Workshop: SPS Risk Analysis and Modelling

Capacity Building for Risk Analysis and Modeling

to Promote Agricultural Trade in India

July 23 - August 3, 2007

Hyderabad, India

Agenda

WEEK #1

DAY 3 Wednesday   July 25, 2007

Instructors: T. Habtemariam, B. Tameru, R. McDowell

Biostatistics and its role in Risk Analysis (All Day)

8:00  - Noon  

Note: Breaks of 15 minutes in the morning and afternoon as appropriate

Biostatistics overview - methods and applications (Module 5) (T. Habtemariam)

Biostatistics   - methods and applications

Introduction to Statview Software

Probabilities and Probability Distributions (Module 5) (B. Tameru, R. McDowell)

  Basic Laws of Probabilities

  The normal distribution

The binomial distribution

Probabilities and Probability Distributions   (Module 5)

The triangular and PERT distributions

Other distributions of importance

Probability Distributions of major importance in quantitative RA

Uncertainty and Variability (Module 4)

 Deterministic and stochastic (probabilistic) models

Noon   - 1:30 pm           

LUNCH BREAK

1:30 pm   - 5:00 pm  

(15 minute breaks as appropriate)

Breakout Session for Decision Makers (R. Fite)

Hands on Exercise for Technical Experts (B. Tameru, R. McDowell, H. Latimer)

 

 
 

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