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Bert Steece
Professor of Information and Operations Management

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-4823
bsteece@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, AM, University of Southern California

Overview

Bert Steece has published in the IEEE, The Accounting Review, and Management Science. He serves on the editorial board of Mathematical Reviews and has served as national program director for the American Statistical Association. He is a coauthor of the Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II. Professor Steece served as Marshall's Dean of Faculty from 1989 to 2001 and directed the school's doctoral program for nine years. He is a Principal in the Center for Systems and Software Engineering, and has worked as a consultant and expert witness for Southern California Edison, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Cornerstone Research, among others.

Research

The Effect of CASE Tools on Software Development Effort • 2002
Determining Software Quality Using COQUALMO • 2002
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II • 2000
Cocomo II and Future Trends • 2000
Calibrating Software Cost Estimation Models Using Bayesian Analysis • 1999
From Multiple Regression to Bayesian Analysis for COCOMO II • 1999
Event Studies, Seemingly Unrelated Regression, and Dummy Variables • 1994
The Bayesian Hat Matrix • 1989
The Influence of the Unitary Tax on Business Investment • 1987
Ex Ante Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Models • 1986
Regressor Space Outliers in Ridge Regression • 1986
A Test for the Equivalence of K ARMA Time Series Models • 1985
Diagnostic Measures of Influence for S2 • 1985
Some Empirical Evidence on Taxpayer Rationality • 1985
A Test for Casuality in Multivariate ARMA Models • 1984
Evaluating Forecasting Accuracy • 1982
A Principal Component Decomposition of Experimental Designs • 1981
A Cost Minimization Forecasting Methodology for a Classified Inventory Environment • 1979
Model Adequacy: A Bayesian Viewpoint • 1979
Forecasting the Product of Two Time Series Forecasts • 1978
The Distributions for Quotients of Correlated Log-Normal and Correlated Gamma Variates • 1978
Some Applications of Integral Transforms in Statistics • 1977
An Exact Distribution for the Product of Two Independent Beta Distributed Random Variable • 1976
The Implications of a Certain Variable Selection Criterion in Regression Analysis • 1976
The Distribution of the Products and Quotients for Powers of Two Independent Generalized Gamma Variates • 1975
Minimum Relative Error & Lasso Regression Applied to Software Cost Estimation