The numerical reliability of GAUSS 8.0

American Statistician

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 262-268

  Yalta, A Talha ^a  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Numerical accuracy; Software testing; Statistical reference datasets (StRD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548552522     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313007X223720     Document Type: Article

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