Leigh Murray
Professor
Department of Statistics
Kansas State University

 
Office Information
  • E-mail:  lmurray@ksu.edu
  • Room:  101A Dickens Hall
  • Phone:  (785) 532-0515
  • Fax:  (785) 532-7736
Research Interests
  • Linear Models
  • Desigh of Experiments
  • Statistical Consulting
Recent Publications

Scholarly Activities (publications):

Refereed Journal Articles:

  • Berardelli, D., Desmond, M. and Murray, L.  “A comparative study of burrowing owl reproductive success between urban and grassland habitats in southern New Mexico.” Submitted to The Condor, 5/03.
  • Harrington, J., Wagner, A., Fisher, J. and Murray, L. “Timing of collection and provenance affects rooting in white fir stem cuttings.”  Journal of Environmental Horticulture, accepted with revision, 11/99.
  • El-Shatnawi, M., Pieper, R., Donart, G. and Murray, L. “Seedling growth of Lehmann lovegrass and mesa dropseed under greenhouse conditions.”  Journal of Range Management, accepted with revision, 11/99.
  • Agudelo, S., Desmond, M. and Murray, L. "Effects of habitat fragmentation and shrub encroachment on site occupancy by grassland and shrub-adapted birds during the non-breeding period in the northern Chihuahuan desert." Accepted in Studies in Avian Biology, June 2007.
  • Bird, S., Herrick, J. Wander, M. and Murray, L. "Multi-scale variability in soil aggregate stability: implications for understanding semi-arid grassland degradation." Accepted in Geoderma, May 2007.
  • Norsworthy, J., Schroeder, J., Thomas, S. and Murray, L. “Purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) management in chile peppers using halosulfuron and cultivation.”   Accepted in Weed Technology, 1/2007.
  • Tahboub, M., Lindemann, W., and Murray, L. "Nutrient availability in soil amended with pecan wood chips."  Horticultural Science, 42(2): 339-343.
  • Bhandari, H., Pierce, C., Murray, L. and Ray, I. "Combining abilities and heterosis for forage yield among high-yielding accessions of the alfalfa core collection."  Crop Science, 47: 663-671.
  • Valenzuela-Vázquez, M., Picchioni, G., Murray, L. and McKay, W. "Beneficial role of 1-methylcyclopropene for cut Lupinus havardii racemes exposed to ethephon." HortScience, 42(1): 113-119.
  • Jacobson, A., Thompson, D. and Murray, L. “Establishing guidelines to improve identification of the fires ants, Solenopsis xyloni and S. invicta.”  Journal of Economic Entomology, 99:313-322.
  • Serna-Perez, A., Monger, C., Herrick, J., and Murray, L.  “ emissions from exhumed petrocalcic horizons (calcrete).”  Soil Science Society of America Journal, 70: 795-805.
  • Ray, J., Schroeder, J., Creamer, R. and Murray, L.  “Planting date affects phenology of London Rocket (Sisymbrium irio) and interaction with beet leafhopper (Circulifer tenellus)."  Weed Science, 54:127-132.
  • Norsworthy, J., Schroeder, J., Thomas, S. and Murray, L. “Southern root-knot nematode effect on purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) and chile pepper response to halosulfuron.”Weed Technology, 19: 1004-1011.
  • Schroeder, J., Thomas, S. and Murray, L.  “Impacts of crop pests on weeds.”  Weed Science, 53:918-922.  Paper based on Feb 2003 Invited Symposium presentation.
  • Thomas, S., Schroeder, J., and Murray, L.  “The role of weeds in nematode management.” Weed Science, 53:923-928.  Paper based on Feb 2003 Invited Symposium presentation.
  • Ray, J., Creamer, R., Schroeder, J. and Murray, L.  “Moisture and temperature requirements for London Rocket (Sisymbrium irio) emergence.”  Weed Science, 53: 187-192.
  • Puppala, N., Fowler, J., Jones, T., Gutschick, V., and Murray, L.  “Evapotranspiration, yield and water-use efficiency of Lesquerella fendleri at different growth stages.”  Industrial Crops and Products, 21: 33-47.
  • Ray, I., Segovia-Lerma, A., and Murray, L. “Diallel analysis of carbon isotope discrimination and its association with forage yield among nine historically recognized alfalfa germplasms.” Crop Science, 44: 1970-1975.
