Dr. Robert J. Pavur

Research

Areas of Expertise

Experimental Design, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis, Forecasting Methods

Scholarly Books

Concise Managerial Statistics by Alan Kvanli, Robert Pavur, and Kellie Keeling, Thomson, 2006. At least 20 colleges and universities in the United States and other countries have adopted this text.

Introduction to Business Statistics: A Computer Integrated Approach, 6th edition, Alan Kvanli, Robert Pavur, and Kellie Keeling, Thomson, 2003.

Study Guide to Accompany Introduction to Business Statistics: A Computer Integrated Approach, 6th edition, Alan Kvanli, Robert Pavur, Kellie Keeling, Thomson, 2003.

Articles in Refereed Journals

"Unbiased F-Tests for Factorial Experiments for Correlated Data," by Robert Pavur and Truman Lewis, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, Vol. 12, No. 7, 829-840, 1983.

"Test Procedures for the Analysis of Experimental Designs with Correlated Non-Normal Data," by Robert Pavur and Truman Lewis, Communications In Statistics: Theory and Methods, Vol. 11, No. 20, 2315-2334, 1984.

"Exact F Tests in an ANOVA Procedure for Dependent Observations," by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Vol. 19, 408-420, 1984.

"The (Large) Effect of (Small) Correlations in Anova and Correction Procedures," by Robert Pavur and James Davenport, American Journal of Mathematical and Management Science, Vol. 5, No. 1, 77-92, 1985.

"A New Statistic in the One-Way Multivariate Analysis of Variance," by Ravinder Nath and Robert Pavur, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 2, 297-315, 1985.

"Test Procedures in Covariance Analysis Assuming A General Correlation Pattern," by Robert Pavur and Truman Lewis, Communications In Statistics: Theory and Methods, Vol. 15, No. 2, 472-492, 1986.

"Parametric Versus Rank Transform Procedures in the two-way Factorial Experiment: A Comparative Study," by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol. 23, No. 3, 231-240, 1986.

"The Role of Powers of Matrices in Determining the Distribution of Quadratic Forms Involving the Complex Normal Distribution," by Robert Pavur and Truman Lewis, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Vol. 76, 71-84, 1986.

"A Comparison of the Accuracy of the Box-Jenkins Method With That of Automated Forecasting Methods," by Laurette Poulos Simmons, Alan Kvanli, and Robert Pavur, International Journal of Forecasting, No. 3, 261-267, 1987.

"Distribution of Multivariate Quadratic Forms Under Certain Covariance Structures," by Robert Pavur, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 15, No. 2, 169-176, 1987.

"A Modified Kolmogorov-Simironov Test For The Inverse Gaussian Density With Unknown Parameters," by Edgeman, R. L., Scott, R. C. and Pavur, R. J., Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1203-1212, 1988.

"Type I Error Rates for Multiple Comparison Procedures With Dependent Data," by Robert Pavur, American Statistician, Vol. 42, No. 3, 171-173, 1988.

"A Note On The Effect Of Correlation and Unequal Variances In Detecting A Spurious Observation," By Young, D. M., Pavur, R. J., and Marco, V. R., Canadian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 17, No. 1, 103-105, 1989.

"Power and Type I Error Rates For Rank-Score MANOVA Techniques," by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Vol. 24, No. 4, 477-501, 1989.

"A Characterization of the Covariance Structure in Which Certain Quadratic Forms Are Independent and Follow Chi-Square Distributions," by Robert Pavur, Sankya in Part 3 of Series A, Vol 51, 382-389, 1989.

"Conditions For Invariance of the Multivariate Versions of Grubb's Test and Bartlett's Test under A General Dependency Structure," by Robert Pavur and D. M. Young, Metrika, International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Vol 38, 83-97, 1991.

"Quadratic Statistics for the Goodness-Of-Fit Test of the Inverse-Gaussian Distribution" by Robert J. Pavur, Rick L. Edgeman, and Robert C. Scott, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol 41, No. 1, 118-123, 1992.

