“…The wide variety of disciplines where FDA is applied is also shown through the Special Issue on Statistics for Functional Data (González-Manteiga and Vieu, 2007) published in this journal in 2007. Some examples of these fields of application are: climatology, chemicals, geophysics and oceanology, economics, remote sensing, demographics (Delicado, 2011), materials science (Berrendero et al, 2011), biostatistics or genetics (López-Pintado and Romo, 2011;Li and Chiou, 2011). A mixture of practical and theoretical aspects is found in Ferraty and Romain (2011).…”