Established in 1978 and published twice a year, QdS - Journal of Methodological and Applied Statistics is a peer-reviewed journal which focuses on statistical theory and applications. Original articles on statistical methodology and models, and innovative applications of known statistical methods in different branches of science are welcome. Moreover, contributions which illustrate the state of art of statistical methods and models are favourably considered. Index: Di ciccio T. and Monti A. C.: Inferential aspects of the skew t-distribution Giordano F., La rocca M. and Perna C.: Value-at-Risk inference with NN-Sieve bootstrap Gambacorta R., Iannario M. and Valliant R.: Derivino variance estimators in a complex design for a mixture distribution Cappelli C.: Grouping near-synonyms of a dictionary entry: thesauri and perceptions Manisera M., Piccolo D. and Zuccolotto P.: Analyzing and modelling rating data for sensory data in food industry Iannario M. and Maravalle M.: Parametric and nonparametric approaches to the semantic relationship among synonymy Corduas M.: Modelling correlated bivariate ordinal data with CUB marginals