XLISP-STAT

A Statistical Environment Based on

the XLISP Language

(Version 2.0)

by

Luke Tierney

University of Minnesota

School of Statistics

Technical Report Number 528

July 1989

• Contents
• Preface
  • Using this Tutorial
  • Why XLISP-STAT Exists
  • Availability
  • Disclaimer
• Starting and Finishing
• Introduction to Basics
  • Data
  • The Listener and the Evaluator
  • Exercises
• Elementary Statistical Operations
  • First Steps
  • Exercises
  • Summary Statistics and Plots
  • Exercises
  • Two Dimensional Plots
  • Exercises
  • Plotting Functions
• More on Generating and Modifying Data
  • Generating Random Data
  • Generating Systematic Data
  • Forming Subsets and Deleting Cases
  • Combining Several Lists
  • Modifying Data
• Some Useful Shortcuts
  • Getting Help
  • Listing and Undefining Variables
  • More on the XLISP-STAT Listener
  • Loading Files
  • Saving Your Work
  • The XLISP-STAT Editor
  • Reading Data Files
  • User Initialization File
• More Elaborate Plots
  • Spinning Plots
  • Exercises
  • Scatterplot Matrices
  • Exercises
  • Interacting with Individual Plots
  • Linked Plots
  • Exercise
  • Modifying a Scatter Plot
  • Dynamic Simulations
• Regression
  • Exercises
• Defining Your Own Functions and Methods
  • Defining Functions
  • Anonymous Functions
  • Some Dynamic Simulations
  • Defining Methods
  • Plot Methods
• Matrices and Arrays
• Nonlinear Regression
  • Exercises
• One Way ANOVA
• Maximization and Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Exercises
• Approximate Bayesian Computations
  • Exercises
• References
• XLISP-STAT on UNIX Systems
  • XLISP-STAT Under the X11 Window System
    • More Advanced X11 Features
  • XLISP-STAT Under the SunView Window System
  • Running UNIX Commands from XLISP-STAT
  • Dynamic Loading and Foreign Function Calling
• Graphical Interface Tools
  • Menus
  • Dialogs
    • Modal Dialogs
    • Modeless Dialogs
• Selected Listing of XLISP-STAT Functions
  • Arithmetic and Logical Functions
  • Constructing and Modifying Compound Data and Variables
  • Basic Statistical Functions
  • Plotting Functions
  • Object Methods
    • Regression Methods
    • General Plot Methods
    • Histogram Methods
    • Name List Methods
    • Scatterplot Methods
    • Spin Plot Methods
  • Some Useful Array and Linear Algebra Functions
  • System Functions
  • Some Basic Lisp Functions, Macros and Special Forms
• Index
• About this document ...