> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry House) > Subject: [vox-tech] Statistical software > > A visitor to the demo at the Davis Food Co-op this weekend asked about > software for statistical analysis and mentioned SPSS. Since I do most of my > statistical analysis in Gnumeric and do not use a dedicated analysis > program, I was not able to mention a comparable application for Linux. What > do you use? I later found out about Gnu PSPP, supposed to be a Free clone of > SPSS --- does anyone use this?
In my opinion, as someone with a background in both CS and statistics (I'm a former statistics professor), R is the best package, either open source or commercial. (I even consider it a little better than S-Plus, a commercial product which it is closely related to.) It is statistically correct (which arguably SPSS is not), and it is a general programming language, something people on this list can relate to. I have a quick mini-tutorial on R at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html Since I myself will be using R heavily during the next couple of weeks, I probably will be making frequent additions to the tutorial. Norm _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
