<language, library, statistics> (BMDP) A statistical language
and library of over forty statistical routines developed in
1961 at UCLA, Health Sciences Computing Facility under
Dr. Wilford Dixon. BMDP was first implemented in Fortran
for the IBM 7090. Tapes of the original source were
distributed for free all over the world.
BMDP is the second iteration of the original BIMED programs.
It was developed at UCLA Health Sciences Computing facility,
with NIH funding. The "P" in BMDP originally stood for
"parameter" but was later changed to "package". BMDP used
keyword parameters to defined what was to be done rather than
the fixed card format used by original BIMED programs.
BMDP supports many statistical funtions: simple data
description, survival analysis, ANOVA, multivariate
analyses, regression analysis, and time series analysis.
BMDP Professional combines the full suite of BMDP Classic
(Dynamic) release 7.0 with the BMDP New System 2.0 Windows
front-end.