  • Segovia-Lerma, A.., Murray, L., Townsend, S., and Ray, I.  “Population-based diallel analyses among nine historically recognized alfalfa germplasms.”  Theoretical and Applied Genetics,109: 1568-1575.
  • Thomas, S., Schroeder, J. and Murray, L. “Cyperus tubers protect Meloidogyne incognita from 1,3-Dichloropropene.” Journal of Nematology, 36(2): 131-136.
  • Schroeder, J., Thomas, S., and Murray, L.  “Root-knot nematodes affect annual and perennial weed interactions with chile pepper.” Weed Science, 52: 28-46.
  • Murray, L., Ray, I., Dong, H. and Segovia-Lerma, A. “Clarification and re-evaluation of population-based diallel analyses:  Gardner and Eberhart revisited.”  Crop Science, 43: 1930-1937.
  • Khadduri, N., Harrington, J., and Murray, L. “Percussion as an alternative seed treatment for Robinia neomexicana.” Seed Science and Technology, 31: 561-570.
  • Rosner, L., Harrington, J., Dreesen, D. and Murray, L. “Sulfuric acid scarification of wax currant seeds from New Mexico.” Native Plants Journal, 3: 65-71.  
  • Rosner, L., Harrington, J., Dreesen, D. and Murray, L. “Hydrogen peroxide seed scarification of New Mexico collections of Ribes cereum.” Seed Science and Technology, 31: 71-81.
  • Rosner L., Harrington, J., Dreesen, D. and Murray, L. “Overcoming dormancy in New Mexico mountain mahogany seed collections.”  Journal of Range Management, 56: 198-202.
  • Rosner L., Harrington, J., Dreesen, D. and Murray, L.  “Effect of gibberellic acid andstandard seed treatments on mountain snowberry germination.”  Native Plants Journal, 3(2):155-162.
  • McDaniel, K., Wood, B. and Murray, L. “Broom snakeweed control and seed damage after herbicide applications.”  Journal of Range Management, 55: 604-611.
  • Picchioni, G., Valenzuela-Vasquez, M. and Murray, L. “Calcium and 1-methylcyclopropene delay dessication of Lupinus havardii cut racemes.”  Horticultural Science, 37(1): 122-125.
  • Mukherjee, A., Anderson, D., Daniel, D., Murray, L., Tisone, G., Frederickson, E., Estell, E., Rayson, G. and Havstad, K. “Statistical analyses of fluorometry data from chloroform filtrate of lamb feces.”  Journal of Range Management, 54: 370-377.
  • Khalil, S. K., Mexal, J. and Murray, L. “Germination of soybean primed in aerated solution of polyethylene glycol (8000).” Online Journal of Biological Sciences, 1(3): 105-107.
  • Khalil, S. K., Mexal, J. and Murray, L. “Soybean seed matured on different dates affect seed quality.” Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 4(3): 365-370.
  • Sterling, T., Lownds, N. and Murray, L. “Picloram-resistant and -susceptible Centaureasolstitialis accessions have similar competitive ability.”  Weed Science, 49: 42-47.
  • Khalil, S. K., Mexal, J. and Murray, L. “Maturity dates affect soybean constituents: protein, oil, ash and moisture.” Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 3(12): 2020-2023.
  • Oliver, R., Rosel, J. and Murray, L. “Analisis de medidas repetidas mediante metodos de maxima versosimilitud.” Psicothema, 12: 403-407.
  • Madden, E., Murphy, R., Hansen, A. and Murray, L.  “Models for guiding management of prairie bird habitat in northwestern North Dakota.” American Midlands Naturalist, 144: 377-392.  
  • Sterling, T., Murray, L. and Hou, Y.  “Morphological variation among broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae) populations.”  Weed Science, 48: 356-365.
  • Gonzalez-Garcia, J., Ray, I., Henning, J. and Murray, L.  “Quantitative genetic analyses of erect glandular trichome density in diploid alfala.”  Euphytica, 111: 61-65.
  • Frederickson, E., Estell, R., Havstad, K., Shupe, W., and Murray, L. “Effect of feeding ewe lambs a 15% tarbush (Flourensia cernua DC) pellet pre- and post-weaning on subsequent diet selection of tarbush.” Journal of Arid Environments, 44: 123-131. 
  • Xie, J., Cardenas, E., Sammis, T., Wall, M., Lindsey, D., and Murray, L.  “Drip irrigation increases chile pepper yield while controlling Phytophtora root rot.”  Agricultural Water Management, 42: 127-142.
  • Murray, L., Sterling, T. and Schroeder, J. “My View.”  Journal of Weed Science, 47: 367-368.
