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  • Joel Cohen, University of Chicago – Tornado Outbreaks

    Joel Cohen, University of Chicago – Tornado Outbreaks

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    Are more tornadoes occurring than ever before? Joel Cohen, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, examines this question. I use mathematics, statistics, and computation to understand populations of single or multiple types of individuals. Quantitative techniques include products of random matrices, non-negative decompositions of nonnegative matrices, random graphs (directed…