Dennis Tolley

Position: Professor OFFICE HOURS 12:00-1:00 MW Phone: 801-422-6668 Email: tolley AT byu dot edu Office: 206 TMCB Teaching: STAT 469, STAT 470

Current Vitae (pdf)

Warnick, K.F., Francom, S.J., Humble, P.H., Kelly, R.T., Woolley, A.T., Lee, M.L., Tolley, H.D. "Field Gradient Electrophoresis." Electrophoresis,26, (2005).

Agbonkonkon, N., Tolley, H.D., Asplund, M.C., Lee, E.D., Lee, M.L. "Prediction of Gas-Phase Reduced Ion Mobility Constants (K,)." Analytical Chemistry, 76 (17) 5223-5229 (2004)

Tolley, H.D., Fellingham, G. W., "Life Table Data, Combining." Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science, (2) 1009-1017 (2004)

Humble, P.H., Kelly, R.T., Woolley, A.T., Tolley, H.D., Lee, M.L. "Electric Field Gradient Focusing of Proteins Based on Shaped Ionically Conductive Acrylic Polymer." Analytical Chemistry, 76 (19) 5641-5648 (2004)

Stewart, M.N., Tolley, H.D., "Investigating Possible Bias: The American Legal Academy's View of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools." Journal of Legal Education, 54(1), 2004, 136-155.

Tolley, H.D., Fellingham, G.W. 2000. Likelihood Methods for Combining Tables of Data. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal Volume 2: 89- 10 1.

Fellingham, G.W., McBride, K., Tolley, H.D., Lyon, J.L. 2000. Statistics on Suicide and LDS Church Involvement in Males Age 15-34. BYU Studies 39(2):173-180.

Tolley, H.D., Nielsen, M.D., Bachler, R. 1999. Credibility Calculations Using Analysis of Variance Computer Routines. Journal of Actuarial Practice 7(1-2):223-228.

Fellingham, G.W., Tolley, H.D. 1999. Combining Life Table Data. North American Actuarial Journal 3(3):24-40.

Pardes, H., Manton, K.G., Lander, E.S., Tolley, H.D., Ullian, A.D., Palmer, H. 1999. Effects of Medical Research on Health Care and the Economy. Science 283:36-37.

Manton, K.G., H.D. Tolley, R. Newcomer, and J.C. Vertrees. 1995. Disenrollment Patterns of Elderly in Managed Care and Fee for Service. Journal of Actuarial Practice 2: 171-196.

Fellingham, G.W., H.D. Tolley, and D.T. Scott. 1994. Likelihood Estimation of Missing Cell Means in the Fixed Model Analysis of Variance. Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods 23(9), 2429-47.

K.G. Manton, M.A. Woodbury, and H.D. Tolley, 1994. Statistical Applications Using Fuzzy Sets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: New York.

Tolley, H.D., and K.G. Manton. 1991. Intervention Effects Among a Collection of Risks. Transactions of the Society of Actuaries XLIII:1 17- 142.

Tolley, H.D., K.G. Manton, and J.C. Vertrees, 1991. An Evaluation of Three Payment Strategies for Capitation for Medicare, Journal of Risk and Insurance 45,p. 678-90.

Jones, S.E., D.L. Decker, and H.D. Tolley. 1990. Biases in Cold Fusion Data. Nature 343(22):703-704.

Tolley, H.D. and M.R. Kosorok. 1990. An Empirical Method of Comparing Risks Using Stochastic Dominance. Transactions, Society of Actuaries XLI: 507-545.

Geurts, M.D. and H.D. Tolley. 1990. Causal Partitioning and Sales Forecasting Accuracy. Accepted for Publication. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 37: 1-12.

Tolley, H.D., M.D. Bahr, and P.K. Dotson. 1989. A Statistical Method for Monitoring Social Insurance Claims. The Journal of Risk and Insurance LVI (4).

Tolley, H.D., K.G. Manton, and J. Vertrees. 1987. An Evaluation of Three Payment Strategies for Capitation for Medicare. Journal of Risk and Insurunce 45,678-90.

Tolley, H.D. and B.C. Randall. 1986. A Statistical Test for Discrimination in Coverage for Employee Benefit Plans. Journal of Pension and Compliance 12,37-49.

