RSS Matters

What's New in Spring '02?

By Dr. Rich Herrington, Research and Statistical Support Consultant
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Software Release Announcement: S-Plus 6.0 for Windows

In a previous Benchmarks Online article, we reviewed the results of beta testing for the as yet unreleased version of S-Plus. This release of S-Plus marks the convergence of the version numbering for both Windows and UNIX platforms, S-Plus version 6.0. The University of North Texas's licensing agreement with Insightful Corp. allows distribution of our S-Plus licenses through the UNT bookstore (trade books).  A one year license of S-Plus 6.0 can be purchased for $25 accompanied by a signed licensing agreement form available through the bookstore for all UNT staff, students, and faculty. Additionally, S-Plus 6.0 is available on SOL (UNT's research UNIX machine) and is also installed on the ACS computer lab (located in the Information Sciences Building - ISB 110); labs in the College of Arts and Sciences: the GAB computer lab and the Wooten Hall computer lab. An Open Source freeware alternative to S-Plus is "R". R, sometimes called `GNU S', is a freely available language and environment for statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modeling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc. Please consult the R project homepage for further information.

A Sampling of Internet Resources Available to S-Plus Users

• Notes on S-PLUS: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics

• StatLib---Software and extensions for the S (Splus) language

• Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third Edition

• Hmisc and Design Libraries:  S-Plus Functions and Documentation

• Trellis Displays

• Online Electronic Book - "S Poetry"

• S-news listserve and archive

• A Comparison of SAS and S

• The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)

• Online Course on Scientific and Statistical Graphics

• Matt's S-Plus Compiler

• Epitools - Epidemiology Tools 

• UNT Terra Server "R" interface

• Software for Multiple Imputation

• Rweb

• Introduction to Rweb

Books Available on S-Plus

• The New S Language
  Richard A. Becker, John M. Chambers, and Allan R. Wilks
  Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA (1988)
  
• Programming with Data
  John M. Chambers
  Springer-Verlag, New York, NY (1998)
  ISBN 0-387-98503-4
  
• The Basics of S and S-PLUS (second edition)
  Andreas Krause and Melvin Olson
  Springer-Verlag, New York (2000)
  ISBN 0-387-98961-7
  
• An Introduction to S and S-PLUS
  P. Spector
  Duxbury Press, Belmont, CA (1994)
  ISBN 0-534-19866-X
  
• S Programming
  W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley
  Springer, New York (2000)
  ISBN 0-387-98966-8
  
• Understanding Statistical Concepts Using S-PLUS
  Randall E. Schumaker, Ph.D.
  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey (2001)
  ISBN 0-8058-3623-3
  
• An introduction to S-PLUS and the Hmisc and Design libraries
  C.F. Alzola and F.E. Harrell
  Freely available document
  
• Applied Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  Steven P. Millard & Andreas Krause
  Springer (2001)
  ISBN 0-387-98814-9
  
• Robust Diagnostic Regression Analysis
  Anthony Atkinson and Marco Riani
  Springer (2000)
  ISBN 0-387-95017-6
  
• Applied Smoothing Techniques for Data Analysis:The Kernel Approach with S-PLUS Illustrations
  Bowman & Azzalini
  Claredon Press (1997)
  ISBN 0-19-852396-3
  
• Applied Wavelet Analysis with S-PLUS
  Andrew Bruce and Hong-Ye Gao
  Springer-Verlag, New York, NY (1996)
  ISBN 0-387-94714-0
  
• S Poetry
  P Burns
  Freely available document.
  
