J. Brian Gray is Professor of Statistics in the Applied Statistics Program and in the Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science at The University of Alabama, where he teaches a variety of statistics courses at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. Dr. Gray has taught MBA and Executive MBA statistics courses for the past 20 years and has received several teaching awards from the MBA and Executive MBA Associations of The University of Alabama and Texas Christian University. He co-authored the book BUSINESS CASES IN STATISTICAL DECISION-MAKING: COMPUTER BASED APPLICATIONS. Dr. Gray is an active member of the American Statistical Association. His current… research interests are in the areas of applied statistics, exploratory data analysis, data mining, regression analysis, statistical computing, and graphics. He has published research articles in journals including TECHNOMETRICS, JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS, THE AMERICAN STATISTICIAN, COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS, JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION, STATISTICS AND COMPUTING, JOURNAL OF REAL ESTATE RESEARCH, and JOURNAL OF BUSINESS, FINANCE, & ACCOUNTING. Dr. Gray received the Wilcoxon Prize for Best Practical Application Paper in TECHNOMETRICS in 1984.