The Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics is an official publication of the Brazilian Statistical Association and is supported by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Starting in 2012, the Journal will publish four issues a year, in February, May, August and December. The Journal publishes papers in applied probability, applied statistics, computational statistics, mathematical statistics, probability theory and stochastic processes.

ISSN: 0103-0752

Editorial Board

Editors

Francisco José A. Cysneiros (cysneiros@de.ufpe.br)
Editor in Chief
Glauco Valle (glauco.valle@im.ufrj.br)
Theory and Methods Editor
Mário de Castro (mcastro@icmc.usp.br)
Applications Editor

Associate Editors

Iddo Ben-Ari Vinícius D. Mayrink
Márcia  Branco Thomas Mikosch
David Brillinger Rafael de Andrade Moral
Vicente Cancho Ernesto Mordecki
Gauss Cordeiro Seng Huat Ong
Francisco Cribari-Neto Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández
Víctor Hugo Lachos Dávila Gilberto A. Paula
Aernout van Enter Aluísio S. Pinheiro
Silvia L. P. Ferrari Serguei Popov
Manuel Galea Josemar Rodrigues
Florencia G. Leonardi Paulo Canas Rodrigues
Nancy Lopes Garcia Pranab K. Sen
Peter Green Giovani Silva
Daniel Hernández-Hernández Damiao Nobrega da Silva
Luiz Koodi Hotta Michael Sørensen
Victor Leiva Soledad Torres
Shuangzhe Liu Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez
Rosangela Loschi Ronny O. Vallejos
Francisco Louzada Jun Zhang
Fabio Machado Fabio Zucca