Education Background

Education

• Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974
• M.S, Stanford University, 1970
• B.A., Occidential College, 1969

Professional Activities

Selected Publications

• Hockstra, D., “Setup Reduction in the Economic Lot Sizing Problem”, Proceedings of the 1997 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, 1997, Vol. 3, p. 1284-1286.
• Hockstra, D., "Simple Policies in the Economic Lot Scheduling Problem with Zero Setup Costs," Production Planning and Control, 1997, 8, (1), p. 25-30.
• Hockstra, D., “1996 Comprehensive Community Needs Survey: Statistical Analysis of Results”, in 1996 Community Needs Study, United Way of Southwestern Indiana, November 1996.
• Hockstra, D., “1993 Comprehensive Community Needs Survey: Statistical Analysis of Results”, in 1993 Community Needs Study, United Way of Southwestern Indiana, September 1993.

Recent Presentations

• Hockstra, D., “Predicting Faculty Needs with Spreadsheets.” Western Decision Sciences Institute meeting, Kauai, Hawaii, April 2009.
• Hockstra, D., “Teaching Statistics with EXCEL: Is it Better?” Western Decision Sciences Institute meeting, Kauai, Hawaii, April 2003.
• Hockstra, D., “Confidence Intervals for Posterior Probabilities”, INFORMS meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1999.
• Blalock, G., and D. Hockstra, “Profit Margins in the Multi-Product Firm”, Missouri Valley Economics Association, Memphis, Tennessee, February 1999.