1998 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 37-61
The 9th symposium of the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics was held at Ryogoku in Tokyo from 19th Oct. 1995. Special theme was "The past, present and future of statistical software package in Japan". The following two sessions were attempted to discuss about historical aspects. One was a history of statistical software in Japan present by three special guests and the other was a history of SAS and SPSS in Japan presented by two special guests. Three sessions were aimed for the present of statistical software in Japan. Those are as follows: First session is about foreign statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, Statistica and S. Second session is about domestic software such as StatPartner, JUSE-QCAS and EXCEL Taikou. Third session is about Mathematica, Mathcad and two free softwares developed by universities. The one session was about statistical education. We discussed what we shall do from now. In this paper, the first part introduces why special theme is chosen, the second part is the summary of 19 papeers of the symposium and third one is what we should do after the symposium.
