Emacs Speaks Statistics: A Multiplatform, Multipackage Development Environment for Statistical Analysis

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 247-261

  Rossini, A J ^a,b   Heiberger, Richard M ^c   Sparapani, Rodney A ^d   Mächler, Martin ^e   Hornik, Kurt ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

BUGS; Cross platform user interface; Data analysis; Open source software; Programming; R; S; S Plus; SAS; Stata; XLispStat

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842486829     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/1061860042985     Document Type: Article

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