This book assembles papers which were presented at the biennial sympo sium in Computational Statistics held und er the a uspices of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), a section of ISI, the Interna tional Statistical Institute. This symposium named COMPSTAT '94 was organized by the Statistical Institutes of the University of Vienna and the University of Technology of Vienna, Austria. The series of COMPSTAT Symposia started 1974 in Vienna. Mean while they took place every other year in Berlin (Germany, 1976), Leiden (The Netherlands, 1978), Edinburgh (Great Britain,...

Aspects of Robust Statistics are important in many areas. Based on the International Conference on Robust Statistics 2001 (ICORS 2001) in Vorau, Austria, this volume discusses future directions of the discipline, bringing together leading scientists, experienced researchers and practitioners, as well as younger researchers. The papers cover a multitude of different aspects of Robust Statistics. For instance, the fundamental problem of data summary (weights of evidence) is considered and its robustness properties are studied. Further theoretical subjects include e.g.: robust methods for...

Geostatistik ist ein relativ neuer Zweig der Statistik, der sich mit der Anwendung von statistischen Methoden in den Geowissenschaften besch. lftigt. Quantitative Analysen dieser Art werden aber auch in sehr modernen Disziplinen wie Umweltschutz, Raumplanung, etc. gebraucht. Man sollte deshalb vielleicht besser das Stichwort "Statistische Analysen von r. lumlich abh. lngigen Daten" verwenden. Der Gegenstand "Geostatistik" ist unmittelbar mit dem Namen G. Matheron, dem Statistiker aus Fontainebleau in Frankreich verbunden. Er legte vor fast 20 Jahren das Fundament fUr diesen...