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  • Research Interests

  • Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Simulation and Modeling, and Statistics Education

  • Awards

  • ♦ Interactive Poster Session Semi-Finalist, International Judging System in Figure Skating: Optimization and Analysis, INFORMS, 2011.
    ♦ FRF Grant, Excel-based Program to Perform Parallel Analysis for Principal Components Analysis, $1,017, Summer 2009
    ♦ Course release, Cronbach Alpha meta-analysis study, 2009-2010
    ♦ FRF Grant, Comparison of Eigenvalue Generation Programs for Parallel Analysis, $1,842, 2008
    ♦ Summer Research Grant, Pamplin College of Business, Amount: $9,000, 2005
    ♦ Best Paper in Track: Education - Information Technology, SEDSI, 2001

  • Principal Components/Factor Analysis

  • Recommendations for Parallel Analysis Implementation, Kellie B. Keeling, Robert J. Pavur, 2012 Annual Southeast Decision Sciences Institute Meeting (Columbia, SC: 2012)

    Comparison of Methods to Generate Eigenvalues for Parallel Analysis, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, JSM Proceedings, Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, Denver, CO: 2008.

    Two Methods of Parallel Analysis Implementation, Kellie B. Keeling, Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Southeast Sciences Institute Meeting, Orlando, FL: 2008.

    A Regression Equation Predicting 95th Percentile Eigenvalues for the Parallel Analysis Criterion in Principal Components Analysis, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, International Journal of Operations & Quantitative Management, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2005, pp. 1-12.

    Extracting Principal Components Using Mathematical Programming, Kellie B. Keeling, Constantine Loucopoulos, and Robert Pavur, 2005 Annual Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November, 2005.

    A Comparison of Methods for Approximating the Mean Eigenvalues of a Random Matrix, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2004, pp. 1-16.

    A Regression Equation for Determining the Dimensionality of Data, Kellie B. Keeling, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2000, pp 457-468.

    A Neural Networks Approach to Estimating Mean Values of Eigenvalues for a Random Matrix and Applications to Variable Subset Selection, Robert J. Pavur and Kellie B. Keeling, 1998 National INFORMS Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 1998.

  • Simulation Applications

  • Using process capability analysis and simulation to improve patient flow, Kellie Keeling, Evelyn Brown and John Kros, Applications of Management Science, Vol. 16, Fall 2013, pp. 210-229.

    A Tennis Ladder Simulation for Modeling Social versus Aggressive Competitive Behavior. Keeling, Kellie, Scott Toney Scott, and Thomas Obremski, 2012. In JSM Proceedings, Statistical Computing Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 3383-3386.

    Determining the Future Rate of Poisson Random Variables after Removing Variables with Too Few or Too Many Occurrences,Matthew Lindsey, Robert J. Pavur, Kellie B. Keeling, JSM Proceedings, Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, Washington DC: 2009.

    Neural Network-based Simulation Metamodels for Predicting Probability Distributions,Christopher W. Zobel and Kellie B. Keeling, Computers & industrial Engineering, Vol. 54, 2008, 879-888.

    Estimating the Future Rate Of Poisson Events After Removing Certain Variables: Applications to Software,Matthew Lindsey, Robert J. Pavur, Kellie B. Keeling, Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Baltimore, MD: 2008.

    A Hybrid Grouping Genetic Algorithm for the Cell Formation Problem, Tabitha L. James, Evelyn C. Brown, Kellie B. Keeling, Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 34, No. 7, Jul 2007, pp. 2059-2079.

    Cell Efficiency Measures and their Impact on Factory Measures for the Machine-Part Cell Formation Problem: A Simulation Study, Kellie B. Keeling, Evelyn C. Brown, Tabitha L. James, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 1, Feb 2007, pp. 63-78.

     

  • Other

  • Cronbach’s Reliability Alpha: 15 years of Information Systems, Marketing, and Management Literature, Kellie B. Keeling, Robert J. Pavur, 2008 National INFORMS Meeting (Washington, DC: 2008.)

    Estimating Locations of Mean Shifts in the Change Point Problem: A Nonparametric Approach, Kellie B. Keeling, Robert J. Pavur, Joe H. Sullivan, Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Decision Sciences Institute Meeting (San Francisco, CA: 2001.)

    Information Quality of Commercial Web Site Home Pages: An Explorative Analysis, Xiaoni Zhang, Kellie B. Keeling, and Robert J. Pavur, Proceedings of the 2000 Annual International Conference on Information Systems Meeting (Brisbane, QLD, Australia: 2000.)

    Examining Estimates of a Mixture of Beta Densities to Model Observed Significance Levels from Central and Non-Central t Distributions, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, Proceedings of the 1999 Annual Southwest Decision Sciences Institute Meeting (Houston, TX: 1999.)

