Institution: | Roger J. McNichols is a professor of industrial engineering at the University of Toledo (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606). After receiving his Ph.D in industrial engineering from The Ohio State University he joined the faculty of Texas A and M University, where he directed the Maintainability Engineering Graduate Program at Red River Army Depot. At UT he has served as associate dean of engineering and as chairman of the Systems engineering doctoral program. His research and consulting interests include reliability, quality control, manufacturing, mathematical modeling, and applied statistics.;Charles B. Davis is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Toledo (Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606). After receiving his M.S. in mathematics and statistics and his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of New Mexico, he joined the Mathematics Department at UT, where he established the graduate program in statistics. His research and consulting interests include statistical modeling, statistical computation, simultaneous inference, and data analysis. |