jsm97rr.pdf is the presidential invited address I gave at JSM07, and is something of a "Big Picture" of the first part of the class. You will see other parts of some more recent talks, found in the TALKS directory of my home page. dissimilarity.overview.pdf is an overview of the use of dissimilarity which will be discussed. It has appeared in G. Wahba " Dissimilarity Data in Statistical Model building and Machine Learning. " Fifth International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Vol 51, 2012, 785-809. Lizhen Ji, Yat Sun Poon, Lo Yang and Shing-Tung Yao, Eds. jsm.14.fisher.pdf is the Fisher lecture I gave at JSM in 2014. Involves dissimilarity data and spline ANOVA. waba.wang.overview2015.pdf is an encyclopedia entry for "spline" .......................... J. Kong, B. E. K. Klein, R. Klein, K. Lee and G. Wahba " Using distance correlation and SS-ANOVA to assess associations of familial relationships, lifestyle factors, diseases and mortality " /pdf3/kong.klein.lee.wahba.2012.pdf A bit of history can be found in G. Wahba " Statistical Model Building, Machine Learning and the Ah-Ha Moment " TR 1173, March 2013. Invited for "Past, Present and Future of Statistical Science" Invited by COPSS for their 50th Anniversary celebratory volume. Consists mostly of personal reminiscences. /pdf3/trll73.pdf