Härdle / Klinke / Turlach XploRe: An Interactive Statistical Computing Environment

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4612-4214-7
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 387 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Statistics and Computing

This book describes an interactive statistical computing environment called 1 XploRe. As the name suggests, support for exploratory statistical analysis is given by a variety of computational tools. XploRe is a matrix-oriented statistical language with a comprehensive set of basic statistical operations that provides highly interactive graphics, as well as a programming environ ment for user-written macros; it offers hard-wired smoothing procedures for effective high-dimensional data analysis. Its highly dynamic graphic capa bilities make it possible to construct student-level front ends for teaching basic elements of statistics. Hot keys make it an easy-to-use computing environment for statistical analysis. The primary objective of this book is to show how the XploRe system can be used as an effective computing environment for a large number of statistical tasks. The computing tasks we consider range from basic data matrix manipulations to interactive customizing of graphs and dynamic fit ting of high-dimensional statistical models. The XploRe language is similar to other statistical languages and offers an interactive help system that can be extended to user-written algorithms. The language is intuitive and read ers with access to other systems can, without major difficulty, reproduce the examples presented here and use them as a basis for further investigation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Härdle, Wolfgang

Klinke, Sigbert

Turlach, Berwin A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I A Beginner’s Course.- 1 Un Amuse-Gueule.- 2 An XploRe Tutorial.- 3 The Integrated Working Environment.- II XploRe in Use.- 4 Graphical Aids for Statistical Data Analysis.- 5 Density and Regression Smoothing.- 6 Bandwidth Selection in Density Estimation.- 7 Interactive Graphics for Teaching Simple Statistics.- 8 XClust: Clustering in an Interactive Way.- 9 Exploratory Projection Pursuit.- 10 Generalized Linear Models.- 11 Additive Modeling.- 12 Comparing Parametric and Semiparametric Binary Response Models.- 13 Approximative Methods for Regression Models with Errors in Covariates.- 14 Nonlinear Time Series Analysis.- 15 Un Digestif.- A Questions to XploRe.- B Language Reference.- B.1 Operators.- B.2 Flow Control.- B.3 Commands.- References.- Author Index.