Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- Part I: Time Series and Related Topics -- LINEAR SERIAL RANK TESTS FOR RANDOMNESS AGAINST ARMA ALTERNATIVES / HALLIN, MARC / INGENBLEEK, JEAN-FRANCOIS / PURI, MADAN L. -- LINEAR AND QUADRATIC SERIAL RANK TESTS FOR RANDOMNESS AGAINST SERIAL DEPENDENCE / HALLIN, MARC / INGENBLEEK, JEAN-FRANÇOIS / PURI, MADAN L. -- LOCALLY ASYMPTOTICALLY OPTIMAL TESTS FOR RANDOMNESS / HALLIN, MARC / PURI, MADAN L. -- OPTIMAL RANK-BASED PROCEDURES FOR TIME SERIES ANALYSIS: TESTING AN ARMA MODEL AGAINST OTHER ARMA MODELS / HALLIN, MARC / PURI, MADAN L. -- ON LOCALLY ASYMPTOTICALLY MAXIMIN TESTS FOR ARMA PROCESSES / HALLIN, MARC / PURI, MADAN L. -- ASYMPTOTICALLY MOST POWERFUL RANK TESTS FOR MULTIVARIATE RANDOMNESS AGAINST SERIAL DEPENDENCE / HALLIN, MARC / INGENBLEEK, JEAN-FRANCOIS / PURI, MADAN L. -- WEAK CONVERGENCE OF THE U-STATISTIC AND WEAK INVARIANCE OF THE ONE-SAMPLE RANK ORDER STATISTIC FOR MARKOV PROCESSES AND ARMA MODELS / HAREL, MICHEL / PURI, MADAN L. -- WEAK CONVERGENCE OF SERIAL RANK STATISTICS UNDER DEPENDENCE WITH APPLICATIONS IN TIME SERIES AND MARKOV PROCESSES / HAREL, MICHEL / PURI, MADAN L. -- ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY OF L-STATISTICS BASED ON m(n)-DECOMPOSABLE TIME SERIES / CHANDA, K. C. / PURI, M. L. / RUYMGAART, F. H. -- TIME SERIES ANALYSIS VIA RANK ORDER THEORY: SIGNED-RANK TESTS FOR ARMA MODELS / HALLIN, MARC / PURI, MADAN L. -- RANK TESTS FOR TIME SERIES ANALYSIS. A SURVEY / HALLIN, MARC / PURI, MADAN L. -- NONPARAMETRIC PREDICTION FOR RANDOM FIELDS / PURI, MADAN L. / RUYMGAART, FRITS H. -- ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF L-STATISTICS FOR A LARGE CLASS OF TIME SERIES / PURI, MADAN L. / RUYMGAART, FRITS H. -- ALIGNED RANK TESTS FOR LINEAR MODELS WITH AUTOCORRELATED ERROR TERMS / HALLIN, MARC / PURI, MADAN L. -- CHANGE CURVES IN THE PRESENCE OF DEPENDENT NOISE / PURI, MADAN L. / RUYMGAART, FRITS H. -- A MULTIVARIATE WALD-WOLFOWITZ RANK TEST AGAINST SERIAL DEPENDENCE / HALLIN, MARC / PURI, MADAN L. -- NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH FOR NON-GAUSSIAN VECTOR STATIONARY PROCESSES / TANIGUCHI, MASANOBU / PURI, MADAN L. / KONDO, MASAO -- THE LIMITING DENSITY OF UNIT ROOT TEST STATISTICS: A UNIFYING TECHNIQUE / GÖNEN, MITHAT / PURI, MADAN L. / RUYMGAART, FRITS H. / ZUIJLEN, MARTIEN C. A. VAN -- Part II: Fuzzy Set Theory and Related Topics -- INTEGRATION ON FUZZY SETS / PURI, MADAN L. / RALESCU, DAN A. -- A POSSIBILITY MEASURE IS NOT A FUZZY MEASURE / PURI, MADAN L. / RALESCU, DAN -- STRONG LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS FOR BANACH SPACE VALUED RANDOM SETS / PURI, MADAN L. / RALESCU, DAN A. -- STRONG LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS WITH RESPECT TO A SET-VALUED PROBABILITY MEASURE / PURI, MADAN L. / RALESCU, DAN A. -- DIFFERENTIALS OF FUZZY FUNCTIONS / PURI, MADAN L. / RALESCU, DAN A. -- THE CONCEPT OF NORMALITY FOR FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLES / PURI, MADAN L. / RALESCU, DAN