Faculty Profile - Dominique Haughton
Professor, Mathematical SciencesUnited States co-editor, Case Studies for Business, Industry and Government Statistics
Affiliated Researcher , Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne (SAMM)
Associate Researcher, Universite Toulouse I (TSE-R)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Inst-Technology, 1984
Office: Morison Hall 386 | 781.891. 2822 | dhaughton@bentley.edu

Bio
Major areas of interest are applied statistics, statistics and marketing, the analysis of living standards surveys, data mining, and model selection. United States co-editor of Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics (CSBIGS). Over sixty refereed articles have appeared in journals such as The American Statistician, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Studies in Family Planning, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Biosocial Science, Annals of Statistics, Sankhya, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Communications in Statistics, Statistica Sinica. One book and two edited collections. Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Graduate coordinator for Business Analytics at Bentley University.
Teaching Interests
Graduate Coordinator for Business Analytics Statistics (Graduate and Undergraduate); Data Mining; Business Analytics
Research Interests
Model Selection; Statistics and Marketing; Statistical Analysis of Living Standards; Data Mining; Global Analytics
Consulting/Practice Interests
Statistics and Database Marketing; Statistical Analysis of Living Standards in Vietnam; Expert Witness work
Professional Links
http://www.dominiquehaughton.com
Awards and Honors
2011, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, American Statistical Association
2010, Outstanding Research Award, Bentley University
2010, Honourable Mention, American Statistical Association
2002, Scholar of the Year award
Publications
Journal Articles
Haughton, D. M., Nguyen, P. Graphical and numerical descriptive analysis: exploratory tools applied to Vietnamese data. Journal of Statistics Education.
Forthcoming
Haughton, D. M., Malgwi, C. A., Soremekun, O. Foreign Direct Investment in Mobile Technology: An Exploratory Comparative Analysis of Asia and Africa. Revue Ouest Africaine de Sciences Economiques et de Gestion (ROASEG).
Forthcoming
Bhaduri, M., Dery, J., Haughton, D. M., Li, T., Liu, P., Nan, W. (2021). Dynamics of Reward- Based Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Rock Music Projects. Chance , 34 (1).
Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Li, M. (2017). Socio-Economic Convergence in Europe One Decade after the EU Enlargement of 2004: Application of Self-Organizing Maps.. Eastern European Economics, 55 (3), 236-260.
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Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Li, M. (2017). Using SOMbrero to Examine the Economic Convergence of European Countries from 2001-2013. . WSOM +2017, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization (WSOM+) 2017, 8.
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Skaletsky, M. ., Galliers, R. D., Haughton, D. M., Soremekun, O. (2016). Exploring the Predictors of the International Digital Divide . Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 19 (1), 44-67.
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Arumugam, S., Haughton, D. M., Vasanthi, B., Zhang, C. (2014). Reciprocity in social networks - A case study In Tamil Nadu, India. Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government, 5 (2), 126-131.
Wernick, N. L., Haughton, D. M., Ndung'u, E., Ledley, F. D. (2014). Positioning Genomics in Biology Education: Content Mapping of Undergraduate Biology Textbooks. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, 15 (2).
Deichmann, J. I., Haughton, D. M., Malgwi, C. A., Soremekun, O. (2013). Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps as a Tool for Assessing Progress toward the Millennium Development Goals.. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 14 (3), 393-419.
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Woolford, S. W., Haughton, D. M., Li, M., Senne, L. P., Skaletsky, M. ., Eshghi, A. (2012). Enrollment management in graduate business programs: predicting student retention. Journal of Institutional Research, 16 (2), 63-79.
Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Legrand, P., Skaletsky, M. ., Woolford, S. W. (2011). Identifying Groups: A Comparison of Methodologies. Journal of Data Science, 9 (2), 271-291.
Haughton, D. M., Nguyen, P., Senne, L. P. (2010). Racial Profiling: Focus on the Person or the Act . Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government, 3 (2), 86-94.
