Before designing an algorithm it is important to first understand what the problem is. Algorithms can be designed using pseudocode or a flowchart, and the standard notations of each should be known.

Robert F. Ling, Comparison of Several Algorithms for Computing Sample Means and Variances, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 69, No. 348 (Dec., 1974), pp. 859-866 ...

A comparison and evaluation is made of recent proposals for multivariate matched sampling in observational studies, where the following three questions are answered: (1) Algorithms: In current ...