Applications of Parallel Computation to Statistical Inference
并行计算在统计推断中的应用
Recent advances in parallel computation (e.g., Eddy and Schervish 1986; Gardner, Gerard, Mowers, Nemeth, and Schnabel 1986) have made it possible for a network of microcomputers to act together as a parallel processor using data-flow algorithms (see O'Leary and Stewart 1985). A data-flow algorithm is one in which the sequence of computations is not scheduled a priori, but rather is determined by the order in which computations are completed. Many statistical problems can be…