On functional data analysis and related topics.

This paper aims to present the various contributions to the Special Issue of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis on Functional Data Analysis and some related topics including High-Dimensional Statistics and Multivariate Analysis of complex data. The presentation is made by emphasizing on how the contributions are behaving among recent trends in the fields, in such a way that this paper can also be viewed as a selected bibliographical discussion about recent advances in these topics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]