this volume contains the keynote, invited and full contributed papers presented at compstat 2002 in berlin, germany. the topics of compstat 2002 include methodological applications, innovative software and mathematical developments, especially in the following fields: statistical risk management, multivariate and robust analysis, markov chain monte carlo methods, statistics of e-commerce, new strategies in teaching (multimedia, internet), computer-based sampling/questionnaires, analysis of large databases (with emphasis on computing in memory), graphical tools for data analysis, classification and clustering new statistical software and historical development of software.