ABSTRACT
You might say that I started working on this chapter on a Wednesday. It was July 1, 1981, and I found myself in the terrifying situation of being a rather young statistician who had agreed to take on the position founded some forty years earlier by Gertrude Cox. That was the day on which I became head of the large Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University. At my previous institution, I had been put in charge of a group of six biometricians (probably because I was the only one on speaking terms with each of the other five at the time). Perhaps it was that minor administrative experience, but somehow I had tricked the people at NC State into thinking that I could succeed in their outsized endeavor. More likely, they had tricked me to this view, and surely I would quickly be found out.
