Back to the Future: Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing S...

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Thu, 12/17/2009 - 09:01

Back to the Future: Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System by Ross Ihaka and Duncan Temple Lang

This paper was previously discussed on comp.lang.lisp, but apparently not covered on LtU before.

The application of cutting-edge statistical methodology is limited by the capabilities of the systems in which it is implemented.

In particular, the limitations of R mean that applications developed there do not scale to the larger problems of interest in practice.

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