Development of Modern Statistics and Related Topics: In Celebration of Prof Yaoting Zhang's 70th Birthday Book

	Preface
	An Interview with Professor Yaoting Zhang	1
	Significance Level in Interval Mapping	10
	An Asymptotic Pythagorean Identity	20
	A Monte Carlo Gap Test in Computing HPD Regions	38
	Estimating Restricted Normal Means Using the EM-type Algorithms and IBF Sampling	53
	An Example of Algorithm Mining: Covariance Adjustment to Accelerate EM and Gibbs	74
	Large Deviations and Deviation Inequality for Kernel Density Estimator in L[subscript 1](R[superscript d])-distance	89
	Local Sensitivity Analysis of Model Misspecification	98
	Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for the Difference of Two Quantiles of a Population	108
	Exponential Inequalities for Spatial Processes and Uniform Convergence Rates for Density Estimation	118
	A Skew Regression Model for Inference of Stock Volatility	129
	Explicit Transitional Dynamics in Growth Models	140
	A Fiscal Federalism Approach to Optimal Taxation and Intergovernmental Transfers in a Dynamic Model	156
	Sharing Catastrophe Risk under Model Uncertainty	179
	Ranked Set Sampling: A Methodology for Observational Economy	189
	Some Recent Advances on Response-Adaptive Randomized Designs	205
	A Childhood Epidemic Model with Birthrate-Dependent Transmission	220
	Linear Regression Analysis with Observations Subject to Interval Censoring	236
	When Can the Haseman-Elston Procedure for Quantitative Trait Loci be improved? Insights from Optimal Design Theory	246
	A Semiparametric Method for Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci	262
	Structure Mixture Regression Models	272