Languages for Statistics and Data Analysis

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 600-620

  Huber, Peter J ^a  

^a NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Command languages; Human interface; Programming environments; Prototyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149193808     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2000.10474901     Document Type: Article

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