib), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 2 (1991), 807-829.

47. Incorporating historical controls in testing for trend in multinomial proportions (with Pranab K. Sen), Jour. of Stat. Plan & Inference, 27 (1991), 143-146.

48. New perspectives on the Kalman filter (with S. Chib), American Statistician, 45 (1991), 113-114.

49. On the asymptotic theory for quantile estimation under various sampling schemes (with Martin T. Wells), Calcutta Statist. Assoc. Bull., 39 (1990), 162-171.

50. A class of tests for testing an increasing failure rate average distribution with randomly right censored data (with Martin T. Wells), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, R-40 (1991), 152-156.

51. Estimating a distribution function based on minima nomination sampling (with Martin T. Wells), in Topics on Statistical Dependence, Vol. 16 by IMS Lecture Notes & Monograph Series (1990), 471-479.

52. Bayesian Inference of Survival curve from record-breaking observations: Estimation and Asymptotic results (with Jyoti Zalkikar), Naval Res. Logistics, 38 (1991), 599-609.

53. Nonparametric Bayes estimation of the survival function and failure rate from record-breaking data (with C. Kimmel), Microelectron. Reliab., 31 (1991), 149-157.

54. A new measure of IFRA-ness and its application to two sample tests (with Jyoti N. Zalkikar), Statistics, 22 (1991), 419-430.

55. Bootstrap procedures for time series analysis of BOD data (with Alex S. Papadopoulos and M. Muha) Ecol. Modelling (Int. J. Ecol. Mod. and Eng. and Syst. Eco.), 55 (1991), 57-65.

56. Nonparametric Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation of variances from stratified samples (with P. Lahiri), Sankhya_: The Indian Journal of Statistics, 53 (1991), Series B, 105-118.

57. A rank test based on the number of "near-matches" for ordered alternatives in randomized blocks (with S.R. Jammalamadaka, P.K. Sen and M. Ebneshahrashoob), Sankhya_: The Indian Journal of Statistics, 53 (1991), Series A, 183-193.

58. Comparison of Bayesian nonparametric estimates of the reliability with rival estimates (with Alex S. Papadopoulos), Microelectron. & Reliab., 32 (1992), 223-240.

59. Bayesian nonparametric inference (with T.S. Ferguson and E.G. Phadia), in Current issues in Statistical inference: Essays in Honor of D. Basu (Eds. M. Ghosh and P.K. Pathak). IMS Lecture Notes & Monograph Series., 17 (1992), 127-150.

60. Hierarchical Bayesian Reliability Analysis using Erlang families of priors and hyperpriors (with S.K. Chattacharya), Microelectron. & Reliab., 32 (1992), 241-247.

61. Hierarchical Bayesian approach to reliability estimation under competing risk (with R. Badrinathi), Microelectron & Reliab., 32 (1992), 249 - 258.

62. Some weighted distributions of order k (with R.C. Tripathi and R.C. Gupta), Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth., 2 (1992), 411-422.

63. Letters to the editor "On robust empirical Bayes analysis of means and variances from satisfied samples" (Chen, XuDong), Comm. Statist. Theory Methods, 18 (1989), 913-926. With a reply by Tiwari and Lahiri, Comm. Statist. Theory Methods, 21 (1992), 3627-3630.

64. Pretest estimation for some discrete distributions (with S. Kumar, R.K. Tyagi and S.K. Bhattacharya), Commun. Statist. Simul. Comput., 2 (1992), 405-421.

65. Hierarchical Bayes approach to reliability analysis for the geometric life model (with Jie Zhang and S.K. Bhattacharya), Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, 5 (1991), 149-168.

66. On the power-divergence statistic in models requiring parameter estimation (with Martin Wells), Statistics & Prob. Letters, 13 (1992), 57-60.

67. Large sample theory of statistics for tests of fit for the composite hypothesis (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and Martin T. Wells), J. R. Statist. Soc. B 54 (1993), 189-203.

68. Tests of fit using spacings statistics with estimated parameters (with S.R. Jammalamadaka and Martin T. Wells). Statistics and Probability Letters, 13 (1992), 365-372.

69. Stochastic inflation and demand for nominal assets (with Benjamin Russo), Atlantic Economic Journal, 20 (1992), 40-47.

70. Parametric empirical Bayes approach to reliability analysis for the geometric life model (with R.T. Tyagi, S. Kumar, and B.K. Bhattacharya), Microelectron. Reliab., 9 (1992), 1271-1282 .

71. Is the ratio of the maximum to the minimum of two independent sample variances a viable alternative to the F-ratio test? Statistica, 3 (1991), 377-382.

72. Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of survival function under random left truncation (with Jyoti N. Zalkikar), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 35 (1993), 31-45.

73. A class of efficient tests for increasing failure rate average distribution under random censoring (with Jyoti N. Zalkikar), IEEE Trans. on Reliab., R-41 (1992), 602-607.

74. A Bayesian nonparametric approach to analysis of treatment for drug dependence data. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Monograph #128 (1992), 70-81.

75. Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of a distribution function under randomly censored data (with Jyoti Zalkikar), Far East Journal of Math. Sciences, 1 (1993), 93-102.

76. An efficient test for increasing failure rate average distribution under random censoring (with Jyoti N. Zalkikar), Advances In Reliability (Ed. A.P. Basu), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993, 423-433.

