| Xplore: An Interactive Statistical Computing Environment Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Härdle, Wolfgang (Author), Klinke, Sigbert (Author), Turlach, Berwin A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1461286999 ISBN-13: 9781461286998 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General |
| Dewey: 519.502 |
| Series: Statistics and Computing |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.29 lbs) 387 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book describes an interactive statistical computing environment called 1 XploRe. As the name suggests, support for exploratory statistical analysis is given by a variety of computational tools. XploRe is a matrix-oriented statistical language with a comprehensive set of basic statistical operations that provides highly interactive graphics, as well as a programming environ- ment for user-written macros; it offers hard-wired smoothing procedures for effective high-dimensional data analysis. Its highly dynamic graphic capa- bilities make it possible to construct student-level front ends for teaching basic elements of statistics. Hot keys make it an easy-to-use computing environment for statistical analysis. The primary objective of this book is to show how the XploRe system can be used as an effective computing environment for a large number of statistical tasks. The computing tasks we consider range from basic data matrix manipulations to interactive customizing of graphs and dynamic fit- ting of high-dimensional statistical models. The XploRe language is similar to other statistical languages and offers an interactive help system that can be extended to user-written algorithms. The language is intuitive and read- ers with access to other systems can, without major difficulty, reproduce the examples presented here and use them as a basis for further investigation. |