A Statistician Goes To The Xxix Olympics

摘要

It was exciting to be a patt of the Olympics in Qingdao, China, this August. You must be wondering what a statistician was doing at the Olympics. Well, boats don't sail without our wind forecasts. I was part of a team from North Carolina State University tasked with predicting if the wind speed at a given hour of a given day would be at least 3 m/s-a required threshold value of the wind speed that is critical for deciding whether to hold the sailing boat event.