Jeffrey S. Simonoff is Professor of Statistics and Robert A. Miller Faculty Fellow in the Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. Dr. Simonoff has authored or coauthored more than one hundred papers and five books, focusing on both methodology for and applications of statistics to real-world problems and questions.