Advanced Studies

On behalf of the four Scientific Statistical Societies – the SEIO, Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (Spanish Statistical Society and Operation Research); SFdS, Société Française de Statistique (French Statistical Society); SIS, Società Italiana di Statistica (Italian Statistical Society); and the SPE, Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística (Portuguese Statistical Society) – we would like to inform you that this is a new book series of Springer entitled “Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics,” Subseries “Advanced Studies”. This line of books offers constant up-to-date information on the most recent developments and methods in the fields of theoretical statistics, applied statistics, and demography. Books in this series are solicited in constant cooperation between the statistical societies and need to show a high-level authorship formed by a team preferably from different groups so as to integrate different research perspectives.