The Future of Statistical Software Proceedings of a Forum (1991) / Chapter Skim
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To comment on the presentations starting from this morning, Paul Velleman made a statement to the effect that good statistical software drives bad statistical software out of the marketplace. ~ happen to not believe that.
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Nevertheless, standards are important, not so much in their being enforced, but in their providing targets or levels of expectation of what is to be met. I hope this panel's future report will influence statistical research in positive ways, in addition to having positive effects on software development, and thereby affect the software infrastructure that is more and more enveloping our lives at every turn.
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That is an educational problem that we as academics need to address in the way statistics is taught, and so this relates to methodological weaknesses in statistical training. The numbers that come out of a statistical package are not the solution; numbers are the problem.
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