Shelemyahu Zacks, PhD, is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Binghamton University. He has published several books and over 170 journal articles in the areas of design and analysis of experiments, statistical control of stochastic processes, statistical decision theory, statistical methods in logistics, and sampling from finite populations. Dr. Zacks is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.