The Department of Statistics and Operations Research has just organised a seminar during which final year students have presented their dissertations discussed by students: "Modelling Financial Times Series using Discrete and Continuous Paradigms" by Nathalie Attard, "Modeling Heteroscedasticity in Exchange Rates for the Maltese Lira" by Monique Inguanez, "Inventory Models" by Cheryl Zerafa, "Model-Assisted Methods in Statistical Office Applications" by Sarah Buttigieg, "Fitting Multinomial Logistic Regression Models and Loglinear Models to Data Related to Life Assurance Policies" by Helena Francalanza, and "Reliability and Latent Class Analysis in Alternatives to Factor Analysis" by Amanda Attard.