EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief Pranab K. Sen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Series A Editors Krishna B. Athreya, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA Alok Goswami, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Soumendra N. Lahiri, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, USA

Series B Editors Malay Ghosh, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Bimal K. Sinha, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA Ayanendranath Basu, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

Techincal Editors Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Sourabh Bhattacharya, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

Series A Co-Editors Barry Arnold, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA Z. D. Bai, National University of Singapore, Singapore Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michgan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Abhay G. Bhatt, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India Rabi Bhattacharya, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Amarjit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Mu-Fa Chen, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Shrikrishna G. Dani, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India Holger Dette, Ruhr-Universität of Bochum, Bochum, Germany Subhashis Ghoshal, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA Chii-Ruey Hwang, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Jana Jurečková, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Estate V. Khmaladze, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Hira L. Koul, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Hiroshi Kunita, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Thomas G. Kurtz, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Wei-Liem Loh, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA Dibyen Majumdar, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Kanchan Mukherjee, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK K. R. Parthasarathy, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India Philip Protter, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA S. Ramasubramanian, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India T. Subba Rao, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Kesar Singh, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA Winfried Stute, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Courant Institute, New York University, NY, USA Alastair Young, Imperial College, London, UK

Series B Co-Editors Uttam Bandyopadhyay, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India Sujit K. Basu, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Southern Illinois University, USA (2009-) Dulal K. Bhaumik, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Smarajit Bose, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, USA Ranajit Chakraborty, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Kalyan Das, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India Gauri Sankra Datta, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Robert M. Dorazio, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Chong He, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA Partha Lahiri, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Subrata Lahiri, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India Tapabrata Maiti, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA Marianthi Markatou, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Thomas Matthew, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA Sati Mazumdar, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA C. A. Murthy, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Peter Müller, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA Hannu Oja, Tampere School of Public Health, FIN-33014, University of Tampere, Finland Manisha Pal, Univerrsity of Calcutta, Kolkata, India Nabendu Pal, University of Louisiana at Laffayette, Lafaytte, LA, USA Shyamal D. Peddada, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA John Preisser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA M. B. Rao, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA Anindya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA Sanat K. Sarkar, Fox School of Business & Management, Philadelphia, PA, USA Paola Sebastiani, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Ashis SenGupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Mervyn Silvapulle, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA Keith J. Worsley, McGill University, Montréal , Québec, Canada Rongling Wu, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

EDITORIAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL

Technical Support Urmichhanda Bhattacharya, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Editorial Office Support Ranjit K. Mandal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Kajal De and Prasanta Sen, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India