Education
- Ph.D., Statistics
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.A., Statistics
- University of Maryland-College Park
- B.S., Mathematics
- University of Maryland-College Park
Positions
- 2020 - Present | Statistician
Awards
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2000
- American Statistical Association Q&P Section Gerald Hahn Quality and Productivity Achievement Award, 2014
- Fellow of the American Society for Quality, 2017
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow, 2019
Publications
- M.S. Hamada, A note on assurance testing for repairable systems. Los Alamos National Lab Technical Report LA-UR-20-25327 (2020). Accepted by Quality Reliability Engineering International.
- M. S. Hamada, C. M. Anderson-Cook, and B. P. Weaver, Gauge R & R studies for an gular measurements. Los Alamos National Lab Technical Report LA-UR-21-20236 (2021).
- M. S. Hamada, C. M. Anderson-Cook, and B. P. Weaver, Gauge R & R studies for angular measurements. Los Alamos National Lab Technical Report LA-UR-21-20236 (2021). Quality Engineering preprint.
- M. S. Hamada and J. T. Mang, Case study: accounting for response measurement error in fitting a regression model. Los Alamos National Lab Technical Report 21-20092 (2021). Quality Engineering preprint.
- M. S. Hamada, K. A. Yeamans, and C. Harris, A case study: comparing testers for means and variances in a balanced incomplete block design. Los Alamos National Lab Technical Report LA-UR-20-26923 (2020). Quality Engineering preprint.
- M. S. Hamada and K. K. Kaufeld, Nonlinear regression with an error-in-variables distribution estimated by censored data. Statistics and Applications, 19, 115-124 (2021).
- M.S. Hamada, T.L. Graves, N.W. Hengartner, D.M. Higdon, A.V. Huzurbazar, E. Lawrence, C.D. Linkletter, C.S. Reese, D.W. Scott, R.R. Sitter, R.L. Warr, B.J. Williams, Quality quandaries: using simulation to handle implicit likelihoods in a Bayesian analysis. Quality Engineering, 33, 172-177 (2021).
- M.S. Hamada, On assurance testing for repairable systems. Quality Engineering, 33,26-33 (2021).
- M.S. Hamada, Quality quandaries: an incomplete taxonomy of Bayesian statistical models with examples from industrial statistics applications. Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Report LA-UR-19-20183 (2019). Accepted by Quality Engineering.
- M.S. Hamada and B.P. Weaver, Quality quandaries: on Bayesian prediction intervals and bounds for finite populations. Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Report LA-UR-19-24501 (2019). Accepted by Quality Engineering.
- M.S. Hamada, B.M. Jaramillo and C.H. Chiao, A note on the Bayesian analysis of experiments with correlated multiple responses using a matrix-logarithmic covariance model. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 35, 2506-2511 (2019).
- M.S. Hamada and B.P. Weaver, Quality quandaries: statistical thinking for adding more sensors in a monitoring application. Quality Engineering, 32, 124-130 (2020).
- M.S. Hamada and S. Sintay, Quality quandaries: assessing correlation to evaluate performance of a two component system and its impact on specifying separate production requirements. Quality Engineering, 31, 639-644 (2019).
- M.S. Hamada, J.T. Mang, L.H. Hoff, Quality quandaries: should estimates be analyzed instead of the raw data? Quality Engineering, 31, 499-504 (2019).
- M.S. Hamada and B.P. Weaver, Quality quandaries: accounting for measurement error in analyzing data. Quality Engineering, 31, 349-353 (2019).
- C.M. Anderson-Cook and M.S. Hamada, Quality quandaries: Incorporating practical constraints into a designed experiment. Quality Engineering, 30, 534-541 (2018).
- A.J. Hamada, C.A. Hamada, M. Hamada and M.S. Hamada, Quality quandaries: experiencing the practice of statistics with simple experiments. Quality Engineering, 30, 776-782 (2018).
- S. Culp, J. Chen, K.J. Ryan and M.S. Hamada. Random effects models for repeatability and reproducibility of ordinal measurements. Technometrics, 60, 545-556 (2018).
