Fall 2001 Date Presenter(s) Title 03Oct01 Jason Ruiz Statistical Analysis of Causal Sets Description I will explain in modest detail the work I conducted for Dr. Reid over the course of this summer.  My job was to design Fortran programs that statistically analyze a faithful embedding of points in a 2-dimensional space-time manifold.  First, I created three programs, each sprinkling points into different manifolds. These programs then perform a Chi Squared Test to check that the points are normally distributed in the manifold, and then produce a file with statistical information about the distribution such as the number of points sprinkled, the standard deviation of the mean, the corresponding Chi Squared value, and the degrees of freedom.  After many program runs, I fed the output data files into other Fortran programs that computed best-fit parameters for graphical analysis.
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