Dowdy, S. M.

SHIRLEY DOWDY, PhD, has held appointments as Professor ofStatistics at West Virginia University and Professor of Research Methodology atSt. Louis University, where she was also the Dean of the College of Arts andSciences and from which she is now retired.She received her PhD from theUniversity of Notre Dame.

STANLEY WEARDEN, PhD, is currently a professor in the Department of Statisticsat West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he previouslyserved for four years as Chairman of the Department of Statistics and ComputerScience. He earned his PhD in population genetics from