"Examining Optimal Criterion Weights in Mixed Integer Programming Approaches to the Multiple-Groups Classification Problem," by Pavur, R. J. and Loucopoulos, C., OR, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 46, No. 46, 626-640, 1995.

"Examining changes in the Sample Variance from Omitting an Observation: Some Surprising Results," by Kvanli, A., and Pavur, R., Economic Quality Control, Vol. 10, No. 2, 129-136, June, 1995.

"Examining the Effect of Second-Order Terms in Mathematical Programming Approaches to the Classification Problem," by Wanarat, P., and Pavur, R.J., European Journal of Operational Research, Vol 93, No. 3, 582-601, 1996.

"Potential Impact of Certain Inappropriate Experimental Design Procedures in Information Systems Research," by Loucopoulos, C., and Pavur, R., International Journal of Computer and Engineering Management, Vol. 4, No. 2, 183-192, 1996.

"Monitoring the States of a Process: A Mathematical Programming Approach," by Pavur, R. and Loucopoulos, C., Economic Quality Control, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 183-192, 1996.

"Computational Characteristics of a New Mathematical Programming Model for the Three-Group Discriminant Problem," by Loucopoulos, C., and Pavur, R., Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 24, No. 2, 179-191,1997.

"Examination of Classificatory Performance of MIP Models with Secondary Goals for the Two-Group Discriminant Problem," by Pavur, R., Wanarat, P., and Loucopoulos, C., Annals of Operations Research, 173-189, Vol 74, 1997.

"Dimensionality Representation of Linear Discriminant Function Space for the Multiple-Group Problem: An MIP Approach," by Pavur, R., Annals of Operations Research, 37 - 50, Vol 74, 1997.

"Software Testing Metrics: Do They Have Merit?" by Pavur, R., Jayakumar, M., and Clayton, H., Industrial Management and Data Systems, Vol 99, No. 1 and 2, pages 5-10, 1999.

"The impact of cortisol on practice related gains in intelligence," by Kelly, K., Hayslip, B., Hobdy, J., Servaty, H., Ennis, M. and Pavur, R., Experimental Aging Research, Vol 24, pages 217-230, 1998.

"Attrition Effects in Bereavement Research: A Three Year Longitudinal Analysis," by Hayslip, B., McCoy, L, and Pavur, R., Omega, Vol 38, page 21-35, 1999.

"Using Information Technology Competence and Personal Prospects to Assess the Risk-Taking Propensity of Candidates for Business Jobs," by Pavur, R., Prybutok, V., Kappelman, L., and Richards, M., International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, Vol 5, No. 1, 27-41, 1999.

"Evaluating the effect of gap size in a single function mathematical programming model for the three group classification problem," by Pavur R., and Loucopoulos C., Journal of Operational Research Society, Vol 52 No. 8, p. 896 904, 2001.

"A Comparative Study of the Effect of the Position of Outliers on Classical and Nontraditional Approaches to the Two-Group Classification Problem," by Pavur, R., European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 136, No. 3, p. 603-615, 2002.

"Using Modular Neural Networks for Business Decisions," by David Mitchell and Robert Pavur, Management Decisions, Vol. 40 No. 1, pages 58-63, 2002.

"Insights into Gender Discrimination in Employment Compensation through the use of Classification Models," by Loucopoulos, C., Pavur, R. and Gutierrez, C., Journal of Managerial Issues, Vol 14, No. 3, pages 375-387, 2002.

"Simplified Procedure for Implementing Nonparametric Tests in Excel," by Pavur, R. and Keeling, K., Decision Line, Vol 33, No. 1, pages 8-10, 2002.

"Determinants of software volatility: a field study," by Zhang, X., Windsor, J., and Pavur, R., Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, Vol 15, No. 3, pages 191-204, 2003.

"Modeling the Distribution of DASD I/O Response Time," by Kight, T. and Pavur, R., Journal of Computer Resource Management, No. 112, pages 17-26, 2004.

