Phillip Good

Phillip I. Good (born in 1937) is a Canadian-American mathematical statistician, a cell biologist, and novelist. He was educated at McGill University and the University of California at Berkeley.

He was among the first to apply the bootstrap in his 1975 analyses of 2×2 designs with a missing cell. His chief contributions to statistics are in the area of small sample statistics, including a uniformly most powerful unbiased (UMPU) permutation test for Type I censored data, an exact test for comparing variances, and an exact test for cross-over designs.

His published texts in statistics include the following:
* "Managers' Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials", Wiley, NY, 2002 (2nd edition, 2006).
* "Introduction to Statistics Using Resampling Methods and R/S-Plus". Wiley, 2005.
* "Introduction to Statistics Using Resampling Methods and Excel". Wiley, 2005.
* "Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them)"(with J. Hardin), Wiley, 2003 (2nd edition, 2006).
* "Applying Statistics in the Courtroom: A New Approach for Attorneys and Expert Witnesses", Chapman Hall, London, 2001. ISBN 1584882719
* "Resampling Methods", Birkhauser, Boston, 1999 (3rd edition, 2005).
* "Permutation, Parametric and Boobstrap Tests of Hypotheses", Springer-Verlag, NY, 1994 (3rd edition, 2005).

He has published nine texts on the application of microcomputers in business as well as several hundred articles on microcomputers in over a dozen different computer magazines. Twenty-two of his short stories are in print including "Adriana" in the September 2007 issue of Hustler Fantasies. He has published 20 novels available through Kindle Books and http://zanybooks.com.