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Hua, G., Haughton, D. M., Sun, Y. (2010). Network Analysis of U.S. Air Transportation Network. Data Mining for Social Network Data, 12, 75-89.
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Haughton, D. M., Nguyen, P. (2010). Multilevel models and inequality in Vietnam. Journal of Data Science, 8, 289-306.
Kamis, A., Haughton, D. M., Gulley, O. D., Scholten, P. A. (2010). A Structural Equation Model of Gambling in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Statistics & Economics, 5 (A10).
Hua, G., Haughton, D. M., Sun, Y. (2009). Virtual worlds adoption: a research framework and empirical study. Online Information Review, 33 (5), 889-900.
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Haughton, D. M., Legrand, P., Woolford, S. W. (2009). Review of Three Latent Class Cluster Analysis Packages: Latent Gold, poLCA, and MCLUST. The American Statistician, 63 (1), 81-91.
Nguyen, P., Haughton, D. M. (2009). Living standards of Vietnamese provinces: a Kohonen map. Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics, 2 (2), 109-113.
Hua, G., Haughton, D. M. (2009). An Experimental Investigation of Online Banking Adoption in China. Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 14 (1).
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Adams, S. M., Gupta, A., Haughton, D. M., Leeth, J. D. (2008). Data Mining CEO Compensation. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 7 (2), 561-576.
Adams, S. M., Carter, N. C., Hadlock, C. R., Haughton, D. M., Sirbu, G. (2008). Proactive Encouragement of Interdisciplinary Research Teams in a Business School Environment: Strategy and Results. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 30 (2), 153-164.
Carter, N. C., Hadlock, C. R., Haughton, D. M. (2008). Generating random networks from a given distribution. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 52 (8), 3928-3938.
Adams, S. M., Carter, N. C., Hadlock, C. R., Haughton, D. M., Sirbu, G. (2008). Change in connectivity in a social network: a Bayesian perspective. Connections, 28 (2), 17-27.
Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Topi, H. (2007). Determinants of Customer Loyalty in the Wireless Telecommunication Industry. Telecommunication Policy, 31 (2), 93-106.
Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Woolford, S. W., Sayek, S. (2007). Measuring the International Digital Divide: An Application of Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 3 (6), 552-575.
Adams, S. M., Gupta, A., Haughton, D. M., Leeth, J. D. (2007). Gender differences in CEO compensation: Evidence from the U.S. Women in Management Review, 22 (3), 208-224.
Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Sayek, S., Teebagy, N., Topi, H. (2006). Understanding Eurasian Convergence 1992-2000: Application of Kohonen Self-organizing Maps. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 5 (1), 72-93.
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Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Teebagy, N., Topi, H. (2006). Determinants of Customer Churn Behavior: The Case of the Local Telephone Service. Marketing Management Journal, 16 (2), 179-187.
Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Masnaghetti, M., Sayek, S., Topi, H. (2006). Exploring Break-points and Interaction Effects Among Predictors of International Digital Divide. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 9 (4), 47-71.
Haughton, D. M., Loan, L. T. (2006). Shifts in living standards: the case of Vietnamese households 1992-1998. Philippine Journal of Development, 32 (1), 79-101.
Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Masnaghetti, M., Teebagy, N., Sayek, S. (2006). Determinants of the international digital divide: an analysis using MARS. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 9 (4), 47-71.
Haughton, D. M., Kamis, A., Scholten, P. A. (2006). A Review of three directed acyclic graphs software packages: MIM, Tetrad, and Win Mine. The American Statistician, 60 (3), 272-286.
Adams, S. M., Carter, N. C., Hadlock, C. R., Haughton, D. M., Sirbu, G. (2006). A recipe for collaborative research. BizEd September/October, September/October, 30-34.
Davi, W., Haughton, D. M., Nasr, N. I., Shah, G. R., Skaletsky, M. . (2005). A Review of Two Text-Mining Packages: SAS Textmining and WordStat. The American Statistician, 59 (1), 1-15.
Haughton, D. M., Robbert, M., Senne, L. P. (2005). Graphical tools for assessing information quality: loan application decisions. International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, 5 (4), 330-347.
Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Topi, H., Deichmann, J. I. (2005). Digital Divide and Consumption Patterns in the U.S.: An Exploratory Investigation. Marketing Management Journal, 15 (4), 108-122.
Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Sayek, S., Teebagy, N., Topi, H. (2003). Geography Matters: Kohonen Classification of Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Economies. Journal of Business Strategies, 20 (1), 23-44.
Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Sayek, S., Teebagy, N., Topi, H. (2003). Foreign Direct Investment in the Eurasian Transition States. Eastern European Economics, 41 (1), 5-34.
Haughton, D. M., Nguyen, P. (2003). Bayesian analysis of poverty rates: the case of Vietnamese provinces. Journal of Modern Applied StatisticalMethods, 2 (1), 189-194.
, ., Haughton, D. M. (2003). Asymptotic probabilities in order selection. Communications in Statistics, 32 (7), 1373-1404.
Haughton, D. M., Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Sayek, S., Teebagy, N., Topi, H. (2003). A review of software packages for data mining. American Statistician, 57 (4), 290-309.
Dudley, R., Haughton, D. M. (2002). Asymptotic normality of posterior probabilities with small errors. Annals of Statistics, 30, 1311-1344.
Deichmann, J. I., Eshghi, A., Haughton, D. M., Sayek, S., Teebagy, N., Topi, H. (2002). Application of Multiple Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) in Direct Response Modeling. Journal of Interactive Marketing, 16 (4), 15-27.
Chin, L., Haughton, D. M., Aczel, A. (1996). Improved Analysis of Student Evaluation of Teaching Scores Using Bootstrap and Permutation Methods. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 8(1) (Fall 1996).
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Haughton, D. M., Mukerjee, S. (1995). The Economic Measurement and Determinants of Diversity. Journal of Social Indicators.
Chin, L., Haughton, D. M. (1995). A Study of User's Perceptions on the Benefits of Information Systems in Hospitals. Healthcare Information Management, 9(1) (Winter 1995), 37-46.
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Books
Haughton, D. M, Haughton, J, Phong, N. (2001). Living standards during an economic boom: the case of Vietnam.
Hanoi: Statistical Publishing House.
Book Chapters
Haughton, D. M. (2013). Business analytics at the confluence of business education and arts and sciences.
Shaping the Future of Business Education
Deichmann, J. I, Haughton, D. M, Phong, N, Ting, P. S. (2001). Correlates of Living Standards: a Graphical and Statistical Analysis.
In Dominique Haughton, Jonathan Haughton (Eds.), . Hanoi: UNDP and GSO
Other(s)
Haughton, D. M. (2011). Living standards analytics: development through the lens of household survey data. Springer-Verlag
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Conference Proceedings and Presentations
Mentzer,
K., Wang,
Y., Haughton,
D.
M. (2020).
"Interlocking Boards and the Corporate Elite: a 20-Year Analysis of the S&P 500."
Presented at the
60th Annual IACIS International Conference.
Bai,
Z., Jain,
N., Wang,
Y., Haughton,
D.
M. (2019).
"Using SOM-based Visualization to Analyze the Financial Performance of Consumer Discretionary Firms."
Presented at the
International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps.
Haughton,
D. (2017).
"Adventures in Music Analytics."
Presented at the
National Economics University's
Invited Lecture,
Hanoi, Vietnam.
Haughton,
D. (2016).
"Adventures in Music Analytics."
Presented at the
VIT Chennai India's
International Conference on Mathematical Computer Engineering (ICMCE) - 2016,
Chennai, India.
Haughton,
D. (2016).
"Adventures in Music Analytics."
Presented at the
Kalasalingam University's
International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics,
Tamil Nadu, India.
Haughton,
D. (2016).
"Adventures in Music Analytics."
Presented at the
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University's
Prof. S. Arumugam Endowment Lecture ,
Tamil Nadu, India.
Haughton,
D., Haughton,
J. (2016).
"Causal Business Analytics: Uplift Models and Directed Acyclic Graphs."
