Recent Ph.D. Theses In The Netherlands

Statistica Neerlandica has decided to encourage the reporting on theses in probability, statistics, biometrics, econometrics and operations research, submitted to Dutch universities. The main purpose of this section is to inform the reader briefly of the nature, the practical and theoretical impostance, the methods used and the results presented in recent theses. It is understood that contributions to this section meet with the approval of the supervisor(s) of the thesis.