Lorrie L. Hoffman

Associate Professor

University of Central Florida
Department of Statistics
Computer Center II, Room 208
Phone: (407) 823-5525
Email: hoffman@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu

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Education
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Handy Programs = Executables
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Lorrie received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1981.

A perpetual student of college and life, Lorrie has put in time at many institutions of higher education and has seen alot of the world (mostly FIRST CLASS, having worked for the airlines) and has sampled a varied menu of employment options. She likes to get the word out about new discoveries via publications in the area of statistical theory and applications. Check out the next conference she is speaking at. Lorrie puts lots of novel course notes and stuff on the web. Check out some of the people you can meet .

Education

Educated in the hotbed of statistical excellence - the Midwest at Moraine Valley Community College; Chicago State University; Western Illinois University; University of Illinois and University of Iowa

Employment

As for the school of hard-knocks (also known as the real world), gainful employment occured at such prestigious places as Illinois State Water Survey (counting raindrops); University of Illinois Research Resources Center (analyzing comfort levels of various positions for birthing mothers); TransWorld Airlines (keeping those hard drives spinning for the travel agents); United Airlines (efficiently getting those food trucks to your planes); AT&T (learning the difference between EPROM and RAM), and now here at the illustrious (can't beat the weather) institution called University of Central Florida

Selected Publications

HOFFMAN, L.L.,"Obtaining Confidence Intervals For Cpk Using Percentiles of the Distribution of Cp" Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 17, pp. 113 - 118, 2001. Online: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/issuetoc?ID=77502203 in pdf format.

HOFFMAN, L.L. and GUO, L., "Financial Analysis on Retirement Implications for Women," Society of Actuaries Library Monographs, 2002 ,paper available at (search on the page for "women") http://www.soa.org/library/monographs/retirement_systems/m-rs02-2_tableofcontents.html .

HOFFMAN, L.L., GILLETTE, D., LINDBECK, A.G., MORTON, W., "Deconstructing the Walls between Sciences and Humanities,"; Online: http://horizon.unc.edu/conferences/lc/papers/1.html, 1999.

BORDE, S.F.; WHYTE, A.M.; WIANT, K.J.; HOFFMAN, L.L., "New Evidence on Factors That Influence The Wealth Effects of International Joint Ventures," Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 1998.

HOFFMAN, L.L.,"Revisiting the Definition of Process Control in Autocorrelated Data", Proceedings of the American Statistical Association , 1997.

HOFFMAN, L.L., " The Concept of Fair Fight on Mismatched Simulator Environments, "Proceedings of the Southeastern Simulation Conference, pp. 234-236, 1995.

HOFFMAN, L.L., Book Review of Markov Models of Optimization by M.H.A. Davis, Technometrics , Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 236, 1995.

HOFFMAN, K.S., HOFFMAN, L.L., " The Effects of Adding Sacral Base Leveling to Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment of Back Pain: A Pilot Study, "Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. 217-226, 1994.

HOFFMAN, L.L., " A General Approach for Testing the Process Capability Index, "Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 445-449, 1993.

HOFFMAN, L.L., " An Improved Approach to the Performance Evaluation of Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithms for Computer Networks, "Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.8, No. 2, pp. 67-71, 1993.

HOFFMAN, L.L., " Characterizing Linear Birth and Death Processes, "Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol.87, No. 420, pp. 1183-1187, 1992.

HOFFMAN, L.L.," Choosing the Best Set of Quality Judges: A New Quality Tool, "Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol.7, No.6, pp. 475-478, 1991.

HOFFMAN, L.L., " Looking at AT&T's New 3B2 Computer, "AT&T Technology, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 44-51, 1988.

HOFFMAN, L.L., " Workload Forecasting Using Econometric Time Series,"Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 1982.

HOFFMAN, L.L.," TESTGEN - A Tool for Emancipation from Traditional Instruction,"Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1978.

Programs

Program to calculate critical values for testing Cp greater than cp(low) for small samples with n odd. Download and execute in the command-prompt, MSDOS window.

Working for the Public Defenders Office

Dade County, Florida and Hillsborough County, Florida and Sarasota, Gainesville, and Jacksonville, Florida

Loving Guidance, Inc. an educational firm local to Orlando is providing grant support during Spring, 2004.

"Comparative Rankings: Ascertaining Pre- and Post-Test Differences in a Survey Instrument," by E. Reiss on joint work at the Florida Chapter Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Orlando, FL, Feburary, 2004.

"Recruitment and Restoration of the Oyster Crassostrea virginica on Intertidal Reefs in Areas with Intense Boating Activity," by L. Wall on joint work (also with Walters, L. and Sacks, P.) at Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January, 2004.

Spoke at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Georgia in December, 2003. Quality: What Is It? How Do We Track It? When is Change Needed?

Spoke at the Florida Judges' Conference in Orlando in September

Spoke at the Joint Statistical Meetings...see (search for author Hoffman) ASA website

And at a Society of Actuaries Meeting in San Francisco in June, 2002...see SOA website

Presenting at the Teach-in at Westridge Middle School in November, 2001