We discuss several generalizations of the notion of median to points in $R^d$. They arise in Computational Geometry and in Statistics. The notions are compared with respect to some of their mathematical properties. We also consider computational aspects. The issue of computational complexity raises several intriguing questions.

Production of official statistics frequently requires expert judgement to evaluate and reconcile data of unknown and varying quality from multiple and potentially conflicting sources. Moreover, exceptional events may be difficult to incorporate in modelled estimates. Computational logic provides a methodology and tools for incorporating analyst's judgement, integrating multiple data sources and...

A lgebra has always played an important role in statistics, a classical example being linear algebra. There are also many other instances of applying algebraic tools in statistics e.g., [1,2]. But, treating statistical models as algebraic objects, and thereby using tools from computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry in the analysis of statistical models is very recent and has le...

The Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale and the Attitudes Toward Statistics questionnaire were administered to 226 university of technology students. The former scale measures anxiety about learning statistics in terms of Worth of Statistics, Interpretation Anxiety, Test and Class Anxiety, Computational Self-concept, Fear of Asking for Help, and Fear of Statistics Teachers. The latter measures atti...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 13212 “Computational Methods Aiding Early-Stage Drug Design”. The aim of the seminar was to bring scientists working on various aspects of drug discovery, genomic technologies and computational science (e.g., bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, machine learning, and statistics) together to explore how high dimensional data set...

Commutative algebra, its combinatorial and computational aspects, and its interactions with statistics and applications to biology, have received quite a lot of attention recently, as pointed out in a recent issue of SIAM News ([24]). The foundational work of many authors established a thrilling connection between algebra, statistics and computational biology. Toric ideals and their combinatori...

We introduce the ACL Anthology Network (AAN), a comprehensive manually curated networked database of citations, collaborations, and summaries in the field of Computational Linguistics. We also present a number of statistics about the network including the most cited authors, the most central collaborators, as well as network statistics about the paper citation, author citation, and author colla...

Computational chemistry is a largely empirical field that makes predictions with substantial uncertainty. And yet the use of standard statistical methods to quantify this uncertainty is often absent from published reports. This article covers the basics of confidence interval estimation for molecular modeling using classical statistics. Alternate approaches such as non-parametric statistics and...

On the Orderings and Groupings of Conditional Maximizations within ECM-Type Algorithms Author(s): David A. van Dyk and Xiao-Li Meng Source: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Jun., 1997), pp. 202223 Published by: American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Interface Foundation of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/13909...

Alexandru I. Nicolin, R. Carretero-González, and P. G. Kevrekidis Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Group,* Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182-7720, USA Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst...