William W. S. Wei is Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics, Fox School of Business and Management Temple University. His research interest includes time series analysis, forecasting methods, statistical modeling, and applications of statistics in business and economics.
本書的作者魏武雄(William W. S. Wei)教授任教於美國天普大學(Temple University)統計學系，同時還擔任多本統計學術期刊的副主編，將臺灣之光頒給魏教授可說一點也不為過。魏教授主要的研究領域即為時間序列分析，並在季節性調整、聚集以及向量時間序列分析上有許多重要的研究成果，這也使得本書特別豐富精彩。
