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How Computational Statistics Became the Backbone of Modern Data Science

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This first chapter serves as an introduction and overview for a collection of articles surveying the current state of the science of computational statistics. Earlier versions of most of these articles appeared in the first edition of Handbook of Computational Statistics: Concepts and Methods, published in 2004.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    James E. Gentle

  2. C.A.S.E. - Centre for Applied Statistics and Economics, School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Karl Härdle (L.v.Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics)

  3. Department of Socio-information, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

    Yuichi Mori

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Correspondence to James E. Gentle .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. Computational & Data, Sciences, George Mason University, University Drive 4400, Fairfax, 22030-4444, Virginia, USA

    James E. Gentle

  2. L.v.Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics, C.A.S.E. Centre f. Appl. Stat. & Econ., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, 10099, Germany

    Wolfgang Karl Härdle

  3. Dept. Socioinformation, Okayama University, Ridai-cho 1-1, Okayama, 700-0005, Japan

    Yuichi Mori

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Gentle, J.E., Härdle, W.K., Mori, Y. (2012). How Computational Statistics Became the Backbone of Modern Data Science. In: Gentle, J., Härdle, W., Mori, Y. (eds) Handbook of Computational Statistics. Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21551-3_1

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