  • Havstad, K., Gibbens, R., Knorr, C. and Murray, L.  “Long-term influences of shrub removal and lagomorph exclusion on Chihuahuan Desert vegetation dynamics.”  Journal of Arid Environments, 42: 155-166.
  • Schroeder, J., Thomas, S., and Murray, L.  “Yellow (Cyperus esculentus) and purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotunda) are not injured by increasing root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) population density.”  Weed Science, 47: 201-207.
  • Townley, C. and Murray, L.  “Use-based criteria for selecting and retaining electronic information: a case study.”  Information Library and Technologies, 18: 32-39.
  • Anderson, D., Frederickson, E., Nachman, P., Estell, R., Havstad, K., and Murray, L. "Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectra of herbaceous and woody pre- and post-digested plant material." Animal Feed Science and Technology, 70: 315-337.
  • Thomas, S., Schroeder, J., Kenney, M. and Murray, L. "Meloidogyne incognita inoculum source affects host suitability and growth of yellow nutsedge and chile pepper."Journal of Nematology, 29(3): 404-410.
  • VanLeeuwen, D., Murray, L. and Urquhart, N.S. "A mixed model with fixed and random trend components across time." Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 1: 435-453.
  • Zucker, N. and Murray, L.  "Determinants of dominance in the tree lizard Urosaurus ornatus: the relative importance of mass, previous experience and coloration." Ethology, 102: 812-825.
  • Anderson, D., Nachman, P., Estell, R., Ruekgauer, T., Havstad, K., Frederickson, E. and Murray, L.  "The potential of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectra of sheep feces to determine botanical composition." Small Ruminant Research, 21: 1-10.
  • Anderson, D., Estell, R., Havstad, K., Shupe, W., Libeau, R., and Murray, L. "Differences in ewe and wether behavior when bonded to cattle." Applied Animal Behavior Science, 47: 201-209.
  • Sterling, T., Lownds, N., and Murray, L.  "Environmental effects on picloram uptake and ethylene production by broom snakeweed." Journal of Range Management, 49: 245-250.
  • Mohammed, A., Ferrando, C., Pieper, R., Murray, L. and  Wallace, J. "Season and sex influences on botanical composition of cattle diets in southern New Mexico." Journal of Range Management, 49: 204-208.
  • King, D., Estell, R., Frederickson, E., Havstad, K., Wallace, J., and Murray, L. "Effects of Flourensia cernua ingestion on intake, digesta kinetics and rumenal fermentation of sheep consuming tobosa." Journal of Range Management, 49: 325-330.
  • King, D., Estell, R., Frederickson, E., Havstad, K., Wallace, J. and Murray, L. "Effects of Flourensia cernua ingestion on nitrogen balance of sheep consuming tobosa." Journal ofRange Management, 49: 331-335.
  • McCarthy, C. and Murray, L. "Viability and metabolic features of bacteria indigenous to a contaminated deep aquifer."  Microbial Ecology, 32: 305-321.
  • Suleman, S., Wood, K., Shad, B. and Murray, L. "Development of a rainwater harvesting system for increasing soil moisture in arid rangelands of Pakistan." Journal of Arid Environments, 31: 471-481.
  • Richman, D., Meister, J., Whitcomb, W., and Murray, L. "A comparison of populations of wolf spiders (Aranae, Lycosidae) on two different substrates in southern Florida."Journal of Arachnology, 23: 151-156.
  • Thompson, D., Knight, J., Sterling, T., and Murray, L. "Preference for specific varieties of woolly locoweed by a specialist weevil, Cleonidius trivittatus (Say)."  Southwestern Entomologist, 20: 325-333.
  • Suleman, S., Wood, K., Shad, B. and Murray, L.  "Rainwater harvesting for increasing livestock forage on arid rangelands of Pakistan." Journal of Range Management, 48: 518-522.
  • Mohammed, A., Pieper, R., Wallace, J., Holochek, J. and Murray, L.  "Comparison of fecal analysis and rumen evacuation techniques for sampling diet botanical composition of grazing cattle." Journal of Range Management, 48: 202-206.
