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COL Andrew Glen

Academy Professor, Professor of Statistics
US Army

Contact Information:
Office Location: Thayer Hall, Room 246
Phone: 5988
Email: aa1275@usma.edu

COL Glen currently teaches MA376 Applied Statistics and MA491 Research Seminar in Applied Mathematics.

"On the Inverse Gamma as a Survival Distribution," A. Glen, Journal of Quality Technology, 2011;43(2):158-166.
Faculty Advisor to senior Matt Robinson, who won the 2011 INFORMS Undergraduate Research prize for his paper and computer work called "Bayesian Applications in A Probability Programming Language."
"Accurate estimation with one order statistic," A. Glen Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2010; 54(6): 1434-1441 June 2010.
"Maximum likelihood estimation using probability density functions of order statistics," A. Glen Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol 58, Issue 4, May 2010, pp. 658 - 662.
Co-Author Computational Probability: Algorithms and Applications in the Mathematical Sciences, with John Drew, Diane Evans, and Lawrence Leemis, 211 pages, Springer International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, ISBN: 978-0387746753, 2008. For the APPL language go to www.applsoftware.com .
“Experiences Teaching Probability and Statistics with Personal Laptops in the Classroom Daily,” (Richard Bell, Andrew Glen), The American Statistician, Vol 62, Number 2, pp. 155 – 160, 2008.
“Modeling Rare Baseball Events – Are They Truly Memoryless?” (Michael Huber, Andrew Glen), Journal of Statistics Education Volume 15, Number 1, 2007.
“Modeling Military Trampling Effects on Glacial Soils in the Humid Continental Climate of Southern New York” (Kenneth McDonald, Andrew Glen), The Journal of Environmental Management, Vol 84, Issue 4, pp. 377 – 383, September 2007.
Lead inventor on a Government owned Patent number 7010463 allowed for “Method of Determining Whether an Improved Item has a Better Mean Lifetime than an Existing Item,” the outcome of research efforts with Bobbie Foote in the ORCEN, USMA, 2006. Available at the US Patent office: http://www.uspto.gov/#
INFORMS Computer Society Prize, 2006, co-winner with John Drew, Diane Evans, and Lawrence Leemis
“Computing the Distribution of the Product of Two Continuous Random Variables,” (A. Glen, L. Leemis, J. Drew), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Volume 44, Number 3, 451-464, January 2004 PDF versionComputer Society Prize, 2006, co-winner with John Drew, Diane Evans, and Lawrence Leemis.
"An Inference Methodology for Life Tests With Complete Samples or Type-II Right Censoring," (A. Glen and B. Foote), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol 58, No. 4, 597 - 603, December 2009.
“A Generalized Univariate Change-of-Variable Transformation Technique” (A. Glen, J. Drew, L. Leemis), INFORMS Journal on Computing, Volume 9, Number 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 288—295. This paper was presented at the INFORMS Conference in San Diego, May 1997, and the USMA Statistics Seminar in the fall of 1996.
“The ‘Straight-forward’ Nature of Arrival Rate Estimation,” (D. Barr, A. Glen), The American Statistician, Volume 52, Number 4. pp. 346-350, November 1998.
A Probability Programming Language: Development and Applications, (A. Glen) UMI Microfilms: Ann Arbor, MI. 1998.
“Order Statistics in Goodness-of-Fit Testing” (A. Glen, D. Barr, L. Leemis), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Volume 50, Number 2, pp. 209—213, June 2001.
“Computing the Cumulative Distribution Function of the Kolmogorov—Smirnov Statistic” (J. Drew, A. Glen, L. Leemis), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Volume 34, Number 1, July, 2000.
“APPL: A Probability Programming Language” (A. Glen, L. Leemis, D. Evans), The American Statistician, Volume 55, Number 2, pp. 156—166, May 2001. To download APPL, www.applsoftware.com
“Determining the Contribution of New Components Added in Parallel to a Parallel System” (Bobbie Foote, Andrew Glen) , International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 6, Number 1, 2003, pages 51 - 61.
“The Arctangent Survival Distribution” (A. Glen, L. Leemis), Journal of Quality Technology, Volume 29, Number 2, April 1997, pp. 205—210.

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