CATEGORIES OF PUBLICATION I) Theory and Applications: This section publishes articles 1) that make novel and original contributions to the foundations, theoretical development, and methodology of statistics and probability, and 2) that adapt and extend existing theory in an important way to special fields of application. The statistical theory and methods include all techniques relevant to statistics and probability: not only more traditional mathematical methods but also computational and

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... ical methods. The articles should be motivated by a scientific or practical problem in the real world, and illustrated by application of the proposed method to the problem. Illustration of techniques with real data is especially welcome and strongly encouraged. This section also publishes review articles that may be a review of an area of applied statistics or a review of statistical methodology or theory. The review articles should report on completed research and adequately compare existing methods. II) Software and Algorithms: This section publishes articles that deal with the development, evolution and validation of statistical software and algorithms.