Faculty & Staff

Ma. Grace R. Montepiedra Associate Professor Office: 347 Business Administration Phone:  (419) 372-2961 Email:  mmontep@cba.bgsu.edu

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., in Statistics, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota), 1994.
• M.S. in Statistics, University of the Philippines, 1987.
• B.S. in Statistics, University of Philippines, 1985.

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research, Bowling Green State University, (Bowling Green, Ohio), 1993-present.
• Instructor of Statistics, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota), 1992 - 1993.
• Instructor of Statistics, University of the Philippines, 1985-1987.

1. Teaching Experiences

A.Undergraduate Courses

• STAT 211 Elementary Statistical Methods I
• STAT 212 Elementary Statistical Methods II

B. Undergraduate-Graduate Courses

• STAT 300/600 Regression and Design
• STAT 416/516 Time Series Analysis
• STAT 408/508

C. Graduate Courses

• STAT 630 Multivariate Analysis
• STAT 675 Mathematical Statistics

2. Research Interests

• Optimal Experimental Design
• Analysis of Longitudinal Data/ Random Effects Models

3. Research Projects and Grants

• FDC Grant, ($1,600), and Speed Grant, ($300), 1995-96 to attend the conference "Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business" (with Arthur Yeh).
• College of Business Administration Summer Research Grant, ($2,500), Summer 1996 (with Danny Myers and Arthur Yeh).
• FRC Basic Grant, ($5,000), Summer 1995.

4. Publications

1. Journal Articles

• Fedorov, V. V., Montepiedra, G. and Nachtsheim, C., "Optimal Design and the Model Validity Range," accepted by the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, August 1996.
• Montepiedra, G. and Fedorov, V. V., "Minimum Bias Design with Constraints," accepted by the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, September 1996.

2. Articles Submitted for Publication

• Montepiedra, G., Myers, D. and Yeh, A., "The Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Construction of Exact D-optimal Designs."
• Fedorov, V. V., Montepiedra, G. and Nachtsheim, C., "Design of Experiments for Locally Weighted Regression"
• Montepiedra, G. and Yeh, A. , "A Two-Stage Strategy for the Construction of Optimal Experimental Designs"

3.Research in Progress

• Montepiedra, G. and Wong, W.K., "Robust Optimal Designs under Misspecification of the Error Term."

5. Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

Refereed Presentation in Conference with Proceedings

• Grace Montepiedra, "Robust Optimal Designs with Constraints", MODA 4 - Advances in Model-Oriented Data Analysis (Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop held in Spetses, Greece), June 1995.
• Montepiedra, G. and Wong, W. K., "Optimal Designs for Models with Questionable Homoscedasticity", MODA5 - Advances in Model-Oriented Data Analysis (Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop to be held in Marseilles, France), June 1998.
• Montepiedra, G. and Yeh, A. "Two-Stage Designs for Model Discrimination and Parameter Estimation", MODA 5 - Advances in Model-Oriented Data Analysis", (Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop to be held in Marseilles, France), June 1998.

6. Administrative Positions

• STAT 211 Coordinator, 1996 - present.

7. Membership in Professional Organizations

• American Statistical Association, 1993-present.
• Mathematical Association of America, 1994-1995.