Youn-Min Chou

Professor

Department of Applied Mathematics
College of Sciences
The University of Texas at San Antonio
6900 North Loop 1604 West
San Antonio, Texas 78249-0664

Office:	Science Building 4.01.62
Phone:	210-458-5552
Fax:	210-458-4439
E-mail:	ychou@utsa.edu

Research Interests

Quality Engineering,
Statistical Inference,
Environmental Engineering,
Computational Statistics

Teaching Experience:

1991 - Present: Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

1985 - 1991: Associate Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

1980 - 1985: Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Other Experience:

1999 - 2001: Director, Industry-preferred Training Program on Methods and Solutions for Quality-Related Problems, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

1996 - 1997: Researcher and Consultant, Manufacturing Science Research Center, Sony Semiconductor of America. On leave from The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Grants:

"A Training Program: Methods and Solutions for Quality-Related Problems," $33,420 from local companies, 1999-2001.

"Statistical Applications in Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes," $9,600 from Sony Semiconductor of America, 1997.

"Statistical Research in the Manufacturing Industry: A Competitive Advantage," $29,907, Faculty Professional Development Leave Award, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1996.

"Capability Analysis for Production Processes," $150,009, National Science Foundation, 1991-95.

"Quality Evaluation Analysis for Manufacturing Processes", Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, $63,902, 1990-92.

Patent:

US5987398: Methods and Apparatus for Statistical Process Control of Machines and Processes Having Non-constant Mean of a Response Variable, 1999. (With Galen D. Halverson)

Honors and Awards:

Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Quality Section 1404, 2000.

Fellow of the American Society for Quality, 2000.

President's Distinguished Achievement Award for Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1999.

Plaques for outstanding service, American Society for Quality, 1998 and 1999.

Faculty Development Leave Award, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1996.

Selected Publications: (Total 50 papers in refereed journals)

D.B. Owen, L. Li, and Youn-Min Chou, "Prediction Intervals for Screening Using a Measured Correlated Variate," Technometrics, Vol. 23, May 1981, pp. 165-170.

Youn-Min Chou, "Sample Sizes for ß-Expectation Tolerance Limits Which Control Both Tails of the Normal Distribution," Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, V. 31, No. 4, 1984, pp. 601-607.

Youn-Min Chou and D.B. Owen, "One-sided Confidence Region on the Upper and Lower Tail Areas of the Normal Distribution," Journal of Quality Technology, V. 16, No. 3, 1984, pp. 150-158.

Youn-Min Chou and Robert W. Mee, "Determination of Sample Sizes for Setting ß-Content Tolerance Limits Controlling Both Tails of the Normal Distribution," Statistics and Probability Letters, V. 2, No. 5, October 1984, pp. 311-314.

Youn-Min Chou and D.B. Owen, "One-sided Distribution-free Simultaneous Prediction Limits for p Future Samples," Journal of Quality Technology, April 1986, pp. 96-98.

Youn-Min Chou and D.B. Owen, "One-sided Simultaneous Lower Prediction Intervals for L Future Samples from a Normal Distribution," Technometrics, August 1986, V. 28, pp. 247-251.

Youn-Min Chou and D.B. Owen, "On Setting Limits on Bodily Fluids for Classifying Individuals as Pathological," Biometrical Journal, 1987, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 739-745.

Robert E. Odeh, Youn-Min Chou, and D.B. Owen, "Sample Sizes and Accuracy for ß-expectation Tolerance Intervals for a Normal Distribution," Technometrics, Vol. 31, No. 4, 1989, pp. 461-468.

Youn-Min Chou and D.B. Owen, "Simultaneous Prediction Intervals for a Two-parameter Exponential Distribution Using Complete or Type II Censored Data," Metrika, 1989, pp. 279-290.

Youn-Min Chou, D.B. Owen, and Salvador A. Borrego A., "Lower Confidence Limits on Process Capability Indices," Journal of Quality Technology, V. 22, 1990, pp. 223-229.

Robert L. Fountain and Youn-Min Chou, "Minimum Sample Sizes for Two-sided Tolerance Intervals for Finite Populations," Journal of Quality Technology, V. 23, 1991, pp. 90-95.

Youn-Min Chou, "A Bivariate Noncentral T-Distribution with Applications," Communications in Statistics, Vol. 21, No. 12, 1992, pp. 3427-3462.

Youn-Min Chou, "Selecting a Better Supplier by Testing Process Capability Indices," Quality Engineering, Vol. 6, No.3, 1994, pp. 427-438.

