[Gllug] Statistical analysis

[Xander D Harkness]

Chris Ball wrote:

> On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 17:59, root wrote:
> 
>>I thought I would ask the generally mathematically inclined inhabitants
>>of the list what Stats packages they used on Linux and which they would
>>recommend.
>>
> 
> I was a Psychology student before a CS student, and we used 'R' (a GNU
> port of 'S'); it's a very powerful statistics language.  If she's
> looking for a language for simple inferential tests as I was, the
> Statistics::ChiSquared perl module is really nice to use; but that's
> from the perspective of a perl coder, which she probably isn't.  ;)

She is at the stage of 'Should I use Abiword or Kword and Oh! isnt 
gnomemeeting fun :-)'

I have a feeling that their use of SPSS is going to very 'pointy and clicky'


> 
> She might also be one of the few people in the world to get something
> out of Statistics::Nonparametric, which is a perl module I've written to
> perform Wilcoxon/Mann-Whitney/Sign tests but not yet uploaded to the
> CPAN. 

I did also find http://www.jstatsoft.org/ the Journal of Statistical 
software.  Funny that SPSS is not there ;-)

Cheers

Xander


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