From: "Douglas Bates" To: "Chong Gu" Cc: Subject: Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models Date: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:31 AM Chong, I was delighted to receive a copy of your book "Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models" from Springer today. Thank you for having them send it; I look forward to reading it. Even after having spend 20 years in the office beside Grace Wahba's, I am still a little fuzzy on exactly what a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space is! I look forward to reading your book and finding out. Thanks also for the kind acknowledgement in the preface. I am sending a copy of this message to R-core to inform them that the Preface ends with the sentence Last but not least, I would like to thank the R Core Team, for creating a most enjoyable platform for statistical computing. I think that the dedication "To my father; for the books and the bookcases" is one of the best I have ever read. -- Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/