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We identify some of the requirements for document integration of software components in statistical computing, and try to give a general idea how to cope with them in an implementation.
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This paper was written during a visit to Sonderforschungsbereich 373 (“Qualifikation und Simulation ökonomischer Prozesse” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Thanks to W. Härdle and the members of his group for hospitality and discussions. Special thanks to W. Härdle for granting access to his personal Oberon variant. Presented at SFB 373, Berlin, Sep. 14th, 1999. Part of this material was presented at the 52th Session of the, ISI Helsinki 99.
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Sawitzki, G. Keeping Statistics Alive in Documents. Computational Statistics 17, 65–88 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001800200091
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