Statistics in Data Science: Latest Methods and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: statistics; mathematics; digitalization; programming fundamentals; biostatistics; advanced research in data mining and programming
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is dedicated to the compilation of research and the latest activities regarding the role that statistics plays in data science. It targets the combination of existing or development of new statistical methods for data science purposes. All aspects of data science are of interest: data collection, data preparation, machine learning, and communication of results. Submissions can both be of theoretic nature as well as demonstrate concrete applications. Potential topics may include the handling of missing values, the robustification of data science techniques, mixed models, the role of the p-value in data science, or the wide field of explainable machine learning. Researchers are invited to submit original papers or reviews.
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Pilz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- data science
- statistics
- data mining
- robust statistics
- missing values
- multiple imputation
- explainable machine learning
- mixed models
- p-value
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