Accuracy of R and other platforms

Karl Ove Hufthammer · 2009-03-22T15:58:23Z

Alejandro C. Frery: > @ARTICLE{AlmironSilvaMM:2009, > author = {Almiron, M. and Almeida, E. S. and Miranda, M.}, > title = {The Reliability of Statistical Functions in Four Software > Packages Freely used in Numerical Computation}, > journal = {Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics}, > year = {in press}, > volume = {Special Issue on Statistical Image and Signal Processing}, > url = {http://www.imstat.org/bjps/}} > > is freely available under the "Future Papers" link. It makes a nice

Karl Ove Hufthammer

Sun, Mar 22, 2009 8:58 AM

Alejandro C. Frery:

Thanks for posting this. I?m happy to see that the results for R were 
generally excellent, and almost always better than for the three other 
software packages.

But there were a few cases where R did not turn out to be the winner.
Rather surprising that Ox was better than R for computing the 
autocorrelation coefficient for two of the datasets, given its terrible 
results for the standard deviation. Anybody have any ideas why?

Karl Ove Hufthammer

Accuracy of R and other platforms

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