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- From: sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
- Subject: OO statistical software (summary)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.155032.8045@jyu.fi>
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:50:32 GMT
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- I posted a query about OO statistical software quite a long time ago
- (for the benefit of a MSc thesis writer).
- The following persons answered (thank you all!):
-
- mivirtan@valt.helsinki.fi (MIKKO VIRTANEN (TIL))
- dmurdoch@mast.QueensU.CA (Duncan Murdoch)
- Ronald Schoenberg <rons@u.washington.edu>
- rbosch@stat.uiowa.edu (Ron Bosch)
- sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven Litvintchouk)
- ail8070@tamuts.tamu.edu (Andy I. Liaw)
- Kok Hooi Tan <kt14+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- adr@ccr.jussieu.fr (Adrian RAFTERY p73343)
- Rauno Veijola <veijola@galahad.jyu.fi>
- knox@spruce.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert Knox)
- almond@statsci.com (Russell G. Almond)
- eb@icnucevx.cnuce.cnr.it (Enrico Badella)
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- The following two software packages and their associated
- books were mentioned in many answers:
-
- Luke Tierney (1990): Lisp-Stat - An object oriented environment
- for statistical computing and dynamic graphics
- Wiley, N Y
-
- Xlisp-stat is available through statlib@stat.cmu.edu.
-
- Chambers, J.M, and T.J. Hastie. 1992. Statistical Models in S.
- Wadsworth & Brooks, Pacific Grove, California. (esp.
- appendix A, by J.M. Chambers)
-
- I apologize if this is irrelavent: the software package S-plus
- from Stat Sci is a OOP stat computing envrionment that is widely
- used here for stat research (some use the earlier version, New-S
- from AT&T).
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- Other literature, products and projects mentioned:
-
- M. Sibuya and R. Shibata (1992) `Data Analysis by using S'
- Kyouritsu Syuppan, Japan.
-
- I think there's supposed to be a book length treatment of object
- oriented programming in S, coming out soon, but I don't have the
- details handy and may be mis-remembering.
-
- And another is xgobi, but I don't remember any bibliographical
- information about it.
-
- For a more theoretical discussion, look for a joint paper by R. W. Oldford
- and C. Hurley a few years back (I can't find the reference). Oldford has a
- couple of papers listed in the 1988 Current Index to Statistics that are
- probably relevant, as does Hurley.
-
- You should also check out the Interface proceedings.
-
- The DINDE project (Wayne Oldford, University of Waterloo) and the
- Arizona project (John McDonald, University of Washington) are both
- attempts to develop OO statistical systems in LISP.
-
- Is he interested only in literature, or would he also like to know
- about languages/software as well? Is so, I would suggest that M++,
- which as you know are C++ array classes, is a serious attempt to
- generate an object-oriented scientific programming language. If he is
- interested in looking into it, he could get in touch with me. I've
- designed least squares classes, and optimization classes (which could
- be used for maximum likelihood estimation), and I'm writing a paper
- for the OON-SKI '93 on these designs.
- (From: Ronald Schoenberg <rons@u.washington.edu>)
-
- Our work on the statistical identification of ice-floes in satellite
- images depended crucially on object-oriented programming ideas.
- See Banfield and Raftery (1992), "Identification of ice floes ...",
- JASA, p.7.
- (From: adr@ccr.jussieu.fr (Adrian RAFTERY p73343))
-
- ... Also ElToY, (my
- own work) which is a large scale attempt to work in it is available
- through statlib. ElToY contains, among other things, and object
- protocol for probability distributions.
- ...
- There are a number of research projects here at StatSci aimed at
- bringing more of S-PLUS into the object oriented framework.
- (From: almond@statsci.com (Russell G. Almond))
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- Markku Sakkinen (sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi)
- SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)
- Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
- University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
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- SF-40351 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
- Finland
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