XLispStat

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XLispStat is a statistical scientific package based on the XLISP language.

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XLispStat
Developer(s)Luke Tierney
Stable release
3.52.23 / March 2, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-03-02)
Written inC, Lisp
Operating systemUNIX/X11, Win16, Win32, MS-DOS,[1] Classic MacOS, AmigaOS[2]
LicenseBSD-like open source license
Websitehomepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~luke/xls/xlsinfo/
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Many free statistical software like ARC (nonlinear curve fitting problems) and ViSta are based on this package.[citation needed]

It includes a variety of statistical functions and methods, including routines for nonlinear curve fit.[citation needed] Many add-on packages have been developed to extend XLispStat, including contingency tables[3] and regression analysis[4]

XLispStat has seen usage in many fields, including astronomy,[5] GIS,[6] speech acoustics,[7] econometrics,[8] and epidemiology.[9]

XLispStat was historically influential in the field of statistical visualization.[10]

Its author, Luke Tierney, wrote a 1990 book on it.[11]

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,[12] 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)[13]

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