Acknowledgments

I love working with Apress. My editorial team consisting of Steve Anglin, Matthew Moodie, Melissa Maldonado, and Kimberly Burton-Weisman kept me on my toes and made my life easier at the same time.  It is my privilege to have Myron Hlynka as a technical reviewer once again. His eagle eyes and great suggestions kept me from embarrassing myself in print. The Apress production team is excellent, and they did a great job as usual with production of final copy and graphics.  My friend and fellow statistics geek Nat Goodman was an informal but much appreciated sounding board throughout this whole process.

I am also thankful to my dean, Sara Malmstrom, and my department chair, Sue Adragna, for their support of my writing projects. Finally, I thank my wife Shirley for tolerating my obsessions with writing and statistics with good humor and grace. Finally, I want to thank my many students over the years, too many to mention by name, who have taught me how to be a better statistics teacher.