Dr. Bruce L. Bowerman (late) was a professor of decision sciences at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He got his Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University in 1974, and had over 40 years of experience teaching basic statistics, time series forecasting, regression analysis, survey sampling, and design of experiments to both graduate and undergraduate students. In 1987, Dr. Bowerman got an Outstanding Teaching award from the Miami University, and in 1992 he received an Effective Educator award from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration. Together with Richard T. O’Connell, Bruce has written over 15 textbooks. These include Forecasting, Time Series, and Regression: An Applied Approach (also coauthored with Anne B. Koehler); Forecasting and Time Series: An Applied Approach; and Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach. He also published a number of articles in time series forecasting, applied stochastic processes, and statistical education.