Using IMSL Mathematical and Statistical Computer Subroutines in Physiological and Biomechanical Research

Abstract

IMSL Corporation sells a widely used and respected package of mathematical and statistical computer subroutines written in the FORTRAN language. While engineers, mathematicians and others who work regularly with computation are familiar with the usefulness of the subroutines most medical researchers are neither aware of how the package could be useful to them nor knowledgeable enough in FORTRAN to be able to write programs to call the routines. This report gives examples which illustrate the applicability of IMSL subroutines to research in physiology and biomechanics, and shows how to write simple FORTRAN programs to define variables, read data from a file, call the IMSL subroutines, and store or display results. Increased usage of IMSL software by medical researchers can lead to more sophisticated and quantitative treatment of data, and improve the overall quality of research. Keywords: Computer software, Physiology, Biomechanics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA192594

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  • Everett Harman

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  • United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

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  • Biomedical

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