Tolley, H.D. and A.R. Olsen. 1985. A Note of Homogeneity Tests When Combining 2x2 Tables. Communications in Statistics 14,2857-7 1.

Tolley, H.D. and Manton, K.G. 1984. Assessing Health Care Costs in the Elderly. Transactions of the Society of Actuaries 36,71-90. Manton, K.G., E. Stallard, and H.D. Tolley. 1983. Economic Impact of Health Policy Interventions. Risk Analysis 3,265-275.

Tolley, H.D. and K.G. Manton. 1983. Multiple Cause Models of Disease Dependency. Scand. Actuarial Journal: 21 1-226.

Lee, K.L., F.E. Harrell Jr., H.D. Tolley, and R.A. Rosati. 1983. A Comparison of Test Statistics for Assessing the Effects of Concomitant Variables in Survival Analysis. Biometrics 39, 341-50.

Tolley, H.D., K.G. Manton, and E. Stallard. 1982. Compartment Model Methods in Estimating Cancer Costs. Transactions of the Society of Actuaries 34, 399-413.

Johnson, M.E., H.D. Tolley, M.D. Bryson, and A.S. Goldman. 1982. Covariate Analysis of Survival Data: A Small Sample Study of Cox's Model. Biometries 32,685-98.

Parr, W.C. and H.D. Tolley. 1982. Jackknifing in Categorical Data Analysis. Australian Journal of Statistics 24,67-79.

Dunn, M.R., H.D. Tolley, J.R. Alldredge. 1980. Exact Formulas for Approximating Variogram Function Integrals. Mathematical Geology 12, 577-88.

Tolley, H.D., and J.E. Norman. 1979. Time on Trial Estimates with Bivariate Risks, Biometrika 66, 285-91.

Salama, I.A., G.G. Koch, and H.D. Tolley. 1987. On the Estimation of the Most Probable Number in a Serial Dilution Experiment. Communications in Statistics A7, 1267-1281.

Tolley, H.D., D. Burdick, K.D. Manton, and P.J.E. Stallard. 1978. A Compartment Model Approach to the Estimation of Tumor Incidence and Growth: Investigation of a Model of Cancer Latency. Biometrics 34: 377-389.

Tolley, H.D., K.G. Manton, and S.S. Poss. 1978. A Linear Models Application of Competing Risks to Multiple Causes of Death. Biometrics 34: 58 1-91.

Koch G.G., and H.D. Tolley. 1975. A Generalized Modified Chi-square Analysis of Categorical Data from a Complex Dilution Experiment. Biometrics 31(1): 59-92.

Koch, G.G., W.D. Johnson, and H.D. Tolley. 1972. A Linear Models Approach to the Analysis of Survival and Extent of Disease in Multidimensional Contingency Tables. JASA 67: 783-796.

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, B.S., Statistics, 1970
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Ph.D., Biostatistics, 1974
Society of Actuaries, Chicago, Ill., A.S.A., Actuarial Science, 1981

Professor, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 1986 to present.

Visiting Professor, The National Training Center for Hydatid Disease, Xinjiang, China, Summer 1988.

Adjunct Associate Professor Of Actuarial Science (1983 -1990), Center for Demographic Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC.

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August, 1983 to July, 1983.

Senior Research Scientist, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington, October, 1979 to July, 1983.

Assistant Professor, Institute of Statistics, Texas A&M University, August, 1977 to October, 1979.

Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan, August, 1976 to July, 1977.

Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Duke Medical School, Durham, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, NC, June, 1974 to July, 1976.

Statistical Consultant, Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel fill, NC, February, 1974 to July, 1974.

Associate Scientist, Booz-Allen Applied Research, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, September, 1969 to February, 1970.

College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award: Ten or more years of service, 2003
Honors Professor of the Year, Brigham Young University, 2000
Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1999
Third Place, SCOR International Prize in Actuarial Science, 1991
Blue Key Professor of the Month--October 1987 (Brigham Young University)
First Place, Society of Actuaries Actuarial Mathematics Competition, 1986

Statistical methods in analytic chemistry
Actuarial methods in health applications of statistical mechanics to multiple agent problems