The reliability of statistical functions in four software packages freely used in numerical computation

Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-119

  Almiron, Marcelo G ^a   Almeida, Eliana S ^a   Miranda, Marcio N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Numerical computation; Software accuracy; Statistical software

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006518356     PISSN: 01030752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-BJPS017     Document Type: Article

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