Welcome to LinStat'2020

International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference, LinStat'2020, will be held on 29 June - 3 July 2020 in Nový Smokovec in High Tatras, Slovakia, at Hotel Atrium on 30 August - 3 September 2021 in Będlewo, Poland. Due to COVID-19 epidemic the conference will be in a hybrid form: the lectures will be online but everyone who can travel is welcome in Będlewo to participate personally. This is the follow-up of the LinStat series held in Będlewo, Poland (2008, 2012, 2018), in Tomar, Portugal (2010), in Linköping, Sweden (2014), and in Istanbul, Turkey (2016).

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications as well as matrix analysis and its applications to statistics, and offer them a possibility to discuss current developments in these subjects. The conference will mainly focus on a number of topics. The topics that have been selected so far include estimation, prediction and testing in linear models, robustness of relevant statistical methods, estimation of variance components appearing in linear models, generalizations to nonlinear models, design and analysis of experiments, including optimality and comparison of linear experiments, and applications of matrix methods in statistics.

The work of young scientists is highly appreciated. The list of Invited Speakers is opened by the winners of the Young Scientists Awards of Linstat'2018. The Scientific Committee will award the best presentation and best poster. The awarded will be Invited Speakers at the next edition of LinStat.