Table of Contents
Keynote Address
Considerations of Inspections for Homeland Security with Cross Linkages to Quality Control, Game Theory, and Stochastic Simulation (Keynote Address Abstract)
Models of Homeland Security with Borrowings from SPC and Game Theory (Keynote Paper), James R. Thompson
Short Courses
Statistical Methods in Computer Security (Abstract and Presentation)
Topics in Computational Statistics with MATLAB (Abstract and Presentation)
R
Technology Transfer in Industry using an R-COM Interface (Abstract)
Scott Wander Wiel, John Chambers, Suresh Goyal, David James
Inter-System Interfaces for S (Abstract)
Duncan Temple Lang
Sparse Linear Algebra for the R Language (Abstract ad Presentation)
Pin Ng, Roger Koenker
Bioinformatics
Exploratory Detection of Differential Gene Expression (Abstract)
John D. Storey
Statistical Issues in the Design of Microarray Experiments (Abstract)
Jean Yee Hwa Yang, Terry Speed
Exploration, Normalization, Summaries and Software of Affymetrix GeneChip Probe Level Data (Abstract and Presentation), Rafael Irizarry
Security and Infrastructure Protection: Interface of Computing Science
and Statistics to the Rescue
Statistical Opportunities in Network Security (Paper and Presentation)
Using Statistics to Detect and Thwart Denial of Service Attacks (Abstract)
Carla Brodley
Maximizing Quality and Value in Security: Challenges for Computer Scientists, Statisticians and Their Clients (Abstract), Arnold F. Goodman
Usability and Accessibility of Visualization Tools for Health Statistics
Usability Testing of Map Designs (Paper)
Accessible Graphics on the World Wide Web (Extended Abstract and Presentation)
Java-based Dynamic Linked Micromap Plots (Abstract and Presentation)
Jim X. Chen, Xusheng Wang, Daniel B. Carr, B. Sue Bell, and Linda W. Pickle
Web Design and Usability Guidelines: An Evidence-based Approach (Abstract)
Sanjay Koyani
Statistical Graphs
Graph-Theoretic Latent Class Discovery and its Robustness to Minimal Discriminating Set Choice (Abstract and Presentation)
Jeff Solka, Carey Priebe, David Marchette
Asymptotic Theory for the Domination Number of Random Class Cover Catch Digraphs (Paper), John C. Wierman and Pengfei Xiang
Bayesian Models for Sparse Edge Weighted Directed Graphs (Abstract and Presentation)
Sensitivity Analysis of Graph Distance Measures (Paper)
Julian Sorensen, Peter Dickinson and Martina Schubert
Latent Variable Models for Link Analysis of Similarity Data (Paper)
Financial Risk and Fraud Detection
Audit at a Crossroads (Paper)
Credit Scoring Using Bureau and Other Data (Abstract)
Garry K. Ottosen
Computational Statistics with Spreadsheets Towards Efficiency, Reproducibility and
Security (Paper), G. Aydinli, W. Härdle, E. Neuwirth
Some Loans are More Equal than Others: Third-Party Originations and Defaults in the
Subprime Mortgage Industry (Abstract and Presentation)
Scott D. Grimshaw, Grant R. McQueen, William P. Alexander, Barrett A. Slade
Computationally Challenging Statistical Methods in Genetics
Enumeration and Simulation of Marriage Node Graphs on Zero Loop Pedigrees (Abstract)
Alun Thomas and Chris Cannings
Statistical and Computational Issues in Mapping Genes in Animal Populations (Abstract)
Fengxing Du
Computations in Animal Breeding (Abstract and Presentation)
Ignacy Misztal and Romdhane Rekaya
Statistical Analysis and Probabilistic Modeling of Internet Traffic
Statistical Clustering of Internet Communication Patterns (Abstract and Presentation)
Felix Hernandez-Campos, A. B. Nobel, F. D. Smith, K. Jeffay
A Solution to the Bandwidth Allocation Problem for the Internet (Abstract)
William S. Cleveland, Jin Cao and Don X. Sun
The Joint Distribution of Internet Flow Sizes and Durations (Abstract and Presentation)
Cheolwoo Park and J S. Marron
Data Analysis and Visualization of Graph Data
Using Graphs to Explore Communication Networks (Abstract)
Chris Volinsky
Graphs and EDA in Computational Biology (Abstract)
Robert Gentleman
Visual Exploration of Graph Data (Abstract and Presentation)
Deborah F. Swayne, Duncan Temple Lang and Andreas Buja
Computational Methods
Cost-Sensitive Classifier Selection Using the ROC Convex Hull Method (Paper and
Presentation), Ross Bettinger
A New Imagery Classification Methods Using Spatial Covariance Information (Paper)
