Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

[William Park <parkw@better.net>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:29:38AM -0600, rich wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience,
> and I have have several large databases essential for my dissertation.
> For statistical analysis, I use Statistica for windows, and for graphing
> my data, I use SigmaPlot for windows. A call to all scientists out there
> - are there any native X-based programs that are as good as these?
> Although these programs are excellent, I would rather not trust my
> dissertation to the OS I have come to call Sir Crash-a-lot... My only
> other option is to use a windows emulator (like WINE)...
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Rich

I don't know what kind of statistics you do, but try Octave which is
GNU clone of MatLab.  For graph, I use Python to analyze the data, and
PiCTeX to plot and typeset the graph.

        Yours truly,
        William Park