Assessing the reliability of web-based statistical software

DOI10.1007/S001800300134MaRDI QIDQ1424635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. M. Kitchen, R. Drachenberg, Jürgen Symanzik

Publication date 16 March 2004

Published in Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s001800300134

zbMATH Keywords

accuracyprecisionStatletsWebStat

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics (62-04) Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08)

Review text

Performance of freely distributed web-based software packages WebStat and Statlets is compared with performance of SAS, SPSS, SPlus and Microsoft Excel. The base\,10\,log relative error (LRE) is evaluated for these packages on datasets from the Statistical References Datasets Project of American NIST. Algorithms of descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and linear regression are compared. The authors' conclusion is that WebStat is more reliable then Statlets; they both overperforms Microsoft Excel 97 but are less reliable than S-Plus.

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Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• S-PLUS
• SAS
• Excel
• LIMDEP
• Mathematica
• SPSS
• WebStat

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