Computational Statistics

Editorial.- The Roots of Computational Statistics in Germany.- Twenty-Five Working Conferences on Statistical Computing — Reflections on Twenty Years of Reisensburg Meetings.- Remarks on the History of Computational Statistics in Europe.- Languages for Statistics and Data Analysis.- A Brief History of S.- Practical Guidelines for Testing Statistical Software.- On the Choice and Implementation of Pseudorandom Number Generators.- Seven Stages of Bootstrap.- Special Resampling Techniques in Categorical Data Analysis.- Statistical Problems in Planning, Conduct and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies.- Computer Aided Design of Experiments.- Knowledge-Based Systems in Statistics: A Tutorial Overview with Examples.- Diagnostic Plots for One-Dimensional Data.- Graphical Data Analysis Using LISP-STAT.- Multivariate Graphics: Current Use and Implementations in the Social Sciences.- Interactive Analysis of Spatial Data.- REGARDing Geographic Data.- Applied Nonparametric Smoothing Techniques.- Missing Values: Statistical Theory and Computational Practice.- A Permutation Approach to Configural Frequency Analysis (CFA) and the Iterated Hypergeometric Distribution.- Dynamic Modelling of Discrete Data.- Evaluating the Significance Level of Goodness-of-Fit Statistics for Large Discrete Data.- A Multiple Test Procedure for Nested Systems of Hypotheses.- Kernel Estimation in the Proportional Hazards Model.- Interval Censored Observations in Clinical Trials.- Covariates in Clinical Trials: Effects of Adjustment in Regression Models.- Classification and Regression Trees (CART) Used for the Exploration of Prognostic Factors Measured on Different Scales.- Clustering Algorithms and Cluster Validation.- Learning Statistics: Beyond Authoring Systems.- Remarks on Protecting Patient Data AgainstMisuse and on its Consequences Concerning their Statistical Data Analysis.- Alphabetical List of Authors, Reviewers and Editors.- Acknowledgements.