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APL as a Statistical Specification Language

In: Computing Science and Statistics

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  • Norman Thomson

    (IBM UK Laboratories Ltd.)

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APL is a language which has had a dedicated following for many years among some sections of the academic and industrial statistical communities. Its greatest strength in this area is its value as a specification language — not only can algorithms be described consistently and umambiguously, but also, given an appropriate interpreter, the specifications can be immediately executed. Recognising this, a group of academic and industrial statisticians in the United Kingdom with the support of the British APL Association, has embarked on a project called ASL (APL Statistics Library) which aims to provide an assembly of coherent APL functions for widely used statistical calculations, thereby creating standards for the unambiguous expression of statistical algorithms. A natural consequence of this is that discussions of more complex algorithms and methods can take place without the need to revisit and redefine basic functions and the ways in which they interpret data.

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  • Norman Thomson, 1992. "APL as a Statistical Specification Language," Springer Books, in: Connie Page & Raoul LePage (ed.), Computing Science and Statistics, pages 186-189, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4612-2856-1_24
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2856-1_24
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