special issue ChJS

[mbranco@ime.usp.br]

Call for papers


The Chilean Journal of Statistics (ChJS) is preparing a special issue  
on the topic ?Probabilistic and Inferential Aspects of Skew-Symmetric  
Models? related to the IV International Workshop in honour of Adelchi  
Azzalini?s 60th Birthday, to be held in Santiago, Chile, at the  
Faculty of Mathematics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, from  
May 16 to May 19, 2011. For more details about this workshop, see

http://www.skewworkshop2011.mat.puc.cl/index.php?content=1


We encourage participants who plan to present their contributions to  
submit extended versions of the papers to ChJS. However, the call for  
papers is open to anyone as long as the topic of the manuscript is  
related to Skew-Symmetric Models. Submissions will be refereed  
according to standard procedures of the ChJS, however this special  
issue of ChJS is expected to contain a selection of the best current  
research papers on the topic of Skew-Symmetric Models. Information  
about the journal can be found at http://chjs.soche.cl. The deadline  
for submissions is October 1, 2011. All submissions must contain  
original unpublished work not being considered for publication  
elsewhere.



The authors must submit a PDF electronic version of the manuscript to  
the two guest editors:



Dr. Márcia Branco

Universidade de São Paulo,

São Paulo, Brazil

Email: mbranco@ime.usp.br



Dr. Marc G. Genton

Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas, USA

Email: genton@stat.tamu.edu



with copy to the Executive Editor:



Dr. Víctor Leiva

Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

Email: chjs.editor@uv.cl
Marcia D'elia Branco <mbranco@ime.usp.br>