Acknowledgments
Co-Editor-in-Chief Stan Lipovetsky thanks the referees who contributed in reviewing the papers in 2017:
Raghunath Arnab, Department of Statistics, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
H.D. Arora, Institute of Applied Sciences, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India
Sergey Barabanov, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, USA
Varayu Boonpogkrong, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand
Paul Borochin, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Slava Brodsky, NJ, USA
Dexter O. Cahoy, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, USA
Wenyaw Chan, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA
Navin Chandra, Ramanujan School of Mathematical Sciences, Pondicherry University, India
Martin Couture, Hartford, CT, Travelers, USA
Rita Diana, The West Sumatera Province Central Bureau of Statistics, Indonesia
O.S. Ewemooje, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria
Zhong Gao, FDA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hui Gong, Valparaiso University, IN, USA
Swarangi Gorey, Vikram University, Ujjain, India
Bishal Gurung, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India
Changha Hwang, Dankook University, Gyeonggido, South Korea
R.S. Jagtap, Khadakwasla, Pune, India
Savita Jain, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Thadavillil Jithendranathan, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, USA
C.G. Joshy, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, India
Sunghae Jun, Cheongju University, Chungbuk, South Korea
K.K. Kamalja, North Maharashtra University, India
J.B. Kim, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
Jong-Min Kim, University of Minnesota at Morris, MN, USA
Alexander Kreinin, IBM, Toronto, Canada
Farah Kristiani, Mathematics Dept, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung, Indonesia
Devendra Kumar, Central University, Haryana, Mahendergarh, India
Il-Youp Kwak, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Vladimir Ladyzhets, University of Connecticut, Stamford, USA
Hye-Seung Lee, University of South Florida, FL, USA
Ilya Lipkovich, Quintiles Innovation, Morrisville, NC, USA
Jiannan Lu, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA
Ying Lu, Stanford University, CA, USA
Lorman Lundsten, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, USA
Igor Mandel, Telmar Inc., New York, NY, USA
Nikita Moiseev, Plekhanov University of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Jaka Nugraha, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Rotimi Ogundeji, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Idika Okorie, University of Manchester, UK
S. Osahan, NYC Dept of health, New York, NY, USA
Sanghamitra Pal, West Bengal State University Barasat, India
Sangsung Park, Korea University, South Korea
Henry Penikas, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Alexey Popelyukhin, Credit Suisse, Stamford, CT, USA
Louie Ren, University of Houston-Victoria, Texas, USA
Monjed Samuh, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Ekaterina Savinkina, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
Subhradev Sen, School of Business, Alliance University, Karnataka, India
Dahud K. Shangodoyin, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
Arkady Shemyakin, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, USA
Sarjinder Singh, Dept. of Mathematics, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA
Insuk Sohn, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
Refik Soyer, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Tanya Suhoy, research dept. Bank of Israel, Israel.
A.K.P.C. Swain, Orissa, India
Suparti Tarno, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia
Montip Tiensuwan, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Alex Topchishvili, Germany
Eldho Varghese, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India
Boris Zaslavsky, FDA, Rockville, MD, USA
And many thanks to:
• Guest Editor, Professor Jong-Min Kim, University of Minnesota at Morris, MN, USA, for organizing the special issue of MASA, 12, 3, 2017, on Machine Learning in Applied Statistics;
• Guest Editors, Professors Arkady Shemyakin University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and Vladimir Ladyzhets of School of Business, University of Connecticut, USA, for organizing the special issue of MASA, 12, 4, 2017, on Statistical Models in Finance and Insurance.