Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?
The best statistical pagacke is IMHO R.
-Egon
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, William Park wrote:
> 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
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