Conference on Nonparametric Statistics

传统黑人学院和大学本科项目（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。北卡罗来纳中央大学将与北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校合作，于2018年10月16日至17日在北卡罗来纳州教堂山的希尔校友中心举办非参数统计会议。大约80名来自北卡罗来纳中央大学的教师和学生将参加这次会议。生物医学、社会科学和其他领域的数据往往涉及非标准设计和非常高的维度，相对较小的样本量和复杂的依赖结构。标准模型和相关的统计包，主要基于参数统计，在这些复杂的设置中通常范围有限。对于这样的模型，非参数方法将适用。本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、学生和专业人士。一个关键目标是为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，并加强这一统计领域的能力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

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.