Regression Analysis: Unified Concepts, Practical Applications, Computer Implementation – Free eBook

Author(s)

Bruce L. Bowerman

Dr. Bruce L. Bowerman (late) was a professor of decision sciences at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He got his Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University in 1974, and had over 40 years of experience teaching basic statistics, time series forecasting, regression analysis, survey sampling, and design of experiments to both graduate and undergraduate students. In 1987, Dr. Bowerman got an Outstanding Teaching award from the Miami University, and in 1992 he received an Effective Educator award from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration. Together with Richard T. O’Connell, Bruce has written over 15 textbooks. These include Forecasting, Time Series, and Regression: An Applied Approach (also coauthored with Anne B. Koehler); Forecasting and Time Series: An Applied Approach; and Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach. He also published a number of articles in time series forecasting, applied stochastic processes, and statistical education.

Emily Murphree

Dr. Emily S. Murphree is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Stats at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She earned her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of North Carolina and does research in applied probability. Dr. Murphree received Miami’s College of Arts and Science Distinguished
Educator Award in 1998. In 1996, she was named one of Oxford’s Citizens of the Year for organizing annual Sonia Kovalevsky Mathematical Sciences Days for area high school girls and for her work with Habitat for Humanity. Her enthusiasm for hiking in wilderness areas of the West motivates her current research on estimating animal population sizes.