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Contents Page Peter FILZMOSER, Yuriy KHARIN: Editorial . 1 Somnath DATTA: Robust Regression Analysis of Longitudinal Data under Cen- soring................................................................... 3 Alexander DÜRRE, Roland FRIED, Daniel VOGEL: The Spatial Sign Covari- ance Matrix and Its Application for Robust Correlation Estimation . 13 Alexey KHARIN, Ton That TU: Performance and Robustness Analysis of Se- quential Hypotheses Testing for Time Series with Trend . 23 Yuriy KHARIN, Michail MALTSEW: High-order Vector Markov Chain with Par- tial Connections in Data Analysis . 37 Vladimir MALUGIN, Alexander NOVOPOLTSEV: Statistical Estimation and Classification Algorithms for Regime-Switching VAR Model with Exogenous Variables. 47 Markus MATILAINEN, Jari MIETTINEN, Klaus NORDHAUSEN, Hannu OJA, Sara TASKINEN: On Independent Component Analysis with Stochastic Volatil- ity Models . 57 Yuliya MISHURA, Kostiantyn RALCHENKO, Sergiy SHKLYAR: Maximum Likelihood Drift Estimation for Gaussian Process with Stationary Increments . 67 Maria do Rosário OLIVEIRA, Margarida VILELA, Rui VALADAS, António PACHECO, Paulo SALVADOR: Extracting Information from Interval Data Us- ing Symbolic Principal Component Analysis. 79 Marina LERI, Yury PAVLOV: Random Graphs’ Robustness in Random Environ- ment.................................................................... 89 Georgy SHEVLYAKOV, Nikita VASILEVSKIY: A Modification of Linfoot’s Infor- mational Correlation Coefficient . 99 Eugenia STOIMENOVA: Comparison of Partially Ranked Lists . 107 OndˇrejVENCÁLEK: Depth-based Classification for Multivariate Data . 117 1 Editorial The Eleventh International Conference “Computer Data Analysis and Modeling: The- oretical and Applied Stochastics” (CDAM’2016) organized in Minsk by the Belarusian State University and Vienna University of Technology on September 6-10, 2016, was de- voted to the topical problems in computer data analysis and modeling. There were 83 presentations by more than 120 participants from 22 countries. The topics of the presentations corresponded to the following topical scientific prob- lems: robust and nonparametric data analysis; multivariate data analysis; statistical analy- sis of time series and stochastic processes; probabilistic and statistical analysis of discrete data; statistical signal and image processing; econometric and financial analysis and mod- eling; survey analysis and official statistics; computer simulation of stochastic systems; computer intensive methods, algorithms and statistical software; computer data analysis and statistical modeling in applications. This Special Issue contains 12 papers of the extended versions of the most significant presentations selected by the Organizing Committee after a refereeing process. List of referees K. Ducinskas, Klaipeda G. Dzemyda, Vilnius A. Egorov, Minsk P. Filzmoser, Vienna K. Fokianos, Nicosia Yu. Kharin, Minsk G. Medvedev, Minsk Yu. Mishura, Kyiv E. Orsingher, Rome G. Shevlyakov, St. Petersburg E. Zhuk, Minsk A. Zubkov, Moscow Both of us felt honored to be chosen as guest editors of this Special Issue of the Austri- an Journal of Statistics. We are grateful to all the people who contributed to this Special Issue: to the authors for submitting such interesting articles, to the reviewers for their valuable comments, and in particular to the editor-in-chief Matthias Templ for giving us this opportunity and for his help. We also would like to mention that the CDAM’2016 Conference was supported by the CDAMCSS Project within the OeAD’s programme IM- PULSE. Peter Filzmoser, Yuriy Kharin (Guest Editors) 2 Yuriy Kharin Research Institute for Applied Problems of Mathematics and Informatics Belarusian State University Independence av. 4 220030 Minsk, Belarus E-mail: [email protected] Peter Filzmoser Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics Vienna University of Technology Wiedner Hauptstr. 8–10 A-1040 Vienna, Austria E-mail: p.fi[email protected] Please note that all papers of this special issue