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The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina starting in fall 2003. The first author was there for a total of two years, the first year as a Duke/SAMSI Research Fellow. The second author was there for a year as a Post-Doctoral Scholar. The third author has the great fortune to be in RTP permanently. SAMSI was–and remains–an incredibly rich intellectual environment with a general atmosphere of free-wheeling inquiry that cuts across established fields. SAMSI encourages creativity: It is the kind of place where researchers can be found at work in the small hours of the morning–computing, interpreting computations, and developing methodology. Visiting SAMSI is a unique and wonderful experience.

The people most responsible for making SAMSI the great success it is include Jim Berger …