Statistical Analysis: Microsoft

Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank Loretta Yates, who guided this book between the Scylla of my early dithering and the Charybdis of a skeptical editorial board, and who treats my self-imposed crises with an unexpected sort of pragmatic optimism. And Debbie Abshier, who managed some of my early efforts for Que before she started her own shop—I can’t express how pleased I was to learn that Abshier House would be running the development show. And Joell Smith-Borne, for her skillful solutions to the problems I created when I thought I was writing. Linda Sikorski’s technical edit was just right, and what fun it was to debate with her once more about statistical inference.