Statistical Computing with R

Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Computational Statistics and Statistical Computing

Computational statistics and statistical computing are two areas within statistics that may be broadly described as computational, graphical, and numerical approaches to solving statistical problems. Statistical computing traditionally has more emphasis on numerical methods and algorithms, such as optimization and random number generation, while computational statistics may encompass such topics as exploratory data analysis, Monte Carlo methods, and data partitioning, etc. However, most researchers who apply computationally intensive methods in statistics use both computational statistics and statistical computing methods; there is much overlap and the terms are used ...