Contents of volume 49, 2000 Part 1 Regression modelling of weighted x by using generalized estimating equations R. Gonin, S. R. Lipsitz, G. M. Fitzmaurice and G. Molenberghs Models for papilloma multiplicity and regression: applications to transgenic mouse studies D. B. Dunson The multivariate Gaussian tail model: an application to oceanographic data P. Bortot, S. Coles and J. Tawn Modelling extreme wind speeds in regions prone to hurricanes D. Walshaw Designing and integrating composite networks for monitoring multivariate Gaussian pollution fields J. V. Zidek, W. Sun and N. D. Le Using orientation statistics to investigate variations in human kinematics D. Rancourt, L.-P. Rivest and J. Asselin Analysing drug abuse with British Crime Survey data: modelling and questionnaire design issues Z. MacDonald and S. Pudne Bayesian sample size determination for estimating binomial parameters from data subject to misclassification E. Rahme, L. Joseph and T. W. Gyorkos Bayesian analysis of multivariate mortality data with large families M.-H. Chen, D. K. Dey and D. Sinha Matched case-control data analyses with missing covariates M.C. Paik and R. L. Sacco Part 2 Attribution of tumour lethality and estimation of the time to onset of occult tumours in the absence of cause-of-death information H. Ahn, H. Moon and R. L. Kodell Conditional categorical response models with application to treatment of acute myocardial infarction 1. E. Gelfand, M. D. Ecker, C. Christiansen, T. J. McLaughlin and S. B. Soumerai Time series modelling of childhood diseases: a dynamical systems approach B. F. Finkenstddt and B. T. Grenfell Small area variation in hospital admission rates: Bayesian adjustment for primary care and hospital factors P. Congdon and N. Best Simulation and extremal analysis of hurricane events E. Casson and S. Coles Diagnostic checks for discrete data regression models using posterior predictive simulations 1. Gelman, Y. Goegebeur, F. Tuerlinckx and I. Van Mechelen Detecting homogeneous segments in DNA sequences by using hidden Markov models R. J. Boys, D. A. Henderson and D. J. Wilkinson Using a Box—Cox transformation in the analysis of longitudinal data with incomplete responses S. R. Lipsitz, J. Ibrahim and G. Molenberghs Part 3 Correspondence analysis of square asymmetric matrices M. Greenacre Simultaneous optimization of mechanical properties of steel by maximizing exponential desirability functions K.-J. Kim and D. K. J. Lin Non-linear state space modelling of fisheries biomass dynamics by using Metropolis—Hastings within-Gibbs sampling R. B. Millar and R. Meyer A family of models for uniform and serial dependence in repeated measurements studies J. K. Lindse} Bias in meta-analysis due to outcome variable selection within studies J. L. Hutton and P. R. Williamson Estimating the propagation rate of a viral infection of potato plants via mixtures of regressions T. R. Turner Proportional hazards models: a latent competing risk approach A. E. Gelfand, S. K. Ghosh, C. Christiansen, S. B. Soumerai and T. J. McLaughlin Meta-analysis using multilevel models with an application to the study of class size effects H. Goldstein, M. Yang, R. Omar, R. Turner and S. Thompson The relationship between double-exponential families and extended quasi-likelihood families, with application to modelling Geissler’s human sex ratio data Y. Lee and J. A. Nelder Corrigendum: Models for papilloma multiplicity and regression: applications to transgenic mouse studies D. B. Dunson Part 4 Bayesian models for relative archaeological chronology building C. E. Buck and S. K. Sahu Simple principal components S. K. Vines Factors influencing Soay sheep survival E. A. Catchpole, B. J. T. Morgan, T. N. Coulson, S. N. Freeman and S. D. Albon Binary probability maps using a hidden conditional autoregressive Gaussian process with an application to Finnish common toad data I. S. Weir and A. N. Pettitt Random regression models for human immunodeficiency virus ribonucleic acid data subject to left censoring and informative drop-outs R. H. Lyles, C. M. Lyles and D. J. Taylor A model for extreme wind gusts D. Walshaw and C. W. Anderson Spectral analysis of combustion noise and flame pattern recognition ; J. Yuan and Y. Zhang Analyses of infectious disease data from household outbreaks by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods P. D. O'Neill, D. J. Balding, N. G. Becker, M. Eerola and D. Mollison Analysing the interevent time distribution to identify seismicity phases: a Bayesian non- parametric approach to the multiple-changepoint problem A. Pievatolo and R. Rotondi Bayesian volumetric calibration: an application of reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo methods R. Henderson, T. Morton-Jones and P. McKnespiey Bayesian inference for rare errors in populations with unequal unit sizes D. J. Laws and A. O'Hagan Two ways of modelling overdispersion in non-normal data Y. Lee and J. A. Nelder Index of authors