Student Seminar Series - July 26, 2007
University of Minnesota
School of Statistics
College of Liberal Arts
Estimating
Properties of Chamber-type Septic Systems
Noroharivelo
(Vola) Randrianampy
Thursday, July 26, 2007
2:00 PM, 300
Ford Hall
Minneapolis, East Bank Campus
Refreshments
at 1:30 PM
300 Ford Hall
Abstract
One
project is to compare rock and chamber style septic systems used by
rural households in Minnesota.
We report only the chamber. The goal is to obtain durable trenches of
good
quality. Two parameters are estimated through Maximum Likelihood
Estimate method,
namely the minimum amount of flow or load for trench to pool and the
amount of
load to fill one trench (precisely the difference between the two.)
Three kinds
of soil are used slow, medium, and fast draining soils. The first
parameter
agrees for the three draining soils but the second does not. Slow
draining soil
shows different result compared to the others and contradicts what we
expect.
To fill one trench, we need more load for slow draining soil rather
than for
the medium and fast draining soils.