COMPSTAT 1982 5th Symposium held at Toulouse 1982

1. Invited Papers.- On Some Problems in Analysing Non-orthogonal Designs.- Analytical Computing: Its Nature and Needs.- Updating Formulae and a Pairwise Algorithm for Computing Sample Variances.- Convex Hull Peeling.- Statistical Computing at INSEE.- Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis.- Classification of Multivariate Autoregressive Processes.- Exploratory Analysis of Large Sparse Matrices with Application to Textual Data.- Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis.- A Programming Language for Multivariate Data Analysis.- Procedures for Optimal Collapsing of Two-way Contingency Table.- Computer Science as a Tool Improving Data Analysis Researches and Uses.- Applied Graph Analysis in the Social Sciences: The Software Project GRADAP.- Microprocessors for Biomedical Research, Database Management and Analysis.- Parallel Processing in Statistics.- 2. Contributed Papers.- Software to Link Database Interrogation and Statistical Analysis.- Development of a Statistical Language.- MICROSTAT: A Microcomputer Conversational System for Statistical Data Analysis.- An Algorithm for Nonnegative Least Squares and Projection onto Cones.- Non Parametric Decision Trees by Bayesian Approach.- A Comparative Assessment of Data Management Software.- From Data Analysis to Non Parametric Statistics: Recent Developments and a Computer Realization for Exploratory Techniques in Regression or Prediction.- Postgraduate Training for Statisticians - Database Methods.- Crossings, Orders and Ultrametrics: Application to Visualization of Consensus for Comparing Classifications.- Statistical Programs for Microcomputers: The Implementation of a Directory for Data Structures.- Data Management and Tabulation in OPCS.- Archaeology, Data Analysis, Computer Science: How to Run Proper Treatment ofArchaeological Data.- BLINWDR: Robust and Bounded Influence Regression.- An Analysis of Developers' and Users' Ratings of Statistical Software Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis.- Real Time Graphical Techniques for Analyzing Multivariate Data.- About Fuzzy Discrimination.- A Fortran Preprocessor for Statistical Data Analysis.- An Analysis of Continuous Proportions.- A Sampling Procedure for Historical Data.- Use of Systemic Networks for Text Analysis.- SPASP - A Statistical Program for the Analysis of Stochastic Processes.- TOOLPACK: Improving the Programming Environment for Statistical Software.- A Programming Technique for Software in Statistical Analysis.- A Comparison of Types of Database System Used in Statistical Work.- The Frontiers of Statistical Analysis.- Implementation of a Statistical Database System: HSDB.- A Synthetic Approach to Multivariate Normal Clustering.- Variable Selection in Generalized Linear Models.- Approximation of Surfaces in (p+1)-Dimensional Spaces.- Standardized Comparison of Nonlinear Model Fitting Algorithms.- Numerical Approach to the Optimal Design Problem for Regression Models with Correlated Errors.- An Experimental Design and Analysis Package for Microcomputers.- Propositions for Fuzzy Characteristic Functions in Data Analysis.- Integrated System for Modelling Multivariate Time Series.- Software for Time Series Analysis.- Choice of Methods and Algorithms for Statistical Treatment of Large Arrays of Data.- New Computing Tools and New Statistical Packages.- Statistical Computing Based on Text Editing.- Cluster Analysis Based on the Maximization of the RV Coefficient.- Statistical Approach to System Parameter Synthesis.- Statistical Match of Samples Using Additional Information.- An Exploratory Program Package for Non-LinearData-Smoothers.- Applying Parallel Processing to Data Analysis: Computing a Distance's Matrix on a SIMD Machine.- The Balance between Teaching Computing and Statistics.- Canonical Analysis with B-splines.- Detecting Outliers in Simultaneous Linear Models.- Least Squares Optimisation of General Log-likelihood Functions and Estimation of Separable Linear Parameters.- Computational Procedures for Bounded-Influence Regression.- MUDFOLD: Multiple Stochastic Unidimensional Unfolding.- The Estimation of Missing Values in Highly Correlated Data.- Relational Design of Statistical Databases.- A Forward Multivariate Regression Procedure Based on the Maximization of the RV Coefficient.- Evaluation of Statistical Software Based on Empirical User Research.- Sound and Exploratory Data Analysis.- Monotone Splines: A Family of Transformations Useful for Data Analysis.- Results of the Application of Multimodal Optimization Algorithms Based on Statistical Models.- Address list of authors.