LISP-STAT: An Object-Oriented Environment for Statistical Computing and Dynamic Graphics

by Luke Tierney

Written for the professional statistician or graduate statistics student, the primary objective of this book is to describe a system, based on the LISP language, for statistical computing and dynamic graphics to show how it can be used as an effective platform for a wide range of statistical computing tasks ranging from basic calculations to customizing dynamic graphs. In addition, it introduces object-oriented programming and graphics programming in a statistical context. The discussion of these ideas is based on the Lisp-Stat system; readers with access to such a system can reproduce the examples presented and use them as a basis for further experimentation and study.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published October 23, 1990

Reviews

[Conlon Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book was inspiring. One could create a useful statistical software system and write a book about it. I had done that with DellnStat, but Luk's work was unencumbered by being a workbook associated with a text.

Lisp was an oddity in the computing world. Based on a computer science principle and extrapolated to a full language. Then Lisp-stat was placed on top of that.

Lisp-stat never made it into my toolboxx, but its existence planted a deep seed of possibility.