Summary of Professional Career (1964-2003)

Don Loftsgaarden
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812

Education

Ph.D.   Montana State University                   1964                Statistics/Mathematics
M.S.    Montana State University                   1962                Statistics/Mathematics
B.S.     Montana State University                   1961                Mathematics/Statistics

Positions held

2002-                           Professor Emeritus                                                University of Montana
1999-2002                  Professor Emeritus, teaching 1/3 time                  University of Montana
1967-1999                  Assistant, Associate, Full Professor                     University of Montana
6/78-11/79;
1/92-6/95                    Chair, Mathematical Sciences                              University of Montana
1965-67                       Assistant Professor                                               Western Michigan University
1964-65                       Instructor                                                              Montana State University
1963 (summer)           Statistician                                                 Battelle Memorial Research Institute
1962 (summer)           Statistician                                                 North American Aviation (Autonetics)
1959-61                        Lab Assistant, Computer Center                          Montana State University

 

PhD Dissertation:  Nonparametric Classification and Nonparametric Density Function Estimation
    Dissertation Advisor:  Professor Charles P. Quesenberry

Professional organization memberships
American Statistical Association      Montana Chapter of ASA    Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Mathematical Association of America      Sigma Xi

Teaching and consulting activities

Taught nearly every Statistics course at the University of Montana from Freshman through Ph.D. level, as well a several different Mathematics and Operations Research classes.

Served on the Masters and Ph.D. committees for numerous graduate students in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and in other departments across the University Of Montana.

Did Statistical consulting for many faculty and graduate students at the University of Montana.

Did Statistical consulting for numerous individuals locally and in Montana.

Award: 1994 University of Montana Academic Administrator of the Year Award

Book: Elementary Probability and Statistical Reasoning,  Howard Reinhardt,  Don Loftsgaarden 1977. D.C. Heath. 417 pages.

Selection of Major Professional Activities

1987-2003   DATA  Committee,  a joint committee of the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association,  the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Mathematical Association of America

1999-2003   Chair of the DATA Committee and principal author for 9 surveys and reports on the    Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in the Notices of the AMS.

1979-1997   Survey Committee of the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences. Statistician and Joint Author for the 1985-1986 and 1990-1991 CBMS Surveys, Associate Director and Joint Author for the 1995-1996 CBMS Survey.

1993-1994   President, Montana Chapter of the American Statistical Association,

Papers published in professional journals

  1. Patricia L. Andrews, Don O. Loftsgaarden, and Larry S. Bradshaw. “Evaluation of fire danger rating indexes using logistic regression and percentile analysis.”  International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2003, 12, 213-226.
  1. Don O. Loftsgaarden and Ann E. Watkins, “Statistics Teaching in Colleges and Universities: Courses, Instructors, and Degrees in Fall 1995.” The American Statistician, 1998, 52(4), 308-314.
  1. Maxwell, James W.,  Loftsgaarden, Don O.  “Recent Trends in Graduate Admissions in Mathematics Departments.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society   1997 44(2) 213-216.
  1. Anne Watkins, Donald Albers, and Don Loftsgaarden. “A Survey of Two-Year College Mathematics Programs: The Boom Continues.” AMATYC Review. 1993 14(2) 55-56.
  1. Rudy Gideon, Don Loftsgaarden, and Kit Johnson. “Montana Air Pollution Study: Children's Health Effects.” Journal of Official Statistics, Sweden. 1990  5(4) 391-408,
  1. Kit Johnson, Don O. Loftsgaarden, and Rudy Gideon. “The Effects of Volcanic Ash from the 18 May 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens on the Pulmonary Function of Elementary School Children.” American Review of Respiratory Disease 1982, 126: 1066-1069.
  1. Don O. Loftsgaarden, Rudy Gideon, and Kit Johnson. “Looking for Acute Effects of Air Pollution on Children's Pulmonary Function Tests, “Proceedings of Environmetrics 81 Conference, April 1981, Alexandria, Virginia,  pp.324-5.
  1. Rudy Gideon, Don O. Loftsgaarden, and Kit Johnson. “Principal Component Analysis of Pulmonary Function Measurements,” Proceedings of Environmetrics 81 Conference, April 1981, Alexandria, Virginia,  pp.324-5.
  1. C. Les Marcum and Don Loftsgaarden. “A Nonmapping Technique for Studying Habitat Preferences.” Journal of Wildlife Management, October 1980, 963-968.
  1. Howard Reinhardt and Don Loftsgaarden. “Using Simulation to Resolve Probability Paradoxes.” International Journal Mathematics Education in Science and Technology, 1979, 10(,2)  241-250.
  1. Two-year College Teachers, Robert McKelvey, Donald Albers, Shlomo Libeskind, Don O. Loftsgaarden Notices of the American Mathematical Society,  1979 Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 242-3.
  1. Don O. Loftsgaarden and C.P. Quesenberry. “A Nonparametric Estimate of a Multivariate Density Function.” Annals of   Mathematical Statistics. 1965 Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 1049-51/

Papers written and published as chair of the DATA Committee, a joint committee of the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Mathematical Association of America.

