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title: "Goals"
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<span style="color: #000814; font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace; font-weight: bold;">open</span><span style="color: #001D3D; font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace; font-weight: bold;">stats</span><span style="color: #003566; font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace; font-weight: bold;">ware</span> is a [scientific working group](https://community.amstat.org/biop/workinggroups/swe-wg) of the [American Statistical Association (ASA) Biopharmaceutical Section (BIOP)](https://community.amstat.org/biop/home) and a [European Special Interest Group (SIG)](https://www.psiweb.org/sigs-special-interest-groups/software-engineering) sponsored by [Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI)](https://www.psiweb.org/about-us) and the [European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (EFSPI)](https://efspi.org/).

Our goals are to:

-   **Engineer selected R-packages** to fill in gaps in the open-source statistical software landscape, and to promote software tools designed by the working group through publications, conference presentations, workshops, and training courses.

-   **Develop good SWE practices** for engineering high-quality statistical software and promote their use in the broader Biostatistics community via public training materials.

-   **Communicate and collaborate** with other R software initiatives including via the [R Consortium](https://www.r-consortium.org/).

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