>>>>> "kevin" == Kevin B Hendricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
kevin> Hi,
kevin> I need to get back into doing linear algebra and statistics again
(basic
kevin> statistics, eigenvectors, regression, principal components, factor
kevin> analysis, structural equation modeling at the level of SAS, SPSS,
LISREL,
kevin> etc.
kevin> I have found links to netlib and the literally tons of free/public
domain
kevin> software available for doing math and statistics.
kevin> I spent the afternoon downloading R (the GPL clone of Splus) and
Octave,
kevin> and the old EISPack source I remember using once a long time ago,
and also
kevin> downloaded blas, atlas, and lapack.
kevin> There is alot of stuff out there.
kevin> If I am first and foremost looking for something to replace SAS/stat
and
kevin> SPSS primarily for statistics, general linear models, regression
instead
kevin> of my now ancient fortran code that invoked EISPACK routines to
solve
kevin> linear models, are these the right packages to be looking at and
playing
kevin> with?
I'd go with R. It is increadibly full-featured, and has a wonderful
set of modern statistical tools.
Depending on how well you read docs (there are a large number) or
books, there is quite a bit out there.
best,
-tony
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