STA 290 Statistical Laboratory

 

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COMPUTING SUPPORT

We will be using R (or S-Plus) and WinBugs for data analysis. You may use Matlab if you are familiar with it. Programs such as Excel or Minitab are not acceptable.

R Project Site: Documentation, Downloading R, FAQs, more

An Introduction to R

more R resources and books (Unix, Windows, Mac)

Bugs and WinBugs (Windows)

S-plus Documentation (UNIX) (see also the R documentation)

Downloading S-Plus 6 (for Windows) Free for students at Duke!

ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) provides a common, generic and useful interface to many statistical packages through Emacs. It currently has interfaces to S, R, XLisp-Stat, and SAS, with other statistical languages such as Stata, SPSS, and Fiasco slated for implementations in the future.

Running R/S-Plus with ESS locally

Descriptions of ESS: 1) Rossini and 2) Heiberger

ESS-5.1.24.zip , (README for installing ESS under UNIX or Windows)

sample .emacs file for ACPUB (copy or use to modify) with ESS startup

Emacs Quick Reference Card

Emacs Quick Tutorial

Getting Started with LaTeX

Introduction ( pdf , LaTeX source),

Including Graphs (adding-graphics.tex, geyser-plot.ps, geyser-plot.pdf)

Prosper Presentations (pdf, LaTeX source)

Prosper Manual

Other Useful Software for Windows


Updated
August 30, 2004