These three volumes comprise the proceedings of the US/Japan Conference, held in honour of Professor H. Akaike, on the `Frontiers of Statistical Modeling: an Informational Approach'. The major theme of the
conference was the implementation of statistical modeling through an informational approach to complex, real-world problems. <br/> <em>Volume 1</em> contains papers which deal with the <em>Theory and
Methodology</em> <em>of Time Series Analysis</em>. Volume 1 also contains the text of the Banquet talk by E. Parzen and the keynote lecture of H. Akaike. <em>V</em><em>olume 2</em>
is devoted to the general topic of <em>Multivariate Statistical</em> <em>Modeling</em>, and <em>Volume 3</em> contains the papers relating to <em>Engineering</em>
<em>and Scientific Applications</em>. <br/> For all scientists whose work involves statistics. <br/>