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
Enrico Colosimo (enricoc@est.ufmg.br)
Editor in Chief
Mário de Castro (mcastro@icmc.usp.br)
Theory and Methods Editor
Luiz Hotta ( hotta@ime.unicamp.br)
Applications Editor

Associate Editors
Renato Assunção Francisco Louzada
Iddo Ben-Ari Fabio Machado
Heleno Bolfarine Vinícius D. Mayrink
Márcia  Branco Thomas Mikosch
David Brillinger Ernesto Mordecki
Vicente Cancho Gilberto A. Paula
Gauss Cordeiro Serguei Popov
Francisco Cribari-Neto Fernando Quintana
Víctor Hugo Lachos Dávila Josemar Rodrigues
Aernout van Enter Pranab K. Sen
Silvia L. P. Ferrari Giovani Silva
Marco Ferreira Pedro Luís Nascimento Silva
Manuel Galea Michael Sørensen
Dani Gamerman Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez
Nancy Lopes Garcia Glauco Valle
Peter Green Jun Yan
Daniel Hernández-Hernández Jun Zhang
Victor Leiva Fabio Zucca
Rosangela Loschi