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John S. Crown

John S. Crown

Statistician

Pittsburgh Office

Education

Ph.D., Statistics, Texas A&M University, 1997

Fields

Data analysis, goodness-of-fit tests, regression, optimization, reliability analysis, simulation modeling, design of experiments, SAS programming

Policy Areas

Military manpower and personnel: accessions, retention, promotions and bonus programs

Recent Projects

Enlisted Force Management in the US Air Force

Selected Publications

Estimation of Hazard, Density and Survival Functions for Randomly Censored Data - 2004

Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 31, Issue 10, 2004
Dave Reineke and John Crown

Percentage Points for Directional Anderson-Darling Goodness-of-Fit Tests - 2000

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, Vol. 29, Issue 2, 2000
John S. Crown

On the Theory and Practice of Fitting Distributions to Data - 1997

PhD Dissertation
John S. Crown

Goodness-of-Fit Test for a Family of Two-Parameter Weibulls with Known Shape using Minimum Distance Estimation of Parameters - 1991

Master's Thesis
John S. Crown