Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Shelley Sessoms and Stephenie Joyner of SAS Press for providing support from start to the finish. We would also like to thank Julie Platt, Mary Beth Steinbach, Kathy Underwood, Candy Farrell, Jennifer Dilley, Aimee Rodriquez, and Cindy Puryear of SAS Publishing for their assistance.

In reviewing the manuscript, we want to thank Paul Marovich of SAS and Russell Lavery for their detailed reviews, which substantially improved the final product. Also, we would like to thank our students, who provided significant edits and insights.

We would like to recognize and thank those individuals who provided one or more data sets:

W. O. Dale Amburgey, Saint Joseph’s University

Tom Bohannon, SAS Institute

Jerry Oglesby, SAS Institute

Chuck Pirrello, SAS Institute

Keith Pride, MDRxResearch

John Stanton, Saint Joseph’s University