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PANEL ON STATISTICAL METHODS FOR TESTING AND EVALUATING DEFENSE SYSTEMS
JOHN E. ROLPH (Chair),
School of Business Administration, University of Southern California
MARION BRYSON,
U.S. Army (Retired), Marina, California
HERMAN CHERNOFF,
Department of Statistics, Harvard University
JOHN D. CHRISTIE,
Logistics Management Institute, McLean, Virginia
LOUIS GORDON,
Filoli Information Systems, Palo Alto, California
KATHRYN B. LASKEY,
Department of Systems Engineering and Center of Excellence in C3I, George Mason University
ROBERT C. MARSHALL,
Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University
VIJAYAN N. NAIR,
Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
ROBERT T. O'NEILL,
Division of Biometrics, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
STEPHEN M. POLLOCK,
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
JESSE H. POORE,
Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee
FRANCISCO J. SAMANIEGO,
Division of Statistics, University of California, Davis
DENNIS E. SMALLWOOD,
The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
DUANE L. STEFFEY, Study Director
MICHAEL L. COHEN, Senior Program Officer
ANU PEMMARAZU, Research Assistant
ERIC M. GAIER, Consultant
CANDICE S. EVANS, Project Assistant
COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS
1994-1995
NORMAN M. BRADBURN (Chair),
National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
JOHN E. ROLPH (Vice Chair),
School of Business Administration, University of Southern California
JOHN F. GEWEKE,
Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
JOEL B. GREENHOUSE,
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
ERIC A. HANUSHEK,
W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester
ROBERT M. HAUSER,
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison
NICHOLAS JEWELL,
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
WILLIAM NORDHAUS,
Department of Economics, Yale University
JANET NORWOOD,
The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.
EDWARD B. PERRIN,
Department of Health Services, University of Washington
KEITH F. RUST,
Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland
DANIEL L. SOLOMON,
College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, North Carolina State University
MIRON L. STRAF, Director