- M.L. Fugate, M.S. Hamada and B.P. Weaver. Quality quandaries: Predicting a population of curves. Quality Engineering, 30, 351-356 (2018).
- M.S. Hamada and B.P. Weaver. Quality quandaries: uses of simulation. Quality Engineering, 30, 163-166 (2018).
- B.P. Weaver, M.S. Hamada, A.G. Wilson and J.E. Bakerman. Bayesian degradation data demonstration tests. Quality Reliability Engineering International, 33, 2699-2709 (2017).
- M.L. Fugate, M.S. Hamada and B.P. Weaver. Analyzing degradation data with a random effects semiparametric regression model. Quality Engineering, 29, 358-365 (2017).
- D. Collins, B.P. Weaver, B.P., and M.S. Hamada. Panning for gold: Enhancing the precision of sensitivity test data. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 10, 166-181 (2017).
- See complete list at More Publications PDF on Media tab
Books
- Hamada, M.S., Wilson, A.G., Reese, C.S., and Martz, H.F., "Bayesian Reliability," Springer (2008). More information at http://www.bayesianreliability.com.
- Wu, C.F.J. and Hamada, M.S., "Experiments: Planning, Analysis and Parameter Design Optimization," John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (2000).
Won the John Wiley and Sons 2000 Award in Statistics and Probability for excellence and innovation. Also (2009). More information at http://www.isye.gatech.edu/~jeffwu/book/
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Discussion and Award Winning Papers
- J.I. Abes, M.S. Hamada and C.R. Hills. Comparing methods for assessing reliability uncertainty based on pass/fail data collected over time. Quality Engineering, 30, 694-700 (2018). Won the 2018-2019 Quality Engineering Best Reliability Paper Award.
- M.S. Hamada. Bayesian analysis of step-stress accelerated life tests and its use in planning. Quality Engineering, 27, 276-28 (2015). Won the 2015-2016 Quality Engineering Best Reliability Paper Award.
- R.R. Picard, M.S. Hamada, G.S. Hemphill and R.E. Hackenberg. Accounting for nonrandom sampling in nonlinear regression. Quality Engineering, 27, 168-176 (2015). Won the 2015 Soren Bisgaard Award.
- Graves, T., Hamada, M., Booker, J., Decroix, M., Chilcoat, K. and Bowyer, C., "Estimating a Proportion Using Stratified Data Arising from Both Convenience and Random Samples," Technometrics, 49, 164-171 (2007). Won the 2007 Frank Wilcoxon Prize.
- Hamada, M.S. and Sitter, R., "Statistical Research: Some Advice to Beginners," The American Statistician," 58, 93-101, discussion and response, 58, 196-202 (2004).
- Johnson, V., Graves, T., Hamada, M. and Reese, C.S., "A Hierarchical Model for Estimating the Reliability of Complex Systems (with discussion)," Bayesian Statistics 7, Oxford University Press, Eds. J.M. Bernardo, M.J. Bayarri, J. Berger, A.P. Dawid, D. Heckerman, A.F.M. Smith, and M. West, 199-213 (2003).
- Hamada, M.S. and Balakrishnan, N., "Analyzing Unreplicated Factorial Experiments: A Review with Some New Proposals (with discussion)," Statistica Sinica, 8, 1-41 (1998).
- Hamada, M.S. and Wu, C.F.J., "Analyzing Designed Experiments with Complex Aliasing, Journal of Quality Technology, 24, 30-37 (1992). Won the 1992 ASQC Brumbaugh Award.
- Hamada, M.S. and Wu, C.F.J., "A Critical Look at Accumulation Analysis and Related Methods," (with discussion) Technometrics, 32, 119-162 (1990). Won the 1990 Frank Wilcoxon Prize.
Patents
- H.F. Martz, M. Hamada, A.J. Koehler and E.C. Berg, Optimizing the Availability of a Buffered Industrial Process US 6,782,295, August 24, 2004. M. Hamada, H.F. Martz, J.K. Eleswarpu and M.J. Preissler, System Level Analysis and Control of Manufacturing Process Variation US 6,901,308, May 31, 2005.
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