Probability and Statistics Day 2012 : Participants


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2012	April 20-21

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMBC will hold the 6th Annual Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC during April 20-21, 2012. The event is funded by National Security Agency and will consist of a half-day workshop on Friday afternoon and a full day conference on Saturday. P/S Day is open to statisticians from all local universities, government agencies and private industries.

Funded By: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY | Hosted By: CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND CONSULTING

A special feature of P/S Day at UMBC 2012 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students from UMBC and local universites free of charge, but... REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!!! The deadline to register is Friday, April 6, 2012. // REGISTER NOW

For more info, contact any member of the organizing committee:

Bimal Sinha, Conference Chair
443-538-3012

Nagaraj Neerchal
Thomas Mathew
Anindya Roy
Junyoung Park
DoHwan Park
Yvonne Huang
Elizabeth Stanwyck
Yaakov Malinovsky
Kofi Adragni

Participants

James Travis

A Bayesian Approach to Understanding the Probability of Zero Rainfall

An important feature of rainfall scientists attempt to understand is how the dry and wet periods are distributed. This paper proposes a Bayesian approach to estimating the distributions of the wet and dry periods. We will also discuss the resulting distribution of the probability of non-zero rainfall over a particular length of time and how this varies at different time scales.