Acknowledgments
David Kleinbaum and Mitch Klein continue to thank Erica
Pryor at the School of Nursing, University of Alabama‐
Birmingham, for her many important contributions,
including editing, proofing, and computer analyses, to
the second edition. We also want to thank Winn Cashion
for carefully reviewing the three new chapters of the third
edition.
We also thank our wives, Edna Kleinbaum and Becky
Klein, for their love, friendship, advice, and support as we
were writing this third edition. In appreciation, we are
dedicating this edition to both of them.
Atlanta, GA David G. Kleinbaum
Mitchel Klein
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