Author: Yuichi Mori

James E. Gentle is a Professor of Computational Statistics at George Mason University.  His research interests include Monte Carlo methods and computational finance.  He is an elected member of the ISI and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Wolfgang Karl Härdle is a Professor of Statistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Director of CASE – the Centre for Applied Statistics and Economics. He teaches quantitative finance and semi-parametric statistical methods. His research focuses on dynamic factor models, multivariate statistics in finance and computational statistics. He is an elected member of the ISI and an advisor to the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University and to National Central University, Taiwan. Yuichi Mori is a Professor of Statistics and Informatics at Okayama University of Science. His research interests include efficient computing in multivariate methods, dimension reduction and variable selection, and statistics education. He is an elected member of the ISI and served as a council member of the IASC from 2003 to 2007.