Xplore

This book describes an interactive statistical computing environment called 1 XploRe. 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; This book describes the statistical computing environment called XploRe which is a widely available package (details on how to obtain it are provided in the book). As its name suggests, XploRe provides a highly interactive graphics interface for exploratory statistical analysis and provides for user-written macros and smoothing procedures for effective high-dimensional data analysis. The main aim of the book is to show how XploRe can be used for a wide variety of statistical tasks ranging from basic data manipulation to interactive customizing of graphs and dynamic fitting of high-dimensional statistical models. As a result, it may be used as the basis of a course in model building, computational statistics, applied multivariate analysis, and econometrics.