COMPSTAT

Keynote Papers.- Analysis of Clustered Multivariate Data from Developmental Toxicity Studies.- Wavelets in Statistics: Some Recent Developments.- Invited Papers.- Mortality Pattern Prediction in Worker Cohorts.- Design Algorithms for Correlated Data.- (Co)Variance Structures for Linear Models in the Analysis of Plant Improvement Data.- Optimal Scaling Methods for Graphical Display of Multivariate Data.- Computer-Assisted Statistics Teaching in Network Environments.- Modelling Bacterial Genomes Using Hidden Markov Models.- MCMC Specifics for Latent Variable Models.- Exploratory Versus Decision Trees.- Exploring Time Series Using Semi- and Nonparametric Methods.- Time Series Forecasting by Principal Component Methods.- Contributed Papers.- A Simulation Study of Indirect Prognostic Classification.- Model Search: An Overview.- Speeding up the Computation of the Least Quartile Difference Estimator.- Piece-wise Detection of Spinal Scoliosis.- A Comparison of Recent EM Accelerators within Item Response Theory.- Gröbner Basis Methods in Polynomial Modelling.- Analysis of High Dimensional Data from Intensive Care Medicine.- Fitting Non-Gaussian Time Series Models.- Using Singular Value Decomposition in Non-Linear Regression.- A Modelling Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Kernel Density Estimation.- A New Method for Cross-Classification Analysis of Contingency Data Tables.- Bayesian Analysis of Overdispersed Count Data with Application to Teletraffic Monitoring.- An Alternative Pruning Method Based on the Impurity-Complexity Measure.- Bayesian Inference for Mixture: The Label Switching Problem.- Simulation of Multifractional Brownian Motion.- Simulating Categorical Data from Spatial Models.- Robust Factorization of a Data Matrix.- Spatial Clustering Techniques: An ExperimentalComparison.- A Visual Environment for Designing Experiments.- Essay of a Dynamic Regression by Principal Components Model for Correlated Time Series.- Traffic Models for Telecommunication.- Construction of Non-Standard Row-Column Designs.- Computational Statistics for Pharmacokinetic Data Analysis.- Frailty Factors and Time-dependent Hazards in Modelling Ear Infections in Children Using BASSIST.- Algorithms for Robustified Error-in-Variables Problems.- Idaresa - a Tool for Construction, Description and Use of Harmonised Datasets from National Surveys.- LLAMA: an Object-Oriented System for Log Multiplicative Models.- Using Threshold Accepting to Improve the Computation of Censored Quantile Regression.- On the Convergence of Iterated Random Maps with Applications to the MCEM Algorithm.- Parameter Estimators for Gaussian Models with Censored Time Series and Spatio-Temporal Data.- Assessing the Multimodality of a Multivariate Distribution Using Nonparametric Techniques.- Bayesian Signal Restoration and Model Determination for Ion Channels.- ARGUS, Software Packages for Statistical Disclosure Control.- Building End-User Statistical Applications: An Example Using STABLE.- On Multiple Window Local Polynomial Approximation with Varying Adaptive Bandwidths.- Minimization of Computational Cost in Tree-Based Methods by a Proper Ordering of Splits.- Stable Multivariate Procedures - Strategies and Software Tools.- An Alternating Method to Optimally Transform Variables in Projection Pursuit Regression.- Predicting from Unbalanced Linear or Generalized Linear Models.- MCMC Solution to Circle Fitting in Analysis of RICH Detector Data.- A Visual Future for Statistical Computing.- Development of Statistical Software SAMMIF for Sensitivity Analysis in Multivariate Methods.- DataImputation and Nowcasting in the Environmental Sciences Using Clustering and Connectionist Modelling.- Graphical User Interface for Statistical Software Using Internet.- A Wavelet Approach to Functional Principal Component Analysis.- Quasi-Monte Carlo EM Algorithm for MLEs in Generalized Linear Mixed Models.- Applications of Smoothed Monotone Regression Splines and Smoothed Bootstrapping in Survival Analysis.- Comparing the Fits of Non-Nested Non-Linear Models.- The Deepest Fit.- Partially Linear Models: A New Algorithm and some Simulation Results.- Induction of Graphical Models from Incomplete Samples.- Locally and Bayesian Optimal Designs for Binary Dose-Response Models with Various Link Functions.- Statistics Training and the Internet.- Jointly Modelling Longitudinal and Survival Data.- Representing Solar Active Regions with Triangulations.- A General Form for Specification of Correlated Error Models, with Allowance for Heterogeneity.- Exploratory Data Analysis with Linked Dotplots and Histograms.- An Object-Oriented Approach to Local Computation in Bayes Linear Belief Networks.- Index of Authors.- Index of Keywords.