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

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Associate Professor of Statistics, Bowling Green State University, 2005-present

Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan, 2007-2008

Assistant Professor of Statistics, Bowling Green State University, 2000-2005

Graduate Lecturer, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997-2000

Graduate Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996-1997

Instructor/Course Developer, AT&T, 1988-1995

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SELECTED AWARDS

2007 Nominated (with Arthur Yeh) for BGSU President’s Award for Collaborative Research and Creative Work

2005 Nominated (with Arthur Yeh) for BGSU President’s Award for Collaborative Research and Creative Work

2004 BGSU CBA Robert A. Patton Scholarly Achievement Award

2004 Nominated (with Arthur Yeh) for BGSU President’s Award for Collaborative Research and Creative Work

2003 Nominated for BGSU CBA Robert A. Patton Scholarly Achievement Award

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

McGrath, R. N. and Chen, Q. (2008) “Sample Size Determination for a Relative Quality Improvement,” Quality Engineering, 20, 309-320. 

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Yeh, A. B., McGrath, R. N., Sembower, M. A., and Shen, Q. (2008) “EWMA Control Charts for Monitoring High-Yield Processes Based on Non-transformed Observations,” International Journal of Production Research, 46, 5679-5699.

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McGrath, R. N. (2007) “Generalized Linear Models”, in Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, Ruggeri, F., Kenett, R. and Faltin, F. W. (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp 733-743. 

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McGrath, R. N. and Lin, D. K. J. (2007) “Aliasing in Fractional Designs”, Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, in Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, Ruggeri, F., Kenett, R. and Faltin, F. W. (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp 95-100.  

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Yeh, A. B., Lin, D. K. J., and McGrath, R. N. (2006) “Multivariate Control Charts for Monitoring Covariance Matrix: A Review,” Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, 3, 415-436.

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McGrath, R.N. and Yeh, A. B. (2005). "A Quick, Compact Two-Sample Dispersion Test: Count Five", The American Statistician, 59, pp. 47-53.