Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics articles from September 2000

Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics archives from September 2000

Introduction: special issue on systems and languages.
September 1, 2000... Dedicated to the memory of the late John W. Tukey, one of the founders of computational and graphical statistics. Published research in the field of statistics is skewed to mathematics and methodology, because this is where a large body of...

Users, programmers, and statistical software.
September 1, 2000... Statistical software provides essential support for statisticians and others who are analyzing data or doing research on new statistical techniques. Those supported typically regard themselves as "users" of the software, but as soon as they...

The Omegahat environment: new possibilities for statistical computing.
September 1, 2000... Statistical environments such as S, R, Xlisp-Stat, and others have had a dramatic effect on the way we, statistics practitioners, think about data and statistical methodology. However, the possibilities and challenges introduced by recent...

Java and Dylan.(programming languages used for statistical computing)
September 1, 2000... This article compares two new computer languages, Dylan and Java. The comparison is based on their relative merits in terms of statistical computing. Key Words: Computing environments; Software; Statistical computing. 1. INTRODUCTION...

Connecting Lisp-Stat to COM.
September 1, 2000... This article describes an interface between Lisp-Stat and Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM). This interface can be used, for example, to retrieve data stored in a spreadsheet or a database. After providing some brief background on...

Linking ArcView[TM] and XGobi: insight behind the front end.
September 1, 2000... This article presents aspects of the implementation of a bidirectional link between the Geographic Information System (GIS) ArcView[TM] and the interactive dynamic statistical graphics program XGobi. We describe the main functionality of the...

Lexical scope and statistical computing.
September 1, 2000... Programming environments such as S and Lisp-Stat have languages for performing computations, data storage mechanisms, and a graphical interface. These languages provide an interactive interface to data analysis that is invaluable. To take full...

Orca: a visualization toolkit for high-dimensional data.
September 1, 2000... This article describes constructing interactive and dynamic linked data views using the Java programming language. The data views are designed for data that have a multivariate component. The approach to displaying data comes from earlier...

The language of graphics.(Graphics Production Library)
September 1, 2000... We describe a system, called the Graphics Production Library (GPL), that implements a language for quantitative graphics. The structure of this system differs from existing statistical graphics, visualization, and mapping systems. Instead of...

Natural selection: interactive subset creation.(visualization)
September 1, 2000... Visualization is a critical technology for understanding complex, data-rich systems. Effective visualizations make important features of the data immediately recognizable and enable the user to discover interesting and useful results by...

Graphical selection of data views.
September 1, 2000... Graphical selection of data views is a fundamental task in interactive statistical graphics. Linked plots provide a form of indirect selection, where direct manipulation of objects displayed in one plot indirectly selects objects in other...

An approach to providing mathematical annotation in plots.
September 1, 2000... A simple method for providing mathematical annotation of plots produced with the R environment is described. Although the implementation is specific to R, a similar method could be used in any environment which uses an expression-based command...

Languages for statistics and data analysis.(command languages)
September 1, 2000... Languages for data analysis and statistics must be able to cover the entire spectrum from improvisation and fast prototyping to the implementation of streamlined, specialized systems for routine analyses. Such languages must not only be...