Advances in Probability and Statistics: an Issue in Memory of Theophilos Cacoullos

Dr. Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is a Fellow the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Royal Society of Canada. He has authored many notable books and monographs and has diverse areas of research interest including Distribution Theory, Ordered Data Analysis, Reliability Theory, Survival Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics, Stochastic Orderings and Applied Probability. He has received an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Athens, Greece.

Ch. A. Charalambides, is professor emeritus of mathematical statistics at the University of Athens, Greece. He has been visiting assistant professor at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, visiting associate professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA and visiting professor at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. He is the author of the books Enumerative Combinatorics, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2002, Combinatorial Methods in Discrete Distributions}, John Wiley & Sons, 2005, and Discrete q-Distributions, and co-editor of the volume Probability and Statistical Models with Applications, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2001.

Tasos Christofides is Professor of Statistics at the University of Cyprus. His areas of research include probability inequalities, dependence and indirect questioning. He is the co-author (with A. Chaudhuri) of a research book on Indirect Questioning Techniques in Sample Surveys (Springer, 2013) and co-editor (with A. Chaudhuri and C.R. Rao) of the Handbook of Statistics Vol 34. He serves on the editorial board of four international journals and has served on various expert committees, among them, the European Statistical Advisory Committee. He is the Rector of the University of Cyprus and the President of the Cyprus Statistical Society.

Markos V. Koutras is Professor Applied Probability and Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science at the University of Piraeus. He is the author/coauthor/editor of 20 books (13 in Greek, 7 in English). His research interests include multivariate analysis, combinatorial distributions, theory of runs/scans/patterns, statistical quality control and reliability theory.He serves in the editorial board of six international journals and has served as Guest Editor in 5 special issues. His research contibutions consist of more than 90 articles in refeereed journals and 25 articles in refereed special volumes.

Simos Meintanis is Professor of Statistics and Econometrics with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. He is also Extraordinary Professor of North-West University (NWU), South-Africa. Formerly Prof. Meintanis was faculty member in the School of Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, in 2015 was Visiting Professor at NWU, and in 2017 spend time as Visiting Professor with the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California Santa Barbara. Prof. Meintanis has approximately 200 contributions (journal articles, articles in referred volumes and in conference proceedings).