Technical Reports

To request a technical report published prior to Fall 2004, please contact Christina Dillon.

2004

Technical Report No. 04-5

Distributional Properties of the Multivariate T² Statistic Based on the Successive Differences Covariance Matrix Estimator

Williams, James D., Woodall, William H., Birch, Jeffrey B. and Sullivan, Joe H.

September 30, 2004

Technical Report No. 04-6

Evaluating And Interpreting Interaction

Klaus Hinkelmann

December 13, 2004

Technical Report No. 04-7

Woodall, William, Spitzner, Dan, Montgomery, Douglas, adn Gupta Shilpa

Using Control Charts to Monitor Process and Product Quality Profiles

July 2004

2005

Technical Report No. 05-1

Cost Penalized Estimation and Prediction Evaluation for Split-Plot Designs

Li Liang, Christine M. Anderson-Cook, Timothy J. Robinson

February 2, 2005

Technical Report No. 05-3

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

Dr. Irving J. Good

March 7, 2005

If anyone needs the entire report please contact Dr. Good at ijgood@vt.edu

Technical Report No. 05-4

Construction Concepts for Continuum Regression

Dan J. Spitzner

August 28, 2005

Technical Report No. 05-5

A Bayesian Hierarchical Approach to Dual Response Surface Modelling

Younan Chen and Keying Ye

Technical Report No. 05-6

High Breakdown Estimation Methods for Phase I Multivariate Control Charts

Willis A. Jensen, Jeffrey B. Birch, and William H. Woodall

Technical Report No. 05-7    [R Code]  [Original Data]  [Coded Data]

Robust Parameter Design: A Semi-Parametric Approach

Stephanie M. Pickle, Timothy J. Robinson, Jeffrey B. Birch, Christine M. Anderson-Cook

2006

Technical Report No. 06-1

Statistical Monitoring of Heteroscedastic Dose-Response Profiles from High-throughput Screening

J. D. Williams, J. B. Birch, W. H. Woodall, and N. M. Ferry

Technical Report No. 06-2

Profile Monitoring via Linear Mixed Models

Willis A. Jensen, Jeffrey B. Birch, and William H. Woodall

Technical Report No. 06-3

A Finite Mixture Approach for Identification of Geographic Regions with Distinctive Ecological Stressor-Response Relationships

David Farrar, Samantha C. Bates-Prins, and Eric P. Smith

Technical Report No. 06-4

Profile Monitoring via Nonlinear Mixed Models

Willis A. Jensen and Jeffrey B. Birch

Technical Report No. 06-5

A Semiparametric Approach to Dual Modeling

Timothy J. Robinson, Jeffrey B. Birch, and B. Alden Starnes

Technical Report No. 06-6

Clustering Monitoring Stations Based on Two Rank-Based Criteria of Similarity of Temporal Profiles

David Farrar and Eric Smith

Technical Report No. 06-7

Approaches to the Label-Switching Problem of Classificiation, Based on Partition-Space Relabeling and Label-Invariant Visualization

David Farrar

Technical Report No. 06-8

The Use of Control Charts in Health-Care and Public-Health Surveillance

Woodall, William

2007

Technical Report No. 07-1

Error Models in Geographic Information Systems Vector Data Using Bayesian Methods

Kimberly R. Love, Eric P. Smith, Keying Ye, and Stephen P. Prisley

Technical Report No. 07-2

Statistical Monitoring of Nonlinear Product and Process Quality Profiles

James D. Williams, William H. Woodall, and Jeffrey B. Birch

Technical Report No. 07-3

Linear Mixed Model Robust Regression

Megan J. Waterman, Jeffrey B. Birch, and Oliver Schabenberger

2008

Technical Report No. 08-1

An Investigation of Combinations of Multivariate Shewhart and MEWMA Control Charts for Monitoring the Mean Vector and Covariance Matrix

Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. and Zachary G. Stoumbos

Technical Report No. 08-3

Monitoring Markov Dependent Observations with a Log-Likelihood Based CUSUM

Shabnam Mousavi and Marion R. Reynolds, Jr.

Technical Report No. 08-4

Technical Report on the Evaluation of Median Rank Regression and Maximum Likelihood Estimation Techniques for a Two-Parameter Weibull Distribution

Denisa Olteanu and Laura Freeman

2009

Technical Report No. 09-1

A Semiparametric Technique for the Multi-Response Optimization Problem

Wen Wan and Jeffrey B. Birch

Technical Report No. 09-2

An Improved Genetic Algorithm Using a Directional Search

Wen Wan and Jeffrey B. Birch

2010

Technical Report No. 10-1

A Test for an Abrupt Change in Weibull Hazard Functions with Staggered Entry and Type I Censoring

Matthew R. Williams and Dong-Yun Kim

Technical Report No. 10-2

Nonparametric and Semiparametric Mixed Model Methods for Phase I Profile Monitoring

Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-Salam, Jeffrey B. Birch, and Willis A. Jensen

2011

Technical Report No. 11-1

Using a Modified Genetic Algorithm to Find Feasible Regions of a Desirability Function

Wen Wan and Jeffrey B. Birch

Technical Report No. 11-2

On Computing the Distribution Function for the Sum of Independent and Non-identical Random Indicators

Yili Hong

Technical Report No. 11-3

Model Robust Calibration: Method and Application to Electronically-Scanned Pressure Transducers

Eric L. Walker, B. Alden Starnes, Jeffrey B. Birch and James E. Mays