Language Requirements and Designs to Aid Data Analysis and Statistical Computing.

Abstract

An outline is given of design requirements for high-level statistical computing languages, with special emphasis on nameable data-structures, general operations including matrix and table calculations, looping, branching and the use of macros, and on user-extendability. Implementation and evaluation are discussed briefly. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA060719

Entities

People

  • Graham N. Wilkinson

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Data Science
  • High Level Languages
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Object Code
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Data
  • Statistics
  • Surveys
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.