Eric J. Beh is Professor of Statistics at the School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has been actively researching in many areas of categorical data analysis including ecological inference, measures of association and categorical models. For the past 25 years his research has focused primarily on the technical, computational and practical development of correspondence analysis. He has over 100 publications and, with Rosaria Lombardo, has authored Correspondence Analysis: Theory, Methods and New Strategies published by Wiley. Together, they have given short courses and workshopsaround the world on this topic.
Rosaria Lombardo is Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Economics of the University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Italy. Her research interests include non-linear multivariate data analysis, quantification theory and, in particular, correspondence analysis and data visualization. Since receiving her PhD in Computational Statistics and Applications at the University of Naples "Federico II", she has authored over 100 publications including those in Statistical Science, Psychometrika, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, and the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.