A. -- LIMIT THEOREMS FOR RANDOM COMPACT SETS IN BANACH SPACE / PURI, MADAN L. / RALESCU, DAN A. -- FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLES / PURI, MADAN L. / RALESCU, DAN A. -- GAUSSIAN RANDOM SETS IN BANACH SPACE / PURI, M. L. / RALESCU, D. A. / RALESCU, S. S. -- LIMIT THEOREMS FOR FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLES / KLEMENT, E. P. / PURI, M. L. / RALESCU, D. A. -- CONVERGENCE THEOREM FOR FUZZY MARTINGALES / PURI, MADAN L. / RALESCU, DAN A. -- LIMIT THEOREMS FOR FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLES / PROSKE, F. Ν. / PURI, Μ. L. -- CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM FOR BANACH SPACE VALUED FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLES / PROSKE, FRANK Ν. / PURI, MADAN L. -- STRONG LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS FOR BANACH SPACE VALUED FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLES / PROSKE, FRANK N. / PURI, MADAN L. -- Part III: Miscellaneous Topics -- LOCAL MAXIMA OF THE SAMPLE FUNCTIONS OF THE Ν -PARAMETER BESSEL PROCESS / PURI, MADAN L. / TRAN, LANH TAT -- REALIZATION OF lp BY SPACES OF RANDOM VARIABLES / PURI, MADAN LAL / SHEU, SHEY SHIUNG -- SHORTED OPERATORS AND GENERALIZED INVERSES OF MATRICES / MITRA, SUJIT KUMAR / PURI, MADAN L. -- COMPLEX PLANAR SPLINES / OPFER, GERHARD / PURI, MADAN L. -- SHORTED MATRICES — AN EXTENDED CONCEPT AND SOME APPLICATIONS / MITRA, SUJIT KUMAR / PURI, MADAN L. -- THE FUNDAMENTAL BORDERED MATRIX OF LINEAR ESTIMATION AND THE DUFFIN-MORLEY GENERAL LINEAR ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS / MITRA, SUJIT KUMAR / PURI, MADAN L. -- COMPLEX CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS AND GENERALIZATIONS WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE OPTIMAL CHOICE OF INTERPOLATING KNOTS IN COMPLEX PLANAR SPLINES / OPFER, GERHARD / PURI, MADAN L. -- STRONG SOLUTIONS OF STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FOR MULTIPARAMETER PROCESSES / DOZZI, MARKUS / PURI, MADAN L. -- A NEW SEMIGROUP TECHNIQUE IN POISSON APPROXIMATION / DEHEUVELS, P. / PFEIFER, D. / PURI, MADAN L. -- INFORMATION / RESNIKOFF, Η. L. / PURI, M. L. -- A LOCAL ALGORITHM FOR CONSTRUCTING NON-NEGATIVE CUBIC SPLINES / FISCHER, BERND / OPFER, GERHARD / PURI, MADAN L. -- THE TIME SPENT BY THE WIENER PROCESS IN A NARROW TUBE BEFORE LEAVING A WIDE TUBE / FÖLDES, ANTONIA / PURI, MADAN L. -- MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION FOR STATIONARY POINT PROCESSES / PURI, MADAN L. / TUAN, PHAM D. -- ON TIME-REVERSIBILITY AND THE UNIQUENESS OF MOVING AVERAGE REPRESENTATIONS FOR NON-GAUSSIAN STATIONARY TIME SERIES / HALLIN, MARC / LEFEVRE, CLAUDE / PURI, MADAN L. -- LOCALLY ASYMPTOTICALLY RANK-BASED PROCEDURES FOR TESTING AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE DEPENDENCE / HALLIN, MARC / PURI, MADAN L. -- ON SOME LIMIT LAWS FOR PERTURBED EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS / DENKER, MANFRED / PURI, MADAN L. -- Part IV: Appendices A, Β and Cweiterlesen