Howard B. Stauffer, PhD, is Professor of Applied Statistics and former chairperson of the Mathematics Department at Humboldt State University. Dr. Stauffer has over thirtyfive years of experience in academia, government, and industry specializing in sampling and experimental design and analysis, in addition to the current methodologies in statistical analysis, such as generalized linear modeling, mixed-effects modeling, Bayesian statistical analysis, and capture-recapture analysis.