Special Issue of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

                  Matrix Computations  and Statistics II

 

 

A number of interesting and important ideas have resulted from the relationship between matrix computations and statistics. Well known examples include the solution of least squares problems, computation of the singular value decomposition and its generalizations, estimation of principal components, computation of canonical correlations, several cluster analysis algorithms, and the solution of total least squares problems.

 

A previous special issue on this area featured papers on multidimensional scaling, an application to web search engines, an algorithm for seemingly unrelated regression models, an error measurement model for motion analysis, and a survey on alternating least squares problems. These papers left the impression that the overlap between

matrix computations and statistics is a fertile area of research.

 

Thus we propose a second special issue on matrix computations and statistics. The editors would like to receive papers on any of the topics listed  above and also topics such as latent semantic indexing, structured total least squares, cluster analysis, complete orthogonal decompositions, data compression, linear discriminant analysis, dimension reduction/feature extraction, and applications of statistical matrix computing to other scientific disciplines.

 

 

The editors for this special issue will be

 

 

Jesse L. Barlow

Department of Computer Science

and Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802-6106

e-mail: barlow@cse.psu.edu

 

Patrick J.F. Groenen

Econometric Institute

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Room H11.23

P.O. Box 1738

3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands

e-mail: groenen@few.eur.nl

 

Haesun Park

4-192 EE/CS

Department of Computer Science

and Engineering

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN 55455

e-mail: hpark@cs.umn.edu

 

 

Hongyuan Zha

Department of Computer Science

and Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802-6106

 email: zha@cse.psu.edu

 

The deadline for submission to this special issue is December 1, 2003.

Manuscripts submitted to this special issue will be refereed according to

standard procedures for Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.