77. Testing for a positive dose response relation in the presence of two types of tumors (with Jyoti N. Zalkikar), Les Publications de l'I.S.U.P, XXXVII (1993), fasc. 3-4, 61-84.

78. Bayesian analysis for a late failure model (with S.K. Bhattacharya and N.K. Singh), METRON, Vol. L, 1192, 147-160.

79. A class of tests for testing exponentiality against NBAFR alternatives with randomly right censored data (with Jyoti N. Zalkikar). IEEE Trans. on Reliab, R-43 (1994), 634-639.

80. A nonparametric Bayesian approach to analysis of drug dependence data. Special Issue on Statistical Issues in Drug Testing and Drug Education, Commun. in Statist., Theory and Methods, 23, No. 2 (1994) 625-642.

81. Outlier detection in state-space model (with S. Chib), in Statistics & Probability Letters, 20 (1994), 143-148.

82. Inference for shift functions in the two-sample problem with right censored data: with applications (with Henry H.S. Lu and Martin T. Wells), Jour. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 89 (1994), 1017-1026.

83. The Kalman filter model and Bayesian outlier detection for time series analysis of BOD data (with Timothy P. Dienes), Ecol Modelling (Int. J. Ecol. Mod. and Syst. Eco.), 73 (1994), 159-165.

84. Bayesian approach for BOD and DO when the discharged pollutants are random (with Alex S. Papadopoulos), Ecol. Modelling (Int. J. Ecol. Mod. and Eng. and Syst. Eco.), 71 (1994), 245-257.

85. On the Bayesian Bootstrap with censored data (with Martin T. Wells), Ann. Inst. Statist. Math., 46 (1994), 486-495.

86. Hierarchical Bayesian reliability analysis for the Pareto failure model (with N.K. Singh and S.K. Bhattacharya), Brazilian Journal of Probability in Statistics, 2 (1995), 131-140.

87. Nonparametric constrained Bayes prediction of mean of finite population (with Jyoti Zalkikar), Sankhya, The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B, 57 (1995), 338-352.

88. Comparing cause-specific hazard rates of a competing risks model with censored data (with Y. Sun), in "Analysis of Censored Data", IMS Lecture Notes and Monograph Series, 27 (1995), 255-270.

89. Quantile Comparison function in two-sample problems: With applications to comparisons of diagnostic markers (with G. Li and M.T. Wells), Jour. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 91 (1996), 689-698.

90. Hierarchical Bayes estimation for a model arising in reliability and competing risks (with Alex S. Papadopoulos and Jyoti N. Zalkikar), IEEE Trans. on Reliab., R-45 (1996), 477-484.

91. Bayes estimation for the Pareto-failure model using Gibbs Sampler (with Yizhou Yang and Jyoti N. Zalkikar), IEEE Trans. on Reliab., R-45 (1996), 471-476.

92. Semiparametric likelihood ratio based inferences for truncated data (with Gang Li and J. Qin), to appear in Jour. Amer. Statis. Assoc., 92 (1997), 236-245.

93. Bayesian dynamic models for quality audits based on count data (with Telba Irony), Int. Jour. Reliab., Quality, and Safety Engg., 3 (1996), 59-73.

94. Time series analysis of BOD data using the Gibbs sampler (with Yizhou Yang and Jyoti Zalkikar), to appear in Environmetrics, 7 (1997), 567-578.

95. Hierarchical Bayesian survival analysis based on the generalized exponential model (with S.K. Bhattacharya and N.K. Singh), to appear in METRON.

96. Robust statistical tests for a trend in Binomial proportions (with Jyoti N. Zalkikar), to appear in Environmetrics.

97. An efficient recursive algorithm for computing the distribution function and noncentrality parameter of the noncentral F-distribution (with J. Yang), to appear in J. Roy Statistical Society, Series C.

98. Convergence of Dirichlet measures arising in context of Bayesian analysis of competing risks models (with Victor H. Salinas-Torres and Carlos A. B. Pereira), J. Mult. Analysis, 62 (1997), 24-35.

99. Comparing cumulative incidence functions of a competing risks model (with Y. Sun), IEEE Trans on Reliab., R-46 (1997), 247-253

100. Bayes estimation of a distribution function using ranked set samplers (with Paul Kvam), to appear in Environmental and Ecological Statistics.

101. Distribution-free test for two crossing cumulative incidence functions (with Jyoti N. Zalkikar), to appear in Frontiers of Reliability (edited by A. P. Basie), World Scientific Publishing Company.

102. Nonparametric estimation of the survival function based on censored data with additional observations from the residual life distribution (with Paul Kvam and Harshinder Singh), to appear in Statistica Sinica.

103. Bayes estimation of Dirichlet process parameter (Jose G. Liete, Victor H. Salinas-Torres and Jyoti N. Zalkikar), to appear in Sankhya, The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B.

104. Goodness of fit tests for cause-specific hazard rates in the competing risks model (with Jyoti N. Zlkikar), submitted.

105. A nonparametric Bayesian analysis of competing risks models (with Victor H. Salinas-Torres and Carlos A.B. Pereira), submitted.

106. Semiparametric inference for shift functions: with applications to receiving operating characteristic curves (with Gang Li and Martin Wells), submitted.

107. On the comparison between two correlated proportions in 2x2 tables (with Telba Z. Irony and Carlos A. de B. Pereira), submitted.