Call for Papers for JPS (from 2nd January)

[gauss@de.ufpe.br]

Journal of Probability and Statistics

Special Issue on New Developments and Advances in Distribution Theory:
Univariate and Multivariate Models with Applications

Call for Papers
The statistics literature is filled with hundreds of continuous
multivariate and uni-                                                     
                                             variate distributions. Most
of the commonly used distributions in reliability, life testing,
econometrics, meteorology, actuarial science and other subject areas are
related to other distributions either as special cases, extensions or
limiting distributions. New continuous probabilistic distributions can be
very versatile and a variety of uncertainties can be use fully modeled by
them. They are of both practical and theoretical interest to scientists in
all fields.

The properties of these distributions can include ordinary and incomplete
moments, mean deviations, stochastic orderings, order statistics, income
measures, entropies, characteristic functions, characterizations,
generalizations and related distributions, reliability, transformations,
graphical estimation, maximum likelihood estimation, Bayes estimation,
other estimation, discrimination, goodness of fit tests, regression
models, applications in several areas, multivariate generalizations and
computer software. Despite many recent advances in probabilistic models
and methods for the analysis of real data, numerous challenges still
remain.

We invite investigators to submit original research articles as well as
review articles that propose new probabilistic and statistical models
including the study of their mathematical properties. Potential topics
include, but are not limited to:

?	Compounding distributions, discriminating and fitting models
?	Exponentiated distributions
?	Extreme value theory
?	Generalized distributions
?	Order statistics
?	Reliability
?	Skew models
?	Statistical size
?	Distributions and survival models

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author
Guidelines, which are located at
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jps/guidelines/. Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to
the following timetable:
Manuscript Due	June 15, 2012
First Round of Reviews	September 7, 2012
Publication Date	November 2, 2012

Lead Guest Editor

Gauss M. Cordeiro, Univesidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;
gausscordeiro@gmail.com

Guest Editors

Artur Lemonte, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
arturlemonte@gmail.com

Edwin Ortega, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil;
edwin@esalq.usp.br

Jose Maria Sarabia, Department of Economics, University of Cantabria,
Spain; sarabiaj@unican.es