[SystemSafety] Accuracy of COVID modeling code

Derek M Jones derek at knosof.co.uk
Wed May 6 20:17:57 CEST 2020


Peter,

>> Indeed there is.  How does this relate to one language being any better
>> than another?
> You mean R, compared with SAS, NAG, Mathematica, Matlab, Maple and so on? As I said, enormous amount
> of literature.

I mean any, as in any computer language, past or present.

There is certainly an enormous amount of literature containing
claims based on ego and bluster.

My statement involved the evidence-based literature, which is sparse
to say the least.

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Derek M. Jones           Evidence-based software engineering
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