In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> Hello, my name is Thomas and I will be attending graduate school in the
>fall '00 for a masters program in applied statistics. Some of the schools
>to which I have applied have a course in statistical computing, which
>requires knowledge of a high-level programming knowledge. Other schools
do
>not have such a course, and presumably, expect you to learn this on your
>own. My question is, how important is the topic of statistical computing
to
>an applied setting? As an undergraduate, I used minitab in stats courses,
>and it has been a while since I have used a high-level programming
>language. Is there any language in particular that is good for applied
>statistics? Perhaps Fortran or C++. At this point, my background is weak
>and I do not know if applied statisticians use statistical packages,
>programming, or some combination of the two. Any information would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Thomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For master level, you should know SAS and S-Plus. Knowing C/C++/Fortran
would be a plus, but not really necessary.
--
T.S. Lim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.Recursive-Partitioning.com
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