Lindsay, I strongly recommend a tool called octave. It is a Matlab like environment but it is text based rather than graphical so you will run it through terminal. It got me through probability and differential equations I and II. I really don't know what I would have done without it. You can either get it through macports, or there is a precompiled version for the mac at: http://octave.sourceforge.net/. The latter happens to be an app package that you would run from within finder as you would any other app. You will also want to poke around the documentation on the octave main sight at http://gnu.org/software/octave . However, I wouldn't recommend downloading octave from there because you will have to build it from scratch by hand and that's not something you will want to do.
A good place to get started with latex is: http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/index.html . A really good distribution for the mac is mactex. I don't remember the url, but if you google it it comes right up. You can also get other tex distributions through macports. If any of this is confusing, feel free to write me off list. I probably didn't make some things as clear as I should have. On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Lindsay Yazzolino wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I am going to be taking a college statistics course this fall and am > wondering if there currently exist any accessible statistics packages > for the Mac or if I am best off sticking with WIndows/any other > operating system. Also, what other methods have any of you used for > successfully completing statistics courses? I am looking forward to > the class, and want to make the best use possible of the tools which I > have at my disposal, especially my MacBook. On a related note, I feel > that I would greatly benefit from learning LaTeX for my math and other > courses, andwould love to receive some pointers about where to get > started. Thanks in advance for any input, and feel free toat any > point take this discussion off list if you feel that it benefits > statistics students but not necessarily Mac users. > > Lindsay > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