  • Bari, F., Wood, K., and Murray, L. "Livestock grazing impacts on interill erosion in Pakistan." Journal of Range Management, 48: 251-257.
  • Moon, C., Lewis, B., Murray, L. and Sanderson, S.  "Russian wheat aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae) development, reproduction, and longevity on hydroponically grown wheat with varying nitrogen levels." Population Ecology, 24: 367-371.
  • Thomas, S., Cardenas, M. and Murray, L.  "Relationship of preplant population densities of Meloidogyne incognita to damage in three chile pepper cultivars." Plant Disease, 79: 557- 559.
  • Frederickson, E., Estell, R., Havstad, K., Shupe, W., and Murray, L.  "Potential toxicity and feed value of onions for sheep." Livestock Production Science, 42: 45-54.
  • Schroeder, J., Kenney, M., Thomas, S., and Murray, L. "Yellow nutsedge response to Southern Root-knot nematodes, chile peppers, and metolachlor." Weed Science, 42: 534-540.
  • Cain, M. and Murray, L.  "Nonlinear regression models to estimate the size of DNA fragments." Computer Applications in Biosciences, 10: 677-680.
  • Rouda, R., Anderson, D., Wallace, J. and Murray, L. "Free-ranging cattle water consumption in southcentral New Mexico."  Applied Animal Behavior Science, 39: 29-38.
  • Anderson, D., Havstad, K., Shupe, W., Libeau, R., Smith, J. and Murray, L. "Benefits and costs in controlling sheep bonded to cattle without wire fencing." Small Ruminant Research, 14: 1-8.
  • Sennock, R., Anderson, D., Murray, L. and Donart, G. "Tobosa tiller defoliation patterns under rotational and continuous grazing." Journal of Range Management, 46: 500-505.
  • Schroeder, J., Thomas, S., and Murray, L. "Yellow and purple nutsedge and chile peppers host southern root-knot nematode." Journal of Weed Science, 41: 150-156.
  • Bari, F., Wood, K. and Murray, L. "Livestock grazing impacts on infiltration rates in a temperate range of Pakistan." Journal of Range Management, 46: 367-372.
  • Clason, D. and Murray, L. "Exponential families and variance component models." The American Statistician, 46: 29-31.
  • Hulet, C., Anderson, D., Shupe, W. and Murray, L. "Effects of  age and flock size on flocking behavior in Rambouillet and RambouilletxPolypay female sheep." Sheep Research Journal, 8: 112-115.
  • Wansi, T., Pieper, R. Beck, R. and Murray, L. "Botanical content of blacktailed jackrabbit diets on semi-desert rangelands." Great Basin Naturalist, 52: 300-308.
  • Hulet, C., Anderson, D., Shupe, W. and Murray, L. "Field versus pen bonding lambs to cattle." Sheep Research Journal, 8: 69-72.
  • Anderson, D., Hulet, C., Smith, J., Shupe, W., and Murray, L.  "An attempt to bond weaned 3-month-old beef heifers to yearling ewes." Applied Animal Behavior Science, 34: 181-188.
  • Anderson, D., Hulet, C., Nakamatsu, V., Murray, L. and Pieper,R. "Diet selection of cattle and bonded small ruminants grazing arid rangeland." Sheep Research Journal, 8: 11-18.
  • Anderson, D., Rouda, R., Murray, L., and Pieper, R. "Automatic sorting of free-ranging cattle." Journal of Range Management, 45: 312-314.
  • Bonnema, A., Melzer, J. Murray, L. and O'Connell, M. "Non-random inheritance of organellar genomes in symmetric and asymmetric somatic hybrids between Lycopersicon esculentum and L. pennellii." Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 84: 435-442.
  • Mars, L., Kiesling, H., Ross, T. Armstrong, J. and Murray, L. "Water acceptance and intake in horses under shipping stress." Equine Veterinary Science, 12: 17-20.
  • Hulet, C., Anderson, D., Libeau, R., Smith, J., Shupe, W. and Murray, L. "Bonding of Spanish kid goats to cattle and sheep." Applied Animal Behavior Science, 30: 97-103.
  • Wasem,C., McCarthy, C. and Murray, L. "Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis analysis of the mycobacterium avium complex and other mycobacteria." Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 29: 264-271.
  • Mullis, R., Murray, L. and Mullis, A. "Parent-child problem-solving: dyadic versus triadic contexts." Child Study, 20(4): 263-278.
