Victor Leiva Professor Departamento de Estadística Universidad de Valparaíso Gran Bretana 1111, 4to piso, Oficina 6, Playa Ancha 2360102 Valparaíso, CHILE Phone: (56)(32)2508323 Fax: (56)(32)2508322 Email1: victor.leiva@yahoo.com Email2: victor.leiva@uv.cl

Editorial positions:

• Executive editor of the Chilean Journal of Statistics.
• Advisory editor of Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment.
• Associate editor of the Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics.
• Associate editor of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis .
• Associate editor of Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods .
• Associate editor of Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation.
• Associate editor of the Pakistan Journal of Statistics.

Main studies:

• Doctor in mathematical sciences (major in statistics and operational research), Universidad de Granada, Spain, 1996-1999, under the supervision of Dr. José A. Díaz-García.
• Posdoctoral fellow (in distribution theory), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2006, under the supervision of Dr. N. Balakrishnan .

Areas of interest:

• Distribution theory on Birnbaum-Saunders, elliptic, inverse Gaussian, Johnson system models (uni-multi-matrix-variate).
• Influence diagnostics and goodness-of-fit.
• Lifetime analysis (reliability, survival analysis, censored data).
• Quality control and operational research.