Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on the Interface

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Statistical Theory and the Computer

      • Bradley Efron, Gail Gong

      Pages 3-7

3. Automated Edit and Imputation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Developing an Edit System for Industry Statistics

      • Brian Greenberg

      Pages 11-16

   3. Design of Experiments to Investigate Joint Distributions in Microanalytic Simulations

      • Richard S. Barr

      Pages 17-21

4. Do Statistical Packages Have a Future?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. The Effect of Personal Computers on Statistical Practice

      • Ronald A. Thisted

      Pages 25-30

   3. Statistical Software Design and Scientific Breakthrough: Some Reflections on the Future

      • Norman H. Nie

      Pages 31-35

   4. Some Thoughts on Expert Software

      • John M. Chambers

      Pages 36-40

5. Fourier Transforms in Applied Statistics

   1. Front Matter

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   2. How Fast is the Fourier Transform?

      • Persi Diaconis

      Pages 43-44

   3. Polynomial Time Algorithms for Obtaining Permutation Distributions

      • Marcello Pagano, David L. Tritchler

      Pages 45-48

   4. Efficient Estimation for the Stable Laws

      • Andrey Feuerverger, Philip McDunnough

      Pages 49-55

6. Algorithms and Statistics

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Applications of Statistics to Applied Algorithm Design

      • Jon Louis Bentley

      Pages 59-67

   3. Algorithms with Random Input

      • George S. Lueker

      Pages 68-75

   4. Recent Results on the Average Time Behavior of Some Algorithms in Computational Geometry

      • Luc Devroye

      Pages 76-82

7. Pattern Recognition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Applications of Pattern Recognition Methods to Hydrologic Time Series

      • Sidney Yakowitz

      Pages 85-91

The 13th Symposium on the Interface continued this series after a one year pause. The objective of these symposia is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas of common concern to computer scientists and statisticians. The sessions of the 13th Symposium were held in the Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel, Gateway Center, Pittsburgh. Following established custom the 13th Symposium had organized workshops on various topics of interest to participants. The workshop format allowed the invited speakers to present their material variously as formal talks, tutorial sessions and open discussion. The Symposium schedule was also the customary one. Registration opened in late afternoon of March 11, 1981 and continued during the opening mixer held that evening: The formal opening of the Symposium was on the morning of March 12. The opening remarks were followed by Bradley Efron's address "Statistical Theory and the Computer." The rest of the daily schedule was three concurrent workshops in the morning and three in the afternoon with contributed poster sessions during the noon break. Additionally there were several commercial displays and guided tours of Carnegie-Mellon University's Computer Center, Computer Science research facilities, and Robotics Institute.

• Estimator
• Generator
• Likelihood
• Maxima
• Parameter
• Poisson process
• Random variable
• SAS
• SPSS
• correlation
• data analysis
• descriptive statistics
• queueing theory
• statistical theory
• statistics

• Department of Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  William F. Eddy

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