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A statistical programming language SURVO 66

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SURVO 66 is a statistical job description system. The data processing requirements of a statistical research plan are expressed in the SURVO 66 language. A compiler for the Elliott 803 and 503 computers has been constructed to translate the SURVO instructions to a form suitable for machine execution. The system generalizes the concept of the customary integrated statistical program library. It has been proved to extend considerably the range of elementary statistical jobs which can be processed economically by an electronic digital computer.

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  1. Department of statistics computer science department, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    T. Alanko, S. Mustonen & M. Tienari

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Alanko, T., Mustonen, S. & Tienari, M. A statistical programming language SURVO 66. BIT 8, 69–85 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01939330

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