[net.math.stat] info wanded on statistical packages

sciore@bu-cs.UUCP (E Sciore) (08/13/85)

I am a member of the database community, and know little about
statistics. I am looking for info on state of the art statistical
packages. I would expect that there is something more advanced than
SPSS: systems that manipulate raw data (relations?) using high-level
operators (relational algebra?) to reduce the data appropriately. Can
someone give me pointers to systems or literature? 
	Edward Sciore
	BU Computer Science
	sciore@bu-cs.CSNET