Editorial.

The 2022 International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics was held in Paphos, Cyprus and co-sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society of Mathematical Statistics and Probability. The symposium brought together researchers from around the world to discuss recent advances and trends in nonparametric statistics. The conference covered a wide range of topics, including nonparametric estimation, hypothesis testing, adaptive inference, high-dimensional statistical inference, and more. The special issue of the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics contains papers that have undergone a peer review process and cover diverse areas of nonparametric statistics. [Extracted from the article]