#Edited by Søren Bisgaard.
Acknowledgments
Both authors were supported by the Isenberg Program for Technology Management, the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Søren Bisgaard was also supported by the European Community (EC) through the Thematic Network–Pro-ENBIS–EC contract number G6RT–CT–200+-05059 and André de Pinho by the CNPq/Brazil–process 200446/96-7, the Richard A. Freund International Scholarship awarded by the American Society for Quality, and the Department of Statistics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte-Brazil.
Notes
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