On the Development and Perspectives of Statistical Methods Applied to Interdisciplinary Fields of Science

统计方法已得到详细阐述和扩展，适用于从社会科学和人文科学到自然科学和医学科学和技术的各个科学领域。随着计算技术和信息科学的发展，统计方法的范围和方法也随之扩大。我们的研究项目旨在回顾统计方法及其应用领域近年来的发展和过去的成就。调查分两个阶段进行，第一阶段是选题，第二阶段是对每个主题进行调查。在这些程序期间，举行了几次座谈会和会议。主题涵盖了估计、时间序列、多元变量等理论方面，以及社会学、经济学、生物学、地球科学和计算统计学等领域的内容。信息专家还使用生物书目方法补充文献调查。项目结果在各种研讨会上报告，并在两期《日本统计学会杂志》上发表。

Statistical methods have been elaborated and expanded to be applicable to various scientific fields from social and human sciences to natural and medical sciences and technology. The expansion of scope and methods are accompanied with computational technology and information science.Our research project aims to survey the development and past achievements in the fields of statistical methods and their applications in recent years. The survey was carried out in two stages; firstly, selecting topics and secondly, surveying on each topics. During these procedures, several symposia and conferences were held. Topics covers from theoretical aspects such as estimation, time-series, multivariate and to field aspects sociology,economics, biology, earth science along with computational statistics.Bio-bibliographical approach was also used to supplement literature survey by the information specialists.The results of the projects were reported at various symposia and printed in two issues of Journal of Japan Statistical Society.