US Army Conference on Applied Statistics
October 19-21, 1999
US Military Academy, West Point, NY
The Fifth U.S. Army Conference on Applied Statistics was hosted by the United States Military Academy, West Point 19-21 October, 1999. The conference was co-sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO), the United States Military Academy (USMA), the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Analysis Center-White Sands Missile Range, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Fifty people attended.
The fifth conference was preceded by a short course, “Data Mining with Decision Trees,” given by Wei-Yin Loh of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The conference was opened by BG Fletcher M. Lamkin, Jr., Dean of the Academic Board, United States Military Academy, and conference host COL David C. Arney, Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy. Distinguished speakers during invited general sessions included: Edward Wegman (keynote), George Mason University, Jayaram Sethuraman, Florida State University, Ingram Olkin, Stanford University, Daryl Pregibon, ATT, Charles McCulloch, Cornell University, and David Banks, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Papers covered a range of topics. Data mining was most prevalent. Other talks included applications in image analysis, linear models, Bayesian methods, statistical process control, life testing, and field test assessment. An important moment in the conference was the awarding of the Army Wilks Award to Edward J. Wegman of the George Mason University.
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Proceedings
Attendee List
Foreword
Program
Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award Presented to Edward J. Wegman, George Mason University
Short Course on Data Mining with Decision Trees (Title Only), October 17-18, 1999, Wei-Yin Loh
Invited Speakers
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Visual Data Mining (Keynote) | Edward J. Wegman |
| Reduction in Predictive Ability Caused by Discretization of the Independent Variable J (Title Only) | Jayaram Sethuraman |
| Methods for Combining the Results of Independent Studies (Title Only) | Ingram Olkin |
| 2001: A Statistical Odyssey (Title Only) | Daryl Pregibon |
| An Introduction to Generalized Linear Mixed Models (Title Only) | Charles McCulloch |
| Strategies for Data Mining | David L. Banks |
Contributed Papers
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Methodology for Quantifying Critical Decision Events During the Execution Phase of Battle | Jock Grynovicki, Kragg Kysor, and Michael Golden |
| Flexibility of Fractional Factorials in Field Tests | Carl T. Russell |
| Statistics in the Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) Advanced Concepts Technology Demonstration (ACTD) | Eugene Dutoit |
| Methods to Analyze the Effect of Decreasing Digital Image Resolution on Teledermatology Diagnosis | Paul B. Hshieh, David Cruess, and Dennis A. Vidmar |
| TVA Using a Bayesian Approach with No Prior Information (Title Only) | Doug Frank and Ann E.M. Brodeen |
| Membership Functions and Probability Measures of Fuzz Sets (Title Only) | Nozer Singpurwalla |
| On Combining Information from Ordered Experiments | Miguel A. Arcones, Paul H. Kvam, and Francisco J. Samaniego |
| Time Series Intervention Analyses of U.S. Cocaine Prices | Samir Soneji, Robert Anthony, Arthur Fries, and Barry Crane |
| Protecting the Public: Applications of Statistical Process Control in Law Enforcement (Title Only) | Dave Olwell and Rob Weitzman |
| Some Aspects of Dependent Failures and Their Statistical Analyses (Title Only) | Bernie Harris |
| Disruptive Models (Title Only) | Jim Thompson |
| A Simulation Process for Determining the Lifetime of the M60 Tank Torsion Bar (Title Only) | Don Neal |
| Problem of Correlation in the Probabilistic Approach to Cost Analysis | Stephen A. Book |
| Protecting the Force: Applications of Statistical Process Control in Bosnia (Title Only) | Dave Olwell and Paul Finken |
Clinical Papers
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Statistical Methods to Validate the National Missile Defense Battle Management Command and Control Software (Title Only) | Alyson Wilson and Max Morris |
| Validation of a Life-Virtual Field Experiment Using Constructive Simulation and Slides | Paul Deason |
| Testing for a Difference Between Two Variance Components Obtained from Dependent Data Sets | David W. Webb |
| Optimizing a Target Detection Algorithm Through Use of a Receiver Operator Curve (Title Only) | Barry A. Bodt, Philip J. David, and David B. Hillis |