James A. Shine and Daniel B. Carr
A Risk-Utility Framework for Data Swapping (Abstract and Presentation)
Shanti Gomatam, Alan Karr and Ashish Sanil
Optimal Stopping of a Risk Process with Interest Rates (Paper and Presentation)
A Likelihood Approach for Determining Cluster Number (Paper)
William D. Shannon, Tsvika Klein and Robert Culverhouse
Advances in Face/Pattern Recognition
Obtaining Smooth Directional Field Estimates for Fingerprint Images (Abstract)
Sarat C. Dass
Fast Face Detection with a Boosted CCCD Classifier (Paper), Diego A. Socolinsky,
Joshua D. Neuheisel, Carey E. Priebe, Jason DeVinney, David Marchette
Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods
Parametric Bootstrap Confidence Intervals in Small Area Estimation Problems (Abstract)
Snigdhansu Chatterjee and P. Lahiri
Nonparametric Tail Index Estimation (Abstract)
Tucker McElroy and Dimitris Politis
Bayesian Inference in Single-Layer Neural Networks (Abstract)
Robert Paige
Selecting Optimal Block Lengths for Block Bootstrap Methods (Paper)
Computational Statistics and NSA
Statistical Analysis of Massive Data Streams: Overview of a CATS Workshop (Abstract)
Sallie Keller-McNulty
A-Family Priors: Smoothing Multinomial Data (Abstract)
Jeff Benedict
Model Building and Diagnostics for Massive Data Sets (Abstract)
David W. Scott
Graphics and Visualization
Visual Data Mining for Quantized Spatial Data (Abstract and Presentation)
Interactive Federal Statistical Data on the Web Using “NVIZN” (Paper and Presentation)
Jon Hurst, Jürgen Symanzik and Lacey Gunter
Visualizing Random Forests (Abstract)
Adele Cutler and Leo Breiman
Interactive Spinograms (Abstract)
Heike Hofmann and Martin Theus
Scatterplots for Massive Datasets (Abstract and Presentation)
Martin Theus, Di Cook and Heike Hofmann
Sensors for Biological Threats
Identification of Bio-warfare Agents and Other Applications of Molecular Biology
(Abstract), Todd Ritter
Rapid Microbe Detection with Fluidized Bed Capture and Concentration (Abstract)
Bart Weimer and Marie Walsh
Early Diagnosis of Biological Threats: Progress and Challenges (Abstract)
Stephen S. Morse
Best of KDD-2002
Customer Lifetime Value Modeling and its Use for Retention Planning (Abstract)
Saharon Rosset, Elnat Neumann, Uri Eick, Nurit Vatnik
Doing Something Useless Slightly Faster: The State of the Art in Time Series Data
Mining (Abstract), Eamonn Keogh
Homeland Security and Related Issues
Areas of Homeland Security: At the Computational Statistical Interface (Abstract)
Deborah Leishman
Rule-Based Anomaly Pattern Detection for Detecting Disease Outbreaks (Abstract)
Andrew Moore
Pointers from Research on Data Confidentiality and Data Quality (Abstract and
Presentation), Ashish Sanil
Modern Text Processing and Distribution
The Journal of Statistical Software (Abstract and Presentation)
Preparing Electronic Books (Abstract and Presentation)
Edward J. Wegman and Amy Braverman
Electronic Books for Experts and Users (Paper and Presentation)
Environmental Statistics
A Spatial Model for Chronic Wasting Disease in Rocky Mountain Mule Deer (Paper)
Christopher H. Mehl and Craig J. Johns
Spatial Statistics in the Presence of Location Error (Abstract and Presentation)
John Kornak and Noel Cressie
Separating Signal from Noise in Global Warming (Paper)
Predictive Mapping of Forest Characteristics for Fire Risk Assessment (Abstract)
Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino, Cheng Huang, Jim Vogelmann, Zhiliang Zhu
Nonparametric Modeling of Soil Characteristics of Crop Models (Abstract)
Stephan R. Sain and Doug Nychka
Social Networks and Statistics
Random-Effects Models for Network Dependence (Abstract)
Peter Hoff
Ultra-Robust and Scalable Networks Based on Hierarchies (Abstract and Presentation)
Peter Dodds, Duncan Watts and Charles Sabel
Statistical Models, Degeneracy and Inference for Social Networks (Abstract)
Mark S. Handcock
Best of the International Association for Statistical Computing
Incremental Tree-Based Missing Data Imputation with Lexicographic Ordering (Paper
and Presentation), Claudio Conversano and Roberta Siciliano
Many Faces of a Tree (Paper)
A Wildlife Simulation Package (WiSP) (Paper and Presentation)
Walter Zucchini, David Borchers, Stefan Kirchfeld and Martin Erdelmeier
