About the Authors
Kenneth N. Berk
Kenneth N. Berk (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is an emeritus professor
of mathematics at Illinois State University and a Fellow of the American
Statistical Association. Berk was editor of Software Reviews for the American
Statistician for six years. He served as chair of the Statistical Computing
Section of the American Statistical Association. He has twice co-chaired
the annual Symposium on the Interface between Computing Science and
Statistics.
Patrick Carey
Patrick Carey received his M.S. in biostatistics from the University of
Wisconsin where he worked as a researcher in the General Clinical Research
Center designing and analyzing clinical studies. He coauthored his first
textbook with Ken Berk on using Excel as a statistical tool. He and his wife
Joan founded Carey Associates, Inc., a software textbook development com-
pany. He has since authored or coauthored over 20 academic and trade texts
for the software industry. Besides books on data analysis, Carey has written
on the Windows® operating system, Web page design, database manage-
ment, the Internet, browsers, and presentation graphics software. Patrick,
Joan, and their six children live in Wisconsin.
I thank my wife Laura for her advice, because here she is
the one who knows about publishing books.
—Kenneth N. BerkThanks to my wife, Joan, and my children, John Paul, Thomas,
Peter, Michael, Stephen, and Catherine, for their love and
support.
—Patrick M. Careyiii