We present analytical results for the equation of state for hot gluon plasm
a obtained with an effective perturbation based on hard thermal loops resum
mation theory. The effective two-loop results depend on Debye screening and
finite width of gluons as physical parameters. Considering next-to-leading
Debye mass and finite width effects, we find the equation of state to be i
n good agreement with recent lattice results for T greater than or similar
to 2T(c).