Dependency/Competition among Corn Yield fractions

DATE: October 23, 2009

TIME: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

LOCATION: IC 119

FEES: none

EVENT CONTACT:

Nagi Gebraeel, ISyE
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TITLE: Dependency/Competition among Corn Yield fractions: Proxies for Land Use Change

SPEAKER: Dr. Kobi Abayomi

ABSTRACT:

We explore methodology for a test of departure from independence for fractional data. We illustrate the method on the constituents of U.S. Corn Yield data.

Bio:
Dr. Abayomi holds a B.S. from Georgia Tech (2000), and an M.A, M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Columbia University in Probability and Statistics (2002,2007,2008).