Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 2003 erstellt
Description:
This work presents the results of assessing the accuracy of statistical routines as implemented in the IDL 5.6 platform. This is “a complete computing environment for the interactive analysis and visualization of data. IDL integrates a powerful, array-oriented language with numerous mathematical analysis and graphical display techniques. [1]” It is shown that, though it is an excellent platform for signal and image processing and analysis, it has flaws when statistical computing is concerned, mainly when dealing with non-linear regression by minimum squares and, in particular, when computing in single precision floating point