All the data was out there to warn us of this impending attack:
"why didn't we see it?"
This was a frequently asked question in the weeks and months after 9/11. In the wake of the attacks, statisticians moved quickly to become part of the national response to the global war on terror.
This book is an overview of the emerging research program at the intersection of national security and statistical sciences. A wide range of talented researchers address issues:
How do we detect and recognize bioterrorist events?
How do we better understand and explain complex processes so that decision makers can take the best course of action?
How do we pick the terrorist out of the crowd of faces or better match the passport to the traveler?
How do we understand the rules that terrorists are playing by?
This book includes technical treatments of statistical issues that will be of use to quantitative researchers as well as more general examinations of quantitative approaches to counterterrorism that will be accessible to decision makers with stronger policy backgrounds.
