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[S] Summary: Referencing Splus in paper?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn-Helge_Mevik)
Fri Sep 17 10:52:52 1999
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Date: 17 Sep 1999 16:43:42 +0200
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I apologize for waiting so long with the summary. Thanks to Pierre
Duchesne <duchesne@DMS.UMontreal.CA>, Stefan Hrafn Jonsson
<stefanj@pop.psu.edu> and SmithSJ@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca for enlightening
answers.
Here is the original posting:
[Bjørn-Helge Mevik]
> I'm using Splus for calculations and plots in a statistical paper. Is
> there a canonical reference to use in the bibliography? (Or is it not
> common to acknowledge computer programs in journal papers?)
SmithSJ@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca suggested using
@MANUAL{SP2000,
title = "S-PLUS 2000 Guide to Statistics, Volume I",
author = "Mathsoft",
organization = "Data Analysis Products Division, MathSoft",
address = "Seattle, WA",
year = "1999"
}
and Pierre Duchesne mentioned
@MANUAL{Splus,
TITLE="S-PLUS Reference Manual",
AUTHOR="Statistical Sciences, {Inc.}",
NOTE="Seattle: Statistical Science, Inc.",
YEAR=1991}
As to whether to refer or not, Pierre Duchesne wrote
> My feeling is that if your software/functions are well written and
> could be used by other people without extra effort, it is a good idea
> to cite that your work has been done with Splus. If you did not wrote
> new useful functions (maybe using Splus as a calculator or something
> like that), it is maybe not a good idea.
Stefan Hrafn Jonsson suggested to look at previous publications in the
journal of interest "to see if software/programming language should be
in the bibliography".
--
Bjørn-Helge Mevik <bhm@math.uio.no>
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