"A Comparison of Methods for Approximating the Mean Eigenvalues of a Random Matrix," by Keeling, K. and Pavur, R., Communications in Statistics, Nov 2004, Vol 33, No. 4, p. 945-961.

"As the PMI Turns: A Tool for Supply Chain Managers," by Lindsey, M. and Pavur, R., Journal of Supply Chain Managment, Vol. 41, No. 1, p. 30-39, Winter 2005.

"Cultural Diversity and Learning Teams: The Impact on Desired Academic Team Processes," by Watson, W., BarNir, A., and Pavur, R., International Journal for Intercultural Relations, Vol. 29, No. 4, July 2005, p. 449-467.

"A Regression Equation Predicting 95th Percentile Eigenvalues for the Parallel Analysis Criterion in Principal Components Analysis," Keeling, K. B. and Pavur, R. J., International Journal of Quantitative & Operations Management, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2005, pp. 1-12.

"The Impact of Accounting Education on Ethical Values: An Institutional Perspective," by Alan G. Mayper, Robert Pavur, Barbara D. Merino, and William Hoops. Accounting and the Public Interest, Vol. 5, 2005, p. 32-55.

"A Comparative Study of the Reliability of Nine Statistical Software Packages," by Kellie Keeling and Robert Pavur, forthcoming in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.

Abstracts, Proceedings, and Papers Presented

"The Effects of Equicorrelated Observations on the Level of F-Tests in Factorial Experiments," presented by Robert Pavur at the American Statistical Association's Spring meeting in March of 1982.

"On the Importance of Estimating Correlations for Large Cell Size in an ANOVA Procedure," presented by Robert Pavur at the Southwest American Institute of Decision Sciences regional meeting and published in the Proceedings in March of 1982. (refereed)

"Monte Carlo Comparison of two Alternative Procedures to analyze Correlated Nonnormal Data in an Experimental Design," presented by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath at National American Institute of Decision Sciences meeting and published in the Proceedings in November of 1982. (invited)

"Dummy Variables in Regression: Which Method to use?" Presented by Al Kvanli and Robert Pavur at the Southwest American Institute of Decision Sciences' regional meeting and published in the Proceedings in March of 1983. (refereed)

"Correcting for Dependence in an ANOVA Procedure," presented by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath, presented at the Southwest American Institute of Decision Sciences' regional meeting and published in the Proceedings in March of 1983. (refereed)

"Exact F-Tests in an ANOVA Procedure for Dependent Observations," presented by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath, presented at the National American Institute of Decision Sciences meeting and published in the Proceedings in November of 1983. (refereed)

"A Rank-Based Test Statistic in the One-Way MANOVA," presented by Ravinder Nath and Robert Pavur at the National American Institute of Decision Sciences' meeting and published in the Proceedings in November of 1983. (refereed)

"The Rank Transform Procedure in the One-Way Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)," presented by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath at the Spring meeting of the American Statistical Society, March of 1984.

"Generating Correlated Non-Normal Data for Simulation Studies," presented by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath at the National American Institute of Decision Sciences' meeting and published in the Proceedings in November of 1984. (refereed)

"The Rank Transform Procedure in a Factorial Experiment," presented by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath at the Southwest American Institute of Decision Sciences regional meeting, March, 1985. (refereed)

"Generalizations of Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Quadratic Forms to be Chi-Square," presented by Robert Pavur at annual American Statistical Association meeting and abstract published in proceedings, August, 1985.

"Error Rate Estimation in Discriminant analysis Via Simulation," presented by Ravinder Nath and Robert Pavur at the Southeast American Institute of Decision Sciences, and published in Proceedings in March 1986. (refereed)

"Conditions for Independence in MANOVA," presented by Robert Pavur at the annual American Statistical Association meeting and abstract published in proceedings, August 1986.

