Publications

 

Publications

Allise Wachs Publications

A Doe Primer” Fabricating & Metalworking.  Interview by Tim Heston, March, 2006.

Capability Indices Can DeceiveManufacturing Engineering, November, 2005.

Just the Right Size.Fabricating & Metalworking.  Interview by Phil Waters, August 26, 2005.

Do You Use SPC Correctly?  Misapplication of Statistical Process Control can Damage Your Operations.” Manufacturing Engineering, March, 2005 Vol. 134 No. 3.

Made in the USA: Eliminating Inefficiencies—Not US Profits!  A book.  Submitted, 2005.

“Accounting for Risk Exposure in Failure Rate Analysis.” Michigan Defense Quarterly, submitted 2005.

“Optimal Decision Sequences for Stochastic Infinite Horizon Problems,” (with I.E. Schochetman and R.L. Smith), submitted to Operations Research, 2005.

“Design of Experiments II.”  Textbook for a 32 hour course published and copyrighted by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2003.

“Analysis of Beryllium Lymphocyte Proliferation Test using Statistical Process Control.”  Technical Report Exponent Health Group (with Daniel Cher), 2002.

“Design of Experiments I:  A First Course.”  Text for a 32 hour course published and copyrighted by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2002.

“Statistical Process Control I:  A First Course.”  Text for a 32 hour course published and copyrighted by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2002.

“Statistical Process Control II.”  Text for a 32 hour course published and copyrighted by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2002.

“Statistical Analysis for Process Improvement.” Text for a 32 hour course published and copyrighted (with Steven Wachs) by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2002.

“Measurement System Assessment.”  Text for a 16 hour course published and copyrighted by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2002.

“Analysis of the Relationship Between Passenger Vehicle Weight and the Risk of Traffic Fatality and Injury,” prepared for General Motors Corporation for CAFÉ legislation (with R. Ray, K. Ramachandran, and A. Donelson), April 2001.

“Reliability Analysis.”  Seminar book for a 16 hour course published and copyrighted by MRI, April 2000.

“Stochastic Infinite Horizon Optimization with Average Cost Criterion,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1998.

“Quantifying the Number of Probes for Testing Route Guidance Systems,” Transportation Research Board, (with S. Underwood), 1994.

“The Expected Value of Perfect Information: Applications to Route Guidance and Traffic Control,” IVHS Technical Report 93-06, June 1993 (with R.L. Smith).


Steven Wachs Publications

Capability Indices Can Deceive.Manufacturing Engineering, November 2005 Vol. 135, No. 5.

“Introduction to Quality: Concepts and Methods”, Textbook for an 8-hour course published and copyrighted by a client of Integral Concepts, Inc., 2005.

“Regression Analysis”, Textbook for an 8-hour course published and copyrighted by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2005.

Patent:  Method For Analyzing Warranty Claim Data, assigned to Ford Motor Company, 2004.

“Reliability Analysis”, Textbook for a 32-hour course published and copyrighted by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2003.

“Statistics, Hypothesis Testing, & Regression”, Textbook for a 32 hour course published and copyrighted by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2003.

“Variation & Statistics”, Textbook for a 16-hour course published and copyrighted by Integral Concepts, Inc., 2004.


Vijay Nair Publications

S. Dass and V. Nair (2003) "Edge-Detection, Spatial Smoothing and Image Reconstruction with Partially Observed Multivariate Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 98, pp. 77-89. 

V. Nair, L. Escobar, and M. Hamada (2003) "Design and Analysis of Experiments for Reliability Assessment and Improvement," Chapter in Mathematical Reliability: An Expository Perspective, edited by Mazzuchi, Singpurwaala, and Soyer, Kluewer Academic Publishers (to appear). 

V. Nair and L. Xu (2002) "Optimal Design of Experiments for Modeling Processes with Feedback Control Variables," 
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference Vol. 113, pp. 269-284. 

V. Nair, W. Taam and Q. Ye (2002) "Analysis of Functional Responses from Robust Design Experiments," 
Journal of Quality Technology pp 355-370. 

W. Jiang, H. Wu, F. Tsung, V. Nair, and K. Tsui (2002) "PID-Based Control Charts for Process Monitoring," Technometrics Vol. 44, pp. 204-215. 

W. Brenneman and V. Nair (2001) "Methods for Identifying Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Factorial Experiments: 
A Critical Analysis and Proposed Strategies," Technometrics , Vol.43, pp 388-405. 

V. Nair, B. Tang, and L. Xu (2001) "Bayesian Inference for Some Mixutre Models in Reliability," Journal of Quality Technology Vol.33, pp. 16-27. 

V. Nair, M. Hansen, and J. Shi (2000) "Statistics in Advanced Manufacturing," JASA pp. 1002-1005. 

F. Tsung, H. Wu, and V. Nair (1998) "On the Efficiency and Robustness of Discrete Proportional-Integral Control Schemes" Technometrics , Vol.40, pp. 214-220. 

V. Nair, D. James, W. Ehrlich, J. Zevallos, J. (1998), "A Statistical Assessment of Some Software Testing Strategies and Application of Experimental Design Techniques," Statistica Sinica pp. 165-184. 

J. Bérubé and V. Nair (1998) "Exploiting the Inherent Structure in Robust Parameter Design Experiments, Statistica Sinica, pp. 43-66. 

W. Ehrlich, V. Nair, M. Alam, W. Chen. and M. Engel, (1998) "Software Reliability Assessment Using Accelerated Testing Methods," Journal of the Royal Statistics Society, Series C -- Applied Statistics, pp. 15-30. 

O. Patterson, P. Khargonekar, D. Grimard, X. Dong, and V. Nair (1997) "Empirical Modeling of Reactive Ion Etching for Reduction of Variance via Robust Design, Real-Time Feedback and Run-to-Run Control," The Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Process Control, Diagnostics, and Modeling in Semiconductor Manufacturing, edited by M. Meyyappan, D.J. Economou and S.W.Butler, Vol. 97-9, The Electrochemical Society, Inc., pp. 45-54. 

M. Hansen, V. Nair, and D. Friedman (1997) "Monitoring Wafer Map Data in Integrated Circuit Fabrication for Spatially Clustered Defects," Technometrics, Vol.39, pp 241-253. 

M. Lunani, V. Nair, and G. Wasserman (1997) "Graphical Methods for Robust Design with Dynamic Characteristics," Journal of Quality Technology Vol 29, pp. 327-338. 

D. Friedman, M. Hansen, V. Nair, and D. James (1997) "Model-Free Estimation of Defect Clustering in Integrated Circuit Fabrication," IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol.10, pp. 344-359 


Edward Rothman Publications

Estimation of phylogenetic relationships for DNA restriction patterns and selection endonuclease Rest. Sites, (with J. Adams). (1982) Proceedings of the National Academy, U.S.A. 79

Statistics: Methods and applications, (with W. A. Ericson). (1st Edition, 1982; 2nd Edition, 1987) Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa

A model of weak selection in the infinite alleles framework, (with N. C. Weber). (1986) Journal of Mathematical Biology 24 353-360. 

A revised indirect estimate of mutation rates in Amerindians, (with J. V. Neel, H. W. Mohrenweiser, and J. M. Naidu). (1986) American Journal of Human Genetics 38 649-666. 

Distributions on partitions, (with R. W. Keener and N. Starr). (1987) Annals of Statistics 15 1466-1481. 

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