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Combinatorics of Contingency tables.

Student-Run Research Seminar

Speaker: Prof. Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis
Location: 693 Kerr
Start time: Thu, Mar 1 2001, 10:00AM

In this talk I will review some exciting computational problems arising in Statistics (some of them of high interest for the US Census bureau). The key question is what is the number of mxn tables with positive integer entries whose column sums and row sums are preescribed?