SUBMISSION
There are two ways to submit a paper, either electronically through the website of the journal at http://www.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/submission/ or by regular mail sent in triplicate ( along with a cover letter ) to Editors, Statistica Sinica, Department of Statistics, 1 Shields Avenue, The University of California, Davis, California 95616-8705, U.S.A. Papers submitted to STATISTICA SINICA must neither have been published previously nor be under review by another journal. Papers must be written in English and should normally not exceed 30 manuscript pages. Three copies of important references that are unpublished or difficult to access should be included with the submission. Submitted manuscripts are not returnable.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
It is important that the following requirements are followed as closely as possible. A technically acceptable manuscript that fails to follow these requirements may be returned for retyping, leading to delay in publication.
I. Layout
1. The manuscript, including references, should be typed in double-space. If a word-processor is used, the typesetting should not be smaller than 12 characters per inch (25mm). The margins should be at least 1.0 inch (25mm) on all four sides. Pages should be numbered consecutively. All copies of the manuscript must be legible.
2. The paper should start with a short abstract followed by key words and phrases in alphabetical order. Avoid the inclusion of formulas in the abstract.
3. Provide a short running title of no more than 45 characters. Give the work and email addresses for each author, and the phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author.
4. The paper should be divided into numbered sections with short titles. Subsections may be used, but not sub-subsections. Each subsection should also have a number and title.
5. Footnotes should not be used except for tables.
6. References in the text should follow the current style in STATISTICA SINICA. A complete list of authors and editors should be given; et al. should not be used. References to books should be to the latest edition; a page, section or chapter number is normally necessary. For example, Box, Jenkins, and Reinsel (1994, chap. 9) consider ¡K. The list of references at the end should correspond to those in the text. References to books or papers should include: title of book, editor(s), first and last page numbers of paper, publisher and where published. For example,
Findley, D. F. and Wei, C.-Z. (1993). Moment bounds for deriving time series CLT's and model selection procedures. Statistica Sinica 3, 453-480.
Stein, C. (1956). Efficient nonparametric testing and estimation. Proc. 3rd Berkeley Symp. Math. Statist. Prob. 1, 187-196, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
McCullagh, P. and Nelder, J. A. (1989). Generalized Linear Models. Chapman and Hall, New York.
7. Acknowledgement should appear at the end of the paper and be as brief as possible. Lengthy derivations should appear in a separate appendix, which follows the acknowledgements but precedes the references. Each appendix should have a separate title.
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must not be left in the text;
use a!/[b!(a-b)!] if necessary. Repeated appearance of lengthy expressions should be avoided by introducing suitable notation. Long or important equations should be displayed (i.e. shown on a separate line). Equation numbers should be included only for those equations that are referred to in the text and must be placed on the right.
must be avoided, as must 
. Subscripts and superscripts should be aligned horizontally, or be clearly marked. Avoid higher-order sub- and superscripts.
etc.
(X); Var(X) not VarX; 
not 
; a/(bc) or 
nota/bc or 
. Avoid ‘.’ for product.
and 
should be avoided. Follow the usual conventions for brackets, exp, square root sign, etc. as in a recent issue. Do not use 
when the expression inside the square root sign is lengthy.
III. Tables and Figures
13. Tables and figures should be numbered separately in the order they are to be printed and referred to in the text by number. They should be properly arranged to make efficient use of the STATISTICA SINICA sized page. Layouts that have to be printed sideways should be avoided. Each table and figure should have a short title that is as self-explanatory as possible.
14. Original figure artwork must be submitted in printable Portable Document Format (PDF) or PostScript (PS) file when a paper is accepted for publication. Photocopies are not acceptable.