Toward a common framework for statistical analysis and development

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 892-913

  Imai, Kosuke ^a   King, Gary ^b   Lau, Olivia ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphical user interface; Interdisciplinary; R language; Statistical ontology; Statistical software

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249116213     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186008X384898     Document Type: Article

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