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Statistics Research
Extracting meaningful information in a complicated world.
The Statistics group is involved in research in a
wide range of areas, such as Forecasting, Time Series Analysis, Spatial
Statistics, Linear Models, Reliability, Classification Theory, Risk Management
and Quality Control. The group is also involved in a number of projects
with several IBM divisions, other groups in Research and IBM customers.
Recent projects include the following:
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Component cost forecasting and product
planning;
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Monitoring of data streams and detection
of abrupt changes with applications to control of a manufacturing line
and investment policies;
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Analyzing variability and developing
prediction techniques for large data sets, with applications to animal
breeding data and rating of sports teams;
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Development of a Drought Atlas - a
geographic information system to characterize patterns of rainfall, stream
flow, floods, and droughts;
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Modelling the microstructure of thin
metal films;
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Modelling the process of promotions
and sales for a catalog company;
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Modelling and analysis of reliability
of systems with incompletely identified causes of failure;
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Risk analysis of insurance policies;
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Development of forecasts for consumer demand.
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Address: IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Route 134 and Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights,
NY 10598
Secretary: Lorraine Menna, e-mail c1menna@us.ibm.com
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