Article: Open Source Econometric Software better performance, accuracy and bug fixing than commercial software

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Article: Open Source Econometric Software better performance, accuracy and bug fixing than commercial software

Glen Newton
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/04/article-open-source-econometric.html
"Yalta and Yalta (2010) examine the reliability, accuracy and bug
fixing time for an Open Source econometric software package and five
commercial econometric software packages. They find that after 5 years
many of the bugs in the commercial software have not been fixed,
whereas similar bugs in the Open Source software are fixed and
released within a week of the discovery of the bugs...."

-Glen Newton
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http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/
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