Publications of M.C. Spruill

Spruill, M. C. Asymptotic Distribution of Coordinates on High Dimensional Spheres, Electronic Communications in Probability 12 (2007), 234-247.
Schuette, P.; Spruill, M. C. Tail fit and the Zipf-Pareto law Extremes 9 (2006), 3-4, 243-261.
Mendivil, F.; Shonkwiler, R.; Spruill, M. C. Analysis of random restart and iterated improvement for global optimization with application to the traveling salesman problem. J. Optim. Theory Appl. 124 (2005), no. 2, 407--433. MR2130077 (2005k:90124)
Spruill, M. C. On minimal-moment generating functions. Extremes 5 (2002), no. 2, 145--155 (2003). MR1965976 (2003m:60034)
Hu, Andrea; Shonkwiler, R.; Spruill, M. C. Estimating the convergence rate of a restarted search process. Int. J. Comput. Numer. Anal. Appl. 1 (2002), no. 4, 353--367. MR1894343 (2003b:90100)
Mendivil, Franklin; Shonkwiler, R.; Spruill, M. C. Optimization by stochastic methods. Handbook of stochastic analysis and applications, 625--677, Statist. Textbooks Monogr., 163, Dekker, New York, 2002.MR1882720
Spruill, M. C.Convergence rates for renewal sequences, Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, (2002) Vol XVI Computer Science III, 300-304.
Spruill, M. C.; Tu, Renjin. Locally asymptotically optimal designs for testing in logistic regression. Ann. Statist. 29 (2001), no. 4, 1050--1057. MR1869238 (2002i:62142)
Mendivil, F.; Shonkwiler, R.; Spruill, M. C. Restarting search algorithms with applications to simulated annealing. Adv. in Appl. Probab. 33 (2001), no. 1, 242--259. MR1825325 (2002a:60149)
Deliu, Anca; Spruill, M. Carl. Existence results for refinement equations. Aequationes Math. 59 (2000), no. 1-2, 20--37. MR1741467 (2001g:39049)
Hill, T.; Spruill, M. Erratum to: "On the relationship between convergence in distribution and convergence of expected extremes" [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 121 (1994), no. 4, 1235--1243; MR1195722 (94j:60070)]. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), no. 2, 625--626. MR1707517 (2000e:60054)
Shonkwiler, R.; Spruill, M. C. Expected hitting time calculations for genetic algorithms, Joint Conference on Information Sciences, 1996, Proceedings, 658-659.
Spruill, M. C. Determinacy of means of order statistics. Sankhya Ser. A 57 (1995), no. 1, 118--125. MR1392636 (97i:62011)
Deliu, A.; Spruill, M. C. Solving (I-S)g=f when S is a generalized shift operator. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 24 (1994), no. 2, 513--528. MR1277342 (96a:39026)
Hill, Theodore P.; Spruill, M. C. On the relationship between convergence in distribution and convergence of expected extremes. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 121 (1994), no. 4, 1235--1243. MR1195722 (94j:60070)
Foley, R. D.; Hill, T. P.; Spruill, M. C. Linear search with bounded resources. Naval Res. Logist. 38 (1991), no. 4, 555--565. MR1119014 (92g:90084)
Aynsley, R.; Spruill, M. C. Thermal Comfort Models for Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Warm Humid Climates and Probabilities of Low Wind Speeds, Jnl. of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 36 (1990),481-
Spruill, M. C. Good designs for testing the degree of a polynomial mean. Sankhya Ser. B 52 (1990), no. 1, 67--74. MR1178893 (93e:62188)
Spruill, M. C. Optimal designs for multivariate interpolation. J. Multivariate Anal. 34 (1990), no. 1, 141--155. MR1062552 (91i:62099)
Foley, R. D.; Hill, T. P.; Spruill, M. C. A generalization of Lévy's concentration-variance inequality. Probab. Theory Related Fields 86 (1990), no. 1, 53--62. MR1061948 (92a:60037)
Spruill, M. C. Good designs for polynomial extrapolation. J. Statist. Plann. Inference 26 (1990), no. 2, 149--159. MR1079259 (91j:62105)
Spruill, M. C. Accurate detection of excess over a standard based on a random sample. Comm. Statist. Theory Methods 18 (1989), no. 9, 3305--3312. MR1031120 (91a:62279)
Aynsley, R.; Spruill, M. C.Preparation of Local Wind Probability Data, Recent Advances in Wind Engineering, Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Symposium on Wind Engineering, 1 (1987), 155-162.
