STATISTICAL SCIENCE Volume 33, Number 3 August 2018 A Review of Self-Exciting Spatio-Temporal Point Processes and Their Applications .................................................................................Alex Reinhart 299 Comment on “A Review of Self-Exciting Spatiotemporal Point Process and Their Applications”byAlexReinhart.............................................Yosihiko Ogata 319 Comment on “A Review of Self-Exciting Spatio-Temporal Point Process and Their Applications”byAlexReinhart..........................................Jiancang Zhuang 323 Comment on “A Review of Self-Exciting Spatio-Temporal Point Processes and Their Applications”byAlexReinhart..................................Frederic Paik Schoenberg 325 Self-Exciting Point Processes: Infections and Implementations .............Sebastian Meyer 327 Rejoinder: A Review of Self-Exciting Spatio-Temporal Point Processes and Their Applications..................................................................Alex Reinhart 330 On the Relationship between the Theory of Cointegration and the Theory of Phase Synchronization..................Rainer Dahlhaus, István Z. Kiss and Jan C. Neddermeyer 334 Confidentiality and Differential Privacy in the Dissemination of Frequency Tables ......................Yosef Rinott, Christine M. O’Keefe, Natalie Shlomo and Chris Skinner 358 Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes for Continuous-Time Monte Carlo .....................Paul Fearnhead, Joris Bierkens, Murray Pollock and Gareth O. Roberts 386 Fractionally Differenced Gegenbauer Processes with Long Memory: A Review ................................................G. S. Dissanayake, M. S. Peiris and T. Proietti 413 A Unified Theory of Confidence Regions and Testing for High-Dimensional Estimating Equations...............................Matey Neykov, Yang Ning, Jun S. Liu and Han Liu 427 AConversationwithTomLouis................................................Lance A. Waller 444 AConversationwithJimPitman.................................................David Aldous 458 Statistical Science [ISSN 0883-4237 (print); ISSN 2168-8745 (online)], Volume 33, Number 3, August 2018. Published quarterly by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 3163 Somerset Drive, Cleveland, OH 44122, USA. Periodicals postage paid at Cleveland, Ohio and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Statistical Science, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Dues and Subscriptions Office, 9650 Rockville Pike—Suite L2310, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998, USA. Copyright © 2018 by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Printed in the United States of America Statistical Science Volume 33, Number 3 (299–467) August 2018 Volume 33 Number 3 August 2018 A Review of Self-Exciting Spatio-Temporal Point Processes and Their Applications Alex Reinhart On the Relationship between the Theory of Cointegration and the Theory of Phase Synchronization Rainer Dahlhaus, István Z. Kiss and Jan C. Neddermeyer Confidentiality and Differential Privacy in the Dissemination of Frequency Tables Yosef Rinott, Christine M. O’Keefe, Natalie Shlomo and Chris Skinner Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes for Continuous-Time Monte Carlo Paul Fearnhead, Joris Bierkens, Murray Pollock and Gareth O. Roberts Fractionally Differenced Gegenbauer Processes with Long Memory: A Review G. S. Dissanayake, M. S. Peiris and T. Proietti A Unified Theory of Confidence Regions and Testing for High Dimensional Estimating Equations Matey Neykov, Yang Ning, Jun S. Liu and Han Liu A Conversation with Tom Louis Lance A. 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