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David Annis, Ph.D.7155 Fairhill
Place
Charlotte, NC 28270
phone: (704) 499-4570
e-mail: David@AnnisAssociates.com
Professional Experience
| 08/2007 - present |
Professional Consulting Statistician,
David Annis, Ph.D. & Associates |
| 06/2006 - present |
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Vice President, Internal Audit 05/2007 - 05/2007
Vice President, Structured Transactions & Analytical Research 06/2006 -
05/2007
Wachovia Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 07/2004 - 06/2006 |
Assistant Professor,
Operations Research Department
Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey, California |
| 01/2004 - 05/2004 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana |
| 08/2002 - 05/2003 |
Graduate Instructor, Department of Statistics
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana |
| 05/2001 - 08/2001 |
Summer Intern, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Statistical Sciences (D-1), Los Alamos, NewMexico |
| 05/1998 - 07/2000 |
Design Engineer,
Pratt & Whitney
United Technologies Corp.,
West Palm Beach, Florida and North Berwick, Maine
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Education
- Ph.D. - Purdue University, Mathematical Statistics, 12/2003
- M.S. - Purdue University, Mathematical Statistics, 12/2001
- M.S. - Purdue University, Industrial Engineering, 05/2000
- B.S. - University of Florida, Mechanical Engineering (with
Honors), 05/1998
Service
- Associate Editor, Reviews, Journal of the American Statistical
Association (2005-2010)
- Associate Editor, Reviews, The American Statistician (2005-2010)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (2005- )
Refereed Publications
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Annis, D. H. (2007) A Note on Quasi-likelihood for Exponential
Families. Statistics and
Probability Letters, 77 (4), 431-437. |
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Wu, S. S. and Annis, D. H. (2007) Asymptotic Efficiency of the
Majority Rule Relative to
Rank-Sum Method for Selecting the Best Population. Journal of
Statistical Planning and
Inference, 137 (6), 1838-1850. |
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Annis, D. H. (2007) Dimension Reduction for Hybrid Paired
Comparison Models. Journal
of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. 3 (2),
http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol3/iss2/2. |
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Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2007) Improved College Football
Scheduling Using a Modified
Swiss System. Chance, 20 (1), 6-10. |
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Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2006) A Comparison of Potential
Playoff Systems for NCAA I-A
Football. The American Statistician, 60 (2), 151-157. |
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Annis, D. H. (2006) Optimal End-Game Strategy in Basketball.
Journal of Quantitative
Analysis in Sports, 2 (2),
http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol2/iss2/1. |
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Annis, D. H. (2005) Rethinking the Paper Helicopter: Combining
Statistical and Engineering
Knowledge. The American Statistician, 59 (4), 320-326. [Addendum in
The American Statistician, 60 (2), 212.] |
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Annis,D. H. and Craig, B. A. (2005) Statistical Properties and
Inference of the Antimicrobial
MIC Test. Statistics in Medicine, 24 (23), 3631-3644. |
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Annis, D. H. and Craig, B. A. (2005) The Effect of
Inter-Laboratory Variability on Antimicrobial
Susceptibility Determination. Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious
Disease, 53 (1),
61-64. |
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Annis, D. H. and Craig, B. A. (2005) Hybrid Paired Comparison
Analysis, with Applications
to the Ranking of College Football Teams. Journal of Quantitative
Analysis in Sports, 1 (1),
http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol1/iss1/3. |
Other Publications
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Annis, D. H. (2007) Review of
Econometric Theory and Practice, Dean Corbae, Steven N. Durlauf and Bruce E.Hanson (eds).
Journal of the American
Statistical Association, 102 (478), 769. |
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Annis, D. H. (2007) Review of Dyadic Data Analysis, David A.
Kenny, Deborah A. Kashy and William L. Cook. The American Statistician. (to appear) |
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Annis, D. H. (2006) Review of Kendall’s
Advanced Theory of Statistics, Vol. 1: Distribution Theory (6th
ed.), Alan Stuart and J. Keith Ord. Journal of the
American Statistical Association, 101 (476), 1721. |
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Annis, D. H. (2006) Review of Bayesian
Statistics and Marketing, Peter Rossi, Greg Allenby and Rob McCulloch.
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101 (476), 1732-1733. |
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Annis, D. H. (2006) Review of Bayesian Models for Categorical
Data, Peter Congdon. Journal of the American Statistical Association,
101 (474), 1457-1458. |
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Annis, D. H. (2006) Review of
Baseball’s All-Time Best Hitters: How Statistics Can Level the
Playing Field and Baseball’s All-Time Best Sluggers: Adjusted
Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs, Michael J. Schell.
The American
Statistician, 60 (1), 97. |
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Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2005) Some
Properties of Playoff Systems for NCAA I-A Football. Proceedings of the 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings, Section on
Statistics in Sports. |
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Annis, D. H. (2005) Review of
Permutation, Parametric, and Bootstrap Tests of Hypotheses (3rd
ed.), Phillip Good. Journal of the American Statistical Association,
100 (472), 1457-1458. |
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Annis, D. H. (2005) Review of Stereology for Statisticians, Adrian
Baddeley and Eva B. Vedel Jensen. Journal of the American Statistical Association,
100 (472),
1462. |
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Annis, D. H. (2005) Review of
Probability and Statistics: The Science of Uncertainty, Michael J.
Evans and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal. The American Statistician, 59 (3),
276. |
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Annis, C. G. Jr. and Annis, D. H.
