A Career in Statistics: Beyond the Numbers

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We have benefited greatly from the critical assessments and helpful inputs of numerous colleagues, friends, and (even) relatives and we thank them all for their interest and contributions.

This book would not have been possible without the work of contributing authors Carol Joyce Blumberg, Leonard Gaines, Lynne Hare, William Q. Meeker, and Josef Schmee.

We were also most fortunate to have received detailed and highly useful inputs on extensive parts of the manuscript from Rich Allen, Michael Chernick, Ron Fecso, and Gipsie Ranney.

Many others provided us valuable comments. We thank Christine Anderson Cook, Tom Boardman, Christy Chuang-Stein, Cynthia Clark, Keith Crank, Len Cook, George Domingo, John Espy, Cathy Furlong, Martha Gardner, Adrienne Hahn, Bea Hahn, Judy Hahn, Ted Hardwicke, Bill Hill, Roger Hoerl, Bob Hogg, Yili Hong, Ronald Iman, Ron Kenett, Tim Keyes, John Kovar, Diane Lambert, Jerry Lawless, Vincent Lee, Ramon Leon, Alson Look, Juanita Lott, Fang Liu, Bill Makuch, Harry Martz, Diane Michelson, David Moore, Carolyn Morgan, Sally Morton, Vijay Nair, Lloyd Nelson, Margaret Nemeth, Barry Nussbaum, William Parr, Charles Pfeiffer, Antonio Possolo, Charles Sampson, Nozer Singpurwalla, Edward Spar, Bob Starbuck, Stan Strauss, Katherine Wallman, Ron Wasserstein, and Joanne Wendelberger for their contributions.

We thank Jackie Palmieri and Steve Quigley, our editors at Wiley, and their colleagues for their encouragement and help.

We also greatly appreciate ...