"The Effect of Correlation on Multiple Comparison Procedures," presented by Robert Pavur at the annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute and abstract published in proceedings, November 1986. (refereed)

"Chi-Square and F Approximations for Multivariate Tests Using Rank-Scores," presented by Robert Pavur and Ravinder Nath at the Southwest American Institute of Decision Sciences regional meeting and published in the proceedings in March 1987. (refereed - received the 1987 Distinguished Paper Award for SWDSI)

"Simulation Results Using Ranks and Normal Scores in Multivariate Statistical Test," presented by Robert Pavur at the American Statistical Society meeting and published in proceedings in August 1987.

"Confidence Intervals for Derivatives of a Nonlinear Time Series Model," presented by Robert Pavur at the National Decision Science Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 1987. (refereed)

"Determining The Effect of Covariance Patterns On Multiple Comparisons," presented by Robert Pavur at the annual American Statistical Association meeting and abstract published in proceedings in August 1988.

"Multivariate Analysis Of Variance Without The Assumption Of Independent Vector Observations," presented by Robert Pavur at the annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute and abstract published in proceedings in November 1988. (refereed)

"Using the Anderson-Darling and Cramer-Von Mises Test Procedures with the Inverse Gaussian Distribution," presented by Robert Pavur, Rick Edgeman, and Robert Scott at the Southwest Decision Sciences Regional meeting and published in the proceedings in March, 1989. (refereed)

"Characterizing the Covariance Structure Under Certain Conditions Imposed On Quadratic Matrices" presented by Robert Pavur at the annual American Statistical Association meeting and abstract published in proceedings in August 1989.

"Multivariate Versions of Grubbs' Test and Bartlett's Test Without the Usual Independence Assumptions" presented by Robert Pavur and Dean Young at the National Decision Science Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 1989. (refereed)

"A Mathematical Programming Formulation For the Three-Group Discriminant Problem" presented by Constantine Loucopoulos and Robert Pavur at the Annual TIMS/ORSA meeting and abstract published in the proceedings in May 1990.

"Mixed Integer Programming Approaches to the Statistical Classification Problem For More Than Two Groups" presented by Constantine Loucopoulos and Robert Pavur at the National Decision Science Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 1990. (refereed)

"An Examination of Certain Discriminant Analysis Procedures for More than two Groups," presented by Robert Pavur and Constantine Loucopoulos at the Southwest Decision Science Institute and published in the proceedings in March 1991. (refereed)

"A Comparison of the Parametric Approaches to a Mixed Integer Programming Approach for the Discriminant Problem," presented by Robert Pavur and Constantine Loucopoulos at the National Decision Science Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 1991. (refereed)

"Evaluating the MIP Approach With a Secondary Goal For the Classification Problem" by Robert Pavur and Constantine Loucopoulos at the Annual TIMS/ORSA meeting and abstract published in proceedings in April 1992. (invited paper)

"An Investigation Of The Efficiency Of Classification Models For More Than Two Groups Using Mixed Integer Programming," presented by Constantine Loucopoulos and Robert Pavur, at the National Decision Science Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 1992. (refereed)

"An Improved MIP Formulation for The Three-group Classification problem "by Constantine Loucopoulos and Robert Pavur at the Annual TIMS/ORSA meeting and abstract published in the proceedings in May 1993. (invited paper)

"Examining Optimal Criterion Weights In Mixed Integer Programming Approaches To The Multiple-Group Classification Problem," by Robert Pavur and Constantine Loucopoulos at the Operational Research Conference 1993, sponsored by the Operational Research Society of Britain, in York, England in September 1993.

"Estimating Misclassification Rates For Linear Discriminant Functions With Generated Non-Normal Data," presented by Pradit Wanarat and Robert Pavur at the National Decision Science Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 1992. (refereed)

"Second Order Terms In LP-Based Models To Solve The Statistical Discriminant Problem," presented by Pradit Wanarat and Robert Pavur at the National Decision Science Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 1993.

"Determining The Effect of Centering Predictor Variables In A Polynomial Regression Model To Reduce Multicollinearity," presented by Robert Pavur and Pradit Wanarat at the Southwest Decision Science Institute and published in the proceedings in March 1994.

"The Two-Population Location Problem When Non-Normal Populations Have Unequal Variances," presented by Robert Pavur and Bill Brookshire at the National Decision Science Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 1994.

"Examining the Mann-Whitney Statistic When Populations Have Skewed Distributions," presented by Robert Pavur and Bill Brookshire at the Southwest Decision Science Institute and published in the proceedings in March 1995.

"Evaluating Mathematical Programming Models For The Three-Group Discriminant Problem: An Experimental Study," presented by Constantine Loucopoulos and Robert Pavur at the National Decision Science Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 1995.

"The Comparison of Two Populations with respect to Central Tendency When Nonnormal Populations have Unequal Variances," presented by Bill Brookshire and Robert Pavur at the Southwest Educational Research Association’s annual meeting, January, 1995.

"Evaluating Mathematical Programming Discriminant Models For Marketing Research," presented by Sanjay Mehta, Robert Pavur, and Pradit Wanarat at the American Marketing’s Associations national summer conference and abstract published in the proceedings in August 1995.

"An Evaluation of Prediction Intervals For the Future Reliability of a Software Package," presented by Robert Pavur and Alan Pryor at the National Decision Science Institute and published in the proceedings in November 1996.

"Examining the Classification Performance of Neural Network Models and Parametric Methods for Classifying Distributions from the Weibull Family," presented by Robert Pavur, David Mitchell, Junsub Yi, and Joe Newton at the Southwest Decision Science Institute and published in the proceedings in March 1997.

"Learning Orientation and Its Relationship to Perceptual Skills for Information Presentation: An Empirical Investigation Using Structural Equation Modeling," presented by Yager, S. and Pavur, R. at the Southwest Decision Science Institute and published in the proceedings in March 1997.

"A Two-Phase Mathematical Programming Approach to the Three-Group Discriminant Problem," by Constantine Loucopoulos and Robert Pavur at the National Decision Science Institute and published in the proceedings in November 1997.

"Evaluation of a Proposed Goodness-of-Fit Test for a Poisson Process," by Bob McQuaid and Robert Pavur at the National Decision Science Institute and presented in the proceedings in November 1997.

"An Empirical Assessment of the Role of Eight Dimensions in Enhancing the Marketability of a Product Through Continuous Improvement Processes," presented by Paul Dreyfeus and Robert Pavur at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in March 1998.

"Southwest Decision Sciences Institute - A Retrospective Panel Discussion Recognizing SWFAD’s Twenty-Fifth Aniversary Conference," presented by panel members William Pinney, Roy Martin, Thomas Jones, G. W. Willis, David Douglas, Robert Pavur, and Sam Bruno at the Southwest Decision Science Institute.

"An Investigation of Previous and Proposed Methodology for Obtaining Expected Values of Eigenvalues From a Sample Correlation Matrix," presented by Kellie Keeling and Robert Pavur at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in March 1998.

"Relationships Between Cronbach’s Reliability Estimate and Research Design Characteristics in Information Systems," by Kellie Keeling and Robert Pavur at the National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 1998.

"Examining the Field of Data Mining: Necessary Expertise Levels and Training Requirements," by Alan Pryor, Robert Pavur, and Rick Yellen at the National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 1998.

"A Neural Networks Approach to Estimating Mean Values of Eigenvalues for a Random Matrix And Applications to Variable Subset Selection," by Kellie Keeling and Robert Pavur presented at the INFORMS conference in October 1998.

"Examination of a Grid Based Procedure for the Multiple Group Classification Problem Using Mathematical Programming," by Loucopoulos, C., and Pavur, R., presented at the INFORMS conference in October 1998.

"Examining Estimates of a Mixture of Beta Densities to Model Observed Significance Levels from Central and Non-central t Distributions," by Kellie B. Kelling and Robert Pavur at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in March 1999.

