Richard P. Runyon lived a full and rewarding life. He received his B.A. from Drew University and his Ph.D. from Yale University
and was a fellow in the Sheffield Scientific School.  At the peak of his career, he served as chair of the Department of Psychology
and as Dean of the Science Faculty at C.W. Post College in Brookville, New York. He Published a number of articles in 
psychology journals and authored or coauthored many books in statistics and psychology, including this text; Fundamentals
of Behavioral Statistics: The Core; Fundamentals of Psychology; General Statistics; Fundamentals of Statistics in Biological,
Medical, and Health Sciences; Business Statistics; Psychology of Adjustment; Winning with Statistics; and How Numbers Lie.



Kay A. Coleman is an Associate Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University. She received
her Ph.D. from Boston College and a Master's of Public Health from Harvard University. At Boston University she is Director
of Undergraduate Studies for the Psychology Department, where she teaches courses in experimental design, statistics,
and memory at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research focuses on studies of remote autobiographical memory,
particularly the accuracy of memories from childhood and health-related memories from childhood and health-related memories.
In addition to co-author this textbook, she is also co-author with Richard Runyon of another textbook, Behavioral Statistics: 
The Core. She is a past President of the New England Educational Research Organization and was elected to membership
in the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology. She is an honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor 
Society, a member of Psi Chi and the American Psychological Society, and a Fellow in the American Psychological 
Association. 



David J. Pittenger is an Associate Professor and the chair of the Department of Psychology at Marietta College in Marietta,
Ohio. He received his B.A. in psychology from the College of Wooster, his Master's of Science from Texas A & M University,
and his Ph.D. from th University of Georgia. In addition to teaching courses in statistics and research design, David teaches
courses in physiological psychology, psychometrics, learning and behavior, and and cognitive psychology. David has 
many interests in psychology and has written articles on the partial reinforcement extinction effect, the ethical responsibilities
of psychologists, the validity of personality inventories, and the teaching of psychology. In 1987 he received the Early Career
Award for teaching from Division 2 of the American Psychological Association. In 1997, David received the McCoy Teaching
Fellowship from Marietta College, the colleges' award for excellence in teaching. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological
Association, and a member of the American Psychological Society, and the American Statistical Association. 

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