About the Authors

Raymond J. Carroll
carroll@stat.tamu.edu
http://stat.tamu.edu/~carroll
Raymond Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Nutrition and Toxicology at Texas A&M University. He has been editor of two of the major Statistics research journals: the Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods) and Biometrics. Professor Carroll has been awarded most of the major honors in Statistics, including the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents’ Award (awarded annually to a major research statistician under the age of 40), the COPSS Fisher Lecture (awarded annually for seminal work that has influenced the theory and practice of Statistics), the Snedecor Award (for an outstanding publication in Biometry and Biostatistics), the Wilcoxon Prize (for an outstanding publication in the practice of Statistics), the Mitchell Prize (for an outstanding publication in Bayesian statistics) and the Sacks Award (given by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences). He is a distinguished alumnus of Purdue University, and has been a Humboldt Fellow. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

David Ruppert
dr24@cornell.edu

http://www.orie.cornell.edu/~davidr

David Ruppert is the Andrew Schultz, Jr., Professor of Engineering (School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering) and Professor of Statistical Science at Cornell University. He has served as editor for a number of prestigious series and journals and has published some 80 articles of his own as well as co-authoring two popular books, Transformation and Weighting in Regression and Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models. He is also winner of the Wilcoxon Prize for best practical applications paper in Technometrics and an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Leonard A. Stefanski
stefansk@stat.ncsu.edu

http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~stefansk
Leonard A. Stefanski is Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. He is a University of North Carolina Distinguished Graduate Alumni, and an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He served as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association for fourteen years, and with several co-authors has published some sixty articles as well as the authoritative book, Regression and Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models.

Ciprian Crainiceanu
ccrainic@jhsph.edu
http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~ccrainic/index.htm
Ciprian Crainiceanu is Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has published 10 papers on statistical methodology and applications in leading statistical and scientific journals. He was awarded the 2006 Junior Noether Research Award for Nonparametric Statistics.