Download or read book LISP-STAT written by Luke Tierney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.