The 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2016) will take place at the Higher Technical School of Engineering, University of Seville, Spain, 9-11 December 2016. Tutorials will be given on Thursday 8th of December 2016.

This conference is organized by the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics), University of Seville, Queen Mary University of London and Birkbeck University of London. The new journal Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta) and its supplement, the Annals of Computational and Financial Econometrics are the main sponsors of the conference. The journals Econometrics and Statistics and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis publishes selected papers in special peer-reviewed, or regular issues.

The Conference will take place jointly with the 10th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2016). The conference has a high reputation of quality presentations. The last editions of the joint conference CFE-CMStatistics gathered about 1700 participants.

Co-chairs: Jianqing Fang, Jeng-Ming Chiou, Armelle Guillou and Mattias Villani.