On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 17:56 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Globe Trotter wrote: > > > > I am a statistics instructor who is trying to wean the students out of the > > dreadful ways of Windoze. Does anyone know of a tutorial covering just the > > basic set of tools to get started? Omline would be great, of course! > > If you are a statistics instructor you should be able to focus on > statistics and math. All the students need is login, simple editor > (nano, vim), simple file commands, math tools and logout. I have seen > university classes where instructions for notepad file uploads were > provided. > > To get started with math tools, look into ... > > octave - A high-level interactive language for numerical computations. > > And 'calc' a notch above and beyond bc/dc. > > http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/index.html > > And 'pscp'. > http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ > > And 'bc'/'dc'. > These are standsard unix/Linux tools bc and dc are an arbitrary > precision calculator pair one is rpn the other not. These are good > tools to explore the dynamics of numbers and errors that are so > common in some statistical numeric computation. > > And gnumeric > a GNOME spreadsheet application. > Lots of built in statistics functions.... > > And, more but this is a good start. Don't forget R: http://www.r-project.org/ which is available for multiple platforms. HTH, Marc Schwartz
