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The computer is a tool for a variety of applications. The statistical applications include storage, manipulation, and presentation of data. The data may be numbers, text, or images. For each type of data, there are several ways of coding that can be used to store the data, and specific ways the data may be manipulated.
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Gentle, J.E. (1998). Computer Storage and Manipulation of Data. In: Numerical Linear Algebra for Applications in Statistics. Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0623-1_1
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