Bringing New Opportunities to Develop Statistical Software and Data Analysis Tools in Romania

Caragea, Nicoleta and Alexandru, Ciprian Antoniade and Dobre, Ana Maria (2012): Bringing New Opportunities to Develop Statistical Software and Data Analysis Tools in Romania. Published in: The Proceedings of the VIth International Conference on Globalization and Higher Education in Economics and Business Administration

Abstract

In the last decade, open source programming technology is widely used among statisticians for developing a new statistical software and data analysis. This is R software environment and the main objective of this paper is to underline the importance of R for statistical computations, data analysis, visualization and applications in various fields. Regarding to this, the paper is primarily intended for people already familiar with common statistical concepts. Thus the statistical methods used to illustrate the R performance are not explained in detail. The main intention is to offer an overview to get started, to motivate beginners by illustrating the flexibility of R, and to show how simply it enables the user to carry out statistical computations.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: R packages, programming language, statistics, data analysis, regression models, data visualization
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General > C10 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology ; Computer Programs > C87 - Econometric Software

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