Tze Leung Lai
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
USA
lait@stanford.edu
Haipeng Xing
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
USA
xing@stat.columbia.edu
Editorial Board
George Casella
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-8545
USA
Stephen Fienberg
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
USA
Ingram Okin
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
USA
ISBN: 978-0-387-77826-6 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-77827-3
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77827-3
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