"Aron Landy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Any ideas, anyone? I am thinking of using IMSL (which comes free with
Compaq
> Visual Fortran). Can I do better?
Any of the "standard" statistical packages should be fine (e.g. SPSS, SAS,
S-Plus, Statistica, Minitab....). All have Windows versions, and all have
different types of site licenses. If you are a student, you may be able to
get a student discount on the statistical software through your educational
institute. You may also be able to locate a demonstration version, although
you would then have problems once the evaluation period ended (e.g.
inability to open the package-specific files). I just recommend going with
a package that statisticians use, then you know that the results produced
are accurate. Your choice of package will possibly be constrained by the
ease of use of the package (and even when you can programme, a menu system
can still be much more rapid).
I've not heard of ISML, but then I'm not a Fortran programmer (SPSS syntax,
SAS, and VBA are my limits - but about to learn Sax!!!).
Hope this helps, and good luck with your analysis! :-)
cheers
Michelle
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