The STAT LIBRARY is organized into chapters; each chapter contains routines with similar computational or analytical capabilities. To locate the right routine for a given problem, you may use either the table of contents located in each chapter introduction, or one of the indexes at the end of this manual.

Often the quickest way to use the STAT LIBRARY is to find an example similar to your problem and then to mimic the example. Each routine document has at least one example demonstrating its application. The example for a routine may be created simply for illustration, it may be from a textbook (with reference to the source) or it may be from the statistical literature, in which case IMSL routine GDATA retrieves the data set.