Tools for including statistical graphics in application programs.

The tools available for building application programs that include some statistical graphics are reviewed. Drawing on a sample of available graphics libraries for MS-DOS computers, several desirable features are discussed. The emphasis here is on flexibility and ease of use. The tools reviewed ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	American Statistician Vol. 48; pp. 52 - 58
Main Author:	Nash, John C.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Statistical Association February 1994
Subjects:	Graphic methods in statistics Statistical software Computer graphics software
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The tools available for building application programs that include some statistical graphics are reviewed. Drawing on a sample of available graphics libraries for MS-DOS computers, several desirable features are discussed. The emphasis here is on flexibility and ease of use. The tools reviewed are VG Volksgrapher, GraphiC, GraphPak Professional, Statistics Graphics Toolkit, and 3-D Graphics Toolkit. The overview reveals that the graphical support tools for different programming languages generally have quite limited capabilities.