George A. F. Seber, PhD, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Statistics at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. A Fellow of the New Zealand Royal Society, he is the author or coauthor of several books, including Nonlinear Regression, Multivariate Observations, Adaptive Sampling, Chance Encounters, and Linear Regression Analysis, Second Edition, all published by Wiley. Dr. Seber's research interests have included statistical ecology, genetics, epidemiology, and adaptive sampling.