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in Business and Economics

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David P. Doane

Oakland University

Lori E. Seward

University of Colorado

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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David P. Doane

David P. Doane is accredited by the American Statistical Association as a Professional Statistician (PStat). He is professor emeritus in Oakland Universitys Department of Decision and Information Sciences. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics at the University of Kansas and his PhD from Purdue Universitys Krannert Graduate School. His research and teaching interests include applied statistics, forecasting, and statistical education. He is co-recipient of three National Science Foundation grants to develop software to teach statistics and to create a computer classroom. He is a longtime member of the American Statistical Association, serving in 2002 as president of the Detroit ASA. He has consulted with government, health care organizations, and local firms. He has published articles in many academic journals. He currently belongs to ASA chapters in San Diego and Orange County/Long Beach.

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Lori E. Seward

Lori E. Seward is a senior instructor of Operations Management in The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering at Virginia Tech. After several years working as a reliability and quality engineer in the paper and automotive industries, she earned her PhD from Virginia Tech and joined the faculty at The Leeds School in 1998. She has been the coordinator of the undergraduate core business statistics course and currently teaches as well as coordinates the core statistics course for both the Leeds full-time and Executive MBA programs. She is also responsible for coordinating the undergraduate program in Operations Management. She served as the chair of the INFORMS Teachers Workshop for the annual 2004 meeting. Her teaching interests focus on developing pedagogy that uses technology to create a collaborative learning environment in large undergraduate and MBA statistics courses. Her most recent article, co-authored with David Doane, was published in the