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Statistical User Interfaces

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A statistical user interface is an interface between a human user and a statistical software package. Whenever we use a statistical software package we want to solve a specific statistical problem. But very often at first it is necessary to learn specific things about the software package.

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  1. C.A.S.E. - Center for Applied Statistics & Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Sigbert Klinke (Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics)

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  1. Dept. Computational & Data, Sciences, George Mason University, University Drive 4400, Fairfax, 22030-4444, Virginia, USA

    James E. Gentle

  2. L.v.Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics, C.A.S.E. Centre f. Appl. Stat. & Econ., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, 10099, Germany

    Wolfgang Karl Härdle

  3. Dept. Socioinformation, Okayama University, Ridai-cho 1-1, Okayama, 700-0005, Japan

    Yuichi Mori

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Klinke, S. (2012). Statistical User Interfaces. In: Gentle, J., Härdle, W., Mori, Y. (eds) Handbook of Computational Statistics. Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21551-3_14

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