Sven Knoth is a Professor of Computational Statistics at the Helmut Schmidt University, the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany. His main research areas include statistical process control, implementation of statistical algorithms in software, and applications of statistics in engineering. He has authored more than 60 research papers and he is an Associate Editor of the journals Computational Statistics and Quality Engineering.
Wolfgang Schmid is a Professor of Statistics at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His main research areas include statistical process control, statistics in finance, spatial statistics, and environmetrics. He has authored more than 160 research papers and he is an Associate Editor of Sequential Analysis, AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, and Journal of Multivariate Analysis. Between 2012-2020 he was the President of the German Statistical Society.