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IMSL = International Mathematical and Statistical Library

The IMSL routines are a numerical analysis package written originally
in Fortran and translated locally into Lisp to enable them to be interfaced
to Macsyma.

The per routine documentation accessable via this INFO node has been 
extracted from comments at the head of the source files. The part of
the documentation pertaining to calling conventions for the various 
routines may or may not remain valid for the Lisp translations and
Macsyma interfaces to the translations.

* Menu:

* Macsyma::		How IMSL interfaces with Macsyma
* Documentation::	Documentation extracted from comments in sources


File: IMSL	Node: Macsyma		Up: Top		Next: Documentation

There will in the near future be a set of IMSL routines available for the
Macsyma user, probably via a package BATCH'd off of the share directory.
At that time, this node will be updated to reflect information about how
to call those routines from Macsyma: types of arguments, how return values
are handled, etc. 


File: IMSL	Node: Documentation	Up: Top		Next: A

The routines as supplied by IMSL are organized by "chapters" according
to the first letter of the routine name.

* Menu:

* A: (IMSL;INFO ABCD)	Analysis of Experimental Design Data
* B: (IMSL;INFO ABCD)	Basic Statistics
* C: (IMSL;INFO ABCD)	Categorized Data Analysis
* D: (IMSL;INFO ABCD)	Differential Equations; Quadrature; Differentiation
* E: (IMSL;INFO EFGI)	Eigenanalysis
* F: (IMSL;INFO EFGI)	Forecasting; Econometrics; Time Series
* G: (IMSL;INFO EFGI)	Generation & Testing of Random Numbers; Goodness of Fit
* I: (IMSL;INFO EFGI)	Interpolation, Approximation, and Smoothing
* L: (IMSL;INFO LMNO)	Linear Algebraic Equations
* M: (IMSL;INFO LMNO)	Mathematical and Stastical Special Functions
* N: (IMSL;INFO LMNO)	Nonparametric Stastics
* O: (IMSL;INFO LMNO)	Observation Structure
* R: (IMSL;INFO RSU)	Regression Analysis
* S: (IMSL;INFO RSU)	Sampling
* U: (IMSL;INFO RSU)	Utility Functions
* V: (IMSL;INFO VZ)	Vector-Matrix Arithmetic
* Z: (IMSL;INFO VZ)	Zeros and Extrema; Linear Programming