Samuel E. Buttrey
Associate Professor
Department of Operations Research
Naval Postgraduate School
United States of America
Biography
Samuel E. Buttrey was Associate Professor of Operations Research. Ph.D. in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1996. Dissertation: “Nearest-Neighbor Classification with Categorical Variables.” Additional research on Monte Carlo simulation to compare the performance of Markov chain and kernel density estimates, and on assay data in genetics.
Research Interest
Classification, General Applied Statistics and Computer-Intensive Methods in Statistics.
Publications
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Anglemyer, A., Miller, M., Buttrey, S. and Whitaker, L.: "Suicide Rates and Methods in Active Duty Military Personnel 2005-2011: A Cohort Study," Annals of Internal Medicine, to appear, 2016.
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Buttrey, S., Whitaker, L., and Alt., J.: "Developments in the Statistical Modeling of Military Recruiting," Chance, to appear.
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Haupt, A., Buttrey, S., and Alt., J.: "Identifying Students at Risk in Academics: Analysis of Korean Language Academic Attrition at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center," Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics, to appear.
