Statistical Intervals, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

We are highly indebted to various individuals, including many readers of the first edition, who helped make this second edition happen and who contributed to its improvement. Our special appreciation goes to Jennifer Brown, Joel Dobson, Robert Easterling, Michael Hamada, and Shiyao Liu for the long periods of time they spent in reading an early version of the manuscript and in providing us their insights. We also wish to thank Chuck Annis, Michael Beck, David Blough, Frank DeMeo, Necip Doganaksoy, Adrienne Hahn, William Makuch, Katherine Meeker, Wayne Nelson, Robert Rodriguez, and William Wunderlin for their careful review of various drafts, and for providing us numerous important suggestions, and to thank Chris Gotwalt for his advice on the use of the random weighted bootstrap method. H.N. Nagaraja provided helpful comments on Chapter 5 and Appendix G.

Our continued appreciation goes to the cadre of individuals who helped us in writing the first edition: Craig Beam, James Beck, Thomas Boardman, Necip Doganaksoy, Robert Easterling, Marie Gaudard, Russel Hannula, J. Stuart Hunter, Emil Jebe, Jason Jones, Mark Johnson, William Makuch, Del Martin, Robert Mee, Vijayan Nair, Wayne Nelson, Robert Odeh, Donald Olsson, Ernest Scheuer, Jeffrey Smith, William Tucker, Stephen Vardeman, Jack Wood, and William Wunderlin.

We would like to thank Quang Cao (Louisiana State University) and K.P. Poudel (Oregon State University) for providing the tree volume data that we used ...