Artificial Intelligence Research in Statistics

AT' Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974 THE INITIAL RESULTS from a few AI research projects in statistics have been quite interesting to statisticians: Feasibility demonstration systems have been built at Stanford University, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and the University of Edinburgh. Several more design studies have been completed. A conference devoted to expert systems in statistics was sponsored by the Royal Statistical Society. On the other hand, statistics as a domain may be of particular interest to AI researchers, for it offers both tasks well suited to current AI capabilities and tasks requiring development of new AI techniques. Statisticians do a variety of tasks, some of which can now be assisted by expert system techniques.