  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., James W. Maxwell, and Kindra M. Remick, 2000.  “1999 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report), Report on the 1999 New Doctoral Recipients and Faculty Salary Survey.”  Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 47(2): 231-243.
  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., James W. Maxwell, and Kindra M. Remick,  2000.  “1999 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Second Report), Updated Report on the 1999 Survey of New Doctoral Recipients, Starting Salary Survey New of New Doctoral Recipients, Faculty Profile, Enrollment and Undergraduate Majors Profile, and Graduate Student Profile.”  Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 47(8): 886-904.
  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., James W. Maxwell, and Kindra M. Remick. 2001. "2000 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report): Report on the 2000 New Doctoral Recipients and Faculty Salary Survey.”  Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 48(2): 195-208.
  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., James W. Maxwell, and Kindra M. Remick. 2001. “2000 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Second Report): Updated Report on the 2000 Survey of New Doctoral Recipients and Starting Salary Survey of New Doctoral Recipients.”  Notices of the American Mathematical Society,  48(7): 709-720.
  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., James W. Maxwell, and Kindra M. Remick. 2001. “2000 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Third Report): Faculty Profile, Enrollment and Undergraduate Majors Profile, and Graduate Student Profile.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 48(8): 819-828.
  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., James W. Maxwell, and Kindra M. Remick. 2002. "2001 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report): Report on the 2001 New Doctoral Recipients and Faculty Salary Survey.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society,  49(2): 217-231.
  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., James W. Maxwell, and Kindra M. Remick. 2002. "2001 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Second Report): Updated Report on the 2001 Survey of New Doctoral Recipients and Starting Salary Survey of New Doctoral Recipients.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society,  49(7): 803-815.
  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., James W. Maxwell, and Kindra M. Remick. 2002. “2001 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Third Report): Faculty Profile, Enrollment and Undergraduate Majors Profile, and Graduate Student Profile.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society,  49(8): 928-938.
  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., James W. Maxwell, and Kindra M. Remick. 2003.. "2002 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report): Report on the 2001-2002 New Doctoral Recipients and Faculty Salary Survey.”  Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 50(2): 238-253.


Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences

Major surveys of Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Programs in the U.S. are carried out every 5 years by the Survey Committee of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences(CBMS).  For several cycles now these surveys have been funded by NSF.  An extensive report is written and published for each of these surveys.  I was on this committee from 1979-1997 and was heavily involved in the following three survey reports.

  1. Loftsgaarden, Don O., Rung, Donald C., Watkins, Ann E.. “Statistical Abstract of Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical Sciences in the United States, Fall 1995 CBMS Survey.”1997  MAA Reports No. 2. The Mathematical Association of America. 189 pages.  Funded by NSF.
  1. Albers, Donald J., Loftsgaarden, Don O., Rung, Donald C., Watkins, Ann E. “Statistical Abstract of Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science in the United States, 1990-91 CBMS Survey.”  March 1992. MAA Notes Number 23 , Mathematical Association of America  196 pages.   Funded by the NSF.
  1. Albers, Donald J., Anderson,  Richard,  Loftsgaarden, Don O.  “Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical and Computer Sciences, The 1985-86 CBMS Survey.”  1987 MAA Notes No. 7,  The Mathematical Association of America,  200 pages. Funded by NSF.

