Ron Shamir, Probabilistic Analysis in Linear Programming, Statistical Science, Vol. 8, No. 1, Report from the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Research Council on ...

Tilman M. Davies, the author of The Book of R, teaches at the University of Otago in New Zealand and has been programming in R for 10 years.

Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE's programming language of the year.

In this paper a unified treatment of algorithms is described for linear programming methods based on the central path. This path is a curve along which the cost decreases, and that stays always far ...