Computational Statistics: Volume 2: Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Computational Statistics, COMPSTAT, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, August 1992

The papers assembled in this book were presented at the biannual symposium of Inter­ national Association for Statistical Computing in Neuchcitel, Switzerland, in August of 1992. This congress marked the tenth such meeting from its inception in 1974 at Vienna and maintained the tradition of providing a forum for the open discussion of progress made in computer oriented statistics and the dissemination of new ideas throughout the statistical community. It was gratifying to see how well the groups of theoretical statisti­ cians, software developers and applied research workers were represented, whose mixing is an event made uniquely possible by this symposium. While maintaining traditions certain new features have been introduced at this con­ ference: there were a larger number of invited speakers; there was more commercial sponsorship and exhibition space; and a larger body of proceedings have been published. The structure of the proceedings follows a standard format: the papers have been grouped together according to a rough subject matter classification, and within topic follow an approximate aphabetical order. The papers are published in two volumes ac­ cording to the emphasis of the topics: volume I gives a slight leaning towards statistics and modelling, while volume II is focussed more on computation; but this is certainly only a crude distinction and the volumes have to be thought of as the result of a single en terprise.

Table of Contents:
Prologue.- Issues in Computational Data Analysis.- I. Programming Environments.- Editorial Interface in Statistical Computing and Related Areas.- Inside ESIA: An Open and Self-Consistent Knowledge Based System.- Linked Views.- A Consultation System for Statistical Analysis on Hypertool.- II. Computational Inference.- Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods.- Exact Logistic Regression: Theory, Applications, Software.- Optimal Choice for a Hodges-Lehmann Type Estimator in the Two-Sample Problem with Censoring.- Simulation in Extreme-Value Estimation by a Combined S-PLUS and C-Program.- The Usefulness of Exact Statistical Methods in Equal Employment Litigation.- On Classifier Systems, Disintegrated Representation and Robust Data Mining.- Variance Reduction for Bernouilli Response Variables.- III. Package Developments.- Graphical Aids for Nonlinear Regression and Discriminant Analysis.- Intervention Analysis with SPSS/PC+ Trends.- A New Windows-Based Statistical Analysis Environment.- Aspects of the “User Friendliness” of Statistical Software: A Pleading for Software Adaptability.- Statistics Software vs. Problem Solving.- S-PLUS Version 3.- Generalizing GLMs in Genstat.- The New Simulation Packages: New Powers Bring New Users.- Statistical Packages and Systems Evaluation.- An Environment for Montecarlo Simulation Studies (EMSS).- IV. Experimental Design.- Generation of Optimal Designs for Nonlinear Models when the Design Points are Incidental Parameters.- I-Optimality Algorithm and Implementation.- Use of a Symbolic Algebra Computer System to Investigate the Properties of Mixture Designs in Orthogonal Blocks.- A-Optimal Weighing Designs with n ? 3(mod4) and their Information Matrix Form.- Quasi-Sequential Procedures for the Calibration Problem.- An InteractiveWindow-Based Environment for Experimental Design.- The Use of Identification Keys and Diagnostic Tables in Statistical Work.- Construction of a Statistical KBFE for Experimental Design Using the Tools and Techniques Developed in the Focus Project (Esprit II num. 2620).- MRBP Tests and their Empirical Power Perfomance for Symmetric Kappa Distribution.- Optimal Experimental Designs in Regression: A Bootstrap Approach.- KEYFINDER — A Complete Toolkit for Generating Fractional-Replicate and Blocked Factorial Designs.- V. Image Processing and Neural Networks.- ICM for Object Recognition.- Bootstrapping Blurred and Noisy Data.- Multiresolution Reconstruction of a Corrupted Image Using the Wavelet Transform.- Are Artificial Neural Networks a Dangerous Adversary for Statistical Data Analysis?.- Canonical Correlation Analysis Using a Neural Network.- Artificial Neural Networks as Alternatives to Statistical Quality Control Charts in Manufacturing Processes.- Analytical Analysis of Decentralised Controlled General Data Communication Networks.- VI. Meta Data.- Microdata, Macrodata and Metadata.- Semi-Filled Shells and New Technology of the Subject-Oriented Statistical Expert Systems Construction.- Conceptual Models for the Choice of a Statistical Analysis Method; a Comparison Between Experts and Non-Experts.- Toward a Formalised Meta-Data Concept.- Semantic Metadata: Query Processing and Data Aggregation.- A System for Production and Analysis of Statistical Reports.- MetaInformation — Production, Transfer, Consumption, Maintenance in Official Statistics.- An Experimental System for Navigating Statistical Meta-Information — The Meta-Stat Navigator.- VII. Survey Design.- Data and Meta-Data in the Blaise System.- Sample Size Estimation for Several Trend Tests in the k-SampleProblem.- A Generic Schema for Survey Processing at IBGE.- A Tool for the Automatic Generation of Data Editing and Imputation Application for Surveys Processing.- Tools for Data Entry.- VIII. Data Base.- StEM: A Deductive Query Processor for Statistical Databases.- VIEWS: A Portable Statistical Database System.- Database Management for Notifiable Diseases at the Federal Health Office of Germany.- Sampling Accounting Populations: A Comparison of Monetary Unit Sampling and Sieve Sampling in Substantive Auditing.- Author Index.- Table of Contents of Volume One.- Author Index of Volume One.