David H. Annis, Ph.D.

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Education

Ph.D. (2003) Mathematical Statistics Purdue University
M.S. (2001) Mathematical Statistics Purdue University
M.S. (2000) Industrial Engineering Purdue University
B.S. (1998) Mechanical Engineering (with Honors) University of Florida

Professional History

2007-present Director, Quantitative Analysis, Internal Audit
Wachovia
2006-2007 Vice President, Forecasting and Pricing
Wachovia
2004-2006 Assistant Professor, Operations Research Department
Naval Postgraduate School
2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Purdue University
2002-2003 Graduate Instructor, Department of Statistics
Purdue University
2001 Summer Intern, D-1 Statistical Sciences
Los Alamos National Lab
1998-2000 Design Engineer, Pratt & Whitney
United Technologies Corp.

 

Sports Research

  • Annis, D. H. (2007) Dimension Reduction for Hybrid Paired Comparison Models. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 3 (2)
  • Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2007) Improved College Football Scheduling Using a Pseudo-Swiss System. Chance, 20 (1), 6-10.
  • Annis, D. H. (2006) Optimal End-Game Strategy in Basketball. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.  (to appear)
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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. (to appear)
  • Annis, D. H. (2005) Adjusting Player Game Percentage for Differences in Schedule. (unpublished manuscript)
  • Annis, D. H. (2005) Approximate Conditional Inference for Evaluating Managerial Performance. (unpublished manuscript)
     

    Academic Publications

  • Annis, D. H. (2007) A Note on Quasi-Likelihood for Exponential Families.  Statistics and Probability Letters, 77 (4), 431-437.
  • 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
  • Annis, D. H. (2005) Rethinking the Paper Helicopter: Combining statistical and engineering knowledge. The American Statistician, 59 (4), 320-326.
  • Annis, D. H. (2005) Review of 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Annis, D. H. and Craig, B. A. (2005) Statistical Properties and Inference of the Antimicrobial MIC Test. Statistics in Medicine, 24 (23), 3631-3644.
  • 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.
  • 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, vol. 31.
  • 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).

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    Graph Theoretic Triviality

    Shortest path problems are common in graph theory.  Consider a set of vertices (V) and edges (E) which define a graph G(V,E).  For any two vertices in V, what is the shortest path connecting them?

    Determining a academic’s Erdös Number is a shortest path problem for an undirected graph in which the vertex set V consists of all academic researchers.  An edge connects Vi to Vj if i and j have coauthored a paper.  Erdös, himself, is said to have Erdös Number 0.  His (many) coauthors have Erdös Number 1.  Coauthors of his coauthors (such as Albert Einstein, who wrote a paper with Ernst Straus, who wrote many papers with Erdös) have Erdös Number 2.  Etc.

    A similar problem is determining how many degrees removed an actor is from Kevin Bacon.  Actors appearing in a movie with Bacon are once removed.  Actors appearing in movies with actors who appeared in movies with Bacon are twice removed.  Etc.

  • My Erdös Number is 3:
    1. A frequent coauthor of mine is Sam Wu.
    2. Sam Wu (2001) coauthored "Optimal sequential allocation with imperfect feedback information" in the Journal of Applied Probability 38 (1), 248-254 with Charles T. C. Mo, Robert W. Chen and Mark C. K. Yang.
    3. Robert W. Chen (1988) coauthored "Random walks on Z2n" in the Journal of Multivariate Analysis 25 (1), 111-118 with Paul Erdös.
  • I am two degrees from Kevin Bacon:
    1. I was an extra in "The Waterboy" (1998) which starred Clint Howard.
    2. Clint Howard costarred in "My Dog Skip" (2000) with Kevin Bacon.
  • As a consequence, my Erdös-Bacon Number is 5 (3+2).
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