Statistics in Kinesiology - 3rd Edition Paperback - 2005

William J. Vincent, EdD, is currently the director of the General Education Wellness Program in the department of exercise sciences at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He is professor emeritus and former chair of the department of kinesiology at California State University at Northridge. He was employed at CSUN for 39 years and taught statistics and measurement theory for 35 of those years. In 1995 he received the University Distinguished Teaching Award.

Dr. Vincent has been a member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance since 1964. He has served as the president of the Southwest District of AAHPERD and was a member of the AAHPERD Board of Governors from 1993 to 1995. In 1988 he was named the Southwest District Scholar and delivered the keynote address titled "From Means to Manova" at the 1989 convention.

Dr. Vincent is the author or coauthor of four books and more than 70 professional articles. Fifty-one of those articles appeared in refereed journals, including Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, The International Journal of Sports Medicine, and the Journal of Athletic Training. He has a bachelor's degree in physical education (pedagogy) and a master's degree in physical education (exercise physiology), and he received his doctorate in educational psychology (perception and learning) in 1966 from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Dr. Vincent and his wife, Diana, live in Lindon, Utah, and have 6 children and 14 grandchildren. In his free time, Dr. Vincent enjoys camping, snow skiing and water skiing, off-road motorcycle riding, gardening, and reading.