Alan Elliott holds masters degrees in Business Administration (MBA) and Applied Statistics (MAS). He has authored or coauthored a number of scientific articles and over a dozen books on a wide variety of subjects including the Statistical Analysis Quick Reference Guidebook, Directory of Microcomputer Statistical Software, Microcomputing with Applications and other books with Que, West, John Wiley, Brady,and Marcel Dekker. He has taught courses in statistics, research methods and computing (including SAS and SPSS) at the university for over fifteen years and has been a collaborator on numerous medical research projects for over 20 years.