Random number generators: good ones are hard to find
Communications of the ACM
Assessing the accuracy of ANOVA calculations in statistical software
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Numerical recipes in C (2nd ed.): the art of scientific computing
Numerical recipes in C (2nd ed.): the art of scientific computing
On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 97
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
On the accuracy of statistical procedures in microsoft Excel 2000 and Excel XP
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Editorial: Special Issue on Statistical Algorithms and Software
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Robust Principal Components for Hyperspectral Data Analysis
ICIAR '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
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This work presents the results of assessing the accuracy of statistical routines as implemented in the IDL platform, versions 5.6 and 6.0 for Windows XP and Linux. This is ''a complete computing environment for the interactive analysis and visualization of data. IDL integrates a powerful, array-oriented language with numerous mathematical analysis and graphical display techniques (Research Systems Inc., IDL Versions 5.6 for Microsoft Windows, 2003 and 6.0.1 for Linux x86 m32, 2004. URL http://www.rsinc.com)''. It is shown that, though it is an excellent platform for signal and image processing and analysis, it has flaws when statistical computing is concerned, mainly when dealing with non-linear regression by least squares fitting and, in particular, when computing in single precision floating point.