Statistical Computing Environments for Social Research

by John D. Fox (Editor)

The nature of statistics has changed from classical notions of hypothesis testing, towards graphical and exploratory data analysis which exploits the flexibility of interactive computing and graphical displays. This book describes seven statistical computing environments - APL2STAT, GAUSS, Lisp-Stat, Mathematica, S, SAS//IML, and Stata - which can be used effectively in graphical and exploratory modeling. These statistical computing environments, in contrast to standard statistical packages, provide programming tools for building other statistical applications. Programmability, flexible data structures, and - in the case of some of the computing environments - graphical interfaces and object-oriented programming, permit res

256 pages, Hardcover

First published August 29, 1996

About the author

John Fox is the Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Sociology at McMaster University in Canada.