About the authors

Ron S. Kenett is chairman of the KPA Group; research professor, University of Turin, Italy; visiting professor at the Hebrew University Institute for Drug Research, Jerusalem, Israel and at the Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana University, Slovenia. He is past president of the Israel Statistical Association (ISA) and of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS). Ron authored and coauthored over 200 papers and 12 books on topics ranging from industrial statistics, customer surveys, multivariate quality control, risk management, biostatistics and statistical methods in healthcare to performance appraisal systems and integrated management models. The KPA Group he formed in 1990 is a leading Israeli firm focused on generating insights through analytics with international customers such as hp, 3M, Teva, Perrigo, Roche, Intel, Amdocs, Stratasys, Israel Aircraft Industries, the Israel Electricity Corporation, ICL, start‐ups, banks, and healthcare providers. He was awarded the 2013 Greenfield Medal by the Royal Statistical Society in recognition for excellence in contributions to the applications of statistics. Among his many activities he is member of the National Public Advisory Council for Statistics Israel; member of the Executive Academic Council, Wingate Academic College; and board member of several pharmaceutical and Internet product companies.

Galit Shmueli is distinguished professor at National Tsing Hua University’s Institute of ...

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