In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language. R is one of ...

Shyamal D. Peddada is a senior investigator and deputy chief of the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North ...

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