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PANEL ON GUIDELINES FOR STATISTICAL SOFTWARE
WILLIAM F. EDDY,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Chair
SALLY E. HOWE,
National Institute of Standards and Technology
BARBARA F. RYAN,
Minitab, Inc.
ROBERT F. TEITEL,
Abt Associates, Inc.
FORREST W. YOUNG,
University of North Carolina
JOHN R. TUCKER, Staff Officer
COMMITTEE ON APPLIED AND THEORETICAL STATISTICS
WILLIAM F. EDDY,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Chair
YVONNE BISHOP,
U.S. Department of Energy
DONALD P. GAVER,
Naval Postgraduate School
PREM K. GOEL,
Ohio State University
DOUGLAS M. HAWKINS,
University of Minnesota
DAVID G. HOEL,
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
JON KETTENRING,
Bellcore
CARL N. MORRIS,
Harvard University
KARL E. PEACE,
Biopharmaceutical Research Consultants
JAYARAM SETHURAMAN,
Florida State University
JOHN R. TUCKER, Staff Officer
BOARD ON MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
SHMUEL WINOGRAD,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
Chair
RONALD DOUGLAS,
State University of New York-Stony Brook,
Vice-Chair
LAWRENCE D. BROWN,
Cornell University
SUN-YUNG A. CHANG,
University of California at Los Angeles
JOEL E. COHEN,
Rockefeller University
AVNER FRIEDMAN,
University of Minnesota
JOHN F. GEWEKE,
University of Minnesota
JAMES GLIMM,
State University of New York-Stony Brook
PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS,
Institute for Advanced Study
DIANE LAMBERT,
AT&T Bell Laboratories
GERALD J. LIEBERMAN,
Stanford University
RONALD F. PEIERLS,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
JEROME SACKS,
National Institute of Statistical Sciences
Ex Officio Member
WILLIAM F. EDDY,
Carnegie Mellon University
Chair,
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics
Staff
JOHN E. LAVERY, Director
JO NEVILLE, Administrative Secretary
RUTH E. O'BRIEN, Staff Associate
HANS OSER, Staff Officer
JOHN R. TUCKER, Staff Officer
JAMES A. VOYTUK, Senior Staff Officer
SCOTT T. WEIDMAN, Senior Staff Officer
BARBARA WRIGHT, Administrative Assistant
COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND APPLICATIONS
NORMAN HACKERMAN,
Robert A. Welch Foundation,
Chair
PETER J. BICKEL,
University of California at Berkeley
GEORGE F. CARRIER, Professor Emeritus,
Harvard University
DEAN E. EASTMAN,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
MARYE ANNE FOX,
University of Texas-Austin
PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS,
Institute for Advanced Study
NEAL F. LANE,
Rice University
ROBERT W. LUCKY,
AT&T Bell Laboratories
CLAIRE E. MAX,
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
CHRISTOPHER F. MCKEE,
University of California at Berkeley
JAMES W. MITCHELL,
AT&T Bell Laboratories
RICHARD S. NICHOLSON,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
ALAN SCHRIESHEIM,
Argonne National Laboratory
KENNETH G. WILSON,
Ohio State University
NORMAN METZGER, Executive Director
Preface
The Panel on Guidelines for Statistical Software was organized in 1990 by the National Research Council's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics for the purpose of
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documenting, assessing, and prioritizing problem areas regarding the quality and reliability of statistical software;
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presenting to producers and users prototype guidelines in high-priority areas for the evaluation (based on established statistical principles) of statistical software packages; and
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making recommendations in the form of a plan for further discussion, research, testing, and implementation of guidelines involving the statistical computing, user, and producer communities.
The findings of the panel will be presented in a future report and at meetings of concerned groups, including professional societies, to stimulate such further work. The panel's guidelines will be accompanied by benchmark test data or descriptive material from which such data can be constructed. The panel will not endorse or censure specific statistical software products, but rather will offer general guidelines and broad objectives and evaluation criteria useful to statistical software users and developers, and designed to facilitate and focus further work on the subject.
On February 22, 1991, the panel held a public forum, “The Future of Statistical Software,” so as to gather material for its deliberations from a wide range of statistical scientists from academe, industry, and government. These proceedings have been compiled to document that input. However, the opinions expressed in this volume are those of the speakers or discussants and do not necessarily represent the views of the Panel on Guidelines for Statistical Software or of the National Research Council.
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Richness for the One-Way ANOVA Layout |
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Serendipitous Data and Future Statistical Software |
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An Industry View |
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Guidance for One-Way ANOVA |
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Incorporating Statistical Expertise into Data Analysis Software |
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