On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On >> Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard >> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:44 PM >> To: Douglas Bates >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Bert Gunter >> Subject: Re: [R] Use of R in clinical trials >> >> >>>> (Corrections/additional information welcome!) >>> >>> My recollection is that the BMD programs (which, in a later version, >>> became BMDP) predated SAS and were specifically for BioMeDical >>> analysis. >> >> How could I forget those! Yes, my old (as in 1980-1985) boss at the >> University hospital even had the manual in the office. It wasn't a >> statistical system though, more a suite of single-purpose computer >> programs with a rigid control-card specification format. >> >> BTW, they were apparently put in the public domain by UCLA, but I wonder >> where they went? >> > > I believe BMDP was bought by SPSS around 1996. SPSS also purchased Systat in > that same time period I believe. > > Dan
Statistical Solutions has BMDP, along with NCSS and nQuery, etc: http://www.statsol.ie/index.php?pageID=6 I was going to reference BMDP from my memories of some folks that used it back in the 80's, but was away at a meeting and then I noted Doug's reference to it. SPSS sold Systat to a group in India (Cranes Software) , which then re-constituted Systat Software: http://www.systat.com/ StatView was another of those early programs dating from the mid-to-late 80's that went through various incarnations, was eventually bought by SAS, which then shut it down in favor of JMP. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
