URL: http://compstats.uwaterloo.ca/
Contact Person: Pascal Poupart, ppoupart@cs.uwaterloo.ca
| Group Members: | Shai Ben-David, Daniel Brown, Bill Cowan, Ali Ghodsi, Jesse Hoey, Kate Larson, Wayne Oldford, Pascal Poupart, Mu Zhu |
Computational statistics is an area of specialization of statistics crossed with computer science, most notably with such areas as machine learning, scientific computation, data visualization and computational complexity. We live in an era where information technologies allow individuals and large organizations to gather increasingly large volumes of data about business transactions, web click traces, health records, etc. This data contains a wealth of information, however “mining” the data to extract relevant information is challenging. For instance, how can a fraud be identified from a stream of transactions, how can user habits/preferences be inferred from click traces to improve web services, how can new health indices be designed based on logs of physiological measurements to better assess and monitor chronic diseases?
Research in computational statistics is concerned largely with the analysis and development of algorithms to explore, discover, visualize and model structure in data as well as to make predictions and decisions based on that structure. Motivating data is often incomplete, noisy, nonhomogeneous in structure and large in size (e.g large number of observations, or dimensions, or both). Special attention is paid to the development of computationally efficient (with respect to time and memory usage) data analysis algorithms. Research includes the mathematical and computational analysis of the statistical methodology, the development of new methodologies, algorithms and software, and the application of these to substantive problems from other areas.
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
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