Contemporary Developments in Statistical Theory / Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics Bd.68 (PDF)

Soumendra Lahiri is a Professor of Statistics at the North Carolina State University. His research interests include Nonparametric Statistics, Time Series, Spatial Statistics, and Statistical inference for high dimensional data. He served as an Editor of Sankhya, Series A (2007-2009) and currently, he is on the editorial boards of the Annals of Statistics and the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. He is a fellow of the ASA and the IMS, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

Anton Schick is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Binghamton University. His research interests include semiparametric efficiency, U-statistics, empirical likelihood, residual-based inference, incomplete data, curve estimation, and inference for stochastic processes. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Statistics and Probability Letters, Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, and the Journal of the Indian Statistical Association.

Ashis SenGupta is Professor (HAG), at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interests are in Multivariate Analysis and Inference, Probability distributions on manifolds, Directional Statistics, Reliability and Environmental Statistics. He has been a frequent vistor to several universities in USA as a visiting faculty including Stanford University; University of Wisconsin - Madison; University of California - Santa Barabara and Riverside; and Michigan State University-East Lansing. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Environmental & Ecological Statistics, Springer, USA, and an Editor of Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae, Japan. He has been President of International Indian Statistical Association (India Chapter) for several successive terms. He is a Member of the Project Advisory Committee - Math. Sciences, DST, Government of India; a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India and a Fellow of American Statistical Association, USA

T. N. Sriram is