    Relationships Between Cronbach’s Reliability Estimate and Research Design Characteristics in Information Systems, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Decision Sciences Institute Meeting (Las Vegas, NV: 1998.)

    Information Technology Acquisition and Impact, J.R. McQuaid, Jr., Kellie B. Keeling, and Susan E. Yager, 1998 National INFORMS Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 1998

  • Books

  • Concise Managerial Statistics, Alan H. Kvanli, Robert J. Pavur, and Kellie B. Keeling (Mason, Ohio: South-Western, 2006, 2008 (e-book))

    Introduction to Business Statistics: A Computer Integrated, Data Analysis Approach, Alan H. Kvanli, Robert J. Pavur, and Kellie B. Keeling, Sixth Edition (Mason, Ohio: South-Western, 2003.)

  • Textbook Software

  • ♦ OM Tools, Roberta S. Russell and Kellie B. Keeling, 2006, 2008
    ♦ KPK Analysis Tools, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, 2003, 2005, 2008

  • Statistical Software Accuracy

  • Statistical Accuracy of Spreadsheet Software, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, The American Statistician, Vol. 65, No. 4, Nov 2011, pp. 1-9.

    Four Spreadsheet Packages: Is the Statistical Accuracy the Same?, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Phoenix, AZ: 2007.

    A Comparative Study of the Reliability of Nine Statistical Software Packages, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 51, No. 8, 1 May 2007, pp. 3811-3831.

    Numerical Accuracy Issues in Using Excel for Simulation Studies, Kellie B. Keeling, Robert J. Pavur, Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference (Washington, D.C: 2004.)

    Examining Numerical Accuracy of Excel 2003, Robert J. Pavur, Kellie B. Keeling, Frank Landram, Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Decision Sciences Institute Meeting (Boston, MA: 2004.)

  • Data Mining

  • Using network based text analysis to analyze trends in Microsoft's security innovations, Tabitha James, Lara Khansa, Deborah F. Cook, Olga Bruyaka, Kellie B. Keeling, Computers & Security, Vol. 36, July 2013, pp. 49-67.

    An Introductory Data Mining Study Using SAS Enterprise Miner to Examine Missing Values, Kellie B. Keeling, Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Southeast Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, (Savannah, GA: 2007.)

    Which Similarity Index Should One Use in Text Retrieval: A Literature Review, Kellie B. Keeling, 2003 Annual Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Washington, DC, November, 2003.

  • Education

  • iTeaching: Using an iPad to Go Green While Supporting Teaching Efficiency, Kellie B. Keeling, Business Education Innovation Journal, Vol 4, No. 2, Dec 2012, pp. 44-49.

    Employing Introductory Statistics Students at “Stats Dairy,” Kellie B. Keeling, Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, Vol. 33, No. 3, Aut 2011, pp. 78-80.

    Invited Article: Responses from 12 Authors to the Article on ‘Do Business Schools Have a Role in the Current Financial Crisis?’, Kellie B. Keeling, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Vol. 7, No. 2, July 2009, pp. 340-341.

    Does Your iPod Have a Soul? The Generation of Random Numbers, Kellie B. Keeling, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan 2007, pp. 169 – 177.

    Computational and Graphical Insights into Leverage in Multiple Regression,Kellie B. Keeling, Constantine Loucopoulos, and Robert Pavur, 2006 Annual Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November, 2006.

    Newsletter Article: In the Classroom: Simplified Procedure for Implementing Nonparametric Tests in Excel, Decision Line, Decision Sciences Institute, Dec/Jan 2002

    Multimedia Files for Statistics Concepts used in a Simulation Course, Kellie B. Keeling, Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Southeast Decision Sciences Institute Meeting (Charlotte, NC: 2001).

  • Year 2000

  • Calculating the Cost of Year-2000 Compliance, Leon Kappelman, Darla Fent, Kellie B. Keeling and Victor Prybutok, Communications of the ACM, February, 1998, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 30-39.

    Capacity and Availability of Year 2000 Suppliers and Service Providers, Bob Cohen, Leon Kappelman, and Kellie B. Keeling, In Leon Kappelman, editor, Year 2000 Update: Key Issues and Research Reports, A white paper from the Society for Information Management (SIM) International, Chicago, 1998.

    Report on the Year 2000 Problem: A Benchmarks and Status Study, Leon Kappelman and Kellie B. Keeling, In Leon Kappelman, Year 2000: Strategies and Solutions from the Fortune 100, editors: Leon Kappelman and Kellie B. Keeling (Boston: International Thomson Press, 1997.)       

    Year 2000 Problem Differences Between Health Care Providers & Other Organizations, Kellie B. Keeling, 1997 National INFORMS Meeting, Invited Paper, Dallas, TX, November 1997.

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