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Dear colleagues, Last year, we started a volunteer internet-based mentor programme for Ph.D. students in statistics and probability at universities in developing countries. The programme is sponsored by the International Statistical Institute and the Bernoulli Society. This program is carrying on, and and we will soon extend it to include also mentoring of Master students in selected countries. This is important, because some countries have only Master programmes in statistics, but doesn't offer PhD studies. We therefore need more senior statisticians as volunteer mentors. Please also inform colleagues that can be interested in becoming a mentor, wherever they are in your own or in other countries. Specifically, for the moment we have two African PhD students waiting for mentors within these fields 1) Nonlinear models with Garch error, fractional integration, Lstar, Star-Garch 2) Neural networks, Network Information Criteria More details are found at the web-page of the programme at http://statmentoring.nr.no . Best regards, Magne Aldrin Chief Research Scientist Norwegian Computing Center, P.O. Box 114 Blindern, N-0314 Oslo, Norway email: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.nr.no/~aldrin tel: +47 22 85 26 58 Professor II, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.