accuracy: Tools for Accurate and Reliable Statistical Computing

accuracy: Tools for Accurate and Reliable Statistical Computing

Most empirical social scientists are surprised that low-level numerical issues in software can have deleterious effects on the estimation process. Statistical analyses that appear to be perfectly successful can be invalidated by concealed numerical problems. We have developed a set of tools, contain...

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Main Authors: Micah Altman, Jeff Gill, Michael P. McDonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2007-06-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
sensitivity analysis
statistical computation
numerical accuracy
generalized inverse
generalized Cholesky
Starr test
global optimization
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v21/a01/paper

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