Data Acknowledgments

The datasets used in the examples and exercises discussed in this book are available from the website www.colostate.edu/computationalstatistics/. Many of these were collected by scientific researchers in diverse fields. The remaining data are owned by us or have been simulated for instructional purposes. Further details about ownership of some datasets are given below.

We thank Richard Barker, Department of Statistics, University of Otago, New Zealand, for the fur seal pup data used in Section 7.6 and for hosting us during a great sabbatical.

We thank Ross Beveridge and Bruce Draper, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, for the face recognition data used in Example 2.5, and for the opportunity to collaborate with them on this interesting project.

We thank Gordon Reese, Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, for his assistance in extracting the Utah serviceberry data used in Chapter 8.

We thank Alan Herlihy, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, for providing the stream monitoring data used in Example 12.4 and for his assistance with the interpretation of the results. These data and the data used in Problem 12.5 were produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) [185, 639].

The leukemia data in Problem 2.3 are used with permission, and are taken from [202]. Copyright American Society of Hematology, 1963.

The oil spill data in Problem 2.5 are derived from data given in [11] and are used with permission from Elsevier. Copyright Elsevier 2000.

The Alzheimer's data used throughout Chapter 5 are reprinted with permission from [155]. Copyright CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2002.

The pigment moisture data in Problem 7.8 are reprinted from [58] with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1978.

The copper–nickel alloy data used throughout Chapter 9 are reprinted from [170] with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1966. 421

The air blast data in Problem 11.6 are reprinted from [342] with permission from Elsevier. Copyright Elsevier 2001.

The Norwegian paper data in Chapter 12 are reprinted from [9], with permission from Elsevier. Copyright Elsevier 1996.

The remaining real datasets are in the public domain and/or are acknowledged at the locations in the text where we first use the data. We thank all these authors and researchers.