Bruce Collings

Position: Professor-Undergraduate Coordinator OFFICE HOURS 2:00-3:00 MWF Phone: 801-422-4870 Email: collings AT byu dot edu Office: 241 TMCB Teaching: STAT 441, STAT 475

A. S. A., Actuarial Science, Society of Actuaries, 1994.
Ph. D., Statistics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981.
M. S., Statistics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980.
M. S., Statistics, Brigham Young University, 1977.
M. S., Mathematics, Brigham Young University, 1975.
B. S., Mathematics, Brigham Young University, 1973.

1992-date: Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University.
1994-1997 Associate Chair, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University
1988-1992: Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University.
1986-1988: Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University.
1981-1986: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University.

Current Vitae

Grimshaw, Scott D., Bruce Jay Collings, Wayne A. Larsen and Carolyn R. Hurt (2001). "Eliciting Factor Importance in a Designed Experiment." Technometrics, 43(2), 133B146.

Wilkinson, Rachelle C., G. Bruce Schaalje and Bruce Jay Collings (2000). "Confidence Intervals for the K Statistic, with Applications to the Semiconductor Industry." Communications in Statistics, 29(2), 647B665.

Fellingham, Gilbert W., Bruce Jay Collings and Carl M. McGown (1994). "Developing an optimal scoring system with special emphasis on volleyball." Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 65(3), 237-243.

Hamilton, Martin A. and Bruce Jay Collings, (1991). "Determining the appropriate sample size for nonparametric tests for location shift." Technometrics, 33, 327-337.

Collings, Bruce Jay (1989). "Quick Confounding." Technometrics, 31, 107-110.

Collings, Bruce Jay and Martin A. Hamilton, (1988). "Estimating the power of the two-sample Wilcoxon test for location shift." Biometrics, 44, 847-860.

Collings, Bruce Jay (1987). "String Decomposition of full-period Tausworthe sequences." Communications in Statistics, Simulation & Computation, 16, 673-678.

Collings, Bruce Jay (1987). "Compound random number generators." The Journal of the American Statistical Association, 82, 525-527.

Collings, Bruce Jay and Barry H. Margolin, (1985). "Testing goodness of fit for the Poisson assumption when observations are not identically distributed." The Journal of the American Statistical Association, 80, 411-418.

Collings, Bruce Jay (1984). "Generating the intrablock and interblock subgroups for confounding in general factorials." The Annals of Statistics, 12, 1500-1509.

Collings, Bruce Jay (1983). "Characteristic polynomials by diagonal expansion." The American Statistician, 37, 233- 235.

Collings, Bruce Jay, Barry H. Margolin and Gary W. Oehlert, (1981). "Analyses for binomial data, with applications to the fluctuation test for mutagenicity." Biometrics, 37, 775-794.

2003-2006 Alcuin Fellowship in General Education, Brigham Young University
2003 Chair's Outstanding Paper Award, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University
2002 Wilcoxon Prize, Technometrics Paper of the Year, 2001
2000 Best Contributed Paper, SAS Users Group International, 25th Annual Conference
1993 Student Award for excellence in teaching, Brigham Young University.
1991 Cougar Groomer Award for excellence in teaching, Brigham Young University.
George E. Nicholson, Jr. Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
University Graduate Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
David O. McKay Scholar, Brigham Young University.

Society of Actuaries
American Statistical Association
Biometric Society - Western North American Region
Mathematical Association of America
Sigma Xi

Actuarial Science
Analysis of Count Data
Biostatistics
Combinatorics
Computational Statistics
Design of Experiments
Random Number Generation