Computational Statistics (CompStat) is an international journal which promotes the publication of applications and methodological research in the field of Computational Statistics. The focus of papers in CompStat is on the contribution to and influence of computing on statistics and vice versa. The journal provides a forum for computer scientists mathematicians and statisticians in a variety of fields of statistics such as biometrics econometrics data analysis graphics simulation algorithms knowledge based systems and Bayesian computing. CompStat publishes hardware software plus package reports as well as book reviews.