Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following colleagues whose comprehensive feedback and suggestions for improving the material helped us make a better text:
Kathy Autrey, Northwestern State University
Kiran Bhutani, The Catholic University of America
Rhonda Buckley, Texas Woman’s University
Susan Cashin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Kathryn Cerrone, The University of Akron-Summit College
Zhao Chen, Florida Gulf Coast University
Ilhan Izmirli, George Mason University, Department of Statistics
Denise Johansen, University of Cincinnati
Eric Kean, Western Washington University
Yolanda Kumar, Univeristy of Missouri-Columbia
Eileen Stock, Baylor University
Sean Thomas, Emory University
Sara Tomek, University of Alabama
Mildred Vernia, Indiana University Southeast
Gingia Wen, Texas Woman’s University
Jiang Yuan, Baylor University
We also acknowledge the valuable contribution of the publisher’s accuracy checker, Phyllis Barnidge.