Organizer: Randy Tucker, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
Chair: Hongying Dai, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
Date/Time: 2:30-4:30 a.m., Sunday, December 4, 2005

 Rakesh Srivastava (Vilpa A. Tanna,), Department of Statistics, University of Baroda, Vadodara, India “Double Stage Shrinkage Testimator of the Scale Parameter of an Exponential Life Model Under General Entropy Loss Function.”

A.N. Rai (Rakesh Srivastava and Vilpa Tanna),  NSTMIS Division, Government of India, India
“Shrinkage Testimator of Shape Parameter of Weibull Distribution Under Asymmetric Loss  Function”

P. Singh (D.C. Singh and Sanjeev Kumar Sinha), Dept. of Stat., Harish Chandra P.G. College, Varanasi
“Estimation of Shape Parameter of Pareto Distribution Using Prior Information”

Rajesh Singh (and A. A. Vidhale), Department of Statistics, Amravati University, Amravati-444 602, India “Bayes Estimators of Parameters of Poisson Type Exponential Class Software Model Considering                Generalized Poisson and Gamma Priors”

Sanjay Kumar Singh (P.K.Singh ,Umesh Singh)  Department of Statistics , Udai Pratap Autonomous College, Yaranasi
“Bayes Estimator of Inverse Gaussian Parameters Under General Entropy Loss Function Using    Lindley’s Approximation”

Hongying Dai (and Richard Charnigo), Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
“Estimation and Testing Procedures in General Contamination Models”