Autor: J. C. W. Rayner

John Rayner is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Newcastle (Australia). He obtained his BA and MA from the University of Sydney and Ph D from the University of Wollongong. He has held appointments at the Universities of New England, Otago, and Wollongong in addition to Newcastle. John is Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences. He has over 100 publications in the fields of statistical model assessment and nonparametric statistics, has co-edited five books/proceedings/special journal issues and authored three research books. Olivier Thas is an Associate Professor in biostatistics at Ghent University (Belgium). He joined the academic staff there in 1995 as a research assistant and was promoted to lecturer in 2001 after successful completion of his Ph D in applied biological sciences. To-date Thas has ca. 50 publications in peer reviewed journals. John Best is a Conjoint Academic at the University of Newcastle. After a number of years at the Commonwealth Bureau of Meterology (1967/70) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (1970-2001) he accepted an honorary principal research fellowship at the University of Wollongong (2001), where he also obtained his Ph D in 1999. Best has over 100 scientific publications to his name.