This is indeed a "Friday" topic. I think I understand the difficulty that Wensui has. I teach two classes, each with the phrase "statistical computing" in the title, and yet they cover completely different topics.
-roger Wensui Liu wrote: > Thanks for your insight, Roger. > > Actually, my question is not related to R only. > > statistical computing is a popular topic recently. However, when I > check its meaning on wikipedia/google, I couldn't find it. > > another reason why I asked is related to myself. I am very interested > in this area and maintaining a blog in this topic. however, when asked > what 'statistical computing' is, I am not able to give a > well-verbalized answer. > > > On 3/2/07, Bos, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This means it comes with substantial statistical routines built-in. You >> could just as well use VBA or Java for your programming language, but >> with those you would have to write pretty much any stat routine you >> need. With R, since it is a 'statistical computing' language, you know >> that most of what you need has already been programmed, tested(?), and >> is ready to use. >> >> I have seen you on this list for a while. You already know all this. I >> am not sure why you are asking this question. >> >> Roger >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wensui Liu >> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:43 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [R] [friday topic]: what exactly is statistical computing >> >> Dear List, >> on www.r-project.org, the title says 'The R Project for Statistical >> Computing'. >> >> but what exactly is the definition of statistical computing? >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> ********************************************************************** * >> This message is for the named person's use only. It may >> contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged >> information. No right to confidential or privileged treatment >> of this message is waived or lost by any error in >> transmission. If you have received this message in error, >> please immediately notify the sender by e-mail, >> delete the message and all copies from your system and destroy >> any hard copies. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, >> disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message >> if you are not the intended recipient. >> ********************************************************************** >> > > -- Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
