Michael B. Dollinger
Professor of Mathematics, 1981–present
Emeritus Professor, 1998–present
Chair, 1992–1994
Department of Mathematics, Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma WA 98447
Phone: (253) 536-4899 e-Mail: DollinMB@plu.edu
Education
Ph.D.
University of Illinois 1968
M.S. University of Illinois 1965
B.A. University of Rochester 1963
Publications
Testing for homogeneity in meta-analysis I. The one-parameter case: standardized mean difference, Biometrics, 2011, V.67, p.203–212 (with E. Kulinskaya, K. Bjørkestøl).
Robust weighted one-way ANOVA: Improved approximation and efficiency, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2007, V.137, p.462–472 (with E. Kulinskaya).
A
Welch-type test for homogeneity of contrasts under heteroscedasticity with
application to meta-analysis, Statistics in Medicine, 2004, V.23,
p.3655–3670 (with E. Kulinskaya, E. Knight and H. Gao).
see also the associated technical report, of the same title, which contains further results:
Technical report 2002-1, HRDSU, University of Hertfordshire, U.K., 2003
On the moments of a Stahel-Donoho robust multivariate estimator, Journal of
Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2001, p. 89–106 (with K.
Bjørkestøl).
see also the associated technical report, of the same title, which contains further results:
Technical report No. 66, Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway, 1999, p.1-22.
Asymptotics of guarded weights of evidence, Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference, 2000, V.86(1), p. 11–29 (with E. Kulinskaya).
see also the associated technical report, of the same title, which contains further
results:Technical report 96/8,
School of Statistical Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1996,
p.1-31.
Guarded
weights of evidence and acceptability profiles based on signs: II. Asymptotic
results, Australia & New Zealand J. Statistics, 1999, V. 41(4), p.
451–461 (with E. Kulinskaya and R.G. Staudte).
Guarded
weights of evidence and acceptability profiles based on signs: I. Permutation
arguments, Australia & New Zealand J. Statistics, 1999, V. 41(1), p.
901–921 (with E. Kulinskaya and R.G. Staudte).
Fuzzy hypothesis tests and confidence intervals in Information, Statistics and Induction in Science (D.L. Dowe, K.B. Korb and J.J. Oliver, eds.), 1996, p. 119–128, World Scientific (with E. Kulinskaya and R.G. Staudte).
When is a p-value a good measure of evidence? in Robust Statistics, Data Analysis, and Computer Intensive Methods (H. Rieder, ed.), No. 109 in Lecture Notes in Statistics, 1996, p.119–134, Springer-Verlag (with E. Kulinskaya and R.G. Staudte).
Influence functions of iteratively reweighted least squares estimators, J. Amer. Stat. Assoc., 1991, V.86, p. 709–716 (with R.G. Staudte).
Efficiency of reweighted least squares iterates, in Directions in Robust Statistics and Diagnostics Part I (Stahel & Weisberg, eds.), 1991 p. 61–66, Springer-Verlag (with R.G. Staudte).
The construction of equileverage designs for multiple linear regression, Australian J. Stat., 1990, V. 32, p. 99–118 (with R.G. Staudte).
The effects of acentric colony location on the energetics of avian coloniality, Amer. Naturalist, 1984, V. 124, p. 189–204 (with J.F. Wittenberger).
Maximal functional calculi, Revue Romaine Math. Pures et Appl., 1973, V. 18, p. 1051–1054 (with K.K. Oberai).
On the spectrum of an operator, Glasgow Math J., 1972, V. 13, p. 98–101 (with K.K. Oberai).
Variation of local spectra, J. Math. Analysis and Appl., 1972, V. 39, p. 324–337 (with K.K. Oberai).
Nuclear topologies consistent with a duality, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 1969, V. 23, p. 565–568.
A type of spectral decomposition for a class of operators, J. Math. and Mech., 1969, V. 18, p. 1059–1066.
Some Aspects of Spectral Theory on Banach Spaces, Ph.D. dissertation, U. of Illinois, 1968, p. 1–98 (Robert G. Bartle, advisor).
Predicting effectiveness of Bayesian classification systems, Psychometrika, 1966, V. 31, p. 341–349 (with L.M. Herman).
Professional Memberships
American
Mathematical Society
American
Statistical Association
Institute for Mathematical Statistics
Mathematical
Association of America
Selected Consulting
Experience
Pacific Lutheran University (performance audit of
mathematics placement system)
Pacific
Lutheran University (statistical analysis of faculty salary structure)
Pierce County (WA) Sheriff’s Office (scheduling of work
shifts)
Pierce County (WA) Landfill (sampling procedures for
hazardous wastes)
Eiker-Wiles and Associates (design of survey about
recycling for Ventura, CA)
Miscellaneous consulting on academic research (faculty from business, nursing, psychology, education, physical education, sociology and zoology)
Other Academic Experience
Previous
positions
University
of Washington
Louisiana State University
Visiting
positions
University
of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England: 8/02
– 9/02
La
Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia:
10/95 – 12/97, 8/87 – 12/87.
Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway: 7/94 – 8/95.
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand: 1/88 – 6/88.
Zhongshan
(Sun Yat-Sen) University, Guangzhou, China:
9/85 – 7/86.
University
of California, Berkeley: 9/71 – 8/72.
University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada:
5/70 – 8/70.
Queens University, Kingston, Canada: 5/69 – 8/69.