Frontier Powered Apps
Crush™
Deep statistical data mining to get at the real value in your data.
Use Crush to define and launch your job directly from Excel
Crush™ is an optimized data mining and statistical analysis application built to take advantage of the computational power of the Frontier Grid Platform. In addition to the massive horsepower behind the analytics, you can launch the jobs right from within Excel. It's easy, fast and can analyze an unprecedented number of variables at one time.
The Crush features include:
- Easy to use Excel interface. Simply install the Parabon Crush add-in for Excel from the Excel drop down menu
- Supports linear, logit, and ordered regression analysis
- Identifies optimal models according to any of a variety of fitness measures, including adjusted R2, log likelihood, and root mean squared prediction error (RMSPE) via k-fold cross validation.
- Searches model spaces exhaustively, combinatorially, or using opportunistic evolutionary search
- Supports programmatic execution and XML specification for easy integration into existing workflows
Crush, in its earliest incarnation, was created in 2000 and was the first application built for Frontier. Over the years, it has been used in many fields and by a wide variety of researchers, including researchers in the pharmaceutical and medical research fields and at the US Geological Survey.
Watch our brief introduction video to see how easy and powerful it is.