And here is a small presentation about statistics in sage: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~citro/ucla-stat-colloq.pdf
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Erik Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > I am on their mailing list, and it was a virtual server that crashed > hard and they have had no luck getting it up again. Some kind of > hardware problem, possibly. They switched servers that it's on, and > changed DNS pointers, so it should be up for everyone soon if it isn't > already. Both links work for me, now. > > Erik > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Erik Lane <[email protected]> wrote: >> Look at Sage math ( http://www.sagemath.org/) for a general >> mathematics package. It has R, numpy, octave, etc. etc. I'm not a >> mathematician, so I don't know a huge amount about it, but I have been >> checking it out as I am an engineering student and mathematica was >> recommended to me. This is a *very* actively developed alternative to >> just about any math package. They have a little of everything, but of >> course the things that are most complete are the ones that have >> interested developers. So some areas are more mature than others, I >> gather. >> >> It's very powerful right now, though. Normally you can check it out at >> http://sagenb.org/ >> >> I even have an account there (it's free) and play around with stuff >> sometimes. It's got fun graphing and lots and lots of math that's way >> beyond me - rings and ??? But I just went to look at it to get the URL >> and the whole thing, sagemath and sagenb both seem to be down right >> now. First time I've ever seen that, but it would be when I want to >> recommend it, of course! >> >> I'm sure it will be back up soon, but right now it's broken. >> >> You can get a taste of it at: >> http://sagemath.blogspot.com/ (author is originator of sage math) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_%28mathematics_software%29 >> >> Erik >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Kirk Goins <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Can't help with running on Linux but per this link you can get 6mo usage >>> as a student for $29.99 >>> http://www.onthehub.com/minitab/minitab_english.htm >>> >>> >>> >>> Michael Robinson wrote: >>>> It looks like it is atrociously expensive to buy a licensed copy and >>>> worse than that, it requires from what I can tell a Windows XP system >>>> that has 512 megs of ram. I don't have that. I have my Linux system >>>> with 512 megs of ram. >>>> >>>> What is the ultimate alternative to using Minitab 15? I'm needing >>>> to use it for a stats course. Unfortunately, I don't know of any >>>> way to use it remotely. Do the Windows computers at PSU have any >>>> means of being accessed remotely? >>>> >>>> I have the demo version of Minitab 15 which I dowloaded last night, >>>> but that is only a 30 day solution and then I guess I have to rent >>>> 2 more months. Man this Minitab outfit is ridiculous. >>>> >>>> Will Crossover Linux, the most recent version perhaps, run Minitab 15? >>>> >>>> I suppose I have a laptop that is in use now by my father with 512 megs >>>> of ram and Windows XP, but it's in use. I actually have a Pentium 4 >>>> desktop computer with a 1.80 Ghz processor and 256 megs of ram, but >>>> that isn't enough ram to run Minitab and I don't know what kind of >>>> DIMMs it takes. It's an SIS micro atx board. >>>> >>>> So I'm stuck either grabbing a copy of XP somehow and dual booting on >>>> my Linux system, running Minitab via Wine, or using something else. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> PLUG mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PLUG mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>> >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
