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No, it is not about static typing or the general use of typed data structures for describing statistical software. Statistical software has been among some of t

by mlthoughts2018 8y ago

No, it is not about static typing or the general use of typed data structures for describing statistical software. Statistical software has been among some of the best software around for a long time. In fact, I frequently revisit aspects of the C++ implementation of STAN and the interface design of pymc as inspiration for effective software design in other domains. The idea that statistics is a field with poor software tools is just plain crazy.

Ericson2314 8y ago
> Stan interfaces with the most popular data analysis languages (R, Python, shell, MATLAB, Julia, Stata) and runs on all major platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows). None of those languages have good type systems. And like I said, this is about modelling more generally than just statistics.