Volume 228, Issue 5

This issue is a translation of selected papers from Statisticheskie Metody Otsenivaniya i Proverki Gipotez (Statistical Methods of Estimating and Testing Hypotheses), Perm, Russia: Perm University Press, Vol. 19, 2006, Vol. 20, 2007, and Vol. 21, 2008. It also contains three papers from the proceedings of the International Seminars on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models held in Zakopane, Poland on May 31–June 5, 2009, and Svetlogorsk, Russia on October 10–16, 2011.