ASA-SIAM Series
What’s Next for the ASA-SIAM Book Series?
D
uring the December 2007 annual her efforts to making the series more visible
meeting of the management com- to the statistical community so it “will be
ASA-SIAM Management
mittee that guides the ASA-SIAM recognized as presenting works by authors
Committee
book series, committee members identified who have developed new techniques and
Keith Crank, ASA Assistant Director of
several goals they would like to accomplish procedures adapted to solve new kinds
Research and Graduate Education
this year, including the following: of problems in our constantly changing
Elizabeth Greenspan, SIAM Senior
Identify current hot topics in statistics
world.” Included in her efforts is support-
Acquisitions Editor
and applied probability, expand topic
ing a topic-contributed panel that may
areas, and seek authors who specialize
be on the JSM 2008 program, allowing a Michelle Montgomery, SIAM Director of
in these areas
face-to-face forum with potential authors. Marketing and Sales
Make the series more visible to both read-
(Keep your eyes on future installments of
Ronald Wasserstein, ASA Executive Director
ers and potential authors
this column for updates.)
Aliaga also is looking for backlist or new James Crowley, SIAM Executive Director
Make connections between the series
series books that would be appropriate for
and other programs offered by the ASA
David Marshall, SIAM Publisher
the ASA’s LearnSTAT courses, which are
To help accomplish these goals,
intended to “enhance statisticians’ under-
Martha Aliaga, ASA Director of Programs
ASA Assistant Director of Research and
standing of contemporary theory, method-
Sarah J. Murphy, SIAM Acquisitions Editor
Graduate Education Keith Crank is work-
ology, and application of the science.”
ing with Editor-in-Chief Lisa LaVange and
Acquisitions Editor Sara J. Murphy to identi-
Shaping the Future
30% discount on all series titles. You also
fy topics that should be a focus for 2008 and The series management committee encour-
can help identify the areas in which books
beyond. Crank’s other critical role involves ages all ASA and SIAM members to help
are needed by emailing Murphy (murphy@
soliciting book proposals and encouraging shape the future of the ASA-SIAM Series
siam.org), LaVange (lisa_lavange@unc.edu),
authors to think about publishing their books on Statistics and Applied Probability, which
or Crank (keith@amstat.org) with your sug-
as part of the ASA-SIAM book series. is a collaborative effort of our two premier
gestions. Finally, think about proposing
professional societies (and the only ASA your own book for the series by using the
Face-to-Face
book series). You can support the series by ASA series proposal form available at www.
Martha Aliaga, committee chair and direc-
purchasing the books relevant to your work. siam.org/books/authors/proposal_info.php.
tor of programs for the ASA, has dedicated
ASA and SIAM members always enjoy a We welcome your input. n
Titles from the ASA-SIAM Series on
STATISTICS
and
and APPLIED PROBABILITY
Data Clustering: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications The Structural Representation
GUOJUN GAN, CHAOQUN MA, and JIANHONG WU
of Proximity Matrices with MATLAB
This book starts with basic information on cluster analysis, including the LAWRENCE HUBERT, PHIPPS ARABIE,
classification of data and the corresponding similarity measures, followed andJACQUELINE MEULMAN
by the presentation of over 50 clustering algorithms in groups according to Presents and demonstrates the use of functions (by way of M-files)
some specific baseline methodologies such as hierarchical, center-based, within a MATLAB computational environment to effect a variety of
and search-based methods. structural representations for the proximity information that is
2007 · xxii + 466 pages · Softcover · ISBN 978-0-898716-23-8
assumed to be available on a set of objects.
List Price $114.00 · ASA/SIAM Member Price $79.80 · Code SA20
2006 · xvi + 214 pages · Softcover · ISBN 978-0-898716-07-8
The Analysis of Means: A Graphical Method
List Price $79.00 · ASA/SIAM Member Price $55.30 · Code SA19
for Comparing Means, Rates, and Proportions Design and Analysis of Gauge R&R Studies:
PETER R. NELSON, PETER S. WLUDYKA, Making Decisions with Confidence Intervals
andKAREN A. F. COPELAND in Random and Mixed ANOVA Models
This first comprehensive modern treatment of the ANOM contains all of RICHARD K. BURDICK, CONNIE M. BORROR,
the needed information for practitioners to understand and apply
andDOUGLAS C. MONTGOMERY
ANOM. Includes examples from a wide variety of fields adapted from
This book does an excellent job of providing practitioners with an up-to-
real-world applications and data with easy-to-follow instructions.
date reference for constructing confidence intervals for a class of mixed
2005 · xii + 247 pages · Softcover · ISBN 978-0-898715-92-7
models with application to gauge R&R studies.
List Price $85.00 · ASA/SIAM Member Price $59.50 · Code SA18 2005 · xviii + 202 pages · Softcover · ISBN 978-0-898715-88-0
List Price $60.00 · ASA/SIAM Member Price $42.00 · Code SA17
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