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Abstract #300257

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Activity Number:	284
Type:	Invited
Date/Time:	Wednesday, August 11, 2004 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor:	Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract - #300257
Title:	Some Issues in the Design of Statistical Languages
Author(s):	Luke Tierney*+
Companies:	University of Iowa
Address:	Statistics and Actuarial Science, Iowa City, IA, 52242,
Keywords:	statistical languages
Abstract:	Languages for statistical computing are now a mainstay of data analysis, statistical practice, and statistical research. Many of the languages in current use were designed to facilitate carrying out relatively simple analyses on, by current standards, relatively small sets of data. These languages are now being challenged by the need for increasingly computationally intensive methods and to deal with larger and more complex forms of data and meta data. This talk will discuss some of the ways in which choices of language design can help current and future languages for statistical computing to meet these challenges.

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