title: Testing Numerical Reliability of Data Analysis Systems
creator: Sawitzki, Günther
subject: 510
subject: 510 Mathematics
description: From 1990 to 1993, a series of tests on numerical reliability ofdata analysis systems has been carried out. The tests are based onL.Wilkinson's "Statistics Quiz". Systems under test included BMDP, Data Desk,Excel, GLIM, ISP, SAS, SPSS, S-PLUS,STATGRAPHICS. The results showconsiderable problems even in basic features of well-known systems. For allour test exercises, the computational solutions are well known. The omissionsand failures observed here give some suspicions of what happens in lesswell-understood problem areas of computational statistics. We cannot takeresults of data analysis systems at face value, but have to submit them to alarge amount of informed inspection. Quality awareness still needs improvement.
date: 1994-07
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/21473/1/report.01.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00021473
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-214736
identifier:   Sawitzki, Günther  (1994) Testing Numerical Reliability of Data Analysis Systems.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/21473/
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language: eng