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Statistics for Homeland Defense
Overview The flying bombs of September 11, the subsequent anthrax letters, and credible threats of future attacks have prompted a comprehensive reevaluation of U.S. security systems. Statisticians are not major players in this effort, but there are contributions that can be made by them. One forum in which such efforts are being organized is the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, which is part of the National Academy of Sciences. That committee, under the leadership of Sallie Keller-McNulty (of Los Alamos National Laboratory), met on November 5 to identify ways in which statistical research can support counterterrorism. This paper elaborates on several topics that they discussed, as well as other statistical issues raised by the current conflict.
| Publisher | Iowa State University | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | March 2002 | Downloads | 1 |
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