Richard N. "Herb" McGrath
Associate Professor
Applied Statistics and Operations Research
Bowling Green State University
Office: 347 Business Administration Building
Phone: (419) 372-8451
e-mail: rnmcgra@bgsu.edu 

Class Information

Education:

• Ph.D., Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2000
• M.S., Statistics (Option in Quality Management), Rutgers University, 1996
• B.S., Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1983

Teaching Areas:

• Statistical Concepts
• Regression
• Design of Experiments
• Sampling
• Quality Control
• Nonparametrics

Research Interests:

• Design and analysis of experiments
• Dispersion effects
• Computer experiments
• Quality control
• Industrial statistics

Selected Publications:

• McGrath, R.N. and Yeh, A. B. (2005). "A Quick, Compact Two-Sample Dispersion Test: Count Five", The American Statistician, 59, pp. 47-53.
• McGrath, R. N. and Lin, D. K. J. (2003). "Analyzing Location and Dispersion in Unreplicated Fractional Factorials", Statistics and Probability Letters, 65, pp. 369-377.
• McGrath, R. N. (2003). "Separating Location and Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Fractional Factorials", Journal of Quality Technology, 35,  pp. 306-316.
• McGrath, R. N. and Lin, D. K. J. (2002). "A Nonparametric Dispersion Test for Unreplicated Two-Level Fractional Factorial Designs'', Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 14, pp. 699-714.
• McGrath, R. N. and Lin, D. K. J. (2001). "The Confounding Relationship of Location and Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Fractional Factorial Designs", Journal of Quality Technology, 33, pp. 129-139.
• McGrath, R.N. and Lin, D. K. J. (2001). "Testing Multiple Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Fractional Factorial Designs", Technometrics, 43, pp. 406-414.

Professional Affiliations:

• American Statistical Association (ASA)
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) (Senior Member)
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)