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EASYSTAT: an easy-to-use statistics package

Published: 04 June 1973 Publication History

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When surveying the available computer statistical packages (see e.g. (1)), one usually has in mind several ideal characteristics which should be possessed by such a package. First, the user envisions that the package will be both easy to learn and natural to use thereafter-hopefully without any help from his local computer specialist and without any knowledge of computers or of programming. Specifically, knowing exactly what particular statistical operation he wants performed by the computer and having his data in hand, the user should have a means by which he can (1) describe in a natural way that operation (e.g., a multiple linear regression) and that data (e.g., 6 variables and 23 observations per variable), and (2) present that data in a reasonable natural and unconstrained way.

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[1]
Schucarry, W. R., et al., "A Survey of Statistical Packages," ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1972, pp. 65--80
[2]
System/360 Scientific Subroutine Package (PL/1) Program Description & Operations Manual, Form #GH20-0586, IBM Corp., 1968.

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AFIPS '73: Proceedings of the June 4-8, 1973, national computer conference and exposition
June 1973
936 pages
ISBN:9781450379168
DOI:10.1145/1499586
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Published: 04 June 1973

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