Professor Everitt is an emeritus professor of King's College, London, having retired in 2004. He is the author of over 70 books on statistics including two previously published by Springer, Chance Rules and An Introduction to Multivariate Analysis with R (jointly authored with Professor Torsten Hothorn). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Statistical Methods in Medical Research (SMMR). In his retirement Professor Everitt continues to write and to edit SMMR, in between frequent games of tennis and long walks in the countryside.