Digital Government Research in Support of Federal Statistics
Using Ontology as Generalized Metadata Schema for Access to Distributed
Heterogeneous Data Sources (Abstract), Edward Hovy
Interfaces to a Statistical Knowledge Network (Abstract)
Gary Marchionini
New Approaches to Mobile Computing for Field Data Collection (Abstract)
Sarah Nusser
Smoothing and Nonparametric Feature Detection
A SiZer Analysis of IP Flow Start Times (Abstract)
J. S. Marron, Felix Hernandez-Campos and F. D. Smith
Longitudinal Kernel Regression (Abstract)
Naisyin Wang, Raymond J. Carroll, Xihong Lin and Ziding Feng
Semiparametric Regression Smoothing and Feature Detection in Time Series (Paper)
Safety and Security
Traffic Safety Analysis: A Data Mining Approach (Paper)
J. Michael Hardin, Michael Conerly and Wade Watkins
Bayesian Inductively Learned Modules for Safety Critical Systems (Paper)
Jonathan E. Fieldsend, Trevor C. Bailey, Richard M. Everson, Wojtek J. Krzanowski,
Derek Partridge and Vitaly Schetini
Waypoint Analysis for Command and Control (Abstract)
Mark Irwin, David Wendt and Noel Cressie
Continually Improving Stream Analysis for Network Security (Paper and Presentation)
Nancy J. McMillan, Douglas D. Mooney and David A. Burgoon
A Micro-Scale Epidemiological Simulation for Management of Disease (Abstract)
Sid Baccam, Stephen Eubank and Catherine Macken
Public Health Preparedness and Response in Crisis
Using Design-Based Adaptive Sampling Procedures in Site Decontamination (Paper)
Myron J. Katzoff, Abera Wouhib and Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr
Gamer Theory and Risk Analysis for the Smallpox Threat (Abstract and Presentation)
Best of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Penalized Survival Models and Frailty (Abstract)
V. Shane Pankratz, Patricia M. Grambsch and Terry M. Therneau
Adaptive Order Selection for Spline Smoothing (Abstract)
Randy Eubank, Chunfeng Huang and Suojin Wang
An Adaptive Spatial Scan Density Estimation Method (Abstract)
Ramani S. Pilla, Peng Tao and Carey Priebe
Infrastructure Security
Energy Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessments (Abstract)
Jeff Dagle
PNNL and International Border Security (Abstract)
William C. Cliff
Electricity Infrastructure Security (Abstract)
Thomas Kropp
Statistical Computing (Refereed Papers)
RGL: A R-Library for 3D Visualization with OpenGL (Paper and Presentation)
Daniel Adler, Oleg Nenadić and Walter Zucchini
Constructive Ensembles for Time Series in Econometrics and Finance (Paper)
The Quickest Sequential Detection of Intrusions in Computer Networks (Abstract)
Boris Rozoskii, Rudolf Blazek, Hongjoong Kim and Alexander Tartakovsky
Implementing Legacy Statistical Algorithms in a Spreadsheet Environment (Paper and
Presentation), Stephen W. Liddle and John S. Lawson
Bioinformatics
A Bayesian Mixture Model for Bayesian Gene Expression (Abstract and Presentation)
Kim-Anh Do, Peter Mueller and Feng Tang
A Simple Approach to Accommodating Interactive and Batch Processes on a
Bioinformatics Cluster (Abstract)
Warren M. Snelling, John W. Keele and Gregory P. Harhay
Selecting an Optimal Rejection Region for Multiple Testing (Paper)
Statistical Methods for Spot Detection with Macroarray Data (Paper)
Yi Xie, Adele Cutler, Bart Weimer and Andrejus Parfionovas
Statistical Issues in Computer Security
Email Worm Propagation on Random Graphs (Paper)
User Profiling for Intrusion Detection in Windows NT (Paper)
A Stochastic Model of Computer Intrusions for Evaluations and Exercises (Abstract and
Presentation), Robert P. Goldman
Multi-Level Monitoring and Fuzzy Clustering to Detect Cyber Attacks (Abstract)
Dipankar Dasgupta, Jonatan Gomez and Fabio Gonzalez
Interactive GeoGraphics for the Web
Integrated Climate Database (Abstract)
Dan Dansereau and Robert R. Gillies
Web Cartography for Municipal Government: An Accessibility Case Study (Abstract)
Robert Edsall
Design and Statistical Computation
Application of Simulated Annealing to D-optimal Design for Polynomial Regression with
Correlated Observations (Abstract), Zewen Zhu and Daniel C. Coster
Experimental Design for Body Image Testing (Paper)
Craig J. Johns and Russel L. Boice
A Stabilized Lugannani-Rice Formula (Paper)
Computation of the Normalization Constant for Exponentially Weighted Dirichlet
