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

9400023萨尔接口会议的目的是汇集来自不同领域的专业人士，共同需要更好的统计计算方法。最初专注于与数值分析和计算机科学的接口，近年来它已涉及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。计算目前是统计专业中非常活跃的领域，因为桌面计算能力在过去5年中取得了巨大的进步。例如，贝叶斯统计过去主要是理论，很少实践，因为它背负着困难的数值积分问题。今天，蒙特卡罗方法的出现加上快速的机器使技术突然实用。研究人员正在寻求估计值的分布，而不仅仅是近似的标准误差，并且已经出现了一些基于重采样的方法来提供这些答案。精确的显著性水平正在取代近似的显著性水平。平滑曲线正在取代直线拟合。统计图形正在帮助研究人员进行发现。接口会议将有关于最先进技术的专门会议，以及一些教程和短期课程，以帮助将新技术带给普通技术观众。接口会议是一个致力于统计计算问题的年度会议。在过去的几年里，统计计算已经成为一个特别重要的领域，因为廉价而快速的台式计算机的到来开辟了许多几年前只能梦想的新机会。一代人以前，统计学家在有限的计算资源下所能做的最好的事情就是，如果数据以某种方式组织起来，就可以得到一个统计数据，然后在表中查找该统计数据。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性水平。现在我们已经发展到可以分析非常一般的模型，这些模型需要更少的假设，具有更灵活的函数形式，提供模型中估计值分布的细节，使用交互式探索技术来获得新的发现，并使用图形可视化技术来呈现结果。随着统计计算工具的进一步完善，统计界有机会在质量运动、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，更好地为科学和技术世界服务。接口会议提供了一个论坛，用于演示和讨论计算机计算的最新突破。

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.