Roger HoerlRoger W. Hoerl, PhD, is the Brate-Peschel Assistant Professor of Statistics at Union College in Schenectady, NY. Previously he led the Applied Statistics Lab at GE Global Research. While at GE he led a team of statisticians, applied mathematicians, ad computational financial analysts who worked on some of GEa (TM)s most challenging research problems, such as developing personalized medicine protocols, enhancing the reliability of aircraft engines, and management of risk for a half a trillion dollar portfolio. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality, and he has been elected to the International Statistical Institute and the International Academy for Quality. Read More Read Less