Econometric software development: Past, present and future

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 206-224

  Ooms, Marius ^a   Doornik, Jurgen A ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Econometric software package; Modelling language; Reproducibility; User interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645641914     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2006.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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