Dear Colleagues,
The ASA Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar presented by Dr. Thomas Mathew on July 21st.
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Mathew, Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
Title: Tolerance Intervals and Regions: An Introduction and Some Applications
Date: Friday, 21 July 2023
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM Eastern / 10:00 – 11:30 AM Pacific
Registration (Zoom, free): SDNS Webinar Registration
Abstract: A tolerance interval is an interval that is expected to capture a specified proportion or more of a population with a given confidence level. The interval is constructed using a random sample, and the confidence level refers to the sampling variability. A tolerance region is similarly defined for a multivariate population. In the talk, tolerance intervals and regions will be formally defined, their computation will be briefly explained for some univariate and multivariate populations, and illustrated using several real applications. The applications include testing the ballistic resistance of personal body armor, the assessment of whether the distribution of the peak cladding temperature (PCT) of a nuclear power plant is below a regulatory requirement, and the computation of reference intervals and regions in laboratory medicine.
About the Speaker: Thomas Mathew Professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He earned his PhD in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in 1983, and has been a faculty member at UMBC since 1985. He has delivered numerous conference presentations, nationally and internationally, and has published extensively on methodological and applied topics, including tolerance intervals, cost-effectiveness analysis, bioequivalence testing, exposure data analysis, meta-analysis, and mixed and random effects models. He is the co-author of two books Statistical Tests in Mixed Linear Models and Statistical Tolerance Regions: Theory, Applications and Computation, both published by Wiley. He has served on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including the Annals of Statistics and Journal of the American Statistical Association, and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis and Sankhya. Dr. Mathew is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He was also elected the Presidential Research Professor at UMBC.
For more information about the SDNS webinar series, please visit the ASA SDNS website or contact Elise Roberts (SDNS.AmStat@gmail.com).
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Elise Roberts
Statistics in Defense and National Security
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