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Statistical packages and systems evaluations are not simple matters. Deterministic evaluations are very important as far as they may provide objective indexes, but are rather difficult to apply. Many attempts to evaluate statistical program products, based on lists of criteria, were performed by statisticians. We propose some attempts to pursue a new integrated design to evaluate statistical software.
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Giusti, A. (1992). Statistical Packages and Systems Evaluation. In: Dodge, Y., Whittaker, J. (eds) Computational Statistics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48678-4_21
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