Statistics Software

[Dennis]

Hans Fugal wrote:
> I'm no R expert but I have been using it for basic stuff like std dev
> and mean and pretty graphs. It doesn't take all that much to learn how
> to use the basics; the hard part is knowing what's available. But if
> you're just doing specific analyses the internal help is great. (also
> available externally, e.g. in your web browser)
>
> Go to http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html and read the introduction
> and import/export docs.
>   
Yeah, I found the docs and found the same thing about the internal
help.   R isn't as hard as I had read it was.  I think it will work for
whatever I need.  My biggest problem now is figuring out exactly which
tests to run.  (I'm not a stats expert at all but I think my Boss wants
me to be sometimes.)

-Dennis

> On Fri,  3 Mar 2006 at 15:59 -0700, Dennis wrote:
>   
>> Erik R. Jensen wrote:
>>     
>>>>> I need to run some numbers through a few statistical processes and see
>>>>> if I can learn or find anything.  Anyone know a good package that will
>>>>> run on Linux that can help?  A good program for general statistical
>>>>> calculations would probably be sufficient.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>> I thought this looked interesting:
>>>
>>> http://salstat.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Well, I installed R and ran the demos.  It looks powerful but also has a
>> big learning curve.  (Not yet sure I want to invest the time.)
>>
>> Salstat looks promising but it is very up front about how much it isn't
>> done yet.  They haven't updated in since 2003 though.
>>
>> I'm looking to plug some vectors of numbers in and be able to find
>> statistically significant portions via a few different test.  Chi2,
>> student-T, anova stuff like that.
>>
>> I know OO.o and Excel have some of that ability but they just don't cut
>> it (OO.o is actually really really slow on my machine and I haven't
>> figured out why)
>>
>>
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