Lorrie L. Hoffman      

Professor 

Head (on Administrative Leave until August 1, 2010) 

Armstrong Atlantic State University
Department of Mathematics
University Hall 297C
Phone: (912) 344-2557
Email: Lorrie.Hoffman@armstrong.edu

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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), at the illustrious (can't beat the weather) institution called University of Central Florida and now at Armstrong Atlantic State University  in historic Savannah, Georgia.

Selected Publications

• HOFFMAN, L.L., HUTCHINSON, C., and REISS, E., “On Improving School Climate: Reducing Reliance On Rewards And Punishment,” International Journal Of Whole Schooling, http://www.wholeschooling.net/Journal_of_Whole_Schooling/IJWSindex.html ,Vol. 5, No. 3, 12 pages, 2009.
  
• KNOFCZYNSKI, G., HADAVAS, P., AND HOFFMAN, L., "Effects of Implementing Projects in an Elementary Statistics Class," Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Mathematics Education , Vol. 2, No. 2, 2007. Online:   http://www.msme.us/contents-2-07.htm
• BUDDEN, M., HADAVAS, P., HOFFMAN, L. and PRETZ, C.,  " Generating valid 4x4 correlation matrices," Applied Mathematics E-Notes, 7(2007), 53-59  http://www.math.nthu.edu.tw/~amen/2007/060311-1.pdf
  
• HOFFMAN, L., HUTCHINSON, C., and REISS, E., “Training Teachers in Classroom Management: Evidence of Positive Effects on the Behavior of Difficult Children” SRATE (Southeastern Regional Association of Teacher Educators) journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter 2005, pp.36-42.
• 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 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=390660 .
• 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

* Funding for Action Research grant Teaching Statistics Through Teamwork and Tasks:

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

“Modeling Animal Mother-Infant Distance Proximity over Time to Determine a Change Point in Behavior” on joint work with Knofcyznski, G., Clark, S., Hudson, J., King, H., and Rogers, A., at the MAA Southeast Sectional Meetings, Nashville, TN, March, 2009 and at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, DC, August, 2009.   

"Some Cautions on Applying the EM Algorithm to a Quality Assessment Application," at the 2006 Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry
and Technology, Knoxville, TN, June 7, 2006.    

"Teaching A Large Enrollment Section of Math2200: Elementary Statistics," at the AASU Faculty Development Symposium, April 1, 2005.

"Being One's Own Experimental Unit in the Classroom," contributed session at the AMS/MAA national annual conference in Atlanta, January 6, 2005.  Find the abstract.  

Quoted in USA Today Newspaper.  See 'about Ronald Regan'

"Math Modeling and its Role in Computer Performance Analysis," invited talk at the Ann and Sigmund Hudson Mathematics/Computer Science Colloquium, August, 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 the Florida Judges' Conference in Orlando in September, 2003

Fun

Courses

Current Course Materials

Experimental Design course

Math2200

Friends and Family

......Sailing the San Francisco Bay in 2002

.............................................................................................. at mallory pier in May, 2004

Department Activities

Student Team at the MAA Math Jeopardy Competition in Nashville in March, 2009




AASU Day October 12, 2005

   AASU DAY October 6, 2005

Presenting at the 2007 Spring Banquet     
Christmas time at my house with faculty                                          

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