Collaborative Statistics: Author Acknowledgments 1.4 2008/04/30 11:27:00 GMT-5 2008/07/10 10:46:54.572 GMT-5 Barbara Illowsky cnx@cnx.org Susan Dean cnx@cnx.org Connexions cnx@cnx.org elementary statistics This module contains the author acknowledgments for the Collaborative Statistics textbook/collection. We wish to acknowledge the many people who have helped us and have encouraged us in this project. At De Anza, Donald Rossi and Rupinder Sekhon and their contagious enthusiasm started us on our path to this book. Inna Grushko and Diane Mathios painstakingly checked every practice and homework problem. Inna also wrote the glossary and offered invaluable suggestions. Kathy Plum co-taught with us the first term we introduced the TI-85. Lenore Desilets, Charles Klein, Kathy Plum, Janice Hector, Vernon Paige, Carol Olmstead, and Donald Rossi of De Anza College, Ann Flanigan of Kapiolani Community College, Birgit Aquilonius of West Valley College, and Terri Teegarden of San Diego Mesa College, graciously volunteered to teach out of our early editions. Janice Hector and Lenore Desilets also contributed problems. Diane Mathios and Carol Olmstead contributed labs as well. In addition, Diane and Kathy have been our “sounding boards” for new ideas. In recent years, Lisa Markus, Vladimir Logvinenko, and Roberta Bloom have contributed valuable suggestions. Jim Lucas and Valerie Hauber of De Anza’s Office of Institutional Research, along with Mary Jo Kane of Health Services, provided us with a wealth of data. We would also like to thank the thousands of students who have used this text. So many of them gave us permission to include their outstanding word problems as homework. They encouraged us to turn our note packet into this book, have offered suggestions and criticisms, and keep us going. Finally, we owe much to Frank, Jeffrey, and Jessica Dean and to Dan, Rachel, Matthew, and Rebecca Illowsky, who encouraged us to continue with our work and who had to hear more than their share of “I’m sorry, I can’t” and “Just a minute, I’m working."