MSc in Statistics and

I would like to thank my supervisors in this master thesis, Xavier Puig and Jakob Tougaard, for giving me the opportunity to develop this project and helping me during the process, despite the distances. I would also like to mention in these acknowledgments the teachers of the different courses I have taken during the MEIO, specially Professor Lupe Gómez, not only for encouraging me to challenge myself and start this master in Statistics after my degree in Biology, but also for being always available for any help or support I would need. I am also grateful to Professor Peter Madsen from Aarhus University, for giving me the oppor-tunity of belonging to his lab and research group and being always ready to help and teach. Furthermore, I would like to thank my classmates in this master for all the moments we spent together and my officemates in Aarhus, especially Mafalda and Line, for making the time spent in this master’s project funnier and being always ready to help and proof-read everything. I would also like to mention my family and friends, for understanding my absence, especially these last days and being always supporting me in my decisions and being always understanding. Last, but not least, I would like to especially thank Oleguer for his constant support, reading again and again this memory and helping me with constructive comments.