Research and Publications

Textbooks

• Kvanli, A.H., Pavur, R.J., and Keeling, K.B., Concise Managerial Statistics, South-Western Publishing, 13 chapters, 2006.
• Kvanli, A.H., Pavur, R.J., and Keeling, K.B., Introduction to Business Statistics: A Computer Integrated, Data Analysis Approach, 6th edition, South-Western Publishing, 19 chapters, 2003.
• Kvanli, A.H., Statistics: A Computer Integrated Approach, West Publishing Company, 15 chapters, 1988.

Articles

• Kvanli, A.H. and Dilworth, J.B., "Determining the Expected Cash Flows From a Subscription System With Declining Attrition Rate," Engineering Economist, Fall, 1979.
• Van Matre, J.G. and Kvanli, A.H. "Review of Teaching Materials on Census Data," American Statistician, November, 1979.
• Kvanli, A.H. "Another Method of Inscribing a Regular Pentagon Within a Circle: Does It Really Work?" Alabama Journal of Mathematics, Fall, 1979.
• Kvanli, A.H. "Financial Planning Using Goal Programming," OMEGA, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1980.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Barnes, W.M. "Venture Planning and Analysis: An Integrated Approach to Investment Evaluation and Product Pricing," Journal of Business Research, 9, 1981.
• Buckley, J.J. and Kvanli, A.H. "The MAD Estimator: When Is It Linear? Applications to Two-Way Design Models," Communications in Statistics, Vol. 10, No. 24, 1981.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Buckley, J.J. "On the Use of U-Shaped Penalty Functions For Deriving a Satisfactory Financial Plan Utilizing Goal Programming," Journal of Business Research, 1986.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Foster, J.E. "Warning Signals - Misleading Statistical Samples," The Government Accountants Journal, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, 1986.
• Poulos, L., Kvanli, A.H., and Pavur, R.J. "A Comparison of the Accuracy of the Box-Jenkins Method With That of Automated Forecasting Methods," International Journal of Forecasting, 3, 1987.
• Kapadia, C.H., Kvanli, A.H. and Lee, K.R. "Minimal Sufficient Statistics for the Incomplete Block Design With an Interaction Under and Eisenhart Model III," Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 1988.
• Kvanli, A.H., Fowler, J. and Foster, J.E. "Warning! Some Misleading Statistical Sampling Formulas," The Government Accountants Journal, Vol. XLI, No. 4, 1992.
• Fowler, J., Foster, J., Foley L., and Kvanli, A. "Statistics, the Law and Government Auditors' Sampling Procedures," The Government Accountants Journal, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, 1994.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Pavur, R.J., "Examining Changes in the Sample Variance From Omitting an Observation: Some Surprising Results," Journal of Economic Quality Control, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1995.
• Kvanli, A.H., Shen, Y.K. and Deng, L.Y. "Construction of Confidence Intervals for the Mean of a Population Containing a Large Number of Zero Values," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1998.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Schauer, R., AThe Bootstrap: What the Government Auditor Should Know,@ Journal of Government Financial Management, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2002.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Schauer, R., “Is Your Agency Too Conservative: Deriving More Reliable Confidence Intervals,” Journal of Government Financial Management, June, 2005.

Proceedings

• Kvanli, A.H. and Dilworth, J.B. "Estimating the Mean Lifetime of Declining Cashflows," SE DSI Proceedings, 1978.
• Van Matre, J.G. and Kvanli, A.H. "Systematic Error: Illustrations and Caveats," National DSI Proceedings, 1978.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Buckley, J.J. "A Sequential Decision Rule for Credit Screening," National DSI Proceedings, 1979.
• Buckley, J.J. and Kvanli, A.H. "Inventory Control and C-V-P Analysis: A Goal Programming Approach," SE DSI Proceedings, 1980.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Buckley, J.J. "Project Scheduling with Resource Constraints: A Goal Programming Approach," National DSI Proceedings, 1980.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Buckley, J.J. "Goal Programming: A Comparison Between Pre-emptive Priorities and U-Shaped Penalty Functions," SE DSI Proceedings, 1981.
• Buckley, J.J., Kvanli, A.H. and Martin, W.S. "Retail Gravity Models in Marketing," National DSI Proceedings, 1981.
• Buckley, J.J. and Kvanli, A.H. "Fuzzy Programming and the Pareto Optimal Set," SW DSI Proceedings, 1982.
• Kvanli, A.H., Greer, J.G. and Foster, J.E. "Deriving a Confidence Interval with Highly Skewed Audit Data," National DSI Proceedings, 1982.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Pavur, R.J. "Dummy Variables in Regression: Which Method to Use?," SW DSI Proceedings, 1983.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Foster, J.E. "Using a Mixture Approach to Deal with Zero and Nonzero Error Values in Statistical Sampling," National DSI Proceedings, 1985.
• Kvanli, A.H. "Deriving a Confidence Interval for the Mean of a Nonstandard Mixture of Distributions in Auditing," SW DSI Proceedings, 1993.
• Kvanli, A.H. and Fowler, J. " The Effect of Stratification When Dealing with a Nonstandard Mixture of Distributions in Auditing", National DSI Proceedings, 1993.
• Fowler, J.F. and Kvanli, A.H., "Probability Proportional to Size Multistage Sampling Design for Auditing," Presented at the Third International Applied Statistics in Industry Conference, 1995.
• Kvanli, A. H., “Estimating the Standard Error When Using a Cluster Poststratified Design With Unknown Sample Size,” presented at the National DSI conference, November 2004.

Presentations

"Common Issues Raised During Audit Appeals and Deriving Confidence Intervals: Some Recent Developments," presented at The Association of Government Auditors Professional Development Conference, Dallas, Texas (April 2003).

The following were presented at the nationwide conference sponsored by the Federation of Tax Administrators and the Multistate Tax Commission, Dallas, Texas (October 2004):

• Determination of Adequate Sample Sizes and Differentiating Between Variable and Attribute Calculators
• Designing an Appropriate Target Population, and Can a Statistical Sample be Modified Without Destroying the Statistical Integrity of the Sample?
• Minimum Errors and Basement Amounts – Should They Be Established?

Awards

• Best Application Paper, 1979 National DSI meeting.
• "Statistics, the Law, and the Government Auditors' Sampling Procedures" received the best article award by The Government Accountants Journal, Washington, D.C., June,1994.

Research Interests

• Statistical auditing inference procedures
• Statistical auditing sampling procedures
• Statistical quality control
• Goal programming
• Decision theory

Professional Organizations

• American Society for Quality
• American Statistical Association
• Decision Sciences Institute