Presented at the
Predictive Analytics World for Business,
New York City.
Deichmann,
J.
I., Li,
M., Eshghi,
A., Haughton,
D.
M. (2016).
"Socio-Economic Convergence in Europe One Decade after the EU Expansion of 2004”."
Presented at the
EBEEC's
Economies of Balkan and East European Countries,
Split, Croatia.
Williams,
C.
B., Fedorowicz,
J., Haughton,
D.
M., Kavanaugh,
A., Mentzer,
K., Thatcher,
J., Xu,
J., . (2015).
"Use and Impact of Social Media in Community Policing."
Presented at the
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference,
Arlington, Virginia.
Williams,
C.
B., Fedorowicz,
J., Haughton,
D.
M., Kavanaugh,
A., Mentzer,
K., Thatcher,
J., , , , . (2015).
"Leveraging Social Media: The Community Policing Case."
Presented at the
American Political Science Association's
APSA Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, California.
Haughton,
D.
M., McLaughlin,
M., Mentzer,
K., Zhang,
C. (2014).
"Movie Analytics: Visualization of the Co-starring Network."
Presented at the
IEEE's
Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization,
Paris, France.
Nichols,
R., Aslinger,
B.
S., Haughton,
D.
M., Frydenberg,
M.
E., Gulati,
G.
J. (2014). Presented at the
Valente Center for Arts and Sciences's
25th Anniversary of the Web,
Bentley University.
Haughton,
D.
M., McLaughlin,
M., Mentzer,
K., Zhang,
C. (2014).
"Visualizing Movie Analytics: A Comparative Approach."
Presented at the
Bentley University's
Annual Research Showcase,
Waltham Massachusetts.
Zhang,
C., Zhang,
S., Haughton,
D.
M. (2014).
"Short-term advertising interference and effectiveness measurement: estimating competitive activity using a Hidden Markov Chain."
Presented at the
International Symposium on Business and Social Sciences,
Sapporo, Japan.
Haughton,
D.
M. (2013).
"Current status of statistical training in the United States."
Presented at the
UNFPA's
Conference on Statistics Training in Universities: National and International Experiences, and the Way Forward,
Hanoi, Vietnam.
Haughton,
D.
M. (2013).
"Statistical training in the United States: Lessons learned and challenges."
Presented at the
UNFPA's
Conference on Statistics Training in Universities: National and International Experiences, and the Way Forward,
Hanoi, Vietnam.
Skaletsky,
M.
., Haughton,
D.
M. (2013).
"Application of multilevel models to the study of the individual digital divide in Russia."
Presented at the
International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development,
Moscow, Russia.
Wong,
W., Hua,
G., Haughton,
D.
M., Stahl,
J. (2012).
"USING RFID-BASED REAL-TIME LOCATION SYSTEMS TO DESCRIBE AND UNDERSTAND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE OUTPATIENT SETTING."
Presented at the
Society for Medical Decision Making's
SMDM 2012 Annual Meeting,
Phoenix, AZ.
Hua,
G., Pehlivan,
E., Vilvovsky,
S., Wong,
W., Haughton,
D.
M. (2010).
"Analyse du Reseau Social des Chercheurs en Systemes D'Information: Collaboration Entre Institutions."
Presented at the
MASHS 2009,
Toulouse, France.
Woolford,
S.
W., Haughton,
D.
M., Legrand,
P., Skaletsky,
M.
. (2010).
"Identifying Groups: A Comparison of Segmentation Methodologies."
Presented at the
American Statistical Association's
2010 Joint Statistical Meetings,
Vancouver, BC.
Haughton,
D.
M., Nguyen,
P., Hudson,
I., Boland,
J. (2010).
"Multilevel Models and Small Area Estimation in Vietnam."
Presented at the
American Statistical Association's
Joint Statistical Meetings,
Vancouver, Canada.
Haughton,
D.
M., Nguyen,
P., Hudson,
I., Boland,
J. (2010).
"Multilevel Models and Small Area Estimation in Vietnam."
