Corey Powell
2006-Jul-13 18:38 UTC
[R] References verifying accuracy of R for basic statistical calculations and tests
Do you know of any references that verify the accuracy of R for basic statistical calculations and tests. The results of these studies should indicate that R results are the same as the results of other statistical packages to a certain number of decimal places on some benchmark calculations. Thanks, Corey Powell Clinical Data Analyst Broncus Technologies cpowell@broncus.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Clint Bowman
2006-Jul-13 18:47 UTC
[R] References verifying accuracy of R for basic statistical calculations and tests
Actually, you may not want R to agree so precisely with some of the packages since some well-known packages have some not-so-well-known inaccuracies. Clint Bowman INTERNET: clint at ecy.wa.gov Air Dispersion Modeler INTERNET: clint at math.utah.edu Air Quality Program VOICE: (360) 407-6815 Department of Ecology FAX: (360) 407-7534 USPS: PO Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600 Parcels: 300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503-1274 On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Corey Powell wrote:> Do you know of any references that verify the accuracy of R for basic statistical calculations and tests. The results of these studies should indicate that R results are the same as the results of other statistical packages to a certain number of decimal places on some benchmark calculations. > > Thanks, > > Corey Powell > Clinical Data Analyst > Broncus Technologies > cpowell at broncus.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >
Tony Plate
2006-Jul-14 00:27 UTC
[R] References verifying accuracy of R for basic statistical calculations and tests
This might be a place to start:
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html
Among the references listed there are:
Assessing the Reliability of Statistical Software: Part I by B. D.
McCullough (1998)
http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/mccull-1.pdf
Assessing the Reliability of Statistical Software: Part II by B. D.
McCullough (1999)
http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/mccull.pdf
Those might have some relevance
Then, doing within an R session:
> RSiteSearch("Assessing Reliability Statistical Software")
turns up 14 hits, many of them looking relevant
[leaving "the" and "of" in the query results in the search
engine timing
out - odd?]
-- Tony Plate
Corey Powell wrote:> Do you know of any references that verify the accuracy of R for basic
statistical calculations and tests. The results of these studies should
indicate that R results are the same as the results of other statistical
packages to a certain number of decimal places on some benchmark calculations.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Corey Powell
> Clinical Data Analyst
> Broncus Technologies
> cpowell at broncus.com
>
> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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