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GrAPL: a high-level statistical graphics language prototype

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Alan D. Mayer,

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ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, Volume 30, Issue 4

Pages 155 - 162

https://doi.org/10.1145/570440.570496

Published: 01 June 2000 Publication History

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The work of statisticians and data analysts requires the fitting of a wide range of statistical models that attempt to explore relationships between variables. Before doing these computations, it is routine to produce exploratory graphs in order to discover these relationships. After model fitting again graphical tools are required in order to explore how satisfactory the model fitting process has been. It is therefore really important for the statistician to be able to produce a wide range of graphs easily and quickly.GrAPL is a prototype language for this purpose; it uses Adrian Smith's RainPro as a graphics engine and attempts to incorporate some of the latest statistical graphical tools that are available in modern statistical packages within a coherent graphical language. APL is used as a `tool of thought' to encourage experimentation within a short development period.

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GrAPL: a high-level statistical graphics language prototype
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction techniques
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Probability and statistics
    1. Statistical paradigms
      1. Statistical graphics

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ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad Volume 30, Issue 4

June 2000

253 pages

ISSN:0163-6006

DOI:10.1145/570440

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APL '00: Proceedings of the international conference on APL-Berlin-2000 conference
July 2000
258 pages
ISBN:1581131828
DOI:10.1145/570475
Conference Chair:
Dieter Lattermann,
Program Chair:
Dieter Kilsch
University of Appl/ed Sciences Bingen, Germany

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 June 2000

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