"A Regression Equation Predicting 95th Percentile Eigenvalues for the Parallel Analysis Criterion in Principal Components Analysis," by Kellie Keeling and Robert Pavur at the National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 1999.

"Examining the Classificatory Performance of Modular and Radial Basis Neural Networks with Traditional Classification Methods," by David Mitchell and Robert Pavur at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in March 2000 (received the Best Paper Award).

"Accounting: A Moral Issue?" by Alan Mayper, William Hoops, Robert Pavur, and Barbara Merino at the Sixth Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, July 2000 in Manchester, England.

"Information Quality of Commercial Web Site Home Pages: An Explorative Analysis" by Xiaoni Zhang, Kellie Keeling, and Robert Pavur presented at the International Conference of Information Systems, December 200, in Brisbane, Australia.

"Home Page, Sweet Home Page: An Exploratory Analysis across industries" by Xiaoni Zhang, Kellie Keeling, and Robert Pavur at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2000.

"On the classification gap of a three-group MP model: Empirical and theoretical classificatory performance" by Loucopoulos, C., and Pavur, R. at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2000.

"A Proposed Causal Model Relating Information on Internal Manufacturing Cost to Market Share," by Paul Dreyfeus and Robert Pavur at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2001.

"Classification Models for Predicting Transportation Mode Choice for Commuters in a Major Metropolitan Area," by David Mitchell and Robert Pavur at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2001.

"Estimating Locations of Mean Shifts in the Change Point Problem: A Nonparametric Approach," by Kellie Kelling, Robert Pavur, and Joe Sullivan at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2001.

"Airline Safety Data: How Predictable are Accidents and Fatalities?" by Pamela Rogers, David Mitchell, and Robert Pavur at Southwest Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in March 2002.

"Discriminating Between Groups of Data from Mixtures of Distributions with Increasing Hazard Rate Functions," by David Mitchell and Robert Pavur at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2002.

"Factors Influencing A Web Customer’s Choice of A Primary Internet Retailer," by A.B.M Abdullah and Robert Pavur at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2003.

"Evaluating Forecast Models To Monitor Air Quality Managment," by A.B.M. Abdullah, David Mitchell, and Robert Pavur at Southwest Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in March 2003.

"Examining Cyclical Nature of the Purchasing Managers Index and Its Components," by Matt Lindsey and Robert Pavur at Southwest Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in March 2004.

"Can Supply Chain Managers Forecast with the PMI?" by Matt Lindsey and Robert Pavur at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2004.

"Examining Numerical Accuracy of Excel 2003," by Robert Pavur and Kellie Keeling at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2004.

"Spreadsheet Regression Enhancements," by Frank Landram and Robert Pavur at National Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in November 2004.

"Extracting Principal Components Using Mathematical Programming," by Kellie Keeling, Constantine Loucopoulos, Robert Pavur at the national Decision Sciences Institute’s meeting in November 2005.

"A Comparison of Methods for Forecasting Intermittent Demand with Increasing or Decreasing Demand Occurrences," by Matt Lindsey and Robert Pavur at annual Decision Sciences Institute meeting and published in the proceedings in November 2005. Awarded DSI Distinguished Paper Award.

"Applying Software Reliability Techniques to Low Retail Demand Estimation," by Matt Lindsey and Robert Pavur at Southwest Decision Sciences Institute and published in the proceedings in March 2005.

"Should Multiple Regression Be Taught In The First Statistics Course?" Panel Presentation at the national meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute in November 2005.

"Determining Valid Underlying Retail Demand Rates for Proposed Prediction Model of Slow Moving Merchandise," by Matt Lindsey and Robert Pavur at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute’s meeting and published in the proceedings in March 2006.

"Assurance of Learning Assessment in Statistics, Production/Operations/Supply Chain Management and Management Science/Operations Research," by Robert Pavur, Tom Jones, and Charlotte Jones, presentation made at the annual Southwest Decision Sciences Institute’s meeting March 2006.