Youn-Min Chou and M.T. Anderson, "A Sequential Test of Some Process Capability Indices," Statistics for Quality: Dedicated to Don Owen, Chapter 3, pp. 31-48, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1996. Editors: S. Ghosh, W. R. Schucany, and W. B. Smith.

K.S. Chen, R.Z. Yeh, and Youn-Min Chou, "On the Thermal Decomposition Kinetics of Styrene-Butadiene Rubber in Nitrogen Atmosphere," Environmental Engineering Science, 14(3), pp. 175-181, 1997.

Youn-Min Chou, Alan M. Polansky, and Robert L. Mason, "Transforming Non-Normal Data to Normality in Statistical Process Control," Journal of Quality Technology, 30(2), pp.133-141, 1998.

Youn-Min Chou, Galen D. Halverson, and Steve T. Mandraccia, "Control Charts for Quality Characteristics under Nonnormal Distributions," a book chapter in Statistical Case Studies: A Collaboration Between Academe and Industry, SIAM, Editors: R. Peck, L. Haugh, and A. Goodman, pp. 89-98, 1998. Also in Student Edition, pp. 49-57.

Alan M. Polansky, Youn-Min Chou, and Robert L. Mason, "Estimating Process Capability Indices for a Truncated Normal Distribution," Quality Engineering, 11(1), pp. 257-265, 1999.

K.S. Chen, H.C. Chen, C. Wu, and Youn-Min Chou, "Kinetics of Thermal and Oxidative Decomposition of Printed Circuit Boards," Journal of Environmental Engineering, Vol. 125, No. 3, pp. 277-283, 1999.

Youn-Min Chou and Robert L. Mason, Discussion on "Simultaneous Nonparametric Prediction Intervals," Technometrics, Vol. 41, No.2, pp. 102-103, May 1999.

Alan M. Polansky, Youn-Min Chou, and Robert L. Mason, "An Algorithm for Fitting Johnson Transformations to Non-Normal Data," Journal of Quality Technology, 31(4), pp. 345-350, 1999. Also at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/jqt/31-3.

K. S. Chen, C. F. Lin, and Youn-Min Chou, "Determination of Source Contributions to Ambient PM2.5 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Using a Receptor Model" Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 51, pp. 489-498, April 2001.

Youn-Min Chou, R. L. Mason and J. C. Young, "The Control Chart for Individual Observations from a Multivariate Non-Normal Distribution," Communications in Statistics: Theory & Methods, Volume 30, 2001.

Robert L. Mason, Youn-Min Chou, and John C. Young, "Applying Hotelling's T2 Statistic to Batch Processes," Journal of Quality Technology, October 2001.

Professional Activities:

Consultant for Don-El Associates, Inc., Dallas, Texas, on a wide variety of problems from defense electronics to law cases involving various aspects of discrimination, 1980-90.

Instructor of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Engineer courses, 1984, 1990, and 1996.

Editorial Board member for the book series Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics, 1986-95.

Chair of the Don Owen Award Selection Committee, 1990-92.

Vice President of the San Antonio American Statistical Association (ASA) Chapter, 1991-92.

President of the San Antonio ASA Chapter, 1992-93.

Member of the SPES Presentation Award Committee of the ASA, 1992.

Chair and Organizer of a Session on Quality and Productivity at the 1992 Joint Statistical Meetings.

Chair and Organizer of five joint meetings of the local Chapters of the ASA and ASQ, 1991-93.

Chair and Organizer of the Quality Control Session at the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences meeting, 1993.

Chair and Organizer of the Quality Control Session at the Conference of Texas Statisticians, 1995.

Chair of a Session on Quality and Productivity at the 1995 ASA Joint Statistical Meetings.

Chair and Organizer of industry recruiting meetings for the UTSA and industry, 1997,1998, and 2000.

Examining Committee Chair, ASQ San Antonio Section, 1998 and 2002-2003.

Membership Chair, ASQ San Antonio Section, 1997-1999 and 2002-2003.

Treasurer, ASQ San Antonio Section, 1999-2001.

Chair, ASQ San Antonio Section Scholarship Program, 1999-2001.

Historian, ASQ San Antonio Section, 2001-2002.

Associate Editor, International Journal of Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 2002.

Professional Memberships:

American Society for Quality (Fellow)

American Statistical Association

Institute of Mathematical Statistics