Distribution Integrals (Paper), Alan Genz and Paul Joyce
A Plot for Visualizing Multivariate Data (Paper and Presentation)
Nonparametrics (Refereed Papers)
Estimating Partially Linear Models Using Wavelets: A Nonlinear Backfitting Algorithm
(Paper), Leming Qu
Nonlinear Smoothers in Two Dimensions for Environmental Data (Paper)
Karen Kafadar and Max D. Morris
A Comparison of Filters and Wrappers Methods for Feature Selection Methods in
Supervised Classification (Paper), Edgar Acuña
Novel Methods for Multivariate Ordinal Data Applied to Olympic Medals, Risk Profiles,
Genomic Pathways, Genetic Haplotypes, Pattern Similarity, and Array Normalization
(Paper), Knut M. Wittkowski
Data Management for Statistical Databases
Database Technology for Statistical Data (Abstract)
Arie Shoshani
Metadata Usage in Statistical Computing (Paper)
Data Structures for HIV and AIDS Notification and Analysis (Abstract and Presentation)
Surveillance
Multiscale ‘Spatial’ Analysis of Network Data: Putting Wavelets on Graphs (Abstract)
Eric D. Kolaczyk
Social Networks and Computer Networks (Abstract and Presentation)
John Rigsby and Jeff Solka
Simultaneous Selection of Features and Metric for Optimal Nearest Neighbor
Classification (Paper and Presentation)
David A. Johannsen, Edward J. Wegman, Jeffrey L. Solka and Carey E. Priebe
Prediction of Catastrophic Events
Detecting Features in Seismic and Geodetic Data (Abstract)
Andrea Donnellan, Robert Granat and John Rundle
Predicting Damaging Climate Events: Methods, Examples, and Public Reaction
(Abstract), David W. Pierce and Tim P. Barnett
Predicting and Comprehending Asteroid Impacts (Abstract and Presentation)
Graphics for Bio and Chem Informatics
Graphic-Centric, Computationally-Efficient Recursive Partitioning (Abstract)
James Vivian, S. Stan Young and Christophe Lambert
Applications of Computational Geometry, Statistical Analysis and Graphics to the Study
of Molecular Systems (Abstract), Daniel B. Carr and Iosif Vaisman
Statistical Methods to Compress and Query Large Databases and Data
Streams
Data Stream Algorithmics (Abstract)
S. Muthukrishnan
Efficient Processing of Massive Data Streams for Mining and Monitoring (Abstract and
Presentation), Mirek Riedewald, Johannes Gehrke, Alan Demers, Abhinandan Das, Alin
Dobra
Wavelets for Efficient Querying of Large Multidimensional Data Sets (Abstract and
Presentation), Cyrus Shahabi
Data Mining Combat Simulations
Data Mining Combat Simulations: An Emerging Opportunity (Abstract and Presentation)
Regression Tree Analysis of Battle Simulation Data (Abstract)
Wei-Yin Loh
Robust Modeling Based on L2E Applied to Combat Simulation Data (Paper)
Discovery of Battle States Knowledge from Multi-Dimensional Time Series Data (Abstract)
T. W. Liao, B. Bodt, J. Forester, C. Hansen, E. Heilman, C. Kaste, J. O’May
Forests at Risk
Satellite to the Public in Near Real-Time: Providing Active Wildfire Information with
MODIS Rapid Response (Abstract)
Mark Finco, Brad Quayle, Rob Sohlberg and Jacques Descloitres
Identifying “Redtops”: Classification of Satellite Imagery for Tracking Mountain Pine
Beetle Progression through a Pine Forest (Paper)
Richard Cutler, Leslie Brown, James Powell, Barbara Bentz and Adele Cutler
Design Attributes for Sampling Rare Ecological Events in Forest Ecosystems: Lichens in
the Pacific Northwest (Abstract), Thomas C. Edwards and Richard Cutler
Nonparametric Methods and Applications
Multivariate Density Estimation with Permuted Variable-Values (Abstract and
Presentation), Sridevi Parise, Padhraic Smyth and Sergey Kirshner
Computational Challenges in Computing Nearest Neighbor Estimates of Entropy for
Large Molecules (Paper and Presentation)
E. James Harner, Harshinder Singh, Shenggiao Li and Jun Tan
Mixture Transitions for Edge Preservation in Kalman Filtering (Abstract)
Mark Fitzgerald
Statistical Learning Theory and Statistics: Embracing New Technologies (Abstract)
Kevin Watanabe
Using a LOESS Smoother to Estimate the Parameters of an Angular Dependent
Distribution of HRR Data (Abstract)
Bradley C. Wallet, Robert W. Hawley and Troy L. Klein
The following paper was inadvertently omitted from the 2001
Proceedings Volume 33
Interval Computation of Gamma Probabilities and their Inverses (Paper)
Trong Wu