Miland Joshi asked:
> Many authors of papers or speakers at seminars will
> talk about a pioneering Statistical method and say in passing that
> while no standard package can handle it at present, 'this can easily
> be implemented on the computer' - but this clearly applies only to
> those who have the requisite knowledge and training. There don't seem
> to be many books that offer this type of training, I have seen for
> example books teaching Fortran 90 which are oriented towards
> engineering - but nothing for Statistical computing. Can anyone
> recommend good books on this subject that are written specifically
> for Statisticians who might wish to implement a new method on the
> computer, but which no package (as yet) can handle?
There are a few statistical systems that provide the ability to program
statistical applications in what is effectively a high-level statistical
programming language. As well as R and S, mentioned by Paul Gilbert, the
Genstat system also has such a language. The Genstat language is command-based
rather than expression-based like S. The language is described in full in the
'Genstat 5 Release 3 Reference Manual' (Genstat Committee, 1993, Clarendon
Press, Oxford), and the most recent training guide is 'An Introductory Course
for Genstat 5 Release 4' (Lane & Payne, 1997, Numerical Algorithms Group,
Oxford).
Peter Lane
Peter W Lane Statistics Dept, IACR Rothamsted, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, England
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