Frederick Ruland

The author holds degrees from: The Ohio State University; Iowa State University, and The Instytut Zootechniki, in Krakow, Poland. He started as a data analyst at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. He then became Manager of the Statistics Laboratory, in the Department of Statistics, at the Ohio State University, where he worked under Professor D. Ransom Whitney (of the Mann-Whitney Test). Later he became Chief Statistical Consultant and Senior Computer Specialist at the University’s Academic Computing Services. After retiring, he accepted the position of Senior Education Consultant with SAS Institute at their European Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. Most recently, he served as Principal Statistician with the international clinical trials consulting firm, Quanticate, in their Warsaw, Poland office. He frequently worked with statisticians and mathematicians of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The most recent collaboration was on the book: Grade Models and Methods for Data Analysis, published by Springer, in 2004. There are a number of books and eBooks by the author: Programming Notes and Hints for the HP 35s Scientific Calculator; The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test - An Introduction to Nonparametrics - With Comments on the R Program wilcox.test; Guide for the New Statistical Consultant: Some Suggestions and Three Key Questions to Ask; A Universal 'Pocket' Statistical Tool - Based on the Pearson Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Test; Random Numbers and the Discrete Uniform Distribution - Plus Five School Festival Games; Games for School, Church, and Community Festivals: Including the Game's Statistical History; Casino Games for the HP 35s Scientific Calculator; Tic-Tac-Toe for the HP 35s Scientific Calculator: what tic-tac-toe can demonstrate about game programming; HP 35s Scientific Calculator - The Stack and the Equation Solver. He can be reached at: fredruland@hotmail.com.