Computer Science And Statistics: Proceedings Of The 13th Symposium On The Interface, Held March 12 And 13, 1981 At Carnegie-mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Statistical Theory and the Computer....Pages 3-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Developing an Edit System for Industry Statistics....Pages 11-16 Design of Experiments to Investigate Joint Distributions in Microanalytic Simulations....Pages 17-21 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 The Effect of Personal Computers on Statistical Practice....Pages 25-30 Statistical Software Design and Scientific Breakthrough: Some Reflections on the Future....Pages 31-35 Some Thoughts on Expert Software....Pages 36-40 Front Matter....Pages 41-41 How Fast is the Fourier Transform?....Pages 43-44 Polynomial Time Algorithms for Obtaining Permutation Distributions....Pages 45-48 Efficient Estimation for the Stable Laws....Pages 49-55 Front Matter....Pages 57-57 Applications of Statistics to Applied Algorithm Design....Pages 59-67 Algorithms with Random Input....Pages 68-75 Recent Results on the Average Time Behavior of Some Algorithms in Computational Geometry....Pages 76-82 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Applications of Pattern Recognition Methods to Hydrologic Time Series....Pages 85-91 Recent Advances in Bump Hunting....Pages 92-104 Pattern Recognition in the Context of an Asbestos Cancer Threshold Study....Pages 105-110 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Volume Testing of Statistical/Database Software....Pages 113-115 Scientific Information Retrieval (SIR/DBMS)....Pages 116-122 Volume Testing of Statistical Software -- The Statistical Analysis System (SAS)....Pages 123-129 Solving Complex Database Problems in P-STAT....Pages 130-136 Volume Testing of SPSS....Pages 137-143 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Volume Testing of Statistical Systems....Pages 144-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 In Search of Correlation in Multiplicative Congruential Generators with Modulus 2 31 -1....Pages 155-157 Portability Considerations for Random Number Generators....Pages 158-164 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 Some Recent Developments in Spectrum and Harmonic Analysis....Pages 167-171 On Some Numerical Properties of Arma Parameter Estimation Procedures....Pages 172-177 Time Series Recursions and Self-Tuning Control....Pages 178-184 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 On Measurement and Evaluation of Software: A View from the Chair....Pages 187-191 Can Statistical Methods Help Solve Problems in Software Measurement?....Pages 192-198 Measuring the Performance of Computer Software — A Dual Role for Statisticians....Pages 199-204 Software Metrics: Paradigms and Processes....Pages 205-207 A Proposal for Structural Models of Software Systems....Pages 208-210 Software Metrics: A Key to Improved Software Development Management....Pages 211-220 Front Matter....Pages 221-221 Orthogonalization-Triangularization Methods in Statistical Computations....Pages 223-244 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Simple Query Language Requirements for Research Data Management....Pages 247-251 Data Editing on Large Data Sets....Pages 252-258 Front Matter....Pages 259-259 Census Bureau Statistical Graphics....Pages 261-267 Mosaics for Contingency Tables....Pages 268-273 The Use of Kinematic Displays to Represent High Dimensional Data....Pages 274-278 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 Order Statistics and an Experiment in Software Design....Pages 281-283 Further Approximation to the Distributions of Some Transformations to the Sample Correlation Coefficient....Pages 284-287 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 Using Linear Programming to Find Approximate Solutions to the Fields to Impute Problem for Industry Data....Pages 288-291 Using Computer-Binned Data for Density Estimation....Pages 292-294 On the Nonconsistency of Maximum Likelihood Nonparametric Density Estimators....Pages 295-298 Computer Program for Krishnaiah’s Finite Intersection Tests for Multiple Comparisons of Mean Vectors....Pages 299-303 Approximating the Log of the Normal Cumulative....Pages 304-307 A kTH Nearest Neighbour Clustering Procedure....Pages 308-311 Interactive Statistical Graphics: Breaking Away....Pages 312-315 Interactive Graphical Analysis for Multivariate Data....Pages 316-319 SLANG, a Statistical Language for Descriptive Time Series Analysis....Pages 320-323 On the Parameter Estimation in Queueing Theory....Pages 324-327 Statistical Computation with a Microcomputer....Pages 328-331 On the Exact Distribution of Geary’s U-Statistic and its Application to Least Squares Regression....Pages 332-335 Exposure to the Risk of an Accident: The Canadian Department of Transport National Driving Survey and Data Analysis System, 1978–79....Pages 336-339 CONCOR: An Edit and Automatic Correction Package....Pages 340-343 BGRAPH: A Program for Biplot Multivariate Graphics....Pages 344-347 MONCOR--A Program to Compute Concordant and other Monotone Correlations....Pages 348-351 Computer Offerings for Statistical Graphics -- An Overview....Pages 352-355 Computing Percentiles of Large Data Sets....Pages 356-358 A Self-Describing Data File Structure for Large Data Sets....Pages 359-362 Nonlinear Estimation Using a Microcomputer....Pages 363-366 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 Statistical Procedures for Low Dose Extrapolation of Quantal Response Toxicity Data....Pages 367-370 An Economic Design of $${\rm \bar X}$$ -Charts with Warning Limits to Control Non-Normal Process Means....Pages 371-374 Prior Probabilities, Maximal Posterior, and Minimal Field Error Localization....Pages 375-378 Back Matter....Pages 379-379