Spruill, M. C. Optimal designs for interpolation. J. Statist. Plann. Inference 16 (1987), no. 2, 219--229. MR0895762 (88f:62109)
Spruill, M. C. Optimal extrapolation of derivatives. Metrika 34 (1987), no. 1, 45--60. MR0876853 (88d:62130)
Spruill, M. C. Some approximate restricted Bayes estimators of a normal mean. Statist. Decisions 4 (1986), no. 4, 337--351. MR0876874 (88b:62012)
Spruill, M. C. Computation of the maximum likelihood estimate of a noncentrality parameter. J. Multivariate Anal. 18 (1986), no. 2, 216--224.MR0832996
Aynsley, R.; Spruill, M. C. Thermal Comfort Models for Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Warm Humid Climates and Probabilities of Low Wind Speeds, Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Wind Engineering, 1 (1986), C312-C317.
Spruill, Carl. Model robustness of Hoel-Levine optimal designs. J. Statist. Plann. Inference 11 (1985), no. 2, 217--225. MR0783203 (86g:62122)
Spruill, M. C. Optimal designs for minimax extrapolation. J. Multivariate Anal. 15 (1984), no. 1, 52--62. MR0755815 (86b:62124)
Spruill, M.C. Kiefer-Wolfowitz Equivalence Theorem, Encyclopedia of the Statistical Sciences , 1983, Kotz and Johnson Eds., Wiley, New York.
Spruill, Carl. Admissibility of the natural estimator of the mean of a Gaussian process. J. Multivariate Anal. 12 (1982), no. 4, 568--574. MR0680529 (84d:62023)
Spruill, M. C. Some exact iterative procedures for finding the puncture point of a convex set. J. Optim. Theory Appl. 31 (1980), no. 1, 41--48. MR0596341 (82b:90092)
Spruill, Carl. Optimal designs for second order processes with general linear means. Ann. Statist. 8 (1980), no. 3, 652--663. MR0568727 (82c:62102)
Spruill, M. C.; Studden, W. J. A Kiefer-Wolfowitz theorem in a stochastic process setting. Ann. Statist. 7 (1979), no. 6, 1329--1332. MR0550154 (81a:62078)
Spruill, Carl; Studden, W. J. Optimum designs when the observations are second-order processes. J. Multivariate Anal. 8 (1978), no. 2, 153--172. MR0474654 (57 #14289)
Spruill, Carl. Equally likely intervals in the chi-square test. Sankhya Ser. A 39 (1977), no. 3, 299--302. MR0483167 (58 #3185)
Spruill, Carl. Determining the form of the mean of a stochastic process. J. Multivariate Anal. 7 (1977), no. 2, 278--285. MR0443251 (56 #1621)
Alt, Frank; Spruill, Carl. A comparison of confidence intervals generated by the Scheffé and Bonferroni methods. Comm. Statist.---Theory Methods A6 (1977), no. 15, 1503--1510. MR0488462 (58 #8000)
Spruill, M. C. A comparison of chi-square goodness-of-fit tests based on approximate Bahadur slope. Ann. Statist. 4 (1976), no. 2, 409--412. MR0391380 (52 #12201)
Spruill, M. C. Cell selection in the Chernoff-Lehmann chi-square statistic. Ann. Statist. 4 (1976), no. 2, 375--383. MR0391379 (52 #12200)
Moore, David S.; Spruill, M. C. Unified large-sample theory of general chi-squared statistics for tests of fit. Ann. Statist. 3 (1975), 599--616. MR0375569 (51 #11760)