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Language peer sets for BMD:
United States
United States/1961
Designed 1961
1960s languages
Second generation
Early Cold War
Genus Statistical
Specialised Languages
Statistical
Data analysis
Data representation
Statistical/1961
Data analysis/1961
Data representation/1961
Statistical/United States
Data analysis/United States
Data representation/United States
Specialised Languages
Specialised Languages/1961
Specialised Languages/us

BMD(ID:145/bmd001)

Bio-Medical statistical language 

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Country: United States
Designed 1961
Published: 1961
Genus: Statistical
Sammet category: Specialised Languages


for BMD, BioMeDical computer programs, also BMDP for BioMeDical Package.

Statistical language, first implemented in FORTRAN for the IBM 7090.

Dixon et al at Health Science Computation Facility, UCB, 1961.

Bought out by SPSS ni 2002



Hardware:
Related languages
FORTRAN II BMD   Written using
GRAF BMD   Written using
BMD JANUS   Influence
BMD OMNITAB   Influence
BMD S   Influence

References:
  • Cameron J. M. and Hilsenrath J. (1963) Cameron J. M. and Hilsenrath J. "Use of general-purpose coding systems for statistical calculations" in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics (1963). Extract: Context of OMNITAB
          in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
  • Dixon, W J. (1964) Dixon, W J. (Ed.) BMD, Biomedical Computer Programs Univ. Califorma, Los Angeles, Calif. 1964
          in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
  • Tukey, John (1964) Tukey, John "The Technical Tools of Statistics" 125th Anniversary Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Boston, November 1964, also April 1965 American Statistician and
          in Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Sympos (1963) Proceedings of the IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Statistics 1963 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, on October 21, 22 and 23,1963.
  • Dixon, W. J (1967) Dixon, W. J "Use of displays with packaged statistical programs" pp481-484
          in [AFIPS] (1967) [AFIPS] Proceedings of the 1967 Fall Joint Computer Conference FJCC 31
  • Dixon, W. J. (Ed.) (1967) Dixon, W. J. (Ed.) "BMD Biomedical Computer Programs" U. of California Press, 1967
          in [AFIPS] (1967) [AFIPS] Proceedings of the 1967 Fall Joint Computer Conference FJCC 31
  • Dixon, WJ (1969) Dixon, WJ "Graphical Interactive Analysis"
          in R.C. Milton and J A. Nelder (Eds.) (1969) R.C. Milton and J A. Nelder (Eds.) "Statistical Computation" Academic, New York, 1969
  • Smith, Lyle B. (1970) Smith, Lyle B. "A Survey of Interactive Graphical Systems for Mathematics" Extract: BMD
          in [ACM] (1970) [ACM] ACM Computing Surveys 2(4) Dec1970
  • Dixon, W. J. (Ed.) (1971) Dixon, W. J. (Ed.) "BMD Biomedical Computer Programs" U. of California Press, 1971
          in [ACM] (1970) [ACM] ACM Computing Surveys 2(4) Dec1970
  • Schucany, W. R.; Minton, Paul D.; Shannon, Stanley (1972) Schucany, W. R.; Minton, Paul D.; Shannon, Stanley B. "A Survey of Statistical Packages" Extract: BMD
          in [ACM] (1972) [ACM] ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 4(2) June 1972
  • Stamen, Jeffrey P. and Robert M. Wallace (1973) Stamen, Jeffrey P. and Robert M. Wallace "Janus: A data management and analysis system for the behavioral sciences" pp273-282 Extract: INTRODUCTION
          in [ACM] (1972) [ACM] Proceedings of the 1972 Annual Conference of the ACM
  • Slysz, William D. (1974) Slysz, William D. "An evaluation of statistical software in the social sciences" pp326-332
          in [ACM] (1974) [ACM] CACM 17(06) (June 1974)
  • Dixon, W. J., ed.: (1975) Dixon, W. J., ed.: "BMDP: Biomedical Computer Programs" Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1975.
          in [ACM] (1974) [ACM] CACM 17(06) (June 1974)
  • Schneider, Edward J.; Barge, Sylvia and Marks, Gre (1976) Schneider, Edward J.; Barge, Sylvia and Marks, Gregory A. "Graphics for social scientists" pp125-131 Extract: INTRODUCTION
          in [Proceedings] (1976) Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, July 14-16, 1976, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Schneider, Edward J.; Barge, Sylvia; Marks, Gregor (1976) Schneider, Edward J.; Barge, Sylvia; Marks, Gregory A. "Graphics for social scientists" pp125-131
          in (1976) Computer Graphics 10(2) Summer July 1976
  • Frane, J. W. (1978) Frane, J. W. "Recent developments in the maintenance and distribution of BMDP" pp221-224
          in Computer Science and Statistics: Tenth Annual Symp (1978) Computer Science and Statistics: Tenth Annual Symposium on the Interface, pp. 265-70. Edited by D. Hogben and D. W. Fife. (National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 503.) Washington, DC: National Bureau of Standards; 1978
  • Wyllys, Ronald Eugene (1978) Wyllys, Ronald Eugene "Instructional Use of Statistical Program Packages: BMD, IMP, OMNITAB II, and SPSS" pp265-70
          in Computer Science and Statistics: Tenth Annual Symp (1978) Computer Science and Statistics: Tenth Annual Symposium on the Interface, pp. 265-70. Edited by D. Hogben and D. W. Fife. (National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 503.) Washington, DC: National Bureau of Standards; 1978
  • Musser-Brauner and Dixon (1984) Melonia L. Musser-Brauner; W. J. Dixon "BMD or BMDP? What's the Difference?" The American Statistician, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), 318-319. Abstract
          in Computer Science and Statistics: Tenth Annual Symp (1978) Computer Science and Statistics: Tenth Annual Symposium on the Interface, pp. 265-70. Edited by D. Hogben and D. W. Fife. (National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 503.) Washington, DC: National Bureau of Standards; 1978
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