Conditions of use, credits and acknowledgements

Conditions of use

Use of the EDA package should be duly acknowledged in any reports (written or oral). This text should be quoted along with appropriate references to the cited program sources (where applicable; see the credits section at the end of the description of each command).

It would be greatly appreciated, if any errors detected, would be brought to the attention of the author.

The author would be particularly pleased to receive offprints of any report citing results obtained with the EDA program.

Eugene HORBER
Department of Political Science
University de Geneva
102, boulevard Carl Vogt
CH-1211 Geneve 4
Phone 0041 (0)22/705 83 67
FAX 0041 (0)22/705 83 64
E-mail: Eugen.Horber@politic.unige.ch
Credits and acknowledgments
EDA includes programs from other sources, mainly McNeil's Interactive Data Analysis [McNeil 1977] and COOLEY and LOHNES [1971], Anderberg's "Cluster analysis for applications" [1973]. The description of many commands contains a "Credit section". The user is expected to credit properly the use of these commands or command options.

The author would like to thank...

Dominique JOYE (SIDOS, formerly EPFL/IREC and at the Department of Political Science Geneva) for the help in converting and testing of some of the above programs (Anderberg, Cooley & Lohnes). Furthermore several standalone programs developed by him haved been adapted for EDA.

Bernard Rapacchi of the CICG, Grenoble for suggestions and his efforts to spread the use of the EDA package in France. He adapted the Multics and CDC versions and is the author of the GEDA (Graphics for EDA) and TSEDA (Time Series) modules.

Jacques Vanpoucke, U.P.S. Toulouse for his enthousiasm for exploration; he has translated Tukey's terminology admirably into French and worked on many important basic concepts, he has been and still is a permanent inspiration.

Mike Mitchelmore, Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Munich for his help with the manual (thanks to him a large number of typos disappeared from the manual), suggestions and bug reports.

Dominique Ladiray (Eurostat and ENSAE/INSEE) for encouragement and suggestions and the many days and weeks spent together discussing and teaching exploration.

All members and friends of Mirage, the association organizing the Carcassonne Summer School on Data Exploration.

And all the users asking "why does'nt EDA have...?","Would'nt it be nice, if EDA did...". I would like to mention in particular Jean-Louis Laffont (Mais-France, Toulouse), C. Lambelet (Jardin Botanique Geneva: thanks to her EDA got it's botanical twist).

Alicia Coduras and Carmen Rodriguez from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona for the Spanish translation of the manual.

Jean-Marc Peytavi, Image Toulouse, who - until his untimely death - has converted EDA for the MacIntosh and who produced a partial translation of the manual into French.

And last but not least my students in Geneva, at the ECPR Summer School in Essex, the Carcassonne Summer School (Mirage), students in Eurostat's TES programme, as well as the students attending the EU sponsered PRESTA programme in various places across South America. first victims of innovations in the program ...