  • Rouda, R., Anderson, D., Murray, L. and Smith, J. "Distance traveled by free-ranging supplemented and non-supplemented lactating and non-lactating cows." Applied Animal  Behavior Science, 28: 221-232.
  • Anderson, D., Hulet, C., Hamadeh, S., Smith, J., and Murray, L. "Diet selection of bonded and non-bonded free-ranging sheep and cattle."  Applied Animal Behavior Science, 26: 231-242.
  • Hulet, C., Anderson, D., Smith, J., Shupe, L. Taylor, C. and Murray, L. "Bonding of goats to sheep and cattle for protection from predators." Applied Animal Behavior Science, 22: 261-267.
  • Murray, L. "A note on connectedness in fixed effects MANOVA and GMANOVA models with missing cells." Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 18(7): 2527-2531.
  • Murray, L. "Reply." The American Statistician, 43: 131.
  • Murray, L. "Missing cell estimates in the randomized block design with random effects." The American Statistician, 42: 134-136.
  • Mullis, R. and Murray, L. "Parent-child communication: interactional patterns." Family Perspective, 22(2): 159-168.
  • Hulet, C., Shupe, W., and Murray, L. "Effects of breeding season, nutritional environment and lambing management on lamb production of southwest Rambouillet ewes." Theriogenology, 29: 1295-1302.
  • Anderson, D., Hulet, C., Shupe, W., Smith, J. and Murray, L. “Response of bonded and non-bonded ovines to the approach of a trained border collie." Applied Animal Behavior Science, 21: 251-257
  • Murray, L. “Missing-cell estimates in the randomized block design with random effects.”The American Statistician, 42: 134-136.
  • Anderson, D., Hulet, C., Smith, J. Shupe, W., and Murray, L. “Heifer disposition and bonding of lambs to heifers.”  Applied Animal Behavior Science, 19: 27-30.
  • Dosser, D. and Murray, L. “How significant is a significant difference? Problems with the measurement of magnitude of effect.” Journal of Counseling Psychology, 34: 68-72. 
  • Murray, L. “Estimation of missing cells in randomized complete block and latin squaredesigns.” The American Statistician, 40: 289-293.
  • Murray, L. and Smith, D. “Estimability, testability and connectedness in the cell-meansmodel with missing cells.”  Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 14(8):1889-1917.
  • Smith, D. and Murray, L. “An alternative to Eisenhart’s model II and mixed model in the case of negative variance estimates.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 79: 145-151.
  • Smith, D. and Murray, L. “A simplified treatment of the estimation of parameters and tests of hypotheses in constrained design models with unbalanced data.”  The American Statistician, 37: 156-158.
  • Book reviews: 

  • Murray, L. Invited book review of "Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments," by R. Mason, R. Gunst, and J. Hess. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85: 1170-1171.
  • Book chapters:

  • Murray, L. "The Randomized Complete Block Design." The Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, Second edition.  P. Armitage and T. Colton (editors). Wiley: New York.
  • Murray, L. "The Randomized Complete Block Design." The Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, P. Armitage and T. Colton (editors). Wiley: New York.

    Agriculture Experiment Station Publications: 

  • Kominiak, S., Murray, L. and Catlett, L. "Structural and pricing changes in the New Mexico natural gas industry." New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station Research Report 673.
  • Kirksey, R., Park, J., Kiesling, H., Murray, L. and Donart, G. "Performance of warm- and cool-season grasses under irrigation." New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station Research Report 677.
  • Other publications:

  • Ward, A. and Murray, L. “Factors affecting performance of New Mexico high school students.”  ERIC Document Reproduction Service no. ED 271 266 (RC015823).
  • Courses Taught at Kansas State University
    • STAT 705 Regression and Correlation Analysis
    • STAT 945 Statistical Consulting
    Updated October 12, 2007 (SAP)