On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:26:16 AM UTC-5, LFS wrote: > > Hi guys - I am sure that there is much more available. But actually > William you hit the nail on the head. The page I used was "a small > undergraduate student project" and its contents are useful and accessible. > That is the level I want - so a student or someone like me can use Sage in > place of MatLab or Mathematica in the undergraduate mathematics classroom > without getting bogged down in learning programming. To me, the problem is > that so often (a) I cannot find something basic or if I do: (b) I cannot > understand how to use it in Sage. Do a search for "sage statistics" or > "sage histogram" and you are immediately passed off to one or more of the > underlying programming languages each with its own specific syntax style. > For the first search, that one page is all there is for sage. For > histograms, I spent *many, many hours* searching before I wrote my first > comment in this thread. I found and tried every single one of the commands > in the "sage stat reference" pages. I did the scipy stuff. I could sort of > get an array with the counts and the bins if I worked at it really hard (I > had to separate out the returns), but I never could find a way to plot it. > I am sure there is some reference, but I could not find it. > Perhaps this: "a student or someone like me can use Sage in place of > MatLab or Mathematica in the undergraduate mathematics classroom" is not a > goal of Sage. However, my impression was that this was
Unfortunately, I don't think we have enough people using Sage per se (as opposed to R or Scipy) for stats who would also have time and be willing to write exactly this worksheet! For instance, I am not a statistician, nor have ever taken a course in stats, so our attempt http://sage.maa.org/home/pub/24/ at this (see also http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13381 where this would enter the standard doc) is unfortunately one of the better pieces. It's a chicken-egg problem - we need people who use this stuff daily in the classroom to write such resources, but they aren't able to use Sage easily enough to be motivated to do so :( It is SO unfortunate that the sagenb.org published worksheets had to be turned off - often a half hour of searching there yielded untold stores of fruit. Thanks for your feedback and efforts; they really are appreciated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
