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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to express our grateful appreciation to the many organizations and individuals
who have contributed to this book. Many instructors who used the previous editions provided
excellent suggestions that we have tried to incorporate in this revision.
We would like to thank the following who assisted in contributing to and/or reviewing
material for the WileyPLUS course:

Michael DeVasher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Craig Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Julie Fortune, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Rubin Wei, Texas A&M University

We would also like to thank the following for their assistance in checking the accuracy and
completeness of the exercises and the solutions to exercises.

Dr. Abdelaziz Berrado
Dr. Connie Borror
Aysegul Demirtas
Kerem Demirtas
Patrick Egbunonu, Sindhura Gangu
James C. Ford
Dr. Alejandro Heredia-Langner
Dr. Jing Hu
Dr. Busaba Laungrungrong
Dr. Fang Li
Dr. Nuttha Lurponglukana
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Dr. Lora Zimmer

We are also indebted to Dr. Smiley Cheng for permission to adapt many of the statistical
tables from his excellent book (with Dr. James Fu), Statistical Tables for Classroom and Exam
Room. Wiley, Prentice Hall, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the editors of Biomet-
rics allowed us to use copyrighted material, for which we are grateful.

Douglas C. Montgomery

George C. Runger