> -----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 Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ 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.
