STATIST(ID:8072/)

Statistical interpretive package, Peter Claringbold, Animal Genetics Laboratory CSIRO Sydney

CSIRO CDC 3600 in 1967

Based on work (incl partitioning algorithms based on orthogonal polynomials) developed by Claringbold on the SILLIAC. Claringbold's work with computerisation of statistics was groundbreaking, and underwrote a lot of agricultural and vetinarian research in Australia in the 1960s

References:
  • Clapp, Lewis "Time-Sharing System Scorecard" Computer Research Corporation 1967 view details
  • Claringbold, PJ "STATIST - Conversational statistical package for interactive consoles" Animal Genetics Division, CSIRO Sydney 1968 view details
  • Claringbold, P.J. An Approach to Conversational Statistics pp267-283 view details
          in R.C. Milton and J A. Nelder (Eds.) "Statistical Computation" Academic, New York, 1969 view details
  • Franklin, Ian; Grigg, Geoff and Mayo, Oliver "James Meadows Rendel 1915?2001"Historical Records of Australian Science, 2004, 15, 269?284 view details External link: Online copy Extract: Biographical sketch of Claringbold
    Peter Claringbold was a veterinarian turned computer scientist, not a particularly unusual transition at a time when no computer scientists per se were being trained. Before becoming Chief of CSIRO?s newly established Division of Computing Research, he was one of many who contributed to the pioneering computerization of both breeding programmes and general record-keeping for the poultry and dairy breeding programmes. He assisted Alex Fraser enormously in his early work on computer simulation of genetic systems.
          in R.C. Milton and J A. Nelder (Eds.) "Statistical Computation" Academic, New York, 1969 view details