Atanu Biswas, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Applied Statistics Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in India. Dr. Biswas has authored more than eighty published articles and also serves as Associate Editor of several journals, including Sequential Analysis and Communications in Statistics. He is the recipient of the M.N. Murthy Award for his research in applied statistics. Sujay Datta, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Northern Michigan University and Visiting Research Scientist in the Department of Statistics at TexasA&M University, where he is part of a bioinformatics research program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Datta's research interests include high-throughput data, genomics, and models based on graphs/networks. Jason P. Fine, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also serves as Associate Editor of several journals, including Biometrics, Biostatistics, and the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. Mark R. Segal, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Segal has published extensively and currently focuses his research in the area of bioinformatics.