SHEIN-CHUNG CHOW, PhD, is currently Vice President of Biostatistics and Clinical Data Management for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JEN-PEI LIU, PhD, is currently Professor of Statistics for the National Cheng kung University in Tainan, Taiwan, and an investigator for the National Health Research Institutes in Taipei, Taiwan. Both authors have extensive background experience in industry and academia, and, collectively, have published well over a dozen books in their respective fields of study.