Editorial to the special issue: Recent statistical methods for data analysis, applied economics, business finance

Abstract

The special issue ‘Recent Statistical Methods for Data Analysis, Applied Economics, Business Finance’ was mainly established for participants who attended the ‘11th International Statistics Congress’, held on 4–8October 2019 in Bodrum, TURKEY. The primary purpose of the issue is to gather papers on various aspects of theoretical works supported mostly with applications and simulations from many different research fields of statistics, mainly from those who made presentations in the congress. However, the special issue had also drawn verymuch attention from researchers all over the globe, andmore than one-third of the papers were submitted by those who had not participated in the congress. The 11th Statistical Congress event was such a great success that an enormous number of submissions had just been submitted to the special issue soon after the congress. The editorial process has been ongoing for about two years. There are 6 guest editors, Atila Göktaş, Özge Akkuş, Ayşen Apaydin, Erol Eğrioğlu, Yüksel Akay Ünvan and Özlem Türkşen, who have worked hard to bring the special issue into high level with 41 accepted papers for publication. The special issue is now distributed within 3 issues in Volume 48 of the Journal of Applied Statistics. Nearly half of those accepted papers came from theoretical statistics; however, we have categorized all those 41 papers more specifically, some of which may have been classified into two or more categories, in the following main topics: