About the Author

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Galit Shmueli, PhD, is Distinguished Professor and Institute Director at National Tsing Hua University's Institute of Service Science. She has designed and instructed business analytics courses since 2004 at University of Maryland, Statistics.com, The Indian School of Business, and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Peter C. Bruce, is Founder of the Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com, and Chief Learning Officer at Elder Research, Inc. Peter Gedeck, PhD, is Senior Data Scientist at Collaborative Drug Discovery and teaches at statistics.com and the UVA School of Data Science. His specialty is the development of machine learning algorithms to predict biological and physicochemical properties of drug candidates. Inbal Yahav, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in The Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her work focuses on the development and adaptation of statistical models for use by researchers in the field of information systems. Nitin R. Patel, PhD, is Co-founder and Lead Researcher at Cytel Inc. He was also a Co-founder of Tata Consultancy Services. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Patel has served as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University, USA.