Max was a nonclinical statistician for 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry and for 6 years in the medical diagnostic industry. His degrees are in Biostatistics (Ph.D.) and Mathematics (B.S.). He has released several R packages for predictive modeling and machine learning, including caret, C50, and Cubist. He is the author of the Springer book Applied Predictive Modeling (with Kjell Johnson), which won the American Statistical Association’s …