Harry J. Khamis, Ph.D., PStat., FASA
I'm a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright State University with a joint appointment in the Department of Community Health, Boonshoft School of Medicine. I'm also the Director Emeritus of the Statistical Consulting Center at the university.
My favorite research problems are
- the semi-symmetric intraclass contingency table
- Buffon's needle problem
- the Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness of fit test
- the multigraph representation of hierarchical loglinear models
- stature prediction.
My favorite hobbies are
- bridge
- folk dancing
- the Swedish language (det svenska språket).
Education History
- 1974: B.S. mathematics, Santa Clara University
- 1976: M.S. mathematics, Virginia Tech
- 1980: Ph.D. statistics, Virginia Tech
- 1980-86: Assistant Professor, Wright State University (WSU)
- 1986-93: Associate Professor, WSU
- 1993-2015: Professor and Director of the Statistical Consulting Center, WSU
- (1999-2000: Visiting Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden)
- 2015 - present: Professor Emeritus
- (2018-2019: Visiting Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Teaching
1980-2015: taught wide range of mathematics and statistics courses at the undergraduate level; taught many of the graduate statistics courses, including quality control, survival analysis, categorical data analysis, sampling design, theory of statistics, statistical methods, linear model theory, experimental design.
Research Statement
Major Active Research Areas
- Categorical response models
- Goodness of fit tests
- Survival data analysis
- Geometric probability
Service
Served on a wide variety of departmental, college, and university committees. Was Chair of the Academic Integrity Hearing Panel for many years.
Students Advised
Graduate statistics advisor for many years.
Publications
As of 8-5-21: 101 publications. For more detail about my research, see my Wikipedia page.
Professional Affiliations/Memberships
American Statistical Association (Fellow)
Awards/Recognition
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• Pi Mu Epsilon, Mathematics Honor Society (Santa Clara University)
• Alpha Sigma Nu, National Jesuit Honor Society (Santa Clara University)
• Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars (WSU)
• Pi Delta Phi, la Société d’Honneur Française (WSU)
• Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health (WSU)
• Mu Sigma Rho, Statistics Honor Society (Virginia Tech)
• Teaching Excellence Award (Virginia Tech)
• Who’s Who in the Midwest
• American Men and Women of Science
• Accreditation: by the American Statistical Association as a Professional Statistician (“PStat”), 2011
• Inductee, Wright Brothers Society, 2013
• Inductee, Stanley Allyn Heritage Society, 2014
• Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2014
Publications
A technical article entitled "New Revelations About the Titanic: Loglinear Model Analysis of the Passenger Data" is added here. ---Harry Khamis, 3/4/2024.
