Steve [Gentoo] escribió:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:22:47PM +0000, James wrote:
Matlab is the standard for mathematical analysis of all sorts of
phenomenon, from a mathematical perspective.
I'm familiar with Matlab... you're the second person to mention
Octave...
I would like to do some analysis on these signals to see if there are
any interesting things that can be demonstrated - for example, if I
could show a strong correlation in the signals between two times, but
none at other times, I might be able to conclude that there was
communication of some description, but only for a fixed duration.
Very unclear what you are saying. Are these signals related to events in
your network? More information will help.
I agree - Not only was my post unclear, but I'm unclear about what I
want too. :-)
My data, in reality, consists national statistics - and my
self-appointed challenge is to establish if, subject to appropriate
analysis, they will expose undocumented trends or other anomalies. I
don't know what trends or anomalies I want to find until I discover
them... but I suspect that, once found, they'd be interesting. :-)
'exi octave' reveals:
Octave is a good suggestion - but probably not what I need. I've been
pointed at "R" ( http://www.r-project.org/ ) which looks more hopeful,
though I can't find it in portage. If there were an interactive GUI to
apply standard statistical analyses to data as a front-end to R, then
that would likely be just what I want. Failing that - just finding R
in portage would be a step forwards.
I'd be very interested to know if R has competition...
R is indeed in portage, you may have not found it due to it being
uppercase. Try the following:
emerge -pv R # Remember: type 'R' and not 'r'
Also, R has commercial alternatives, such as S and S+, but I'm sure you
prefer the free version ;-).
HTH,
Abraham
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