Computational Statistics

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 Interactive Window-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-Sample Problem.- 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.