Presented at the
Athens Institute for Education and Research's
Annual International Conference on Mathematics & Statistics,
Athens, Greece.
Haughton,
D.
M., Nguyen,
P., Hudson,
I., Boland,
J. (2010).
"Multilevel Models and Small Area Estimation in Vietnam."
Presented at the
Universite de Lille's
Modèles et Apprentissages en Sciences Humaines et Sociales,
Lille, France.
Haughton,
D.
M., Nguyen,
P., Hudson,
I., Boland,
J. (2010).
"Multilevel Models and Small Area Estimation in Vietnam."
Presented at the
Societe Francaise de Statistique's
42eme Journees de Statistiques,
Marseille, France.
Gulley,
O.
D., Haughton,
D.
M., Scholten,
P.
A., Kamis,
A. (2010).
"A Structural Equation Model of Gambling in the United Kingdom."
Presented at the
Eastern Economic Association,
Philadelphia, PA.
Hua,
G., Pehlivan,
E., Vilvovsky,
S., Wong,
W., Haughton,
D.
M. (2009).
"A Social Network Analysis of the Institution Collaboration Network within the Information Systems Research Community."
Presented at the
Modeles et Apprentissage en Sciences Humaines et Sociales,
Toulouse, France.
Skaletsky,
M.
., Haughton,
D.
M., Chang,
L., Lally,
J. (2009).
"An application of SAS Text Miner to the imputation of missing key player description in a customer database."
Presented at the
Northeast SAS User Group (NESUG),
Burlington, Vermont.
Soremekun,
O., Malgwi,
C.
A., Haughton,
D.
M. (2009).
"Foreign Direct Investment and Mobile Technology: A comparative analysis of Africa and Asia."
Presented at the
International Telecommunications Society, 4th Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference,
Perth, Australia.
Gulley,
O.
D., Haughton,
D.
M., Kamis,
A., Scholten,
P.
A. (2008).
"A Structural Equation Modeling of Gambling in the UK."
Presented at the
Southern Economics Association,
Washington, DC.
Hua,
G., Haughton,
D.
M. (2008).
"An Investigation of Virtual Worlds Adoption: A Research Framework and Empirical Study."
Presented at the
Joint Statistic Meetings,
Denver, CO.
Carter,
N.
C., Hadlock,
C.
R., Haughton,
D.
M., Sirbu,
G. (2007).
"Generating Random Networks from p1 and p-star Models with Applications to Distributions of Graph-Level Indices."
Presented at the
IASC 07 - Statistics for Data Mining, Learning and Knowledge Extraction,
Aveiro, Portugal.
Senne,
L.
P., Robbert,
M., Haughton,
D.
M. (2005).
"A Framework for Cleaning Data: Bad Data and Mortgage Decisions."
Presented at the
CAiSE'05,
Porto, Portugal.
Adams,
S.
M., Gupta,
A., Haughton,
D.
M., Leeth,
J.
D. (2005).
"An analysis of gender differences in CEO compensation."
Presented at the
21st EGOS Colloquium,
Berlin.
Robbert,
M., Senne,
L.
P., Haughton,
D.
M. (2004).
"Information QualityAssessment."
Presented at the
InterSymp 2004,
Baden-Baden, Germany.
Haughton,
D.
M., Robbert,
M., Senne,
L.
P., Gada,
V. (2003).
"Effect of Dirty Data on Analysis Results."
Presented at the
8th International Conference on Information Quality,
Boston, MA.
Deichmann,
J.
I., Eshghi,
A., Haughton,
D.
M., Sayek,
S., Nicholas,
T. (2003).
"Foreign Direct Investment in the Eurasian Transition States."
Presented at the
Association of American Geographers's
Annual Meetings of the AAG,
New Orleans, LA.
Chin,
L., Haughton,
D.
M., Wehlburg,
C.
M. (1997).
"Correlates of Student Performance on Standardized Tests: A Guide for Policy Making."
Presented at the
Decision Sciences Institute,
Kamuela, Hawaii.
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