Nineteen ways of looking at statistical software

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Altman, Micah ^a   Jackman, Simon ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Programming methods; Statistical computation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961226798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v042.i02     Document Type: Article

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