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All of the facts was once available in the market to warn us of this imminent assault, why didn't we see it?" This used to be a regularly requested query within the weeks and months after the terrorist assaults at the global alternate heart and the Pentagon on September eleven, 2001. within the wake of the assaults, statisticians hurried to turn into a part of the nationwide reaction to the worldwide battle on terror. This booklet is an outline of the rising learn software on the intersection of nationwide safety and statistical sciences. a variety of gifted researchers deal with matters in:
* Syndromic Surveillance: How will we realize and realize bioterrorist events?
* Modeling and Simulation: How can we higher comprehend and clarify advanced techniques in order that choice makers can take the easiest process action?
* Biometric Authentication: How will we choose the terrorist out of the gang of faces or greater fit the passport to the traveler?
* online game thought: How will we comprehend the foundations that terrorists are enjoying by?

This booklet comprises technical remedies of statistical matters that would be of use to quantitative researchers in addition to extra basic examinations of quantitative ways to counterterrorism that might be obtainable to selection makers with more suitable coverage backgrounds.

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