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Many people have contributed directly and indirectly to this book, with snippets from email messages and discussion group postings and directly to me. I list here some of the people who have contributed, knowingly and unknowingly.

Damien McAullay started that Chapter on Oracle 10g and others provided suggestions, including Giuseppe Sacco, Oliver Bankel, Daniel Hofstetter, Gopal Mukkamala, and Hans Schou. John Maindonald helped with understanding R and providing some of the R insights here. Rohinton Kazak fixed many typos. Vincent McIntyre provided information on the installation of the machine I've called Vince (98.12). Lanny Godsey, Roberto Sanchez, Damien McAullay, Christian Kaske, Yoshiro Mihira, Jason Burrell, Bob Bownes, Peter Lamb, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Dean Jackson, Karsten Self, Shaul Karl, Ethan Benson, John Flinchbaugh, Nathan Norman, Noah L. Meyerhans, Manoj Srivastava, Colin Watson, and many others have provided insights and comments.

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