JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS
EDITOR
Robert Aykroyd, University of Leeds, UK
ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR
Adriana Regina Brianezi-Aykroyd
FOUNDING EDITOR
G.K. Kanji, Kanji Quality Culture Ltd, Sheffield, UK
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Stuart Barber, University of Leeds, UK
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Massimo Attanasio, University of Palermo, Italy
Ayanendranath Basu, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Adrian Bowman, University of Glasgow, UK
Clive Bowman, University of Reading, UK
Trevor Cox, Unilever, UK
Neville Davies, RSS Centre for Statistical Education, Nottingham, UK
Petros Dellaportas, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Peter J Diggle, University of Lancaster, UK
Tim Dunne, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Wally Gilks, University of Leeds, UK
Peter Green, University of Bristol, UK and University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
David Hand, Imperial College London, UK
Masahito Kobayashi, Yokohama National University, Japan
Young Jo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Victor Leiva, University of Valparaiso, Chile
W. K. Li, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Francisco Louzada, University of São Paulo at São Carlos, Brazil
Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University, USA
Ernst Wit, University of Groningen, the Netherlands