The Effect of Personal Computers on Statistical Practice

Ronald A. Thisted
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Ronald A. Thisted: The University of Chicago

A chapter in Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on the Interface, 1981, pp 25-30 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Statistical computer packages for large computers, both in batch and interactive environments, have focused on traditional statistical analyses and the computations associated with them. With few exceptions, statistical software development has emphasized numerical computations and data management, and few statistical procedures have been designed specifically for use on computing machines. Personal computers offer new and fundamentally different computing tools around which new methods for exploratory data analysis can be developed. These methods make essential use of the personal machine’s capabilities for data presentation and display.

Keywords: Personal computers; statistical computing; statistical packages; data analysis; graphics; animation; music (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-9464-8_4

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