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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

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. Bj๘rkest๘l).                                             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.

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