The following seems likely to interest many list members.
Julian Wells
OU Business School
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
+44 1908 654658
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>From: Douglas Bates [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 20 March 2002 19:14
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [R] [OT] Open source statistical analysis in the news
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>
>A student pointed out to me the article
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51106,00.html
>describing recent testimony by Patrick Ball, the deputy director of
>the science and human rights program at the American Association for
>the Advancement of Science, at the war crimes trial of Slobodan
>Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president.
>
>Mr. Ball testified on a statistical analysis of the patterns of
>Albanian deaths and displacement in Kosovo that casts doubt upon
>Mr. Milosevic's claim that it was NATO bombing and not Serbian forces
>that caused the deaths and displacement.
>
>Mr. Ball makes the point that it is important that he used Open Source
>software for this analysis. The article states
>
> Ball added it was important to note that human rights work "is best
> served by free software, so that any group who wanted to reproduce my
> work could do so without a huge investment. I did the data processing
> using Python, we used MySQL, and all the data coding teams used Linux
> and Apache.
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