COMPSTAT : proceedings in computational statistics, 8th symposium held in Copenhagen 1988

Keynote Papers.- Parallel Linear Algebra in Statistical Computations.- Three Examples of Computer-Intensive Statistical Inference.- Non-Parametric Estimation.- Efficient Nonparametric Smoothing in High Dimensions Using Interactive Graphical Techniques.- A Boundary Modification of Kernel Function Smoothing, with Application to Insulin Absorption Kinetics.- A Roughness Penalty Regression Approach for Statistical Graphics.- Projection Pursuit.- Detecting Structures by Means of Projection Pursuit.- Confidence Regions for Projection Pursuit Density Estimates.- A Robustness Property of the Projection Pursuit Methods in Sampling from Separably Dependent Random Vectors.- Graphical Techniques.- Graphical Modelling with Large Numbers of Variables: An Application of Principal Components.- Some Graphical Displays for Square Tables.- Data Plotting Methods for Checking Multivariate Normality and Related Ideas.- Computer-aided Illustration of Regression Diagnostics.- Computer Guided Diagnostics.- Expert Systems.- How should the Statistical Expert System and its User see Each Other?.- Towards a Probabilistic Analysis of MYCIN-like Expert Systems.- An Expert System Accepting Knowledge in a form of Statistical Data.- Building a Statistical Expert System with Knowledge Bases of Different Levels of Abstraction.- An Expert System for the Interpretation of Results of Canonical Covariance Analysis.- Building a Statistical Knowledge Base: A Discussion of the Approach used in the Development of THESEUS, a Statistical Expert System.- Prince: An Expert System for Nonlinear Principal Components Analysis.- Expert Systems for Non-Linear Modelling: Progress and Prospects.- Inside a Statistical Expert System: Statistical Methods Employed in the ESTES System.- An Implementation of an EDA Expert System in Prolog Environment.- Automatic Acquisition of Knowledge Base from Data without Expert: ESOD (Expert Sytem from Observational Data).- Experiments with Probabilistic Consultation Systems.- Statistical Consultants and Statistical Expert Systems.- On Inference Process.- Identification Keys, Diagnostic Tables and Expert Systems.- Languages and Packages.- Adding new Statistical Techniques to Standard Software Systems: A Review.- Funigirls: A Prototype Functional Programming Language for the Analysis of Generalized Linear Models.- Blinwdr: An APL-function Library for Interactively Solving the Problem of Robust and Bounded Influence Regression.- Computational Intensive Methods.- Exact Non-Parametric Significance Tests.- Resampling Tests of Statistical Hypotheses.- Clustering Based on Neural Network Processing.- Decision Tree Classifier for Speech Recognition.- Algorithms.- Efficient Sampling Algorithms and Balanced Samples.- Recursive Partition in Biostatistics: Stability of Trees and Choice of the Most Stable Classification.- Generating Rules by Means of Regression Analysis.- A New Algorithm for Matched Case-Control Studies with Applications to Additive Models.- An Algorithm for the Approximation of N-Dimensional Distributions.- Further Recursive Algorithms for Multidimensional Table Computation.- Statistical Methods.- Nonlinear Regression: Methodological and Software Aspects.- Comparing Sensitivity of Models to Missing Data in the GMANOVA.- A Modelling Approach to Multiple Correspondence Analysis.- Multidimensional Scaling on the Sphere.- A Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Methods for Estimating the Parameters of the Generalized Lambda Distribution.- Statistical Guidance for Model Modification in Covariance Structure Analysis.- Similarities Functions.- Robust Bayesian Regression Analysis with HPD-Regions.- Time Series.- Estimation of ARMA Process Parameters and Noise Variance by Means of a Non-Linear Filtering Algorithm.- Autoregressive Models with Latent Variables.- An Algorithm for Time Series Decomposition Using StateSpace Models with Singular Transition Matrix.- Statistical Data Bases and Survey Processing.- New Perspectives in Computer Assisted Survey Processing.- Multiple Imputation for Data-Base Construction.- Grasp: A Complete Graphical Conceptual Language for Definition and Manipulation of Statistical Databases.- Experimental Design.- New Algorithmic and Software Tools for D-Optimal Design Computation in Nonlinear Regression.- Econometric Computing.- Model-Building on Micro Computers: Spreadsheets or Specific Software.- Late Arrivals.- Three Examples of Computer-Intensive Statistical Inference.- New Computer Procedures for Generating Optimal Mixture Designs on Finite Design Spaces.- Screening Based Exclusively on Experts Opinions.- Address list of Authors.