This book describes an interactive statistical computing environment called 1 XploRe. As the name suggests, support for exploratory statistical analysis is given by a variety of computational tools. XploRe is a matrix-oriented statistical language with a comprehensive set of basic statistical operations that provides highly interactive graphics, as well as a programming environ­ ment for user-written macros; it offers hard-wired smoothing procedures for effective high-dimensional data analysis. Its highly dynamic graphic capa­ bilities make it possible to construct student-level front ends for teaching basic elements of statistics. Hot keys make it an easy-to-use computing environment for statistical analysis. The primary objective of this book is to show how the XploRe system can be used as an effective computing environment for a large number of statistical tasks. The computing tasks we consider range from basic data matrix manipulations to interactive customizing of graphs and dynamic fit­ ting of high-dimensional statistical models. The XploRe language is similar to other statistical languages and offers an interactive help system that can be extended to user-written algorithms. The language is intuitive and read­ ers with access to other systems can, without major difficulty, reproduce the examples presented here and use them as a basis for further investigation.

Boxplot
Fitting
Generalized linear model
Projection Pursuit
Time series
best fit
cluster analysis
data analysis

• Front Matter
• A Beginner’s Course
  Front Matter
• Un Amuse-Gueule
• An XploRe Tutorial
• The Integrated Working Environment
• XploRe in Use
  Front Matter
• Graphical Aids for Statistical Data Analysis
• Density and Regression Smoothing
• Bandwidth Selection in Density Estimation
• Interactive Graphics for Teaching Simple Statistics
• XClust: Clustering in an Interactive Way
• Exploratory Projection Pursuit
• Generalized Linear Models
• Additive Modeling
• Comparing Parametric and Semiparametric Binary Response Models
• Approximative Methods for Regression Models with Errors in the Covariates
• Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
• Un Digestif
• Back Matter

Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Wolfgang Härdle, Sigbert Klinke

CORE and Institut de Statistique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Sigbert Klinke, Berwin A. Turlach

Statistics, Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Berwin A. Turlach

Book Title
XploRe: An Interactive Statistical Computing Environment

Authors
Wolfgang Härdle, Sigbert Klinke, Berwin A. Turlach

Series Title
Statistics and Computing

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4214-7

Hardcover ISBN
978-0-387-94429-6
Published: 30 March 1995

Softcover ISBN
978-1-4612-8699-8
Published: 15 November 2011

eBook ISBN
978-1-4612-4214-7
Published: 06 December 2012

Series ISSN
1431-8784

Series E-ISSN
2197-1706

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XXXII, 387

Topics
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes