College of Business Administration

Dr. Keith Womer

Dr. Keith Womer
Professor of Management Science
Office: 475 SSB ~ Voice: 314-516-6109
E-Mail: womerk@umsl.edu

Degrees Held:
PhD, Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, 1970
BA, Economics, Miami University, 1966

Interests:

Teaching: Operations Management and Statistics

Research:

Areas: statistical cost estimation, production planning, learning, techniques of cost-effectiveness analyses
Recent Publications:
- "Specification Versus Data Fitting: SEM Prediction and the Q-class Estimator," The Journal of Forecasting, vol. 17, 1998, pp. 77-93, (with Stephen Cantrell and Walter Mayer).
- "Measuring Efficiency with a Linear Economic Model," Applied Economics, vol. 35, 2003, p. 1459-1468. (with Homeé F.E. Shroff, Thomas R. Gulledge and Kingsley E. Haynes).
- "Benefit-Cost using Data Envelopment Analysis" Forthcoming in Annuls of Operations Research. (with J. H. Dula´, D. Retzlaff-Roberts and M.-L. Bougnol).
- "Nonparametric frontier analysis with multiple constituencies," Forthcoming in theJournal of Operational Research Society. (with M.-L.Bougnol, J.H.Dula, and D.Retzlaff-Roberts).
Current Research Projects
- Principal Investigator: "OptForce: New Human Resource Optimization Methods," Office of Naval Research

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