My name is Luke M. Olson and I am an undergraduate math and physics student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
I sent a proposal in to Google's Summer of Code to address the following issue: OpenOffice.org Calc: Statistical data analysis tools Summary/Comments A set of data analysis tools is to be created, to support the selection of input and output cells as well as the appropriate parameters in dialogs. After the analysis process, the results should be transferred to output cells. Access to cells should be handled via OpenOffice API. I attached my formal proposal to this email as a .txt. If you have any questions or comments, please let me know. lmo yep, it's true.
Luke M. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~lmo5 Northern Arizona University Math Major with an emphasis in Statistics Expected date of Graduation: Summer 2006 Proposed mentor: OpenOffice.org History and Motivation: I discovered open office in 2003 and have been using it as my primary office tool ever since. When I began to take statistics courses, I discovered that Calc did not have the automated statistical capabilities that Excel gives with its data analysis package. Since then, I have considered expanding Calc's statistical capabilities. Proposal: To initiate and develop a statistical analysis package, with GUI. This package would use and expand upon the built-in functions of OpenOffice Calc. The capabilities would include one and two sample t tests, ANOVA, chi-square, and nonparametric tests. The nearer term goal would be to mirror much of the the functionality of Gnumeric and Excel. Ultimately, the package would be capable of use in a first semester college statistics course, like PHStat: http://www.prenhall.com/phstat/phstat2/phstat25(main).htm#information. David Hitchcock authors a similar program, OOo Statistics, at ooomacros.org. This program has a number of useful capabilities, but the range of tests are limited and many (e.g. MANOVA, multidimensional scaling) are advanced and beyond the requirements of the first semester statistics course. Qualifications: I have had two semesters of mathematical statistics, three semesters of applied statistics, and one semester of discrete mathematics. I have taken a number of programming courses including a numerical analysis course which empahsized writing software and testing it over various ranges of data. This fall, I will be taking Nonparamtric Statistics and Regression Analysis, and so should be able to complete tests in those areas in particular. I have also spent hours upon hours of my free time studying markup languages and web design.
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