Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Executive Editors: A. DasGupta Purdue University, H. Dette Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, W.-L. Loh National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore, Associate Editors M. Ai Peking University, Beijing, China, Z. Bai Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, A Bandyopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India, M. Barbieri Università di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, J. Beran Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, S. Bhamidi University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, J.G. Booth Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, G. Cheng Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, G. Claeskens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, A. Cuevas Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, A. Dalalyan ENSAE, Malakoff, France, A. Dewanji Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, L. Duembgen Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland, J. Einmahl Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands, P. Fryzlewicz London School of Economics, London, UK, F. Gamboa Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse), Toulouse, Cedex 9, France, E. Giné University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, L. Horváth University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, C. Houdré Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, S. Hörmann Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium, S.M. Iacus Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, R. Ibragimov Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, I.M. Johnstone Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, R.L. Karandikar Chennai Mathematical Institute, Siruseri, India, K. Khare University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, R. Koenker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, M.V. Koutras University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece, J.-P. Kreiß Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, S.N. Lahiri Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, C. Lam London School of Economics, London, UK, K. Lee University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA, P. Ma University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, D. Majumder University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, USA, E. Mammen Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, N.M. Markovich Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, Y. Maruyama University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, H. Massam York University, North York, ON, Canada, E. Meckes Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, V.B. Melas St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, G. Michailidis University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, E. Moulines Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommuncations (ENST), Paris, France, B. Mukherjee University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, A. Munk University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, D. Paindaveine Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium, E. Paparoditis University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, D. Paul University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, M. Pensky University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, B.M. Pötscher University of Vienna, Wien, Austria, P. Rigollet Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, A. Rinaldo Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Y. Rinott Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, A. Rukhin National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, T. Sapatinas University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, P. Sarkar Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, J. Segers Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, B. Sen Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, T. Speed University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, D. Sun University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA, H. Tsukahara Seijo University, Tokyo, Japan, A. Tsybakov CREST-INSEE, Malakoff Cedex, France, S. van de Geer Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zuerich, Switzerland, A.W. van der Vaart Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, B. Vidakovic Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA, O. Vitek Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, S. G. Walker University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, W.-K. Wong UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA, H. Wynn London School of Economics, London, UK, H. Xing State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA, H. Xu University of California at Los Angeles (UC