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
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
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
behavior of statistics.
and so on.
Joe
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Subject: Re: [R] [friday topic]: what exactly is statistical
Bos, Roger writes:
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
I think [friday topic] means fun discussion.
I agree with your main comment Roger; I often think about the power of
straight-up languages like
