[R] [friday topic]: what exactly is statistical computing

[Roger D. Peng]

This is indeed a "Friday" topic.  I think I understand the difficulty that 
Wensui has.  I teach two classes, each with the phrase "statistical computing" 
in the title, and yet they cover completely different topics.

-roger

Wensui Liu wrote:
> Thanks for your insight, Roger.
> 
> Actually, my question is not related to R only.
> 
> statistical computing is a popular topic recently. However, when I
> check its meaning on wikipedia/google, I couldn't find it.
> 
> another reason why I asked is related to myself. I am very interested
> in this area and maintaining a blog in this topic. however, when asked
> what 'statistical computing' is, I am not able to give a
> well-verbalized answer.
> 
> 
> On 3/2/07, Bos, Roger <roger.bos at us.rothschild.com> wrote:
>> This means it comes with substantial statistical routines built-in.  You
>> could just as well use VBA or Java for your programming language, but
>> with those you would have to write pretty much any stat routine you
>> need.  With R, since it is a 'statistical computing' language, you know
>> that most of what you need has already been programmed, tested(?), and
>> is ready to use.
>>
>> I have seen you on this list for a while.  You already know all this.  I
>> am not sure why you are asking this question.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Wensui Liu
>> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:43 AM
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [R] [friday topic]: what exactly is statistical computing
>>
>> Dear List,
>> on www.r-project.org, the title says 'The R Project for Statistical
>> Computing'.
>>
>> but what exactly is the definition of statistical computing?
>>
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