Comparative statistical software review: tabulations and musings from your editor's biased perspective.(STATISTICAL SOFTWARE)

From: Scientific Computing | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: Wass, John A. | Copyright information

What follows is a long exercise in patient digging. I had done a short review like this many years ago and our editor-in-chief thought that it might be a good idea to bring it up to date. I now have the master template that allow updates on a more timely basis as well as extension into other areas (a similar review for mathematical, as opposed to strictly statistical, software is in the back of my mind). The motivation for this is to give our readers a basis for comparison of some ...

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