GLIM is a statistical software program for fitting generalized linear models (GLMs).
It was developed by the Royal Statistical Society's

Royal Statistical Society

The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...

Working Party on Statistical Computing
(later renamed the GLIM Working Party),
chaired initially by John Nelder

John Nelder

John Ashworth Nelder FRS was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.-Contributions:...

.
It was first released in 1974
with the last major release, GLIM4, in 1993.
GLIM was distributed by the Numerical Algorithms Group

Numerical Algorithms Group

The Numerical Algorithms Group is a software company which provides methods for the solution of mathematical and statistical problems, and offers services to users of HPC systems. Its products and services are employed by tens of thousands of users from Global 500 companies, universities,...

 (NAG).

GLIM was notable for being the first package capable of fitting a wide range of generalized linear models in a unified framework, and for encouraging an interactive, iterative approach to statistical modelling.
GLIM used a command-line interface

Command-line interface

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 and allowed users to define their own macros. Many articles in academic journal

Academic journal

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s were written about the use of GLIM. GLIM was reviewed in The American Statistician

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in 1994, along with other software for fitting generalized linear models.

The GLIMPSE system was later developed to provide a knowledge base

Knowledge base

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d front-end for GLIM.

GLIM is no longer actively developed or distributed.