An Introduction to Optimal Designs for Social and Biomedical Research

Martijn Berger, Department of Methodology and Statistics, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Professor Berger has been teaching and conducting research in this area for over 20 years. He has an extensive collection of publications to his name, including articles in a wide range of journals, a contributed chapter in Wiley's recent Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioural Science, and the 2005 book Applied Optimal Designs, co-authored with Weng Kee Wong.

Weng Kee Wong, Department of Biostatistics, University of California - Los Angeles, USA
One of the leading experts in the US working in this field, Professor Wong is currently conducting grant-funded research into making optimal design methods more accessible for practitioners. As well as co-authoring Applied Optimal Designs, he has published over a hundred refereed articles, in numerous journals. He has held the position of Associate Editor for many such journals, including a current, second 3-year term for Biometrics.