STA 215 - Computing

Some problems will require statistical computing. Splus is recommended. Any other software (Gauss, Xlisp-Stat etc) is ok.
Get a free tutorial and reference on Splus in general (section on Splus; postscript or html).
Splus is most efficiently used from within emacs:
Some Splus examples which you can use as templates for other homework problems:
First examples
Univariate posterior distributions (evaluation, posterior simulation, predictive etc).
Bivariate posterior distributions (evaluation, posterior simulation, predictive etc).
Posterior simulation in Normal Linear Regression models.
Hierarchical model posterior distributions (evaluation, posterior simulation, predictive etc).
copy the data set into a file "rats.data" in your directory (either just cut and paste the rats with the mouse; or use the pull down menu "File" in Netscape, choose "Save As")
Gibbs sampler.

You can use Mathematica for symbolic computations (derivatives, second derivative matrices etc).