From: "Douglas Bates" To: Subject: [R] [OT] Open source statistical analysis in the news Date: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:17 AM A student pointed out to me the article http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51106,00.html describing recent testimony by Patrick Ball, the deputy director of the science and human rights program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president. Mr. Ball testified on a statistical analysis of the patterns of Albanian deaths and displacement in Kosovo that casts doubt upon Mr. Milosevic's claim that it was NATO bombing and not Serbian forces that caused the deaths and displacement. Mr. Ball makes the point that it is important that he used Open Source software for this analysis. The article states Ball added it was important to note that human rights work "is best served by free software, so that any group who wanted to reproduce my work could do so without a huge investment. I did the data processing using Python, we used MySQL, and all the data coding teams used Linux and Apache. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._