• Statistical Models in S
  John Chambers and Trevor Hastie
  Chapman and Hall (1992)
  ISBN 0-412-05291-1 (hb)
  ISBN 0-412-05301-2 (pb)
  
• Bootstrap Methods and Their Application
  A.C. Davison and D.V. Hinkley
  Cambridge University Press (1997)
  ISBN 0-521-57391-2
  
• An Introduction to the Bootstrap
  Bradley Efron and Robert Tibshirani
  Chapman and Hall (1994)
  ISBN 0-412-04231-2
  
• A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using S-PLUS
  B. Everitt
  Chapman and Hall, London (1994)
  ISBN 0-412-56310-X
  
• Analyzing Medical Data Using S-PLUS (Statistics for Biology and Health)
  B. Everitt and S. Rabe-Hesketh
  Springer-Verlag (2001)
  ISBN 0-387-98862-9
  
• Smoothing Techniques with Implementation in S
  W. Haerdle
  Springer-Verlag, New York (1991)
  ISBN 0-387-97367-2
  
• Generalized Additive Models
  T. Hastie and R. Tibshirani
  Chapman and Hall (1990)
  
• Regression Modeling Strategies with Applications to Linear Models, Logistic Regression, and Survival Analysis
  F.E. Harrell
  Springer (2001)
  
• Statistical Tools for Nonlinear Regression: A Practical Guide with S-PLUS Examples
  S. Huet, A. Bouvier, M.-A. Gruet, and E. Joliet
  Springer-Verlag, New York, NY (1996)
  ISBN 0-387-94727-2
  
• S+SpatialStats User's Manual
  S.P. Kaluzny, S.C. Vega, T.P. Cardoso, and A.A. Shelly
  Springer-Verlag, New York, NY (1997)
  
• An Introduction to S-PLUS for Windows
  L. Lam
  Candiensten, Amsterdam (2001)
  ISBN 90-804652-2-4
  
• Algorithms, Routines and S Functions for Robust Statistics
  A. Marazzi
  Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA (1993)
  
• Statistical Methods for Reliability Data
  W. Meeker and L. Escobar
  John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1998)
  ISBN 0-471-14328-6
  
• Applied Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry with case studies using S-PLUS
  Steven Millard and Andreas Krause (eds)
  Springer-Verlag New York (2001)
  ISBN 0-397-98814-9
  
• Environmental Statistics in S-PLUS
  Steven P Millard and Naharaj K Neerchal
  CRC Press (2000)
  ISBN 0-849-37168-6
  
• StatConcepts: A visual tour of statistical ideas
  H.J. Newton and J.L.Harvill
  Duxbury Press (1997)
  ISBN 0-534-26552-9
  
• Stat Labs: Mathematical Statistics through Applications
  D. Nolan & T.P. Speed
  Springer (2000)
  ISBN 0-387-98974-0
  
• Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS
  J.C Pinheiro and D.M. Bates
  Springer, New York, NY (2000)
  ISBN 0-387-98957-9
  
• Understanding Statistical Concepts Using S-PLUS
  R. E. Schumacker and A. Akers
  Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc (2001)
  ISBN 0805836233
  
• Modern Applied Biostatistical Methods Using S-PLUS
  S. Selvin
  Oxford University Press (1998)
  ISBN 0-19-512025-6
  
• Modeling Survival Data
  Terry M Therneau and Patricia M Grambsch
  Springer, New York, NY (2000)
  ISBN 0-387-98784-3
  
• Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS, Third Edition
  William N. Venables and Brian D. Ripley
  Springer, New York, NY (1999)
  ISBN 0-387-98825-4
  
• Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
  R. Wilcox
  Academic Press (1997)
  ISBN 0-12-751545-3
  
• Graphical Methods for Data Analysis
  J.M. Chambers, W.S. Cleveland, B. Kleiner, and P.A. Tukey
  Duxbury Press, Belmont, CA (1983)
  
• Visualizing Data
  William S. Cleveland
  Hobart Press, Summit, NJ (1993)
  ISBN 0-9634884-0-6
  
• The Elements of Graphing Data
  William S. Cleveland
  Hobart Press, Summit, NJ (1994)

Eviews license expanded

We have expanded the Eviews license to unlimited use on campus. Currently, the Econometric/Time Series forecasting software is installed on our ACSLab server GAUSS, which distributes RSS software for campus-wide use. The software is also available at the CAS labs such as Wooten Hall 120. If you are interested in using Eviews for your class, please contact your network manager and our ACS Student Computing Services Manager Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner.