Jean-Pierre Florens is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toulouse I, where he holds the Chair in Statistics and Econometrics, and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is also a member of the IDEI and GREMAQ research groups. Professor Florens' research interests include: statistics and econometrics methods, applied econometrics, and applied statistics. He is coauthor of Elements of Bayesian Statistics with Michel Mouchart and Jean-Marie Rolin (1990). The editor or co-editor of several econometrics and statistics books, he has also published numerous articles i...