Mathematical Sciences: Computing Science and Statistics; Symposium on the Interface Theme; Research Triangle Park, N.C.; June 15-18, 1994

9400023 SALL界面会议的目的是将来自不同领域的专业人员聚集在一起，这些专业人员共同需要更好的统计计算方法。它最初专注于与数值分析和计算机科学的接口，最近几年涉及到广泛的科学和技术领域，特别是生物技术和质量工程等热门领域。随着桌面计算能力在过去5年中取得了巨大的进步，计算目前在统计专业中是一个非常活跃的领域。例如，贝叶斯统计学过去大多是理论，很少是实践，因为它背负着困难的数值积分问题。今天，蒙特卡罗方法和快速机器的出现使这些技术突然变得实用起来。研究人员要求的是估计的分布，而不仅仅是近似的标准误差，一些基于重新抽样的方法已经出现，以提供这些答案。确切的重要性水平正在取代近似的重要性水平。光滑的曲线正在取代直线拟合。统计图形正在帮助研究人员做出新的发现。接口会议将有关于最新技术的专门会议，还将有一些辅导会议和短期课程，以帮助将新技术带给普通技术受众。界面会议是致力于统计计算问题的年度会议之一。统计计算在过去几年里已经成为一个特别重要的领域，因为廉价和快速的台式计算机的到来打开了许多几年前还梦想着的新机会。一代人以前，统计学家利用有限的计算资源所能做的最好的事情就是，如果数据是以某种方式组织起来的，那么就得到一个统计数据，然后在表格中查找这个统计数据。然后，计算和数值技术得到了足够的改进，可以处理更一般的模型，并获得显著水平。现在，我们已经可以分析非常通用的模型，这些模型需要更少的假设，具有更灵活的函数形式，提供有关模型中估计的分布的详细信息，使用交互式探索技术来做出新的发现，并通过图形可视化技术呈现结果。随着统计计算工具的进一步完善，在质量运动、生物技术革命和环境任务使统计和实验变得更加重要的时候，统计界有机会真正更好地为科学和技术界服务。接口会议为介绍和讨论统计计算的最新突破提供了论坛。

9400023 Sall The Interface Conference was designed to bring together professionals from different fields that share a need for better statistical computing methods. Originally focused on the interface with numerical analysis and computer science, in more recent years it has been involved with a broad range of scientific and technical areas, particularly hot areas such as biotechnology and quality engineering. Computing is currently a very active area in the statistics profession as desktop computing power has made a huge advance in the last 5 years. For example, Bayesian statistics used to be mostly theory and little practice, because it was saddled with difficult numerical integration issues. Today, the emergence of Monte Carlo methods coupled with fast machines has made the techniques suddenly practical. Researchers are asking for the distribution of estimates, rather than just approximate standard errors, and a number of resampling-based methods have emerged to provide those answers. Exact significance levels are replacing approximate ones. Smooth curves are replacing straight line fits. Statistical graphics is helping researchers make discoveries. The Interface Conference will have the specialized sessions on the state-of-the-art, and also a number of tutorial sessions and short courses to help bring the new technology to a general technical audience. The Interface conference is the one annual conference dedicated to statistical computing issues. Statistical computing has emerged as a particularly important field in the last few years because the arrival of cheap and fast desktop computers has opened up a lot of new opportunities that were only dreamed of a few years ago. A generation ago, the best statisticians could do with limited computing resources was to get a statistic if the data was organized a certain way, and look that statistic up in a table. Then computing and numerical techniques improved enough to handle more general models and get significance levels. Now we have progressed to where we can analyze very general models that require fewer assumptions, have a more flexible functional form, provide details on the distribution of the estimates in the model, use interactive exploratory techniques to make new discoveries, and present the results with graphical visualization techniques. With further refinements in statistical computing tools, the statistical community has a chance to really serve the scientific and technical world much better at a time when the Quality Movement, the Biotechnology Revolution, and the Environmental mandate has made statistics and experimentation more critically important. The Interface conference provides the forum for presentation and discussion of the latest breakthroughs in statisical computing.