This IMA folder in mathematics and its applications in statistical models in epidemiology, environment and clinical trial is combined procedures on "Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials" and "Statistics and Epidemiology: Environment and Health". This volume is the third series based on the very successful 1997 IMA Summer Program on Statistics in Health Sciences.

I would like to thank the organizers: Elizabeth Haloran of Emory University (Biostatistics) Berry of Duke University (Institute) of Statistics and Decision Sciences and Cancer Center Vital Statistics) for their excellent work as organizers of the meeting and for the liberalization of procedures. I am grateful to Seymour Gieser of the University of Minnesota (Statistics), Patricia Gramsbach of the University of Minnesota (Biostatistics); Joel Greenhouse, Carnegie Mellon University (Statistics); Nicholas Lang, Harvard Medical School University of Minnesota (Statistics); Scott Zeger, Johns Hop- kins University (Biostatistics); Marvin Zellin, Harvard School of Public Health (Biostatistics) for organizing the six-week summer program .

I also take this opportunity to thank the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Army Research Office (ARO), which enabled its financial support to hold the workshop. Willard Miller Jr..

I want that book.