Research Interests

• Statistical analysis of information
  • Computational Statistics
    • Computational efficiency
    • Variable selection (in multivariate methods without external variables)
    • 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
  • Mathematics Education Society of Japan
     
    • 2023-2026, Auditor of  the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
    • 2021-2025, BoD ordinary member (Rep. W. Japan), Japanese Society of Applied Statitics
    • 2020-      , Fellow of  the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
    • 2017-2022, Co-director of the international exchange section of  the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
    • 2017-2021, Chairperon-elect (17-19), Chairperson (19-21）, Past Cairperson (21-23), Asian Regional Section of International Association for Statistical Computing
    • 2015-2024, Japanese Association for Promoting Quality Assurance in Statistics （2015-2024, Project committee member and Director of public relations)
    • 2015-2017, Member of the exective committee of the the Japan Statistical Society (Director of the public relations section)
    • 2014-2025, BoD ordinary member of the Mathematics Education Society of Japan
    • 2012-2017, Member of Annual Meeting Committee of the Behaviormetric Society of Japan (2012-2014: Director)
    • 2011-2024, Associate editor of Editorial Board, Japanese Classification Society
    • 2007-2012, Co-director of the international exchange section of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistic
    • 2007-2010, Councilor of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistic
    • 2007-2008, Member of the planning section of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistic
    • 2006-2020, BoD ordinary member of the Behaviormetric Society
    • 2006-2014, Member of the public relation section of the Behaviormetric Society of Japan (2006: Vice director, 2007-2011: Director)
    • 2006-2025, Councilor of the Mathematics Education Society of Japan
    • 2006-2017, BoD ordinary member of Asian Regional Section of International Association for Statistical Computing
    • 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
    • 2001-2026, Associate editor of Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Computational Statistics of Japan, Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
    • 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
    • 2017-2021，Officer of Asian Regional Section of International Association for Statistical Computing (Chairperon-elect 17-19, Chairperson 19-21）
    • 2006-2017，BoD Ordinary Members
      
       
• Association
  • Japanese Association for Social Research
  • Japanese Association for Promoting Quality Assurance in Statistics
    
     
• Editor
  • International Journal
    • Commissioning Editor, WIREs (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews) Computational Statistics, Willy (2018-2020)
    • Editor in Chief: Computational Statistics, Springer (-2015)
    • Asscoaite Editor: Computational Statistics, Springer (-2015)
  • Japanese Journal
    • Associate Editor: Bulletin of the Computational Statistics in Japan, Japanese Society of Computational Statistics (2001-2018).
    • Associate Editor: Bulletin of Data Analysis of Japanese Classification Society, Japanese Classification Society (2011-2016).
    • Associate Editor: Journal of The Japan Statistical Society, Journal of The Japan Statistical Society （2004-2006）.
      
     

Awards

• Fellow, Japanese Society of Computational Statistics, 2020.
• 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)