A special feature of Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2013 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students from UMBC and local universites free of charge; however, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! The deadline to register is Friday, April 12, 2013. // REGISTER NOW
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Bimal Sinha
Conference Chair
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Kofi Adragni
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Yvonne Huang
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Yaakov Malinovsky
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Thomas Mathew
410.455.2418
Nagaraj Neerchal
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DoHwan Park
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Junyong Park
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Anindya Roy
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Elizabeth Stanwyck
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Participant Information
Malick Mbodj
Paper: Approximate tolerance regions for multivariate normal populations.
A tolerance region for a multivariate population is a region, computed using a random sample, so that the region will contain a specified proportion or more of the population, with a given confidence level.In the literature, ellipsoidal tolerance regions have been derived for multivarite normal populations, and numerical methods and approximations have been developed for computing the relevant tolerance factor. However, the available numerical methods are unsatisfactory, and the available approximations are not always accurate. In the talk, we shall describe an approximation, coupled with Monte Carlo simulation, for efficiently computing the tolerance factor. Numerical results will be presented to show that this approach results in an accurate tolerance factor. The methodology will be illustrated with an example.