Journal of Applied Statistics - Volume 35 - Issue 9 - 2008

Editorials
	Editorial 945 – 946 Author: Robert G. Aykroyd
Original Articles
	Measures of fit in principal component and canonical variate analyses 947 – 965 Authors: Sugnet Gardner-Lubbe; Niël J. Le Roux; John C. Gowers
	Spatial correlation matrix selection using Bayesian model averaging to characterize inter-tree competition in loblolly pine trees 967 – 977 Authors: Edward L. Boone; Bronson P. Bullock
	Results of exploratory data analysis in the broken stick model 979 – 983 Authors: David Almorza; M. Hortensia Garca
	Fitting three-dimensional Laguerre tessellations to foam structures 985 – 995 Author: Claudia Lautensack
	Bayesian assessment of times to diagnosis in breast cancer screening 997 – 1009 Authors: Carmen Armero; Antonio Lpez-Qulez; Rut Lpez-Snchez
	Diagnostics of prior-data agreement in applied Bayesian analysis 1011 – 1029 Author: Nicolas Bousquet
	Sovereign rescheduling probabilities in emerging markets: a comparison with credit rating agencies' ratings 1031 – 1051 Authors: A. Georgievska; L. Georgievska; A. Stojanovic; N. Todorovic
	The analysis of age-specific fertility patterns via logistic models 1053 – 1070 Authors: Cristina Rueda-Sabater; Pedro C. Alvarez-Esteban
	Frailty models and copulas: similarities and differences 1071 – 1079 Authors: Klara Goethals; Paul Janssen; Luc Duchateau