MD*ReX: Linking XploRe to standard spreadsheet applications (Q1856390)

This article deals with the problem of linking the statistical software package like XploRe to standard spreadsheet applications. The authors show how to embed an external statistical software into Excel. This strategy gives to user access to such statistical procedures which are not available in the standard distribution of Excel, and conversely MD*ReX enables the user to present results in a variety of graphical representations via the Excel graphical environment. MD*ReX is designed to be able to exchange data between both software applications and takes advantage of a familiar spreadsheet interface. The ability of MD*ReX to access and execute the statistical quantlets is based on the XploRe client/server architecture. The architecture consists of three parts: the Quantlet Client, the middleware program MD*Serv and the XploRe Quantlet Server. Graphical User Interface (GUI) is described and some illustrations of GUI such as ARCH modelling and cluster analysis are presented.