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Larry Leemis, Professor

Education

B.S., Mathematics, Purdue University
M.S., Applied Mathematics, Purdue University
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Mailing address: Department of Mathematics
College of William & Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
e-mail address: MY_LAST_NAME[At]math[DoT]wm[DoT]edu
Office: Jones Hall, 101C; : (voice) 757-221-2034, (fax) 757-221-7400
Vitae PDF
Short Vitae PDF
Research Interests

Reliability
Simulation
Probability
Statistics
Most recent syllabi
Books/Software

Reliability: Probabilistic Models and Statistical Methods , 1995, Prentice-Hall. ISBN: 0-13-720517-1.

Contents
Errata

Discrete Event Simulation: A First Course (with S. Park), 2006, Prentice-Hall. ISBN: 0-13-142917-5. International edition. ISBN: 0-13-202056-4.

Contents
Errata
Summary
Slides for teaching available by e-mailing Barry Lawson
C code and data files (filename listing)

Downlaod C simulation source code (40 files) as a Unix tarball: DES_1e_SourceCode.tgz --- updated 2/14/06. On Unix/Linux systems, use tar -xzvf DES_1e_SourceCode.tgz to recover files. Compile the programs by running the Makefile with: make. Execute the programs with: ./programname.
Download C simulation source code (40 files) as a Zipped file: DES_1e_SourceCode.zip --- updated 2/14/06.

Java code and data files (filename listing)

Download Java simulation source code (35 files) as a Unix tarball: DES_1e_SourceCode_Java.tgz --- updated 6/16/06. On Unix/Linux systems, use tar -xzvf DES_1e_SourceCode_Java.tgz to recover files. Compile the programs with: javac *.java. Execute the programs with: java programname.
Download Java simulation source code (35 files) as a Zipped file: DES_1e_SourceCode.zip --- updated 6/16/06.

Computational Probability: Algorithms and Applications in the Mathematical Sciences (with John Drew, Diane Evans, and Andy Glen), 2008, Springer. ISBN: 978-0-387-74675-3.

Springer website
Download APPL
Selected Articles

"Variate Generation for Accelerated Life and Proportional Hazards Models," Operations Research, Volume 35, Number 6, November-December 1987, 892-894.
"Variate Generation for the Accelerated Life and Proportional Hazards Models with Time Dependent Covariates" (with L. Shih and K. Reynertson), Statistics and Probability Letters, Volume 10, Number 1, 1990, 335-339.
"Nonparametric Estimation of the Cumulative Intensity Function for a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process," Management Science, Volume 37, Number 7, July 1991, 886-900.
"Variate Generation for Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes with Time Dependent Covariates" (with L. Shih), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Volume 44, 1993, 165-186.
"On the Minimum of Independent Geometrically Distributed Random Variables" (with G. Ciardo, D. Nicol), Statistics & Probability Letters, Volume 23, 1995, 313-326.
"A Comparison of Approximate Interval Estimators for the Bernoulli Parameter" (with K. Trivedi), The American Statistician, Volume 50, Number 1, 1996, 288-295.
"Computational Algebra Applications in Reliability Theory" (with G. Hartless), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Volume 45, Number 3, September 1996, 393-399.
"The Arctangent Survival Distribution" (with A. Glen), Journal of Quality Technology, Volume 29, Number 2, 1997, 205-210.
"A Generalized Univariate Change-of-Variable Transformation Technique" (with A. Glen, J. Drew), INFORMS Journal on Computing, Volume 9, Number 3, Summer 1997, 288-295.
"Seven Habits of Highly Successful Input Modelers," Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference, S. Andradottir, K. Healy, D. Withers, B. Nelson, Eds., 1997, 39-46.
"Simulation," Section 7.9, CRC Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, K.H. Rosen, et al., Eds., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1999. 484-491.
"Nonparametric Estimation of the Cumulative Intensity Function for a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process from Overlapping Realizations" (with B.L. Arkin), Management Science, Volume 46, Number 7, July 2000, 989-998.
"Computing the Cumulative Distribution Function of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Statistic" (with J. Drew and A. Glen), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Volume 34, Number 1, July 2000, 1-15. Algorithm. First 30 CDFs.
"Survival Distributions Satisfying Benford's Law" (with B. Schmeiser and D. Evans), The American Statistician, Volume 54, Number 4, November 2000, 236-241 errata.
"Input Modeling Using a Computer Algebra System" (with D. Evans), Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, J. Joines, R. Barton, P. Fishwick, K. Kang, Eds., 2000, 577-586.
"APPL: A Probability Programming Language" (with A. Glen, D. Evans), The American Statistician, Volume 55, Number 2, May 2001, 156-166. Original full manuscript.
"Input Modeling Techniques for Discrete-Event Simulations," Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference, B.A. Peters, J.S. Smith, D.J. Medeiros, M.W. Rohrer, Eds., 2001, 62-73.
"Computing the Distribution of the Product of Two Continuous Random Variables" (with J. Drew and A. Glen), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Volume 44, Number 3, January 2004, 451-464.
"Nonparametric Estimation and Variate Generation for a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process from Event Count Data," IIE Transactions, Volume 36, Number 12, December 2004, 1155-1160.
"Algorithms for Computing the Distributions of Sums of Discrete Random Variables" (with D. Evans), Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Volume 40, Number 13, 2004, 1429-1452.
"The Distribution of Order Statistics for Discrete Random Variables with Applications to Bootstrapping" (with D. Evans and J. Drew), INFORMS Journal on Computing, Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 2006, 19-30.
"Lower Confidence Bounds for System Reliability from Binary Failure Data Using Bootstrapping," Journal of Quality Technology, Volume 38, Number 1, January, 2006, 2-13.
"Minimum Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test Statistic Parameter Estimates" (with M. Weber and R. Kincaid), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Volume 76, Number 3, 2006, 195-206.
"Algorithms to Calculate the Distribution of the Longest Path Length of a Stochastic Activity Network with Continuous Activity Durations" (with M. Duggan, J. Drew, J. Mallozzi, K. Connell), Volume 48, Issue 3, 2006, Networks. 143-165. 143-165. Maple code for: Pritsker network, Wheatstone Bridge network, 8-path network; Algorithm, Maple code.
"Univariate Distribution Relationships" (with J. Taber), The American Statistician, Volume 62, Number 1, February 2008, 45-53.
"The Logistic-Exponential Survival Distribution" (with Y. Lan), Naval Research Logistics, Volume 55, Number 3, April 2008, 252-264.
"Nonparametric Random Variate Generation Using A Piecewise-Linear Cumulative Distribution Function" (with W. Kaczynski, N. Loehr, J. Taber), submitted for publication. S-Plus code.
Other Academic Employment The University of Oklahoma School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering, Baylor University Mathematics Department, Purdue University Mathematics Department.
Consulting/Research Experience Woodmizer, Inc., Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, Price-Trac, Institute for Computing Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), United States Army, Komag, Inc., Federal Aviation Administration, Tinker Air Force Base, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, Kelly Air Force Base, Magnetic Peripherals, Inc., AT&T Corporate Education Center, AT&T Technologies, Inc., NASA/Langley Research Center, Delco Electronics, Nisus Corporation, Leemis Marketing, Inc., Argonne National Laboratory, Dunn & Hargitt, OakBrook Data Center.
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