Workshop on Statistics and Counterterrorism

Program

Giving the Warfighter the Tools for Counterterrorism
Nancy L. Spruill, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Risk Analysis

Game-Theoretic and Reliability Methods in Counter-Terrorism and Security
Vicki Bier, University of Wisconsin

Role for Statistical Analysis in Risk Management
Dan Latham* and Paul H. Smith, LexisNexis/Seisint

Sensor Analysis

Bionet and the Challenges of Academic Research in Homeland Security
Nick Hengartner, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Surveillance Geoinformatics of Hotspot Detection, Prioritization, and Early Warning
G. P. Patil, Pennsylvania State University

Mathematical Methods

An Interval Estimation Procedure for Probabilities of Rare Events
Bernard Harris, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Role of Statistics in Biometric Authentication based on Facial Images
Sinjini Mitra, Carnegie Mellon University

Graphical Mining for Massive Datasets

Using Graphical Displays to Monitor Internet Traffic Data for Potential Cyberattacks
Karen Kafadar*, U. of Colorado-Denver and Edward J. Wegman, George Mason University

Acquisition, Analysis and Dissemination of Earth Observing System Data Sets: Applications to
Homeland Security
Amy Braverman* and Ken Hurst, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Notions of Visual Analytics and Dynamically Conditioned Choropleth Maps
Daniel B. Carr, George Mason University

Biosurveillance

Public Health Monitoring Tools for Multiple Data Streams
Yevgeniy Elbert, Johns Hopkins University

Performance-Critical Anomaly Detection
Colin Goodall

Current and Potential Statistical Methods for Bio-Surveillance
Galit Shmueli, University of Maryland

Issues in Data Mining

Comparing Univariate and Multivariate Methods for Syndromic Surveillance
Ron Fricker, RAND

Feasibility Considerations in Three Kinds of Data Mining
David Banks, Duke University

Statistics and Counterterrorism: The Role of Law, Policy, and Ethics
William Seltzer, Fordham University

Statistical Methods for Social Science Questions

An Empirical Model of the Psychology of Deterrence: Reality Does Not Conform to Theory
Robert W. Anthony, Institute for Defense Analyses

Designing Registries of Persons Exposed to Emergency Events
Paul Pulliam, Research Triangle Institute

Privacy Preserving Statistical Analysis and its Application to Counter Terrorism
Xiaodong Lin, University of Cincinnati

Andrew Gelman, John Kettenring, Ed Melnick, Fred Roberts, Cliff Spiegelman, and Nancy Spruill

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