I-IV -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ESTIMATION IN THE EXTENDED LINEAR MODEL -- DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION OF STATISTICAL SAMPLE SIZES IN SIMULATION BY USING THE HIERARCHICAL RESAMPLING METHOD -- KERNEL-TYPE ESTIMATION OF BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION FOR ASSOCIATED RANDOM VARIABLES -- ON LOCAL DEPENDENCE FUNCTION FOR MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS -- THE TUNING CONSTANT PROBLEM IN REGRESSION TYPE MODELS -- THE USEFULNESS OF UNIFORMITY IN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN -- APPROXIMATION OF DISTRIBUTIONS BY SPHERE -- ECONOMETRIC MODELING OF THE LITHUANIAN ECONOMY -- NON-NULL DISTRIBUTION OF LÄUTER'S F-STATISTIC: A SIMULATION STUDY -- ZERO-BOUNDARY VORONOI PARTITIONS -- ON EXPECTED VALUES OF FOURTH-DEGREE MATRIX PRODUCTS OF ? MULTINORMAL MATRIX VARIATE -- A MULTIVARIATE BUCKLEY-JAMES ESTIMATOR -- A NEW ALGORITHM OF THE LINEAR DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION USING INTEGER PROGRAMMING -- ROBUSTIFICATION OF "APPROXIMATING APPROACH" IN SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS MODELS -- DATA COMPRESSION AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE -- ESTIMATION THE POVERTY LINE AS A PROBLEM OF MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS -- DEPENDENCE STRUCTURE OF A MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISED BY THE CORRELATION MATRIX -- APPROXIMATION OF MULTIVARIATE PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS BY EMPIRICAL MARGINAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND DEPENDENCE MEASURES -- SAMPLING DESIGN AS A MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION -- CLASS OF SAMPLING DESIGNS WITH GIVEN MARGINALS -- A REMARK ON THE EXTENDED GROWTH CURVE MODEL