Modern Industrial Statistics

Ron S. Kenett is Chairman of the KPA Group and Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute, Israel. He is an applied statistician combining expertise in academic, consulting, and business domains. He is a former Professor of Operations Management at The State University of New York at Binghamton, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and Director of Statistical Methods for Tadiran Telecom. Ron is a past President of the Israel Statistical Association and of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) and was awarded the 2013 Greenfield Medal by the Royal Statistical Society and the 2018 Box Medal by ENBIS for outstanding contributions to applied statistics. He has authored and co-authored over 250 papers and 14 books. Shelemyahu Zacks is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, USA. He has published 10 books and close to 200 papers. Zacks is known for his groundbreaking articles on change-point problems, common mean problems, Bayes sequential strategies, and reliability analysis. His studies on survival probabilities in crossing minefields and his contributions in stochastic visibility in random fields are regarded as fundamental work in naval research and other defense related areas. He has served on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals including JASA, JSPI and Annals of Statistics, and is a Fellow of many associations including the AMS, ASA and AAAS.