Conference on Nonparametric Statistics

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科生计划（HBCU-UP）支持旨在提高HBCU科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教师研究能力的会议。北卡罗来纳州中央大学将与北卡罗来纳州-查佩尔山大学合作，于2018年10月16日至17日在北卡罗来纳州查佩尔山的希尔校友中心举办非参数统计会议。来自北卡罗来纳州中央大学的约80名师生将参加本次会议。生物医学科学、社会科学和其他领域的数据通常涉及非标准设计和非常高维的样本量相对较小的复杂依赖结构。 标准模型和相关的统计软件包，主要是基于参数统计，在这些复杂的设置往往是有限的范围。对于这些模型，将采用非参数方法。这次会议将汇集对统计这一重要领域感兴趣的学者、研究人员、教育工作者、学生和专业人员。一个关键目标是为来自北卡罗来纳州中央大学的研究人员和学生提供与一组研究人员互动的机会，并加强统计领域的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) supports conferences that seek to increase the research capacity of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty at HBCUs. North Carolina Central University will collaborate with the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill to host a Conference on Nonparametric Statistics at the Hill Alumni Center, Chapel Hill, NC, on October 16-17, 2018. About eighty faculty and students from North Carolina Central University will attend this conference.Data in biomedical sciences, the social sciences, and other fields often involve non-standard designs and very high dimensions with relatively small sample sizes with complex dependency structure. Standard models and associated statistical packages, mostly based on parametric statistics, are often of limited scope in these complex set-ups. For such models, nonparametric approaches would apply. This conference is to bring together scholars, researchers, educators, students and professionals who are interested in this important area of statistics. A key objective is to provide researchers and students from North Carolina Central University with the opportunity to interact with a group of researchers and to strengthen capacity in this area of statistics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.