Preface to the Proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference LINSTAT’2008 in Celebration of Tadeusz Caliński’s 80th Birthday

Abstract

The conference LINSTAT’2008 was held at the Mathematical Research and Conference Center of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Bedlewo, Poland, on April 21–25. The conference was organized and supported by Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Committee of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management of the AdamMickiewicz University, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods of the Poznan University of Life Sciences, Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Econometrics of the University of Zielona Gora, Polish Biometric Society, and Polish Mathematical Society, with sponsoring by GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. The conference was endorsed by the Council of Statistics of the Committee of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Science as a 34th conference in the series “Mathematical Statistics”. The International Scientific Committee comprised Augustyn Markiewicz (Poland; chair), Joao T. Mexia (Portugal), Simo Puntanen (Finland), Gotz Trenkler (Germany), Dietrich von Rosen (Sweden), and Roman Zmyślony (Poland). The Local Organizing Committee was chaired by Katarzyna Filipiak, and included Tomasz Kossowski, Augustyn Markiewicz (vice-chair), Marcin Przystalski, Agnieszka Suchocka, and Waldemar Wolynski. The aim of this conference was to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications and offer them a possibility to discuss current developments in these subjects.