Keynote Address -- Statistical Theory and the Computer -- Automated Edit and Imputation -- Developing an Edit System for Industry Statistics -- Design of Experiments to Investigate Joint Distributions in Microanalytic Simulations -- Descriptive Statistics Used in Monitoring Edit and Imputation Processes -- Do Statistical Packages Have a Future? -- The Effect of Personal Computers on Statistical Practice -- Statistical Software Design and Scientific Breakthrough: Some Reflections on the Future -- Some Thoughts on Expert Software -- Fourier Transforms in Applied Statistics -- How Fast is the Fourier Transform? -- Polynomial Time Algorithms for Obtaining Permutation Distributions -- Efficient Estimation for the Stable Laws -- Algorithms and Statistics -- Applications of Statistics to Applied Algorithm Design -- Algorithms with Random Input -- Recent Results on the Average Time Behavior of Some Algorithms in Computational Geometry -- Genuinely Statistical Methods in the Theory of Algorithms -- Pattern Recognition -- Applications of Pattern Recognition Methods to Hydrologic Time Series -- Recent Advances in Bump Hunting -- Pattern Recognition in the Context of an Asbestos Cancer Threshold Study -- Histologic Patterns and Random Chromatic Graphs -- Volume Testing of Statistical Programs -- Volume Testing of Statistical/Database Software -- Scientific Information Retrieval (SIR/DBMS) -- Volume Testing of Statistical Software - The Statistical Analysis System (SAS) -- Solving Complex Database Problems in P-STAT -- Volume Testing of SPSS -- Volume Testing of Statistical Systems -- Random Number Generation -- In Search of Correlation in Multiplicative Congruential Generators with Modulus 231 - 1 -- Portability Considerations for Random Number Generators -- Generating Discrete Random Variables in the Computer -- Generation of Random Variables by Thinning of Poisson Processes -- Understanding Time Series Analysis -- Recent Developments in Spectrum and Harmonic Analysis -- On Some Numerical Properties of ARMA Parameter Estimation Procedures -- Time Series Recursions and Self-Tuning Control -- Measurement and Evaluation of Software -- On Measurement and Evaluation of Software: A View from the Chair -- Can Statistical Methods Help Solve Problems in Software Measurement? -- Measuring the Performance of Computer Software - A Dual Role for Statisticians -- Software Metrics: Paradigms and Processes -- A Proposal for Structural Models of Software Systems -- Software Metrics: A Key to Improved Software Development Management -- Orthogonalization: An Alternative to Sweep -- Orthogonalization-Triangularization Methods in Statistical Computati ons -- Research Data Base Management -- Simple Query Language Requirements for Research Data Management -- Data Editing on Large Data Sets -- Data Archiving: A New(?) Set of Problems for Research Data Management Systems -- Graphical Methods and Their Software -- Census Bureau Statistical Graphics -- Mosaics for Contingency Tables -- The Use of Kinematic Displays to Represent High Dimensional Data -- Contributed Papers -- Order Statistics and an Experiment in Software Design -- Further Approximation to the Distributions of Some Transformations to the Sample Correlation Coefficient -- Using Linear Programming to Find Approximate Solutions to the Fields to Impute Problem for Industry Data -- Using Computer-Binned Data for Density Estimation -- On the Nonconsistency of Maximum Likelihood Nonparametric Density Estimators -- Computer Program for Krishnaiah's Finite Intersection Tests for Multiple Comparisons of Mean Vectors -- Approximating the Log of the Normal Cumulative -- A Kth Nearest Neighbour Clustering Procedure -- Interactive Statistical Graphics: Breaking Away -- Interactive Graphical Analysis for Multivariate Data -- SLANG, A Statistical Language for Descriptive Time Series Analysis -- On the Parameter Estimation in Queueing Theory -- Statistical Computation with a Microcomputer -- On the Exact Distribution of Geary's U-Statistic and its Application to Least Squares Regression -- Exposure to the Risk of an Accident: The Canadian Department of Transport National Driving Survey and Data Analysis System, 1978-79 -- CONCOR: An Edit and Automatic Correction Package -- BGRAPH: A Program for Biplot Multivariate Graphics -- MONCOR--A Program to Compute Concordant and Other Monotone Correlations -- Computer Offerings for Statistical Graphics--An Overview -- Computing Percentiles of Large Data Sets -- A Self-Describing Data File Structure for Large Data Sets -- Nonlinear Estimation Using a Microcomputer -- Statistical Procedures for Low Dose Extrapolation of Quanta! Response Toxicity Data -- An Economic Design of Y-Charts with Warning Limits to Control Non-Normal Process Means -- Prior Probabilities, Maximal Posterior, and Minimal Field Error Localization.