Dr. Averill M. Law, President of Averill M. Law & Associates, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on applying statistical techniques to simulation modeling. He is the author of the textbook Simulation Modeling and Analysis (Fourth Edition), which has more than 125,000 copies in print. This book contains the most comprehensive and practical discussion of fitting probability distributions to data that is available.
He has been a simulation consultant to numerous organizations including Accenture, ARCO, Boeing, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office, Hewlett-Packard, ITT, Kimberly-Clark, M&M/Mars, Monsanto, Oak Ridge National Lab, SAIC, Sandia National Labs, 3M, Tropicana, Xerox, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Post Office.
Dr. Law has presented more than 490 short courses on simulation and statistics in 18 countries. He is the author of numerous technical papers on simulation, statistics, operations research, manufacturing, and communications.
Dr. Law has been a tenured faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Arizona. He has a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California at Berkeley.