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This article is about the statistical package. For the designer drug, see
benzylone
.
BMDP
was a statistical package developed in 1965 by
Wilfrid Dixon
at the
University of California, Los Angeles
. The acronym stands for Bio-Medical Data Package, the word package was added by Dixon as the software consisted of a series of programs (subroutines) which performed different parametric and nonparametric statistical analyses.
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[2]
BMDP was originally distributed for free. It was later sold by
Statsols
, who originally was a subsidiary of BMDP, but through a management buy-out formed the now independent company Statistical Solutions Ltd, known as Statsols. BMDP is no longer available as of 2017
[update]
.
[3]
The company decided to only offer its other statistical product
nQuery Sample Size Software
.
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