XLispStat is a statistical scientific package based on the
XLISP
XLISP is a family of Lisp (programming language), Lisp implementations written by David Betz and first released in 1983.
The first version was a Lisp with object-oriented programming, object-oriented extensions for computers with limited power. Th ...
language.
Many free statistical software lik
ARC(nonlinear curve fitting problems) and
ViSta
Vista usually refers to a distant view.
Vista may also refer to:
Software
*Windows Vista, the line of Microsoft Windows client operating systems released in 2006 and 2007
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are based on this package.
It includes a variety of statistical functions and methods, including routines for nonlinear curve fit. Many add-on packages have been developed to extend XLispStat, including
contingency table
In statistics, a contingency table (also known as a cross tabulation or crosstab) is a type of table in a matrix format that displays the (multivariate) frequency distribution of the variables. They are heavily used in survey research, business i ...
s
and regression analysis
XLispStat has seen usage in many fields, including astronomy,
GIS,
speech acoustics,
econometrics,
and epidemiology.
XLispStat was historically influential in the field of statistical visualization.
Its author,
Luke Tierney, wrote a 1990 book on it.
XLispStat dates to the late 1980s/early 1990s and probably saw its greatest popularity in the early-to-mid 1990s with greatly declining usage since. In the 1990s it was in very widespread use in statistical education, but has since been mostly replaced by
R. There is a paper explaining why UCLA's Department of Statistics abandoned it in 1998, and their reasons for doing so likely hold true for many other of its former users.
Source code to XLispStat is available under a permissive license (similar terms to
BSD
The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berk ...
)
[File "COPYING" in archive at ftp://ftp.stat.umn.edu/pub/xlispstat/current/xlispstat-3-52-20.tar.gz]
See also
*
R (programming language)
R is a programming language for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Core Team and the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Created by statisticians Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, R is used among data miners, bioinform ...
References
External links
Lisp-Stat and XLisp-Stat documentation(historical)
XLispStat archive and related resources
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