The history of Quality Management, and of the role of Statistics in Quality Management, is inextricably bound to the reconstruction of Japan immediately following the Second World War, and then to developments in the United States over three decades later. Even though these periods are, in...

Much of the practical interest attached to curves and surfaces derives from features of roughness, rather than smoothness. For example, considerable attention has been paid to fractal models of curves and surfaces, for which the notions of a normal and curvature are usually not well defined....

Model averaging has been shown to be a useful method for incorporating model uncertainty in quantitative risk estimation. In certain circumstances this technique is computationally complex, requiring sophisticated software to carry out the computation. We introduce software that implements model...