Research Interests

• Statistical analysis of information
  • Computational Statistics
    • Variable selection (in multivariate methods without external variables)
    • Sensitivity analysis / Influence analysis
    • Web-based statistical system
  • Statistical education
• Statistics education / Information education / Mathematics education

Research Activity

• Publications and talks
• Computational Statistics
• General Information Processing Education
• Mathematics Education
• Links to Statistical Software and Books
  • Statistical Software
  • Books related to Statistics
  • Books related to Information Literacy

Professional and Learned Societies

• Japanese Societies
  • Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
  • Japan Statistical Society
  • Japanese Society of Applied Statistics
  • Behaviormetric Society of Japan
  • Japanese Classification Society
  • Information Processing Society of Japan
  • Mathematical Society of Japan / Statistics and Probability Section
  • Mathematics Education Society of Japan
  • CIEC (Community for Innovation of Education and learning through Computers and communication networks)
     
    • 2012-2014, Director of Annual Meeting Committee of the Behaviormetric Society of Japan
    • 2006-2014, BoD ordinary member of the Behaviormetric Society of Japan
    • 2011-2014, Japanese Classification Society, Associate editor of Editorial Board
    • 2001-2014, Associate editor of Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Computational Statistics of Japan, Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
    • 2007-2012, Co-director of the international exchange section of  the Japanese Society of Computational Statistic
    • 2006-2011, Vice director (2006) and Director (2007-2011) of the public relation section of the Behaviormetric Society of Japan
    • 2007-2010, Councilor of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistic
    • 2006-       , Councilor of the Mathematics Education Society of Japan
    • 2006-       , BoD ordinary member of Asian Regional Section of International Association for Statistical Computing
    • 2007-2008, Member of the planning section of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistic
    • 2005-2006, Co-director of the planning section of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistic
    • 2004-2006, Associate editor of Editorial Board of the Journal of The Japan Statistical Society
    • 2003-2007, Councilor of the International Association for Statistical Computing
    • 2001-2010, Member of the public relation section of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
    • 1999-2002, Councilor of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistic
    • 1997-2002, Secretary of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics (Director of  the general affairs section of the society)
      
      
• International Society
  • International Statistical Institute
  • International Association for Statistical Computing
    • 2003-2007, Councilor of the International Association for Statistical Computing
    • Asian Regional Section of International Association for Statistical Computing
      
       
• Association
  • Japanese Association for Social Research
  • Nonprofit Organization Biostatistical Research Association
    
     
• Editor
  • International Journal
    • Editor in Chief, Computational Statistics, Springer.
  • Japanese Journal
    • Associate Editor, Bulletin of the Computational Statistics in Japan, Japanese Society of Computational Statistics.
    • Associate Editor, Bulletin of Data Analysis of Japanese Classification Society, Japanese Classification Society.
       

Awards

• Software Award, Japanese Society of Computational Statistics, 2004
  Sensitivity Software "SAMMIF" by Yutaka Tanaka (Nanzan University), Tomoyuki Tarumi (Okayama University), Yuichi Mori (Okayama University of Science), Yoshimasa Odaka, Shingo Watadani (Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts) and Yoshiro Yamamoto (Tokai University)