Closing the gap between methodologists and end-users: R as a computational back-end

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-15

  Wallace, Byron C ^a   Dahabreh, Issa J ^a   Trikalinos, Thomas A ^a   Lau, Joseph ^a   Trow, Paul ^a   Schmid, Christopher H ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Open source; Python; R; Software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863847959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v049.i05     Document Type: Article

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