bmdp

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
BioMeDical Package
BMDP

   <language, library, statistics> (BMDP) A statistical language
   and library of over forty statistical routines developed in
   1961 at {UCLA}, Health Sciences Computing Facility under
   Dr. Wilford Dixon.  BMDP was first implemented in {Fortran}
   for the {IBM 7090}.  Tapes of the original source were
   distributed for free all over the world.

   BMDP is the second iteration of the original {BIMED} programs.
   It was developed at {UCLA} Health Sciences Computing facility,
   with NIH funding.  The "P" in BMDP originally stood for
   "parameter" but was later changed to "package".  BMDP used
   keyword parameters to defined what was to be done rather than
   the fixed card format used by original BIMED programs.

   BMDP supports many statistical funtions: simple data
   description, {survival analysis}, {ANOVA}, {multivariate
   analyses}, {regression analysis}, and {time series} analysis.

   BMDP Professional combines the full suite of BMDP Classic
   (Dynamic) release 7.0 with the BMDP New System 2.0 {Windows}
   front-end.

   BMDP from Statistical Solutions
   (http://statsol.ie/bmdp/bmdp.htm).

   (2004-01-14)