XploRe: An Interactive Statistical Computing Environment

HÄRDLE, W.; KLINKE, S.; TURLACH, B. A.

ISBN 10: 038794429X / ISBN 13: 9780387944296

Published by Springer, New York, 1995

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Statistics and Computing series. xvi, 387 p. 24 cm. 143 figures, 32 in colour. Light soiling to the exterior.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: XploRe: An Interactive Statistical Computing Environment
• Publisher: Springer, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 038794429X
• ISBN 13: 9780387944296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near fine
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Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

This book describes the statistical computing environment called XploRe. As its name suggests, XploRe provides a highly interactive graphics interface for exploratory statistical analysis, and provides for user-written macros and smoothing procedures for effective high-dimensional data analysis.