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Modern statistical data analysis often requires powerful computers. Parallel computing is a technique to realize such a computer system. Although many “low-level” software technologies for parallel computing have been developed, they are not easy to use for statisticians who are accustomed to “high-level” statistical languages. In this paper, we describe high-level parallel computing functions in a statistical analysis system called Jasp. We implemented them mainly considering ease of use.
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Yamamoto, Y., Nakano, J. & Fujiwara, T. Parallel computing in the statistical system Jasp. Comput Stat 25, 291–298 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-009-0176-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-009-0176-6