Chuck,

Thanks for the feedback. You wrote:

>The students (and I) find the book to be thorough and well-written.
>They would like to see more practical examples though, to tie the
>theory to the real world. One suggestion they had was to introduce a
>couple moderately complex (real) examples at the beginning, then use
>the examples throughout all the chapters. They particularly asked for
>this in Chapters 10 and 11. They found these chapters to be quite
>difficult to read, because they did not see how these methods could be
>practically applied.

I've gotten this comment from many readers. Part of the problem is the
book's already voluminous length. However, a solution (I hope) is coming.
I'm hard at work on the 5/e of the book (to be published late next year).
We're going to have a fairly comprehensive web site to accompany the 5/e
(the book will actually be integrated with it) and will have (hopefully)
one or more complete case studies with all documentation, diagrams, etc.,
and many other goodies (that are still in the working stages) BTW, if any
of your students produced excellent work during the course and would like
to share it, I'd love to take a look.
>
>I hope that your business continues to go well. I may attend the ASQ
>conference in Cambridge on Oct. 4. I understand that you are speaking
>there. If I attend also, I'll look for you and introduce myself.

I'll be speaking on Monday morning, 4 Oct 99. If you attend, please do say
hello.

Best regards,
Roger

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