(2004) Alternative to Single-Pixel C-Scan Analysis for Measuring
POD. Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation,
24 (B), 1933-1938. |
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Annis, C. G. Jr.; Larsen, J. M.;
Rosenberger, A. H.; Jha, S. K. and Annis, D. H. (2004) RFTh, a Random Fatigue Threshold Probability Density for Ti6246.
Proceedings of the MS&T ’04: Materials Science & Technology, Materials Damage Prognosis Symposia
Edited by TMS (The Minerals, Metals &Materials Society). |
Conference Presentations
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Annis, D. H. (2007). Statistical Consulting in Games and Sports. Joint Statistical Meetings,
Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2006).
Improved College Football Scheduling using a Pseudo-Swiss System.
Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, Washington. |
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Wu, S. S. and Annis, D. H. (2006).
Asymptotic Efficiency of the Majority Rule Relative to Rank-Sum
Method for Selecting Best Population. Joint Statistical Meetings,
Seattle, Washington. |
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Davis, J. W. and Annis, D. H. (2006).
Evaluation and Analysis of the Impact of Recruiting on College
Football . Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, Washington. |
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Wu, S. S. and Annis, D. H. (2006).
Improved College Football Scheduling using a Pseudo-Swiss System.
International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics
Symposium, Storrs, Connecticut. |
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Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2005). Some
Properties of Playoff Systems for NCAA I-A Football. Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
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Annis, D. H. (2005). Ranking College
Football Teams using Hybrid Paired Comparison Analysis. Southern
Regional Council on Statistics (SRCOS) Summer
Research Conference. |
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Annis, D. H. and Craig, B. A. (2004).
Hybrid Paired Comparison Analysis. Joint Statistical Meetings,
Toronto, Ontario (Canada). |
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Annis, D. H. (2004). Hybrid Paired
Comparison Analysis. Institute of Mathematical Statistics New
Researchers Conference, York University, Toronto, Ontario (Canada). |
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Annis, C. G., Jr. and Annis, D. H.
(2004). Alternative to Single-Pixel C-Scan Analysis for Measuring
POD. Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation,
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado. |
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Annis, D. H. and Craig, B. A. (2003).
We’re Number One! A Comparison of Two Common Ranking Models for the
2002-2003 NCAA Division I Football Season.
Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, California. |
Work in Progress
- On Identification of Inferior Treatments Using the Newman-Keuls Test (with S. S. Wu and
W.Wang, submitted to Biometrical Journal).
- Semiparametric Estimation of Baseline Hazards for Discrete-Time Survival Data in SAS
(with R. E.Wiegand; submitted to Computational Statistics and Data Analysis).
- A Comparison of Four Voting Methods on the Power of Bloc Votes (with
S. S. Wu)
- Semiparametric Estimation of Baseline Hazards for Discrete-Time
Survival Data in SAS (with R. E. Wiegand; submitted to Journal of Statistical Software)
- Estimation in Reversible Markov Chains (with R. B. Lund).
Media Coverage
- A Jayhawks fan’s top 10 ranking. Charlotte Observer, October 17, 2007.
- Football rankings add up to a science.
Charlotte Observer, October
18, 2006.
- A scientific approach to a college football playoff. Kansas City
Star, November 18, 2005.
Invited Seminars
| 03/15/2007 |
Clemson University, Constrained Experimental Design
Heuristics for the Sparse Paired Comparison Problem. |
| 09/10/2004 |
Clemson University, Leveraging Synergy Across Technology
Platforms. |
| 02/19/2004 |
Naval Postgraduate School, Hybrid Paired Comparison
Analysis. |
| 02/06/2004 |
Auburn University, Hybrid Paired Comparison Analysis. |
| 01/29/2004 |
Purdue University, Hybrid Paired Comparison Analysis. |
| 01/08/2004 |
Sandia National Laboratory, Hybrid Paired Comparison
Analysis. |
Teaching
| 2006 |
OA 3101 - Probability, Naval Postgraduate School
OS 2100 - Probability and Statistics, Naval Postgraduate School
OA 3102 - Statistics, Naval Postgraduate School |
| 2005 |
OS 3112 - Statistics and Design of Experiments, Naval
Postgraduate School
OS 3105 - Statistics for Technical Management, Naval Postgraduate
School
OA 3101 - Probability, Naval Postgraduate School |
| 2004 |
OS 3105 - Statistics for Technical Management, Naval
Postgraduate School
STAT 503 - Statistical Methods for Biology, Purdue University |
| 2003 |
STAT 301 - Elementary StatisticalMethods, Purdue University |
| 2002 |
STAT 301 - Elementary StatisticalMethods, Purdue University |
Theses Advised
| 2006 |
C. Ryan Miller, M.S., Naval Postgraduate School. A statistical analysis of wireless networking; predicting
performance in multiple environments. Cynthia J. Brittingham, M.S., Naval Postgraduate School. (co-advisor)
The relationship between command safety climate and aviation safety. |
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Derek M. Jennings and Charles A. Larwood III M.S., Naval Postgraduate School. (second reader)
A statistical analysis of errors attributed to overhead video
scoring of rocket submunition impact points. |
| 2004 |
Gonen Ofer,M.S., Naval Postgraduate School. (second reader) Sequential multiple comparison testing for budget-limited
applications. |
Honors and Awards
| 2005 |
Outstanding Teaching Recognition (OS 3105) |
| 2003 |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Vertical Integration of Research and Education (VIGRE) Fellow
Statistics and Mathematical Sciences, Purdue University |
| 2000 - 2002 |
Andrews Doctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, Purdue
University |
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Elected to PTS - Honorary Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| Personal note: David Annis, Ph.D. is also founder of
SportsQuant, a web-based business that supplies quantitative
assessments of college and professional football and basketball. |
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