On New Perspectives for Statistical Computing in Business and Industry – A Solution with STATISTICA and R

Abstract

Companies in business and industry often make very different demands on statistical software packages, like flexibility concerning customized solutions, possibility of integrating non-standard stochastic approaches, use to validated applications, user-friendly interface, moderate costs, and many more. Usually, it is not possible to find a single software package that satisfies all such demands. Therefore, it would be attractive for entrepreneurs and statistical consultants if a collaboration among statistical software packages (e.g., leading commercial package extended by open source system) could be realized easily.