Technical Reports

  1. Constructing and Testing Logistic Regression Models for Binary Data: Applications to the National Fire Danger Rating System.  Don O. Loftsgaarden, Patricia Andrews.  1992.  U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, General Technical Report INT-286,  35 pages
  1. Logistic Models for Fire Occurrence Using Fire Indexes and Weather Variables--Mississippi (Black Creek), Mississippi (Bude) and Montana (Lolo National Forest), Don O. Loftsgaarden Systems for Environmental Management.  118 pages. 1988
  1. The Relationship Between The National Fire Danger Rating System Indexes and Fire Occurrence--An Exploratory Study. Don O. LoftsgaardenSystems for Environmental Management. 44 pages. 1987.
  1. Montana Air Pollution Study Health Effects: Introduction and Initial Results.  K. G. Johnson, R.A. Gideon,  Don O. Loftsgaarden. Math. Dept Interdisciplinary Report No. 12, Nov. 1981 25 pages
  1. Acute Effects of Suspended Particulates on Children's Pulmonary Function Tests. R.A. Gideon,  K. G. Johnson, Don O. Loftsgaarden.Math. Dept. Interdisciplinary Report No. 13, Nov. 1981. 26 pages.
  1. Pulmonary Function Measurements in Five Montana Cities with Different Levels of Air Quality, R.A. Gideon, K. G. Johnson, Don O. Loftsgaarden. Math Dept. Interdisciplinary Report No. 14, Nov. 1981. 31 pages
  1. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Panel Study of Air Pollution Effects (1978-79), R. A. Gideon, K. G. Johnson, Don O. Loftsgaarden.  Math. Dept. Interdisciplinary Report  No. 15, Nov. 1981.  22 pages.
  1. Altitude Adjustment of Children's Pulmonary Function Tests for Comparative Epidemiology of Air Pollution Effects, K. G. Johnson, R. A. Gideon, Don O. Loftsgaarden.Math. Dept. Interdisciplinary Report No. 16,  Nov. 1981.  18 pages.
  1. The Effects of Volcanic Ash from the 18 May 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens on the Pulmonary Function of Elementary School Children, K.G. Johnson, R. A. Gideon, Don O. Loftsgaarden.Math. Dept. Interdisciplinary Report No. 17, Nov. 1981.
  1. Computerization of Aspects of Registration, A Feasibility Study, carried out for the UM administration  Hien Nguyen, Don O. Loftsgaarden,  Howard Reinhardt. Mathematics Department UM Technical  Report. June 1980 40 pages.
  1. An Inquiry into the Graduate Training Needs of Two-Year College Teachers of Mathematics, Robert McKelvey, Donald Albers, Shlomo Libeskind, Don O. Loftsgaarden. Report to NSF published by the Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium, 1979,  56 pages.
  1. Comparative Efficiency of an Urban Transit System, Don O. Loftsgaarden, Robert McKelvey, Dale Mueller, Hien Q. Nguyen. Mathematics Department UM Technical  Report. May 1977 12 pages.
  1. A Nonmapping Technique for Studying Utilization Versus Availability of Environmental Components, C. Les Marcum, Don O. Loftsgaarden. Mathematics Department UM Technical  Report.  May 1977 17 pages.
  1. Using Simulation to Resolve Probability Paradoxes, Howard Reinhardt, Don O. Loftsgaarden.           Mathematics Department UM Mathematics Education Report No. 2.  March 1977  14 pages.
  1. Nonparametric Density Estimation and Classification, C. P. Quesenberry, Don O. LoftsgaardenNASA Technical Note, NASA TN D-2699, 1965 79 pages.

Selection of Talks

  1. “The CBMS Survey and Statistics Teaching in the United Statistics” Ann E. Watkins, Don O.Loftsgaarden National meetings of the American Statistical Association and the Institute ofMathematical Statistics in Baltimore in August 1999.  Ann Watkins was elected president of the Mathematical Association of America a couple of years after this.
  1. “1995-96 CBMS Survey of Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Departments in the U.S.” Don Loftsgaarden. November 1997. Invited 1 hour talk given at the Annual National Mathematical Sciences Chairs Colloquium, sponsored by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC.
  1. “The 1995-96 CBMS Survey of Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Departments in the U.S.” Donald Rung, Don O. Loftsgaarden.  November 1997.  This was a presentation to the National Science Foundation given at NSF.  NSF funded this extensive survey.
  1. “Results of the 1990-91 CBMS Survey of Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences and Computer Sciences Departments in the U.S.” Donald Rung, Don O. Loftsgaarden, Donald Albers,. National meetings of MAA and AMS, Orono, Maine Aug 1991.
  1. “Graphical Methods of Statistical Analysis.” Don O. Loftsgaarden. Symposium on Computer Graphics, sponsored by the Montana Data Processing Association, Butte, Nov. 1987. (invited speaker)
  1. “Use of Simulation in Teaching Probability in High Schools.” Don O. Loftsgaarden. (1-hour invited talk) National Council of  Teachers of Mathematics Name-of-Site Meeting , Great Falls, March 1983
  1. “Montana Air Pollution study: Synopis of Pulmonary Function studies”,  Kit Johnson, Rudy Gideon,  Don O. Loftsgaarden. Air Pollution Control Association of America, Philadelphia, PA, June 1981.
  1. “Principal Component Analysis of Pulmonary Function Measurements.” Rudy Gideon, Don O. Loftsgaarden, Kit Johnson.  Environmetrics 81 Conference, Alexandria, Virginia, April 1981.
  1. “Looking for Acute Effects of Air Pollution on Children's Pulmonary Function Tests.” Don O. Loftsgaarden,  Rudy Gideon,  Kit Johnson.  Environmetrics 81 Conference, Alexandria, Virginia, April 1981.
  1. “Dispersion Analysis of Live-Trap Records.” Lee Metzgar, Don O. Loftsgaarden. National Meeting of the Mammalogy Society,  June 1980.
  1. “Comparative Efficiency of an Urban Transit System.” R. McKelvey, D. Mueller,  H. Nguyen, Don O. Loftsgaarden.  National meeting of Operations Research Society of America, San Francisco, May 1977
  1. “Goal Programming and Potential Applictions in Forestry.” Don O. Loftsgaarden NSF Conference on Mathematical Applications to Managerial Problems, Washington State University, April, 1975.

Don O. Loftsgaarden, March 2004

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