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A personal view of GLIM development is described. It is proposed that GLIM should be substantially developed by the expansion of its range of standard error distributions, which should include general mixture distributions fitted by nonparametric maximum likelihood, by the enhancement of the programming language to include matrix and array operations and eigenvalue-eigenvector decompositions, and by the enhancement of its present graphics facilities. These developments could be funded initially by research grant support from appropriate bodies; other sources of development capital should be actively explored. During this period an appropriate organisation should be established to market and support GLIM and to continue its development; this would require generation of income by a change from outright sale to annual leasing of GLIM. International sales could be decentralised by the appointment of national distributors with responsibility for local courses, supported by a proportion of income from national sales.
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Aitkin, M. (1985). GLIM4 — Directions for Development. In: Gilchrist, R., Francis, B., Whittaker, J. (eds) Generalized Linear Models. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 32. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7070-7_2
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